Brian Dare ([info]brian_dare) wrote,
@ 2005-06-02 10:17:00
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Current mood: sick
Current music:Rock the Casbah - The Clash

Favorite Songs (subject to change without notice)
I got tagged on Monday, so I started working on a list. I would have replied by Tuesday, but I was home sick with the flu.

I have always found it impossible to make a list of favorite songs (or favorite bands, for that matter), as there are so many.

Also, there is the problem of "favorite" versus "best" (yes, those two lists for me would overlap, but they would not be synonymous.

For the sake of just getting through this, my ultimate criteria was songs that have 1) had a major impact on me, 2) endure, and 3) I find myself randomly singing for no other reason then they just popped into my head.

This list is in no way complete, and I'm sure as soon as I post it, I'll think of songs that should have been included and just slipped my mind.

Favorite Songs
BandSongRunner Ups
MisftisHalloweenHalloween, Astro Zombies, I Turned Into A Martian, Teenagers From Mars, Skulls, Some Kinda Hate, Last Caress, Hybrid Moments, Hate Breeders, 20 Eyes, All Hell Breaks Loose, Ghouls Night Out, Where Eagles Dare
The ClashGates of the WestLondon Calling, Rudie Can't Fail, Safe European Home, Rock the Casbah, White Man in Hammersmith Palais
Bad ReligionAmerican JesusGenerator, Sorrow, The Defense, 21st Century Digital Boy, I Want To Conquer The World, Give You Nothing, Do What You Want
FearI Don't Care About YouI Love Living in the City, Let's Start a War
The BeatlesIn My LifeI'm So Tired, She's So Heavy, Helter Skelter, The Night Before, Polythene Pam
RamonesBlitzkreig BopCretin Hop, I Wanna Be Sedated, Pet Semetary
Green DayBasket CaseHoliday, Minority, When I Come Around
MetallicaCreeping DeathMaster of Puppets, Stone Cold Crazy
AC/DCBack In BlackDirty Deeds, Let There Be Rock
Black SabbathParanoidNIB, War Pigs, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath


Honorable Mention
BandSongs
Rent (soundtrack)Seasons of Love, Rent, La Vie Boheme, Another Day
Les MiserablesWho Am I, What Have I Done, Do You Hear the People Sing, Bring Him Home, One Day More!
Sex PistolsAnarchy in the UK, God Save the Queen, Pretty Vacant
RancidAs Wicked, Journey to the End of the East Bay, Olympia Wa., Junkie Man, Salvation, Roots Radicals, Listed M.I.A., Nihilism, Lock, Step & Gone, Time Bomb, Avenues & Alleyways
Dead KennedysCalifornia Uber Alles, Kill the Poor
999Homicide
Alien Sex FiendI Walk the Line
Sisters of MercyThis Corrosion
Iron MaidenWasted Years, Fear of the Dark, Flight of Icarus, Run to the Hills
Billy Idol / Generation XDancing With Myself, Rebel Yell, White Wedding, Ready Steady Go, Kiss Me Deadly
Black FlagTV Party
New York DollsPersonality Crisis, Trash
The RutsBabylon's Burning, Dancing with the Rude Boys
MagazineShot by Both Sides
X Ray SpecsThe Day The World Turned Day-Glo, Oh Bondage... Up Yours
Judas PriestYou've Got Another Thing Comin', Breakin the Law, Living After Midnight
BlondieDreaming, Union City Blue, Accidents Never Happen, Atomic, Heart Of Glass, Hardest Part, One Way Or Another, (I'm Always Touched by Your) Prescence Dear
Led ZeppelinBlack Dog, Stairway to Heaven
MotorheadBorn to Raise Hell
The SmithsHow Soon is Now
DanzigMother
Rolling StonesUndercover of the Night, Satisfaction, Sympathy for the Devil
Dropkick MurphysThe Gauntlet, Blackout
Social DistortionBall and Chain, Story of my Life
Blue Oyster CultBurnin' for You, Godzilla, (Don't Fear) The Reaper
Bouncing SoulsTrue Believers, Gone, That Song, Private Radio
Buzzcocks What Do I Get, Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've?)
GwarSalaminizer, Maggots, Sick of You, Slaughterama, Sexecutioner
John LennonWatching the Wheels, (Just Like) Starting Over, Nobody Told Me
The KinksYou Really Got Me, Lola
SweetBallroom Blitz, Oxygen
Alice In ChainsMan in the Box, Heaven Beside You
David BowieChanges, Suffragette City, Modern Love, Major Tom
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes Science Fiction, Phantom of the Opera
KissDetroit Rock City, God of Thunder
Pink FloydComfortably Numb, Shine On You Crazy Diamond, One of These Days




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favorite songs
[info]fionathecelt
2005-06-02 05:44 pm UTC (link)
You're not kidding when you say you have a long list. Most of those songs I also love.

I guess my criteria for favorite songs are:
* I never get tired of listening to it
* I never stop liking the song
* I sing along to it any time I hear it
* I randomly start humming it in my head
I either:
     - totally love the lyrics / identify strongly with the lyrics
     or
     - sound/tune/rhythm really strike a cord with me (just know it when the sound of a song really grabs me but I can't describe it)
     or
     - Both of the above

But like you said, this doesn't necessarily mean that they are generally considered "Best" songs but anyone else

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Re: favorite songs
[info]brian_dare
2005-06-02 06:26 pm UTC (link)
I probably have several hundred songs that fit your criteria - my above list was dramatically pared down (left off, on purpose, a lot of bands that I do like - Talking Heads, Devo, Depeche Mode, Duran Duran, The Go Gos, Styx, Kansas, Twisted Sister, etc...). Had to stop at some point.

I'm actually fairly diverse and well-versed in my musical tastes, I've spent a great deal of time actively pursuing more knowledge about popular and alternative music. I look for bands on labels I like, bands that other bands I like like, samplers to check out multiple acts I don't know at once.

So trying to limit that to a few favorites is near impossible.

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Re: favorite songs
[info]fionathecelt
2005-06-03 12:42 am UTC (link)
I know what you mean. I have at least one favorite song for every band I like.
For bands I REALLY like a LOT, most of their songs are favorites, like Iron Maiden for instance - for whom I probably have a few favorite songs per album.

Then there are the old classic songs on the Classic Rock stations that I've known and loved since I was a kid but I don't even own the albums.

I was considering putting together an extended favorites list such as yours which will take awhile.

See you and I are some of those people addicted to music. I can never go very long without music, unless I'm watching t.v.

Of course the criteria of singing along to the song may not be a good one because it is incredibly hard for me to KEEP from singing along unless I'm talking to someone or I'm very busy concentrating on something else. I automatically sing anytime there is music. Except at work, where I often find myself humming and then wonder if the person next to me finds that annoying.

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[info]brian_dare
2005-06-03 01:30 pm UTC (link)
I've always thought of my music as the sountrack of my life, so even though they're a new band I only discovered a few years back (with my friend [info]gracie_kittie13, I thought this summed it up well -

And this is the soundtrack playing in back
of our restless lives
And though they make no sense these are the moments
we'll remember for
the rest of our restless lives - The Restless by The Matches

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