Growing up my friend Matt Damore (and frequent TPQ contributor) and I used to ask each other our top 5 movies, music, books, villians. We used to come up with ridiculous scenarios about if we came home and found out a killer was loose in our, “What do you do!?”
Well, one question that we never asked, and I’m really mad that we never did because it is a great question,
what 3 songs would you listen to if you only had a few minutes of ordinary hearing left?
Great question right? Well, some folks are getting together to make a documentary based on this idea. It is being filmed by a partially deaf filmmaker. It was official selection at SXSW, so you know it’s good.
So, let’s have it. What would it be? What would your 3 songs be?
Here’s my cool list:
- Hallelujah Chorus sung by a choir of poor children
- Opera
- Beethoven or 99 problems
My Actual, Super Secret List:
- Anything by Ke$ha
- Train (not ironically)
- I wanna Dance with Somebody – Whitney Houston
- While My Guitar Gently Weeps – The Beatles
- A Love Supreme – John Coltrane
- Dazed and Confused – Led Zepplin
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Led Zeppelin – White Summer/Black Mountain Side
Queen – Who Wants to Live Forever
Sigur Rós – Samskeyti (live version)
This was really hard. All the songs I picked do the best job of making me feel a pining for something special that I know is going to be permanently undone. Wow. To think about it really made me think of how sublime the senses actually are. I tend to think of the senses in a merely visceral way, when they’re really windows passageways to the celestial.
Close calls.
Moby – First Cool Hive
Mad Season – River of Deceit.
Don Henley – The Boys of Summer
The Cure – Just like Heaven
Coldplay – A Message
Boston – Hitch a Ride
Bob Seger – Night Moves
Pearl Jam – Indifference
Scott D. Davis – Piano version of Sweet Child O’ Mine (GnR)
The Verve – Star Sail