Glory to God

If there's anything better than this / I'd like to know …

"Glory and the Dream," Vigilantes of Love
"Glory Days," Bruce Springsteen
"Gloryhound," da
"Go Away Little Boy," Lone Justice
"Go Down Easy," Over the Rhine
"God Bless the Child," Billie Holiday
"God Give Me Strength," Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach
"God Is Watching You," Leslie Phillips
"God Only Knows," The Beach Boys
"God Only Knows," Claudine Longet
"God Went Bowling," The Swirling Eddies
"God's Gonna Cut You Down," Johnny Cash

"Go Down Easy" is Exhibit A for why nobody does languid and sultry better than Over the Rhine. "Gloryhound" ought to be the Keyboard Kommandos Fight Song ("Strap down, secure the weekend warrior / To his T.V. seat, some kind of gloryhound / A flack jacket yuppie in a camouflage jeep"). The Johnny Cash track is from his final album, "American V: A Hundred Highways." If Cash had lived to record "American VI," I'd love to have heard it include the Leslie Phillips song above. It was the final cut on her final "CCM" record — the last thing she had to say to the Christian ghetto in Nashvegas before changing her name and leaving for Star's Hollow.

In comments below, let me know what I'm missing in this alphabetical range. (Or feel free to suggest other tracks you wish Johnny Cash had recorded for "American VI.")