Whats your favorite song?

Question

Tell me your favorite song(s)!
Im trying to think of songs to download for a gift to a friend....
She doesnt like country so no country songs please!

Wow! Thanks for all the responses!!

Keep 'em coming!!!

Answer 1

Beatles: In My Life, I Feel Fine, Something, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, Hello Goodbye, Revolution, Anytime At All, All I Have to Do, I Want to Tell You

Monkees: (I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone, Papa Gene's Blues, Pleasant Valley Sunday, Never Tell a Woman Yes, She

The Zombies: She's Not There, Time of the Season, She Does Everything for Me, Tell Her No

Donovan: Sunshine Superman, Jennifer Juniper, Hurdy Gurdy Man, Epistle to Dippy, There Is a Mountain, There is an Ocean, Poorman's Sunshine

Talking Heads: And She Was, Love->Building On Fire, Naive Melody (This Must Be the Place), Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On), Seen and Not Seen, Girlfriend Is Better, Heaven, Found a Job

Elvis Costello: Alison, Radio Radio, No Action, Monkey to Man, Pump it Up, Lipstick Vogue, Lip Service, Goon Squad, Everyday I Write the Book, There's a Story In Your Voice, Down in the Blue Chair, Tear Off Your Own Head (It's a Doll Revolution), Episode of Blond, ...Dust, Shabby Doll

Squeeze: Take Me I'm Yours, Pulling Muscles from the Shell, Another Nail Through the Heart, Up The Junction, Goodbye Girl, Tempted, Hourglass

Nick Lowe: (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace Love and Understanding, Marie Provost, The Roller Show, Nutted By Reality, Time Wounds All Heels, (For Every Woman Who Ever Made a Fool Out of a Man There's a Woman Who Made) A Man Out of a Fool, Cruel to be Kind, Zulu Kiss,My Heart Hurts

David Bowie: Space Oddity, Suffragette City, Queen B*tch, Diamond Dogs, Heroes, Life on Mars?

David Byrne: Like Humans Do, U.B. Jesus, The Revolution, Independence Day, The Great Intoxication, Civilization, Walk On Water, Make Believe Mambo, Now I'm Your Mom, Hanging Upside Down

Bob Dylan: It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding), Simple Twist of Fate, I'll Be Your Baby Tonight, If You See Her Say Hello, Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands, Hurricane, Sara, Oh Sister, Tangled Up In Blue, Like a Rolling Stone, Masters of War

The Lovin' Spoonful: Summer in the City, Nashville Cats, Bald Headed Lena, Day Blue, Younger Generation, You're a Big Boy Now, Rain on the Roof, Lovin' You, Darlin' Companion, You Didn't Have to be so Nice.

Emmylou Harris: Boulder to Birmingham, Love Hurts, Michaelangelo (sorry, Emmylou Harris is country, but really good country, I hate most country music too, but dammit, Emmylou has one of the best voices in the world, anyone who doesn't feel touched by her voice has no soul)

The Byrds: My Back Pages, I'll Probably Feel A Whole Lot Better, Lady Friend, 5-D

Herman's Hermits: No Milk Today, It's Nice to be Out in the Morning, Mesume, Hold On, A Must to Aviod, There's a Kind of Hush

Queen: You're My Best Friend, 39, Death on Two Legs, Fat Bottom Girls, Stone Cold Crazy, Seven Seas of Rhye

I'd also reccomend anything by Jim Croce, Don McLean, Buddy Holly, Carl Perkins, Rockpile, The Ramones, Leadbelly, Lightning Hopkins and Arlo Guthrie just to name a few. But I'm running out of time to type all this....hope this helps.

Answer 2

My friend Jimithy has a great list started. Awesome and mighty songs there. I'd also suggest these songs from my friends:
The Corner Standers: Jesus With Nunchuckus, Breanna, No More, Times Have Changed
Somewhere In Between: Cruel to Be Kind, Back To You, Steppin' Stone, Speak Your Name, He Brings, Mellow Yellow
The Stranglings: Velma's Glasses, The Amish Must Be Stopped, Tilton Whirl, Greg's Song
Chuck Sanders: Corn Has Feelings Too, Daydream Sundae, Little Green Men in Short Pants, Elmer, Tokyo Slave, In the Yard, The Day I Ate My Friends
The Kreeps: Queen Martha of Stewart, Shloat Jerry, If I Was a Yeti, Empty and Used, A Boy and His Elephant, Big Shot TV Man
And finally, my mentor, Jelly Jam Jar Johnson: Shot Gun Blues, Woman is Devil with a Butcher Knife, Drunk Again Blues, Cold Crawfish In the Morning, Pearl City Blues, and my favorite, Monster Lady (Get Out of My Car or I Shoot Your Face).

Answer 3

Evanescence: The Last Song I'm Wasting on You, Like You

Toni Braxton: Unbreak My Heart

Mariah Carey: Joy Ride, Breakdown, Endless Love, Open Arms

Erykah Badu: On and On

Queen: Bohemian Rhapsody, Somebody to Love, Bicylce Race, Show Must Go On

Christina Aguilera: Walk Away, Good Man, Makeover

Brad Paisleyand Allison Kraus: Whiskey Lullaby (I don't really dig country either, but this is a really good song. Give it a try)

Those are my top pics. I could listen to them all day.

