Your 30 Favorite Songs. EVER.

[ryan8472]

Out of boredom, a friend and I were doing this tonight, to see what our 30 faves were for all time. If you think it's impossible, dont try. But there's a limit to one song per artist. I couldn't put them in an actual order, because I think I'd cry, so I just put it alphabetically, because that's what iTunes did. Randomly is cool too.

1. The Beatles - Let It Be
2. Blondie - Rapture
3. Bon Jovi - Runaway
4. David Gilmour - On An Island
5. Death Cab For Cutie - Soul Meets Body
6. Dire Straits - Sultans of Swing
7. The Eagles - Hotel California
8. Fleetwood Mac - Gypsy
9. Genesis - Abacab
10. The Go-Go's - Our Lips Are Sealed
11. Guns N' Roses - Paradise City
12. The Killers - Mr. Brightside
13. Led Zeppelin - Kashmir
14. Madonna - Ray of Light
15. No Doubt - Don't Speak
16. Paul McCartney - Maybe I'm Amazed
17. Peter Gabriel - In Your Eyes
18. Phil Collins - In The Air Tonight
19. Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
20. The Police - Message In A Bottle
21. The Pretenders - My City Was Gone
22. Rilo Kiley - I Never
23. Snow Patrol - Run
24. Stevie Nicks - Stop Draggin' My Heart Around
25. Taking Back Sunday - Cute Without the E
26. Talking Heads - This Must Be The Place
27. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - I Won't Back Down
28. U2 - Where The Streets Have No Name
29. Whitney Houston - How Will I Know
30. The Who - Baba O'Riley

[HomerMcvie]

FM - Think About Me
Bob Wills- Bubbles in my Beer
David & David - Welcome to the Boomtown
Hank Williams, Sr - My Bucket's Got a Hole in it
Journey - Don't Stop Believin'
Son Volt - Tear Stained Eye
John Stewart - Gold
Freddy Fender - Until the Last Teardrop Falls
Christine McVie - Friend
Eagles - The Last Resort
BR5-49 - Cherokee Boogie
Led Zep - Trampled Under Foot
Buck Owens - Cryin' Time
Johnny Cash - Jackson
Bob Welch - Sentimental Lady
Ernest Tubb - Walking the Floor Over You
Diamond Rio - Kentucky Mine
Booker T and the MG's - Green Onions
Hall and Oates - She's Gone
Ink Spots - If I Cared a Little Bit Less
John Hiatt - Memphis in the Meantime
Lindsey Buckingham - Johnny Stew
Gene Watson - Farewell Party
Don (I'm a douchbag) Henley - Talkin' to the Moon
George Jones - White Lightnin'
Webb Pierce - There Stands the Glass
Robert Plant - Big Log
Lefty Frizell - Always Late
Johnny Russell - Rednecks, White Socks, and Blue Ribbon Beer
Stevie Nicks- The Highwayman

[macmar71]

1) Fleetwood Mac~Hold Me
2) James Blunt~You're Beautiful
3) The Eagles~Take It To The Limit
4) Gavin DeGraw~Follow Through
5) Thin Lizzy~The Boys Are Back In Town
6) Grand Funk~Locomotion
7) Lindsey Buckingham~Holiday Road
8) Stevie Nicks~I Sing For The Things
9) Van Halen~Summer Nights
10) Led Zeppelin~Heartbreaker/Livin' Lovin' Maid
11) Heart~How Can I Refuse
12) The Motels~Total Control
13) Sammy Hagar~Remote Love
14) Journey~Don't Stop Believin'
15) Pink Floyd~High Hopes
16) Tom Petty~Free Fallin'
17) Queen~Somebody To Love
18) Bonnie Tyler~Total Eclipse Of The Heart
19) JD Souther~ Go Ahead And Rain
20) The Bee Gees~How Deep Is Your Love
21) Christine McVie~Who's Dreaming This Dream
22) John Stewart~Runaway Fool Of Love
23) The Who~Baba O'Reilly
24) STYX~Show Me The Way
25) Arcangel~Tragedy
26) Tesla~Love Song
27) Survivor~Can't Hold Back
28) Night Ranger~(You Can Still) Rock In America
29) Def Leppard~Photograph
30) 38 Special~ The Sound Of Your Voice

[michelle2677]

Omg are you f*cking kidding me?! Ok. I'll try to have something by this afternoon

[HejiraNYC]

In no particular order...

