Top 5 Favorite Songs by [_________]
 

A couple of years ago we had a "5 Favorite Bob Dylan Songs" thread that went on for awhile. It afforded a lot of depth for people wanting to expand their Dylan collections.

What I have in mind here is putting down your 5 favorite songs for any good singer or band. I'm constantly looking for new music to add to my mp3 collection, so this could be a way for all of us to share. Let's find some sleepers...

BOB DYLAN
1. Lay Lady Lay - 1969, Nashville Skyline
2. Tangled Up in Blue - 1975, Blood on the Tracks
3. You're a Big Girl Now - 1975, Blood on the Tracks
4. Most of the Time - 1989, Oh Mercy
5. Like a Rolling Stone - 1965, Highway 61 Revisited

VAN MORRISON
1. And It Stoned Me - 1970, Moondance
2. Into the Mystic - 1970, Moondance
3. Bright Side of the Road - 1979, Into the Music
4. Meet Me in the Indian Summer - 2002, Down the Road
5. Madame George - 1968, Astral Weeks

JACKSON BROWNE
1. The Pretender - 1976, The Pretender
2. Late for the Sky - 1974, Late for the Sky
3. Jamaica Say You Will - 1972, Jackson Browne
4. Doctor My Eyes - 1972, Jackson Browne
5. From Silver Lake - 1972, Jackson Browne

STEELY DAN
1. Reelin' in the Years - 1972, Can't Buy a Thrill
2. FM - 1978, FM Soundtrack
3. Deacon Blues - 1977, Aja
4. Peg - 1977, Aja
5. Dirty Work - 1972, Can't Buy a Thrill

TALKING HEADS
1. And She Was - 1985, Little Creatures
2. Take Me to the River - 1978, More Songs About Buildings and Food
3. Once in a Lifetime 1980, Remain in Light
4. This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody) - 1983, Speaking in Tongues
5. Road to Nowhere - 1985, Little Creatures

WARREN ZEVON
1. Lawyers, Guns & Money - 1978, Excitable Boy
2. Accidentally Like a Martyr - 1978,Excitable Boy
3. Werewolves of London - 1978, Excitable Boy
4. Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner - 1978, Excitable Boy
5. Keep Me in Your Heart - 2003, The Wind

DWIGHT YOAKAM
1. Guitars, Cadillacs - 1986, Guitars, Cadillacs, etc., etc.
2. A Thousand Miles from Nowhere - 1993, This Time
3. Fast as You - 1993, This Time
4. Ain't That Lonely Yet - 1993, This Time
5. Turn It On, Turn It Up, Turn Me Loose - 1990, If There Was a Way

CHRIS ISAAK
1. Graduation Day - 1995, Forever Blue
2. Somebody's Crying - 1995, Forever Blue
3. I Wonder - 1996 - Baja Sessions
4. Only the Lonely - 1996, Baja Sessions
5. San Francisco Days - 1993, San Francisco Days

OK, that's it for now.

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Savatage
Believe
If I Go Away
St. Patrick's
When the Crowds Are Gone
One Child

Megadeth
My Last Words
In My Darkest Hour
Poison Was the Cure
Die Dead Enough
She Wolf

Anthrax
I Am the Law
Got the Time
Antisocial
Indians
Starting Up a Posse

Johnny Cash
I've Been Everywhere
Don't Take Your Guns To Town
Thirteen
Hurt
Give My Love to Rose

Slayer
Angel of Death
War Ensemble
Dead Skin Mask
Hell Awaits
Addict

Shadows Fall
The Idiot Box
What Drives the Weak
The Power of I and I
Eternity is Within
Suffer the Season

ManOwaR
Fight Until We Die
The Dawn of Battle
The Demon's Whip
Blood of the Kings
Swords Into the Wind

HammerFall
Glory to the Brave
The Dragon Lies Bleeding
Heeding the Call
At the End of the Rainbow
Angel of Mercy

Green Day
Brain Stew
Longview
FOD
When I Come Around
Time of Your Life

Alice Cooper
Be With You Awhile
Billion Dollar Babies
I Just Wanna Be God
Be My Lover
Halo of Flies

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Van Morrison
1. Keep mediocrity at bay
2. Moondance ( I know it's too simple, but let's be honest it's sexy.
3. Sweet thing
4. These dreams of you
5. Wild Honey

Dylan- (picking five Dylan songs is about the hardest thing a person can do)
1. Buckets of rain
2. Desolation Row
3. Ballad of a thin man
4. Leopard skin pill box hat
5. I want you.

