What Are Your Favorite Songs? Why? 🎵

• 🎶Got To Be Real - Cheryl Lynn. I met an awesome young lady in St. Louis, Missouri who took me under her wings. We lost contact as life changed for me and I relocated. This was her song. I met her mom and to this day I am <grateful> for these two women loving a <scared 18-year old>. As I age and now retired, I have been reflecting on my life's journey. Songs that bring back <happy memories> 😎

I ❤️ the band U2 and Bono, and a lot of their songs. It's really hard to pick a favorite, but there is a song that is special. This past year has been tough as I went through a bad illness. It wasn't covid, but the threat of covid made it more stressful. It's been a long road to recovery, but I'm getting better. I played this song a lot at night, just before drifting off to sleep. It was and still is a song of hope. Bono wrote it based on Psalm 13, thus the title.

13 There Is A Light  -  U2  🕯 

There is a light
We can't always see
If there is a world
We can't always be
If there is a dark
That we shouldn't doubt
And there is a light
Don't let it go out

@Anonymous The songs from the late 60's and most of the 70's were the greatest. I feel so lucky to have gone through my teens listening to music that had meaning, great beats, and words that you could understand. Chicago, America, The Eagles, The Grass Roots, Bread, Barry Manilow, Delfonics, The Doors, The Doobie Brothers, and Barry White are just a few of the performers who created music that stands the test of time. It's still my music of choice every day.

Let’s start with the 60’s…The Beatles and The Beach Boys were my standards, along with millions of others who also liked them! To this day, I love all there songs, and all their hits. But, two of my favorites of theirs were not their greatest hits. 
For The Beatles, “Things We Said Today”.

For The Beach Boys, “Sail On Sailor”.

Besides just being overall good songs, each had a touch of melancholy…which I think that many of their songs had, and they were very good at expressing emotions. 

🎶Reggae Time!!! Three Little Birds - Bob Marley and the Wailers! Another favorite of mine. I was born in Jamaica West Indies to an American Father who met my Mother while working there. Back then, the lyrics just sounded cool. But when I got sent to the USA at age 16 to live with my Mother's sister and her American husband after my Father died in a car accident - the lyrics reminded me <not to worry and everything will be alright>. 😁

I don't have a specific list of favorite songs, but songs that I really like...I don't like to hear too often. 

I like them because they remind me of specific times in my life, and I don't want that feeling or memory to fade after hearing that tune a lot. 

I was listening to a "curated" station on iHeart Radio yesterday, and "Baker Street" by Gerry Rafferty came up.  Today, I pulled up that same station and within ten minutes...? "Baker Street" played again. I immediately clicked the "thumbs-down" icon and got a pop-up window telling me it wouldn't play it any more.

Good.

I love that very melancholy song and I don't need to hear it ten times a day until it eventually means nothing to me.

And yet, there are other songs that I just like no matter how many times I hear them. I can listen to them over and over again without being concerned that any significance they might have for me might eventually be worn down to nothing.  I guess this is probably because they're songs I first heard as an adult, and I don't have any formative memories associated with them.

There was an episode of M*A*S*H where Radar played "Sentimental Journey" — per Colonel Potter's request — over the camp's PA system. And he kept playing it — again and again.

I think after the third or fourth time, I'd have strangled Radar.

And I like "Sentimental Journey!"

You're The Inspiration by Chicago. For my wife and soulmate, she is truly my inspiration.

Come Monday, Jimmy Buffett

My husband always told me he wanted

Jimmy Buffett played at his funeral, he

just loved him so much. He passed away

in 2018 and I had this song played at the

end of the service. There wasn’t a dry eye 

in the place for those who knew he loved

Buffett. This is my favorite Buffett song and

it helps me stay connected to John. Even

though I cannot hear it without sobbing still

to this day 🎼💜😭

ALL MY LIFE.  LINDA RONSTADT AND AARON NEVILLE. MY HUSBAND AND I DIDN'T MEET UNTIL WE WERE IN OUR FORTIES. WE'D BOTH HAD DIVORCES AND BAD RELATIONSHIPS. WE WE'RE SET UP ON A BLIND DATE ON NEW YEARS EVE, WHEN MIDNIGHT CAME IT WAS VERY AWKWARD. WE HAD FOUND EACH OTHER FAIRLY LATE IN LIFE SO THE SONG IS ABOUT US. 

DITTO ON THE BEATLES BEING THE GREATEST BAND EVER!!!