Quick! Pick yout FIVE favorite songs of all time without consulting your record collection

dood, I love "Mellow My Mind" so much though, that's a great choice. So fun to play on guitar. He was writing so well around that time. yo Rog, you gotta get these if ya don't have 'em-

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Since I've Been Loving You - Led Zeppelin
I Want You Back - Jackson 5
Daydream Nation - Sonic Youth
You And I - Stevie Wonder
A Day In The Life - Beatles (acoustic Lennon version)

Brass In Pocket - The Prentenders
Life On Mars - David Bowie
Waterloo Sunset - Kinks
Mother - John Lennon
A Case Of You - Joni Mitchell

My wife helped me speed-select, so that's a quick 10 together.

i'm so bad with song titles, i probably fucked a few of those up

Superchunk - "Slack Motherfucker"
Sonic Youth - "The Diamond Sea"
Jimi Hendrix - "Purple Haze"
Led Zeppelin - "Stairway to Heaven"
Radiohead - "Idioteque"

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Daydream Nation is an album BTW. I'm really curious which song you picked from it, not just being a pedant.

Drugstore -- Accelerate
Depeche Mode -- Enjoy the Silence
Kim Carnes -- Bette Davis Eyes
James -- Laid
Joy Division -- Love Will Tear Us Apart

that doesn't seem right, though.

(ten years from now, i would have said Yeah Yeah Yeahs, "Maps"... but, you know, it's too soon)

I'll change my mind very soon.

I was taking "song" literally, not counting instrumentals (though "The Diamond Sea" may be a half-cheat). My list would be very different otherwise.

"Zoo Music Girl" rules. I should pull out the Birthday Party more often.

I think "Warsaw" may be my favourite Joy Division song. Otherwise, "Shadowplay", possibly.

If Disco Nihilist gets to pick SIX, I think it'd be only fair that someone who ISN'T a Nihlist and holds that all values are NOT baseless and that ideas and facts can indeed be known or communicated, pics SEVEN!

-- sundar subramanian (sundar_subramanian200...), February 1st, 2005.

You, my friend, are brilliant

that's a ridiculous list, looking at it. i like Dr C's a lot - Dr C, have you started threads on all those songs?

1. Blue line swinger, yo la tengo
2. why, yoko ono
3. hornets, herbie hancock
4. somebody to love, queen
5. clair de lune, debussy

Thanks! I have started threads on the ABC (more like embarrassing splurge about how much I love the song), The Flirtations, and Uptown. I think I wrote a little bit about At Last I Am Free in a Chic thread a while back. Will link later.

(ok, so I cheated a little...)

that's just today though. although, to be honest. chubby is number one every day. and stormy davis's number one is probably my real number two or one and a half most of the year.

the congos - the wrong thing
blondie - the tide is high
south street player - who keeps changing your mind
wedding present - crawl
little river band - reminiscing

v. hard indeed.

janese addiction 'three days'
lyrics born w/ lateef 'the last trumpet'
beck 'nobody's fault but my own'
bjork 'hyperballad' (brodsky quartet version)
fishbone 'sunless saturday'

aaliyah - are you that somebody?
talking heads - houses in motion
odb - got your money
ween - pumpin 4 the man
teh beatles - here comes the sun

What a pathetically inadequate list.

i think that this may be the point of the drill. how could i else forget the the's 'dogs of lust', joy division's 'love will tear us apart' and rage against the machine's 'bullet in the head'?
if i had remembered them, tho, which songs should go?

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!

All but the Prince and Aaliyah subject to change daily. I can think of around a dozen Neil Finn songs alone.

This is a difficult exercise.

yes, dog latin just made me realize i forgot/mis-called one of mine

TRIPLE YAY!!!

needles in the camels eye - brian eno
here come the warm jets - brian eno
the sign - ace of base
its time to party - andrew wk
when u were mine - prince

"waterloo sunset" is number 6, for fucking sure.

1. "Revolution," Beatles
2. "Freebird," Lynyrd Skynyrd
3. "Beat It," Michael Jackson
4. "Rockin' in the Free World," Neil Young
5. "B.O.B.," OutKast

Baetles - Tomorrow Never Knows
Funkadelic - Can You Get To That?
Bob Marley - Small Axe
Queen - You're My Best Friend
Tom Waits - Time

"All Things Must Pass"
"Many Rivers to Cross"
"Fa Ce La"
"Babe, I'm Gonna Leave You"
"Straight, No Chaser"

yes! haha, i never expected to see a pinback song on this thread.. two of them, at that.

might as well add a couple more:

Stooges, "Dirt"
Will Oldham, "I see a Darkness"

Ouch. Don't do that to me!

1. Jefferson Starship, "Miracles"
2. Grass Roots, "I'd Wait a Million Years"
3. Nina Simone, "Wild Is the Wind"
4. The Turtles, "She's My Girl"
5. Todd Rundgren, "I Saw the Light"

Top 5 fairly fresh in my mind:
1. Talk Talk - After the Flood
2. My Bloody Valentine - To Here Knows When
3. My Bloody Valentine - What You Want
4. Boards of Canada - Dawn Chorus
5. Pavement - In The Mouth a Desert

Top 5 that I haven't heard in years:
1. The Orb - Little Fluffy Clouds (Live)
2. Smashing Pumpkins - 1979
3. Dave Matthews Band - 41
4. Third Eye Blind - Never Let You Go
5. Orbital - Halcyon + On + On

MBV - Only Shallow
Swervedriver - Kill The Superheroes
Slayer - Altar Of Sacrifice
Mack 10 - Connected For Life
The Church - Under The Milky Way

Fuckin' lists.... I'm gonna think of 3 or 4 that I forgot about here in about 5 minutes.

