LizzygotDizzy Posted December 4, 2007 Share Posted December 4, 2007 Favourites songs - Golden Brown - The Stranglers, Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen If you're not the one - Daniel Beddingfield Forever Autumn - The Moody Blues Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/2108-favourite-songs-of-all-time-or-has-this-been-done-already/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
david_carnell Posted December 5, 2007 Share Posted December 5, 2007 LizzygotDizzy Wrote:> If you're not the one - Daniel BeddingfieldPlease tell me your joking?! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/2108-favourite-songs-of-all-time-or-has-this-been-done-already/#findComment-60695 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maximay Posted December 5, 2007 Share Posted December 5, 2007 david_carnell Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> LizzygotDizzy Wrote:> > If you're not the one - Daniel Beddingfield> > Please tell me your joking?!Personal favourites to Lizzy I am sure, maybe she should just have named thread "My favourite songs of all time", then wouldn't get catty comebacks Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/2108-favourite-songs-of-all-time-or-has-this-been-done-already/#findComment-60715 Share on other sites More sharing options...
*Bob* Posted December 5, 2007 Share Posted December 5, 2007 If I can write something as good 'If You're Not The One' at some point, I'll be happy.It's a great pop single. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/2108-favourite-songs-of-all-time-or-has-this-been-done-already/#findComment-60718 Share on other sites More sharing options...
david_carnell Posted December 5, 2007 Share Posted December 5, 2007 As I understand you're a man of some musical knowledge and ability *Bob*, I'll let it slide. Anyone nominates his sister on this thread though, and there'll be trouble! ;-) Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/2108-favourite-songs-of-all-time-or-has-this-been-done-already/#findComment-60732 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeanMacGabhann Posted December 5, 2007 Share Posted December 5, 2007 whooah David - "These Words" is a great track as well!I'm not buying either of their albums but credit where it's due... Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/2108-favourite-songs-of-all-time-or-has-this-been-done-already/#findComment-60734 Share on other sites More sharing options...
*Bob* Posted December 5, 2007 Share Posted December 5, 2007 I wouldn't get too carried away with the 'ability' part, David. Of course, opinions on music are entirely subjective, but that still doesn't stop me from being right. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/2108-favourite-songs-of-all-time-or-has-this-been-done-already/#findComment-60736 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lozzyloz Posted December 5, 2007 Share Posted December 5, 2007 Waking up to Roy Ayres singing "You Send Me" with Carla Vaughnand Mozarts Piano Concerto No 20 in D Minor (I know not strictly a song) Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/2108-favourite-songs-of-all-time-or-has-this-been-done-already/#findComment-60740 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keef Posted December 5, 2007 Share Posted December 5, 2007 SeanMacGabhann Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> whooah David - "These Words" is a great track as well!I'll second that.Aaaanyway, songs that have stood the test of time with me would include..."Wild Horses" - Rolling Stones"Today" - Smashing Pumpkins"Round Here" - Counting Crows"Patience" - Guns N' RosesActually, now I've written that, I realise that they're all songs I play quite regularly... Come to The Plough on Friday!!! ;-) Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/2108-favourite-songs-of-all-time-or-has-this-been-done-already/#findComment-60741 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keef Posted December 5, 2007 Share Posted December 5, 2007 lozzyloz Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> and Mozarts Piano Concerto No 20 in D Minor (I know not strictly a song)If we're doing classical too...Nimrod - ElgarLamentation Symphony - HaydnCreation - HaydnRequiem - Mozart (Like Verdi's too, but Mozart's pips it for me)Adagio for Organ & Strings in G Minor - AlbinoniThere is also a string quartet by Schubert, but can't remember which one off the top of my head. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/2108-favourite-songs-of-all-time-or-has-this-been-done-already/#findComment-60742 Share on other sites More sharing options...
david_carnell Posted December 5, 2007 Share Posted December 5, 2007 *Bob* Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> I wouldn't get too carried away with the 'ability'> part, David. > > Of course, opinions on music are entirely> subjective, but that still doesn't stop me from> being right.Does "These Words" hit just a little close home Bob?Trying to find the magicTrying to write a classicDon't you know, don't you know, don't you know?Waste-bin full of paperClever rhymes, see you laterHmmmm. Whilst both Daniel the Pie-Eater and his sister are clearly lyrical genii, it is stuff like this that discourages me from further debate over their respective merits ;-) Still, rather than just criticise I suppose I should open myself up to the same treatment:Otis Redding - Try a little tendernessSam Cooke - A change is gonna comeJohnny Cash - I walk the lineBob Dylan - Girl from the North Country Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/2108-favourite-songs-of-all-time-or-has-this-been-done-already/#findComment-60766 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeanMacGabhann Posted December 5, 2007 Share Posted December 5, 2007 Good point DC - only problem is I can't nail a favourite of all time - there are too many songs and they go in and out of favour. And most of my favourites wouldn't be known to many people.. not because I'm elitist but familiar songs are, to me, over-familiar and even the very very best of them become annoying when they are over familiarHallelujah is an example. Probably is one of my favourites but between Laughing Len, Jeff Buckley, Rufus Wainwright and John Cale I tend to skip it when it comes on now... Once in a while I haven't heard it for ages and I'm reminded of how much I love itKeef usually includes it when he plays with Dems (that's this Friday, folk, at the Plough!) and I always look forward to that - great version Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/2108-favourite-songs-of-all-time-or-has-this-been-done-already/#findComment-60767 Share on other sites More sharing options...
