Sadchild's top 333 fav songs of all ever

[sadchild]

#45 Harry Chapin "Cat's In The Cradle"

This little ditty was loaded with wisdom... changes would come around real soon and make me an adult -- and I saw that most adults weren't having as much fun anymore. Thanks John (and to Rush in "Time Stand Still" too!) for telling me to experience the now fully, before "now" becomes the "glory days".

Taken from my write-up on "Jack & Diane", but same exact idea. My son's 15 and I don't feel like I've missed much. I never wanted to look back and regret not being there, especially for those special moments like first words, first steps. Looking forward to graduation, wedding, first-born...

 

[HecticArt]

#46 Moving Pictures "What About Me"

This song really spoke to me at 12. And it still speaks to me now.

That's one I had forgotten about.
It was there one week, and gone the next.

 

[sadchild]

Yes! I loved "What About Me" at 12, then it vanished. I don't remember when I rediscovered it, but it was probably the late 80s when the song made a resurgence in popularity in the late 80s (like @IdRatherBeSkiing commented)

 

[sadchild]

#44 Queen & David Bowie "Under Pressure"

And I'd love it even more if they'd finished it! #eedohahdoh #eedadohbaboh #eedeeboh #baydop

 

[Aaron]

I love the song from Moving Pictures.
The Bowie - Queen song gets on my last nerve because it just sounds lyrically unfinished! You're right.

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

#44 Queen & David Bowie "Under Pressure"

And I'd love it even more if they'd finished it! #eedohahdoh #eedadohbaboh #eedeeboh #baydop

My least favourite Queen song. I like it but ...

 

[sadchild]

#43 Dan Fogelberg "Leader of the Band"

Synonyms for 'emotional': sentimental, nostalgic, tender, misty-eyed, sappy, sweet, tear-jerking...

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

That's a great song.

Spoiler

It will be well up on my 424.

 

[sadchild]

#42 Beastie Boys "Shadrach"

There are a few more "rap-rock" and "rock-rap" songs coming up, but this is my #1 all-time favorite pure straight-up hip-hop jam. I love how the three boys trade lines and even share lines, with all of them saying just certain words from the same line. You don't see this kinda thing much, especially these days, where it's always "my verse - then your verse - then the other guy's verse". These guys flow like one big badass superfly three-headed monster from another dimension.... almost like they were Intergalactic or something!

AND there's a ton of fun pop culture references... Truman, Rambo, Salinger, Andretti, Dickens, Swaggart, Fallwell, Colonel Sanders, Alfred E Newman....

BTW we were talking about collecting music earlier.... I have the vinyl pictured below still sealed. I suspect it may also be worth a two or few Andrew Jacksons?

 

[sadchild]

#41 Primus "Tommy The Cat"

The soundtrack to Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey is a real turning point and sign of the times (for 1991). I, along with most of the world, was still listening to hair bands (though it was winding down). At the same time, I was getting more and more into alt-rock/alt-metal (NIN, RHCP, FNM). I bought this soundtrack for Winger and Kiss.... but also for Faith No More and King's X. But when I made it track 9, my head flew off of my shoulders!! It was one more nail in the coffin for the era of hair bands, and one more flag planted sturdily in the ground for the growing alternative scene. A couple months after this soundtrack came out, Nirvana dropped "Teen Spirit" - and that was the hairspray on the pilot light.

 

[HecticArt]

Les is a MONSTER, and sooo much fun to watch play.

 

[sadchild]

#40 Celldweller "The Last Firstborn"

If there's such a thing as industrial prog, this is it. And I wish this guy would give a slight clue about what the lyrics are about because I find it so intriguing.

 

[HecticArt]

The more I hear from that guy, the more I like.

 

[sadchild]

#39 Type O Negative "Christian Woman"

"Would you suffer eternally or internally?" Body "HAVE SEX!" Society "DON'T HAVE SEX!"

 

[sadchild]

#38 Peter Gabriel "Red Rain"

So is an incredible album start to finish. This one is my fav on there, written about a nightmare he had. Blood everywhere. Tension. Emotion. Amazing.

 

[HecticArt]

So was an album I stole from a guy that owed me money in college.
He kept saying he was going to pay me back, but when I realized he wasn't going to, I liberated about a dozen of his CD, a CD player and a couple of other things I've forgotten about. He shouldda paid me back.

I listened to So a lot, and it sounded great.

 

[sadchild]

I did that with an old roommate who didn't pay his half of the phone bill for a few months before we left the apartment... with cassingles. Worthless but oh well.

 

[HecticArt]

I got a little more value out of what I took than he owed me. It was a spite tax. I got his Jesus Lizard disks and some others that I don't think were easy to replace.

 

[sadchild]

#37 Van Halen "Unchained"

My #1 favorite song as a teen. I was telling an older cousin of mine in 1984 that I really liked "Jump" and "Panama". He said, "Y'know the rest of the album is really good too. You should listen deeper." So I did, and now that's one of my all-time fav albums. A different cousin introduced me to Fair Warning soon after and the young me thought, "Whoa this is rough stuff. If I ever get into something like this, I should probably start to worry about myself." Within a couple years, it was my all-time favorite album (and still ranks very high).

 

[HecticArt]

It’s a great song and album.
It still blows my mind that Eddie Trunk doesn’t like Unchained very much.