Top five favorite songs

[DCJenn]

So- what are your top five songs- the SONG- the artist may be secondary. These are the songs that you will go to no matter what. They are never annoying to you.

Here are mine:

1) Angel from Montgomery. There is vigorous debate in our house as to which version is the best: Carly Simon vs. Bonnie Raitt vs. Susan Tedeschi

2) Backstreets- Springsteen

3) Rhapsody in Blue- played by Gershwin himself. got it off itunes and it's amazing.

4) The Washington Post March- John Philips Sousa-a standard on the 4th of July

5) Noting Compares to 2 U- Sinead O'Connor. Stick a fork in me- I'm done.


Jenn

ETS: my grandmother skipped school to go see George Gershwin- how cool is that?

[Michele]

1) Blue Heaven - I have it on a hawaiian slack key album. I've never heard another version but this one can calm me no matter what! Love it!

2) Baby Got Back - Sir Mix A Lot - fun!

3) Sunshower - Chris Cornell (Soundgarden, Audioslave)

4)Hallah - Mazzy Star

5) Living Dead Girl - Rob Zombie

[Vanquisher]

This is really, really, really hard!

Norah Jones - Come Away With Me.

The Police - Every Breath You Take.

Natalie Imbruglia - Torn (The mime, it's all about the mime).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2EfWYGvJTk

Green Day - Good Riddance (Time of Your Life).

Enrique Iglesias - Bailamos (Such a great samba, and I miss dance).

If you asked me on a different day, my list would absolutely change.

p.s. Even Alexia knows many of the actions of the Torn mime. I think I have probably watched it 200 times.

I also have to add Mozart's Requiem. I get so tense that I stop breathing during some movements. It's so powerful. My goal is to see it performed at St. Peter's on the Feast of all Saints/Feast of all Souls before I die. Can't wait. :wee:

Get an extra ticket for me -- I'll go!

I used to babysit for a family who loved to listen to SRV. I had all but forgotten about it. I like his music and it reminds me of the time I spent with them. Nostalgia warning...I just saw them and their 22 year old son who I started watching when he was just a few months older than TenE.

If I had a Boat - Lyle Lovett

Every Little Thing She Does is Magic - The Police (I loved it the first time I heard it, and have loved it for *gulp* over 25 years.)

Jane Says - Janes Addiction (so much wrapped up in that song)

Get Out the Map - Indigo Girls (Jen & my song)

Long Way Round - Dixie Chicks (b/c my kids love it and sing it with me and they way they belt it out makes me cry)


there are many more ...

Under Pressure - Queen / David Bowie version (original)

[DCJenn]

Under Pressure should be nominated as the Official iMSN song, don't you think?

Jenn

Natalie Imbruglia - Torn (The mime, it's all about the mime).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2EfWYGvJTk

That is hilarious!!
I'll be on youtube all day now.....

Favourite songs....
Nothing Else Matters - Metallica
One - U2
I just want you - Ozzy Osborne
('Cos I think they are all beautiful songs)

As - Stevie Wonder
Son of a Preacher Man - Dusty Springfield
Maria - Blondie
('Cos they make me happy and want to sing and jump around)

I know that is six! I could think of ten easily, these were the first that came to mind.

[Momo]

These are just a few of a gazillion, that I would get up and belt out, in front of anyone,if I heard them!


Leonard Cohen: Suzanne(oh the history)
Squeez: Black Coffee in Bed
Erasure: A little Respect
Cat Stevens: Moon Shadow(I love soooomuch of his stuff)
Bonnie Tyler: Total Eclipse of the Heart
Eurythmics : Sweet Dreams
The Smiths: Unhappy Birthday(for my black sense of humor)
10000 maniacs:My Sister Rose (in my tribe rocks)
New Order: Bizarre Love Triangle
U2: Streets have no name (pretty much everything on Joshua tree)
Don McClean: Starry Night
Steve Miller band: Joker
Nancy Kelly:Twisted (this is a jazz arrangment of Joni Mitchell's Twisted)
Sarah McLachlan : Ice Cream
Alanis Morissette:Head Over feet, You Learn, Hand in My Pocket, Uninvited

Noting Compares to 2 U

Summertime -- Renee Olstead

Every Breath You Take

Green Day - Good Riddance (Time of Your Life).

Every Little Thing She Does is Magic - The Police

Son of a Preacher Man - Dusty Springfield

ITA


so I am up w/ the baby and thought I'd add to my list

Off the top of my head and subject to change according to mood:

Midnight Train to Georgia - Indigo Girls version

The Riddle - Five for Fighting

You Raise Me Up - Josh Groban

Crash Into Me - DMB

Sunday Morning - Maroon 5

[madeintaiwan]

I love music and I sing outloud no matter where I am or who I am with despite my inability to carry a tune. Here are some of my favs:

Into the mystic (and Brown Eyed Girll)- Van Morrison
Crash into me- DMB
At Last- Etta James
Jane Says- Jane's Addiction
Mr. Jones- Counting Crows
Canned Heat- Jamiroquai
The Dance- Garth Brooks
Where it's at- Beck
The Seed- The Roots
What I got- Sublime
Tint Dancer- Elton John

Anything from Death Rows Greatest Hits takes me back to HS and college when I lived in the "ghetto house" with DH and his two fraternity brothers and my roomate from freshman year who might as well have been another frat bro as dirty as she was.

[Vanquisher]

At Last- Etta James
The Dance- Garth Brooks

LOVE these! They could make my list too.

[Rapunzel]

The Dance is one of the only country songs I've ever heard that I absolutely adore!


Hmmmm.... This IS hard.

1) The Boxer by Simon and Garfunkel (well, any of their greatest hits, really) - so gritty and so melancholy - I know the lyrics by heart.

2) Stop! by Erasure (remix is best - it really picks up my mood and is such a dancing song - well, it is if you grew up during the techno days)

3) TIme After Time by Cindy Lauper - it's cheesy but I loved it as a teen and still do.

4) Pride by U2 Simply haunting. Another one that I know the lyrics by heart.

5) Annnnd finally: it's a toss up between Til' Kingdom Come, the Scientist, and Clocks all by Coldplay