Favourite songs ever

[Kairit]

I know many people probably have very many favourite songs, but I'd love to find out what are some of the songs that you've especially connected with or listened to the most in your life/the past few years etc or what you remember loving and making memories with at a certain moment in your life? And if you can, I'd like to know the reasoning behind it, why you love the song so much or why it's so important to you or what it means to you etc (they don't have to be meaningful songs) - and maybe you'll convince me why I should love that song too. There are probably a lot of songs, because I know I have, but you can pick and choose which ones you'd love to share and your thoughts on them.

You can add links to the songs.

 

[EscGeek]

Game Over - Back in the days,they were popular as f***. I was like 7 or 8 when it came out and all my classmates were crazy for it..I still know the lyrics to this song...and many slovenians know it too to this day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JD2Oqj6xB8Q

Siddharta - This is my earliest memory of liking a rock song..They are still active and are my favorite band in the world with more than 40 amazing hits https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZqbM9RyEV4

Slon in Sadež - This song by a slovene comedy duo is legen-wait for it- DARY!..It's 7 minutes long and i know all of the lyrics...And it has a sick beat (if you want to know how slovenian language really sounds just listen to it...) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUZvFuaYQI4

 

[Ringdalen]

Hollywood Undead - Bullet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lP077RitNAc

This song has some of the most depressing lyrics I have heard, but the melody is very upbeat and the singers are singing in a positive way. The song is about someone wanting to commit suicide and then they do it. It´s my all time favorite song because I can relate to the deeper meaning. The song is about how just because someone seems positive and happy does it not mean that they are. And its only when you look deeper and understand the person that you will see that they can be in a messed up place. I do not want to go into too much detail.

The song is a song I can sing along to both when I am feeling my worst and my best. How the song makes me feel depends on the context I am listening to it, but it always makes me feel something.

This song was already very personal to me, but the bond with it got even stronger when I heard it live. I have told some of you the story of how it made me fee and how its one of the highlights of my life. No other song has ever connected to me in such a deep level.

 

[Kairit]

Thank you so so much for sharing your deep personal feelings on it. To connect with music this much is truly one of the best things in life.

I'll go for something different for some of mine. There are so many songs I've loved in my life. I think most of all I'm attracted to songs with a certain richness in them that also make me feel a certain way, something consummating. A lot of the time melancholic yet hopeful at the same time.

One of them is certainly Ed Sheeran's "Give Me Love" [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOjdXSrtUxA [/URL]
This is the song that made me love Ed Sheeran as a musician. It's my second most listened to song on last.fm and probably most listened in my life? Just !extraordinary! and beautiful to me. The timeless rich all-consuming feeling in this song, the lyrics, the guitar and instrumentation, the detail (and I love details), the video... I love it endlessly and it makes me feel so much. Every beat takes my breath away. It passionately goes all out in a low-key way and I love it as I see a lot of myself in that. There probably won't ever be a song like this for me again. But I don't think I need another one because Give Me Love still hasn't lost it's value for me, every listen still feels so fresh as there's so much in this song. Just wow.

To contrast that, however... Another one of my all-time favourites is Saint Motel's "My Type" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyVPyKrx0Xo
... I only heard it last year, but it was complete and full love at first note for me and that usually never happens to me in that intensity (besides maybe also with alt-J's "Every Other Freckle", which is also on a rarity level of awesome). It doesn't have that feeling. It's just a totally kick-ass fun song I'll never get tired of and every time I hear it it's like the first time I heard it - OMFHHGKDGKDSKGLJS.. It's the best. The best. I'm so glad I discovered it, because I can't imagine how I could live without knowing this song - travesty. I probably could live without any other song on this earth, but I need to have this one and I don't know why.

