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Nirvana - Come As You Are

It should be Smells Like Teen Spirit because it was something I sung before i even knew the words as a kid but Ths one hants me the most.

Skeelo - I Wish

This Rap song I've always related to because growing up it seemed the way I was was only enough for me and no one else and it made me a little glad someone could feel the same, the short end of the stick sucks.

Alice in Chains - Them Bones

Would? was the song I knew first but this song, it took me years to find out who it was till I  rewatched the Street Fighter II movie. I watched it with my Older Brother who had the VHS back in the day and we watched it. Me and him played SFxT together today, he finds a way to always make me feel better.

Miles Davis - Blue in Green

The first song I openly said was beautiful and started my Love of Jazz in my mid teens

The Cancel - Love is

Heard these dudes last year and I think they are fantastic, I was going through an electronic music phase when I discovered there album, it's kinda opened my musical tastes.

EDIT: NUMBER 6!

So Solid Crew - 21 Seconds

This song was the voice of my gen, Grime is essensially British Rap it was pretty underground for a while and this particular song blew it up. This is a song young Londoners recognise because it spoke the same language and we all know the words. Ths song goes on in the club, everyone sings it.

I'll have to listen to The Cancel, that Miles Davis song, and Skeelo. 

I love "Come As You Are" and "Them Bones" (my next door neighbors had the disc with the movie on it for PSX) as well. What about number six, though? lol

I'm getting to it, it's reall Hard 

I had to go to seven. I just couldn't remove any of these as they are all important to me.

The Who - The Seeker: Maybe the first rock song I ever heard. My parents had a 45rpm disc and this song was on the B-side. It brings back vivid memories of the place I heard it before I really listened to music. I think I must've been under 10 years old at the time.

Genesis - Blood on the Rooftops: I loved this song when I was in High School in the 80's because of it's classical guitar opening . Steve Hackett was my first guitar hero.

Yes - Roundabout:  I was so into 70's prog rock in High School while everyone else was into 80's New Wave. Yes's Fragile album was one of my favorites and this song never got old for me.

Rush - Red Barchetta: This song probably symbolized my excitment over learning to drive. Plus I was way into Rush in High School.

Richard Wagner - Gotterdammerung - Siegfried's Funeral March: I saw the movie Excalibur in the 80's and was entranced by the music. This is the piece used for the opening of the movie which featured lots of Wagner music. I started listening to lots of Classical music after this.

King Crimson - Islands: In the late 80's while I was in College, I was a pretty lonely person and this song sums up how I felt then. I've been a total Crimhead ever since.

Accept - Balls to the Wall: My band mate in the 90's loaned me a tape of Accept's album by the same name and I listened to it while driving through a huricane. After that, metal would be one of my music interests.

Haha balls to the wall is great 80s cheese ... but it's pretty badass you rode to it through a hurrican! 

I used to play "Roundabout" all the time for the station's Classic Hits days as a DJ. 

The rest I know the bands, but not the songs, although I've probably heard the Wagner tune before and just didn't remember its name. 

That's not even my favorite Accept tune. I have like at least three others I like better, but that's the one that got the metal ball rolling for me and it had a lot to do with that night and how well it fit the mood of the song.

That Wagner piece is probably just what everyone thinks is the theme to Excalibur.

Got the metal ball(s) rolling did it? 

Looking up that Wagner tune, I'm afraid that's one I'm not familiar with. 

Just watch the trailer for Excalibur. "Knights, Squires... prepare for battle."

I listened to a different part then. That song is in a LOT of trailers and movies, often in parodies.

Oh gorramit! I didn't listen to the trailer. It's Carmina Burana by Carl Orff in that one. This is what I meant to play.

Of the top of my head:

Gnarls Barkley-Crazy: I always loved this song ever since i've heard it for the first time in 2007, even in the time when I was a snobish Metalhead. There's just something mystic and soulfull about it and the music video is very cool.

Lynyrd Skynyrd-Freebird: It's simply one of my favorite epic songs and it's been a good choice to use while traveling.

