My favorite song on this page is, "Thanksgiving" - Johnny Cash because it is that beautiful mix of gratitude & true love that is the best part of life. I moved "FUN" music to the middle of the categories because a lot of people thought that it was the only category

1. True Love
2. Passionate Love
3. Frustrated Love
4. Sad Love
5. Angry Love
6. Unconditional love
7. Miscellaneous love
8. Sad & beautiful
9. Bad relationships
10. Folk
11. Stoner music
12. Miscellaneous
13. Heavy Metal Ballads
14. Hopeful Overcoming obstacles
15. Fun
16. Medical
17. Guitar R&B
18. Irish
19. 50's & 60's Movies & TV
20. Country
21. Classic
22. Gospel
23. Opera
24. Study music
25. Holidays & Seasonal

True Love

1. Thanksgiving Song - Johnny Cash - The best love song ever. If you love someone, really love them, heart and soul, sit with them and watch this. It will make you so happy. The moment is magic. Life has its ups & downs. When you feel down, think of the moment when you sat with the person you love and watched this song and you will feel grateful and happy.
2. How I Don't Love You - Jamey Johnson
3. I walk the line - Johnny Cash - When a man truly loves a woman he vows in his heart to devote himself to her. All she has to do is show him a little appreciation and he will devote his life to her. Johnny loved June. They helped each other. Good love synergizes and makes both persons happier, more content & more complete.
4. Hurt - Johnny Cash. Johnny almost died. June helped save him. Johnny loved her so much. The greatest force for good in the world is love. Love empowers, emboldens, inspires to help, to protect, to acheive to do what's right. Love creates positive feedback cycles of goodness.
5. I will always love you - Dolly. Dolly touches my heart. As a matter of fact, if I lived in a small island country like New Zealand with a shortage of women & I cloned a sheep, I would name it Dolly. Doh! Somebody already did that.
6. Still you turn me on - Greg Lake of ELP - trippy- so good - "it all gets so intense, from my experience, it just doesn't make sense, still you turn me on"
7. No One - Alicia Keys- Anthem to love- the determination & confidence of true love
8. Change of Time - Josh Ritter - I haven't even figured this song out yet, but I just love it
9. Angel eyes - ace of base
10. I love you - Sarah McLachlan
11. Always - bon jovi
12. Livin on a prayer - bon jovi
13. Silver Springs - Fleetwood Mac
14. me & Bobby McGee- Janis Joplin
15. You were meant for me - Jewel
16. Crazy Love - Van Morrison
17. rainbow eyes - rainbow
18. Beautiful Mess _ Diamond Rio - the happy chaos of falling in love
19. thats all I need to know - sam cooke
20. I was made to love her - Stevie Wonder
21. Only You - Yaz - I used to listen to this in college looking forward to the next visit of my HTH (Home Town Honey) who went to USC. I don't like long distance relationships, but I miss being in love like that.
22. Loving You - Elvis - Down on the farm, Elvis serenades. The farm life can be a very good life. Fresh air, fresh food, honest, good, straightforward relationships.
23. Angie - Rolling Stones
24. Have I told you lately that I love you - Rod Stewart
25. the Power of Love - Celine Dion

Passionate Love

1. deja vu - ace of base
2. No one - Alicia Keys
3. obsesion - aventura (spanish)
4. are you gonna kiss me or not - Thompson Square
5. runaway - bon jovi
6. L'italiano - Toto Cutugno (Italian)--> nice video w/Sophia Loren
7. Ring of Fire - Johnny Cash
8. Coming Home - Cinderella
9. Girl you really got me - Van Halen
10. You Belong with me - Taylor Swift
11. Sweet child of mine - guns and roses
12. You could be mine - guns and roses
13. Love Lockdown - Kanye West
14. love hangover - diana ross
15. You'll Accompany Me - Bob Seeger
16. I can't help it if 'm still in love with you - Hank Williams Sr.
17. I can't help falling in love with you - Elvis
18. It's now or never - Elvis
19. She's got the look - Roxette
20. I would do anything for love - Meatloaf
21. wouldn't it be nice - beach boys
22. take a chance on me - abba
23. you're the one t hat I want - Grease
24. whispers in blindness - ace of base