Splash "Babylon"
Elephant Man "Replacement Killers"
4-Hero "Mr Kirk's Nightmare"
Missy Elliot "Get Yr Freak On"
Public Enemy "Welcome to the Terrordrome"

6. "(I'm) Stranded" by the Saints
7. "Hybrid Moments" by the Misfits
8. "Safe From Harm" by Massive Attack
9. "Summerhead" by the Cocteau Twins
10. "New Toy" by Lene Lovich

And Sundar....is "Stairway to Heaven" really one of your favorites????

Ask me tomorrow and it'll be different, but these are all untouchable.

...reminded me not only of a great song, but great title!

1) Captain Beefheart "Abba Zabba"
2) Wu-Tang Clan "Rulez"
3) Steely Dan "Change of the Guard"
4) Archie Shepp "There is a Balm in Gilead"
5) Spiritualized "Amazing Grace/Peace on Earth"

The Spoons - Nova Heart
Trashcan Sinatras - Hayfever
Finn Brothers - Only Talking Sense
Talk Talk - New Grass
Depeche Mode - It's No Good

6. Blind Willie Johnson, "Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground"
7. New Order, "Temptation"
8. The New Pornographers, "Letter From an Occupant"
9. All Saints, "Pure Shores"
10. Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell, "Ain't No Mountain High Enough"

Elliott Smith, "Say Yes"
Ghostface Killah, "Nutmeg"
Fugazi, "Smallpox Champion"
Mission of Burma, "Academy Fight Song"
Superchunk, "From the Curve"

Kinks - Sunny Afternoon
Left Banke - Walk Away Renee
Nancy Sinatra - These Boots Are Made For Walkin'
Beatles - I Feel Fine
Rivieras - California Sun

cannibal ox- the f word
modern folk quartet- this could be the night
television- venus
underworld- juanita/kiteless/to dream of love
the walkmen- rue the day

Bryan: Thanks. I'd honestly seriously considered just saying
"1-5) Superchunk - 'Slack Motherfucker'".

Right now, at least

...that was very, very hard

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Leon Russell - This Masquerade
Rolling Stones - Last Time
Jefferson Airplane - Don't You Want Somebody To Love
The Casinos - Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye
Neil Young - Cortez The Killer

Kiley Dean, "Keep It Movin"
Hole, "Violet"
Mystikal, "Bouncin Back"
Delta 5, "Mind Your Own Business"
Jesus Lizard, "Puss"

The last one's always the hardest

1. New Order - Everything's Gone Green
2. Simple Minds - A Brass Band In African Chimes
3. The Past Seven Days - Raindance
4. Nick Drake - Hanging On A Star
5. Robyn Hitchcock - I Used To Say I Love You

10. "New Toy" by Lene Lovich

Yes. Makes me wish Thomas Dolby had done a whole album with her!

No, that's all wrong. That's yesterday's list. Today's is:

1. "She's Lost Control" - Joy Division
2. "Ugly Face" - Nina Nastasia
3. "Plainsong" - The Cure
4. "Love Train" - The O'Jays
5. "Levi Stubbs' Tears" - Billy Bragg

Wait, what about tomorrow's list?

1. "The Partisan" - Leonard Cohen (version)
2. "Waterloo Sunset" - The Kinks
3. "Battle of Evermore" - Zeppelin (I know, I know, but I'm... just being honest)
4. "Hitherto" - Cocteau Twins
5. "Time is the Diamond" - Low

Ah, fuck it.

"love train"? seriously? i mean, fun song and all that. i guess i've never paid close enough attention to it to consider it as among the best of anything... maybe I should?

Yeah, I'm not even trying to be objective. It's entirely a subjective list. When I heard "Love Train", I was in a certain place and I felt a certain way and the song just rushed into me and stuck somewhere, a joyful glue aneurysm waiting to burst and stick to everything. A different day and I'd have put "Are Friends Electric?" or "Ring my Bell" or, fuck, I don't know, Shannon's "Let the Music Play" or something. Or some Dusty. Or some Al Green. Or some OutKast. Or some Streets. Or Smiths. Or Yes. Or the last Avril single that, inexplicably, I really love (the one about nobody being home or something along those lines). Or whatever. Ha, it just goes on and on, this music addiction thing and sometimes I wonder if I'll be personally strong enough to keep carrying it forward...

