My favorite songs

• Aerosmith: "Dream On," "Last Child," "Back in the Saddle," "Sweet Emotion" (LP version), "Uncle Salty"
• The Animals: "House of the Rising Sun," "I'm Crying," "It's My Life"
• The Beatles: "The Word," "Rain," "Helter Skelter," "Two of Us"
• The Beau Brummels: "Gentle Wandering Ways," "Sad Little Girl," "Woman"
• The Byrds "5D," "She Don't Care About Time," "You Movin'"
• The Chocolate Watch Band: "Gone and Passes By," "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue"
• The Cure: "Boys Don't Cry," "Just Like Heaven," "Like Cockatoos"
• The Eagles: "Journey of the Sorcerer"
• The Easybeats "Sorry"
• The Electric Prunes "I Had Too Much to Dream Last Night," "Ain't It Hard"
• Electric Light Orchestra "Fire on High"
• First Crow to the Moon: "Spend Your Life"
• Flamin Groovies "Teenage Head," "You Tore Me Down," "I Saw Her," "I'll Cry Alone"
• The James Gang "Ashes, the Rain and I"
• Elton John "Skyline Pigeon"
• The Kinks: "I'm Not Like Everybody Else," "Fancy," "Harry Rag," "Days"
• Led Zeppelin: "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You," "Whole Lotta Love" (45 version), "Thank You," "The Immigrant Song," "Gallows Pole," "Bron-Y-Aur Stomp," "Over the Hills and Far Away," "Dancin' Days," "The Ocean," "Battle of Evermore," "Kashmir," and (of course) "Stairway to Heaven"
• The Moody Blues: "The Question"
• Paul Revere & the Raiders "Steppin' Out," "Just Like Me," "Him or Me"
• Queen: "39," "She Makes Me (Stormtrooper in Stilettoes)," "It's Late," "Fight From the Inside"
• R.E.M.: "Time After Time (Annelise)"
• The Rolling Stones: "Citadel," "In Another Land," "Child of the Moon"
• Simon & Garfunkel: "A Hazy Shade of Winter," "I Am a Rock," "Scarborough Fair/Canticle," "Patterns"
• The Standells: "Try It"
• Sweet "Ballroom Blitz"
• The Troggs "Wild Thing," "With a Girl Like You," "Evil Woman," "Feels Like a Woman," "Strange Movie"
• We the People: "In the Past"
• The Who: "I'm One," "The Seeker," "Sunrise"
• The Yardbirds: "I Ain't Done Wrong," "Turn Into Earth"

• "Classical Gas"
• Beethoven: "Moonlight Sonata"
• Benny Goodman: "Sing Sing Sing (With a Swing)
• Traditional Irish tunes: "King of the Fairies," "Brian Boru's March," "Three Sea Captains," "The Mermaid," "Rocky Road to Dublin"

My favorite musicians

Vocalists: Reg Presley, Eric Burdon, Keith Relf, Bon Scott, Billie Joe Armstrong, Brian Clancy, Siouxsie Sioux, Nat King Cole, Al Stewart

Guitarists: Brian May, Jimmy Page

Bassists: John Entwistle, John Paul Jones, Frank Dauenhauer

Drummers: Keith Moon, John Bonham

Keyboardists: Elton John, John Paul Jones

Songwriters: Pete Townshend, Ray Davies, Brian May, Gene Clark, Billie Joe Armstrong

Miscellaneous faves

Guitar solo: "Comfortably Numb" by Pink Floyd (David Gilmour)

Vocal performance: "House of the Rising Sun" by the Animals (Eric Burdon), "You Oughta Know" by Alanis Morrissette

Primal scream: "Won't Get Fooled Again" by The Who (Roger Daltrey), "Her Evening Gown" by the Left Banke