1. "No Easy Way Down" - Dusty Springfield
2. "Night of the Swallow" - Kate Bush
3. "Stay" - David Bowie
4. "Silver Springs" - Fleetwood Mac
5. "South End on Sea" - Mark Eitzel
6. "For a Dancer" - Linda Ronstadt/Emmylou Harris
7. "Rodeo Girl" - Rickie Lee Jones
8. "I Met a Man" - Toni Childs
9. "Don't Give Up" - Peter Gabriel
10. "Innuendo" - Queen
11. "Galileo" - Indigo Girls
12. "Insider" - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
13. "Ask Anybody" - Christine McVie
14. "What Holds the World Together" - American Music Club
15. "Heart of Stone" - Cher
16. "Evergreen" - Barbra Streisand
17. "Green Eyes" - Erykah Badhu
18. "Hejira" - Joni Mitchell
19. "Across the Universe" - Beatles
20. "Goodnight Saigon" - Billy Joel
21. "Edge of Seventeen" - Stevie Nicks
22. "We're So Close" - Carly Simon
23. "I Don't Want to Lose You" - The Smithereens
24. "When We" - Mary J. Blige
25. "Bound by the Beauty" - Jane Siberry
26. "Landed" - Ben Folds
27. "Go or Go Ahead" - Rufus Wainwright
28. "Candyman" - Siouxsie and the Banshees
29. "I Need the Rain" - Heart
30. "If Anybody Had a Heart" - Dionne Warwick

[shackin'up]

Nick Lowe –I love the sound of breaking glass
Lindsey Buckingham- Shut Us Down
Fleetwood Mac- I know I’m Not Wrong
Led Zeppelin- Thank You
Buffalo Tom- Summer
Cold Water Flat- Magnetic North Pole
Dada- Disneyland
Talking Heads - Road To Nowhere
Royal Trux- You’re gonna Lose
Screaming Trees- Dollar Bill
Drivin’ n Cryin’- Indians
dEUS- Suds and soda
Buckingham Nicks- Frozen Love
Temple Of The Dog- Hungerstrike
Breeders- Cannonball
Stevie Nicks- Highwayman
Stone Roses- Love Spreads
Walkabouts& Mark Lanegan- Going Home
REM- Everybody Hurts
U2-bad
Fischer-Z- So Long
School Of Fish- Three Strange Days
Iggy & The Stooges- No Fun
Peter Gabriel- Biko
Rush- Tom Sawyer
AC/DC- She’s got the Jack
Counting Crows- Long December
Mothers’ Finest- Like A Negro
Kate Bush- The Dreaming
Boudewijn de Groot- Jimmy

BTW: Limewire this. Should be one HELL of a compilation.

[shackin'up]

Originally Posted by macmar71

1) Fleetwood Mac~Hold Me


8) Fleetwood Mac~Seven Wonders


21) Fleetwood Mac~Why

one song per artist?

[danax6]

Originally Posted by shackin'up

Buckingham Nicks- Frozen Love
REM- Everybody Hurts
U2-bad
Fischer-Z- So Long
Peter Gabriel- Biko
Boudewijn de Groot- Jimmy

These would rank very high on my list also, great taste. I'm still debating whether to rank Marliese higher than So Long though, both great songs...

Since the Top 2000 I've been working on my own Top 100. It's slow in coming, because it's so tough.

