Your Top 10 All-Time favorite songs
This might have been done on here before, but I'm doing it again.
List your Top 10 all-time favorite songs. Not songs by your ten favorite bands, or ten songs by your favorite band, but 10 songs that if those were the only 10 songs you could hear again, you'd pick these 10. They can be songs that whenever you hear the first note, it brings a smile to your face, or immediately makes you want to start singing along. A song that immediately removes you from where you are and makes you think back to another time. No restrictions apply. These are, at this time, your 10 favorite songs of all time.
Mine (in no particular order - and I'm not doing the random numbering thing for effect):
Men Without Hats - Pop Goes the World
The Beach Boys - God Only Knows
Fort Minor - Where'd You Go
Grateful Dead - Box of Rain
Beastie Boys - She's Crafty
Men At Work - Overkill
Temple of the Dog - Hunger Strike
Annie Lennox - Why
Johnny Cash - It Ain't Me Babe
Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees
Just missing the cut: Like a Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan; I'm Bad - LL Cool J; Running on Empty - Jackson Browne; Hard Knock Life - Jay Z.
That's my list right now. It's changed over the years, but those are my 10 favorite right now. Yours?
Re: Your Top 10 All-Time favorite songs
No particular order
Guns N Roses - Sweet Child of Mine
Dusty Springfield - Son of a Preacher Man
Soft Cell - Tainted Love
Pearl Jam - Daughter
Seven Mary Three - Cumbersome
Grandmaster Flash - The Message
Eminem - lose Yourself
Metallica - Turn the Page (cover of the Bob Segar song)
Metallica - One
Marilyn Manson - The Beautiful People
Just misses - Captain Jack by Billy Joel, a bunch of Bruce stuff, I'm Bad by LL Cool J, Walk this Way by Run DMC w/ Aerosmith, Fell on Black Days by Soundgarden, Rappers Delight by The Sugar Hill Gang
Re: Your Top 10 All-Time favorite songs
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Puffy
No particular order
Guns N Roses - Sweet Child of Mine
Dusty Springfield - Son of a Preacher Man
Soft Cell - Tainted Love
Pearl Jam - Daughter
Seven Mary Three - Cumbersome
Grandmaster Flash - The Message
Eminem - lose Yourself
Metallica - Turn the Page (cover of the Bob Segar song)
Metallica - One
Marilyn Manson - The Beautiful People
All very good selections, Puffy. All of them would have been in my Top 10 at one point in time. I wonder how much Bach and Beethoven we're going to see on RFS's list...
Re: Your Top 10 All-Time favorite songs
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Red Leader
I wonder how much Bach and Beethoven we're going to see on RFS's list...
Yeah, you tend to place people you've met and went to school with on your list.....
Re: Your Top 10 All-Time favorite songs
Blue Oyster Cult - Don't Fear the Reaper
Benny Mardones - Into the Night
Television - Marquee Moon
Elvis Costello- What's so funny 'bout Peace Love and Understanding
Thin Lizzy - Sitamoia
Thin Lizzy - Fighting
David Bowie - Diamond Dogs
Be Bop Deluxe - Life in the Air Age
Strawbs - Out in the Cold
Tom Cochrane - Life is a Highway
..and too many honorable mentions to mention....
Re: Your Top 10 All-Time favorite songs
Extremely tough.
These are 10 songs I can/have listened to 100's of times and could easily do a 100 more.
The La's- There She Goes
Beach Boys-Wouldn't it Be Nice
Peter Gabriel- Here Comes the Flood
The Beatles- Ticket to Ride
Oasis- Slide Away
Jerry Lee Lewis- Great Balls of Fire
Eric B and Rakim- Paid in Full
Rolling Stones- Midnight Mile
Blur- This is a Low
Matthew Sweet- We're the Same
Re: Your Top 10 All-Time favorite songs
way too many to list but here are the ones I can think of right now
Far Behind-Candlebox
Perfect Kiss, True Faith-New Order
New Year's Day, Sunday Bloody Sunday-U2
Just Another Day-Oingo Boingo
Black, Yellow Ledbetter-Pearl Jam
Save a Prayer-Duran Duran
Killer Queen-Queen
Operator-Jim Croce
Love Will Tear Us Apart-Joy Division
Beginnings-Chicago
Sound of Silence-Simon & Garfunkel
Horse With No Name-America
Solsbury Hill-Peter Gabriel
Re: Your Top 10 All-Time favorite songs
My Top 4 haven't changed in the past decade:
U2 - With or Without You
Soul Coughing - True Dreams of Wichita (A non-country song involving my hometown? What's not to love?)
