Pink Floyd
-Time
-Shine On You Crazy Diamond
-Dogs
-Us And Them
The Doors
-The End
-When The Music's Over
-L.A. Woman
-Waiting For The Sun
-Five To One
Chicago
-25 or 6 to 4
-Little One
-[I've Been] Searchin' So Long
-Something In This City Changes People
-Oh, Thank You Great Spirit
I have no problem picking songs, but I’m so indecisive I can’t come up with favorite bands….I’ll post later after some thought…good thread
Yours:
If your songs are also rankings, then I’m with you on Floyd….’Time’ is absolutely my favorite from Pink Floyd..’Us and Them’ is good, and a shoutout to another sax song that I like : The Gunners Dream
All your selections for The Doors are cool, it’d be tough to beat ‘The End’ and ‘Five to One’ for me….shoutout to ‘Back Door Man’
Chicago- ‘…Searchin’ so long” is good, and ‘Saturday in the Park’ is such a feel-good song….
Cheers…
Yeah, your previous thread gave me the idea!
And yes, they are in order.
"The Gunner's Dream" is a great song. Speaking of the sax, notice Roger's voice and sax suddenly become one. I think I would have liked "Saturday In The Park" more, but I heard it on commercials years ago, and it might have ruined it. Maybe it's a little too happy for me, lol. But a great theme. Robert Lamm found 8mm video he found, and described it in a song.. Always love the "Slow motion riders..." part.
Duran Duran
-Save a Prayer
-Planet Earth
-Friends of Mine
-Rio
The Doors
-Spanish Caravan
-Light My Fire
-Crystal Ship
-Back Door Man
The Cure
-A Forest
-Disintegration
-Fascination Street
-Charlotte Sometimes
Hank Williams Jr
-Tennessee Stud
-Dinosaur
-Country Boy Can Survive
-All in Alabama
Fascination Street is a great song, and just as good or better live…
shareI agree. I saw them in New Orleans recently, and since the song is about Burbon Street Robert made sure to include it in their set. I think it had been omitted on the rest of the tour. There is a 12” single out there of it that is fantastic too.
shareBruce Springsteen
Thunder Road
The River
Tougher Than the Rest
I Wish I Were Blind
New York City Serenade
Van Morrison
Stranded
Magic Time
The Healing Game
Ancient Highway
Celtic New Year
Jackson Browne
Before the Deluge
Sky Blue and Black
The Barricades of Heaven
Call It a Loan
Looking East
Neil Young
After the Gold Rush
Powderfinger
Helpless (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
Cowgirl In the Sand
Rockin' In the Free World
The National
Think You Can Wait
Exile Vilify
About Today
I Need My Girl
Fake Empire
Scars on 45
Change My Needs
Heart On Fire
Crazy For You
Runaway
I Will Be Here
Depeche Mode (This is much harder than I thought)
- Blue Dress
- The Bottom Line
- Enjoy the Silence (Harmonium)
- Everything Counts
- Condemnation
Duran Duran
- Save a Prayer
- Come Undone
- Is There Something I Should Know
- Danse Macabre
Spirit of the West
- And if Venice is Sinking
- Home for a Rest
- D for Democracy
- Politcal
The Glorious Sons
- Kill the Lights
- S.O.S. (Sawed Off Shotgun)
- Everything Is Alright
- I Will Destroy the Void In You
CCR
- Bad Moon Rising
- Long as I Can See the Light
- Someday Never Comes
- Cotton Fields
Somebody alerted me to the new Duran Duran last year, and Danse Macabre was quite the treat, would’ve never guessed it was DD….and it already cracked your faves list…
What did you think of the Psycho Killer cover?
Danse Macabre just struck a chord with me. I also change my mind on favourites constantly. Even now I could change my mind about the songs, and the bands I listed.
Psycho Killer is good. It feels a lot more disco though than the talking heads version. I do prefer the vocals in the DD version.
There was a certain camp to David Byrne’s vocal pattern and style to the song that fit so perfectly with the offbeat lyrics. The DD version is nicely arranged and produced, but Simon Le Bon needed to ham it up and have some crazy fun; I just didn’t feel it from him.
I agree it could have been campier. It's not my favourite of their new ones, but it's such a fun song, it's still good.
shareDuran Duran
- Hungry Like the Wolf
- Planet Earth
- Rio
- Late Bar
Depeche Mode
- Policy of Truth
- Blasphemous Rumors
- Master and Servant
- Never Let Me Down Again
A lot of the usual suspects, when it comes to classic rock. So I'll just list a couple from my favorite band.
