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[serene]

Post a comment with at least five of your all-time favorite songs (post more if you want). They can be any language, any degree of popularity. This isn't a meme, just sort of getting a sense of the aggregate musical taste of the friends list.

If at all possible, make your list before looking at mine.



Fast Car, Tracy Chapman

Luba, the Baroness, Diamonds and Rust, & Jesse, Joan Baez

Hotel California & The Last Resort, Eagles

Bohemian Rhapsody, Queen

Transit, Richard Shindell

Flying Red Horse, Temporary Road, & Gypsy Life, John Gorka

Gypsy, Suzanne Vega

Last Chance Texaco, Rickie Lee Jones

Ghost, Love Will Come to You, Get Out the Map, Everything in its Own Time, and many others, Indigo Girls

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[calebbullen.livejournal.com]

Tico Tico

Malaguena

Garote de Ipanema

Sway

Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps

For all of the above I have many versions in a wide variety of styles and languages.

I also quite like Stardust, Mama's Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to be Cowboys, Lulu's back in town, Up a Lazy River, Sugar Blues And lately I've been into Shine on Harvest Moon a lot.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Ooh, Quizás, Quizás, Quizás

[calebbullen.livejournal.com]

Depending on the version, si!

[cassidyrose.livejournal.com]

"One Tree Hill"--U2
"Werewolves of London"--Warren Zevon
"Stash"--Phish
"Hey Bulldog"--The Beatles
"In God's Country"--U2
"Tangled up in Blue"--Bob Dylan
"Turn You Inside-Out"--REM
"Ripple"--The Grateful Dead
"Sun King Medley"--The Beatles
"Standing on the Moon--Grateful Dead
"Eleanor Rigby"--The Beatles
"See you Sweet"--Kristi Martel
"The Electric Co."--U2
"Silver and Gold"--U2
"Masters of War"--Bob Dylan covered by Pearl Jam
"Hallelujah"--Jeff Buckley (orginal by Leonard Cohen)

[epi-lj.livejournal.com]

Five?? Wow. Uh.

- "In the Absence of Angels," Paul Schütze
- "Tiny Golden Books," Coil
- "Waiting on the Wire," Breathless
- "Le Soleil et la Mer (Reload Mix)," Global Communication
- "Sæglópur," Sigur Rós

[(Anonymous)]

Well, at least five, anyway. I have never heard of any of those songs. Good job. :-)

[epi-lj.livejournal.com]

That actually sort of bums me out a little. :/ But mostly because I'm feeling sort of down tonight to begin with, and because I've been feeling very musically disconnected / irrelevant today, which sometimes gets to me. So .. my own issue there, I suppose.

I've posted a couple of those in my journal over time. One of them today, in fact. I don't think you'd like most of them, assuming the un-logged-in comment is from serenejournal, based on a list you did a short while ago of various preferences. Three of them are entirely instrumental. (One isn't but is in Icelandic, which I don't speak.) You mentioned not liking purely instrumental music.

Capping it at five is probably helpful, because it's either five or eight hundred, if you know what I mean.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

The reason I was happy about it is I love to take lists of friends' music and set aside time to just sit and listen to it. This is how I got to discover Boxcar Racer (through stonebender) and Linkin Park (through Munchkin The Younger) and Great Big Sea (through mactavish). So now I get to go find your music and see what I like.

(Incidentally, or perhaps not so incidentally, these days whenever I get a stretch of time to just sit and listen to music, doing nothing else, I think of you, because it was one of your LJ posts that inspired me to start doing that again.)

[epi-lj.livejournal.com]

:)

I can post up those five tracks with links if you want. I still suspect you will not like them, since I'm in the, "I prefer songs with no words or words I don't understand," camp, but it would make the searching easier.

[epi-lj.livejournal.com]

Oh, I will add to that, "Your Ghost," by Kristin Hersh, which does have lyrics and vocals of the usual sort, and just popped into my mind.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Really like it. A lot. Adding her to my Pandora. Thanks!

[epi-lj.livejournal.com]

Can I also add to the list pretty much everything by Cocteau Twins?

(If I have to pick specific songs, let's say: Oomingmak, Smile, Circling Girl, Summerhead, Rococo, Great Spangled Fritillary, Pale Clouded White, Bluebeard, An Elan, Alice, Fluffy Tufts, Feet-Like Fins and Memory Gongs, Dials, Ups, Pitch the Baby, In Our Angelhood, When Mama Was Moth, Suckling the Mender, and The High Monkey-Monk.)

[epi-lj.livejournal.com]

*Correction: Feet-Like Fins and Memory Gongs are two separate songs. I dunno how the 'and' got in there.

And while I'm here, I'll add in Need-Fire.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

very cool. Heading somewhere (someotherguy will tell me where) to go listen. Thanks!

[epi-lj.livejournal.com]

I noticed a Suzanne Vega song on your list; are you a big fan, or is it just that song?