(Ahem *cough*)

That is a very quick brainstorm and I would need more time to properly scan everything, but Missy is way out at the top.

my new one:
Elis Regina & A.C. Jobim, "Aguas de Marco"
The Sugarcubes, "F***ing in Rhythm and Sorrow"
Sam & Dave, "When Something Is Wrong With My Baby"
Sweet, "Ballroom Blitz"
Parliament, "Flashlight"

Johnny Cash - Cocaine Blues
Yo La Tengo - From A Motel 6
Funkadelic - You Can't Miss What You Can't Measure
NWA - Straight Outta Compton
Gang of Four - I Found That Essence Rare

Underworld-Two Months Off
Misfits-Where Eagles Dare
Gang of Four-I Found That Essence Rare (I thought of it before I read the last post, I swear, that is a great choice though)
Takkyu Ishino-The Rising Suns
Clash-The Card Cheat

did my head in and i lied and cheated am not happy with my list.

great band name, by the way!

Rush - Tom Sawyer
Butthole Surfers - P.S.Y
Police - So Lonely
Residents - Lizard Lady
Voivod - The Unknown Knows

1. Beatles, "Penny Lane"
2. Styx, "Music Time"
3. Marty Balin, "Hearts"
4. Barry Manilow, "Daybreak"
5. Billy Joel, "Pressure"

Scala - I Touch Myself
Belle & Sebastian - Century of Fakers
Gareth Gates - Unchained Melody
Baxendale - Music for Girls
The Hacker - Fadin' Away (Dima remix)

Elvis - Long Black limousine
Beatles - I'm Only Sleeping
De La Soul - I Am I Be
Prince - Darling Nikki
Marvin Gaye - I Heard it through the grapevine

Neil Young: 'Heart Of Gold'
Rage Against The Machine: 'Bullet In The Head'
Portishead: 'Glory Box'
Beatles: 'I'm Only Sleeping'
2pac: 'California Love'

"Kiss," Prince
"Honky Tonk Heroes," Waylon Jennings
"My Baby Portable Stereo Sound," Pizzicato Five
"Buk-in-Hamm Palace," Peter Tosh
"Crazy on You," Heart

Bruce Springsteen - "She's the One"
Fugazi - "Full Disclosure"
Public Enemy - "Brothers Gonna Work It Out"
James Brown - "Licking Stick"
Hank Williams - "I Heard That Lonesome Whistle Blow"

Billy Stewart, "Summertime"
Mamas & Papas, "California Dreaming"
Stevie Wonder, "Another Star"
Lighthouse, "One Fine Morning"
Aretha Franklin, "Oh Me Oh My (I'm a Fool For You Baby)"
Rod Stewart, "You're in My Heart (The Final Acclaim)"

Olivia Tremor Control - NYC-25
Yoko Kanno & The Seatbelts - The Real Folk Blues
Exploding Hearts - Sleeping Aides and Razorblades
Built to Spill - Kicked it in the Sun
The Fall - L.A.

(that's literally off the top of my head, though)

Arrgh, excruciating thread...

tom waits- hang down your head
antony and the johnsons- blue angel
the millennium- to claudia on thursday
gang of four- i found that essence rare
rolling stones- no expectations

These may not be my five favorites. Maybe they're merely the five best.

wow. never make me do that again.

um . . . (haha, I did this while listening to superpitcher's cover of "fever" OH NO)

this is fuckin' hard.

VU - Sister Ray (to ensure it pisses off the neighbors)
Clash - Death or Glory (hard to pick but wins out for convolving fucking with nuns)
Replacements - Color Me Impressed (the best song on their best record)
Wilco - Misunderstood (for the haters)
Spaceshits - C'mon Let's Suicide (to up the guitar and lo-fi quotients a bit more, because I know that's what ILM likes best)

5 for 2005 - I absolutely cheated here, to check on dates and get song names right, in my perfect world these are the songs that'd be blarin' out of car windows on hot summer nights:

The Fevers - Bound To Cry
Demon's Claws - Blood On My Fangs
King Khan & BBQ Show - Shake Real Low
The Ponys - Ferocious
King Louie - I'm 13 and I'm Too Ugly To Live

(as the thread says songs, I've had to leave out my favourite piece of music ever, which is Steve Reich's 'Variations for Winds, Strings and Keyboards' which would go above all of 'em.)

the clean - point that thing somewhere else
scorched earth policy - sunset on the loading zone
beach boys - surf's up
velvet underground - waiting for my man
stereolab - metronic underground

btw to all the brtish folks out there, HURRY UP AND BEAT THE FUCKING AUSSIES ALREADY!!, theres only 30 runs required now!

Cocteau Twins: Summerhead
Adorable: A to Fade In
the Faint: Mote (I prefer it to the original!)
Throwing Muses: Mania (a live version that is chaos compared to the one on the album, but stuns me so much)
Pixies: Hey (love, and then some)

I could do another five in five mins time and it'd change Im sure.

That's six, isn't it? Bugger.

That was off the top of my head without reading the rest of the thread. Now I'll see what our survey said ...

This will most likely change in approx 2 hours...

Brian Eno - By This River
Devo - Snowball
Kate Bush - This Womans Work
Kraftwerk - Komentmelodie 2
Dexys Midnight Runners - Because Of You

Miranda - some excellent choices. Fischer Z and Los Lobos excepted!

