Friday, August 29. 2008

Top 5 on Friday - Goodbye Songs

This week's mission: Top 5 Goodbye Songs

Bye Bye Love - The Cars

I still enjoy this first Cars LP quite a bit. The latter stuff, mmm, not so much.

Goodbye Girl - Squeeze

I wanted to name my cats Difford and Tilbrook, only partially successful. Glenn is one heck of a guitar player as shown in this clip I discovered back in Feb '07

49 Bye-Byes - Crosby Stills & Nash

I've never counted them to see if it's really 49, but a great song anyway.

She's Leaving Home - The Beatles

It's The Beatles.

Goodbye Cruel World - Pink Floyd

Goodbye cruel world
I'm leaving you today
Goodbye
Goodbye
Goodbye
Goodbye all you people
There's nothing you can say
to make me change my mind
Goodbye

The sudden cut to silence is chilling. I still get goosebumps when I listen.

What's on your list?

(via Music Memoirs)

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Scott Blitstein

at 18:18 | 8 Comments

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Pink Floyd...that one is RIGHT ON!

I love that you wanted to name cats after Squeeze dudes. What a fan-freakingly underrated band, and so awesome.

What a great bunch of picks, Scott!

#1 nat (Homepage) on 2008-08-29 21:12 (Reply)

The cats ended up with them as middle names, but not quite the same. But they did end up as Abbey and Penny so it wasn't like they didn't get a good musical influence...

Thanks
SB

#1.1 Scott (Homepage) on 2008-08-31 11:55 (Reply)

A Great Goodbye list! We should break up and you should send me a CD. LOL!

#2 Carol (Homepage) on 2008-08-30 07:56 (Reply)

Sounds like a plan.. any reason to put together a new playlist works for me

SB

#2.1 Scott (Homepage) on 2008-08-31 11:58 (Reply)

Yep , Pink Floyd is boss awesome, i like this song, i also like "Another brick in the wall"

And Beatles also cool .... awesome. Anyhow thanks for sharing this songs.

#3 Slot Machines (Homepage) on 2008-08-30 09:14 (Reply)

You bet - thanks for the visit and the comment.

SB

#3.1 Scott (Homepage) on 2008-08-31 12:00 (Reply)

That first Cars album was a classic, wasn't it? Great list!

#4 Michael (Homepage) on 2008-08-30 15:57 (Reply)

Classic indeed. Thanks for the comments.

SB

#4.1 Scott (Homepage) on 2008-08-31 12:03 (Reply)

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