The ones who have the guts to reveal their hearts.
Yeah. All your lists.
Guy. Struck by so much commonality. Especially with my wife. But I can see exactly how much younger than me you are. The song I had to look up was the Cure’s She Sells Sanctuary. Best of theirs I’ve ever heard. Congratulations.
ErisGuy. You’re in big trouble. Song Envy on a bunch. Ecstasy of Gold. Peter Gabriel. (I have a great story about him.) In the Air Tonight. Jingo. Al Stewart. ZZ Top. Dave Brubeck. Orbison. Like you’ve tapped into the vein of my second hundred. Gah. Not fair.
But. You owe us the story of your relation with Tangerine Dream. Which is outsized. I’m betting it’s monumental. And as for Qntal. I can go for Celtic Cuntal as easily as the next man.
Tim. Damn. I forgot all about Pearl Jam. Also forgot that fathers would love the silent lucidity of Fur Elise. Other than that your list is, uh, surprisingly various. Broadway to classical to hardcore. So you’re not the redneck you pretend? Big surprise. New to me? Looked up your Japanese entry. Is there a story? I just don’t know that world. Then there’s the Trey Parker Matt Stone montage. Closing in on a guess you don’t really have an ear for music, just meaning. Not a bad thing. Just no chance I will ever sell you on Gorecki.
All right. I’ll keep cycling through. Finding your hot spots. But it’s hard. Imagine working through these lists. Listen, listen, listen, listen, listen, listen, say something. I’m having a ball. Listening. The saying part, not so much.
Love you all for being here. Best news. Barbara is going to add her list too. Which will be very different from all of ours. But beautiful.
Finally. This week has been torturous in some ways and I’ve been thinking about this list all along, waiting for the weekend and the time to sit and do it. I’ve intentionally only skimmed the other lists so that I wouldn’t be subconsciously biased by repeats or commonalities. Here’s my list, raw and unfiltered.
I mainly made this by sorting my iTunes library by Plays and seeing what I listened to the most. Of course, I was immediately struck that this didn’t include music I listened to on my phone, on YouTube, at school in the classroom, or on CDs in the car. Are there songs there that would replace some of these? Most certainly.
I know that as soon as I hit the Post Comment below, I’ll be thinking all day about songs that should have been on this list and the songs on here that I like but not as much as those.
You were absolutely right, RL, what a wonderful exercise. It revealed a lot about me to me and brought up many deep memories. I have no idea what reading it might tell you, but it’s all yours. Thanks for sticking with it for those of us late to the party.
40 Miles from the Sun – Bush
Africa – Toto
Air I Breathe – Something Like Silas
All Is Full Of Love – Bjork
Angel – Massive Attack
Astronomy – Metallica
Black Sheep – Metric
Blonde on Blonde – Nada Surf
Break Me Gently – Doves
Bullet the Blue Sky – U2
Change the Sheets – Kathleen Edwards
Chop Suey – System of a Down
Comfortably Numb – Pink Floyd
Damn, I Wish I Was Your Lover – Sophie B. Hawkins
Darker – Doves
Deo – Amon Tobin
Desert Rose – Sting
Dizzy – Jimmy Eat World
Dream Is Collapsing – Hans Zimmer, Inception OST
Easter Song – Glad
Extreme Ways – Moby
Fly – Ludovico Einaudi
Frank Sinatra – CAKE
From Finner – Of Monsters and Men
Get Down – Nas
Gimme Shelter – Rolling Stones
Given To Fly – Pearl Jam
God Moving Over the Face of the Waters – Moby
Goodnight Elizabeth – Counting Crows
Grey Street – Dave Matthews Band
Growing Old is Getting Old – Silversun Pickups
Have a Cigar – Pink Floyd
Have You Got It In You – Imogen Heap
Heart of Gold – Neil Young
Heart’s a Mess – Gotye
Hey Man Nice Shot – Filter
Hey You – Pink Floyd
Hole in the Earth – Deftones
Holy Lamb – Yes
Hopeless Wanderer – Mumford and Sons
How to Disappear Completely – Radiohead
I Don’t Care Anymore – Phil Collins
I See You – Rich Mullins
In The Air Tonight – Phil Collins
Inertia Creeps – Massive Attack
Into the Grey – Everest
Just Breathe – Pearl Jam
Kells Opening Theme – Iona
Last Goodbye – Jeff Buckley
Lavinia – The Veils
Learning To Fly – Tom Petty
Learning to Fly – Pink Floyd
Lose Yourself – Eminem
Losing a Whole Year – Third Eye Blind