Beach Boys - Til I Die
Al Green - Love & Happiness
Merle Haggard - Mama Tried
Captain Beefheart - Electricity
Fred Neil - I got a secret

Tried to pull this off without looking at the songs on the thread

feel the darkness - poison idea

whatsoever the dance - bootsy collins (or whatever his first band was called)

Scumbag fucker - blowfly - we just did the vocals on this saturday. Imagine a motown act singing a mentors song. absolutely insane.

cumbia and jazz fusion - charles mingus

fuck the kids - Antiseen

The Go Betweens - "Cattle and Cane"
OMD - "Souvenir"
Photek - "Consciousness"
PSB - "Before"
Joni Mitchell - "The Boho Dance"

EBTG - "Mirrorball"
Underworld - "Pearl's Girl"
Omni Trio - "Renegade Snares" (original version)
XTC - "Senses Working Overtime"
Divine Comedy - "Your Daddy's Car"

Scientist - The Mummy's Shroud
Felix - Tigerstripes
Bloc Party - This Modern Love
Killjoys - Johnny Won't Get To Heaven
Swamp Children - Call Me Honey

Um, then I reached my first post:

Lessee ...

1. "Revolution," Beatles
2. "Freebird," Lynyrd Skynyrd
3. "Beat It," Michael Jackson
4. "Rockin' in the Free World," Neil Young
5. "B.O.B.," OutKast

At least I'm consistent. :-) Other two that occurred to me this time were Talking Heads' "Found a Job" and David Banner's "Mississippi"

"It's Only Obvious" - The Orchids
"The Blues are Still Blue" - Belle and Sebastian
"When We Were Young" - Whipping Boy
"Boys Don't Cry" - The Cure
"You Don't Have To Say You Love Me" - Dusty Springfield

althea and donna - uptown top ranking
big star - thirteen
claude debussy - clair de lune
m83 - midnight city
young marble giants - final day

I don't think I love Midnight City for a real top 5 but I've been stuck with it for a while now so I had to choose it without looking at my collection.

Buffy Sainte-Marie "God Is Alive, Magic Is Afoot"
Eurythmics "Love Is A Stranger"
Beach Boys "Surf's Up"
Nina Simone "I Wish I Knew How It Feels To Be Free"
Frank Sinatra "I've Got You Under My Skin"

Beach Boys - Surfs Up
Talking Heads - Crosseyed and Painless (live)
R Kelly - Ignition (remix)
Scott Walker - Epizootics!
Ornette Coleman -Lonely Woman

X post ah holy shit nice one fgti, didn't see yours before posting. Not that I'm entirely happy with my choices but speed is the spirit of this thing.

Antena - Camino del Sol
Jobim & Elis - Aguas de Março
Buena Vista Social Club - Chan Chan
Jorge Ben - Meninha Mulher de Pele Preta
Secos & Molhados - Sangue Latino

^non english version.

The Ronettes - Baby I Love You
The Archies - Sugar, Sugar
New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle
Aphex Twin - Girl/Boy Song
School of Seven Bells - Put Your Sad Down

The Velvet Underground- Candy Says
Nicolle Meyer- Nowhere By Mir
Section 25- Looking from a Hilltop
Severed Heads- Big Car (album version only)
Scritti Politti- Wood Beez (Pray Like Aretha Franklin)

Burning Spear - Marcus Garvey
Fela Kuti - Sorrow, Tears and Blood
Commodores - Nightshift
Randy Travis - Forever and Ever, Amen
BJ Thomas - Rock and Roll Lullaby

The Only Ones - Another Girl, Another Planet
The Cure - Close to Me
Built to Spill - Car
The Pharcyde - Passin' Me By
The Pretenders - Back on the Chain Gang

michael jackson - rock with you
tears for fears - head over heels
tori amos - spark
madonna - into the groove
hall and oates - i can't go for that (no can do)

"The Captain of Her Heart"
"Baker Street"
"In the City"
"Running on Empty"
"Against All Odds"

― Barrett Proxmeyer, Monday, February 27, 2006 9:32 AM (8 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this list rules

the velvet underground - i'll be your mirror
the db's - black and white
lauryn hill - doo wop (that thing)
the units - high pressure days
arthur russell - a little lost

Associates - Party Fears 2
New Order - Regret
Dexys Midnight Runners - This is What She's Like
Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons - The Night
Bjork - Hyperballad

the moments - "nine times"
freddie slack and ella mae morse - "house of blue lights"
jam and spoon - "stella (jam and spoon mix)"
loretta lynn - "one's on the way"
moon mullican - "cherokee boogie"

The Go-Betweens - Cattle and Cane
The Chills - Heavenly Pop Hit
Camera Obscura - Eighties Fan
Kitchens of Distinction - Drive That Fast
Otis Redding - (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay

Curtis Mayfield - "Move on Up"
The Mountain Goats - "Distant Stations"
The Blue Hearts - "Linda Linda"
John Fahey - "Sunflower River Blues"
Nas - "It Ain't Hard to Tell"

Yo La Tengo - "Blue Line Swinger"
The Clean - "Point That Thing Somewhere Else"
The Fall - "New Face in Hell"
The Fall - "How I Wrote Elastic Man"
The Congos - "Open the Gate"

black moon - buck em down remix
congos - ark of the covenant
romanthony - wanderer
mike dunn - groovin
wiley - eskimo

