Songs you wish you had written

[tigereye]

I was listening to Chain Gang of Love by the Raveonettes a lot over the weekend and I really like the cut That Great Love Sound. Big full Buddy Holly reverby, unrequited love/lust song. Perfect for blasting in the car and full of hooks and melodies. And I thought, wow, wish I had written that.

I also feel that way about:

Chinatown by Luna
So Bohemian Like You by the Dandy Warhols
(won't put in any jazz, since I do not have composing skills!)
Ball Of Confusion
It's the End of the World As We Know It - REM



So on this fine Monday consider music you love and wish YOU had written.

[Birthmark]

1. My list:

I am the Walrus - The Beatles

Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd

Vincent - Don McLean

[tigereye]

8. Vincent is so beautiful

it was the first sad beautiful song that I heard in high school that really seemed to explain feelings well.

[Birthmark]

13. It sure is.

I'm not very sentimental, but the first time I heard that song was on the car radio. I had to pull the car over and stop. I couldn't believe what an amazing piece of poetry I was hearing. I very seldomly have the feelings expressed in that song, but I sure as hell respect the artistry of "Vincent."

[arwalden]

2. Margaritaville, and...

"Car Wash"

[tigereye]

6. you'd be rich if you have written Margaritaville!

[LastRobot]

3. 2+2=5

Radiohead's 2+2=5, A Punchup At A Wedding and A Wolf At The Door

Appropriate music for our times.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

4. The Ballad of Melody Nelson - Serge,

Jacky by Jack Brel
And Your Bird Can Sing
Sense Working Overtime, Great Fire and Dear God by XTC
Three Days by Janes Addiction
Wild Horses, Sister Morphine and Torn and Frayed by The Stones
Not Guilty and Art of Dying by George Harrison
We Have All The Time In The World by John Barry
One Nation Under A Groove by Funkadelic
Family Affair by Sly Stone
Skylarking by Horace Andy
Time has Told Me by Nick Drake

[tigereye]

5. nice choices

I agree with the XTC.. my so is a big XTC head. And Senses Working Overtime does seem accessible for a writer, in a way. I hear that one in my sleep, I hear it so much.

I also love Wild Horses (and Dead Flowers) -that sounds funny together!

:hi: how are ya this morning, well it's now noonish here.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

9. I'm good. Busy day, I must be 2 hours behind you.

[tigereye]

10. I'm in Eastern zone

and I actually am having a quiet morning/afternoon for a change....

[MissMillie]

7. I love that song by the Dandy Warhols

Lyrically, I think "Come Monday" by Jimmy Buffet and "Coming Up Close" by 'til Tuesday are about as good as it gets.

[tigereye]

11. I like to dance around the kitchen to the DW song

[northzax]

12. yesterday

lennon/mccartney (or mccartney/lennon, whatever) over 1500 versions have been recorded. you know the royalties on that thing?

[tigereye]

14. didn't consider the money aspect at first

although that makes sense :)

[Shananigans]

15. Banana Phone

[tsakshaug]

16. Then I would no longer be looking for Raffi

I would be coming after you

[Shananigans]

17. Catch me if you can!

haha!

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[tsakshaug]

18. AHHHHHHGGGGGGGGGG

Stuck in a car for hours listening to that........

Still burned in my brain years later

One Raffi album I did not get for my kids

[tigereye]

19. I missed the Rafii thing

with my son. Initially he only liked bluegrass and classical, and now he likes Captain Beefheart and They Might Be Giants. He did like Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer though.

[Shananigans]

20. Ring, ring, ring, ring, ring, ring, banana phone...

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It's stuck in my head!!! I can't get it out!

[tigereye]

21. quick, throw some water

put on Metal Machine Music by Lou Reed! stat

[LastKnight]

22. over the hills and far away...

that one is cool... you cant go to a music store and not hear it... that and stairway... but i think stairway to heaven was a bit pretentious, although be it a good song.

otherwise... Voodoo Cile and Little wing... both thought up by hendrix...

anything else... i cant really think of any more that i would want my name on, sure theirs plenty of cool music out there... but i wouldnt want my name on it.

-LK