If you had to choose one favorite song (just one), what would it be?
Mine is Jon Brion's "So Now Then" from the Magnolia soundtrack. I can't listen to that song without getting chills. It's the most perfect song I've heard. I know I've made all kinds of associations with it by now, but no other song has had the same effect on me.
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How many more times by Zeppelin, Paper Tiger by Beck, or Xfiles by Del Tha Funkee Homosapien, or Napoleon Solo by At The Drive In....UGH! So much to choose!@!!! stop!
"strange currencies", i think...
Quote from: Jeremy BlackmanIf you had to choose one favorite song (just one), what would it be?
There is absolutely no way I could choose just one.
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There is only one song that I always go back to... it always seems to fit, and that's "Dreams" by Fleetwood Mac.
Velvet Underground - Heroin
First song I heard that discovered The Smiths for me:
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"How Soon Is Now?"
mogwai "helicon 1" (not the 'ten rapid' version, download the live version)
it's just flawless yet there's no lyrics. with its soft sounding guitars it could melt any sport jock's cold heart. it's just perfect how it builds up slowly and explodes with sick distortion. and it slows down again.
"haunt my heart" by david garza or "thieves of the night" by blackstar.
live version of "pushit"
-sl-
Murder By Death - For Those Who Stayed
Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter
...yeah, Im pretty sure thats the one
Sorry I can't pick one, here are 5:
"Can't you hear me knocking" By the Rolling stones, "Tangerine" By Led Zeppelin, "The Blowers Daugher" By Damien Rice, "Helter Skelter" By the Beatles, and "Got Me Under Pressure" By ZZ Top. The last one I always hear in my head whenever I am on a film shoot.
"Let Down" - Radiohead
Nick Drake - River Man
it would either be colours or catch the wind, both by donovan
"Hidden Place" on a good subwoofer.
my favorite song right now is by a japanese band called the boredoms , the song is called Super Now, if you get it (listen to it with headphones and) tell me what you think
Smiths - That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore
Tie between "Biomusicology" by Ted Leo and "Pamphleteer" by The Weakerthans.
"Planet SHHH" - cap'n jazz
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That's quite a compliment to the
90's 80's.
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That's quite a compliment to the 90's 80's.
There were some outliers, yes.
i wholeheartedly add "White Lines (Don't Do It)" by Grandmaster Flash and Melle Mel (off the '83 12'' single)
that song is classic.
Silverchair - Across the Night
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i liked them better when they rocked. and even that got old fast.
favorite song today..
Quote from: from the Songs Currently Stuck in Head thread, in late 2003, NewtronLadytron's cover of Oops Oh My, originally by Tweet.
I'M TURNING RED WHO COULD THIS BE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
..could also be in Best Covers.
At this exact instant, it's the Von Bondies' "Come On, Come On". But I'm sure it's just a phase.
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...and if we're talking late-era Silverchair, it's gotta be "Without You".
"You brighten my life like a polystyrene hat/But it melts in the sun like a life without love..."
Awesome.
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i liked them better when they rocked. and even that got old fast.
Do you mean Freak Show and Frogstomp? I would have to disagree, but if you meant Neon Ballroom, I'd be inclined to agree. Diorama may not have been the best of their albums, but it was certainly the best produced.
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Thank you, Mogwai. I actually spend the bulk of my day trying very hard to
forget that those two are married.
On a tangentially related note, I just went to a karaoke bar last night and sang a duet of "Torn" with one of the hottest girls I've ever met in real life. She couldn't sing for shit, but did that bother me? Not a whit.
Changes - Band Of Gypsys
the Whistling tune from the disney Robin Hood by Roger Miller
"Dee ta dee dot dee ta dough dough"
or pretty much anything from Roger Miller
I've been putting this one off since I'm such a nut about music but I enjoy thinking about what I really love every once in a while...
Favorite song of 2005 so far is "The Party's Crashing Us" by Of Montreal.
http://www.polyvinylrecords.com/twins/ So much fun and always puts me in a good mood.
Some that are evergreen favs:
"Heroes" or "Ashes to Ashes" Bowie
"This Will Be Our Year" The Zombies
"Oh! Sweet Nuthin" Velvet Underground
"Strange Magic" ELO
"Waterloo Sunset" Kinks
"More Than This" Roxy Music
"Seaside Rendezvous" Queen
"Surrender" Cheap Trick
"I Live" Jason Falkner (demo version)
"New Mistake" Jellyfish
"Here We Go" and "Meaningless" Jon Brion
"Alex Chilton" Replacements
"The Good Life" Weezer
"Near Wild Heaven" REM
"Well Alright" and "True Love Ways" Buddy Holly
"Tonight You Belong to Me" Patience & Prudence (Steve Martin and Bernadette Peters are awesome too!)
"Dreaming" Blondie
"Sir Duke" Stevie Wonder
"Pop Life" Prince
"Monkey Gone to Heaven" Pixies
"Dream All Day" Posies
"If I Ever Feel Better" Phoenix
"Saint Simon" The Shins
"Anytime" Neil Finn and "Four Seasons In One Day" Crowded House
"There is a Light That Never Goes Out" Smiths
"When the Rainbow Comes" World Party
"Couldn't I Just Tell You" Todd Rundgren
"God Only Knows" Beach Boys
"I Will Wait For You" Michael LeGrand (Umbrellas of Cherbourg love theme)
That was fun. Sorry for my indulgence.
heres a few
elliott smith - waltz #2
weezer- falling for you
across the sea
beatles - a day in the life
beach boys - god only knows
i'll add more when i think of them....
A few years ago, I wrote a script in which the main character, a musician, confessed his dark secret to the girl of his dreams: his favorite song of all time was Del Amitri's "Roll To Me". I'm finally ready to admit that his dark secret is mine as well. There has been no pop song in the history of recorded music that has been quite as perfect as "Roll To Me". I should also admit that I'm extremely drunk at the moment, and I have my iPod set on "shuffle". Please do not take that as some sort of abnegation of my prior statement; I love that damn song.
It feels good to get that out in the open. Cleansing.
there were like a few songs from that era that all sounded and felt like Roll To Me. Like "Runaround" by the Blues Travelers and "All for You" by Sister Hazel.
GODDAMMIT I'm gonna download all three of those songs right now. that was a fun time in high school--pop songs you couldn't sing or dance to.
I own the cassettes of all those songs and "Breakfast at Tiffanys." Haha, there's a couple more that i can't think of but i loved those songs when i was little.
"Panic" - The Smiths. Pretty much says it all in under 2:30. Very punk, very pop; my ultimate song.