Share your favorite songs

We had the favorite song lyrics thread a while ago, but i'm interested in what songs people like to listen to just because they are good to listen to. Songs that you have to hear to understand the appeal.

I'll get it started with my (abbreviated for simplicity) list.

"Hangin Around" by Counting Crows
"Disneyland" by Five for Fighting
"Walk On" By U2
"On a High" by Duncan Sheik
"100 Years" by Five for Fighting
"Dreams of our Fathers" by Dave Matthews Band
"Breathe" by Prodigy
"She Will be Loved" by Maroon 5
"Counting Blue Cars" by Dishwalla
"Like a Stone" by Audioslave
"All The Things She Said" By t.A.T.u

And probably my favorite, I could listen to it for hours:

"Take a Picture" by Filter

Oooh! Okay, I'll lead off of yours, Lianne. Just so happens... here are a few of my many faves

Filter - "Take a Picture (Hybrid Remix)"
Vanessa Carlton - "White Houses"
Nubreed and Luke Chable - "One Day"
Aphex Twin - "Girl/Boy Song"
Moby - "Shining"
New Order - "Guilt Is a Useless Emotion"
Josh Gabriel - "Alive"
James Holden - "Horizons"
Dandy Warhols - "Scientist"
Andy Page - "Mr. Rush"
Torley Wong - "Passion8"
Avril Lavigne - "Things I've Never Say"
Pink Floyd - "Another Brick In The Wall (Part II)"
Jim Carrey covering The Beatles - "I Am The Walrus"
Vangelis - "Blade Runner (End Titles)"
Smashing Pumpkins - "Tonight, Tonight"
Planet Funk - "The Switch"
Tomoyasu Hotei - "Battle Without Honor Or Humanity"
Venetian Snares - "Einstein-Rosen Bridge"
Fluke - "Atom Bomb"
Madonna - "Beautiful Stranger"

Soooooooo many to mention but heres a few

"Invisible Wounds" - Fear Factory
"Vermillion Pt II" - Slipknot
"Just Like Heaven" - The Cure
"Love Song" - The Cure
"White Houses" - Vanessa Carlton
"Run" - Snow Patrol
"The Game" - Disturbed
"These Arms Of Mine" - Otis Reading
"You Spin Me Right Round" - Dope
"Angels Of The Silences" - Counting Crows
"Iris" - Goo Goo Dolls
"Closer" - NIN
"Little Heaven" - Toad The Wet Sprocket
"Headstrong" - Trapt
"Fraggle Rock" - Punk Cover
"King Of My World" - Saliva
"Rebel Yell" - Children Of Bodom (or Billy Idol)
"Nancy Boy" - Placebo
"The End of Heartache" - Killswitch Engage


OK SO many more, might post em later

Oh dear, where do I start?

Sweet Unknown - The Cranes
Echos Myron - Guided by Voices
Different Drum - Stone Poneys
Ring the Bells - James
Candy - Magnetic Fields
Two Headed Boy - Neutral Milk Hotel
Karma Police - Radiohead
Sweet Jane - Velvet Underground
Birthday - Sugarcubes
The Tide is High - Blondie
Innocent When You Dream - Tom Waits
Fotzepolitic - Cocteau Twins
Walk Away Renee - The Left Banke
Solitary Man - Neil Diamond
Rock n' Roll - Daft Punk
I've Changed My Plea to Guilty - Morrissey
Creep - Radiohead
Just Call Me Joe - Sinead O'Connor
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle - The Smiths
My Boy Says - Talulah Gosh
Telephone Call from Istanbul - Tom Waits
Sweet Unknown - The Cranes
Laisse Tomber Les Filles - France Gall
Is It Wicked Not to Care? - Belle & Sebastian
Planet of Sound - Pixies
Sweet Judy Blume Eyes - Candypants
Rainbows - The Cranes
He Wants Me Back - Dance Hall Crashers
Totally Nude - Talking Heads
Unchained Melody (cover) - U2
Strip Mall Breed - Laura Watling
Tool - Heavenly
Je Pense a Lui - Francoise Hardy

Many of these are silly pop songs, but I make no apologies

My music tastes run all over the place and its hard to pick but here is mine.

"You Sexy Thing" - Hot Chocolate
"Respect" -Aretha Franklin
"Sitting on the Dock of the Bay"-Otis Redding
"Into the Mystic"-Van Morrison
"Get Down on It" -Kool and the Gang
"You Are"-Lionel Richie
"Nasty Girls" - Vanity 6
"What have you done for me lately" -Janet Jackson
"Material Girl"- Madonna
"When Love Comes to Town"- U2 w/BB King
"Whenever I Say Your Name" Sting w/Mary J Blige
"Broken"- Everlast
"Down with the Sickness"-Disturbed
"Scars"- Papa Roach
"In the End"- Linkin Park
"Photograph"-Def Leppard
"Let's Go Crazy"-Prince
"Headsprung"-LL Cool J
"California Love"-Tupac w/Dr Dre
"Encore" Eminem
"Dangerously In Love" Beyonce

wow as I started I realized I have a ton more..I might edit later when I think of some that have to go on this list...lol

