If you can only keep 25 songs

[srvollmer]

Had Age of Consent.
nahnahnah.

[sfer]

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

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Yeah.

[Enon]

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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 & 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

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OMG, I'm surprised someone even knows about Jim O'rourke, let alone someone who's heard this obscure track.

And I've never heard that Archers of Loaf song but how can it be better than 'Harnessed in Slums' or 'Web in front'?

[bort411]

I haven't seen Michael Jackson on anyone's list yet...a damn shame.

1. 13th Floor Elevators - Dust
2. The Velvet Underground - Sister Ray
3. The Band - The Weight
4. The Beach Boys - God Only Knows
5. The Beatles - Helter Skelter
6. Bob Dylan - Desolation Row
7. Bob Seger System - Paint Them a Picture Jane
8. Chuck Berry - Johnny B. Goode
9. The Clash - Rudie Can't Fail
10. Tom Petty - American Girl
11. The Doors - Land Ho!
12. The Flaming Lips - Turn It On
13. GNR - Breakdown
14. Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah
15. John Lennon - Oh Yoko!
16. Tom Waits - Tom Traubert's Blues
17. Johnny Cash - A Boy Named Sue
18. Joni Mitchell - California
19. Lou Reed - Caroline Says II
20. Michael Jackson - Man In the Mirror
21. Rolling Stones - Out of Time
22. Violent Femmes - American Music
23. Simon and Garfunkel - Cecilia
24. Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
25. The Ramones - 53rd and 3rd

[tbach24]

I'm not sure of the entire list but 5 songs jump right out at me:

1. Fire and Rain- James Taylor
2. Chariot- Gavin Degraw
3. Round Here- Counting Crows
4. Changes- David Bowie
5. Gin and Juice- Snoop Dogg

[Dr. Strangelove]

25 is way too hard but I'll try. No particular order.

1. BT-never gonna come back down
2. Guns 'N Roses-my michelle
3. Paul Van dyke-for an angel
4. Prodigy-break and enter
5. Elton John-Levon
6. Metallica-wherever I may roam
7. Fatboy Slim-right here right now
8. Nelson, Cash, et al.-highway man
9. Frou Frou-let go
10. Beethoven-moonlight sonata
11. Carl Orff-Carmina Burana
12. Billy Joel-piano man
13. Marilyn Manson-speed of pain
14. The Wallflowers-one headlight
15. Bob Dylan- knocking on heaven's door
16. U2-Sunday Bloody Sunday
17. Aerosmith-same old song and dance
18. Golden Earring-Radar Love
19. Dandy Warhols-bohemian like you
20. Led Zeppelin-Stairway to Heaven
21. Rolling Stones-Gimme Shelter
22. Ozzy Osbourne- I just want you
23. Ozzy Osbourne- Perry Mason
24. ACDC-Hell's Bells
25. The Eagles-Hotel California

The dude abides... The Rolling Stones

I don't think I could deal with less than 2000 songs.

[Dr. Strangelove]

Damn, Stuff I'm leaving out: Pink Floyd, Rage Against the Machine, Nine inch nails, radiohead, audioslave, soundgarden, pearl jam, Hendrix, Paul Oakenfold, Niel Young, Queen, Beastie Boys, Leonard Cohen, Fluke, Clapton, The Police, Eminem, Dre, EZ E, NWA, The Beatles, Tool, A perfect circle, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Foreigner, Rob D, Astral Projection, etc. etc. etc.

[private joker]

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I haven't seen Michael Jackson on anyone's list yet...a damn shame.


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[jason_t]

Ni han, sir!

[Arsene Lupin III]

jambandy [censored]
1. moe. - rebubula
2. phish - free
3. phish - you enjoy myself
4. bela fleck + the flecktones - zona mona
5. the new deal - techno beam
6. gomachi - another piece of me
7. the word - joyful sounds

Funky [censored]
8. Tower of power - squibcakes
9. Topaz - minha mente
10. Medeski Martin and Wood - Smoke

Epic roxxy [censored] too not poppy to be in the next category
11. Radiohead - paranoid android

poppy/poproxxy [censored] [censored]
12. Jimmies chicken shack - spiraling
13. Spring heeled jack - addicted
14. Cake - long line of cars
15. jump little children - rains in asia
16. iris - vacant
17. ben folds five - the last polka
18. moxy fruvous - drinking song
19. radiohead - subterranean homesick alien
20. gomez - sweet virginia

[censored] you've never heard of (tracked music)
21. necros/basehead - search for the lost riff
22. necros - tangerine fascination

Um.. ya:
23. a perfect circle - the outsider

Contemporary a cappella:
24. house jacks - saturnalia smile
25. rockapella - 77(?)

i guarantee if i ever review this list, i'll instantly replace ten songs