Favorites

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Via Tom The Dog. A lot of these bands I'm totally unfamiliar with, but I left the names in so other people can answer them if they like.


Favorite Beatles song: "Blackbird"
(Tough choice! Ask me again tomorrow, you'll get a different answer.)

Favorite solo song by a former Beatle: "Imagine"
(From Paul, it'd be "Maybe I'm Amazed")

Favorite Bob Dylan song: "Desolation Row"
(Another one with lots and lots of runners-up.)

Favorite Pixies song:

Favorite Prince song:

Favorite Michael Jackson song: "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'"
(From the Jackson 5: "I Want You Back")

Favorite Metallica song:

Favorite Public Enemy song:

Favorite Depeche Mode song:

Favorite Cure song:

Favorite song that most of your friends haven't heard: "Why Do Fools Fall In Love?" by Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers

Favorite Beastie Boys song: "Fight For Your Right"
(Also pretty much the only Beastie Boys song I know, although I remember liking the video for "Sabotage".)

Favorite Police song: "Can't Stand Losing You"
(Sting was so much fun before he got all pretentious.)

Favorite Sex Pistols song:

Favorite song from a movie: "Ask DNA" from Cowboy Bebop
(Nerdy, I know, but that whole opening credits sequence is just so cool.)

Favorite Blondie song: "Heart of Glass"
(Oh, how my brother and I would giggle when she got to the "pain in the ass" part)

Favorite Genesis song:
(I liked these guys okay back in high school, but I think I just burned out on them... can't think of anything that really stands out as great)

Favorite Led Zeppelin song: "Whole Lotta Love"
(Again, plenty of alternate choices)

Favorite INXS song:

Favorite Weird Al song: "All About The Pentiums"
(Some of his cleverest lyrics. I've never heard the original song he's parodying.)

Favorite Pink Floyd song: "Wish You Were Here"

Favorite cover song: "Raspberry Beret" by Warren Zevon
(First time I heard it, it took me half a verse to even recognize what it was!)

Favorite dance song:

Favorite U2 song: "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For"

Favorite disco song: "Le Freak" by Chic
(Especially after I heard Nile Rodgers say that the lyrics were originally "Fuck Off!", inspired by the Studio 54 doorman who wouldn't let them in the club.)

Favorite The Who song: "Baba O'Riley"

Favorite Elton John song: "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road"

Favorite Clash song: "Should I Stay Or Should I Go"

Favorite David Bowie song: "Modern Love"
(Yeah, I know, it's from his "blatantly commercial pop" period. Sue me.)

Favorite Nirvana song:

Favorite Snoop Dogg song:

Favorite Ice Cube song:

Favorite Johnny Cash song: "A Boy Named Sue"
(Another one that used to crack us up as kids. My dad had it on 8-track.)

Favorite R.E.M. song: "Losing My Religion"
(I don't know a lot of R.E.M. songs -- that sound you just heard was timkelly's head exploding -- but I always thought this one was pretty cool.)

Favorite Elvis song: "Don't Be Cruel"
(Everything about this -- the guitar, the "bop bop" backup vocals, Elvis' staccatto delivery -- just perfect.)

Favorite cheesy-ass country song: "Convoy" by C.W. McCall
(First 45 I ever owned.)

Favorite Billy Joel song: "Only The Good Die Young"
(Anyone else old enough to remember how "controversial" this was when it first came out?)

Favorite Bruce Springsteen song: "Born to Run"
(Still gets my blood pumping after all these years. I'm such a dork.)

Favorite Big Audio Dynamite song:

Favorite New Order song:

Favorite Neil Diamond song: "Cherry, Cherry"
(Believe it or not, there was a point in his career when that boy could rock.)

Favorite Squeeze song: "Black Coffee In Bed"
(This and "Tempted" are the only songs of theirs I know. They're both good. I should look up more.)

Favorite Smiths song:

Favorite Tragically Hip Song:

Favorite Beach Boys song: "I Get Around"

Favorite Dave Matthews Band song:

Favorite Dire Straits song: "Sultans of Swing"
(But if I never hear "Money For Nothing" again, it'll be too soon.)

Favorite Elvis Costello song: "Alison"

Favorite Guns 'N Roses song:

Favorite Jimi Hendrix song: "Are You Experienced"

Favorite John Mellencamp song: "Lonely Ol' Night"

Favorite Living Colour song:

Favorite Neil Young song: "The Needle and the Damage Done"

Favorite Paul Simon song: "Me And Julio Down By The School Yard"

Favorite Simon & Garfunkel song: "The Boxer"

Favorite Queen song: "Fat Bottomed Girls"
(Come on! How can you not love a song called Fat Bottomed Girls?)

Favorite Radiohead song:

Favorite Sting song: "Shadows in the Rain"
(I think he did this with the Police too, but the version on "Dream of the Blue Turtles" really kicked my ass.)

Favorite Tracy Chapman song: "If Not Now..."

Favorite Van Morrison song: "Wild Night"
(The John Mellencamp - Me'Shell Ndegeocello cover is great too.)

Favorite XTC song:

I think this meme was secretly started by iTunes. As I was making the list, I kept thinking, "Hmm, I never did get that one on CD..." and off I'd go to download it.