Songs you wish you'd written

"Rebel Rebel" - David Bowie

any of them

Shockwave Rider!

wish i could stand up and claim one of the following as my own

cardiacs - dog-like sparky
cardiacs - dirty boy
foetus - kreibabe
the monsoon bassoon - commando
mansun - cancer
catherine wheel - for dreaming
talk talk - rainbow/eden/desire trilogy
thighpaulsandra - michel publicity window
ulver - christmas
working for a nuclear free city - nancy adam susan
orbital - out there somewhere
yes - gates of delirium
lusk - free mars
king crimson - 21st century schizoid man
hood - the lost you
blur - essex dogs
beck - cold brains

because although a lot of songs are great, these songs are unique in their greatness.

"Yesterday", "My Way" and the Nokia tune :)

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That old Channel 4 jingle.

jingle bells or sleigh ride. so I could be fuckin' rich as balls and never have to work again on anything I didn't think was fun, like that Super Soaker guy.

or yeah any other song that gets caned to death on the air and in malls. cha ching.

real, non-cynical answer = rhapsody in blue

love is a battlefield

"Bloody Tears" from Castlevania 2

sorta cha-ching answer
Semi-Charmed Life, except I would alter some of the lyrics in the verses and mess w/the bridge a bit. The guitar shmutz and do-do-do chorus bit are unimpeachable, though.

clair de lune, either the debussy one or the trail of dead one

Beethoven's Ninth

"poison" by b.b.d.

“The Internationale”

Every Randy Newman song.

'Ban Max R' by ModReq & The Forums

"She Sells Sanctuary"

"So What" Anti Nowhere League

"Rob Roy's Nightmare"

At the moment: April Dawn by DJ Teebee.

thats how i escaped my certain fate

(It's the b-side to "I wish it could be Christmas Everyday")

Unchained Melody
Suspicious Minds
The Look Of Love
Ashes To Ashes
Don't You Want Me
Billie Jean
Do They Know It's Christmas?
Duel
Nothing Compares 2 U
I'm Too Sexy
Make 'Em Say Uhhh
Who Let The Dogs Out?
Hollaback Girl

Come Undone - Duran Duran

Temptation - New Order

"Love's Recovery" by the Indigo Girls

During the time of which I speak, it was hard to turn the other cheek
To the blows of insecurity
Feeding the cancer of my intellect, the blood of love soon neglected,
Lay dying in the strength of its impurity

Meanwhile our friends we thought were so together
They've all gone and left each other in search of fairer weather
And we sit here in our storm and drink a toast
To the slim chance of love's recovery.

There I am in younger days, star gazing,
Painting picture perfect maps of how my life and love would be
Not counting the unmarked paths of misdirection
My compass, faith in love's perfection,
I missed ten million miles of road I should have seen

Meanwhile our friends we thought were so together
Left each other one by one in search of fairer weather
And we sit here in our storm and drink a toast
To the slim chance of love's recovery.

Rain soaked and voice choked like silent screaming in a dream
I search for our absolute distinction
Not content to bow and bend
To the whims of culture, that swoop like vultures
Eating us away, eating us away
Eating us away to our extinction

Oh how I wish I were a trinity, so if I lost a part of me
I'd still have two of the same to live
But nobody gets a lifetime rehearsal, as specks of dust we're universal
To let this love survive would be the greatest gift we could give

Tell all the friends who think they're so together
That these are ghosts and mirages, these thoughts of fairer weather
Though it's storming out I feel safe within the arms of love's discovery

Yesterday
Stardust
White Christmas
Unchained Melody
Imagine
My Way
Summertime
Over The Rainbow
As Time Goes By
Something
Moon River
Georgia On My Mind
Jingle Bells
Michelle
Gentle On My Mind
Louie Louie
Hey Joe
St. Louis Blues
My Funny Valentine
Amazing Grace
House Of The Rising Sun
Silent Night

^^^hate to say it, but at least half those songs, if you'd written them, you'd be dead now...

gonna take a spaceship
fly back to the source
alien observer
in a world that isn't mine

"I Shall Be Released"

Something from the Beatles or Happy Birthday or any christmas song so I could live off of licensing deals and royalties for the rest of my life.