This is partly an attempt to keep the posts moving…
A list of my top 5 all-time-favourite songs, in random order… (and by all-time-favourite, I mean songs that I “probably” wouldn’t get tired of that even if i had to hear them over and over and over a hundred times)….
- Bruce Springsreen – Streets of Philadelphia
This was the title song for the movie Philadelphia(which was pretty powerful, itself). The song won an Oscar if I’m not wrong. Worth listening to is a concert version by Dylan and Springsteen.
……So recieve me brother, with your fathless kiss/or will we leave each other ‘lone like this/on the streets of philadelphia…..
- U2 – City of blinding lights
I just LOVE this song! And while the title will make you think of a big/crowded city with big lights, the song brings out a different feeling in me – I play this song and close my eyes, I get transported to a place where I’m all alone under a starry sky – with a road or a railway track or the dark ocean ahead of me.
It works the other way too – when I’m staring out of a train or car window/standing on a deck under a night sky, I need this song to complete the feel.
(Girls will probably remember this as the song that was playing in The Devil wears Prada, when Anne Hathaway landed in Paris.)
….Neon-heart day-glow lights/a city lit by fireflies/they’re advertising in the skies, for people like us….
- Pink Floyd – Wish you were here
This is my favorite Pink Floyd song. Don’t ask why…. I’m not sure myself.
…..running over the same old ground, what have you found?/the same old fears!/Wish you were here…..
- Bob Dylan – Forever young
Hard to pick out one Bob Dylan song from the many I love. But I’m picking this one….. the sweetest.
….May your hands always be busy/May your feet always be swift/May you have a strong foundation/When the winds of changes shift….
A simply majestic song in every way…. which took three years to write.
…Oh, pilot of the storm that leaves no trace, like thoughts inside a dream/Heed the path that led me to that place, yellow desert stream….
If this list was longer, I’d have added these>> Bob Dylan – Shelter from the storm, Bob Dylan – Knocking on heaven’s door, Bob Dylan – Lay lady lay, Sting and the Police/Alanis Morisette – King of pain, Pink Floyd – Brain Damage, Led Zeppelin – Stairway to heaven, R.E.M. – Losing my religion