All-time favorite songs (Pt 2)

Now on to the people not named Dylan, Springsteen or Duritz. In no particular order:

• Rhiannon - Fleetwood Mac

• Blood on my Shirt - Band of Annuals

• Come Pick Me Up - Ryan Adams

• Take it Easy (Love Nothing) - Bright Eyes

• Hit the Switch - Bright Eyes

• Fountain of Sorrow - Jackson Browne

• While You Were Sleeping - Elvis Perkins

• Losing My Religion - R.E.M

• I Drove All Night - Cyndi Lauper

• The Greatest - Cat Power

• Red Dirt Girl - Emmylou Harris

• 3 Rounds and a Sound - Blind Pilot (a great live band too)

• Lived in Bars - Cat Power

• David's Country - Band of Annuals 

 

• Landslide - Fleetwood Mac

• Tempted '94 - Squeeze 

• Leaving New York - R.E.M

• Unhook the Stars - Cyndi Lauper 

• Elephants - Rachael Yamagata

• Most of Me - Mandy Moore

• Looking Forward to Looking Back - Mandy Moore (I'm a big Wild Hope and Amanda Leigh-era Mandy Moore fan. It's the 70s pop sound I really love)

• Accident - Rachael Yamagata

• Easy Silence - Dixie Chicks

• God of Wine - Third Eye Blind

• The Background - Third Eye Blind

PS: I never pretended that this list makes any sense, either lyrically or musically. It's just a few dozen songs that mean a lot to me for a lot of different reasons.