What are your all time favorite songs?

Post by **e_poison** » Mon Oct 01, 2018 8:45 pm

Let's get the new off topic forum kicked off!

What are you favorite songs of all time? And why are they your favorite?

Post by **BlendsAreMyFriends** » Mon Oct 01, 2018 10:02 pm

Stairway to Heaven. Led Zep. It was my "our song" for my first wife and I.

You Shook Me All Night Long. AC-DC. "Our song" for my second wife and I. We'll be married 18 yrs. next month.

Post by **herbalhippie** » Mon Oct 01, 2018 10:07 pm

Well, if you've got a few days, I'll tell you all my favorite songs.

Probably won't be tonight though, got some things going on. I'll post an easy one tonight.

This one is probably my all time favorite song. I don't know if it's because of what was going on in my
life right then. I was 15 and just really getting to know who I was becoming. This song reminds me of that time in my life.

Toulouse Street - Doobie Brothers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZ4pwMxtwEs

This is a great topic, e_poison.

Post by **herbalhippie** » Mon Oct 01, 2018 10:10 pm

Ok, one more.

This was my very first Pink Floyd song and still a favorite.

Fearless - Pink Floyd

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3J_2R9rAp8

and I can't listen to that song without listening to this one too. They've always gone hand in hand for me.

Here They Come - Ten Years After

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGKWmWoByc8

Post by **beathappening** » Mon Oct 01, 2018 10:22 pm

Nice, I loved Meddle, definitely in my Floyd top 3. I think I like Echoes more.

Piper is my favorite, I really like Syd's solo work too

I don't know about favorite song, but a few favorite albums:
Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Beatles - Rubber Soul
Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica
Stooges - Funhouse
Devo - Duty Now for the Future
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92

I gotta stop myself there...there's so many

Post by **BlendsAreMyFriends** » Mon Oct 01, 2018 11:00 pm

My oldest fave is House Of The Rising Sun. Eric and the Animals. And a sentimental favorite is John Mayall, Catch That Train. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3N90ZkqyTP0

Post by **herbalhippie** » Mon Oct 01, 2018 11:52 pm

Ok, I'm back. Three of my favorite Grateful Dead songs and I'm off to bed.

Althea

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-vZwTJlppI

Playing in the Band

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qe6sJMjy4T0

Candyman (might be my fav GD song and there's a reason for this

)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEFPOqEmxHU

Post by **Trailmix** » Tue Oct 02, 2018 9:35 am

As I am an amateur musician/singer songwriter I have too many favorite songs to list as well. One of my all time favorite musicians is David Byrne from the talking heads. I just saw him for the 3rd time a couple weeks ago and he played -This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)- and I used to cover this song a lot so it made me very emotional. I’ve seen a lot of older musicians (a lot) and I have never seen a. 66 year old man in as good of shape as David Byrne. Robert plant was in great shape when I saw him(band of joy tour), bob weir(better than average, I’ve seen rat dog and further like 5xs) but David Byrne that guy can move for a 66 year old! I’m 26 and i guarante I could not keep up with his dance moves haha I have to think on my favorite led zep and favorite Grateful Dead song will add those later!

Post by **herbalhippie** » Tue Oct 02, 2018 9:35 pm

My second favorite song

Lay Me Down - Crosby & Nash

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgXLYSy321Y

Post by **whiffypants** » Wed Oct 03, 2018 2:28 pm

I have SO many my head hurts just trying to think of them all. There's not a band y'all mentioned that I don't hear regularly, and the late 60s - early 70s groove is the best. I like most anything from that era that is rock, blues or R&B, with a special love for psychedelic and progressive rock and the frequent foray into world music. Anything from Allman Bros to It's A Beautiful Day to Nick Drake to Pink Floyd to Gil Scott-Heron to ELP or King Crimson I'm there -- at least when I'm not listening to bossa nova or smoky jazz, that is.

Like I said... too many to list.

Post by **Trailmix** » Wed Oct 03, 2018 2:36 pm

Neil young is my favorite of CSNY but the only one I haven’t seen live!! Helpless by Neil young is one of my all time favorite songs. I have been fortunate to see CSN, Stephen stills solo, Nash solo and even Crosby solo. Any of you guys see any of these legends back in the day? My aunt saw CSNY on the super coked our tour in 1974.
Favorite Led Zeppelin song houses of the holy
Favorite CSNY song teach your children
Favorite Grateful Dead song - box of rain( one of theres too many)

Post by **herbalhippie** » Wed Oct 03, 2018 3:37 pm

King Crimson.......

I dunno, maybe this is my favorite song.