Angry Love

1. Tainted love - soft cell
2. boy is mine - Brandy & Monica
3. you give love a bad name - bon jovi
4. Should I stay or should I go - Clash
5. Nobody's fool - cinderella
6. I love the way you lie - eminem & rianna
7. I will survive- Gloria Gaynor
8. Move over - Janis Joplin
9. Take another Piece of My Heart- Janis Joplin
10. How many more times- Led Zeppelin
11. Your time is gonna come- Led Zeppelin
12. Babe I'm gonna leave you - Led Zeppelin
13. Where did you sleep last night? - Nirvana
14. Hush, hush - pussycat dolls
15. heartbreaker - Pat Benatar
16. Hit me with your best shot - Pat Benatar
17. Love is a battlefield - Pat Benatar
18. You're no good - Linda Ronstadt
19. Apologize - - One Republic - w/lyrics

Frustrated Love

1. If you had my love - Jennifer Lopez
2. Love Fool - Cardigans
3. Gimme one reason to stay here - Tracy Chapman
4. Since I've been loving you - Led Zeppelin
5. do you know where you are going to - diana ross
6. If I could turn back the hands of time - R. Kelly
7. don't you want me - human league

Sad Love

1. Almost doesn't count - Brandy
2. Photographs and memories - Jim Croce - he's one of the all time best for sad love songs. These songs remind you of the pain of breaking up with that first love, eg. the high school honey. She was great, but you just grow apart. I was in love with a musician. We used the rhythm method. She played piano at Juliard. She became like other musicians, always wanting to go to all the big shows like Les Mis. I loved going to Les Mis once. She wanted to go over & over. Doctors need to go to bed early to get to work early. Musicians like to stay out late and see all the musical talent in the city of Chicago or New York. I learned a lot about music and life from her, but eventually, she started smoking cigarettes and that was it. We split up.
3. These dreams - Jim Croce - beautiful. Romantic love is great. It is one of the best things in the world. It is tough to say goodbye to all the memories when you break up. It seems like such a waste. This song gets it right.
4. time in a bottle - Jim Croce
5. In my dreams, its still the same - Dokken
6. Love Hurts - Incubus
7. Lovers for a day - Edith Piaf (English version)--> startles you with beauty --> the English album of Edith Piaf is called Greatest HIts in English - Hymn to Love
8. baby love - diana ross
9. Angel - Sarah McLachlan - great song about the internal dialogue that follows disappointed love
10. stop in the name of love - diana ross
11. Touch me in the morining - Diana Ross
12. I'd rather go blind - Beyonce
13. Memory - Cats
14. Don't know what you've got till it's gone - Cinderella
15. graduation day - Chris Isaaks
16. Love Song - Tesla
17. Knowing me, knowing you - Abba
18. It doesn't matter anymore - Linda Ronstadt
19. don't speak - no doubt
20. Somebody to love - Queen
21. I want to know what love is - foreigner
22. If you could read my mind - Gordon Lightfoot
23. When I'm Gone - Eminem
24. Long December - counting crows
25. sitting on the dock of the bay - Otis Redding
26. I'll have to say I love you in a song - Jim Croce
27. these dreams
28. Operator (thats not the way it feels) - Jim Croce
29. I guess that's why they call it the blues - Elton John
30. Heartache - Bonnie Tyler
31. it must have been love - Roxette
32. fading like a flower - Roxette
33. Listen to your heart - Roxette
34. things go wrong - chris isaaks
35. forever blue - chris isaaks
36. I believe - chris isaaks
37. right next door (because of me) - Robert Cray
38. never can say goodbye - Gloria Gaynor
39. let her cry - Hootie & Blowfish
40. Get it while you can - Janis Joplin
41. Babe, I'm gonna leave you - Led Zeppelin
42. I will survive - Gloria Gaynor

