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What’s your favorite song?

So what’s your absolute favorite song you always keep playing?
My favorite song is “Role the dice” by Lunatic Calm.

I have so many favorite songs! I should make playlist????

Not my all-time favorite, but Renaldo... reminded me of another Ralph favorite:

a certified HOOD classic

Bob Lind - Elusive B utterfly

One is hard.
But a top three I can do:

Though now I feel guilty for not including some other ones :)

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Originally Posted by rubber soul (Post 2193310)

hey, same!

Tie, though a slight edge to the first one.

Thirty years ago, I probably would have named a song from Bon Jovi's New Jersey. Now, I don't know if I have a favourite song. I have too many songs to pick just one.

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Originally Posted by gigmaster (Post 2206195)

Incense and Peppermints by Strawberry Alarm clock.

I remember that when I discovered this track I literally listened to it for a week or so and nothing else

Impossible to choose just one, but these come to mind:

Robert Wyatt – Sea Song

Tim Buckley – Phantasmagoria in Two

George Harrison – I’d Have You Anytime

I guess people who have favorite songs have some kind of personal connection to it or its meaning? Or it's just about a favorite melody?

For me, it's a little bit of both. My favorite song (It's farther up in the thread) has an incredible melody and amazing lyrics not to mention the arrangement.

But there is something about the song that takes me back to when things seemed simpler. It's hard to describe, but there are songs that just feel like a part of you. That's how I feel about my favorite song.

A little bit of both for me as well. Although I don't really connect with songs in a nostalgic sense. It's more about the emotional pull of the song in an impressionistic way. I tend to like songs that are poetic and atmospheric in character.

Another favorite:

Robbie Basho - Blue Crystal Fire

I can never listen to this song without thinking of the e.e. cummings poem, "[All in green went my love riding]".

Speaking of nostalgia, this is my second favorite song. I remember hearing this on the radio when I was four years old and remember how wonderfully eerie the lead guitar was.

Been my favorite for about 10 years now.

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Originally Posted by rubber soul (Post 2206738)

"Strawberry Fields" is an amazing creation in every conceivable way. "Nothing is real, and nothing to get hung about..."

https://i.pinimg.com/564x/6b/79/a0/6...b7a2396ac1.jpg

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Originally Posted by rubber soul (Post 2206753)

Speaking of nostalgia, this is my second favorite song. I remember hearing this on the radio when I was four years old and remember how wonderfully eerie the lead guitar was.

Donovan is oft underrated! I love this one also - Jimmy Page on skeletal guitar:

Hey, Ribbons! Welcome back! Missed ya! :wavey: :love:

Hi, TH - Missed you too! Thanks so much. :wavey:

(Lots going on lately - hope you and Karen are doing OK. :love:)

Well, I hope it's good things going on, ribbons ! Good to see you back again :wave:

Yes, Strawberry Fields is a good choice; it could've been mine too along with Waterloo Sunset, but both of those are just so familiar to me that they've slipped off my listening chart tbh.

Still surving from a long time ago are these contrasting songs, because you know, people can have more than one mood, can't they?

Love everything about "Son Of Mirror Man - Mere Man": the structure of the song, the intensity of playing from everyone involved, and Cptn Beefheart sounding his barbaric yawp:-

At one time, going home alone at night through empty streets was a regular part of my life. Thanks for your company, Nick Drake:-

Still remember the "Hey, listen to this!" moment when a good friend introduced me to the guitar playing of Duane Allman and Dickey Betts:-

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Originally Posted by Lisnaholic (Post 2206791)

Well, I hope it's good things going on, ribbons ! Good to see you back again :wave:

All is well, Lisna - thank you! And it's always good seeing you around. :wavey:

I have also spent many a time in Nick Drake's company, listening to "At The Chime Of A City Clock" while driving at night. In fact, I love Bryter Layter so much that it inspired my purchase of a Guild acoustic similar to the one Nick poses with on the cover.

"For a stone in a tin can / is wealth to the city man / who leaves his armor down."

https://i.ibb.co/58W5b4K/guild-m120-livingroom.jpg

Thanks, ribbons. Nice to know that you also love Bryter Layter, and yes, City Clock is full of great lines - plus of course, the way that saxophone comes in :bowdown:

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Originally Posted by ribbons (Post 2206844)

I have also spent many a time in Nick Drake's company, listening to "At The Chime Of A City Clock" while driving at night. In fact, I love Bryter Layter so much that it inspired my purchase of a Guild acoustic similar to the one Nick poses with on the cover.

"For a stone in a tin can / is wealth to the city man / who leaves his armor down."

https://i.ibb.co/58W5b4K/guild-m120-livingroom.jpg

^ Very nice photo: I had no idea you played the guitar! Well done on buying the same as Nick's. And how about the shoes on the cover? ;) I've never seen any like those in a shop.

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Originally Posted by ribbons (Post 2206844)

https://i.ibb.co/58W5b4K/guild-m120-livingroom.jpg

Nice ride you got there.

I remember playing a friends Guild when I first started, and it was like a switch turned on in me thinking: "So, this is how guitars should play and sound" after I had been on my crappy Decca for a year or so. I had much to learn.