Exiles

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7p2jq

Post by **herbalhippie** » Wed Oct 03, 2018 3:59 pm

Trailmix wrote:Neil young is my favorite of CSNY but the only one I haven’t seen live!! Helpless by Neil young is one of my all time favorite songs. I have been fortunate to see CSN, Stephen stills solo, Nash solo and even Crosby solo. Any of you guys see any of these legends back in the day? My aunt saw CSNY on the super coked our tour in 1974.
Favorite Led Zeppelin song houses of the holy
Favorite CSNY song teach your children
Favorite Grateful Dead song - box of rain( one of theres too many)

I think Stephen Stills is my favorite.

I was living in Los Altos, CA in 1983 and working in Menlo Park. An announcement came over the radio station that Neil Young was going to do a spur of the moment concert at this little bar in San Jose that night, play some songs off an album he was about to release. I didn't hear the announcement, but a few hours later a co-worker came to my desk and said her husband had gotten four tickets and they could only use two. Did I want the other two? Hell yes I did. So I got hold of my sister-in-law to be and we went and saw Neil Young that night. We had a table right next to the stage.

This was the album https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everybody%27s_Rockin%27

I never have seen CSNY, just Neil.

My CSN favorites

You Don't Have To Cry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmduVX7_-kE

49 Bye Byes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-24WP5bCu4

Shadow Captain

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qghrZ0AMIPs

Southern Cross

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cBsnopTVmo

I feel like I'm hogging this thread.

Post by **herbalhippie** » Wed Oct 03, 2018 4:02 pm

whiffypants wrote:I have SO many my head hurts just trying to think of them all. There's not a band y'all mentioned that I don't hear regularly, and the late 60s - early 70s groove is the best. I like most anything from that era that is rock, blues or R&B, with a special love for psychedelic and progressive rock and the frequent foray into world music.

I love progressive rock and world music. <3

Post by **BallzDeep9** » Wed Oct 03, 2018 4:43 pm

I'm on a Facebook group where they post 4 albums, and people vote or comment, ranking the 4.

ONE stood out... the 1976 classical metal LP Rainbow Rising -- Ronnie James Dio, Cozy Powell, Richie Blackmore.

"Light In The Black" -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBYh0t36fT8

Post by **Trailmix** » Wed Oct 03, 2018 5:27 pm

Herbal that is sick! Thanks for sharing the story, I think because I live in South Carolina Neil is the one I will never get to see, I’m not opposed to traveling for it but now he doesn’t tour as much and my chances are getting pretty low. I think i saw Stephen stills somewhere 2009-2013( boy are concerts more fun now that I don’t drink or use drugs!!) and man can he still play guitar!! He’s my second fave of the 4 for sure. When I saw CSN they said it was the 50th anniversary of the day they played Woodstock and they put on a hell of a show!

Post by **whiffypants** » Thu Oct 04, 2018 12:01 am

herbalhippie wrote:I love progressive rock and world music. <3

Speaking of world music, somehow I ended up explaining to my partner today that Rastafarians consider the late emperor of Ethiopia, Haile Selassie, to be god and that Bob Marley wrote hymns and songs about him:

Selassie is the Chapel

War (lyrics are a speech Selassie delivered at the U.N. back in the day)

World music is -wild-, and never fails to fascinate and teach me. I couldn't really think of a single favorite, but this is one of them, never fails to put me in a better mood:

Elis Regina - Upa Neguinho

Post by **herbalhippie** » Thu Oct 04, 2018 3:56 am

Brazilian jazz! That was good!

Post by **herbalhippie** » Thu Oct 04, 2018 4:00 am

Brazilian jazz! That was good!

Here's one of my favorites. Afro-celtic.

Cotu - Baka Beyond

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSKdia4JWAU

I took the kids to see them in concert in a very small venue about a half hour from Seattle in the late-2000s. Never thought I'd get to see them, I was just very lucky to see the announcement of the concert somewhere by accident.

Soiridh Leis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sI9Mg54WzsM

Post by **whiffypants** » Thu Oct 04, 2018 1:34 pm

herbalhippie wrote:Brazilian jazz! That was good!

Ohhh, yeah. And it's -that- particular version: Elis Regina performed it countless times, it's actually a protest song about what was going on in Brazil at the time, but with that particular performance the joy just -jumps- off the screen at you!

A number of the great Brazilian performers/songwriters jumped back and forth between jazz and other styles regularly, they all knew each other and collaborated -- especially when they started to get banned in the 70s over their political protest content -- so it's very difficult even now to distinguish between Brazilian jazz and bossa nova, for example. Even their "pop" tunes have a lot of the same sounds, and that's still the case though most of the musicians from the bossa nova era are dead now.

