My Top 10 ever songs
February 14th 2009 13:05
My top 10 songs ever (not necessarily my favourites now, but the ones that were the most significant etc):
1. Walk Away, Ben Harper. I have sung this by myself in my room with a guitar so many times I couldn't even count. And I feel more each time - such a simple song, but so much power between the notes.
2. Last Goodbye, Jeff Buckley. I can remember what it was like when I first got to know this song - the feelings are indescribable, they are beyond feelings, and this song is beyond music. It is pure feeling - sad, but happy, and beautiful like nothing else.
3. Little Wing, Jimi Hendrix. I have played the intro to Little Wing on guitar well into the thousands, and I still haven't quite sussed it out. It's completely inimitable - no matter who plays it or how well they play it, it's never quite Jimi. His voice was just too unique.
4. Hurt, Nine Inch Nails. Ok, I was really depressed when I was a teenager, and listened to this song incessantly in my angst. There's no song I've heard which scrapes the bottom of human despair like this one does.
5. November Rain, Guns n Roses. Axl's masterpiece, Slash's magic. Totally epic, tragic, sublime. The ultimate rock ballad, and then some.
6. Master of Puppets, Metallica. The staple of so may guitar diets, certainly the staple of mine when I was learning. I remember when I first heard this song after downloading the .wav file off the net....blew my mind.
7. Untitled, Pearl Jam (off Live on Two Legs). Out of all the songs from my favourite ever band, this two minute live-and-otherwise-unrecorded ditty funnily enough is the one that touches me the most. Can't beat it for late night had-enough-with-the-world contemplation.
8. Blessed Be The Name (cover), DC Talk. I love DC Talk, and where Hurt by NIN hits me in all my darkest places, this one hits me in all my brightest.
9. Heaven Coming Down, The Tea Party. This song got me into the Tea Party, which incidentally is by far their most happy song. Retains the depth of all their dark stuff without being dark at all, in fact being completely... light, maybe more than any other song I know.
10. Banana Mango, Joe Satriani. This song just encapsulates everything I love about Joe Satriani - the dreaminess, the fruitiness, the playfulness. I really think that if Bananas and Mangos had a sound, they would sound like this song.
1. Walk Away, Ben Harper. I have sung this by myself in my room with a guitar so many times I couldn't even count. And I feel more each time - such a simple song, but so much power between the notes.
2. Last Goodbye, Jeff Buckley. I can remember what it was like when I first got to know this song - the feelings are indescribable, they are beyond feelings, and this song is beyond music. It is pure feeling - sad, but happy, and beautiful like nothing else.
3. Little Wing, Jimi Hendrix. I have played the intro to Little Wing on guitar well into the thousands, and I still haven't quite sussed it out. It's completely inimitable - no matter who plays it or how well they play it, it's never quite Jimi. His voice was just too unique.
5. November Rain, Guns n Roses. Axl's masterpiece, Slash's magic. Totally epic, tragic, sublime. The ultimate rock ballad, and then some.
6. Master of Puppets, Metallica. The staple of so may guitar diets, certainly the staple of mine when I was learning. I remember when I first heard this song after downloading the .wav file off the net....blew my mind.
7. Untitled, Pearl Jam (off Live on Two Legs). Out of all the songs from my favourite ever band, this two minute live-and-otherwise-unrecorded ditty funnily enough is the one that touches me the most. Can't beat it for late night had-enough-with-the-world contemplation.
8. Blessed Be The Name (cover), DC Talk. I love DC Talk, and where Hurt by NIN hits me in all my darkest places, this one hits me in all my brightest.
10. Banana Mango, Joe Satriani. This song just encapsulates everything I love about Joe Satriani - the dreaminess, the fruitiness, the playfulness. I really think that if Bananas and Mangos had a sound, they would sound like this song.
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