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Ulrika ([personal profile] akirlu) wrote2006-08-04 08:57 am

Favorite Songs Thingumy

Gacked from [livejournal.com profile] 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?

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