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