Re: Your Top 10 All-Time favorite songs
Bennie and the Jets &
Come Down in Time-Elton John
Dirty Water-The Standells
Deacon Blues-Steely Dan
Take Me to the River-Talking Heads
Ain't Nobody-Chaka Khan
While My Guitar Gently Weeps-Beatles
Moondance-Van Morrison
Reasons-Earth, Wind, and Fire
A House is not a Home-Luther Vandross
Re: Your Top 10 All-Time favorite songs
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blumj
Bennie and the Jets &
Come Down in Time-Elton John
Dirty Water-The Standells
Deacon Blues-Steely Dan
Take Me to the River-Talking Heads
Ain't Nobody-Chaka Khan
While My Guitar Gently Weeps-Beatles
Moondance-Van Morrison
Reasons-Earth, Wind, and Fire
A House is not a Home-Luther Vandross
I completely forgot to include any Steely Dan. Not sure how that happened.
Re: Your Top 10 All-Time favorite songs
Here are the top 10 songs I neglected to add to to the first list and can think about right now...
1. Brain Damage/Eclipse - Pink Floyd
2. Any Major Dude will tell you - Steely Dan
3. Dog eat Dog - De la Soul
4. Ashes of American Flags - Wilco
5. Panic - The Smiths
6. Rock n Roll - Velvet Underground
7. Harry Hood - Phish
8 - All her favorite fruit - Camper van Beethoven
9 - I would for you - Janes Addiction
10- Campaigner -Neil Young
Re: Your Top 10 All-Time favorite songs
I missed so many, how did I do a favorite songs list without Steve Winwood's Arc Of a Diver, Seal's Crazy, Simon & Garfunkel's America, U2's Beautiful Day, Chicago's Beginnings, Santana's Smooth, or either version of Superstar? Okay, I really can't stay up all night.
Re: Your Top 10 All-Time favorite songs
1. The Rolling Stones, "You Can't Always Get What You Want"
2. The Clash, "Rock the Casbah"
3. Matthew Sweet, "Sick of Myself"
4. Beatles, "In My Life"
5. Big Star, "September Gurls"
6. Neil Young, "Heart of Gold"
7. The Decemberists, "We Both Go Down Together"
8. Soul Coughing, "Screenwriter's Blues"
9. Everclear, "Fire Maple Song"
10. Leonard Cohen, "Everybody Knows"
A few more:
Tripping Daisy, "Sonic Bloom"
Crowded House, "Distant Sun"
Doobie Brothers, "Long Train Runnin'"
The Smithereens, "Blood & Roses"
Heart, "Barracuda"
Pet Shop Boys & Dusty Springfield, "What Have I Done to Deserve This?"
Led Zeppelin, "Immigrant Song"
Weezer, "The World Has Turned and Left Me Here"
The Who, "Baba O'Riley"
The Jam, "Going Underground"
Jayhawks, "Blue"
John Lennon, "Instant Karma (We All Shine On)"
New Radicals, "You Get What You Give"
Spoon, "Everything Hits at Once"
Nada Surf, "Blonde on Blonde"
Ratt, "Round and Round"
The Pogues, "Thousands are Sailing"
Replacements, "Bastards of Young"
Maxwell, "Ascension (Don't Ever Wonder)"
The National, "Secret Meeting"
Midlake, "Head Home"
Duran Duran, "Hungry Like the Wolf"
Firewater, "Bourbon and Division"
Guillemots, "Trains to Brazil"
Oh, and "Ice Ice Baby". The only song I know all the words to.
Surprising how "classic" my tastes look when I have to throw away all the genre conventions and narrow things to just ten. Ergo the cheating.
Re: Your Top 10 All-Time favorite songs
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vaticanplum
If you're persistent and just slightly irritating, they let you have 15.
I need 50, and a AAA set.
Re: Your Top 10 All-Time favorite songs
This is just about impossible.
