Favorite songs?

[Yukaphile]

A few rules. It must only be from an official band. And it must have lyrics.

For my first one, I will list FullMoon by Sonata Arctica.

[Rocketboy1313]

I like "Evil Woman" by ELO
https://youtu.be/w3Vd-PX42v0

That tends to be my go to for "Favorite Song".

[Yukaphile]

Ricky Martin: "Livin' La Vida Loca." HELL YEAH.

[TGLS]

In a sweeping cut from volumes A - I:

A) Welcome to the Machine (Pink Floyd)
B) Ievan Polkka (Hatsune Miku)
C) Cydonian Sky (Dubmood)
D) Psycho Killer (Talking Heads)
E) Birdhouse in Your Soul (They Might Be Giants)
F) Wisdom of the World (Catherine Warwick)
G) Oh Christmas Tree (Rush Coil)
H) Theme to Super Karoshi (Jake Almond)
I) Fly Me to the Moon (Tokyo Brass Style)

And as a bonus a few picks from albums:
1) New Day for Me (Toaplan)
2) Joggers in the Park (pocketmaster)
3) Just A Minute (pocketmaster)
4) Buzzsaw (Big Giant Circles/Zircon)
5) A Rose in a Field (Big Giant Circles)
6) Fighting for Control (RushJet1)

[ProfessorDetective]

I'm just going to put one from each of my main genres here, give y'all a sample:

City Pop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejvUU6mxiFw

Chap Hop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eELH0ivexKA

Electro Swing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBGSJ3sbivI

Retrowave: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LD3NKlS55g

Future Funk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7U_q4RXYGu0

[Mecha82]

There are lot of songs that I would count as my favorites. I try to list some of those.

Amaranthe - Digital World
Amon Amarth - A Dream The Cannot Be
Beast In Black - Die By The Blade
Beast In Black - The Fifth Angel
Iron Maiden - Aces High
Kamelot - Wings Of Despair
Lion - Transformers 86 Theme
Robert Tepper - No Easy Way out
Sabaton - Resist And Bite
Sabaton - Winged Hussars

[Madner Kami]

I got a couple houndred favourite songs, so I'll try to limit it to one song per album:

Jesper Kyd - Countdown (Assassin's Creed 3 Brotherhood OST)

Mell - Red Fraction (Black Lagoon Opening theme)

Cara Dillon - Broken Bridges

Chiasm - Isolated
Chiasm - Surrender (took me a while to realize, what the album's overarching theme really is and the realization hit like a brick)
Chiasm - Caffeine Cycle

Covenant - Leviathan
Covenant - Like Tears in Rain
Covenant - Der Leiermann (same music, but very different lyrics)
Covenant - Call the Ships to Port
Covenant - Greater than the Sun
Covenant - Judge of my Domain (essentially the entire album is pure gold, like almost everything from Covenant, but this strikes a particular cord)
Covenant - Leaving Babylon

David Hasselhoff - True Survivor (Kung Fury OST)

Rob Walsh and Tony Pastor - Defenders of the Earth (Opening Theme)

Depeche Mode - Strangelove
Depeche Mode - World in my Eyes

Jackie Chan - Drunken Master (Movie Theme)

Boy George - Felidae (Felidae OST)

Fraktus - Affe sucht Liebe

Game of Thrones - Rains of Castamere

Phil Galdston and John Van Tongeren - No Guts, No Glory (Galaxy Rangers Opening Theme)
FM - Rangers are forever/Rangers ride forever (Galaxy Rangers Outro)
Myles Hunter - Somewhere A Heart (Galaxy Rangers OST)

Kenji Kawai - Making of a Cyborg (Ghost in the Shell 1995 Theme)
Kenji Kawai - Mezame no Hakobune (Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence Theme)


He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (Opening Theme)

Highway Superstar - Hunters (ft. Sunglasses Kid & Honey Colonna)

In Extremo - Liam

Irfan - Hagia Sophia

Masaki Endo - Kaiketsu Zorro/The Legend of Zorro (Opening Theme)

Kraftwerk - Computer Love

Angela - Knights of Sidonia (Opening Theme)

Marty Simon - Yo-A-O/Fight Song of the Brunnen G/End of the Brunnen G (Lexx OST)

Loreena McKennitt - The Old Ways
Loreena McKennitt - The Mystic's Dream (I wonder if anyone will recognize this)
Loreena McKennitt - The Highwayman

Manfred Mann's Earth Band - The Runner

Marlene Dietrich - Lili Marlene

Max Raabe/Comedian Harmonists - Mein kleiner grüner Kaktus
Max Raabe - Kein Schwein ruft mich an

Melodysheep/Charlie Chaplin - Let us all unite (the greatest speech ever done by anyone, married to Melodysheep's simple but emotion-stirring electronic music)

Mila Mar - Djanga
Mila Mar - Was bleibt...

