What is your favorite song?

[Dave Starsky]

Donald Trump's is "My Way", according to Paul Anka. Does that surprise anyone?

So what is your absolute, unquestioned favorite song? What do you think it says about you?

Mine is "Good Vibrations", by the Beach Boys. I just love everything about it. I can't even express why. I only know that if anyone who knew me found out that's my favorite song, they would immediately say, "Yeah, that sounds like Dave Starsky".

[FrankfurtCat]

1. Impossible to choose just one, but this has always been in the running..

As they say, two can play
But keep that song away from me
In my time too much love
Has made me sad for so long
I was lost, can't you see
Through the long lonely night

Heaven knows, I believe
Won't you take a chance with me
Sometimes I get so blue
People say I'm just a fool
All the world, even you
Should learn to love the way I do

I was blind, can't you see
Through the long lonely night
Heaven knows, I believe
Won't you take a chance with me

Written by Bryan Ferry, Phil Manzanera • Copyright © Universal Music Publishing Group, BMG Rights Management US, LLC

What it says about me is I straddle the line between fantasy and reality all the time. I am just now learning to accept things as they are, not how I wish them to be, and to find happiness and contentment alongside disappointments and frustration.
Also, I love the subtle layering of instruments and the absolute warmth and beauty of Bryan Ferry's voice.

[ms liberty]

18. Avalon is a masterpiece. Love that album. n/t

[FrankfurtCat]

2. Who can resist this one? Dead Or Alive-"You Spin Me Round(Like a Record)"

RIP Pete Burns (August 5, 1959-October 23, 2016)

[Coventina]

23. This was always my favorite DOA song:

[Skittles]

3. Pink Floyd "Learning to Fly"

[jmowreader]

10. That's an awesome song...

but there are better ones on A Momentary Lapse of Reason:

And sorry guys, but I've got to do it:

[Codeine]

4. "Barbarism Begins at Home" by The Smiths

would probably be my all-time favorite, but it changes by the day. At the moment it's this lovely piece of blackgaze by Deafheaven.

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[Generic Brad]

5. I'm going to have to go with my all time ear candy favorite

"I'm Not In Love" by 10cc. I never get sick of that. The audio mix is incredible.

[Dave Starsky]

6. That's not ear candy.

That's more like an ear meal.

There's a lot of stuff going on in that song.

[sarge43]

7. Four Tops' Reach Out

Perfect love song.

Good Vibrations and God Only Knows are in my top ten.

[WinkyDink]

21. I'm going to see the latest incarnation (one Original) twice in March. Saw them twice last year. I'm

a Top-Head! First saw them in Forest Hills stadium back in 1968.

[True Dough]

8. Oh, it changes

But one of the songs that I keep coming back to is this one...

I wonder if most of the responses in this thread go back to your teenaged years, or maybe your early 20s. Those are such influential times of our lives and it seems like the music we grew up with tends to have another dimension, a sentimental quality.

[progressoid]

11. I had a Simple Minds song bugging me a couple days ago.

I could only remember one line. Changeling. Will changeling for you. Drove me crazy until I got home to listen to it again. It's from '80 I think. Not sure what made me think of it. I don't think I've listened to it for a couple decades.

[True Dough]

16. I must confess

I'm not a big fan of Simple Minds overall. I didn't know of Changeling and, having given it a listen, I don't think I'll be playing it regularly.

I just happen to LOVE Alive and Kicking and, of course, Don't You Forget About Me, which happens to be on the soundtrack to a great movie in The Breakfast Club.

[rurallib]

9. I will go with "Across The Universe" by the Beatles

I don't know if there is a version to post since most of the Beatles recordings were removed from youtube.

[Jamaal510]

12. Here are my favorites from different genres:

Jazz

Rap

R&B

Metal

Reggae

Blues

Classical

[politicat]

13. ... it changes... but

The one that I always come back to:

It's my hymn, for some secular, non-theist value of hymn. My regular reminder that giving up is not an option, that storms always end, that this too shall pass.

[TexasBushwhacker]

14. Pump It Up by Elvis Costello

It reminds me of my senior year in college. It just makes me happy.

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[Initech]

15. Gogol Bordello is one of my all time favorite bands.

If I'm in a really bad mood, I'll put on one of their albums and listen to it the whole way through, I will almost instantly feel better! I am particularly partial to "Wanderlust King".

Start Wearing Purple is another one of my favorites:

[fleur-de-lisa]

17. 'Northern Sky' by Nick Drake

British guy who died in 1974 of a prescription drug overdose. Fascinating guy and an exceptional guitarist.

Two others by Drake that I love are 'Road' and 'Pink Moon'.

[mucifer]

19. This version of Haskieveinu:

[WinkyDink]

20. Since 1964, and never deposed: "Sherry," by the Four Seasons.

[Coventina]

22. Jeepers, I could never pick just one, but here's some that will always be favs:

The Smiths probably saved my life in high school.

This song.....describes my entire early adulthood.....

The greatest love song ever written

If I had to write a love song to my significant other.....

There are so many more I could list....

[mulsh]

24. mine changes from time to time. but This Is Not A Protest Song by Rene Marie is

a current favorite. Timely too. [link:

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[Xipe Totec]

25. Luis Miguel - El Viajero (The Traveler)

[NanceGreggs]

26. Without hesitation ...

... THIS is my favourite song. And here is but one lovely version of it:

What do I think it says about me? I think it says I am probably an old soul, still not quite adjusted to life as it is - still spiritually bound to life as it was once. And still hopelessly in love.

[femmocrat]

28. That gave me the chills! What an incredible voice.

Such beautiful illustrations, too.

[femmocrat]

27. "Just My Imagination" -- The Temptations

[Dr. Strange]

29. Subdvisions, by RUSH

My teen anthem.

[Sid Fishes]

30. "This world is rough, and if a man's gonna make it, he's gotta be tough..."

[FrankfurtCat]

31. The best, sexiest love song written in the 70's-"Miracles" by Jefferson Starship

RIP Paul Kantner

[kairos12]

32. This one.