What are your favorite songs?, Storyworth question, 817 words

What are my favorite songs?  Out of the trillions of songs out there, there are too many for me to choose. I like lots of songs, I don’t really have a favorite one.  I have favorite musicians/singers.  Neil Young is my most favorite musician/singer.  I also like Jackson Brown, John Fogerty, Sheryl Crowe, Don Henly and Glenn Fry (The Eagles).  I love music and listen to it all day long every day.  I mostly like rock and roll.  I like to listen to current rock and roll not just the classics.

Mary Lou

I don’t have a favorite song, but I suppose I have favorite songs. Ever since I can remember, I’ve had a song playing in my head. It’s not the same song all of the time, but I will have a song that is the prominent song of the time. Currently, the prominent song in my head is “Sheep Go to Heaven, Goats go to Hell” by the group, Cake. It has been stuck there for the last several years. It isn’t the only song that plays, as I get influenced by songs I actually hear and by songs that pop into my head because of the current conversation. For instance, we could be talking about halloween or witches and then out of the blue, I might sing the words to “Witchy Woman” by the Eagles. I won’t search for an appropriate song, but the song will just pop up in my head.

My favorite songs are all based in Rock and Roll. As a kid, I listened to KJOY in Stockton. They played all of the current pop music which evolved into rock and roll. I’m not sure when I listened to KJOY, as my mom didn’t like that radio station. If she listened to a radio, she listened to a more easy listening radio station that played Perry Como and Frank Sinatra…not my favorite kind of music. One of my favorite songs as a kid was “Great Balls of Fire” by Jerry Lee Lewis. I had a plan to re-record the song when I got older. I figured by then everyone would forget the song, and I would have a new hit song. What a dreamer and a schemer!

I always LOVED the Beatles. I bought every album that came out in the U.S. I had money due to my paper route, and I was a member of the Capital Record Club, so I was able to get all of their recordings. I was in high school when they first came out, and I would listen to their albums over and over until I knew all the songs in the order they were played. As I got older and went to college, it was harder to afford their albums, but I always managed to make it enough of a priority. 

In college, my musical taste and appetite took a psychedelic turn. Listening to the Moody Blues on acid, I felt that they were singing and speaking directly to me. Their words were so profound and the music spoke to my soul. Their songs were full of cosmic truths, laid out for all to see and understand. I felt their songs should change the world. Since those experiences, I can feel the emotions and strength in certain songs. I truly appreciate music in ways I never experienced before.

My wife and I have a song, “In the Midnight Hour” by Wilson Pickett. Whenever that song is played, we have to get up on the dance floor. I’m not sure how we picked this song, it just evolved, but it seemed appropriate because we loved to dance late into the night, and this song would often be played at midnight.

Music has always been a major part of my life and a part of my steam of conscience. Before leaving the car on back-packing trips, I would make sure I listened to a song that had a good beat to walk to, because if I had the wrong song in my head, it could be a long hike. It can get pretty annoying when a song is playing that doesn’t fit the mood. I can’t just easily change the song. I mentioned this to my daughter, Sarah, and she said when that happens to her, she will listen to the actual recording and will be released from it. I’m afraid it would only cement it into my brain.

I’ve always known that music was a major part of my life. I couldn’t imagine a world without music. I’ve noticed that my dog, Suzie, doesn’t understand music. I’ll start dancing to a tune, and she just starts barking at me. She doesn’t get the “beat.” I realize that many people are the same way. I don’t know, life would be so shallow without music.

Brian