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No huge list with any particular order necessary... Just throw out a favorite or favorites as you think of them.
Songs you simply cannot take lightly. For whatever reason.
Destination - The Church
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Your ABSOLUTE favorite songs.
No huge list with any particular order necessary... Just throw out a favorite or favorites as you think of them.
Songs you simply cannot take lightly. For whatever reason.
Destination - The Church
Last edited by Amaro; 12-06-2012 at 10:13 PM.
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Teenage Wristband, by the Twilight Singers. Press play and hear my favourite song of all time. I kid I knew from another message board said "It's alright. Not my music" when I played it for him. I never spoke to that kid again.
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"Destination" was the track that got me into The Church, so definitely up there with my favourites too.
A few key favourites of mine:
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Ike and Tina Turner - River deep, mountain high
Björk - Unravel
David Bowie - Subterraneans
U2 - With or Without you
desperately chilled
not to be taken lightly.
(^had the pleasure of playing this song several times as part of the band. resonates even more)
was also going to post my favorite church song (it's no reason, from seance), but the video has disappeared from youtube... still gives me chills, though. this is a close second, from the same record:
otherwise, i'm sure i'll be back.
Last edited by frankie teardrop; 05-18-2012 at 08:47 AM. Reason: this is a dang impossible question.
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the correct answer is obviously depeche mode - enjoy the silence
also, slowdive - when the sun hits
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I couldn't tell you the first time I heard Al Stewart's "Year Of The Cat", but the first time I really listened I was just transfixed and intoxicated with the sound. Mind you, this was only a few years ago. Years after soaking up everything I could by the likes of Floyd, The Who, Miles, Beatles, Queen, NIN, Radiohead, Allman Brothers Band, Santana, etc, etc. And each of those artists would have at least 3 or 4 songs that would be an easy number one on my list. But this song, in terms of my tastes, is just perfect.
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lol
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Gary Numan - The Seed of a Lie
Danzig - Cold Eternal
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^ Oops...didn't mean to Like that post. :P (Gary Numan checked out though...)
New Year's Day - U2
Last edited by Amaro; 05-20-2012 at 02:32 PM.
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Did you even listen to the other song? I don't listen to crap, that's my number one rule of thumb.Originally Posted by Magrão
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On nomnomnom.
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Lol I actually had not yet listened to it at the time. But my comment stays. I've never connected with Danzig.
Good Morning - The Dandy Warhols
Last edited by Amaro; 05-20-2012 at 02:39 PM.
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Favorite song of all time:
FATUM NOS IUNGET
Like everyone here I'm in to so many different genres, but instead of posting my favorite Converge song, or something else heavy, I'll touch upon the songs that mean the most to me in a lighter vein. I still consider these in my..I'd say, top 25 songs ever.
First, 'Northern Lights' by Lux. Not just because of the memories associated with it, but because it's flat out one of the best songs I've ever heard to this day.
Chicane - 'No Ordinary Morning'
Hammock - 'The House Where We Grew Up'
The Isley Brothers - 'This Old Heart of Mine'
Leonard Cohen - 'In My Secret Life'
Last edited by october_midnight; 05-20-2012 at 01:37 AM.
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Streamside - The Album Leaf
So Would've I - John Frusciante
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Leaving Hope by NIN and this
it's such a well written song
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Tough question. My favorite is probably Ruiner. It's so intense, well written, and really quite sad.
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These songs make me happy.
"Alison" by Elvis Costello
"Cars" by Gary Numan
"We're Desperate" by X
"Kiss Me on the Bus" by the Replacements
"Kiss Off" by the Violent Femmes
"Nemesis" by Shriekback
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These two songs:
Every time, BAM... right in the feels, especially New Order. It's special because reasons.
