Top 10 Songs.

[Mephster]

Ok this thread is for the serious and brave-hearted.

I want you to list your top ten ALL-TIME favorite songs!!! No more than ten. none of this "oh, and let me just add another". No. TEN, my friends.

Try not to pick music popular with you at the present time....and the songs don't have to be Billboard's top ten. Pick YOUR top ten that ALWAYS always are your favorites.

Have fun.
Mephy

 

[Reader Nilus]

My top ten:
1 Oh Pretty Woman by Roy Orbison
2 Paint it Black by The Rolling Stones
3 Love Her Madly by The Doors
4 Hey Jude by The Beatles
5 She Said Yeah by The Animals
6 Put Your Cat Clothes On by Carl Perkins
7 Blistered by Johnny Cash
8 It Came Out of the Sky by Creedence Clearwater Revival
9 North to Alaska by Johnny Horton
10 Pipeline by The Ventures
Jeff the Finn

 

[kelco]

1. Stairway to Heaven-Led Zeplin
2. Hotel California-The Eagles
3. American Pie-Van Morrison
4. Still-The Commadores
5. It's A Heartache-Juice Newton
6. H...'s Bell's-AC/DC
7. Two Out of Three Ain't Bad-Meatloaf
8. Blue Eyes Cryin in the Rain-Willie Nelson
9. Crazy-Patsy Cline
10. Open Arms-Journey

 

[zao77]

1. Pedro the Lion - Second Best
2. G Love and Special Sauce - Baby's Got Sauce
3. Radiohead - Exit Music (for a film)
4. Smashing Pumpkins - x.y.u.
5. Jeff Buckley - Lilac Wine
6. Cake - The Distance
7. Sublime - Summer Time
8. Rage Against The Machine - The Ghost of Tom Joad
9. Dream Theater - The Mirror
10. Deftones - Bored

this was soooo very hard....... i know i forgetting something but here is what i can supply you with for now.

 

[zao77]

1. Pedro the Lion - Second Best
2. G Love and Special Sauce - Baby's Got Sauce
3. Radiohead - Exit Music (for a film)
4. Smashing Pumpkins - x.y.u.
5. Jeff Buckley - Lilac Wine
6. Cake - The Distance
7. Sublime - Summer Time
8. Rage Against The Machine - The Ghost of Tom Joad
9. Dream Theater - The Mirror
10. Deftones - Bored

this was soooo very hard....... i know i forgetting something but here is what i can supply you with for now.

i need to change number nine to Dream Theater - Hell's Kitchen

 

[SAPguy]

Here goes ... there are so many, but this is off the top of my head....
No paticular order..... most likely subject to change daily as well....

1. Shook Me All Night Long - AC/DC
2. I Won't Back Down - Tom Petty
3. Hurt - Johnny Cash cover of a NIN song RIP Mr. Cash

4. Pretty Fly (For a White Guy) - The Offspring
5. The Memory Remains - Metallica
6. Dear Mama - 2Pac
7. Wild World - Cat Stevens
8. 21st Century (Digital Boy) - Bad Religion
9. Eight Days a Week - The Beatles
10. Bullet in the Head - Rage Against the Machine

 

[Axver]

"Try not to pick music popular with you at the present time" That makes it a bit harder, but here goes ...

1. Bad by U2 (far and away, this is the best song ever, even if 11 O'clock Tick Tock is currently my favoured song)
2. Walk On by U2
3. Sunday Bloody Sunday by U2
4. New Year's Day by U2
5. 11 O'clock Tick Tock by U2
6. Sweetness by Jimmy Eat World
7. Gloria by U2
8. Pride (In The Name Of Love) by U2
9. With Or Without You by U2.
10. One by U2

Honourable mention to Mysterious Ways and Love Is Blindness by U2, House Of The Rising Sun by The Animals, and Pushing Me Away by Linkin Park that all nearly became number ten.

 

[SAPguy]

Hey Axver .... Guess you're a U2 fan huh? LOL

I love their stuff and they are awesome in concert, but I didn't expect to see anyone fill up their top 10 with almost entirely one band.

 

[indigo tree]

Well get ready for another person to do the same, sap.

1. "Streets.." By U2
2. "I Still Havent Found..." by U2
3."I am" by Train
4. "Beautiful Day" by U2
5. "One Tree Hill" by U2
6. "Dirty Day" by U2
7. "Gloria" by U2
8."Pride" by U2
9."Bullet the Blue Sky" by U2
10. "Glory and Consequence" by Ben Harper

 

[sunshine]

mine are changing all the time, but currently (in no particular order):
1. Heartbreak Hotel by Elvis
2. A thousand miles by Vanessa Carlton
3. Ice Cream by Sarah McLachlan
4. Beautiful Day by U2
5. Mari-Mac by Great Big Sea
6. My Girl by The Temptations
7. Imagine by John Lennon
8. If I had a million dollars by BNL
9. All you need is love by The Beatles
10. I would walk 500 miles by The Proclaimers

I tried to pick a favourite from many groups I like

 

[Mephster]

1. Black - Pearl Jam

2. Where the Streets Have No Name - U2

3. King of Sorrow - Sade

4. Shameless - Billy Joel

5. Until it Sleeps - Metallica

6. far behind - Candlebox

7. When I'm Gone - 3 Doors Down

8. Come As You Are - Nirvana

9. With or Without You - U2

10. Man in the Box - Alice in Chains

 

[Axver]

Sapguy - 'Hey Axver .... Guess you're a U2 fan huh? LOL

I love their stuff and they are awesome in concert, but I didn't expect to see anyone fill up their top 10 with almost entirely one band.'

