If you can only keep 25 songs

[MEbenhoe]

My top 25 in alphabetical order. The ones with * by them are ones from my original list. Funny to see that only 10 from the original list made it onto this one.

Aerosmith – Dream On*
Atmosphere – God Loves Ugly
Beatles – Something
Bloc Party – Helicopter
Bush – Glycerin*

Derrick and the Dominoes – Layla*
Emiliana Torrini – Unemployed in Summertime
Everclear – Santa Monica*
Fleetwood Mac – Go Your Own Way
Foo Fighters – Everlong*

Frou Frou – Let Go
The Go Team – The Power is On
Guster – Amsterdam
Lynyrd Skynyrd – Tuesdays Gone
Marvin Gaye – Lets Get it On

The New Pornographers – The Bleeding Heart Show
Phish – Heavy Things
Pink Floyd – Comfortably Numb
R.E.M. – Whats the Frequency Kenneth?
Scorpions – Wind of Change*

Semisonic – Singing in My Sleep*
The Shins – Caring is Creepy( for everyone putting new slang this song is much better IMO)
Smashing Pumpkins – Disarm*
Trapt – Made of Glass*
The Who – Baba O’Riley*

[odellthurman]

1. Johnny Cash - Ring of Fire
2. Willie Nelson - Uncloudy Day
3. Rev. James Cleveland - In God's Own Time
4. Elvis Presley - Are You Lonesome Tonight
5. Freedy Johnston - Trying to Tell You I Don't Know
6. Mahalia Jackson - Didn't It Rain
7. Uncle Tupelo - Whiskey Bottle
8. Lucinda Williams - Joy
9. Aretha Franklin - Old Landmark
10. Ice Cube - Good Day
11. Bill Monroe - Blue Moon of Kentucky
12. Billy Joe Shaver - Georgia on a Fast Train
13. Blue Mountain - Black Dog
14. Bob Dylan - Train of Love
15. Bob Marley - No Woman No Cry
16. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Ohio
17. Neil Young - Heart of Gold
18. Frank Sinatra - Lady is a Tramp
19. George Jones - Still Doin' Time
20. The Gourds - El Paso
21. Grateful Dead - Tennessee Jed
22. James Brown - The Payback
23. Merle Haggard - Rainbow Stew
24. Joel R.L. Phelps - Spokane Motel Blues
25. Red Star Belgrade - Favorite Thing

A good thread would be the 25 bands/artists you couldn't live without.

[kbfc]

The 2nd movement of Beethoven's 7th Symphony is the best piece of music in history. It's not really a 'song,' though, so where does that leave me? Is it listworthy, or am I to suffer through eternity never again hearing it?

[edtost]

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The 2nd movement of Beethoven's 7th Symphony is the best piece of music in history. It's not really a 'song,' though, so where does that leave me? Is it listworthy, or am I to suffer through eternity never again hearing it?

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I'd say you have to pick one recording of it.

[jason_t]

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The 2nd movement of Beethoven's 7th Symphony is the best piece of music in history. It's not really a 'song,' though, so where does that leave me? Is it listworthy, or am I to suffer through eternity never again hearing it?

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I'd say you have to pick one recording of it.

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imo, the Carlos Kleiber/Wiener Philharmonic recording of the 5th and 7th on DG is peerless.

[private joker]

Alright, I guess I oughta make a list of my own (not in a setlist - just the individual songs):

1. Divine Comedy - Gin Soaked Boy
2. Neutral Milk Hotel - Holland, 1945
3. Rilo Kiley - A Better Son/Daughter
4. R.E.M. - Leave
5. Radiohead - Paranoid Android
6. The Raveonettes - Do You Believe Her?
7. The Walkmen - The Rat
8. Public Enemy - War at 33/13
9. Ice-T - New Jack Hustler
10. Blur - Tender
11. Belle & Sebastian - I'm Waking Up to Us
12. Spiritualized - Stay With Me
13. Pulp - Common People
14. Belly - Slow Dog
15. Beethoven - Symphony # 9
16. Johnny Cash - I See a Darkness
17. Cracker - Eurotrash Girl
18. Catherine Wheel - Delicious
19. Green Day - Church On Sunday
20. The Cardigans - Communication
21. Sigur Ros - Flugufrelsarinn
22. The Decemberists - I Was Meant For the Stage
23. Metric - Soft Rock Star
24. Wilco - Hell Is Chrome
25. R.E.M. - Country Feedback

[CallMeIshmael]

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13. Pulp - Common People
18. Catherine Wheel - Delicious


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I really love both of these.

[private joker]

I just realized I forgot Basement Jaxx - Lucky Star.

[xorbie]

I'm gonna stick to one song per group, but it's tough because a lot of these songs are part of albums that work great together.

1. Savior (Red Hot Chilli Peppers)
2. Roulette Dares (The Mars Volta)
3. Maybe You Can Owe Me (Architecture in Helsinki)
4. Room With a View (Brother Ali)
5. Never Let You Down (Kanye West)
6. Over and Out (Foo Fighters)
7. Stockholm Syndrome (Muse
8. Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd)
9. Disarm (The Smashing Pumpkins)
10. One (Sunny Day Real Estate)
11. Happiness is a Warm Gun (Beatles)
12. Blind Man's Arrow (Appleseed Cast)
13. Hate in a Puddle (Illogic)
14. Killing in the Name (Rage Against The Machine)
15. Float On (Modest Mouse)
16. The Bagman's Gambit (The Decembrists)
17. Jesus of Suburbia (Green Day)
18. Something Sigor Ros (I need to listen more closely to actually pick one)
19. Believe Me Natalie (The Killers)
20. Cello Song (Nick Drake)
21. Two Points For Honesty (Guster)
22. Now We Are Free (Gladiator Soundtrack)
23. Affirmative Action (Nas)
24. The Cure (Non Prophets)
25. How Near, How Far (Trail of Dead)

[Jack of Arcades]

You know what? I'll just take OK Computer and In the Aeroplane Over the Sea.