Your list of best songs and artists ever

[flowerseverywhere]

What would your list look like?
mine would be just for pure listening pleasure and have to include these and many more of course

Marvin Gaye, “What’s going on” and “Sexual healing”
andre Bocelli “Time to say goodbye”
Adele “Hello” and “Someone like you”
John Lennon “Imagine”
Whitney Houston “I will always love you”

Some Frank Sinatra, Robert Plant, Beatles, Stevie wonder, Paula Abdul.

[Ultralight]

What would your list look like?
mine would be just for pure listening pleasure and have to include these and many more of course

Marvin Gaye, “What’s going on” and “Sexual healing”
andre Bocelli “Time to say goodbye”
Adele “Hello” and “Someone like you”
John Lennon “Imagine”
Whitney Houston “I will always love you”

Some Frank Sinatra, Robert Plant, Beatles, Stevie wonder, Paula Abdul.

Excellent thread idea!

Blue by Joni Mitchell
Dear God by XTC
Suicide Solution by Ozzy
From The Inside by Alice Cooper
New World Water by Mos Def
Purple Haze by Jimi Hendrix
On The Radio by Donna Summer
Mean Street by Van Halen
Soul Man by Sam & Dave
Back in Black by AC/DC
Hell Ain't a Bad Place to Be by AC/DC
Great White Buffalo by Ted Nugent
Bop Gun by P-Funk
Ashes to Ashes by David Bowie

[LDAHL]

In the Midnight Hour - Wilson Pickett
I was in the House When the House Burned Down - Warren Zevon
Johnsburg, Illinois - Tom Waits
My Attorney Bernie - Dave Frischberg
I'm Different - Randy Newman
Veronica - Elvis Costello
Snakebite - Eleni Mandell
It Serve You Right to Suffer - John Lee Hooker
Bitter - Jill Sobule
The Thrill is Gone - BB King
I Don't Want to Go Home - Southside Johnny

[JaneV2.0]

Etta James--I'd Rather Go Blind
Habib Koite--Africa
Andrea Bocelli--L'Abitudine
Dolly Parton--Jolene
Amy Winehouse--Rehab
Eminem--8 Mile
Linda Ronstadt--Different Drum
Simon and Garfunkel--I Am a Rock
Eddy Raven--I Should Have Called
Celine Dion--the entire French Album
Josh Groban--Mai
Janis Joplin--Turtle Blues
Weird Al Yancovic--Eat It, Tacky, Word Crimes
Las Mocedades--Eres Tu
Chaka Khan--Sweet Thing
Kyo Sakamoto--Sukiyaki
Joan Baez--No Nos Moveran
(A representative sampling)

[Zoe Girl]

Hmmmm, so many possibilities

The Cranberries - Zombie
Husker Du - Don't want to Know if you are Lonely
Social Distortion - Angel's Wings
Rolling Stones - Sympathy for the Devil
Disturbed - Sound of Silence
Johnny Cash - Hurt
Minutemen - Political Song for Michael Jackson to Sing and I Felt like a Gringo
Prince - so many!

basically songs that give me many feels.

[Rogar]

I'm not necessarily stuck in the 60's or 70's but when it comes to best songs and artists "ever", my starting list for rock and pop could be simplified by saying, "Woodstock". Jazz and classical opens up a whole nother batch of choices.

[flowerseverywhere]

I have to go and listen to a lot of these, I bet I can sing them but don’t know the titles

Rogar you are right, so much incredible talent. I often listen to Beethoven and Mozart just to relax. Last night I listened to Schubert’s symphony number 1.

So much beautiful music.

[JaneV2.0]

I really needed this today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdjQk0x_4q8

[Baldilocks]

I could Type stuff all night but I'll keep it short.


Pink Floyd- Time


Boston -Foreplay / Long Time


Journey- Just the same way


Kansas- Carry On Wayward Son


Yes-Roundabout


Rush – YYZ


Muse-Unnatural Selection


Nichole C Mullen-I Know my Redeemer Lives


Stevie Ray Vaughan- Couldn’t stand the weather


Joe Satriani – Surfing With the Alien





Eric Johnson- Cliffs of Dover


News Boys-Take me to your leader

[Alan]

Jimmy Buffett: A Pirate Looks At Forty

k.d. Lang: Hallelujah

Roy Orbison: Crying - In Dreams

Paul Simon: The Boxer - Homeward Bound - American Tune - Sounds of Silence - Duncan (Pretty much anything he's written and performed except for Kodachrome, Me & Julio Down By The Schoolyard or 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover)

