Best 3 songs of your life

[Mashika]

What are the best 3 songs of your life? Possibly compacting it as in early childhood, teenage years, adulthood?

Please share yours, i do would like to know, and then we can also see how many people share the same ones, at the same stages of life

Here are mine, so far

Childhood:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=LvdLovAaYzM

Teenage:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=_RqGfVdfebk

Adult:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=9U-N6LqzdIM

And my second set for the same:

Childhood

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=yW8qxUitG-Q

Teenage:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ASrGaWqGyyM

Adult:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=nOJSmXSFCWk

Hard choices, life and hard choices! lmao I could probably add at least 3 other sets of the same, but each one unique according to how i felt at that time, but that's part of the magic i guess

What are your choices by age? And sets as far as you remember growing up? (we never stop 'growing up')

[Mashika]

Third set for me xi xi:

Childhood:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=00iO7FXWhx8

Teenage: x 1000

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=uXdGOYo_fsE

Adult:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=RzlesqrpLok

[Matthew]

Jon & Vangelis - I'll Find My Way Home
Without a doubt my favourite song. I've loved other songs to death but not this one yet.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=rKqLAVyRaXw

Dire Straights - Sultans of Swing
Their songs are about twee subjects, this one about a small time band at ease with their own lives, they don't care about 'missing out somewhere else'

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=8Pa9x9fZBtY

Simple Minds - Hunter and the hunted
There are lots of Simple Minds songs I love but this is the one I'd miss if I were stranded on a deserted island.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=VvDsTPbMUQ0

Edit update: I've loved newer music but nothing comes as close as these early loves

[Open Minded Dude]

Difficult if you are 'old'. There are just too many songs, bands, albums accumulated over the years and dominant in certain phases, so it is literally impossible to choose the 'best' (and what is that anyway?), so it's just a selection out of a pool of many respectively:

Childhood:
(I was a Beatles and then a McCartney solo / Wings fan, around 1977-78 when I was 10, I loved this tune as it was also differnt from the other pop or rock tunes I was accustomed to, back then had not so much folk music experience yet, listening to it over and over on a ... cassette tape, yeah, those were the 'real' tape recording days )

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Plhtk_XJqhM

Teenage:
(officially my teens (strictly counted from 13-19) were from early 1981 til early 1988, so I choose from that period my favourite German band of the early eighties, started playing drums in 1983 inspired by their singer/drummer then, oh those memories ... ):

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=vEMTR-NsfkE

Adult:
(post-20 years is now a looong phase for me turning 20 in 1988!, so I just take the current fav band for the sake of choosing 'something', you are Russian as I know, Mashika, so here is just for you from their gig in Moscow )

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=0fxn6Rjm6Sw

[Tintin]

Childhood: 1 to 10 years

All You Need Is Love - The Beatles
I Get Around - The Beach Boys
Walking on the Moon - The Police

Teenage: 11-19 years

Eagle - Abba
That Was Yesterday - Foreigner
Oh Well - Fleetwood Mac

Adulthood: 20 to 1000 years (and counting )

(Just about everything by the Smiths ) esp. How Soon Is Now

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=hnpILIIo9ek

I am the son
And the heir
Of a shyness that is criminally vulgar
I am the son and heir
Of nothing in particular
You shut your mouth
How can you say
I go about things the wrong way?
I am human and I need to be loved
Just like everybody else does
I am the son
And the heir
Of a shyness that is criminally vulgar
I am the son and heir
Of nothing in particular
You shut your mouth
How can you say
I go about things the wrong way?
I am human and I need to be loved
Just like everybody else does
There's a club if you'd like to go
You could meet somebody who really loves you
So you go and you stand on your own
And you leave on your own
And you go home and you cry
And you want to die
When you say it's gonna happen "now"
Well when exactly do you mean?
See I've already waited too long
And all my hope is gone
You shut your mouth
How can you say
I go about things the wrong way?
I am human and I need to be loved
Just like everybody else does

Just Like Heaven - The Cure

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=1ASpBpT8bRQ

"Show me, show me, show me how you do that trick
The one that makes me scream", she said
"The one that makes me laugh", she said
And threw her arms around my neck
Show me how you do it
And I promise you, I promise that
I'll run away with you
I'll run away with you
Spinning on that dizzy edge
Kissed her face and kissed her head
Dreamed of all the different ways
I had to make her glow
"Why are you so far away?", she said
"Why won't you ever know that I'm in love with you
That I'm in love with you?"
You
Soft and only
You
Lost and lonely
You
Strange as angels
Dancing in the deepest oceans
Twisting in the water
You're just like a dream
You're just like a dream
Daylight licked me into shape
I must've been asleep for days
And moving lips to breathe her name
I opened up my eyes
And found myself alone, alone
Alone above a raging sea
That stole the only girl I loved
And drowned her deep inside of me
You
Soft and lonely
You
Lost and lonely
You
Just like heaven