*Bob* Posted December 5, 2007 Share Posted December 5, 2007 Ha HaAlas, I'm far too self-conscious to write lyrics. I did try once but the result was so arse-clenchingly poor that I had to screw up the piece of paper, set it on fire and bury the ashes at the bottom of the garden. So someone else does the lyrics, and I do the melody and production blah blah. That way, if it's awful, at least 50% isn't my fault. Pop music shouldn't be compared to proppa music, because the two are not comparable. Good pop music should be like a good joke that you quite like hearing again when the time is right, which isn't quite the same as turning all the lights out, putting 'Hallelujah' on and rocking gently in a darkened room as you lament your long lost love.And lyrics are not to be confused with poetry, because they aren't. Even if you dress all in black and read them from a leather-bound book, pausing poignantly after each line. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/2108-favourite-songs-of-all-time-or-has-this-been-done-already/#findComment-60768 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peckhamgatecrasher Posted December 5, 2007 Share Posted December 5, 2007 In for a penny...Three Dog Night: Mama Told Me Not to ComeDerek & The Dominoes: Bellbottom BluesMoody Blues: Go Now (well there has to be a drippy one) Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/2108-favourite-songs-of-all-time-or-has-this-been-done-already/#findComment-60769 Share on other sites More sharing options...
*Bob* Posted December 5, 2007 Share Posted December 5, 2007 Ooh! Forgot to add my random cool list so you all know I'm very serious about my music as well as liking "If You're Not The One"i dunno. er..Thin Lizzy / Little Girl in BloomTom Waits / Gun Street GirlNeil Young / HelplessStevie Wonder / He's Misstra Know-It-AllThe Band / Up On Cripple CreekWill that do? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/2108-favourite-songs-of-all-time-or-has-this-been-done-already/#findComment-60771 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keef Posted December 5, 2007 Share Posted December 5, 2007 Ah bless ya Sean. :))I actually heard another version of it on Desert Island Disks recently, think it was actually K D Lang (could be wrong). Quite a nice version with lots of strings. I know exactly what you mean though, it's one that I have over played, but after a while I'm ready for it again.I also tried to name old favourites, as newer songs can come and go. Hot Fuss by the Killers was an album I played all the time when it came out, and I grew completely bored of it! It has a couple of great songs on it, which I'm sure I'll like a lot more in the future, but right now the whole album just bores me.Similar thing for me comes with classics like Sweet Child. Ilove it, and I love Guns N' Roses, and if it's ever on in a bar I'll go mad for it. However, if it came on at home these days, I'd probably flick. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/2108-favourite-songs-of-all-time-or-has-this-been-done-already/#findComment-60772 Share on other sites More sharing options...
david_carnell Posted December 5, 2007 Share Posted December 5, 2007 *Bob* Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> Pop music shouldn't be compared to proppa music,> because the two are not comparable.Whoa there Bob. You are on thin ice there. You'd have to define "proper" music to start with and decide what falls into the different categories. The Beatles were/are pop music but I'd say they are lyrically more inventive and influential than the Monkees. Likewise, are the Beach-Boys the greatest male harmony group of all time or is Pet Sounds merely trite surf pop.> And lyrics are not to be confused with poetry,> because they aren't. Even if you dress all in> black and read them from a leather-bound book,> pausing poignantly after each line.For the defence, may I call Mr Robert Zimmerman. Mr Zimmerman, would you please read to the forum the lyrics from one of your hits:Johnny's in the basementMixing up the medicineI'm on the pavementThinking about the governmentThe man in the trench coatBadge out, laid offSays he's got a bad coughWants to get it paid offLook out kidIt's somethin' you didGod knows whenBut you're doin' it againYou better duck down the alley wayLookin' for a new friendThe man in the coon-skin capIn the big penWants eleven dollar billsYou only got tenPoetry of the finest order.Oh, and Sean, you're bang on the money. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/2108-favourite-songs-of-all-time-or-has-this-been-done-already/#findComment-60775 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeanMacGabhann Posted December 5, 2007 Share Posted December 5, 2007 I hate that point when you fall in love with a song, know you are overplaying it, tell yourself to stop - but you never do...Many of my favourites have been pinned in the Music Room. but ones that have stood the test of time for me areIf You Go Away - Scott WalkerWild Is The Wind - choose from Simone/Mathis/Bowie/Cat Power versions to tasteBerties Brochures - Fatima Mansions (no you won't have heard it but if I pull my finger out and get the Christmas CD for everyone sorted it'll be on there) Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/2108-favourite-songs-of-all-time-or-has-this-been-done-already/#findComment-60777 Share on other sites More sharing options...
