John Burroughs aka Jesus Crisis

Driving Me Backwards by Brian Eno

Sa Prize (Part 2) by N.W.A.

Time in a Bottle by Jim Croce

Irish Blood, English Heart by Morrissey

How Do You Sleep? by John Lennon

The Man Who Sold the World by David Bowie

Shandi by Kiss

Point of No Return from Phantom of the Opera

Scenes from an Italian Restaurant by Billy Joel

Why D'ya Do It? by Marianne Faithfull

Tracks in the Dust by David Crosby

If You're Gone by the Byrds

Alone Again Or by Love

While My Guitar Gently Weeps by the Beatles

Down in the Hole by the Rolling Stones

And I Moved by Pete Townshend

Don't Explain by Nina Simone

Sexual Revolution by Roger Waters

Bela Lugosi's Dead by Bauhaus

Man on the Corner by Genesis

Lay Your Hands on Me by Peter Gabriel

I Shot the Sheriff by Bob Marley and the Wailers

Something in the Water (Does Not Compute) by Prince

Ohio by Crosby Stills Nash & Young

Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen

From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea by the Cure

How Soon Is Now? by the Smiths

Sara Smile by Hall & Oates

Under the Skin by Lindsey Buckingham

Shadows in the Rain by the Police

Isn't It a Pity by George Harrison

Fortress Around Your Heart by Sting

Riding to Vanity Fair by Paul McCartney

When I Look at the World by U2

The Guns of Brixton by the Clash

Voodoo Child (Slight Return) by the Jimi Hendrix Experience

Is Anybody out There? by Frankie Goes to Hollywood

Stairway to Heaven by Led Zeppelin

The Show Must Go On by Queen

Unchained by Van Halen

Angel from Montgomery by Tanya Tucker

Sunday Morning Coming Down by Johnny Cash

Albatross by Public Image Ltd.

The Chain by Fleetwood Mac

I Feel Like a Bullet in the Gun of Robert Ford by Elton John

Passover by Joy Division

Fountain and Fairfax by Afghan Whigs

Lost Inside of You by Barbara Streisand & Kris Kristofferson

What's Going On by Marvin Gaye

Hey Jupiter by Tori Amos

John Burroughs is a Cleveland area poet, founder of the Crisis Chronicles Online Library and co-founder of Lix and Kix and Snoetry: A Winter Wordfest.

Michael Gill

 

Sylvio Rodriguez, La Masa

Fela Kuti, Sorrow Tears and Blood, or Coffin for Head of State

Shostakovich violin concerto

Leonard Cohen, Halleluja

Beethoven string quartet no. 131

Michael Gill is Arts Editor at Cleveland SCENE Magazine, and makes art books.

Bree

I Cover The Waterfront Billie Holiday
Don’t Explain Nina Simone
Sultans Of Swing Dire Straits
That’s Life I Guess Billie Holiday
Everything Is Broken Bob Dylan
Don’t Think Twice Bob Dylan
I Need To Know Tom Petty
Exactly Like You Etta Jones
How Deep Is The Ocean Little Jimmy Scott
Jealous Guy Little Jimmy Scott
Strange Fruit Billie Holiday
I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free Nina Simone
Birdsong The Grateful Dead
Time After Time Miles Davis
Someday My Prince Will Come Miles Davis
If I Had A Ribbon Bow Karen Dalton
Viper Mad Fats Waller
My One And Only Love Cassandra Wilson
Masters Of War Bob Dylan
Hey Joe Jimi Hendrix
It’s A Man’s World James Brown And Luciano Pavarotti
The Mercy Seat Johnny Cash
Shipwreck Blues Jimmy Rushing
Congratulations Traveling Wilburys
Yellow Ledbetter Pearl Jam


Bree is a poet publisher who cooks for money on Cleveland's East Side.

Beverly J. Wilcox

No Woman No Cry Bob Marley

Women Be Wise Bonnie Raitt

Needle And The Damage Done Neil Young

Noah’s Dove 10,000 Maniacs

In The Morning Nina Simone

Pirate Jenny Nina Simone

Footprints Miles Davis

Who Carried You Malcombe Holcolm

Diamonds And Pearls Prince

It Aint Me Babe Bob Dylan

Wedding Song Bob Dylan

Sugar Etta Jones

Side By Side Etta Jones And Della Griffin

Suzanne Leonard Cohen

Brown Sugar The Rolling Stones

Honkey Tonk Women The Rolling Stones

Time Is On My Side The Rolling Stones

Aint No Sunshine When She’s Gone Bill Withers

Amazing Grace Willie Nelson


Beverly J. Wilcox is a 27 yr old resident of Cleveland, past poet and future novelist.

rjs aka r.j. sigmund

masters of war bob dylan
times they are a changing bob dylan
i aint marching anymore phil ochs
sounds of silence simon and garfunkel
white rabbit jefferson airplane
bird on the wire leonard cohen
suzanne leonard cohen
the eve of destruction barry mcguire

pack up your sorrows mimi & richard farina 

saran wrap  ed sanders & the fugs 

a hard rains gonna fall bob dylan

there but for fortune (ochs or baez)

pretty smart on my part/, i kill, therefore i am; / i aint marching anymore,/ my life, & love me, im a liberal - all by phil ochs

rjs is a burton resident formerly poet and publisher of Ground Zero et al., currently an ad hoc economist.

