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  1. Respect - Aretha Franklin   2. Louie Louie - Kingsmen   3. I Heard It Through The Grapevine - Marvin Gaye   4. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction - Rolling Stones   5. Like A Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan   6. Hey Jude - Beatles   7. Good Vibrations - Beach Boys   8. You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' - Righteous Brothers   9. My Girl - Temptations 10. Light My Fire - Doors 11. She Loves You - Beatles 12. You Really Got Me - Kinks 13. In The Midnight Hour - Wilson Pickett 14. Sunshine Of Your Love - Cream 15. Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix 16. A Day In The Life - Beatles 17. Papa's Got A Brand New Bag - James Brown 18. Whole Lotta Love - Led Zeppelin 19. My Generation - The Who 20. All Along The Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix 21. Mr. Tambourine Man - Byrds 22. Proud Mary - Creedence Clearwater Revival 23. Dock Of The Bay - Otis Redding 24. When A Man Loves A Woman - Percy Sledge 25. I Want To Hold Your Hand - Beatles 26. A Whiter Shade Of Pale - Procol Harum 27. House Of The Rising Sun - Animals 28. Yesterday - Beatles 29. Be My Baby - Ronettes 30. Where Did Our Love Go - Supremes 31. Somebody To Love - Jefferson Airplane 32. I Saw Her Standing There - Beatles 33. Green Onions - Booker T. & the MGs 34. The Sounds Of Silence - Simon & Garfunkel 35. I Want You Back - Jackson 5 36. Soul Man - Sam & Dave 37. I Get Around - Beach Boys 38. Reach Out, I'll Be There - Four Tops 39. Gimme Some Lovin' - Spencer Davis Group 40. Ain't Too Proud To Beg - Temptations 41. All Day And All Of The Night - Kinks 42. Mony Mony - Tommy James & the Shondells 43. Jumpin' Jack Flash - Rolling Stones 44. Born To Be Wild - Steppenwolf 45. Oh, Pretty Woman - Roy Orbison 46. White Room - Cream 47. Sympathy For The Devil - Rolling Stones 48. Ticket To Ride - Beatles 49. The Tracks Of My Tears - Miracles 50. California Dreamin' - The Mamas & the Papas 51. Eight Miles High - Byrds 52. For What It's Worth - Buffalo Springfield 53. Strawberry Fields Forever - Beatles 54. Nights In White Satin - Mo

This song's lyrics are (to me) astonishingly unusual. This is good "sung poetry." Who can ever forget "dance me to the end of love?" Has anyone ever said that to you? Or have you said this to anyone? Well, now, thanks to Leonard Cohen...you CAN!

I freakin' love this song, said mrsflinger (in recent tweet)

Awhile Ago, Before You, Big Old Crazy World, Capistrano, Cinnamon Sea, Cleopatra, Giants in Our Time, Limo for Elvis, Willie's Cadillac, Be the Light, World Away, My Little Home, Handsome Devil, A Dreamer Like You, Cowboy (This Horse Will Take You Home), The Sacrifice, The King of the World, Be Sure of Me, Give Her Today, Folksinger, The Way Our Love Goes, Home from the Islands, WHLO (Where the Hits Keep Comin')... and annotations!

Wacław Zimpel, Paweł Posteremczak, Ksawery Wójciński, Paweł Szpura - Hera The Vandermark 5 - The Horse Jumps/The Ship Is Gone Wadada Leo Smith & Ed Blackwell - The Blue Mountain's Sun Drummer Adam Lane's Full Throttle Orchestra - Ashcan Rantings Jason Ajemian & Daydream Full Lifestyles - Protest Heaven AMM - Sounding Music Harris Eisenstadt - Woodblock Prints Jean-Marc Foltz, Matt Turner & Bill Carrothers - To The Moon Angles - Epileptical West/Live In Coimbra Nobu Stowe - Confusion Bleue Ken Vandermark & Paal Nilssen-Love - Milwaukee Volume Kirk Knuffke - Amnesia Brown Mural - Nectars Of Emergence Andreas Schmidt, Samuel Rohrer, Thomas Heberer - Pieces For A Husky Puzzle

Matt Barrett's introduction to Rembetika music, the Greek urban blues, songs of drug addiction, love, sorrow, exile, war and occupation ... was spent listening and learning from the music of the Beatles, the Kinks, the Move and Free, currently I listen predominantly to old Rembetika. ...

RANCHERA, basically a waltz, polka, or bolero, concerns itself with love, patriotism, and nature. SON is a fusion of indigenous, Spanish, and African musics, much like Cuban son ~ but it varies from region to region. MARIACHI is both a genre and a band (composed of 2 violins, 2 trumpets, a Spanish guitar, 2 other guitars called vilhuela and guitarron, and today, trumpets.

Of the Armenian diaspora, Arto Tuncboyaciyan grew up outside Istanbul. His music celebrates Armenian sorrow + loneliness, also in African-American jazz and blues; it's melancholic, joyous, loving, consoling...

So utterly beautiful. I'm in love... with the music, with the man, and with the magic. What a wistful weaving of song, sorrow, and sugar.

With Citizen Boris (JDub Records), Golem ventures into new territory; still multilingual, the songs are about love, death, vacuum cleaners, and U.S. citizenship tests.

She's like a big, black, smiling sun; her voice seems polished by the sea, weathered by the wind, and is at once earthy and unearthly as she sings of the pain of love and the consolation of the divine.

Yes, oh yes, Otis. You are the very very best. Do not rest too long up there. Time to reincarnate soon!"

This microblog (tumblog) posts a track a day for your (nostalgic) listening pleasure. There's a subset called "BEST," and you may prefer to start there.

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