PassedOutGuy Posted March 8, 2005 Report Share Posted March 8, 2005 I have spent quite some time thinking about this... wondering really if you can have one favourite song forever or is it always changing as you experience new things... i have come to the conclusion that favourites will stick with you forever, bringing you back to that moment and enjoying it again is such a beautiful feeling... I really feel there is no song that stirs more emotion in me for pure brilliance than Harry Hood!... I have sooo many favourites really from The Grateful Dead to Zappa but this song to me has the greatest release of energy and excitement that always makes me smile... SO what is yours and why? Have a favourite version you may have heard live?PS Coventry Hood had me in tears! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Esau Posted March 8, 2005 Report Share Posted March 8, 2005 Up to me - Dylan (never played live)Why:For personal reasons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guigsy Posted March 8, 2005 Report Share Posted March 8, 2005 without a doubt: the slip - soft machine - ice cream truck, 08.07.04 i dont think i can narrow down one studio song. there are too many songs, and too many reasons. but, i had to choose this one because this is a place in time for me, a timepiece that always takes me back to that place... it has a time out of mind effect on me... what i went through during that song, the emotions i felt... jesus... there arent words, man... there are only feelings, and you just cant type these kinda feelings. i truly love it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boochawan Posted March 8, 2005 Report Share Posted March 8, 2005 again, too hard to pick just one - but one song i could hear over and over again is Helplessly Hoping by CSNY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PassedOutGuy Posted March 8, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 8, 2005 Guigsy thats the experience im talkin about... one where it cant be brought to words... nice one...Esau i can totally hear that brother..and another great choice Boochewan! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Del Posted March 8, 2005 Report Share Posted March 8, 2005 It changes constantly, depending on mood, who I'm with, etc. At the moment I have been playing Things I Don't Remember by Ugly Casanova constantly... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Im going home Donny Posted March 8, 2005 Report Share Posted March 8, 2005 oh man....I think I need a week to ponder this one! Pink Floyd and the Dead have been with me through everything so it might come from there in the end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bokonon Posted March 8, 2005 Report Share Posted March 8, 2005 sunday bloody sunday is one of the most moving songs on earth! i love that song. jammin and three little birds by bob marley always makes me feel so good. big balls(?) by ACDC always makes me laugh and feel like a kid. i love singing mercedes benz when i'm hammered. cheese and crackers by jomomma is wonderfully absurd. money by pink floyd is the ultimate anthem of cynics. i guess i have a few Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Esau Posted March 8, 2005 Report Share Posted March 8, 2005 ...Esau i can totally hear that brother.. Well,its not that its so personal I could never tell anyone,I just feel its not somthing I wanna get into on a messegboard,I will say that everytime I hear the song I go through so many emotions (sad,angry,happy,confused,fed up etc) and at times the song simply breaks my heart.Heres a link to the lyrics which probally sums alot of it up. Bob Dylan - Up To Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PassedOutGuy Posted March 8, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 8, 2005 I'm loving how much these songs stir emotion in each person for some reason or another... completely beautiful! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Im going home Donny Posted March 8, 2005 Report Share Posted March 8, 2005 I hear ya on the Money Bokonon :: Esau thats a beautifull song...allmost cried with ya...think I'll give ya a shin kicking instead Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StoneMtn Posted March 8, 2005 Report Share Posted March 8, 2005 The Longest Road by Stephen Fearing Why? Something about how melancholic it is, combined with how Canadian it is, but then again I love other songs that are really upbeat, so it's not the melancholic part ... and I love some songs that aren't Canadian at all, so ... uh ... it just is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Esau Posted March 8, 2005 Report Share Posted March 8, 2005 Thanks Bob...now I need a drink. Esau thats a beautifull song...allmost cried with ya...think I'll give ya a shin kicking instead It is that isn't it.Bring on the shin kicks....some call me "iron shin" I can take it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guigsy Posted March 8, 2005 Report Share Posted March 8, 2005 hey greg, thanks for posting those lyrics... i really love to hear why people dig what they dig... it's just interesting to me how things affect people. for me, and that soft machine, there's a set of lyrics that always do it for me, not nearly as much of a story or as complex as anything dylan, but, they hold meaning for me... i would live for you tomorrow give to you with all my better intentions the world and that is proof that love is death/exists i think brad switches between 'is death' and 'exists'... either way, it makes a lot of sense for me... but that night, truthfully, the journey was all in the jam, the river it wound down, and the culmination of it all towards the end, the explosion... if you have it, you can find it at 13:37. pure beauty. i have such a vivid memory of watching them through it, from like 8 feet