Best song ever picks me up when I'm feelin' blue

Chicago Sun-Times ^ | March 30, 2005 | RICHARD ROEPER SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST

[Dan from Michigan]

Getting a girl, getting a car, and getting the girl in the car If that's your criteria: Meatloaf, "Paradise by the Dashboad Lights" (not my choice of best, but better than Billy Ocean.)

On that theme, I'm more partial to AC/DC's "Girl's got rhythm."

[Delphinium]

A song Rich Mullins wrote: "Nothing is Beyond you"

Where could I go Where could I run Even if I found the strength to fly And if I rose on the wings of the dawn And crashed through the corner of the sky If I sailed past the edge of the sea Even if I made my bed in hell, still there you would find me

Nothing is beyond You You stand beyond the reach Of our vain immaginations - our misguided piety The heavens stretch to hold You and deep cries out to deep Saying “Nothing is beyond You ...”

Time cannot contain You - You fill eternity Sin can never stain You - death has lost its sting I cannot explain the way You came to love me Except to say that nothing is beyond You

If I should shrink back from the light So I can sink into the dark If I take cover and close my eyes Even then you would see my heart You'd cut through all my pain and rage My darkness is not dark to you, night's as bright as day --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

[infocats]

"Hey, I'm an old guy."

"Don't Be Cruel"

From old guy to another!

[The Red Baron]

Speakin of Joe Walsh, one of my favorite Walsh tunes is "The Bomber". Great stuff!

[cspackler]

I'm partial to "Gimme Three Steps" myself.

There was a cover band in my younger days in South Texas, The Drifters, that would literally tear the place down with that song. Ahhh, the memories...

They also did a cover of a song called "Sample and Hold" that was awesome, but I can't place who it was.

[expatguy]

Parking back of my Camero, it is damn cold outside, girlfriend wearing rabbit fur coat. Im licking Banana Split lip gloss off her lips while we listen to um.... FOGHAT - "Slow Ride"

Im complaining because my new Levis are a bit too tight.

[cspackler]

On that theme, I'm more partial to AC/DC's "Girl's got rhythm."

No argument there. Believe it or not, my wife was naive enough to never quite get the double-entendre lyrics in those songs... Hell, she didn't even know that Queen was a gay band.

[expatguy]

REO Speedwagon???!!! Talk about girlie bands! You didn't drink the bong water did you???!!

What else did you listen to? Little River Band and "The Babys"?

[expatguy]

Texas? Then you must remember Johnny River's "Slow Dancing" and Elvin Bishop "Fooled around and fell in Love"?

Johnny Winters? Frankenstein?

[The Red Baron]

LOL, I think just about every song AC/DC has contains double-entendre lyrics. Definitly one of the greatest true rock bands ever.

Haven't seen Thin Lizzy mentioned yet on this thread. Anything off the "Jailbreak" or "Johnny the Fox" albums is pretty much a killer song. Lizzy was one of the best rock bands of the 70's.

[Aquinasfan]

But a lot of the music from that era is bloated and lame.

I suppose that a lot of this is subjective, but you can't criticize Led Zeppelin, Steely Dan or The Who for that.

It was also the golden age of southern rock with the Almans, Skynyrd, The Outlaws, Little Feat and Marshall Tucker.

I liked the Clash and a lot of the New Wave stuff at the time, but not as much now. It's not as good musically, some of it is mean-spirited, and a lot is just vapid.

[Aquinasfan]

the best intro is on "Gimme Shelter" by the Rolling Stones

It's a toss-up between that intro and the intro to "Monkey Man."

[Lancey Howard]

Thanks!

[Aquinasfan]

One of the fondest memories I have is one of the only times I carried the ball in a football game, the band busts into "25 Or 6 to 4", and the music pumps me up for an extra 15 yds and a touchdown. The only touchdown I scored in my sophomore year.

Isn't life grand?

[Aquinasfan]

But "Why Worry?" is so beautiful it literally brings a tear to my eye every time I play it.

True. Unless you have the album, you'd never know that the second side is better than the first. "Brothers in Arms" is along the same vein.

[Nowhere Man]

Confession is good for the soul and there are times I am a good "Metalhead" and hard rock, but I have a strange attraction to disco and bubblegum music which are passions of mine. I also like Barry Manilow. Still though to political opponents, I feel better thinking about them as the Arthur Brown song, "Hellfire" ("I am the god of Hellfire and I bring you fire!"). Hope you don't mind me doing this but I'll keep it abstract, when I was watching an interview with Michael Schiavo, on the radio came AC/DC's "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" and I had to turn it off, don't want any ideas. B-) I busted out laughing, think about what my grandma called "Demon Music." B-)

One song that gets me laughing is "Don't Worry, Be Happy."

[dfwgator]

The best songs on BiA are the non-hits, that's when you know it's a great album. But there's nothing like cranking up "Telegraph Road" from Alchemy.

[ncdrumr]

Barracuda by Heart (still the only girl band that rocks)
They did rock, before 1985.

Oh, they STILL rawk! ;)
Jupiters Darling

[dfwgator]

Yeah but Heart in the 80s sucked.

[SoothingDave]

On that theme, I'm more partial to AC/DC's "Girl's got rhythm."

Or "Whole Lotta Rosie"

SD