Ten Songs You'll Love* Until You're Dead...
Mine (no particular order):
Babe, I'm Gonna Leave You ~ Led Zep
Bad Luck, Blue Eyes, Goodbye ~ The Black Crowes
Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair ~ Nina Simone
My Dream Girl Don't Exist ~ Neutral Milk Hotel
Sultans of Swing ~ Dire Straits
Caravan ~ Dinah Washington
Try A Little Tenderness ~ Otis Redding
Since You've Been Gone ~ Aretha Franklin
Take Another Little Piece of My Heart ~ Janis Joplin
Run Thru ~ My Morning Jacket
Promises in the Dark ~ Pat Benatar
*even when you're 42, or 58, or 76 years old
6 comments:
and yes I realize there are 11 on my list but my short list was 14 strong and it was hard enough to cut out 3 of my darlings.
This was hard. In no particular order here are my faves. Note no Stairway!
1. Hotel California - The Eagles
2. I want a little sugar in my bowl - Nina Simone
3. American Woman - The Guess Who (hey it is important to have Canadian content)
4. Boehemian Rhapsody - Queen
5. One - U2
6. I never loved a man - Aretha Franklin
7. Work it - Missy Elliott
8. Creep - Radiohead
9. Fair - Remy Zero
10. Have a little faith in me - Joe Cocker
11. First time ever I saw your face - Roberta Flack
I went over by one. I couldn't keep it to 10.
Mata, how about 10 songs you hate the most?
First of all: YOU BASTARD! If you knew how OCD I was (which you don't) then the only reason you'd even SUGGEST a top ten list is if you wanted to see me suffer hours (yes, HOURS) of anguish trying to produce a top ten of ANYTHING, particularly music, and the only reason I didn't kill a whole day on this is because I ALLOWED myself an "Honourable Mentions" list.
Here's it:
Top Ten:
Nina Simone - Seems I'm Never Tired of Lovin' You
Tom Waits - That Feel
The Beatles - I Saw Her Standing There
The Beach Boys - The Warmth of the Sun
Ludwig van Beethoven - Oh Freude
Boney M - Brown Girl In The Ring
Ben E. King - Young Boy Blues
The Traveling Wilburys - Handle With Care
Queen with David Bowie - Under Pressure
Marvin Gaye - Inner City Blues
Honourable Mentions:
Bruce Springsteen - I'm On Fire
The Clash - Rudie Can't Fail
Steve Earle - My Old Friend the Blues
Roy Orbison - Crying
The Who - Baba O'Reilly
Oh I understand. All I will say is that it is a good thing I'm unemployed right now because this post spawned a whole new branch of ipud playlists for me.
My right forearm is swollen from too much drag'n droppin'.
*cool...my word verification is "azoezaba"
i should be working.
fuck. but here is the without-thinking-songs-of-my-life-list. not my favourites, by any means: just the life list, from the beginning, but I can't stick to 10 and I know I'm stretching the premise. Here is some of what I remember, and it is so hard to narrow them down. But each has a strong memory.
18. Strawberry Fields - The Beatles
17. Thelonious Monk - Monk's Dream
16. The Who - Love, Reign O'er Me
15. Psychedelic Furs - The Ghost in You
14. Dead Kennedys - California Uber Alles
13. Neil Young - Cowgirl in the Sand
12. U2 - An Cat Dubh
11. Nirvana - On A Plain
10. The Grateful Dead - Fire on the Mountain
9. Ali Farka Toure - Soukora
8. Bunny Wailer - Rule Dance Hall
7. The Ethiopians - Train to Skaville
6. Shabba Ranks - Love Punaany Bad
5. The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony
4. Sublime - What I Got
3. Wilco - Heavy Metal Drummer
2. Le Tigre - My My Metrocard
1. Fannypack - Hey Mami
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