WHAT IS YOUR FAVOURITE SONG/PIECE OF MUSIC?

[rainydaywoman11]

I would have to remain loyal to the Beatles and my darling John Lennon, and, after much thought, go for 'I am The Walrus'.  Timeless and never fails to lift me   Oh and Strawberry Fields, Hello Goodbye ...............................................I'll shurrup.

[chickengrandma-2008]

I've never liked that Pogues song.  It seems I'm the odd one out.  I just don't understand it.  Are they having an argument.....is he drunk.....................I just don't get it! 

[ed_blackadder_1]

Me neither CG

[aernethril]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThTLRFGQ2DU

[dark_castle1]

I have many favourite pieces but two that do stand out are by The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards - Amazing Grace and The Black Bear.

[wskneil]

Impossible to choose, especially when you listen to everything from 1920s blues, through rock and pop, reggae, african music, jazz etc etc

But this is ONE of them!

[stroppy*cow]

My favourites are many and varied, but I love Katy by Tom Paxton.

[ilove2patch]

Fairytale of New York is about a couple no longer in love (who can no longer stand the sight of each other) spending possibly their last christmas together in New Youk. The NYPD choir makes them nostalgic but they still hate each other! I love it & it's my favourite xmas song.:)

[ed_blackadder_1]

Sorry Maggie but I really dislike that song.

[chickengrandma-2008]

The tune is quite catchy but the words and the singers spoil it.  As for being a Christmas song, I know not everyone has a happy Christmas but songs like that ain't gonna cheer 'em up any!! 

[**towery**]

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@ilove2patch wrote:

Fairytale of New York is about a couple no longer in love (who can no longer stand the sight of each other) spending possibly their last christmas together in New Youk. The NYPD choir makes them nostalgic but they still hate each other! I love it & it's my favourite xmas song.:)

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i would have said more comtemputous than hatred,  theyve lived their lives together, knowing what Galway bay about is part of that

Galway Bay
If you ever go across the sea to Ireland
Then may at the closing of your day
You will sit and watch the moon rise over Claddagh
And see the sun go down on Galway Bay.

Just to hear again the ripple of the trout stream
The women in the meadows making hay
And to sit beside a turf fire in the cabin
And watch the barefoot gossoons at their play.

For the breezes blowing o’er the seas from Ireland
Are perfumed by the heather as they blow
And the women in the uplands diggin’ praties
Speak a language that the strangers do not know.

For the strangers came and tried to teach us their ways
They scorned us just for bein’ what we are
But they might as well go chasin’ after moonbeams
Or light a penny candle from a star.

And if there is going to be a life hereafter
And somehow I am sure there’s going to be
I will ask my God to let me make my heaven
In that dear land across the Irish sea.

its  one of my favs too, it reminds me that beyond the jibes and hateful words there was love, and still may be love

i cant  really pick one song,  i read the thread then spent an age in  youtube lol

things like iris by  goo goo dolls,  i  dont want to miss a thing, by aerosmith

wherever you will  go  the calling,  how to save a life by the fray, 

two i really love are baba o riley by the who and 5 years by  bowie

 but i cant say for certain which is a total fav

also jerusalem gets a lump in my throat

[myraandjim]

no absolute favourite song, different ones bring back different past memories, but I love the Pogues and think Fairytale of New York is great because it seems to sum up how so many people live a life together full of regrets about what might have been if only..... so pretty sad really. I was a teenager in the 60's so thare are a lot of songs and memories

[ilove2patch]

I like a lot of those you have mentioned Towery.:) Yes contemptous rather than hating is right. I think it's a brilliant song. Good job we don't all like the same things.:)

[mouse4702]

"Sylvia" by Focus. Transcendant, with odd key changes

[right-then-petal]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OznS7X9BOxs

Sylvia" by Focus.

[rainydaywoman11]

I'm learning a lot of different stuff here, which I love.  I adore 'Fairytale of New York'.

Before I was married and respectable, we used to stop at the chippy on the way home and serenade the guy behind the counter (who was well used to us, not sober) with Kirsty MacColls 'There's a guy works down the fish shop swears he's Elvis' - magic song.  'Oh God, he'd say 'here they come, the Aberdeen Divinity Choir' - then we'd sing it all the way up the road.

[ilove2patch]

Loved Kirsty. Reminds me of another faveorite written by her dad. 'The First Time Ever I Saw Her Face'. Such a beautiful song.

[cee-dee]

I like this version and it was sung over a scene in the film "Play Misty For Me".

[ilove2patch]

Roberta Flack's is the perfect version of this song. Glorious!

[vamo48]

I like a lot of different types of music and it's very hard to pick a favourite, but one of mine is "Feelin ' Good" by Nina Simone. I'm another one who likes "Fairytale of New York", but I never saw any hatred or contempt in it, I see them as one of those couples who love each other a lot but can't stop arguing!

[wskneil]

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@ilove2patch wrote:

Loved Kirsty. Reminds me of another faveorite written by her dad. 'The First Time Ever I Saw Her Face'. Such a beautiful song.

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And that reminds me of another favourite, A Ewan MacColl ( a hero of mine)song, sung by Dick Gaughan ( another great favourite.... seen him whenever he has been anywhere near me!) If I had ever had a son, this would have been his lullaby