Sad & Beautiful

1. Autumn Leaves- Edith Piaf = "the Voice of the Sparrow"--> one of the greatest singers of all time --> she is from France --> there is an English version of her songs
2. Chante Moi - Edith Piaf - English version - Chante Moi, darling sing for me, Chante Moi while your arms cling to me.
3. I shouldn't care - Edith Piaf - English version
4. La Vie en Rose - Edith Piaf - English version- hold me close and hold me fast, the magic spell you cast, this is love ....... when you press me to your hear, I'm a world apart
5. Winter - Tori Amos
6. Momma Liked the Roses - Elvis
7. Home Again - Carole King
8. So Far Away - Carole King
9. Don't Leave me this way - Thelma Houston - this song also helped me when I was grieving over the death of my mother. I don't know how to explain it. You don't want to lose that person from your life. Even though the song makes you sad, you want to hear it. Maybe it's because I would rather be sad thinking about her in the present, than accepting that she had died and was in the past. A very smart man, told me that the soul of a person lives on in their loved ones. I think this is true. When familiar situations occur, I think of her words in my head. Eg. I remember what my mother used to say to me. "Do you know how much I love you? Do you know how much I love you?" This is a very good way to talk to your children or to someone you truly love. Love has power. When someone knows that they are truly loved, it gives them some protection from the outside world. They have more confidence in themselves. They will not accept being mistreated in a social situation, because they know they deserve to be loved.
10. Changes - Ozzy Osbourne - link to live--> studio version is much better--> I listened to to this song for a year after my mother died.
11. Lonely Nights - Scorpions

Bad Relationships

1. You give love a bad name - Bon Jovi
2. Say may name - Destiny Child
3. A woman's threat - R. Kelly
4. When a woman's fed up - R. Kelly
5. Superman - Eminem
6. I love the way you lie - Eminem
7. The Masochism Tango - Tom Lehrer

Unconditional Love, Love of One's Mother

1. Momma liked the roses - Elvis -when a boy is young he simply expects his mother to take care of him. When he gets older he starts to appreciate her more & more. I was very close to my mother. I would not allow my father to talk disrespectfully to her.
2. Los Caminos de la Vida - Vicentico (Spanish) --> beautiful sad song about a son coming to terms with having to accept his mother's illness and death. Intelligent men are often very close to their mothers. My father was a bigshot psychiatrist. He was chairman of two departments. However, I learned my mother knew more about people than he did. He would say stuff like, "just go to the meeting and tell the truth. You are right and the group should follow the logic to this conclusion." I would take his advice and alienate people. No one cared that I was right. Decisions were made based on the local politics. My mother would say things like, "it is more important to stay friends than to argue about a silly little thing like that. Let it go. Forget about it. Just try to do a good job and be nice." She did everything for me. I owe my life to her. I have had a lot of sad moments in my life, but the saddest was the death of my mother. I cried for a year. I was angry with myself for not being able to save her. She was diagnosed with cancer when I was a 3rd year med student. I didn't know enough to help her until later when it was too late and she had metastatic disease.
3. Changes - Ozzie. I cried for a year when my mother died. I played this song over and over again. The song made me think about her and I wanted to think about her. Finally, you just have to accept it. You still hear her voice in her head. When I was a young man, I just wanted to be like my father, a smart doctor. After turning 35 I have tried more and more to develop other aspects of personality like my mother did. She always knew how to say something kind and pleasant and fun. She made everyone smile and feel welcome. She adopted 2 girls and basically turned her life around. She brought a lot of happiness into the world. "There are some persons who bring happiness wherever they go, & others who take it away"- Oscar Wilde. She created happiness & laughter wherever she went.
4. Mama, I'm coming home - Ozzie

Friendship

1. True Blue - tribute to Steve Irwin - John Williamson

Miscellaneous Love

1. Summertime - Billie Holidagy
2. you remind me of something - R. Kelly - he's just got it - a smooth groove - best song is "Shh down low" - don't mess with Mr. Big
3. hold on to your love - en vogue
4. God's Child - Selena & David Byrne (talking heads)
5. exile - enya
6. on your shore - enya - nice love song
7. Orinoco flow - enya
8. Hands - Jewel
9. every rose has its thorn - Poison
10. Still loving you - Scorpions
11. No one like you - scorpions
12. heart of gold - neil young
13. Just a little girl - Amy Studt
14. Rhythm of my heart - Rod Stewart
15. Tonight, tonight - Smashing Pumpkins
16. Fresh - Kool & the Gang
17. - Frank Sinatra
18. I'm coming home - Skylar Grey

