I'd like to nominate a top 10 songs that everyone should hear before they die. This is very much off the top of my head, so please add additions and objections in the comments. This list is intentionally eclectic and is deliberately held to no standard other than the normative.
In no particular order
1) Let it Be - The Beatles
2) Piano Man - Billy Joel (The link is to the music video, but it won't let me embed)
3) Sympathy for the Devil - Rolling Stones (See Blood Sweat and Tears Cover)
4) Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd
5) Jungleland - Bruce Springsteen
6) Roadhouse Blues - The Doors
7) Something in the Way She Moves - James Taylor
8) You Are my Sunshine - Johny Cash, Bob Dylan
9) Graceland - Paul Simon
10) Africa - Toto (See Andy McKee for one of the most amazing things ever)
Honorable Mention: Thunder Road - Bruce Springsteen
Congratulations. You are the whitest person alive. Enjoy eating your Wonder Bread and mayonnaise sandwiches.
ReplyDeleteAll classics, Political Fryer! All songs that a 55-year-old in disguise would naturally choose! Hehe!
ReplyDeleteNo, but really, they're pretty good songs.
Hard to believe that somebody wouldn't have heard these songs. Good stuff though. I don't really have a "best songs of all time" list but here were some of my favorites from this year:
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