Songs you couldn't imagine your life without?? (1 Viewer)

[Paul D Snyder]

A recent poll asked members to list their "essential albums"
but some of my favorite songs didn't appear on full length albums. And there are many gems that were the only great song on the entire album. Here's a list of my "can't live without songs".

"Eve" by Dream Theater (unreleased only available on oop import single).

"Exile" by Enya

"Forty-Mile Town" Eric Johnson

"Take the Time" Dream Theater

"No Boundaries" Michael Angelo Batio

"Reunion" Russ Freeman & David Benoit

"When You Believe" Prince Of Egypt Soundtrack

"Northstar" Rippingtons

"Hearts" Marty Balin

"I Don't Have To Wonder" Garth Brooks

"The Dance" Garth Brooks

"Cliffs of Dover" Eric Johnson

"Get The Funk Out" Extreme

"Air" Jason Becker

"Jet City Woman" Queensryche

"Quicksand Jesus" Skid Row

"24 caprices" Nicolo Paganini

"Just like the weather" Suzy Bogguss

"Mummer's Dance" Loreena Mckennitt

"Innocence Faded" Dream Theater

"Hollow Years" Dream Theater

"Can't Smile Without You" Barry Manilow

"Billy Jean" Michael Jackson

"Mercy Mercy Me" Marvin Gaye

"What's Goin' On" Marvin Gaye

"Overjoyed" Stevie Wonder

"Dreams" Fleetwood Mac

"Only When I Sleep" The Corrs

"Burn" The Cure

And there's so many more......Sorry, I got a little carried away!

Paul

 

[Angelo.M]

far too many list here, so i'll pick three...
backstreets, springsteen
bad, U2
in my life, the beatles

 

[Mike Broadman]

Charles Mingus
Ysabel's Table Dance, Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting, Fables of Faubus, Haitian Fight Song, Better Get Hit In Your Soul

King Crimson
Fracture, Lark's Tongues in Aspic II, Frame By Frame

Rush
Spirit of Radio, Force Ten, YYZ

Genesis
Firth of Fifth

Miles Davis
So What?, Walkin', Milestones, Pinocchio

John Coltrane
My Favorite Things

Dizzy Gillespie
A Night In Tunisia

Stevie Ray Vaughan
Texas Flood

Frank Zappa
RDNZL, Advance Romance

Opeth
Bleak

Dreamtheater
Metropolis I, Home

too many to list...

 

[Jack Briggs]

Not necessarily songs, but...

• Vetrate di chiesa, by Respighi (prefer Ormandy/Philadelphia Orchestra/CBS)

• Symphony No. 2 in D Major, by Sibelius (prefer Maazel/Vienna Philharmonic/Decca)

• Appalachian Ballet (Suite), by Copland (prefer Bernstein/New York Philharmonic/CBS)

As for "songs" ...

• The Beatles' entire catalog

Too many, really.

 

[Paul D Snyder]

I agree that there are too many to realistically list... I started this thread thinking it would be relatively easy for me to pinpoint a few songs but then had to stop myself from creating a thousand song list!

Paul

 

[Evan S]

Stevie Ray Vaughn - Little Wing
Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower
Shawn Colvin - Round of Blues
Wilco - Pot Kettle Black
Robert Cray - Right Next Door (Because of Me)
Stevie Ray Vaughn - Lenny
Cranberries - Linger
Tesla - Little Suzy
Wallflowers - 6th Avenue Heartache
Sevendust - Black

Amongst many, many others

 

[Peter Mazur]

Supper's Ready - Genesis
White Russian - Marillion
Tool - Aenima
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For - U2

Many, many more

 

[Jeff Pryor]

'Fade Into You' by Mazzy Star.

'Big-Log' by Robert Plant

'Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Part 1' by PF.

 

[Mike Broadman]

Symphony No. 2 in D Major, by Sibelius (prefer Maazel/Vienna Philharmonic/Decca)

I have recently re-discoverd this gem via Telarc's SACD of the Cincinnatti Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Paarvo Javi. Phenomenal composition.

A friend also lent me one of his violin concertos- beautiful. Sibelius is an underappreciated composer.