Miscellaneous

1. Maple Leaf Rag - Scott Joplin - piano
2. The Entertainer - Scott Joplin - piano
3. Entertainer - Scott Joplin - guitar
4. The Wall - Kansas
5. From the beginning - Emerson, Lake and Palmer
6. Classical Gas - played by Chet Atkins on guitar
7. Tiny Dancer - Elton John
8. Under the bridge - Red Hot Chili Peppers
9. Enjoy the silence - Depeche Mode
10. big country - big country
11. the storm - big country
12. fields of fire - big country
13. lost patrol - big country
14. Beautiful child - Fleetwood Mac
15. Whats up - 4 non blondes
16. Double vision - foreigner
17. More, more, more - Billy Idol
18. White Wedding - Billy Idol
19. Nothing compares to you - Sinead O'Connor
20. These are the days of our lives - Queen
21. The show must go on - Queen
22. both sides now - Judy Collins
23. who knows where the time goes - Judy Collins
24. My Father - Judy Collins
25. Will the wolf survive - Los Lobos
26. Hello it's me - Todd Rungren
27. Fanfare to the common man - ELP
28. Lose yourself - Eminem
29. standing in the rain - ELO
30. Summer and lightning - ELO
31. Mr. Blue Sky - ELO
32. Sweet is the night - ELO
33. Tonight, tonight - Smashing Pumpkins
34. Beautiful - eminem
35. Dream on - Aerosmith
36. We are the champions - Queen

Heavy Metal Ballads

1. November Rain - Guns & Roses - gunners were hot for a while. This song & video were at the apex of this phase. Slash was going out w/Tracy Lords. Axel could sing, but he was so crazy and always getting into trouble. I've heard that singers tend to try to isolate themselves fromt he rest of the band in effort to protect their voices. This can lead to xs social isolation induced craziness which when combined w/substance abuse leads to to self destructive behavior and the dissolution of the band. To be great at anything takes a certain amount of intelligence. I've heard that drumming is somehow less associated with intelligence, & hence we have "drummer jokes." A lot of drummers seem to have problems with substance abuse and just general stupidity eg. Tommy Lee of Motley Crue.
2. Catch the Rainbow - Rainbow - a beautiful love song with a rural setting
3. Baby I'm gonna leave you - Led Zepplin
4. Aces High (Churchill speech) - Iron Maiden
5. Mistreated - Rainbow --> I used to like to listen to this when I was mad about something in college. It helped me to mellow out. The singer seemed so much more unhappy than me, that it cheered me up.
6. Run with the wolf - Rainbow
7. Sixteenth Century Greensleeves- Rainbow - great song. Medieval ballad about saving a princess who is locked up in the castle of the enemy. In college, the best wrestlers on the team all listened to heavy metal music like this. It was part of an effort to try to stay mentally tough in such a wimpy place. Wrestlers were not well understood in California, especially at a nerdy place like Stanford. Wrestling fits better with Iowa & Oklahoma. Ie. places where there is nothing to do in the winter (or the summer). Just kidding. I spent a summer at Iowa State & loved it. I also spent a summer at Madison, U of Wisc. There was so much more to do at these places. At Stanford, the parties sucked, figuratively, not literally. Weekends were mostly just days to study more and to play sports. Unless the HTH (Home Town Honey) was visiting etc.
8. Still I'm sad - Rainbow
9. Fly People Fly - Scorpions
10. In Your Park - Scorpions
11. Pictured life - Scorpions
12. In Trance - Scorpions
13. We'll Burn the Sky - Scorpions
14. Baby Please Don't Go - ACDC
15. Air Dance - Black Sabbath
16. Never say die - Black Sabbath
17. In Union We Stand - Overkill - High testosterone, angry heavy metal. Watch out.
18. Hallowed be thy name - Iron Maiden is one of the best, perhaps the best heavy metal group of all time. The singer has been called "leather lungs". Just listen and you'll see why. The guitar is so tight.Great guitar solo at around 3:20.
19. Wasted years - Iron Maiden. "From the coast of gold, across the seven seas, I'm traveling on far and wide,...." and so the adventure begins.
20. The Trooper - Iron Maiden.- Great guitar solo at around 2:20. More fightin music. The best guys on my college wrestling team at Stanford, all read Savage Sword of Conan comic books and listened to heavy metal music especially Rainbow in those days. It helped us to stay mentally fierce in that wimpy environment.
21. People like to make fun of heavy metal, and yes it is true that most of it does suck. But it is also true that the best USA Rock & Roll musicians gravitated to heavy metal. And many of the best rock & roll songs, guitarists, singers etc. are from heavy metal groups. Also it is primal & resonates with something deep within us. Modern society conspires to promote oxytocin man. Oh sure, yes its true that oxytocin man maintains many important things. However, it is also true that boldness, braveness & brilliance often comes from testosterone man. And any mature man can tell you, that his woman often encourages him to be more "oxytocin man", but that she seems to like him better when he is in "testosterone mode"
22. Aces High - Iron Maiden - Begins with the Churchill speech. Great guitar solo at 2:48.
23. The Prisoner - Iron Maiden. Great guitar solo at 3:45. One of the all time best in any rock song..
24. Fade to Black - Metallica
25. Bleeding of me - metallica
26. Unforgiven - Metallica

