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Above us only sky?
Posted by skirky on 29 May 2009 - 12:41pm.
Hello Th' Massive,
I am charged with compiling a playlist around the theme of Heaven. I suppose I should really be asking the Rocking Vicar, but he seems otherwise occupied recently and so I'm broadening the appeal. Bear in mind that this is for public consumption so try and avoid any easy Bryan Adams / Belinda Carlisle-type hits, & also the obvious stylings of the Knocking on Heaven's Door hitmaker. Oh, and no Stairway.
Up on the list so far, top of the head stylee, are;
The Waterboys - On My Way To Heaven
Ian McNabb - Great Dreams of Heaven
Robyn Hitchcock - Heaven
It's alright, it's not for a funeral or owt. All help appreciated.
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Talking Heads
Heaven, from Fear of Music
I suppose it depends on the context of your need whether lyrics like "Heaven is a place where nothing ever happens" will go down well...
Heaven - Talking Heads Maid
Heaven - Talking Heads
Maid in Heaven - Be Bop Deluxe
Heaven Up Here - Echo and the Bunnymen
Heaven/The Psychedelic Furs
Feels Like Heaven/Fiction Factory
Heaven's Open/Mike Oldfield
Heaven/Joan Amatrading
Heaven Is In Your Mind/Traffic
Heaven Sent/Josef K
Heaven Or Las Vegas/Cocteau Twins
and of course, Heaven On The Seventh Floor by Paul Nicholas
(Feels like) Heaven -
(Feels like) Heaven - Fiction Factory
Heaven's in here - Tin Machine
From the mid-90s
Heaven beside you - Alice in Chains
As Heaven is wide - Garbage
if it"s for public consumption
shouldn't you be including Belinda and other songs people might - you know - have heard of?
Heaven is in the Back Seat of my Cadillac by Hot Chocolate
Where I find my Heaven - Gigolo Aunts
Monkey's Gone to Heaven - Pixies (also Lady in the Radiator Song - the one from Eraserhead, can you get the original anywhere?)
Valhalla Avenue - Fatima Mansions
Heaven by The Rascals
Doesn’t seem to be on spotify, youtube or even the i-tunes shop.
Great record. On Atlantic, late ’60s.
A popular choice......
Heaven - Warrant
(Off of the modern classic "Cherry Pie" I believe)
......
Heaven's on Fire - KISS
Richard Thompson
Bank Vault in Heaven
Gods Loves a Drunk (Will there be any bartenders, up there in Heaven..? etc)
The Angels Have Taken My Racehorse Away (the version from More Guitar for preference)
On a more ecumenical note, have you tried just search for the word 'heaven' in Spotify?
On a more ecumenical note...
And where would be the fun in that?
Nice RT work there by the way - I'll probably have a couple of those. It's not about what people will have already heard, by the way, it's about what they should have done.
The mighty Tavares
with Heaven Must Be Missing An Angel simply must be on that list.
Spirit In The Sky
Norman Greenbaum - surely?
Also 'Just Like Heaven' The Cure, 'No. 1 Song In Heaven' Sparks
See also:
Sparks : Here in Heaven Without You
"it's really very clean and I'm thinking
Juliet, you broke our little pact
Juliet, I'm never coming back
Up here in Heaven without you"
Tom Waits
Little trip to Heaven (on the wings of your love)
All that Heaven will allow - Bruce Springsteen
Closest thing to Heaven - The Kane Gang
Enjoy
Paul Westerberg
had "Looking Up In Heaven"
The Angels Know
by James King & The Lone Wolves
Yes !
Thought I was the only person to remember that song ! As far as I know not on CD or downloadable so I have to make do with an increasingly scratchy 7" single.
