All time top ten songs

GlennCase · Post by **GlennCase** » Sun Apr 03, 2005 9:25 pm

Picking 10 seems impossible. It depends on my mood. I feel very drained at present, so here are the top 10 of the moment for me.

1. Paul Westerberg - Good day
2. The Knack - You can't put a price on love
3. Eels - Flower
4. Led Zeppelin - Ten Years Gone
5. Ellis Paul - Here she is
6. Dada - Crumble
7. Beatles - Dear Prudence
8. Lenny Kravitz - Circus
9. Steely Dan - Caves of Altamira
10. Fleetwood Mac - Over and over

These are songs I can listen to (or HAVE listened to) on repeat play for long periods of time without getting sick of them. I know I am forgetting other important ones that deserve to be listed above some of these that I mentioned.

While I haven't decided for sure, I think that I would like Paul Westerberg's "Good Day" to be performed at my funeral. Might change my mind on that too, though.

ROCK!

Glenn (DR FUNK)

nyjm · Post by **nyjm** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 3:43 pm

can't resist. besides, this gives me a good chance to flip through my music collection. in no particular order:

"untouchable face" - ani difranco; first ani song i ever heard, biggest impression, after many years and a sonic evolution, this is still one of my favorites.

"wish" - nine inch nails; another first, but this is what dynamic, in-your-face rock n' roll is all about.

"leather" - tori amos; not one of her best known, but a brilliant display of lyrical and musical harmony; catchy, too, which is unusual for tori

"breathe" - telepopmusik; a french electronica band that sings all in english; this is a song that just sucks you in with a lovely vocal and fabulous undulating rhythms.

"famous blue raincoat" - leonard cohen; this is everything i aspire to in my own songwriting: simple musical elegance and lyrical depth

"nightswimming" - r.e.m.; "automatic for the people" is hands down my favorite r.e.m. album, and there is something that i just connect with in this lovely meditation about the past.

"night on bald mountain" - modest musorgsky; nothing liek disney's "fantasia" to leave an impression; dynamic music that just sweeps you away.

"red bats with teeth" - angelo badalamenti; a song that builds from simple bass thrum to a sax solo to grind your teeth on. hard jazz at its best.

"my wild love" - the doors; all of jim's lyrical genius and a rhythm that will not get out of your head.

"so long frank lloyd wright" - simon and garfunkel; perhaps not the highlight of "bridge over troubled waters", but i love the way the vocal interweaves with the guitar in this tune. unexpected beauty: who would have ever thought something so captivating would come from a tune about an architect?

king_arthur · Post by **king_arthur** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 10:54 pm

This is probably more like "favorite song by each of ten favorite artists," but these are all way, way up there for me:

Scarlet Begonias - Grateful Dead
Gaucho - Steely Dan
Cherokee Louise - Joni Mitchell
For A Rocker - Jackson Browne
A Pirate Looks At Forty - Jimmy Buffett
I Hope I'll See You In Heaven - Larry Norman
Five Meanings of Love - Spanky & Our Gang
Days of Light - Roger Daltry
Tangled Up In Blue - Bob Dylan
Intro / Sweet Jane - Lou Reed

mkilly · Post by **mkilly** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 11:58 pm

I could probably use a Cure song on here, or David Bowie, or Doors, or Flaming Lips, or Pixies, or Radiohead, or Weezer, etc., etc., but this is a pretty good list of ten of my most favorite songs. (in no particular order.)

The Smiths - There Is a Light That Never Goes Out
Elton John - Rocket Man
Bob Dylan - Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
The Decemberists - Billy Liar
The Clientele - Saturday
Wilco - Jesus, Etc.
Rilo Kiley - More Adventurous
The Smashing Pumpkins - Drown
The Beatles - Across the Universe
Ben Folds - Fair

the idiot king · Post by **the idiot king** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 1:11 am

imagine- john lennon
motion picture soundtrack- radiohead
a day in the life- the beatles
to hell with good intentions- mclusky
disintegration- the cure
hurt- nine inch nails
hey ya!- outkast
vitamin c- can
heart-shaped box- nirvana
my father my king- mogwai

Thylacine 9 · Post by **Thylacine 9** » Tue May 17, 2005 12:48 am

random order ...

Wicked Game - Chris Isaak
Rejoyce - Jefferson Airplane
Surf's Up - Brian Wilson
Lucky - Radiohead
Us & Them - Floyd
Swing It Low - Morphine
Cross Bones Style - Cat Power
Stairway to Heaven - Led Zep
Every Breath You Take - The Police
Imagine - Lennon ...

Imagine was #1 for a long time but Wicked Game is just so *freakin'** awesome. Best guitar song of all time(?) Chris Isaak's voice is so great in that song. Love it, love it, love it.

Tonamel · Post by **Tonamel** » Tue May 17, 2005 9:42 am

In no particular order...

Radiohead - Let Down
Boards of Canada - Julie and Candy
The Seatbelts - Tank!
Zero 7 - Somersault
Aphex Twin - Flim
Devon - The Summer Isle
i, cactus - Bamboo Cactus
Mogwai - Sine Wave
The Orb - Little Fluffy Clouds
Squarepusher - Iambic 9 Poetry

Nut #2 · Post by **Nut #2** » Fri May 27, 2005 8:53 pm

Best ever. No particular order.

Iron Maiden - Hallowed Be Thy Name
The Police - Man in a Suitcase
Warren Zevon - Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner
Marillion - Warm Wet Circles
Guster - Demons
Led Zeppelin - Battle of Evermore
The Carpenters - Desperado (toss-up against Goodbye to Love)
Heart - Alone
Richard Shindell - The Things that I Have Seen
Pink Floyd - Dogs

-Nut #2

Rabid Garfunkel · Post by **Rabid Garfunkel** » Tue May 31, 2005 8:55 pm

nyjm wrote:"so long frank lloyd wright" - simon and garfunkel; perhaps not the highlight of "bridge over troubled waters", but i love the way the vocal interweaves with the guitar in this tune. unexpected beauty: who would have ever thought something so captivating would come from a tune about an architect?

That Art is/was/will pro'lly be again an architect might be a hint there