On the RR-Line I started a thread called Your Favorite.
It proved to be very popular and many contributed.
It was a good way to learn about different bands and music styles.
The other day Greg (Ensign) mentioned it and Dave gave the OK to start a thread here.
And You and I ~ Yes ~ Symphonic Live
That's a favorite of mine, a great way to start us off, Rick.
Here's another classic from the same time:
dave
Thanks Dave.
Didn't realize the video owner didn't allow sharing the video on other platforms.
The link above does work but here is a direct link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wygdzRPsJa0
Rick,
We had a lot of diverse music and songs on here when it was on RR Lines.
I have many favorite songs but I'll list this one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jy6AOGRsR80
Tom
Dave, I'm not familiar with that band but it sounds good.
I'll have to look them up.
Tom, thanks for that classic.
I'm sure others here are music lovers and I'd love to see what you like to listen to.
Rick, thanks for bringing this "Your Favorite Songs" topic back to this forum!
I look forward to listening & contributing to it once again!
Greg
Quote from: Rick on August 08, 2025, 07:32:13 AMDave, I'm not familiar with that band but it sounds good.
I'll have to look them up.
Tom, thanks for that classic.
I'm sure others here are music lovers and I'd love to see what you like to listen to.
"It's a Beautiful Day" was slated to play at Woodstock, and couldn't make it. They were replaced by "Santana". And as the old saying goes, "The rest was history..."
dave
Not sure I can pick a favorite song but here is an oldie from Jethro Tull
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSUdlUmtg3Q
Locomotive Breath from the album Aqualung.
Quote from: elwoodblues on August 09, 2025, 08:16:30 AMNot sure I can pick a favorite song but here is an oldie from Jethro Tull
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSUdlUmtg3Q
Locomotive Breath from the album Aqualung.
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Since we're in a Progressive mode:
(Genesis: The Carpet Crawlers)
dave
I first heard White Bird long ago in the glory years of Boston's WBCN, bought the vinyl album (as well as Marrying Maiden and Choice Quality Stuff Anytime). I ripped White Bird in 2014. Now it's one of sixty four hundred songs on the thumb drive plugged into my car. I'm in the W's of my first pass through it, in alphabetical order by title. I'll probably hear White Bird on my next drive to the Trolley Museum....
Quote from: jbvb on August 09, 2025, 08:45:11 AMI first heard White Bird long ago in the glory years of Boston's WBCN, bought the vinyl album (as well as Marrying Maiden and Choice Quality Stuff Anytime). I ripped White Bird in 2014. Now it's one of sixty four hundred songs on the thumb drive plugged into my car. I'm in the W's of my first pass through it, in alphabetical order by title. I'll probably hear White Bird on my next drive to the Trolley Museum....
Do you remember the daytime only AM station in the late '60s? They played some wild stuff...
dave
Quote from: deemery on August 09, 2025, 08:54:54 AMQuote from: jbvb on August 09, 2025, 08:45:11 AMI first heard White Bird long ago in the glory years of Boston's WBCN, bought the vinyl album (as well as Marrying Maiden and Choice Quality Stuff Anytime). I ripped White Bird in 2014. Now it's one of sixty four hundred songs on the thumb drive plugged into my car. I'm in the W's of my first pass through it, in alphabetical order by title. I'll probably hear White Bird on my next drive to the Trolley Museum....
Do you remember the daytime only AM station in the late '60s? They played some wild stuff...
dave
I didn't find WBCN till I got an FM tuner. I don't think low power AM would have reached the Merrimack Valley. I know WTBS (MIT) had an AM business (the underlying reason why the Apple Gunkies joke-commercials were made). But Boston college radio sure was great while I lived within range. Still my choice when I'm driving in that direction.
From You and I to Us and Them. ;D
Great choice Rick. From one the finest albums every recorded.
Jerry
How about this on from the distant past.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMdb2TB7-YI&list=RDbMdb2TB7-YI&start_radio=1
Greg, thanks for joining in.