Modest Mouse-Float On: My main pic when it comes to songs that make you happy. It's a typical choice, but dammit, it's typical for that good reason. It also fits my mood of no matter what happens and even if a situation doesn't look good, we need to continue and never worry too much and do the best we can.

Red Hot Chili Peppers-Snow (Hey Oh): May or may not be my favorite RHCP song, but either way, I like its melacholic tone and lyrics and it's also a song that for some reason lifts my mood.

Pixies-Where is my Mind: I always asociate this song for not only getting into Pixies, but also the source where I got into Pixies; Fight Club, my favorite film of all time.

The Count of Tuscany-Dream Theater: I had only heard this song two times, but they were enough to make me fall in love with Dream Theater and probably also a reason why I love songs with epic feel.

That's all I can think right now. It's not official, as I have some other songs that I feel are also important, this doesn't cover a lifetime and they aren't exactly my definite songs of all time. Still, great choices to me.

I was a snobbish metalhead once as well. I do like Gnarls Barkley/Cee Lo Green's music, though. 

I've always wanted to learn the ending solo to "Freebird," it honestly sounds like a lot of fairly simple patterns to me. We'll see when I actually try, though ...

I love "Float On."

Never found "Snow (Hey Oh)" to be melancholic, more just relaxing, but it lifts my spirits as well. Playing that riff in time is more challenging than you would think.

I need to rewatch Fight Club, I think that's how a lot of people found out about the Pixies. 

Dream Theater is hit or miss for me, I'm not sure if I've heard that one yet.

I want to do this, but I have way too many songs I want to include. Thanks for giving me something to think about.

I had the same problem, hence postponing until my birthday. 

That is an interesting question...my list would probably change but if I had to choose right now it would be

1. J.J. Fad - Supersonic: Most likely the first rap song I listen to that I really liked and learned all the lyrics for. Plus it was one of my early "tape it off the radio" songs.

2. Dance Hall Crashers - Lost Again: This was the song I listened to in college after my last class of the week. I had a rough semester and at the time this was my favorite song, so I would only listen to it after my last class as something to look forward to.

3. Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit: This song came out when I think I was in middle school and it was so different from what I listened to at that point. Wasn't a big fan of Nirvana, but damn I loved that song

4. USC Trojan Marching Band - Conquest: 5th grade Chris was in his first year of band and I watched a USC game and their band always played this and Fight On. At that point I wanted to go to USC and play Conquest.

5. Bread - Baby I'm-A Want You: This song reminds me of when I was a little kid on lazy weekends when my pops would listen to music I would sit and play with my toys

6. Charlie Parker - Kim: When I first listened to this song when I went to Drum Major Camp in high school (pre band camp for the Drum Majors in training), one of the guys I knew played this and my reaction was "HOLY SH*T". I bought the CD and I always turned up the volume on my Discman for this song (I still turn the volume up on my iPod when it comes around) 

Never heard of JJ Fad. I think the first song I remember hearing from a tape I let run while the radio played (e.g. I heard it on the tape first) was from a band called Skindred. 

Don't know Dance Hall Crashers, either, but I'm all for songs that get you through. 

My friend and eventual girlfriend/ex-girlfriend had Nirvana be her gateway to non-pop music as well. Mine was Metallica.

Don't know if I've ever heard Conquest. 5th grade Joey had just started barking up the wrong tree. lol

And again, don't know the last two. So much new music to check out.  

I miss the blank tapes and hitting record & pause when copying stuff off the radio

JJ Fad is a one hit wonder female rap group and the song was so big for us is because the local radio station would play the hell out of it.

Oh Dance Hall Crashers...love this group. They're a ska band from the bay, and their second live album was the CD that never left my car.

Conquest is the song USC plays after their fight song after they score a touchdown. It doesn't get annoying as their fight song, but it has that Roman Conquering Hero vibe. 

Bread's song was in the Lays commercial where a lady is getting a manicure and sees a women eating a bag of Lays and has chips all over her hands. 