Up the ladder to the roof ?
by the Supremes
Maria McKee
Show me heaven
Interpol
"Say Hello to the Angels"
...also
Grandaddy - So You'll Aim Towards the Sky
Scott Walker - Angels of Ashes
and the bleedin' obvious "Great Gig in the Sky"
Prefab Sprout
Doo Wop in Harlem - "if there ain't a heaven that holds you tonight, they never sang doo wop in Harlem"
Or Pearly Gates
"There'll be no stampede on the pearly gates , I'll say after you, you'll say I don't mind the wait"
The Cure
The Cure - Just Like Heaven
NOOO,,,!
That was my one!
Van Morrison
Jackie Wilson Said (I'm in heaven when you smile)
oh and..
Richard Thompson - Al Bowlly's in heaven
Prince
I Wish U Heaven
INXS - Heaven Sent
The Knockin' On Heaven's Door Hitmaker - Tryin'To Get To Heaven
South of Heaven
by Slayer.
Chairmen of the Board
I'm On My Way To A Better Place
The Angels...
Wanna wear my red shoes? Elvis Costello
"I said I'm so happy I could die, she said 'drop dead' then left with another guy"
Sorry, i JUST LOVE that couplet.
Those Righteous Brothers
Rock & Roll Heaven. "If there's a rock'n'roll heaven, you know they've got a hell of a band, band, band..."
That is just so, unhhh, cheezetastic.
Jackson Browne
JB - Barricades of heaven
Mary Chapin Carpenter - My heaven
The title track on Matraca Berg's new album is South of heaven, but you can only get it at gigs at present - there are three left with the last one on Sunday.
Sarah McLachlan - Wear your love like heaven
The Jayhawks - Will I see you in heaven?
er...
no relation
A fan surely?
I've always assumed that you picked your handle because of devotion to the band.
Isn't iTunes good for this sort of thing?
Here are a few (I only included the more Word friendly examples):
Ain't No Bars In Heaven - T Tex Edwards
No1 Song In Heaven - Sparks
Heaven Help Us All - Stevie Wonder
That's Heaven To Me - Sam Cooke
Near Wild Heaven - REM
All The Things That Make Heaven & Earth - The New Pornographers
Heaven Blues - Lucinda Williams
West Texas Heaven - Kimmie Rhodes
Don't Hurry For Heaven - Devon Sproule
Yes!!
It's Yes - We Have Heaven (from Fragile)
btw it's rubbish.
The Smiths
"Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now"
Zaremba!
Peter Zaremba's Love Delegation - 7 Minutes in Heaven
Cuban Heels - Work Our Way To Heaven
Donny Hathaway - You Are My Heaven
Robert Plant & The Strange Sensation - Dancing In Heaven
Mississippi Fred McDowell - Wish I Was In Heaven Sitting Down
Jerry Lee Lewis - No Honky Tonks In Heaven
Tammy Wynette - Heaven's Just A Sin Away
Bobby Womack - That's Heaven To Me
Staple Singers - Heaven
The might
"Heaven In Your Arms" The Elgins-Holland Dozier Holland, classic Motown, great vocal from one Sandra Edwards.
AMC
"The Hopes and Dreams of Heaven's 10,000 Whores"
"I Hate Heaven"
by The Residents. Marvellous. And very funny.
"Airline to Heaven"
by Wilco. And can we have "Stairway..." if it's the rather spiffing version by Rodrigo y Gabriela?
Or perhaps
Dolly Parton´s bluegrass take?
Breathe
Hands To Heaven. Of its time (1987) but a nice tune. That noise you heard was the last of my credibility leaving.
The Clap
"Tears in Heaven"
The works of Heaven 17
"Heaven or Las Vegas" Cocteau Twins
"Disco Heaven" Lady Gaga
"Heaven must have sent you" The Elgins
" If You Wanna Get To Heaven "...
..." you got to raise a little hell " , Ozark Mountain Daredevils ?
[ I haven't had time to read every post here , so , if I've duplicated that , forgive me of my trespasses...]
Heavy
How about Heaven Can Wait by Iron Maiden?
Is it only me that remembers
Heaven is Paved with Broken Glass - XTC?