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In all the speight of aerious threads, here's something more lighthearted. List your top 10 songs.

In no particular order:

1.Layla-Derek and the Dominos (Eric Clapton)
2.Whiskey in the Jar-Thin Lizzy.
3. Under Pressure-Queen, David Bowie.
4. Sultans of Swing-Dire Straits.
5. Fairytale of New York-The Pogues, Kirsty MacColl.
6. God Vibrations-The Beach Boys.
7. Bad Day-REM
8. Death of A Clown-The Kinks.
9. Sound of Silence-Simon and Garfunkel
10. Hammer To Fall-Queen.

:yeah:
 
1. Yours in no disgrace - Yes
2. Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty
3. Ready to go - Republica
4. Bohemian like you - Dandy Warhols
5. You ought to know - Alanis
6. Working class hero - John Lennon
7. Something to believe in - Mike and the Mechanics
8. Dreamer - Supertramp
9. Ommadawn - Mike Oldfield
10 Carey - Joni Mitchell
 
In no particular order, here are 10 favorites, but not necessary most favored:

Boys of Summer - Don Henley
Breed - Nirvana
Hey Jealousy - Gin Blossoms
Mr. Jones - Counting Crows
Name - Goo Goo Dolls
She's So Cold - Rolling Stones
Shine - Collective Soul
Sweet Child of Mine - Guns 'N Roses
Sweet Emotion - Aerosmith
Yellow Ledbetter - Pearl Jam

EDIT: I think I'd rather see a thread ask for a top 10 within a particular genre or something - not that I want to see multiple threads emerge, but to help decide on only 10 songs!
 
I'm afraid that all the top places will be taken by the same three main bands : Nightwish, Rhapsody and Therion.

But I'd have a hard time deciding precisely which ones are the best...
 
Ooh, this may be too hard for me. Some of them are at least going to be combos, I think. Sorry :blush:

The Locust - 'File Under "Soft Core Seizures"' / 'Practised Hatred'
The Mars Volta - 'Televators' / 'Take the Veil Cerpin Taxt'
Radiohead - 'I am Citizen Insane'
Propagandhi - 'With Friends Like These, Who the F*ck Needs Cointelpro?'
The TallyWood Strings (String Quartet Tribute to Kid A) - 'In Limbo'
Propagandhi - 'Ordinary People do F*cked Up Things When F*cked Up Things Become Ordinary'
John Lennon - 'Working Class Hero'
Refused - 'The Deadly Rhythm'
At-The-Drive-In - 'Napoleon's Solo'
Radiohead - 'Like Spinning Plates'

No particular order. Subject to change without notice.
 
Might be a completely different selection in about two hours, but here are some I've listened to over and over again in recent years (in order of appearance on my mind ;)):

1. Einstürzende Neubauten - Haus der Lüge
2. Depeche Mode - Walking in my shoes
3. Laibach - Crtomir, Jelengar
4. Tricky - Bad dreams
5. Dead Kennedys - Kill the poor
6. Tom Waits - Everything you can think of is true
7. Johnny cash - See a darkness
8. Nick cave and the bad seeds - the mercy seat
9. Sisters of mercy - This corrosion
10. The Russian red army choir - soviet national anthem

Most of it are just example songs - and 10 songs are not enough to even name all artists I like just as well as those mentioned above - even with restricting me to actual songs and thus leaving classical music out.
 
1) "Long Division" - Fugazi
2) "She's lost Controll" - Joy Division
3) "Public Image" - Public Image Limited
4) "Youth of America" - The Wipers
5) "Gottseidank nicht in England" - Fehlfarben
6) "Chemicals" - The Notwist
7) "Pattern against User" - At the Drive-In
8) "Zeittotschläger" - Blumfeld
9) "Evig Pint" - Kayzer's Orchestra
10) "Satisfaction" - Stones.

No particular order (except for "Long Division", this my all-time favorite), just the order those songs came to my mind.
 
Ouch. I hate picking faves ... but here's some highlights from my playlist for random good songs:

Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven
Led Zeppelin - Immigrant Song
Deep Purple - Highway Star
L'ÂME IMMORTELLE - Lass mich fallen
L'ÂME IMMORTELLE - Es zieht sich davon
Depeche Mode - Never Let Me Down Again
Within Temptations - Restless
Noir Désir - Aux Sombres Heros de l'Amer
Lambretta - Have a Nice Day*
Hammerfall - Fallen One


* I suppose it will say nothing good of my character if I say the refrain of this one is among my favourite lyrics ever:

Have a nice day
I couldn't care less if you do
Have a nice day
I wouldn't spend my time with you
Have a nice day
 
As it's been said, it's really hard to think of your ten most favorite songs, because there are so many good ones!

So, my list is neither in order nor definitely my absolute favorites. All I can say is that I like all of the following songs very much.

Pink Floyd - Time
Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Dream Theater - A Change of Seasons
Iced Earth - The Coming Curse
Stratovarius - 4th Reich
Metallica - Fade to Black
Pink Floyd - In the Flesh
Queensryche - Revolution Calling
Iron Maiden - Aces High
Gustav Holst - Mars
 
In no particular order...


