My 100 Favourite Songs – Part 3 – The Bookshelf Cafe News

Part 3 of my Top 100 Favourite Songs, the first 80 of which I have listed in no particular order. I hope you enjoy this week’s selection!

Part 1 HERE

Part 2 HERE

Hole Hearted – Extreme (1991)

(Also, a chance to lust over Gary Cherone, or Nuno Bettencourt if the 90s long hair and lycra cycling shorts look is more your bag. Or the one with the long blond lion’s mane. Something for everyone, ha ha!)

Porcelain – Moby (1999)

Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover – Sophie B Hawkins (1992)

I do love a song of obsession!

Rescue Me – Fontella Bass (1965)

Oh I Wept – Free (1970)

One of the most emotive songs ever….

You Oughta Know – Alanis Morissette (1995)

The Girl From Ipanema – Astrud Gilberto with Stan Getz (1965)

Just so beautifully 1960s 🙂

A Horse With No Name – America (1971)

Dark Horse – George Harrison (1974)

Laura – Scissor Sisters (2004)

Don’t know why I love this, I just do. The whole album was good, but this is the stand-out, I think.

Born To Be Wild – Steppenwolf (1969)

Couldn’t Get It Right – Climax Blues Band (1976)

Takes me straight back to autumn 1976 when I was pretending to be at art school (by which I mean I didn’t go that often)

White Ladder– David Gray (1998)

I had a boyfriend for a few years who played David Gray like I watch The Walking Dead. I got to love a lot of them too – this is my favourite.

The Highway Song – Free (1970)

There was always something about Free that ‘spoke’ to me, even when I was 11 or 12. This one makes me want to hitch down a dusty road at sunset in 1972.

Thinking about it, lots of my choices reflect this desire!

Take Me To The River – Al Green (1974)

The original and best, preferable to any other version – including the ones on those motion-activated singing fish (below). Yes, I used to have one too. Seeing someone’s face the first time they walked past it never got old!