oh man, i got tons. But to name a few of the more significant ones.
“Blue Sky” “Wasted Words” and “Jessica” by the Allman Brothers
“Twistin’ the Night Away” and “Good Times” and pretty much anything by Sam Cooke
“Country Pie” “Day of the Locusts” “Summer Days” “You Ain’t Goin Nowhere” by Bobby Dylan
“Bertha” “Franklins” “Alligator” “Big Railroad Blues” and most other songs by the Grateful Dead
“Weekapaug” “Taste” “Water in the Sky” “YEM” and a bunch of other Phish songs
“Ferdinand the Impostor” “Across the Great Divide” “Strawberry Wine” “Walcotts Medicine Show” “Thinkin’ Out Loud” and “Endless Highway” by The Band
Hey “Day of the Locusts” was written about the day my Dad graduated from Princeton in 1970. Bob Dylan got an honorary degree and wrote the song about it.
A few years ago I was walking around campus smoking cigarettes and feeling pissed off about something, when what before my wandering eyes did appear but a good looking hipster girl with a The Queen Is Dead t-shirt. I almost wanted to ask her to marry me right then and there.
Small Faces - Itchycoo Park
Bob Dylan - You’re Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go
P.U.S.A. - Feather Pluckin’
The Band - Across The Great Divide
Phish - Bathtub Gin
King Crimson - I Talk To The Wind
i’m an idiot and I forgot how much just bustin out some Phish can just ease your mood right into a good one when shit gets rough. I’m listenin to one of my favorite shows right now. 9/18/99 Coors Ampetheter. Boogie on Reggae woman is really getting me out of this bullshit rut!
Natty Dread - Bob Marley
} Pretty much all bob songs are good to lift the spirits.
Mellow Mood - " "
We used to be friends - The Dandy Warhols
Ain’t that a kick in the head - Dean Martin - say what you will… no hairbrush or broom handle is safe from me while this song is on… it’s instantly my mic stand… complete with cheesy lounge singer-type moves.
Peace frog - The Doors -
Here comes the Sun - The Beatles
Scalet Begonias - naturally
If not for you - George Harrison - Brian says this is the song that if he had the talent to write me a song, he’d have written this one for me. Which, I mean, makes me pretty happy.
Nope… I’ve never watched Veronica Mars, but have you ever seen the movie Dig? The lead singers from The Dandy Warhols and the Brian Jonestown Massacre - they’re best friends who have this love/hate relationship, and the movie is all about them and how most of each bands songs are aboutthe other band and in response to songs they’ve written about one another. It’s a pretty good movie.
I feel this way about JT’s “Your Smilin Face”. Whenever I hear it, no matter where I am, I get seriously choked up because it represents something so emotionally dear to me.
Marie and I have several key songs that have meant different things at different times in our relationship. You Babe by Styx was a key song early on in out relationship as was Romeo’s Tune by Steve Forbet.
The song we danced to at out wedding was “Don’t Know Much” by Aaron Neville and Linda Ronstadt. On our first anniversary, symbolized by paper and wood, I printed the words on parchment paper and mounted it on a finished piece of oak, burning the edges of the paper to make it look eternal. It hangs in our room on the wall next to a “WooHoo” sticker we bought outside of Madison Square Garden after 12/30/98.
Divided Sky is our Phish song together. I have a post about it that was posted to the Phunky Bitches or the rmp. I’ll have to dig it out if I have already done that here on the OKP
Styx is the best!
Dennis DeYoung is a very underrated songwriter.
My friends give me shit all the time about liking them.
My best friend and I are the only two people in our crew who like them.Some people just don’t understand.
You know the power of Styx fone, that’s why I like ya.
My happy song?
Anything by the spliff master general, Bob Marley.
Anything.
His music just takes me to a place that nothing else can.
Yeah, I’m a Styx fan. I’m also a Journey (with Perry) fan. Damn, Escape was an incredible album of music. I also liked Supertramp, Counting Crows, Barenaked Ladies for brief periods. I thought, and still do, that Thriller was the key most important album of the 80s.
The older we get, the less in touch the younger folks are with some of these marginal bands, the more we will be ragged on for liking them. But there are scores and scores of great musicians and bands that shine brightly for short times, but who should nonetheless be appreciated for what they give us…
those Happy Songs.
NB: I listened to the Counting Crows “August and Everything After” continuously for weeks when I was really depressed about our youngest daughter moving out of our house when she was 19 to move in with this guy that we knew would break her heart. I never felt so helpless to protect my kids as I did at that time, and for some reason, that music helped me through that period.
That prick did break her heart within six months of their living together and she moved back in shortly thereafter, but it was all different after that. She was no longer the happy child we knew, the world and the reality of living and loving had changed us all.
^I think it’s come around full circle. Journey and Styx will always be loved and hated for what they are: anthemic stadium super-rock. 20+'s are in the age group where stuff like “Separate Ways” is burned into their early childhood memories, making it a perfect candidate for quasi-ironic retro love.
I think Supertramp has secured their position as classic rock radio staples, and “Mr. Jones” will forever be heard on your local modern adult comtemporary whatever station.
People will always get drawn in by the hits, and explore deeper.
As for me, my early memory of “Separate Ways” will always make me want to put on a Black Flag record.
oh shit, i saw Dig! one time. After conlcusion of the movie i think the BJTM is a lot more unique and possibly legendary but i was a lot more satisfied with the Dandy’s just because the guy from the Massacre’s a total dick head.
