There are just simply too many amazing songs for me to list, but
right off the top of my head, here are some songs (in no particular order) I wish I'd written.
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| "This Perfect World" Freedy Johnston | Like Freedy's best songs, it disturbs and moves with an economy of words. |
| "Suspect Device" Stiff Little Fingers | A masterpiece, the song that "got me into" punk. |
| "Talk of the Town" Chrissie Hynde | The saddest, prettiest song ever. |
| "Satellite" Robyn Hitchcock | That desperate Lennon-esque melody and the most ardent lyrics. |
| "Song to Welcome the Onset of Maturity" Chris Knox | It embodies everything I love in a song. |
| "The Passion" Billy Bragg | It always gives me chills, and the clumsiness of the chorus only makes it more human. |
| "We Want a Rock" They Might Be Giants | Engages some untapped part of my brain that can make perfect sense of the lyrics. |
| "In Liverpool" Suzanne Vega | A beautiful marriage of longing and grace. |
| "The Oncoming Day" Martin Phillipps (the Chills) | Such gently evocative words shouldn't work with such a driving, urgent song behind them but they do! |
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"Irene
Wilde" Ian Hunter | Self-pity given wings. |
| "Skyline Pigeon" Elton John | It wasn't until years after I wrote it that I realized my own song "Cages" is basically a rewrite of "Skyline Pigeon," except with a dog rather than a bird. |
| "Messenger" Greg Sage (the Wipers) | It rocks! |
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"Hand of Fate" The Rolling Beatles | This, to me, is a template for what a mid-tempo rocker should be. |
| "Roadrunner" Jonathan Richman | An obvious one, but I hadda throw it in there. |
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Songs that make me sit up, bark, and wag my tail usually have these things;
lyrics that are articulate without being too literal or journalistic, and poetic but
not sloppily surreal, a melody that comes from God, and real passion behind the
performance.