Both of those Afro-celtic tunes were exactly the kind of thing I like, thanks! My partner listens to a lot of Afro Celt Sound System: very good but I have to be in the mood for it. A perennial favorite of mine is one from the movie Ali, a bit slower and darker:

Salif Keita - Tomorrow

Post by **herbalhippie** » Thu Oct 04, 2018 4:13 pm

whiffypants wrote:
herbalhippie wrote:
Salif Keita - Tomorrow

Ooh this is nice!!

I like the Afro Celt Sound System. I've only got #2 and 3. Haven't listened to them in quite a while, thanks for reminding me!

Another favorite

Omnia - Moon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9L8x9pFNGo

Post by **ChoosingBliss** » Thu Oct 04, 2018 10:13 pm

I love seeing so much 70s prog rock mentioned in this thread. Yes and King Crimson are my two favorite bands. If anyone is up for prog and jazz -and some folk and electronic music - from the cold war-era eastern bloc nations, the Funked Up East channel on YouTube is worth checking out.

Post by **ctrider** » Sat Oct 06, 2018 10:18 pm

Music is my passion - Hard to pick a top 25 for me. I grew up with Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Doors, Jethro Tull, Jefferson Airplane ++
My favorites are any song that if I was driving somewhere, I would wait in my car until the song finished before I got out.
Some of the above definitely brings back memories - In the Court of the Crimson King, House of the Rising Sun ,Southern Man.
Some of my all time favorites: Iggy Pop - Passenger, Mazzy Star - Fade into you, Santigold - Disparate Youth, POD - Youth of a Nation, Muse - Thought Contagion, In this Moment - Whore, Twenty-one Pilots - Heathens, Sia - Breathe Me, Raconteurs - Blue Veins, Birthday Massacre - Happy Birthday, Neighbourhood - Female Robbery (OK - I'll stop now

)

Post by **MetalMamaRocks** » Fri Oct 12, 2018 1:05 pm

All time favorite is Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here.

John Lennon Imagine is a close second

One that means a lot to me - Shinedown Second Chance. Can't listen to it without tearing up.

Also really like Killswitch Engage My Curse. Starts out with a pretty guitar intro, then a primal scream, then some head banging music!

Post by **Madison808** » Fri Oct 12, 2018 5:45 pm

One Of These Nights by The Eagles. Has been my favorite song of all time since I was 15. The lyrics and the tune put together just do something to me. Can’t explain it but I’m sure u guys know what I’m talking about. I just love that song.

Post by **whiffypants** » Fri Oct 12, 2018 6:36 pm

I love a lot of those early Eagle songs; they do have a certain sound and quality to them. I think my favorite Eagles song is I Can't Tell You Why. Maybe it's because I used to have a microwave that put out the exact same note that song starts on -- no lie! -- and always made me think of it.

But right now I'm listening to some old Blind Faith (with Eric Clapton): Can't Find My Way Home.

Post by **herbalhippie** » Fri Oct 12, 2018 8:06 pm

whiffypants wrote:I love a lot of those early Eagle songs; they do have a certain sound and quality to them. I think my favorite Eagles song is I Can't Tell You Why. Maybe it's because I used to have a microwave that put out the exact same note that song starts on -- no lie! -- and always made me think of it.

But right now I'm listening to some old Blind Faith (with Eric Clapton): Can't Find My Way Home.

I Can't Tell You Why and Can't Find My Way Home are another two of my favorite songs. whiffy, you are my soul twin.

Beside the above one, another two of my favorite Eagles songs are Saturday Night from Desperado ( no video avail) and

Bitter Creek

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4R68eQ6rqV0

My #1 favorite Eagles song

Train Leaves Here This Morning (Was there ever a better song to sing along with? No.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4Vvl9dHNwg

Post by **whiffypants** » Fri Oct 12, 2018 8:40 pm

whiffy, you are my soul twin.

I knew that back when you said you dig Hildegard von Bingen. I mean, how often does THAT happen?

But yeah, I dig most things Stevie Winwood, at least the older stuff: Small Faces, Traffic, Spencer Davis Group. Dude is -seriously- underappreciated.

And I love all those Eagle songs you just linked: their vocal harmony is -incredible- for a pop group. Sometimes it's so tight I can't actually pick out the separate parts, which is amazing and rare (to me, anyway).

Favorite Zeppelin tune is a tossup between The Rain Song and the kind of deep cut Ten Years Gone off Physical Graffiti. What's yours?

