Favorite Songs Thingumy

[akirlu]

Gacked from scott_lynch, with changes to the questions I didn't like, because you know I can't resist fucking with stuff, and besides, I was never that much of a metalhead or tragigoth.



1. Favorite Beatles song: "The Long and Winding Road, or "Obla-Di, Obla-Da"
2. Favorite Rolling Stones song: "Ruby Tuesday"
3. Favorite Who song: "Squeezebox" or "Baba O'Reilly" (Was:Favorite Doors song)
4. Favorite Crosby Stills & Nash Song: "Marrakesh Express" (was Favorite Bob Dylan song)
5. Favorite Fleetwood Mac song: "Never Going Back Again" (was: FavoriteLed Zeppelin song)
6. Favorite TV Theme: "Theme from Deadwood," "Six Feet Under Title Theme," and "Ballad of Serenity"
7. Favorite Radio Theme: "Journey of the Sorceror," HHGTG (was:Favorite Prince Song)
8. Favorite Madonna Song: "La Isla Bonita"
9. Favorite Prince Song: "Little Red Corvette" (was: FavoriteMichael Jackson Song)
10. Favorite Queen Song: "'39" and "Fat Bottomed Girls" and, inevitably "We Will Rock You"
11. Favorite Van Halen song: "Dance the Night Away" (was: Favorite Motorhead Song)
12. Favorite John Fogerty song: "Almost Saturday Night," (was: Favorite Ozzy Song)
13. Favorite Talking Heads Song: "Life During Wartime" & "Psycho Killer" (was Favorite Public Enemy)
14. Favorite Song from a cartoon: "Accidentally in Love," Counting Crows from Shrek 2
15. Favorite Bob Seger: "Her Strut" (was Bruce Springsteen but all my favorite Springsteen is Seger)
16. Favorite Tears for Fears: "Pale Shelter" (was: Depeche Mode)
17. Favorite Cure song: "Nemesis" by Shriekback. No, not much of a Cure fan.
18. Favorite song most of your friends haven't heard: Gah. Too many. "(Houd Uw)Kanneke", Lais
19. Favorite Siouxsie song: "Face to Face" & "The Passenger"(was:Smiths song)
20. Favorite Ramones song: "(I Wanna Be)Sedated" (was: Beastie Boys)
21. Favorite Clash song: "Train in Vain", especially as performed by Annie Lennox
22. Favorite Police song: "Walking on the Moon" & "I Can't Stand Losing You"
23. Favorite Eurythmics song: "Broken Glass" (Lennox solo) or "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)"
24. Favorite Beach Boys song: "Good Vibrations"
25. Favorite Cyndi Lauper song: "All Through the Night"
26. Favorite song from a movie: "Walk through the Fire," Peter Gabriel, from Against All Odds
27. Favorite Cars song: "Don't Tell Me No" & "You Might Think" (was: Duran Duran)
28. Favorite Eddy Grant: "Electric Avenue" (was: Peter Tosh)
29. Favorite Johnny Cash song: "Ring of Fire," esp. as covered by Wall of Voodo
30. Favorite Song by 80's 1-hit wonder: Oh, let's push the envelope, shall we?

"Hey, St. Peter," & "Ladykiller," by Flash & the Pan, "Clean, Clean" by the Buggles, "Video Killed the Radio Star," by Thomas Dolby; "Drop," by Hillary; "Steam Hammer Sam," by Interferon

31. Favorite song from a video game: "Theme from Myst"
32. Favorite Kinks song: "Lola"
33. Favorite Genesis song: "Carpet Crawlers," "Trick of the Tail," & "Follow Me, Follow You"
34. Favorite Deep Purple song: "Smoke on the Water" (was: Thin Lizzy)
35. Favorite INXS song: "Green Man"
36. Favorite Weird Al song: Varies, say "Amish Paradise" for now
37. Favorite Peter Gabriel song: "Solisbury Hill," "Here Comes the Flood," "Kiss that Frog", "Sky Blue"
38. Favorite John Lennon song: "Watching the Wheels"
39. Favorite Pink Floyd song: "Money" & "Comfortably Numb"
40. Favorite cover song: "Take Me to the River," Talking Heads, "Jambalaya" by anybody, really
41. Favorite Elvis Costello song: "Girl's Talk," & "Pump It Up" (was: White Stripes)
42. Favorite dance song: "Walking on Sunshine", Katrina & the Waves
43. Favorite Van Morrison: "Brown Eyed Girl" (was:U2)
44. Favorite song from an actor turned musician: "One Good Year," Russell Crowe covering Slaid Cleaves
45. Favorite disco song: "I Will Survive," Gloria Gaynor
46. Favorite Power Ballad: "These Dreams," Heart
47. Favorite AC/DC: "Dirty Deeds, Done Dirt Cheap" (was: Guns N' Roses)
48. Favorite David Bowie: "Suffragette City" (was:The Who 'cause I'd bumped them up)
49. Favorite Elton John song: "Goodbye, Norma Jean" or "That's Why They Call It the Blues"
50. Favorite song, period: Yer kidding, right? No such animal. Oh let's just say "Left of Center," by Suzanne Vega for fits and giggles and because she hasn't gotten a mention yet, but this is a moment to moment thing, yes?

Comments

[athenais.livejournal.com]

Crap, I could only answer about ten of those even with your changes. I've never listened to most of those bands/performers.

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

Just goes to show there's no such thing as universal experience/cultural reference any more, dunnit? Only ten? Wowee. Still, I guess I shouldn't be surprised -- I've had enough of a look at your current selection to know that a lot of the stuff you have is completely terra incognita to me, so it's only sensible that this would cut both ways.

[kip-w.livejournal.com]

Well, in this one I at least understand many of the questions, though the idea of having a favorite [X] in many cases is kind of alien. Favorite TV theme would be "This Is It" from the old Bugs Bunny-Road Runner hour. Greatest song about showbiz, in fact.

Oh, something just registered on me. You said in your other post that "The Martian Hop" (presumably by the Randells) was your favorite 50s novelty song. It was 60s. I remember hearing it around 1964, give or take a year. And was I happy to find a copy of it through some internet channel, via a friend who hangs around mp3 newsgroups.

My two favorite Weird Al tunes are both originals, not parodies. "Christmas at Ground Zero," the wacky mashup of kitsch and paranoia (which has an incredible video) is said to be the only song Al wrote out of anger. "Dare To Be Stupid," which also has a dynamite video, is his Devo tribute, and caused Mark Mothersbaugh to declare that they now had to hate Al for doing something they should have done, and doing it so perfectly. I know the feeling.