Preserved Topic: Our own list: 100 Greatest Songs of All Time (Page 1 of 2)

Reading the post on VH1's very ascure 100 Greatest list, i thought that we might as well make a real one right here. Just reply with your favorite song(s)/artist or band (but put some thought into it). See how long we can get the list. PLEASE don't poke fun at other people's music, that would make the thread one big fight. After i take some time to think about it i will post my all time favorite, but being a music guru, i think that might take me a while.

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but being a music guru

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Not trying to come across mean, but why are you a music guru? Did you study music? Just wondering.

I personally listen to mostly classical music. I can name quite a few composers, so.......

*Edgard Varese
*George Crumb
*Elliot Carter
*Toru Takemitsu
*Augustine Barrios
*Roland Deyens
*Leo Brouwer

eigh, there's a million of them. Mostly 20th Century classical music.

Later,

C:\


~Binary is best~

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I don't think I could make a list of just my favorite 100 songs... There's just too many, and most I don't think you could really compare... ie. The Beatles "Let it be," Stevie Ray Vaughn "Little Wing," Royal Crown Revue "Hey Pachuco!," Bill Chase "Get it on."

And the list goes on and on, keep in mind I enjoy everything from Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin (and the rest of the Rat Pack), to White Zombie, to SRV, to Brian Setzer, and just about everything in between, outside, and around.

But for sake of your list, you can use those 4 I mentioned...

little wing - stevie ray vaughn??? blasphemer. you will burn in hell for that.

Carl Off's Carmina Burana (okay it's not exactly a song...)
Pink Floyd's Another brick in the wall


...That's everything I like (and I know) in "normal" music,

walking on sunshine is definatly on there...
so is the bacardi song ;-)....

what a feeling,
it's never been so easy
when you're dreaming,
summer dreamin' when you're with me.
(yeah, the original, not the bacardi version)

if by greatest they mean the most popular, then i wouldn't say greatest at all.... every person would have a different list of their 100 greatest songs. so the idea is pretty useless IMO

You don't really mean everyone create their own lists - you mean, add the songs you think should be on the 100 greatest list, right? Are we talking 100 greatest of all time? Or 100 greates pop or heavy metal, or punk or hip-hop or what?

Either way - it's still a tough question...

Bodhi - Cell 617

DL - Yea, I knew someone would call me on that Even thought about putting some sidenote about that, but decided against it for whatever reason... It's not that I don't like the original, (it's one of Jimi's best songs), but I'm just inclined to favor SRV's stuff over Jimi... Maybe it's because I was raised in Texas for the last 20 years... Maybe it's because a good looking girl turned me on to SRV's cover... Maybe it's something else... ::shrugs::
As for burning in hell... Well, that's a given, so why shouldn't I add to the list...


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Giving In-Linkin Park
Step Up-LP
Meteora Album-Lp
Bring me to life-Evanescence
Reanimation-LP
Hybrid Theory-LP
Ignition Remix-R.Kelly
Simple and Clean-Utada Hikaru
Automatic-Utada Hikaru

I Woke Up In A Car- Something Corporate
What I Got- Sublime
I Feel So- Box Car Racer

I don't know, its hard to make a list of my favorite songs i just listen to whatever i thought was good enough to burn the week before.

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The Moody Blues - Nights in White Satin
John Lennon - Imagine
Queen - We Will Rock You
The Blues Brothers - Everybody Needs Somebody
Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
Eurythmics - Sweet Things

and in terms of classical music...

Adagio in Strings
Rhapsody in Blue
Moonlight Sonata

Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
Skinny Puppy - Rodent
Rory Gallagher - Laundromat
Prick - No Fair Fights
Mahalia Jackson - Didn't it Rain
The Cranes - Adoration
Audience - House on the Hill
The Tear Garden - Hyperform
Grateful Dead - Fire on the Mountain
Masters of Reality - 100 Years
John Lennon - Imagine

Plus any number of Beatles songs, probably a couple from Led Zeppelin too..


Amerasu | | Bits

Led Zeppelin...... the one true band.

