Your 30 Favorite Songs. EVER.

[markolas]

No order...

1. Hejira - Joni Mitchell
2. Why'd Ya Do It? - Marianne Faithfull
3. Rip Her to Shreds - Blondie
4. Lush Life - Nat King Cole
5. Fleurette Africaine - Duke Ellington
6. Angel Eyes - Frank Sinatra
7. Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair - Bessie Smith
8. Wichita Lineman - Glenn Campbell
9. Alison - Elvis Costello
10. I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry - Hank Williams
11. Jackson - Johnny Cash & June Carter Cash
12. Trouble Man - Marvin Gaye
13. My Favorite Things - John Coltrane
14. Better Git it in Your Soul - Charles Mingus
15. Cold Sweat - James Brown
16. My Funny Valentine - Chet Baker
17. So What - Miles Davis
18. Captain Bacardi - Antonio Carlos Jobim
19. Love Has No Pride - Bonnie Raitt
20. Silver Springs - Fleetwood Mac
21. Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding - Elton John
22. Good to Me As I Am to You - Aretha Franklin
23. Blue Bayou - Roy Orbison
24. I've Been Loving You Too Long - Otis Redding
25. Something Cool - June Christy
26. Let's Stay Together - Tina Turner
27. Song for My Father - Horace Silver
28. Donna Lee - Jaco Pastorius
29. I'm Glad There Is You - Sarah Vaughan
30. Lover Man - Billie Holiday

[gldstwmn]

Originally Posted by markolas

No order...

2. Why'd Ya Do It? - Marianne Faithfull

I like this song but I can't play it when the kiddies are around. It's dirtier than Prince in his sexy heyday.

[markolas]

Originally Posted by gldstwmn

I like this song but I can't play it when the kiddies are around. It's dirtier than Prince in his sexy heyday.

Well, she does reference her vagina about 5 different ways, so...yeah.

[Sorceress]

In no particular order:

1. October Project--Deep as You Go
2. Joni Mitchell--Case of You
3. Emmylou Harris--Boulder to Birmingham
4. Stevie Nicks--Bella Donna
5. Fleetwood Mac--Hold Me
6. Grateful Dead--St. Stephen
7. Sarah McLachlan--Possession
8. Tori Amos--Crucify
9. Indigo Girls--Closer to Fine
10. Simon and Garfunkle--America
11. Lucinda Williams--Essence
12. Gram Parsons w/ Emmylou--Love Hurts
13. The Cure--Just Like Heaven
14. Buckingham Nicks--Crystal
15. Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris--All that Matters
16. Van Morrison--Into the Mystic
17. Black Crowes--She Talks to Angels
18. Bob Marley and the Wailers--Redemption Song
19. Neil Young--Harvest Moon
20. Tom Petty--Insider
21. Lindsey Buckingham--Shut us Down
22. Rolling Stones--Faraway Eyes
23. 10,000 Maniacs--Trouble Me
24. Sinead O'Connor--In This Heart
25. Neil Young--Harvest Moon
26. U2--All I Want is You
27. Maria Mckee--If Love is a Red Dress
28. Erasure--Respect
29. Rosanne Cash--Dreams are Not My Home
30. Davie Bowie--Rock n Roll Suicide

That was a big challenge for me, considering my musical pattern is that I find a band or artist I like and never listen to anyone else for years. I had to reach WAY back for some of those...

[Wild_Heart03]

Originally Posted by JazmenFlowers

The Judds - Grandpa (Tell Me 'Bout the Good Old Days)

omg. I LOVE this song, it reminds me of when I was a little kid. I bought their Greatest Hits solely for it.

Considering music is pretty much my life and it would be difficult as hell to make a set list, I'll just have to go with whatever pops off the top of my head. In no particular order (except the first two)....

1. Stevie Nicks - If Anyone Falls
2. Fleetwood Mac - Gypsy/Little Lies (too close to call)
3. Depeche Mode- Shake The Disease
4. Duran Duran - Is There Something I Should Know?
5. Ace of Base - The Sign
6. Shawn Colvin - Sunny Came Home
7. Spice Girls - Say You'll Be There
8. Tears for Fears - Everybody Wants To Rule The World
9. Carly Simon - You're So Vain
10. Starship - Sara (shut up )
11. Madonna - Rain
12. New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle
13. Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls
14. The Human League - Human
15. Debbie Gibson - Electric Youth
16. Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse Of The Heart
17. Carole King - So Far Away
18. Yazoo - Bad Connection
19. Martika - Toy Soldiers
20. Bangles - Manic Monday
21. Reba McEntire - Cathy's Clown
22. Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time
23. Lisa Loeb - Stay (I Missed You)
24. 10,000 Maniacs - These Are Days
25. Rosanne Cash - Seven Year Ache
26. The Dream Academy - Life in A Northern Town
27. Crowded House - Don't Dream It's Over
28. Brandy - Almost Doesn't Count
29. Donna Lewis - I Love You Always Forever
30. Martin L. Gore - I Cast A Lonesome Shadow

I could go on, but I'll save the others for some other time.

[BombaySapphire3]

I really have only one eternal favorite song . "A Song for You " by Gram Parsons can never be topped.I love so many others It'd be too difficult to narrow it down to 30.

