Top 10 Songs Of All Time

[David]

(excluding folk songs)

1. Yesterdays (Jerome Kern, Otto Harbach)
2. After the Ball (Charles Harris)
3. Lush Life (Billy Strayhorn)
4. Easy Living (Leo Robin, Ralph Rainger)
5. God Bless' the Child (Billie Holiday, Arthur Herzog)
6. After You've Gone (Henry Creamer, Turner Layton)
7. Poor Butterfly (John Golden, Raymond Hubbell)
8. Winter Moon (Hoagy Carmichael, Harold Adamson)
9. The Days of Wine & Roses (Henry Mancini, Johnny Mercer)
10. Laura (David Raksin, Johnny Mercer)

[thepoetinmyhear]

er---- You win! :shrug:

Are you suggesting we all list are 10 favorite songs? Is this from an article? Is this like that episode of cheers where CLiff was on Jeopardy and the real answer is:

What are 10 songs I have never heard?

:confused: :confused:

[Johnny Stew]

What, no Partridge Family?

[David]

er---- You win! :shrug:

Are you suggesting we all list are 10 favorite songs? Is this from an article? Is this like that episode of cheers where CLiff was on Jeopardy and the real answer is:

What are 10 songs I have never heard?

:confused: :confused:Just pick your Top 10 Songs Of All Time! I chose mine, now it's your turn!

[David]

What, no Partridge Family?
"Echo Valley 2-6809" was No. 12 on the list, & "Rainmaker" was No. 19!

[chiliD]

DISCLAIMER: #2-10 could change at any time...these are as of this moment.

1) Oh Well - Fleetwood Mac
2) And Your Bird Can Sing - The Beatles
3) In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed - Allman Bros Band
4) La Grange - ZZ Top
5) Sunshine Of Your Love - Cream
6) Honky Tonk Women - The Rolling Stones
7) Glad/Freedom Rider - Traffic
8 ) Get Back - The Beatles
9) Love Train - Big & Rich
10) So What - Miles Davis

[skcin]

In no order. And I went over. Too bad :p .

The Chain - Mac
Edge of 17 - Stevie
Let's Stay Together - Al Green
In My Life - Beatles
Take It To the Limit - Eagles
Unchained Melody - Righteous Brothers
Suspicious Minds - Elvis
Reflections - Supremes
American Pie - Don McLean
Maybe I'm Amazed - Paul McCartney (or is it Wings?)
Where Would You Be? - Martina McBride
Sister Golden Hair - America
Total Eclipse of the Heart - Bonnie Tyler
Change of Heart - Cyndi Lauper
Son of a Preacher Man - Dusty Springfield

[Moony]

this is the hardest question EVER. ....Give me two days to think :laugh:

[GateandGarden]

I have a tendency to change my mind, particularly because my musical tastes have altered dramatically since the hell that was high school (which was a mere four years ago :eek: ), but here goes...(and I do include folk songs)

Beatles- "There's a Place"
Fleetwood Mac- "Sara"
Ani DiFranco- "She Says"
Donna Lewis "Falling"
REM- "Nightswimming"
Toad the Wet Sprocket- "All I Want"
Celine Dion- "Les Derniers Seront Les Premiers"
Kim Richey- "That's Exactly What I Mean"
Sting- "Mad About You"
Carly Simon- "Anticipation"

...And that is by no means my final answer

[dissention]

this is the hardest question EVER. ....Give me two days to think :laugh:

No way. Asking for a list of top ten favorite movies is what I call the hardest question EVER. Perhaps someone should start that thread so that I can list 110. :laugh:

[estranged4life]

time of day it is my list may (And does) change:

1.Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence-Dream Theater (The whole enchilada, all 42 minutes)
2.Estranged-Guns N Roses
3.Something-The Beatles
4.Bad-U2
5.With or Without You-U2
6.My Hometown-Bruce Springsteen
7.Storms-Fleetwood Mac
8.Mission Motherland-Helloween
9.Kite-U2
10.Military Man-Gary Moore w/Phil Lynott

[ryan8472]

My list is always changing...

Money For Nothing, by Dire Straits
Baba O'Riley, by The Who
Layla, by Derek & The Dominoes
Gold Dust Woman, by Fleetwood Mac
Once In A Lifetime, by Talking Heads
Brass In Pocket, by The Pretenders
Get Back, by The Beatles
Sultans Of Swing, by Dire Straits
Pride (in the name of love), by U2
Stand Back, by Stevie Nicks

[wondergirl9847]

This is freakin' impossible.....no order, except the first two (I'd spontaneously combust. LOL) and top ten is not in my vocabulary. :laugh:

ISA - FM
Red Rover - FM
I Will - Alison Krauss and Union Station
I've Been Losing You - A-Ha
Sharayah - Amy Grant
Supernatural - DC Talk
Here You Come Again - Dolly Parton
The Chain - Mirage video version
Liquid - Jars of Clay
Midnight Wind - John Stewart
You (or Somebody Like You) - Keith Urban
Who Wouldn't Wanna Be Me - Keith Urban
She's Gotta Be - Keith Urban

Doing What I Can - Lindsey
Go Insane - Lindsey
Soul Drifter - Lindsey
Surrender the Rain - Lindsey
Peacekeeper (solo) - Lindsey
Shadow of the West - Lindsey
Time Bomb Town - Lindsey

Sesly, I cannot do this. LOL I'd rather have a root canal. :shocked:

