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?