If you can only keep 25 songs

[Schneids]

And only listen to these 25 for the rest of your life, what are the 25 you select for your eternity?

Me (The #'s mean nothing other than a way for me to keep count):

1. Foo Fighters - "Everlong"
2. Goo Goo Dolls - "Iris"
3. Incubus - "Vitamin"
4. Incubus - "Deep Inside"
5. Live - "Lightning Crashes"
6. Audiovent - "Underwater Silence"
7. Forty Foot Echo - "Save Me"
8. Blindside - "Pitiful"
9. Sting - "Ghost Story"
10. Coldplay - "In My Place"
11. Course of Nature - "Caught in the Sun"
12. Finch - "What is it to Burn?"
13. Tool - "Lateralus"
14. Fuel - "Hemorrhage"
15. Fuel - "Shimmer"
16. Ill Nino - "What Comes Around"
17. Radiohead - "Paranoid Android"
18. Red Hot Chili Peppers - "Under the Bridge"
19. Staind - "Epiphany"
20. Unwritten Law - "Seeing Red"
21. Smashing Pumpkins - "Disarm"
22. The Offspring - "Self Esteem"
23. Jimmy Eat World - "The World We Love"
24. Trick Turner - "Sacrifice"
25. Snow Patrol - "Run"


The whole point of me doing this is I'm hoping to see a few other lists where I can say "that person looks like they have similar tastes as me" and then see some of their listed songs that perhaps I haven't heard of. I am guessing there are a couple people on this board who would look at my list and say "that doesn't look bad" and at the same time not be familiar with a few of the songs.

Likewise, since I like a wide-variety of music I'd like to take from lists that I am totally unfamiliar with, too.


As soon as I got to about #18 it started getting really difficult to prioritize. For instance nothing from Sevendust made the cut. I like them a lot. Additionally even though on the overall whole I prefer alternative and heavy metal more than light sounding rock I'm surprised at how many soft, relaxing songs I chose. Moreover, if I had my 6 cds worth of collected classical music I think 1 or 2 of those songs would have made it, but as it is those are at my parents house and I can't recall what I'd choose from that.

Alright, let me have yours if you dare.

[NLSoldier]

Metallica black album and Linkin Park Hybrid theory. That should be about 25 /images/graemlins/grin.gif

[The Dude]

RHCP Under the Bridge is the only song that would make my top 25.

[housenuts]

the only one of your songs that might make my top 100 is Iris. unfortunately i'm too lazy to make a list myself so you won't be able to make fun of my selections but i commend you for taking the time and spilling your heart to make the list for yourself.

[private joker]

This sounds fun. I f[/i]ucking love lists...

1) Divine Comedy - Gin-Soaked Boy
2) Rilo Kiley - A Better Son/Daughter
3) R.E.M. - Country Feedback
4) Public Enemy - War at 33 1/3
5) Radiohead - Sulk
6) Radiohead - Paranoid Android
7) Neutral Milk Hotel - Holland 1945
8) The Raveonettes - Do You Believe Her?
9) Basement Jaxx - Lucky Star
10) Belle & Sebastian - This is Just a Modern Rock Song
11) Catherine Wheel - Delicious
12) The Cure - Plainsong
13) The Crystals - Da Doo Ron Ron
14) Spiritualized - Stay With Me
15) Liz Phair - Polyester Bride
16) Green Day - Church On Sunday
17) Belly - Slow Dog
18) Johnny Cash - I See a Darkness
19) The Cardigans - Communication
20) The Rolling Stones - Sympathy For the Devil
21) Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
22) The Ramones - Do You Remember Rock N Roll Radio?
23) Social Distortion - Ball And Chain
24) Pulp - Common People
25) Sebadoh - Willing To Wait

[The Dude]

The one thing I liked about Schneids's list is that it didn't include The Rolling Stones.

You suck.

[private joker]

[ QUOTE ]
The one thing I liked about Schneids's list is that it didn't include The Rolling Stones.

You suck.


[/ QUOTE ]

Thanks Dude. I'd bet $50 there are 10 songs here you haven't even heard.

[peachy]

Tom Petty songs! I never ever get tired of his stuff...its too late to name others right now...and the one song i listen to on repeat 293409239042309 times while playin poker - Clare de Lune

[The Dude]

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Thanks Dude. I'd bet $50 there are a dozen songs here you haven't even heard.

[/ QUOTE ]
Let's pretend for a moment that I hadn't heard all 24 of the other songs on your list. What does that have to do with how bad The Rolling Stones suck?

[wall_st]

In completely arbitrary order:

1 Bob Dylan - Man in me
2 Radiohead - Go to sleep
3 Radiohead - Lucky
4 Wilco - Theologians
5 Wilco - Misunderstood
6 Wilco - Poor places
7 Pearl Jam - In my tree
8 Pearl Jam - Present tense
9 Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byjrun
10 Modest Mouse - Lives
11 Jay-z - Lucifer
12 Beck - Everybody's gotta learn sometime
13 Pink floyd - Dark side of moon (entire album is like one song right ?)
14 Sonic Youth - Unmade bed
15 The Shins - New slang
16 Beck - Jack-ass
17 Tool - uhh emm a bunch of them don't have song titles
18 Rolling stones - Jumpin jack flash
19 Rolling stones - Gimmie shelter

uhhhh...... I guess most of OK computer and more bob dylan would fill it out but im tired.

[NLSoldier]

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Thanks Dude. I'd bet $50 there are a dozen songs here you haven't even heard.

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Let's pretend for a moment that I hadn't heard all 24 of the other songs on your list. What does that have to do with how bad The Rolling Stones suck?

[/ QUOTE ]

LMAO

[Schneids]

Hey d00d I don't see your list up here for scrutiny, though to begin with that really wasn't the objective of my post... I'm not looking to hear "your list ROX!!11!!!!11!!@!" or "man ur s0ngs blow!@!@!!"

[Sponger15SB]

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And only listen to these 25 for the rest of your life, what are the 25 you select for your eternity?

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If I could only listen to 25 songs for the rest of my life, I'd never listen to music.

[nothumb]

Quick, lazy answer = "Mule Variations" and The Pogues live album.

Real answer: (this is super hard... prolly overuse a lot of long, weird songs cause I figure you need the variety.)

1. Chopin, "Ballade in G. Minor" (forgot Op.#)
2. Coltrane, "My Favorite Things"
3. June of 44, "Of Information and Belief"
4. Radiohead, "There There"
5. Leatherface, "Discipline"
6. Leatherface, "Springtime"
7. Leatherface, "Bowl of Flies"
8. The Pogues, "The Body of an American"
9. The Pogues, "If I Should Fall From Grace With God"
10. The Pogues, "A Pair of Brown Eyes"
11. Tom Waits, "Cold Cold Ground"
12. Tom Waits, "Tom Traubert's Blues"
13. Tom Waits, "Come on Up to the House"
14. Warren Zevon, "Renegade" (live version)
15. The Band, "The Night they Drove Old Dixie Down" (Last Waltz)
16. The Band, "I Shall Be Released" (Last Waltz)
17. The Clash, "Complete Control" (From Here to Eternity)
18. The Clash, "Straight to Hell" (From Here to Eternity)
19. Morphine, "Cure for Pain"
20. Morphine, "The Night"
21. The Band feat. Neil Young, Joni Mitchell - "Helpless"
22. Black Sabbath, "War Pigs"
23. Miles Davis, "All Blues"
24. Freddie Hubbard, "Red Clay"
25. Beethoven, "Pathetique" sonata

A hip-hop list would be even harder and I'll have to do it another time.

NT

[private joker]

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What does that have to do with how bad The Rolling Stones suck?

[/ QUOTE ]

One sh[/i]itty song can't invalidate an entire list of 25. The song can suck, but not the whole list or person who made said list.

Everything's a f[/i]ucking travesty with you, man! /images/graemlins/cool.gif

[The Dude]

The songs on your list that I've hear, I enjoy for the most part. They're just not my genre. I hang out fairly exclusively in the Classic Rock genre.

At least you didn't put The Rolling Stones in, though. Good God, they suck.

[eric5148]

1-10. 10 random Opeth songs.
11. Meshuggah - New Millenium Cyanide Christ
12. Meshuggah - I
13. Meshuggah - Future Breed Machine
14. Meshuggah - Perpetual Black Second
15. Slayer - Angel of Death
16. Finntroll - Trollhammaren
17. A Life Once Lost - Maudlin
18. The Black Dahlia Murder - Unhallowed
19. Mudvayne - Dig
20. Mudvayne - Death Blooms
21. Fear Factory - Securitron
22. Pantera - Fvcking Hostile
23. Metallica - Battery
24. Metallica - Master of Puppets
25. Lamb of God - A Warning

[nothumb]

[ QUOTE ]
1 Bob Dylan - Man in me

[/ QUOTE ]

Ni han.

NT

[The Dude]

[ QUOTE ]

One shitty song can't invalidate an entire list of 25. The song can suck, but not the whole list or person who made said list.

[/ QUOTE ]
I guess I'm still tyring to find the part of my post that says anything about the other 24 songs or the poster.

However, you have made a solid comeback. You called Sympathy For The Devil a "shi[/i]tty song" and quoted The Big Lebowki, so you're alright.

[nothumb]

Look at it this way Duder, at least the Eagles weren't on his list! /images/graemlins/grin.gif

Schneids, you picked maybe the 10th best Stones song ever... makes me sad...

NT

[nothumb]

[censored], I forgot side B of JC Live @ San Quentin. Need at least 3 songs from that. So take Daddy Sang Bass, Folsom Prison Blues, and Peace in the Valley, drop Sabbath (doh!), Jo44, maybe Red Clay.

This sucks, I would totally go nuts.

NT

[private joker]

[ QUOTE ]

I guess I'm still tyring to find the part of my post that says anything about the other 24 songs or the poster.

[/ QUOTE ]

[ QUOTE ]

You suck.

[/ QUOTE ]

Three thousand years of beautiful tradition from Phil Spector to Sigur Ros, you're damn right I'm living in the past... Rolling Stones baby.

[nothumb]

[ QUOTE ]
Three thousand years of beautiful tradition from Phil Spector to Sigur Ros, you're damn right I'm living in the past... Rolling Stones baby.

[/ QUOTE ]

No. Just... no. Don't do that.

NT

[private joker]

[ QUOTE ]


No. Just... no. Don't do that.


[/ QUOTE ]

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[Redmen62]

All right, here goes:


Estranged- Guns N' Roses
Paranoid Android
Naveed- Our Lady Peace
Lightning Crashes
Shine- Collective Soul
Psychopomp- The Tea Party
Earth sky and C- I Mother Earth
One More Astronaut- I Mother Earth
Plush- Stone Temple Pilots
Interstate Love Song- Stoen Temple Pilots
Gimme Shelter- (Sorry, Dude)
Nautical Disaster- The Tragically Hip
All Apologies- Nirvana (Unplugged NY version)
In My Time of Dying- Led Zeppelin
When the Man Comes Around- Johnny Cash
One- U2
Mayonaise- Smashing Pumpkins
Iris- Live
Last Goodbye- Jeff Buckley
Everlong- Foo Fighters
Brighter Hell- The Watchmen
The Setup- Reel Big Fish
For Whom the Bell Tolls S&M version- Metallica(No hate mail please)
Geek U.S.A.- Smashing Pumpkins
4 AM- Our Lady Peace


Or something like that.

[billyjex]

We like alot of the same music.. at least the same bands.

Here's my quick list:

1) RHCP Under the Bridge
2) Staind - Epiphany
3) Staind - Price to Play
4) Trapt - Echo
5) Trapt - Made of Glass
6) Papa Roach - Getting Away with Murder
7) Sublime - Rivers of Babylon
8) Sublime - Don't Push
9) Sublime - Santeria
10) Lynyrd Skynrd - Freebird
11) Incubus - Pardon Me
12) Incubus - Stellar
13) Eagles - Hotel California
14) Authority Zero - Over Seasons
15) A Perfect Circle - Imagine
16) Alien Ant Farm - These Days
17) Green Day - Basket Case
18) Pennywise - Bro Hymn
19) Pepper - Tradewinds
20) RHCP - Californication
21) Puddle of Mudd - Drift & Die
22) Steppenwolf - Magic Carpet Ride
23) Jack Johnson & G-Love - Surf Song
24) Black Sabbath - Paranoid
25) Metallica - Fade to Black

[Schneids]

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4) Trapt - Echo
5) Trapt - Made of Glass


[/ QUOTE ]
I really wanted to include a Trapt song but alas it was just pushed out on my list...

[ QUOTE ]
11) Incubus - Pardon Me

[/ QUOTE ]
That one, along with Warning, are practically interchangeable with the two Incubus ones on my list.

[ QUOTE ]
16) Alien Ant Farm - These Days

[/ QUOTE ]
Like them too, with "Movies" being my fav. song by them even withstanding the fact it sounds so poppy and contrived...guess I like that /images/graemlins/smile.gif


Yeah our tastes look quite similar.

[Jack of Arcades]

Holland 1945 is the best song ever.

It'll take a while for me to come up with mine. Hold on.

[The Dude]

I'm avoiding several songs that are currently in my top 10, because I'm not sure they'll stay there. I also didn't put enough time into the list to make sure I'm not missing things.

1. Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
2. Lydyrd Skynyrd - Free Bird
3. Tom Petty - Last Dance With Mary Jane
4. Billy Joel - Piano Man
5. Billy Joel - Scenes From an Italian Restaurant
6. The Police - Roxanne
7. Billy Idol - White Wedding
8. Steppenwolf - Magic Carpet Ride
9. Elton John - Levon
10. Tears for Fears - Everybody Wants To Rule The World
11. U2 - Mysterious Ways
12. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under the Bridge
13. Gloria Gayner - I Will Survive
14. Santana - Smooth
15. Team America - pick any song from the album
16. Shakira - The One
17. The Beatles - Elanor Rigby
18. Bob Seger - Hollywood Nights
19. David Bowie - Space Oddity
20. Don McClean - Everybody Loves Me Baby
21. Keith Green - The Prodigal Son Suite
22. Led Zepplin - All My Love
23. Led Zepplin - Kashmir
24. Les Miserables - On My Own
25. Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer

[Justin A]

NLSoldier,
That's a sweet avatar, who is it?

[Justin A]

Dude,

That's really weird, we have a very very similar taste in music, but yet you hate the Rolling Stones? There's no songs of theirs that you like at all?

All of My Love and Eleanor Rigby are great picks.

[Sponger15SB]

[ QUOTE ]
Dude,

That's really weird, we have a very very similar taste in music, but yet you hate the Rolling Stones? There's no songs of theirs that you like at all?

All of My Love and Eleanor Rigby are great picks.

[/ QUOTE ]

Yeah I find it incredibly bizzare that almost all of his songs are regulars on every classic rock station on the radio, yet he doesn't like the rolling stones.

btw...sledgehammer? wtf

[The Dude]

[ QUOTE ]
but yet you hate the Rolling Stones? There's no songs of theirs that you like at all?

