Your request ?
So amongst Bruce's songs we've asked for a bunch of ballads.
Will the same hold true if we get a choice from every other song ever written?
Yup!
Pretty much, with some interesting variations amongst 400 or so people's choices! |
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Top-ranked songs were:-
Jack Straw! (16); Black Muddy River (16); Lady with a Fan (15); Sugaree (10); (do you think there's a Dead connection here somewhere?); Girl From the North Country (9); Burn Down the Mission (8); Low Spark of the High-Heeled Boys (7); Darlin' Corey (6); Tangled Up in Blue (6); Scarlet Begonias (6); Comfortably Numb (6); The Weight (5).
I've heard Bruce cover all of those before, so it's worth listing the more creative alternatives...! Including:
Hey Ya (Outkast); Lose Yourself (Eminem); Jive Talkin' (Bee Gees) and Mahna Mahna (The Muppets).
We also has suggestions for anything by: Bob Dylan, Elton John, Bob James, Frank Sinatra, Rachmaninoff, Bruce Springsteen, Rick Mullins, Mark Knopfler and Leon Russell. And when did you last hear all of those names in the same sentence?
Amongst those also mentioned:
Great Balls of Fire
Round Midnight
What a Wonderful World
Eyes of the World
Sweet Thing (Van Morrison)
Rubberband Man (The Spinners)
Play That Funky Music White Boy
In the Garden (Van Morrison)
Telegraph Band (Dire Straits)
Long Highway (Mark Knopfler)
Amoreena (Elton John)
Millie Make Some Chilli (Billy Vera)
Tempted (Squeeze)
Birdland (Weather Report)
Bad Sneakers (Steely Dan)
Looking for Jack (Colin Hay)
Your Gold Teeth Part Two (Steely Dan)
Big Sky Country (Chris Whitley)
Boogie on Reggae Women
Lawyers, Guns and Money (Warren Zevon)
Fields of Gold (Sting)
Take the Long Way Home (Supertramp)
Trouble in Mind
Maiden Voyage
Circles (Endo)
Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters (Elton John)
Like a Rolling Stone (Bob Dylan)
Rock Me on the Water (Jackson Browne)
Stage Fright (The Band)
Turn the Page (Bob Seger)
Dixie Flyer (Randy Newman)
Roxanne (The Police)
Bad News at the Best of Times (Paul Carrack)
Empty Pages (Traffic)
The Heart of the Matter (Don Henley)
Sunny Came Home (Shawn Colvin)
Jane's Getting Serious (Jon Astley)
Everything I Own (Bread)
Signed Sealed Delivered (Stevie Wonder)
It Keeps You Runnin' (Doobie Brothers)
I'll Be Over You (Toto)
This Summer (Squeeze)
Another Day in Paradise (Phil Collins)
Someday (Steve Earle)
Lucky Man (Richard Ashcroft)
Mohammed's Radio (Warren Zevon)
... and a million others besides!
Amongst the answers:-
"Anything but a Dead cover".
... and chalk another one up for Mahna Mahna from Si; I'm sure he could do something with that.
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