Willie Nelson: Stardust - Moonlight In Vermont

Johnny Cash: Hurt - God's Gonna Cut You Down - When The Man Comes Around - Rusty Cage - I Hung My Head

ZZ Top: Jesus Just Left Chicago - La Grange - Tush

Righteous Brothers: Unchained Melody - Soul and Inspiration

Lyle Lovett: If I Had A Boat - She's No Lady - Ballad of the Snow Leopard And The Tanqueray Cowboy

John Prine: Illegal Smile - Please Don't Bury Me - Sam Stone

Golden Earring: Radar Love

[catherine]

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

[Ultralight]

Don't nobody take this the wrong way, but I am always surprised when conservatives like good music. ;)

[Alan]

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.

[Zoe Girl]

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!

[jp1]

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

[jp1]

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

[jp1]

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

[jp1]

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.

[Williamsmith]

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)

[Zoe Girl]

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,

[Gardenarian]

Ooh, fun. In no order at all....

The Smiths - There is a light that never goes out
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs (album)
Janis Joplin - piece of my heart
Hoosier - Take me to church
Donna Summer -I feel Love
Fun- Carry on
Saint Saens - The Swan
Billie Holiday - Summertime
Broceliande - Starlit Jewel album
Ravel - Daphnis et Chloe
Mama Cass - Dream a little dream
Traveling Wilburys - Handle me with care
Looking Glass - Brandy
George Harrison - Here comes the sun (also My Sweet Lord)
Bruno Mars - Grenade
Beatles - took many faves to list
Elvis Costello - other side of summer
Jack Johnson - Sitting waiting wishing
Christina Perry - Jar of hearts
Leonard Cohen - dance me to the end of love & hallelujah
De La Soul -3 feet high (album)
Monkeys - I'm a believer
Simon & Garfunkel - Sound of silence
Aha - Take on me
Cold play - Vida la vida
Young the giant -Cough syrup
Blind faith - can't seem to find my way home
Crosby, Stills, et all. - Suite Judy Blue eyes
Treat her Right - I think she likes me

[Williamsmith]

REM - Everybody Hurts
U2 - I Still Havent Found What Im Lookin For
Simon and Garfunkel- April She Will Come
Beach Boys - wouldn’t It Be Nice
Doobie Brothers - China Grove.....Far From Home
JJ Cale - Devil In Disguise
Derek and the Dominoes - Layla
Allman Brothers Band - Soulshine

(To be continued)

[Williamsmith]

Booker T and the MGs - Green Onions
Eric Clapton - Somewhere Over the Rainbow.....(Really, its very good)
Gram Parsons and Emmy Lou Harris - Love Hurts
Django Reinhardt - anything he played....he did it with two fingers

(Yeah...to be continued)

[Ultralight]

A few more from me:

-Helplessness Blues by Fleet Foxes
-Such Great Heights by The Postal Service
-Everybody's Changing by Keane
-Major Tom by Peter Schilling
-Life on Mars by David Bowie
-Nomi Song by Klause Nomi
-Rock The Casbah by The Clash

[rosarugosa]

So many good songs here! UL, when I first heard the song "Dear God," I was absolutely dumbfounded. It was like someone had snatched actual thoughts from my head and was playing them on the radio!
After giving this way too much thought, I've come up with this as at least a preliminary list:
Eyes of the World - Grateful Dead
The Wheel - Grateful Dead
Bertha - Grateful Dead
Lonesome and a Long Way from Home - Jerry Garcia Band
Mission in the Rain - Jerry Garcia Band
Southern Cross - Crosby, Stills and Nash
Generation Landslide - Alice Cooper
Beer Can - Beck
City of New Orleans - Arlo Guthrie
Once a Day - Michael Franti & Spearhead
Don't Get Trouble in Your Mind - Carolina Chocolate Drops
Dueling Banjos - various artists
Amie - Pure Prairie League
Mad World - REM
Old Black Water - Doobie Brothers
Danse Macabre - Saint Saens
Mandolin Wind - Rod Stewart
Putting out the Fire with Gasoline - David Bowie

[ToomuchStuff]

I wish I had never seen this thread. At first it made me think, this is why I have my music/mp3/ogg collection. I can listen to good/favorite music I like, without all the commercials/radio chattle.
On occasion I listen to an NPR station and learn about some new music that I like:
Example a song I heard the other day: Brandi Carlisle, The Joke. That I like and plan on adding to my collection.

