favorite songs

I was one of those kids that would record songs on cassette tapes off the radio and had music on vinyl and 8 track tapes. recently I started compiling a playlist of my favorite music on amazon prime music. I wasn’t paying the extra fee so I could only skip a few at a time and they were inserting songs I didn’t want to hear. I probably had about 300 songs on the playlist at that point and they were repeating a lot of songs on my playlist. So I bit the bullet and paid the extra $10/month for the pay service and compiled 25 playlists. about half have 50 songs on each and the other half have 30+ songs on each. That’s over 1000 songs. I started to think about making a list of my 10/25/50 favorite songs. When I started going through the playlists I tried to limit each artist/band to one song. I could easily have at least 30 beatles songs on a longer list. So here is the list of favorite songs (in no particular order) I made limiting each artist/band to one song. It’s about 75-80 songs. Yeah, I’m old af.

boston – more than a feeling
kansas – carry on wayward son
the beatles – revolution
the yardbirds – heart full of soul
the doors – take it as it comes
agent orange – the last goodbye
the ramones – we want the airwaves
the animals – house of the rising sun
simon and garfunkel – the sound of silence (electric version)
the ronettes – baby I love you
the seekers – I’ll never find another you
dusty springfield – you don’t have to say you love me
frankie valli and the four seasons – bye bye baby
dire straits – sultans of swing
nick lowe – raging eyes
the pixies – cecilia ann
john denver – take me home, country roads
the police – roxanne
dick dale – miserlou
the go-gos – turn to you
abba – waterloo
the raspberries – go all the way
led zeppelin – immigrant song
ufo – doctor doctor
queen – crazy little thing called love
the beat farmers – if i can hold
the smiths – girl afraid
the smithereens – strangers when we meet
dion and the belmonts – i wonder why
sweet – love is like oxygen
the ventures – perfidia
the hollies – long cool woman (in a black dress)
the rolling stones – mercy mercy
bobby darin – dream lover
bert kaempfert – that happy feeling
herb alpert and the tijuana brass – more
creedence clearwater revival – up around the bend
kris kristofferson – sunday morning coming down
jimi hendrix – all along the watchtower
zz top – la grange
the mamas and the papas – california dreamin’
the monkees – you just may be the one
buddy holly – maybe baby
the byrds – turn! turn! turn!
johnny cash – i walk the line
jay and the americans – cara mia
vince guaraldi – linus and lucy (peanuts theme)
dave brubek – take five
john phillip sousa – stars and stripes forever
great white – rock me
elvis costello – radio radio
millie small – my boy lollipop
elvis presley – burning love
the beach boys – god only knows
bob marley – redemption song
stone poneys – different drum
dave “baby” cortez – the happy organ
merle haggard – sing me back home
bruce springsteen and the e street band – badlands
del shannon – runaway
dramarama – anything anything
white stripes – seven nation army
linda scott – i’ve told every little star
the tokens – the lion sleeps tonight
roger miller – king of the road
blue oyster cult – don’t fear the reaper (MORE COWBELL!)
neil young – rockin’ in the free world
patsy cline – i fall to pieces
chuck berry – johnny b goode
the kinks – all day and all of the night
the clash – spanish bombs
scorpions – the zoo
the cars – just what i needed
bay city rollers – i only want to be with you
sheena easton – morning train
that thing you do (movie soundtrack)
rem – can’t get there from here
the swingin’ medallions – double shot of my baby’s love
blondie – call me
carl teike – alte kameraden (old comrades march) this one mostly because my swedish grandfather
could play it pretty well on his button accordion.
my 2nd cousin recently found a tape that his father had
made of my grandfather playing it (50 +/- years ago) and sent me an mp3 copy.
I lost my shit when I heard it. brought back so many good memories.

• This topic was modified 8 months, 2 weeks ago by james.