Carnival Youth - Never Have Enough.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbKV-jCjlaI AHHH. I love this song. SO. MUCH. It takes everything I love and puts it into a lovely brilliant little pot full of love and bittersweetness and hope. It never fails to put a smile on my face and fill my soul with love for everything around me. I lovelovelove the instrumentation, especially when it gets to the last chorus with the harmonica sound. So intricately layered yet so simple at the same time. This evokes such an emotion inside my heart. It takes my breath away as it ends. Just the delicate melody line with the piano and everything. Timeless. It captures the most perfect feeling of nostalgia. And all this from a young band from Latvia. Such a gem. And I love the video, it reminds me of Estonia yet captures the feeling in the song so brilliantly. I guess that's what makes me love it even more, it feels so close to me, like home. I'll never have enough of this...

Whilst Ed Sheeran is my favourite male musician, Angels & Airwaves is certainly my favourite band and songs like this are the reason why. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMl8cQjBfqk "Adventure" completely has that bittersweet all-consuming feeling of love for life, which is so precious and just everything to me. Everything about this is amazing for me. It just fills my soul and almost makes it burst. So, SO special. The different parts in this song, you never get bored... It is truly eargasm after eargasm. Every little detail and nuance is so intricately pleasing. And your vicious pain, your warning sign, you will be fine... Ten years into loving this song... Still not over it.

Zwette ft. Molly - Rush https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrmgxRvcCGY Kind of ironic how one of my favourite songs on Earth is by an Eurovision artist, yet not their Eurovision song. Molly Switten-Downes' voice elevates it to such a high level for me, besides the fact that I love deep house and this track manages to exceed anything I've ever heard from that genre, because of that damn ethereal feeling and deep production. It fills my soul into oblivion. Truly orgasmic in every sense of the word. Completely consummating, the embodiment of summer... Perfection.

There are a lot of songs I could keep on talking about forever, but I'll refrain myself for now and add Amsterdam by Imagine Dragons to top it off. It's my most listened to song on last.fm, which I guess speaks for itself. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKtPXO5iEnA Everything in this song is so my thing and makes me feel complete. I never fail to tear up and smile at the same time when the song reaches it's bridge. Sad yet hopeful at the same time with a rich composition and production is just how I like it. It means a lot. ♥

 

[CaraMia]

I'm going to confess that apart from the songs that become radio hits (Adele, Beyonce, Sam Smith, etc.) I voluntarily don't go listen to songs outside the Eurovision world (songs from Eurovision or other songs from singers that went to ESC or participated in national finals). When people here go to Summer festivals and they go see big names I usually have no idea about how their songs sound like. I only know the singer's name and that's it.
Of course, sometimes I go on YouTube and I end up listening to songs that have nothing to do with Eurovision. Once I discovered a song by the Russian singer Zemfira. The name of the song is "Hochesh?" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpJ_fYyAeYk)
This is not a song I listen to every day or every week. But from time to time I find myself listening to that song. I can't feel with any other song what I feel with this song. It's kind of hypnotic. And the funny thing is that I don't like this kind of music. It's only this song. I don't know if it is the language. I only understand some words from it. All this years I have never learned the complete meaning of it (although I can sing it because I have memorized it). I just like listening to it for the pleasure of listening to it. So, for the times that it has been present in my life, I would choose it as my favourite song.

 

[LastDreamer]

Exclude Eurovision :
Sue Wilkinson - You've Got To Be A Hustler If You Want To Get On
Bucks Fizz / allSTARS* - The Land Of Make Believe (I can't select the favourite version)
Sinead Quinn - I Can't Break Down
ABBA - That's Me
YVA - Brunetes Blondines

and many many others...

 

[Nikoreindeer1973]

The Prodigy - Smack my bitch up
Scooter - Fuck the Millenium
WASP - Animal Fuck Like A Beast

 

[aja675]

I'm not sure about ever, but I'm obsessed with this 2003 NF song:

 

[scratchthat2009]

1. Superbus - Radio Song
2. No Doubt - Excuse Me Mr.
3. Simonetta Spiri & others - L'Origine
4. ZAA - IRIE&KOOL
5. BABYMETAL - THE ONE

 

[LastDreamer]

Anmary - Beautiful Song.

