Comments on: MY10: Songs that make me sing

By: Ludicrousity

Ludicrousity — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 10:44:49 +0000

I like! I like! Nice work. Here is my working list:

The beach boys – God only knows
Radiohead – Paranoid Android
Leonard cohen – Hallelujah
Glen Hansard – Falling Slowly
U2 – With or without you
Crowded House – better be home soon
The beatles – yesterday
Phil Colins – against all odds
John Farhnam – You’re the voice
Elton John – your song
Coldplay – warning sign
Josh Groban – Remember when it rained
The Whitlams – Buy Now Pay Later
George – Holiday
Something for Kate – Beautiful Sharks
Dashboard Confessional – Screaming Infidelities
Tim Minchin – Drowned
Sting – Fields of Gold

By: Spencer

Spencer — Tue, 26 May 2009 13:45:26 +0000

I’ve been thinking about this on and off since I read your article last Monday. I cannot, for the life of me, make a list of just ten songs without more strict criteria than ‘favourite’. But here a couple of songs that would probably make the list, if I could make such a list:

- The Velvet Underground – Who Loves the Sun
- The Velvet Underground – Rock n Roll
- Joy Division – Disorder
- Joy Division – Love Will Tear Us Apart
- Blondie – Heart of Glass
- The Microphones – I Want Wind to Blow
- Jens Lekman – Jag Tyckte Hon Sa Lönnlöv
- of Montreal – We Were Born the Mutants Again With Leafling
- Wolf Parade – I’ll Believe in Anything
- Beach House – Gila
- Sunset Rubdown – The Taming of the Hands That Came Back to Life

By: Danu Poyner

Danu Poyner — Tue, 19 May 2009 01:30:34 +0000

My top 10 songs that always do it for me…

1 – Life in Technicolor II / Coldplay
2 – In Repair / John Mayer
3 – Buy Now, Pay Later / The Whitlams
4 – The Luckiest / Ben Folds
5 – Soul Meets Body / Death Cab For Cutie
6 – I’ll Follow You Into the Dark / Death Cab For Cutie
7 – America / Simon & Garfunkel
8 – Storms in Africa / Enya
9 – A Message / Coldplay
10 – Listen To The Music / Doobie Brothers

Perhaps not the best 10 songs ever, but all of them without fail always resonate no matter where I am or how I’m feeling

By: Greg Bush

Greg Bush — Tue, 19 May 2009 01:03:29 +0000

God Only Knows is a great song. Not sure about Hey Jude though. The ‘B’ side, Revolution, is a much better song, I think.

By: life of the beatles

life of the beatles — Mon, 18 May 2009 23:40:03 +0000

What a great list. Here’s a clip where you can watch McCartney play “Blackbird” at Abbey Road Studio 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJHMfKN9FDI

By: Rachael

Rachael — Mon, 18 May 2009 23:04:50 +0000

Hey love this list. I’m totally with you from songs 1 – 9 though I def would have thrown the Ballad of John and Yoko in there as well.

Glad you put Ben Lee in there cos really I thought I was the only one who ever liked that song.

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By: Barbara Whittaker

Barbara Whittaker — Mon, 18 May 2009 08:19:26 +0000

Big Ticks for Blackbird, and Message to My Girl (I would have chosen Don’t Dream It’s Over, but that would be Splitting Hairs – or Enz). I’d also choose Higher Ground over Isn’t She Lovely from Stevie Wonder – partly for the familiar bouncy wah-wah but also for the ‘come on world, get it together’ message.
Nods to Paul Kelly, Ben Lee and Radiohead (who I also like in lucid moments), Augie March, David Gray, John Mayer and U2 (did you know that in Sth Korea the streets literally have no names?).
I couldn’t make such a list without including Aint No Sunshine by Bill Withers, SOMEthing from Eric Clapton- maybe Change the World, and SOMEthing from Sting – anything – he’s a personal favourite. And throw in Better Than by the John Butler Trio.
This is just a boy list, of course – except for girls that touch themselves, it seems. Perhaps a second list? Cos then we’re into Annie Lennox territory, and the list goes on…

By: Jason Whittaker

Jason Whittaker — Mon, 18 May 2009 07:34:01 +0000

Sorry, Tim. It’s never grabbed me, the Stairway.

I don’t claim to be a purest. Hence no Stones, Dylan…..

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 18 May 2009 07:27:42 +0000

Wot no ‘Stairway to heaven’??