What's you top 10 favorite songs

I can't give a specific order. To do so would be blasphemous.

Blackwater Park by Opeth

Hemispheres by Rush

And All That Could Have Been by Nine Inch Nails

Water Night by Eric Whitacre

Given to the Rising by Neurosis

Proud to Drown by Made Out of Babies

Happy Hippo by Could Cult

Lost in Moments by Ulver

A Pleasant Shade of Gray by Fates Warning (technically, it's the whole album, but it's one song, so it counts as one. ;))

Stay Evil by Mountain Mirrors.

Keep in mind that this list changes on an almost daily basis, and those are just my ten favorites for the next half an hour. It might very well change again before bed.

Looking through my media library on my PC and iPod, looking at ratings and 'most played' which both support my initial thoughts on this matter:

#10: David Bowie - We Can Be Heroes
#9: Deep Purple - Smoke On The Water
#8: Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
#7: Aerosmith - Livin' On The Edge
#6: Blue Öyster Cult - ME-262
#5: Rolling Stones - Sympathy For The Devil
#4: Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall
#3: Boomtown Rats - Rat Trap
#2: Queen - Save Me

#1: Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody

Literally hundreds of great songs and dozens of great groups are left off such a short list but I'll go with:

1) All along the Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix
2) Voodoo Child and Little Wing - Jimi Hedrix and Stevie Ray Vaughan
3) While My Guitar Gently Weeps - The Beatles
4) Eight Miles High - The Byrds
5) White Room - Cream
6) We Gotta Get Out of This Place - The Animals
7) London Calling - The Clash
8) Eighteen - Alice Cooper
9) Who Are You - The Who
10) Whiter Shade of Pale - Procol Harum

Nice selection Mumble. That's more my kind of music.

I just noticed that I didn't include anything by the Beatles... But narrowing it down to only ten 'best' songs I honestly have to admit that while I like their music, I don't listen to it nearly as much as they probably deserve. Got the White Album, though.

I guess mine will be the first 10 that pop into my mind. I don't have my MP3 player here at work.

In no particular order...

Cliffs of Dover - Eric Johnson (this one is my cell's ringtone)

If It Makes You Happy - Sheryl Crow

Spiderwebs - No Doubt

Who Will You Run To - Heart

Tom Sawyer - Rush

Chain Lightning - 38 Special

China in Your Hand - T'Pau

The World I Know - Collective Soul

Love Is a Battlefield - Pat Benatar

Runnin' Down a Dream - Tom Petty

Yeah it's tough to cover everyone that you would like to. There's a ton of great David Bowie although I would have gone with Ashes to Ashes or Rebel Rebel. I had to leave off The Cure, Prince, Led Zeppelin and I would have gone with Radar Love from Deep Purple, the more obscure 2000 Light Years From Home from the Stones and the less obscure Don't Fear the Reaper from BOC. And having to leave off Elvis Costello, Pink Floyd, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Doors, Janis Joplin, Roy Orbison and that doesn't begin to get into Nirvana, STP, Pearl Jam and the father of grunge Neil Young. And then to think I grew up in Detroit during the 60's and to not have listed a single motown hit. Oh and what about Toad the Wet Sprocket, Marilyn Manson, Nine Inch Nails, Metallica, Tool. And that doesn't even get us into the most recent decade.

It just never ends, I could list 500 songs that I consider truly "great".

In no particular order.

The Pot - Tool
Hard Sun - Indeo (not the Eddie Veder cover)
Ramble On - Led Zepplin
Chelsea Dagger - The Fratellis
New Orleans is Sinking - The Tragically Hip
Got You On My Mind - Powderfinger
Everlong - Foo Fighters
Radiohead - Creep
House of Wolves - My Chemical Romance
Burden in my Hand - Soundgarden

But I'm with you Mumble. Way to many left off my list as well.

Oh, BTW, Radar Love is by Golden Earring, unless Deep Purple did a cover I don't know about.

Stairway is my favorite and the others are in no particular order. They just happen to be songs that i like that i can think of right now!

1) Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin

Without You - Asia
Things I Told You - Steve Miller Band
The Joker - Steve Miller Band
Why Can't This Be Love - Van Halen
Smoke on Water - Deep Purple
True Colors - Asia
Help - The Beatles
Broadsword - Jethro Tull
Bungle in the Jungle - Jethro Tull


-Dave

I tried the Winamp, sort by plays thing, but I came up with a lot of CKY and Bloodhound Gang
So I had to think on it some..

