Daniel’s Favourite
Songs
And now for
something completely self-indulgent – a list of my favourite songs.
You can
often tell much about a person by the sort of music to which he or she listens.
Furthermore, you can find out much about yourself if you sit down and make a
list of the songs that you really like. Not simply the songs that you can stand,
but the songs that really get your juices going.
For a list
of the songs that really, really, really get my juices going, you can click here. This page, however, contains a huge
list of songs that I really quite like sorted by artist. If after reading
below, you want to talk music or recommend some more music that you think I may
like, feel free to write to [email protected].
This list
is ordered by (a) descending number of songs in the list and (b) alphabetical
listing. Songs for each artist are ordered by preference.
The
Señorita
with a Necklace of Tears
The Coast
The Obvious
Child
Crazy Love,
Vol. II
Born at the
Right Time
Further to
Fly
Hearts and
Bones
Spirit
Voices
The Boy in
the Bubble
That's
Where I Belong
Can't Run
But
Diamonds on
the Soles of her Shoes
Look at
That
The Teacher
Me and
Julio Down by the Schoolyard
Old
Hurricane
Eye
Something
So Right
Bernadette
Love
Rene and
Georgette Magritte with their Dog After the War
Quiet
Pigs, Sheep
and Wolves
The Musical
Box
Dodo /
Lurker
Home by the
Sea / Second Home by the Sea
Squonk
One for the
Vine
Domino
Dancing
with the Moonlit Knight
Driving the
Last Spike
Fading
Lights
The
No Reply at
All
Firth of
Fifth
After the
Ordeal
Keep it
Dark
Mama
Dance on a
Volcano
I'd Rather
Be You
Me and
Sarah Jane
The
Fountain of Salmacis
Supper's
Ready
Ripples
The Cinema
Show
Tonight,
Tonight, Tonight
Love to be
Loved
Digging in
the Dirt
Come Talk
to Me
A Different
Drum
I Grieve
Blood of
Downside-Up
Fourteen
Black Paintings
Mercy
Street
I Have the
Touch
Secret
World
The Barry
Williams Show
Solsbury
Hill
The Time of
the Turning (with Richie Havens)
Family
Snapshot
Growing Up
Sky Blue
The Tower
that Ate People
Darkness
Don't Give
Up (with Kate Bush)
Shaking the
Tree (with Youssou N'dour)
Gypsy
The Queen
and the Soldier
Room off
the Street
Pilgrimage
Tired of
Sleeping
Penitent
Book of
Dreams
Last Year's
Troubles
Soap and
Water
St Clare
Stockings
Marlene on
the Wall
Widow's
Walk
Big Space
Fat Man
& Dancing Girl
Rusted Pipe
Casual
Match
As Girls Go
Predictions
Men in a
War
Brood
Sirens
Travel Shop
A Slow
Storm Brews
The Romp
I've Got a
Plan
Fingerbone
Malolo
A Midlife's
Tale
How Green
was My Valley
Teteko
Nanny's
Farewell
The Kitsch
Parade
Uncle
Bill’s Paddock
The
Mangrove Song
The Old
Years
Can’t Find
Love
Sarah
McLachlan (16) – I
hated Surfacing the first time I heard it. Looking back, I think it’s
because she was talking about matters of the heart at a time in my life when I
was trying to ignore them. By the time I heard Fumbling Towards Ecstasy,
I needed it. Sarah writes love songs for people who have suffered. She knows
how to make something beautiful without sugar-coating it. Oh, and she doesn’t
look half bad either!
Possession
Wait
Fumbling
Towards Ecstacy
Mary
Time
Drifting
Building a
Mystery
Fear
Do What You
Have to Do
Train Wreck
Answer
Hold On
Adia
Good Enough
Witness
Lost
Cloudbusting
The Song of
Solomon
Deeper
Understanding
Love and
Anger
The Sensual
World
Babooshka
An
Architect’s Dream
A Coral
Room
Reaching
Out
Rocket's
Tail
Bertie
Never Be
Mine
This
Woman's Work
Wuthering
Heights
R.E.M.
(14) – I
wouldn’t actually refer to R.E.M. as one of my favourite bands. I was a little
surprised to see them this high on my list. I tend to enjoy their more obscure
songs where they create a dark atmosphere and let Michael Stipe’s voice float
through it. Their willingness to experiment with sound and form is a guide to
any band.
Be Mine
Leave
Parakeet
At My Most
Beautiful
Try Not to
Breathe
Let Me In
Walk
Unafraid
Nightswimming
Sweetness
Follows
Diminished
Shiny Happy
People
Strange
Currencies
You’re in
the Air
Sad
Professor
10000
Maniacs (13) – Bands
that write the music and lyrics separately frequently court disaster. When
10000 Maniacs do it, it usually becomes something very special. They are very
good at representing people who are suffering inside but have to maintain a
happy face on the outside, whether it be a battered wife, a single mother, a
troubled friend or a broken planet.
