Which songs can you listen to and not grow tired of?

Post by **Zaia** » 2005-06-19 01:41am

Some songs sound just as great the 500th time you hear them as the first time. Some improve the more you listen to them. What songs do you listen to that never get old to you? Not just favourites, but songs you've bought on 8-track, LP, CD and mp3 (or would if you were old enough to know what all those things are). Those kinds of songs.

And, youngun's, I'm not talking about those of you who hear a new song and play it over and over and over ad nauseum until you and everyone within a 10-mile radius of you can't stand the song anymore. I'm talking about music that's stood some kind of test of time, people! Nothing that's so new it hasn't had a chance to make it into the secondhand shops yet, capiche?

Some of mine:

"New York State of Mind" by Billy Joel
"Pictures of You" by The Cure
The medley that is the second half of "Abbey Road" by the Beatles
"Scheherezade" by Rimsky-Korsakov
"At Last" by Etta James
The entire album "Close to the Edge" by Yes
"Wanting Memories" by Sweet Honey and the Rock
"Water Night" by Eric Whitacre
"April 26, 1992" by Sublime
"Wish You Were Here" by Pink Floyd
"Requiem" by W.A. Mozart
"Ain't No Sunshine" by Bill Withers
"Space Lion" by Yoko Kanno
"Suite No. IV for Unaccompanied Cello" by J.S. Bach
"Winter" by Tori Amos
"Mystery" by the Indigo Girls
"I Want You To Want Me" by Cheap Trick
"Waltzing Matilda!"

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2005-06-19 01:48am

"O Fortuna"
"Let it Be" -Beatles.
"Piano Man" -Billy Joel
"Man in Motion" -John Parr
"Wish you were here" -Pink Floyd
"Highway to Hell" -AC/DC

Noble Ire · Post by **Noble Ire** » 2005-06-19 01:51am

The theme from Metal Gear Solid 2

The Imperial March (ESB)- I will often just put it on repeat and listen to it 20 or so times in a row.

The Riders of Rohan (Two Towers)

Minas Tirith (ROTK)

Earth City (Halo 2)

The Light of the Force (ROTJ)

Truth and Reconciliation Suite (Halo)

KowaiYukiDono · Post by **KowaiYukiDono** » 2005-06-19 02:13am

All I can think of right now:

Lady of the Snow - Symphony X (This song counts for many reasons, despite being a CD-era song.)
Spirit - Bauhaus
Punk Rock Girl - The Dead Milkmen
Anything by Rush. ANYTHING.
Nights in White Satin - The Moody Blues
The Actor - The Moody Blues
The Logical Song - Supertramp
Once in a Lifetime - The Talking Heads
Damn near anything by Tears For Fears.
For The Longest Time - Billy Joel
Burn - The Cure
Hell, most of The Crow soundtrack.

Brother-Captain Gaius · Post by **Brother-Captain Gaius** » 2005-06-19 02:42am

Jimi's rendition of All Along the Watchtower.

EDIT:

Deep Purple's Highway Star, Child in Time (mother of all guitar solos), and of course Smoke on the Water.

Pick · Post by **Pick** » 2005-06-19 02:43am

Aaah, these special songs, yes!

"Bitterkeit" L'ame Immortelle
"Poison" Alice Cooper
"Forsaken" Within Temptation
"God you Made the World All Wrong" new Hunchback of Notre Dame musical
"Marylin, My Bitterness" The Cruxshadows
"Almost Human" Voltaire
"Missing" Evanescence
"Mother" Era
"Our Farewell" Within Temptation
"Coma White" Marylin Manson
"This is Who You Are" Trans-Siberian Orchestra
"Tears in the Rain" L'ame Immortelle
"Spieluhr" Rammstein
"Leichenhalle" Die Aertze (sp??)
"Room of Angel" Silent Hill 4 soundtrack
"A Distance There Is" Theatre of Tragedy
"Bed of Nails" Alice Cooper
"Stripped" Rammstein
"Beyond Me" After Forever
"Dark Wings" Within Temptation
"Dunce" Voltaire
"Nemo" Nightwish

That's the top ones off the top of my head! I love playing a song all day on repeat, and these are the ones

AnimeJet · Post by **AnimeJet** » 2005-06-19 03:18am

None so far

Old Plympto · Post by **Old Plympto** » 2005-06-19 04:54am

Horse With No Name - Bread
Alone Again, Naturally - Gilbert O'Sullivan
Battle of Evermore - Led Zepellin
Shiny Happy People - REM
Happy Heart - Andy Williams
Sword Against The Wind - Manowar
Motown Song - Rod Stewart

Post by **Dalton** » 2005-06-19 05:17am

"Gotta Knock A Little Harder" - Yoko Kanno/Seatbelts
"For Those About To Rock" - AC/DC
"Sympathy for the Devil" - GNR cover

Rye · Post by **Rye** » 2005-06-19 05:44am

Most of these are in my audioscrobbler link as my most listened to songs, as it happens.

