My Favorite Music...or Some of it, at Least!

• The Beatles--albums: Revolver, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Side Two of Abbey Road, Rubber Soul, Magical Mystery Tour
  (I've tried to cut down the number of songs I list, but there are an awful lot I like!)
  • "Yesterday"
  • "Here Comes the Sun"
  • "Let It Be"
  • "The Long and Winding Road"
  • "For No One"
  • "She's Leaving Home"
  • "The Fool on the Hill"
  • "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"
  • "Within You Without You"
  • "Hello Goodbye"
  • "Penny Lane" (British version)
  • "Yellow Submarine"
  • "Lady Madonna"
  • "Hey Jude"
  • "Two of Us"
  • "Norwegian Wood"
  • "In My Life"
  • "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"
  • "When I'm Sixty-Four"
  • "Martha My Dear"
  • "I Will"
  • "Good Night"
  • Abbey Road's medleys
  
  
• Loreena McKennitt--album: The Mask and Mirror
  • "The Mystic's Dream"
  • "Marrakesh Night Market"
  • "Santiago"
  • "All Souls Night"
  • "Huron 'Beltane' Fire Dance"
  
  
• Renaissance--albums: Ashes Are Burning, Scheherezade and Other Stories, and the electrified Time-Line
  • "Carpet of the Sun"
  • "Can You Understand"
  • "Ashes Are Burning"
  • "At the Harbor"
  • "On the Frontier"
  • "A Trip to the Fair"
  • "The Vultures Fly High"
  • "Ocean Gypsy"
  • "Can You Hear Me"
  
  
• Fleetwood Mac--albums: Rumours, Fleetwood Mac
  • "Rhiannon"
  • "Landslide"
  • "Crystal"
  • "Warm Ways"
  • "Songbird"
  • "Gypsy"
  • "Sara"
  • "Silver Springs"
  
  
• Joni Mitchell--albums: Clouds, Ladies of the Canyon
  • "Chelsea Morning"
  • "Both Sides Now"
  
  
• Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares (Bulgarian folk music)
  
  
• Classical:
  • The Four Seasons (Antonio Vivaldi)
  • "Adagio for Strings in D Minor" (Samuel Barber)
  • "Adagio for Organ and Strings in G Minor" (Tomaso Albinoni, arr. Remo Giazotto)
  • "Chacony for Strings in G Minor" (Henry Purcell)
  
  
• "Puff, the Magic Dragon" (Peter, Paul and Mary)
• "Brandy" (The Looking Glass)
• "Everlasting Love" (Robert Knight)
• "To Sir, With Love" (Lulu)
• "Dust in the Wind" (Kansas)
• "Tubthumping" (Chumbawumba)
• "Walkin' on the Sun" (Smash Mouth)
• "Karma Chameleon" (Culture Club)
• "Eyes of a Child" (Lesley Wood)
• "Both Sides Now" (Judy Collins' remake of the Joni Mitchell song)
• "The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia" (Vicki Lawrence)
• "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" (Joan Baez)
  
• "Layla" (Derek and the Dominoes [Eric Clapton])
  
  
• Billy Oskay and Micheal O Domhnaill--album: Nightnoise
  
  
• Paul McCartney--album: Band on the Run
  • "Another Day"
  • "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey"
  • "Band on the Run"
  • "Live and Let Die"
  • "Let 'Em In"
  • "Listen to What the Man Said"
  • "Café on the Left Bank"
  • "Tug of War"
  • "Take It Away"
  • "Wanderlust"
  • "Footprints"
  
  
• George Harrison--album: All Things Must Pass
  • "What Is Life"
  • "My Sweet Lord"
  • "Art of Dying"
  • "Wah-Wah"
  • "Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)"
  • "Ding Dong, Ding Dong"
  • "Love Comes to Everyone"
  • "Baltimore Oriole"
  • "Teardrops"
  • "All Those Years Ago"
  • "When We Was Fab"
  
  
• John Lennon
  • "Mind Games"
  • "Number 9 Dream"
  • "Imagine"
  • "Happy Xmas"
  • "Woman"
  • "Watching the Wheels"
  
  
• Ringo Starr
  • "It Don't Come Easy"
  • "Photograph"
  
