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What's your favourite song?
Posted by Niks on 12 April 2009 - 8:15am.
I know it's a stupid question, but don't analyse it or think about it, just say the first one that pops into your head.
I'll start.
Fairport Convention - Now Be Thankful.
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Wedding Bell Blues
Laura Nyro
It depends on mood of course but
but I'm always in the mood for this
And Your Bird Can Sing
Oops, double post.
And Your Bird Can Sing
Make that triple post.
For some reason only the top 2 had the edit choice available. No idea how I came to triple post, no drink had been taken at that point.
And Your Bird Can Sing
you must really love it!
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Oh lord
I remember watching those Al Brodax Beatles cartoons on TV on Sunday mornings when I was a kid. Just how cheesy?
The Saints - Know Your Product
Never heard that song before
...its great! Cheers.
a hardy perennial
described by a friend of mine as "a big thick cheeseburger of a single".
The Saints
From the same album (Eternally Yours) here's another gem:
"Wonderful World"
by Louis Armstrong. Mrs. F and I had it played at our wedding. Glorious, uplifting, optimistic, hopeful, affirming. No other song gets close (in my book, at least). I know you only want 1 song but I have to give an honourable mention to "Who Knows Where The Time Goes?" by the Fairports.
Glen
Wichita Lineman by Glen Campbell.
It was my favourite song when I was 3, and well over 30 years after that it still is. I either really love it, or haven't developed since I was a toddler.
Or
you were a toddler of precociously good taste!
Glen Too
With you there JoLean - shamefully though, pretty recent discovery for me. Had obviously heard it countless times but hadn't appreciated its achingly melancholic vibe until pretty recently - must listen to it a couple of times a week now and have to stop what i'm doing to fully 'get into' it - my other would be Touch Too Much by AC/DC, not much 'aching melancholy'there but love it. Travelling down to the 'Smoke' to see them on Thursday but unfortunately they never do Touch Too Much live but never mind eh!
These Days
Agree with Cookieboy about it depending on a mood but as i get older there is only one
Great song
and a lovely performance of it. JB tends to be under-rated. Amazing given its themes of choices made and not made and its elegiac tone that he was a teenager when he wrote it.
sorry - was indecisive
probably this one:
or maybe
or even
There can only be one really
Beach Boys - God Only Knows
Yes one of mine too
I remember cycling near Leith hill in Surrey in the long hot sunny summer school holiday in 1976 singing this out loud as I rode along a country lane. Memories.............
Pink Floyd
Eclipse at the end of Dark Side of The Moon. The lyrics may be "Lower Sixth" in Roger Waters view, but I first heard it when 16 and it continues to raise the hairs on the back of neck when I hear it, particulalrly live. (See Waters live DVD In The Flesh)
At the moment
Tavares - 'More than a Woman'
Another Jimmy Webb song hits the list
and we haven't even had Kate Mossman contributing yet!
I still find, after all this time, that MacArthur Park moves me like no other, and I still sing along to it at the top of my voice when I'm in the car.
Still Ill
The Smiths.
I remember being startled by it when I heard it on Peel.
as said above
this
Aztec Camera - Walk Out To Winter
The single version from 1983. One of my favourite lyrics ever, certainly my favourite vocal ever, and my favourite guitar playing.
Love it.
Strawberry Fields Forever - The Beatles
Perfect songwriting and production.
Its double a side - Penny Lane - could well be a close second
also mine
The greatest single released? Maybe.
Send In The Clowns
Particularly the Judy Collins arrangement. There is nothing in the world more lovely than this.
This week? That would be ...
The Long Ryders - 'Looking For Lewis & Clark'
Laura Nyro
La la means I love you
Stay in Bed
Jess Roden.
Completely agree with comments on the recent thread about Jess Roden - he had a really fantastic voice.
First one that came into my head ...
Dead Can Dance - 'Rakim'...
I Can't Make You Love Me
Bonnie Raitt
Favourite song
Its just has to be 'Do You Believe in Magic?' by the Lovin' Spoonful - it sums it all up for me!
The Jam for me...
Summertime
by George Gershwin, from Porgy and Bess, is the song I always search for first on any new internet music service.
It has been recorded about a million times, by everyone from Miles Davis to Morcheeba.
Here's Billie:
But that isn't necessarily the correct answer....
Also The Lovin' Spoonful..
... "Darling Be Home Home Soon"
Lovely it is!
Mr Carlos Santana
The fantastic oye como va,turned up to 11 & driving in the sunshine..
Northern Sky
Nick Drake.
The Rumour...
...by The Band
(Today)
Ever Fallen In Love
The Buzzcocks.
Sheer bloody poetry!
Drive in saturday
This just hit it when I was about twelve years old made me want to play music and join a band.
Friday On My Mind
The Easybeats. Joyful, yet with a certain sinister undertow. This song may well be my earliest musical memory, implanting itself in my brain at age four. To this day, whenever the word Friday comes up in any context--and that's quite often--I start inwardly singing Friday On My Mind.
This will horrify some, but...
"Imitation of Life" by R.E.M.
Uncertain Smile
by The The
oooh
has to be the album version with the Jools Holland piano though. This Is The Day is almost as good. Soul Mining: what a great album!
This Is Yesterday
Dance Away
Roxy Music. Don't know why, but since I was 9, this has always been the first song to pop in to my head when somebody says "What's your favourite song?".
...
Get the Message - Electronic (1990)
The No. 1 song in Heaven
by Sparks. Been my favourite song for many a year as it just makes me happy.
99% Of Gargoyles Look Like Bob Todd : HMHB
Partly for the absolutely fantastic title, but mostly because of the joy of hearing a bunch of shambolic, ramshackle young lads twatting about in a studio and creating something that, even now, 24 years after I first heard it as a geeky teenage boy, still makes me laugh out loud.
"Jesus Christ, COME ON DOWN!"