Kevin's Watch

1. There is a Light That Never Goes Out by the Smiths
2. Famous Blue Raincoat by Leonard Cohen
3. Long, Long, Long by the Beatles
4. Charlotte Sometimes by the Cure
5. How Soon is Now? by the Smiths
6. Heartbreak Hotel as performed by Elvis Presley
7. The Gunner's Dream by Pink Floyd
8. Now My Heart Is Full by Morrissey
9. Tonight, Tonight by Smashing Pumpkins
10. Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want by the Smiths

Totally subject to change (except for numbers one, two, and seven).

Menolly wrote:I hate to admit this, but the only one I even know on Balon's list is Louis Armstrong.

HAHA.

What can I say? I learned music from my older Brother.

5. "Demon Cleaner" - Kyuss
4. "Angry Chair" - Alice in Chains
3. "The Soapmakers" - Clutch
2. "Sober" - Tool
1. "Go With the Flow" - QOTSA

Well...at least I knew one on Balon's list...

*shaking head*

...I am so out of touch..

So hard to choose 5:

5. "Since I've Been Loving You", Led Zeppelin
4. "Time / The Great Gig In The Sky", Pink Floyd (yes, that is two songs, and no that's not cheating)
3. "Wish You Were Here", Pink Floyd
2. "Mistress of the Salmon Salt (Quicklime Girl)", Blue Öyster Cult
1. "Subhuman", Blue Öyster Cult

"4. "Time / The Great Gig In The Sky", Pink Floyd (yes, that is two songs, and no that's not cheating) "

Yeah, but then there is Breathe (Reprise) in between, so that is actually 3 songs

as Cail said; these change at the drop of a hat - but the artists are among my faves :

1. the Great Curve - Talking Heads
2. Tango til they're sore - Tom Waits
3. Venus in Furs - Velvet Underground
4. Ma Jaiye Oni - King Sunny Ade
5. Kowalski - Primal Scream

or, if ya like :

1. New Feeling (live) - Talking Heads
2. She's leaving the bank - Ry Cooder
3. Heart of Glass - Blondie
4. Venus - Television
5. Sun Hits the Sky - Supergrass

SleeplessOne wrote: 1. the Great Curve - Talking Heads

Nice!!

exnihilo wrote:So hard to choose 5:

5. "Since I've Been Loving You", Led Zeppelin
4. "Time / The Great Gig In The Sky", Pink Floyd (yes, that is two songs, and no that's not cheating)
3. "Wish You Were Here", Pink Floyd
2. "Mistress of the Salmon Salt (Quicklime Girl)", Blue Öyster Cult
1. "Subhuman", Blue Öyster Cult

Nice list Ex.

Those who have posted, do you find you first heard your fave songs in a certain period of your life?

The reason I ask, if I had to write out my fave five, they'd be songs from my teenage years, some of which I've hardly listened to in a decade! I'd still say they were my fave songs though!

Stonemaybe wrote:Those who have posted, do you find you first heard your fave songs in a certain period of your life?

The reason I ask, if I had to write out my fave five, they'd be songs from my teenage years, some of which I've hardly listened to in a decade! I'd still say they were my fave songs though!

For me, most of them, yeah.

I rarely listen to Gershwin's Rhaposdy in Blue for piano. But it stops me cold from doing anything else once it's on. And I became intimately familiar with it during my senior year of high school, as I was the, uhm, proofer (?, I would follow the score to look for mistakes) for a friend of mine who was practicing the piece for six months before performing it at a concert in South America.

amanibhavam wrote:"4. "Time / The Great Gig In The Sky", Pink Floyd (yes, that is two songs, and no that's not cheating) "

Yeah, but then there is Breathe (Reprise) in between, so that is actually 3 songs

So maybe it is cheating

Cail, I admire your list as well, particularly noting your unorthodox choice of the track "Sorrow" from Momentary Lapse of Reason, a song I have long admired from an album that has been unfairly maligned by the Roger Waters purists.

I've gone on about how much I like "Sorrow" elsewhere, but what the hey, I'll do it again.....

That track is proof positive (to me, at least) that David Gilmour's contribution to PF is sorely undervalued. Lyrically, it's simply amazing, and the music is just breathtaking. The theme of better days gone by and an inability to reconcile them with the current reality is so beautifully woven through this song.

"High Hopes", even though musically different, carries this same theme.

The Waters purists can snipe at the newer albums all they like, but I can't think of a single Waters-penned song that paints such vivid pictures and evokes such a strong emotion as either "Sorrow" or "High Hopes".

I agree with you Cail... personally I have always thought that Waters tended towards overindulgence in a lot of ways, and that he always profited by the steady craftsmanship of Gilmour / Mason / etc. Waters' "I am Pink Floyd" stance has always been a bit annoying and over the top.

Can't Hardly Wait-The Replacements
Surrender-Cheap Trick
Shot Down in Flames-AC/DC
Teenage Riot-Sonic Youth
Fuck and Run-Liz Phair

Farm Ur-Ted wrote:Can't Hardly Wait-The Replacements
Surrender-Cheap Trick
Shot Down in Flames-AC/DC
Teenage Riot-Sonic Youth
Fuck and Run-Liz Phair

Love that song! My local pub's got it on their juke box now

In no particular order, and it may change tomorrow, but for now:

Right Off - Miles Davis w/ John McLaughlin
Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd
Pictures Of You - The Cure
Walk In The Shadows - Queensryche
Burning Of The Midnight Lamp - Jimi Hendrix
North Dakota - Lyle Lovett
Fat Bottomed Girls - Queen ('cause it's just so darn kewl! )

Farm Ur-Ted wrote: Teenage Riot-Sonic Youth

For my brother: "Sonic Youth is the greatest band of all time. I think they actually traveled from the future, where they are the only band that exists, to come back and kill their rivals with sound."

Balon wrote:

Farm Ur-Ted wrote: Teenage Riot-Sonic Youth

For my brother "Sonic Youth is the greatest band of all time. I think they actually traveled from the future, where they are the only band that exists, to come back and kill their rivals with sound."

Shades of Bill and Ted!!!