Songs I Wish I Made

[harryupbabble]

These 5. Pop songs. But EDM certified?

New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuvmstmIzPQ

Bloodhound Gang - The Bad Touch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mno-RknGg3M

Alice DJ - Better Off Alone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHjNmyzrVvM

Kylie Minogue - Can't Get You Out Of My Head
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c18441Eh_WE

Depeche Mode - Just Can't Get Enough
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdUIoztf6FQ

[jjpscott01]

In fact I can.... King of Pain by The Police

[harryupbabble]

These 7 lyrics-powered songs.
Would lyrics have strenghtened the works of, say, Beethoven? Or how about the works of EDM composers at the Music Cafe?
Does Fur Elise have lyrics? Would it have weakened it?

Geez us. YouTube should have a "Skip ad in ZERO seconds" click thingy. If that doesn't kill it, that would make YouTube even more great. Fer sure.

Juliana Hatfield and Evan Dando - My Drug Buddy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40D9iqrfk2I

Greensleeves
Words by King Henry VIII? Music by anonymous Italian person from hundred of years before King Henry's time?
Note: I noticed at YouTube that there are many females singing this anonymous-but-probably-male-penned song. Yay.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOwSpLoPLgs

Amazing Grace
Words by John Newton, melody by anynomous?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtteRD5bBNQ

Police - Every Breath You Take
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH_YbBHVF4g

Beatles - A Day In The Life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53Dh-I0_m5Y

Buddy Holly - Words Of Love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ay8y8MctiOw

Bee Gees - Words
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JECTUQVrvzE

[e@rs]

Chvrches - Leave A Trace

Nero - What Does Love Mean

[harryupbabble]

Cat Power - Wonderwall
I have heard the original version by Oasis a few times and the song never really did affect me but I guess Charilyn Marshall of Cat Power
was affected by it greatly and if I have never heard the Oasis version and heard only Cat Power's version then I would definitely say
"I wish I made that song".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1B9ELipGj7Y

New Order - Love Vigilante
A song influenced by the movie The Sixth Sense? Or vice versa? Too lazy to check creation dates of both. Probably no anyways.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l36eO6BwPq8

New Order - Ceremony (from the Substance double CD)
Originally made by Joy Division
I like Radiohead's cover version only because of the homemade video itself, nice scenery of a typical-maybe city(during snowless winter?).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swjoYKl9m4E

Frank Sinatra - Summer Wind
Lyrics, melodies. What else is there?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEqJvLmIlAE

Donnas - Take It Off
I wondered what this song would sound like if covered by a decent piano player like Maxence Cyrin (see example, last video).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCvRT2sy5FE

Maxence Cyrin covering Where Is Your Mind by the Pixies
Debatably weaker without words? See lyrics below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMfNB3fakB8

Where Is Your Mind lyrics:

Oh - stop

With your feet on the air and your head on the ground
Try this trick and spin it, yeah
Your head will collapse
But there's nothing in it
And you'll ask yourself

Where is my mind? [3x]

Way out in the water
See it swimmin'

I was swimmin' in the Caribbean
Animals were hiding behind the rock
Except the little fish
But they told me, he swears
Tryin' to talk to me, to me, to me.

Where is my mind? [3x]

Way out in the water
See it swimmin'

With your feet on the air and your head on the ground
Try this trick and spin it, yeah
Your head will collapse
If there's nothing in it
And you'll ask yourself

Where is my mind? [3x]

Way out in the water
See it swimmin'

Oh
With your feet on the air and your head on the ground
Oh
Try this trick and spin it, yeah
Oh
Oh

[Aloysius]

I'm glad I didn't write any of the songs I listed. I like the songs but I wouldn't want to walk in the shoes of the people who wrote them.

[harryupbabble]

I'm glad I didn't write any of the songs I listed. I like the songs but I wouldn't want to walk in the shoes of the people who wrote them.

Yeah I guess it must have sucked to be Phil Lynott, taking drugs and overdosing like that.
But I briefly Googled Nick Kamen and I didn't see what so bad about his life. What happened to him?

[Aloysius]

I was mainly thinking about Phil when I wrote. He was dead years before he physically died. The drink and drugs couldn't take away his emotional pain but they did take his life.