1) Bring it on Home
2) Immigrant Song

Pink Floyd....... food for your head.
1) Animals( the whole darn album)

Queen.....now that's rock!
1) Bohemian Rhapsody

Here's my non-comprehensive, off the top of my head list. It's not near complete, but it's damn near long enough.

Bob Marley

Pretty Much Everything by Him

Sublime:

What I Got
Saw Red
April 29, 1992
Smoke Two Joints

311:

Eons
Freak Out
Champagne
Amber
Down

Deftones:

7 Words
Mascara
Minerva
Battle Axe

System of a Down:

Sugar
Spiders
Innervision
Ego Brain
Streamline
Metro
Nuguns
Chop Suey!
Science
Aerials

Rammstein:

Klavier
Kuss Mich
Du Hast

Chevelle:

Peer

Queens of the Stone Age:

Do it Again
A Song For the Deaf
A Song For the Dead
Go With the Flow

Tool:

The Grudge
Lateralus
The Patient
Schizm
Prison Sex
Disgustipation (does this count as a song?)
Sober
Aenima
Stinkfist
Hooker With a Penis

Nirvana:

Rape Me
Pennyroyal Tea
Plateau
Where Did You Sleep Last Night
Son of a Gun

Eric Clapton:

Layla
Cocaine
Wonderfull

Pink Floyd:

The Wall (Whole Album)
Meddle (Whole Album)

Nena:

99 Luftballoons

a perfectcircle:

Judith
3 Libras
Orestes
Thomas
Brena

Evanescence:

Going Under
My Tourniquet
My Last Breath

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but it's damn near long enough.

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I'll say.

Most of the regulars here know about my tastes in music, and my list would most likely include large helpings of Erasure, DM, the Pet Shop Boys, Joy Division/New Order, along with a sampling of 80s mainstream and dance stuff (and I always had a penchant for Rick Astley...).

Here I stand, alone against the storm, the last bastion of New Wave and 80s cheese...





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I haven't heard too much New Wave, but I'm assuming that it's similar to a hybrid of Pop and Seattle Grunge. Am I correct?

Ah yes, I forgot.

Rob Dougan:

Furious Angels (Import CD)

Chemical Brothers:

Come With Us (Album)
Exit Planet Dust (Album)

Beastie Boys:

Pretty much everything

C:\, sorry to have made that so unclear. By guru, i only meant that i am really into all different kinds of music. I suppose guru was a bit misleading.

Anyway, CFB already posted my list, lol

i have to add some of my favorite punk bands though: A New Found Glory, Rancid, AFI, some Good Charlotte, Pennywise, Unwritten Law, and MXPX.

i also love anything 80s (outside of the bubble gum pop)

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Way too many to think of, but there'd be a selection from the following:

• Smashing Pumpkins
• At the Drive-In
• Sonic Youth
• Red Hot Chili Peppers
• Cardigans
• Pixies

And I'll throw in a few that I'm currently listening to:

• Mew - Comforting Sounds
• Mission of Burma - Secrets
• The Distillers - Young Crazed and Peeling
• Yo La Tengo - Autumn Sweater

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I haven't heard too much New Wave, but I'm assuming that it's similar to a hybrid of Pop and Seattle Grunge. Am I correct?

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Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhh!!!!!!!!

synax, the stabbing knife, please!!!!

Oh my god, I can't even think straight... I'm seeing spots in front of my eyes... I think I'm going to pass out...

*thunk*

(OK, you clued me in on geoducks, so I guess I owe you one... not the prettiest page, but this should give you some idea....)

Thanks for the link, Suho, you've officially got me hooked.

Suho: Put down the knife. We only stab the stupid, not the ill informed.

Well we stab everyone, but that's not the point.

Ah New Wave...how I miss it...and yet not.


Let's add in Joy Division here....Acid Bath...FAR...Onelinedrawing...Concrete Blonde.

And Infernus...but we'll keep that on the downlow.

Suho: I'm getting an industrial/trance/Monster Magnet vibe from the New Wave that I just listened to. Should that be how it sounds?

