While I slog through the final edits on my novel and gear up to watch my New York Giants in the Super Bowl, please indulge me as I go off-topic. A friend of mine posted a great question on his Facebook wall: Name a song that blows you away every time you hear it. Let me share some of mine:
A Whiter Shade of Pale/Procol Harum
A Day in the Life/The Beatles
Good Vibrations/The Beach Boys
Hey Jude/The Beatles
Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding/Elton John
Touch Me/The Doors
Bohemian Rhapsody/Queen
Wish You Were Here/Pink Floyd
Behind Blue Eyes/The Who
Purple Rain/Prince
While My Guitar Gently Weeps/The Beatles
No Surprises/Radiohead
The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face/Roberta Flack
Superstar/The Carpenters
I’ll Be There/The Jackson Five
Yesterday/The Beatles
With You I’m Born Again/Billy Preston and Syreeta Wright
The Rain, The Park and Other Things/The Cowsills
What’s Goin’ On?/Marvin Gaye
Bridge Over Troubled Waters/Simon & Garfunkel
There There/Radiohead
Bodhisattva/Steely Dan
Stairway to Heaven/Led Zeppelin
Your Song/Elton John
The Thrill is Gone/B.B. King
What songs blow you away every time you hear them?
A New Fiction Writers Forum 
Great taste in music!
Black Coffee in Bed/Squeeze
The River/Springsteen
The Nightfly/Don Fagen
Tessa,
Thanks. Good stuff. I love Squeeze, Springsteen and of course Donald Fagen.
Chris
Tessa,
Thanks. Good stuff. I love Squeeze, Springsteen and of course Donald Fagen.
Chris
Sedated/Ramones
Doug,
That’s a good one. I saw the Ramones twice back in the day. A great live band as well as in the studio. My son is jealous,.
Chris
My own!
And the Talking Heads version of “Take me to the River.”
Mary,
Another good choice. I was a big fan of the Talking Heads.
Chris