[/ QUOTE ]
Well, here's the thing. Some of their music I don't mind. But the fact that they're so popular, and yet their best music is mediocre really bugs me. I probably woudn't hate them if they weren't so popular, but they are, so I do.

[Justin A]

[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
but yet you hate the Rolling Stones? There's no songs of theirs that you like at all?

[/ QUOTE ]
Well, here's the thing. Some of their music I don't mind. But the fact that they're so popular, and yet their best music is mediocre really bugs me. I probably woudn't hate them if they weren't so popular, but they are, so I do.

[/ QUOTE ]

I can see that. It does bug me also that they've put out like thirty albums that are mostly bad. But I do like about twenty of their songs.

[Jack of Arcades]

1. Arcade Fire – Neighboorhood 1 (Tunnels)
2. Belle and Sebastian – If She Wants Me
3. Broken Social Scene – Time=Cause
4. cLOUDDEAD – Rifle Eyes
5. Cursive – Driftwood
6. Dredg – Whoa is Me
7. Elliot Smith – Waltz #2 (XO)
8. Franz Ferdinand – 40 Feet
9. Hot Hot Heat – Bandages
10 .Interpol – Obstacle 1
11. Joy Division – Love Will Tears Us Apart
12. KMFDM – Juke Joint Jezebel
13. Modest Mouse – Tiny Cities Made of Ashes
14. My Bloody Valentine - Only Shallow
15. Neutral Milk Hotel – 1945
16. New Order – Blue Monday
17. Nine Inch Nails – Hurt
18. Non-Prophets – Xaul Zan's Heart
19. Pixies – Debaser
20. Ted Leo and the Pharmacists – The Crane Takes Flight
21. The Cruxshadows – Winterborn
22. The Decemberists – California One / Youth and Beauty Bri gade
23. The Postman Syndrome – Interpretive Decorations
24. Tori Amos – Hey Jupiter
25. Wilco – Can't Stand It

[The Dude]

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almost all of his songs are regulars on every classic rock station on the radio

[/ QUOTE ]
My current top ten at any moment usually includes 7 or 8 songs that arent' played on the radio - usually from albums I have bought in the past 6 months. But they fluctuate. The list asked for was not my current top 25, but 25 songs I must keep for the rest of my life. I'm going to be much more conservative and risk-less if I have to live with this decision for the rest of my life.

[The Dude]

[ QUOTE ]
I do like about twenty of their songs.

[/ QUOTE ]
WAY too many. No way they have that much non-terrible music.

[private joker]

[ QUOTE ]

22. The Decemberists – California One / Youth and Beauty Bri gade


[/ QUOTE ]

I almost put "I Was Meant For the Stage" or "July, July," but I didn't want to cheat on Neutral Milk. And yes, "Holland, 1945" really is the best song ever.

[Sponger15SB]

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And only listen to these 25 for the rest of your life, what are the 25 you select for your eternity?

[/ QUOTE ]

If I could only listen to 25 songs for the rest of my life, I'd never listen to music.

[/ QUOTE ]

alright fine i'll list my 25......

I listen to mostly classic rock and rap, but I don't think I will be listening to rap the rest of my life, so those all get thrown out....

1. whitesnake - here i go again
2. aerosmith - sweel emotion
3. boston - carry on my wayward son
4. CSNY - carry on
5. elton john - daniel (the dude-daniel OWNS levon so hard)
6. fleetwood - landslide
7. grank funk - some kind of wonderful
8. jimi hendrix - voodoo child
9. CCR - heard it through the grapevine
10. rolling stones - under my thumb
11. rolling stones - angie
12. scorpion - rock you like a hurricane
13. eagles - desperado
14. the who - pinball wizard
15. the who - who are you
16. van halen - jump
17. boston - carry on my wayward son
18. boston - more than a feeling
19. boston - peace of mind
20. supertramp - goodbye stranger
21. doobie brothers - listen to the music
22. billy idol - rebel yell
23. bon jovi - living on a prayer
24. bruce springsteen - born in the USA
25. bruce springsteen - glory days

[Ulysses]

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3. boston - carry on my wayward son

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Kansas.

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17. boston - carry on my wayward son

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Still Kansas.

[Jack of Arcades]

The best Basement Jaxx song is Cish Cash. But that's my goth side showing. But I'd go with Good Luck before Lucky Star.

[eric5148]

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Quote:
3. boston - carry on my wayward son



Kansas.

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Gay

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17. boston - carry on my wayward son



Still Kansas.

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Still Gay.

[The Dude]

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3. boston - carry on my wayward son
17. boston - carry on my wayward son

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I'm assuming you put this on here twice, because I neglected it from my list - in which case you'd be right. My edited list would find that one in. Except that it's not by Kansas.

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22. billy idol - rebel yell

[/ QUOTE ]
This song kicks a[/i]ss, and I was really tempted to put it in. I just don't think Billy Idol's quite good enough to get on my list twice, and I chose WW over this once. Very close, though.

[ QUOTE ]
5. elton john - daniel (the dude-daniel OWNS levon so hard)

[/ QUOTE ]
Different moods. Very cool song, but just doesn't get my blood pumping the way Levon does. BTW, I'm seeing Elton John in Vegas on Feb 15th. /images/graemlins/tongue.gif

[Sponger15SB]

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3. boston - carry on my wayward son

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Kansas.

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17. boston - carry on my wayward son

[/ QUOTE ]

Still Kansas.

[/ QUOTE ]

You know, I knew that, and yet I have the song twice on my win amp playlists as Boston. I'm just writing what I see

Weird.

[Sponger15SB]

I'm so mad at my roomate for sleeping right now or else I'd be rocking out. This sucks.

[Justin A]

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I do like about twenty of their songs.

[/ QUOTE ]
WAY too many. No way they have that much non-terrible music.

[/ QUOTE ]

Since I'm bored, here's my list of twenty Stones songs that I like:

1. Gimme Shelter
2. The Last Time
3. You Can't Always Get What You Want
4. Under My Thumb
5. Sympathy For the Devil
6. Wild Horses
7. Paint It Black
8. Satisfaction
9. Let's Spend the Night Together
10. Miss You
11. Beast of Burden (my favorite)
12. Angie
13. Brown Sugar
14. Jumpin Jack Flash
15. Get Off My Cloud
16. 19th Nervous Breakdown


Ok so there's only sixteen. It might be seventeen but I hate Start Me Up since it reminds me of that stupid Windows 95 commercial way back then.

[private joker]

[ QUOTE ]
The best Basement Jaxx song is Cish Cash. But that's my goth side showing. But I'd go with Good Luck before Lucky Star.

[/ QUOTE ]

My goth side came out with The Cure's "Plainsong," but also could have shown its face with Siouxsie's "Peek a Boo" or Wolfsheim's "Once In a Lifetime." The Jaxx songs you list indeed rock, but "Lucky Star" has way too much going on to deny. It's the purest burst of awesomeness I've ever heard. The Dizzee Rascal lyrics over that whip-lash Middle Eastern sh[/i]it and all the colliding percussive samples. Sugar high.

[bugstud]

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3. boston - carry on my wayward son

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Kansas.

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17. boston - carry on my wayward son

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Still Kansas.

[/ QUOTE ]

ni han

[Jack of Arcades]

"Hanging Gardens," "Monitor," and "Heroin, She Said."

[The Dude]

[ QUOTE ]
3. You Can't Always Get What You Want
8. Satisfaction

[/ QUOTE ]
Incredibly weak. These songs aren't just bad, they're God-awful.

[Justin A]

[ QUOTE ]
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3. You Can't Always Get What You Want
8. Satisfaction

[/ QUOTE ]
Incredibly weak. These songs aren't just bad, they're God-awful.

[/ QUOTE ]

I think You Can't Always Get What You Want is a good song. Satisfaction is borderline, but I stil sort of like it. I was actually pissed when it was #1 on some best rock song ever list, maybe a VH1 list.

[The Dude]

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Satisfaction is borderline, but I stil sort of like it. I was actually pissed when it was #1 on some best rock song ever list, maybe a VH1 list.

[/ QUOTE ]
To quote the great American philosopher Jackie Treehorn:
"Admitedly, standards have dropped."

[stripsqueez]

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11. Joy Division – Love Will Tears Us Apart


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its a relief that i didnt go this whole thread without finding a song that would make my top 25 or so

i like the rolling stones - fortune teller would probably make my top 25

cant be arsed thinking of 25 and putting them in order - they would include
big country - in a big country
dead kennedys - viva las vegas
sunny boys - happy man
ry cooder - tear drops
the bodgies - the onion
randy newman - rednecks

stripsqueez - chickenhawk

[zephed56]

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18) Pennywise - Bro Hymn

[/ QUOTE ]
nice.

[Sponger15SB]

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Ok so there's only sixteen. It might be seventeen but I hate Start Me Up since it reminds me of that stupid Windows 95 commercial way back then.

[/ QUOTE ]

Kind of like how Britney Spears ruined satisfaction by doing the most horrid cover of a song in the history of music.

[Sponger15SB]

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ni han

[/ QUOTE ]

I think 20-30% of Diablo's posts are just trying to point out the inconsistancy/error in someone else's post.

Pretty weak if you ask me.

[dr. klopek]

Rage Against the Machine + Evil Empire
cry to me-bob marley
still rappin-haiku d'etat
museum of idiots-they might be giants
a night in tunisia-charlie parker and dizzy gillespie

[Jack of Arcades]

Yeah, but when he does it he does it well.

[The Dude]

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3. You Can't Always Get What You Want
8. Satisfaction

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BTW, these would probably be the exact two songs I would list when asked "what popular Rolling Stones songs do you not like?".

[bugstud]

alright, my not all Metallica list

1. Metallica - Orion
2. Metallica - Call of the Ktulu
3. Metallica - Fade to Black
4. Down - Pillars of Eternity
5. Pantera - I'm Broken
6. Breaking Benjamin - Shallow Bay
7. Alice in Chains - Nutshell
8. Alice in Chains -Bleed the Freak
9. Alice in Chains - We Die Young
10. Jerry Cantrell - My Song
11. Judas Priest - Green Manalishi
12. Machine Head - Ten Ton Hammer
13. Machine Head - Davidian
14. Pearl Jam - Corduroy
15. Slipknot - My Plague
16. Smashing Pumpkins - Zero
17. Stone Temple Pilots - Sex Type Thing
18. Stone Temple Pilots - Plush
19. Stone Temple Pilots - Down
20. Velvet Revolver - Dirty Little Thing
21. Days of the New- Touch, Peel and Stand
22. Soundgarden - Pretty Noose
23. AC/DC - Big Gun
24. Disturbed - Devour
25. GnR - Anything Goes


Probably not my exact list, but I tried to make an interesting one that I could live with. Some bands would dominate the list more if I didn't impose a three song restriction, and I tried to avoid all newish songs that I haven't overplayed yet.

[Sponger15SB]

[ QUOTE ]

1. Metallica - Orion
2. Metallica - Call of the Ktulu
3. Metallica - Fade to Black

[/ QUOTE ]

WTF? Of the 20 good metallica songs, you pick those three?

[The Dude]

[ QUOTE ]


1. Metallica - Orion
2. Metallica - Call of the Ktulu
3. Metallica - Fade to Black
[/i]
WTF? Of the 20 good metallica songs, you pick those three?

[/ QUOTE ]
I agree completely, Sponge.

[bugstud]

Look at my disclaimer, sirs. My list would probably be 25 metallica songs if I had a gun to my head.

Would you have prefered Fight Fire with Fire, Dyers Eve and Damage Inc? Or should I just put the three most mainstream ones instead? /images/graemlins/tongue.gif

[rusty JEDI]

[ QUOTE ]
17. The Beatles - Elanor Rigby

[/ QUOTE ]


Definitely my fave Beatles song.

rJ

[kemystery]

(In no particular order)

1. The Wall - Pink Floyd
2. Werewolves in London - Warren Zevon
3. Lido Shuffle - Bozz Skaggs
4. Little Wing - SRV
5. Heart of Gold (also 'Old Man') - Neil Young
6. Let it ride - BTO
7. The Weight - The Band
8. Band on the run - Paul McCartney/Wings
9. Rocky Racoon - Beatles
10. Dear Mr. Fantasy - Blind Faith
11. A Horse with no Name - America
12. Life's been good to me so far - Joe Walsh
13. Watchtower - Hendrix
14. Soul to Squeeze - RHCP
15. Hero of the Day - Metallica & SF Orchestra
16. 40 oz. to Freedom - Sublime
17. Someday I suppose - Mighty Mighty Bosstones

I'm stuck - (actually @ about 12)

[The Dude]

[ QUOTE ]
17. The Beatles - Elanor Rigby
Definately my fave Beatles song.

[/ QUOTE ]
nh.

[plaster8]

1. Van Halen -- Unchained
2. AC/DC -- Back in Black
3. Led Zeppelin -- The Ocean
4. The Clash -- Train in Vain
5. The Black Keys -- I'll Be Your Man
6. Booker T & the MG's -- Hip-Hug-Her
7. Lou Reed -- What's Good
8. The Velvet Underground -- Heroin
9. Liz Phair -- [censored] and Run
10. Liz Phair -- Divorce Song
11. U2 -- Pride (In the Name of Love)
12. Warren Zevon -- Lawyers, Guns and Money
13. ZZ Top -- Gimme All Your Lovin
14. Urge Overkill -- Positive Bleeding
15. Van Halen -- Drop Dead Legs
16. The Ramones -- Beat on the Brat
17. The Who -- The Seeker
18. Jimmy Eat World -- The Middle
19. Led Zeppelin -- Nobody's Fault But Mine
20. Rage Against the Machine -- Killing in the Name
21. The Tragically Hip -- Fifty-Mission Cap
22. The Rolling Stones -- Tumbling Dice
23. The Kinks -- Victoria
24. Smoking Popes -- Before I'm Gone
25. Matthew Sweet -- Girlfriend

[zephed56]

Alright, I am incredibly obsessed with Zeppelin.

I'll list some "other" songs, then go on with my Zep.

