Songs That Saved Your Life

martinfoyle · Post by **martinfoyle** » Wed Mar 10, 2004 6:45 am

What Elvis songs should have been in this?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/6sense/song ... vote.shtml

The Full Top 20
1. The Smiths - I Know it's Over 17.55%
2. Bowling For Soup - Girl all the Bad Guys Want 12.68%
3. REM - Everybody Hurts 10.41%
4. The Cure - Pictures of You 10.06%
5. Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees 9.08%
6. Joy Division - Love Will Tear us apart 8.19%
7. Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb 5.85%
8. Kate Bush & Peter Gabriel - Don't Give Up 4.06%
9. Blur - This is a Low 3.43%
10= The Beatles - Good Day Sunshine
& Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under The Bridge 2.49%
12. Tori Amos - China 2.27%
13. Portishead - Glory Box 2.24%
14. Al Green - Tired of Being Alone 1.79%
15. Mercury Rev - The Dark is Rising 1.65%
16. Lou Reed - Pale Blue Eyes 1.58%
17. Spiritualized - Stop Your Crying 1.3%
18. The Darkness - I Believe in a thing Called Love 1.05%
19. Faithless - Insomnia -1.02%
20. Polyphonic Spree - Light & Day 0.81%

Post by **BlueChair** » Wed Mar 10, 2004 7:20 am

The entire Blood On The Tracks album by Bob Dylan

Post by **spooky girlfriend** » Wed Mar 10, 2004 7:52 am

Ummm, Blue, he said "What ELVIS songs should have been on this?"

Been up studying too much lately?

Post by **BlueChair** » Wed Mar 10, 2004 7:54 am

Hmm.. I'm not sure any Elvis songs have saved my life.

Probably "Man Out Of Time" if any

Jackson Doofster · Post by **Jackson Doofster** » Wed Mar 10, 2004 8:28 am

Swet Pear

Post by **spooky girlfriend** » Wed Mar 10, 2004 8:31 am

Swet Pear?????

Is anybody awake today?

mood swung · Post by **mood swung** » Wed Mar 10, 2004 8:37 am

that reminds me of some graffiti that some crazy in love redneck painted on an overpass on I-40: I LOVE YOU SWEATPEA!!!!!

I think the whole MAIT record saved my life. I've probably said this before, but it was absolutely a life preserver thrown to me when I was drowning in a sea of Journey. That and Jesus of Cool. I geed when everybody else hawed.

A rope leash · Post by **A rope leash** » Wed Mar 10, 2004 8:51 am

In the early '90's, when I was starving in Nebraska, Brutal Youth saved me. Specifically, 13 Steps...

selfmademug · Post by **selfmademug** » Wed Mar 10, 2004 11:00 am

ALMOST BLUE would be on my list. Also his cover of WITHERED AND DIED.

Interesting list, that. Very UK!! You'd never get such a list here.

Top of mine would be AMELIA by Joni Mitchell. MORE THAN THIS by Roxy Music (How much did I love that that popped up in LOST IN TRANSLATION in such a beautiful way??) Nat Cole's STARDUST. The entire MANHATTAN soundtrack. Marshall Crenshaw's LITTLE WILD ONE. From the teen years: YOUR OWN SPECIAL WAY by Genesis, and THE GREATEST DISCOVERY by Elton John. Both are sap central, but still lovely. ROAD TO NOWHERE by the Heads and Elvis's JUST ABOUT GLAD would be on there for circumstantial rather than musical reasons. I'm forgetting some really crucial ones... Oh, I forgot I HEARD RAMONA SING from Frank Black. ANd a handful of current ones too powerful to mention... great concept for a list.

girl out of time · Post by **girl out of time** » Wed Mar 10, 2004 12:34 pm

just about glad & all the rage

Pov · Post by **Pov** » Wed Mar 10, 2004 12:38 pm

A rope leash wrote:In the early '90's, when I was starving in Nebraska, Brutal Youth saved me. Specifically, 13 Steps...

Not Springsteen's Nebraska?

Tim(e) · Post by **Tim(e)** » Wed Mar 10, 2004 4:38 pm

So Like Candy gave me solace (the song, I mean

) as did a non-Elvis song at the same time, La Wally from the soundtrack to the French film Diva.

A rope leash · Post by **A rope leash** » Wed Mar 10, 2004 8:00 pm

You know, Pov, I have yet to obtain a copy of Nebraska. I like Springsteen, but not everything he does.

I was way into Matthew Sweet at the time. I don't like knowing people.

crash8_durham · Post by **crash8_durham** » Wed Mar 10, 2004 10:01 pm

Someone Saved My Life Tonight :Elton John

mood swung · Post by **mood swung** » Wed Mar 10, 2004 11:02 pm

I was just re-reading the list---how could Good Day Sunshine save anybody's life? except maybe drew barrymore's? it's a fine song, but isn't it just a little too happy? maybe it's just me.

bobster · Post by **bobster** » Thu Mar 11, 2004 10:41 pm

mood swung wrote:I was just re-reading the list---how could Good Day Sunshine save anybody's life? except maybe drew barrymore's? it's a fine song, but isn't it just a little too happy? maybe it's just me.

Oh, I could imagine it. It's pretty sincerely happy. It's definitely made me feel good. Still, if I were actually depressed, I think it might make me feel worse. So

As for me, PL&U would probably be the closest. There's something sort of beautiful and defiant about EC's recording of it that really does make me feel better when I'm downhearted.

pophead2k · Post by **pophead2k** » Fri Mar 12, 2004 9:52 am

The Song is Over by the Who.

A rope leash · Post by **A rope leash** » Fri Mar 12, 2004 10:53 am

I can dig it.

EarlManchester · Post by **EarlManchester** » Fri Mar 12, 2004 12:27 pm

martinfoyle wrote:What Elvis songs should have been in this?

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