Grateful Dead
-Terrapin Station
-China Cat Sunflower>I Know You Rider
-Scarlet Begonias>Fire on the Mountain
Jimi Hendrix-
Foxy Lady
Voodoo Child
Crosstown Traffic
Stone Free
If 6 was 9
Red House
Hey Joe
Purple Haze
Manic Depression
Angel
Are You Experienced
The Who-
The Quadrophenia Album, all of it- but if forced to choose; The Real Me, Cut My Hair, Reign o’er Me
Substitute
My Generation
The Seeker
5:15
Behind Blue Eyes
Baba O’Reilly
I Can’t Explain
Won’t Get Fooled Again
Led Zeppelin-
How Many More Times
Rock and Roll
When the Levee Breaks
The Ocean
Since I’ve Been Loving You
Trampled Underfoot
In the Evening
You Shook Me
The Battle of Evermore
Baby I’m Gonna Leave You
Immigrant Song
George Jones-
He Stopped Loving Her Today
White Lighting
The Grand Tour
Cup of Loneliness
Tender Years
Walk Through This World With Me
Sex Pistols-
Pretty Vacant
Holidays in the Sun
Bodies
No Lip
Problems
No Feelings
Johnny B. Goode/Roadrunner
Belsen Was A Gas
Covers of My Way and I’m Not Your Stepping Stone
EMI
Seventeen
God Save the Queen
I now realize I could’ve just said “Never Mind the Bollocks…..” album
Hooverphonic-
Vinegar and Salt
2Wicky
Mad About You
Jackie Cane
Out of Sight
Battersea
Sometimes
Last Thing I Need Is You
Dirty Lenses
The World is Mine
This Strange Effect
Cover of “You Only Live Twice” (Coldplay, take notes…)
Stevie Wonder-
I Was Made to Love Her
Signed, Sealed, Delivered (I’m Yours)
My Cherie Amour
Superstition
Sir Duke
Uptight
That Girl
Living for the City
—I’m sure there’s more here….
Blur-
“Song 2” x 5, which is about 10 minutes
Public Enemy-
Lost At Birth
911 is a Joke
Shut ‘Em Down
Cant Truss It
Nighttrain
I Don’t Wanna Be Called Yo Nigga
Don’t Believe The Hype
By the Time I Get to Arizona
Edith Piaf-
Non, Je ne Regrette Rien
Hymne à l’amour
Mon Manège À Moi
La vie en Rose
Padam, Padam
VAST-
Dirty Hole
Thrown Away
Temptation
Last One Alive
Touched
I Don’t Have Anything
Turquoise
Falling From The Sky
Don’t Take Your Love Away
You
Pretty When You Cry
I’m Dying
Free
This could all change by the time I wake up tomorrow…
I was not expecting all of these from you. Very cool.
shareReally? Curious, what surprised you, or was it just the endless length of my….list?
Oops, that could’ve went south…
Just a little more classic rock than I was thinking. You have such a vast music knowledge and taste, it's always interesting it see what someone picks as favourites.
shareTo its benefit, classic rock was really album oriented, leading to continuous good songs throughout the LP. Unfortunately, and with a fear of sounding like an old dude, those days are over, and it’s been over for awhile. But I can see why it works now, with streaming and all. Screw the whole album and just buy what tunes you like. But it was nice to just put in the CD or spin the album and just sit back and enjoy, not needing to skip anything.
Those young ladies from Isle of Wight, Wet Leg, are pretty damn good. Their eponymous debut album is so fun : the sardonic, witty, tongue-on-ass-cheek humor is a blast . Im looking forward to their follow up second album…should be good….
Quite a few thumbs up from me (and many I am not familiar with). I thought maybe you would find this interesting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTKM51y6rjE
Ah man, good stuff…a few months back I started watching these first time “reactions” on YouTube , but it was mostly kids and young folks listening to classics for the first time. This was different and cool; it was interesting to see a reaction and hear an opinion for this song from a classically trained musician. She was good, though the crack on Daltrey’s vocal style was bit out of pocket, but that’s okay, just her opinion and not surprising she feels that way ….overall, good clip, thanks again NY-7…
Salut….
Here's a few:
Siouxsie & the Bansees
-Hong Kong Garden
-Israel
-Spellbound
-Red Light
-Arabian Nights
Devo
-Smart Patrol/Mr DNA
-Mongoloid
-Snowball
-Ton of Love
David Bowie
-Panic in Detroit
-Cracked Actor
-Boys Keep Swinging
-I Can't Explain (cover)
Good selections for Siouxsie…shoutouts to ‘Christine’, ‘Peek-A-Boo’, ‘Cities in Dust’ and ‘Kiss Them For Me’….
shareAgreed. Both "Christine"and "Cities in Dust" are epic as well.
I'll always liked the question in Cities "Were you praying at the Lares' shrine?"
It's almost sarcastic, like "That sure as hell did a lot of good for you!" 🤣
Led Zeppelin
"In the Evening"
"Custard Pie"
"The Lemon Song"
"Traveling Riverside Blues"
Live version of "The Song Remains the Same"
The Beatles
"Rain"
"Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!"
"Julia"
"Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End"
"I Want to Tell You"
I'd consider them both as favorites..
Led Zeppelin
-Achilles Last Stand
-Ten Years Gone
-Kashmir
-No Quarter https://youtu.be/tFZy4ot2O2g
-Tangerine
Beatles
-A Day In The Life
-Come Together
-Something
-Dear Prudence
-Don't Let Me Down
-Eleanor Rigby