On the Songs I Love

Stolen shamelessly from Bill Leisner:

  • Favorite Beatles song: “In My Life”
  • Favorite solo Beatles song by John Lennon: “#9 Dream”
  • Favorite solo Beatles song by Paul McCartney: “Live and Let Die”
  • Favorite solo Beatles song by George Harrison: “What Is Life?”
  • Favorite solo Beatles song by Ringo Starr: “Photograph”
  • Favorite Rolling Stones song: “Paint it Black”
  • Favorite Bob Dylan song: “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door”
  • Favorite Prince song: “Raspberry Beret”
  • Favorite Michael Jackson song: No idea
  • Favorite Public Enemy song: No idea
  • Favorite song that most of your friends haven’t heard: “Blue Ridge Laughing,” by Carbon Leaf
  • Favorite Police song: “Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic”
  • Favorite Sting song: “Russians”
  • Favorite song from a movie: I’m tempted to say “Uncle Fucker” from South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut because I find myself whistling it at the most inopportune moments
  • Favorite Genesis song: “Invisible Touch
  • Favorite solo song by a Genesis member: “In Your Eyes” by Peter Gabriel
  • Favorite Dire Straits song: “Sultans of Swing”
  • Favorite Jethro Tull song: “Locomotive Breath”
  • Favorite Led Zeppelin song: “Kashmir”
  • Favorite Weird Al song: “Yoda” (it’s the only one I can really remember)
  • Favorite Pink Floyd song: “Another Brick in the Wall”
  • Favorite U2 song: “With or Without You”
  • Favorite The Who song: “I Can See For Miles”
  • Favorite Elton John song: “Rocket Man”
  • Favorite Neil Young song: “Ohio”
  • Favorite David Bowie song: “Fame”
  • Favorite Nirvana song: not a Nirvana fan–I think they’re overrated
  • Favorite R.E.M. song: “The One I Love”
  • Favorite Elvis song: gotta skip it
  • Favorite cheesy-ass country song: gotta skip it
  • Favorite cheesy-ass ’70s “story” song: “Cat’s in the Cradle” by Harry Chapin, because I hate it so much I despise it, but if I had to pick one I actually enjoy, “Same Auld Lang Syne” by Dan Fogelberg
  • Favorite Talking Heads song: “And She Was”
  • Favorite Creedence Clearwater Revival song: “Bad Moon Rising” though I prefer John Fogerty as a solo artist
  • Favorite song by a “one-hit wonder”: I’m not sure they count, but Dream Academy’s “Life in a Northern Town”

Published by Allyn

A writer, editor, journalist, sometimes coder, occasional historian, and all-around scholar, Allyn Gibson is the writer for Diamond Comic Distributors' monthly PREVIEWS catalog, used by comic book shops and throughout the comics industry, and the editor for its monthly order forms. In his over ten years in the industry, Allyn has interviewed comics creators and pop culture celebrities, covered conventions, analyzed industry revenue trends, and written copy for comics, toys, and other pop culture merchandise. Allyn is also known for his short fiction (including the Star Trek story "Make-Believe,"the Doctor Who short story "The Spindle of Necessity," and the ReDeus story "The Ginger Kid"). Allyn has been blogging regularly with WordPress since 2004.

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