Answer 4

One of my personal favorites is "Nightswimming" by R.E.M.:

Nightswimming deserves a quiet night...

The photograph on the dashboard, taken years ago,
Turned around back so the windshield shows
Every streetlight reveals the picture in reverse
Still, it's so much clearer;
I forgot my shirt at the water's edge
The moon is low tonight...

Nightswimming deserves a quiet night
I'm not sure all these people understand;
It's not like years ago,
The fear of getting caught,
Of recklessness and water
They cannot see me naked
These things, they go away,
Replaced by everyday

Nightswimming, remembering that night
September's coming soon
I'm pining for the moon
And what if there were two
Side by side in orbit
Around the fairest sun?
That bright, tight forever drum
Could not describe nightswimming

You, I thought I knew you
You, I cannot judge
You, I thought you knew me,
This one laughing quietly underneath my breath
Nightswimming

The photograph reflects,
Every streetlight a reminder
Nightswimming deserves a quiet night, deserves a quiet night


You'd kind of have to hear it, I guess. It's pretty and rather bittersweet. I also love "Seasons of Love" by Jonathon Larson (from "RENT"):

COMPANY
Five Hundred Twenty-Five Thousand
Six Hundred Minutes
Five Hundred Twenty-Five Thousand
Moments So Dear
Five Hundred Twenty-Five Thousand
Six Hundred Minutes
How Do You Measure - Measure A Year?
In Daylights - In Sunsets
In Midnights - In Cups Of Coffee
In Inches - In Miles
In Laughter - In Strife

In - Five Hundred Twenty-Five Thousand
Six Hundred Minutes
How Do You Measure
A Year In The Life

How About Love?
How About Love?
How About Love?
Measure In Love

Seasons Of Love
Seasons Of Love

SOLOIST #1
Five Hundred Twenty-Five Thousand
Six Hundred Minutes
Five Hundred Twenty-Five Thousand
Journeys To Plan

Five Hundred Twenty-Five Thousand
Six Hundred Minutes
How Do You Measure The Life
Of A Woman Or A Man?

SOLOIST #2
In Truths That She Learned
Or In Times That He Cried
In Bridges He Burned
Or The Way That She Died

ALL
It's Time Now - To Sing Out
Tho' The Story Never Ends
Let's Celebrate
Remember A Year In The Life Of Friends

Remember The Love
Remember The Love
Remember The Love
Measure In Love

SOLOIST #1
Measure, Measure Your Life In Love

Seasons Of Love...
Seasons Of Love


It's a very pretty and touching song.

Answer 5

My recomendation is 80's music ,and soft rock(depending if is a girl or a guy, depending the relationship):
Cranberries - Dreams
Beast Boys- Would't it be nice
Cindy Lauper- I touch my self, and I drove all night,when u where mine
David Bowie- Under pressure
Dean Martin- Thats amore
Disney, the lion king - Can u feel the love tonight, sound track
Enya &Enigma- Return to innocence
Harry Belafonte: Shake,shake senora
Jackson Browne-stay just a little bit longer
Queen- I want to break free
Gianna Nannini - Italy 90 theme
The killers - Somebody told me, All this things that i've done
When in Rome- The promise
Radio Head- Let Down
Depending the mud

Answer 6

London Calling-The Clash
Song To Say Goodbye-Placebo
Love Will Tear Us Apart-Joy Division

Answer 7

In my life...beatles...words are fantastic
wind beneath my wings...the incredible bette midler
You make me feel so brand new...al greene..

For a friend, in my life can not be beat...the words are incredible..give it a listen..can get lyrics on line but to send it, not so much...they still have not sold the rights..I think Jacko may own them...

question? is this a friend or someone you want to be more than a friend?....hey good luck, you are obviously a caring person..

Answer 8

Money in the Bank-Lil Scappy feat.Young Buck
Get Up- Ciara feat.Chamillionare

Answer 9

They say that in the Army the coffee's mighty fine
It looks like muddy water and tastes like turpentine
Chorus:

Gee ma , I wanna go
But they won't let me go

Oh Lord, I wanna go hoo-hoo-hoooome EH!
They say that in the Army the chow is mighty fine
a chicken jumped off the table and started marking time
Chorus:
Gee ma, I wanna go
But they won't let me go
Gee ma, I wanna go hoo-hoo-hoooome EH!
They say that in the Army the biscuits are mighty fine
one rolled off the table and killed a friend of mine
Chorus:
Gee ma, I wanna go
But they won't let me go
Gee ma, I wanna go hoo-hoo-hoooome EH!
They say that in the Army the training's might fine
last night there were ten of us, now there's only nine
Chorus:
Gee ma, I wanna go
But they won't let me go
Oh Lord, I wanna go hoo-hoo-hoooome EH!
They say that in the Army the pay is mighty fine
they give you a hundred dollars and take back ninety-nine
Chorus:
Oh Lord, I wanna go
But they won't let me go
Oh Lord, I wanna go hoo-hoo-hoooome EH!

I would sing this for you, but I don't think anyone would want to listen.

Answer 10

I love Karma Police by Radiohead, but it may be hard to find a place to download, so Famous Last Words by My Chemical Romance would be my choice