I looked around for a video of
Down On Phillips Escalator but no joy. Always interesting to hear Ted when he was new on the scene, though, so here's the whole first album with just a photo of the cover:
The
Insert A YouTube Video button makes a black window, so here's the link raw:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BMSj48jWN0&list=PLD3JwwIIASlqlm-p9JCIISLBNfrRWBUVm
On college radio, I had the "eyeball set", with this, "Story in Your Eyes" - Moody Blues, "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" - Crosby, Stills and Nash.
dave
James and Dave, thanks for adding some good songs. 8)
Two versions of the same song.
Some excellent guitar by Tim Pierce on this version.
Not 1, not 2, but 3 reworked classical pieces:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2RNe2jwHE0 From a Bach Lute Suite
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lXCa6_VH3s From Brahms 4th Symphony
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YKc7jlgKM8 From Janacek's Sinfonietta
dave
Love the Sax in this song.
https://youtu.be/Fo6aKnRnBxM?si=4_GojKfUvVEjeL5F
And a Rock classic
https://youtu.be/1w2kLS4gkks?si=xZABoVuzeqCD5bl_
Howdy folks,
There hasn't been a song posted that I don't love. I think I love everything from Sergei Rachmaninov to George Strait. That said, I love the blues, especially sung by Miss Etta:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qJU8G7gR_g&list=PLa3HlKFsnLvZ1vfFn34kcWJXsGevI_mPE&index=7 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qJU8G7gR_g&list=PLa3HlKFsnLvZ1vfFn34kcWJXsGevI_mPE&index=7)
Of course, on a different night, it might be Bad Company:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXQJpyQBShU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXQJpyQBShU)
Have fun,
mike
My favorite live album is Allman Brothers Band Live at Fillmore, and this is my favorite track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rQWh62VUHE In Memory of Elizabeth Reed
dave
Quote from: deemery on August 27, 2025, 08:20:26 AMMy favorite live album is Allman Brothers Band Live at Fillmore, and this is my favorite track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rQWh62VUHE In Memory of Elizabeth Reed
dave
Dave one of my favorite albums to. They were a great band.
Jerry
A German prog band that started out as a Pink Floyd cover band, pretty obvious why one of my favorite songs.
https://youtu.be/INLKsHSwQb4?si=KRBdBnXI9AgK2njL (https://youtu.be/INLKsHSwQb4?si=KRBdBnXI9AgK2njL)
I'm all over the place, musically (anything but the real twangy s**tkicker country or silly Death Metal ;D). Yesterday, my workout soundtrack was primarily Soundgarden and Metallica...but I spent most of the day driving around to the Grateful Dead. As a teen, I'd go to CBGB's Sunday punk matinee and I've seen the Ramones a dozen times, starting in 9th Grade - so I still have a very soft spot for that stuff, especially Dropkick Murphys and the Clash. But then again, I love Brandi Carlisle and Sarah Mclachlan. I guess I can't be contained ;D
but, if I HAVE TO pick an all-time favorite, I always come back to Led Zeppelin- who will always be the varsity, notably the drums at the beginning of "When the Levee Breaks", which I could listen to over and over.
This one is for Reading Bob and everyone else who's worked in IT/software: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsDkmVo2fg4 (Stan Rogers, "White Collar Holler")
dave
Brooks and Dunn
Jim
Music and railroads combined. Does it get any better?
Thanks to everyone for adding songs to this thread.
I changed the title because I think the word "favorite" was confusing.
By changing the title to "Songs that you like" it allows everyone to post multiple songs not just the one that is your favorite.
As my car stumbled through my thumbdrive full of songs yesterday, it hit upon Chrissy Hynde and the Pretenders' version of Jimi Hendrix's Room Full Of Mirrors. I listened to it three times through:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DByCaWT8b4M
Speaking of 'Hendrix' and 'covers': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdSyFxTDQUM (All Along the Watchtower)
dave
I heard this on the Physical Therapy's 'musak' service, and commented to the therapist, "I remember hearing this the first time on an 8-track in my uncle's car." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wT1s96JIb0 ("Black Magic Woman," Santana)
dave
Quote from: link=msg=192629 date=1758204815Yada yada yada... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wT1s96JIb0 ("Black Magic Woman," Santana)
dave
Hmmm...finding out how good some of these oldies sound in Bluetooth hearing aids Great acoustic venue, my head:o
By the end of my teens, I knew and loved Santana's Black Magic Woman. But then I heard Peter Green/Fleetwood Mac's original:
https://youtu.be/hRu7Pt42x6Y?si=OZQ4i8FXgB3-LDqa
No way would I have gotten into the Boston Tea Party when this performance was recorded.