[DeadliestPoison]

Here's mine. Mostly in order, although once I got past 11 it got really hard. :\

1. Emilie Autumn - Shalott
2. Imogen Heap - Hide & Seek
3. Aimee Mann - Stupid Thing
4. Nelly Furtado - Explode
5. Tilly & the Wall - Bad Education
6. The Pretenders - The Wait
7. Neko Case - Deep Red Bells
8. Poe - Haunted
9. The Good Life - Inmates
10. Rilo Kiley - A Town Called Luckey
11. Margot & the Nuclear So and So's - Quiet As A Mouse
12. Blondie - Rapture
13. Siouxsie & the Banshees - Israel
14. Tori Amos - i i e e e
15. Beth Gibbons - Funny Time Of Year
16. Fiona Apple - Criminal
17. Sonic Youth - The Diamond Sea
18. The Creatures - Killing Time
19. Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton - Doctor Blind
20. Frou Frou - Let Go
21. Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)
22. Garbage - Medication
23. Patti Smith - My Blakean Year
24. Portishead - Cowboys
25. Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins - You Are What You Love
26. Massive Attack - Teardrop
27. The New Pornographers - Stacked Crooked
28. Regina Spektor - Samson
29. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Way Out
30. Mazzy Star - Fade Into You

[shackin'up]

Originally Posted by DeadliestPoison

Here's mine. Mostly in order, although once I got past 11 it got really hard. :\

No matches with mine, but still, compliments on a great taste!

isn't that weird?

[ryan8472]

Here's the other 30 that I had to part with the first time, and it killed me.


Get Back - The Beatles
Angels On The Balcony - Blondie
Rock The Casbah - The Clash
In My Place - Coldplay
Pictures of You - The Cure
Time After Time - Cyndi Lauper
Land of Confusion - Genesis
Slide - Goo Goo Dolls
Touch of Grey - The Grateful Dead
Call and Return - hellogoodbye
You Are What You Love - Jenny Lewis with The Watson Twins
The Middle - Jimmy Eat World
Somebody Told Me - The Killers
Stairway To Heaven - Led Zeppelin
Material Girl - Madonna
Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
Every Breath You Take - The Police
Middle Of The Road - The Pretenders
It's The End of the World As We Know It - R.E.M.
Spice Up Your Life - Spice Girls
Your Ex-Lover Is Dead - Stars
Existentialism on Prom Night - Straylight Run
Once In A Lifetime - Talking Heads
Semi-Charmed Life - Third Eye Blind
Bad Education - Tilly & The Wall
Refugee - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Beautiful Day - U2
The Difference - The Wallflowers
You Better You Bet - The Who
Sharp Dressed Man - ZZ Top

[hayley]

Only the first six are in order. And I couldn't narrow it. So I have 37

(1) Last Goodbye- Jeff Buckley
(2)Always On My Mind- Elvis or Willie's. Both awesome.
(3)I Still Miss Someone- Johnny Cash
(4) Tangerine- Led Zeppelin
(5) Strange Condition- Pete Yorn
(6) You Got To Me- Neil Diamond
Come Pick Me Up- Ryan Adams
Dice- Finley Quaye
Invisible Ink- Aimee Mann
Walls- Tom Petty
Fake Plastic Trees- Radiohead
You Send Me- Sam Cooke
Metal Firecracker- Lucinda Williams
If I Could Write- Sam Phillips
Still I Long For Your Kiss- Lucinda Williams
Thirteen- Big Star
Whole Wide World- Wreckless Eric
Romeo's Tune- Steve Forbert
Magnet & Steel- Walter Egan (& Matthew Sweet's.)
Get Back- The Beatles
Slip Away- David Bowie
Late At Night- Buffalo Tom
A Long December- Counting Crows
Chelsea- Counting Crows
Enjoy The Silence- Depeche Mode
Wide Open Spaces- Dixie Chicks
Caught By the River- Doves
You Don't Have To Say You Love Me- Dusty Springfield
A Girl Like You- Edwyn Collins
Rose Parade- Elliott Smith
Wicked Little Town- Hedwig
If I Could Talk I'd Tell You- Lemonheads
The Boat That I Row- Lulu
Halah- Mazzy Star
There Is A Light That Never Goes Out- The Smiths
Twist The Knife- Neko Case
Time Will Do The Talking- Patty Griffin

[wondergirl9847]

Okay....here ya go. Today's choices. The only one in order is #1.