Pavement-
1. Range Life
2. Grounded
3. Kennel District
4. Cut your hair
5. Unfair

Beatles- ( I'm just a little bit of a George fan )
1. While my guitar gently weeps
2. Taxman
3. Something
4. Eleanor Rigby
5. And your bird can sing

Rolling Stones-
1. Paint it black
2. Back Street girl
3. Moonlight Mile
4. Till the next goodbye
5. Street fighting man

Red Hot Chili Peppers
1. Give it away
2. Sir Pyscho Sexy
3. Mothers Milk
4. My Friends
5. Velvet Glove

Neil Young
1. Harvest
2. Alabama
3. Only Love Can Break Your Heart
4. Birds
5. Cinnamon Girl

Cat Stevens
1. Father and Son
2. Morning has broken
3. Trouble
4. The Wind
5. Can't keep it in

Public Enemy-
1. Louder than a bomb
2. Prophets of rage
3. Fight the power
4. Welcome to the terrordome
5. Shut em down

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The Rolling Stones
1. Let It Bleed
2. Dead Flowers
3. Country Honk
4. It's Only Rock and Roll
5. Some Girls


Todd Snider
1. Vinyl records
2. Doublewide Blues
3. Tillamook County Jail
4. Conservative Christian Right Wing.......American Male
5. East Nashville Skyline

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So is my brother - he's a huge Harrison fan.

And Your Bird Can Sing - good song (Lennon hated it)

I can't say these are my TOP 5 FAVORITES; but they are good songs that I have been listening to as of late...

David Gilmour

There's No Way Out Of Here
Mihalis
Murder
Cry From The Street
Until We Sleep

Deep Purple

Woman From Tokyo
Pictures Of Home
Strange Kind Of Woman
Mary Long
Knocking At Your Back Door

Clapton

After Midnight
Blues Power
Let It Rain
Let It Grow
Badge

Uriah Heep (an acquired taste ;) )

Gypsy
Come Away Melinda
Lady In Black
The Wizard
Look At Yourself

John Lennon

Instant Karma
#9 Dream
Jealous Guy
Love
Woman

Guess Who (only 4)

Share The Land
American Woman
No Time
No Sugar Tonight

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Frank Sinatra:
In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning
There Used To Be A Ballpark Here
One For My Baby (And One For The Road)
Send In The Clowns
What'll I Do

Johnny Cash:
I Still Miss Someone
Hurt
Ring Of Fire
I Walk The Line
Sunday Morning Coming Down

The Beatles:
In My Life
I Feel Fine
Something
Yesterday
Back In The USSR

Martina McBride:
Independence Day
My Baby Loves Me
Til I Can Make It On My Own
Cry On The Shoulder Of The Road
How Far

Brad Paisley:
When I Get Where I'm Goin'
Whiskey Lullaby
Alcohol
Celebrity
He Didn't Have To Be

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The Beatles (Hard to keep it to 5)
Yesterday
You've Really Got A hold On Me
Nowhere man
I Should've Known Better
While My Guitar Gently Weeps

The Stones
Honky Tonk Woman
Mothers Little Helper
Gimme Shelter
Beast of Burden
Ruby Tuesday

Sinatra
The Way You Look Tonight
Fly Me To The Moon
You Make Me feel so Young
It Happened in Monterey
Summer Wind

Bob Seger
Katmandu
Still The same
Sunspot Baby
Beautiful Loser
Rock & Roll Never Forgets

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AC/DC

Riff-Raff
Can I Sit Next to You Girl
Problem Child
Whole Lotta Rosie
Highway to Hell


Black Sabbath

Into the Void
Tomorrow's Dream
Planet Caravan
War Pigs
National Acrobat

Beach Boys

Don't Worry Baby
Little Deuce Coupe
Wouldn't It Be Nice
Pet Sounds
Good Vibrations

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Replacements

Can't Hardly Wait
Someone Take the Wheel
Darlin One
Unsatisfied
Left of the Dial

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The Kinks

Arthur
Do you remember Walter?
Rock n Roll Fantasy
Apeman
Death of a Clown

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Camper Van Beethoven

All her favorite Fruit
Abundance
Sad Lovers Waltz
Seven Languages
She Divines Water

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Weezer

Simple Pages
The Sweater Song
We are all on Drugs
Crab
Say it ain't so

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Cheap Trick

Auf Wiedersehan
Taxman
Southern Girls
The Flame
Come on Come On

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Guided By Voices

A Salty Salute
Motor Away
Striped White Jets
The Official Ironman Rally Song
Cut-Out Witch

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I mostly listen to Christian Music now, but back in the day I had some other influences, so mine will be quite the mixed bag:


Aerosmith
Let The Music Do The Talking
Sweet Emotion
Jaded
Rag Doll
The Other Side

Dokken
Alone Again
The Hunter
In My Dreams
Walk Away
Turn On The Action

Guardian (Christain Rock Band)
Shoeshine Johnny
Endless Summer
Are You Gonna' Keep Your Word
Lion's Den
Like The Sun

Steven Curtis Chapman
This Day
Live Out Loud
The Great Adventure
Magnificent Obsession
King Of The Jungle

And my all-time favorite CCM group:

4HIM
A Man You Could Write About
Psalm 112
The Message
Can't Get Past The Evidence
Basics Of Life.