Aneurysm - Nirvana

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=y7TPnH5emFg

Come on over, do the twist, aha
Overdo it and have a fit, aha
Love you so much, it makes me sick, aha
Come on over and do the twist, aha
Beat me out of me (beat it, beat it)

Come on over and do the twist, aha
Overdo it and have a fit, aha
Love you so much, it makes me sick, aha
Come on over and shoot the ****, aha
Beat me out of me (beat it, beat it)
She keeps it pumpin' straight to my heart

[Dick]

When i was a child: 10-15 years, my favourites where: Mud, The Rubettes, Smokey. (1975/1980)
16-20 years, Foreigner, Earth wind and fire. Michael Jackson.
20-………. Supertramp, Pink Floyd, and old Disco and Soul.

And ofcourse a lot more, but that wouldn’t fit in here

[ExomatrixTV]

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=DL7-CKirWZE

• Lyrics:

One, two
One, two, three, ow
Wake up, kids
We got the dreamers disease
Age fourteen, they got you down on your knees
So polite, we're busy still saying please
Frienemies, who when you're down ain't your friend
Every night we smash a Mercedes-Benz
First we run, and then we laugh 'til we cry
But when the night is falling
You cannot find the light (light)
You feel your dreams are dying
Hold tight
You've got the music in you
Don't let go
You've got the music in you
One dance left
This world is gonna pull through
Don't give up
You've got a reason to live
Can't forget
We only get what we give
I'm comin' home, baby
You're tops
Give it to me now
4 AM, we ran a miracle mile
We're flat broke
But hey, we do it in style
The bad rich
God's flying in for your trial
But when the night is falling
You cannot find a friend (friend)
You feel your tree is breaking
Just bend
You've got the music in you
Don't let go
You've got the music in you
One dance left
This world is gonna pull through
Don't give up
You've got a reason to live
Can't forget
We only get what we give
This whole damn world could fall apart
You'll be okay, follow your heart
You're in harm's way, I'm right behind
Now say you're mine
You've got the music in you
Don't let go
You've got the music in you
One dance left
This world is gonna pull through
Don't give up
You've got a reason to live
Can't forget
We only get what we give
Don't let go
I feel the music in you
Don't let go
Fly high, high
What's real can't die
You only get what you give
You're gonna get what you give
Don't give up
Just don't be afraid to leave
Health insurance, rip off lying
FDA, big bankers buying
Fake computer crashes dining
Cloning while they're multiplying
Fashion shoots with Beck and Hanson
Courtney Love and Marilyn Manson
You're all fakes
Run to your mansions
Come around, we'll kick your asses
Don't let go
One dance left
Don't give up
Can't forget
Don't let go

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=C8BP28RNnyA

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Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=zf4X2PlZgBo

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=to2cze58R5E

[Mari]

There have been 100's of songs which have hit the spot for me, and I adore most genres, except the bland rubbish churned out by the 'pop' industry but the ones which 'saved' me during certain life crises (maybe apart from the Beatles one) are below.

I was 10 and went to the cinema by myself to watch A Hard Day's Night, by the Beatles ( not a particular fan of them then - that came later) and I fell in love with 'If I fell'. It opened me up in a way that I still can't understand. I was a bitter, disillusioned kid with a chip on my shoulder re my parents...but this showed me another way to feel.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=vq78BDwCujs

23 years old..
Bellamy Brothers - Let your love flow... has always been my 'lesson-in-life to learn' song, in times when I've felt murderous towards one or two individuals and sometimes, life itself, and especially these days. It lifts me up in ways that nothing else can and takes me to Centre.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=EQ5aF7kbwCE

And when I was recovering from a severe life-changing bout of PTSD in my 40's - this song by Johnny Nash lifted me out of the mire, gave me hope and still does today, especially in these dark days. If I hear it played in my supermarket, I sing along to it, and don't give a fig for the looks I get. Amazingly, this song often crops up exactly when I need a boost in life.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=b0cAWgTPiwM

[Matthew]

Posted by ExomatrixTV (here)
...
One, two
One, two, three, ow
Wake up, kids
We got the dreamers disease
Age fourteen, they got you down on your knees
So polite, we're busy still saying please
Frienemies, who when you're down ain't your friend
...