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Huge Suzanne Vega fan. Favorite albums are Solitude Standing (sentimental favorite) and 99.9F, but I just got a new one, Songs in Red and Gray (I'm slow getting "new" releases). Do you like her?

[epi-lj.livejournal.com]

I'm not that familiar with her, but I have an obscure song of hers that I could put online if you want it -- her and John Cale providing vocals for a Hector Zazou song.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Very cool. What's it called? Maybe I can find it online.

[epi-lj.livejournal.com]

It's called "The Long Voyage." I already tossed it up here (http://www.ambienautica.com/thelongvoyage.mp3) if you want to just grab it from there.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

(I have this thing about free music, so I listened, but didn't keep it. Thank you very much for going to the trouble!)

[epi-lj.livejournal.com]

:) No trouble. And I understand. I actually pretty much do the same thing. I tend to provide a lot of tracks though (primarily tracks rather than albums) because I have a lot of stuff that a lot of people will never hear otherwise, and I've had lots of friends hear things from me and go out and buy the albums after, so it seems like a win-win thing.

The album, if you want to track it down, is called "Songs from the Cold Seas" or "Chansons des Mers Froides," by Hector Zazou. It actually has lots of wonderful stuff on it. The Lena Villemark song, the Varttina song and the Catherine-Anne McPhee song are all favourites of mine. In more well-known names, in addition to Suzanne Vega and John Cale, there's a Jane Siberry song, a Bjork song and a Siouxsie Sioux song.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

I listened to Pale Clouded White, Cico Bluff, Musette and Drums, Heaven or Las Vegas, and Pitch the Baby. This is fun. (Not music I would play every day, but I could see putting it on my party rotation for sure.)

[epi-lj.livejournal.com]

:) Their style varies a lot over time, but they're probably my favourite single band. I have somewhere between 25 and 30 CDs by them.

[firecat]

I can't possibly pick five favorites, but I'll let iTunes pick an aggregate sample semi-randomly.

"She Gimme Lovin'," Sweet, Off The Record
Sweet was my high school crush band. Most of their songs have horribly sexist/crude/juvenile lyrics, but the music is more interesting than most in its genre (glam/metal/early punk). This particular song has some very slick drumming.

"(Don't You Mess Around With) My Little Sister", Michelle Shocked, Captain Swing
I discovered her through my friend juliemom, and I had The Texas Campfire Tapes on cassette in my car for a long time. That's my favorite of her albums by a long shot. This song is on that one too in a different form factor.

"Moonlight in Glory", Brian Eno - David Byrne, My Life In the Bush of Ghosts
This album is from my college years when I was a DJ at the college radio station, WESU (http://www.wesufm.org/). It's a weird mishmash of songs, each one developed around some kind of found sound or music (for example, one song is built around a recording of some kind of Christian exorcism). This one features "The Moving Star Hall Singers, Sea Islands, Georgia." Byrne keeps Eno from wandering off into the aether, and Eno keeps Byrne from turning everything into yet another Talking Heads sounding thing.

"Davy Faa", Jean Redpath, Song of the Seals
In the early 80s I listened to a whole lot of traditional Celtic music. I've always liked it, but at this particular point in time it was also a way of connecting with my Ireland-obsessed boyfriend. Jean Redpath is a superb alto singer of traditional Scottish ballads. Sometimes she teams with a single cellist.

"Ghana - Kpanlogo: Recreational Dance", Aja Addy and the Ensemble Tsuianaa Drums Of The Earth 1 - Africa
I first discovered African drum music in college, where the ethnomusicology department taught a very popular class in African drumming and dancing, which I felt I was not cool enough to attend. But 8 or so years later when I got a job at Apple and found out about an African drumming class being taught there after hours, I decided it was about time. I liked the class a whole lot. It was taught by this white guy from Santa Cruz, Arthur Hull, who developed a unique niche for himself teaching beginning drumming as an executive team-building experience. I drummed with him and others for several years and built a collection of drums and percussion instruments and a collection of drum music. I also made this silly HyperCard stack that taught some of the basic rhythms he taught in class. Kpanlogo was one of them.

(Going off to post this in my journal...)

[gloriajn.livejournal.com]

1. "Blue Danube Waltz" - Johann Strauss (my favorite song of all time; it reminds me of 2001: A Space Odyssey);
   
2. "Baker Street" - Gerry Rafferty
   
3. "Rock the Casbah" - The Clash
   
4. "Take Me Out" - Franz Ferdinand
   
5. "Let the Music Play" - Shannon

[velochicdunord.livejournal.com]

My fav five varies all the time. Here's where it's at right now:

James Keeleghan - "Hillcrest Mine". About a town I lived in for six years, and a formative time and place in Canuck history

Pink Martini - "Sympathique" Was at the concert Saturday night, and I'm an Instant Fan(TM), autographed albums and all.

Gordon Lightfoot's "The Edmund Fitzgerald"

anything by David Francey

anything by Sarah Slean