Lilys - Claire Hates Me
The Clientele - Since K Got Over Me
Sun Kil Moon - Duk Koo Kim
East River Pipe - 40 Miles
Cass McCombs - Mother and Father

xtal
strings of life
i would die 4 u
dream baby dream
hello earth

wire "outdoor miner"
inoj "love you down"
slint "good morning captain"
beastie boys "looking down the barrel of a gun"
faust "j'ai mal aux dents"

isaac hayes "walk on by"
jorge ben "zumbi (africa brasil)"
kate bush "cloudbusting"
fela kuti "shuffering and shmiling"
steve reich "six pianos"

Brewer & Shipley - One Toke Over The Line
White Plains - My Baby Loves Lovin'
Rod Stewart - Mandolin Wind
Elvis Presley - Hurt
Gerry Rafferty - Home & Dry

Songs that played my IPod shuffle play

michael smith "the dutchman"
lou reed "dirty blvd"
richie valens "la bamba"
gram parsons "love hurts"
emmylou harris "boulder to birmingham"

burial & four tet- moth
john coltrane- psalm
sun ra- springtime again
mala- livin different
lee scratch perry- three in one

tammy st john - dark shadows and empty hallways
new order - thieves like us
underworld - jumbo
flamin' groovies - shake some action
go betweens - love goes on!

New Order "Ceremony"
Loose Joints "Tell You Today"
The Flirtations "Nothing But A Heartache"
Chic "I Want Your Love"
Ciara "Promise"

Joy Division "Digital"
The Fall "The N.W.R.A."
Royal Trux "The Spectre"
The Dead C "Bitcher"
The Chills "Wet Blanket"

Cocteau Twins "The Itchy Glowblo Blow"
Smog "All Your Women Things"
Jim O'Rourke "I'm Happy..."
10CC "I'm Not In Love"
Halifax Pier "The Wait"

(So hard to do! Absolutely loving the love for Surf's Up itt)

today it's probably

razor boy
over the hillside
wood beez
drip dry eyes
forbidden colours

Freight Train Elizabeth Cotten
Pickin Boogers Biz Markie
Babys On Fire Brian Eno
Goodnight Irene Leadbelly
Cotten Eyed Joe Nina Simone

Alone and Forsaken Hank Williams replaces Brian Eno just came to me honest.

A tribe called quest - bonita applebum (why edit)
Outkast - spottieottiedopaliscious
Can - vitamin C
Kate Bush - hounds of love
William Devaughn - be thankful for what you’ve got

Toots and the Maytals - Pressure Drop
The Kinks - Lola
Bob Dylan - It Takes a Lot to Laugh, it Takes a Train to Cry
Rolling Stones - Let it Loose
Van Morrison - Bulbs

I'm already regretting this list. The only things on it I'm absolutely certain about are Pressure Drop and Let it Loose.

Can’t bring myself to make such lists because i know I will have similar regrets but enjoy seeing what others will write.

Pretty Things - October 26
Laughing Clowns - Eternally Yours
Chic - Good Times
HTRK - Fascinator
David Bowie - Fantastic Voyage

In no particular order, the first five that came to mind:

The Kinks: You Really Got Me
Bob Dylan: It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)
The Beatles: Hello, Goodbye
The Velvet Underground: Sister Ray
Iggy & The Stooges: Search and Destroy

OMD - Souvenir
Chic - My Feet Keep Dancing
The Fall - Cruiser's Creek
Jeanette - El Muchacho de los Ojos Tristes
Rolling Stones - Dandelion

Had to scroll through the thread to see if I'd done this before. I had, under a long-abandoned username.

Stop That Train - Keith and Tex
Could It Be I'm Falling In Love - The Spinners
Woman's Gotta Have It - Bobby Womack
Oi Manges Den Iparhoun Pia - Nikos Papazoglou
What'd I Say - Ray Charles

Scott Walker: "Jackie"
The Magnetic Fields: "Dancing in Your Eyes"
Throwing Muses: "Call Me"
Pharoah Sanders: "The Creator Has a Master Plan"
Liquid Liquid: "Optimo"

Michel Camilo Trio - "Tombo in 7/4"
Raymond Scott - "The Penguin"
The Sundays - "Can't Be Sure"
Le Mystere des Voix Bulgares - "Kaval Zviri"
Genesis - 'The Cinema Show"

the five best songs I can think of of the top of my head

Barbara Lewis - "Baby I'm Yours"
Delfonics - Didn't I (Blow Your Mind This Time)
Haroumi Hasono - Sports Men
The Go-Betweens - Bachelor Kisses
Brandy - Sittin' Up in My Room

Neko Case - I Missed the Point
Shangri-Las - Give Him a Great Big Kiss
Ariana Grande feat. Zedd - Break Free
Rolling Stones - Start Me Up
Red Crayola w/Art & Language - Plekhanov

just gonna list my 5 fav songs of the moment

deborah cox - nobody supposed to be here
bloc party - this modern love
billie eilish - when the party's over
sade - by your side
paul buchanan - cars in the garden

David Bowie, "Sound and Vision"
Janet Jackson, "When I Think of You"
The Rolling Stones, "Beast of Burden"
Steely Dan, "Babylon Sisters"
Talking Heads, "Once in a Lifetime"

the band - 'the weight'
simon & garfunkel - 'kathy's song'
the beach boys - 'god only knows'
tommy james & the shondelles - 'crimson & clover'
elliott smith - 'happiness'

ah, no, no. crimson and clover was just stuck in my head when i wrote that. 'don't worry baby' is much more worthy.

