10 Favourite Songs

[Orb]

I like lists. Lists make me happy. Fairly self-explanatory title.

1. One For the Vine - Genesis
2. Pictures of a City - King Crimson
3. Telegraph Road - Dire Straits
4. The Musical Box - Genesis
5. Tarkus - ELP
6. Old Wild Men - 10cc
7. Epitaph - King Crimson
8. Without You - Asia
9. Romeo and Juliet - Dire Straits
10. Anyway - Genesis

A few other close candidates - The opening of 'Dancing With the Moonlit Knight' by Genesis (along with The Light Dies Down on Broadway and maybe Firth of Frith)
Two by Steve Hackett - Ace of Wands and Lost in Time in Cordoba.
Wall Street Shuffle would be on there if it stayed at the level of the opening.
Something by Pink Floyd, but I haven't listened to it enough to decide which is my favourite.
Moonchild (the most stunningly beautiful opening to any song. ever.) and 21st Century Schizoid Man by King Crimson.
Brothers in Arms - Dire Straits
Break on Through - The Doors

I don't expect everyone else to have this weird a list.

[I of the Storm]

Just as they come to mind, not a top ten really:

1. Van Morrison - It's all over now baby blue
2. R.E.M. - The one I love
3. U2 - The hands that built America
4. Bruce Springsteen - Born to run
5. Billy Joel - Piano man
6. Rolling Stones - Wild horses
7. Die Ärzte - Zu spät
8. David Bowie - Absolute Beginners
9. Dead Can Dance - Severance
10. is a placeholder for all the others that come to mind now and I can't decide which one to put here. Aargh... I'll have to spend the night with my CD collection... it's all coming back...

[Stig]

I don't really have a top 10, I just got loads of songs that I like, but when I need a top 10 it will be something like this, I made it 15, as those are just the best songs imo, and I know I forget loads.

1. Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
2. Vangelis - Chariots of Fire
3. Prince - Purple Rain
4. Boston - More Than a Feeling
5. Eagles - Hotel California
6. The Beach Boys - Good Vibrations
7. Bob Dylan - Like a Rolling Stone
8. Vangelis - Conquest of Paradise
9. John Lennon - Imagine
10. Bachman Turner Overdrive - You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet
11.The Who - My Generation
12. Bruce Springsteen - The River
13. Duran Duran - Ordinary World
14. Marillion - Kayleigh
15. Ultravox - Vienna

[Duke Malcolm]

God Save the Queen
Rule, Britannia
Scotland the Brave
Bonnie Dundee
British Grenadiers
Preussens Gloria
Warbird - Annihilator
Les Patineurs - Waldteufel
When I was a lad, HMS Pinafore - G&S
The Boxer - S&G

[naut]

Really hard question!

1. Swan Song - Led Zeppelin
2. Fat Old Sun - Pink Floyd
3. 1983...(A Merman I Should Turn To Be) - Jimi Hendrix
4. In My Time Of Dying - Led Zeppelin
5. Super Stupid - Funkadelic
6. Ramble Tamble - Creedence Clearwater Revival
7. Maggot Brain - Funkadelic
8. Fat Bottomed Girls - Queen
9. Knocking On Heaven's Door - Bob Dylan
10. Waiting For The Sun - Powderfinger

Honourable Mentions To:

11. All Along The Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix
12. Ramble On - Led Zeppelin
13. The Boss - James Brown
14. Roulette Dares (This Is The Haunt Of) - The Mars Volta
15. Bring It On Home - Led Zeppelin
16. Terrapin Station - The Grateful Dead
17. 3's and 7's - Queens of the Stone Age
18. Hey Hey What Can I Do - Led Zeppelin
19. Black - Pearl Jam
20. Travelling Riverside Blues - Led Zeppelin
21. The Ocean - Led Zeppelin
22. Hey Baby (New Rising Sun) - Jimi Hendrix
23. Over the Hills and Far Away - Led Zeppelin
24. What Is and What Should Never Be - Led Zeppelin
25. Concertina - The Mars Volta

[Conradus]

1. La Solitudine - Laura Pausini
2. Vivo per lei - Laura Pausini & Andrea Boccelli
3. Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
4. Het is een nacht - Guus Meeuws
5. Jillian -Within Temptation
6. Sunday Bloody Sunday - U2
7. The Queen and soldier -Suzanne Vega
8. Let it be - The Beatles
9. Everything I do, I do it for you - Bryan Adams
10. Heaven - Bryan Adams

[Gawain of Orkeny]

Why dont we just bring back the old thread on this ? The problem is which one ?

It could be fun to see how some peoples lists have changed


Ill just give my favorite for now

Comfortably Numb

The band needs no mention

[Proletariat]

No particular order, but some of my favs include;

Scotland the Brave
Soviet Anthem (or whatever it's called)
Rocket Man - Elton John
Time is on my side - Rolling Stones
Adam's Song - Blink 182 (otherwise basically hate this sort of music, and yes I know this is a cheesy selection)
Amazing Grace
Purple Rain - Prince
Train in Vain - Forget the artist right now
Perfect Day - Lou Reed (prolly my favorite on this list)
Cocaine Blues - Johnny Cash

[Reverend Joe]

Why dont we just bring back the old thread on this ? The problem is which one ?

It could be fun to see how some peoples lists have changed


Ill just give my favorite for now

Comfortably Numb

The band needs no mention

Eugh... Waters/Gilmour? So tacky...

My top 10 shifts almost daily, but I guarantee you that Gilmour and Waters are never anywhere near the top.

Syd Barrett, on the other hand, is my favorite artist. And I apologize if I offend your age and taste, Gawain, but the other members of The Pink Floyd were musical buffoons (aside from Wright; and granted, Atom Heart Mother has some great psych-folk, and Saucer, More and Umma-Gumma weren't bad... well, basically, in general, anything after AHM blows, in my opinion.) But, in general, my favorite songs are written by/ originate from:

Syd/ old Floyd (nothing past '70)
the Jefferson Airplane
a myriad of modern psychedelic bands (might I suggest The Black Angels and The Dolly Rocker Movement?)
The Mamas and The Papas
Creedence
old folk/country/bluegrass
BLUES
and some Frank Zappa I have been recently exploring.

[Motep]

Dude, that question is mean and unethical. How are you possibly expected to choose? That is cruel and unusual punishment. I refuse to answer...

[Orb]

It's hideously cruel, I agree, but the results are interesting.

Heck, I can barely get it down to ten. In fact, mine probably changes depending on which I remember at the time. Don't know how I forgot C'est La Vie in my original list.