1979 - Smashing Pumpkins
Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
Beyond those, the list becomes more fluid. Currently, it's something like this:
San Dimas High School Football Rules - The Ataris
The Boys of Summer - Don Henley
Don't Stop Believin' - Journey (Cheesy as hell, but I still get chills when I hear those opening piano chords)
Cute without the 'E' - Taking Back Sunday
Where Is My Mind? - The Pixies
Purple Rain - Prince
Re: Your Top 10 All-Time favorite songs
Tough, but off the top of my head(banger)...
Hallowed Be Thy Name - Iron Maiden
Beyond the Realms of Death - Judas Priest
Orion - Metallica
Mouth For War - Pantera
In My Darkest Hour - Megadeth
Dead Skin Mask - Slayer
Stairway To Heaven - Led Zeppelin
Crazy Train - Ozzy Osbourne
War Pigs - Black Sabbath
Free Bird - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Re: Your Top 10 All-Time favorite songs
I'm sure my list is a buit fluid also, but these 10 probabaly will be in it more often than not. For most I cannot even explain why I like them, just that I do!
"Presents to Send You" - Jimmy Buffett
"Only You" - as performed by Anne E DeChant
"Horseshoe Lake" - Todd Snider
"Coming Home" - Cinderella
"Champagne Don't Hurt Me Baby" - as performed by Jerry Jeff Walker
"Don't Worry Baby" - Beach Boys
"Write This Down" - George Strait
"I Hate Myself for Loving You" - Joan Jett
"Great Filling Station Holdup" - Jimmy Buffett
"Woman Going Crazy on Caroline Street" - Jimmy Buffett
"Watershed" - Indigo Girls
updated to include 2 which were inexlicably left off initially :
"Wish You Were Here" - Pink Floyd
"Friend of the Devil" - Greatful Dead
Re: Your Top 10 All-Time favorite songs
This is tough. I'm just going to pick 10 songs by the first 10 of my favorite performers that pop into my head right now.
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Brompton Oratory
The Clash - White Man in Hammersmith Palais
X - The Have Nots
They Might Be Giants - They'll Need A Crane
Ramones - Judy is a Punk
That's 5 already? Damn...
Bjork - It's Oh So Quiet
Liz Phair - Nashville
The Germs - Richie Dagger's Crime
The Aquabats! - The Thing on the Bass Amp
Man, I've got about 30 other things I want to put down, but we'll go with something still unrepresented...
Talib Kweli - Put it in the Air
Re: Your Top 10 All-Time favorite songs
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Johnny Footstool
Don't Stop Believin' - Journey (Cheesy as hell, but I still get chills when I hear those opening piano chords)
I could take or leave most of your list, but this is one great friggin' song.:beerme:
Re: Your Top 10 All-Time favorite songs
Hmmm ... well let's see here, in random order ...
Counting Crows - Anna Begins
Counting Crows - Mrs. Potter's Lullaby
Dave Matthews Band - #41
Dave Matthews Band - Grey Street
Fort Minor - Where'd You Go
Mat Kearney - All I Need
Led Zeppelin - Achilles Last Stand
Pearl Jam - Corduroy
Tupac Shakur - Starin' Through My Rearview (remix of Phil Collins' In the Air Tonight)
Tied:
Matt Nathanson - Curve of the Earth
Augustana - Boston
I had to cut out a bunch, but that's probably my Top 10 (or 11) right now.
BTW, "Anna Begins" by the Counting Crows is my all-time favorite song, especially the various live versions they've done.
Re: Your Top 10 All-Time favorite songs
Ahhh, this is impossible. I got up to about 1970 and already had 10 (and could easily made it 50). I could name 50 per decade.
Otis Redding - Sitting on the Dock of the Bay
Simon and Garfunkel - The Boxer
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Who'll Stop the Rain
James Taylor - Sweet Baby James
Beatles - Yesterday
Kinks - You Really Got Me
Beach Boys - Good Vibrations
Byrds - Turn, Turn, Turn
The Cyrkle - Red Rubber Ball
Beatles - Eleanor Rigby
Re: Your Top 10 All-Time favorite songs
In no particular order:
"I've Always Been Crazy" - Waylon Jennings
"The Race is On" - George Jones
"One Piece at a Time" - Johnny Cash
"Uncloudy Day" - Willie Nelson
"Bohemian Rhapsody" - Queen
"On The Turning Away" - Pink Floyd
"Lonesome Blues" - Shooter Jennings
"Kaw-Liga" - Hank Sr.
"I Think I'll Just Stay Here and Drink" - Merle Haggard
"The Chair" - George Strait