  
• Cat Stevens
  • "The Wind"
  • "Morning Has Broken"
  • "Oh Very Young"
  • "Wild World"
  
  
• Simon and Garfunkel
  • "The Sound of Silence"
  • "Scarborough Fair"
  • "Mrs. Robinson"
  • "Bridge over Troubled Water"
  • "The Boxer"
  • "America"
  • "Homeward Bound"
  
  
• Billy Joel--album: The Stranger
  My two favorite Billy Joel songs are "Piano Man" and "Summer, Highland Falls," but I made a mixtape that I really like:
  • Side One
    • "Piano Man"
    • "You're My Home"
    • "The Ballad of Billy the Kid"
    • "Allentown"
    • "Goodnight Saigon"
    • "She's Right on Time"
    • "Surprises"
    • "Where's the Orchestra?"
    • "Scenes from an Italian Restaurant"
    • "She's Always a Woman"
  • Side Two
    • "Summer, Highland Falls"
    • "James"
    • "Prelude/Angry Young Man"
    • "I've Loved These Days"
    • "Miami 2017 (Seen the Lights Go Out on Broadway)"
    • "Scandinavian Skies"
    • "Worse Comes to Worst"
    • "Stop in Nevada"
    • "If I Only Had the Words"
    • "Somewhere Along the Line"
    • "Vienna"
  
  
• Chicago
  • "Beginnings"
  • "Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?"
  • "Saturday in the Park"
  • "25 or 6 to 4"
  
  
• The Rolling Stones
  • "Ruby Tuesday"
  • "You Can't Always Get What You Want"
  • "As Tears Go By"
  • "She's a Rainbow"
  • "Paint It, Black"
  • "Sympathy for the Devil"
  • "Let's Spend the Night Together"
  • "Wild Horses"
  
  
• Yes--albums: Tormato, Close to the Edge
  • "Circus of Heaven"
  • "Madrigal"
  • "America" (a ten-minute remake of the Simon and Garfunkel song)
  
  
• John Denver
  • "Leavin' on a Jet Plane"
  • "Calypso"
  • "Annie's Song"
  
  
• Al Stewart--album: Year of the Cat
  • "Lord Grenville"
  • "Sand in Your Shoes"
  • "Flying Sorcery"
  • "On the Border"
  • "Palace of Versailles"
  
  
• Rod Stewart
  • "Maggie May"
  • "Mandolin Wind"
  • "You Wear It Well"
  • "Forever Young"
  • "Downtown Train"
  
  
• The Moody Blues--albums: Days of Future Passed, The Moody Blues at Red Rocks (taped from TV)
  • "Nights in White Satin"
  • "Tuesday Afternoon"
  • "The Voice"
  • "Your Wildest Dreams"
  • "Isn't Life Strange"
  • "Question"
  • "I'm Just a Singer (In a Rock & Roll Band)"
  • "For My Lady"
  • "Lovely to See You"
  • "Lean on Me (Tonight)"
  • "I Know You're Out There Somewhere"
  
  
• Soundtracks
  • Conan the Barbarian
  • The Dark Crystal
  • Evita
  • The Third Man (great zither music by Anton Karas)
  
  
• Don McLean--album: American Pie
  • "American Pie"
  • "Vincent"
  • "Crossroads"
  • "Castles in the Sky"
  
  
• Jim Croce
  • "Time in a Bottle"
  • "Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels)"
  • "I'll Have to Say I Love You in a Song"
  • "Photographs and Memories"
  
  
• 10000 Maniacs--album: Our Time in Eden
  • "Noah's Dove"
  • "These Are Days"
  • "Few and Far Between"
  • "Stockton Gala Days"
  • "How You've Grown"
  
  
• Bruce Springsteen
  • "Hungry Heart"
  • "Jungleland"
  • "Born to Run"
  • "Thunder Road"
  
  
• Elton John
  • Tiny Dancer
  • Daniel
  • Your Song
  
  
• Janis Ian--album: Between the Lines
• Indigo Girls
• The Bangles
• Judy Collins
• Joan Baez
• Elyse Weinberg
• Kevin Rowlands and Dexy's Midnight Runners
  
• Theme music from The Avengers