The B Side - what song do you LOVE?

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Responding to @Hoggirl’s thread about which song you despise . . . Which song do you absolutely LOVE and would listen to on repeat if you could?

I don’t mean a song that has meaning to you sentimentally necessarily (“this is the song from our wedding”). I mean which song(s) do you just think are a great combo of melody and lyrics?

I’ll start:

Crowded Table - by the Highwomen (great lyrics and harmonizing)

Wide Open Spaces - by The Chicks

Almost Home - by Mary Chapin Carpenter. Such a great chorus

Hard to be Happy - by Rob Thomas. Heard it described as the happiest song about depression

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Anything by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young.

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Knee Deep - This from a person who hates country music (but loves Jimmy Buffett).

Only worry in the world is the tide gonna reach my chair.

What could be better than that?

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Technically not a song because there are no lyrics.

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I love music, and so many songs are ones I would listen to on repeat. I really, really like Brandi Carlile’s The Story and The Joke. For me, these songs are perfect … great lyrics, great music, great voice … I get chills.

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“Patience” by Tama Impala. Just sheer bliss from the first until the last note.

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The Lion Sleeps Tonight, Unchained Melody, and Imagine all bring on an immediate smile.

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Waterloo Sunset — the Kinks

Touch of Grey – Grateful Dead

Beautiful Day – U2

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All Springsteen - The River, Point Blank, Youngstown, Badlands, Backstreets, The Rising, Land of Hope and Dreams, Ghost of Tom Joad…too many!
Taylor Swift - The Best Day

INXS - Don’t Change, Beautiful Girl

Stiff Little Fingers - Alternative Ulster

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Springsteen - She’s the one and Pink Cadillac

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Every little thing she does is magic- the Police
She Drives me crazy- Fine Young Cannibals
I would die 4 U- Prince
Summer Highland Falls- Billy Joel
Baby can I hold you- Tracy Chapman
Bruch Violin concerto

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I Am The Walrus, which actually was the B-Side to Hello Goodbye

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Clay Pigeons by Blaze Foley as sung by John Prine.

The Waiting by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.

Red Dirt Girl by Emmylou Harris.

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Ship of Fools by Grateful Dead

Seven Spanish Angels sung by Willie Nelson with Ray Charles

I’ll Be the One or SoulShine by Warren Haynes

Chimes Of Freedom sung by Bruce Springsteen

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Styx - Come Sail Away
Billy Joel - Pianoman
Journey - Separate Ways
Whitney Houston - The Greatest Love of All

Elvis - Are You Lonesome Tonight? Can’t Help Falling In Love

Beethoven Ode to Joy, Handel Hallelujah’s Chorus, Schubert Ave Maria

Hymns Holy God We Praise Thy Name, Christ the Lord is Risen Today, Lord of All Hopefulness

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Oh, too many songs I love. I guess I’ll mention in the pop category Every Little Step by Bobby Brown and Love on Top by Beyonce. I mainly listen to country so for that I’ll go with an oldie, Red Dirt Road by Brooks & Dunn, and a new one, Choosin’ Texas by Ella Langley.

Oh, and Heaven by Los Lobos.

See? Too many. Music is my love language.

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If we can include pieces of music, no lyrics, for me it’s Santana’s Europa - after hearing Carlos discuss it and its conception, I hear it in a completely different way. To me it’s exquisite.

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It is a beautiful piece. IMO, instrumentals are fair game (says the one who tossed in Horizon by Daft Punk, IMO, that entire disc is epic!).

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I almost included a Santana song, too.

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I just saw Santana in concert and this was on the set list. The show was excellent, but I know some people have given mixed reviews of their shows over the last few years. My biggest show quibble was that Carlos wore a super cool Santana hoodie which was NOT for sale at the merch table. I have since hunted for it everywhere, to no avail. :cry:

My favorite songs:

Led Zeppelin - Kashmir

Depeche Mode - Walking in my shoes; Never let me down. Too many DM songs to list really…the soundtrack of our lives and all that

Muse - Madness

Queen and David Bowie - Under Pressure

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