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If you could only listen to five songs for the rest of you life - What would they be?

If I had to choose right now, in order of selection

Tocatta and Fugue in D Minor -Johann Sebastian Back
William Tell Overture -Gioachino Rossini
Here is Gone -Goo Goo Dolls
Breathe -Michelle Branch
Dancing Mad -Nobuo Uematsu

6 would probably be Rhapsody in Blue -George Gershwin
7 would be Oye Como Va -Santana
 
gandalfe said:
I hadn't realized before how much PIL was influenced by Alan Vega and Martin Rev, AKA Suicide.

I know the feeling. Well, not entirely, my second (and current) wife is still alive, and I wouldn't really care if my first wife died, but sometimes I listen to songs that remind me of my son's death, just to drive thru the darkness and hopefully come out the other side.
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Understood, gandalfe, understood.
 
Rubashov said:
Its gotta be this version of Wild is the wind tho

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I couldn't NOT have Bowie. Interestingly, he based his version on hers after meeting her, and was the only cover he recorded during this period of his career. Apparently he met her and recorded this as a tribute to her.

If I were going to pick a Nina Simone song (I adore Dr Simone and would have loved to meet her (I'm only 3 degrees of separation away!)) it would probably be either Please Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood, or, if I wanted to do a song she wrote, Mississippi Goddamn. Or Feeling Good.

If Nina Simone covered your song, like Johnny Cash, it became hers, you no longer owned it.
 
Also, pedantically, I have to mention that the assignment was 5 songs, not 5 specific versions of a song, so technically what I picked was Wild Is the Wind, not David Bowie doing Wild Is the Wind. I could listen to Johnny Mathis' version, or George Michael's, or Cat Powers', or or or...
 
gandalfe said:
Also, pedantically, I have to mention that the assignment was 5 songs, not 5 specific versions of a song, so technically what I picked was Wild Is the Wind, not David Bowie doing Wild Is the Wind. I could listen to Johnny Mathis' version, or George Michael's, or Cat Powers', or or or...
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Cat Power's version is sublime...
 
Rubashov said:
Cat Power's version is sublime...
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George Michael's is technically perfect, but fairly bloodless. There's more emotion in one line of Bowie or Simone's version than in his whole recording. It's kind of surprising, actually.
 
gandalfe said:
George Michael's is technically perfect, but fairly bloodless. There's more emotion in one line of Bowie or Simone's version than in his whole recording. It's kind of surprising, actually.
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What's white and sliding down a men's room walk?

George Michael's latest release...
 
 
LogGrad98 said:
I could do this with just one band, and do it twice:

Hall & Oates (greatest duo of all time, no question and fully objectively), songs in no particular order:

Say it isn't so
Adult Education (Rock & Soul Part 1 Album Version)
She's Gone (Rock & Soul Part 1 Album Version)
Some Things are Better Left Unsaid
You Make My Dreams Come True
(yes I skipped Private Eyes and Maneater, they are great songs and were radio mainstays, but I felt the above songs were better, objectively)

Monster Magnet (greatest metal band of all time, no question and fully objectively - pioneers of stoner rock and psychedelic/space metal), songs in no particular order:

Bummer
Look to Your Orb for the Warning
Cry
Silver Future
Space Lord

(again I skipped the few songs they had that got some radio play, such as Monolithic and God Says No, but I did include Space Lord because it just rocks hard and has a hell of an awesome story. The only good time I had when I did my ketamine infusions was listening to Powertrip the album straight through, my God did it invoke some seriously awesome visuals. That album is worth a straight listen through no matter what, on a CD format, because they tie the whole album together through sound effects a little like Dark Side of the Moon and a few other 70's/80's albums. I think Dio had one that did this too. Can't remember exactly. But, yeah)

I could choose either list above for the rest of my life and be happy with my choice.

To tie it down to just 5 songs total will take some serious thought. I tried to go that route and continually kept changing the list as I thought of other great songs and was like "oh yeah, I forgot that one" and so it went around and around. I will give it a try later.
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Big props for the seemingly incongruous pairing - I too totally dig both bands…. though not necessarily back to back on the same mix tape.
 
Isaiah 1:13 said:
Big props for the seemingly incongruous pairing - I too totally dig both bands…. though not necessarily back to back on the same mix tape.
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I can agree with that. I have channels on Pandora built around each band, and I go back and forth between them from time to time. Good stuff. Monster Magnet puts on a great concert, if you get a chance. Also, I did a few Hall & Oates small venue concerts (as in, we were like 10-15 feet away from the band on the front row) before they broke up and it was always great. Love those guys. Sad we won't ever see them together again as a live act.
 
