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    My first pass top-of-mind:

    Let it Be-The Beatles
    God Bless the Child-Billie Holliday
    Exit Song (for a film)-Radiohead
    Rhapsody in Blue-Gershwin
    Bridge Over Troubled Water-Simon & Garfunkel

    Alan and ZoeGirl:
    My son and husband LOVE "Hurt" by Johnny Cash and they played it several times this past holiday so it's very fresh in my mind. It's a little depressing to me, but it is a beautiful song
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    Don't nobody take this the wrong way, but I am always surprised when conservatives like good music.

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    Quote Originally Posted by catherine View Post

    Alan and ZoeGirl:
    My son and husband LOVE "Hurt" by Johnny Cash and they played it several times this past holiday so it's very fresh in my mind. It's a little depressing to me, but it is a beautiful song
    Check out a few of the others I mentioned, in his later years Johnny Cash had the unique ability to take someone else's song and interpret it in such a way that the original was forgotten. I once heard someone say when Johnny covered your song, it was no longer yours.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Alan View Post
    Check out a few of the others I mentioned, in his later years Johnny Cash had the unique ability to take someone else's song and interpret it in such a way that the original was forgotten. I once heard someone say when Johnny covered your song, it was no longer yours.
    I will check out some of the others, Hurt is definitely his song. If you watch the video as well you totally forget someone else performed it first.

    I know not everyone would appreciate this one but Disturbed covering Sounds of Silence is amazing. This guy can sing, he worked with a vocal coach just to do this song.

    Kinda cool that someone picked one of the same songs as I did!

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    Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
    Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit (my new go to for karaoke)
    Orff - Carmina Burana
    Johnny Cash - I walk the line
    Adele - Rolling in the Deep
    The Aliens - I am the Unknown (anyone who has seen the movie 21. The scene where they are playing this song. OMG.)
    Awolnation - Sail
    Billy Stewart - Summertime
    Collin Hay - Maggie
    Florence & the Machine - Dog Days are Over
    Jeff Buckley - Grace
    LEN - Steal My Sunshine
    Hanson - Umm Bop (SO would hit me if I didn't include this one...)
    Lenny Kravitz - Fly Away
    Mumford & Son - The Cave
    Of Monsters & Men - Little Talks
    Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
    Toy - Clouds that cover the Sun (Jeez, the key changes that just keep going all over the place...)
    Lynard Skyard - Freebird
    The Beatles - everything from the White Album
    Janis Ian - Society's Child
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    One of the things I love about the internet is the ability to find interesting stuff. One of my favorite things are the a capella remixes of some of my favorite songs. Doing that plus putting up links to some of my favorite songs ever.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyMtIwobqbI
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fk0Y6Lu_uA
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abQRt6p8T7g My favorite tiny desk concert ever...
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yW_rYLoIR08 Janis Ian - Society's Child

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    One of the things I love about the internet is the ability to find interesting stuff. One of my favorite things are the a capella remixes of some of my favorite songs. Doing that plus putting up links to some of my favorite songs ever.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyMtIwobqbI
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fk0Y6Lu_uA
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abQRt6p8T7g My favorite tiny desk concert ever...
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yW_rYLoIR08 Janis Ian - Society's Child

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    Ok, it's 10:47, an hour past my normal bedtime. SO is probably wondering why I'm sitting in the den with my headphones on and not sound asleep in bed. As much as I don't want to I should put off thinking more about this thread until tomorrow. Thank you thank you thank you to flowers for posting this. I will be listening to everything that everyone has posted and undoubtedly posting more of my personal faves over the next day or two.

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    Neil Young - Harvest Moon
    The Who - My Generation
    Carlos Santana - Soul Sacrifice
    Miles Davis - So What
    The Rolling Stones - Honky Tonk Women
    Vivaldi - Four Seasons
    Boston - Foreplay/Longtime
    Bob Dylan - Tangled Up In Blue
    Grateful Dead - Ripple .....Truckin.....Not Fade Away/Going Down This Road Feelin Bad
    John Lennon - Just Like Starting Over
    The Beatles - The Long And Winding Road .......Something
    George Harrison -Give Me Love
    Black Sabboth - Paranoid
    Green Day - Wake Me Up When September Ends.......American Idiot......Boulevard of Broken Dreams
    The Doors - Light My Fire
    The Jaggerz - The Rapper
    Iron Butterfly - In A Gadda Da Vida
    Nazareth - Hair of The Dog
    Jimmie Martin - Sunny Side of the Mountain
    Norman Blake - Hand Me Down My Walk-in Cane
    Flatt And Scruggs - Foggy Mountain Breakdown
    The Stanley Brothers - Mountain Dew
    Led Zepplin - That’s the Way

    (to be continued)

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    Jp i also got into music last night, listened to lots of minutemen and some fugazi. Small 80s punk bands. I was in a good mood,

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