Choose a Song You Love and Describe The Reasons Why. [Archive]

Strummer521

08-27-05, 01:31 AM

We have a thread similar to this for movies this for movies so why not music? I'll start.

"Train In Vain" - The Clash (London Calling, 1979)

This song starts with a typically solid grooving beat at the hands of Topper Headon and a jumpy two note riff courtesy of Mick Jones who wrote and sang the tune. This sets the pace for the song and is dangerously on the verge of being cheesy as the rest of it. Thisis a big part of its charm. The band is either ingnorant of the slight cheesiness, or they just don't care. All that aside, the rhythm is instantly gripping. the vocals are highly passionate and expressive, strained in the way that shows the man has felt what he sings about. I am a big fan of songs like this that tackle subjects that would be cause for depression with such a fun interpretation (i.e. "Run For Your Life" - The Beatles). The blissful cheeriness is contagious and never fails to put a smile on my face. The way the brightness of the music contrasts the lyrics, the song becomes about overcoming sadness and the other problems life throws your way. For me, this is the ultimate feel-good song and to answer Barry's question in High Fidelity, my favorite song to play on a monday morning.

SamsoniteDelilah

08-27-05, 02:33 AM

Tacitus

08-27-05, 09:37 AM

Only You by Yazz (Yazzoo for you Limeys)
The lyrics are charming as anything. Alison Moyet's voice is passionate, mature, edgy and perfectly tuned. The techno synth 80's accompanyment harkens me back to when this song (and so many things) was new. It's been used at the end of Fallen Angels and the Christmas special of The Office because it's such a feel-good song. mmmmm... I'm smiling just thinking of it!

Good old Vince and Alf... :)

Levi Stubbs' Tears by Billy Bragg

This is the first song I learned to play on the guitar, still been known to badly croon it on occasions too. It takes me back to the late 80s when I first heard it and memories of a long lost girlfriend, jet black hair in ringlets and green eyes you could drown in.....

Such a sad song too, about a battered wife. Simple, mournful but strong.

"When the world falls apart some things stay in place
She takes off the Four Tops tape and puts it back in its case"

EDIT - MP3 Sample (http://www.content.loudeye.com/scripts/hurl.exe?clipid=011590201050006900&cid=600111)

Piddzilla

08-27-05, 01:39 PM

Levi Stubbs' Tears by Billy Bragg

I love that song. I think it was the first song I heard with Billy.... I've posted the lyrics (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showpost.php?p=261500&postcount=387) in the "favourite lyrics thread".

I just have to comment on the guitar playing.... When I heard that song I though "hey! you don't have to play acoustic as a singer/songwriter!". I think the way he plays during his early recordings is fantastic. I wish I had seen him during those days. I have a friend who saw him at the Roskilde Festival which usually has a crowd of around 90 000 people. On the biggest stage, just Billy and an electric guitar... I wish I'd been there...

Uncle Rico

08-27-05, 02:18 PM

"Dont think Twice it's Alright"

In the song hes basically saying he was deceived and lied to and screwed over a million times but he still has room to forgive. If the world were like that it woulf be a much better place.

LordSlaytan

08-27-05, 02:34 PM

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Mötley Crüe - Too Fast For Love

I lost my virginity while listening to this record back in the way, way, back. It will always have a special place in my canon of cherished songs (Live Wire (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/clipserve/B00000J7I3001001/0/103-6135062-4536645), Merry-Go-Round,
Too Fast for Love (http://www.content.loudeye.com/scripts/hurl.exe?clipid=021740601120006900&cid=600111)) and albums. :yup:

Ezikiel

08-27-05, 03:10 PM

Schizophrenia - Sonic Youth

http://www.icemagazine.com/stories/206/images/sonic_youth.jpg

The song starts off with a series of drum beats for about eight seconds, which gives intrigue to the listener, and so, the beautiful song starts. It tells us a great story along with such wonderful music, the lyrics are just important to the song. The line "Her brother says she's just a bitch", was very effective to me, in the way that we learn and feel who these people are in the song. I can hear this song over and over again everyday and never tire of it, it's just great.

Misirlou

08-27-05, 03:14 PM

K-Ci and JoJo - All My Life

The first song I slow danced to :D

Tacitus

08-27-05, 03:36 PM

I love that song. I think it was the first song I heard with Billy.... I've posted the lyrics (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showpost.php?p=261500&postcount=387) in the "favourite lyrics thread".

I could have picked 2 or 3 songs from Talking With The Taxman... but Levi Stubbs' Tears is so beautifully despairing. :)

Strummer521

08-27-05, 06:32 PM

You can pick more than one song Tacitus :).

undercoverlover

08-27-05, 06:55 PM

K-Ci and JoJo - All My Life

The first song I slow danced to :D

ooh that song gets me everytime, i love it

My song is
Time After Time - Cyndi Lauper

I fell in love when I first heard it on Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion (which I totally love) and it just sent chills up my spine. Beautiful lyrics with great vocals I just thought it was the perfect song.

these are my fave parts where it just makes you wanna sing at the top of your lungs a la Bridget Jones

After my picture fades a darkness has
turned to gray
watching through windows -
you're wondering if I'm O.K.
secrets stolen from deep inside
the drum beats out of time

and

You said go slow -
I fall behind
the second hand unwinds

SamsoniteDelilah

08-27-05, 08:16 PM

undercoverlover~ that is a great song!!

TheUsualSuspect

08-28-05, 12:31 AM

Hurt - Nine Inch Nails It strikes me everytime I listen to it.

7thson

08-28-05, 12:36 AM

http://www.nickelcreek.com/images/pagenews/news_picture.jpg

Nicklecreek ~ When you come back Down.

