Your five favorite songs

[sternej]

In no particular order what are your five favorite songs? Mine: "Hey Jude", "The Wind Cries Mary", "A Pillow of Winds" by Pink Floyd. "Honky Tonk Woman", "Like a Rolling Stone"

 

[njpaddy]

At this particular moment in time.

Take Five - Dave Brubeck Quartet. I have 30 DBQ versions, ranging from 3-16 minutes in length.
Sleep Walk - Santo & Johnny
Quarter To Three - Gary U.S. Bonds
Like A Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan
Sultans Of Swing - Dire Straits (especially the Alchemy Live version)

 

[SharpieB]

Something like this just off the top of my head from what I have been listening to lately…

Triumph - Magic Power
Rush - 2112 (Temples of Syrinx)
Post Malone - Circles (or Chemical, which is new - he is brilliant IMO)
Vivaldi - Four Seasons Spring (Itzak Perlman version)
Zac Brown - Chicken Fried

 

[emwolf]

Boy, when we include instrumentals as well as all genres, that's really tough. I think I'd go with
Bargain--The Who
Better Things--The Kinks
Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto in D Major--Yasha Heifetz
Your Smiling Face--James Taylor
Wave--Oscar Peterson

I'm sure this list could change later this afternoon.

 

[steveclarkus]

This is a difficult one!

One that has been haunting me lately is Dylan’s “As I Walked Out One Morning”. Really great harmonica.

“Honky Tonk Woman”
“Dead Flowers”

Sorry, I just can’t rank them. My favorites vary day to day.

 

[beginish]

Currently:

Broken Arrow - Robbie Robertson
The Garden - Rush
The Weight - The Band
Anyday - Tedeschi Trucks Band (cover of Derek and the Dominos)
Kayleigh - Marillion

 

[Beto Salatini]

- Over The Rainbow / Ben Webster
- My One and Only Love / Johnny Hartman & John Coltrane
- In The Wee Small Hours / Frank Sinatra
- Laura / Clifford Brown
- Love Me / Elvis

 

[musicman1951]

Am I playing/singing or listening? Am I feeling mellow or greased and ready to kick donkey? The bedroom stereo or the one in the music room?

It's . . . too . . . darn . . . hard . . .

I'm going to lay down now.

 

[Lockback]

This is subject to change within minutes but here goes ...
1) Back On The Chain Gang - The Pretenders
2) Things We Said Today - The Beatles
3) Won't Get Fooled Again - The Who
4) Together Again - various versions of the Buck Owens classic, particularly Emmylou Harris' and Vince Gill's
5) Love Is The Answer - Todd Rundgren's Utopia

 

[Butch Waxx]

- Over The Rainbow / Ben Webster
- My One and Only Love / Johnny Hartman & John Coltrane
- In The Wee Small Hours / Frank Sinatra
- Laura / Clifford Brown
- Love Me / Elvis

Excellent taste in music my friend!

 

[Butch Waxx]

Just like @Lockback this can change:
• The Girl from Ipanema version by Stan Getz and Astrud Gilberto.
• I walk the line by Johnny Cash.
• New York, New York version by Frank Sinatra.
• Gimme Shelter by The Stones.
• It’s Ecstasy when you lay down next to me by Barry White.

Bonus tune: More bounce to the ounce by Zapp.

 

[Beto Salatini]

Thank you very much, my dear friend @Butch Waxx!
I love your choices!
Cheers

 

[P-51G t]

Yikes!

For those about to rock - ac/dc
More than a feeling- boston
Take me home, country road - john denver
Radar love - golden earing
Fast as a shark - accept because it’s on now

 

[DalShaver]

A few of these are certain, the others could change tomorrow but still rank at the very top:

The Kinks-Days
Beatles-In My Life
In The Wee Small Hours of the Morning (might have to go with Oscar Peterson/Ben Webster version)
Some Other Time (Bill Evans/Tony Bennett version)
The Jam-Liza Radley

 

[Eric_75]

I can't nail it down to five but this one will always be somewhere in there.

Peace Piece - Bill Evans

 

[JimmyJoeMeeker]

It's . . . too . . . darn . . . hard . . .

Yeah, I can't even make a good effort at that. I'm just going to add my +1s to what I'm seeing so far.

Sultans Of Swing - Dire Straits

Easily one of the best lead tracks ever laid down.

Sleep Walk - Santo & Johnny

This song is timeless, and I'm still mesmerized every time I hear it.

“Dead Flowers”

Townes!

The Weight - The Band

A whole course in songwriting could be taught from this song.

Back On The Chain Gang - The Pretenders

Great band, great song.

• The Girl from Ipanema version by Stan Getz and Astrud Gilberto.
• I walk the line by Johnny Cash.

No better music than these two. There might be others as good, but these are as good as it gets.

Radar love - golden earing

There's a cool factor here that's hard to match.

 

[musicman1951]

OK, I'm going to give it a shot. I needed a few categories and had to leave off way too many great songs.

Respect
You Keep Me Hangin' On
Living For The City
I Heard It Through The Grapevine
My Girl

Black Dog
Bohemian Rhapsody
Stairway
Crossroads (Cream)
Roundabout

Here Comes The Sun
Let It Be
If I Fell
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
A Day In The Life

Want next week's list? Suffer! I'm never doing this again!!!!

Toccata and Fugue in D minor - Bach
The Planets - Holst
The New World Symphony - Dvorak
Concerto for Orchestra - Bartok
Symphony #1 - Mahler

Steely Dan:
Aja
Josie
Do it Again
Black Friday
Deacon Blues

Sting:
When We Dance
Fortress Around Your Heart
Englishman in NY
Fields of Gold

James Taylor:
Sweet Baby James
Carolina in My Mind
You've Got A Friend
Shower The People
Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight

 

[SparkyLB]

Gates of Eden--Dylan
Desolation Road--Dylan
Never Gonna Break My Faith--Aretha Franklin
What I'd Say--Ray Charles
I Want You--Beatles

There are so many more. Some of the above are favorites one day, but not the next. But I always love them.

 

[slimshavy]

Won't say absolute favorites, but here are five I like:

Weekend in Western Illinois: The Mountain Goats
St. Elmo's Fire: Brian Eno
May you Never: John Martyn
Campaigner: Neil Young
Scars, four Eyes: Sebadoh

 

[emwolf]

Won't say absolute favorites, but here are five I like:

Weekend in Western Illinois: The Mountain Goats
St. Elmo's Fire: Brian Eno
May you Never: John Martyn
Campaigner: Neil Young
Scars, four Eyes: Sebadoh

nice to see a Mountain Goats song on the list! My personal fave of theirs is Old College Try