1. Gimme Shelther - The Rolling Stones
2. Layla - Eric Clapton
3. Dance - Van Halen
4. Soul to Squeeze - Red Hot Chili Peppers
5. Moonlight Sonata - Beethoven
6. Dyer's Eve - Metallica
7. 40oz to Freedom - Sublime
8. Outside - Staind
9. All Along the Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix
0. Adagio For Strings - Samuel Barder
1. Adam's Song - blink-182
2. Dream On - Aerosmith
3. No Such Thing - John Mayer
4. In The End - Link Park
5. You're Gonna Miss Me - 13th Floor Elevators
6. With Arms Wide Open - Creed
7. No More Mr. Nice Guy - Alice Cooper
8. Tom Sawyer - Rush
9. Space Oddity - David Bowie
0. Play With Fire - The Rolling Stones

I could not exclude any one of these songs from my list. So I have eighteen twenty. Furthermore I know there are probably more songs that I can't think of. I suppose there are several dozen Stones songs that can be there with the rest, but I don't want to give the impression that I think the Stones are better than everyone else (even though they are).
 
Hmmm... Tough
No order

Stairway to Heaven
Bohemian Rhapsody
Paranoid Android
Paradise City
Gingerbread Boy(Miles Davis Quintet)
*****es Brew
Hot for Teacher-Van Halen
Wish You Were Here
Purple Haze
Nightswimming-REM
When the Levee Breaks-Led Zep

There are many others I could want to put as well-Back in Black, Highway to Hell, Eruption, but I can't fit them.
 
1)Back in Black - AC/DC
2)Sweetness - Jimmy Eat World
3)Thunderstruck - AC/DC
4)Someday - Nickelback
5)Another Hole in the Head - Nickelback
6)Welcome to the Jungle - Guns N' Roses
7)Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
8)Pain - Jimmy Eat World
9)Vaccination Scar - The Tragically Hip
10)Layla - Derek and the Dominoes

Honourable Mentions:

Immigrant Song - Led Zeppelin
Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin
Breathe - Nickelback
Because of You - Nickelback
The Middle - Jimmy Eat World
Bleed American - Jimmy Eat World
Turn the Page - Metallica
Shot Down in Flames - AC/DC
My Music @ Work - The Tragically Hip
 
1. Pearl Jam - Alive
2. AFI - This Celluloid Dream
3. Faith No More - Falling to Pieces
4. Pink Floyd - Learning to Fly
5. The Band - It Makes No Difference
6. Iron Maiden - The Wicker Man
7. Pearl Jam - Black
8. Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
9. Bob Dylan - Tangled Up In Blue
10. Traveling Wilburys - Not Alone Anymore

probably not even right. All I know for sure is 'Alive' at #1.
 
no particular order:

Satyricon - Mother North
Turboneger - I Got Erection
Frontline Assembly - Gun
Iron Maiden - The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner
Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run
Depeche Mode - Shake The Disease
Cat Rapes Dog - Moosehair Underwear
Dire Straits - Sultans Of Swing
Manic Street Preachers - If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
Dead Kennedys - Holiday In Cambodia

:)
 
In no particular order:

Sex Pistols - Did you no wrong.
Clash - Brand New Cadillac.
Joy Division - Atmosphere.
Another Girl - Only Ones.
Beatles - Revolution.
UK Subs - Tomorrows Girls.
Toy Dolls - Spiders in the dressing room.
The Ruts - Babylon’s Burning.
Peter and the Test Tube Babies - Blown out again.
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Happy House.
 
The Last Conformist said:
L'ÂME IMMORTELLE - Lass mich fallen
L'ÂME IMMORTELLE - Es zieht sich davon
Click to expand...

TLC - L'ÂME IMMORTELLE fan. For some odd reason, I did not suspect that.
What about "Slut" and "Bitterkeit"? ;)
 
VAN HALEN

Eruption
You really got me (the Kinks version is also good)
Running with the Devil
Hot for Teacher
Jump

LYNYRD SKYNYRD

Free Bird
What's Your Name?
Sweet Home Alabama

Honorable mentions:

Wanted Dead or Alive- Bon Jovi
Purple Haze- Jimi Hendrix
 
I prefer intelligent songs, with great lyrics, good metaphoras, and social subjects.

The best for me are:
1_ Here comes the flood (Peter Gabriel)
2_ Darkness (Peter Gabriel)
3_ Red Rain (Peter Gabriel)
4_ Another Brick in the Wall (Pink Floyd)
5_ San Jacinto (Peter Gabriel)
6_ The Family and the fishing net (Peter Gabriel)
7_ One (U2)
8_ Sunday Bloody Sunday (U2)
9_ Cinco Siglos Igual (León Gieco)
10_ Family Snapshot (Peter Gabriel)

Here's some part of Here comes the flood

I Took the old track
The hollow shoulder across the waters
On the tall cliffs, they were getting older sons and daughters
The jaded underworld was riding high
Waves of steel hurled metal at the sky
And as the nail sunk in the cloud
the rain was warm and soaked the crowd

Lord, here comes the flood
We'll say goodbye to flesh and blood
If again the seas are silent in any still alive
It'll be those who gave their island to survive
Drink up dreamers you're running dry
 
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