Um, so what’s your favorite song?

Just saw and totally dug “Baba O’Riley” on The Tube, and went looking for a good list like this. This one will work.

Favorite:

  • Beatles song: “Hey Jude”
  • Solo song by a former Beatle: “All Those Years Ago” by George Harrison
  • Bob Dylan song: “Tangled Up In Blue,” far and away
  • Prince song: “Raspberry Beret”
  • Michael Jackson song: “Billie Jean” or I’m not being honest
  • Metallica song: “Welcome Home (Sanitarium)”
  • Depeche Mode song: “Enjoy the Silence”
  • Cure song: “Love Song”
  • Song that most of your friends haven’t heard: “To the Open Spaces,” Maria McKee
  • Beastie Boys song: “No Sleep Til Brooklyn”
  • Police song: “Invisible Sun”
  • Song from a movie: “We All Die Young,” by the fictional band Steel Dragon, from Rock Star
  • Genesis song: “Abacab”
  • Led Zeppelin song: “Hey Hey What Can I Do”
  • INXS song: “The One Thing”
  • Weird Al song: “UHF”
  • Pink Floyd song: “Goodbye Blue Sky”
  • Cover song: “Born to Be Wild,” Lizzy Borden
  • Dance song: “Never Trust a Stranger,” Kim Wilde
  • U2 song: “Pride (In the Name of Love)”
  • Disco song: “Fly Robin Fly,” Silver Convention
  • The Who song: “Baba O’Riley” by half a hair over “Won’t Get Fooled Again”
  • Elton John song: “Philadelphia Freedom”
  • Clash song: “Train in Vain”
  • Talking Heads song: “And She Was”
  • David Bowie song: “Fashion”
  • Nirvana song: “All Apologies”
  • Johnny Cash song: “Ring of Fire”
  • R.E.M. song: “Automatic for the People”
  • Elvis song: “All Shook Up”
  • Cheesy-ass country song: I don’t know how “cheesy-ass” it is, but I’ll have to go with “Night Time Magic” by the Gatlin Brothers
  • Billy Joel song: “She’s Got a Way”
  • Bruce Springsteen song: “Born to Run,” which I think is one of the only truly great songs he’s ever recorded
  • Neil Diamond song: “Holly Holy,” particularly from Hot August Night
  • Squeeze song: “Tempted”
  • Beach Boys song: “Let’s Go Away for Awhile”
  • Guns ‘N Roses song: “Rocket Queen”
  • Jimi Hendrix song: “Foxey Lady”
  • John Mellencamp song: “Small Paradise”
  • Living Colour song: “Open Letter (To a Landlord)”
  • Neil Young song: “Cinnamon Girl”; absolutely no contest
  • Paul Simon song: “Kodachrome”
  • Simon & Garfunkel song: “Bridge Over Troubled Water,” and I do so hate to be typical, but this is an incredibly beautiful song and may be the finest male vocal ever recorded
  • Queen song: “I Want It All”
  • Kiss song: “Got to Choose”
  • Sting song: “Fortress Around Your Heart”
  • Alice Cooper song: “Generation Landslide”

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2 thoughts on “Um, so what’s your favorite song?”

  1. Bo-
    Great list! Favorite songs can be very subjective and personal, so I respect your selections. However, Fashion would not crack my top 10 of Bowie songs. (Heros and Changes) U2- (Red Hill Mining Town, One, One Tree Hill) Also, if you like REM, I encourage you to listen to some early to mid 80’s REM albums such as Reckoning, Murmur, Document and Fables of the Reconstruction. Every song on these albums are raw and pure, in my humble opinion. Thanks.

    Reply
    • Wow, Brian! You found an old one there. 🙂 I don’t see many I’d change, but there are a few. “Good Vibrations” for Beach Boys. Maybe “New Year’s Day” for U2. And I’m sure I could come up with a better movie song than that. 🙂

      Thanks for the early REM advice. I may just do that.

      Reply

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