[harryupbabble]

So, the day before yesterday, pretty much all day and all night, I had iTunes playing songs randomly in the background and these songs stood out among the others. It's summer. I have time and it was fun listening more than 10 seconds per song to the ones that stood out. I should save them to DVD. Maybe even to the cloud. You guys too maybe.

I skipped about 90 percent of my entire music library. All I needed was about 10 seconds at most per song to decide which ones really, really stood out. And which ones to skip. Classical, jazz and other instrumental music took 1 second to decide to skip because, well because they are wordless and not songs. So yeah, this is pretty much all the songs that I can find in my entire music library that fitted the topic title.

It's good that I could just double-click the songs in iTunes and copy/paste the band/song name. Too tired to provide YT links to all of them. Longest post I ever made. But I think other forum members had longer ones. But maybe it's worth it. Hopefully in about 2 years or so I can come back to this post and see if these songs are still "Songs I Wish I Made". And maybe more new ones are introduced here by other forum members and I could take those and add them to my own ever-expanding list of "Songs I Wish I Made", and the other way around.

I know this is primarily an EDM site but hey I noticed quite a lot of people are into songs too. And again, it's a good way to become aware of songs I/you may never have become aware of.

Gorillaz - Clint Eastwood
I guess Damon Albarn likes rap music?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UclCCFNG9q4

Aweosmith - Last Child

Pavement - Summer Babe

Strokes - Hard To Explain

Pink Floyd - Time
I have the CD and the song is in my computer but never really listened to it that much probably because of the long intro. Yeah yeah I know. Why bother having a Pink Floyd CD if one doesn't have patience for build up and the ways of progressive rock? Well, I mainly bought that CD for the song Money which isn't really a progressive rock song? Okay, maybe it is. But it gets down to it right away? And it was only later on that I developed the patience for Rush and bands like that. Oh well. But I saw two Australian kids covering Time at YouTube and noticed that "Hey this song has great lyrics and melody."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcoPvQ6uDNk

Blur - Song 2
Smart-ass pop band trying to do hard rock for the first time and just once and never again, and just so they could say "been there done that"? Hehehe.

Nick Lowe - Cruel To Be Kind

Paul Westerberg - Once Around The Weekend

Joni Mitchell - Big Yellow Taxi

Sebadoh - Rebound

Bob Dylan - Subterranean Homesick Blues
Doesn't sound like blues to me. More like the first rap song, maybe. Blamable?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67u2fmYz7S4

Daryl Hall & John Oates - Rich Girl

Finley Quaye - Dice

Eagle-Eye Cherry - Save Tonight

Cranberries - Salvation

Fixx - Sunshine In The Shade

Ramones - I Wanna Be Sedated

Primitives - Crash

System Of A Down - Bounce
A scrabble player introduced me to this band and song. A gift, I think.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ausVTbgTCpU


Swingin' Medallions - Double Shot (Of My Baby's Love)
Sam The Sham & The Pharoahs - Wooly Bully
Jimmy Soul - If You Wanna Be Happy
Rolling Stones - Respectable
Kinks - Sunday Afternoon
These five are fun and funny to me and they seem similar in sound and spirit to each other.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pXQ1RtkWLU

Yes - Roundabout
Pretty sure that Rush was influenced by this band, eh? They sound alike. No?

Alphaville - Forever Young

J. Frank Wilson & The Cavaliers - Last Kiss

Wilco - I'm Always In Love

Youngbloods - Get Together

Prince - When Doves Cry

Archies - Sugar, Sugar

Santana - Black Magic Woman
INHO, this version sounds smoother than the original by Fleetwod Mac (Peter Green era)

Bob Dylan - It Ain't Me Babe

Naked Eyes - Always Something There To Remind Me

Green Day - Time Of Your Life
Googoo Dolls - Name
There's similarities in these two, right?

Led Zeppelin - Heartbreaker
Heart- Barracuda
Similarities here too?

Young Rascals - Good Lovin'

Cats Stevens - Morning Has Broken

Cars - Touch And Go
Hey, is that the phrase where the word tag came from? Seems logical. I really don't know. Doh?

