{"id":443,"date":"2005-06-14T21:45:23","date_gmt":"2005-06-15T02:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=443"},"modified":"2005-06-14T21:45:23","modified_gmt":"2005-06-15T02:45:23","slug":"on-the-songs-i-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=443","title":{"rendered":"On the Songs I Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stolen shamelessly from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/bill_leisner\/92948.html\">Bill Leisner<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Favorite Beatles song: &#8220;In My Life&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Favorite solo Beatles song by John Lennon: &#8220;#9 Dream&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Favorite solo Beatles song by Paul McCartney: &#8220;Live and Let Die&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Favorite solo Beatles song by George Harrison: &#8220;What Is Life?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Favorite solo Beatles song by Ringo Starr: &#8220;Photograph&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Favorite Rolling Stones song: &#8220;Paint it Black&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Favorite Bob Dylan song: &#8220;Knockin&#8217; on Heaven&#8217;s Door&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Favorite Prince song: &#8220;Raspberry Beret&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Favorite Michael Jackson song: No idea<\/li>\n<li>Favorite Public Enemy song: No idea<\/li>\n<li>Favorite song that most of your friends haven&#8217;t heard: &#8220;Blue Ridge Laughing,&#8221; by Carbon Leaf<\/li>\n<li>Favorite Police song: &#8220;Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Favorite Sting song: &#8220;Russians&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Favorite song from a movie: I&#8217;m tempted to say &#8220;Uncle Fucker&#8221; from <i>South Park: Bigger, Longer &#038; Uncut<\/i> because I find myself whistling it at the most inopportune moments<\/li>\n<li>Favorite Genesis song: &#8220;Invisible Touch<\/li>\n<li>Favorite solo song by a Genesis member: &#8220;In Your Eyes&#8221; by Peter Gabriel<\/li>\n<li>Favorite Dire Straits song: &#8220;Sultans of Swing&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Favorite Jethro Tull song: &#8220;Locomotive Breath&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Favorite Led Zeppelin song: &#8220;Kashmir&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Favorite Weird Al song: &#8220;Yoda&#8221; (it&#8217;s the only one I can really remember)<\/li>\n<li>Favorite Pink Floyd song: &#8220;Another Brick in the Wall&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Favorite U2 song: &#8220;With or Without You&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Favorite The Who song: &#8220;I Can See For Miles&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Favorite Elton John song: &#8220;Rocket Man&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Favorite Neil Young song: &#8220;Ohio&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Favorite David Bowie song: &#8220;Fame&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Favorite Nirvana song: not a Nirvana fan&#8211;I think they&#8217;re overrated<\/li>\n<li>Favorite R.E.M. song: &#8220;The One I Love&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Favorite Elvis song: gotta skip it<\/li>\n<li>Favorite cheesy-ass country song: gotta skip it<\/li>\n<li>Favorite cheesy-ass &#8217;70s &#8220;story&#8221; song: &#8220;Cat&#8217;s in the Cradle&#8221; by Harry Chapin, because I <i>hate<\/i> it so much  I <i>despise<\/i> it, but if I had to pick one I actually enjoy, &#8220;Same Auld Lang Syne&#8221; by Dan Fogelberg<\/li>\n<li>Favorite Talking Heads song: &#8220;And She Was&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Favorite Creedence Clearwater Revival song: &#8220;Bad Moon Rising&#8221; though I prefer John Fogerty as a solo artist<\/li>\n<li>Favorite song by a &#8220;one-hit wonder&#8221;: I&#8217;m not sure they count, but Dream Academy&#8217;s &#8220;Life in a Northern Town&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stolen shamelessly from Bill Leisner: Favorite Beatles song: &#8220;In My Life&#8221; Favorite solo Beatles song by John Lennon: &#8220;#9 Dream&#8221; Favorite solo Beatles song by Paul McCartney: &#8220;Live and Let Die&#8221; Favorite solo Beatles song by George Harrison: &#8220;What Is Life?&#8221; Favorite solo Beatles song by Ringo Starr: &#8220;Photograph&#8221; Favorite Rolling Stones song: &#8220;Paint it<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=443\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On the Songs I Love&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4097,66],"tags":[4107,4098,98],"class_list":["post-443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beatles","category-music","tag-memes","tag-music","tag-the-beatles","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}