I think of my baby girl (my daughter Kristina) when I hear this song. She is so independent it scares me sometimes. I just want her to know I will always be there, no matter what happens, to catch her if she needs me. If you have not heard this song before check it out and think of what I said, it fits perfect even if Nicklecreek did not mean it in this way.

Strummer521

08-28-05, 01:39 AM

Hurt - Nine Inch Nails It strikes me everytime I listen to it.

C'mon dude! You can give a better description than that. Elaborate. You've written a whole bunch of reviews already so I know you can handle this. Actually between those and the top 100 list. You're the most ambitious new member I've seen :). Surely you can take some time to go into a little more detail on this.

Strummer521

08-28-05, 01:45 AM

my favorite song to play on a monday morning.

In Fact, I think I'll make a top five...

"Train in Vain" - The Clash
"Whole Lotta Love" - Led Zeppelin
"Drive My Car" - The Beatles
"Get Away" - O.A.R.
"Jungle Love" - Morris Day and the Time

That's nothing definitive, just some songs off the top of my head.

SpoOkY

08-28-05, 02:32 AM

I'll always remember Living after midnight by Judas Priest because it was first played to me in an old record store and I was about 12 at the time. Towards the end I was up on the counter with my air guitar and all the old folks were cheering me on...... :D good times.

I also remember hearing Voodoo Child by Jimi Hendrix in my friend's car on the way to Portsea (beach place in Australia). Everytime I hear those crazy riffs it makes me remember crashing waves and the smell of sunscreen. There's something special about heading out with your friends as a teenager on your first road trip. Everyone looking cool with our sunnies and surfboards (p.s. we couldn't even surf back then). It's just that there's that special moment when you pull away from your house out onto to the open road, with the legend Jimi Hendrix ripping those strings of his!

susan

08-28-05, 04:39 AM

it's the end of the world as you know it (i feel fine) r.e.m.

i love the bouncy tune and the words make me laugh every time i hear it....one of my favorite r.e.m. songs

as is everybody hurts which reminds me that i'm not alone when i get really upset...

undercoverlover

08-28-05, 10:27 AM

nice choices Susan
I like Man on The Moon just cause its a lil bit surreal and just really good

Darth Stujitzu

08-28-05, 03:28 PM

" Hard to Handle " by Otis Reading.
Just my feel good song, always makes me get up to get down!
I'm sure most of my ex-girlfriends would agree that the lyrics are quite apt for me.
It's so difficult to pick a favourite song of all time, similar to a favourite film, I have loads, but to pick just one is a form of torture!!!
Otis was the first to come to mind, I like to listen to him on a Sunday, so he wins it by a nose!

Gods_third_leg

08-28-05, 03:43 PM

Love will tear us apart - Joy Division
I love this song, Ian Curtis has quite a depressive tone when he sings but when I listen to this song it's emotional and has a really 80's feel to it. Joy Division are one hell of a band.

My Iron Lung - Radiohead
I just love Radiohead, Thom Yorke sings in a unique way.

Wish you were here - Pink Floyd
A song you can really lose yourself in, Pink Floyd are fantastic.

Black - Pearl Jam
My uncle played this song at his wedding, the lyrics are deep and the song really hits you.

Four fantastic songs.

Strummer521

08-28-05, 03:57 PM

Black - Pearl Jam
My uncle played this song at his wedding, the lyrics are deep and the song really hits you.

Yeah, That is a great song (my favorite of Pearl Jam's), but I must say, it's extremely inappropriate for a wedding.

Gods_third_leg

08-28-05, 04:04 PM

It was but he really wanted to play this song, a song that meant something to him on one of the most special days of his life.

It wasn't played during the ceremony but at the after party.

Strummer521

08-28-05, 04:12 PM

Well ok.:) I'm sure he had his reasons. It's just that some people misinterpret or pay attention to only some of the lyrics in a song, which leads them to use it in a strage situation. Like Reagan wanting to use "Born in the USA" in his campaign.

Piddzilla

08-28-05, 05:17 PM

"The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down (live)" - The Band

It's a great song period but the live version on "The Last Waltz" is so emotionally charged. And it's even better than the studio version. Levon Helm, one of my favourite drummers and one hell of a singer, delivers the words of the lyrics like it was the last time he would ever sing them. Maybe it was - this was The Band's last concert after all.

I love the lyrics about a poor hard working man of the defeated South during the last days of the Civil War. Helm, a farmer boy from Arkansas, understood what the song was all about and put down his soul in it, according to some interview I once read with the songwriter, Robbie Robertson. And you have to listen to how Helm sings on this version.... and how he plays the drums and the rest of The Band is just following him while the crowd goes wild (and they should).

Music history....

TheUsualSuspect

08-28-05, 05:41 PM

C'mon dude! You can give a better description than that. Elaborate. You've written a whole bunch of reviews already so I know you can handle this. Actually between those and the top 100 list. You're the most ambitious new member I've seen :). Surely you can take some time to go into a little more detail on this.Well, this was the first song that I listened to while looking at pictures from my High School graduation. I was looking at them through a slide show on the computer and this song was playing and it went perfectly with the pictues. This was like a day or two after I graduated, which was this year. So it got to me, the fact that I won't be seeing 3/4 of the friends that I've made over the past 4 years and more.

Johnny Cash did a good cover song of it, but I think that the Nine Inch Nails one is just a little bit better.

Even though it was depressing, I thought it was alot better to look at the pictures and listen to this song, then something from vitamin c or the cliched time of your life from Green day.

Led Zeppelin: Misty Mountain Hop

Whenever I'm in a terrible mood, I just put this one on and I feel better, it's so up-beat, I love it.