Here is a list of some modern songs that, when I heard each for the first time, my reaction was "Oh, my God! What was that song???" and I immediately wanted to hear each one again and again. As much as I prefer silence, I would still gladly listen to every one of these songs again and again. Today I added the song "La Guardia" by Tito Puente, from the album "Carnival". The numbers are just a way of keeping track of how many there are and have nothing to do with any kind of a "most to least favorite" categorization. I pretty much like all of them equally.
1. My Favorite Things - John Coltrane
2. Aspirations - Gentle Giant
3. Icarus - Paul Winter Consort
4. Bird Song - Linda Waterfall
5. Solisbury Hill - Peter Gabriel
6. Worry About You - Ivy
7. Love At The Five And Dime - Nanci Griffith
8. My Father - Judy Collins
9. Catch The Wind - Donovan
10. Excellent Birds - Laurie Anderson
11. The Flat Earth - Thomas Dolby
12. Crazy - Seal
13. Friday I'm In Love - The Cure
14. Everybody Wants To Rule The World - Tears For Fears
15. One Of These Things First - Nick Drake
16. Railway - Dando Shaft
17. Mama - Spice Girls
18. Message in a Bottle - The Police
19. Brothers In Arms - Dire Straits
20. Anybody Seen My Baby - Rolling Stones
21. Bo Radley - Bruce Hornsby
22. love is more thicker than forget - Jonatha Brooke
23. We Can Work It Out - The Beatles
24. Classical Gas - Mason Williams
25. 10,000 Miles - Mary Chapin Carpenter
26. Rain - Patty Griffin
27. Tango - Patty Larkin
28. Sweet Bird - Joni Mitchell
29. Mr. Tambourine Man - Bob Dylan
30. Honey And The Moon - Joseph Arthur
31. Know By Now - Robert Palmer
32. Lucky Man - Emerson, Lake and Palmer
33. And You And I - Yes
34. Black Coffee - All Saints
35. For Emily Wherever I May Find Her - Simon & Garfunkel
36. Key West Intermezzo (I Saw You First) - John Cougar Mellencamp
37. A'soalin' - Peter, Paul & Mary
38. Goin' Up To Country - Canned Heat
39. Whiter Shade Of Pale - Procul Harum
40. Morning Has Broken (Traditional) - Cat Stevens
41. Passion - Raya O'Coal
42. Bloszfueszig - Broadlahn
43. Shotgun Down The Avalanche - Shawn Colvin
44. Somewhere Over The Rainbow - Judy Garland
45. Small Blue Thing - Suzanne Vega
46. Thank U - Alanis Morissette
47. Lady Of The Island - Crosby, Stills and Nash
48. Because It's There - Michael Hedges
49. Stolen Land - Bruce Cockburn
50. All Along The Watchtower (Bob Dylan) - Jimi Hendrix
51. Sorento Moon - Tena Arena
52. Could I Be Your Girl - Jann Arden
53. Sand And Water - Beth Nielsen Chapman
54. Hammond Song - The Roches
55. Raincloud - Lighthouse Family
56. In The Arms Of An Angel - Sarah McLaughlin
57. Learning To Fly - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
58. One Of Us - Joan Osborne
59. Keep Your Distance (Richard Thompson) - Buddy and Julie Miller
60. Change The World (Sims, Kenney, Kirkpatrick) - Eric Clapton
61. Highwayman - Jimmy Webb
62. Bramble and the Rose (Barbara Keith) - Kate Brislin and Jody Stecher
63. La Guardia - Tito Puente
64. Way Of Beauty - Linda Waterfall
65. Aerial Boundaries - Michael Hedges
66. Hide And Seek - Imogen Heap
67. Have You Got It In You - Imogen Heap
68. First Circle (Live in Japan) - Pat Metheny
I have a different list for classical music that I might post someday.
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
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You, needed to know Tango Mommy rather than Daddy She loved music and would understand you in this aspect much more than I do. But keep on posting I'll keep reading and I love you in different ways.
Tango Daddy, I wish I could have known Tango Mommy. You are just fine the way you are, though. Thank you for reading and sharing your comments so faithfully - it means a lot to me! All the best to you!
For someone who prefers silence, you sure know a lot of songs!!
I confess to not being familiar to the titles of many of these songs, although I might recognise them were I to listen to them, as I will do on Youtube or Imeem.
Perhaps it is with you as it is with me, that whenever I hear a song from my past, I immediately know where I was and what I was doing when that song was popular. Some of these memories are happy; others sad.
Shakespeare wrote: If music be the food of love, play on.
Absolutely.
In response to christopher:
For someone who prefers silence, you sure know a lot of songs!!
I've been collecting favorites for many years. I find it hard to listen to music indiscriminately, because any music I listen to will go round and round in my head ad infinitum - I seem to have no control over that. I don't mind so much if my favorites replay, but ultimately I'm glad when everything shuts off and there's silence.
I confess to not being familiar to the titles of many of these songs, although I might recognise them were I to listen to them, as I will do on Youtube or Imeem.
I hope you found and enjoyed some of them! I'm not a member of Imeem and haven't decided yet whether or not to provide my personal data to yet another online service in order to join, but out of curiosity I did look in YouTube. Some of the older tunes (Railway by Dando Shaft, Icarus by Paul Winter Consort, Birdsong by Linda Waterfall) were not available, but I found many in my list and enjoyed seeing for the first time the artists performing these favorite songs.
Perhaps it is with you as it is with me, that whenever I hear a song from my past, I immediately know where I was and what I was doing when that song was popular. Some of these memories are happy; others sad.
Yes, there are many songs that send me back in time, happy and sad, but the ones in my list are mostly neutral in terms of associated memories and make me feel joyful or peaceful.
Shakespeare wrote: If music be the food of love, play on.
Absolutely.
Absolutely!
Thanks for commenting - I love getting comments! All the best to you!
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