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I'm usually wary of "favorites" lists because I always feel bad leaving things out, but I like these others and I'm killing time so I'll give it a shot.

Radiohead
1. Subterranean Homesick Alien
2. Meeting in the Aisle
3. You and Whose Army?
4. Bulletproof
5. How to Disappear Completely

Supergrass
1. Eon
2. Mansize Rooster
3. Late in the Day
4. Sun Hits the Sky
5. Low C (one of my favorite videos ever also)
(oh wow...I was just overcome with love for Supergrass. I forget what a great band they are.)

Otis Redding
1. I've Been Loving You Too Long
2. Chained and Bound
3. You Don't Miss Your Water
4. Try a Little Tenderness
5. I Love You More Than Words Can Say

Led Zeppelin
1. Ten Years Gone
2. Going to California
3. What Is and What Should Never Be
4. Ramble On
5. The Rain Song

Zombies
1. This Will Be Our Year
2. Tell Her No
3. She Does Everything For Me
4. You Make Me Feel So Good
5. Care of Cell 44

Blur
1. Country Sad Ballad Man
2. Blue Jeans
3. This Is A Low
4. Parklife
5. Trimm Trabb

The Kinks
1. Tired of Waiting for You
2. No Return
3. Who'll Be the Next in Line
4. Love Me Till the Sun Shines
5. Mr. Pleasant
6. Everybody's Gonna Be Happy (I cheated)

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blink-182
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damnit
waggy
i miss you
a new hope
party song

pink floyd
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dogs
wish you were here
have a cigar
time
money


greenday
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the grouch
christie road
good riddance
welcome to paradise
redundant


sinatra
--------
fly me to the moon
summertime
almost like being in love
the way you look tonight
summer wind

just a few

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AC/DC
1. Ride On
2. Riff Raff
3. Let There Be Rock
4. Baby Please Don't Go
5. The Jack

Led Zeppelin
1. Trampled Underfoot
2. Dancing Days
3. The Ocean
4. Whole Lotta Love
5. Stairway To Heaven

The Yardbirds
1. For Your Love
2. Train Kept A-Rollin
3. Baby Please Don't Go
4. Under, Over, Sideways, Down
5. Shapes Of Things

Franz Ferdinand
1. Take Me Out
2. The Outsiders
3. Tell Her Tonight
4. This Fffire
5. What You Ment

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Rolling Stones

Sway
Jigsaw Puzzle
Monkey Man
Can't You Hear Me Knocking
Tumblin' Dice

The Kinks

Johnny Thunder
Muswell Hillbilly
David Watts
Oklahoma, USA
Big Sky

Roxy Music

Just Another High
End of the Line
Virginia Plain
The Bogus Man
Mother of Pearl

David Bowie

Fantastic Voyage
Station to Station
Heroes
Width of a Circle
Quicksand

Pavement

Fillmore Jive
Father to a Sister of Thought
Summer Babe
Debris Slide
Half a Canyon

Neil Young

Tired Eyes
Cortez the Killer
Ambulance Blues
Cowgirl in the Sand
Winterlong

Will Oldham

Horses
West Palm Beach
New Partner
Lift Us Up
I See a Darkness

Pere Ubu

Caligari's Mirror
Navvy
Non-Alignment Pact
Final Solution
Make Hay

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Here's a couple ...

Counting Crows
Anna Begins
Colorblind
Mr. Jones
Mrs. Potter's Lullaby
Round Here

Led Zeppelin
Achilles Last Stand
Stairway to Heaven
D'Yer Mak'er
Fool in the Rain
Dazed and Confused

Pearl Jam
Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town
Indifference
Jeremy
Yellow Ledbetter
Better Man

Matt Nathanson
Curve of the Earth
I Saw
Pretty the World
Bare
Answering Machine

Linkin Park
My December
Numb
Breaking the Habit
Easier to Run
Crawling

Pink Floyd
Shine on You Crazy Diamond (all parts)
Another Brick in the Wall (Pt. 1)/The Happiest Days of Our Lives/Another Brick in the Wall (Pt. 2)
Welcome to the Machine
Wish You Were Here
Comfortably Numb