8 Songs You Can't Live Without

[PJTHEDOORS]

Break on Thru - The Doors
Indian Summer - The Doors
The End - The Doors
Pigs In Zen - Jane's Addiction
Had A Dad - Jane's Addiction
The Rain - The Cult
I Believe - Elvis
Blue Moon - Elvis

 

[cowboy_ron]

Midnight Rider........Allman Bros Band
Stairway to Heaven.......Led Zepplin
One.......Three Dog Night
Fortunate Son........CCR
House Of The Rising Sun.........The Animals
Color My World.......Chicago
A Horse With No Name.......Americatia
Lucretia McEvil...........Blood Sweat And Tears

When growing up in the best era of music ever it's hard to single out just 8.

 

[CouchCoach]

If that's my limit, the 8 longest recorded songs ever. Figure I'll be Big Trade Kahuna of the islands once y'all get tired of your short records and repeating everything every 20 minutes. Hell, I'll have 20 minute songs. I might have no repeat workdays with mine. The workdays will be short on the islands, I am assuming.

 

[OmerV]

Midnight Rider........Allman Bros Band
Stairway to Heaven.......Led Zepplin
One.......Three Dog Night
Fortunate Son........CCR
House Of The Rising Sun.........The Animals

When growing up in the best era of music ever it's hard to single out just 5.

You don’t have to. The thread asks for 8.

 

[cowboy_ron]

You don’t have to. The thread asks for 8.

my bad.....I only took off one shoe.

 

[CouchCoach]

damn right.
and you better believe I'll play my Elvis often........and loud.
I might share my rum tho.....maybe.

OK, don't put me on the end. I hope you're not planning on serving fried peanut butter and banana sammiches with that rrruuummm. BTW, that's the Jack Sparrow pronunciation of the island libation.

 

[Rockport]

Why 8? That's an odd number, though not really an odd number, to have to settle on. Could Michael only think of 8, therefore felt inclined to limit the rest of us? Mr. Only Thinking of Himself?

I need clarification. Is 8 all I am getting? Is this like that deserted island thing or are we all on an archipelago and we can swim over to the other islands and do a little trading as long as when we get rescued we have our original 8?

Not trying to be difficult here but this is serious stuff and hey, will there be women on some of the other islands? That would affect my choice because sometimes ya gotta give up some good tunes to get da booty with that scmaltzy crap. In fact, if I am surrounded by female inhabited islands, I'm going all in on 7 Air Supply's and the long version of Donna Summer's "Love to Love You Baby" for when the females be in their time of the month. If not, then I'll go with my 8 but I am steering clear of the islands with Elton John, Judas Priest or Broadway show tunes...…………….. at least until I figure out help isn't coming. I have my rules but they can be flexible under certain conditions.

And oh yeah, one more thing. I would like my island to be at the opposite end of the archipelago from Cowboyec, not that he would trade any of his damned old Elvis records anyway.

Because it’s HIS top 8 list not YOUR top 8 list.

 

[Runwildboys]

Because it’s HIS top 8 list not YOUR top 8 list.

He's just joking.

 

[DallasEast]

Amazing Grace - Aretha Franklin
I Will Always Love You - Whitney Houston
Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Opus 67 - Ludwig van Beethoven
A Change Is Gonna Come - Sam Cooke
Another One Bites The Dust - Queen
Faithfully - Journey
What's Going On - Marvin Gay
Purple Rain - Prince


I went with the what if premise of my iPhone becoming permanently damage but had one opportunity to save only eight songs saved on my cell out of nearly 800. Pretty hard elimination process given there were more than several songs I replay more often than those I listed.

And I will shoot @YosemiteSam if he reads this and says all I would need to do is download my iTunes backup onto my new cell.

 

[DallasEast]

Why 8? That's an odd number, though not really an odd number, to have to settle on. Could Michael only think of 8, therefore felt inclined to limit the rest of us? Mr. Only Thinking of Himself?

I need clarification. Is 8 all I am getting? Is this like that deserted island thing or are we all on an archipelago and we can swim over to the other islands and do a little trading as long as when we get rescued we have our original 8?

Not trying to be difficult here but this is serious stuff and hey, will there be women on some of the other islands? That would affect my choice because sometimes ya gotta give up some good tunes to get da booty with that scmaltzy crap. In fact, if I am surrounded by female inhabited islands, I'm going all in on 7 Air Supply's and the long version of Donna Summer's "Love to Love You Baby" for when the females be in their time of the month. If not, then I'll go with my 8 but I am steering clear of the islands with Elton John, Judas Priest or Broadway show tunes...…………….. at least until I figure out help isn't coming. I have my rules but they can be flexible under certain conditions.

And oh yeah, one more thing. I would like my island to be at the opposite end of the archipelago from Cowboyec, not that he would trade any of his damned old Elvis records anyway.

 

[timb2]

Never heard of any one of those. Lol

 

[timb2]

 

[SlammedZero]

I love music, as a whole, way too much. There is no possible way I could sit here and create this list.

 

[CouchCoach]

Because it’s HIS top 8 list not YOUR top 8 list.

Well, smarty pants, I don't have a top 8 because I couldn't even have a top 100. I could make a top 20 out of songs from the posters that put up 8 already.

Rocky, you have just got to stop taking everything I write literally. Here's a guide to start with, don't take any of it literally and we can just add the serious stuff as we move along.

And the only reason I did that was because you are always busting chops on posters for being negative and you have a negative post about someone's favorite 8, that's a little personal negative, don't you think?

 

[CouchCoach]

I love music, as a whole, way too much. There is no possible way I could sit here and create this list.

I couldn't do 8 in a specific genre and I approach music that my next best 8 are coming up and I haven't heard them yet. My contemporaries, none of which are as involved with music as I am, don't get it and they don't like my music. They're still with the Oldies and Classic Rock and making all of these comparisons and denigrating today's music without really getting immersed in it.

I didn't use to like Electronica, was all about that acoustic real instrument thing until I began to explore it and spend over half my listening time with that genre now. Part of that stems from always being about the instrumental part of it and the first band's album I ever bought was the Ventures.

My neighbors are about my age and have been hearing my tunes from my patio for about 3 years now and one of the sisters asked me what kind of music I called that and I told her and she asked if I could give her the names of some of those "bands" because they really liked it. They would have turned their "country music noses" up at that...…...without hearing it. Her husband is actually in a regional country band playing the old stuff, the gut bucket stuff.....the good stuff.

 

[cowboy_ron]

Aquarius..........The 5th dimension

 

[CouchCoach]

Aquarius..........The 5th dimension

That's two, two songs in one, nicely played.

 

[OmerV]

That's two, two songs in one, nicely played.

If I said a medley with full length versions of In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, Dogs, Sheep, Kashmir, Stairway to Heaven, American Pie and Freebird, would that count as one?

 

[CouchCoach]

If I said a medley with full length versions of In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, Dogs, Sheep, Kashmir, Stairway to Heaven, American Pie and Freebird, would that count as one?

Not my thread, Omer, I am probably a lot more lenient than Michael. I would allow it but the medley would have to be by Tiny Tim. The good news is that no one would bother you on your island.

 

[OmerV]

Not my thread, Omer, I am probably a lot more lenient than Michael. I would allow it but the medley would have to be by Tiny Tim. The good news is that no one would bother you on your island.

You haven’t lived until you’ve heard Freebird on a ukulele.