1. I'm So Afraid - Fleetwood Mac
2. She's Gotta Be - Keith Urban
3. I've Been Losing You - a-ha
4. Sharayah - Amy Grant
5. Into the Night - Benny Mardones
6. Supernatural - DC Talk
7. Here You Come Again - Dolly Parton
8. Over You - Gary Puckett and the Union Gap
9. Liquid - Jars of Clay
10. Midnight Wind - John Stewart
11. Night and Day - Justin Guarini
12. Doing What I Can - Lindsey Buckingham
13. Ashton - Michael W. Smith
14. Randy Scouse Git - The Monkees
15. All That Glitters - Nouveaux
16. Any Day Now - Ronnie Milsap
17. Edge of 17 - Stevie Nicks
18. Everybody Wants to Rule the World - Tears for Fears
19. I Will - Alison Krauss and Tony Furtado
20. Morningstar - Whiteheart
21. Funny Feeling - New Kids on the Block
22. Amarillo by Morning - George Strait
23. Neon - John Mayer
24. Separate Ways - Journey
25. Keep Me Hangin' On - Kim Wilde
26. La Isla Bonita - Madonna
27. California Dreamin' - Mamas and the Papas
28. And So It Goes - Midnight Voices
29. Feeling Good - Michael Bublé
30. High Hopes - Pink Floyd

[chiliD]

Top 5 in order...beyond that, in no particular order and subject to change on a whim...and also EXTREMELY limited by the "One per artist" rule.

1) Oh Well - Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac
2) In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed - The Allman Brothers Band
3) La Grange - ZZ Top
4) Layla - Derek & The Dominoes
5) Crossroads - Cream
6) Get Back - The Beatles
7) Honky Tonk Women - The Rolling Stones
8) Sparrows - Orbit Service
9) Take Five - Dave Brubeck Quartet
10) Glad/Freedom Rider - Traffic
11) Do What You Like - Blind Faith
12) Real World - Peter Green Splinter Group
13) Cold, Cold, Cold/Dixie Chicken/Tripe Face Boogie(medley) - Little Feat
14) Peggy Sue - Buddy Holly
15) Bermuda Triangle - Bob Welch
16) I'll Never Leave This Love Alive - Rick Vito
17) When This War Is Over - JJ Cale
18) Forever Man - Eric Clapton
19) Magic Bus - The Who
20) So What - Miles Davis Quintet
21) Black Magic Woman/Gypsy Queen - Santana
22) Go Your Own Way - Fleetwood Mac
23) This Is Love - George Harrison
24) Silvio - Bob Dylan
25) I Worry Too Much - Buddy Miller Band
26) Magic Mirror - Leon Russell
27) Dance Along The Edge - Concrete Blonde
28) Don't Look Down - Lindsey Buckingham
29) Save A Horse (Ride A Cowboy) - Big & Rich
30) The Supernatural - John Mayall's Bluesbreakers

Bubbling under:

Franklin's Tower/Help Is On The Way - The Grateful Dead
Don't Go Where The Road Don't Go - Ringo Starr
Rock & Roll - Led Zeppelin
Happy Xmas/War Is Over - John & Yoko
This One - Paul McCartney
I Can Tell - Danny Kirwan
New Day Yesterday - Jethro Tull
Flee - Jeremy Spencer Band
Maybe Love Will Change Your Mind - Stevie Nicks
Not Alone Anymore - Traveling Wilburys
Fight (No Matter How Long It Takes) - The Bunburys
I Must Be In Love - The Rutles
Pretzel Logic - Steely Dan
Long Train Running - The Doobie Brothers
Suds In The Bucket - Sara Evans
Suzie Q - Creedence Clearwater Revival
No Matter What - Badfinger
Little Wing - Jimi Hendrix Experience
Them Changes - Buddy Miles
Superstition - Stevie Wonder
More Than This - Roxy Music
The Smile I Live For - Christine McVie
To Get Next To You - Billy Burnette
Angel Come Home - Mick Fleetwood's Zoo
I See You - The Byrds
Mr. Soul - Buffalo Springfield
Suite: Judy Blue Eyes - CSN
Run For Your Life - The Pair Extraordinaire

[ryan8472]

Yeah, we originally decided to make it one song per artist because our lists ended up having like, 8 songs by U2 and 6 songs by The Pretenders, etc..., and that just makes the list boring.

So I guess it should say, one song per artist, unless you're SO torn that you have to have multiple songs or else you'll have an aneurysm.