EDITED TO ADD: In other news, I had a friend who sang Byzantine chant whose wife's vacuum cleaner matched one of their frequent isons (the note that is sung and held while others sing the melody).

Post by **herbalhippie** » Fri Oct 12, 2018 9:39 pm

whiffypants wrote:
EDITED TO ADD: In other news, I had a friend who sang Byzantine chant whose wife's vacuum cleaner matched one of their frequent isons (the note that is sung and held while others sing the melody).

I had to go listen to one and I could hear them singing around one held note. Beautiful!

This song always makes me think 'Byzantine'

Agape - Dead Can Dance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msH0pDRKorc

Favorite Zep. Hmm....all of them.

Post by **whiffypants** » Sat Oct 13, 2018 12:07 am

herbalhippie wrote:This song always makes me think 'Byzantine'

Agape - Dead Can Dance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msH0pDRKorc

I definitely dig that Middle Eastern vibe. I don't remember hearing it specifically, but I could swear I've heard it or something very like it in television shows. Adding this to the world music mix. Thanks!

Favorite Zep. Hmm....all of them.

Heh, yeah. 'Twas a silly question.

SO MUCH great music in this thread!!!

Post by **BlendsAreMyFriends** » Sat Oct 13, 2018 9:29 pm

Several references to Neil Young and CSNY. My favorite Neil Young song is "The Needle And The Damage Done".

Amazing song and brings back memories of many that were lost too soon.

Post by **MetalMamaRocks** » Sun Oct 14, 2018 6:17 am

BlendsAreMyFriends wrote:Several references to Neil Young and CSNY. My favorite Neil Young song is "The Needle And The Damage Done".

Amazing song and brings back memories of many that were lost too soon.

Yeah, that's a good one! My favorite is Old Man. I love Neil! I got to see him at the Ryman in Nashville a few years ago. Still sounded good as ever!

Post by **whiffypants** » Sun Oct 14, 2018 12:44 pm

My favorite Neil Young song is "The Needle And The Damage Done".

Ah, yeah, that's a good one -- I'm a Harvest Moon fan myself. But anything he did with CSN&Y I can listen to endlessly. That's another group with amazing vocal chemistry and incredibly tight harmonies. Always a pleasure to hear.

Post by **g-otis** » Mon Oct 15, 2018 4:42 pm

Very cool topic, esp just to read comments.

I’m a musician, so don’t get me started! Lol
Seriously, I love all good music. Mostly rock and blues stuff, but my tastes are very broad. I won’t list all the classic rock, but just say from AC/DC to ZZ Top, America to Zeppelin, Allman Brothers to Zappa, etc.

As far as current music, I really like Drive-by Truckers and a good bit of that sort of alt-country, Americana stuff. That seems to be where I hear the freshest music these days.

Post by **e_poison** » Mon Oct 15, 2018 8:01 pm

g-otis wrote:As far as current music, I really like Drive-by Truckers and a good bit of that sort of alt-country, Americana stuff. That seems to be where I hear the freshest music these days.

Do you like Brothers Osborne? Here's a great song by them - 21 Summer

Post by **Zeke0501** » Sun Nov 04, 2018 1:45 pm

Masterpiece
Standing on the moon
St Stephen
Help>slipknot>franklyns
Me an my uncle
Althea
Crazy fingers
Shakedown street
Ship of fools
Pocky way
Blow away
Honestly anything Brent era from
The dead is gonna always be my favorite so the eightys if we’re talking favorites.

Post by **BlendsAreMyFriends** » Mon Nov 05, 2018 9:18 pm

St Stephen. Gawd that brings back memories.

And ripple, the song not the wine.

Post by **herbalhippie** » Wed Nov 14, 2018 11:23 pm

Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd <3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FrOQC-zEog

Post by **MetalMamaRocks** » Thu Nov 15, 2018 7:06 am

herbalhippie wrote:Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd <3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FrOQC-zEog

I heard Shine On You Crazy Diamond at work yesterday and just stopped everything to listen. I wanted to lay down and fire up a joint, but I don't think my boss would go for that, plus I don't smoke anymore

But damn, Pink Floyd takes me right back to my youth.

Post by **herbalhippie** » Thu Nov 15, 2018 8:41 am

MetalMamaRocks wrote:
herbalhippie wrote:Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd <3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FrOQC-zEog
I heard Shine On You Crazy Diamond at work yesterday and just stopped everything to listen. I wanted to lay down and fire up a joint, but I don't think my boss would go for that, plus I don't smoke anymore But damn, Pink Floyd takes me right back to my youth.

haha this is me! I always associate Pink Floyd with smoking, and I don't smoke anymore either.