Favorite songs of all time

[Baley]

On a warm summer

[Kor Qel Droma]

umm...Meta you forgot to add the 'you've got to' parts at the beginning of all of the chorus "

[metadigital]

umm...Meta you forgot to add the 'you've got to' parts at the beginning of all of the chorus "

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I was singing the suport. "

 

 

He said, son, I

[Baley]

So I handed him my bottle

And he drank down my last swallow.

Then he bummed a cigarette

And asked me for a light.

 

And the night got deathly quiet,

And his face lost all expression.

Said, if you

[metadigital]

CHORUS!

 

You got to know when to hold

[Baley]

Now ev

[metadigital]

So when he

[Baley]

CHORUS!

 

You got to know when to hold

[metadigital]

And again!

CHORUS!

 

You got to know when to hold

[Baley]

He was only ten years old when his daddy died in prison.

I looked after Tommy

[metadigital]

Promise me, son, not to do the things I

[Baley]

There

[metadigital]

Tommy opened up the door and saw his becky cryin

[Baley]

Promise me, son, not to do the things I

[metadigital]

The Gatlin boys just laughed at him when he walked into the barroom.

One of them got up and met him halfway

[Baley]

Twenty years of crawlin

[metadigital]

I promised you, Dad, not to do the things you done.

I walk away from trouble when I can.

Now please don

[Baley]

Ev

[metadigital]

Phew! That was great!

 

We used to play those songs out of protest at our local bar: the jukebox was full of crap, so we played them ad nauseam. )

 

Good times, good times.

[Blarghagh]

Pearl Jam - Black

Pearl Jam - Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town

Pearl Jam - Better Man

Pantera - Cemetary Gates

Pantera - Hollow

EElS - Susan's House

EElS - I Like Birds

EElS - Going To Your Funeral Pt 1

Broken Social Scene - Anthems For A Seventeen Year-Old Girl

Mogwai - Like Herod

The Shins - Caring Is Creepy

The Shins - Weird Divide

The Shins - Mine's Not A High Horse

Iron Maiden - The Trooper

Iron Maiden - Run To The Hills

Iron Maiden - Paschendale

Iron Maiden - Fear Of The Dark

Guns N' Roses - Paradise City

Guns N' Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine

Beck - Loser

Beck - Devil's Haircut

Metallica - Fade To Black

Metallica - Disposable Heroes

Metallica - The Thing That Should Not Be

The Fiery Furnaces - Mason City

Alice In Chains - Rooster

Alice In Chains - Down In A Hole

Mad Season - I Don't Know Anything

Orgy - Opticon

Orgy - Eva

R.E.M. - Everybody Hurts

Radiohead - Airbag

Radiohead - Creep

Radiohead - No Surprises

Deerhoof - Spirit Ditties Of No Tone

Deerhoof - Siriustar

Blind Guardian - Time Stands Still (At The Iron Hill)

Modest Mouse - Dramamine

Modest Mouse - Long Distance Drunk

Modest Mouse - Jesus Christ Was An Only Child

Modest Mouse - I Came As A Rat

Modest Mouse - Tiny Cities Made Of Ashes

Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun

Deadsy - Sleepy Hollow

Godsmack - Hollow

Incubus - 11 A.M.

Incubus - Warning

Temple Of The Dog - Hunger Strike

Temple Of The Dog - Times Of Trouble

Foo Fighters - Friend Of A Friend

Foo Fighters - Everlong

Weezer - Undone (The Sweater Song)

Sonic Youth - Shadow Of A Doubt

 

Aaaaand nobody probably read that.

[Baley]

[in place of a preamble: yes, this is an old thread; yes, this wasn't a particularly popular thread to begin with (Meta, I resent myself and gawp at you); yes, yes, yes, whatever - it's been eight months, tastes change, and fluctuate, you know the drill; I'd start a new one, but, by God, I just ain't man enough.]

 

Charles Mingus - Prayer For Passive Resistance

Mos Def - Mathematics|Umi Says

Nas - N.Y. State of Mind

John Coltrane - Serenity

Wu-Tang Clan - Protect Ya Neck

Aceyalone - The Guidelines

Subhumans - Us Fish Must Sleep Together

Minutemen - Jesus and Tequila

Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee - Backwater Blues

Skip James - Devil Got My Woman

Neutral Milk Hotel - Oh Comely

NoMeansNo - The World Wasn't Built In A Day

Tom Waits - I Hope That I Don't Fall In Love With You

The Stooges - Down on the Street

Arrested Development - Raining Revolution

Hank Williams - Beyond the Sunset

16 Horsepower - Outlaw Song

Clutch - 10,000 Witnesses

Stevie Wonder - Village Ghetto Land

[Walsingham]

My four:

 

1) Run DMC - Walk This Way

2) Giuseppe Verdi - The chorus of the Hebrew Slaves

3) The Pogues - Fairytale of New York

4) The Wailin Jennys - I Forget*

 

 

*Not the title, although it would be a good one. I really do just forget.

[kirottu]

Hmm hmm...

 

Rammstein - Engel

Rammstein - Nebel

Various Iron Maiden songs considering what mood I

[Maedhros]

Pink Floyd - Everything except the last two albums

Radiohead - Bones

Radiohead - You and Whose Army

Radiohead - A Wolf at the Door

The Doors - The End

The Doors - Riders on the Storm

Sigur Ros - Hoppipolla

Van Der Graaf Generator - Killer

Neil Young - Philadelphia

Led Zeppelin - Achilles Last Stand

Led Zeppelin - Kashmir

Led Zeppelin - No Quarter

DumDum Boys - Tyven tyven

Mark Knopfler - Sailing to Philadelphia

Roger Waters - Amused to Death

Syd Barrett - Golden Hair

Bob Dylan - All Along the Watchtower

Edited December 23, 2006 by Thingolfin

[Draken]

I...I own a teddy bear that when you press its paw, it sings The Gambler.

 

My favorite song is Comfortably Numb; yes yes, an old cliche' choice, but dammit, you can't beat David Gilmour's guitar.