*Bob* Posted December 5, 2007 Share Posted December 5, 2007 Proppa. Or cool. Or Real. Or critically acclaimed. Call it what you will. That's what these kinds of threads are about, aren't they? There's probably someone sitting somewhere right now thinking "well, I really like 'Keep On Movin' by S-Club but I don't know that much about Jeff Buckley's back catalogue so I think I'll just let the boys talk. And yes, Bob Dylan was quite poetic, wasn't he? Which explains why most of his songs were so shite. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/2108-favourite-songs-of-all-time-or-has-this-been-done-already/#findComment-60779 Share on other sites More sharing options...
atila the gooner Posted December 5, 2007 Share Posted December 5, 2007 What's happening brother - Marvin GayeHandbags and gladrags - Rod StewartJudge Dread - Prince BusterHarlem River Drive - Bobbi HumphreyRazorboy - Steely DanOn a racetrack in France - Gil Scott HeronAll about the papers - The DellsCalifornia Soul - Marlena Shaw Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/2108-favourite-songs-of-all-time-or-has-this-been-done-already/#findComment-60780 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jah Lush Posted December 5, 2007 Share Posted December 5, 2007 Impossible to pin down favourites, they change like the weather. But some stick around and off the top of my head...The Rolling Stones - Jumpin' Jack Flash for the opening riffs that grab your attention straight away and You Can't Always Get What You Want, the choir at the end still make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up, David Bowie - Starman, The Velvet Underground - Sunday Morning. I'll leave it at that. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/2108-favourite-songs-of-all-time-or-has-this-been-done-already/#findComment-60781 Share on other sites More sharing options...
david_carnell Posted December 5, 2007 Share Posted December 5, 2007 *Bob* Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> Proppa. Or cool. Or Real. Or critically acclaimed.> Call it what you will. > That's what these kinds of threads are about,> aren't they? There's probably someone sitting> somewhere right now thinking "well, I really like> 'Keep On Movin' by S-Club but I don't know that> much about Jeff Buckley's back catalogue so I> think I'll just let the boys talk. > > And yes, Bob Dylan was quite poetic, wasn't he?> Which explains why most of his songs were so> shite.>:D< Oh, very funny *Bob*. I can't quite work out whether your tongue has been fiurmly in cheek this whole time or whether you take equal inspiration from Jo, Rachel, Tina, Hannha, Jon, Bradley and the other one as much as you do from Jeff Buckley Indeed there are people who know little of Jeff Buckley as there are those who know little of Raphael, Dante and Shakespeare but there's no need to appeal to the lowest common denominator is there. Anyway, perhaps you and I had best not hijack this lovely thread any further with our inane chat and sixth-form style arguments over art and criticism. ps. leave Dylan alone or I'll have to see you outside. ;-) Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/2108-favourite-songs-of-all-time-or-has-this-been-done-already/#findComment-60783 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mightyroar Posted December 5, 2007 Share Posted December 5, 2007 this thread has been done already though hasnt it?i'm getting a weird sort of forum dejavu...........anyway today's all time favourite compilation starts withLove Cats the CureA boy named Sue Johnny Cash Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/2108-favourite-songs-of-all-time-or-has-this-been-done-already/#findComment-60784 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brendan Posted December 5, 2007 Share Posted December 5, 2007 I can?t commit to one or even 10 favorite songs as it is so situational. That and there are so many out there that I haven?t heard yet and people keep writing new ones. It all gets very, very stressful and confusing. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/2108-favourite-songs-of-all-time-or-has-this-been-done-already/#findComment-60785 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cdonline Posted December 5, 2007 Share Posted December 5, 2007 Some of my favouritesNew Order- TemptationEcho and the Bunnymen- The Back of LoveThe Clash- Straight to HellYvonne Ellimen- If I can't have youThe Smiths- Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I WantIf it includes operasVerdi- Don Carlo/ Simon BoccanegraWagner- Tristan und Isolde/ Die WalkureBellini- Norma Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/2108-favourite-songs-of-all-time-or-has-this-been-done-already/#findComment-60788 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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