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[arisha]

OKAY EVERYONE

I KNOW I ASK THIS QUESTION LIKE EVERY YEAR BUT I'M ASKING IT AGAIN

I WANT TO KNOW YOUR TOP TEN FAVOURITE DISNEY SONGS!!

I'm limiting myself to just the animated movies, and one song per movie (and I'm leaving out "That's How You Know" because I already talked about it today) but you don't have to if you think a certain movie's soundtrack is vastly superior. xD

10. "One of Us," The Lion King 2: Simba's Pride

This is one of those movies where I listen to the soundtrack more than I watch the actual movie, lol. I think a lot of the songs were taken from the Broadway musical, but I don't remember whether or not this one was.

9. "I Wanna Be Like You," The Jungle Book

I have a secret love for The Jungle Book. x)

8. "Once Upon a Dream," Sleeping Beauty

Sleeping Beauty is here to represent the old guard! I dislike the way Philip comes in all HEY LET ME MACK ON YOU, but this song is such a Disney classic. x)

7. "Portobello Road," Bedknobs and Broomsticks

The first comment on this video: "so he's really pimpin Portobello road out to her, then they show up and he talks shit to EVERYBODY." Oh my god, I am dying. xDDD

(This song goes on forever, with a huge dance break in the middle. Mainly I just like the parts where they're singing.)

Also: I have heard Bedknobs and Broomsticks referred to as a lesser Mary Poppins, but HATERS TO THE LEFT because I have always liked Bedknobs and Broomsticks better.

6. "Prince Ali (Reprise)," Aladdin

"Friend Like Me" and "Prince Ali" are AWESOME live, while I've never seen this one quite work. (Seriously, stop staging this song with people just standing around!) But in the movie it's my favourite.

5. "Hellfire," The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Who else remembers watching this movie for the first time and not understanding 100% what this song was about? Believe it or not, I used to be even more naive than I am now! xD

4. "A Star is Born," Hercules

Why yes, my favourite song from Hercules is indeed the song that plays over the end credits. xD;

Also: when the California Adventure Aladdin show ended, I was really really hoping that it would be replaced with a Hercules show, because could you imagine how awesome that would be?? But silly me, I forgot how Disney likes to pretend that Hercules doesn't exist. :/

3. "Worthless," The Brave Little Toaster

I love the instrumentals in this song. And like everything else about this song. Brave Little Toaster is only kinda sorta Disney but I had to sneak it in here because it is amazing!

I spent all of Cars waiting for a reference to this song and I never ever got one. :|

2. "Son of Man," Tarzan

This song just makes me really happy, I dunno why. x)

1. "Poor Unfortunate Souls," The Little Mermaid

I've already rambled and rambled about this song and its pure awesomeness on previous occasions, so I guess I'll spare you this time. ;)

I would say I'm sorry for posting twice in one evening about essentially the same thing, but ... I'm not. :D

Comments

[frauleinfrog.livejournal.com]

Okay, yeah, not so good with the names, and also not in order. Hopefully I can think of ten! Here we go:

1. I'll Make a Man out of You, Mulan- because there can be no more awesome song, and I love how men are mysterious~ (Heck yeah, actually borrowing Chinese culture!)

2. Once Upon a Dream (which I totally want to call "I know you"), Sleeping Beauty- my sister and I sing this to each other all the time, lovelovelove it.

3. Hercules!, Hercules- or whatever the song is called where they're all like, "Who put the glad in Gladiator? Hercules ... Is he sweet? OUR FAVORITE FLAVOR!" Aaaah, I love it, with the wordplay and the corporate sell-out.

4. Cinderelly, Cinderella- Umm, this was my favorite movie for a while. So I sing stuff from it a lot.

5. You ain't never had a friend like me, Aladdin- Cuz I'm a sucker for cheerful things~

6. The part with the bubbles from Cinderella- I might be getting off track here, but I always loved that song and would get really mad at the cat when he tromped through and interrupted her.