Oh I do know Dance Hall Crashers! They covered "Come On Eileen," didn't they? Or maybe I'm mistaken still ... 

That's Save Ferris...another one of the favorites.

This is Dance Hall Crashers

Ok, but to my credit, I have actually heard of the Dance Hall Crashers before you mentioned them, I just forgot when I first saw your comment. lol 

Great song! I love female-lead ska bands. I'm planning on looking up everyone's suggestions when I have time. 

I saw a couple of groups listed in the comments I might check out as well. I haven't been in the forums in a bit, but have you/are you going to post this topic in the music thread? It would be interesting to see what people who didn't respond here would post over there. 

Love female fronted ska bands. I think I listened to those bands more than other ska bands because of the female vocals. 

I've posted in there close to when it started, actually. 

Since life is always changing and ever evolving I find it difficult to narrow down to six.  I know that some songs that defined my life six or seven years ago are no longer relevant.  I still love them, but they do not hold the same meaning.  

I suppose that looking at sections of your life and finding songs that define individual eras would make the most sense. 

Yeah, I know what you mean, which is why I plan to divide my life into four-year sections. Even still, there were like three contenders for spot #3 when I tried to just write my six. That's when I gave up, postponed the "project," and posted this.

I think this song is pretty revelant. I waste a lot of time doing nothing.

Didn't we all, really? Maiden is always a good choice. My favorite live video of theirs is pretty much anything from Rock in Rio, but especially "Hallowed Be Thy Name."

Hmmm, six songs that define my youth? Kind of difficult. Still, I'll try.

Bittersweet symphony=The song really expressed how I felt as a teenager. I think I was in a flux between wanting to change yet feeling too set in my ways and it had dawned on me life is not all rainbows and unicorns.

NIN: Hurt= Johnny Cash did a really good version of this song too. Conveys you are going nowhere with your life and the line of "I hurt myself today...just to see if I could feel" totally resonated with me.

Korn: Falling away from me=Jonathan Davis is known as being bipolar so I'm not surprised I was on the same wave length as this song. Just goes to show you I had to get my head out of my ass!

Greenday(Or smashing pumpkins???): Don't know the song but it goes "All I can say is my life is very plain,when I read a book it's a great escape!" I was isolated on a mountain so books really were my only means of leaving my prison of isolation.

Soundgarden: Black hole sun=The song was weird and the music video was weirder. I had seen too many fucked up things as a kid so this song embodied that. 

Live, Lakini's Juice=Pretty awesome electric guitar shredding happens in this one. For some reson the lyrics got to me as well.

Yeah,my adult life is "happier". lol.

Well, define your whole life, but youth is a good angle to take. 

"Bittersweet Symphony" was my old English teacher's ring tone. 

I prefer Cash's version, which is how I found out about the NIN song. I remember people being so confused about who covered who when I was in high school. 

I do like 90s Korn. 

The song you're thinking of is "Only Rain" by Blind Melon, I think. The lead singer died of a drug overdose, I think and was a bit of a hippy. Could be wrong, but I'm fairly certain that's what you're thinking of. 

I never liked "Black Hole Sun" and still find it a bit dull, but I guess I at least appreciate it more now. We never had MTV or cable when I was little, so I didn't see the video until much later. 

Live is a great band. I think "Lightning Crashes" may make my list. "Lakini's Juice" is definitely a memorable riff for me. 

I was so into Live when they were around.

You're right. It was Blind Melon! The years have chipped away at information in my memory banks. lol. It's too bad the singer died of a drug overdose but that seems to be a common occurence in the musician field. Hopefully the guy still lived a happy existence!

Looking it up on Wikipedia, apparently this is what his grave stone says: 

"I know we can't all stay here forever

So I want to write my words on the face of today and they'll paint it"

I need to give this some thought. Most of the music I listen to is geared towarding killing the baddies in videogames. I'll post again later on here or in a future blog depending how far I get in my comments. Either way i'm saving this blog post message or the comment that follows.

I'd say post a blog instead of commenting here, so more people see it.