Music and stuff

[TaraLynn]

Does anyone have specific songs, lyrics, musicians etc. that have influenced and touched them....do any of you have anything to recomend to the world?

[andy hughes]

Do I! Although I could clog the site up from now until the end of the century, I'll restruct myself to serious favourites -
best heartbreak song - 'Long Distance Love' - Little Feat.
best melancholy song - 'Suzanne' - Leonard Cohen.
best bitter song - 'The Chain' - Fleetwood Mac.
best cheer up song - 'This Time I Know It's For Real' - Donna Summer.
best dancing-around-the-room song - 'Glory Days' -
Bruce Springsteen.
best absent-lover song - 'Oh Yoko' - John Lennon.
best good-to-be-alive song - 'Anything That's Rock and Roll - Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers.
What a great question!

[Lord Panda]

Me too! Stuff like Jesus Jones' "Right Here, Right Now", Tony Bennett's "The Best is Yet to Come" and even "Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head" [was that BJ Thomas, Andy?] have never sounded the same since they played a prominent part in my wedding 2 years ago. Other songs remind me of times and places - for example The Sugarcubes' first album and The Fall's "I am Kurious Oranj" will always be spring 1988 at university, but Leonard Cohen's "I'm Your Man" will be that summer, but back home.

[andy hughes]

It was BJ Thomas, LP, with an inferior version by Sacha Distel, which was more commercially successful, as is often the case. The obvious glee with which you and i seized on this question proves a valuable point - music is a soundtrack to our lives. We all have songs that take us right back to a time, a place, a person, an experience, like time capsules, we lock them away, and the key is the music. Even the naffest songs can bring a smile in the right circumstances - given my list, I still grin when I hear a certain Chris De Burgh song - wedding connection as well. It doesn't make me smile enough to want to own it though!

[ravenhair]

Jimmy Smith's Walk on the Wild Side (no relation to the other song of that name) is the most uplifting piece of music I've ever heard . . . give it a shot and see what I'm talking about.