[NightEcho]

I'll start this off with 10 of my favorite songs. It's very difficult to put it down to a true top 10. I started a Top 100 playlist and so far have had a bit of difficulty filling it (I'm at around 50 songs or so). I get a bit discriminating when it comes to the best of the best. In any event, here are 10 of my favorites (in no particular order):

1. Led Zeppelin - 10 Years Gone
2. Bob Dylan - Shelter from the Storm
3. The Cars - Drive
4. Colin Hay - Overkill
5. Gordon Lightfoot - If You Could Read My Mind
6. Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower
7. Johnny Cash - Hurt
8. Pixies - Where is My Mind?
9. Queen/David Bowie - Under Pressure
10. Stevie Nicks - Edge of Seventeen

Wow, it really is hard to just pick 10. Ask me again and the list would look different.

 

[Masonjar]

Something Like this:

01 Husker Du - Celebrated Summer
02 Replacements - Can't Hardly Wait
03 Sonic Youth - Schizophrenia
04 Hum - I'd LIke Your Hair Long
05 Joy Division - The Eternal
06 Mercury Rev - Frittering
07 The Flaming Lips - Feeling Yourself Disintegrate
08 The Jesus Lizard - Monkey Trick
09 Iron Maiden - Revelations
10 Slint - Good Morning, Captain

an interesting way of saying.. "this is me"

-jar

 

[bong]

it's difficult to pick 10 songs, so i'll just pick a song from my Top10 albums (even that is hard enough!

)

1. Cold - The Cure - Pornography
2. Chosen Time - New Order - Movement
3. Dreams Burn Down - Ride - Nowhere
4. Chrome - Catherine Wheel - Chrome
5. Distance - Editors - The Back Room
6. Tie Up My Hands - Starsailor - Love Is Here
7. Butterflies and Hurricanes - Muse - Absolution
8. The Romance of the Telescope - Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Dazzle Ships
9. Pantomine Horse - Suede - Suede
10. Trimm Trabb - Blur - 13

 

[TheAnomaly]

without thinking too much and in no particular order:

1. British Sea Power - The Lonely -or- Carrion
2. Wilco - I am trying to break your heart
3. New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle -or- Shellshock
4. Arcade Fire - Neighborhoods #1 (Tunnels)
5. LCD Soundsystem - Daft punk is playing at my house -or- Someone great
6. Dexys Midnight Runners - Tell me when my light turns green
7. Blur - Star shaped -or- Parklife
8. The Stone Roses - I am the resurrection
9. Joy Division - Love will tear us apart
10. Ride - Dreams burn down

some things that come to mind pretty quickly...i tried to keep the "ors" at a minimum.

 

[ken36]

Take any 10 from ABBA'sThank You For The Music

 

[DrBenway]

1) "Because the Night" -- Patti Smith
2) "Johnny B. Goode" -- Chuck Berry
3) "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed" -- Allman Brothers
4) "Hear My Train A Comin'" -- Hendrix (Version orig from Rainbow Bridge OST)
5) "Sweet Jane" -- The Velvet Underground
6) "Elevation" -- Television
7) "Freddy Freeloader" -- Miles Davis
8) "Purple Rain" -- Prince
9) "Fields of Gold" -- Eva Cassidy covering Sting
10) "I Love No One But You" -- The Jesters

These are in no particular order, and there are at least 10 others that could have taken each slot (No Beatles? No PE? No Marley? No Dylan? No Pistols? No Patsy Cline? No Muddy Waters? What?!!). And I changed half of them at least once in the process of keystroking this post. So I'm not sure how meaningful lists like this are. But lots of fun to think about and agonize over...

 

[DrBenway]

Quote:

Originally Posted by ken36 /img/forum/go_quote.gif Take any 10 from ABBA'sThank You For The Music

In looking over the handful of submissions so far, I'm struck by something that this choice (All ABBA all the time

) neatly illustrates. I understand (and have come to respect) the rapturous fandom that ABBA inspires. I wouldn't question the taste of anyone who is devoted to their music. But they leave me completely, utterly cold. They were all over Top 40 radio when I was in high school in the mid-70s, and I just couldn't stand them.

I idolized the Ramones (who didn't make my list this time, interestingly), Television, Miles Davis, and a range of Jazz that I was just starting to listen to. The radio was a desert to me, and ABBA was just so much sand.

Again, I don't disparage people who like ABBA, particularly since most of my friends love their music. But my completely different reaction to them sums up exactly how subjective lists like this are. Ultimately, I think lists like this say more about the biases of the individual (including me) than about the worth or popularity of a given artist. Which is not a bad thing, and often a very interesting thing.

What I do dislike -- intensely -- is when self-appointed music critics (aren't they all self appointed?) publish lists like this in say, Rolling Stone. There is a set-in-stone, we-know-better-than-you quality to articles like that that sends me right up the wall.

Not that anyone asked...

 

[SR-71Panorama]

This is not etched in stone, as I am always discovering music new to me, and go through constant cycles (thats part of why music styles come and go in cycles i believe).

IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER

Closer Nine Inch Nails
Sultans of Swing Dire Straits
Angel Fleetwood Mac
Beverly Hills Cop Theme Harold Faltermeyer
Frankenstein Edgar Winter Group
Slow Cheetah Red Hot Chili Peppers (this is the newest, only time will tell for me) p.s. this is flac from the steve hoffman vinyl master
Bike Autechre
Oh, Pretty Woman Albert King
Shoot to Thrill AC/DC
And I Love Her Beatles

edit: upon further evaluation, I can say closer is no.1 and And I Love Her is no. 2.