So your post moved me to tears. I'm so grateful you're with us John. I had never looked twice at that song, didn't vibe with me, but I listened through it for the first time.

The youtube comments for the video have several other people saying this song saved them from the same as it saved you, in the same way. It's still not my cup of tea as music goes, but I have a new profound respect for the song.

[Mari]

Matthew, I adored John And Vangelis, especially this one!

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=QdzNc_2QsVk

[Matthew]

Mari that's a stunning song!!

[Ravenlocke]

Love is blue, L’Amour est bleu…I can listen to it forever, used to be late walking to school when this song would come on the radio.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Y_tPE3o5NWk

Love this one growing up,

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=hajBdDM2qdg

Cat Stevens, Morning has broken

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=qARB7XPfYjo

[Mari]

Posted by Matthew (here)
Mari that's a stunning song!!

Yes, I first heard it through my first set of 'cans'... (late starter, haha) blew me away.

[Ravenlocke]

He ain’t heavy, he’s my brother

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=fBI9i3HlFVE

Jefferson Airplane, White Rabbit

(Always reminds me of the movie, Go ask Alice)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=TKZVUtvjBdM

Marmalade. Reflections of my Life

Verse 1
The changing of sunlight to moonlight
Reflections of my life
Oh how they fill my eyes
Verse 2 (Repeat)
The greetings of people in trouble
Reflections of my life
Oh how they fill my eyes

Chorus
Oh my sorrows
Sad tomorrows
Take me back to my own home

Chorus (Repeat)
Oh my crying (Oh my crying)
Feel I'm dying, dying
Take me back
To my own home

Verse 3 (Repeat Verse 1)
I'm changing, arranging,
I'm changing,
I'm changing everything
Everything around me

Verse 4 (Repeat Verse 1)
The world is
A bad place
A bad place
A terrible place to live
Oh but I don't wanna die ...

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=7wO5G9b3fGw

Terry Jacks Seasons in the Sun

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=6ixdPnLFVIo

Goodbye to you my trusted friend
We've known each other since we were nine or ten
Together we've climbed hills and trees Learned of love and ABC's
Skinned our hearts and skinned our knees.
Goodbye my friend it's hard to die
When all the bird's are singing in the sky
Now that the spring is in the air
Pretty girls are everywhere
Think of me and I'll be there.
We had joy, we had fun
We had seasons in the sun
But the hills that we climbed
Were just seasons out of time.
Goodbye Papa, please pray for me
I was the black sheep of the family
You tried to teach me right from wrong
Too much wine and too much song
Wonder how I got along.
Goodbye Papa, it's hard to die
When all the birds are singing in the sky
Now that the spring is in the air
Little children everywhere
When you see them I'll be there.
We had joy, we had fun
We had seasons in the sun
But the wine and the song
Like the seasons have all gone.
We had joy, we had fun
We had seasons in the sun
But the wine and the song
Like the seasons have all gone.
Goodbye Michelle, my little one
You gave me love and helped me find the sun
And every time when I was down
You would always come around
And get my feet back on the ground.
Goodbye Michelle, it's hard to die
When all the birds are singing in the sky
Now that the spring is in the air
With the flowers everywhere
I wish that we could both be there.
We had joy, we had fun
We had seasons in the sun
But the stars we could reach
Were just starfish on the beach.
We had joy, we had fun
We had seasons in the sun
But the hills that we climbed
Were just seasons out of time

[Isserley]

I always come back to Maynard

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=PSLOCedWmWM

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=dunKAwRN3P8

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=C0XWo_qjtqE

[Michi]

Wow! Music is for me a very important part of art.
It's one of earth's population finest traits.

In my teenage years I lived thru disco, so yeah:

Supermax - Lovemachine:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=68ePU-qvJnI

Pilot - Magic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzlK0OGpIRs

Mr. Blue Sky - E.L.O. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuJIqmha2Hk

John Travolta - Sandy
Bee Gees - Secret Love

Player - Baby come back https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qNVMaYWuwY

then followed by:
Styx - Babe
Back for good - Take That
Waiting for a girl like you - Foreigner

and later:
Led Zeppelin - Stairway To Heaven https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkF3oxziUI4
Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Blinded By The Light https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xi3GzpHNkdQ

Michael Jackson - Dirty Diana https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUi_S6YWjZw
Michael Jackson - Smooth Criminal :

