What 3 songs could you absolutely not live without?

[kateyfer]

As above really. What three songs/pieces of music always make you smile/laugh/cry and you think you'll continue playing for the rest of your life?

three of my all-time favourites are:

What if You by Joshua Radin

Keep Breathing by Ingrid Michaelson

and the Gladiator theme tune

Post YouTube links so we can all enjoy them...

not sure, but the first that lept to mind was Labi Siffre Something inside so strong

not that I actually have it, come to think of it

OMG - just 3 - you ARE joking aren't you?

Hmm!

My Desert Island Discs three then - oh feck this will be difficult.

Bridge Over Troubled Water by Simon and Garfunkal

The Logical Song - Supertramp

and - ooh I don't know

Five Years Time by Noah and the Whale.

Will that do?

I know - three was silly, but had to limit it really!

I love Bridge over troubled water and something inside so strong. good choices!

So hard but:

Creep Radiohead. Means so much to me. Ignore the 'radio edit' version!

Help me make it by John Holt. My childhood

Any Muse, there must be Muse. But which one...?

Okay

Plug in baby

Agh - erm - now then - erm - agh - okay:

This Charming Man - The Smiths
Sewn - The Feeling
Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division

I think - erm - agh.

Savage Garden - Crash And Burn

Darren Hayes - Maybe

Darren Hayes - Sing To Me

I love Darren's voice and turn to listen to him singing whenever something is bothering me..

Just 3 ? fuck

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these are the first 3 I thought of but I already want to change all 3 of them and instantly I also want to change the new 3 I just picked.
3 is far too little.

Don't look back into the sun - the libertines

Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley

Queen - Don't stop me now

(but I've already got about 50 others lined up)

JollyPirate, funny how you had Supertramp.
Mine are (sort of);
Lord is it mine (Supertramp)
Bad (U2)
Cocaine Blues (Johnny Cash live at Folsom Prison)
Tough call though.

Got To Be Real - Cheryl Lynn
Unfinished Sympathy - Massive Attack
Knocked Up - Kings of Leon

All so so so good.

throw me a rope -KT Tunstall one of the most gorgeous songs I've ever heard

Rocking chair-Oasis

almost anything by the Beatles

ray of light - madonna

lust for life - iggy pop

Jay Z, Linkin Park - Numb

watch and listen

Moon River (dad used to sing it to me and now I sing it to my babies)

Alright, OK , You Win (PEggy Lee) - first dance at our wedding

Star Wars theme. Especially with Fireworks.

Ask me tomorrow and it would be completely different. Who can choose 3?

sorry third song- by the Foo Fighters, gorgeous

don't stop me now, Queen

Affirmation, Savage Garden

and the mom song from you tube

Oh, I could never decide, but I LOVE that Joshua Radin song, the whole album is just gorgeous.

OK I will have a bash.

Sting - I Was Brought To My Senses
Del Amitri - Tell Her This
Karine Polwart - Daisy

people are strange (the Doors)
afterlife (A7X)
never say die(the 69 eyes)

Cure: Love Song
Elvis: In the ghetto
Suzanne Vega: Luka

My favourite 3 songs are

Simon and Garfunkel The Boxer
Velvet Underground Venus in Furs
Rolling Stones Paint it Black
I love these songs and they have made me into the person I am today

I have no idea where to start! There is no way I can choose three songs. JayZ's Numb and Radiohead's Creep and Massive Attack would make it high up my list but I'm not sure if any of them would reach the top three.

Kelis's Acapella and Lil Star would also feature high.

Perhaps we should have a classical version of this thread?

On my list would go:
Elgar's Cello concerto
Elgar's Nimrod
and
Concierto De Aranjuez

No Suprises - Radiohead
Your song - Elton John
Ermm something by Bowie, Beatles, can't choose and it changes daily..

Classical choices are much easier to choose:

I second Elgar's Nimrod
The beautiful aria in Madame Butterfly - sorry don't know what it's called.
Beethoven's Choral Symphony

you mean this juststrudel;

Yes I do thanks for searching Belgo. Just listened - the hairs on the back of my neck are standing up!