away, as they guided each other through the song, the eye contact, the signals... it seemed to me that friedman was kinda quarterbacking the whole thing.. i often wonder if these musicians really know what they do to people... damn.. i learned a lot about music that night. thanks for posing the question and bringing it all back, PoG... im puttin' this sh!t on and hittin' the sack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaimoe Posted March 8, 2005 Report Share Posted March 8, 2005 Off the top of my head: Young Man Blues by The Who But Bob, this topic is impossible. I love soooo many songs. New songs are just as good as old ones. I love " I Will Be There When You Die " by My Morning Jacket every bit as much as " Pink Moon " by Nick Drake. John Coltrane's " My Favourite Things " is beautiful, but no more important and vital as Television's " Marquee Moon ". Every song has their place and significance in everyone's life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PassedOutGuy Posted March 8, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 8, 2005 I agree to a point Jaimoe ... but i kept coming back to a certain feeling that one song gives me... pure enjoyment... complete beauty... this can definitely be said for many songs by me as well but it all comes back to one... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kookycanooky Posted March 8, 2005 Report Share Posted March 8, 2005 watcher of the skies from foxtrot, genesis. the musical box - montreal based cover band who recreat genesis's 1973 tour "selling england by the pound" most notably. Aside from their faces and the bassist is lefty, you cannot tell them apart. The show opener is watcher. The house lights go down...your heart starts beating faster and faster...The song starts and the lights come on...this is what you see (HUGE picture...btw, the picture is of the coverband...not that it makes a difference) http://www.wiventertainment.de/wiv/shows/tmb/downloads/gen_watcher.jpg The rumbling low-end sounds reverberate in your chest...its chilling. You really have to be there to understand. try listening to the intro while starting at the pic haha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Evil_Mouse Posted March 8, 2005 Report Share Posted March 8, 2005 Does this favourite song work in some way as a counterpart to the kind of song that would be enlisted to drive your neighbour crazy - i.e. is it the sort that you could hear over and over again and still like it? I don't know if I have one like that. I've got a CD of I don't know how many mp3s of Help-Slip-Frank that might qualify there, but then of course they all vary, so may that doesn't quite count. Conversely, is it more the rare-bottle-of-wine sort of song that you can leave on the shelf for years and enjoy it more richly each time? I'm going to need some hootch to get a good shortlist there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gr8FuL Posted March 8, 2005 Report Share Posted March 8, 2005 Brown Eyed Women by the dead is right up there, got alot of meaning for me but as far as a favorite song of all time, I definetley couldnt limit myself to just one, theres so many amazing songs that have alot of meaning to me and bring me back to others goodtimes wheni enjoyed them with freinds or whoever! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RayRay Posted March 8, 2005 Report Share Posted March 8, 2005 Very hard decision, there are definately specific songs I listen to when I'm in a certain mood/situation. One that stands out right now is Down by the river - Neil Young, everytime I hear that song it rips my heart right out of my chest and throws it against the wall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ms.Huxtable Posted March 8, 2005 Report Share Posted March 8, 2005 I get so emotional over many different songs. If I had to list just one it would likely be "Into The Mystic". I wanna rock your Gypsy soul just gets to me. But some of the happiest moments of my life were dancing to Lemondust, that's way the hell up there for me as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CookieMonster Posted March 8, 2005 Report Share Posted March 8, 2005 Me and Bobby McGee - the Janis Joplin version. She sings it with so much passion. It's upbeat yet kind of heartbreaking. It's timeless. I love it, love it, love it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Evil_Mouse Posted March 8, 2005 Report Share Posted March 8, 2005 I get so emotional over many different songs. If I had to list just one it would likely be "Into The Mystic". I wanna rock your Gypsy soul just gets to me. Thank you - you tweaked something I had lurking in the back of my mind - the title track from Astral Weeks. Hits me especially hard in the spring; I have many fond memories of listening to it on my walkman strolling around the Kingston waterfront as the ice melted and the fresh air wafted into the city. Mmm. TImeless tune. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaimoe Posted March 8, 2005 Report Share Posted March 8, 2005 Thank you - you tweaked something I had lurking in the back of my mind - the title track from Astral Weeks. Hits me especially hard in the spring; I have many fond memories of listening to it on my walkman strolling around the Kingston waterfront as the ice melted and the fresh air wafted into the city. Mmm. TImeless tune. Speaking of memories of Kingston: The Backstairs Influence sucked, especially their lead guitarist and singer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Evil_Mouse Posted March 8, 2005 Report Share Posted March 8, 2005 Speaking of memories of Kingston: The Backstairs Influence sucked, especially their lead guitarist and singer. No doubt! What a bunch of tossers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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