Quote from: jbvb on September 18, 2025, 01:43:37 PMBy the end of my teens, I knew and loved Santana's Black Magic Woman. But then I heard Peter Green/Fleetwood Mac's original:
https://youtu.be/hRu7Pt42x6Y?si=OZQ4i8FXgB3-LDqa
No way would I have gotten into the Boston Tea Party when this performance was recorded.
Huh, I didn't know that was an (original lineup) Fleetwood Mac song. I thought it was 'traditional.'
Okay, this one requires a little background story. I first heard it performed live in the early 80's. The Rossington Collins Band appeared at the Harrisburg Forum in the Captial Complex. Beautiful theater by the way. The band was rather taken aback that they were playing in such a nice place and asked everyone to be nice and not damage anything.
Anyhow, Gary Rossington and Alan Collins were two of the original guitar players from Lynyrd Skynyrd and this was one of the bands, founded in 1979, that they formed following the famous plane crash that took the lives of Ronnie Van Zant, Steve Gaines and Cassie Gaines. The rest were seriously injured. Billy Powell (keyboards) and Leon Wilkeson (bass) were the other members of Lynyrd Skynyrd in the band. Dale Krantz was recruited to sing; Barry Lee Harwood was added as a third guitar player and Derek Hess on the drums. So, 4 of the 7 members were from Lynyrd Skynyrd. They put on quite a show. It was easily one of the best concerts I've been to.
When they came out for their encore, they put the microphone at center stage and four of them gather around it to sing Pine Box A cappella. It was a rather chilling song given what some of the members of band had been through and quite a departure from the hard, southern rock they had been playing up until this point. After Pine Box they left the microphone at the center of the stage and dedicated the final song of the night to Ronnie Van Zant. They then proceeded to play Freebird without vocals.
Given I was about five rows away from the stage my ears were ringing for a few days afterwards.
James, I didn't know Black Magic Woman was a Fleetwood Mac song.
Bob, Lynyrd Skynyrd has some great songs.
Nice A cappella song.
That song is actually a bit chilling considering the background.
Dave, doesn't Traditional begin some time earlier as Original? Inquiring minds with little else to do wonder... ;)
Quote from: KentuckySouthern on September 19, 2025, 02:26:56 PMDave, doesn't Traditional begin some time earlier as Original? Inquiring minds with little else to do wonder... ;)
"Traditional" usually means "We have no clue who wrote it."
dave
How about a moldie oldie from 1953 - Ted Heath and The Creep.....if you watch Midsomer Mysteries, you might have heard this as the bad guy's theme......
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hKTxJ3csv8
Quote from: GPdemayo on September 19, 2025, 03:15:09 PMHow about a moldie oldie from 1953 - Ted Heath and The Creep.....if you watch Midsomer Mysteries, you might have heard this as the bad guy's theme......
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hKTxJ3csv8
The theremin instrument theme song is quite haunting..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvD73A9eXXk
Quote from: Philip on September 20, 2025, 10:15:23 AMQuote from: GPdemayo on September 19, 2025, 03:15:09 PMHow about a moldie oldie from 1953 - Ted Heath and The Creep.....if you watch Midsomer Mysteries, you might have heard this as the bad guy's theme......
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hKTxJ3csv8
The theremin instrument theme song is quite haunting..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvD73A9eXXk
It is really a strange instrument Philip, kinda like a stringless harp. The link below shows how it works, quite fascinating.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QgTF8p-284
Here's one from my favorite band.
I was at Mount Saint Helen's National Monument a couple of days ago and thought this song was appropriate.
"Trick of the Tail" - the last 'worthy' Genesis album ;)
Some earlier Genesis:
dave
THERE'S ONLY ONE ORIGINAL L R B AND YOU'RE VIEWING IT 8)
Good one Rick, My favorite artist. Saw him in person 1970 at my college.
Rich
Here are a few that always have me turning up the volume. :D