 

[Khoa Tran]

blue in green - miles davis

somebody - depechemode

sour times - portishead

too many!!! the list will be well over 200 =)

 

[Christ Reynolds]

pearl jam - release
beatles - when i'm 64
pearl jam - i got id
rutles - another day (?!)
radiohead - paranoid android
beatles - in my life
beatles - helter skelter
beatles - a day in the life
beatles - happiness is a warm gun
the who - a quick one while he's away (live at leeds)

CJ

 

[Peter Mazur]

Christ,

All right, The Rutles!!! Mine from them would be "Cheese and Onions".

 

[JonZ]

WAY too many to name.Music is my No1 love(movies are second)

Ill list albums where I need all the songs.

Black Sabbath - All the Ozzy albums
Led Zeppelin - All except Houses Of The Holy
Voivod - Dimension Hatross through Outer Limits
The Flaming Lips - All up to (but not including)Soft Bulletin
Death - Human,Individual Thought Patters,symbolic,Sounf of Persistance
Quicksand - Slip,Manic Compression
Metallica - Kill Em All through ...And Justice For All
The Beatles - Hell,all of em
Sepultura - Beneath The Remains through Roots
The Minutemen - All of em
NOFX - All of em
Fugazi - All of em
Jimi Hendrix - All of em
Rolling Stones - 60,70s and early 80s stuff
Iron Maiden - Killers through Somewhere in Time
Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny through Defenders Of The Faith
Accept - Restless & Wild through Metal Heart
Rush - 2112 through Signals
AC/C - High Voltage through Fly On The Wall
Hum - Electra2000 thourgh Downward is Heavenward
Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard Of Oz through Tribute
Bob Marley - All of em


And that doesnt include Classical, Motown, etc.I could go on and on and on......

 

[Rob P S]

Desperado - Eagles
We've Got Tonight - Bob Seger
Big Brown Eyes - Old 97's
I Love You - Climax Blues Band
Anna Begins - Counting Crows
Nothing but a Child - Steve Earle
Pineola - Lucinda Williams

 

[Jim_C]

Way too many to list.

I'll give you the ones that had a significant role in shaping my musical tastes, and in some respects my life. All are from my formative early to mid-teens (not necessarily new at the time) and have a story attached to them.

Tom Sawyer-Rush

Bohemian Rhapsody-Queen

Two Minutes to Midnight-Iron Maiden

Caught in a Mosh-Anthrax

Icarus Dream Suite, Op. 4-Yngwie Malmsteen

 

[Al B. C]

"Sound & Vision" - David Bowie

"Alison" - Elvis

"Abbey Road" (just let it play!)

 

[John Fleming]

One for me would definitely have to be 'You Light Up My Life' by Debbie Boone :wink:

But seriously...I'd say 'Little Angel, Little Brother' by Lucinda Williams (an incredible talent - catch her live sometime...you won't regret it)

I have to agree with Jeff Pryor by seconding 'Fade Into You' (wonderful melody) by Mazzy Star

I'd have to include Yes' 'And You and I'

My favorite musical "guilty pleasure" REO Speedwagon's 'Roll With the Changes' (the keyboard solo has me playing "air organ" every time)

 

[MikeH1]

Don't Change by INXS

 

[Seth_S]

Bach: Goldberg Variations - Gould/'55 recording on Sony
Bach: Concerto for Two Violins (BWV 1043) - Manze/Podger/Academy of Acient Music
Beethoven: Symphony No.3 - John Eliot Gardiner/Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique on Archiv
Brahms: The Piano Concertos - Leon Fleisher/George Szell/The Cleveland Orchestra on Sony
Bruckner: Symphony No.8 - Boulez/Vienna Philharmonic on DG
Dvorak: Slavonic Dances - George Szell/The Cleveland Orchestra on Sony
Mahler: Symphony No.5 - John Barbirolli/New Philharmonia Orchestra on EMI
Mahler: Symphony No.6 - George Szell/The Cleveland Orchestra on Sony
Mahler: Symphony No.9 - George Szell/The Cleveland Orchestra on The Cleveland Label
Mozart: Don Giovanni - John Eliot Gardiner/The English Baroque Soloists on Archiv
Mozart: Symphonies No.35, 39-41 - George Szell/The Cleveland Orchestra
Mozart: Symphony No.40 - John Eliot Gardiner/The English Baroque Soloists on Philips
Shostakovich: String Quartet No.8 - the Borodin Quartet on Melodiya

 

[Jordan_E]

IMAGINE - John Lennon