C/D: Putting your own work in your personal top-ten of the greatest songs ever written

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Here's Art Garfunkel's list of his all-time favorite songs. Yeah, I know. But are there musicians who've gotten away with declaring themselves major players in the canon without looking like a complete ass? Seems like there'd be a few, but I'm blanking.

― m.e.a. (m.e.a.), Thursday, 11 March 2004 03:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Art clearly does not like dark people as much as Paul does.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 11 March 2004 03:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Mark E. Smith. but, like he had anything to lose.

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 11 March 2004 03:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Art also clearly hasn't turned on a radio since 1986.

― m.e.a. (m.e.a.), Thursday, 11 March 2004 03:56 (twenty-two years ago)

KRS-One! (totally jk)

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 11 March 2004 03:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Art seems like a guy who has never bought an album in his life. Or had an interest in music beyond what they play in the mall.

― David Allen (David Allen), Thursday, 11 March 2004 04:03 (twenty-two years ago)

fuckin' classic!

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Thursday, 11 March 2004 04:03 (twenty-two years ago)

classic, i do it constantly.

― astroblaster (astroblaster), Thursday, 11 March 2004 04:55 (twenty-two years ago)

That list is pretty awesome, except the where the Stones lose out to the Beatles. Of course it's older stuff. Art's like 65.

― jim wentworth (wench), Thursday, 11 March 2004 04:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Anyone remember that crappy VH-1 show "The List"? Anyway, they had Eddie Money on and he put himself on his "Greatest Male Vocalists of All-Time" Top 5

― dieblucasdie (dieblucasdie), Thursday, 11 March 2004 05:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Diverging a bit, Ted Williams left himself off of the list of all-time greatest hitters. Some folks is just more humble, I guess.

― jim wentworth (wench), Thursday, 11 March 2004 05:06 (twenty-two years ago)

i think kool keith filled a list like this with all his aliases

― scissors (Honda), Thursday, 11 March 2004 05:11 (twenty-two years ago)

i) That Foreigner song is just not that great!

ii) Yeah, I remember once Tommy Lee picked Dr Feelgood as one of his top 3 albums of all time.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Thursday, 11 March 2004 06:06 (twenty-two years ago)

i) That Foreigner song is just not that great!

Nah, I'm with Chuck E. on this one -- I've always liked it.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 11 March 2004 06:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Like, to a "top 60 of all time" level?

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Thursday, 11 March 2004 06:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Hm...well, maybe it was the soundtrack to a coke binge in 1984.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 11 March 2004 06:35 (twenty-two years ago)

ii) Yeah, I remember once Tommy Lee picked Dr Feelgood as one of his top 3 albums of all time.

do people listen to tommy lee?

― Ian Johnson (orion), Thursday, 11 March 2004 07:45 (twenty-two years ago)

classic when liam or noel do it, only because they're so cute when they do.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Thursday, 11 March 2004 15:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Heck, Art didn't write the songs. So, he can if he wants to.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 11 March 2004 15:20 (twenty-two years ago)

i don't think art's talking about writing. that's a list of his favorite records. his #51 suggests perhaps he's a secret ILM devotee.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Thursday, 11 March 2004 15:27 (twenty-two years ago)

OK, but if Art Garfunkel hadn't been in "Simon and Garfunkel", he's the sort of chap that would have loved "Simon and Garfunkel" anyway...

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 11 March 2004 15:28 (twenty-two years ago)

hmm, for some reason that ^^ idea has led me down a path of head-scratching existential thought.

― paulhw (paulhw), Thursday, 11 March 2004 21:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Apparently when Peter Skellern did Desert Island discs, 7 of the 8 records he chose were by him.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Thursday, 11 March 2004 22:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I think its classic. there was a rolling stone year end issue a couple years back i remember reading.. a solid majority of the rappers top 3 singles of the year were their own.

― bill stevens (bscrubbins), Thursday, 11 March 2004 22:04 (twenty-two years ago)

My god, Lou Reed to thread. For a man who recently released a double disc set of his interpretations of the work of Edgar Allen Poe he really has a high opinion of himself.

― adam (adam), Thursday, 11 March 2004 22:33 (twenty-two years ago)

"The Sound of Silence" is the best song on there. Otherwise thats pretty a terrible list - why the fuck does he only like McCartney songs??

― Johnny Badlees (crispssssss), Thursday, 11 March 2004 22:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Anywho classic I guess. When I record a new tune, its the new shit to me. I'm throwing in the idea I got from the Jaylib record or the new Stereolab you know?? Basically, Its my chance to make music exactly the way I like it. Now the challenge is translate the idea in my head into a good recording. Thats the hardest thing and most people will only do it a few times in their entire musical life. But when they do its something personal and special. I would guess "Bridge over Trobled Water" and "The Sound Of Silence" were those moments for the Gar-Funk.

I really can't believe he didn't have "The Boxer" on there either...

― Johnny Badlees (crispssssss), Thursday, 11 March 2004 22:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Art seriously should cover "Little Red Corvette"

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 11 March 2004 23:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Or "Red Barchetta"

― Johnny Badlees (crispssssss), Thursday, 11 March 2004 23:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, I remember once Tommy Lee picked Dr Feelgood as one of his top 3 albums of all time.

Dr. Feelgood isn't even in my Top 3 Motley Crue albums of all time.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 12 March 2004 00:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Maybe, just maybe, if you were....I dunno, David Bowie / Ornette Coleman / Miles Davis / Howard Devoto / Bob Dylan / Roddy Frame / John Lydon / Paddy McAloon / Charles Mingus / Van Morrison / Andy Partridge / Robert Smith / Don Van Vliet / Tom Waits or a former member of The Beatles / Beach Boys / Joy Divison / The Pixies / The Smiths / Velvet Underground then it might just be OK.

I'd still be inclined to think you were a bit of an arrogant dick 'though.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 12 March 2004 09:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, I'd pick one of mine. I could use the PRS...

(except none of them are registered.. oops)

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 12 March 2004 09:41 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm saying nothing Mark!

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 12 March 2004 09:54 (twenty-two years ago)

good.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 12 March 2004 10:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Hell, given that Hated's songwriting credits were always given collectively, I'd do this without shame.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Friday, 12 March 2004 10:59 (twenty-two years ago)

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