This week's @bloghomework is an easy one for me. I'll list my picks in descending order.
5. Fortress Around Your Heart by Sting - I love the imagery in this song. I also love the intro/chord progression that runs through the verses.
4. Round Here by Counting Crows - This song grabbed hold of me and wouldn't let go the first time I head it. The rest of "August and Everything After" was amazing too but there's just something about this song. This CD stayed in my player for three months straight back in 1993.
3. Sweet Child O' Mine by Guns 'N Roses - I could literally listen to this song a million times on repeat and never, EVER grow tired of it. It was unique for its time. There was a lot of glam metal floating around in 1987 but this band, and this song, just had a different voice.
2. Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen - if this isn't the perfect song I don't know what is.
1. In Your Eyes by Peter Gabriel - Not only is this the single most beautiful love song ever written, recorded, or so flawlessly delivered, but it's tied to what I believe to be the last of the great teen movies of the 80s and... surprise! John Hughes had nothing to do with it. I could watch Say Anything once a day and never tire of some of the dialogue. Favorite line: "The world is full of guys. Be a man."