 

[Ausesken]

Celine Dion - My heart will go on
Pachelbel - Canon in D
Nino Bravo - Libre

 

[BernadetteCydonia]

jeebus, where to even start

 

[LastDreamer]

By decades :
50s : Rosemary Clooney - This Ole House
60s : France Gall - Les Sucettes
70s : ABBA - That's Me
80s : Sue Wilkinson - You Gotta Be A Hustler If You Wanna Get On
90s : Steps - Say You'll Be Mine
00s : Sinead Quinn - I Can't Break Down
10s : Anmary - Beautiful Song

 

[JSSArcos]

My favorite song from Portugal !

 

[PopGeek]

Here are a few faves of mine:

This is some truly moving stuff. The scene-sketching lyrics, the elaborate production, and the fabulous vocal performance make this one of the greatest ballads of all time.

I didn't actually grow up with An American Tail, but by God does the pop version of its signature ballad sweep me off my feet. The track is whimsical sentimentality at its very finest, with immaculate vocals and a fantastically developed song structure to realize every ounce of potential in an already powerful premise.

The more famous covers are good too, but it's only the original, performed by Prince protege Elisa Fiorillo, that knocks the ball 10,000 miles out of the park. Fiorillo's vocals are not only sugarier than gumdrops, they're also incredibly acrobatic, making the giddy excitement of this piece come out in full effect. The '80s synth production is also handled with razor-sharp precision, driven by infectious syncopated backups, as well as a grinding synth riff. I am a proud fan of bubblegum music, but this particular track is the reigning queen of bubbly pop for me.

This is an obscure track of the aishu eurobeat genre, sold primarily in Japan though recently made more available worldwide, too. A lot like "Somewhere Out There", this song is premised around undying hope in a clearly established atmosphere of hardship and isolation. This piece, however, works a bit differently because of its loaded, propulsive beat, filled with intricate percussion layers, '90s electric organs, and cooing synth strings, not to mention its minor progression. The mood is more nomadically melancholic, which really paints the song's somber atmosphere beautifully, and the lyrics are perfectly balanced between direct images such as "boulevard of broken dreams", "look into my eyes", and "if you got me on my knees", as well as simply, identifiable sentiments such as "the power in me is the power of dreams" and "all the world can't stop my lonely flight." This song first came out over two decades ago, but it never really achieved much attention due to its unfortunate lack of proper promotion. I would really love to see it find more of an audience because it's a really powerful song that excels in several ways at once to create a type of emotionally fueled dance song distinct from the type of club tracks people are more familiar with.

 

[mauve]

Here are a few faves of mine:

This is some truly moving stuff. The scene-sketching lyrics, the elaborate production, and the fabulous vocal performance make this one of the greatest ballads of all time.

I didn't actually grow up with An American Tail, but by God does the pop version of its signature ballad sweep me off my feet. The track is whimsical sentimentality at its very finest, with immaculate vocals and a fantastically developed song structure to realize every ounce of potential in an already powerful premise.

The more famous covers are good too, but it's only the original, performed by Prince protege Elisa Fiorillo, that knocks the ball 10,000 miles out of the park. Fiorillo's vocals are not only sugarier than gumdrops, they're also incredibly acrobatic, making the giddy excitement of this piece come out in full effect. The '80s synth production is also handled with razor-sharp precision, driven by infectious syncopated backups, as well as a grinding synth riff. I am a proud fan of bubblegum music, but this particular track is the reigning queen of bubbly pop for me.

