Just Two Songs

[1hooper]

What two songs are the most important in your life? Whatever the reason. Explain if you feel like it.

My two songs were written by two 24 yo's which I find interesting as I got married during my 24th year.

Hooper

The most stunning thing about "Like a Rolling Stone" is how unprecedented it was: the impressionist voltage of Dylan's language, the intensely personal accusation in his voice ("Ho-o-o-ow does it fe-e-e-el?"), the apocalyptic charge of Kooper's garage-gospel organ and Mike Bloomfield's stiletto-sharp spirals of Telecaster guitar, the defiant six-minute length of the June 16th master take. No other pop song has so thoroughly challenged and transformed the commercial laws and artistic conventions of its time, for all time.

"We decided to make a guitar album, but then I wrote all the songs on piano," Springsteen said of his third album, Born to Run. "Thunder Road," its opening track, is a cinematic tale of redemption with a title borrowed from a 1958 hillbilly noir starring Robert Mitchum as a bootlegger with a car that can't be beat (though the Boss had never actually seen the movie). An early title for the song was "Wings for Wheels," which resurfaced as the name of a Born to Run documentary. Decades later, Springsteen would marvel that he wrote the line "You're scared, and you're thinking that maybe we ain't that young anymore" when he was all of 24 years old.

[PonyGirlJCM]

This is not an easy request.... so many songs over a lifetime that resonate for one reason or another.....there is one that I have always related to due to the lyrics...in regards to circumstance in my life.... it is a name I use in other aspects...
I beg to differ with the listed lyrics as it sounds to me as though he sings “ The one who reads the stars ..she’ll know why you’re not like everyone” but we all have misheard something in a song..

[halochef]

well since you asked....2 Aria's one by Diana Damrau  queen of the night.  was into opera and this really put me over   and this next one by Danielle de Niese  Da tempeste il legno infranto' from Handel's Giulio Cesare. then we really like wolfie and Handel's operas.!

[halochef]

isn't she cute!!!  (ok 3)

[halochef]

ok mayb these 2 also....

[Dell]

[spiderjohn]

being a big Dead fan in the 60s and 70s, I loved the way they did this old folk tune, until the day that the uber famous grass dj Moon Mullins turned me on to this version. I honestly believe that this band changed my life musically, and today I still don't know of anyone more perfect and influencial--maybe Satisfaction as the other tune? Hoop's top choice also is in the mix.

[spiderjohn]

combination of two major influences performed by one of my shortlist favorite artists today....

[shoes]

I found this to be both an easy question, because a couple of songs did immediately come to mind but also a hard one, because how could I not list others that have been very meaningful. But you did say two.

I guess it will surprise no one that both of my two were performed by the Kinks and written by Ray Davies. I have had an unbelievably lucky life, based on the family I was born into, my mom and dad and sister, and the great friends I have had the privilege to know for so many years. Because of this I often think that some of the heartbreak I have had is only fair as it still doesn't begin to balance out all of the good.

Kinks music has always helped me get through the trying times.

"Days" is an ode to a lost love: "Days I'll remember all my life"



"Celluloid Heroes" captures both my love of old movies and poignantly expresses a somewhat sad sentiment: "I wish my life was a nonstop Hollywood movie show, a fantasy world of celluloid villains and heroes, because celluloid heroes never feel any pain, and celluloid heroes never really die.