Nightwish - Ocean Soul

Omnia - Morrigan

Origa - Diva
Origa - Aurora
Origa - Inner Universe

Phil Collins - Another Day in Paradise

Kalafina - Magia (Puella Magi Madoka Magica Opening Theme)
Yuki Kajiura - Sis puella magica! (Puella Magi Madoka Magica OST)

Kōtarō Nakagawa - Dive in the Sky (Planetes Opening Theme)

Qntal - Rossinhol
Qntal - Ab Vox d'Angel
Qntal - Name der Rose
Qntal - Vogelfluc

Robocop 1988 Cartoon - Opening Theme (it has spoken lyrics, so it counts )

Dale Schacker - Saber Rider (English Opening to Sêjûshi Bisumaruku)
Dale Schacker - Colt (it has lyrics and is on CD 2 )

Savlonic - Computer Guy
Savlonic - Hi-Lights
Savlonic/Evangeline D'isco - Sweet

Scandroid - Pro-Bots and the Robophobes

Boa - Duvet (Serial Experiments Lain Opening Theme)

Takayuki Miyauchi - Special Police Winspector/Tokkei Winspector (Opening Theme)

Steam Powered Giraffe - The Stars (Steamworld: Heist OST)

Andreas Waldetoft - Faster than light (feat. Mia Stegmar) (Stellaris OST)

Sting - Englishman in New York
Sting - Shape of my Heart (I should watch Leon again sometime)
Sting - Desert Rose

Susumu Hirasawa - Island Door (Paranesian Circle) (Ruiner OST Version)
Susumu Hirasawa - Island Door (Paranesian Circle) (Live Version)

Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles - German Opening Theme (not the inferior english original)

The Lord of the Rings - Aragorn's Coronation Song (sang by Viggo Mortensen
The Lord of the Rings - Edge of Night (sang by Billy Boyd)
The Lord of the Rings - Lament for Theodred (sang by Miranda Otto)
The Hobbit - The Misty Mountains Cold

The Midnight - Gloria
The Midnight (feat. Nikki Flores) - Jason
The Midnight - Vampires (yes, I am cheating; sue me, but both "The Midnight" and Nikki Flores deserve their spotlight)
The Midnight - Crystaline

The Police - Every Breath you take

Thomas Bergersen - Children of the Sun (feat. Merethe Soltvedt)

Bernhard Hoffer - Silverhawks (Opening Theme)
Bernhard Hoffer - Thundercats (Opening Theme)

Tobias Sammet - Reach Out For The Light

Total War: Attila - Main Theme

Lion - Transformers (Transformers 1986 movie theme)
Stan Bush - The Touch (Transformers 1986 OST)
Stan Bush - Dare (Transformers 1986 OST)

Try^d - Alone
Try^d - The Final Rewind

U2/Brian Enno - One Minute Warning (if you are old enough to remember, but never knew which song it was, since it was not on the OST, now you know )

VNV Nation - Solitary
VNV Nation - Standing
VNV Nation - Beloved
VNV Nation - Homward
VNV Nation - Testament

Warhammer 40k - The Lord Inquisitor
Warhammer 40k - Dawn of War 3 - Announcement Trailer (rappers speak their lyrics as well, so this counts)
Warhammer 40k - Dawn of War 3 - Prophecy of War (yes, I said I cheat occasionally, but you already sued me and I got away, so ha ha]

Weebl - They Shall Not Pass

Wolfsheim - The Sparrows and the Nightingales
Wolfsheim - Leave no Deed undone
Wolfsheim - Heroine she said
Wolfsheim - Underneath the Veil

World Order - Have a nice day
World Order - Have a nice day Shibuya Version

World of Warcraft - Nightsong
World of Warcraft - Warbringers: Jaina

World of Warships - Outbreak of World War

Yellow Magic Orchestra - Technopolis
Yellow Magic Orchestra - Citizens of Science
Yellow Magic Orchestra - The City of Light

Yogscast - Diggy Diggy Hole

Yoko Kanno - Torukia (oh everything from Yoko Kanno, really, but this list is way long enough already)

Zack Hemsey - The Way

I hope you find something that you did not yet know and enjoy it. I'll now go eat something, as it took several hours to write and link this