1/24/2008 2:27:19 PM
Who would you most like to gig with?

1/21/2008 1:55:05 AM
Songs you wish you'd written!

1/21/2008 1:55:05 AM

Songs you wish you'd written!
Over the years I've heard a lot of songs for the first time and thought, "Damn I wish I'd written that".

Top of my list would would be graet songs like:
1. Born to run - Bruce Springsteen
2. Lover you should've come over - Jeff Buckley
3. Always a woman - Billy Joel

What 3 songs would you most like to have penned?

1/21/2008 2:33:03 AM

Great topic IH

My top 3 would have to be.
Imagine - John Lennon
Hotel California - The Eagles
Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley

Can't wait to see what others come up with. I just know I'll be going...Doh.
Cheers Mark

1/21/2008 2:42:06 AM

Hendrix - Purple Haze
Dylan - All along the Watchtower
Clash - London's Calling

That's my 3!!!

1/21/2008 3:15:58 AM

Jefferson Airplane - Somebody to Love
Beatles - I Am The Walrus
Led Zep - Rain Song


and runner up

Don McLean - American Pie

1/21/2008 3:38:07 AM

Well "Happy Birthday" for sure...

1/21/2008 3:39:06 AM

and runner up

Don McLean - American Pie

Quote from Don McLean
“So when people ask me what American Pie means, I tell them it means I don't ever have to work again if I don't want to.”

Now that is a song I wish I'd written.
Mark

1/21/2008 3:52:59 AM

1. Porcupine Tree - The Sound of Muzak
2. Frank Zappa - St. Alphonso's Pancake Breakfast
3. Tom Petty - free Fallin'

Of course, in 5 minutes the list could be entirely different. Maybe a Louis Armstrong tune, or even a J.S. Bach piece.

RIP John Stewart

1/21/2008 4:20:54 AM

Impossible to keep to 3..There's just so many

See Emily Pay PINK FLOYD
Alone Again Or LOVE
A Day In The Life..BEATLES
Waterloo Sunset..THE KINKS
Riverman...NICK DRAKE
Children Of The Revolution...T.REX
So It Goes..NICK LOWE
Five Years..DAVID BOWIE
The Sweetest Feeling...JACKIE WILSON

IAC Ones..

The Memory Collector..KELLEY STOLTZ
Life Without Lolly..KID WEZEL
Even On A Bad Day..GLOWBRIDGE
The Old and the Useless..GALAXY 6
2084..
Daylight Till Dawn...ALL NIGHT RADIO
On This Side..TINY VIPERS
Blonde On Blonde..Nada Surf
Meg and My Girlfriend..THE MELOCOTONS

There's of course zillions more-but thats off the top of my head now..

1/21/2008 4:25:48 AM

Now and Forever - Richard Marx
Revolution - The Beatles
Back for Good - Take That

1/21/2008 4:27:49 AM

I can only think of one oof the cuff

Batchelors Hall - Written by Dick Connette but the version I know is on Martin Simpson's latest album. Prodigal Son. I wish I could play it like him too!

1/21/2008 4:31:59 AM

I forgot Lithium by Nirvana and I Wanna Hold Your Hand. :)

1/21/2008 4:45:08 AM

The first one off the top of my head:
"Windfall" - Son Volt

But others are certainly:
"Cruel To Be Kind" - Nick Lowe
"Lola" - The Kinks
"Yesterday" - The Beatles
"Waterloo Sunset" - The Kinks
(I am completely with Steve I on the Kinks tip)
"You've Really Got a Hold On Me" - Smokey Robinson
"The Way You Do the Things You Do" - Smokey Robinson
Again, there was a period that Smokey could do no wrong. And, he is still one of the greatest songwriters who ever lived. Far too-often overlooked in conversations like these.

1/21/2008 5:05:57 AM

Nirvana, Lithium
NOFX, Dont call me white
Prince, Nothing compares to you

1/21/2008 2:43:14 PM

1. Shine - David Gray
2. Gabriel & The Vagabond - Foy Vance
3. King of Pain - The Police

1/21/2008 3:03:13 PM

this list could go on forever

Elton John, Your song
The pogues, Fairytale of new york
Alice cooper, only women bleed

1/21/2008 3:15:13 PM

Into the Mystic --Van Morrison

Get Behind the Mule----Tom Wats

Here Comes the Sun---and any other Beatles song except "My Bonnie' hehe Berlin Days

1/21/2008 3:35:40 PM

Oh great topic!!