This is an obscure track of the aishu eurobeat genre, sold primarily in Japan though recently made more available worldwide, too. A lot like "Somewhere Out There", this song is premised around undying hope in a clearly established atmosphere of hardship and isolation. This piece, however, works a bit differently because of its loaded, propulsive beat, filled with intricate percussion layers, '90s electric organs, and cooing synth strings, not to mention its minor progression. The mood is more nomadically melancholic, which really paints the song's somber atmosphere beautifully, and the lyrics are perfectly balanced between direct images such as "boulevard of broken dreams", "look into my eyes", and "if you got me on my knees", as well as simply, identifiable sentiments such as "the power in me is the power of dreams" and "all the world can't stop my lonely flight." This song first came out over two decades ago, but it never really achieved much attention due to its unfortunate lack of proper promotion. I would really love to see it find more of an audience because it's a really powerful song that excels in several ways at once to create a type of emotionally fueled dance song distinct from the type of club tracks people are more familiar with.

Great Songs! How strange that I actually never heard of the artists (except Ronstadt) even though I grew up around that time! Maybe I heard Caroll before though ... can't remember. But she has a terrific voice. But then again I am just starting to find and love 80's Music that I didn't like back then (like a-ha).

 

[midnightsun]

I'm actually into rock/metal the most so some of my favourites are

Paradise Lost - One second
Sonata Arctica - Replica, Full Moon, The end of this chapter
Nightwish - Nemo, End of all hope
The Gathering - Kevin's telescope
Scorpions - Send me an angel
Saybia - Day after tomorrow
Smash into pieces - Merry go round, Friend like you
The birthday masscre - Kill the lights
Linkin Park - New divide


But since I grew up in the 80s, I'm still a lot into 80s music... big fan of the usual suspects like a-ha, Duran Duran, Roxette... lots of my favourite songs are of these bands.

One of my most favourites of all time is Ordinary World by Duran Duran and Silver blue by Roxette.

Some other favourites of mine (I'm an "all over the place" listener actually) -

Brian May - Too much love will kill you
The Hollies - He ain't heavy he's my brother
Wishful thinking - Hiroshima
Shiny toy guns - Rainy monday
Depeche Mode - Stripped
Alphaville - Heaven on earth
Kansas - Carry on my wayward son
Levina - The current
Maggie Reilly - Silver on the trees
Tina Dico - Open wide, No time to sleep
Til Tuesdays - Voices carry
Andreas Bourani - Eisberg
Laith Al Deen - Kleine Helden

[...]

 

[mauve]

I'm actually into rock/metal the most so some of my favourites are

Paradise Lost - One second
Sonata Arctica - Replica, Full Moon, The end of this chapter
Nightwish - Nemo, End of all hope
The Gathering - Kevin's telescope
Scorpions - Send me an angel
Saybia - Day after tomorrow
Smash into pieces - Merry go round, Friend like you
The birthday masscre - Kill the lights
Linkin Park - New divide


But since I grew up in the 80s, I'm still a lot into 80s music... big fan of the usual suspects like a-ha, Duran Duran, Roxette... lots of my favourite songs are of these bands.

One of my most favourites of all time is Ordinary World by Duran Duran and Silver blue by Roxette.

Some other favourites of mine (I'm an "all over the place" listener actually) -

Brian May - Too much love will kill you
The Hollies - He ain't heavy he's my brother
Wishful thinking - Hiroshima
Shiny toy guns - Rainy monday
Depeche Mode - Stripped
Alphaville - Heaven on earth
Kansas - Carry on my wayward son
Levina - The current
Maggie Reilly - Silver on the trees
Tina Dico - Open wide, No time to sleep
Til Tuesdays - Voices carry
Andreas Bourani - Eisberg
Laith Al Deen - Kleine Helden

[...]

Quite a few Things we have in common ... I am an 80's/90's kid, I love Metal/Hard Rock (but rather different bands than you) and 8o's Music ... gonna get to see a-ha live next week (for the first time actually) !


Some of my favorite Songs:

Mr. Big - Undertow
White Lion - Hungry
Megadeth - Omen
Slayer - Angel of death
Soundgarden - Jesus Christ Pose / Room a thousand years wide
Audioslave - Be youself / Cochise
Joe Satriani - Friends
Aha - Dark is the night for all / Memorial Beach
Queen - Friends will be friends