Your All-time Favorite Song

J

jswinf

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Can't narrow down to one. I've recently re-fixated on Paul Simon's American Tune, thinking what a fine song it is and how right it is for these times (it came out in 1973, I think), even though I recently learned the tune is from a J. S. Bach piece.
 
T1000

T1000

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New Years Day - U2
I've loved it since they day I've heard it, about 12 years ago (I was 6). Closely behind are:
Layla - Derek and the Dominoes
City of Blinding Lights - U2
Hotel California - Eagles
 
r2473

r2473

G.O.A.T.
^^It was tough to choose between them. The "baby" video sealed the deal though. Pure gold.

Honestly, I hadn't ever listed to either (I assume Never say Never is a Bieber song). I just looked up a Bieber video and posted it.

Truthfully, Beethoven's 3rd Symphony is probably my favorite if I had to choose.

These tapes were excellent in allowing me to understand a lot about the music. I've listened to / studied all of Greenberg's lectures. He really makes the inner world of "classical" music accessible to non-specialists:

http://www.teach12.com/tgc/courses/course_detail.aspx?cid=730
 
dlk

dlk

Hall of Fame
T1000 said:
New Years Day - U2
I've loved it since they day I've heard it, about 12 years ago (I was 6). Closely behind are:
Layla - Derek and the Dominoes
City of Blinding Lights - U2
Hotel California - Eagles
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Sunday Bloody Sunday is my favorite U2 tune.
 
dlk

dlk

Hall of Fame
r2473 said:
^^It was tough to choose between them. The "baby" video sealed the deal though. Pure gold.

Honestly, I hadn't ever listed to either (I assume Never say Never is a Bieber song). I just looked up a Bieber video and posted it.

Truthfully, Beethoven's 3rd Symphony is probably my favorite if I had to choose.

These tapes were excellent in allowing me to understand a lot about the music. I've listened to / studied all of Greenberg's lectures. He really makes the inner world of "classical" music accessible to non-specialists:

http://www.teach12.com/tgc/courses/course_detail.aspx?cid=730
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Was this in college or did you buy the CDs on your own?
 
Dedans Penthouse

Dedans Penthouse

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freddie-esque

dlk said:
Yes, nice set of pipes. How did you hear about him?
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Hi dlk. I saw him at Sin-e' (St. Mark's Pl. - East Village, Manhattan) back in the 90's before he bought the farm and later (as luck would have it), had the good fortune to see him at the Olympia in Paris--will never forget his warbling Edith Piaf impression that evening--the 'locals' ate it up!---what a set of pipes indeed. Dude could also "pick it" on the Tele.

Incandescent (fatally tortured) talent. ...shame, truly a 'what if?' story. :sad:

(p.s. "Eternal Life" is a nice 'rock' listen)
 
dlk

dlk

Hall of Fame
^^^Just read up on the history of Erocia (an apparent demarcation in his music). Now listening to it.


Adagio in G minor is haunting.
 
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Sentinel

Sentinel

Bionic Poster
Just remembered, there's a very talented and up-coming Rock group in India, named "Mating Dogs" that is driving us crazy !!!
 
C

CCNM

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"Walk of Life" by the Dire Straits
"We Built This City (on rock and roll)" by Jefferson Starship
 
dlk

dlk

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bezs said:
Nice song, like Lifehouse as well met them before their very nice and down and earth.
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Awesome, where'd you meet 'em at? And how did you get so lucky?


I've met Adam Duritz (only briefly) of the Counting Crows. Very cool & very short.
 
bezs

bezs

G.O.A.T.
Embarrassingly being a fan i didn't even know they were here they had a private showcase for Nokia and a gig at a really small venue tickets were sold out and i couldn't go. Hardly any publicity only on the radio and i don't listen to the radio.

Was working part time in a mall and it was connected to their hotel, got a shock when i saw them walking around in the mall. Got a pic with Jason and Rick and got them to autograph their album covers. Saw them everyday over a span of three days :)
 
Dedans Penthouse

Dedans Penthouse

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dlk said:
Two more favorites:

Simon - Lifehouse

http://www.bing.com/videos/watch/vi...3525044430?q=lifehouse+simon+video&FORM=VIRE3

Fine Again - Seether

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Li2PVKMZCo4
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Together with the original OP's "Rearviewmirror" by Pearl Jam (a/k/a Mookie Blaylock), dlk now has three -- count 'em-- THREE "favorite" songs! This needs to be posted in the "Useless Information" thread post haste ;-)

Bartelby said:
Venus in Furs - Velvet Underground
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*small font: sidebar-not wanting to hi-jack thread*
imho, a very impressive choice Bartelby. Speaking of 'Furs' the droning, the 'bending guitars' in the Velvet's 'Venus' reminds me (pls. excuse the 'pop' vein) of a couple of 1991 PsycheFur songs "Until She Comes" and "All About You" (not to be confused with their earlier "Heartbreak Beat/Molly Ringwald-Pretty in Pink" circa mid-80's crap). But I digress: the Velvet's 'Venus' was a song we played as kids in 'hazy' basement rock&roll jams and which helped inspire some clumsy-but earnest-forays into Eastern (esp. Indian) music: R&R "Ragas" that went on ad nauseum...unbeknowst to us, we probably drove many neighborhood dogs batty-lol. And the Dutch Shocking Blue's 'Venus' we left for the idiot school-dance bands to play....we on the other hand were (happily) jamming on "Waiting For the Man" thinking we were so *cough* impossibly hip at 14--not. "Hey Dave...do ya think that guy really sold us a bag of oregano?" my word(!), what r&r rubes we were...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNEDY9I_wOk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vLHCz93C24


The Licketts

on-topic: dlk, can I cite a "lyrics only" sub-category?
"Rock & Roll Never Felt So Good" - Gwar
 
J

jswinf

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OldButGame said:
Hallelujah,...(done by Rufus Wainwright)
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I've had this song "stuck in my head" for a while since watching the movie "St. Ralph," it's used in the movie sung by Gordon Downie, very ethereal, but basically unavailable as a recording.

This one's by the old dude that wrote the song, Leonard Cohen himself, and this was just a couple of years ago, he must be in his mid-70s. I've read that he originally wrote 15 verses to this song, or as many as 60 or so.

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/sy-17305740001/leonard_cohen_hallelujah_official_music_video/
 
ilovecarlos

ilovecarlos

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There are many that I really really enjoy.

There is one, that when I hear it...everything stops.....
Kashmir...Led Zep
 
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