<ul type="square"> Top 25 The Sonics-Have Love, Will Travel (It's on the Range Rover commercial) Jimi Hendrix-Drivin' South (best driving song EVAR) Jimi Hendrix-Red House White Stripes-Hardest Button to Button White Stripes-Death Letter RHCP-Can't Stop Pink Floyd-Wish You Were Here Pink Floyd-Another Brick in the Wall part 2 The Doors-Roadhouse Blues Lynyrd Skynyrd-Free Bird (I know, I know) Lynyrd Skynyrd-That Smell Pennywise-Bro Hymn Elvis-That's Alright Mama Elvis-Mess of Blues The Beatles-Helter Skelter The Beatles-While My Guitar Gently Weeps Led Zeppelin-Stairway To Heaven (I know, I know) Led Zeppelin-When the Levee Breaks Led Zeppelin-Bring it on Home (live from HTWWW) Led Zeppelin-In My Time of Dying Led Zeppelin-Wanton Song Led Zeppelin-Travelling Riverside Blues Led Zeppelin-Whole Lotta Love (live from HTWWW) Led Zeppelin-Achilles Last Stand Led Zeppelin-Kashmir [/list]

[rusty JEDI]

You will probably see my taste is way different from the rest of you and spreads around the genres. I have an odd thing for gimmick songs and dont care for guitar solos or other indy all about the music "im cool because i listen to stuff nobody else does" kind of stuff. Some of the stuff is just highschool party soundtracks that were played at every house/pit party i ever went to and cant get enough of. The rest is just made up of old country songs i grew up on riding around in the back seat.

1. Bare Naked Ladies...Lovers in a dangerous time
2. Crash Test Dummies...Superman song
3. Rolling Stones....Paint it black
4. Beatles...........Elanor Rigby
5. Simon. and Garfunkle...Sound of Silence
6. Sinead O'Connor.....Nothing Compares to you
7. AC DC............Fire your guns
8. AC DC............Thunderstruck
9. Tragically Hip....Long time running
10. Tragically Hip...Wheat Kings
11. Finbar Fury....New York Girls
12. Green Day......Time of your life
13. Men At work....I come from a land down under
14. Elton John.....Tiny Dancer
15. Offspring......Video killed the radio star
16. Cash/Christoferson/Nelson/some other guy....Highwayman
17. Kenny Rogers....Gambler
18. Tenacious D.....tribute
19. Johnny Cash.....almost anything
20. Metallica........Unforgiven
21. Billy Joel.....We didnt start the fire
22. Michael Jackson...Beat it
23. Tom Petty.....Last dance with Mary Jane
24. Pearl Jam.......Last Kiss
25. Pearl Jam....I can hear the song in my head but dont remember the name...One line is something like..."I wish i was a messenger and all the news was good."


Enjoy

rJ

[Jack of Arcades]

There are so many better White Stripes songs to pick. "Hotel Yorba," anyone?

[zephed56]

Which one are you complainin about? Death Letter or Hardest Button to Button?

[The Dude]

[ QUOTE ]
21. Billy Joel.....We didnt start the fire

[/ QUOTE ]
Nice. This was originally on my list, then got bumped when I thought of other bands that weren't making this when Billy Joel had 3. I really like this song, tough, so I'm rethinking my decision.

[Tosh]

Hmm so damned hard, I know this list will be nowhere reality.

1) Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under the Bridge
2) Red Hot Chili Peppers - Scar Tissue
3) Green Day - Time of your life
4) Green Day - When I Come Around
5) Green Day - Poprocks &amp; Coke
6) Metallica - Enter Sandman
7) Guns n' Roses - Welcome to the Jungle
8) The Clash - London Calling
9) The Clash - Rock the Casbah
10) Ramones - Sheena Is A Punk Rocker
11) Muse - Muscle Museum
12) Muse - Time is running out
13) Lost Prophets - Last Summer
14) Velvet Revolver - Sucker Train Blues
15) Joy Division - Love will tear us apart
16) AC/DC - Back in Black
17) New Order - Blue Monday
18) Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
19) REM - Its the end of the world as we know it
20) Buzzcocks - Ever fallen in love with someone
21) Iggy Pop - Lust for Life
22) Motorhead - Ace of Spades
23) U2 - Beautiful Day
24) Stones Roses - She Bangs The Drums
25) Radiohead - Creep

[Michael Emery]

I'm too lazy to make a top 25 list. But I will admit that I have always been obsessed with one certain song since I heard it for the first time as a child. The song is "All my life" sung by Aaron Neville and Linda Rondstat. I truly think its the most beautiful piece ever made and could listen to it forever.

Mike Emery

[GuyOnTilt]

In no particular order, and off the top of my head:

1. Blindside - Sleepwalking
2. Juliana Theory - White Days
3. Goo Goo Dolls - Iris
4. Fuel - Shimmer
5. Underoath - Some Will Seek Forgiveness, Others Escape
6. Tool - Lateralus
7. Eli - Things I Prayed For
8. Incubus - Make Yourself
9. Sevendust - Burned Out
10-15. Random Frank Sinatra songs
16. Blindside - Roads
17. Debusy - Claire de Lune
18. Chris Tomlin - Wonderful Maker
19. Jim Brickman - Angel Eyes
20. APC - 3 Libras
21. I'm so [censored] drunk right now.

GoT

[Jack of Arcades]

Eh, both? Not that I don't like them I just think there're better White Stripes songs.

[Jack of Arcades]

Shimmer didn't quite make my cut.

If I had a Tool song it'd be Aenema but Lateralus is #2.

APC Song would be a tough choice because I can never decide which is my favorite of like the ten I really like.

[zephed56]

Eh, I guess I just like those two the best.
It doesn't really matter, they make good albums that you can listen to the whole way through. That's how I prefer it.

[morgant]

nice work with Les Mis. seen it 4 times, know the whole cd by heart and can be caught wailing to it in my car on rare occasions!! i would have went with Red and Black, or Who am I

[thatpfunk]

This is really interesting to see how many people's taste in music I completely disagree with. Good topic Schneids.

Completely off the top of my head and open to suggestions because this is incredibly difficult...

1. Atmosphere- Always Coming Back Home to You
2. Joanna Newsom- Clam, Crab, Cockle, Cowrie (almost anything on Milk Eyed Mender)
3. Atmosphere- The Woman with the Tatooed Hands
4. Bright Eyes- Haligh, Haligh, a Lie, Haligh
5. Bright Eyes- Waste of Paint
6. Aesop Rock- Boombox
7. RHCP- Under the Bridge
8. Pearl Jam- Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town (live)
9. Atmosphere- Song About a Friend
10. The Cure- Pictures of You (so many to choose from... meh)
11. The Talking Heads- Sugar on My Toung
12. The Talking Heads- Once in a Lifetime
13. RJTD- Work
14. The Good Life- Album of the Year
15. Incubus- Aqueous Transmission
16. Incubus- The Warmth
17. Atmosphere- God's Bathroom Floor
18. Outkast- Git Up, Git Out
19. Pixies- Debaser
20. The Rapture- Heaven (almost anything from their cd)
21. The Smiths- Heaven KNows I'm Miserable Now
22. Weezer- Say It Ain't So
23. Oasis- What's the Story (Morning Glory)
24. Cream- White Room
25. Bob Marley- Stir It Up

Damn you Schneids, this is so hard.

[The Dude]

[ QUOTE ]

nice work with Les Mis. seen it 4 times, know the whole cd by heart and can be caught wailing to it in my car on rare occasions!! i would have went with Red and Black, or Who am I

[/ QUOTE ]
Yeah, it's really hard for me to pick one specific song from the bunch, I just wanted to get that on there. Javert songs are my favorite to sing, so I just picked one of his. Who am I is great, as is On My Own and Empty Chairs at Empty Tables.

Les Miserables is quite possibly the greatest story man has ever told. I just recently bought the unabridged version of the book, and am meaning to read it sometime in the near future.

[Duke]

According to my playcounts, most of the songs would be from X-Japan.

~D

[bukkrukk]

1. The Rolling Stones - Stray Cat Blues
2. Bob Dylan - Tangled up in blue
3. Traveling Wilburys - Handle with Care
4. The Band - The Weight
5. Bob Dylan - Idiot wind
6. Johnny Cash - Get Rythm
7. The highwaymen - Highwayman
8. John Cale - Things
9. The Rolling Stones - Get off my Cloud
10. Public Enemy - He got Game
11. The Beatles - Get back
12. Bob Marley - Easy Skanking
13. Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
14. The flying burrito brothers - Honky Tonk Women
15. The Rolling Stones - Sway
16. Gram Parsons - OOh Las Vegas
17. The Rolling Stones - Dead Flowers
18. Chaka Demus &amp; Pliers - Murder she wrote
19. Creedence Clearwater Revival - Fortunate Son
20. Springsteen - Born to Run.
21. ODB - Brooklyn Zoo
22. Capone n Noreaga - Reunion
23. Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley
24. Don Mclean - American Pie
25 ....and Neil Young - Heart of Gold

[wall_st]

[ QUOTE ]

25. Pearl Jam....I can hear the song in my head but dont remember the name...One line is something like..."I wish i was a messenger and all the news was good."

rJ

[/ QUOTE ]

wishlist

[sfer]

Wrong Belle and Sebastian song. The right answer is either Electronic Renaissance, Lazy Line Painter Jane, or Sleep the Clock Around.

[Aces McGee]

[ QUOTE ]
23. Led Zepplin - Kashmir


[/ QUOTE ]

I can't even listen to this song all the way through once without going insane. It's taken all 24 years of my life to start appreciating Led Zeppelin's other work, just because I dislike this song so much.

-McGee

[srvollmer]

Agreed!

Lazy Line Painter Jane - Belle and Sebastian
Tired of Being Alone - Al Green
California Stars - Billy Bragg and Wilco
Last Goodbye - Jeff Buckley
Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley
Whenever You See Fit - Modest Mouse + 764-HERO
Dixie Drug Store - Grant Lee Buffalo
True Dreams of Wichita - Soul Coughing
Hypnotize - Notorious B.I.G.
Major Leagues - Pavement
The Scientist - Coldplay
Emotional rescue - The Rolling Stones
I Wanna Be Adored - The Stone Roses
Age of Consent - New Order
White Man in Hammersmith Palais - The Clash
Straight to Hell - The Clash
Happiness is a Warm Gun - The Beatles
Cupid - Sam Cooke
Set You Free - The Black Keys
Nobody's Fault But Mine - Led Zeppelin
There is a Light That Never Goes Out - The Smiths
Aquemini -Outkast
Velouria - The Pixies

Man, this is hard! I'm this will change in a minute.
Cheers,
srvollmer

[srvollmer]

Quick Question:
Didn't Billy Joel sing a song called "Only the Good Die Young"? If so, how old is he?

boom

[Sheriff Fatman]

This is going to be tough - need to restrict myself to 2 max per band.

In no particular order of preference:

1) Stone Roses - This Is The One
2) Stone Roses - I Am The Resurrection
3) Pixies - Debaser
4) Pixies - Gigantic
5) Wedding Present - Brassneck
6) Wedding Present - Dalliance
7) Wedding Present - Don't Talk, Just Kiss (OK,3 max!)
8) Belle &amp; Sebastian - The Boy With The Arab Strap
9) Belle &amp; Sebastian - Woman's Realm
10) Drugstore - Accelerate
11) Drugstore - Fader
12) James - Out To Get You
13) Chumbawamba - The Day The Nazi Died
14) Delgados - Accused Of Stealing
15) Delgados - Sucrose
16) The Breeders - Saints
17) Belly - Slow Dog
18) Lou Reed - Perfect Day
19) Sex Pistols - God Save The Queen
20) The Only Ones - Another Girl, Another Planet
21) Carter USM - Sheriff Fatman
22) Carter USM - The Only Living Boy In New Cross
23) Bang Bang Machine - Geek Love
24) Pulp - Common People
25) White Stripes - 7 Nation Army

Right, done - time to send it before the inevitable rethink/change of mind/desire to re-start kicks in.

Sheriff

[freehat]

In no Particular Order

1. Gladys Knight and the Pips- Midnight Train to Georgia
2. Stevie Wonder- I was made to Love Her
3. Jackson 5- I want you back
4. Ronettes- Be by Baby
5. Beach Boys- God Only Knows
6. Rolling Stones- The Last Time
7. Kinks- Everydbody's Gonna Be Happy
8. Kinks- Picture Book
9. Yo La Tengo- Here Comes My Baby
10. Love- Alone Again Or
11. Clash- The Card Cheat
12. Cream- I Feel Free
13. Guns and Roses- Patience
14. Ray Charles- What I'd Say
15. Bjork- Venus as a Boy
16. Otis Redding- Sitting on the Dock of the Bay
17. Pretenders- Brass in Pocket
18. Elvis Costello- Alison
19. Blondie- Heart of Glass
20. Marvin Gaye &amp; Tami Terrell- Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing
21. Sly &amp; the Family Stone- Hot Fun in the Summertime
22. Big Star- When by Baby's Beside Me
23. Replacements- Alex Chilton
24. Dandy Warhols- Everyday Should be Holiday
25. Dave Brubeck- Take Five

[srvollmer]

Damn, I forgot Alex Chilton! Nice list. And I'd go with Sunday Girl by Blondie...

[freehat]

Sunday Girl, that song rules too, just missed the Cut.

[scratchy1]

Just in a quick draft i was already well over 40 so i cut all the classics beatles/stones/zeppelin/ etc

Elliott Smith- Between the Bars
Elliott Smith- Say Yes
Weezer- Only in Dreams
Weezer- Surf Wax
Metallica- One
Jimmy Eat World- Bleed American
Turtles- Happy Together
Fountains of Wayne- Radiation Vibe
Queen/David Bowie- Under Pressure
Tori Amos- Silent All These Years
Silverchair-Israel's Son
ACDC- Thunderstruck
The Cars- Just What I Needed
Counting Crows- Round Here
Smashing Pumpkins- Bullet w/Butterfly Wings
Michael Jackson- Don't Stop Til You Get Enough
Nirvana- In Bloom
Old 97s- Murder (or a heart attack)
The Prodigy- Breathe
Tom Petty- Mary Janes Last Dance… but really all TP songs
Violent Femmes- Blister in the Sun
Vanessa Carlton- White Houses
Toadies- Tyler
Coldplay-Yellow
Modest Mouse-Float On

[ClassicBob]

[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
but yet you hate the Rolling Stones? There's no songs of theirs that you like at all?

[/ QUOTE ]
Well, here's the thing. Some of their music I don't mind. But the fact that they're so popular, and yet their best music is mediocre really bugs me. I probably woudn't hate them if they weren't so popular, but they are, so I do.

[/ QUOTE ]

This sums up my hatred of U2 perfectly.

[MEbenhoe]

Man I hate you for telling me to do this. My first cut left me with about 100, then I got down to 60, then 45, then right about 32 left is when it got really hard. All in all I definitely spent about an hour coming up with this list.

