you have been badly misinformed. the greatest song ever written was Cole Porter's: Night and Day.
   I'm sure that someday you will thank me for setting you straight.

Stone Temple Pilots › Big Bang Baby

I got a picture of a photograph
Of a wedding and a shell
Its just a burning aching memory
I never kiss and tell

So turn it up and burn it
Theres a hole in your head
Theres a hole in your head
Where the birds cant sing along

Does anybody know how the story really goes
Or should we all just hum along
Sell your sole and sign an autograph
Big bang baby, its a crash, crash, crash

I wanna die but I gotta laugh
Orange crush mama is a laugh, laugh, laugh

Spin me up, spin me, spin me out
Station love station send me up and out
Is this what life and love is all about
I think I think so

We used to see in color
Now its only black and white
Its only black and white
Cause the world is color blind

Nothings for free, nothings for free
Take it away boys
Nothings for free, nothings for free
Take it away boys

Gone Away Lyrics
Artist(Band):Offspring

Maybe in another life
I could find you there
Pulled away before your time
I can't deal it's so unfair

And it feels
And it feels like
Heaven's so far away
And it feels
Yeah it feels like
The world has grown cold
Now that you've gone away

Leaving flowers on your grave
Show that I still care
But black roses and Hail Mary's
Can't bring back what's taken from me

I reach to the sky
And call out your name
And if I could trade
I would

And it feels
And it feels like
Heaven's so far away
And it stings
Yeah it stings now
The world is so cold
Now that you've gone away
Gone away, gone away, yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

Oooooo, yeah oooooo, oooooo, Ohh yeah.

I'll Save Your Soul
Whoa. Yeaaaaaeeeaaeah. Mm.

I reach to the sky
And call out your name
Oh please let me trade
I would

And it feels
And it feels like
Heaven's so far away
And it feels
Yeah it feels like
The world has grown cold
Now that you've gone away
Gone away, gone away, yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

Oooooo, yeah oooooo, oooooo, Ohh yeah.
Oooooo, yeah oooooo, oooooo, Ohh yeah.

Bumped. I've now added the link to the Rolling stone list....

I win:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfmAeijj5cM

I have always been rather fond of the Clash`s - train in vain- brings back memories - of my first and -eventually unrequited love.

I then went through a stage of wallowing in self pity and enjoying Deacon Blues version of "I`ll never fall in love again"

^ Harold Alren. you left out Harold Arlen.

PS: I looked at the first 50. This is a list invented by kids in their twenties who really have no clue about the roots of the music that they enjoy. It is a display of ignorance as much as anything. sad stuff.

Last edited by tom22 (2008-06-13 19:19:47)

I have glanced at the posted lyrics. Not Porter, Not Gershwin, not close to the lyrics i love.
     Summer Time, and the Living is Easy,
      Fish are jumpin, and the Cotton is High!
     Your Daddy's rich, and your Mama's good lookin!
     Hush now baby, don't you Cry!

     
One of my teachers was actually a violinist when Porgy and Bess
was first rehearsed in NYC with George Gershwin conducting. (I had a slight clue then what it meant).
    Get back to us when someone writes an Opera about America. Or at least about Charleston, SC.

Last edited by tom22 (2008-06-13 19:47:50)

Ha..ha. I know what you mean. I drove back from Oxford yesterday and must of played "Sympathy For The Devil" about 20 times in a row!!! It's always good fun to post lists of things, people always enjoy them, especially ones about music, books, film etc...