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Originally Posted by Lisnaholic (Post 2206868)

Thanks, ribbons. Nice to know that you also love Bryter Layter, and yes, City Clock is full of great lines - plus of course, the way that saxophone comes in :bowdown:

^ Very nice photo: I had no idea you played the guitar! Well done on buying the same as Nick's. And how about the shoes on the cover? ;) I've never seen any like those in a shop.

Thanks, Lisna! I love Ray Warleigh's noirish sax on “Chime” - as well as Ray Kirby’s beautiful string arrangement shifting from major-to-minor chords and the absolute spine of Nick’s guitar, which allowed everything else to exist. As for those SHOES on the cover (plus a few other things ;)):

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© The Guardian 8 Jan 2016

Nick Drake’s career may come cloaked in myth and mystery, but one facet often overlooked by musical historians and cultural scholars are those shoes. Those incongruously bulky blue suede brothel creepers with banana yellow laces.

For many years I assumed the disbanded footwear on the cover of Bryter Layter were some kind of symbol of the introverted, agoraphobic musician’s rejection of fame and its exhibitionist implications. After all, would a soft, dandy-ish sort like Drake really slip on something so commandeering? However, thanks to the premise of this feature, the story behind the unlikely shoes has been unearthed. As it turns out, the creepers in question are symbolic, but were owned by the portrait’s photographer, Nigel Waymouth.

If one forum is to be believed, Waymouth’s shoes, which were made to design by the Chelsea Cobbler, were placed in front of Drake’s feet “to add an optimistic note (blue suede shoes – dancing shoes), in an otherwise sombre photograph, that would echo the title of the album, Bryter Layter.” The post also goes on to detail its other items: the chair Drake sits on was once reportedly owned by Charles Dickens, who sat in it to write, and the small Guild guitar was one that Eric Clapton gave to his friend and flatmate Martin Sharp. Backstory aside, the other intangible elements of the image come from its awkward composition, something that I love, but is likely to infuriate design pedants, from the positioning of the portrait in the oval shape which looks a little off-kilter, to Drake’s face, largely covered in shadow. I happen to think his terrible posture and shadowy face is rather apt, given his temperament. Its colour scheme, a very 70s clash of bold hues – mauve, red and orange – are also gregarious shades that seem to complement what Melody Maker referred to, somewhat snidely, as this album’s “cocktail jazz”.

Examining this vinyl sleeve in 2016, the artwork appears effortlessly aloof and elegant, it emanates a strange sophistication, and is a symbol of a man who shirked the spotlight, the stereotypes and the silly shoes of the 1970s. - Harriet Gibsone

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Originally Posted by Plankton (Post 2206931)

Thanks, P! Well, you've come a long way baby - guitars-wise and otherwise.

Those vintage Deccas are cool, though. I've seen a few over the years in the old guitar shop at the base of the Chelsea Hotel.

(Btw, love the new Hunter S. Plankton avatar. ;))

I sent mine to the garbage dump after trying to imitate Pete Townsend.

*windmill ~ windmill ~ smash!*

...and thanks! He's pretty nifty.

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Originally Posted by ribbons (Post 2206948)

Yes, great job by Joe Boyd too on getting all those sounds together just right. Thanks for all the info about the cover, and it's true - so much about its design is subtly not normal: even down to the type-face and (presumably Nick's) spelling. Also, the original album cover was printed on a matt-finish cardboard with a slight bubbly texture. All the combined effects worked well together in one sense: they said , "This is album is a little special and not easy to categorize."

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Originally Posted by ribbons (Post 2206949)

(Btw, love the new Hunter S. Plankton avatar. ;))

Oh! Right! Now I get it. I just thought, "Haha! It's a plank."
Good one!

BTW, something you may know already, but I learnt from rostasi, of this forum, is that the pianist on Poor Boy is Chris McGregor of Brotherhood Of Breath fame:-

My favorite song is Lemon Tree by Fool's Garden. I've listened to it over and over again a hundred times.

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Originally Posted by Lisnaholic (Post 2206971)

BTW, something you may know already, but I learnt from rostasi, of this forum, is that the pianist on Poor Boy is Chris McGregor of Brotherhood Of Breath fame:-

I had no idea that McGregor played piano on "Poor Boy" - leave it to rostasi. And I've heard very little of Brotherhood Of Breath - time to remedy that. Thanks! :)

There was a time that Human by The Human League was my favorite song in the whole world. It's haunting, it's beautiful, it's chilling music. But my 80's radio station decided to overplay it so much, I got tired of it. I still love it, it's just that it's no longer my favorite song in the whole world anymore thanks to the 80's radio station overplaying it so much.

Ok I won't lie, this is one of my favorites.

A complex question, but if I need to make a list, these 3 are my favorite:

Led Zeppelin - Stairways to Heaven
Rainbow - Stargazer
Uriah Heep - Lady in Black.

Dance Wit Me by Rick James is a darn good song and it lasts awhile! One of his finest for sure. Is it my favorite? Maybe, I have too damn many though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2twOI9_aFA

Nobody can argue with a Rick James selection. To paraphrase, it's Rick James, bitch!