What are your 3 favorite songs ever? | Page 2 | The Boneyard

What are your 3 favorite songs ever?

Deadrody

Deadrody

Joined
Aug 28, 2011
Messages
2,276
Reaction Score
2,943
Do other people's tastes not change over time ? I know, for me, that list is not the same as it was 5 or 10 years ago, even though my list today doesn't have anything remotely new on it. I can probably give two that aren't going to change. But I'll have to think hard on a third

Scenes from an Italian Restaurant - Billy Joel
Althea - Grateful Dead / Dead Co

Althea was my favorite Dead song going back 30 years, but may have temporarily been replaced by Terrapin Station, but considering it is my wife's favorite and the meaning of the song to the evolution of Dead and Company and John Mayer, it has to be permanently on this list. Can't say that 10 or 15 years ago, it would have been on this list.
 
HuskyHawk

HuskyHawk

The triumphant return of the Blues Brothers.
Joined
Sep 12, 2011
Messages
32,975
Reaction Score
85,965
No order, and to @Deadrody's point, subject to variation over time. At this moment, I'll give you these three.
  • Jimmy Buffet: A Pirate Looks at 40
  • Blind Faith: Can't Find My Way Home
  • Bob Marley: Three Little Birds
May things could be there. These three kind of speak to me in different ways. Consideration given too just how long I've loved these songs as well, even if they aren't the flavor of the week (or year). Stairway to Heaven nearly got that last slot. Sympathy for the Devil and Baba O'Reilly too. But those are just great, these are more personal.
 
T

TGW93

Joined
Nov 29, 2012
Messages
151
Reaction Score
748
ClifSpliffy said:
great, great, tune - 'i don't need to be forgiven.'
and since the entire premise of the thread is now shot (was it too hard? don't answer it then!), might as well put up my fav who song (there really are lots of good ones)
Expand ...

That is the song that got me into the Who and is among my favorites.

I didn't know about the Who until MTV landed on my grandparent's cable box when I was 11 and I saw the video for Eminence Front.
 
D

dbmill

Joined
Mar 24, 2012
Messages
18,662
Reaction Score
39,291
nwhoopfan said:
I don't see how any of you can even come up with a top 3 list. Out of the thousands and thousands of songs...I'm completely paralyzed even trying to parse a list down. Nope, can't do it. But kudos to those coming up with lists.
Expand ...

Completely agree with this statement, especially since most songs are not all that long as well. At least with movies you are spending probably almost a couple hours of your time with them.

I will say that the Beatles are one of my favorite groups, and "A Day in the Life" is one of my favorite Beatles songs, but I'm not sure that would make it one of my top 3 songs. It's just too difficult a task for me.
 
I

Improviser

Joined
Apr 16, 2020
Messages
1,947
Reaction Score
3,235
Deadrody said:
Do other people's tastes not change over time ? I know, for me, that list is not the same as it was 5 or 10 years ago, even though my list today doesn't have anything remotely new on it. I can probably give two that aren't going to change. But I'll have to think hard on a third

Scenes from an Italian Restaurant - Billy Joel
Althea - Grateful Dead / Dead Co

Althea was my favorite Dead song going back 30 years, but may have temporarily been replaced by Terrapin Station, but considering it is my wife's favorite and the meaning of the song to the evolution of Dead and Company and John Mayer, it has to be permanently on this list. Can't say that 10 or 15 years ago, it would have been on this list.
Expand ...
I would say that my tastes have expanded and I have added new genres of music besides those I already liked. I still like what I liked in the 1950's and 1960's (oldies to give a label) and even in the 1970's and 1980's, but as time and life moved on, I forced myself to listen to different types of music and got to enjoy different types of music.

Not sure who likes what I like, whether then or now. Still, I have added songs in different languages to my personal music playlists.

With Spanish pop or fast merengue songs, I have developed a liking for singers/groups like Belinda, Belanova, La Makina, all of which I stumbled on in hitting the search bar in Spotify and listening to samplers.

And then, a new genre, after hearing it at a restaurant and liking the sound, the waiter told me the stuff they were playing was electro swing.

If I get bold enough, I may post some of the songs in the music I just wrote about.
 
C

ClifSpliffy

surf's up
Joined
Nov 9, 2018
Messages
9,506
Reaction Score
14,289
fav rolling stones song.
i usually try to post the cleanest sound version of an original, but in this case, this version captures the whole thing.
a dang movie, if ya ask me.



the guy is dancing around in a cape, singing a song aboot the devil, with a crew running security for him called the hells angels. ya cain't make this stuff up. too funny. anyway, atmospheric, descriptive, and, i guess for some, nostalgic. not me. but you can dance to it and the words don't offend.

art- messing with people's heads since the time of the flintstones. lol.
 
Last edited:
C

ClifSpliffy

surf's up
Joined
Nov 9, 2018
Messages
9,506
Reaction Score
14,289
fav dnce song.
all 87 trillion people in this vid are smiling. all of 'em.
infectious. also lol.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Online statistics

Members online
164
Guests online
2,249
Total visitors
2,413
Totals may include hidden visitors.

Share This Page

Forum statistics

Threads
160,158
Messages
4,219,285
Members
10,082
Latest member
Basingstoke


.
Top Bottom