You Happy
Puppet
Don't Talk
Candy
Everybody Wants
Stockton
Gala Days
Hey Jack
Kerouac
Eden
Jezebel
These Are
Days
Verdi Cries
Gold Rush
Brides
Few and Far
Between
Because the
Night
Noah's Dove
Buy Now Pay
Later (Charlie No. 2)
Her Floor
is My Ceiling
I Make
Hamburgers
Life's a
Beach
Time
You Sound
Like Louis Burdett
Thankyou
(for loving me at my worst)
Charlie No.
3
You Gotta
Love This City
Blow Up the
Pokies
I Will Not
Go Quietly (Duffy's Song)
1995
Take Me
Home
Doesn't
Anybody Stay Together Anymore?
Can't Turn
Back the Years
Behind the
Lines
Something
Happened on the Way to Heaven
Survivors
Droned
Love Police
Two Worlds
Lorenzo
Take Me
Down
Grey Street
The Stone
Pantala Naga
Pampa/Rapunzel
#41
Crash
Christmas
Song
Warehouse
Ants
Marching
So Much to
Say
Long Black
Veil
The Last
Stop
James
Taylor (10) – Listening
to James’ work from the mid-80s onwards suggests to me that he was famous too
early. While his songs in his megastar period were very good, he left that
stuff for dead as soon as people stopped listening. He’ll probably keep getting
better the longer he goes.
Never Die
Young
Only a
Dream in Rio
Belfast to
Boston
Up on the
Roof
The Frozen
Man
Down in the
Hole
Valentine's
Day
Shower the
People
Copperline
Jump Up
Behind Me
Horses
Song for R.
Ship Out on
the Sea
Junkie Song
Scattered
Leaves
It's Not
Happening
The
Littlest Birds
In Spite of
All the Damage
Ootischenia
Like a
Child
Boy on a
String
Worlds
Apart
Love Song
for a Savior
He
Liquid
Portrait of
an Apology
Frail
Five
Candles
Trust
Levi Stubbs
Tears
She Came
Along to Me
Everywhere
Tank Park
Salute
England,
Half English
Jane Allen
California
Stars (with Wilco)
Bastard
Give Judy
My Notice
Late
One Down
The Ascent of
Stan
Fred Jones
Part II
Gracie
Still
Fighting it
Don't
Change Your Plans
Magic
Brick
Emaline
Evaporated
Smoke
Alice
Childress
Mess
Patty
Griffin (8)
Mother of
God
Rain
Goodbye
Kite Song
Christina
Useless
Desires
Rowing Song
Long Ride
Home
The
Masochism Tango
Smut
In Old
Mexico
My Home
Town
Vatican Rag
National
Brotherhood Week
Be Prepared
It Makes a
Fellow Proud to be a Soldier
Amelia
The Sire of
Sorrows (Job's Sad Song)
Magdalene
Laundries (with The Chieftains)
Otis and
Marlena
Sex Kills
Both Sides
Now
Slouching
Towards Bethlehem
Carey
Penmon
Teteko
Aoteoroa
Norman
Young
The
Magician
The Migrant
Spark
The Kiap
Song
Sing Sing
Simon
& Garfunkel (8)
The Only
Living Boy in New York
The Boxer
America
I am a Rock
Baby Driver
At the Zoo
Bridge Over
Troubled Water
Richard
Cory
Bonny
Portmore
The Dark
Night of the Soul
Full Circle
Dante's
Prayer
The Old
Ways
The
Mystic’s Dream
Caravanserai
Wonder
Frozen
Charlotte
River
I May Know
the Word
Cowboy
Romance
Carnival
Break Your
Heart
Jóga
The Modern
Things
Hyper-ballad
Aeroplane
Bachelorette
Big Time
Sensuality
The
Barricades of Heaven
These Days
The Rebel
Jesus (with The Chieftains)
Fountain of
Sorrow
I'm Alive
In the
Shape of a Heart
Rhymes and
Reasons
Rocky
Mountain High
Sunshine on
my Shoulders
Poems,
Prayers and Promises
Wild
Flowers in a Mason Jar
The Eagle
and the Hawk
Real Men
Angel (with
Suzanne Vega & Dawn Upshaw)
Steppin’
Out
A Bud and a
Slice (with Brad Roberts)
Happyland
Stranger
than You
Allentown
Summer
Highland Falls
The
Downeaster 'Alexa'
Goodnight
Saigon
An Innocent
Man
Don't Ask
Me Why
Other
People's Houses
She Answers
the Sun (Lazybones) (with Rebecca Barnard)
Little
Kings
To Her Door
Deeper
Water
Melting
I'm Going
to Go Back There Someday - Gonzo the Great
Hey A Movie
The Magic
Store
Movin'
Right Along - Kermit the Frog & Fozzie Bear
The Lime in
the Coconut
Can You
Picture That? - The Electric Mayhem
Louisiana
1927
Bad News
from Home
Simon Smith
and his Amazing Dancing Bear
I Think
it's Going to Rain Today
You Can
Leave Your Hat On
That'll Do
(with Peter Gabriel)
The Ghost
of Tom Joad
Streets of
Philadelphia
I'm on Fire
My Hometown
My Best was
Never Good Enough
Red-headed
Woman
Silent All
These Years
Mother
Cloud on my
Tongue
Winter
Baker Baker
David
Bridie (5)
Stumble
Away
Kerosene
Come Around
The Koran,
the Ghan and a Yarn
The Last
Great Magician
Amen
Pearl
Feelin'
Love
Where Have
All the Cowboys Gone?
