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If you can only pick ONE song which would be your all time favorite and why? Try to use You Tube so that way we can all listen to your pick right here. Also please just pick one song. I'll start it with mine:



This song is my favorite simply because of the lyrics and the build up. Many people don't like Dylan's voice but it's the raspiness that makes him and in this song the emotion comes through and you can feel the torment that he's feeling and that's why this is my all time favorite.

Even looks like my dogs are digging it...lol.

I'll play. Was actually constructing a poll in K-9 Consensus last night for favorite rock vocalist but gave up because there were just too many great front-men! Favorite song I don't think I can narrow to one, so I will throw out a few.

Imagine- John Lennon. The words just mean too much for me and actually sort of sum up my world-view. Just a beautiful song. I even like the cover done for it my Maynard in A Perfect Circle.

Everlong- Foo Fighters. The song just captures what is happiness. Also, the euphemisms to sexual ecstasy is pure genius and the melody is just absolutely freaking harmonic.

Lateralus- Tool. The build-up and deep lyrics to this one move me every time. It's just very deep and contemplative into the nature and meaning of life. I love all 9 minutes of the song I must say. Maynard's vocals (who is my favorite lead vocalist by the way) are very powerful and the guitar/drums by Jones and Carey impressive also. The song and words even go along with the Fibonacci sequence for anyone who questions the depth of Tool's music. No one should go without hearing this song!

Pardon Me- Incubus. The entire Make Yourself CD has impacted me really to always think independantly and choose my own path. This is a great, intense song. I'm showing my age now, aren't I?

Lastly I have to throw in a Bob Marley song. My personal favorite is Could You Be Loved.

Good thread!

Well if has to be just one then I'd want it to be most meaningful to me.....

Already not following the rules....LOL.

Anyways I agree with you about Maynard. He's definitley in my top 5 all time vocalists. Depending on my mood he's exactly what I want to hear. I actually like his A Perfect Circle stuff more than Tool but I like both allot.

Kind of digging their new CD too, the guy they picked up to sing for them is very good.

Since I MUST pick only one...

I'd have to choose Stairway to Heaven.

A close second is Fight the Good Fight (Triumph) which will be played at my funeral.
I'm not a Youtube clip posting guy, though.

I have way too many favorites to pick just one ... here's one of them, though (and a salute to our Canadian friends).





"Subdivisions" - Rush

Sprawling on the fringes of the city
In geometric order
An insulated border
In between the bright lights
And the far unlit unknown

Growing up it all seems so one-sided
Opinions all provided
The future pre-decided
Detached and subdivided
In the mass production zone
Nowhere is the dreamer or the misfit so alone

[Chorus:]
(Subdivisions)
In the high school halls
In the shopping malls
Conform or be cast out
(Subdivisions)
In the basement bars
In the backs of cars
Be cool or be cast out
Any escape might help to smooth the unattractive truth
But the suburbs have no charms to soothe the restless dreams of youth

Drawn like moths we drift into the city
The timeless old attraction
Cruising for the action
Lit up like a firefly
Just to feel the living night

Some will sell their dreams for small desires
Or lose the race to rats
Get caught in ticking traps
And start to dream of somewhere
To relax their restless flight
Somewhere out of a memory of lighted streets on quiet nights...

[Chorus]

I wouldn't have the first inkling of how to post from YouTube, so we need a thread on that,....

Anyway,....growing up, my all-time favorite was Grand Funk's "Closer To Home", as I was always away from there.

Now, I would say, Rush's "Tom Sawyer." I also like Chains' "Man In The Box."
"Stairway To Heaven" is a lot of fun to play, a favorite in my drum room.

The All-Time "best" song ever is The National Anthem. Period.

When you are doing your post use the Instant UBB Code titled YouTube. When you click on it a pop up will appear where you can simply copy and paste the youtube link of your video in it. Then post as normal and it will appear.

Or what Dave said.

HOLY CRAP!!!



That song means a lot to me.

FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT
The days grow shorter and the nights are getting long
Feels like we're running out of time
Every day it seems much harder tellin' right from wrong
You got to read between the lines

Don't get discouraged, don't be afraid, we can
Make it through another day
Make it worth the price we pay

The Good Book says it's better to give than to receive
I do my best to do my part
Nothin' in my pockets I got nothin' up my sleeve
I keep my magic in my heart

Keep up your spirit, keep up your faith, baby
I am counting on you
You know what you've got to do

CHORUS:
Fight the good fight every moment
Every minute every day
Fight the good fight every moment
It's your only way

All your life you've been waiting for your chance
Where you'll fit into the plan
But you're the master of your own destiny
So give and take the best that you can

You think a little more money can buy your soul some rest
You'd better think of something else instead
You're so afraid of being honest with yourself
You'd better take a look inside your head

Nothing is easy, nothing good is free
But I can tell you where to start
Take a look inside your heart
There's an answer in your heart

Wow. Almost too hard to come up with just one. I could do this for several genres but since I like rock the best, I'll go with 'Who Knows?' by Band of Gypsies, which is Jimi Hendrix's second trio. It's the opening track on their live album, 'Band of Gypsies.' I could listen to this album every day of my life and not get sick of it.

There's a bit of narration before the song starts up . . .

Maybe not my favorite song, but my most memorable.

Let's just say this was the song playing when her mood first matched mine.

Not deep in meaning, but not everything has to be. This song could get me completely fired up if woken up in the middle of the night. Slash just murders the guitar. Love it. . .

Mine is a tossup between these two.Both have awesome guitar solos in them.

My all time favorite song is The Hollies- long cool woman in a black dress

When I was younger my brother used to have a sweet 72 blazer with a huge lift and we used to cruise around blasting that song with the top off in the summer.

I have such eclectic tastes that its tough to just pick a favorite of favorites, but I will try.

Townes was a songwriting genius.

Quote from Steve Earle: "Townes van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world and I'll stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that."

Really hard to come up with one,but I was able to narrow it down to two and then really struggled to decide between the two of them. The one I left out was Black by Pearl Jam. I am not the biggest Peal Jam fan and really wasnt into the grunge thing too much but Black to me is just a masterpiece.

So the one I picked is Away From the Sun by 3 Doors Down. As someone who has battled depression its hidden meaning is special to me

"Learning to Fly" Pink Floyd hands down my favorite song

Visions of Johnna is an amazing song. First time I heard it I was blown away.

No way can I choose just one song. There are too many songs for too many emotions for me personally.

Currently I've been in a very romantic/mushy/I need you kinda mood, so my playlist reflects that heavily. (BTW, thanks for that one Peen! I had missed that one for my playlist!)

I'll just post one that I wake up singing to her every day lately.

Anything by the band Boston (one of the greatest rock bands ever). Here is a tribute to Brad Delp, who was undoubtedly one of the greatest rock singers ever (singing "More Than a Feeling").

Ok, no YouTube link, but my if I can only pick one song it would be "The Dance" by Garth Brooks. He's always said that it's the one song of his he wished he had written (and he's written some good ones).

Runners up
Yesterday - The Beatles
Girls Just Wanna Have Fun - Cyndi Lauper
Standing Outside the Fire - Garth Brooks
She's Got a Way - Billy Joel (it's OUR song)

Between the 5 on any given day any of them could be chosen as favorite.

and another



where do I stop, damn there is so many of them. I can't just pick one.



Then Pearl Jam I won't start those.

Also a very fun tune to play along to,...

So, Brad Delp is gone ?

Delp committed suicide, about three years ago.

Yeah, just read the Wiki posting on that,.....

Something really has to be bothering you to declare as a "lonely soul." R.I.P.

Quote:

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So, Brad Delp is gone ?

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Commited suicide on March 9,2007


http://www.therockradio.com/2007/03/boston-singer-brad-delp-committed.html

It's still heartbreaking to think about it. I had every album they ever made, and know every word to every song they ever made.

"We were just another band out of Boston,...On the road to try to make ends meet,...Playin' all the bars; sleepin' in our cars,....
And we practiced right down out in the street,...
No, we didn't have much money,...We barely made enough to survive,...
But when we got up on stage and got ready to play,...
People came alive,..."

wow, almost impossible to pick only one, but this would definately be one of mine anyhow.



I wore out many tape decks and CD players with this album.

I would say Rock wise it would have to be "Boogie with Stu - Led Zeppelin"

It's a shame that they never put this onto any other album. Which was Physical Graffiti. I am a big Robin Trower fan, but this song is the only one that get's your head bobbing & yer foot movin.

I still have dial up so I am not going to bother with you-tube. It's not worth the 30 min. wait just to listen to 5 min. of music. Sorry

I also enjoy that one, it is high up there on my list. It's even higher with my wife, who had a guy I work with play it at her mom's funeral.

I know,They were an awsome group that were way ahead of the times.Noone could touch them as far as I was concerned.Great band.