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Post by mommaho on May 22, 2023 9:50:50 GMT
I'm such a music person - it helps sooth the soul and get you moving! I can listen to everything/anything from Broadway, Andrea Boccelli, County old and new, hits from 60's through today. The only thing I can't really get into is Heavy Metal or Rap, I guess because I can't understand what they are saying - lol What is your favorite go to song? Here is mine!
youtu.be/rukvfk9a6rYJackson Brown - The Loadout - the 9 minute version!
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Post by lesley on May 22, 2023 10:56:45 GMT
I love The Loadout, it’s been a regular for me for many years. I can’t really name a favourite song, there are just far too many. At the moment I’m listening constantly to It’s A Fine Fine Line from Avenue Q, but I should stop because it just makes me cry! I suppose if I absolutely had to choose a single song it would be Take This Waltz by Leonard Cohen.
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Post by peasapie on May 22, 2023 11:03:17 GMT
I do love that one by Jackson, despite the long outdated references to CBs, 8 tracks and Richard Pryor!
In vintage songs, lately we’ve been listening to a lot of Gordon Lightfoot, especially Song For a Winter’s Night and Summer Side of Life. Such well written songs and his voice is incredible. RIP Gordo!
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Post by Deleted on May 22, 2023 11:24:36 GMT
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Post by leannec on May 22, 2023 11:27:48 GMT
Tracy Chapman - Fast Car ... and now the Luke Combs version of the same song ... so good!
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Post by hutchfan on May 22, 2023 11:31:03 GMT
My favorite song is Never Tear Us Apart by INXS. I really love A Broken Wing and Independence Day by Martina McBride. Pieces and Life Ain't Always Beautiful by Gary Allen Where I Come From by Alan Jackson When You're In Love With A Beautiful Woman and Sexy Eyes by Dr. Hook Street Corner Symphony by Rob Thomas Die A Happy Man by Thomas Rhett Wrecking Ball by Eric Church Celebrate Youth and Don't Talk To Strangers by Rick Springfield
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Post by lainey on May 22, 2023 11:31:18 GMT
I'd be here all day if I started listing my favourite songs! I'm listening to Echo and the Bunnymen atm and my favourite by them is Bring on the Dancing Horses.
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Post by auntkelly on May 22, 2023 12:37:06 GMT
I can’t say it’s my favorite song, but I’ve recently become obsessed with this YouTube video of Glen Campbell playing Wichita Lineman with the South Dakota Symphony for an old PBS special. Wichita Lineman-Glen Campbell w/ Orchestra
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Post by smartypants71 on May 22, 2023 12:50:42 GMT
The songs I listen to almost daily:
Zombies - Time of the Season (dh especially loves singing "what's your name? Who's your daddy? to me LOL) Kings of Leon - Time in Disguise Danielle Ponder - Some of Us Are Brave Maneskin - The Loneliest Dylan Leblanc - Cautionary Tale Tears For Fears - The Tipping Point
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Post by peabay on May 22, 2023 13:36:17 GMT
Was a huge Jackson Browne fan so I totally validate your love of "The Load-Out" although my favorite song by him (just makes me feel like a 15 year old in my bedroom listening to him on my record player) is "The Pretender."
All time favorite? Drive around the block if it comes on the radio because you have to hear the whole thing? "Thunder Road" by Bruce Springsteen. Never gets old for me. The harmonica/piano opening gives me goosebumps every.single.time.
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Post by anniebeth24 on May 22, 2023 13:59:41 GMT
I love The Loadout - Jackson Browne always reminds me of my first kiss.
I'd have to do more thinking about my absolute favorite song, but I've always loved classic hymns like "How Great Thou Art" and "It is Well with my Soul."
In the theme of long songs, I adore "Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding" by Elton John which is like 11 minutes. Was quite disappointed that he didn't play it when I saw him in concert.
Great thread - need to look some of these up.
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Post by compeateropeator on May 22, 2023 14:21:56 GMT
Absolutely no way that I could pick a favorite song. I often have songs that I listen to a lot during a period of time but couldn’t pick a favorite. I’ve made many a “Crank it I love this Song” tapes and have various plays lists of the same. There are additions and differences but these songs show up on almost all of them.