Hopeful

1. I dreamed a dream - Susan Boyle - this is the great story of Susan Boyle's rise from rags to riches. Her voice is awesome. Her story is inspiring. Hope springs eternal.
2. beautiful life - ace of base
3. Don't Give Up - Peter Gabriel
4. Valjean arrested & Valjean forgiven - from Les Miserables
5. I won't back down - Tom Petty (song was also sung by Johnny Cash)
6. Running down a dream - Tom Petty
7. Today - Smashing Pumpkins
8. Don't worry, be happy - Bobby McFerrin
9. Brand new day - Van Morrison (this is unplugged version) --> regular version on Moondance album is better --> this is a great song of renewal --> most obstacles & frustrations in life are opportunities in disguise --> the key is to take the anger & turn it into something positive.

Guitar

1. Little Wing - Stevie Ray Vaughn

Overcoming Obstacles

1. Trooper - Iron Maiden
2. Bleeding of Me - Metallica
3. Nothing Esle Matters - Metallica

Fun

1. Paradise by the Dashboard Light - Meatloaf
2. Love song - Sam Kinnison
3. No parking on the dance floor - Midnight Star
4. The Real Roxanne - UTFO
5. Because I got high - Afroman
6. Because I got high - Homer Simpson
7. Colt 45 - Afroman
8. Humpty Dance - Hump - a "scholarly reading of "the Humpty Dance"
9. Love Supreme - Robbie Williams
10. Gimme, gimme, gimme a man after midnight- ABBA - lyrics
11. Get drunk and screw- Jimmy Buffet
12. I got a basketball Jones
13. Little Red Riding Hood- Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs or The Royal Guardsmen
14. Super Freak - Rick James
15. Wanted man - Thorogood and the destroyers
16. Wanted Man - Johnny Cash
17. Me so horny - 2 live crew
18. YMCA - village people
19. Macho man - village people
20. in the navy - village people
21. Its a dead man's party - oingo boingo
22. wanted dead or alive - bon jovi
23. Relax (don't do it) - Frankie Goes to Hollywood
24. Stray cat strut - Stray Cats
25. Saturday Night Fever - movie soundtrack - Bee Gees
26. Macarena - Los del Rio
27. add it up (why can't I get just one kiss) - violent femmes
28. Blister in the sun - violent femmes
29. Don cha wish your GF was hot like me -Pussycat dolls
30. Ring my bell- Anita Ward - studio version which sounds better
31. Big Balls- AC DC
32. California girls - Beach Boys
33. California Girls - David Lee Roth
34. Snoopy vs the Red Baron- The Royal Guardsmen
35. Disco Duck
36. Gummy Bear Song
37. Bad to the bone- Thorogood & the Destroyers
38. Rock Me Amadeus - Falco
39. Bad boys - inner circle
40. Girfriend is better - talking heads
41. Kiss off - Violent Femmes
42. Turning Japanese - Vapors
43. Wild thing - Sam Kinison
44. You spin me round like a record - dead or alive
45. Boom, boom, boom - Lekakis
46. all star - smash mouth
47. Brandy, you're a fine girl - Looking Glass
48. Everybody was kung fu fighting
49. born to be alive - Patrick Hernandez
50. call on me - eric prydz
51. Do you think I'm sexy - Rod Stewart
52. Lucky love - Ace of Base
53. Dance this mess around - B52's
54. Planet Claire - B52's
55. Rock Lobster - B52's'
56. Hot for teacher - Van Halen
57. these are the breaks - Kurtis Blow
58. My Way - Frank Sinatra
59. My Way - Elvis
60. Nobody's business - skated by Oksana Baiul
61. Rock your baby - George McCRae
62. Night Fever - Bee Gees
63. Dancing Queen - ABBA
64. California Dreaming - Mamas & Papas
65. dance the night away - van halen
66. jump - van halen
67. Shake your booty - KC & the sunshine band
68. Burning down the house - Talking Heads
69. Once in a lifetime - talking heads
70. Life during wartime - Talking Heads
71. Going back to Cali - LL Cool J
72. Afternoon delight
73. Bad girls - Donna Summer
74. Smoking in the boys room
75. black crows

