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Apart from all the great OLP material that we all know and love. You guys named most of my top songs but I think the ones you missed are:

John Lennon - Let it be
Five for Fighting - Superman and 100 years
Semisonic - Closing Time
Edwin McCain - I'll Be
Lifehouse - You & Me
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closing time is soooo good! :drool:
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pit_girl1 wrote:And Nikki, after your post, I downloaded the Jeff Buckley Hallelujah, and it is indeed :drool:-ful

Get more!!! Now!!! "Hallelujah" was the song that started me on Buckley, too. :drool:

conartist wrote:John Lennon - Let it be

*cough*TheBeatles*cough*

That's a Paul song rather than a John one, too. :lol:
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Wow....old thread but this is sweet:

U2 - With or Without You
Coldplay - Fix You
Brian McKnight - Back at One
Bush - Glycerine
Eric Clapton - Wonderful Tonight
Rob Thomas (Originally when he was in "Tabithas Secret") - Dear Joan
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Alkaline Trio- Radio
Pink Floyd- (anything really) Wish You Were Here
Bright Eyes- Poison Oak, Waste Of Paint, (anything from Fevers And Mirrors)
Brand New- Soco Ameretto Lime, Am I Wrong?, The Boy Who Blocked His Own Shot
The Postal Service- Such Great Heights, DC Sleeps Alone Tonight
Boys Night Out- Hold On Tightly, Let's Go Lightly
Dashboard Confessional- (anything) Swiss Army Romance cd, Hands Down...
Alexisonfire- Little Girls Pointing And Laughing, Happiness By The Kilowatt
Fear Before The March Of Flames- On The Brightside, She Could Choke
The Mars Volta- Televators
From First To Last- Emily
Weakerthans- One Great City
Cooper Temple Clause- Blind Pilots
Vendetta Red- Ambulence Chaser
Early November- Take Time And Find
Modest Mouse- Ocean Breathes Salty, Blame it on the tetons
Led Zeppelin- (anything at all)
Lifehouse- Breathing
Dallas Green- (anything)
chantal and raine- innocent
Butch Walker- Mixtape
Jacks Mannequin- Dark Blue, The Mixed Tape


woooah, i could list a loooot more, but that's enough for now. :)
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Brand New - Am I Wrong
Brand New - The Boy Who Blocked His Own Shot
Evanescence - October
Staind - Zoe Jane
Goo Goo Dolls - Acoustic #3
Lifehouse - Simon
Damien Rice - Cannonball
Bruce Dickinson - Tears Of The Dragon .... :drool:
Coldplay - Proof
Collective Soul - The World I Know
High Holy Days - River Of Styx
30 Seconds To Mars - A Modern Myth
30 Seconds To Mars - From Yesterday
U2 - Where The Streets Have No Names
Snow Patrol - Grazed Knees
Live - Lightning Crashes
Oasis - Stop Crying Your Heart Out
The Devlins - World Outside
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Coldplay - In My Place
Coldplay - The Scientist
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_old_lady_peace wrote:Alkaline Trio- Radio


:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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i don't think that was a joke, but it really doesn't matter.


i love that song. it's just incredibly not-beautiful
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Third Eye Blind - The Background
Sting - I'm So Happy I Can't Stop Crying
Gordon Lightfoot - Beautiful
Carole King - It's Too Late


thats all i can think of..
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The Tori Amos "Smells Like Teen Spirit" cover. Wow. This is...wow. I love the original, but damn this is amazing.
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Third Eye Blind - Hows It Gonna Be
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U2-One

OLP-Bring Back the Sun

The Beatles- In MY Life ( also the Chantal Kreviazuk cover is also beautiful)

Chantal Kreviazuk-Blue, Flying Home

The Rolling Stones-Wild Horses

Guns and Roses-November Rain

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BUsh-Glycerine

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Bush - Inflatable
Led Zeppelin - That's the Way
Radiohead - How to Disappear Completely
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I think every single one of my favorite all time songs is in this thread.. also, I know someone put anything by John Lennon.. but when there were lists of songs.. there was one I noticed missing

Imagine

I probably just missed it though

Those Jimmy Eat World ones amazing.. I'll add Drugs Or Me? too...

Devil by Staind... and Layne.. and OF COURSE .. Epiphany
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Regina Spektor - Braille
Mirah - Cold Cold Water, Don't Die in Me
Sufjan Stevens - For the Widows in Paradise, For the Fatherless in Ypsilanti
Calexico - All The Pretty Horses
Sleep Station - Goodnight to the Moon

A few of my favourites. :)
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the get up kids

-hanna hold on
-stay gold ponyboy
-kampfire kansas
-i'll catch you
-better half
omg there are SO MANY
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Eric Clapton - Tears In Heaven
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Rheostatics - Midwinter Night's Dream
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Tattooed Angels wrote:Chantal Kreviazuk-Blue, Flying Home


oh god yes

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