What are some songs you think someone MUST here before they die?!
Question: I'll just give 10:
Roll Over Beethoven-Chuck Berry (wasn't the FIRST rock and roll song but it's definitely its 'Declaration of Independence')
He Stopped Loving Her Today-George Jones (one of the saddest, most emotionally complex songs ever written)
Diary-Bread (....other than this one)
Many Rivers to Cross-Jimmy Cliff (spiritual and life-affirming. I want this tune played at my funeral)
In My Life- The Beatles (picking a single Beatle's tune was difficult but this one's combination of melancholy and soul searching makes it one of their best)
Smells Like Teen Spirit-Nirvana (an adrenaline and hormone soaked rocker that makes me feel like a teenager whenever I sing along..)
I've Got the World on a String- Frank Sinatra (there may be a bouncier, more optimistic, ebullient song in recorded music history....but I don't know what it would be)
What'd I Say?-Ray Charles (if I have to explain WHY to you, then you must not have an ounce of soul in your whole body...)
I Got You (I Feel Good)-James Brown (rock crit Dave Marsh described the sound of this as Brown grabbing you by the lapels and shouting right in your face. I think that's pretty apt...)
Surf's Up-Beach Boys (it is NOT a "surfing song", the title is ironic. What it is is a song of sweeping grandeur and majesty that make it all the more the pity that so few have ever heard it. Brian Wilson's magnum opus...)
Links below...
Answers: I'll just give 10:
Roll Over Beethoven-Chuck Berry (wasn't the FIRST rock and roll song but it's definitely its 'Declaration of Independence')
He Stopped Loving Her Today-George Jones (one of the saddest, most emotionally complex songs ever written)
Diary-Bread (....other than this one)
Many Rivers to Cross-Jimmy Cliff (spiritual and life-affirming. I want this tune played at my funeral)
In My Life- The Beatles (picking a single Beatle's tune was difficult but this one's combination of melancholy and soul searching makes it one of their best)
Smells Like Teen Spirit-Nirvana (an adrenaline and hormone soaked rocker that makes me feel like a teenager whenever I sing along..)
I've Got the World on a String- Frank Sinatra (there may be a bouncier, more optimistic, ebullient song in recorded music history....but I don't know what it would be)
What'd I Say?-Ray Charles (if I have to explain WHY to you, then you must not have an ounce of soul in your whole body...)
I Got You (I Feel Good)-James Brown (rock crit Dave Marsh described the sound of this as Brown grabbing you by the lapels and shouting right in your face. I think that's pretty apt...)
Surf's Up-Beach Boys (it is NOT a "surfing song", the title is ironic. What it is is a song of sweeping grandeur and majesty that make it all the more the pity that so few have ever heard it. Brian Wilson's magnum opus...)
Links below...
Helena -MCR
I'm Not Okay - MCR
Welcome To The Black Parade - MCR
Mama - some reassuring words ^^ - MCR
Skylines And Turnstiles - MCR
Ok, I know, MCR overload, but I'm just a tad obsessed!
Wake - Linkin Park
I Write Sins Not Tragedies - Panic At The Disco
Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
REM everybody hurts.... they hear it just before they jump off the building.
Porcupine Tree's Lazarus:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfmOtTMa-...
Hey look, it's here *points up* already.... click it!!!!
"Con te Partido" by Andrea Bocelli
It's Opera and it's in Italian, but it is the most beautiful song I've ever heard. It gives me goosebumps and the first time I heard it, I actually wept. And I didn't understand a word he was singing!
I finally found a translation of it, and the meaning is even more beautiful.
If you have an open-mind, I think that music can touch you in ways you never imagined. It crosses all language barriers and cultures.
I hope you will give it a listen. :)
By the way, I'm not an opera freak or anything. I love alternative and rock. Strange huh? :)
Happy Friday MCRchick!!
This is kind of tricky question for me to answer because it's hard to say what I think someone must hear since many of us share different tastes in music. I can say for example that everyone MUST rock out to I don't know, Scorpions but who's to say anyone would actually want to? It is kind of annoying to play a song you love and hear someone say "ehh that sucks".
There was a time when I wanted to show everyone and anyone how great 80's hair metal was but after realizing that many people just didn't agree with me, I gave up on speading hair metal awareness and focused mainly on myself. Now I don't even bother playing certain songs for people unless I know they like that particular style. Aside from that, I guess I'd just make sure that I heard every song *I* wanted to hear before I died. Exactly what song do I hope to hear? Any song I can, because I like to be as fully educated with music as possible.
Helena by My Chemical Romance
The Used - Let It Bleed
Liar Liar
I'm A Fake
Pretty Hansome Akward
Jack Off Jill - Fear Of Dying
Angels **** Devils Kiss
Evanesence-Imaginary
MCR-You Know What they do to guys like us in prison
Nickleback(video)-Far Away
MCR-Vampires Will Never Hurt You
Linkin Park-Valentine's Day
Train-Drops of Jupiter
FOB-Bang the Doldrums
System of a Down-Science
Tomorrow Never Knows by The Beatles, because it's so far ahead of it's time.
