[Jesse Peters]

My top 10 songs come from Mozart's Requiem. Absolutely magnificent.

 

[Duggeh]

I have decided to spare myself the time consuming agony of trying to manually picking ten songs.

Instead, I have simply copied the ten most played songs on my Audioscrobbler account. Which should gave a fair approximation if nothing else.


Overall Top Tracks
1) Mike Oldfield – Crises
2) Mike Oldfield – Moonlight Shadow
3) Jean-Michel Jarre – Oxygene 2
4) Pink Floyd – Time
5) Mike Oldfield – Tricks of the Light
6) Pink Floyd – The Great Gig in the Sky
7) Jean-Michel Jarre – oxygene 4
8) Mike Oldfield – Discovery
9) Mike Oldfield – Shadow on the Wall
10) Mike Oldfield – Hergest Ridge (Part Two)

Looking at it. Id pick 2 from the whole list as contenders for my ultimate top ten.

 

[DrBenway]

Quote:

Originally Posted by ISALULA /img/forum/go_quote.gif x2 Personaly, the technique must to allow to obtain the best result. No more and no less. It must to be in the service of the musical emotion. The MUSIC : that's right the main part. Greetings

I think you are absolutely right. This is a version of the old argument about form vs. content. Which is better: an ingeniously structured novel with boring characters and a trite story, or a rambling, discursive novel with intriguing characters and a compelling story?

I will always take equipment that sounds "right" to me (as hard as that is to quantify) over equipment that tests spectacularly and sounds lifeless. Which probably explains why I love Grados so much. My understanding is that their designers tune the cans by ear, rather than trying to generate a ruler-flat response curve. Works for me!

 

[jellybones]

let me take a stab here:

A Day in the Life - The Beatles
Optimistic - Radiohead
God Only Knows - The Beach Boys
All is Full of Love - Bjork
Svefn-G-Englar - Sigur Ros
Ladies and Gentleman We Are Floating in Space - Spiritualized
I Just Want to Be Your Friend - The Millenium
Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey - Paul McCartney
Let Down - Radiohead
Happiness is a Warm Gun - The Beatles

best i could do. ugh, pretty hard.

 

[Kilane]

I'm gonna try really really hard. No promises this is even the same tomorrow, muchless next week.

Smashing Pumpkins - Mayonaise
Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter
My Bloody Valentine - Sometimes
Iggy and the Stooges - Search and Destroy
The Who - Baba O'Riley
The Isley Brothers - Take me in your arms
Simon and Garfunkel - The Only Living Boy in New York
Sleeping at Last - Night Must End
Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism
Resphigi - Pines of Rome - The Appian Way
Portishead - Glory Box

I'm sure I forgot something. I always do

 

[Chrysoberyl]

Difficult,difficult...I don't know if Mozart's Requiem or Respighi's works could be classified as "songs",by the way!

"Black Satin Dancer",Jethro Tull

"The Logical Song",Supertramp

"The Show Must Go On",Queen

"Your Latest Trick",Dire Straits

"If Looks Could Kill",Heart

"Watching The Wheels",John Lennon

"Until The End Of Time",Foreigner

"Mr Blue Sky",ELO

"I Surrender",Rainbow

"Golden Slumbers",Beatles

If I had to make the list again it'd probably look completely different!

 

[virometal]

For this moment in time:

"15th Day" - Fischerspooner
"Burn" - NIN
"Cocaine Computer" - Trans Am
"Dead Souls" - Joy Division
"Fait Accompli" - Curve
"The Far Out Son of Lung and the Ramblings of a Madman" - FSOL
"Isosceles" - Din
"Pearl's Girl" - Underworld
"Smooth Criminal" - Michael Jackson
"We Share Our Mother's Health" - The Knife

 

[Happy Camper]

I always get too involved in trying to narrow to ten, so this is a quick 10. Maybe not all time but.......

