We're in 6th Grade
What's your favorite song? Someone asked me that and my mind reeled, of course. Belatedly (let's stick to rock for now):
How about, for starters:
I'll Come Running--Brian Eno
Blue Sky--Allman Brothers
Cemetery Gates--The Smiths
Center of Gravity--Yo La Tengo
What's So Funny About Peace, Love, and Understanding--Elvis Costello
Roadrunner--Jonathan Richman
What Goes On--The Velvet Underground
Headmaster Ritual--The Smiths
When Will You Come Home--Galaxie 500
Bobby McGee--Janis Joplin
Radio Free Europe--R.E.M.
Three Little Birds--Bob Marley
Rebel Jew--Silver Jews
Drunk by Noon--The Handsome Family
California Stars--Billy Bragg and Wilco
What's great about this question is it makes you remember how many fucking great songs there are and how there could never just be one or a hundred.
How about, for starters:
I'll Come Running--Brian Eno
Blue Sky--Allman Brothers
Cemetery Gates--The Smiths
Center of Gravity--Yo La Tengo
What's So Funny About Peace, Love, and Understanding--Elvis Costello
Roadrunner--Jonathan Richman
What Goes On--The Velvet Underground
Headmaster Ritual--The Smiths
When Will You Come Home--Galaxie 500
Bobby McGee--Janis Joplin
Radio Free Europe--R.E.M.
Three Little Birds--Bob Marley
Rebel Jew--Silver Jews
Drunk by Noon--The Handsome Family
California Stars--Billy Bragg and Wilco
What's great about this question is it makes you remember how many fucking great songs there are and how there could never just be one or a hundred.
posted by k at 8:05 PM
4 Comments:
Whenever I answer this question I feel 900 years old, but I'll say: "Tangled up in Blue" or "Gimme Shelter."
That's why you're so cool. Sympathy for the Devil might be on that list, too.
In college, I used to live behind a house where there was a bad band practicing Tangled up in Blue over and over, only getting 20-30 seconds into it each time before falling apart, every day, their only song, for months. So it took a bit of recovery time (about 15 years) for me to love that song again. Which I do.
Hah! Found you.
My favorite thing about this post is that I know and love every one of the songs on your list. Going to listen to Galaxie 500. Right. Now.
There was 3AM Galaxie 500 listening/bourbon drinking with a friend who DIDN'T KNOW THEM YET this weekend. I feel like Mother Theresa or something, making things better for humanity and all.
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