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The Favourite Music Meme
Here's the latest music meme making the rounds, grabbed off of Bill Sherman's blog.

Favorite Beatles song: "I Me Mine," rediscovered in the wake of George Harrison's death. I actually am feeling quite fond of most of his contributions these days.

Favorite solo song by a former Beatle: "Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five," by Paul McCartney, off the as-good-as-The-Beatles album Band on the Run.

Favorite Prince song: "1999." Not a huge fan of Prince, but a few of his songs work for me.

Favorite Depeche Mode song: "Enjoy the Silence." Not as well-versed in their stuff as I'd like, but working on it.

Favorite Cure song: "Love Song." As with Prince, not as big a fan as some people are.

Favorite song that most of your friends haven't heard: "Sapphire" by Colin Clary. Discovered this little gem a few weeks back and fell immediately in love with it.

Favorite Beastie Boys song: "Brass Monkey." About the only one I actually DO like.

Favorite Police song: "Invisible Sun." Almost anything from their fourth album works well for me.

Favorite song from a movie: "Theme from Ghost World." Just a great theme that encompasses the feel of the movie and its post-ironic nostalgia perfectly.

Favorite Blondie song: "Call Me." I always like hearing this on the radio, on those rare occasions I hear it on the radio.

Favorite Genesis song: "Follow You, Follow Me." Sappy, but sincere, unlike many of their latter-day sap.

Favorite Led Zeppelin song: "Black Dog." Man, I loved Led Zep in college. Not so much anymore, but this one still holds up for me.

Favorite INXS song: "What You Need." There's a dozen or so INXS songs I really like, and this is the one I like best.

Favorite Pink Floyd song: "Comfortably Numb." An obvious choice, yeah, but probably the best example of how Waters and Gilmour could bring out the best in each other.

Favorite cover song: "The Chauffer," by the Def-Tones, originally by Duran Duran.

Favorite B-52s song: "Roam."

Favorite U2 song: "Vertigo." I also adore most everything from The Unforgettable Fire. I used to be a much bigger U2 fan than I have been these past few years (they're the only band I've seen live twice) -- everything post-Rattle and Hum pretty much aggravated me, but recent songs like "Beautiful Day" and "Vertigo" have won me back a bit. The new Rolling Stone has a great Bono interview, pointed out to me by Chris Allen.

Favorite Who song: "Eminence Front." The sense of time and place in this one is tactile and unforgettable.

Favorite Elton John song: "Empty Garden." A tribute to my favourite Beatle. This and "Blue Eyes" are the only Elton John on my harddrive.

Favorite Clash song: "London Calling." Also like "Rock the Casbah," but this one wins by a nose.

Favorite David Bowie song: "Day In, Day Out." Sentimental favourite. Wish I still had the 12-inch single.

Favorite Nirvana song: "Heart-Shaped Box."

Favorite Johnny Cash song: "Hurt."

Favorite R.E.M. song: "Losing My Religion."

Favorite cheesy-ass country song: "A Thousand Miles from Nowhere" by Dwight Yoakam. I listened to this song about 500 times while trying to decide whether to make the biggest, most difficult career change of my life, back in the late summer of 1999.

Favorite Billy Joel song: "Pressure." A high school-era fave.

Favorite Bruce Springsteen song: "Cover Me." The first-person song I believe the record company requested for Born in the USA.

Favorite Beach Boys song: "Sloop John B." This is, indeed, the worst trip...I've ever been on. Sonically perfect.

Favorite Dire Straits song: "Telegraph Road." Moody and evocative.

Favorite Elvis Costello song: "Veronica." Poppy shite, I am sure hardcore Elvis fans would dismiss this as.

Favorite Jimi Hendrix song: "All Along the Watchtower," which the comic nerd in me admits I grew to love in the wake of its perfect use in Watchmen.

Favorite John Mellencamp song: "Paper in Fire."

Favorite Neil Young song: "The Needle and the Damage Done."

Favorite Paul Simon song: "Graceland."

Favorite Duran Duran song: "Do You Believe in Shame?"

Favorite Talking Heads song: "And She Was." Hard to pick just one, though, as almost all of them are wondrous sonic nuggets.

Favorite James Kochalka Superstar song: "Saving My Strength." The apotheosis of Jason Cooley, AKA Jason X-12, the dog with the robot brain.

Favorite Tool song: "Sober." Funny that they didn't go back to this style of song again really until Lateralus, but, I do love me some Tool.

Favorite A Perfect Circle song: "Weak and Powerless." There's almost no APC song I don't like, except for some wrongheaded baloney on their most recent covers CD, but I do like their version of John Lennon's "Imagine."

Favorite Peter Gabriel song: "Mercy Street." Of course, almost anything on So is terrific.

Favorite Blink 182 song: "I Miss You." Awesome pop number.

Favorite Moby song: "Beautiful." I like most of Moby's work, but this is my current fave.

Favorite Coldplay song: "Fix You." I recently did a Coldplay Best of disc, and this one always gets cranked up.

Favorite Green Day song: "Holiday." This song and The Daily Show are the only tangible reminders in my world that not everyone buys into the evil Bizarro World of the Bush Administration and its cronies infecting the media.

Favorite The Church song: "Under the Milky Way." Moody and evocative. I loves me some moody and evocative music.