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There have been many fave this, fave that blogs lately. Lets take it further.
Name your (no more than) five absolutely favorite songs of all time. I'm talking songs that are fundamentally, archetypally connected to your soul. Songs that you never, ever tire of hearing. Songs that make you cry, or shake your ass, or piss you off in that righteous sort of way every single time you hear it. Songs that other people can cover and you still feel that tug. Dig deep. There is no shame here.
Finally, to hell with lists. Say something real about these songs and where / how they get you.
Mine.
1. Depeche Mode. Stripped. This song, for me, is the perfect dark techno-pop song. The sounds are clever, the arrangement is very effective, and melodically it is a punch to the gut. Every time that big old string pad kicks in, I am toast. I love this song to death, and I love every cover version of it, including that recent sort of popular cover by Shiny Toy Guns.
2. The Cure. Sinking. There are so many Cure songs milling about in my subconscious, in particular this one, A Forest, and To Wish Impossible Things. However, this is the first of their songs that I heard that tapped into the sort of desperate emotional vibe that they would gratuitously, wonderfully exploit on Disintegration later on. The simple little piano riff kills me.
3. Bjork. All is Full of Love. Specifically, the Funkstorung remix that features in Chris Cunningham's video. A perfect, gorgeous song. The sounds, songwriting, and more than anything, her performance are terribly moving to me.
4. Slowdive. Dagger. So much of Slowdive's canon is huge and dripping the sort of miserable sentiment that I get off on, I'm not sure what it is about this tiny song that hits me. Contrast? Its sparseness in context of their other work? However, it moves me just as much out of context. I just know that it is a very simple little gem of a song, and it works because of it.
5. Skinny Puppy. Worlock. Oh man, that vocoder. Damn.
Hm, with the possible exception of the bjork track, no IDM or contemporary electronic peoples.
Also, due to popular request: please recount your five favorite jerkoffs -- identify the location, duration, and time of day.
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claudia
Ok, lets give this a go
Carry me ohio by sun kil moon – heard this for the first x last year, makes me think of a girl
Slow drug by pj harvey – my favorite electronic track, I consider this electronic, perfect loop I could listen to for days
Rhubard by aphex twin – a few tracks of this CD just destroy me, I listen to a little play list before bed almost every night and have been for years, I cant explain this track, it just creates a feeling that overtakes my little house
Pale September by fiona apple – I think of fall when this is on, the whole CD really is just fall
Wise up by aimee man – I got to see her play this live in a little club in LA, checked that off the list of things to do before I die haha
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license
gosh. Selected Ambient Works vol. II. unbelievably, I haven't listened to it in forever. thank you for reminding me. that whole album is great. I might have to sit down and just listen to it the whole way through this weekend.
track 5 on disc 2 in particular is really something special (I intentionally never remembered the track names)
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akida
Sian Alice Group - Kirilov
Mazzy Star - Fade into You
Cranberries - Linger
Various Production - Hater
TOK - Footprints
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claudia
fade into you is great
and yea, i wish selected ambient didnt have track names, my only extremely minor little thing...
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license
oh man, that Mazzy Star is a good one too. I rediscovered that in September and it was just as haunting and yearning as when I'd heard it as an awkward 13 year old.
sorry if I'm bogarting this fantastic thread. can't contain my enthusiasm 
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akida
redux: LOL
lali puna - together in electric dreams
coki - 666
the streets - its too late
joy division - love will tear us apart again
dolibox - jc's missing voice revisited
its funner the 2nd time
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applaud
4evah is a very long time, but right now I'd be prepared to go with:
Hejirah - Joni Mitchell
Coz that line about "White flags of winter chimneys / Wave truce against the moon" takes my breath away
Regiment - My life in the bush of Ghosts
That girl sings like a goddess
Devil Got my Woman - Skip James
Utterly unique - strange and brilliant
6 Part Ricercare from the Musical Offering - Bach (Arranged Webern)
Such academic music (a six voice fugue) but Bach makes it moving. Then Webern pulls it to bits and uses the orchestra like a kalaidescope
Short Ride in a fast machine - John Adams
Really skillful and exciting orchestral music.
04/20/08
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sclr
king tubby - battle axe dub
this is the kind of stuff i love. the grand daddy of the remix. master of the mashup before it was ever known. taking an already great upsetters song and mixing it with a great horn section to create a genuine masterpiece. you cannot hear this song and not smile somehow. simplicity and genius rolled into one. if you haven't heard it do yourself a favor and track it down. this taught me to never get stuck in a dead end literally and figuratively. and every time i hear it i almost weep with joy. no dead end just dub.
godflesh - like rats
kicked my ass in high school. godflesh made me paranoid for years. and i loved every minute of it. simply crushing. one of the heaviest tracks ever.
pink floyd - money
it is a crime. from 7/8 time to 4/4. lamentations that soar. technically great with a message.
and speaking of messages,
grand master flash and the furious five - the message
another great song that i cannot hear without thinking of when i was a kid popping at school and the local community center. true stories of living in the city.
autechre - second bad vilbel
this is what got me started making music. it kicked me into gear to make something that was so powerful without a guitar, without a bass and minus a drum kit. and it made me look at things from a sonic and sound perspective solely. to finally hear the sounds around me and that i was capable of and to put them into a viable order or potential of my own.
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Zanf
RogerRoger said: " Zanf said: " Talk Talk - New Grass "
I went back and listened to this and now it's stuck in my head. Thanks alot buddy! Naw, it's great. I love that whole album."
you sir, are very welcome!
timmo said: "Zurich is Stained - Pavement (Slanted and Enchanted)"
I work for an IT supplier to zurich insurance and kept singing that song. I had to consciously stop myself all the time!
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