"Puritania" - Dimmu Borgir
"You'll Never Know" - Pissing Razors
"Aphelion: Light Evanescence: Into Extinction" - ...And Oceans
"Tears have no name" - ...And Oceans
"Angelina:Chthonian Earth: Her Face Forms Worms" - ...And Oceans
"Scars of the Crucifix" - Deicide
"Blame it on God" - Deicide
"Downfall" - Children of Bodom
"Follow the Reaper" - Children of Bodom
"Slit your guts" - Cryptopsy
"Spiritual Holocaust" - Hate Eternal
"He Who Sleeps" - Morbid Angel
"Opening of the gates" - Morbid Angel
"Where the slime live" - Morbid Angel
"Before I forget" - Slipknot
"Come to daddy" - Aphex Twin
"Da Funk" - Daft Punk
"Aerodynamic" - Daft Punk
"Barra Edinazzu" - Nile
"I whisper in the ear of the dead" - Nile
"Extinct" - Nile
"To Dream of Ur" - Nile
"Stones of Sorrow" - Nile
"Immortality through art/godless" - Nile
"Unas - Slayer of the Gods" - Nile
"User-Maat-Re" - Nile
"Beneath Eternal Oceans of sand" - Nile
"Masturbating the war god" - Nile
All of "Obsolete" - Fear Factory
All of "Demanufacture" - Fear Factory
"Doctor?" - Orbital
"My elastic eye" - Chemical Brothers

[enqueues all the above in winamp]

salm · Post by **salm** » 2005-06-19 06:41am

Haillie Sellasse, Up Your Ass - Propagandhi

Propaganda - The Slackers

Mrs Kendall · Post by **Mrs Kendall** » 2005-06-19 07:49am

I'm not going through all my cds, so I'll just post the band I don't get sick of, these are all off the top of my head...

Anything from Ozzy Osbourne (I seriously mean anything)
The good songs from Queensryche
Barry Manilow
Frank Mills
John Mayer's heavier things album
Tori Amos

And I don't have time I must go get ready to go out

Ahh I'm late

I'll add more later.

Fleet Admiral JD · Post by **Fleet Admiral JD** » 2005-06-19 07:51am

Anything by Jimmy Buffet
Bohemian Rapsody-Queen
Tequila Sunrise-The Eagles
Phantom of the Opera Overture-Andrew Lloyd Webber
Swing, Swing, Swing-Most Jazz Ensembles
JAG Theme Song
Dragostea Din Tei-O-Zone
Anthony's Song-Billy Joel
Most Bob Seeger Stuff
Wreck Of The Edmond Fitzgerald-Gordon Lightfoot

That's all off the top of my head.

Superman · Post by **Superman** » 2005-06-19 08:31am

Anything from Ozzy, AC/DC, Elvis...

Caius · Post by **Caius** » 2005-06-19 09:25am

Chains - Fleetwood Mac
Rhiannon - Fleetwood Mac
Gold Dust Woman - Fleetwood Mac
People are Strange - The Doors
Alabama Song - The Doors
Possession - Sarah McLachlan
Crack the Liars Smile - Drain STH
Ressurection - Moist

those are the ones I can think off the top of my head

Tinkerbell · Post by **Tinkerbell** » 2005-06-19 11:43am

CkY - Escape From Hellview, Inhuman Creation Station, 96 Quite Bitter Beatings
Common Rider - True Rulers
Dresden Dolls - Bank of Boston Beauty Queen, Half Jack, Truce, Girl Anachronism, Bad Habit
Guns N' Roses - November Rain, Knockin on Heaven's Door, Don't Cry, Live and Let Die
HIM - Poison Girl, Right Here in my Arms
Jeff Buckley - Boy With the Thorn in His Side, Lilac Wine, Hallelujah, Strange Fruit, So Real, Nightmares by the Sea, ... Ok so maybe just any Jeff Buckley