1. Rock & Roll & R&B & Rap
   1. First Time Ever I Saw Your Face - Roberta Flack
   2. Tusk - Fleetwood Mac
   3. Small Town - John Cougar Mellencamp
   4. Summertime - Janis Joplin
   5. Rainbow eyes - Rainbow
   6. Shenandoah - Paul Robeson
   7. Like a Rock - Bob Seeger
   8. Homeward Bound - Simon & Garfunkel
   9. Today - Jubilant Sykes
   10. Whiskey in the Jar - Thin Lizzy
   11. The Wizard - Uriah Heep

Medical

1. ER intro music
2. Somebody get me a doctor - Van Halen
3. Doctor, doctor please - UFO
4. Trouble Me - 10,000 maniacs
5. Like a surgeon - Yankovic

Country

1. How I don't love you - Jamey Johnson - that's how I don't love you anymore
2. Baby don't cry - Jamey Johnson
3. MY way to you - Jamey Johnson - just trying to find my way to you
4. Momma Tried- Merle Haggard
5. High Noon - Tex Ritter --> from High Noon movie w/Gary Cooper (great movie & song) --> album version is better than this link, better drums
6. I've got spurs - Tex Ritter
7. Ladies love country boys - Trace Adkins
8. The Devil went down to Georgia - Charlie Daniels
9. Lost highway - Hank Williams Sr.
10. Hey good lookin - Hank Williams Sr
11. A country boy can survive - Hank Williams Jr
12. All my rowdy friends have settled down - Hank Williams Jr.
13. Ramblin in my shoes - Hank Williams Jr
14. Pressure is on - Hank Williams Jr
15. Weatherman - Hank Williams Jr
16. Tennesee Stud - Hank Williams Jr.
17. Ballad of Hank Williiams - Hank Williams Jr - a great, fun song about his dad.
18. Gambler - Kenny Rogers
19. Night they drove old Dixie down - Joan Baez
20. Simple Man- Lynyrd Skynyrd
21. I saw the light - Hank Williams Sr.
22. Thank God, I'm a country boy - John Denver
23. Country Roads - John Denver
24. Leaving on a Jet Plane - John Denver
25. Girl of the North Country - Joni Mitchell & Johnny Cash
26. Long Black Veil - Johnny Cash & Joni Mitchell
27. I still miss someone - Johnny Cash
28. Hurt - Johnny Cash
29. Lead me gently home - Johnny Cash
30. Lonesome fugitive - Merle Haggard
31. Okie from Muskogee - Merle Haggard
32. If we make it through December - Merle Haggard
33. On the road again - Willie Nelson