LogGrad98 said:
I can agree with that. I have channels on Pandora built around each band, and I go back and forth between them from time to time. Good stuff. Monster Magnet puts on a great concert, if you get a chance. Also, I did a few Hall & Oates small venue concerts (as in, we were like 10-15 feet away from the band on the front row) before they broke up and it was always great. Love those guys. Sad we won't ever see them together again as a live act.
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I’ve got SuperJudge on CD and need to cue it up for listening. again - most my listening is done on my USB port $80 Amazon Car CD player these days. Though I do have a portable one that I use mostly for learning songs on the guitar and real Stereo set up that I only use when my wife is out.

I admit to not originally taking Hall and Oates that seriously cause they were so dang commercially successful and so ubiquitous on the airwaves. However, I can’t begin to tell you how many times I’ve found myself butchering the words and humming their tunes - so damn catchy! Then after getting back into guitar, I’ve come to realize what absolutely amazing musicians those guys are, and kinda had to admit that I’ve always enjoyed their music!
 
This is just my current (??) Changes all the time.

Feelings list:
SAD (Clap Your Hands) - Young Rising Sons
Migraine - Twenty One Pilots
Close to The Edge - Fulton Lee
Connection - OneRepublic
The Way I Feel - Keane
Hush - BYRNE

Positivity list:
Sunshine - OneRepublic
The Journey - Imagine Dragons
Happy Song - John Michael Howell
No Time For Toxic People -Imagine Dragons
Good Day - Twenty One Pilots

I could listen to any of these on any combination of 5.

Girl - Jukebox the Ghost
Yahoo - Erasure
We Close Our Eyes - Oingo Boingo
Something Anout Her - The Kents
Hook - Blues Traveler
Feel It Still - Portugal the Man
Grace Kelly - MIKA
End Of It - Friday Pilots Club
Brand New Morning - Sun Heat
Be Kind - Zack Abel
I Won’t Back Down -Tom Petty
End Of The Line - Traveling Wilburys
You Can Call Me Al - Paul Simon
Island in The Sun Weezer
The Dumb Sing - AJR

I know I broke all the rules, the rules are too hard.
 
LogGrad98 said:
I could do this with just one band, and do it twice:

Hall & Oates (greatest duo of all time, no question and fully objectively), songs in no particular order:

Say it isn't so
Adult Education (Rock & Soul Part 1 Album Version)
She's Gone (Rock & Soul Part 1 Album Version)
Some Things are Better Left Unsaid
You Make My Dreams Come True
(yes I skipped Private Eyes and Maneater, they are great songs and were radio mainstays, but I felt the above songs were better, objectively)

Monster Magnet (greatest metal band of all time, no question and fully objectively - pioneers of stoner rock and psychedelic/space metal), songs in no particular order:

Bummer
Look to Your Orb for the Warning
Cry
Silver Future
Space Lord

(again I skipped the few songs they had that got some radio play, such as Monolithic and God Says No, but I did include Space Lord because it just rocks hard and has a hell of an awesome story. The only good time I had when I did my ketamine infusions was listening to Powertrip the album straight through, my God did it invoke some seriously awesome visuals. That album is worth a straight listen through no matter what, on a CD format, because they tie the whole album together through sound effects a little like Dark Side of the Moon and a few other 70's/80's albums. I think Dio had one that did this too. Can't remember exactly. But, yeah)

I could choose either list above for the rest of my life and be happy with my choice.

To tie it down to just 5 songs total will take some serious thought. I tried to go that route and continually kept changing the list as I thought of other great songs and was like "oh yeah, I forgot that one" and so it went around and around. I will give it a try later.
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I’ve listened to She’s Gone a million times. At times I’ve thought of it as an almost perfect song, they work together so well on it.
 
LogGrad98 said:
I can agree with that. I have channels on Pandora built around each band, and I go back and forth between them from time to time. Good stuff. Monster Magnet puts on a great concert, if you get a chance. Also, I did a few Hall & Oates small venue concerts (as in, we were like 10-15 feet away from the band on the front row) before they broke up and it was always great. Love those guys. Sad we won't ever see them together again as a live act.
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Loved Hall and Oates since the late 70's. So many great, distinctive songs. Live From Daryl's House is an amazing show which will live on.
 
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