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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