AC/DC - Jailbreak

Gary Wright - Love Is Alive

David Bowie - Ashes To Ashes
This one is being covered here by a band going by the name of Warpaint.
Interesting lyrics + interesting music + poppines + variety + done prolifically: can't think of anyone else that did that besides David Bowie. Some could do the first three but can anyone else name someone else that did all five for so long? Okay, maybe the Beatles. Long live David Bowie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuspAu4FxuU

Led Zeppelin - Whole Lotta Love
The first song I ever heard from Led Zeppelin was Heartbreaker. Some guy at a parking lot with a expensive sports car, and I presume a very expensive stereo system, had his car doors (plural) open and he had the volume really high and I'm like "Wow that's one high energy testicular song". Later on, I earned some cash working during the summertime and was able to buy a stereo system that had a decent receiver and speakers and started listening to classic rock stations a lot on headphones late at night and one night, Whole Lotta Love comes on and during the song I'm like "Hey that's the band I heard from the parking lot". I was impressed and then I heard Stairway To Heaven and was even more impressed and proceeded to hear the entire Led Zeppelin catalog via the many local libraries and became aware of the "The Song Remains The Same" movie and came to the conclusion that Jimmy Page's guitar playing was doing something I like to my brain chemicals and I became a fan for life. Later on I came to realize that it wasn't just Jimmy Page that was doing that. Robert Plant is actually a decent lyricist and melody maker, at least when he was around listening to Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones creating riffs and background music, getting inspired by it, humming melodies for future Led Zeppelin songs back then. I read that somewhere. Also, the drummer and bassist were just right and crucial to the "The Jimmy Page Show". Hahaha. Well, it's kind of true.

Cutting Crew - I've Been In Love Before

Tokens - The Lions Sleeps Tonight.

Electric Light Orchestra - Strange magic

Church - Under The Milky Way

Bob Dylan - Like A Rolling Stone

B-52s - Planet Claire

Mission - This Corrosion

Aarghh. I'm worried KVR has a post-length limit and I've gone over it. I submitted this yesterday and it wasn't accepted. If it gets accepted today then the problem must not have been about post-lenght limit. It would be great if a notice pops up from KVR saying something like "Okay Dostoyevskywannabe, you are nearing the post-length limit, three more characters left". Or something like that. But no? Not necessary? Long posters are in the minority?

If the whole post is showing up in the Preview thingy then maybe I have not gone over the limit, if there even is a limit.

No matter. Okey dokey. I think I will continue this post later on.Bye.

[harryupbabble]

***doubly submitted***

[e@rs]

I know this is primarily an EDM site...

What makes you think that?

Blur - Song 2
Smart-ass pop band trying to do hard rock for the first time and just once and never again, and just so they could say "been there done that"? Hehehe.

I think they succeeded. It's a brilliant song.

[harryupbabble]

I know this is primarily an EDM site...

What makes you think that?

Assuming you are serious, and to answer your question, I think KVR is primarily an EDM site because the ads are aimed at EDM makers? Or perhaps KVR is just modern? Of now.
Skrillex and Avicii would find their tools of the trade easily here? But would Jimmy Page?

And if you type these 3 words in Google "kvr audio edm" you get about 30,000 results.
And if you type these 3 words in Google "kvr audio zappa" you get about 4,330 results.
Hahaha. Never mind I was just trying to be funny. I don't have a solid case.
I can't prove that KVR is an EDM site. I can only believe that it is, till someone makes a solid case stating exactly what KVR is not or is.
My position seems like what fanatics would say but the difference is that I'm open to change or to people who make solid cases.

Yeah, if KVR is not primarily an EDM site then what is it? I would like to know for sure. Just for the hell of it. Whatever KVR is, no complaints here.

[e@rs]

Yeah, it was a serious question. Because for me KVR is definitely not an EDM site (just check the stuff people post in the 'What are you listening to now?' thread.

And usually when someone asks something related to Deadmau5, Garrix, Guetta or Avicii, the thread doesn't create much interest.























And what exactly is KVR you ask?

KVR is a GAS site.

[bluedad]

I wish I could write songs like these:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4T1QQ2UpL0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHktzTmoFo8

[GaryG]

I think it's the simple songs I envy the most, the same ol' three chords but given new life by melody and passion.

exhibit #1:

Grant Hart - 2541. Couldn't be simpler, doesn't even bother with bridges etc just a handful of chords, great melody, simple but clever lyrics and performed with a passion that suggests it's all a metaphor for something higher.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjJC5e4VpDY