But the reason I wish I never read this thread, is I have been having some old music I love go through my head, particularly one song:
Vera Lynn- We'll meet again.
others:
Ella Fitzgerald- At last

I am going to take a second, as Hurt was mentioned. Some songs to me, either the covers seem like so much different songs (it took me years to realize Joe Cocker's With a Little Help from my Friends was the Beetles song as it seemed so different). Others are different enough to be their own song or to me, to feel like the song of the singer (examples some listed, Hurt, Major Tom, Nothing Compares to you).
Another one that I loved: Zimmers-My Generation (the original band is getting to the age they could join)
Now to where I am going, I like old music as well as much more modern stuff (Tangerine Dream- Love on Real Train), but sometimes music and the person singing it can be so shocking. I am still awaiting a cover album by this gal, and I would have preferred it from when she was this age, as it shocks the heck out of people:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3gSho9yf88

[catherine]

I've been going back and forth with my alcoholic brother. He's run out of options basically and has no money for the crappy motel he's staying in in Florida. He's called me every day, several times a day, in various stages of drunkenness. Just 10 days ago he had a great room in VA transitional housing, but he blew it. I think he's really scared that he's burned all bridges. He asked me for money and I told him no. It tore my heart out because it means he'll be on the streets tonight.

So one of my favorite songs that popped into my head was this one by Sarah McLachlan. It's so hard to love someone hell-bent on self-destruction.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1GmxMTwUgs

Spend all your time waiting
for that second chance
for a break that would make it okay
there's always some reason
to feel not good enough
and it's hard at the end of the day
I need some distraction
oh beautiful release
memories seep from my veins
let me be empty
and weightless and maybe
I'll find some peace tonight

so tired of the straight line
and everywhere you turn
there's vultures and thieves at your back
and the storm keeps on twisting
you keep on building the lies
that you make up for all that you lack
it don't make no difference
escaping one last time
it's easier to believe in this sweet madness oh
this glorious sadness that brings me to my knees

in the arms of the angel
fly away from here
from this dark cold hotel room
and the endlessness that you fear
you are pulled from the wreckage
of your silent reverie
you're in the arms of the angel
may you find some comfort here
you're in the arms of the angel
may you find some comfort here

[Williamsmith]

Catherine, your post drips with raw emotion. You are so obviously doing the right thing. Yours is certainly NOT a “superficial life with no'pain and disappointment.” The situation makes me think of Mark Knopfler’s “So Far Away”.
All the best.


https://youtu.be/3PHaGgpFH4g

[Williamsmith]

The Cranberries - Dreams

Totally forgot about Dolores O’Riordan until she checked out of the hotel today, literally. Quite a unique voice. What a Shame.


https://youtu.be/Yam5uK6e-bQ

[catherine]

The Cranberries - Dreams

Totally forgot about Dolores O’Riordan until she checked out of the hotel today, literally. Quite a unique voice. What a Shame.


https://youtu.be/Yam5uK6e-bQ

Yeah, just saw that..

[Rogar]

I've been thinking this over for a while. This is probably my final answer, at least today. Excluding Jazz and Classical.

Imagine - John Lennon
Mr. Skin - Spirit
The Wall - Pink Floyd
The Dutchman - Steve Goodman
Harvest Moon - Neil Young
Some Velvet Morning - Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Elton John
Suzanne - Leonard Cohen
I've Been Everywhere - Johnny Cash
I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow - Soggy Bottom Boys
Mustang Sally - Wilson Pickett
Angel from Montgomery - John Prine
Big Yellow Taxi - Joni Mitchell
Tell Mamma - Etta James
Freedom (opening song at Woodstock) - Richie Havens

[dado potato]

It took a while to decide what was the best song Ever!

England in 1877, Arthur Sullivan wrote a song setting to music the poem by Adelaide Proctor... The Lost Chord

The lyrics are dear for people who forget.

I will put in a youtube link to a version played by Timothy Moke on trumpet and Georg Masanz on the pipe organ at St Jakob Church, Zurich. At about 3:50 they begin to soar, and the organ is full-tug at about 5:15
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgQkXGyHXYg

[Williamsmith]

It took a while to decide what was the best song Ever!

England in 1877, Arthur Sullivan wrote a song setting to music the poem by Adelaide Proctor... The Lost Chord

The lyrics are dear for people who forget.

I will put in a youtube link to a version played by Timothy Moke on trumpet and Georg Masanz on the pipe organ at St Jakob Church, Zurich. At about 3:50 they begin to soar, and the organ is full-tug at about 5:15
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgQkXGyHXYg

That would have been fabulous to hear live in person. Digital reproduction loses so much of the ranges and the impact of the organ would have been awesome to feel.

