What's Your Favorite Song?

Clark_Roth · May 9, 2007, 2:18pm

My favorite Song is Bringin’ on the Heartbreak by Def Leppard.

It ROCKS

monkeyman · May 9, 2007, 2:36pm

Depends on my mood. If I’m driving down the highway with the windows down/music blaring (I know, I’m a bad person. Sorry.), it’s Rock You Like a Hurricane by the Scorpions.
If I’m listening to classical music, it’s the 4th movement from Dvorák’s New World Symphony, or Holst’s “Mars” from The Planets.

I can’t really answer what my favorite song is, though…I have a lot.

GILD · May 9, 2007, 3:44pm

That’s part of the challenge, to pick just one.

Me and Bobby Mcgee, Janis Joplin.

captainkrunk61 · May 9, 2007, 3:46pm

Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Pt.2 By the Flaming Lips. That song makes me all kinds of happy.

James_Potter · May 9, 2007, 3:48pm

I recently found out that Janis didn’t actually write that song…her cover is just the most popular version of it. It was written by Kris Kristofferson, whoever that is…kinda disappointed me.

ANYWAY, I have lots of favorite songs, but my very favorite I think is Across The Universe by The Beatles…right now it is, anyway. Changes a lot.

JJuggle · May 9, 2007, 3:57pm

Groans. Yanks out clumps of hair.

James_Potter · May 9, 2007, 4:04pm

Hahaha sorry…anyway, he can’t possibly be as good as Janis.

UniGoth · May 9, 2007, 5:30pm

I would have to say Fighting Dreamers, I have no idea who its by, but its the opening song to Naruto.

wickedbob · May 9, 2007, 6:06pm

Show me your booty hole… best song E-V-E-R!

burjzyntski · May 9, 2007, 8:05pm

My favorite song today is Jefferson Airplane’s White Rabbit.
Yesterday it was a toss-up between Procol Harum’s Whiter Shade of Pale and Bob Dylan’s Lay Lady Lay.

Like Mister_Potter, my favorite song varies from day to day.

dunawan · May 9, 2007, 8:14pm

Far, far too much to choose from but like monkeyman said, it depends on the mood.

Hazmat · May 9, 2007, 8:22pm

One of my favoruite songs would have to be this.

UniGeezer · May 9, 2007, 10:06pm

“Bloody well right” by Supertramp rates pretty high in my book; that and maybe another 1,000 various songs, from straight forward rock, oldies, pop and even some Schubert song cycles and Gershwin as well, like “Summertime” is awesome!

James_Potter · May 9, 2007, 10:31pm

I love Jefferson Airplane, and that song of Dylan’s is definitely one of his best!

dan_de_man · May 9, 2007, 10:34pm

it changes constantly but now it is war pigs by the black sabbeth

Goats_On_Unicycles · May 9, 2007, 10:37pm

i have many favorite songs… a constant is Mr. Tamborine Man by Bob Dylan.
today’s favorite though is… blushes a Cat Stevens tune.
Father and Son. it’s freakin’ good!

GILD · May 10, 2007, 2:07am

Joplin wrote preciously few of her songs.
She was a singer.
(You know what I mean?)
At the time he was more of a ‘journeyman’ songwriter and he actually wrote the song and ‘gave’ it to her.
They’d been occasional lovers and I reckon that song was a better gift than chocolates.
Kristofferson’s ‘biggest’ hit, Sunday Morning Coming Down, was also originally performed and recorded by Cash.
Kristofferson only later gave in to pressure from several of his contemporaries and started recording his material himself.

Whoever he was?
He was the guy who wrote this.

A couple of years back, I come across a great and wasted friend of mine in the hallway of a recording studio; and while he was reciting some poetry to me that he’d written, I saw that he was about a step away from dyin’ and I couldn’t help but wonder why. And the lines of this song occurred to me. I’m happy to say he’s no longer wasted and he’s got him a good woman. And I’d like to dedicate this to John and June, who helped show me how to beat the devil.

It was winter time in Nashville, down on music city row.
And I was lookin’ for a place to get myself out of the cold.
To warm the frozen feelin’ that was eatin’ at my soul.
Keep the chilly wind off my guitar.

My thirsty wanted whisky; my hungry needed beans,
But it’d been of month of paydays since I’d heard that eagle scream.
So with a stomach full of empty and a pocket full of dreams,
I left my pride and stepped inside a bar.

Actually, I guess you’d could call it a Tavern:
Cigarette smoke to the ceiling and sawdust on the floor;
Friendly shadows.

I saw that there was just one old man sittin’ at the bar.
And in the mirror I could see him checkin’ me and my guitar.
An’ he turned and said: “Come up here boy, and show us what you are.”
I said: “I’m dry.” He bought me a beer.

He nodded at my guitar and said: “It’s a tough life, ain’t it?”
I just looked at him. He said: “You ain’t makin’ any money, are you?”
I said: “You’ve been readin’ my mail.”
He just smiled and said: "Let me see that guitar.
“I’ve got something you oughta hear.”
Then he laid it on me:

"If you waste your time a-talkin’ to the people who don’t listen,
"To the things that you are sayin’, who do you think’s gonna hear.
"And if you should die explainin’ how the things that they complain about,
“Are things they could be changin’, who do you think’s gonna care?”

There were other lonely singers in a world turned deaf and blind,
Who were crucified for what they tried to show.
And their voices have been scattered by the swirling winds of time.
'Cos the truth remains that no-one wants to know.

Well, the old man was a stranger, but I’d heard his song before,
Back when failure had me locked out on the wrong side of the door.
When no-one stood behind me but my shadow on the floor,
And lonesome was more than a state of mind.

You see, the devil haunts a hungry man,
If you don’t wanna join him, you got to beat him.
I ain’t sayin’ I beat the devil, but I drank his beer for nothing.
Then I stole his song.

And you still can hear me singin’ to the people who don’t listen,
To the things that I am sayin’, prayin’ someone’s gonna hear.
And I guess I’ll die explaining how the things that they complain about,
Are things they could be changin’, hopin’ someone’s gonna care.

I was born a lonely singer, and I’m bound to die the same,
But I’ve got to feed the hunger in my soul.
And if I never have a nickle, I won’t ever die ashamed.
'Cos I don’t believe that no-one wants to know.

That song is in my top 10.

Into_the_blue · May 10, 2007, 3:25am

The Deep, Dark, Truthful Mirror by Elvis Costello.

My guilty pleasure is the BBC song by Mike Myers, sung at the end of the first Austin Powers movie.

James_Potter · May 10, 2007, 6:18am

Cat Stevens is probably my favorite singer…EVER!
My favorite of his is The Wind, I think…but Father and Son is amazing too.

dudewithasock · May 10, 2007, 6:23am

Hard to say…I go through different song phases like most people do, but there are a few that for some reason, I can always listen to:

-Fight for your Right - Beastie Boys
-The Final Countdown - Europe
-Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen

I could list more but I just wanted to put the first 3 that came to mind.