Turn the Page - Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band Can’t you See - Marshall Tucker Band That’s the Way that the World goes round - John Prine A Pirate Looks at Forty - Jimmy Buffet Willin’ - Little Feat Angel From Montgomery - various versions (Love Bonnie Raitt’s) Lost Together- Blue Rodeo SoulShine - Govt Mule or Allman Brothers Have a little Faith in me - John Hiatt Ripple - The Grateful Dead Cat’s in the Cradle - Harry Chaplin Dead Flowers - various versions American Pie - Don McLean The Weight - The Band The Last Resort - The Eagles
A new favorite right now: Stick Season - Noah Kahan
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Post by smasonnc on May 22, 2023 14:36:05 GMT
Wow, you ladies have some great taste! Zombies - Time of the Season (dh especially loves singing "what's your name? Who's your daddy? to me LOL) We saw the Zombies recently and they're still great. They still have two of the main members plus the son of one of the others. The lead singer's voice sounds strong and clear and I didn't know that the keyboard player was Rod Argent of the band Argent. He did a keyboard solo that would blow your socks off. I have a lot of eclectic tastes, old and new hits, world music, musicals, jazz, but the song "Smile" by Tony Bennett and "Ain't no Sunshine" by Bill Withers are two of my favorites, mostly because of the good memories associated with them.
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Post by quinlove on May 22, 2023 14:43:42 GMT
My all time, turn it up, louder, play it again song is - A Question of Lust by Depeche Mode.
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Post by gar on May 22, 2023 15:56:40 GMT
Right after I decide which of my children I love most
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Post by Lurkingpea on May 22, 2023 16:22:53 GMT
I'd be here all day if I started listing my favourite songs! I'm listening to Echo and the Bunnymen atm and my favourite by them is Bring on the Dancing Horses. Love them. One of my favorite bands. My favorite is Bedbugs and Ballyhoo.
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Post by Lurkingpea on May 22, 2023 16:24:19 GMT
My favorite song is probably Pictures of You by the Cure.
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Post by chendra on May 22, 2023 16:56:26 GMT
I don't really have a favorite song, but on my drive in to work this morning, I was imagining what it must have been like to hear the Benny Goodman version of "Sing, Sing, Sing" for the first time back in the day. It must have been wild!
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Post by ScrapbookMyLife on May 22, 2023 18:56:49 GMT
I have quite a few "favorite" songs.
My favorite changes daily, depending on my outlook, emotional and mental health, how the day is going, etc...
Today and the last few days, my current favorites are: Bob Seger - Understanding Rush - Time stand still Ambrosia - Biggest part of me
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Post by Zee on May 22, 2023 19:08:16 GMT
WHO DON'T YOU JUST ASK ME TO PICK A FAVORITE CHILD LOL this is seriously an impossible task.
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Post by scrapmaven on May 22, 2023 20:52:09 GMT
Music of the Night from Phantom of the Opera. Anything Broadway is my jam!
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Post by mikklynn on May 23, 2023 13:17:14 GMT
Tracy Chapman - Fast Car ... and now the Luke Combs version of the same song ... so good! My new favorite song is the Luke Combs version!
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Post by huskergal on May 23, 2023 13:40:32 GMT
I love The Loadout - Jackson Browne always reminds me of my first kiss. I'd have to do more thinking about my absolute favorite song, but I've always loved classic hymns like "How Great Thou Art" and "It is Well with my Soul." In the theme of long songs, I adore "Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding" by Elton John which is like 11 minutes. Was quite disappointed that he didn't play it when I saw him in concert. Great thread - need to look some of these up. Elton played it when I saw him in concert March 2022. One of my favorites.
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Post by huskergal on May 23, 2023 13:42:38 GMT
So dependent on my mood and too many to list, however, since the last episode of "Ted Lasso", I have been listening to Spiegel im Spiegel by Arvo Part because it soothes my soul.
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Post by mommaho on May 23, 2023 22:43:16 GMT
Thanks for sharing! Now I'll have to go listen to all of these too!
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Post by cadoodlebug on May 23, 2023 23:34:13 GMT
When I am in the kitchen, I turn on Comcast Music: Golden Oldies and sing along ~ brings back so many wonderful memories of my teen/young adult years ~ the sweet and also the heartbreaking.
Yesterday they played Brian Hyland's Sealed With a Kiss and it brought me right back to the summer of '63 when we were transferred from Hawaii to New Orleans.
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Post by quietgirl on May 24, 2023 2:13:20 GMT
Freebird, Lynyrd Skynyrd Tupelo Honey, Van Morrison Always On My Mind, but only the Elvis Presley one Rise, Herb Alpert
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Post by ComplicatedLady on May 24, 2023 4:43:01 GMT
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Post by anniebeth24 on May 24, 2023 13:23:00 GMT
So dependent on my mood and too many to list, however, since the last episode of "Ted Lasso", I have been listening to Spiegel im Spiegel by Arvo Part because it soothes my soul. Just listened to this. Soul soothing is a perfect description.
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Post by sharlag on May 24, 2023 16:27:06 GMT
Great thread idea! Thanks!! I love LOVE SHACK by the b52s.
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