[NaiveMelody23]

o dear lol..well here i go

1. Naive Melody- Talking Heads
2. Disinteregration- The Cure
3. Ask- The Smiths
4. Blackout- David Bowie
5. Walking with a Ghost- Tegan & Sara
6. Very Loud- Shout out Louds
7. Equus- Blonde Redhead
8. Obstacle 1 & 2- Interpol
9. Emerge- Fischerspooner
10. Mother- Tori Amos
11. Funeral for a Friend- Elton John
12. The Ledge- Fleetwood Mac
13. Do the Coackroach- Modest Mouse
14. Nieghborhood 3- Arcade Fore
15. Speed Trials- Elliot Smith
16. Kick it- Peaches
17. Clementine- The Decembrists
18. I'm a Cuckoo- Belle and Sebastian
19. Hyperballad- Bjork
20. Here come the Warm Jets- Brian Eno

I listed 20 sorry, but they always change except for the first five

[xdreamsunwindx]

1) U2 - Bad
2) The Pretenders - Mystery Achievement
3) The Counting Crowes - A Long December
4) No Doubt - Just a Girl
5) The Kinks - Celluloid Heroes
6) Fleetwood Mac - I'm So Afraid
8) Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - Walls (Circus)
9) Siouxsie and the Banshees - Turn to Stone
10) Blondie - Accidents Never Happen
11) Gin Blossoms - Follow You Down
12) Garbage - A Stroke of Luck
13) Patti Smith - Gloria
14) Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah
15) The Black Crows - She Talks to Angels
16) Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Y Control
17) Blind Mellon - No Rain
18) Simple Minds - Don't You (Forget About Me)
19) Portishead - Roads
20) The Cure - Just Like Heaven

Oops, that was 20. There's a ton more, but eh. Too lazy.

[NaiveMelody23]

I have to add these

Sioxsie and the Banshees- Arabian Nights
Yeah Yeah Yeahs- Man
Smashing Pumpkins- Ava Adore

[xdreamsunwindx]

I have to add these

Sioxsie and the Banshees- Arabian Nights
Yeah Yeah Yeahs- Man
Smashing Pumpkins- Ava Adore

What about Go Insane? :shrug:

[NaiveMelody23]

What about Go Insane? :shrug:

What about it? lol

[GateandGarden]

I Will - Alison Krauss and Union StationI love their cover! Her voice is beautiful on this song. :nod:

[xdreamsunwindx]

What about it? lol

I thought you were like. "GoInsanesomenumbers" on Burnish? Or am I getting you confused with someone else? I'm old and senile.

[ryan8472]

I'm old and senile.
That made me squeak out loud, then laugh. :lol: :lol: :lol:

[xdreamsunwindx]

Kate, you're 15.

Well, I'm still senile. Or am I just special?

[xdreamsunwindx]

So special. <3

Look at my icon plz.

[dissention]

In no particular order and because I can't do just ten:

1. Tonight Tonight- Smashing Pumpkins
2. Soda and A Souvenir- Bette Midler
3. Sunday- David Bowie
4. Night Wind Sent- Blondie
5. Let the River Run- Carly Simon
6. Queer- Garbage
7. Twisted- Annie Ross
8. Get Up and Use Me- The Fire Engines
9. Frankenstein- Aimee Mann
10. Sweet Transvestite- Richard O'Brien (from Rocky Horror)
11. Girls- Tina Turner
12. I Have Seen It All- Bjork
13. Something Stupid- Robbie Williams and Nicole Kidman
14. Come On Home- Franz Ferdinand
15. Come Rain Or Come Shine- Judy Garland
16. Sing As We Go- Gracie Fields
17. Precious- The Pretenders
18. Lush Life- Nat King Cole (or Queen Latifah)
19. When Love Comes By- Deborah Harry
20. Wild Thing- The Troggs

[NaiveMelody23]

Look at my icon plz.

That was me.

A logn time ago when i was a jerk and all, but it really isnt my favorite song lol

[dissention]

I love their cover! Her voice is beautiful on this song. :nod:

I really like the song she did for Cold Mountain and I *love* the song she did with Emmylou Harris (who I adore) for O Brother Where Art Thou.

[cliffdweller]

Rhiannon/Silver Springs/Dreams/The Chain/Go Your Own Way- F.M.
East Hastings-Godspeed You Black Emperor
Barracuda/Battle of Evermore (live)-Heart
Babe I'm Gonna Leave You-Led Zep
Tumbling Dice- Rolling Stones
Suffragette City/Rock and Roll Suicide/I'm Afraid of Americans -David Bowie
Get Ready for Love- Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Promises in the Dark- Pat Benatar
Cinnamon Girl-Neil Young
Because the Night- Patti Smith
American Girl- Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

okay, so I went over.

[David]

Well, I like everybody's list thus far & I have learned a lot. My list is the best, however. I notice most of you have stuck to the modern rock era, which creates a narrow purview into the window of the soul, whilst simultaneously generating a hyperstylized rubric of encomious yet maladaptive plenitude.

How come nobody voted for the theme from "High Noon": "Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darlin' "?

[hayley]

Well, I like everybody's list thus far & I have learned a lot. My list is the best, however. I notice most of you have stuck to the modern rock era, which creates a narrow purview into the window of the soul, whilst simultaneously generating a hyperstylized rubric of encomious yet maladaptive plenitude.
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'm just sayin'.

[GateandGarden]

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'm just sayin'.:lol::lol::lol::lol:

[David]

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]

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

McJob. HA! :laugh:

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

[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. :sorry:

[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]

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. :xoxo: I agree, it's like, a perfect song. :nod: 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 :o
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. :laugh:

[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