I'll regret everything the moment I send this, but...

Eric B & Rakim - "Follow the Leader"
Kleenex (Liliput) - "Split"
The Sugarcubes - "Birthday"
The Fall - "Prole Art Threat"
Dionne Warwick - "You're Gonna Need Me"

capt beefheart - kandy korn
herbie hancock - metal beat
weather report - nubian sundance
talking heads - road to nowhere
amok amor - als sozialist geboren
all probably wrong

DMX “What These Bitches Want”
Billy Idol “Shock to the System”
Nazareth “Hair of the Dog”
Georgie Fame “Yeh Yeh”
Indigo Girls “Southland in the Springtime”

Spectre General - Hunger
John Farnham - Break the Ice
Dolby's Cube - Hunger City
Dokken - Dream Warriors
Devo - Baby Doll

The Blue Nile - The Downtown Lights
Glen Campbell - Wichita Lineman
Lloyd Cole & the Commotions - Why I Love Country Music
Prefab Sprout - Desire As
The Apartments - The Failure of Love is a Brick Wall

Spinanes - 'Hawaiian Baby'
Todd Rundgren - 'Sometimes I Don't Know How To Feel'
Ornette Coleman - 'What Reason Could I Give'
Cocteau Twins - 'Love's Easy Tears'
Nite-Liters - 'Brand X'

chet baker - "my buddy"
dj quik - "intro for roger"
fall out boy - "from now on we are enemies"
shinee - "view"
tori amos - "doughnut song"

The Monkees - Mr. Webster
Phil Phillips - Sea of Love
Roxy Music - Mother of Pearl
The B-52s - Rock Lobster
Cottage for Sale - anyone's version, but lately I love Charles Brown's

Miracle Legion - All for the Best
Black Sabbath - War Pigs
ATCQ - Scenario
The Blue Hearts - Owaranai Uta
Kraftwerk - Trans Europe Express

Spectre General - Hunger
John Farnham - Break the Ice
Dolby's Cube - Hunger City
Dokken - Dream Warriors
Devo - Baby Doll

whoa nice

I'm going with a different five from the list I posted five years ago.

Annie - Heartbeat
Broadcast - Come On Let's Go
The B-52's - Topaz
Minnie Riperton - Reasons
Scritti Politti - Absolute

Smashing Pumpkins - Tristessa
Womack & Womack - Teardrops
Royal Headache - Wouldn't You Know
Spoon - Finer Feelings
Kanye West - Paranoid

Thought of an alternate five for myself:

Slapp Happy - The Drum (v1)
Slapp Happy - The Drum (v2)
Bongwater - The Drum
The Impossibles - The Drum
Love And Hates ft. The Pegasuss - The Drum

did i misunderstand this thread or something or these actually y'all favourite songs? not a lot of 'classic' choices here.

Sorry I will try harter

The Beeters - 'A Day of My Life'
Steve E. Wonder - 'Superstation'
Simen and Garfinkle - 'Bridge In The Water'
Bob Dyban - 'Everybody Let's Get Stoned'
Kenny Rodger - '(Can't Stop) Fucking'

LOL'ed IRL for a solid 30 secs.

Putting this here as a worthless time capsule for myself

• LFO - Psychodelik
• Girl Band - Why They Hide Their Bodies Under My Garage
• The Orb - Close Encounters
• DJ Dick - The Iron Raver
• YMO - Rydeen

Here is my alternate edition where I care about lyrics and melody, like a stooge

• Stevie Wonder - Living For The City
• The Police - Walking On The Moon
• Boredoms
• Yelle
• A Tribe Called Quest

Pretend I picked one song by the last three. I’m tired.

David Bowie - Sound & Vision
Lou Reed - Street Hassle
Fannypack - Nu Nu (Yeah Yeah)
Clash - Train In Vain
Prince - Kiss

Echo & the Bunnymen - Over the Wall
David Sylvian - Taking The Veil
Joseph Arthur - Travel As Equals
Paul Simon - The Coast
King Crimson - Islands

Will probably be flagellating myself in a bit for not including anything by Roxy Music, David Bowie or Gene Clark.

flying burrito bros - sin city
beach boys - don't worry baby
rem - nightswimming
bob dylan - girl from the north country
elvis presley, scotty, and bill - mystery train

King Crimson - Islands

This is a beautiful melody, which used to float through my head often.

Yes - Awaken
Laurie Anderson - O Superman
Patience & Prudence - Tonight You Belong To me
Rain Parade - Talking In My Sleep
XTC - Ladybird

First two of those would be fairly high up mine and I also love the 5th, will have to check the other two out!

New Order - Ceremony
Phantom/Ghost - Perfect Lovers (Unperfect Love Mix by Tobias Thomas & Superpitcher)
Sakanaction - Music
Owen Pallett - The Great Elsewhere
Bjork - Unravel

Phantom/Ghost - Perfect Lovers (Unperfect Love Mix by Tobias Thomas & Superpitcher)
Perfect. <3.

I still listen to it all the time

b-52s / 52 girls
english beat / save it for later
orb / huge ever growing pulsating brain
cardiacs / dirty boy
heart / barracuda

King Crimson - Islands

This is a beautiful melody, which used to float through my head often.

