If you can only keep 25 songs

[jason_t]

I was looking over this great thread started by Schneids in February. The original premise was to assume you could only listen to these 25 for the rest of your life and select the 25 for your eternity. I looked over my old list from that thread and noticed that my current list of 25 is pretty different from my original 25. Also, OOT has grown a lot since the original thread. So I want to do it again.

What are the 25 you select for your eternity?

Here's my new list where I tried to select my 25 more carefully and not based on what I'm currently listening to a lot.

1. Radiohead - Idioteque
2. Neutral Milk Hotel - Holland, 1945
3. The Shins - New Slang
4. Iron & Wine - Sodom, South Georgia
5. Bob Dylan - Hurricane
6. Elliott Smith - A Distorted Reality is Now a Necessity to Be Free
7. Violent Femmes - American Music
8. Nina Simone - Sinnerman
9. Wilco - Kamera
10. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - The Skin of My Yellow Country Teeth
11. Nirvana - Where Did You Sleep Last Night?
12. Cake - Pretty Pink Ribbon
13. Aimee Mann - Save Me
14. Belle & Sebastian - Get Me Away From Here, I'm Dying
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. Interpol - Evil
23. Rilo Kiley - Better Son/Daughter
24. The Velvet Underground - Pale Blue Eyes
25. Pixies - Where is My Mind?

[coffeecrazy1]

1)Christmas Eve Sarajevo - Trans-Siberian Orchestra
2)Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley
3)Nothing Else Matters - Metallica
4)Fade to Black - Metallica
5)Epic - Faith No More
6)Leningrad - Billy Joel
7)Full of Grace - Sarah McLachlan
8)Round Here - Counting Crows
9)Somewhere Only We Know - Keane
10)Tangled Up in Blue - Bob Dylan
11)Burning Bright - Shinedown
12)Breathe - Melissa Etheridge
13)Angels or Devils - Dishwalla(Flow State Version)
14)Drawn Out - Dishwalla
15)Plowed - Sponge
16)I Will Not Take These Things for Granted - Toad the Wet Sprocket
17)November Rain - Guns N' Roses
18)Layla - Derek and the Dominoes
19)Let's Get It On - Marvin Gaye
20)If I Ain't Got You - Alicia Keys
21)Caoineadh du Chulainn - Davey Spillane
22)Clair de Lune - Claude Debussy(any good orchestral version)
23)Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber - Trinity College Choir
24)Alleluia by Randall Thompson - Kansas City Chorale
25)Sing Me to Heaven by Daniel Gawthrop - Kansas City Chorale

[RiverFenix]

This was hard. There were a lot of songs that if i saw them first on my itunes they may have made it on instead

1 pink floyd - fearless
2 pink floyd - wish you were here
3 pinback - boo
4 alexisonfire - happiness by the kilowatt
5 finch - what it is to burn
6 primitive radio gods - standing outside...money in hand
7 when in rome - the promise
8 notorious big - juicy
9 dire straits - money for nothing
10 talking heads - once in a lifetime
11 sun kil moon - poncho villa
12 sublime - poolshark (stand by your van version)
13 frames - santa maria
14 smashing pumpkins - disarm
15 sigur ros - svefn-g-englar
16 the clash - train in vain
17 sam cooke - wonderful world
18 rolling stones - angie
19 foo fighters - everlong
20 radiohead - talk show host (damn, hate limiting them to one)
21 nirvana - something in the way (unplugged)
22 new order - regret
23 modest mouse - gravity rides everything
24 led zeppelin - fool in the rain
25 the killers - all these things that ive done

1) Pink Floyd- Money
2) Billy Joel- The Ballad of Billy the Kid
3) Whitesnake- Here I Go Again
4) Rolling Stones- Sympathy for the Devil
5) Duran Duran- Hungry Like the Wolf
6) Led Zeppelin- Gallows Pole
7) STP- Crackerman
8) Pink Floyd- Time
9) Beatles- I am the Walrus
10) Lennon- Watching the Wheels
11) " - Nobody Told Me
12) Eagles- Already Gone
13) Buffett- Margaritaville
14) AC/DC- Highway to Hell
15) Boston- Taking my Time
16) Living Colour- Cult of Personality
17) Tom Petty- Running Down a Dream
18) Doobie Brothers- It Keeps You Running
19) The Who- My Generation
20) CCR- Coming up Around the Bend
21) Rolling Stones- Paint it Black
22) Beatles- Ballad of John and Yoko
23) Cypress Hill- Insane in the Brain
24) Van Halen- Running with the Devil
25) Elvis Presley- All Shook Up

[TheBlueMonster]

