Give me 5 songs...

[moteldemoka]

Here you go. Soft, sweet and romantic:

Oren Lavie - Her Morning Elegance
Box Tops - The Letter
Mazzy Star - Fade Into You
Jeff Bucley - Lover you should've come over
Broken Social Scene - Anthems for a Seventeen Year Old Girl


On a similar vein...: 5 songs that would fit side by side with Hope Sandoval's Suzanne:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCXdnHa508M

 

[moteldemoka]

Mmmmh did I kill the game?

It isn't that difficult, is it? should I change theme?

 

[emmaj]

^ sorry i dont get it?! hehe

 

[moteldemoka]

Well my request was 5 songs that sound similar to Hope Sandoval's Suzanne but it seems its an odd request...

Anyways... I'll change it to... don't know... 5 songs about monsters.

 

[perfect10]

^^ haha we could disscuss what a monster are... I consider most of the people that i meet are monsters, but that just me, I am sort of a looner and darent leave my room and all that.

but here we have monsters in lyrics and songnames:

Metric - Monster Hospital
Andrew Bird - Fake Palindromes
Andrew Bird - Spanish For Monsters
November Spwaned a monster - Morrissey
Little Monster Babies - Kimya Dawson

give me five songs to listen to while you driving through a hot desert
(I know it sounds silly, but is amazing to be at one place where you and your music is the only sound)

 

[Anna Molly]

Sting - Desert Rose
Scorpions - Animal Magnetism
Jimi Hendrix - Wild Thing
Men At Work - Down Under
Pixies - Where Is My Mind

Give me five songs to listen to while I'm studying

 

[chicandcool]

when i used to study, i'd listen to piano pieces. hehe

claire de lune - debussy
arabesque no. 1 - debussy
fur elise - beethoven
the nutcracker waltz of the flowers - tchaikovsky
pachebel's canon in d major - bach

5 songs to listen to while working out at the gym

 

[luxie_dream]

start me up-the rolling stones
eye of the tiger-survivor
lets get physical-olivia newton john
ninth degree-morning wood
what a feeling-irena cara

5 songs you would want passed down to your children...

 

[sill]

Arcade Fire / Rebellion (Lies)
Bon Iver / Lump Sum
Kings of Leon / Milk
Bright Eyes / First day of my life
Håkan Hellström / Förhoppningar och regnbågar

5 songs you would want to listen to live

 

[mousyy]

the strokes - juicebox
empire of the sun - walking on a dream
the sounds - my lover
the strokes - new york city cops
yeah yeah yeahs - runaway

give me 5 songs that you never get bored with them

 

[ParadEyes]

Carla Bruni- Tout le monde
Omar Faruk- Nihavent
Wainwright- Complainte de La Butte
Francoise Hardy - Tous les garcons et les filles
Chopin - Nocturne For Violin And Piano



5 songs that inspire you?

 

[classicalbang]

Leonard Cohen - "Chelsea Hotel No. 2"
Cat Power - "Taking People"
Sonic Youth - "Stereo Sanctity"
The Velvet Underground - "Sister Ray"
Patti Smith - "Land"

5 songs that remind you of your first love.....

 

[emmaj]

Eskimo Joe- Black Fingernails, Red Wine
Garrison Starr- Beautiful in Los Angeles
The Killers- When you were young
Kings of Leon - Soft
The Walkmen - Louisiana


5 of your fav/essential songs you'd recommend to someone

 

[nolamartin]

Matias Aguayo - Minimal (Dj Koze Maxi version)
Moloko - The time is now
Daniel Merriweather feat. Adele: Water and a flame
The Rapture: The devil
Grace Jones: Pull up to the bumper

5 songs to cheer your mom/dad/sister/brother up after a hard day at work??

 

[ElaineC]

Bob Marley- Three Little Birds
Dirty Dancing- Time Of My Life
Razorlight- Wire to wire
Kanye West- Heartless
Yeasayer- Sunrise

Give me 5 songs with influences from different cultures

 

[moteldemoka]

I think that virtually every song created in the last decade (and a good part of the music in the XX century) has in some way or another been influenced by another culture. I'll go for easy and clear tho. Hope you enjoy them.

Clash - Bank Robber (influenced by Jamaican reggae)
M.I.A. - Bucky Done Gun (influenced by Brazilian baile funk)
Beirut - Postcards from Italy (influenced by music from the Balcanic regions)
Paul Simon - Me & Julio Down by the Schoolyard (influenced by Afrobeat)
Air France - Beach Party (influenced by Balearic music.)

5 songs for a funeral procession.

 

[emmaj]

Imogen Heap- Hide and seek
Hamish Cowan- With or without you
The Beatles-Let it be
Youth Group- Forever Young
Sarah McLachlan- Angels

5 Songs that make you wanna strut stylishly down the street...

 

[ElaineC]

M.I.A.- Bamboo Banga
Regina Spaktor- Lady
Inner City- Good Life
Tori Amos- Hey Jupiter
Madonna- Vogue

Give me 5 songs about champagne/which make you want to drink champagne

 

[moteldemoka]

A hard request. Seeing noone has dared touch it I will albeit modifying the request to songs which make me want to drink champagne but not explicitely about champagne (they do mention booze in a couple of them, tho.) Hope you enjoy:

Peggy Lee - Is That All There Is?
Nat King Cole - I'm Shooting High
Steve Lawrence - Night and Day
Louis Prima - Pennies from Heaven
Wayne Newton - Danke Schöen

5 songs you'd use to sell lemonade if you were a child again. A hip one at that.

 

[nolamartin]

^^that was a tough one