Here's the top 25 in Alphabetical Order:

1. Aerosmith – Dream On
2. AFI – This Celluloid Dream
3. Avril Lavigne – I’m With You
4. Blues Traveler – Hook
5. Bush – Glycerin
6. Coldplay – I’ll See You Soon
7. Course of Nature – Caught in the Sun
8. Derrick and the Dominoes – Layla
9. Everclear – Santa Monica
10. Foo Fighters – Everlong
11. Gin Blossoms – Until I Fall Away
12. Goo Goo Dolls – Iris
13. Greenwheel – Breathe
14. Live – Lightning Crashes
15. REO Speedwagon – Time for Me to Fly
16. The Roots – The Seed 2.0
17. Scorpions – Wind of Change
18. Semisonic – Singing in My Sleep
19. Smashing Pumpkins – Disarm
20. Sublime – Same in the End
21. Trapt – Made of Glass
22. Trik Turner - Sacrifice
23. U2 – Sunday Bloody Sunday
24. Warren Zevon – Werewolves of London
25. The Who – Baba O’Riley

These are the ones that just missed in rank order:

26. Incubus – 11 AM
27. Kansas – Carry on My Wayward Son
28. Journey – Wheel in the Sky
29. Third Eye Blind - Jumper
30. Guster – Amsterdam
31. Guns N Roses – November Rain
32. Counting Crows – A Long December

My list clearly wins.

[mcb]

Off the top o my head in no order:

Bruce Springsteen - Blinded by the Light
Bruce Springsteen - Badlands
Bruce Springsteen - Brillian Disguise
Bruce Springsteen - Glory Days
Bruce Springsteen - Lucky Town
Lydyrd Skynyrd - Free Bird
Lynard Skynard- Simple Man
Jimmy Buffett - Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes
Jimmy Buffet - Last Mango in Paris
Steve Miller Band - Serenade
Steve Miller Band - Swingtown
Led Zeppelin - Kashmir
Led Zeppelin - Immigrant Song
Fleetwood Mac - The Chain
Fleetwood Mac - Don't Stop
Frank Sinatra - My Way
Whitesnake - Here I Go Again
B.B. King and Eric Clapton - Riding With the King
David Bowie - Under Pressure
Bob Dylan - Hurricane
Blue Oyster Cult - Debbie Denise
Styx - Come Sail Away
The Eagles - Hotel California
Guns N Roses - Welcome to the Jungle
John Mellencamp - Your Life Is Now

I'm sure once I get to listening to my playlist I will have left out some of my other favorites.. Oh well /images/graemlins/laugh.gif

[ClassicBob]

You have an Avril Lavigne song.

gj

[MicroBob]

Now THAT'S a pretty nifty list!!

Thanks for giving me something to do during my marathon sesion. I can't believe the number of songs I haven't heard in awhile that I suddenly remembered for no apparent reason.

Some of these are a bit obscure, others are a bit hokey...but FWIW:


1. Sympathy for the Devil - rolling stones
2. Where the streets have no name - U2
3. Joy - the Sundays
4. Gloria - Shadows of Knight
5. i feel the Earth - Carole King
6. It's different for Girls - joe jackson
7. Emaline - Ben Folds (either studio or live-ballad version)
8. Stars - Hum
9. Under the Milky Way - The Church
10. Friendly Advice - Luna
11. India - Psychedelic Furs
12. White Lies - Bettie Serveert
13. Co-Coward/Heaven - Bettie serveert
14. Things - Paul Westerburg
15. Bittersweet - Big Head Todd and the Monsters
16. Walk on the Wild Side - Sweet Jane
17. Away - The feelies
18. Rock and Roll - Velvet underground
19. Heavy Metal Drummer - Wilco
20. LA Woman - The Doors
21. One Of these Things First - Nick Drake
22. She is Mine - Psychedelic Furs
23. Save it for Later - English Beat
24. Can't Find my way Home - Blind Faith
25. So Close - The Darling Buds


I'm sure I missed a couple.

Just missed making the cut (or...the beginning of the 2nd 25):

Lawyers, Guns and Money - Warren Zevon
Is she really going out with him? - Joe Jackson
Crush - Lazy
Lust for Life - Iggy Pop
I Don't Sleep (I drink Coffe Instead) - Brenda Kahn
Sleepwalking - brenda Kahn
Positively Lost Me - The Rave Ups
If - Coyote Shivers
lost in the Supermarket - The Clash
Crimson and Clover - tommy James and the Shondells
Roxanne - The Police

[pootle]

This was hard! Here's mine...

1. Donovan - Get Thy Bearings
2. Marlena Shaw - California Soul
3. Dave Clarke - Wisdom to the Wise
4. Pete Rock and CL Smooth - T.R.O.Y.
5. Handsome Boy Modelling School - The Truth
6. Future Sound Of London - Papua New Guinea
7. DJ Shadow - Midnight In a Perfect World
8. Main Source - Live at the BBQ
9. Sex Pistols - EMI
10. Orbital - Chime
11. Burning Spear - civilise Reggae
12. Ahmad Jamal - Wave
13. Stone Roses - This Is The One
14. Marvin Gaye - Whats Happening Brother
15. Dr. Ocatagon - 3000
16. Public Enemy - Night of the Living Baseheads
17. Big Black - Kerosene
18. dbx - Losing Control
19. Hodges, James, Smith and Crawford - Nobody
20. Robert Johnson - Hellhound On My Trail
21. Slo Moshun - Bells Of New York
22. Tim "Love" Lee - Again Son
23. Jimi Hendrix - Little Wing
24. Air - All I Need
25. APhex Twin - Xtal

[MEbenhoe]

[ QUOTE ]
You have an Avril Lavigne song.

[/ QUOTE ]

Yes I do, point?

[ClassicBob]

Hey, if you can live with yourself listening to a lame poseur as one of your only 25 songs for the rest of your life, more power to you. But you can't claim that your list "wins."

[MEbenhoe]

[ QUOTE ]
Hey, if you can live with yourself listening to a lame poseur as one of your only 25 songs for the rest of your life, more power to you. But you can't claim that your list "wins."

[/ QUOTE ]

When picking my list I didnt sit around thinking about the image of each artist/band. Rather I just picked 25 songs that I enjoy on my playlist. And whether or not you think she's a "lame poser" the girl can sing and makes some decent music.

P.S. Post your top 25 so I can pick it apart /images/graemlins/tongue.gif

[MicroBob]

I'm seeing a few Stone roses references out there (Sheriff Fatman and others).


I really was into them HUGE in college. It's likely that the only reason I'm not adding them to my list is because I listened to them SO much...over and over and over...that I finally wore-out on them.

This is the One and I am the Resurrection are solid selections though.

[ClassicBob]

I'm sure I have songs that I'd be embarrased to admit that I like. My problem wasn't so much that you had an Avril song, but that you claimed that a list with an Avril song "wins", better than any other list out there. I find this invalid.

As far as my top 25 list? I agree with the above poster who said if I have to only have 25 songs, I'd rather not listen to music. Also, it would probably take me just as long as it took you to come up with a top 25.

[srvollmer]

Crimson and Clover and Is She Really going Out With Him. Both fantastic in their own right! Damn, can...only...choose...25!

By the way, if you're a JOe Jackson fan, did you know he is touring with Todd Rundgren?

[johnnycakes]

[ QUOTE ]

3. June of 44, "Of Information and Belief"


[/ QUOTE ]

Hot damn! I haven't listened to that album in years. Time to do some downloading.

[johnnycakes]

I love doing these things.

This was hard. I limited my list to one song per artist.

Guided by Voices - Game of Pricks
Beatles - I Will
Simon &amp; Garfunkle - So Long Frank LLoyd Wright
Bonnie "Prince" Billy - New Partner
Pixies - Alec Eiffel
Drive-by Truckers - Love Like This
Archers of Loaf - Underdogs of Nipomo
Jackson C Frank - Blues Run the Game
Neutral Milk Hotel - Holland 1945
Magnetic Fields - Come Back From San Francisco
Big Star - Thirteen
Miles Davis - Blue into Green
Elliott Smith - Waltz #2
MF Doom (Vik Vaughn) - Saliva
Jackson 5 - I want you back
Jim O'Rourke - Halfway to a Threeway
New Pornographers - Letter to an Occupant
Pavement - Cut Your Hair
Grandaddy - Nonphenomenal Lineage
Son Volt - Windfall
The Smiths - There Is a Light That Never Goes Out
Beach Boys - Wouldn't It Be Nice
Electric Light Orchestar - Mr. Blue Sky
M. Ward - Undertaker
The Mountain Goats - No Children

[sfer]

Great list duder. I love Waltz #2 and I have There is a Light playing right now. I also think this is the first mentions for Pavement, Bonnie Prince Billy, Jim O'Rourke and the New Pornographers.

[Phoenix1010]

Fun!

1. Tool- H
2. Tool- Schism
3. Tool- Lateralus
4. A Perfect Circle- 3 Libras
5. Led Zeppelin- Achilles Last Stand
6. Led Zeppelin- Ramble On
7. Pink FLoyd- Us and Them
8. Pink Floyd- Comfortably Numb
9. Pink Floyd- Wish You Were Here
10. Weezer- Say It Ain't So
11. Kenny Rogers- The Gambler
12. Linkin Park- My December
13. Tupac- Only God Can Judge Me
14. Green Day- When I Come Around
15. Red Hot Chili Peppers- Soul to Squeeze
16. O.A.R.- Crazy Game of Poker
17. Sublime- 40 oz. to Freedom
18. Sublime- Santeria
19. Notorious BIG- Juicy
20. Notorious BIG- Notorious Thugs
21. Tupac- Trapped
22. Atmosphere- Gotta Love Walls
23. The Rolling Stones- Paint it Black
24. Coldplay- The Scientist
25. Bush- Glycerine

[Sponger15SB]

[ QUOTE ]
Great list duder. I love Waltz #2 and I have There is a Light playing right now. I also think this is the first mentions for Pavement, Bonnie Prince Billy, Jim O'Rourke and the New Pornographers.

[/ QUOTE ]

So are we going to hear your list or are you stille busy whittling it down from 50,000 songs?

[srvollmer]

I had Pavement. Not that it matters...
And that's the Smiths song I used. Well done man.

One more thing, I Want You Back was probably my number 26.

[Sheriff Fatman]

I wanted to find space for Pavement (probably Carrot Rope) but 25 is just too damned tight! A few others fell by the wayside for similar reasons.

Sheriff

[Jack of Arcades]

Waltz #2 is amazing. New Pornographers are great, too, but I couldn't pinpoint a specific song. There's like 10 or so that I'd want.

[MicroBob]

Yeah..I need to see when and where he's performing.

Mar, 2003 they had the reunion of the Joe Jackson Band and I drove 6 hours to New Orleans (with very little cash to my name at the time) to see the show.
Have seen Joe Jackson 3 times now...fantastic shows obviously.

[sfer]

I don't have one. It changes too much depending on my mood.

[rusty JEDI]

[ QUOTE ]

13) Chumbawamba - The Day The Nazi Died

Sheriff

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The definition of one hit wonder and you dont even pick their one hit.

rJ

[Sponger15SB]

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I don't have one. It changes too much depending on my mood.

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Damn, well I guess there goes my "You've got 50,000 songs and you picked THAT CRAP as your 25!" joke.

[IndieMatty]

1) Wilco - Reservations
2) Wilco - Theologions
3) Broken Social Scene - KC Accidental
4) Gravediggazz - Trippin
5) Billy Joel - Goodnight Saigon
6) Sunny Day Real Estate - Guitars and Videogames
7) Sunny Day Real Estate - Circles
8) Sunny Day Real Estate - Seven
9) Quicksand - Landmine Spring
10) At The Drive In - Invalid Litter Dept.
11) Beach Boys - I know theres an Answer
12) Magnetic Fields - Papa Was a Rolling Stone
13) Mogwai/Manic Street Preachers - You Stole the Sun From My Smile
14) Centaur - Wait for the Sun
15) Explosions in the Sky - TimeStops
16) Deftones - Get Bored
17) Silent Majority - Cross Crowded Rooms
18) Weezer - El Scorcho
19) Mind Over Matter - Hectic Thinking
20) Radiohead - National Anthem
21) Morrissey - Last of the Famous International Playboys
22) Minus The Bear - Thanks for the Killer Game of Crisco® Twister
23) Modest Mouse - Teeth Like God's Shoeshine
24) Mosest Mouse - Third Planet
25) My old hs/college/hc band - our last song, "Compliance".


I already want to change this, but this is off the top of my head.

[rusty JEDI]

All most all of the rock anthems from 95-98




[ QUOTE ]
Man I hate you for telling me to do this. My first cut left me with about 100, then I got down to 60, then 45, then right about 32 left is when it got really hard. All in all I definitely spent about an hour coming up with this list.

Here's the top 25 in Alphabetical Order:

1. Aerosmith – Dream On
2. AFI – This Celluloid Dream
3. Avril Lavigne – I’m With You
4. Blues Traveler – Hook
5. Bush – Glycerin
6. Coldplay – I’ll See You Soon
7. Course of Nature – Caught in the Sun
8. Derrick and the Dominoes – Layla
9. Everclear – Santa Monica
10. Foo Fighters – Everlong
11. Gin Blossoms – Until I Fall Away
12. Goo Goo Dolls – Iris
13. Greenwheel – Breathe
14. Live – Lightning Crashes
15. REO Speedwagon – Time for Me to Fly
16. The Roots – The Seed 2.0
17. Scorpions – Wind of Change
18. Semisonic – Singing in My Sleep
19. Smashing Pumpkins – Disarm
20. Sublime – Same in the End
21. Trapt – Made of Glass
22. Trik Turner - Sacrifice
23. U2 – Sunday Bloody Sunday
24. Warren Zevon – Werewolves of London
25. The Who – Baba O’Riley

These are the ones that just missed in rank order:

26. Incubus – 11 AM
27. Kansas – Carry on My Wayward Son
28. Journey – Wheel in the Sky
29. Third Eye Blind - Jumper
30. Guster – Amsterdam
31. Guns N Roses – November Rain
32. Counting Crows – A Long December

My list clearly wins.

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[rickthekeg]

Here's the 25 best songs on my computer, not to be confused with my 25 favorite songs.

Better Than Ezra - Desperately Wanting
Billy Idol - White Wedding
Bon Jovi - Livin on a Prayer
BTO - Let It Ride
Command and Conquer Red Alert - Hell March
Def Leppard - Pour Some Sugar on Me
Def Leppard - Foolin
Drivin n Cryin - Fly Me Courageous
Duran Duran - Ordinary World
Eagles - Heartache Tonight
Eric Clapton - Layla
Foo Fighters - Everlong
Freddie Jones Band - In a Daydream
Gerry Raferty - Baker Street
Golden Earring - Twilight Zone
Incubus - Megalomaniac
Lenny Kravitz - Are You Gonna Go My Way
Marshall Tucker Band - Heard it in a Love Song
Pink Floyd - Run Like Hell
The Cult - Fire Woman
The Who - Wont Get Fooled Again
Three Dog Night - Mama Told Me Not to Come
Velvet Revolver - You Had No Right
White Stripes - Hotel Yorba

[Sheriff Fatman]

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[ QUOTE ]

13) Chumbawamba - The Day The Nazi Died

Sheriff

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The definition of one hit wonder and you dont even pick their one hit.

rJ

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I first saw Chumbawamba in 1992, long before Tubthumper came out. Much as I was glad (and amazed!) to finally see them have a hit, it was by no means one of their better songs.

