What was the last song that made you go 'goddam, this is great'?

[jpgray]

For me it's the Dovers' 'What Am I Going to Do?' Weird, sort of elegiac jangly 12-string pop with great personality in the vocals. Just a strangely powerful and deep song for me.

[DS1]

1. A Perfect Circle - The Noose

Good cd, the second one is.

/Yoda

[nickgutierrez]

6. That may have been mine, too.

That one, or "Pet" off of the same album.

[The Traveler]

9. Is that the 3rd track?

The one that asks how "you will go about making your amends to the dead"? Think that one was written with Shrub in mind ...

[DS1]

12. Yes, and I think of these halo photos of him

when I hear it.

[The Traveler]

13. "Your halo's slipping down ...

to choke you now ..."

Perfect.

I've spent a lot of time listening to Tool and APC lately ...

[DS1]

15. mmm, indeed

:hi:

[LiberalVoice]

2. Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody

When I finally(In a stoned blur)realized what Freddie Merc was talkin about.

[grannylib]

3. Chimp's new theme song - The Hives

See the idiot walk
See the idiot talk


It's too perfect.

[newsguyatl]

4. "let's get together"

this club song by soul logic.

not usually my style of music, but goddamn, it's great.

[OnionPatch]

5. citizentruth.com

Dubya!

[JohnnyRingo]

7. Los Lonely Boys.....Reall Emotions / Crazy Dream

[Nordic]

8. several songs on Lila Downs' "Tree of LIfe" album

If you're not familiar with Lila Downs, you should check her out.

[5thGenDemocrat]

10. "Jerusalem" by Steve Earle

I listen to absolutely zero radio, though I have a huge tape/CD/album collection (part of which you can see behind me if you look REAL close at my avatar), which has every song ever made through, like, 1991. But anything that's been recorded since Clinton's first inauguration comes to me through friends' recommendations or, more rarely, from the TeeWee.
John
Anyhow, I saw Steve Earle one night on Letterman. And, it turns out, he was born in 1955 in the base hospital at Fort Monroe, Virginia -- where I'd find myself serving out my Army enlistment some twenty years later.
Small world.

[mark414]

11. the arcade fire

their entire album the funeral, just released this month on merge records

[sasquatch]

14. "Stilloettes"(I hope I spelled that right) by Smile Empty Soul

Everytime I hear it I get this very soothing feeling running through my body.

[Lindacooks]

16. American Idiot by Green Day

[kariatari]

32. great tune.

[jpgray]

17. Damn! It happened again

I finally tracked down another of the Dovers' singles, and this one is fucking brilliant as well. If you have SoulSeek, search out 'She's Not Just Anybody'.

[Maleficus]

18. Marilyn Manson - Redeemer.

Yes, I've heard it many a times before, but I listened to it tonight and it's got this energy/mystery/haunting appeal to it. It's hard to explain, but it puts me in a trance. :shrug:

[Trish]

19. Amy by Ryan Adams

beautiful lyrics,
beautiful guitar....
blows my mind

[On the Road]

20. On the Radio, the Most Recently Released Would be

"Pinch me" by Barknaked Ladies. It's a masterful description of quiet longing expressed in a very indirect way.

Most recently purchased would probably be "Everything Must Go" on the new Steely Dan. They still use amazing jazz sidemen and their lyrics are still full of colorful sleazy losers.

[Systematic Chaos]

21. A bunch of stuff lately.

Mostly thanks to my local library.

I checked out a bunch of CD's a while back and I was impressed with most of the ones that are by artists I've never heard of before but looked interesting. One is a CD entitled "Something Different Than These Changes" by an artist called Stew. Another one I think is pretty good is "Talkie Walkie" by a band called Air. Also, I managed to get a copy of Dream Theater's "Train of Thought", which I seriously need to buy.

[Magrittes Pipe]

22. I wrote a song the other day while I was taking a shit.

I knew it would be the best song ever written. I was gonna run straight to the basement and record it immediately; but sometime during the wiping, I forgot it. :(

[Donkeyboy75]

23. You're one classy fella.

[jpgray]

24. Hey, he has class. He plays backgammon!

While totally naked, of course.

[LastKnight]

25. wake me up when september ends, green day.

just last night

before that it was apc's "noose"

-LK

[redqueen]

26. Ozomatli - Believe

Or Lila Downs - Viborita

Or one by Eva Ayllon... but I don't remember the name.

[Tredge]

27. "Did My Time" - Korn

While I'm not a real Korn fan, I heard it live when they played the Shoreline recently and I was enthralled. I didn't care much for the vocals but the guitars got my blood going nicely.

[SmileyBoy]

28. The song I'm listening to right now...

"Try Honesty" by Canadian band Billy Talent.

[EstimatedProphet]

29. Spirit in the Sky-Norman Greenbaum

God I love that song!

[Screaming Lord Byron]

30. Matthew and Son by Cat Stevens.

So touching. :evilgrin:

[kariatari]

31. "Vertigo" by U2

I've only heard it once. Catchy as hell.

[tjdee]

39. POOP! Did I miss it? Can I catch it?

Much gnashing of teeth!!
I thought someone was going to play it tomorrow!

[ronnykmarshall]

33. Cindy Alexander - Smash

The whole damn CD is great.

[Joe Chi Minh]

34. Brenda Lee's

"Sweet Nuthins"... It was a while ago, come to think of it. But the old ones were the best ones.

"MA BABY WHISPERS IN MA EAR...!"

[Mojambo]

35. It's always the same answer

Black and Blue by the Exploding Hearts

That whole album just devastated my musical soul and I've never fully recovered.

The album is Guitar Romantic. For your own good, get it and listen to it. Now.

[mairceridwen]

36. Johnny, be Fair

http://www.jhegarty.com/Johnny/sounds/johnny_be_fair.mp3

[WoodrowFan]

37. It's All about the Pentium-Weird Al

seriously!

[MrSlayer]

38. Bitter Conflict by Dew Scented.

Just gives you that overwhelming urge to thrash your head like a madman and knock over the wife's knick knack cabinet.

[WilmywoodNCparalegal]

40. Sunrise by....

Duran Duran.. very catchy... I would not go as far as saying it's great, but it's way better than the stuff that's currently out there.