7. Be Our Guest, Beauty and the Beast- Because how do you not?

8. Bear Necessities, the Jungle Book- I also love "I wanna be like you" and the Beatles Vultures' song, but this one is definitely the best. ^^

9. "Everybody Wants to be a Cat" & "O'Malley the Alley Cat", the Aristocats- Because a square with a horn can make you wish you weren't born everytime he plays~ ;&hearts Jazz. & Tom O'Malley

10. Dalmation Plantation, the 101 Dalmations- We'll have a dalmation plantation, where all our dalmations can roam~

There are more (like I would like to be able to join in on the Fox & the Hound, which I loved for a while, but I haven't seen it in so long I don't remember the song. >.> Though I remember their voices!), but this is the list I thought of first, so it's what you're getting.

Omigosh, I had no understanding of that song, really, when I first saw Hunchback. I remember not liking the movie that much though, and things like that song were a big part of that.

[frauleinfrog.livejournal.com]

Upon reading the lists of others, possibly Cinderella was humming "A dream is a wish your heart makes" (which is another of my favorite songs from that movie, possibly #1, if only I had a memory with which to remember that)?

Also, oh man, Mary Poppins!

[arisha.livejournal.com]

Nope, you were correct in thinking it's its own song. :)



"Sing Sweet Nightingale" is definitely my favourite from Cinderella. <3 After hearing it for the first time, Walt Disney is supposed to have asked why they ever hired multiple people to sing harmonies, when just one person works just as well! lol xD

[frauleinfrog.livejournal.com]

There we go! Hello, my pretty~ *pets song*

Also, that's an awesome story! XD

[arisha.livejournal.com]

1. Is that actually from Chinese culture? Because I'd been wondering about that for a while! "Mysterious as the dark side of the moon" is totally my favourite line from that song, lol.

3. "Zero to Hero"! xD That song is so fantastic. It's the main reason I want to see a Hercules stage show, I feel like that could be such a flashy and fun number.

(Oh my gosh, I am watching this song on YouTube right now and the comments are killing me: "herculade? They really had commercialism in ancient greece?" "of course , al those naked man statues were to promote shorts." hahahaha!!)

... OH MY GOD I think I just realized that "what's a Grecian urn" is a pun. O_O I HAVE BEEN LISTENING TO THIS SONG ON A REGULAR BASIS FOR THE PAST THIRTEEN YEARS, WHAT IS THIS!!!

AND GOOGLE SEEMS TO INDICATE THAT THIS IS A COMMON PUN.

OH MY GOD. IS THIS WHAT IT FEELS LIKE TO BE athena_crikey???

Moving on!!

7. Because that song gets stuck in my head and never leaves! D: D: D:

8. Ooooh I know, I had to think about it quite seriously before I chose "Wanna Be Like You" over the vultures' song. I think their part of the movie was actually my favourite part when I was a kid.

And I know, it's so hard to choose just ten. xD

[athena-crikey.livejournal.com]

;_;

[arisha.livejournal.com]

DID YOU KNOW THAT WAS A PUN????

[athena-crikey.livejournal.com]

I DID WHEN YOU WROTE IT DOWN... AND POINTED IT OUT... I don't remember if I did or not in the song. Probably not.

[aurora-lime.livejournal.com]

A pun? Either I miss it, or I'm missing the context.

[arisha.livejournal.com]

Now nouveau riche and famous
He could tell you what's a Grecian earn

I SERIOUSLY NEVER EVER HEARD IT THAT WAY BEFORE

[frauleinfrog.livejournal.com]

This thread is amazing~

[frauleinfrog.livejournal.com]

1. I feel like it really is- I can't point to a specific point when I learned that it was, but the idea of men as being the mysterious ones, instead of women... yeah. ^^

3. OH MY GOD. IS THIS WHAT IT FEELS LIKE TO BE athena_crikey??? Ahahahaha, omigosh. XD I'm pretty sure it must be! Although I had a similar feeling the day I realized that Diagon Ally was a pun on diagonally. ^^;

7. I never had that problem, probably because I can only ever remember the first, like, two lines. :DDDD

8. I admit that I loved Bagheera and Baloo the best (in the movie, anyway- my actual real favorite is Rikki-tikki-tavi; real Jungle Book ftw!)

Seriously! Now that my memory has been sparked, I wish I had added "A Dream is a Wish the Heart Makes" instead of... something else. XD