Thanks! I thought this was the most unusual pick in my selection, given that somehow most KC fans don't think much of the entire Islands album. A couple of years ago, the song made their way onto their setlists (I think thanks to current singer Jakko Jakszyk). I still can't believe that I heard it live last year.

Islands is great and among my favourite KC albums.

Anyway, the question raised by this thread is frankly crippling and I'm afraid I can't indulge.

They're not engraving the 5 on your tombstone, it's just an internet message board! I just picked 5 off the top of my head, from different eras of my listening life, that I thought had a great combination of melody and lyric. I could pick another 50, the list is not definitive.

Thin Lizzy - Do Anything You Want To
Information Society - What's On Your Mind (Pure Energy)
Yo-Yo - You Can't Play With My Yo-Yo
Guns and Roses - You Could Be Mine
Jerry Jeff Walker - Pissing in the Wind

Anyway, the question raised by this thread is frankly crippling and I'm afraid I can't indulge.

Ahmed fakroun - nisyan
denim - the great pub rock revival
Dj PlayStation - press start

only got 3 right now

Not tonight, alas. I suppose I'll sidestep it then:

Alexander Scriabin - Piano Sonata No. 10, Op. 70
Claude Vivier - Lonely Child
Ludwig van Beethoven - String Quartet No. 15 in A minor, Op. 132
Sofia Gubaidulina - The Canticle of the Sun
Ștefan Niculescu - Ison II

xp

Harry styles - sign of the times

xp interested in yr preferred recordings if you've got

Sorry I will try harter

The Beeters - 'A Day of My Life'
Steve E. Wonder - 'Superstation'
Simen and Garfinkle - 'Bridge In The Water'
Bob Dyban - 'Everybody Let's Get Stoned'
Kenny Rodger - '(Can't Stop) Fucking'

― Come and Rock Me, Hot Potatoes (Old Lunch), Tuesday, August 13, 2019 4:06 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

instant classic ilx post

Scriabin: Roger Woodward
Vivier: Susan Narucki, Schönberg & ASKO Ensembles, Reinbert de Leeuw (studio)
Beethoven: Alban Berg Quartett (live, 1989)
Gubaidulina: Mstislav Rostropovich, London Voices
Niculescu: various performers, Cristian Brâncuși

xp

ty!

Sorry I will try harter

The Beeters - 'A Day of My Life'
Steve E. Wonder - 'Superstation'
Simen and Garfinkle - 'Bridge In The Water'
Bob Dyban - 'Everybody Let's Get Stoned'
Kenny Rodger - '(Can't Stop) Fucking'

― Come and Rock Me, Hot Potatoes (Old Lunch), Tuesday, August 13, 2019 4:06 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

instant classic ilx post

― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, August 14, 2019 1:44 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

are "tim machine" the best thing david bowie ?

John Cale - Paris 1919
The Flatlanders - Dallas
The Slits - I Heard It Through the Grapevine
Big Star - Blue Moon
The Go-Betweens - Clouds

Living It Up - Rickie Lee Jones
Protection - Massive Attack
Astral Weeks - Van
The Violet Hour - The Clientele
Life During Wartime - Talking Heads

Protection a great pick, definitely the one that got away from my own 5.

Pomenitul:: the sun canticles is so amazing! Great selections.

John Lemon - I machine

Lynyrd Cohan – Haleylulu

“The Lakes of Canada” - The Innocence Mission
“My One and Only Love” - all versions esp. late-period Chet Baker
“Landscape for Future Earth” - Keith Jarrett
“Freedom ‘90” - George Michael
“Dry Bones” - Delta Rhythm Boys

Glad you like it, Moka! All five aim for ecstasy, each in their own way.

god i don't know

the clash - london calling
clifford brown - i'll remember april
cornelius - god only knows
eyedea & abilities - by the throat
jun togawa - radarman

that's just what popped into my head, i don't actually have a favorite five songs

Lonely Child def one of my favourite compositions

The other four are liable to change, but Lonely Child is up there at all times.

Juno "Help Is on the Way"
Sinatra "It's a Lonesome Old Town"
Meat Loaf "Two Out of Three Ain't Bad"
Afghan Whigs ft Marcy Mays "My Curse"
Bee Gees "Mr Natural"

Charlotte Hatherley - 'Suspiria'
Stereolab - 'Les Yper-Yper Sound'
The Orb - 'We're Pastie to be Grill You'
John Gavanti - 'I Awake'
Basia - 'Time and Tide'

John Cale - Paris 1919
The Flatlanders - Dallas
The Slits - I Heard It Through the Grapevine
Big Star - Blue Moon
The Go-Betweens - Clouds

― Chris L, Wednesday, August 14, 2019 11:26 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

amazing choices

Final Fantasy - The CN Tower Belongs to the Dead
Souls of Mischief - ‘93 Til Infinity
Real Life - Send Me An Angel
Gary Numan - Down In The Park
Freur - Doot-Doot

PP Arnold - Life is But Nothing
Frankie Valli - The Night
Nico - These Days
Willie Wright - Right on for the Darkness
Mr Twin Sister - Echo Arms

Frankie Valli - The Night

^^yes

Echo & the Bunnymen - Over the Wall
David Sylvian - Taking The Veil
Joseph Arthur - Travel As Equals
Paul Simon - The Coast
King Crimson - Islands

Will probably be flagellating myself in a bit for not including anything by Roxy Music, David Bowie or Gene Clark.

