Current Favorite Songs

[ZoCrowes]

This is not an all time favorites list nor does it need to be in any particular order. I just want to know what has been floating around in your head lately.

Mine:

"Hot Burrito #2" by the Flying Burrito Bros.- To me this was one of those songs that reaches out and grabs you. The way Grahm carries the song adds so much emotion. On the bridge after the 2nd line you can just FEEL the song.

"Come Get To This" by Marvin Gaye- probably the best track off of Let's Get It On outside of the title track I am personally partial to the Live at the London Palladium version (that leads into the killer Lets Get It On.) For a guy who did not like playing live he sang his ass off. Probably all the blow (would also explain all the tackie suits.)

"The Train Song" by The Children- local indie band. Sort of whacked out Dub with one of the most memorable basslines I have ever heard

"See Saw" by Aretha Franklin-this song just makes you move yo' ass! I don't think you can listen to this and NOT dance around like an idiot. My band's probably going to start doing our own version here soon. It will be white college boy soulless but it will be fun as hell.

"You Don't Know Me" by Ray Charles- I have a live version from a 63 live show that is mindblowing. Brother Ray sounds like he is on the verge of crying. Just him and an upright bass. The album version just has too much going on for my taste. This version is absolutley gorgeous.

"Get Where I Belong" by Free-most underappreciated blues/rock band around. Paul Kossoff was an amazing guitarist and never gets enough credit

Alright enough of my ramblings what about you?

[WindRavenX]

1. The entire new U2 album

:)

[ZoCrowes]

2. Good album

There are some great tracks on there. I'm listening to A Man And A Woman at this very moment and I'll probably listen to it again when it's over.

[ZoCrowes]

3. none

Edit:double post

[ImADeanDem]

4. "Come Monday" by Jimmy Buffett

Well, really anything by Jimmy Buffett, but that's one that's floating around in my head right now.

Also the whole "Talk on Corners" album by The Corrs. And anything by the Dixie Chicks. And the soundtrack to "Miss Saigon." (I have eclectic musical tastes!)

[RevolutionaryActs]

5. oooh oh this is hard but ok here goes!

Collective Soul - Counting the Days

Riddlin' Kids - Stop the World

Interpol - Slow Hands

The whole Lazyboy CD

I'll only name a few hehe

[TroubleMan]

6. Glad to see another soul fan

I got a bunch of stuff floating around in my head lately:

"I Want You" by Erykah Badu

"Besame En La Boca" by Elvis Crespo

"I Needed Somebody" by Ann Peebles

"Not Like Crazy" by Jill Scott

"Tirame Tu Que Yo Te Devuelvo" by Kinito Mendez/Yoskar el Prabu Sarante
(I've been listening to a lot of merengue lately)

"I'm A Ram" by Al Green

"Take Five" by Al Jarreau, the live version

[ZoCrowes]

10. Good list

I love Erykah Badu. Just something about her voice makes me just want to kick back and just chill the rest of the day. I could listen to her live album over and over all day.

I don't really have the cred to call myself a true R&B fan. I've probably got more than most people and quite a bit of knowledge but I still have a lot to learn. My thing lately has been finding old albums on King Records like Little Willie John and Hank Ballard.

[tigereye]

13. you have wonderfully eclectic tastes

keep up the good work! We sorely need more people to pay attention to R and B, Soul, the Blues and Jazz.

[Zomby Woof]

7. well, ok then - same criteria as yours

Warren Zevon - "Disorder In The House", from his final effort ("The Wind"), with a scalding guitar cameo by Springsteen.

Neil Young - "Double E" from one of the best of 2003, "Greendale". Only Neil still has the balls to pull off a vaguely satirical concept album in defense of environmentalism.

ZZ Top - "Mescalero", proof that we need more marimba in rock, or funky/blues/raunch like this.

Ralph Stanley - "Falsehearted Lover's Blues". Growing up in TN made me hip to bluegrass long before the Coen Brothers did...

Tom Waits - "Lucky Day", pure hobo philosophy as only Waits can deliver it.

[St. Jarvitude]

8. Here we go:

"I'm the man who loves you" by Wilco (Yankee Hotel Foxtrot) - An awesome throwback to the cheery, feel good pop of the 60's.

"Jesus, etc." by Wilco (YHF) - awesome song... almost retro Wilco, but with some of the newish synth stuff thrown in. Great lyrics.

"New Slang" by The Shins (Oh, Inverted World) - Awesome lyrics. A good song to relax to... catchy but very, very, very mellow.

"Girl on the Wing" by The Shins (OIW) - OK lyrics, but what really makes this song is the kickass keyboard chorus. Sends you floating into the sky...

"2+2=5" by Radiohead (Hail to the Thief) - Simple, clean rocker by Radiohead. Awesome, awesome, AWESOME lyrics and a killer power pop guitar part.

[Emops]

9. The new U2 single "Vertigo" has been in my head for weeks.

I'm trying to figure out how to buy the album tomorrow even when I have no money.

Other current favorites:

"Heard it Through the Grapevine" by Creedence Clearwater Revival
"Cherub Rock" by Smashing Pumpkins
"Territories" by Rush
"Tourniquet" by Evanescence
"Real Love" by Yes
"Bron-Yr-Aur Stomp" by Led Zeppelin (live version from How The West Was Won)
All of the new Green Day album

[bettyellen]

11. wow, you don't know me is one of the best songs ever, where's the live

version to be found? i kissed ray on the cheek 14 years ago.. it was bumpy, but i love him!

[SCDem]

12. Let's Get it On by Marvin Gaye and Sugar Sugar by John Foggerty

[tigereye]

14. lately it is

songs by the Queers from a 2002 called Pleasant Screams: You Just Gotta Blow My Mind and Tic Tic Toc.

Melodic pop-punk with a 60s feel.

http://www.lookoutrecords.com/catalog/item.php3?sd=136176012&matrix_id=943&bnd_id=50

and Jackson Browne's Lawyers in Love and Looking East.

How's that for Cognitive Dissonance? ;)

[arwalden]

15. "Car Wash"

[Aiptasia]

16. on my mind...

"Feeling yourself disintegrate" By The Flaming Lips (soft bulletin)

"Scumbag" by Frank Zappa & The MOI and John & Yoko (playground psychotics)

"Summertime" by Yo La Tengo (summertime)

"Piss up a rope" by WEEN (live in Myrtle Beach)

"Positive Contact" by Dan the Automator (Deltron 3030)

"1,000 foot mirrors" by Asian Dub Foundation and Sinead O'connor (EP release)

"Beercan" by Beck (Mellow Gold)

"London/England" by Corduroy (London/England)