Metallica - One, Nothing Else Matters, Fuel
Nirvana - The Man Who Sold the World, In Bloom, Polly
The Offspring - Have You Ever, The Kids Aren't Alright, The Noose, Lightning Rod, Can't Get My Head Around You
Queen - The Show Must Go On, Who Wants to Live Forever
Rhapsody - Holy Thunderforce, Wings of Destiny, Dawn of Victory, Eternal Glory

Post by **haas mark** » 2005-06-19 12:00pm

Finger Eleven - One Thing
Helium Vola - Selig
Crazy Town - Black Cloud
Green Day - Boulevard of Broken Dreams
Assemblage 23 - Lullaby
Zeromancer - Fractured; Houses of Cards
Linkin Park - My December

Off the top of my head.

edit - The Goo-Goo Dolls - Iris

Tsyroc · Post by **Tsyroc** » 2005-06-19 12:36pm

Old Plympto wrote:Horse With No Name - Bread

Bread did a song called Horse With No Name?

Is this different from the one by America?

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2005-06-19 01:46pm

Most of the stuff by Randy Newman and Talking Heads
Queen- Under Pressure
REM- The Great Beyond
Frank Zappa- Dancing Fool, I'm the Slime
Nick Cave- The Mercy Seat
Paul Simon- Old, Late Great Johnny Ace
Fear- I Don't Care About You
Tom Petty- Swingin', Running Down a Dream

Cal Wright · Post by **Cal Wright** » 2005-06-19 02:02pm

MC Chris - The Tussin
Nickelback - Figured You Out
Godsmack - Touche
Black Crowes - Hard to Handle
Collective Soul - Gel
Cheap Trick - I Want You to Want Me
Just to name a few.

Zac Naloen · Post by **Zac Naloen** » 2005-06-19 03:14pm

Patrick Wolf : - Lycanthropy (the whole album), Wind in the Wires (whole album)
Offspring : - The kids aren't alright, Pretty fly (nostalgia of good times)
Tool : - Parabol/Parabola
A Perfect Circle : - Judith (remix), Outsider (apocalypse remix)
NIN : - Closer, The Fragile
Rachel Stamp : - Jet Black Supersonic, Black Cherry, Witches of Angelholm
Zeromancer : - Famous Last Words, Cupola, Germany
Beastie Boys : - Sabotage
Biffy Clyro : - Just Boy
Chevelle : - An Evening with El Diablo, Grab Thy Hand, Vitamin R, Closure
The Cooper Temple Clause : - Talking to a brick wall, Amber
King Adora :- Big isn't beautiful
Mindless Self Indulgence : - Bring the Pain

SpacedTeddyBear · Post by **SpacedTeddyBear** » 2005-06-19 03:21pm

" Nocturne in E-flat" -Chopin
" For The Longest Time"- Billy Joel
" Minority"- Greenday
" Vivaldi's Four Violin Concerto in B-minor"- Well... Vivaldi duh!

" Heart of the Matter"- Don Henly
" Bohemian Rhapsody" and "We Are The Champions"- Queen

I'd list a few more, but I have to pop a deuce.

Edit:Ok adding a few more-

" Tequila Sunrise"- Eagles
" Phantom of the Opera Overture" - Andrew Lloyd Weber
" Californiacation"- Red Hot Chili Peppers.
" Torn"- Natalie Imbruglia ( She has such a cute voice)

Zaia wrote:Do wha?

Think of an evacuation process that involves the human body.

Post by **Zaia** » 2005-06-19 03:26pm

SpacedTeddyBear wrote:...I have to pop a deuce.

Do wha?

Duckie · Post by **Duckie** » 2005-06-19 03:31pm

I'm a strange individual, judging by what immediately pops in my head:

Summer --Vivaldi, Four Seasons [The others are too 'happy', especially Winter]
Neodammerung [Remix?]--That movie that didn't exist
Halo 'Violin' Song + Mjolnir remix --O'Donnell and Vai+Halo/Halo 2
Follow (1st Movement of the Odyssey) --Incubus+Halo 2
Any "At War" song from Hearts of Iron 2 --HoI2 Orchestra
Any Star Control 2 Remix --Precursors
Imperial March --John Williams
Any other sort of dramatic, orchestral, almost always wordless music such as the one that I can't remember the name of from the Two Towers trailer.

Post by **Zaia** » 2005-06-19 03:34pm

MRDOD wrote:...such as the one that I can't remember the name of from the Two Towers trailer.

"Lux Aeterna" by Clint Mansell