[trackaghost]

Whew! This was difficult, I could only come up with a top 20 but these songs have helped me through some difficult times:

1. Don Johnson - Heartbeat
2. Aqua - Barbie Girl
3. Vanilla Ice - Ice Ice Baby
4. Billy Ray Cyrus - Achy Breaky Heart
5. Baha Boys - Who Let The Dogs Out
6. Starship - We Built This City
7. John Parr and Meat Loaf - Rock N Roll Mercenaries
8. Los del Rio - Macarena
9. Snow - Informer
10. Eddie Murphy - Party All The Time
11. Chris De Burgh - Lady In Red
12. Minie Ripperton - Loving You
13. Starland Vocal Band - Afternoon Delight
14. Britney Spears - I'm A Girl, Not Yet A Woman
15. Sisqo - The Thong Song
16. Barry Manilow - Mandy
17. Helen Reddy - I Am Woman
18. Jessica Simpson - These Boots Are Made For Walking
19. Black Eyed Peas - My Humps
20. Supertramp - The Logical Song

[macmar71]

I have another thirty that I will post later that I kick myself for not putting on my original list...

[ryan8472]

Originally Posted by trackaghost

Whew! This was difficult, I could only come up with a top 20 but these songs have helped me through some difficult times:

1. Don Johnson - Heartbeat
2. Aqua - Barbie Girl
3. Vanilla Ice - Ice Ice Baby
4. Billy Ray Cyrus - Achy Breaky Heart
5. Baha Boys - Who Let The Dogs Out
6. Starship - We Built This City
7. John Parr and Meat Loaf - Rock N Roll Mercenaries
8. Los del Rio - Macarena
9. Snow - Informer
10. Eddie Murphy - Party All The Time
11. Chris De Burgh - Lady In Red
12. Minie Ripperton - Loving You
13. Starland Vocal Band - Afternoon Delight
14. Britney Spears - I'm A Girl, Not Yet A Woman
15. Sisqo - The Thong Song
16. Barry Manilow - Mandy
17. Helen Reddy - I Am Woman
18. Jessica Simpson - These Boots Are Made For Walking
19. Black Eyed Peas - My Humps
20. Supertramp - The Logical Song

Oh Sharon....

[TheWILDheart]

hmmmm...if I'm being open minded:

1. Sara - Fleetwood Mac
2. Edge of Seventeen - Stevie Nicks
3. Here is Gone - Goo Goo Dolls
4. Promises - The Cranberries
5. Cornflake Girl - Tori Amos
6. Atomic - Blondie
7. Angel - Fleetwood Mac
8. Real Gone Kid - Deacon Blue
9. Beauty and the Beast - Stevie Nicks
10. Bring Me to Life - Evanescence
11. Don't Speak - No Doubt
12. Hold the Line - Toto
13. Life Is a Highway - Tom "Thing" (can't remember his last name)
14. Stand Back - Stevie Nicks
15. Black Balloon - Goo Goo Dolls
16. Call Me - Blondie
17. Fast Car - Tracy Chapman
18. Ready to Go - Republica
19. Gypsy - Fleetwood Mac
20. Sleeping Satellite - Tasmin Archer
21. I Don't Want a Lover - Texas
22. Rotterdam - The Beautiful South
23. Everybody's Gone To War - Nerina Pallot
24. Dreams - The Cranberries
25. Left Outside Alone - Anastacia
26. Silver Springs - Fleetwood Mac
27. Can't Turn Back - Speedway
28. Juliet - Stevie Nicks
29. The Pogues - Fairytale of New York
30. No Spoken Word - Stevie Nicks

If I'm not...it would be ALL Stevie

[TheWILDheart]

Originally Posted by Wild_Heart03

5. Ace of Base - The Sign

OMG!! I can't believe i forgot about Ace of Base...I prefer Life is a Flower and Always Have, Always Will to this but still....GO ACERS WWOOOOOOOO!!

[TheWILDheart]

Originally Posted by BlackWidow

This is some hard ****!!!!

Storms - Fleetwood Mac
Fast Car - Tracy Chapman
Edge Of Seventeen - Stevie Nicks
Running Up That Hill - Kate Bush
I Can't Tell You Why - The Eagles
Lovefool - The Cardigans
Silent All These Years - Tori Amos
The Sign - Ace Of Base

Have you STOLEN my brain? I WORSHIP Stevie, obviously, but Tori, Tracy, AOB and The Eagles aren't far behind

[DavidMn]

Originally Posted by HomerMcvie

That's right, beeeaaatch.

Bella Donna is one of my all time favorite albums. And The Highwayman has steel guitar!!!!!

Well, will wonders never cease. I'm just givin ya **** buddy.

[DavidMn]

Originally Posted by bretonbanquet

Man, this is insanely difficult

Dragonfly - Fleetwood Mac
Soon I Will Be Gone - Free
Big Sky – Kinks
Down Payment Blues - AC/DC
Downtown Sundown - Thin Lizzy
Silver Streams - Danny Kirwan
Song Is Over – The Who
Survival Car - Fountains of Wayne
Paperback Writer - The Beatles
When a Blind Man Cries – Deep Purple
Moonlight Mile - Rolling Stones
Wintertime - Steve Miller Band
Try and Love Again – The Eagles
What’s Going Ahn - Big Star
Decision/Indecision – Atomic Rooster
I Don’t Mind At All – Bourgeois Tagg
Fire and Rain – James Taylor
Feel a Whole Lot Better – Byrds
Autumn’s Child – Captain Beefheart
Hazey Jane II – Nick Drake
Victim of Changes - Judas Priest
In My Room – Beach Boys
Laughing Boy – Hall & Oates
Junior’s Eyes - Black Sabbath
Heartbeats – José González
Daniel – Elton John
Stairway to Heaven – Led Zeppelin
In Search of the Peace of Mind – Scorpions
Spread Your Wings – Queen
Peasant in the Big ****ty – Stranglers
The End - Doors

God, what a miserable bunch of songs Another day they'd be 30 happy ones

HEY!!! No Stereophonics?!?!

[JazmenFlowers]

Originally Posted by Wild_Heart03

omg. I LOVE this song, it reminds me of when I was a little kid. I bought their Greatest Hits solely for it.

me too!

and I love that you included Toy Soldiers on your list...wow...how long ago was that!