'Nazi', on the other hand, should be compulsory listening in all schools.

Sheriff

[Paluka]

1) Apparently, I'm a "P.C. Fascist"- Propaghandi
2) Good Morning, Captain- Slint
3) Angel of Death- Slayer
4) Panasonic Youth- Dillinger Escape Plan
5) Cashout- Fugazi
6) Locust Star- Neurosis
7) The Saddest Day- Converge
8) No One Else- Weezer
9) The Reasons- The Weakerthans
10) 2+2=5- Radiohead
11) Billy- Bad Religion
12) Where is My Mind?- The Pixies
13) Double Edge Sword- Neurosis

That is what I have for now, picking Pixes, Fugazi and Bad Religion songs is not easy I love so many.

[Ulysses]

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ni han

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I think 20-30% of Diablo's posts are just trying to point out the inconsistancy/error in someone else's post.

Pretty weak if you ask me.

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You're wrong. Only 10-15%.

[istewart]

The Stones absolutely have to have songs there. Exile on Main Street should be on everyone's top 5 albums ever list. And Billy Joel is absolute trash.

There would be too much aforementioned Zeppelin on my list to make it interesting for the rest of my life.

[Ulysses]

I find this task near impossible.

[Sponger15SB]

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ni han

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I think 20-30% of Diablo's posts are just trying to point out the inconsistancy/error in someone else's post.

Pretty weak if you ask me.

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You're wrong. Only 10-15%.

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So is ^ post included in your numbers?

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[Schneids]

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I find this task near impossible.

[/ QUOTE ]

It's not brain surgery just make some damn choices and stop being a finicky indecisive female.

[Ulysses]

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ni han

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I think 20-30% of Diablo's posts are just trying to point out the inconsistancy/error in someone else's post.

Pretty weak if you ask me.

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You're wrong. Only 10-15%.

[/ QUOTE ]

So is ^ post included in your numbers?

Or is it really like 10.1 - 15.1% /images/graemlins/tongue.gif

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You are an order of magnitude off in your math.

[sfer]

[ QUOTE ]
Beach Boys - I know theres an Answer

[/ QUOTE ]

There's another version with slightly different lyrics floating around called Hang on to Your Ego that I like a little more, largely because I've listened to it less and it's newer to me.

[srvollmer]

Damn, good call on Sunny Day Real Estate.

[Piiop]

Tough to make a list cuz it would change so much depending on my mood. Anyway, this is what I'm coming up with now.

1. Pink Floyd - Sheep
2. Pink Floyd - Dogs
3. Led Zeppelin - Heartbreaker
4. Led Zeppelin - Achilles Last Stand
5. Santana - Samba Pa Ti
6. ELO - Mr. Blue Sky
7. GnR - November Rain
8. Hendrix - Gypsy Eyes
9. Hendrix - Highway Child
10. Hendrix - Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)
11. SRV - Little Wing
12. John Mayall - Room to Move
13. Phish - First Tube
14. Led Zeppelin - Trampled Underfoot
15. Led Zeppelin - Over the Hills and Far Away
16. Beatles - Happiness is a Warm Gun
18. Modest Mouse - Bankrupt on Selling
19. Modest Mouse - Cowboy Dan
20. Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond
21. Big Star - Thirteen
22. Clapton - Layla
23. Clapton - Bell Bottom Blues
24. Flaming Lips - Fight Test
25. Allman Brothers Band - Sweet Melissa

[BeerMoney]

1.) Down In a Hole -- Alice in Chains
2.) Would -- Alice in Chains
3.) Mrs. Potter's Lullaby -- Counting Crows
4.) Southern Cross-- Crosby Stills &amp; Nash
5.) Mr. Jones -- Counting Crows
6.) Nutshell -- Alice in Chains
7.) One -- U2
8.) Nightmoves -- Bob Seger
9.) Baby Can I Hold You -- Tracy Chapman
10.) Mudshovel -- Staind
11.) Hero of the Day -- Metallica
12.) Whatever -- Godsmack
13.) Fields of Gold -- Sting
14.) Operator -- Jim Croce
15.) Fell on Black Days -- Soundgarden
16.) Photograph -- Def Leppard
17.) Wildside -- Motley Crue
18.) Patience -- GNR
19.) Learning to Fly -- Tom Petty
20.) Ramble On -- Led Zepplin
21.) Salisbury Hill -- Peter Gabriel
22.) The Boxer -- Simon and Garfunkle
23.) No More I Love Yous-- Annie Lennox
24.) Can't Truss it -- PE
25.) Two Step -- DMB

[sfer]

[ QUOTE ]
Modest Mouse - Bankrupt on Selling

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A great one. One of my faves.

[IndieMatty]

Fuck, he has a good one with Cowboy Dan too. I want to change my list again.

[mmbt0ne]

Damn you. I spent an hour and a half on this.

311 - Beautiful Disaster
Beach Boys - Wouldn't it be Nice
Beatles - She Came in Through the Bathroom Window
Black Crowes - She Talks to Angels
Blink 182 - Dammit
Boy Hits Car - I'm a Cloud
Coheed and Cambria - Delerium Trigger
Coldplay - Trouble
The Cranberries - Zombie
The Cure - Pictures of You
Deftones - Change (In The House of Flies)
Elton John - Tiny Dancer
Foo Fighters - My Hero
Incubus - A Certain Shade of Green
Incubus - Summer Romance (Ant-Gravity Love Song)
Jackson 5 - I Want You Back
Mighty Mighty Bosstones - Bronzing the Garbage
Oasis - Wonderwall
OutKast - Da Art of Storytellin' (Both count as 1)
Phantom Planet - The Local Black and Red
Radiohead - Karma Police
Rage Against The Machine - Bulls on Parade
Reel Big Fish - The Setup
Sublime - Santeria
Weezer - Say it Ain't So

Just Missing the Cut

Foo Fighters - Everlong
Gorillaz - 5-4
Hey Mercedes - Quality Revenge at Last
Talib Kweli - Around My Way
Thursday - Jet Black New Year
Tool - The Grudge

[Schneids]

[ QUOTE ]
Boy Hits Car - I'm a Cloud

[/ QUOTE ]

Wow I thought I was the only person on the planet that liked this song.

[istewart]

Alright, back from class. Here goes.

1) The Flaming Lips - Fight Test
2) The Rolling Stones - Loving Cup
3) The Beatles - I Am the Walrus
4) The Beatles - While My Guitar Gently Weeps
5) Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven
6) Led Zeppelin - The Wanton Song
7) Led Zeppelin - The Rover
8) Pink Floyd - Time
9) Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
10) The Shins - New Slang
11) The Zombies - Hung Up On a Dream
12) Belle and Sebastian - Me and the Major
13) Boston - More Than a Feeling
14) Cream - White Room
15) REM - Losing my Religion
16) Neil Young and Crazy Horse - Southern Man
17) New Pornographers - From Blown Speakers
18) Derek and the Dominos - Little Wing
19) Joe Satriani - Starry Night
20) Dream Theater - Beyond This Life
21) Pixies - Where Is My Mind?
22) Rage Against the Machine - Wake Up
23) Radiohead - The Bends
24) Radiohead - Street Spirit (Fade Out)
25) Radiohead - Climbing Up the Walls

[mmbt0ne]

It was that, or As I Watch the Sun Fu[/b]ck the Ocean. I just think I'm a Cloud has more energy.

[Sponger15SB]

[ QUOTE ]
Damn you. I spent an hour and a half on this.


[/ QUOTE ]

Really? You should have spent longer...sheesh.....

jk, some good songs.

[ QUOTE ]

Blink 182 - Dammit

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I like Blink182, however I've grown to hate almost all of their popular songs.

[ QUOTE ]

Incubus - summer romance


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finally someone mentions my favorite incubus song!

[Ulysses]

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The Cranberries - Zombie


[/ QUOTE ]

[ QUOTE ]

Just Missing the Cut

Foo Fighters - Everlong
Gorillaz - 5-4
Hey Mercedes - Quality Revenge at Last
Talib Kweli - Around My Way
Thursday - Jet Black New Year
Tool - The Grudge

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Tragic.

[mmbt0ne]

Oh yeah, and another cool thing, I've played the guitar BHC recorded those songs with. Over the summer when they broke up, the guitarist was selling all his stuff hella cheap and my friend bought the guitar and case for like $400. We were gonna get both of them for $640 and then each take one, but I couldn't come up with the money in time.

[MEbenhoe]

[ QUOTE ]

Just Missing the Cut

Foo Fighters - Everlong


[/ QUOTE ]

This is inexcuseable

[mmbt0ne]

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Just Missing the Cut

Foo Fighters - Everlong


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This is inexcuseable

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I like My Hero a little more than Everlong, and I couldn't bring myself to double up on 2 artists in the top 25 songs. I like the two Incubus songs better combined than the Foo Fighter songs combined.

[sfer]

I'm going to cull one together based on the playlist I've got for right now--hopefully songs that haven't been mentioned before. If I have to do this again in 20 minutes the list would be like 90% different. Shuffle is your friend.

1. History Lesson, Pt 2: Minutemen
2. Absolutely Sweet Marie: Bob Dylan
3. Gene Autry: Beulah
4. Love Comes in Spurts: Richard Hell and the Voidoids
5. You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory: Johnny Thunders
6. Roadrunner: The Modern Lovers
7. This Charming Man: The Smiths
8. This Must Be the Place: Talking Heads
9. Sloop John B: The Beach Boys
10. Mr. Brownstone: GnR
11. Within Your Reach: The Replacements
12. Clampdown: The Clash
13. Sister Ray: VU
14. Here Comes Your Man: The Pixies
15. I Want You to Want Me: Cheap Trick
16. Your Cover's Blown: Belle &amp; Sebastian
17. Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle: Nirvana
18. What's the World Got in Store: Wilco
19. Trailer Trash: Modest Mouse
20. El Caminos in the West: Grandaddy
21. Coffee &amp; TV: Blur
22. Bled White: Elliot Smith
23. Stella was a Diver and She's Always Down: Interpol
24. Up the Junction: Squeeze
25. Goodbye Stranger: Supertramp

[Piiop]

Heh, yeah I'm a big Modest Mouse fan. 3rd Planet, Doin the Cockroach, World at Large, and Trailer Trash might've all made the list on a different day. Float On and Ocean Breathes Salty too.

[sfer]

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Heh, yeah I'm a big Modest Mouse fan. 3rd Planet, Doin the Cockroach, World at Large, and Trailer Trash might've all made the list on a different day.

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HAHA! I CLAIM TRAILER TRASH!

[offTopic]

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ni han

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I think 20-30% of Diablo's posts are just trying to point out the inconsistancy/error in someone else's post.

Pretty weak if you ask me.

[/ QUOTE ]

It's "Carry On Wayward Son".

[Sponger15SB]

[ QUOTE ]
I'm going to cull one together based on the playlist I've got for right now--hopefully songs that haven't been mentioned before. If I have to do this again in 20 minutes the list would be like 90% different. Shuffle is your friend.

[/ QUOTE ]
I've heard of maybe 5 of these songs

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15. I Want You to Want Me: Cheap Trick

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Gayest. Song. Ever.

[Shajen]

[ QUOTE ]
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I'm going to cull one together based on the playlist I've got for right now--hopefully songs that haven't been mentioned before. If I have to do this again in 20 minutes the list would be like 90% different. Shuffle is your friend.

[/ QUOTE ]
I've heard of maybe 5 of these songs

[ QUOTE ]
15. I Want You to Want Me: Cheap Trick

[/ QUOTE ]
Gayest. Song. Ever.

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Obviously you have 0 taste in music.

Don't [censored] on my formative years, and I'll leave yours alone too.

(That means you get to keep the bon jovi and poison)

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[sfer]

Actually, YMCA is the gayest song ever, and even This Charming Man is much more gay. Do you see why?

[IndieMatty]

Coffee and TV...well played.

[IndieMatty]

Magnetic Fields - Papa was a Rodeo

[IndieMatty]

Trail Trash is great, I've been on a Summertime kick too. God, what a great band.

[ibankonu]

[ QUOTE ]
Hey Mercedes - Quality Revenge at Last

[/ QUOTE ]

Great song, but picking a single song from this CD is almost an injustice to the CD.

[mmbt0ne]

Thank God someone else here likes them. I tried really hard to get it down to one song per band, an they were definitely the hardest.

[srvollmer]

Have you heard the song Whenever You See Fit? It was only released on 12" as a collaboration with 764-HERO. It is the most amazing MM song around. And...it's around 15 minutes long. It sounds as if you like their earlier stuff, so you may want to look this one up.

[private joker]

[ QUOTE ]
Wrong Belle and Sebastian song. The right answer is either Electronic Renaissance, Lazy Line Painter Jane, or Sleep the Clock Around.

[/ QUOTE ]

All acceptable. Others that barely missed the cut were Dirty Dream #2, I'm Waking Up To Us, and Get Me Away From Here I'm Dying.

I too couldn't decide on a New Pornographers song, but it might have been The Laws Have Changed.

Sheriff -- 3 Wedding Present songs, and none of them are Kennedy? Are you daft?

I was glad to see James represented later on. Though I'd have picked Lost a Friend or Laid.

My Stone Roses entry would have been Elephant Stone, probably just for those three drum beats in the chorus.

[srvollmer]

Yes, good choice. Although, I'm a huge fan of On Your Own and End of a Century

[IndieMatty]

Unrelated, but I'd like to add Elliott Smith - Needle in the Hay and Kings of Convenience - Failure to my list. I'd figure I'd reply to you PJ.

[Sheriff Fatman]

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Sheriff -- 3 Wedding Present songs, and none of them are Kennedy? Are you daft?

[/ QUOTE ]

I'm fairly certain it wouldn't make my top 10 of Wedding Present songs, and I still love it! Picking 3 was nearly as hard as restricting myself to 2 Pixies songs.

Sheriff

[sfer]

Eating noodles in the East Village the other day (Ramen!) Range Life by Pavement played on the stereo. I should have included that.

[Lumpy]

A lot of great songs have been mentioned already.

I would have to add some shoegazer greats to the list
Catherine Wheel - Black Metallic
Swervedriver - Duel

Probably have to get at least one Buzzcocks song in there also.

[Lumpy]

Sure, make me sit and read that whole damn avatar!! Nice job!

[J_V]

I think it's a bad thing, but I have similar tastes as you. I don't think any of these songs makes my top 25 though. I'm sure the music guru's wouldn't have much nice to say about our lists.

[IndieMatty]

It..doesn't...end.

Good job with swervedriver.

[sfer]

Best. Avatar. Ever.

[Frogistador]

I'll play too. Either Rock is dead or I'm dead because I have a hard time thinking of great recent songs.