Movies & TV

1. I dreamed a dream - Elaine Page
2. I dreamed a dream - Susan Boyle - this is the great story of Susan Boyle's rise from rags to riches. Her voice is awesome. Her story is inspiring. Hope springs eternal.
3. The hills are alive, Sound of music - Julie Andrews
4. Edelweiss - Sound of Music
5. The Rain in Spain - Audrey Hepburn
6. Zaide: Aria - Amadeus Mozart
7. Somewhere over the rainbow - Judy Garland in the Wizard of Oz
8. Serenade for the Winds - Amadeus Mozart (as described by Salieri in the movie, "Amadeus")
9. Hawaii 50 intro
10. Miami Vice - Crockett's theme

50's & 60's

1. My Way - Sinatra
2. That's Life - Sinatra

Folk

1. Boogie woogie bugle boy of company B - Andrews Sisters - a music video from 1941
2. This land is your land - Woody Guthrie
3. Leaving on a Jet Plane - John Denver
4. Leaving on a jet plane - Peter, Paul & Mary
5. 500 Miles - Peter, Paul & Mary - how sad. It makes you want to cry. Long distance relationships can be beautiful, but they are also painful. It is painful to be far away from someone you love. When I lived in California and my love was in Chicago the emotional intensity of getting together & then having to say goodbye was intense.
6. Blowin in the wind - Peter, Paul & Mary
7. Stewball was a racehorse - tribute band for Peter Paul & Mary. In college, I worked a summer as a camp counselor and taught this song to the kids.
8. American Pie - Don McLean - classic song about the early days of Rock & Roll in the USA
9. Take me out to the ball game - Frank Sinatra & Gene Kelly

Stoner Music

1. Box of rain - Grateful dead. Pleasant sound. Nice for making love in the afternoon. Not a lot of substance.
2. Uncle John's Band - Grateful Dead
3. Ripple - Grateful Dead - Yeah they sound great. I admit it. But I can't listen to this stuff. It makes me to content. I want to stay hungry. To pursue something with intensity. To do something with my life. You listen to this & you just want to get drunk, have sex with your girlfriend and go to sleep. It makes it seem like there is no point in getting worked up about anything. But you have to get excited about something if you are ever going to acheive anything. The guys who listened to this stuff a lot 16-22 yo in my cohort all ended up poorly eg. dropping out of H.S. or college and underacheiving severely relative to their abilities. This music is sort of the siren song to apathy.
4. Rain song - Led Zeppelin - From the Golden Days of Rock. LZ just had it, the chords, the singer, you name it. LZ music was fun to listen to, but it also doesn't seem to go anywhere. It's not for exercise or sex. It's kind of just there. Kind of "stoner music" or "ear candy". Pleasant but without substance. I don't consider it heavy metal, because it's not that heavy. Heavy metal music used to imply fightin & lovin. Not dippy, "lets get stoned & look at the flower petals type of stuff." The best LZ music is the "calling out the woman" songs eg. Babe, I'm gonna leave you. That's when they get passionate.
5. Going to California - Led Zeppelin - California was once the place of dreams. The land of milk & honey, babes & money, wild & sunny.
6. Wish you were here - Pink floyd - classic stoner music. Knuckle heads like to debate the meaning of these 'deep lyrics". They would be better off doing their homework. Pink Floyd is sort of the English counterweight to the American Grateful Dead. Sounds great, but does not take you anywhere good. I like music to inspire me in some way eg. to be stronger for lifting weights, for dancing, for making love etc.
7. Shine on you crazy diamond - Pink Floyd

1960's

The End - Doors

LA woman - Doors

Love Her Madly - Doors

Miscellaneous

Maple Leaf Rag - Scott Joplin

Classical

1. Zaide: Aria - Amadeus Mozart
2. Serenade for the Winds - Amadeus Mozart (as described by Salieri in the movie, "Amadeus")
3. Adagio in G Minor - Albinoni, Tomaso
4. Violin concerto in G minor, BWV 1056 - Bach
5. Air on a G string - Bach
6. Interesting discussion with Glenn Gould of the piano and Bach
7. the Happiness & Genius of Glenn Gould
8. Canon in D major - Pachebel, Johann
9. Impromptu 3 in G flat major - Schubert - played by Brendel --> if you like this, the album of Schubert Impromptus played by Murray Perahia is good
10. Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 5 in E flat major - Emperor
11. Beethoven - moonlight sonata
12. Chopin
13. Annen Polka - Johann Strauss
14. The Life of An Artist - Johann Strauss
15. Vienna Waltz - Johann Strauss - beautiful music & video
16. December-George Winston - beautiful piano music
17. Toccata & fugue D minor - JS Bach - played by Karl Richter
18. Air on a G string - JS Bach
19. Goldberg Variations - by JS Bach - played by Glenn Gould with comparison 1955 & 1981
20. Bach Goldberg variations 1955 version played by Glenn Gould BWV 988
21. Wachet Auf - JS Bach
22. Spring - Vivaldi
23. Winter - Vivaldi