1. Sitting on the Dock of the Bay - Otis Redding
2. Crazy - Patsy Cline
3. Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd
4. Up on the Roof - Drifters
5. Trust in me - Etta James
6. If I had a Boat or She's no Lady - Lyle Lovett
7. At Last - Etta James
8. Moondance - Van Morrison
9. ......... my mind just went blank and I need to get back to work - TeamCasey ;)
Re: Your Top 10 All-Time favorite songs
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Roy Tucker
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
:thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: That was my number 1 too!
Re: Your Top 10 All-Time favorite songs
all songs that have deep meaning to me, and/or i never get tired of, and/or illicit the same reaction everytime i hear them.
"Believe" - Savatage (Streets: A Rock Opera)
"Chance" - Savatage (Hanful of Rain)
"The Pierced Spirit/Dante's Inferno" - Iced Earth (Burnt Offerings)
"Ghost in the Ruins" - Savatage (Streets: A Rock Opera)
"Don't Cry (alt. lyrics)" - Guns N' Roses (Use Your Illusion II)
"Swords in the Wind" - ManOwaR (Warriors of the World)
"Sleep" - Savatage (Edge of Thorns)
"Dead Winter Dead" - Savatage (Dead Winter Dead)
"Be With You Awhile" - Alice Cooper (The Eyes of Alice Cooper)
"Hook in Mouth" - Megadeth (So Far, So Good...So What?!)
Re: Your Top 10 All-Time favorite songs
Here's another 10 from me: (Mellow Days)
Simon and Garfunkel - America
Black Crowes - Thorn in My Pride
Jackson Browne - Call It A Loan
Harry Chapin - Cat's in the Cradle
Sam Cooke - Chain Gang
Neil Young - Old Man
Paul Simon - Boy in the Bubble
Pure Prairie League - Amie
Wyclef Jean - Gone Til November
Sophie B. Hawkins - As I Lay Me Down to Sleep
Re: Your Top 10 All-Time favorite songs
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vaticanplum
If you're persistent and just slightly irritating, they let you have 15.
Slightly? :p:
Re: Your Top 10 All-Time favorite songs
Great thread! Very tough though....
1) Def Leppard - "Pour Some Sugar On Me"
2) Metallica - all of it, but especially "One" and "Orion"
3) Beethoven - "Egmont Overture".....all of his music is unbelievable
4) Fleetwood Mac - "Gold Dust Woman"
5) Guns 'N' Roses - "Welcome To The Jungle"....(who dey!!) :)
6) Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg - "Nuthin' But a G Thang"
7) U2 - "Bad", "One"
8) The Who - "Baby O'Reily"
9) Michael Jackson - "Billy Jean"
10) Elton John - "Rocket Man"
Re: Your Top 10 All-Time favorite songs
My list goes to 11 cause it's one louder.
In no particular order:
Cocaine Blues - George Thorogood
Mannish Boy - Muddy Waters (From Hard Again)
Jeeps' Blues - Duke Ellngton Orchestra
Hit the Road, Jack - Ray Charles
Jackson - Lucinda Williams
Sweet Dreams (Of You) - Patsy Cline
Crossroads - Cream
Our Town - Iris DeMent
Scenes From An Italian Restaurant - Billy Joel
Thunder Road - Bruce Springsteen
Feels Like Rain - John Hiatt
Re: Your Top 10 All-Time favorite songs
This is a tough one. As many have already said, this is a very fluid list and these are the first 10 I thought of.
Hey Hey What Can I Do - Led Zep
Kashmir - Led Zep
Confortably Numb - Pink Floyd
Evenflow - PJ
State of Love and Trust - PJ
Porch - PJ
Welcome to the Terrordome - Public Enemy
Some Might Say - Oasis
Would? - Alice in Chains
Boyz in the Hood - Eazy E
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GAC
Eleanor Rigby - Beatles
Subdivisons - Rush
I almost listed both of these, but went with Let It Be and Limelight instead.
Subdivisions is a truly ace song--and particularly poignant to anyone who grew up in the 'burbs.