My lazy ass list of timeless music:

All songs from Van Morrison's Astral Weeks
All songs except one from Bob Dylan's Blood on the Tracks
half the songs from Gram Parsons's GP and Grievous Angel
Rolling Stones Gimme Shelter for the Rolling Stones haters out there
White Stripes Ball and Biscuit because I'd like to hear that song real loud right now.

That's about 25. Clearly, I'm a whole album/CD kind of guy.

[thatpfunk]

[ QUOTE ]
Les Miserables is quite possibly the greatest story man has ever told. I just recently bought the unabridged version of the book, and am meaning to read it sometime in the near future.

[/ QUOTE ]

That is a bold, bold statement dude. You have some reading to do.

[MEbenhoe]

[ QUOTE ]
Les Miserables is quite possibly the greatest story man has ever told. I just recently bought the unabridged version of the book, and am meaning to read it sometime in the near future.

[/ QUOTE ]

This story is magnificent. Haven't read it in a few years though. You may have inspired me to pick it up for a reread.

[The Dude]

[ QUOTE ]

Les Miserables is quite possibly the greatest story man has ever told. I just recently bought the unabridged version of the book, and am meaning to read it sometime in the near future.
That is a bold, bold statement dude.

[/ QUOTE ]
I hope your referring to my latter statement, not the former.

[thatpfunk]

[ QUOTE ]
Les Miserables is quite possibly the greatest story man has ever told.

[/ QUOTE ]

[Ulysses]

OK, first off, I think that the specific criteria you listed - "only 25 songs for the rest of your life" results in a different list from "25 best songs" or "25 favorite songs." My lists would be very different for all three, but I think some people's lists here were more appropriate for a favorite or best list.

Having said that, here's my list. It's far from complete or correct, but I had a couple of hours of driving to do today and thought about this. These are vaguely arranged by category. For some artists, I've listed an alternate pick where I was really on the fence. Some artists could potentially have quite a few alternates. Someone good at counting might also notice that I have a couple of extra songs. Oh well. I put a period in front of the five I think I would drop, but I'm not sure.

led zeppelin - hey hey what can i do
the beatles - let it be (hey jude)
the band - the weight
eric clapton - wonderful tonight
.bob dylan - knockin' on heaven's door

marvin gaye - let's get it on
al green - tired of being alone

stevie ray vaughan - life by the drop (the sky is crying)
def leppard - photograph
guns n' roses - estranged (sweet child o' mine)
the cult - she sells sanctuary
.rancid - salvation
pixies - where is my mind (hey)

nirvana - smells like teen spirit (lithium)
pearl jam - yellow ledbetter (dissident)
counting crows - mr jones (rain king)
white stripes - you're pretty good looking
coldplay - clocks

bob schneider - big blue sea
dog's eye view - what i know now (prince's favorite son)
old 97's - king of all of the world (question)
.rhett miller - come around

.natalie imbruglia - torn
garbage - only happy when it rains
sarah mclachlan - possession

beastie boys - sabotage
lo fidelity allstars - battleflag
bran van 3000 - forest (problems)
.moby (f. gwen stefani) - south side (bodyrock)
rob d - clubbed to death

OK, I just read through the other picks. I have now added ten more songs. My 25 would come from this group of 40.

clash - train in vain
ramones - i wanna be sedated
urge overkill - heaven 90210 (sister havana)
red hot chili peppers - under the bridge
lynyrd skynrd - sweet home alabama
oasis - married with children (wonderwall)
ccr - fortunate son (proud mary)
otis redding - sittin' on the dock of the bay
everclear - santa monica (strawberry)
police - every breath you take

[turnipmonster]

here's mine in no particular order:

1) houses on the hill - whiskeytown
2) untouchable face - ani difranco
3) hang gliding - maria schnedier
4) black balloon - goo goo dolls
5) painted from memory - elvis costello
6) mayreh - art blakey (clifford brown's solo break is the most joyful thing I think I've ever heard)
7) blue room - ella fitzgerald
8) my romance - bill evans
9 I don't wanna be kissed - miles davis
10 - 14)a love supreme - john coltrane
15) my ship - jacky terrason
16) aguas de marco - jobim y regina
17) you make it easy - air
18) ellenville - ben monder
19) walk away - bad religion
20) evanescense - maria schneider
21) allegrese - maria s.
22) dissolution maria s.
23) just like heaven - cure
24) disconnected - face to face
25) I still have that other girl - elvis costello

[Piiop]

[ QUOTE ]
stevie ray vaughan - life by the drop

[/ QUOTE ]

Came very close to making my earlier list, good choice.

[offTopic]

Off the top, and I tended towards longer songs, since I'll be listening to them until I die...

In no particular order (obviously)

- Beatles - A Day In The Life
- Pink Floyd - Pigs (Three Different Ones)
- John Coltrane - My Favorite Things (kudos to whoever pointed that one out)
- Spinners - They Just Can't Stop It (The Games People Play)
- Dave Matthews Band - Warehouse
- Horace Silver - Que Pasa
- Stevie Wonder - Sir Duke
- Metallica - One
- Foo Fighters - Everlong
- Simon &amp; Garfunkel - The Sounds of Silence
- Derek and the Dominoes - Layla
- Paul McCartney &amp; Wings - Band on the Run
- Genesis - In The Cage
- U2 - Two Hearts Beat As One
- Fleetwood Mac - The Chain
- Led Zeppelin - Achilles Last Stand
- Aretha Franklin - (You Make Me Feel Like A) Natural Woman
- Dave Brubeck - Blue Rondo A La Turk
- Steely Dan - Rikki Don't Lose That Number
- Carly Simon - Nobody Does It Better
- Third Eye Blind - Semicharmed Life
- Alice In Chains - Would?
- Dire Straits - Once Upon A Time In The West
- Ennio Morricone - The Ecstasy of Gold
- Rush - La Villa Strangiato

[Ulysses]

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- Foo Fighters - Everlong


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I am really surprised this is making so many lists. I am a big Foo Fighters fan, but they just didn't have any that I felt I couldn't do better w/ other rock songs. I wonder if they would have been picked as much had Schneids not listed them in his picks.

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- Alice In Chains - Would?

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So close to having an Alice in Chains song in my list. They just missed. I was very seriously considering Got Me Wrong.

[Sponger15SB]

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Having said that, here's my list.

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This is a great list because you really include a lot of different styles of music over a span of many decades....


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eric clapton - wonderful tonight

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turn this on, any girls panties drop

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marvin gaye - let's get it on
ccr - fortunate son (proud mary)


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I was really close to putting "lets get it on" in my list, however I went with CCR's version of heard it through the grapevine. So, I couldn't really include another CCR song.

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guns n' roses - estranged (sweet child o' mine)

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my biggest regret was not putting a GNR song on my list. sweet child of mine and november rain are both incredible incredible songs.

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nirvana - smells like teen spirit (lithium)

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meh. but i understand

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counting crows - mr jones (rain king)

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when I think of the 90's I think of this song.

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natalie imbruglia - torn

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catchy, but I'd take vanessa carlson as the best soft popish female artist any day


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beastie boys - sabotage

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the beastie boys are the best bad band ever. i love them.

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oasis - married with children (wonderwall)

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me and my friends have a video of all of us drunk as [censored] singing this song together, classic

[MEbenhoe]

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OK, first off, I think that the specific criteria you listed - "only 25 songs for the rest of your life" results in a different list from "25 best songs" or "25 favorite songs." My lists would be very different for all three...

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Very true, as would be the same for my list. A few songs that rank high on my best songs or favorite songs list were left on the wayside for this very reason.

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bob dylan - knockin' on heaven's door

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Was there a reason you chose this version? It was first but definitely not the best. This is like taking the Dylan version of All Along the Watchtower.

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pixies - where is my mind

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Such a good pick. This song made my first cut but was eventually dropped.

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urge overkill - heaven 90210 (sister havana)

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/images/graemlins/shocked.gif "Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon" maybe? That one almost made my list.

[MEbenhoe]

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- Foo Fighters - Everlong


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I am really surprised this is making so many lists. I am a big Foo Fighters fan, but they just didn't have any that I felt I couldn't do better w/ other rock songs. I wonder if they would have been picked as much had Schneids not listed them in his picks.

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I think it has more something to do with the fact that this is pretty much the best rock song in the last decade.

[Ulysses]

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bob dylan - knockin' on heaven's door

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Was there a reason you chose this version? It was first but definitely not the best. This is like taking the Dylan version of All Along the Watchtower.

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I pretty much agree. Here is the thing. I wanted some Dylan. I wanted Knockin' on Heaven's Door. I felt like when I pared down my list, I couldn't do both. So I compromised. But I suspect that might result in it not making the final 25. Also problematic is the fact that I don't think I can really go w/ GnR or Clapton because I prefer multiple other songs by them and it will really take a special circumstance for me to repeat artists when I can barely fit in genres - ideally I would add some jazz, classical, R&amp;B/hip-hop.

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urge overkill - heaven 90210 (sister havana)

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/images/graemlins/shocked.gif "Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon" maybe? That one almost made my list.

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I just like both of those songs better.

However, note that my picks weren't necessarily my favorite songs from each artist. I was trying to balance out the styles. So, I might prefer a hard-rockin' song from some artist, but pick a more mellow song because other artists have hard-rockin' songs I prefer more.

[Asufiji2004]

1. Goo Goo Dolls - Name
2. Third Eye Blind - How's it gonna be
3. Tupac - Shed so many tears
4. Tupac - Temptations
5. Tool - Stinkfist
6. Bad Company - Feel like makin love
7. Dr. Dre - Lyrical Gangbang
8. Duran Duran - Come Undone
9 Elton John - Capt. Fantastic and the brown dirty cowboy
10. Elton John - I guess that's why they call it the blues
11. Louis Armstrong - What a wonderful world
12. The Beatles - In my life
13. Extreme - More than words
14. Led Zeppelin - The Ocean
15. Led Zeppelin - Fool in the rain
16. Metallica - Unforgiven
17. Monica - Angel of Mine
18. N.I.N. - Closer
19. Night Ranger - Sister Christian
20. Nirvana - In Bloom
21. Peter Frampton - Baby I love your way
22. Smashing Pumpkins - Zero
23. Supertramp - Give a little bit
24. U2 - Where the streets have no name
25. Jackson Browne - Running on empty

[ethan]

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Estranged- Guns N' Roses


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Out of all the GnR...you pick Estranged? And it's at the top of your list?

ewwwww.

[daryn]

this is very hard. this is what i have so far:

pearl jam - release
alice in chains - don't follow
queen feat. david bowie - under pressure



more as this develops.....

[mmbt0ne]

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2. Third Eye Blind - How's it gonna be
7. Dr. Dre - Lyrical Gangbang
21. Peter Frampton - Baby I love your way


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All of these were in my last 40. Good picks.

[ethan]

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stevie ray vaughan - life by the drop

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Came very close to making my earlier list, good choice.

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I think my favorite song of his would have to be "little wing", if for no reason other than that you don't often hear Hendrix get his ass kicked on his own song.

SRV has a lot of good material, to say the least. Picking one song sucks, which is part of why I haven't replied to the OP yet.

[waffle]

Yikes, this is really tough to do.

I'm not fully satisfied with my list, it swings too far in one direction.

bach - art of the fugue

vivaldi - winter

beethoven - pathetique

coltrane - giant steps

chopin - revolutionary

the who - won't get fooled again

led zep - immigrant song

pink floyd - shine on you crazy diamond

beatles - in my life

beach boys - sloop john b

weezer - say it ain't so

pixies - where is my mind

flaming lips - fight test

my bloody valentine - only shallow

broken social scene - kc accidental

grandaddy - he's simple, he's dumb, he's the pilot

mountain goats - going to georgia

pavement - cut your hair

ted leo - where have all the rude boys gone

decemberists - the tain / legionnaire's lament

single frame - comm. jet (creepykid remix)

spoon - the way we get by

modest mouse - ocean breathes salty

pinback - microtonic wave

dj shadow - midnight in a perfect world

dismemberment plan - the city

[ZeeJustin]

As Diablo has already said, this is not even close to my favorite 25 list. Diversity is crucial. For many bands, I picked a unique song rather than there best, (a good example is Operation Spirit by Live rather than Lightning Crashes).

Better than Ezra - Desperately Wanting (Live from House of Blues rather than the studio track)
Black Lab - Ten Million Years (I HIGHLY recommend downloading their only album- Your Body Above Me)
Counting Crows - Mr. Jones
Darude - Bitter Sweet
Green Day - Basket Case
Johnny Cash - Hurt
K's Choice - Not an Addict
Linkin Park - Faint
Live - Operation Spirit (A live version rather than studio)
Local H - Bound for the Floor (I expect multiple people to errata their lists and add this song after seeing it on my list)
Muse - Citizen Erased
Muse - Sunburn
Nirvana - Dumb
Nobuo Uematsu - Final Fantasy Female Medley (this was actually put together by Michael Haung based on Uematsu's work)
The Offspring - The Kid's Aren't Alright
Our Lady Peace - Life
Our Lady Peace - Superman's Dead
Pearl Jam - Yellow Ledbetter (The version w/ the most audible lyrics)
R.E.M - Orange Crush
RHCP - Under the Bridge (I'm very glad to see this song on so many lists)
Radiohead - Paranoid Android
Sarah Mclachlan - Fear
Smashing Pumpkins - Disarm
Story of the Year - Until the Day I Die
U2 - One

[nothumb]

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My list clearly wins.

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Your list clearly blows.

NT

[nothumb]

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Good Morning, Captain- Slint

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Awesome.

NT

[MicroBob]

I might need to boot a song to make room for
In a Daydream - Freddy Jones Band

Somebody mentioned Sweet Melissa - Allman Brothers which I forgot to put on my 'just missed' list. Possibly is 26th or 25th.

Fortunate Son by CCR is on the just missed as well (I think Diablo mentioned this one).


Fatman and a couple others have been talking Stone Roses and James. There's a big difference between those two bands: basically, The Stone Roses are good... and James sucks.
I've always hated them for some reason and just don't understand why so many like them.

I even saw them in concert in London in 1989 or 1990 or so.
All about Eve, Lush and James all opening for The Cure.
Yes...it was a REALLY good show, even though it was about 100 degrees (hottest summer ever in England I believe) and James sucked.



Somehow I'm differing from Diablo's ideas on this..because my 25 'favorite' songs pretty much coincide with the 25 songs I would take if I could only have 25 of them.

although I guess I did make sure to not take more than 2 from a given artist under the stipulation....and want to spread things out genre-wise I suppose...so it might differ a little bit.

[MasterShakes]

In no particular order...

