We asked our listeners for their all-time essential songs, and you sent 'em! Tons of them. Thanks to everyone who took the time to answer that question - it's a tough one. [2006 poll]
Our DJs have listed their Essentials, and some of our musician friends named theirs, and here are yours. Yes, it was close!
- Bruce Springsteen - "Thunder Road"
- Bob Dylan - "Like a Rolling Stone"
- Bruce Springsteen - "Born to Run"
- Van Morrison - "Into the Mystic"
- Jeff Buckley - "Hallelujah"
- The Beatles - "In My Life"
- Bob Dylan - "Tangled Up in Blue"
- The Beach Boys - "God Only Knows"
- The Band - "The Weight"
- Simon and Garfunkel - "America"
- Van Morrison - "Moondance"
- Richard Thompson - "1952 Vincent Black Lightning"
- Derek & the Dominoes - "Layla"
- Dire Straits - "Sultans of Swing"
- Bruce Springsteen - "4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)"
- Joni Mitchell - "A Case Of You"
- Louis Armstrong - "What a Wonderful World"
- John Lennon - "Imagine"
- The Rolling Stones - "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"
- The Beatles - "I Want to Hold Your Hand"
- Joni Mitchell - "All I Want"
- The Grateful Dead - "Eyes of the World"
- Elvis Costello - "Alison"
- Don McLean - "American Pie"
- Bruce Springsteen - "Jungleland"
- Bob Dylan - "Visions of Johanna"
- The Grateful Dead - "Box Of Rain"
- Janis Joplin - "Me & Bobby McGee"
- Elvis Costello - "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace Love and Understanding"
- The Velvet Underground - "Sweet Jane"
- The Beatles - "Hey Jude"
- The Beatles - "A Day In The Life"
- Simon & Garfunkel - "Bridge Over Troubled Water"
- Neil Young - "Harvest Moon"
- Joni Mitchell - "River"
- Dar Williams - "When I Was a Boy"
- Bob Dylan - "Positively 4th Street"
- Van Morrison - "Tupelo Honey"
- The Grateful Dead - "Uncle John's Band"
- The Beatles - "Here Comes The Sun"
- Steve Goodman - "The Dutchman"
- Robert Earl Kean - "Feels So Good Feelin' Good Again"
- Kirsty MacColl - "In These Shoes?"
- John Prine - "Angel from Montgomery"
- James Taylor - "Sweet Baby James"
- Jackson Browne - "For a Dancer"
- U2 - "One"
- The Who - "Won't Get Fooled Again"
- The Rolling Stones - "Sympathy for the Devil"
- The Kinks - "Waterloo Sunset"
- The Beatles - "Here, There, and Everywhere"
- The Beatles - "Blackbird"
- Paul Simon - "Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes"
- Otis Redding - "Try A Little Tenderness"
- Miles Davis - "So What?"
- Jimi Hendrix - "All Along the Watchtower"
- Indigo Girls - "Closer to Fine"
- Crosby, Stills & Nash - "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes"
- Bob Dylan - "Mr. Tambourine Man"
- Allman Brothers - "Melissa"
- Allman Brothers - "Blue Skies"
- Joni Mitchell - "Carey"
- Van Morrison - "Brown Eyed Girl"
- Traffic - "Low Spark of High Heel Boys"
- The Talking Heads - "This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)"
- The Grateful Dead - "Sugar Magnolia"
- The Beatles - "Norwegian Wood"
- The Beach Boys - "Good Vibrations"
- The Band - "It Makes No Difference"
- Paul McCartney - "Maybe I'm Amazed"
- Neil Young - "After the Goldrush"
- Michelle Shocked - "Come a Long Way"
- Marvin Gaye - "What's Goin' On?"
- Lucy Kaplansky - "Ten Year Night"
- Lucinda Williams - "Sweet Old World"
- Johnny Cash - "Folsom Prison Blues"
- James Taylor - "Fire and Rain"
- Frank Sinatra - "New York, New York"
- Etta James - "At Last"
- Bob Marley - "No Woman No Cry"
- Bob Dylan - "The Times They Are A-Changin'"
- Bob Dylan - "Don't Think Twice, It's Alright"
- Aretha Franklin - "Respect"
- Ryan Adams - "New York, New York"
- Ray Charles - "Georgia"
- R.E.M. - Losing My Religion"
- Wilco - "Jesus, Etc."
- The Clash - "London Calling"
- Stevie Wonder - "As"
- Patti Smith - "Gloria"