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=h_D3VFfhvs4

112 & Allure - All cried out
Woodkid - Run Boy Run
Gary Moore - Still got the blues (incredible e-guitar)
Ten Sharp - You (awesome piano)

Coldplay - Clocks (incredible piano)
Whitney Houston - One Moment In Time:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=NVIpECtQfNM

Lost stars - Adam Levine

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=cL4uhaQ58Rk

Weezer - Island in the sun https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erG5rgNYSdk (for it's solo e-guitar part)

Rainbow - I Surrender:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5ONwi2ri68

Foreigner - Juke box hero https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_TOsFvnmeQ
Metallica: Nothing Else Matters https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAGnKpE4NCI

[Bluegreen]

Caveman
Teenage Lobotomy
Beyond The Sea

[NX.P]

Mashika,

Music has been such an influential part of my life. Ive always considered it something special for the human experience--an artistic expression that attracted me to the sphere. I sometimes wonder whether extraterrestrial cultures have anything similar and what their music might sound like.

You have used the word song, for which a friend of mine said recently "hmm... song... this severely limits the harmonic intricacies and possibilities that I enjoy so much."

He teaches classical music in Germany and up to this point ive pretty much given up trying to impress him with anything that i come across, else I might as well send him commercial jingles. I wont try to impress you either--I've really tried to think back about the music that most stirred emotion in me, personally.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Lt8AfIeJOxw

Radiohead - Paranoid Android

I remember standing in the checkout line at amoeba records in San Fransciso. The clerk remarked how great of an album this was. I felt honored that (surely) such a great music enthusiast was also excited about what I was excited about. This was sometime around 2002, me and a few friends of mine had driven in out of state to visit a friend of ours. After a significant amount of 'reality testing', I remember this song being quite the soundtrack to the entire experience--which incorporated some very psy & very formative moments of life.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=DRFlyfcbcFM

Animal Colletive - My Girls

From 2012-2013 I had the privilege of associating with one of my favorite persons of my entire life. We both worked customer service at the airport and as a result developed a hopelessly sardonic yet wonderfully happy-go-lucky sense of existentialism. We drank and smoked (tobacco) too much with both people we hated and people we loved. This was the Georgetown neighborhood of Seattle, WA. Without fail, he would have music blasting within about 15 seconds or so after getting home. This song is one I remember being played often & would invoke a sense of 'enjoy-life-in-the-4am-moment' type of euphoria.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=LANNTICEaEU

Death Cab for Cutie - A Movie Script Ending

I think this was around 2004-2005 (sorry/not sorry for not keeping a linear timeline). A friend of mine said "hey we've got something for you". He and his girlfriend played me a song on a little boombox at their place on 601 East Holly Street, Bellingham, WA 98225. I couldn't find a job and I had quit school at the University nearby. I lived several hours south but would still drive up every weekend for the better part of a year to spend time with people I considered incredible and worthwhile. There was (and I hope there still is) a hippie counter-culture that didn't sellout and move to wallstreet and was content to just be, no need to convince anyone else, just be...




There were/are many more of course. Even a couple tonight I had started stories for but abandoned, since copyright policy prohibits embedded content. (I really dont like this). Maybe Ill share more if we are allowed more than 3?

[aoibhghaire]

When I was a young child I loved this song.

Walking Back To Happiness, sung by Helen Shapiro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuQlpFnlIBE

My young teenage years I was into a wide range of music.

Donovan - Hurdy Gurdy Man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JR8k8jpT3tw

Good Vibrations by The Beach Boys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVlSVkzbJDA

As a young adult I was into a variety of music from classical, jazz and progressive rock

Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fo6aKnRnBxM

Going for the One in HD by Yes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8AJNzq2B0s

Genesis - The Musical Box
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W35wtfcByIY

Enya - Orinoco Flow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTrk4X9ACtw

[onawah]

I don't know if I could say what my 3 absolute favorites are, but these are certainly favorites:

The Wind Cries Mary
The Jimi Hendrix Experience

"After all the jacks are in their boxes
And the clowns have all gone to bed
You can hear happiness staggering on down the street
Footprints dressed in red
And the wind whispers, "Mary"
A broom is drearily sweeping
Up the broken pieces of yesterday's life
Somewhere, a queen is weeping
Somewhere, a king has no wife
And the wind, it cries, "Mary"
The traffic lights, they turn blue tomorrow
And shine their emptiness down on my bed
The tiny island sags downstream
'Cause the life that lived is dead
And the wind screams, "Mary"
Will the wind ever remember
The names it has blown in the past?
And with this crutch, its old age and its wisdom
It whispers, "No, this will be the last"
And the wind cries, "Mary"

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=1AyVXGHxHec

(I saw Hendrix performing live closeup on a fairly small stage decades ago, and it was quite a transcendant experience. )

Oddly, another favorite also has the wind as a theme
Rhiannon--Fleetwood Mac

"Rhiannon rings like a bell through the night
And wouldn't you love to love her?
Takes through the sky like a bird in flight
And who will be her lover?