In no particular order

96 Quite Bitter Beings by CKY
Something Diabolical by The Bloodhound Gang
The Man That You Fear by Marilyn Manson
March of the Pigs by Nine Inch Nails
King of Rock by Run D.M.C.
Black No.1 by Type O Negative
April 29, 1992(Miami) by Sublime
The Future by Leonard Cohen
Butyric Acid by Consolidated
I Am Legend by White Zombie

A list of my current favorite music:
10. R.E.M- The Great Beyond
9. Iron Maiden- Legacy
8. Yes- Close to the edge
7. Rush- Big money
6. Rainbow- Stargazer.
5. The Who- Barba O'reily
4. Yes- And you and I
3. Genesis- Carpet Crawlers
2. Kansas - Carry On Wayward Son
1.Procol Harun- Whiter Shade of Pale

wow! some one who likes some of the bands i like!

-Dave

Just so everyone is clear, even though he had been listing bands on the right he switched the order for this one, the song is "Creep" by the band Radiohead.

Mine (in no particular order):

1) Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd
2) Simple Man - Lynyrd Skynyrd
3) Give it All - Rise Against
4) Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
5) Welcome to Paradise - Green Day
6) Buddy Holly - Weezer
7) Commando - Ramones
8) South's Gonna Do it Again - Charlie Daniels
9) Blitzkrieg Bob - Ramones
10) Creep - Radiohead

My dyslexia must have been acting up. :p It is indeed Creep by Radiohead.

Actually, I've played the song for years, been in various "gargage bands" on and off since I was 14, and I always thought that Radar Love was by Deep Purple but after checking I see that you're right. I could find no cover of it by Deep Purple and it was Golden Earring that originally did the song.

Perhaps the fact that Radar Love always seemed to follow Smoke on the Water on our playlist made me think it was a Deep Purple tune. Learn something new every day.

1-we are all made of stars
2-Guerrilla radio: Rage Against The Machine
3-Ashes in the fall: Rage Against The Machine
4-Civilize the universe: ozzy
5-Crazy train: Ozzy
6-Holday: green day
7-How far we've come: match box twenty
8-All apologies: nirvana
9-Clones(we're all):Alice Cooper
10-Man or animal: Adioslave

Okay...let's see if I get a screaming mob with torches and pitchforks outside my house tomorrow...CLASSICAL MUSIC!! With a little jazz.
In no discernable order:
1. Symphony #7 in D minor, Antonin Dvorak
2. Symphony #9 in D minor, Ludwig van Beethoven
3. Overture from "Rob Roy," Hector Berlioz
4. "Little" fugue, Johann Sebastian Bach
5. Suite for orchestra #2, Johann Sebastian Bach
6. "Scottish" symphony, Felix Mendelssohn
7. Strode Rode, Sonny Rollins
8. Powerhouse, Raymond Scott
9. Scherzo Fantastique, Josef Suk
10. Requiem, Hector Berlioz

1) Sandstorm: DJ's of Euro Trance

2) Kernkraft 400: Zombie Nation

3) The "Eagle Eye" soundtrack: Movie by Steven Spielburg, soundtrack by Brian Tyler

4) Livin' On A Prayer: I forget who wrote it. Maybe Bonjovi(sp?) (When I break the copyrights on my iTunes songs, the metadata goes away)

5) Mr. Roboto: (Who wrote that, anyway)

6) The Human Touch: by someone whose name escapes me.

7) Born In The USA (Bruce Springsteen)

8) ANYTHING by Journey.

9) Sweet Dreams (are made of this): Have only heard it on the radio, didn't catch the band's name.

10) Smoke on The Water: I THINK Aerosmith.

Wrote or performed? I know Styx performed it and assume they also wrote it.

The original is done by The Eurythmics around about 84 I'd say. Marilyn Manson redid it around 94.

sweet jane... lou reed

free bird... lynard skynayd

herion... lou reed

stairway to heaven... led zeppelin

southern man... crosby, stills, nash & young

sweet home alabama (in response)... lynard skynard

jumpin jack flash... rolling stones

house of the rising sun... the animals

ohio... crosby, stills, nash & young

bad company... bad company

 

How about a new list. Songs you hate from artists you love.

One of my favourite albums is Synchronicity by the Police but it has one awful song, "Mother"!

So many good songs posted here. I couldn't possibly pick ten favorites, so here are ten songs that I have been listening to lately.

Overkill - Colin Hay

Call Me the Breeze - JJ Cale

The KKK Took My Baby Away - The Ramones

Tamally Maak - Amr Diab

Gut Feeling - Devo

After the Fall - Ray Davies

Cherish - The Association

Bethena, A Concert Rag - Scott Joplin

Starkville City Jail - Johnny Cash

Black Coffee - Ella Fitzgerald