― Valentijn

AARGH! Sometimes I shouldn't post here while I should be working instead. I just realised that I managed to make an error in one of my supposedly-five-favourite-songs-of-all-times picks. It's as if my brain did some sort of erroneous auto-correct after typing 'the Co':
The Paul Simon selection should be 'The Cool, Cool River'
While I do like The Coast, there's five or six songs from the Rhythm Of The Saints album that I would rank above it. Over the last few years, I got increasingly fascinated with The Cool, Cool River.

Nu Shooz - Point of No Return
Flat Worms - 11816
Jake Xerxes Fussell - Have You Ever Seen Peaches Growing on a Sweet Potato Vine?
Big Thief - Paul
Hailu Mergia - Anchin Kfu Ayinkash

Foo Fighters - Ever Long
3 Doors Down - Super Man
Match Box 20 - Smooth (featuring Carlos Santaña)
Power Man 5000 - When Worlds Collide
Blink 182 - The Deftones
Tool - Blink 182
Sugar Ray - Are You Jimmy Ray?
Tool - Se7ven (featuring Kevin Spacey, that shit was fucked up)
Green Jello - This actually featured Maynard from Tool
Jucifer - This was Maynard's Side Project with Less Claypool of Primas
Monica - Don't Take It Personal (Just One of Dem Days)
Dmytro Yaremchuk - Хай Буде Щастя Любов

Sir Mix-A-Lot – Swap Meet Louie
The Rolling Stones – Hey, You, Get Offa iCloud
California Raisins feat. the Slits – I Heard It Through the Grapevine 2020
Jan Hammer – Can’t Touch This
Big Thief – Rattails

^ gets it

Stabbing Westward - What Do I Have to Do?
Mamma Mia - Meryl Streep feat. ABBA
Treeship - The 5 Saddest Lyrics Phoebe Bridgers Ever Wrote
Leonard Cohen - I'm Sad I Never Got to Hang Out With Phoebe Bridgers Before I Died of Leukemia
Filter - Lol Nice Shot Bro (feat. Maynard James Keynes of TOOL)

XXX_Temptation - C'mon Feel The Temptation! (feat. "Marky" Mark Wohlburg)
Juice WRLD - Juicy (feat. Notoriously Big "Big Papa" Christopher George Latore Wallace)
The Drake - Tootsie on the Side (feat. Dustun Hoffmen)
Blinded by the Lights - Mannfred Mann Earth's Band (feat. The Weekend)
Flo-Rider - Apple Bottom-Style Jeans (feat. T and the Pains)

Megan Thee ‘Mad Men’ Character - Zoobie Zoobie Zoo
John Cougar Summercamp - Glory Dayz
DotA Cat - Moo I’m a MOBA
Ant Saunders feat. Pharaoh Sanders - rolling pop 2021 [0 new answers]
Neanderthal & the Great Revives - WAP (Wirel*ss Applic*tion Prot*col)

XXX_Temptation - Tempted by the Fruit of Ed Lover (feat. Squeeze)
Squeeze - Pulling Mussels from Meshell Ndegeocello (feat. "John" Cougar Cantaloupe Melon)
Van Morrison - Cantaloop (feat. US3)
Herbie Hancock - Biddy Diddy Bop with the Lid Off (feat. Lucas)
Mike and the Mechanics - Rage Against Vanessa Carlton (Slight Return) (feat. Supertramp w/ Obie Trice)
Cornershop - Brimful of Asha
Arlo Guthry - Good Morning America What's For Breakfast Lol
Vanessa Carlton - Building That Mystery (feat. Ani DeFranco)
Ma$e - Neamberthal (feat. Mandy Moore's Parents and a Plate of Hydrox Cookies)
Fu3l - Sh1mm3r

[insert joke here about why John Popper snuck backstage at the Lilith Faire '97 Tour (to find some loose W.H.O.R.E.s)]
[insert joke here about why Shawn Colvin snuck backstage at the H.O.R.D.E. '97 Tour (to find John Popper, get him wasted on B.U.S.C.H. L.I.G.H.T.s, and entice him back to his T.R.A.I.L.E.R. so she could insert one his 97 harmonicas into his loose S.K.I.N. F.O.L.D.s before Sonny came home)
[insert joke here about Hanson]

Tevin Campbell - Tell Me What You Want Me to Do (feat. T.E.V.I.N. the Al B. Sure-programmed automaton)

snuck is not a word btw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJVNzwTnfbk

Cephalic Carnage - Tuna on Toast
Talib Kweli - Tater Tot
Pete Droge - If You Don't Love Me (I'll Kill Myself)
3 Doors Down - Like a Stone
Farrah Abraham - Honkin' on Bobo

Squeeze - Pulling Mussels from Meshell Ndegeocello (feat. "John" Cougar Cantaloupe Melon)

this is a thing of beauty

Neanderthal & the Great Revives - WAP (Wirel*ss Applic*tion Prot*col)

― “Pizza House!” (morrisp), Wednesday, September 2, 2020 12:08 AM bookmarkflaglink

lol