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70 Favorite Songs: A Recap

By bittergrace 3 Comments
Categories: favorite songs

1. Ballerina (Leona Naess)
2. Bizarre Love Triangle (New Order)
3. Bob Dylan (Nine Days)
4. Book of Love (The Magnetic Fields)
5. Both Sides Now (Joni Mitchell)
6. Careless Whisper (George Michael)
7. Carry Around (The Annuals)
8. Cayman Islands (Kings of Convenience)
9. Colorblind (Counting Crows)
10. Come Away With Me (Norah Jones)
11. Comfort in Your Strangeness (Cynthia Alexander)
12. Cornflake Girl (Tori Amos)
13. Distractions (Zero 7 feat. Sia)
14. Dumbing Down of Love, The (Frou Frou)
15. Everything (Lifehouse)
16. Fell into the Loneliness (Lori Carson)
17. Gloomy Sunday (Rezso Seress)
18. Goodbye to Love (The Carpenters)
19. Gorecki (Lamb)
20. Hanggang (Wency Cornejo)
21. Here There Everywhere (The Beatles)
22. How to Disappear Completely (Radiohead)
23. I Can’t Tell You Why (The Eagles)
24. I Don’t Like it Like This (The Radio Dept.)
25. I Hear the Bells (Mike Doughty)
26. If I Apologised (Dave McKean with Neil Gaiman)
27. I’ll Be Okay (Amanda Marshall)
28. It’s Not (Aimee Mann)
29. It’s Only Love (Heather Nova)
30. Lonely Boy (Black Lab)
31. Lost (Skin)
32. Mariposa (Sugarfree)
33. Momentum (Vienna Teng)
34. Mr. Blue Sky (Electronic Light Orchestra)
35. Muntik Nang Maabot ang Langit (True Faith)
36. My Invitation (Sarah Slean)
37. Night and Day (Cole Porter)
38. Nothing Like You’ve Ever Known (Andrew Lloyd Webber)
39. On My Own (Claude-Michel Schonberg and Alain Boublil)
40. Only Hope (Switchfoot)
41. Oo (Up Dharma Down)
42. Painted from Memory (Burt Bacharach)
43. Please (Mandalay)
44. Possibly Maybe (Bjork)
45. Proof (I am Kloot)
46. Quiet (Rachel Yamagata)
47. Run Like Mad [Elsewhere] (Jann Arden)
48. Sad Sad Song (M. Ward)
49. Sana’y Wala Nang Wakas (Willy Cruz)
50. Scarborough Fair (Traditional)
51. Send in the Clowns (Stephen Sondheim)
52. Sing Along (Blue Man Group feat. Dave Matthews)
53. Sogno (Andrea Bocelli)
54. Someone to Watch Over Me (George and Ira Gershwin)
55. Sorry (Maria Mena)
56. Sounds Like a Personal Problem (Ghost of the Robot)
57. Spoliarium (Eraserheads)
58. Stay (Lisa Loeb)
59. Stella Maris (Einsturzende Neubauten)
60. Sundo (Imago)
61. Take a Bow (Madonna)
62. Taking Pictures (Sam Phillips)
63. Tatooed On My Mind (D’Sound)
64. Turning My Safety Off (Sino Sikat)
65. Volcano (Damien Rice)
66. Waiting for a Dream (Rufus Wainwright)
67. What are You Doing the Rest of Your Life (Michel Legrand)
68. What Can I Do (The Corrs)
69. Xanax (Maria Taylor)
70. You Don’t Know Me (Eddy Arnold)

3 Responses to “70 Favorite Songs: A Recap”

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  1. 1 jaybee
    4 February 2008 at 9:52 pm

    Hey ayn, don’t know if you remember, was one of Tish’s friends who raided your room during her bday bash.

    Anyway, I can’t tell you how happy I am to read this post (after hearing about it from Tish for some time now). She was right. I do like most of the people on your list :)

    I can’t make a “favorite” list to save my life; it will feature way too many two/three-way ties that will defeat the purpose of ranking them. But! Some of the artists you featured will DEFINITELY be on there. I grew up on Counting Crows and Tori, so they will surely be on my list, if I ever make one.

    Oh, and I am thrilled that someone else knows “Run Like Mad” :P

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  2. 2 bittergrace
    5 February 2008 at 7:02 am

    hi! of course i remember you :) haha, i just like making lists. i usually find it hard to rank though so I usually list things alphabetically na lang, to save me the hassle.

    I love Run Like Mad. Sometimes I wish it was longer but sometimes I think it’s just perfect as it is.

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  3. 3 rav505
    16 September 2008 at 5:06 am

    hi ayn,

    pa-butt in lang sa blog…

    may irerecommend akong song:

    when i’m thinking about you

    by the sundays.

    :)

    hope you like it. let me know. :)

    Reply

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Be wicked and lovely and don't live in fear --

For we will be wicked and we will be fair
And they'll call us such names, and we really won't care,
So go, tell your Wendys, your Susans, your Janes,
There's a place they can go if they're tired of chains,
And our roads may be golden, or broken, or lost,
But we'll walk on them willingly, knowing the cost --
We won't take our place on the shelves.
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