I guess you can see why I've been nicknamed the U2 Fanlad from U2 Fanland, can't you? Hehe. Although I love Sweetness by Jimmy Eat World, I must admit part of my motivation to put it in there was so that my Top 10 wasn't all U2. Considering what I've been listening to lately, I'm quite tempted to replace it with A Sort Of Homecoming by U2.

Oh, and if I were to include different versions of the same song on my Top 10, it would just be U2, and different live versions of Bad, 11 O'clock Tick Tock, Gloria, and With Or Without You.

By the way, Indigo Tree, I think Dirty Day has some great lyrics, but I have to disagree with placing it in the top ten of anything apart the top ten from Zooropa (which it actually has to make seeing there were only 10 tracks). I just don't think the music really backs it up until the end. Are you, perchance, basing your choice on a live performance of it? I hear it's fantastic live, but I haven't yet had the pleasure of being able to see it live for myself. *mental note to self: buy ZooTV Live From Sydney*

 

[ej]

Is this 'if you had to throw away all your songs except 10?' or just 'pick 10 that you really really love?

Cos my list would be different depending on which of the above applies!

 

[Mephster]

More the former than the latter!

 

[ej]

Hey, that's tough then!
I need one for different times / moods...

• Jeff Buckley - Corpus Christi carol
• Nirvana - Smells like Teen Spirit
• Teenage Fanclub - Don't Look Back
• Echobelly - Scream (or maybe Bellyache)
• Stevie Wonder - I believe (when I fall in love)
• Wannadies - You and Me
• Beatles - Penny Lane
• Marvin Gaye - Lets Get it On
• The Smiths - This Charming Man
• Matt Munro - He aint Heavy

These aren't my absolute favourites, but they're the ones I'd keep if I could only have 10 songs.

I'll probably change my mind tomorrow...
10 albums would have been more generous!

 

[Heavenlyangeleyes07]

I have a long list to go but since you wanted only 10 here are the ones i choose.

1. Free Bird- Lynard skinyard ( I don't think i spelled his name right)
2. November Rain-Gun N Roses
3. Every Rose has it thorns- Poision
4. Last Dance with Mary Jane-Tom Petty
5.To the end of the world- Boy II men
6. Heaven-Nu flavor
7.I swear- All 4 one
8. Sugar Sugar- Archies
9.Changes 2-pac
10. Weak- Swv

 

[bends and carousels]

10- "Thug Love" - Bone Thugs -n- Harmony f/ 2Pac
9- "Under the Bridge" - Red Hot Chilli Peppers
8- "Wish You Were Here" - Pink Floyd
7- "Got My Mind Made Up" - 2Pac f/ Kurupt, Redman, and Method Man
6- "Fernando" - ABBA
5- "All Along the Watchtower" - Bob Dylan
4- "Survival of the Fittest" - Mobb Deep
3- "Paranoid Android" - Radiohead
2- "So Broken (Acoustic)" - Bjork
1- "Triumph" - Wu-Tang Clan

 

[ukok]

my top ten ( prone to minor change) is as follows:

1. Rachmaninov - Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini (i want this played at my funeral)

2. Unchained Melody - The Righteous Brothers ( evokes incredible memories)

3. Canto Della Terra - Andrea Bocelli ( swoon...swoon)

4. Ave Maria - (schubert version) Andrea Bocelli ( swoon again and again...)

5. Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen ( evokes wonderful childhood memories)

6. Still in Love - Lionel Richie ( cos i want a man to sing it to me some day!)

7. I surrender - Rainbow ( from the first album i ever bought! - yeah i am old)

8. Layla - Eric Clapton / Derek and the Dominoes - (brings back memories of teenage years

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9. All Right now - Free ( makes me smile.)

10. Panis Angelicus - sung by ....Andrea Bocelli ( Had to end with this man...i adore his voice...melts me everytime i hear him)

 

[Kelly]

It is VERY hard not to put in your current favorites, based purely on their newness. I tried to go back through my all-time favs:

The Pixies - Gouge Away

Soundgarden - The Day I Tried to Live

Morrissey - Suedhead

Portishead - Roads

Nirvana - In Bloom

Echobelly - Dark Therapy

New Order - Fine Time

Timo Maas - Ubik

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Knock Me Down

Frank Sinatra - Summer Wind

 

[ukok]

noticed nobody topped my top ten