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Songs You Cannot Go The Rest Of Your Life Without Hearing Again

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Right, songs that you love too much, the ones that will make you stop what you are doing so that you give it your fullest attention.

Some of mine.....

Little Arrows - Leapy Lee

A Windmill in Old Amsterdam - Ronnie Hilton

Crazy Horses - The Osmonds

Go Buddy Go - The Stranglers

Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty

We've Only Just Begun - The Carpenters

I close My Eyes and Count to Ten - Dusty Springfield

Remember Me - Diana Ross

Ever Fallen in Love - The Buzzcocks

Life on Mars - Bowie

Song of a Baker - The Small Faces

............and many more....

 

 

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I do most of my music listening while I'm driving, so I'm not going to stop what I'm doing to listen :D

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I do most of my music listening while I'm driving, so I'm not going to stop what I'm doing to listen :D

That's quite unsporting of you Sir!! :D

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I do most of my music listening while I'm driving, so I'm not going to stop what I'm doing to listen :D

That's quite unsporting of you Sir!! :D

 

 

I get plenty of aggressive hand gestures as it is when I drive at the speed limit :D

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Here goes

 

John Otway - Louisa on a Horse

Carter USM - Shoppers Paradise

Big Sandy & His Flyrite Boys - Missouri Gal

Kim Lenz - Zombie For Your Love

Ronnie Self - Ain't I'm A Dog

Adam & The Ants - Deutscher Girls

The Band - Stagefright

El Vez - En El Barrio

The Stranglers - Always The Sun

Question Mark & The Mysterians - 96 Tears

The Nightcrawlers - Little Black Egg (although I would also do the same for the cover by Inner City Unit)

Terry Noland - Fungus Among Us.

 

There are plenty more that I would give my full attention to, but these are just a few off the top of my head.

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Aerosmith - Sweet Emotion

Alabama Shakes - Always Alright

Alabama Shakes - Future People

Alabama Shakes - Hold On

Alabama Shakes - I Ain't The Same

Amy Winehouse - Rehab

Aretha Franklin - Respect

Aretha Franklin - The House That Jack Built

Bob Dylan - North Country Blues

Etta James - Tell Mama

Iggy Pop - The Passenger

Janis Joplin - Cry Baby

Janis Joplin - Piece Of My Heart

Janis Joplin - To Love Somebody

Jimi Hendrix - Purple Haze

Johnny Cash - Hurt

Johnny Cash - The General Lee

Johnny Cash - The Man Comes Around

Koko Taylor - I'm A Woman

Nina Simone - Feeling Good

Sinead O'Connor - Jerusalem

The Beatles - Let It Be

Queen - Another One Bites The Dust

Queen - Fat Bottomed Girls

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Jeez, there's loads. A few off the top of my head:

 

Joy Division, Atmosphere

Don Henley, The Boys Of Summer

Bruce Springsteen, Land Of Hope And Dreams

Bruce Springsteen,This Hard Land

David Bowie, Heroes

U2, Bad

Roxy Music, Avalon

The Associates, Party Fears Two

Rolling Stones, Far Away Eyes :D

Pet Shop Boys, It's A Sin

Morrissey, Everyday Is Like Sunday

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Dee-Lite - The Groove is in the Heart

Alien Sex Fiend - (anything pre 1985) The Gurl at the End of My Gun

New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle

Genesis - Foxtrot

Sugarhill Gang - Rapper's Delight

Van der Graff Generator - Man-erg

Mazzy Star - Fade Into You

Yes - Close to the Edge

Sex Pistols - Bodies

 

SirC

 

Edit if I may:

Mozart - Eine Klein Nachtmusik

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Dee-Lite - The Groove is in the Heart

Alien Sex Fiend - (anything pre 1985) The Gurl at the End of My Gun

New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle

Genesis - Foxtrot

Sugarhill Gang - Rapper's Delight

Van der Graff Generator - Man-erg

Mazzy Star - Fade Into You

Yes - Close to the Edge

Sex Pistols - Bodies

 

SirC

 

No Big White Stairs? :)

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Dee-Lite - The Groove is in the Heart

Alien Sex Fiend - (anything pre 1985) The Gurl at the End of My Gun

New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle

Genesis - Foxtrot

Sugarhill Gang - Rapper's Delight

Van der Graff Generator - Man-erg

Mazzy Star - Fade Into You

Yes - Close to the Edge

Sex Pistols - Bodies

SirC

 

