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What Are Your Favorite Songs? Why? ๐ต
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What Are Your Favorite Songs? Why? ๐ต
Sunday - July 11, 2021
- You probably have several.
- Feel free to stop by each day to add songs.
- We would luv to hear from you!!!
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@CaptainMura wrote:This is difficult. It depends on context. Favorite song by artist? Season? Period in my life? Hard to pick just one.
๐ฅHi @CaptainMura I <created this thread to have a spot to relax and chat with you awesome folks.> ๐น Hmmm, just post what you want. There are <no rules or bosses on this thread>. ๐ I like to <post one each day.> While others post a <list for a one-time thread>. Lol, some lists are huge!! ๐คฃ๐ It is so good to see you here. Thank you!!! ๐ฅ
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I hadn't thought about this band in a long time, and then I discovered them again on YT. I have enjoyed watching many of the performance videos. Always smiling, having a great time on stage, lots of energy, and in the 80's, such acrobatics like I've never seen before. I started downloading their albums, and ordered a few more cds and dvds. Their songs make me happy when I'm blue, or feeling a bit down, or listen while getting my exercise and walking. I especially love the power ballads. Their music helped me through this past year. Music is a great healer. They are now my favorite band, and I already have tickets to see them next April in Vegas! ๐ The lyrics to this one says it all . . .
The Best Is Yet To Come - Scorpions ๐
And face another day
Soldiers never die
They only fade away
How can we grow old
When the soundtrack of our lives is rock and roll!!!
And the best is yet to come
That we've only just begun
Through the highs and lows
And how can I live without you
You're such a part of me
And you've always been the one
Keeping me forever young
And the best is yet to come!
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- @MaVolta what is YT? Lol, go ahead and laugh at my ignorance!! ๐คฃ๐
- Those ๐ฆ look dangerous!! ๐ฑ
- Thank you for taking the time to share with us. ๐ค
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@Anonymous - Sorry! YT = YouTube. Don't feel bad. I didn't discover YT until I retired a few years ago! Had no idea how much content was there. I thought it was just for kids posting videos, sorta like Tik Tok.
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Lol @MaVolta I have been watching YouTube <free> movies for years. But never heard it called YT!! ๐๐คฃ
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The Last Resort by The Eagles is my number 1 favorite song of all time. The melody is beautiful, Don's voice is perfect, and the message is clear. If you haven't heard it before it is very memorable.
She came from Providence, the one in Rhode Island
Where the Old World shadows hang heavy in the air
She packed her hopes and dreams like a refugee
Just as her father came from across the sea
She heard about a place people were smiling
They spoke about the Red Manโs way how they loved the land.
They came from everywhere to the Great Divide
Seeking a place to stand or a place to hide
Down in the crowded bars, out for a good time
Canโt wait to tell you all what itโs like up there
They called it Paradise I donโt know why.
Somebody laid the mountains low while the town got high
Then the chilly winds blew down across the desert
Through the canyons of the coast to the Malibu
Where the pretty people play, hungry for power
To light their neon ways and give them things to do.
Some rich men came and raped the land but nobody caught โem
Put up a bunch of ugly boxes and Jesus people bought โem
They called it Paradise, the place to be
They watched the hazy sun sinking in the sea.
We can leave it all behind and sail to Lahaina
Just like the missionaries did so many years ago
They even that brought a neon sign that said โJesus is comingโ
They brought the white manโs burden down, brought the white manโs reign.
Who will provide the grand design of what is yours and what is mine?
โCause there is no more new frontier, we have got to make it here.
We satisfy our endless needs and justify our bloody deeds
In the name of destiny and in the name of God
And you can see them there on Sunday morning
They stand up and sing about what itโs like up there
They called it Paradise, I donโt know why
When you call something Paradise, kiss it goodbye.
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Today Iโm going with my favs from another
fav group of mine Led Zeppelin. These songs take me back to the 70โs, which were the
happiest years of my life ๐ผ๐
Stairway to heaven (Possibly the best rock
song ever recorded)
All my love
Black Dog
Dancing Days
Dโyer Makโer
Going to California
Dazed and confused
Houses of the Holy
Immigrant song
In my time of dying
Kashmir
Misty mountain hop
Over the hills and far away
The rain song
Rock and roll
The song remains the same
Trampled under foot
When the levee breaks
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- ๐ถGot 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> ๐
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I โค๏ธ 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 ๐ฏ
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
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Musical memories are some of the most enduring memories that we have, and it's been so lovely to read the memories that certain songs bring up for folks!
I've always loved music and my first favorite song that I can remember was "Runaway Train" by Soul Asylum. I remember listening to it and dancing with my mom when I was around 5-6 years old. I just watched the video for the first time, though, and now I see the song in a whole different light. 5-6 year old me had no idea what this song was really about.
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@MaVolta I am so glad you are okay!!!! Lots of luv and hugs coming your way ๐ค๐
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@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.
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Letโs start with the 60โsโฆThe 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, โThings We Said Todayโ.
For The Beach Boys, โSail On Sailorโ.
Besides just being overall good songs, each had a touch of melancholyโฆwhich I think that many of their songs had, and they were very good at expressing emotions.
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Hmmm @williamb39198 - seems to be alot of <Beatle Fans>! So far, you @BeatleloverKT and @sweetjulieblueeyes52 . Lol, hope I am not forgetting anyone. Some days I forget my own name = Retirement Moments ๐คฃ๐
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๐ถReggae 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>. ๐
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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" โ per Colonel Potter's request โ over the camp's PA system. And he kept playing it โ again and again.
I think after the third or fourth time, I'd have strangled Radar.
And I like "Sentimental Journey!"
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Lol @AvocadoDog I remember my days of watching Mash!!! ๐๐คฃ They were a hot mess ๐
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@postman29 wrote:You're The Inspiration by Chicago. For my wife and soulmate, she is truly my inspiration.
๐ฅThat is so <touching> @postman29 ๐ฅ
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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 wasnโt 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 ๐ผ๐๐ญ
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I am so sorry for your loss @BeatleloverKT ๐ญ I am divorced and wish my ex would die. Awful man. Seems so unfair, you losing the luv of your life ๐ค Lots of hugs and luv coming your way!
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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.
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@sweetjulieblueeyes52 wrote: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.
๐ฅThat is so <romantic> @sweetjulieblueeyes52 !!!! So glad you found each other ๐๐ ๐ฅ
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