If you can only keep 25 songs

[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.

[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

[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.

[jason_t]

Solid.

[B Dids]

jason,

for somebody who I know listened to mostly classical for most of his life, I'm surprised by how little classical is on your list.

[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.

[private joker]

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

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[CallMeIshmael]

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

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This post is genius.

[CallMeIshmael]

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


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I really love both of these.