All your life you've never seen a woman
Taken by the wind
Would you stay if she promised you Heaven?
Will you ever win?

She is like a cat in the dark
And then she is the darkness
She rules her life like a fine skylark
And when the sky is starless

All your life you've never seen a woman
Taken by the wind
Would you stay if she promised you Heaven?
Will you ever win? Will you ever win?
[| From: http://www.elyrics.net/read/f/fleetwo... |]

Rhiannon
Rhiannon
Rhiannon
Rhiannon

She rings like a bell through the night
And wouldn't you love to love her?
She was alive like a bird in flight
And who will be her lover?

All your life you've never seen a woman
Taken by the wind
Would you stay if she promised you Heaven?
Will you ever win? Will you ever win?

Rhiannon
Rhiannon
Rhiannon

Taken by, taken by the sky
Taken by, taken by the sky
Taken by, taken by the sky

Dreams unwind
Love's a state of mind
Dreams unwind
Love's a state of mind"

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=U_aYibUx1B8

Approaching Lavender -Gordon Lightfoot

"If you'd like to spend the afternoon approaching Lavender
You'll feel just fine but one thing's sure
You'll never be the same
If you'd like to try your hand at understanding Lavender
Then you must be very sure
That life is not a game
You might even learn a thing or two approaching Lavender
You'll soon be on a one night tour
Forgetting your own name
You won't need a reason just to be alone with Lavender
For the light so warm and pure
Will draw you like a flame
The colors that surround you there will be the shade of Lavender
Shadows dancing everywhere
Like flowers in the rain
You will find your tongue's on fire while lying next to Lavender
With words you never spoke before
And will not speak again
Oh sweet Lavender I understand you perfectly
There is no way that I can see
You living by yourself
Oh sweet Lavendar I must be with you constantly
Your presence means so much to me
Much more that life itself
Oh sweet Lavender as fragrant as the name you bear
Please cast away the clothes you wear
And give your love to me
Oh sweet Lavender your smile is like the golden sun
I'd love to see you laugh and run
As naked as the sea
If you'd like to spend the afternoon approaching Lavender
Don't try and get the best of her
She will not share the blame
If you'd like to try your hand at understanding Lavender
Then you must be very sure
That life is not a game
There is no shame"

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=0Tnvd6nT7fQ

Neck in neck with the latter is the old classic by Leonard Cohen

Suzanne

"Suzanne takes you down to her place near the river
You can hear the boats go by
You can spend the night beside her
And you know that she's half crazy
But that's why you want to be there
And she feeds you tea and oranges
That come all the way from China
And just when you mean to tell her
That you have no love to give her
Then she gets you on her wavelength
And she lets the river answer
That you've always been her lover

And you want to travel with her
And you want to travel blind
And you know that she will trust you
For you've touched her perfect body with your mind

And Jesus was a sailor
When he walked upon the water
And he spent a long time watching
From his lonely wooden tower
And when he knew for certain
Only drowning men could see him
He said "All men will be sailors then
Until the sea shall free them"
But he himself was broken
Long before the sky would open
Forsaken, almost human
He sank beneath your wisdom like a stone

And you want to travel with him
And you want to travel blind
And you think maybe you'll trust him
For he's touched your perfect body with his mind

Now Suzanne takes your hand
And she leads you to the river
She is wearing rags and feathers
From Salvation Army counters
And the sun pours down like honey
On Our Lady of the Harbour
And she shows you where to look
Among the garbage and the flowers
There are heroes in the seaweed
There are children in the morning
They are leaning out for love
And they will lean that way forever
While Suzanne holds the mirror

And you want to travel with her
And you want to travel blind
And you know you can trust her
For she's touched your perfect body with her mind"

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=svitEEpI07E

My instrumental classic favorite is Clair de Lune by Debussy

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=CvFH_6DNRCY

UPDATE Don't know how I missed this, and it's possibly my #1 favorite--Astrud's rendering is so poignant, evocative and dreamy:
The Girl from Ipanema--Stan Getz · João Gilberto · Astrud Gilberto

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=N-TKOh0zsvU