Throwing
Stones
Broad Lic
Nic
Funk You
Gotcha
Middle
Class
Dogs
Not Dark
Yet
Subterranean
Homesick Blues
Make You
Feel My Love
I Shall Be
Free No. 10
Tombstone
Blues
Elton
John (5)
Tiny Dancer
Rocket Man
Bennie and
the Jets
Daniel
Sacrifice
Dwa
Serduszka Cztery Oczy
Ale Jestem
Cyraneszka
Gdy Sliczna
Panna
Jednoczesnie
Everywhere
Little Lies
Rhiannon
Temporary
One
Powerless
(Say What You Want)
Força
One-Trick
Pony
Childhood
Dreams
Candy
Mountain Run
The Valley
Road
Hooray for
Tom
What the
Hell Happened
The Couch
Thank U
Front Row
Joining You
Garden Song
Peace in
the Valley
Know Jesus
Wait'll You
Hear This
Living
Alone
Last Man on
Earth
I Wish I
Was a Lesbian
The Doctor
Black Tie
White Noise
Jump They
Say
You've Been
Around
Johnny
Cash (3)
Hurt
The Man
Comes Around
Fulsom
Prison Blues
Two Knights
and Maidens
I Think
I'll Disappear Now
Afternoons
and Coffeespoons
Private
Universe
When You
Come
Fingers of
Love
Any Day Now
The Special
Two
Scar
Closer to
Fine
Least
Complicated
Perfect
World
3 x 5
My Stupid
Mouth
Why
Georgia?
I'll Never
Find Another You
Myra
World of
Our Own
Looks Like
Mona Lisa
Streetcorner
Ambassador
On the
Greener Side
Like a
River
Touched by
the Sun
Davy
Mississippi
Goddam
Little Girl
Blue
Mr.
Bojangles
Joseph
Arthur (2)
Termite
Song
In the Sun
A Day
Before Tomorrow
My Star
Don't Sleep
in the Subway
You're the
One
Boomerang
in Paraguay
Let it Rain
You and Me
Loud and
Clear
Reasons
Age of
Reason
Shane
Howard (2)
Common
Ground
Talk of the
Town
Jettison
Lobster
Logozo
Wé-wé
Hill
Farmer's Blues
Why Aye Man
The Day You
Went Away
Token
Angels
Galaxy Song
Every Sperm
is Sacred
Jealous Guy
Love is the
Drug
Mark
Seymour (2)
Don’t You
Know Me?
Can’t Crawl
That Way
Daphne
Descends
Appels +
Oranjes
C'est le
Dernier Qui a Parlé Qui a Raison - Amina
Diri Diri -
Costas Bigalis & The Sea Lovers
Diwanit
Bugale - Dan ar Braz et L'Heritage des Celtes
Video
Killed the Radio Star - The Buggles
The Boy Who
- Capercaillie
Suzanne -
Leonard Cohen
Fisherman
Song – Judy Collins
Star Shines
Bright - Peter Combe
Heaven
Knows - The Corrs
Emis Forame
to Himona Anixiatika - Mariana Efstratiou
How Can I
Keep from Singing? - Enya
Ellatha,
Hora Tu Fotos - Keti Garbi
Iris - Goo
Goo Dolls
Mr. Tugboat
Hello - Sophie B. Hawkins
Highwayman
- Highwaymen
Innocence
Maintained - Jewel
Sunrise –
Norah Jones
Olou Tou
Kosmou I Elpida - Kleopatra
Chce Znac
Swoj Grzech - Kasia Kowalska
Time After
Time - Cyndi Lauper
I Eat
Dinner - Kate & Anna McGarrigle
Vincent -
Don McLean
Nit Khair
Mansan Sohnia Main Teri - Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan: Qawwal and Party
Minn Hinsti
Dans - Páll Óskar
Dancing
Steps - Geoffrey Oryema
Lonkotina -
Pape & Cheikh
Dinle -
Sebnem Paker
Weil Der
Mensch Zählt - Alf Poier
My Winter
Coat - The Roches
Messages –
Xavier Rudd
Sigma -
Secret Garden
Anything -
Sixpence None the Richer
Six Months
in a Leaky Boat - Split Enz
Hajde Da
Ludujemo - Tajèi
Telstar -
The Tornadoes
White and
Black Blues - Joelle Ursull
Goodnight
Girl - Wet Wet Wet
Fra Mols
til Skagen - Aud Wilken
Ship of
Fools - World Party
(last
updated 1 March 2007)
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