[EDIT=Spelling. I need some fucking sleep. I have to get up in 1.2 hours, and finish writing 4 poems /w reflections and illustrations...Damn, I knew this procrastination was gunna kill me some day]

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New Wave doesn't describe a sound of music so much as a stage/style.

Keep listening, you'll get it. Read up on the histories where possible too.

Ahh... New Wave... The Pet Shop Boys, there's a group I haven't heard much from recently. And Depeche Mode too! I just love that stuff. There's a readio station here in town that started playing 80's only music last year... I love to listen and reminisce (sp? you get the point...). Erasure! I love them! Didn't think anyone listened to that anymore... How 'bout The Art of Noise?

And then we get into the Thompson Twins, Cyndi Lauper and Duran Duran... the beginnings of the pop era...

Let's not forget Black Flag, The Misfits (does anyone know what Glenn was actually saying?), Minor Threat & Fugazi!

BTW - The Eurythmics song named above is "Sweet Dreams (are made of this)" not "Sweet Things"... Anything Annie Lennox does is good - even solo.

I've not heard a whole lot of new music that is any good lately. It's all really starting to sound the same...
I admit to liking Eminem, but only the most recent album. He's got some pretty good lyrics sandwiched in between the profanity and psychosis...


Bodhi - Cell 617

Ah, my fellow children of the 80s are coming out of the woodwork!

DG: You're right, I just needed to take a few deep breaths after that shock...

cfb: He's right about New Wave being more a stage than a sound. It would be difficult to fit New Wave into a nice, neat slot as far as sounds are concerned. Now synthpop, that's a sound--but it's also part of New Wave.

bodhi: Oh my god, I didn't realize there were any other Erasure fans here! I am so psyched! I definitely still listen to them, and I buy all their new albums (in fact, they are the only albums I buy these days). What's your favorite album/song, by the way? Sorry, I just get so excited to see another Erasure fan...

Orienos, no worries. Just wondering if you had been or are a music major in college. I studied music and am always looking for people to "talk shop" to. That's all ;-)

Later,

C:\


~Binary is best~

New wave, damn, its like a dirty little secret. I really don't really want to say I like it. Don't forget Alphaville -Forever Young, Spandau Ballet, ABC, A-HA, Bow-wow-wow and Yaz.

And a personal favorite...I can't believe I am publicly admiting this...Adam Ant.

**Pick's up the knife**

bodhi, you aren't calling Black Flag and the Misfits "New Wave" are you?

Actually my favorite band, did come from the 80's, but is not new wave- The Clash

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Suho - I like the Chorus album, my favorite song is "Love to Hate You" ... I haven't listened to them in so long, all I have is a cassette tape! My roommate in college got me into them... I don't even think I listened to them in the actual 80's! I haven't bought any music in ages - new or old...

tiki: put down the knife man - not New Wave, just 80's era... didn't mean to confuse anyone!
I am also a fan of Adam Ant (but don't tell anyone!)


Bodhi - Cell 617

Actually I used to listen a lot to the 80's as a kid but I'm broke atm and don't have any songs from the 80's and don't remember most of their names anymore. :P

There are a lot of great songs which are much older but if I mention them, you're probably going to start throwing pies and tomatoes at me. :P

I am asexual, neither male nor female.

Yes, we'll throw pies, but at least they'll taste good.

And of course we have to throw in some ska (not so much 3rd wave ska though) and big band... Skatalites, Glenn Miller, Duke Ellington, etc, etc, etc.

Ah, 80's...who forgot The Smiths and The Cure?

If we're talking about best 'of all time' you really can't forget Muddy Waters, Elmore James, Robert Johnson, Son House and the other Delta bluesmen. Great stuff.
And as long as we're in the south, you have to mention Johnny Cash, Elvis (in the Sun days), Carl Perkins, Roy Orbison, Buddy Holly, Ray Charles and Chuck Berry. To even talk about modern rock or pop without mentioning these masters is nothing short of blasphemy.

Speaking of blasphemy, may the ghosts of Robert Johnson and Elmore James come back and use Synax's stabbing knife to stab vigorously whoever it was that prefered Stevie Ray Vaughn to Jimi Hendrix.

