Songs that always make you stop and just listen

A classic comparable to California dreaming

I loved that song before it reminded me of loving a narcissist.

Paper Walls - Marc Cohn

Try - Billy Pilgrim

Harry's Game

"My Sister" by Juliana Hatfield Three

This thread is over when

I think mine is a DL fave.

Wild Horses - Rolling Stones

I Melt with You

The Nixons -Sister

Maxwell - Fistful of Tears

Tems - Free Mind

Songs R3-R9 were on the Out Magazine CD sampler for a early 90s subscription offer. It had over a dozen gay friendly acts on it & the females cuts were on the recent "Your favorite female singer of all time" thread. Enjoy.

Long, Long Time - Linda Ronstadt

The Cranberries - Zombie

R.E.M. - Man on the Moon

Tell Me...

The Right Place - Taylor Hicks

At Seventeen

This-

Barbra - the single version of The Way We Were. I still remember being 11 years old and hearing it on the radio one rainy December Saturday afternoon…

I always forget how great The Replacements were.

They were never one of my official favorite bands, but I like almost every song.

Sonya Dada Jungle Song

Nirvana - All Apologies (Unplugged)

Cowboy Junkies cover of Sweet Jane.

Annie Lennox Every time we say goodbye

Debby Harry

From the Corner to the Block

Ricky Nelson - "Lonesome Town"

Jon Cleary what a great voice.

Moby featuring Mimi Goese - Into the Blue

Superstar by The Carpenters, He Ain't Heavy He's my Brother by The Righteous Brothers.

Duran Duran - Ordinary World

Building a Mystery.

every time

"Shotgun"

This one too

Moody Blues

Scott McKenzie - San Francisco

Definitely this one

This was a staple on college radio a few years back.

It always makes me smile as a hum along.

"For What It's Worth (Stop, Hey What's That Sound)" - Buffalo Springfield

Paranoid Android by Radiohead. I love picking apart the accompaniment. The video is fantastic too.

Here's Where the Story Ends

The Smiths - Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want

WAP- it’s our song

I find that the videos are so distracting.

Edie Brickell & New Bohemians - Circle

How am I Supposed to Live Without You. By Laura Branigan.

Heart - Dog & Butterfly

Heart Dreamboat Annie. But yes to Dog and Butterfly. Especially: "we're getting older, the world's getting colder, for the life of me I don't know the reason why......"

Since the first time I heard it, I was mesmerized. Ronstadt's Blue Bayou.

In a Replacements vein, their song "Unsatisfied" makes me choke up nearly every time I hear it.

An oldie ... Johnny Mathis - Chances Are

Pete Townshend - And I Moved

Anything by Yoko Ono

Keep On Movin by Soul II Soul

L.T.D.-love ballad

Guided By Voices // Game of Pricks

Rose Royce - I'm Going Down

I will NEVER get tired of music threads. Love them.

Poetry Man by Phoebe Snow.

Rainy Days and Mondays....The Carpenters of course.

Don't Dream It's Over Crowded House.

Poetry Man is about as perfect as a song can get.

For the last few months, this right here. I could've sworn up and down it was Marvin when I first heard it. And the fact that Snoop Dogg produced it?

R65 LOVE that song. "You can never be strong, you can only be free."

R61

Thank you for mentioning that song! I used to be obsessed with it but haven’t listened to it in years. Gorgeous.

r71 Glad to hear it! That album is filled with gems.

While My Guitar Gently Weeps - George Harrison or The Beatles take your pick. I'll go with George here.

Baba!

Not a huge fan of this band but this song takes me back...

sublime

Ohmy GOD, hold me R76.

It used to be Running Up That Hill by Kate Bush until it got popular from Strangers Things and overplayed.

Just the other day I heard r58’s Blue Bayou on Sirius XM. Fantastic song, but the line about “fishing boats, with their sails afloat” gave me pause. I don’t live near the ocean so maybe I don’t know, but fishing boats don’t have sails, do they?

R71 It really is a beautiful album and coincidentally, I just listened to Rough Boys several times in a row the other day and posted the video to FB. It’s my favorite Townshend era, though I’m a huge fan of White City, too. Apropos of nothing, I would have totally boned Pete during that Empty Glass time - he was such a fuckup yet so hilarious and gifted and raw.

R78

Good catch (no pun intended?)! I never thought about that before you mentioned it.

Kind of sleeper in the Blondie catalog, but a really beautiful and rather haunting song by Jimmy Destri: "Angels on the Balcony"

Stop! In the Name of Love

R75,seems corny but every year since I was a teen( late 90s) which is when I was first introduced to the Counting Crows..I ALWAYS listen to this song throughout the month of December!

I never thought I'd say this, but goddammit, I miss 1998. The summer entertainment between 6th grade and 7th grade was the shit.

Be My Lover - La Bouche

Kylie's best -

It's not played much on 80s radio but-

The Cars best -

The The and Sinead- Kingdom of Rain.

I'll sit in the car until it finishes.

I Want to Kiss Her Butt(She Won’t Let Me)-Tim Cavanagne

What great sounds in this one

THEY DON"T KNOW

R.I.P. sexy guy who made this video =

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