For me it would be -

Child of War - Gina French
Blue Valentine - Tom Waits
Simple Twist of Fate - Bob Dylan


Paul -

Without You - Harry Nilsson
Sky Blue & Black - Jackson Browne
Feeding The Flame - Thunder

1/21/2008 4:46:13 PM

The Beatles - Happiness is a Warm Gun
The Beach Boys - Good Vibrations
Beck - Hollow Log
Bo Diddley - Who Do You Love?
Bob Dylan - Highlands
Chuck Berry - Roll Over Beethoven
The Doors - Five To One
The Flaming Lips - Do You Realize??
Frank Black - Freedom Rock
Iggy & The Stooges - Search And Destroy
Jim White - When Jesus Getsa Brand New Name
John Lennon - Jealous Guy
Johnny Cash - I Walk The Line
Lou Reed - Satellite of Love
The Magnetic Fields - I Don't Want To Get Over You
Mazzy Star - Into Dust
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Fifteen Feet of Pure White Snow
Nick Drake - Black Eyed Dog
Nirvana - Aneurysm
Pink Floyd - If
Pixies - Wave of Mutilation
The Raconteurs - Blue Veins
Sex Pistols - Bodies
Soundgarden - Rusty Cage
Syd Barrett - Octopus
Tom Waits - Everything Goes To Hell
The Velvet Underground - Pale Blue Eyes
Violent Femmes - Kiss Off

1/21/2008 4:48:40 PM

Oh wait only three? Hmmmm, it was hard enough to narrow it down to this. Damn. Sorry for taking up so much space!! lol

V

1/21/2008 5:08:39 PM

Hey , you said way to many.

You people hogged them all.

#1 Over the top. Dixie dreggs
#2 Wooly Bully Sam the Sham
#3 Whiter Shade of Pale. Procul Harum.

I tried to pick off the beaten path

1/21/2008 5:36:25 PM

OOOH!! It's tricky when it's limited to three, but whatever........my nominees are:

101 North - Tomahawk
Movin' Out - Aerosmith (70's I might add)
Digging the grave - Faith No More


.....and 'sweet dreams', either Marilyn Manson's version or the original Eurythmics version as a substitute!!

1/21/2008 6:02:48 PM

How Great Thou Art
Springsteen- Thunder Road
Dylan- Tangled Up In Blue

1/21/2008 7:42:09 PM

"Well "Happy Birthday" for sure..."

Kozy, this made me laff rite out loud...

but imagine THOSE royalties!!

xox
~Lace~

1/21/2008 7:52:26 PM

Oh GREAT topic.. let's see..

1) Dog & Butterfly- Heart
2) Landslide- Stevie Nicks
3) Suite Judy Blue Eyes- CSN



4) Oh Very Young- Cat Stevens
5) Hey Jude- Beatles
6) Pachelbels Canon in D Minor

~Lace~

1/21/2008 7:56:55 PM

Wow, hmmm... well I'd more classify this as I wouldn't have minded writing these songs. I don't really WISH I'd written it. I'm happy these guys wrote it. I'm happy for them. Adds to my love and admiration for their collective body of work.

1. Surf's Up (by the Beach Boys)
2. Dogs (by Pink Floyd)
3. Hey Jude (by the Beatles)

1/21/2008 11:21:14 PM

The Deele:"You're All I've Ever Known"
Mint Condition: Right Here, Right Now(it's my wedding dance with my lovely wife)

1/22/2008 1:12:28 AM

The Beatles - A Day in the Life
Pink Floyd - Shine on You Crazy Diamond
Lost Tribe - Gamemaster

SuperPuss


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1/22/2008 1:37:24 AM

Awww ... I know it says only three but I can't edit and I'd like to add -

Genesis - Home by the Sea and Second Home by the Sea (one big song really)

SuperPuss


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1/22/2008 4:03:06 AM

Far too many to be able to select only 3.

1/22/2008 5:00:06 AM

Van Morrison - Take Me Back
Reptile - The Church
Do Ya Wanna Dance - Bette Midler version
Up Up and Away - 5th Dimension

and some indies

Swingset Chain - Loquat
Rash Within Time - Blisster
Open Letter Before The End - fiftyfour

1/22/2008 6:21:45 AM ---- Updated 1/22/2008 6:21:45 AM

"Crazy" - Patsy Cline (written by Willie Nelson)


Oh, and that Nilsson song: "Without You" was actually written by Pete Ham (of Badfinger).

