Originally posted by RapidfyreWhy are these your favourite songs?
What I Believe - Sum 41
Top Of The World - All American Rejects
Falls Apart - Thousand Foot Krutch
Rockstar - Nickelback
Is it the lyrics? The beat? The melody?
Have you ever seen any of them played live before?
Which version is your favourite?
Do they conjure up memories? Make you feel nostalgic?
Spoon - Finer Feelings/Black Like Me/Don't You Evah
The Raconteurs - The Switch and the Spur
Belle & Sebastian - Wrapped Up in Books
Pearl Jam - Black
Nirvana - Lounge Act
Guster - G Major
Cloud Cult - Living On the Outside of Your Skin
Meat Puppets - I Can't Be Counted On At All
The Black Keys - When the Lights Go Out
Bright Eyes - Four Winds
Andrew Lloyd Weber - The Music of the Night
Neil Young - Heart of Gold
The Beatles - When I'm Sixty Four
I Often Dream Of Trains - Robyn Hitchcock
Antidote - Gazelle
It's Only Life - The Feelies
Wolves (Song of the Shepherd's Dog) - Iron & Wine
The Dream - The Orb
Candle Moon - Reefus Moons
Bands 2 - Absinthe Blind
Strangers On 5 - Centaur
Western Springs - Poster Children
A Deeper Silence - Steve Roach
Isle of the Cheetah - Hum
Inca Roads - Frank Zappa
etc, etc....
One of my favourite songs is "Thunder road" by Bruce Springsteen.
Why?
Probably his best lyrics (I don't find him lyrically very good). It ends with the:
"It's a town full of losers and I'm pulling out of here to win."
Which, not only is very romantic, it's the story of my life (not actually leaving losers behind, but I've moved often enough to know the feeling).
I've seen him perform the song a couple of times and every time it's brilliant. Especially when the audience joins in:
"Show a little faith there's magic in the night,
You ain't a beauty, but hey, you're alright."
It's a song most musicians would love to be able to finish their shows with and Springsteen just plays it as "one of the many"... classic; Bruce sliding over the stage on his knees to kiss the Big man Clarence Clemons.
And then there's the build up. Starting off with just a piano and mouth harmonica, passing through improvised guitar solos:
"Well I got this guitar,
And I learned how to make it talk"
And finishing with a fully fledged rock and roll saxophone solo.
Great live song, great lyrics and buckets full of nostalgia.
Watch it and weep:
http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=iNNcIhZbH-0
Too many to mention, but Shav's post (my own feelings about Bruce Springsteen aside) made me realise how many different reasons there are for sentimental attachments to different songs, which range from abstract strange feelings to memories of ridiculous incidents for which they provided the soundtrack. One that stands out is "Black Stars Red Stars" by Hope of the States, which is so simple and inevitable that when I first heard it, I was too fascinated to notice that my balalaika was being stolen before I'd ever learnt to play it. Whenever iTunes spits it out, I still feel the same amazement combined with frustration at the memory.
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These are rock favorites that I can never get tired of:
Sin City and Touch Too Much - AC/DC
War Pigs - Black Sabbath
Radar Love - Golden Earring
Not The One and Americana - The Offspring
Across The Universe and Imagine - John Lennon
Freedom Of Choice - DEVO
Head Low - Audioslave
You Got Another Thing Coming - Judas Priest
Holiday - Green Day
Bodies - The Sex Pistols
Drain You - Nirvana
Bullet With Butterfly Wings - The Smashing Pumpkins
Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting - Elton John
Shoot Shoot - UFO
Good Rockin' Tonight - Montrose
Nobody's Fault - Aerosmith
Stone Cold Crazy - Queen
Welcome To The Machine - Pink Floyd (take notice, PF 😀)
King Of The Nighttime World - Kiss
And I know I'm going to look at this tomorrow and smack myself for not remembering _____________!