Thank You.

[Zoe Girl]

The Cranberries - Dreams

Totally forgot about Dolores O’Riordan until she checked out of the hotel today, literally. Quite a unique voice. What a Shame.


https://youtu.be/Yam5uK6e-bQ

very sad, i have a pandora station of cranberries

[flowerseverywhere]

It took a while to decide what was the best song Ever!

England in 1877, Arthur Sullivan wrote a song setting to music the poem by Adelaide Proctor... The Lost Chord

The lyrics are dear for people who forget.

I will put in a youtube link to a version played by Timothy Moke on trumpet and Georg Masanz on the pipe organ at St Jakob Church, Zurich. At about 3:50 they begin to soar, and the organ is full-tug at about 5:15
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgQkXGyHXYg

this is indeed beautiful. Not sure if in my opinion it is the most beautiful, but it is exquisite. I sat outside for the sunrise this morning wrapped in a quilt and here is what accompanied the music from my back porch

http://www.simplelivingforum.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=2062&stc=1

[Rogar]

It took a while to decide what was the best song Ever!

England in 1877, Arthur Sullivan wrote a song setting to music the poem by Adelaide Proctor... The Lost Chord

The lyrics are dear for people who forget.

I will put in a youtube link to a version played by Timothy Moke on trumpet and Georg Masanz on the pipe organ at St Jakob Church, Zurich. At about 3:50 they begin to soar, and the organ is full-tug at about 5:15
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgQkXGyHXYg

Beautiful! I listened through headphones, but can only imagine the pipe organ live. I could almost see Flowerseverywhere's sunrise.

When you get into classical favorites it's like going through a few centuries of compositions, so there's a lot of good music. Debussy's "La Mer" (the sea) is a favorite of mine. I think it might be accurate to call it a tonal poem.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOCucJw7iT8

[dado potato]

flowerseverywhere,

I can imagine you had a fabulous sit -- cocooned in a quilt with your scene.

It was 22 beautiful degrees here in the Northern Highlands of Wisconsin, when I stepped out on the deck to snap a picture of the trees in the back yard. I was facing east as well, about 10:30 AM.

2063

[razz]

I have loved seeing the list of songs bringing back so many memories. I am in awe of what is available on youtube. It is one of the things that we take for granted now but really is amazing.
Had no idea that a trumpet could hold its own so beautifully with a pipe organ so loved that link, Dado

[beckyliz]

Layla by Derek and the Dominos (Eric Clapton).

[flowerseverywhere]

flowerseverywhere,

I can imagine you had a fabulous sit -- cocooned in a quilt with your scene.

It was 22 beautiful degrees here in the Northern Highlands of Wisconsin, when I stepped out on the deck to snap a picture of the trees in the back yard. I was facing east as well, about 10:30 AM.

http://www.simplelivingforum.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=2063&stc=1

i remember those days. A different kind of beauty.

[flowerseverywhere]

Here is a beautiful minimalist song by Satie set to a background of paintings of a rainy Paris in the 20’s by Edward Cortez. this was the music to “Man on a Wire”

so much beauty in this world.



https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_fuIMye31Gw

[BikingLady]

Wonderful lists from all, I can not name just a few as there are so many. But on top are and for certain events:
Blood and The Tracks (all) (Dylan) When I pass on I have said since I was a teen, Drop the needle on this LP, smile and think of me please.
Gypsy Road (Cinderella)*
Don't Go Away Mad (M Crew)*
*On my going running play list for years
Cocky (all) (Kid Rock) this is my life got to me LP, play in entirety as loud as I can.

[Williamsmith]

I remember buying the Blood On the Tracks album. Retreating to my room, slipping my nail into the side of the plastic wrap and carefully sliding the record out. As soon as the needle hit the record, I was in a trance. A great album start to finish.

[flowerseverywhere]

It’s been great fun to read everyone’s lists. The majority I was very familiar with, but there are some long forgotten or new ones in here.

We are are so lucky today to have so much music at our fingertips.

[BikingLady]

I remember buying the Blood On the Tracks album. Retreating to my room, slipping my nail into the side of the plastic wrap and carefully sliding the record out. As soon as the needle hit the record, I was in a trance. A great album start to finish.

Isn't it funny how some just move us and are burnt in our memories. I can remember when I first heard Blood and the Tracks on a lunch time radio show spotlight on WABX in Detroit. I was home alone and had the small radio on the table, I was memorized to say it best. My son I named Dylan even.

Forgot and will add Born to Run entire LP, I better stop or the list will start......