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    My niece Barb bought me a book called Music Listography/Your Life In Playlists that is really cool. It has pages and pages of different lyrics from songs and every other page has a different topic for a playlist the you fill out like list your top twenty favorite songs, list the best songs of the 70's, list bands you do NOT like, list what songs you'd put on your makeout tape or list your top favorite male vocalists of all time. The only stipulation she gave me is that after I have completed the book, she wants to read it. It's going to be really fun to fill out and really going to take some thinking as I do it. Of course the kids & I got to talking about it last night and asking each other questions. My daughter came up with a great one for me--- Who is your favorite artist and it CAN'T be an Eagle? Like she thought I would tell her one of the Eagles --ok, so I would have but how dare she presume! Well my answer was Mr. Jimmy Page which my daughter said she figured I would say.

    Anyways-I kinda thought it would be fun to include some of the topics in this thread and see what kind of list we all come up with. If people want to participate, we can change the topic with a new list name every few days.

    Here's the first one.....

    LIST THE BEST DUETS
    He sings it high, he plays it low

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    Off the top of my head, the best duets include a few by no other than Stevie Nicks.

    1. Leather & Lace-Stevie Nicks & Don Henley
    2. Stop Draggin' My Heart Around-Stevie Nicks & Tom Petty
    3. Midnight Train-Jonny Lang & Buddy Guy
    4. Dancing In The Street-David Bowie & Mick Jagger
    5. Don't Give Up-Peter Gabriel & Kate Bush
    6. Beast Of Burden-Bette Midler & Mick Jagger
    7. If I Close My Eyes-Ozzy Osbourne & Lita Ford
    8. Riding With The King-Eric Clapton & B B King
    9. Little Drummer Boy-David Bowie & Bing Crosby
    10. Walk This Way-Aerosmith & Run DMC (is it a duet when it's 2 groups together?)

    No real rules here---no particular amount you have to list and really loose interpretation of what a "duet" is.
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    This is a great topic, Willie, but you are right that it will take some thought (at least for me). After the holidays, I may have more time to think about this and give a better response. I do agree with you about Leather & Lace being one of the all time best though.

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    Off the top of my head I like Sometimes Love Just Ain't Enough with Don Henley and Patty Smyth.

    Just a bit off topic - I always thought a duet with Don Henley and Norah Jones would be nice.
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    I spontaneously thought of these duets

    Don’t Give Up - Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush
    Where the Wild Roses Grow - Nick Cave and Kylie Minogue
    Sometimes Love Just Ain't Enough - Don Henley and Patty Smyth.
    Senza Una Donna (Without A Woman) - Zucchero feat. Paul Young
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    Don't Give Up - Gabriel/Bush (my favourite)
    What's That You're Doing - Stevie Wonder/Paul McCartney
    Leather & Lace
    Stop Draggin' My Heart Around
    This Is Us - Mark Knopfler/Emmylou Harris
    Tupelo Honey - Van Morrrison/Lonnie Donegan
    All I Have To Do Is Dream - Glen Campbell/Bobbie Gentry
    Well, Did You Evah! - Frank Sinatra/Bing Crosby
    A Foggy Day - Ella Fitzgerald/Louis Armstrong
    Blowin' In The Wind - Bob Dylan/Joan Baez

    Honourable mention to the Return Of The Grievous Angel album featuring Gram Parsons/Emmylou Harris.

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    Here's one of the topics I worked on last night.

    List The Songs To Play At Your Funeral


    My list is...
    The End-The Doors
    Wish You Were Here-Pink Floyd
    Drive-The Cars
    I Will Not Go Quietly-Don Henley
    Break On Through-The Doors
    That's Life-Frank Sinatra
    She's Come Undone-The Guess Who
    Red Light-Jonny Lang
    In My Time Of Dying-Led Zeppelin
    Secular Praise-Timothy B Schmit
    Take It To The Limit-The Eagles
    He sings it high, he plays it low

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    I've always thought I'd like to have Desperado played at my funeral.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Brooke View Post
    I've always thought I'd like to have Desperado played at my funeral.
    We did that for my brother.

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    Funeral Playlist

    I've always wanted my funeral to be a comfort to those I've left behind, so I want to have a preacher tell everyone I'm in a better place, then lead the attendees in the hymn "Because He Lives." It's very appropriate - full of hope and encouragement for the living. The last verse goes:

    And then one day, I'll cross the river
    I'll fight life's final war with pain
    And then as death gives way to victory,
    I'll see the lights of glory and I'll know He lives.

    Because He lives, I can face tomorrow
    Because He lives, all fear is gone
    Because I know he holds the future
    And life is worth the living
    Just because He lives.


    I think that's all I'll have sung at the funeral itself. At the reception, though, when everyone is reminiscing about my awesomeness... we can rock. They're gonna have to play at least one song from all my favorites. Again, I'm gonna try for appropriate but also uplifting.

    Eagles - Ol' 55
    (OK, I know the obvious choice is "It's Your World Now", but that's almost TOO obvious. I don't think "Ol' 55" is about death in the mind of Tom Waits, but it can be applied to someone being called home to Heaven. I like making people think, lol.)

    Fleetwood Mac - Gypsy


    Fleetwood Mac - Landslide

    Glenn Frey - Part of Me, Part of You

    Stevie Nicks - Touched By an Angel


    Lindsey Buckingham - Soul Drifter

    Always in our hearts, Never forgotten

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