1/22/2008 8:51:32 AM

6) Pachelbels Canon in D Minor

Brilliant. You would then have also written about 1 tenth of everything else written since! Good choice.

1/22/2008 10:08:16 AM

Thanks for the mention of the songwriter, it's just that the other two songs I chose were written by the performers themselves but this was my favourite version of Without You. The Ham/Evans story is so sad and tragic, they never got the royalties that were due to them, check out Badfinger's back catalogue, these two were songwriters of the highest order and sadly didn't live to reap their just rewards.

Cheers
Paul

1/22/2008 11:02:07 AM

F.U.C.K.
White Christmas
Any Beatles composition
Me & Bobby McGee
The Pusher
These Arms
Folsom Prison
Crazy
Summertime
and a zillion more!

1/22/2008 11:07:45 AM

Aww jeez.......

Everyone else is going beyond three and I keep thinking of more so here's a few more -

Tangerine Dream - Pergamon (Parts one and two)
Tangerine Dream - Ricochet
Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene
Mike Oldfield - Amarok

SuperPuss


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1/22/2008 11:36:56 AM

Todd - you beat me to it you trivia wonk! Great performance of a great song. Ham & Evans were quite a team, and Nilsson Schmilsson was the first album I ever bought.

Koz - this topic came up about a year ago as I recall - and one of my answers was Happy Birthday. I'm not saying you copied me, just that great minds... you know.

I dunno why I'm picking these 3 out of thousands, but...

21st Century Schizoid Man - King Crimson
Stranger By The Minute - Porcupine Tree
Four Sticks - Led Zeppelin

1/22/2008 11:59:49 AM

Stegor,
I LOVE Four Sticks!!! What a classic. Great taste my friend :-)

SuperPuss


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1/22/2008 12:04:22 PM

I would say

1) Annie's song : John Denver

2) Sound of Silence : Paul Simon

3) Tears in heaven : Eric Clapton

DK's mum

1/22/2008 1:12:24 PM

for my reserve song s
#4. Solar Fire --Manfred Manns earth band
#5. Here comes the Night----Van the Man --for the guitar riiff alone
#6. Hold on ----------Tom Waits

1/22/2008 1:25:14 PM

1. Plainsong (The Cure)
2. Enjoy The Silence (Depeche Mode)
3. Blue Monday (New Order)

1/22/2008 1:52:36 PM

The songs that I wish I had written have generally inspired me to write the music I write. They are as followed:

1. Emotion Sickness - Silverchair


2. This is Halloween - Danny Elfman


3. Sunk Loto - Burning Bridges

1/22/2008 3:40:08 PM

Man this is crazy.

I LOVE Four Sticks!!! What a classic. Great taste my friend :-)

Do you know why its called four sticks?

Ok three more.

Firth of fifth.
In a gadadaveda.
Cant find my way home.

1/22/2008 3:52:49 PM

"Do you know why its called four sticks?"
Actually, I do. It was called 'Four Sticks' because that's how many sticks John Bonham used on the drums in that song.
I think, from memory, he played that song with the blunt end of the sticks too.

I LOVE his drum sound. Roland have created an extremely realistic version of the Led Zep drum sound on V-Drums too. I'll see if I can get a clip together playing something using my 'Zeppy' kit on my V-Drums.

SuperPuss


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1/22/2008 11:51:22 PM

ha ha ha.......

'Pushin Too Hard'-The Seeds
'Frankenstein'-The New York Dolls
'The Fat Lady Of Limbourgh'-Brian Eno

1/23/2008 4:01:24 AM

Ha, Pushin to hard. I saw that on the Lucy show. They were called the warts on the show I think. Bwahahahaha.
Superpuss cool. I found out My drum sound is much like Bonhams sep the kick.
I think its because Jimmy used just a few mikes on the whole set. Peace

1/23/2008 4:08:14 AM

Okay, TODAY (or at least this minute) my three are:
1. Beatles - I am the Walrus
2. King Crimson - Red
3. Brian Eno - Julie With...

Oh, and anything off Zappa's "Apostrophe" album.

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