1) NOFX - "The Decline" (any punk fan who doesn't have this song on their list is insane... best punk song ever)
2) Matthew Good - "Hello Time Bomb"
3) Matthew Good - "Alert Status Red"
4) Matthew Good - "While We Were Hunting Rabbits"
5) Matthew Good - "Tripoli"
6) Mother Love Bone - "Chloe Dancer / Crown of Thorns"
7) The Smashing Pumpkins - "Mayonaise"
8) Bruce Springsteen - "Jungleland"
9) Bruce Springsteen - "Badlands"
10) Bruce Springsteen - "Atlantic City"
11) Bruce Springsteen - "The River"
12) Bruce Springsteen - "Born To Run"
13) Live - "Lightning Crashes"
14) Live - "Pillar of Davidson"
15) Sugar - "Hoover Dam"
16) Pearl Jam - "Alive"
17) Pearl Jam - "Corduroy"
18) Pearl Jam - "Nothingman"
19) Pearl Jam - "Present Tense"
20) Pearl Jam - "Immortality"
21) Pearl Jam - "Insignificance"
22) Pearl Jam - "Sleight Of Hand"
23) Pearl Jam - "Parting Ways"
24) Pearl Jam - "Garden"
25) Pearl Jam - "Release"

[12ozLongneck]

In no particular order:

Belle and Sebastian - "Get Me Away From Here, I'm Dying"
Old 97s - "Barrier Reef"
Elliott Smith - "St Ides Heaven"
Built To Spill - "Center of the Universe"
Interpol - "The New"
Centro-matic - "Post-It Notes From the State Hospital"
The Mendoza Line - "Baby I Know What You're Thinking"
Modest Mouse - "Custom Concern"
Guided By Voices - "I Don't, So Now I Do"
The Blue Aeroplanes - "Your Ages"
Spoon - "Lines In the Suit"
Reverend Horton Heat - "Big Sky"
The Shins - "New Slang"
The Kinks - "Till the End Of the Day"
Quasi - "Our Happiness Is Guaranteed"
Centro-matic - "All Hail The Label Scouts"
REM - "Country Feedback"
Lilys - "Socs Hip"
Grandaddy - "The Warming Sun"
Clem Snide - "Let's Explode"
Frank Black - "10 Percenter"
L'il Cap'n Travis - "Natural Fool"
Pinback - "Lyon"
Pixies - "Subbacultcha"
Wilco - "Candy Floss"

[Rick Nebiolo]

There wasn't one song on your list I recognized (allthough a few bands do seem vaugely familiar).

We need the "Other Topics For Over 50 Yrs Old" Forum now /images/graemlins/grin.gif

~ Rick

[daveymck]

I cant do this, you are asking someone who has listened to the music he loves for the last 17 years to trim down 1,000CD's and probably another few hundred mp3 based albums to cut down to 25 songs its absolute madness.

I have just got a 40gig mp3 player as I didnt want to have to make decisions to get down to 5 gig.

Its interesting seeing Leatherface on the list as they are from near me and are not that big so surprised to see them mentioned here.

[Rick Nebiolo]

OK, not counting classical or jazz here's 25 I'd want as keepers:

Beach Boys - Wouldn't It Be Nice"
Beatles - "In My Life"
Big Country - "In a Big Country"
Blues Traveler - "Hook"
Bob Dylan - "Knockin On Heaven's Door"
Bob Marley - "No Woman No Cry"
BoDeans - "Dreams"
Bruce Cockburn - "If I had a Rocket Launcher"
Bruce Springsteen - "The River"; "Rosalita"
Clash - "London Calling"
The Connells - "Scotty's Lament"
Cowboy Junkies - "Come Calling"; "Because Cheap Is How I Feel"
Cranberries - "Free to Decide"
Creedence Clearwater Revival - "Fortunate Son"
David Johansen - "Cool Metro" (because I saw DJ perform
it live in a small club)
Diana Ross and the Supremes - "You Can't Hurry Love"
Doors - "Roadhouse Blues"
Dramarama - "Anything, Anything"
Emmylou Harris - "Wrecking Ball"
Eric Burden - "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood"
Fleetwood Mac - "Dreams" (the "Rumors" album was issued to every college
kid in the seventies, sort of like Ipods are now).
General Public - "Tenderness"
Gin Bloosoms - "Follow You Down"
Indigo Girls - "Closer To Fine"
Janice Joplin - "Piece Of My Heart"
Led Zepplin - "Over the Hills and Far Away"
Lone Justice - "Sweet, Sweet Baby (I'm Falling)"
mike l. "someone sh_t in the pool again"
Modern English - "I'll Stop the World" (did they ever have another good
song?)
Replacements - "I'll Be You"
Richard and Linda Thompson - "Wall of Death"; "Dimming of the Day"
Romantics - "What I Like About You"
REM - "Man on the Moon"; "Losing My Religion"
Rolling Stones - "Stray Cat Blues"; "Can't You Hear Me Knocking"
Roy Orbinson - "Anything You Want"
Van Morrison - "Wild Night"

Sorry, that's more than 25 but I sort of went down alphabetically on my playlist /images/graemlins/grin.gif

Cool or Not Cool? (remember I'm 50 yrs old /images/graemlins/confused.gif)

~ Rick

PS Fun part was I just got to listen to every song I put on this list

[Michael Davis]

Nice Indigo Girls selection, Loser.

Actually I like your list more than most of those suggested by people in my age group.

-Michael

[Rick Nebiolo]

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1. Bare Naked Ladies...Lovers in a dangerous time"

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Cool. I'm more familar with the Bruce Cockburn version but
had the BNL version on my hard drive. Liked it and wonder who wrote it?

~ Rick

[Rick Nebiolo]

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Nice Indigo Girls selection, Loser.

Actually I like your list more than most of those suggested by people in my age group.

-Michael

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My guess is "Closer to Fine" could be your theme song given your situation.

In your honor I made sure no U2 song made the list but "I Will Follow" could have.

Just put up a the Throwing Muses cut "Green" from their first album. Great on headphones this time of night but too arty to make my top 25.

Til Tuesday's (Aimee Mann's old band) "Don't Watch Me Bleed" could have made it.

I should have included ex Sex Pistol Sid Vicious (the dead one) doing "My Way". BTW, this version of the song closes two great movies.

~ Rick

[Ulysses]

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flaming lips - fight test

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Goddammit, 41 songs for me now.

[nothumb]

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Its interesting seeing Leatherface on the list as they are from near me and are not that big so surprised to see them mentioned here.

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They became the cool band to have a sticker from on your Volvo around 1999 on the East Coast when they reunited and toured with Hot Water Music. Some people actually bought their old albums too (like me, I was only about 12 when they broke up before, so I missed them) and they kick all kinds of ass.

A buddy of mine did an interview with Frankie Stubbs when they came to Chapel Hill. Frankie spent most of the time complaining that none of the toilets in the places he played had doors, and he couldn't take a dump in peace. He said some kid had come up to him earlier and asked for an autograph while he was pinching one, and he said, "If you don't mind, mate, I'm a bit occupied at the moment." /images/graemlins/grin.gif Crotchety old bastard.

Also, I probably should have put "Accident Prone" or "Jinx Removing" by Jawbreaker on my list.

NT

[Ulysses]

That is def. in the running for best list yet.

[Ulysses]

Zee. First off, I'm impressed. Overall, v. nice list. Some overexcitement w/ certain bands, but that is excused due to your youth. /images/graemlins/tongue.gif

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Green Day - Basket Case

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I think there might be a better Green Day song for this list.

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Local H - Bound for the Floor (I expect multiple people to errata their lists and add this song after seeing it on my list)

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All the Kids are Right is a better choice.

[Ulysses]

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In no particular order...

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Man, your list sucks. You are better than this. Way too narrow.

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6) Mother Love Bone - "Chloe Dancer / Crown of Thorns"

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Dammit. 42 songs for me now.

[mythrilfox]

I'm a complete prog rock addict. I wonder if anyone else is the same way, or if these are just random words I'm spitting into the air.

1. Genesis - The Musical Box
2. Genesis - Supper's Ready
3. Genesis - Dancing With the Moonlit Knight
4. Genesis - Fly on a Windshield
5. Fripp &amp; Eno - The Heavenly Music Corporation
6. Brian Eno - St. Elmo's Fire
7. Brian Eno - Blank Frank
8. Brian Eno - The Big Ship
9. Yes - And You And I
10. Yes - South Side of the Sky
11. Jethro Tull - Aqualung
12. Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick (a bargain)
13. Jethro Tull - Skating Away
14. Rush - Cygnus X-1
15. King Crimson - The Night Watch
16. King Crimson - Larks Tongues in Aspic, Part Two
17. Beatles - Eleanor Rigby
18. Beatles - I Want You (She's So Heavy)
19. Beatles - She Said She Said
20. Led Zeppelin - How Many More Times
21. Led Zeppelin - Battle of Evermore
22. Notorious BIG - The What
23. Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower
24. ELP - Tarkus
25. Eh... hard to say. Probably missed an Eno song.

[nothumb]

If you're putting King Crimson in, you have to put '21st Century Schizoid Man,' that song rules.

NT

[mythrilfox]

I'm more of a fan of their post-Lake work. I mean, granted, early King Crimson is some of the best music ever produced, but we're talking top 25. Larks tongues obviously makes, and NW is a personal fave.

[Ulysses]

[ QUOTE ]
OK, not counting classical or jazz here's 25 I'd want as keepers:

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Sorry, Rick, can't do that. That is why my current 42 songs is really like 50.

[ QUOTE ]
Cool or Not Cool? (remember I'm 50 yrs old /images/graemlins/confused.gif)

[/ QUOTE ]

Well, cool is a stretch, but I did know them all - and love the mike l. song. For starters, I'll say this. Big Country, BoDeans, Connells - I like all three of those songs, but you can definitely find better. Cranberries? Come on.

Dramarama. Great choice. That is a possible addition/replacement to my list.

[Rutis]

The Clash - I fought the law
John Fogerty - Fortunate son
Bruce Springsteen - No surrender
Neil Young - Over and over
Pink Floyd - On the turning away
AC/DC - Money talks
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Ramones - Sheena is a punk rocker
Uriah Heep - Easy Livin'
T Rex - Metal guru
Mellencamp - Small town
Led Zeppelin - Kashmir
Stevie Ray Vaughan - The sky is crying
Deep Purple - Highway Star
Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
Tom Petty - I won't back down
Wilson Pickett - Mustang Sally
Jimi Hendrix - All along the watchtower
Jennifer Holliday - And i am telling you
Guns N' Roses - Sweet child of mine
Bob Dylan - Knocking on heavens door
Rolling Stones - Jumpin Jack Flash
The Kinks - You really got me
Beatles - With a little help from my friends
Andrea Bocelli - Con te Partiro

[johnnycakes]

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Belle and Sebastian - "Get Me Away From Here, I'm Dying"
Old 97s - "Barrier Reef"
Elliott Smith - "St Ides Heaven"
Built To Spill - "Center of the Universe"
Interpol - "The New"
Centro-matic - "Post-It Notes From the State Hospital"
The Mendoza Line - "Baby I Know What You're Thinking"
Modest Mouse - "Custom Concern"
Guided By Voices - "I Don't, So Now I Do"
The Blue Aeroplanes - "Your Ages"
Spoon - "Lines In the Suit"
Reverend Horton Heat - "Big Sky"
The Shins - "New Slang"
The Kinks - "Till the End Of the Day"
Quasi - "Our Happiness Is Guaranteed"
Centro-matic - "All Hail The Label Scouts"
REM - "Country Feedback"
Lilys - "Socs Hip"
Grandaddy - "The Warming Sun"
Clem Snide - "Let's Explode"
Frank Black - "10 Percenter"
L'il Cap'n Travis - "Natural Fool"
Pinback - "Lyon"
Pixies - "Subbacultcha"
Wilco - "Candy Floss"

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Awesome.
Happy to see the Mendoza Line, Built to Spill, and Lilys make a list.
Easily best list yet (except mine).

[srvollmer]

The City by Dismemberment Plan should be on my list.

Nice call.

[sfer]

Rosalita, Tenderness, and Can't You Hear Me Knocking are fine choices. Can't You Hear Me knocking is just about the only Stones song that doesn't sound hopelessly trite to me after years of listening to them.

And including the Supremes makes me think I should have included Be My Baby by the Ronettes.

[sfer]

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[ QUOTE ]
bob dylan - knockin' on heaven's door

[/ QUOTE ] Was there a reason you chose this version? It was first but definitely not the best. This is like taking the Dylan version of All Along the Watchtower.

[/ QUOTE ]

I much prefer Dylan's version of both songs.

[ZeeJustin]

I barely factored in the length of songs, and I'm now realizing the importance of this with only a 25 track playlist for life.

My first 2 changes based on this new insight would be
-White Discussion, + Pillar of Davidson
-Yellow Ledbetter, +Daughter (Live version w/ Another Brick in the Wall tease)

[Lumpy]

[ QUOTE ]


Also, I probably should have put "Accident Prone" or "Jinx Removing" by Jawbreaker on my list.

NT

[/ QUOTE ]

Very nice!! Saw them with Jawbox in Northampton. Awesome live band.

[IndieMatty]

I missed my favorite song from my fav band...so my list is null and void. Please add. Pinback - Loro and remove Billy Joel.

[beerbandit]

no particular order, numbers are for quantity

1-renegades of funk- rage against the machine
2-disposable heroes- metallica
3-that smell- lynyrd skynyrd
4-cabron- rhcp
5-say goodbye- dmb
6-jimi thing- dmb
7-immigrant song- led zeppelin
8-real solution #9- white zombie
9-elderly woman behind the counter in a small town- pearl jam
10-misty mountain hop- led zeppelin
11-y'all want a single- korn
12-vaccintion scar- the tragically hip
13-grace, too- the tragically hip
14-the impression that i get- mighty mighty bosstones
15-testify- rage against the machine
16-daniel- elton john
17-juicy- biggie
18-fade to black- metallica
19-mother- pink floyd
20-rosy and grey- lowest of the low
21-purple haze- jimi hendrix


cheers
beer

[Rick Nebiolo]

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Cool or Not Cool? (remember I'm 50 yrs old /images/graemlins/confused.gif)

Well, cool is a stretch, but I did know them all - and love the mike l. song. For starters, I'll say this. Big Country, BoDeans, Connells - I like all three of those songs, but you can definitely find better.

[/ QUOTE ]

Years ago I had a chance to see Big Country in Providence with my brother but was just too tired to go - instantly regretted it given my brother said they were terrific. Later we saw a film/video of a concert made a few weeks later and were blown away. Great band that never made it big as they should have in our opinion (especially compared to U2). Anyways, the whole first album is very good, although the sound quality isn't quite as good as it could have been. Almost any song on that album could make my list.

My brothers old band-mate made it semi-big in the music business and I think produced some of the Connells albums. Got to see The Connells in a now defunct club in Long Beach about twelve years ago. Very good band and it was hard to pick a best song.

Bodeans are very consistent so maybe my choice isn't best. Got to see them twice at HOB in Hollywood. What song is better in your opinion?

[ QUOTE ]
Cranberries? Come on.