Jack Mc Guane

Don't Smoke in  Bed.

Recorded in 1947 by Peggy Lee.


Jack Mc Guane moved from Valley Stream, N.Y., finally to Lakewood Ohio in 1974.

Elise Geither

Bob Welch and Stevie Nicks – Ebony Eyes LIVE! At Cal Jam 1978. Truly amazing!

Elise Geither is a poet and playwrite in suburbia Cleve.

Steve Goldberg

1. We Will Rock You- Queen
2. Imagine-John Lennon
3. Three Steps-Lynyrd Skynyrd
4. More Than A Feeling-Boston
5. Under The Bridge- Red Hot Chili Peppers
6. Only The Good Die Young-Billy Joel
7. Let’s Go Crazy-Prince
8. Comfortably Numb-Pink Floyd
9. Your Song-Elton John
10. Born To Run-Bruce Springsteen
11. Pink Houses-John Cougar Mellencamp
12. Fire and Rain-James Taylor

13. Tainted Love-Soft Cell
14. Orange Crush-REM
15. Changes-David Bowie
16. Jumping Jack Flash-Rolling Stones
17. Brown Eyed Girl-Van Morrison
18. Rock and Roll-Led Zeppelin
19. Baba O’Riley-Who
20. Staying Alive- Bee Gees
21. Blitzkrieg Bop-Ramones
22. Twist and Shout-Beatles
23. Stir It up-Bob Marley
24. Love The One You’re With-Crosby Still and Nash
25. Layla-Derek and the Dominos
26. Roxanne-Police
27. He Went to Paris-Jimmy Buffett
28. Brown Sugar-Rolling Stones

29. Hit Me With Your Best Shot-Pat Benetar
30. Barracuda-Heart
31. Dancing Queen-Abba
32. Hallelujah-Leonard Cohen
33. Dream On-Aerosmith
34. Should I Stay or Should I Go-Clash
35. Celebration- Kool and the Gang
36. Hoochie Coochie Man- Muddy Waters
37. California Dreamin-Mamas and the Papas
38. Shout-Isley Brothers
39. What I Like About You-Romantics
40. While My Guitar Gently Weeps-Beatles
41. Proud Mary-Creedance Clearwater Revival
42. Respect-Aretha Franklin
43. Pretty Woman-Roy Orbison
44. Lean On Me-Bill Withers

45. One Way or Another- Blondie
46. Because the Night- Patti Smith
47. Good Lovin-Rascals
48. I Love Rock and Roll-Joan Jett
49. Personal Jesus- Depeche Mode
50. My Sweet Lord-George Harrison

Steve Goldberg is a Dilbert dungeon escapee and a Cleveland bodhisattva wannabe launched into a new experiment in neo-beat bohemianism and his favorite color is plaid.

Alex Gildzen

to list

for me

is

to live

but

to make

a list

of favorite songs

wd be too long

so let me

pull one

from my boyhood:

"Tonight You Belong To Me"

(1956)

by Cleveland's own

Tracey Twins

Alex Gildzen
Santa Fe

("one concise sentence":

altho never my address

Cleveland is bundl'd in my bones.) 

Geoffrey Landis

Yes, "Ritual" ("Nous Sommes Du Soleil")
Warren Zevon, "My Ride's Here"
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakovov, "Scheherazade"
Edvard Grieg, "Peer Gynt"
Joan Baez, "Diamonds And Rust"
Winton Marsalis, "Standard Time"
Kitaro, "Kojiki"
Al Stewart, "On the Border"
Vangelis, "Chariots of Fire"
The Motor Pokers, "Surf the North Coast"
Squid Vicious, "At War with the Whale"
Brent Lewis, "The Primative Truth"
Ennio Morricone, theme for "The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly"
Jefferson Airplane, "Blows Against the Empire"

Geoffrey Landis is a science-fiction writer, a poet, and a scientist.

Mary E. Weems

My Funny Valentine, Miles Davis

What's Going On?, Marvin Gaye

Imagine, The Beatles

Kiss, Prince

Who's Loving You?, Michael Jackson

A Song for You, Donny Hathaway

That Rainy Day, Phyllis Hyman

Stairway to Heaven, The O'Jays

Dance with My Father, Luther Van Dross

At Last, Etta James

Say It Loud, I'm Black and I'm Proud, James Brown

Mary E. Weems is a prolific poet, playwrite and literary professor in Cleveland Heights.

Steven B. Smith

Miles Runs the Voodoo Down - Miles Davis 

Everybody Knows - Leonard Cohen

The Tennessee Waltz - Patty Page

Blender Blues - Bonnie Raitt

Desolation Row - Bob Dylan

God Bless The Child - Billy Holiday

Handy Man - Ethel Walters

Evil Gal Blues - Dinah Washington

Blue Train - John Coltrane

Feel So Bad - Elvis Presley

Kentucky - The Everly Brothers

Summertime - Ella Fitzgerald

The  Peter Gunn Theme - Henry Mancini and Duane Eddy both

Moanin' - Charles Mingus

Skies of America - Ornette Coleman

"I came to Cleveland 33 years ago for another man's wife, then found one of my own," Steven B. Smith