Favorite songs

nattiep · Post by **nattiep** » Sat May 07, 2005 1:32 am

What are your favorite songs? Here are mine:

Rush - Prime Mover*. (I have it on now.) I love the sound of that Wal. Beautiful lyrics too. Really makes you think. The live one** on the "A Show Of Hands" video is good.

Rush - La Villa Strangiato*. One word: sick. Ok more than one word needed. Great guitar, amazing drums, and talk about a fast, and short, bass solo! Gotta love that Rick. And the fact it was recorded in one take? Wow. I like the ESL version the most**.

Rush - The Pass*. Great song. And a Rush song I can sing in my normal (not falsetto) range to boot! Well... just about anything '82+ I can sing in my normal range.

Pink Floyd - Time. Good song. I like it post Waters with Guy Pratt's overplaying, although with Waters it is just as good. Now, Roger playing it solo... lets just say that's why he didn't sing lead on it in the first place. Great guitar solo too.

Paul McCartney - Figure of Eight. First time I heard it I loved it. Best version** on "Tripping The Live Fantastic".

Kiss - I Still Love You. Best when heard live. Unplugged version is awesome**!

*I know, I know, "I guess he likes Rush."
** IMHO some songs are better live. Late '70s 2112 comes to mind. Geddy plays the hell out of that song.

atomic_punk · Post by **atomic_punk** » Sat May 07, 2005 5:13 am

Nate, The Pass is a very under-appreciated Rush song. GREAT song. La Villa, well, yes, that is SICK, and we get napkins handed to the stage when my band plays, and they say La Villa on them and I just laugh.
Time, great one. I like the Dark Side version best.
Kiss - well, now, I am a big Kiss fan, but when I saw them do this song live back in the day, Paul would oversing it and it could go 8 minutes. But now I like it better.

rictified · Post by **rictified** » Sat May 07, 2005 9:20 am

Hanky Panky, Tommy James and the Shondells has the coolest lead break in rock n roll, great garage tune. Another one:
Shaking all Over: The guess Who
Louis, Louis. Kingsman
many others to come, no time now.

nattiep · Post by **nattiep** » Sat May 07, 2005 3:00 pm

"...we get napkins handed to the stage when my band plays, and they say La Villa on them and I just laugh."
Why? Too hard? I can play it. The problem is I don't know anybody else who can.

Oh, I forgot one.(Prepares to be flamed.)
Ashlee Simpson (ducks)- Endless Summer. I love that song. (Grabs a garbage can lid to use as a shield.)

jwr2 · Post by **jwr2** » Sat May 07, 2005 3:55 pm

Shaking all over ... you mean the Who ... not Guess who ...

my favorites songs ...

Rush ... The whole moving Pictures album ... and Freewill, and the Trees ...

A whole bunch of stuff by King Crimson, The Who, Yes, Pink Floyd, Van Morrison, Animals, McCartney, 3 doors down, Green Day, Collective Soul, U2, REM, Puddle of Mud, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Hendrix, Zepplin, Creed, and more ...

atomic_punk · Post by **atomic_punk** » Sat May 07, 2005 5:21 pm

Nate, that's the problem, the rest of my band doesn't know it.

I'd LOVE to play it.

wormdiet · Post by **wormdiet** » Sat May 07, 2005 5:27 pm

Kissng the Lipless by the Shins. Not a rick tune, but great nonetheless.

nattiep · Post by **nattiep** » Sat May 07, 2005 6:04 pm

Actually I do know people that know it. My uncle and his bands drummer could do it, but my uncle is too stubborn to learn anything. For my first gig he let me guest on bass and I told him and his band to learn 3 songs for me: The Big Money, New World Man (with longer bass solo ending), and YYZ. All with great bass so I could show off. Well he dropped the first two and told me to learn a couple other songs: Sweet Child 'O Mine and Run To The Hills. I told him to tack on the Trooper to. Well in the end the other guitar player was too drunk to play the trooper (it was his birthday too) and they played the GnR tune while I was watching. When we played YYZ he messed up and messed me up. Well after that I would even dare ask him to do La Villa, a more complex song than YYZ.

They also recorded YYZ and I'm still waiting for him to E-mail me the vid.

Make your band learn it, Steve. When I finally get a band I'm going to make sure they learn that song and the other two Rush songs on my favorites list.

nattiep · Post by **nattiep** » Sun May 08, 2005 12:14 am

I forgot another one (yes it's a Rush song).

Rush - Between The Wheels. Great song. Geddy's singing gives me goosbumps, hehe. The last verse: "We can go from boom to bust....", when he goes up higher (not as high as usual, but that was the album when he started singing lower) just gets to me. But there's not very much bass to it. I need a keyboard!

jps · Post by **jps** » Sun May 08, 2005 3:33 am

These are just a few of favorites:

Renaissance - Ocean Gypsy
Renaissance - Song For All Seasons
Yes - Siberian Khatru
Gentle Giant - Three Friends
Genesis - Get 'Em Out By Friday
Rush - I Think I'm Going Bald

lowendbob · Post by **lowendbob** » Sun May 08, 2005 7:17 am

Isley Brothers - This Old Heart of Mine
Grand Funk - Nothing is the Same
Zombies - Tell Her No
Wings - Medicine Jar
McCartney - Piece in the Neighborhood
Hendrix - Wait Until Tomorrow
Allman Brothers - Southbound
Bob Dylan - Everything is Broken
Archie Bell - Tighten Up
Edda James - I'd Rather Go Blind
Jerry Lee Lewis - 39 and Holding
The Band - Ain't Got No Home
Trey Anastasio - Push on Til the Day
Tower of Power - Your Still a Young Man
and many more!

rictified · Post by **rictified** » Sun May 08, 2005 9:05 am

No, The Guess Who Jeff, was their first hit in 1965. Come on now you're old enough to remember that they had a different lead singer named Chad allen, was actually an early 60's British tune by Johnnie Kidd and The Pirates. The Guess Who's version is the best one IMHO though, really rocked.

Incidently Louis Louis is still getting banned for having obscene lyrics, haha! After posting this the other day I heard that a band was banned from playing it at a high school graduation somewhere in the midwest but the kids parents made him reconsider, heard it on Airamerica.

rictified · Post by **rictified** » Sun May 08, 2005 9:14 am

Jeffrey did Rush write that song for you? haha!

Grand Funk: Inside Looking out. Now that album has a great mix.

Sittin' on top of the World and many others, Cream

With a Girl like you, I can't control myself, The Troggs.

beatlefan · Post by **beatlefan** » Sun May 08, 2005 9:45 am

Bob, BOB!! Snap out of it man!! lol!!

rob · Post by **rob** » Sun May 08, 2005 9:46 am

Six Feet Under - When Skin Turns Blue

Lynyrd Skynyrd - Simple Man

Metallica - Master Of Puppets

The Animals - House Of The Rising Sun

I have many more, too much to list.