Five favorite songs of ever

[Texanne]

Limit five, please. Here's mine:

1. Touch Me (The Doors)

2. Homeward Bound (SImon and Garfunkel)

3. Time Won't Let Me (The Outsiders)

4. A Beautiful Morning (The Rascals)

5. Sultans of Swing (Dire Straits)

What are yours?

 

[bevo barry]

Proud Mary - John Fogerty and Creedence Clearwater Revival
She Loves You* - The Beatles
Stand By Your Man - no, not the Tammy Wynette original but the Dixie Chicks' version (check it out: The Link )
Don't Think Twice, It's All Right - not the Dylan original nor the Peter, Paul & Mary cover, but the rockin' version by Gal Holiday and the Honky Tonk Revue (no YouTube link, but if you have Spotify give it a listen)
Back Home Again - John Denver

* - on any given day I could easily swap this one for the Beatles' I Saw Her Standing There

 

[Crockett]

Boy I've had a lot of favorite songs over years. Right now I'm loving the folk rock and country crossover sounds of the 60s and 70s. Let's go with
Joan Baez -- Diamonds and Rust, and The Night they Drove Old Dixie Down (not her first version of the song, but rather later performances when she learned all the words)
The Seekers -- I'll Never Find Another You and Georgy Girl.
(I don't think an adult human can make a sweeter sound than when Judith Durham hits the high notes.)
Johnny Cash -- Folsom Prison Blues

 

[FAST FRED]

Good songs, fellow posters.

Based on how I heard 'em, liked 'em, learned 'em and then played 'em live at my very next gig:

"Brown-Eyed Girl" - Van Morrison.

"96 Tears" - ? & The Mysterians.

"If I Fell" - The Beatles.

"Dixie Chicken" - Little Feat.

"Pretty Woman" - Roy Orbison.



Those are the five songs I'll pick today, but these others almost made my list:

"Maybe Baby" - Buddy Holly.

"Rock And Roll, Hoochie Koo" - Johnny Winter.

"Against The Wind" - Bob Seger.

"Tell It Like It Is" - Aaron Neville

"Somebody's Baby" - Jackson Browne.

"Tell Mama" - Etta James.

"Somewhere Tonight" - Highway 101.

"More Than A Feeling" - Boston.

"The Heart Of The Matter" - Don Henley.

"50 Ways To Leave Your Lover" - Paul Simon.

"Surrender" - Cheap Trick.

"These Arms Of Mine" - Otis Redding.

"Too Busy Being Fabulous" - The Eagles.

"When Something Is Wrong With My Baby" - Sam & Dave.

"The Thrill Is Gone" - B. B. King.

"I Threw It All Away" - Bob Dylan.

I learned all these pretty quickly too and I always especially enjoyed performing them



Please cut me some slack on mentioning more than five; I've been listening longer than many of us.

 

[WorsterMan]

Good thread TA. Hard to pick just 5 but here are the ones that come to mind first:

1. So You Want to Be a Rock-n-Roll star - The Byrds
2. Jumpin' Jack Flash - The Rolling Stones
3. Ride My See-Saw - The Moody Blues
4. Layla - Derrick & The Dominoes
5. Us & Them - Pink Floyd

 

[OldHippie]

These were three of my favorites from way back.

I've just seen a face - Beatles
Runaway - Del Shannon
Sitting on the dock of the bay - Otis Redding

 

[14tokihorn]

1. Celluloid Heroes, The Kinks
2. [tie] The Jean Genie / Fame, Bowie
3. Spanish Harlem, Aretha
4. Everybodys Talkin', Harry Nilsson
5. America, Simon & Garfunkel

 

[Mesohorny]

And now for something completely different:

El Paso - Marty Robbins

In the Mood - Glenn Miller

Ring of Fire - Cash

All the Way - Sinatra

Tumbling Tumbleweeds - Sons of the Pioneers with Roy Rogers


Not necessarily my top five all time, have just always liked them.

 

[South Austin]

Hard to pick 5, so here's what comes to mind right now:

1. "Backstreets" Bruce Springsteen
2. "A Sort of Homecoming" U2
3. "A Day in the Life" The Beatles
4. "What's Going On" Marvin Gaye
5. "Wouldn't It Be Nice" The Beach Boys

Ask me in a month, and after a lenghty discussion over several beers, and my list might change, except for the first two.