No Big White Stairs? :)

Lol I'm presently driving 580 miles to home and have their CDs with me along w PJ Harvey, Pairlament, Scott Joplin piano rags; and some Ukranian group Dakhabrakha. Like I said, I'm pretty eclectic

SC

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Dee-Lite - The Groove is in the Heart

Alien Sex Fiend - (anything pre 1985) The Gurl at the End of My Gun

New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle

Genesis - Foxtrot

Sugarhill Gang - Rapper's Delight

Van der Graff Generator - Man-erg

Mazzy Star - Fade Into You

Yes - Close to the Edge

Sex Pistols - Bodies

SirC

No Big White Stairs? :)

Lol I'm presently driving 580 miles to home and have their CDs with me along w PJ Harvey, Pairlament, Scott Joplin piano rags; and some Ukranian group Dakhabrakha. Like I said, I'm pretty eclectic

SC

Oh fuck off Mr eclectic

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Creep...Radiohead

Stir it up...Bob Marley

Dedicated to the one I love...Mama's and Papa's

The angel and me...Toyah Wilcox

Tell me... Terry Kath (end song from Electraglide in blue)

The only living boy in New Cross...Carter USM

Lord is it mine... Supertramp

Life on Mars... Bowie

Bring it on home to me... The Animals

Cell block tango... Chicago soundtrack

The chain... Fleetwood Mac

Dirty old town... The Pogues

Five years... Bowie

Bankrobber... The Clash

Presentation Boarder...The saw doctors

Since I've been loving you.. Led Zep

Shake it out... Florence and the Machine

That's Life.... Sinatra

Hard rain's gonna fall... Bryan Ferry version

Made of Stone... Stone roses

Pretty Vacant.. Sex pistols

Make you feel my love... Adele

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- Moody Blues "In My World"

- ... for that matter, most everything The Moody Blues ever recorded. I am, however, burned out on Nights In White Satin.

- Everything Def Leppard, esp. Pour Some Sugar On Me and Animal

- Kyrie by Mr. Mister

- Legend of the Rain by the Makaha Sons of Niihau

- Most everything by Keali'i Reichel

- With Or Without You - U2

- Where The Streets Have No Name - U2

- Queen's Jubilee as recorded by Weldon Kekauoha

- Feelin Stronger Every Day - Chicago

- Dreams by Van Halen

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Far too many to mention (pretty much any Blondie, Abba, Duran Duran, early U2, Madonna, Jefferson Airplane for starters) so I'll name just the one:

 

Echo Beach - Martha And The Muffins

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Hammer Horror - Kate Bush

Will You - Hazel O' Connor

She's a Star - James

Elstree - The Buggles

Sledgehammer - Peter Gabriel

Once In A Lifetime - Talking Heads

Ticket to the Moon - ELO

Rapture - Blondie

Birdhouse in your Soul - They Might Be Giants

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My small pantheon of songs that I consider my absolute favourite:

 

Ike & Tina Turner - River Deep, Mountain High

Björk - Unravel

David Bowie - Subterraneans

U2 - With or Without You

The Walker Brothers - The Electrician

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Dee-Lite - The Groove is in the Heart

Alien Sex Fiend - (anything pre 1985) The Gurl at the End of My Gun

New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle

Genesis - Foxtrot

Sugarhill Gang - Rapper's Delight

Van der Graff Generator - Man-erg

Mazzy Star - Fade Into You

Yes - Close to the Edge

Sex Pistols - Bodies

SirC

No Big White Stairs? :)

Lol I'm presently driving 580 miles to home and have their CDs with me along w PJ Harvey, Pairlament, Scott Joplin piano rags; and some Ukranian group Dakhabrakha. Like I said, I'm pretty eclectic

SC

 

Oh fuck off Mr eclectic

 

 

That reminds me of another

 

Gary Numan - Are Friends Eclectic

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Hey jude by the Beatles

A day in the life by the Beatles

Maybe I'm amazed by the wings

Fire and rain by Jane's Taylor

Plush by stone temple pilot's

Anything by pink Floyd

The Les miserables soundtrack

Raindrops keep falling on my head by bj Thomas

Rhinestone cowboy by Glen Campbell

Wichita line man by Glen Campbell

Do they know its Christmas

Tears in heaven by Eric Clapton

How deep is your love by the bee gees

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Great songs by Dusty Springfield, The Carpenters ( :wub: ) and Deee-Lite are alredy mentioned, so here's the rest of my all-time-faves-list:

