Everyone’s got them, myself included. The songs that you just stop and listen to. So, I thought in the interest of disclosure, I’d share a few of my favorite songs ever in this posting (with more to follow):
Led Zeppelin, Over the Hills and Far Away: Out of the many great songs this band has managed to create, why this one? The guitar from Jimmy Page and vocals by Robert Plant in the first two minutes is reason enough for me to keep listening. The rest of it is as good.
This Mortal Coil, Song to the Siren: Man, I don’t even know how to explain this one. While not a band in the normal sense (it was a project involving artists who were on the same label), this one from their album It’ll End in Tears still haunts me every time I hear it. Something about Liz Fraser’s vocals on this linger on in my brain. It’s popped up in a few commercials here and there, but my discovery of this goes back to the David Lynch movie Lost Highway, where two of the main characters make love in the desert. Naked. Under car lights. Not my cup of tea when it comes to lovemaking, but the song seemed to last in my mind longer than that movie did.
Public Enemy, Black Steel In The Hour of Chaos: A rough and tough tale of black men busting out of prison. Deeply political, and for a song done in 1988, the opening lines of this one still stick out: I got a letter from the government the other day/ I opened and read it and said they were suckas. Preach on, brother Chuck D.
AC/DC, Back In Black: A great rock tune if there ever was one. I need to crank this up whenever I hear it.
Jimi Hendrix, Foxy Lady: Just about the majority of Jimi’s tunes would fit in this list in my opinion, but this one gets the mojo going. If you're not into this one ladies, I just don’t know what to think of you.
Depeche Mode, Enjoy the Silence: My cousin in Fresno and I dig this song. The production on this one is amazing, as I think it’s the band’s greatest musical hurrah.
To be continued another time…
Led Zeppelin, Over the Hills and Far Away: Out of the many great songs this band has managed to create, why this one? The guitar from Jimmy Page and vocals by Robert Plant in the first two minutes is reason enough for me to keep listening. The rest of it is as good.
This Mortal Coil, Song to the Siren: Man, I don’t even know how to explain this one. While not a band in the normal sense (it was a project involving artists who were on the same label), this one from their album It’ll End in Tears still haunts me every time I hear it. Something about Liz Fraser’s vocals on this linger on in my brain. It’s popped up in a few commercials here and there, but my discovery of this goes back to the David Lynch movie Lost Highway, where two of the main characters make love in the desert. Naked. Under car lights. Not my cup of tea when it comes to lovemaking, but the song seemed to last in my mind longer than that movie did.
Public Enemy, Black Steel In The Hour of Chaos: A rough and tough tale of black men busting out of prison. Deeply political, and for a song done in 1988, the opening lines of this one still stick out: I got a letter from the government the other day/ I opened and read it and said they were suckas. Preach on, brother Chuck D.
AC/DC, Back In Black: A great rock tune if there ever was one. I need to crank this up whenever I hear it.
Jimi Hendrix, Foxy Lady: Just about the majority of Jimi’s tunes would fit in this list in my opinion, but this one gets the mojo going. If you're not into this one ladies, I just don’t know what to think of you.
Depeche Mode, Enjoy the Silence: My cousin in Fresno and I dig this song. The production on this one is amazing, as I think it’s the band’s greatest musical hurrah.
To be continued another time…
