Songs that you love more than life, that actually mean something to you.

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What songs make you smile or your heart skip and beat? What songs do you find yourself humming in your head when you're trying to fall asleep? Or the ones that you believe would be perfect background music for a moment in your life that was epic in your life. What songs have lyrics that make you believe in something or someone or just make you think that if someone said that to you, you'd swoon.

I wanna make an awesome mix CD, so any feedback would really help.

― Candace Clark, Sunday, 11 September 2005 00:13 (twenty years ago)

"Prayer to God," Shellac. This is an absolutely serious answer. However, I have a feeling that it may not be the sort of thing you're looking for.

― xero, Sunday, 11 September 2005 00:18 (twenty years ago)

Violent Femmes- I Held Her In My Arms
Barrington Levy- Here I Come
Bobbie Gentry- Fancy

(although if someone addressed the final song to me, I'd be somewhat worried)

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 11 September 2005 00:20 (twenty years ago)

Kenickie - "Come Out 2nite"

― fizzcaraldo (Justin M), Sunday, 11 September 2005 00:41 (twenty years ago)

To the Dancers on the Ice - Emilie Simon

― mox twelve (Mox twleve), Sunday, 11 September 2005 00:44 (twenty years ago)

The Smiths - This Charming Man
The Smiths - How Soon Is Now
The Smiths - There is A Light That Never Goes Out

― They’re Young And Alive, Sunday, 11 September 2005 00:47 (twenty years ago)

Firewater - "When I Burn This Place Down"

― John Justen (johnjusten), Sunday, 11 September 2005 00:56 (twenty years ago)

"Here Comes The Sun" -The Beatles
or any other Beatles song...best...band...EVER!

― Hillary, Sunday, 11 September 2005 02:36 (twenty years ago)

"Here, There and Everywhere"- The Beatles
"Leave the Light On"- Beth Hart
"Dance me to the End of Love"- Madeleine Peyroux
"Ne me quitte pas"-Jacques Brel

― Eva van Rein (Gaia1981), Sunday, 11 September 2005 15:32 (twenty years ago)

xero - have you heard the Jon Rae & the River cover? Obv I doubt you'll like it more than the original, but it's awesome.

― sean gramophone (Sean M), Sunday, 11 September 2005 15:37 (twenty years ago)

"Close to the Edge" - Yes

― Bling Hampton, Sunday, 11 September 2005 17:24 (twenty years ago)

Sly and the Family Stone - "Everybody Is a Star"
Pulp - "Something Changed"
The Wurzels - "Oi Am a Zoider Drinker"

― I Oppose All Rock and Roll (noodle vague), Sunday, 11 September 2005 17:28 (twenty years ago)

ysi the jon-rae song plz???

― Sym Sym (sym), Sunday, 11 September 2005 18:34 (twenty years ago)

This is not a song but- Mozart-Requiem. It is sung. It's a very long song. Yup, that's my favorite.

― aimurchie (aimurchie), Sunday, 11 September 2005 18:57 (twenty years ago)

REM - Fall On Me
Black Box Recorder - Factory Radio
Aquarium - Adelaida

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Sunday, 11 September 2005 19:01 (twenty years ago)

Talk Talk - "I Believe In You"
Nick Drake - "'Cello Song"
Beach Boys - "Don't Worry Baby"
Sigur Ros - "Vidrar Vel Til Loftarasa"
CCR - "Proud Mary"

― PB, Sunday, 11 September 2005 19:14 (twenty years ago)

Shellac's vitriolic "Prayer to God," for instance, may not seem like the most likely candidate for The River's stomping, gospel-tinged sing-along treatment, but Jon-Rae is a magic miner: he can extract ancient, folky gold from any kind of seam.

No, I haven't heard it. I'd love a YSI. (And I'm mentally compiling a list of other songs from which I'd like to hear ancient folky gold extracted.)

Speaking of covers, and even approaching on-topic-ness, I've just been amazed by Robyn Hitchcock's live cover of "A Day in the Life" -- for his nerve at attempting, and his techne in actually pulling off, the whole pompous quaint unfashionable thing. The way he sings "now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert HALLLLL" almost makes me not hate the Beatles.

― xero, Sunday, 11 September 2005 21:45 (twenty years ago)

sappppppy

andrew wk - its time to party
prince - i feel for you, when u were mine, u got the look, pussy control
ol' dirty bastard - i cant wait
brian eno - needles in the camel's eye, here come the warm jets
ace of base - the sign
pavement - we dance
bob dylan - sad-eyed lady of the lowlands
neutral milk hotel - the king of carrot flowers
pineapples - come on closer
stevie wonder - i believe
todd rundgren - i dont want to tie you down, just one victory
thin lizzy - cowboy song
robert wyatt - sea song, little red riding hood hits the road

― petesmith (plsmith), Sunday, 11 September 2005 23:50 (twenty years ago)

Isaac Hayes - "Walk On By"

― internet comedy novice (Matt Chesnut), Monday, 12 September 2005 00:15 (twenty years ago)

YSI request on "Prayer to God" cover avidly thirded.

― John Justen (johnjusten), Monday, 12 September 2005 03:23 (twenty years ago)

Ghostface Killah - Gorilla Hood

i don't know WHAT it means to me, but...

― Lukas (lukas), Monday, 12 September 2005 04:25 (twenty years ago)

Failure - Another Space Song, Daylight
Beach Boys - Good Vibrations, God Only Knows

― Tree of Stars, Monday, 12 September 2005 04:33 (twenty years ago)

michael jackson - one day in your life
air supply - all out of love
lionel richie - hello
paul mcartney - waterfalls
stevie wonder - i just called to say i love you
paul mcartney/ stevie winder - ebony and ivory.
janet jackson - let's wait awhile.
kylie/jason - especially for you

― retroman, Monday, 12 September 2005 07:07 (twenty years ago)

I'll second Isaac Hayes-walk on by. that song is so, so good.

also:
ride-dreams burn down
the chameleons-second skin

― jxnx (jxnx), Monday, 12 September 2005 21:10 (twenty years ago)

Take This Waltz - Leonard Cohen
Blue Line Swinger - Yo La Tengo
On The Willows - The Godspell soundtrack

― Dr. Gene Scott (shinybeast), Monday, 12 September 2005 21:50 (twenty years ago)

Breathless - "Over and Over" has proved very significant to me for the past year and a half now.

― Ian Riese-Moraine: Let this bastard out, and you'll get whiplash! (Eastern Mantr, Monday, 12 September 2005 21:53 (twenty years ago)

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