[/ QUOTE ]

Because they suck or they aren't cool?

[ QUOTE ]
Dramarama. Great choice. That is a possible addition/replacement to my list.

[/ QUOTE ]

Doesn't coming up with a great choice make me cool?

~ Rick

PS BTW, if you don't mind my asking how old is El Diablo *? Sometimes when I participate on this forum I feel like a child molester.

* Don't say, El Diablo is "three years old", or how ever long ago your username switched from that other one /images/graemlins/smile.gif. That would be too easy.

[Rick Nebiolo]

[ QUOTE ]
And including the Supremes makes me think I should have included Be My Baby by the Ronettes.

[/ QUOTE ]

Excellent choice!

~ Rick

[heavybody]

Donovan eh..cool I like "The Season of the Witch",and "The Hurdy Gurdy Man".


heavily bodied

[turnipmonster]

the connells are from my hometown, I used to live near boylan heights actually. my favorites are "hey wow" and "something to say" off fun and games.

edit: forgot "stone cold yesterday" as well. what a great record.

--turnipmonster

[frank_iii]

[ QUOTE ]
I think 20-30% of Diablo's posts are just trying to point out the inconsistancy/error in someone else's post.

Pretty weak if you ask me.

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HAHAHAHA...I just found this thread because I did a search on ED's posts after wondering if the vast majority were made for that very reason. Nearly every post I've recently read has been a one or two liner stating either a) how almost everyone on this forum doesn't understand poker or b) how one person in particular doesn't understand poker.

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[Ulysses]

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I think 20-30% of Diablo's posts are just trying to point out the inconsistancy/error in someone else's post.

Pretty weak if you ask me.

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HAHAHAHA...I just found this thread because I did a search on ED's posts after wondering if the vast majority were made for that very reason. Nearly every post I've recently read has been a one or two liner stating either a) how almost everyone on this forum doesn't understand poker or b) how one person in particular doesn't understand poker.

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I guess you did that search on some sort of alternative reality 2+2 or something.

[Ulysses]

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Easily best list yet (except mine).

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I find it very curious that the same person who posted that long piece on appreciating music would make that statement.

[Ulysses]

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I barely factored in the length of songs, and I'm now realizing the importance of this with only a 25 track playlist for life.

My first 2 changes based on this new insight would be
-White Discussion, + Pillar of Davidson
-Yellow Ledbetter, +Daughter (Live version w/ Another Brick in the Wall tease)

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Good to see you thinking, Justin. Another reason for a couple of good jazz/classical tracks. Lot of bang for the buck there.

[Ulysses]

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What song is better in your opinion?

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I was talking about the bands, not the songs. I felt that for the type of music each of those bands play, you could find better songs by other bands for this list of 25. All three are good, I just don't think their work merits cracking the top 25.

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Cranberries? Come on.

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Because they suck or they aren't cool?

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Both. /images/graemlins/tongue.gif

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Doesn't coming up with a great choice make me cool?

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Nah, you were cool anyway.

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PS BTW, if you don't mind my asking how old is El Diablo

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He is 33.

[TylerD]

After not too much thought this is what I've come up with:
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Name Artist
Remember Air
Nicole Ash
I Miss You Blink-182
Don't Panic Coldplay
Fight Test The Flaming Lips
Big Me Foo Fighters
Everlong Foo Fighters
Now It's On Grandaddy
American Idiot Green Day
Say Something James
99 Problems Jay Z
Love will tear us apart Joy Division
All These Things That I've Done The Killers
The Masses Against The Classes Manic Street Preachers
Straight Outta Compton N.W.A.
Regret New Order
River Euphrates Pixies
Debaser Pixies
Wave Of Mutilation Pixies
Monkey Gone To Heaven Pixies
Losing My Religion R.E.M.
1979 Smashing Pumpkins
Sad But True Transplants
Regulate Warren G &amp; Nate Dogg
Island in the Sun Weezer
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Bear in mind that these are the only 25 songs I'm allowed to listen too, so I've chosen a variety of genres and the songs don't necessarily represent my Top 25 tunes.

[Reef]

this board seems very non-rap/hiphop ish

[sfer]

My God. These are the first mentions of 1979, Wave of Mutilation and I think even New Order.

[Schneids]

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this board seems very non-rap/hiphop ish

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I decided against it because although I like a lot of rap, I've found that as the years have passed and I've gotten older I've liked it less and less; so I'm banking on the assumption that if I have music for an eternity I'd eventually live to regret including rap on my list.

[Schneids]

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natalie imbruglia - torn

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I like this song a lot too. However, if I was hardpressed to choose a song of this nature I think I'd go with Lisa Loeb "Say" or Alanis Morrisette "You Oughta Know" (preferably live) before I'd choose "Torn."

[Ulysses]

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natalie imbruglia - torn

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I like this song a lot too. However, if I was hardpressed to choose a song of this nature I think I'd go with Lisa Loeb "Say" or Alanis Morrisette "You Oughta Know" (preferably live) before I'd choose "Torn."

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There are a ton of songs that could replace that song. I don't think "You Oughta Know" would be a good choice (I was specifically looking for a different kind of sound than that), but "Say" would. Others suggested Vanessa Carlton, Michelle Branch, etc. that probably have stuff that works. Moot point, I think, since I doubt this would end up making it into the final 25.

Anyway, great thread, Schneids.

[Tosh]

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My God. These are the first mentions of 1979, Wave of Mutilation and I think even New Order.

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I had a New Order song.

[DeezNuts]

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this board seems very non-rap/hiphop ish

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Here's a couple:

Check the Rhyme - Q-Tip
Regulator - Warren G
Summertime in the LBC - Dove Shack
Passin Me By - Pharcyde
Muthafuckin Real G's - Easy E
Hit Em Up - Tupac

DN

[Schneids]

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this board seems very non-rap/hiphop ish

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Here's a couple:

Check the Rhyme - Q-Tip
Regulator - Warren G
Summertime in the LBC - Dove Shack
Passin Me By - Pharcyde
Muthafuckin Real G's - Easy E
Hit Em Up - Tupac

DN

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DMX - "Slippin"
DMX - "What these bi[/i]tches want from a nigga?"

[jason_t]

1. Radiohead - Black Star
2. Neutral Milk Hotel - Holland, 1945
3. The Shins - New Slang
4. Velvet Underground - Heroin
5. Bob Dylan - Hurricane
6. Elliott Smith - Sweet Adeline
7. Violent Femmes - American Music
8. Nina Simone - Sinnerman
9. Interpol - Evil
10. Belle &amp; Sebastian - This is Just a Modern Rock Song
11. Nirvana - Where Did You Sleep Last Night?
12. R.E.M. - What's The Frequency, Kenneth?
13. Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart
14. Cake - Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps
15. John Lee Hooker - I'm In The Mood
16. Led Zeppelin - Travelling Riverside Blues
17. Stone Temple Pilots - Interstate Love Song
18. The Smiths - Girlfriend in a Coma
19. Massive Attack - Angel
20. The White Stripes - Truth Doesn't Make A Noise
21. The Strokes - Under Control
22. Bjork - Human Behaviour
23. Miles Davis - So What
24. Ben Kweller - Wasted and Ready
25. Pixies - Where is My Mind?

[Ulysses]

Very nice list.

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19. Massive Attack - Angel

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Crap. I think I need Teardrop. That makes 43 for me. Damn.

[jason_t]

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Very nice list.

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Thanks man.

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19. Massive Attack - Angel

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Crap. I think I need Teardrop. That makes 43 for me. Damn.

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Yeah, would certainly be in my top 50.

[Phoenix1010]

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Nobuo Uematsu - Final Fantasy Female Medley

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Uematsu is a god. Very cool choice.

[Ulysses]

Revised list:

led zeppelin - hey hey what can i do
the band - the weight
eric clapton - wonderful tonight
lynyrd skynrd - sweet home alabama

clash - train in vain
ramones - i wanna be sedated

marvin gaye - let's get it on
al green - tired of being alone

stevie ray vaughan - life by the drop
guns n' roses - estranged
the cult - she sells sanctuary
pixies - where is my mind

mother love bone - chloe dancer / crown of thorns
pearl jam - black
white stripes - you're pretty good looking
coldplay - clocks
flaming lips - fight test

counting crows - mr jones
old 97's - king of all of the world

tori amos - cornflake girl
sarah mclachlan - possession

beastie boys - sabotage
massive attack - teardrop

1 jazz track
1 classical track

PS: I am a little surprised nobody picked Eels - Mr. E's Beautiful Blues

[jason_t]

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1 jazz track
1 classical track

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which? I say

Miles Davis - So What
Johann Sebastian Bach - Aria from Goldeberg Variations

[Jack of Arcades]

I had Blue Monday.

I'm gonna revise the list. I left out Dresden Dolls and Beach Boys, might throw in some Beatles.

[David Steele]

Heres a good party tape. Nothing too recent in case it turns out not to be so good after the time passes.

In no particular order:

1. Townes Van Zandt No Place to Fall
2. Bob Dylan Boots of Spanish Leather
3. Ferron Aint Life a Brook
4. Weakerthans Diagnosis
5. Nirvana Lithium
6. Kate Wolf Peaceful Easy Feeling ( cover)
7. Iris Dement Easys Getting Harder Everyday
8. Lucinda Williams Right In Time
9. Gillian Welch Annebelle
10.Andy Irvine The Dream Indiana
11. Dan bern Jerusalem
12. Leonard Cohen Bird on A Wire
13. Ron Sexsmith Strawberry Blond
14. Elvis Costello Allison
15. Dave Van Ronk He Was a Friend Of Mine
16. Jimi Hendrix All Along The Watchtower
17. Tom Waits The House Where Nobody Lives
18. Cat Stevens Hard Headed Woman
19. Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here
20. Jez Lowe The Old Durham Road
21. Townes Van Zandt Pancho and Lefty
22. Jeff Buckley Last Goodby

The rest are out of print

D.

[razor]

lots of interesting lists and choices....

I can't work up the energy to come up with a 25 song list, but any list of mine would include.

U2 - Bad (live - probably from Wide Awake in America)
Arvo Part - Spiegel Im Spiegel (the 1st version from Alina)

[Philuva]

Here is my top 25 just because all of these songs pump me up so much on one way or another

Badly Drawn Boy - The Shining
Beastie Boys - Professor Booty
Beck - Beercan
Beta Band - Dry The Rain
The Chemical Brothers (w/ Beth Orton) - Where Do I begin
Doves - The Cedar Room
Liz Phair - Divorce Song
Longwave - Daysleeper (only instrumental to make the cut)
Modest Mouse - Lives
Nirvanna - Smells Like Teen Spirit
Paul Simon - Graceland
Pavement - Summer Babe (Winter Version)
Pearl Jam - Either I Got A Feeling or Daughter with It's OK Interlude performed live at Jones Beach 8.24.2000
Phish - Taste
Postal Service - The District Sleeps Alone Tonight
Public Enemy - Revolutionary Generation
Radiohead - The National Anthem
Rage Against The Machine - Killing In the Name
Sinead O'Connor - The Last Day Of Our Acquaintance
Smashing Pumpkins - Cherub Rock
Stone Roses - I Am The Resurrection
Turin Brakes - Pain Killer
Van Morrison - And it Stoned Me
Velvet Underground - Heroin
Wheat - Don't I Hold You


Here are the songs that just missed my top 25:

Ani DiFranco - Little Plastic Castle
Belle &amp; Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
Built To Spill - Carry The Zero
Fatboy Slim - Rockafeller Skank
Flaming Lips - The Spark
G Love - Cold Beverages
Jane's Addiction - Jane Says
Neil Young - Old Man
Nine Inch Nails - Down In It
Samples - Feel Us Shaking
Sigur Ros - Svefn-g-englar
The Shins - Kissing The Lipless
White Stripes - Girl You Have No Faith In Medicine
Wilco – Heavy Metal Drummer

[mmbt0ne]

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1 jazz track
1 classical track

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which? I say

Miles Davis - So What
Johann Sebastian Bach - Aria from Goldeberg Variations

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Close, but the correct Miles Davis song to pick is Stella by Starlight.

[Matt24]

I'm probably leaving out some of my favs, but what the hell.

Metallica-Hero of the Day
Metallica-Unforgiven
John Mellencamp-Jack and Diane
John Mellencamp-Small Town
David Lee Murphey- Dust on the Bottle
Westside Connection-Bow Down
Tim McGraw-Cowboy in Me
Kid Rock-Cold and Empty
Kenny Chesney-Back Where I Come From
Van Morrison-Days LIke This
Warren Brothers-Sell a Lot of Beer
Stone Temple Pilots-Interstate Love Song
Pearl Jam-Better Man
Offspring-Self Esteem
Lynyrd Skynyrd-Simple Man
Chris LeDoux- You Just Can't See Him From the Road
Bob Seger-Turn the Page
Camron-Hey Ma
Billy Joel-Piano Man
Alabama-Tennessee River
AC/DC-You Shook Me All Night Long
Gary Allan-It Would Be You
Golden Earring-Radar Love
George Strait-You Know Me Better Than That
Luckenbach, Texas(Kenny Chesney, Kid Rock, Tim McGraw Version)

I think I got something from every genre I like and for every mood I can be in.

[whiskeytown]

this is a very rough list of sad songs - I'd say only about 5 or 6 of them would make you smile and dance but they all make me feel better -

1. Townes Van Zandt - Flying Shoes
2. Kate Rusby - Sleepless Sailor
3. Drive By Truckers - Putting People On the Moon
4. The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony
5. Radiohead - Karma Police
6. 5 Mile Chase (local band) - Waltzing's for Dreamers
7. Kathleen Edwards - Sweet Lil' Duck
8. Wilco - Jesus Don't Cry
9. REM - Nightswimming
10. Indigo Girls - Fare Thee Well
11. Mary chapin Carpenter - I am a Town
12. Nanci Griffith - Boots of Spanish Leather
13. Pearl Jam - Yellow Ledbetter
14. Paul Simon - Boy in the Bubble
15. Kate Rusby - Wild Goose
16. Gillian Welch - Wayside (back in time)
17. The Flaming Lips - Fight Test
18. Vigilantes of Love - Hard Luck and Heart Attacks
19. Patty Griffin - Stolen Car
20. Matthew Ryan - Happy Hour
21. Ragus - Amhrán Mhuinse
22. Everclear - Wonderful
23. Tegan and Sara - I know, I know, I know
34. Hayden - Bad as they Seem
25. Catlian Cary (and Ryan Adams) - The Battle

[plaster8]

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Wilco – Heavy Metal Drummer

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Damn. That should be on my list. Nice choice.

[whiskeytown]

I put "Jesus, Etc" on mine....that chorus just creams me every time I hear it... the slide and violin just makes it incredible

RB

[emil3000]

I love Bill Evans and Paul Chambers comping on Stella by starlight, excellent pick.