Top 10 Songs Of All Time

[David]

Originally Posted by hayley

Someday, you're going to be reaching up to that high shelf for your thesaurus, and it's going to fall and THWACK you on the head and it will hurt.

I don't use a thesaurus -- that's why my sentences don't make sense! I apply a Lindsey aesthetic: I use the words for their abstract sound. Except in a post like this one, where I want meaning.

I can't recommend any good thesauruses (thesauri?), but I can recommend some good reference books:

Wilson Follett's "Modern American Usage" (1965)
Bryan Garner's "Oxford Dictionary of American Usage & Style" (1989)
Sir Ernest Gowers's "Plain Words/The Complete Plain Words" (1965)

I have these three & I really do recommend them highly. Wilson Follett, Jacques Barzun, Bryan Garner & Ernest Gowers are four of my heroes.

[hayley]

Those sound nice enough, but unless they have entries for "McJob" and "jiggy," I totally don't care. Dig it?

[The Tower]

"Company" - Rickie Lee Jones
"Blue" - Joni Mitchell
"Love's Recovery" - Indigo Girls
"Happy, the End" - The Innocence Mission
"Ten Years Gone" - Led Zeppelin
"Gypsy" - Fleetwood Mac
"Sisters of the Moon" - Fleetwood Mac
"Dream On" - Aerosmith
"Fogtown" - Michelle Shocked
"Welcome Me" - Indigo Girls

This completely excludes anything from the jazz/standards era. They are completely different eras and I can't compare them.

[cliffdweller]

Originally Posted by hayley

Those sound nice enough, but unless they have entries for "McJob" and "jiggy," I totally don't care. Dig it?

McJob. HA!

How about this useage: I'm getting jiggy with my McJob. No? Oh well, I tried.

[CreepingDeath]

In no particular order & excluding FM/SN/LB-

Master of Puppets- Metallica
Creeping Death- Metallica
One- Metallica
A Day in the Life- The Beatles
No Quarter- Led Zeppelin
The Battle of Evermore- Led Zeppelin
Black Sabbath- Black Sabbath
Children of the Grave- Black Sabbath
The Sign of the Southern Cross- Black Sabbath
Holy Wars...The Punishment Due- Megadeth
Hallowed Be Thy Name- Iron Maiden
The Trooper- Iron Maiden
Bullet The Blue Sky- U2
Sunday Bloody Sunday- U2
November Rain- Guns n' Roses
Estranged- Guns n' Roses
Cemetary Gates- Pantera
Seasons of Wither- Aerosmith
Head Like A Hole- NIN
Aenima- Tool

That was actually 20.

[AliP]

Very Hard. My list changes somewhat from time to time, but the following usually remain constant. In no particular order...(excluding FM/SN/LB songs)

Dock of the Bay (Otis Redding)
Suspicious Minds (Elvis)
Graceland (Paul Simon)
Blackbird (The Beatles)
Walls (Circus) (Tom Petty)
Total Eclipse of the Heart (Bonnie Tyler)
Dreamers on the Rise (John Stewart)
The Promise (When in Rome)
Down Under (Men at Work)
I'm on Fire (Bruce Springsteen)


Honorable Mentions:
I Want to Break Free (Queen)
Still the Same (Bob Seger)
Coming Around Again (Carly Simon)
Truth No. 2 (Dixie Chicks)
The Lonesome Picker (John Stewart)
In My Life (The Beatles)

[amber]

Originally Posted by AliP

Very Hard. My list changes somewhat from time to time, but the following usually remain constant. In no particular order...(excluding FM/SN/LB songs)

Dock of the Bay (Otis Redding)
Suspicious Minds (Elvis)
Graceland (Paul Simon)
Blackbird (The Beatles)
Walls (Circus) (Tom Petty)
Total Eclipse of the Heart (Bonnie Tyler)
Dreamers on the Rise (John Stewart)
The Promise (When in Rome)
Down Under (Men at Work)
I'm on Fire (Bruce Springsteen)


Honorable Mentions:
I Want to Break Free (Queen)
Still the Same (Bob Seger)
Coming Around Again (Carly Simon)
Truth No. 2 (Dixie Chicks)
The Lonesome Picker (John Stewart)
In My Life (The Beatles)

I love you, that you put Down Under on your list. I agree, it's like, a perfect song. And any mention of graceland is awesome. I love that whole album, so much.

[Moony]

Ok, so this was difficult as all hell, and I'm sure I'm forgetting some...and they're definitely not in order.

Sleeping Angel, Edge of Seventeen by Stevie
Why by Annie Lennox
Georgia On My Mind by Ray Charles
Like a Prayer by Madonna
Sunday Morning by No Doubt
Wonderwall by Oasis
At My Most Beautiful by REM
Why, Storms, Beautiful Child, The Chain, Gyspy by Fleetwood Mac
A Time to Be So Small, Leif Erickson by Interpol
Mojo Pin, Hallelujah by Jeff Buckely
Go or Go Ahead by Rufus Wainwright
Hurt by Johnny Cash
Lightning Crashes by Live
Always Be My Baby by Mariah Carey
Asleep by the Smiths
Hey Jupiter by Tori Amos
Burning Love by Elvis Presely
Here Comes The Rain Again by Eurythmics
Come What May by Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman
Change Is Gonna Come by Sam Cooke
Unchained Melody by the Righteous Brothers
Oh My Sweet Carlonia, Desire by Ryan Adams
Across the Universe by the Beatles
Son of a Preacher Man by Dusty Springfield
Brick by Ben Folds Five
Pride (In the Name of Love), Bad, MLK, Sunday Bloody Sunday, New Years Day, One, Walk On, All I Want Is You, Where the Streets Have No Name, With Or Without You, One Tree Hill, Stories for Boys by U2.

[Beachwood Mac]

I'll just eliminate any Fleetwood Mac or Stevie Nicks songs and go with some of my other favorites in no particular order.

You Gotta Sin to Get Saved - Maria McKee
Step Inside This House - Lyle Lovett
10,000 Miles - Mary Chapin Carpenter
What's the Matter Here - 10000 Maniacs
I Haven't Seen This Day Before - Innocence Mission
At My Most Beautiful - REM
Angel From Montgomery - Bonnie Raitt
Born To Run - Bruce Springsteen
Cowboy Romance - Natalie Merchant
Crying - Roy Orbison


terry

[FuzzyPlum]

Estranged- Guns n’ Roses
A Day in the Life- The Beatles
Street Spirit- Radiohead
Just the Way You Are- Billy Joel
Yellow Ledbetter- Pearl Jam
How Soon Is Now?- The Smiths
Watching the Wheels- John Lennon
Sunday Bloody Sunday- U2
Freedom Suite- Young Disciples
World Leader Pretend- REM

Honourable mentions:
Don’t You (Forget About Me): Simple Minds, Comfortably Numb: Pink Floyd, Free Bird: Lynrd Skynyrd, Union City Blue: Blondie, The Diary of Horace Wimp: ELO

[~*BellaDonna*~]

(Current favorites it always changes.)

In no particular order:
Train In Vain - The Clash
Cypress Avenue - Van Morrison
Everyday - Slade
Time Of Season - The Zombies
Touch Me - The Doors
Heros - David Bowie
Surrender - Cheap Trick
In The Flesh - Blondie
Walk Away - James Gang
Somebody To Love - Jefferson Airplane