 

Because the night – Patti Smith

Cloudbusting – Kate Bush

Confide in me – Kylie Minogue

Damn I wish I was your lover – Sophie B. Hawkins

Du lebst in deiner Welt – Daisy Door

Guilt – Marianne Faithfull

Jolene – Dolly Parton

Maledetta Primavera – Loretta Goggi

Music sounds better with you – Stardust

Night ride across the Caucasus – Loreena McKennitt

One of us – ABBA

Red Leather – Peaches & Gonzales

Rhiannon – Fleetwood Mac

Rock Lobster – B-52's

Sleeping Satellite – Tasmin Archer

Stay (I missed you) – Lisa Loeb

That's not my name – The Ting Tings

Unfinished Sympathy – Massive Attack

Uptown Top Ranking – Althia & Donna

Was hat dich bloß so ruiniert – Die Sterne

Where have all the cowboys gone – Paula Cole

Who's that girl – Eurythmics

Xanadu – Olivia Newton-John

You're so vain – Carly Simon

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Dee-Lite - The Groove is in the Heart

Alien Sex Fiend - (anything pre 1985) The Gurl at the End of My Gun

New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle

Genesis - Foxtrot

Sugarhill Gang - Rapper's Delight

Van der Graff Generator - Man-erg

Mazzy Star - Fade Into You

Yes - Close to the Edge

Sex Pistols - Bodies

SirC

No Big White Stairs? :)

Lol I'm presently driving 580 miles to home and have their CDs with me along w PJ Harvey, Pairlament, Scott Joplin piano rags; and some Ukranian group Dakhabrakha. Like I said, I'm pretty eclectic

SC

 

Oh fuck off Mr eclectic

 

 

That reminds me of another

 

Gary Numan - Are Friends Eclectic

 

Mr Blue Sky by the Eclectic Light Orchestra

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Talking Heads - Psycho Killer

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Tried to stick one song per artist, bolded are my top 5 today which will probably change tomorrow.
1. Kate Bush - Hammer Horror
2. Steve Harley - Sebastian

3. Tchaikovsky - Waltz of the Flowers
4. Gluck - Che Faro Senza Euridice
5. Velvet Underground - Sunday Morning
6. Nico- Femme Fatale
7. Blondie - Sunday Girl
8. Mama Cass- Dream a Little Dream
9. Marc Bolan - Diamond Meadows
10. Judee Sill - Crayon Angels
11. Carpenters - Goodbye to Love
12. Kirsty McColl - A New England
13. The Kinks - Celuloid Heroes
14. Puhdys - Wenn ein Mensch lebt
15. Pulp - Common People
16. Divine Comedy - Lady of a Certain Age
17. Fairport Convention - I'll Keep it with Mine
18. Sandy Denny - Fotheringay
19. Karen Dalton - It Hurts Me Too
20. Pink Floyd - See Emily Play
21. Eurythmics - Love is a Stranger
22. Warren Zevon - Werewolves of London
23. I Close My Eyes And Count To Ten - Dusty Springfield
24. Jefferson Airplane - Somebody to Love
25. Bobby Gentry - Ode to Billy Jo
26. Dubstar - Not so Manic Now
27. Donovan - Season of the Witch
28. Cat Stevens - If you to Sing out, sing out
29. Beautiful South - One Last Love Song
30. Rocky Horror Soundtrack - Science Fiction/Double
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Songs have moved from one mp3 player to the next, which I suppose is something like survival of the fittest:

  • King Sunny Adé - Ja Funmi
  • Allman Brothers Band - Whipping Post
  • The Beatles - Yellow Submarine
  • Pat Benatar - Love Is a Battlefield
  • Dooby Brothers - Listen to the Music
  • David Bowie - Warszawa
  • Klaus Doldinger - Das Boot
  • Ian Dury - Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
  • Genesis - The Musical Box
  • Joe Jackson - Steppin' Out
  • Live - All Over You
  • Graham Parker - Don't Ask Me Questions
  • Pink Floyd - Time
  • Plastic Bertrand - Ça plane pour moi
  • Iggy Pop - The Passenger
  • Rammstein - Spieluhr
  • Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers - I'm a Little Airplane
  • Rolling Stones - Paint it black
  • Frank Zappa - Catholic Girls
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