Lucky Denver Mint – Jimmy Eat World
Mad About You – Sting
Mad World – Gary Jules version
Made You Look – Nas
Mama – Genesis
Meet Me on Main Street – The Push Stars
Mojo Pin – Jeff Buckley
Music For a Found Harmonium – Celtic Fiddle Festival (and many others)
No Light, No Light – Florence and the Machine
Once – Pearl Jam
One Of These Days – Pink Floyd
Paint it Black – Rolling Stones
Panic Switch – Silversun Pickups
Pax Deorum – Enya
Pennyroyal Tea – Nirvana
Perth – Bon Iver
Porcelain – Moby
Pursuit of Happiness – Lissie (Kid Cudi cover)
Rap God – Eminem
Reaching the Potential – A Silent Film
RearViewMirror – Pearl Jam
Red Rain – Peter Gabriel
Rolling in the Deep – Adele
Rooster – Alice in Chains
Run – Snow Patrol
Sail Away – David Gray
Seven Nation Army – White Stripes
Sæglópur – Sigur Ros
Sing Sing Sing – Benny Goodman
Sirens – Pearl Jam
Solsbury Hill – Peter Gabriel
Southern Cross – Crosby, Stills, and Nash
Space Oddity – David Bowie
Suburban War – Arcade Fire
Tamacun – Rodrigo y Gabriela
The Crying Tree of Mercury – The Smashing Pumpkins
The Dam at Otter Creek – Live
The Time Has Come – Gabriel Shadid
There There – Radiohead
This Too Shall Pass – Ok Go
Under My Thumb – Rolling Stones
Waking Up – M83, Oblivion OST
Way Down In The Hole – Steve Earle
We Used to Wait – Arcade Fire
What Do I Have To Do? – Stabbing Westward
When Your Mind’s Made Up – Glen Hansard, Once
Gah. Now I’m reading the other lists and the Song Envy cuts so deeply. So many that I missed, so many better songs that I love more. Where were they in my library? How did I miss them? I suppose that doing this together builds a master list better than any individual one.
How did I miss Johnny Cash’s cover of Hurt?! I watch that video several times a year and show it to those who haven’t seen it. But it just doesn’t live in my iTunes or on my phone. Too strong for casual listening.
Hmm… no questions about the Native American flute music? You’d be the first. I generally don’t tell people I like or listen to it.
OK: back in 1975 when I still read Rolling Stone and searched record stores for albums with strange covers, buying weird on principle, I bought “Rubycon” A few weeks later a review was published in Rolling Stone, which said, IIRC, this could be last year’s “Phaedra” played backwards. Music too strange for Rolling Stone. That was a plus.
I thought the music was strange and unusual. Worth listening to. With “Ricochet” in 1976, I thought Tangerine Dream had produced fine music and after that I followed their music through its ups and downs. And without ever meeting anyone else who liked the band until I attended TD’s concert at UCLA a few years ago.
I also checked out electronic and concrete music albums from the library. That made me popular in the dorm. My friends mocked me for listening to “burps and gurgles.” (Consider if you will, the “Dr. Who” soundtrack. I hadn’t heard it at the time, but I would have loved it.) Once during a group programming project, we each brought some music. Mine horrified everyone. I briefly “worked “as a DJ at college radio station. Took angry calls about playing Kraftwerk.
Somewhere along the way I realized in music I hear the voice of God. That wasn’t the only qualification for my hundred; passion counts for a lot, too. And I probably made a few mistakes, promoting songs I should have placed in the 2nd hundred.
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Most posted lists have quite a few songs from my second hundred.
And Lake, you’re dead on about Cash’s cover of “Hurt.” Great. And too painful for frequent listening.
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It’s bemusing to see in people’s lists bands whose other songs I prefer and albums whose other cuts I prefer. Near-miss matches.
I think I should have put “Read Rain” instead of “Shock the Monkey.”
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“All about the Pentiums” — Great video.
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Thanks everyone for posting their lists: so much wonder I’d forgotten. Sometimes even forgotten to buy.
Oh no! Just saw I’ve been tagged. Looking around now for a witness protection program that doesn’t involve a move to Cleveland. NTTAWWC.
Lady Barbara. We all want to see your list. GUTI.