I forgot a couple, older bands:

King Crimson
The Cars
The Monkees
The Beatles (of COURSE)
Jimi Hendrix
Earth, Wind and Fire
Ozzy Ozzbourne
Depeche Mode
Led Zepplin

bodhi: That's interesting, because Chorus is the only album I never picked up on CD--I still have it on cassette too! Chorus is indeed a funky album, and I Love to Hate You is a great song. It would be really tough for me to pick a favorite album, but if pressed I guess I would have to go with either The Circus or The Innocents. It would be even harder to pick a favorite song, but I suppose I would have to go traditional and say Oh L'Amour. My favorite B-side would most likely be Supernature (that's from one of the Wild! singles, I think Blue Savannah).

I like their new stuff, too, though--Loveboat has some really nice tracks, and Other People's Songs was a refreshing change.

cfb: Ah, so you like DM? Cool (Some Great Reward and Black Celebration are classic). And The Cars? Nice. It saddens me to hear you call them "older bands," but I suppose you're right. *sigh*

I am just so out of touch with the music scene today. Even the Korean songs I like are all from the early 90s or 80s--some are from before I even got to Korea. Isn't that weird?

Oldies:

The Beatles=Dream
Bob Marley=Knock Knockin' on Heaven's Door.

The BACKSTREET BOYS- larger than life. WOOHOO!!

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New Wave?? How about the New Wave of British Heavy Metal like urmmmmmm Saxon. OK maybe not but how about the following (as well as a lot from above):

Black Sabbath: Paranoid/War Pigs/Iron Man
Deep Purple: Hush/Black Knight
Ministry: Jesus Built My Hotrod/Burning Inside/etc.
Revolting Cocks: Beers, Steers and Queers
NIN: Head Like a Hole may have changed my life
Mudhoney: Here Comes Sickness/Touch Me I'm Sick/In an Out of Grace
Janes Addicition: Ocean Size/Been Caught Stealing/Jane Says
The Sisters of Mercy: Lucretia/This Corrosion
Big Black: Kerosene
Velvet Underground: Venus in Furs
Death in Vegas: Aisha
RATM: Bullet in The Head/Renegeades of Funk
RHC: Under the Bridge/Higher ground
Guns and Roses: Welcome to the Jungle
Faith No More: Epic/We care a Lot
Fugazi: Waiting Room
Garbage: Push it/I Think I'm Paranoid
Iggy Pop: Lust for Life/Passenger
Johnny Cash: Man in Black/Boy Named Sue/Ring of Fire
Nick Cave: Weeping Song
The Pixies: Always the Pixies...........
Misfits: Last Caress/Mommy Can I go Out and Kill Tonight?/Bullet
Dead Kennedys: Too Drunk to Fuck/Holiday in Cambodia/California Uber Alles
Spacemen 3: Revolution
Pop Will Eat Itself: Not Now James were Busy/Can U Dig it/Def.Con.One

[edit: And not wishing to get on the wrong side of Lemmy:

Motorhead: Ace of Spades]

[edit2: And loads of classic punk (and a little post-punk):

??: Gary Gilmores Eyes
Peter and the Test Tube Babies: Transvestite
Damned: Smash it Up
Sex Pistols: Anarchy in the UK/God Save The Queen
Souxie and the Banshees
Joy Division]

[edit3: I should really give up and admit I can't name them all but I can't believe I missed out:

The Ramones ]

[edit4: Oooooooooo

The cult: pre-Sonic Temple
Thin Lizzy:

and more 'ambient' stuff like:

Massive Attack
Portishead

Right I'll stop now........]

and some rap (pretty much anything from their early work will do):

Cypress Hill
Public Enemy
NWA

and:

Prodigy
The Shamen: Move Any Mountain

And they are just the enduring classics for me (and I be I have missed out as many again).

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Emps

FAQs: Emperor

wow. vintage people

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Lets see, for me, in moderation:

Muddy Waters
Frank Sinatra
Icewind Dale Soundtrack

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Hmm...Of course, we've got classical. which never really gets old.