David Lanz-Cristofori's Dream
Supertramp-Crime of the Century
Genesis-The Cinema Show
The Doobie Brothers-I Cheat the Hangman
Simon & Garfunkel-Scarbourough Fair
Bruce Springsteen-Youngstown
Steely Dan-The Royal Scam
The Temptations-Just My Imagination
Pink Floyd-Us and Them
John Lennon-Imagine

 

[ISALULA]

Quote:

Originally Posted by DrBenway /img/forum/go_quote.gif I think you are absolutely right. This is a version of the old argument about form vs. content. Which is better: an ingeniously structured novel with boring characters and a trite story, or a rambling, discursive novel with intriguing characters and a compelling story? I will always take equipment that sounds "right" to me (as hard as that is to quantify) over equipment that tests spectacularly and sounds lifeless. Which probably explains why I love Grados so much. My understanding is that their designers tune the cans by ear, rather than trying to generate a ruler-flat response curve. Works for me!

Yes, I think that the audiophile looks for the best result. The music lover looks for the most intense musical emotion. Of course, I make a mistake.

Nothing pejorative in my analysis. Each likes the music in the way, here is everything.

 

[chunkluv]

In no particular order and subject to Change:

1. "No Love Lost" - Joy Division
2. "Train Song" live from the album Big Time - Tom Waits
3. "Turn on the News" - Husker Du
4. "Glory Box" - Portishead
5. "How Many More Times" - Led Zepplin
6. "Rakim" - Dead Can Dance
7. "That Feel" - Tom Waits
8. "Open Up The Border" - Clutch
9. "Loro" - Pinback
10. "All Day Long" - New Order

Ugh, too short, here's a supplement.

"Fearless" - Pink Floyd
"Kiko and the Lavender Moon" - Los Lobos
"Sax and Violins" - Talking Heads
"Hoist that Rag" - Tom Waits
"A Love Rains Down" - Poi Dog Pondering
"While My Guitar Gently Weeps" - The Beatles
"Cactus" - Pixies
"Red Horse Rainbows" - Clutch
"Ball and a Biscuit" - White Stripes
"Blues Power" live - Albert King
"So What" - Ministiry
"Flamenco Sketches" - Miles Davis
"The Ubiquitious Mr. Lovegone" - Dead Can Dance
"Rythm of the Heat" - Peter Gabriel
"Crystal" - New Order
"Celebrated Summer" - Husker Du
"Don't Follow" - Alice In Chains
"Like Humans Do" - David Byrne
"Your Silent Face" - New Order
"Voodoo Chile" - Jimi Hendrix
"Bad" - U2
"24 Hours" - Joy Division
"Mountain Song"- Jane's Addiction
"You Can Live At Home" - Husker Du
"Afk" - Pinback


Ok, Ok, I'll stop, I could keep going *puts on flame retardant suit*....

 

[chunkluv]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gatticus /img/forum/go_quote.gif 1. Dead Can Dance - Rakim 2. Joy Division - Atmosphere 3. The Cure - The Holy Hour 4. The Cranes - Shining Road 5. Echo and the Bunnymen - A Promise 6. Low - Half Light 7. Mogwai - Hunted By A Freak 8. James - Getting Away With It All (Messed Up) 9. Jane's Addiction - Up The Beach 10. Pale Saints - Sea of Sound Those are my picks for today anyway, tomorrow it would maybe be something else.

I have put "Rakim" on repeat for an hour before... That song is Amazing, Lisa Gerrard is amazing and all, but on that song Brendon Perry takes the cake.

 

[Borat]

This is just what I came up with at the moment. Not in any way definitive. And no way are you going to get me to put them in order. I'd drive myself crazy trying to do so.

Otis Redding - "Try a Little Tenderness"
Elvis Costello - "Accidents Will Happen"
Dismemberment Plan - "The City"
Nick Drake - "Place to Be"
...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead - "Another Morning Stoner"
The Sundays - "Goodbye"
Talking Heads - "This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)"
Radiohead - "Just"
Wheat - "Don't I Hold You" (Hope and Adams version)
My Bloody Valentine - "Soon"