Opera

1. Con Te Partiro- Andrea Bocelli
2. Valjean Forgiven - Les Mis
3. I dreamed a dream- Les Mis
4. I dreamed a dream - Susan Boyle - talk about a Cinderella story- everyone should see this
5. see John McCormack in section below with Irish music
6. Ah sweet mystery of life - Jeanette McDonald & Nelson Eddy
7. Torna a Surriento - Pavorrotti
8. Piscatore e Pusilecco - Pavarrotti
9. O sole mio - Pavarotti
10. La Donna Mobile - Pavarotti
11. La Donna Mobile - Enrico Caruso
12. La Donna Mobile - Mario Lanza

Study Music = Baroque

1. Vivaldi - 4 seasons
2. Handel - Water music
3. Bach -trio sonata No. 3 in D minor
4. Arcangelo Corelli concerti grossi Op. 6, No. 2,5, 8, 9
5. Telemann
6. Pachelbel's Canon played by Canadian Brass

Gospel

1. That's heaven to me - Sam Cooke
2. One more river - Sam Cooke
3. Summertime - Paul Robeson - from Porgy & Bess
4. Old Man River - Paul Robeson
5. Shenandoah - Paul Robeson - Superman. This is an extraordinary song. You will never forget it. The perfect voice meets the perfect song. The "7 years line" reminds me of Tintern Abbey and the associated introspection.
6. He'll make a way - Sam Cooke
7. Were you there - Sam Cooke
8. John the Revelator - Jubilant Sykes
9. Go down Moses - Jubilant Sykes
10. Mary, Did you know - Jubilant Sykes

Christmas

1. Frosty the snowman
2. It won't seem like Christmas without you - Elvis - one of the all time great Christmas songs. It broke my heart when I could not see my HTH one Christmas in college. After first love is over, Christmas seems routine until the first grandchild can appreciate it. Then it seemed like Christmas died when my mother died. Then the 1st child makes Christmas seem special again.
3. I'll be home for Christmas - Elvis
4. If I get home on Christmas day - Elvis
5. Silver Bells - Christmas - Bing Crosby
6. It's the most beautiful time of the year- Andy Williams
7. White Christmas - Bing Crosby
8. Christmas in Killarney - Irish Rovers
9. Little Drummer Boy - Vienna Boys Choir
10. I saw three ships - Mario Lanza.
11. It came upon a midnight clear - Mario Lanza
12. Hallelujah chorus - Handel's Messiah
13. I believe in Father Christmas - Greg Lake

Christian

1. Amazing Grace- Judy Collins - this is considered by many to be the most beautiful performance of this song ever.
2. Amazing Grace - Susan Boyle
3. Amazing Grace - Elvis Presley
4. Amazing Grace - Royal Scots Dragoon - perhaps the saddest version of Amazing Grace. It calls to mind the death of a loved one. Sad, but positive because it reminds you of them and your love for them, and that is good. It is love that gives life meaning.
5. Halleluja Chorus - Mormon Tabernacle Choir
6. For unto us a child is born - Mormon Tabernacle Choir
7. I know that my redeemer liveth - Sylvia McNair
8. Ave Maria - Vienna Boy's Choir
9. Ave Maria - Pavorotti
10. O Holy Night - Placido Domingo & Pavorotti
11. St Matthew Passion - JS Bach
12. Psalm 23 - though I may walk thru the valley........
13. Pass me not O Gentle Savior - Leontyne Price
14. Lead me gently home father - Johnny Cash
15. Prodigal Son - Keith Green
16. Easter Song - Keith Green
17. When I hear the praises - Keith Green

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