 

[accuratehorn]

Hard to pick five:

Wouldn't turn the radio off if these were playing-

She's About a Mover (Doug Sahm)
Whiskey River (Willie Nelson)
White Lightnin' (George Jones)
Surfin' Safari (Beach Boys)
Subterranean Homesick Blues (Bob Dylan)

 

[Vol Horn 4 Life]

I agree it's hard to narrow this down with so much great music out there:

Sitting on the dock of the bay - Otis Redding

Proud Mary - Creedence Clearwater Revival

Dead or Alive - Bon Jovi (seems weird considering my first two, but it's stuck with me over the years)

California Dreamin' - Mommas and the Papas (according to family lore I'm related to momma Cass)

Hotel California -Eagles


For sentimental value the first song I remember hearing was Suzy Q by Creedence when I was about two years old. I was in a dumpy restaurant (maybe not really as dumpy as I saw it as a teenager) playing over a speaker mounted on a wall near the front door that resembled the old school classroom speakers.

 

[uisge beatha]

From the 38 that initially went on the list, I chose there 5. Not necessarily in order:

Unchain My Heart - Ray Charles
Along the Watchtower - Hendrix version
Hey You - Aysedeniz Gokcin cover version od Pink Floyd song
Vivaldi's Four Seasons (I'm counting the whole piece as one song)
Broken Strings - James Morrison

 

[hooklahoma]

1)us and them- pink floyd (haunting and Beautiful)
2)Cheap trick- Surrender (PERFECT 70's pop song, never gets old)
3)Radiohead- Nice dreams (see number 1)
4) the who- Love Reign o'er me (Love the way it builds up)
5) The Clash- Straight to hell (not sure why i love this song so much, but I listen to it all the time)

 

[halsteadfrost]

A Day in the Life - Beatles
Take on Me - AHA
Sloop John B - Beach Boys
While my Guitar Gently Weeps - Beatles
Ditty - Paperboy

There might be songs I like more right now, but these are the ones which I've liked the most for the longest amount of time. For example I really like Round and Round - Ratt, but felt Ditty was more important to me throughout my life. I also like Just Dance - Lady Gaga, but it's too recent right now; maybe something that would crack the list in another 20 years...

 

[El Sapo]

1. She Sells Sanctuary - The Cult
2. This Time - Waylon Jennings
3. Honky Tonk Women - Rolling Stones
4. Kiss of Fury - A Split Second
5. Broken Hearted Savior - Big Head Todd

@ The Rascals, they have been (and still may be)
on a reunion tour. A friend of mine is on the sound
crew & got us great seats along with backstage passes.
Really great show & if they're still doing it I highly
recommend going

 

[Clean]

Hard to pick 5. In no particular order:

It's All Right - The Impressions
In The Air Tonight - Phil Collins
Interstate Love Song - Stone Temple Pilots
Holding Back the Years - Simply Red
Ain't Too Proud To Beg - The Temptations

 

[S.A.Diva]

Hmmm...only five? Ok, here goes:

1. I threw a brick through a window - U2
2. Why - Annie Lennox
3. Disappear - INXS
4. What's going on - Marvin Gaye
5. Lush Life - Nat King Cole

 

[beaVo]

something - Beatles
strawberry fields - Beatles
joining a fan club - jellyfish
seeds of love - tears for fears
scenes from an Italian restaurant - billy joel

honorable mention- what is and what should never be - zeppelin

 

[Aces_Full]

Let's see off the top of my head:

1. The Ride: David Allan Coe
2. Don't Stop Believin: Journey
3. Livin on a Prayer: Bon Jovi
4. Good Hearted Woman: Waylon Jennings
5. When You Were Young: The Killers


weird list.

 

[Texas85]

Eagles - Lyin Eyes
Bob Dylan - Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again
Bob Dylan/The Kinks - My Back Pages
Don't Take the Girl - Tim McGraw
Fleetwood Mac/Dixie Chicks - Landslide / Dixie Chicks - Travlein' Soldier
Dan Fogelberg - Same Old Lang Syne
Pink Floyd - Welcome To Machine

 

[dillohorn]

Comfortably Numb, Hotel California, He Walked On Water, Flooding Down In Texas, Marine Corps Hymn