1. New York State of Mind - Nas
2. Taper Jean Girl - Kings of Leon
3. No Easy Way Out - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
4. Cashmere Thoughts - JayZ
5. Lost Cause – Beck
6. Shot in the Arm – Wilco
7. Scenario – A Tribe Called Quest
8. Police and Thieves – The Clash
9. The Life – Mystic
10. The Sweetest Thing – U2
11. Street Spirit – Radiohead
12. Down Rodeo – Rage Against the Machine
13. Dance of the Flutes – Tchaikovsky
14. Don’t Look Back in Anger – Oasis
15. C.R.E.A.M – Wu Tang Clan
16. Everybody’s Got Something to Hide – The Beatles
17. Surfing on a Rocket –AIR
18. Oh You Pretty Things! – David Bowie
19. Layla (unplugged) – Eric Clapton
20. Spaghetti Junction – Outkast
21. Wandering Star – Portishead
22. What’s My Name? – Snoop Dogg
23. The Air Between My Fingers – The White Stripes
24. Bittersweet Symphony – The Verve
25. Sir Duke – Stevie Wonder

[zephed]

Here's the original thread.

[Evan]

Man, this was hard. Some of these have more to do with memories than greatness of the song, but I think they're all aweosme.

1. Billy Joel-Miami 2017
2. Bloc Party-Banquet
3. Counting Crows- A Murder of One
4. Fall Out Boy-Grand Theft Autumn
5. Foo Fighters-Everlong
6. Green Day-When I Come Around
7. Guns N' Roses-Sweet Child O' Mine
8. Journey-Don't Stop Believin'
9. Lynard Skynard-Sweet Home Alabama
10. Muse-Falling Away With You
11. Nirvana-Lithium
12. Pearl Jam-Alive
13. The Postal Service-The District Sleeps Alone Tonight
14. Radiohead-Scatterbrain(As Dead As Leaves)
15. Red Hot Chili Peppers-Can't Stop
16. The Shins-New Slang
17. Stars-The Calandar Girl
18. Weezer-Photograph
19. Eminem-Welcome to New York City
20. Jay Z-'03 Bonnie & Clyde
21. Kanye West-Gone
22. Camron-Hey Ma
23. 2Pac-Runnin' (Dying to Live)
24. DMX-X Gonna Give It To You
25. The Killers-Mr. Brightside

[shant]

In no particular order:

1. The Outfield - Lose Your Love
2. Beastie Boys ft Q-Tip - Get It Together
3. Weezer - Say It Ain't So
4. N.W.A. - I Ain't Tha 1
5. Bloc Party - Positive Tension
6. Talib Kweli - Get By
7. Sherrie Austin - Son Of A Preacherman
8. El DeBarge - I Like It
9. Ol' Dirty Bastard - Recognize
10. Felt(Murs & Slug) - Early Mornin Tony
11. Lauren Hill - Doo Wop(That Thing)
12. Foo Fighters - Everlong
13. Tony Bennet - From Rags to Riches
14. Geto Boys - Mind Playin Tricks On Me
15. The Cure - Close To Me
16. Common ft. Kanye West - The Food
17. Ghostface Killah - Biscuits
18. RJD2 - Here's What's Left
19. The Police - So Lonely
20. A Tribe Called Quest - Scenario
21. R Kelly - Trapped In The Closet (All Chapters)
22. Rage Against The Machine - Know Your Enemy
23. Souls Of Mischief - Cabfare
24. Nirvana - Drain You
25. A-ha - Take On Me

I think these lists make awesome mix-tapes.

[Evan]

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3. Weezer - Say It Ain't So
5. Bloc Party - Positive Tension

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I almost picked both of these.

[edtost]

1.DMB - Crush
2.Kanye - Family Business
3.Ben Folds - Rockin the Suburbs
4.The Verve Pipe - Freshmen
5.Lit - My Own Worst Enemy
6.Billy Joel - Movin Out
7.Dispatch - The General
8.Guster - Rocket Ship
9.Nappy Roots - Po Folks
10.Meat Loaf - Paradise by the Dashboard Light
11.Riddlin Kids - I Feel Fine
12.The Go! Team - Bottle Rocket
13.Wilco - Pot Kettle Black
14.Weezer - Say it Ain't So
15.The Who - Pinball Wizard
16.Live - Lightning Crashes
17.Green Day - Basket Case
18.Less Than Jake - History of a Boring Town
19.RHCP - Under the Bridge
20.Santana - Corazon Espinado
21.Journey - Any Way You Want It
22.Jupiter Sunrise - Arthur Nix
23.Nine Days - Absolutely
24.Arturo Sandoval - I Remember Clifford
25.Counting Crows - American Girl