Sadchild's top 333 fav songs of all ever

[sadchild]

#56 Depeche Mode "Enjoy The Silence"

A very nice of telling the one you love to "ZIP IT ALREADY!" Let's just be together without having to hear every extraneous thought that pops into that fickle head of yours!

 

[sadchild]

#55 Depeche Mode "Personal Jesus"

Possibly my favorite CD single I've ever bought b/w my #100 song "Dangerous" and fantastic remixes/alt versions of both songs (minus Hazchemix which sucks). Below is the 7" version with the very cool original ending (though the LP version with some of the Pump Mix appended is quite cool too).

 

[HecticArt]

Killer tune.

 

[sadchild]

#54 Peter Gabriel "In Your Eyes"

The even-better version, with extra lyrics:

 

[sadchild]

#53 Indigo Girls "Hey Jesus"

An unanswered prayer brings out some pretty heavy thoughts.

 

[sadchild]

#52 Gary Numan "Cars"

The music was groundbreaking to me, especially at 10 years old. And I've always been able to relate to the dilemma of wanting to stay away from people, yet still requiring social interaction.

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

#52 Gary Numan "Cars"

The music was groundbreaking to me, especially at 10 years old. And I've always been able to relate to the dilemma of wanting to stay away from people, yet still requiring social interaction.

I think he thought he was going to be mugged and found refuse in his car and it gave him the inspiration.

 

[sadchild]

Yep that was the inspiration behind it.

I find most songs have:
1. The inspiration
2. The meaning

And they aren't always the same

For example, Van Halen "Jump"...

The original inspiration for the lyrics came from David Lee Roth watching a person on TV who was threatening to commit suicide by jumping off of a building and Roth figured someone in the crowd must be thinking, “Go ahead and jump”. It was, however, not written about suicide – the song is about ‘jumping’ on the opportunity to hook up with someone.

 

[HecticArt]

Cars still holds up.

 

[sadchild]

#51 Machine Head "Davidian"

"Let freedom ring with a shotgun blast!" One of the best metal albums of all time. Speaking of inspiration vs meaning, this was inspired by the Waco shootout between Branch Davidians and the ATF, but the meaning is more about vengeance, hate and no sympathy for those who have mistreated you (that's what I get out of it anyway).

 

[HecticArt]

Crun......chy.......

 

[sadchild]

#50 Living Colour "Cult Of Personality"

No song applies more right at this very moment than this. "I exploit you, still you love me. I tell you 1 and 1 makes the other guy responsible for every pandemic death." Disclaimer: I may have fudged that lyric a bit.

 

[sadchild]

#49 John Cougar/Mellencamp "Jack And Diane"

As a teen and into my early 20s, this song always reminded me to be young wild & free while I was still young wild & free. Enjoy the moment, do stuff, be that age, live those experiences, bask in the freedom, revel in the hijinx, enjoy those "first-times". This little ditty was loaded with wisdom... changes would come around real soon and make me an adult -- and I saw that most adults weren't having as much fun anymore. Thanks John (and to Rush in "Time Stand Still" too!) for telling me to experience the now fully, before "now" becomes the "glory days".

 

[MonoStereo]

 

[sadchild]

 

[sadchild]

#48 Van Halen "Jump"

A-oh! Hey you! Who said that?

 

[HecticArt]

Dianne's sittin on Jackie's face, he's got his ears between her knees.
Oooh yeah, hurt so good......

 

[sadchild]

#47 Red Hot Chili Peppers "Fight Like A Brave"

Thank you Steven Tyler for introducing me to this band back in the summer of '89 with this video on MTV's Hard 30. I happened to be videotaping, so I brought the tape to a friend's house and said, "We've gotta go get this record now!!" And then we did.

 

[sadchild]

#46 Moving Pictures "What About Me"

This song really spoke to me at 12. And it still speaks to me now.

 

[MonoStereo]

Isn't "What About Me?" one of those weird ones, where it was kind of a hit in the early '80's & then outta nowhere became a bigger hit in the late 80's?