Songs that always make you stop and just listen
I'm not necessarily talking about your most favorite song -- but rather a song that always makes you pause whatever you're doing and simply spend 3 minutes listening and enjoying whenever it pops up on the radio, pandora or whatever you have providing background music during the day. (Other than while driving, obviously.)
I usually have the 80's New Wave station KROQ-2 playing over Audacy, and always stop and turn up The Replacements "Alex Chilton" when it starts to play -- it give me a great mood and energy lift anytime I hear it.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 98 | December 13, 2023 11:52 PM
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A classic comparable to California dreaming
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 1 | December 3, 2023 11:42 PM
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I loved that song before it reminded me of loving a narcissist.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | December 3, 2023 11:55 PM
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"My Sister" by Juliana Hatfield Three
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 8 | December 4, 2023 12:02 AM
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I think mine is a DL fave.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 10 | December 4, 2023 12:06 AM
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Wild Horses - Rolling Stones
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 11 | December 4, 2023 2:39 AM
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Maxwell - Fistful of Tears
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 15 | December 4, 2023 10:32 AM
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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.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | December 8, 2023 5:27 AM
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Long, Long Time - Linda Ronstadt
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 18 | December 8, 2023 6:12 AM
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The Right Place - Taylor Hicks
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 24 | December 8, 2023 6:41 AM
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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…
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 27 | December 8, 2023 6:48 AM
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I always forget how great The Replacements were.
They were never one of my official favorite bands, but I like almost every song.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | December 8, 2023 7:14 AM
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Nirvana - All Apologies (Unplugged)
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 30 | December 8, 2023 7:40 AM
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Cowboy Junkies cover of Sweet Jane.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 31 | December 8, 2023 7:44 AM
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Annie Lennox Every time we say goodbye
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 32 | December 8, 2023 7:48 AM
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From the Corner to the Block
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 34 | December 8, 2023 8:00 AM
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Ricky Nelson - "Lonesome Town"
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 35 | December 8, 2023 8:09 AM
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Jon Cleary what a great voice.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 36 | December 8, 2023 8:14 AM
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Moby featuring Mimi Goese - Into the Blue
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 37 | December 8, 2023 8:38 AM
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Superstar by The Carpenters, He Ain't Heavy He's my Brother by The Righteous Brothers.
by Anonymous | reply 38 | December 8, 2023 11:27 AM
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Duran Duran - Ordinary World
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 39 | December 8, 2023 8:31 PM
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Scott McKenzie - San Francisco
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 45 | December 9, 2023 12:17 AM
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This was a staple on college radio a few years back.
It always makes me smile as a hum along.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 47 | December 9, 2023 12:23 AM
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"For What It's Worth (Stop, Hey What's That Sound)" - Buffalo Springfield
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 48 | December 9, 2023 12:27 AM
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Paranoid Android by Radiohead. I love picking apart the accompaniment. The video is fantastic too.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 49 | December 9, 2023 1:27 AM
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Here's Where the Story Ends
by Anonymous | reply 50 | December 9, 2023 2:08 AM
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The Smiths - Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 51 | December 9, 2023 7:23 AM
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I find that the videos are so distracting.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 53 | December 9, 2023 10:35 AM
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Edie Brickell & New Bohemians - Circle
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 54 | December 9, 2023 10:36 AM
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How am I Supposed to Live Without You. By Laura Branigan.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 55 | December 9, 2023 11:52 AM
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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......"
by Anonymous | reply 57 | December 10, 2023 10:43 AM
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Since the first time I heard it, I was mesmerized. Ronstadt's Blue Bayou.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 58 | December 10, 2023 11:49 AM
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In a Replacements vein, their song "Unsatisfied" makes me choke up nearly every time I hear it.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 59 | December 10, 2023 2:24 PM
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An oldie ... Johnny Mathis - Chances Are
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 60 | December 11, 2023 3:10 AM
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Pete Townshend - And I Moved
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 61 | December 11, 2023 4:08 AM
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Keep On Movin by Soul II Soul
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 63 | December 11, 2023 6:27 AM
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Guided By Voices // Game of Pricks
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 65 | December 11, 2023 10:10 AM
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Rose Royce - I'm Going Down
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 66 | December 11, 2023 10:11 AM
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I will NEVER get tired of music threads. Love them.
by Anonymous | reply 67 | December 11, 2023 10:13 AM
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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.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 68 | December 11, 2023 10:24 AM
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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?
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 69 | December 12, 2023 4:24 AM
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R65 LOVE that song. "You can never be strong, you can only be free."
by Anonymous | reply 70 | December 12, 2023 5:34 AM
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R61
Thank you for mentioning that song! I used to be obsessed with it but haven’t listened to it in years. Gorgeous.
by Anonymous | reply 71 | December 12, 2023 6:15 AM
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r71 Glad to hear it! That album is filled with gems.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 72 | December 12, 2023 7:12 AM
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While My Guitar Gently Weeps - George Harrison or The Beatles take your pick. I'll go with George here.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 73 | December 12, 2023 7:46 AM
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Not a huge fan of this band but this song takes me back...
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 75 | December 12, 2023 11:29 AM
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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?
by Anonymous | reply 78 | December 12, 2023 11:51 AM
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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.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 79 | December 12, 2023 12:13 PM
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R78
Good catch (no pun intended?)! I never thought about that before you mentioned it.
by Anonymous | reply 80 | December 12, 2023 12:16 PM
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Kind of sleeper in the Blondie catalog, but a really beautiful and rather haunting song by Jimmy Destri: "Angels on the Balcony"
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 81 | December 12, 2023 9:31 PM
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Stop! In the Name of Love
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 82 | December 12, 2023 9:41 PM
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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!
by Anonymous | reply 83 | December 12, 2023 10:42 PM
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I never thought I'd say this, but goddammit, I miss 1998. The summer entertainment between 6th grade and 7th grade was the shit.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 84 | December 13, 2023 4:25 AM
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It's not played much on 80s radio but-
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 89 | December 13, 2023 10:22 PM
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The The and Sinead- Kingdom of Rain.
I'll sit in the car until it finishes.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 91 | December 13, 2023 10:26 PM
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I Want to Kiss Her Butt(She Won’t Let Me)-Tim Cavanagne
by Anonymous | reply 92 | December 13, 2023 10:34 PM
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What great sounds in this one
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 94 | December 13, 2023 10:41 PM
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R.I.P. sexy guy who made this video =
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 96 | December 13, 2023 10:46 PM
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