"Coin Operated Boy" - Dresden Dolls
"A thousand miles" -vanessa carlon
"White Spider" -Smashing Pumpkins
"Synchronicity 1" -The Police
"Crablouse" -Lords of Acid
"Beep Beep Love" -The Incredible Moses Leroy
"Happy Birthday" -The Birthday Massacre
"Such Great Heights" -The Postal Service
"Animal Instinct" -The Cranberries
"Under Attack" -ABBA
"State Fair" -Rasputina
"To Here Knows When" -My Bloody Valentine
"500 (Shake Baby Shake) -Lush
"If you should try to kiss her" -Dressy Bessy
"More Human than Human" - White Zombie

#1 most listened to:
"Icarus (S.H.O.K.K. Remix)" -- Flutlicht

other favourites:
Stripsearch -- Faith No More
Helpless -- Faith No More
Smaller and Smaller -- Faith No More
Caffeine (Engove version) -- Faith No More
Interface Reality -- Children of the Bong
Jazz Bloopers -- Bonky (RIP -- man, what a loss! )
Tequila -- Bonky
Brick House -- The Commodores
Let's Groove -- Earth, Wind & Fire
On Air (Deedrah Remix) -- Son Kite
I Left My Wallet in El Segundo -- A Tribe Called Quest
Living Memories -- Sirius Isness
My Head Feels Like a Frisbee -- Shpongle
Dorset Perception -- Shpongle
Wiper -- S.U.N. Project
Thoughts of a Dying Atheist -- Muse
The Devil Went Down to Silverlake -- MC Honky
Release Me -- Infected Mushroom
Sailing in the Sea of Mush -- Infected Mushroom
Funky Mule -- Ike & Tina Turner
Funky Kingston -- Toots and the Maytals
Know How -- Young MC
Goldrush -- The Herbaliser
FREqTAL (Zero One Edit) -- FREq
The New Cannonball -- Fila Brazillia
Bus Stop Boxer -- Eels
Your Lucky Day in Hell -- Eels
Flyswatter -- Eels
Susan's House -- Eels
Ocean Air -- Dzihan & Kamien
The 10 Attacks of Dagger -- Drums & Tuba
Born Too Slow -- The Crystal Method (go Wes Borland! thumbs-down to Fred Durst! )
Weapons of Mass Distortion -- The Crystal Method
Scientific Reality -- Astrix
Glories of Greece -- 1200 mics (especially the first 1:15 -- hilarious!)
Blown-out Joy From Heaven's Mercied Hole -- A Silver Mt. Zion
El Dos Negro -- (Mariachi)
Thong Song -- Kyuss
Shine -- Kyuss
Phototropic -- Kyuss
Mad World -- Gary Jules
Sho Nuff -- Fatboy Slim
Right Here, Right Now -- Fatboy Slim
Double Team -- Tenacious D
Rock Your Socks -- Tenacious D
Chase Me -- Hexstatic
Funk and Droid -- Vector Lovers
Showroom Dummies -- Senor Coconut
Philly Cheese Blunt -- Medeski, Martin & Wood
Here -- Gravity Kills
666 mph -- Bong-Ra
Dictatorsaurus -- Probot
Water Music Suite No.2 in D major (a la Hornpipe) -- G.F. Handel
Nameless Blameless -- Sun Control Species

Here's a few of my favs:


Traveling Riverside Blues - Led Zepplin
Shine on You Crazy Diamond- Pink Floyd
Peace Frog - The Doors
I Had Too Much to Dream Last Night - Electric Prunes
Gimme Back My Bullets- Lynard Skynard
Lorelei- Styx
The Grand Illusion- Styx (every song on the album)
Jenny (8675309) - Tommy Tutone
Do You Feel Like We Do- Peter Frampton
Cool the Engines- Boston
Autobahn (original version)- Kraftwerk
Ramble On - Led Zepplin
Machine Head - Deep Purple (every song on the album)

my favorite:

La Vie en Rose by Edith Piaf

"Fallen" Evanescence
"Lithium" Nirvana
"Numb/Encore" Linkin Park
"Broken Home" Papa Roach
"Swallowed" Bush
"One" Metallica
"More Human Than Human" White Zombie


Gah there are so many more...but that kinda gives an Idea of my Genre that I like. I really do like all kinds of music, but these are the songs that I can just listen to and escape from the rest of the world.

Minnie the Moocher (originally by Cab Calloway)



I'll add more later...

I love Minnie the Moocher!

I also like Bread & Butter by the Newbeats

Bread And Butter

I like bread and butter,
I like toast and jam,
That's what my baby feeds me,
I'm her loving man.

He likes bread and butter,
he likes toast and jam,
That's what his baby feeds him,
he's her loving man.

She don't cook mashed potatoes,
she don't cook T-bone steaks,
Don't feed me peanut butter,
she knows that I can't take.

He likes bread and butter,
he likes toast and jam,
That's what his baby feeds him,
he's her loving man.