 

[Masonjar]

Quote:

Originally Posted by TheAnomaly /img/forum/go_quote.gif without thinking too much and in no particular order: 1. British Sea Power - The Lonely -or- Carrion 2. Wilco - I am trying to break your heart 3. New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle -or- Shellshock 4. Arcade Fire - Neighborhoods #1 (Tunnels) 5. LCD Soundsystem - Daft punk is playing at my house -or- Someone great 6. Dexys Midnight Runners - Tell me when my light turns green 7. Blur - Star shaped -or- Parklife 8. The Stone Roses - I am the resurrection 9. Joy Division - Love will tear us apart 10. Ride - Dreams burn down some things that come to mind pretty quickly...i tried to keep the "ors" at a minimum.

Love most of those songs.. my N.O choice would be "Age of Consent"

As for The Stone Roses and Ride, those would be my picks as well.

Wilco? .. "She's a Jar"

-jar

 

[Masonjar]

That's funny, I was just listening to a few ABBA songs a couple days ago. They're very familiar, for one, because my mom used to listen to them a lot when I was a kid. I didn't pay much attention to the details back then.

Listening to them now, with somewhat fresh ears, I have to say, was pretty fascinating.

-jar

 

[DrBenway]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Masonjar /img/forum/go_quote.gif That's funny, I was just listening to a few ABBA songs a couple days ago. They're very familiar, for one, because my mom used to listen to them a lot when I was a kid. I didn't pay much attention to the details back then. Listening to them now, with somewhat fresh ears, I have to say, was pretty fascinating.-jar

Music has always been tied in my mind to the era in which I first heard it. Even if I don't care for ABBA's music, it is irrevocably linked to my teenage years, simply because it was ubiquitous on radio when there were far fewer listening options than there are today.

An even better example is the Bee Gees. I despise their music, and I do mean all of it: the fake Beatles stuff, the Karo Syrup ballads, and the faux dance music that brought them their greatest success. But when I hear "Stayin' Alive" or "How Deep Is Your Love," I am instantly back in high school, or at the lounge where I worked as a bar-back. At that bar, I had to endure not only the Bee Gees on the sound system, but also a million horrible bar bands doing excruciatingly bad Bee Gees covers. For better or worse, their music is etched into my brain.

 

[3DCadman]

Sorry, can't do 10. Here goes!

Dim - Dada
Dance of Eternity - Dream Theater
The Test that Stumped Them All - Dream Theater
Octavarium - Dream Theater
What if God is Alone - The Flower Kings
Stardust We Are - The Flower Kings
The Truth Will Set You Free - The Flower Kings
Milliontown - Frost
Why I Like the Robins - Hum
That Was Another Country - The Innocence Mission
Echo - Joe Satriani
The Enormous Room - Michael Manring
The Separated Man - Neal Morse
The Storm Before the Calm - Neal Morse
Wind at My Back - Spock's Beard
Capital Letters - Ned's Atomic Dustbin
Green and Grey - Nickel Creek
Arriving Somewhere but Not Here - Porcupine Tree
When Mute Tongues Can Speak - The Posies
Anybody Listening? - Queensryche
Talk About the Passion - R.E.M.
Let Down - Radiohead
Vapour Trail - Ride
Jacob's Ladder - Rush
Cygnus X-1 - Rush
Snowsuit Sound - Sloan
One Small Step - Stereolab
Come and Play in the Milky Night - Stereolab
Excursions Into "oh, a-oh" - Stereolab
Long Life Love - Stereolab
Voodoo Chile (Slight Return) - SRV
Here's Where the Story Ends - Sundays
Days Were Golden - Sunny Day Real Estate
My New World - Transatlantic
Love is Blindness - U2
Mayor of Simpleton - XTC
Tortoise and Hare - Yellowjackets
Siberian Khatru - Yes
South Side of the Sky - Yes
Yours is No Disgrace - Yes

 

[Tech2]

Impossible. I tried, really, I did.

Top 50, maybe.

Edit:

Ok, if someone put a gun to my head, my list might start like this:

The Who - Pure and Easy
Steely Dan - Dr Wu
Elton John - Madman Across The Water
Eric Clapton - Let It Rain
Yes - Close To The Edge
Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond - all parts
Eumir Deodato - Also Sprach Zarathustra
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood
Jimi Hendrix - Message To Love
The Allman Brothers Band - Blue Sky

 

[ozz]

the beatles-i am the walrus
jimi hendrix-red house
queensryche-silent lucidity
metallica-the unforgiven
pinkfloyd-comfortably numb
the who-905
dire straits-brothers in arms
srv-lenny
led zeppelin-10 years gone
rolling stones-paint it black

 

[Otto]

Jimi Hendrix - Red House
Fleetwood Mac - The Green Manalishi
The Animals - House Of The Rising Sun
Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond
The Who - Don't Get Fooled Again
The Rolling Stones - Sympathy For The Devil
Mountain - Mississippi Queen
Lou Reed - Sweet Jane
Faces - Stay With Me
Motorhead - Ace Of Spades