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Top Ten List

Posted: Jan 23, 08 6:28am

What songs would you use if you had to describe yourself or your generation? Here is my current top ten list (subject to change and in no particular order):

1. Running On Empty - Jackson Browne

2. My Generation - The Who

3. Some Kind of Wonderful - Sam and Dave/Grand Funk Railroad

4. Up On the Roof - The Drifters

5. Oh What A Night (December 1963) - The Four Seasons

6. Satisfaction - The Rolling Stones

7. Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) - Marvin Gaye

8. I Want to Hold Your Hand - The Beatles

9. A Pirate Looks at Forty - Jimmy Buffet

10. Like a Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan

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Free_Spirit

Posted: Jul 26, 08 7:57am

Love some of your choices. Here are mine:

1. Here Comes the Sun - The Beatles

2. California Dreamin - The Mamas and the Papas

3. Green Grass - Gary Lewis and the Playboys

4. Dream On - Aerosmith

5. Too Much Time on My Hands - Styx

6. Up Up and Away - The 5th Dimension

7. Time in a Bottle - Jim Croce

8. Spirit in the Sky - Norman Greenbaum

9. In My Life - The Beatles

10. One Tin Soldier - Joan Baez

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Bailey Young

Posted: Jul 28, 08 4:39am

KesBowl wrote:

What songs would you use if you had to describe yourself or your generation? Here is my current top ten list (subject to change and in no particular order):

Mine would be:

1. Purple Haze

2. In the White Room

3. California Dreamin

4. War

5. Four Dead in Ohio

6. Foxy Lady

7. Born to Be Wild

8. Up on the Roof (again)

9. MacArthur Park

10. New York, New York

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KesBowl

Posted: Jul 28, 08 6:08am

Great choices. One in particular that I might have included in my list would have been In My Life. Thanks for sharing.

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KesBowl

Posted: Jul 28, 08 6:13am

Good choices, Bailey. It's interesting that you chose New York, New York. I didn't really become a Sinatra fan until much later in my life. I guess it took me awhile to really realize what a great talent he was.

One other great Sinatra song that is not usually considered his best is I Can't Get Started With You. In the 60's there was a very popular disk jockey in Detroit that always closed his show with that song. I guess it's the nostalgia but I will always like that particular Sinatra tune.

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