What is your favourite song of all time?
The one song you always enjoy listening to, no matter what. The one song you always sing along to in the car and never get tired of hearing. The one song that you always put on your ipod playlist?

You can’t list several, you can’t even list two. You can name one song and that’s it. Provide a short explanation if you like. 🙂

Mine: Golden Brown by the Stranglers. Some of my favourite bands over the years include Daft Punk, Smashing Pumpkins and Queen but my all time favourite song is not one of theirs. There’s just something hypnotic about that song that is so appealing and I never get tired of listening to it.
So…… yours?

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Thunder Road by Bruce Springsteen.

“Build me up buttercup” is a feel good song, and on in the office at the mo.

But tbh there are so many from the late70’s to early 80’s it’s hard to say just one.

I couldn’t possibly pick one, although I agree Golden Brown wasn’t it particularly haunting because he wrote it in jail?

I suppose Louie Louie from the Kingsmen, it’s been around the longest time and I’ll always hear it out and not skip it when the ipod is set on random.

One More Night by ****ed Up, I reckon, it’s almost unimprovable apart from one cheesy line. But it’ll be something else in 10 minutes.

My Sharona – The Knack.

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Gorecki, by Lamb.

One song I’ll never skip if it comes up on a random shuffle of my music. Dunno quite what it is about it. Saw Lamb live at V-Fest 2002 as well.

Teenage Kicks – The Undertones

Very tough this one, but this one came into my head until I think of something else 🙂

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Right, right now?
I quite fancy throwin some funky shapes in da livin’ room, so this.
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Thunder Road by Bruce Springsteen.

Two posts until mine. I’m such a conformist.

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Vision of Disorder – Jada Bloom

True Faith – New Order.

So many memories associated with it.

Impossible question, but to roll with the op, this would easily be a contender for the whole ‘soundtrack of my life’ thing.

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Where love lives – Alison Limerick (Morales and Knuckles mix). It’s been in constant rotation for around 26 years and always gets turned up to max so I suppose it must be my favorite.

Echo Beach Martha and the Muffins

Destination Venus by the Rezillos. Live version.

Jesus To A Child – George Michaels

Easy!

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though this version’s betterer…

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Fade into you by mazy star….. Or possibly pictures of you the cure.

Not a single Bowie song nomination yet?!
Heathens.

Deep Purple – Soldier of Fortune

Again, an almost impossible task; but this song by Leonard Cohen makes me profoundly happy every time I hear it:

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He comes into mind at the moment – Elvis Presley’s Suspicious Minds.

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You can’t list several, you can’t even list two. You can name one song and that’s it.

Impossible!

Ok, G.. no, er.. J.. er. no.
Cos of when it is “Quicksand”, Bowie (today)

Waterloo Sunset – the lyrics are powerful, ordinary people going about their business, a couple meeting for a date, the sun going down over an urban setting next to the “dirty old river” which just keeps flowing past – Paradise to one man, a message of variety and how to someone thats perfect, a implication of tolerence

A very close second is Alison by Elvis Costello (I could nominate many other songs as he’s my favourite artist) – a song of unrecoited love which show cases his exceptional voiceu

Other posters – Stranglers love them (Guoldford’s finest 🙂 ) Peaches for me. Undertones what a fabulous band, Teenage Kicks obviously My Perfect Cousin too.

Beatles, Stones, Bowie …

And finally my top fun song Barbie Girl by Aqua – pop at its very best (whole album is great, Doctor Jones …)

OI! Jambalaya – READ:

You can’t list several, you can’t even list two. You can name one song and that’s it.

🙄 If you can’t follow the damn rules. NO! Rule! There was only one rule!

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” yes, good call

Braes of Strathblaine by Ossian

Mostly because of when I first heard it and who I was with

Although I was pretty close to agreeing with jekkyl

Gorecki, by Lamb.

Ooh, good choice. I remember the first time I saw Lamb, just after their first album came out, at some random little festival. I had no idea who they were and they absolutely blew me away. Still one of the best gigs I’ve ever been to. I was stone cold sober, it was pissing it down, but when they closed on Gorecki it was absolutely **** amazing.

This is my favourite song, though:
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I’m not going to explain it, I don’t think I can, it’s just my favourite song and has been for over 20 years now.

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I have two absolute favourites that occupy my top positions no matter what else i listen to.

My iTunes play count for these two tracks runs into the 1000’s

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Silicone Soul : Right on with Curtis Mayfield sample – i always get a shiver of excitement when the vocal kicks in at 1min

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Sebastian Tellier – La Ritounelle – just utterly sublime when the vocal kicks in at 4min,

You can’t list several, you can’t even list two. You can name one song and that’s it.
If you can’t follow the damn rules. NO! Rule! There was only one rule!

Rules are there to be questioned and adapted to circumstance

She Sells Sanctuary – The Cult

aaarrgghhh !!! Jambalaya

I now can’t get Barbie Girl out of my head

Another Lamb song but this time it’s ‘Gabriel’.
Properly lovely.

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That’s the answer right now, peobably be a different one in an hour.

Bowie – Let’s Dance
New Order – Ceremony a close second (even radio head’s cover)

The boxer

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