Got home early one morning,
much to my surprise,
She was eating chicken and dumplings
with some other guy.

No more bread and butter,
no more toast and jam,
I found my baby eating
with some other man.

Aimee, did you see "But I'm a Cheerleader"? That single movie turned me on to Dressy Bessy, April March and France Gall. And it was a great movie too

There's probably too many for me to list, but I'll give it a shot. In order of appearance...

"Please Don't Touch" - Brian Setzer Orchestra version
"Mack The Knife" "Beyond The Sea"- Bobby Darin
"In Shreds" "Mad Jack" "Soul In Isolation" and "Swamp Thing" - The Chameleons
"Brown Derby Jump" "Come Back To Me" "Don Quixote" "Here Comes The Snake" and "So Long Toots" - Cherry Poppin Daddies
"The Long Black Veil" - The Chieftians with the Rolling Stones
"Afternoons and Coffeespoons" - Crash Test Dummies
"O Fortuna(Carmina Burana) - Carl Orf
"Millionaire's Holiday" - Combustible Edison
"Kyoto Song" "Like Cockatoos" "The Blood" "The Hanging Garden" - The Cure
"Saltarello" - Dead Can Dance
"Sick and Tired" "Deny" - Default
"The Fishing Song" - Ditch Bank Okies
"Nocturnal Me" - Echo & The Bunnymen
"Acrobat" "Clown Show" "Without Within" - Ednaswap
"My Dark Life" - Elvis Costello & Brian Eno
"At Last" "These Foolish Things" - Etta James
"Easy As Sin" "Native Land" - Everything But The Girl
"Everyday Sunshine" "Party At Ground Zero" - Fishbone
"100 Years" - Five For Fighting
"Atom Bomb" - Fluke
"The World Is Not Enough" - Garbage
"Airport Song" - Guster
"White Trash" - Hillbilly Hellcats
"Down In the Tube Station at Midnight" "Strange Town" "Town Called Malice" - The Jam
"The Eternal" "Day Of The Lords" - Joy Division
"You Belong To Me" - Jason Wade version
"Juke Joint Jezebel" "UNFIT" - KMFDM
"Light as the Breeze" "Democracy" "The Future" - Leonard Cohen
"Romeo Had Juliette" - Lou Reed
"Black Betty" - Ram Jam, Lynyrd Skynyrd or Tom Jones
"I Try" - Macy Gray
"Papa Won't Leave You Henry" "Straight to You" "The Curse of Millhaven" "Lament" - Nick Cave
"Feelin Good" "Here Comes The Sun" "I Want a Little Sugar In My Bowl" - Nina Simone
"Turn Me On" "The Long Day Is Over" "Don't Know Why" - Norah Jones
"All I Need Is Everything" "Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander" - Over The Rhine
"The Sickbed of Cuchulainn" "Wildcats of Kilkenny" - The Pogues
"Marie Celeste" "Make a Circuit with Me" "I'm Ready" "Rockabilly Guy" - The Polecats
"Glory Box" - Portishead
"Cruel" "Appetite" "Desire As" "Goodbye Lucile (Johnny Johnny)" "When The Angels" - Prefab Sprout
"Twilight Time" - The Platters
"When Worlds Collide" - Powerman 5000
"Creep" "Fake Plastic Trees" - Radiohead
"Dig Ophelia" "Transylvanian Concubine" "Why Don't You Do Right" - Rasputina
"Crawling Mantra" "Hand on Heart" "Talk About The Weather" "Walking On Your Hands" - Red Lorry Yellow Lorry
"Down With The Sickness" - Richard Cheese version, and Disturbed
"Dragula" "House of 1000 Corpses" "Living Dead Girl" "Devil Man" - Rob Zombie
"Zip Gun Bop" - Royal Crown Revue
"Attack Ships on Fire" "Beers Steers & Queers" "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy" - Revolting Cocks
"Always" - Saliva
"Danny Boy" "Roddy McCorley" "Donegal Express" "My Way" - Shane MacGowan
"Alice" "First and Last and Always" "Marian" "Nine While Nine" "Temple of Love" "Valentine" - Sisters of Mercy
"Selling Jesus" - Skunk Anansie
"Circles" "Screen Writers Blues" "Sugar Free Jazz" "Super Bon Bon" - Soul Coughing
"St. James" - Snakefarm
"Man of Constant Sorrow" - Soggy Bottom Boys
"Here Without You" "When I'm Gone" - Three Doors Down
"9th & Hennepin" "Cemetery Polka" "Flowers Grave" Jockey Full of Bourbon" "Rain Dogs" "Singapore" "Walking Spanish" - Tom Waits
"Into the Mystic" - Van Morrison
"Low Rider" - War
"Happy Jack" - The Who
"Common People" - William Shatner
"Poor Little Girl" - X
"Dear God" - XTC

Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees

Pure beauty!

The Hokey Pokey

"Man of Constant Sorrow" by the Soggy Bottom Boys is an outstanding song. In fact the entire sound track from "Oh Brother Where Art Thou" is great.

YES! Actually That movie always reminded me of Catherine Omega and me.