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Aside from NIN... (apologies for the length, I couldn't just pick one. Or seven...)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Way Out
Psapp - Marshrat (criminally overlooked band, especially considering they're essentially pop)
Silversun Pickups - Seasick
Garbage - Medication (this is an acoustic variant, but the album version is tremendous also)
Ciccone Youth (/Sonic Youth) - Into The Groove(y)
Jane's Addiction - Had A Dad
Marilyn Manson - King Kill 33
Was Not Was - I Feel Better Than James Brown
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So many... but here's a few to start
desperately chilled
nice front 242 choice. they have so many killers.
a few other favorites. i'll list so i don't bonk the thread with too many youtube clips:
xmal deutschland- polaricht
simple minds- hunter and the hunted
the lucy show- ephemeral (this is no heaven)
kas product- tina town
the autumns- the garden end
resistance- washed out colours
sad lovers and giants- 50/50
babel 17- angels of tv
turquoise days- grey skies
red house painters- medicine bottle
blind mr. jones- eyes wide
the wild flowers- melt like ice
veldt- ghost child
for against- autocrat
the walker brothers (scott,etc)- nite flights
lee hazlewood/nancy sinatra- some velvet morning
u2- new year's day/love comes tumbling/11 o'clock tick tock
recapping original list:
ronettes- be my baby
cocteau twins- the spangle maker
the chameleons- monkeyland
the sound- winning
slowdive- ballad of sister sue
david bowie- the secret life of arabia
breathless- bad blood
lowlife- hail ye
obscure by degrees- i'm dying
the wake- here comes everybody
the church- fly
i know this list and my first post are pretty big, but these are the songs i always put on repeat, dj all the time, throw on mixes for others, etc.
Last edited by frankie teardrop; 12-07-2012 at 10:55 AM.
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This song has rapidly become on of my all-time favourites - http://halfstring.bandcamp.com/album/oval-7-single
I'll throw another few favourites out there too (limited to 1 per band to avoid Swans/Slowdive overload)
Swans - Helpless Child
Aphex Twin - XMD 5a
The Church - As You Will
Cranes - Bewildered
Unwound - Dragnalus
The Chameleons - Perfume Garden
New Order - Crystal
Primal Scream - Long Life
My Bloody Valentine - (When You Wake) You're Still in a Dream
Sonic Youth - The Diamond Sea
For Against - Amen Yves
The Velvet Underground - Venus in Furs
Joy Division - Disorder
The Jesus and Mary Chain - You Trip Me Up
The Cure - A Forest
Kitchens of Distinction - Prize
Orbital - Otono
Radiohead - Climbing Up the Walls
Low - Lazy
Disco Inferno - A Rock to Cling To
U2 - A Sort of Homecoming
I think that''ll do for the moment.
desperately chilled
disco inferno are great! glad to see them on someone else's list. and of course, 'amen yves' and 'autocrat' are interchangeable for me, as is 'fly' and 'as you will' and any chameleons song, really.
this might interest you, xmd:
yours truly on bass!
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^ Relevant to my interests indeed. Phenomenal live version - probably the best I've seen on YT. That damn song has me on the verge tears everytime. I can only imagine what I'd be like to perform it.
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My favorite songs are...
Joy Division-Love Will Tears Us Apart
New Order-Bizarre Love Triangle
Queen-Bohemian Rhapsody
The Stone Roses-I Wanna Be Adored
David Bowie-Rebel Rebel
The Rolling Stones-Waiting on a Friend
My Bloody Valentine-Sometimes
The Cure-Just Like Heaven
The Smiths-How Soon is Now?
Radiohead-Fake Plastic Trees
Van Halen-Everybody Wants Some
The Velvet Underground-Femme Fatale
Big Star-Kangaroo
This Mortal Coil-Song to the Siren
Dean & Britta-Moonshot
Suede-The Wild Ones
The Moody Blues-Dawn is a Feeling
Depeche Mode-Enjoy the Silence
That's all for now.
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In no order
Noteworthy but I have so many.
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What a great thread!
Without a doubt, one of my favorite pieces of music, arriving during my formative years: Aphex Twin Girl/Boy song. If I'm in the right place, this song makes me cry, it even did that back when I was stoic to a fault.
Squarepusher's Iambic 5 poetry, likewise, is right at the top for me. The rest of the EP sucked, but it was worth it for this track.
The CD I listened to on repeat before I got into Nine Inch Nails was The Best of the Art Of Noise, and I still love the song Opus 4. Many years later, I would stumble across the poem "No!" by Thomas Hood in one of my college textbooks, and reading it to myself, my mind came alive with the sound of this song. Most of the versions on YouTube have terrible audio, but there's one with terrible video and quality audio, so here's that.
Last but not least, is a little King Missile. I saw John S. Hall do a spoken word show at the one decent coffee shop in my shitty central Pennsylvania town. I love this song, and have lost count of how many people I've wanted to play it for. Or maybe people who, when they are talking, I wish I could play this in the background.
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