Sleep by MCR, because it's just epically awesome.
Light My Fire by The Doors, because all the cover versions of it are crap. I've yet to hear one that matches up to the original.
Oh, and Clair De Lune by Debussy. I know it's not a song, but it's a stunningly beautiful piece of music.
My Chemical Romance's I'm Not Okay (I Promise)
Taking Back Sunday's A Decade Under The Influence
Linkin Park's Leave Out All the Rest
Paramore's Pressure
The Click Five's Empty
Foo Fighters' Pretender
Panic at the Disco's Nine In The Afternoon
Boys Like Girls' The Great Escape
One Republic's Stop and Stare
Gorillaz's Feel Good Inc.
Fall Out Boy's I'm Like A Lawyer... (Me+You)
Leathermouth's Murder Was the Case That They Gave Me
Evanescence's My Immortal
Jet's Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is
The Killers' Somebody Told Me
Kaiser Chiefs' Ruby
The Beatles' Twist and Shout
Queen's We Will Rock You
Herbert Gronemeyer's Celebrate The Day
Good Charlotte's We Believe
Simple Plan's Welcome To My Life
however, I suggest that the dying person should listen to all MCR, TBS and LP's songs before he/she dies..
Cheers
=]
peace train- cat stevens
oh very young- cat stevens
moonshadow- cat stevens
john lennon- imagine
helena- mcr
i don't love you- mcr
i'm not okay- mcr
mama-mcr
welcome to the black parade- mcr
anything by bob marley
your song- elton john
daniel- elton john
piece of my heart- janis joplin
to love somebody- janis joplin
'Silence' ~ Delerium feat. Sarah McLachlan
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'Telegraph Road' ~ Dire Straits
'Tunnel of Love' ~ Dire Straits
'Nimrod' ~ Elgar
'The Chain' ~ Fleetwood Mac
'Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)' ~ Jimi Hendrix
'The Great Gig in the Sky' ~ Pink Floyd
'Bouree' ~ Jethro Tull
Leave Out All The Rest by Linkin Park
Welcome To The Black Parade by MCR
Photograph by Nickleback
Remember The Name by Fort Minor
What I've Done by Linkin Park
A must for anyone is Everlong by Foo Fighters!
Okay, I'll warn you all... my list is going to jump all over the place, but it'll be good... PROMISE
The ones with 2 * are the ones you need to look for NOW!
the ones w/ 1 * are the ones u need to hear today
**Imagine ~ John lennon
**FREEBIRD ~ Lynyrd Skynyrd
All i can do is write about it - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Rock & Roll Ain't noise pollution ~ ACDC
Seize the day ~ Avenged 7fold
*Still alive ~ Axe Murder boys
Shooting star - bad company
Give me one good reason - Blink 182
*A lap dance is always better wen the strippers cryin - bloodhound gang
Lake of fire - nirvana
**Plateau - Nirvana
The man who sold the world- Nirvana
Pin up - evans blue
**Shiny daimonds - Violent J (ICP)
Welcome to the Jungle - Guns & ROses
The Warmth - Incubus
Don't stop believing - journey
Rest of my Life - Kottonmouth kings
Positive Vibes - Kottonmouth Kings
Jaded - Mest
My friend of Misery - Metallica
Until it sleeps - Metallica
If Everyone Cared - Nickleback
**All apologies - Nirvana
Last kiss - Pearl Jam
Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd
Brain Damage- Pink FLoyd
Peaches - Presidents of the untied states of america
Californication- Red Hot Chili Peppers
**Under The Bridge - Red Hot Chili Peppers
*Drift away - Rolling Stones (dobie gray Cover)
Can't fight against the youth - Sublime
Boss dj - sublime
*What I got (acoustic) - Sublme
Hey Jude- The Beatles
*Strawberry Fields - The Beatles
**Hotel California - The Eagles
* Won't back down - tom Petty
Wat u thinkin about - Violent J (ICP)
Kashmerre - Led Zeppelin
Lucy in the sky with Diamonds - the beatles
mObscene- Marilyn Manson
The Nobodies - Marilyn Manson
Boy named sue - Johnny Cash
The dance - garth brooks
Magic Carpet ride - Steppenwolf
Down on the corner - creedence clearwater revival
Have you ever seen the rain - CCR ^
Everything changes - Staind
ALL Nirvana songs
ALL Lynyrd Synyrd songs
& I can't think of anymore rite now
matchbook romance - "goody, like two shoes"
thursday - "autumn leaves revisited"
Heart Shaped Box-Nirvana
Like a Stone-Audioslave
Heaven Beside You-Alice in Chains
Be Yourself-Audioslave
Black Hole Sun-Soundgarden
No Way Out-STP
-It's not a fashion statement, its a deathwish
-i never told you what i do for a living
-you know what they do to guys like us in prison
-thank you for the venom