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Favorite Songs of all-time


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The movie thread got me thinking, what are people's favorite songs of all time?

I have a lot of favorites, but my all-time favorite songs have to be:

1) Hey Jude - Beatles

2) Gin and Juice - Snoop Dogg

3) Hello, Goodbye - Beatles

4) The Times They are A-Changing - Bob Dylan

5) Touch of Grey - Grateful Dead

6) Imagine - John Lennon

7) Kashmir - Led Zeppelin

8) Piece of my Heart - Janis Joplin

9) We are the Champions - Queen

10) A Day in the Life - Beatles

Honorable Mention: Scar Tissue - Red Hot Chili Peppers, Playground Love - Air, Be Quiet and Drive - Deftones

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This is too tough. No way to rank without missing a bunch, but some of my faves:

- The Great Escape - Marillion

- The Immigrant Song - Led Zeppelin

- Carry On My Wayward Son - Kansas

- Go You Own Way - Fleetwood Mac

- High and Dry - Radiohead

- Pride - U2

- Forgotten Sons - Marillion

- Free Bird - Lynyrd Skynyrd (even if it is a "Stairway" rip off)

- Highway Song - (even if it is a "Free Bird" rip off)

- The Bomb - Ice Cube

I could do 10 of these lists and STILL not get everything. :)

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White Room - Cream

Why Does Love Got to Be So Sad - Derek and the Dominoes

Little Wing -Jimi

House of Blues - Gales Brothers

Playing with Fire - Shannon Curfman

Shooting Star - Bad Company

About half a dozen songs by Free including:

Woman

Fire and Water

Wishing Well

By My Friend

Creepin'

The Stealer

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God this is a real tough one for me. Here is a list of my favorite songs at this point in my life right NOW:

1. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath- Black Sabbath

2. Mouth For War-Pantera

3. Tear me Down(really anything with Bootsie or Warren)- Govt. Mule

4. Medditeranean Sundance- John Maclaughlin, Paco Delucia&Al Dimeola(and anything involving these guys' playing)

5. Victor Wooten's Bass solo on Bela Fleck and the Flecktones' Live Art(any Bela and Vic)

6. I gues "Beautiful Day" cuz it just came on--but Joshua tree&Rattle and Hum have my other favorite songs by u2--Red Hill Mining town--Desert Rose---all i want is you--bullet the blue sky)

7. Posters by Jack Johnson(don't care if he's too pop and trendy)

8. So What--Miles Davis(all Miles rips especially Kind Of Blue and tribute to Jack Johnson---but ther are so many renditions and covers of So What it's so inspiring)

9. In My Time of Dying--Zepplin

10. Dreams--THe Allman Brothers Band

Hon Mention--ANYTHING with Zakk Wylde, Talking Heads, Jimmy Herring, Old Metallica-esp Battery, god at least right now I can't think of anything else cuz Im tired

Damn you for starting this thread cuz you knew it would mess with my head!!!!!!!!:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

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1. Jawbreaker "Donatello"

2. The Beatles "Cry Baby Cry"

3. James Brown "Please Please Please"

4. The Clash "Straight to Hell"

5. The Police "Every Little Thing She Does is Magic"

6. Naked Raygun "Metastasis"

7. Fugazi "and the Same"

8. Trusty "Serendipity"

9. Husker Du "Celebrated Summer"

10. Velvet Underground "Candy Says"

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Heartbreak Hotel.....Elvis

Communication Breakdown.....Led Zepplin

Crazy.....Patsy Cline

Lucille.....Little Richard

Time.....Pink Floyd

Golden Ring.....George Jones/Tammy Wynette

Fire.....Jimi Hendrix

Tears of a Clown.....Smokey Robinson

Can't Get Next to You.....Temptations

Great Balls of Fire.....Jerry Lee Lewis

Pride & Joy.....Stevie Ray Vaughn

Hey Good Lookin'.....Hank Williams Sr.

Born to Boogie.....Hank Jr.

Superstition..... Stevie Wonder

America the Beautiful.....Ray Charles

etc...

etc...

etc...

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Again, not an exhaustive list but if I were stranded somewhere with the option of having one CD with a compilation of my favorites these songs would be on it.

Let's Go Crazy....Prince

32-20 Blues....Robert Johnson

Song 2....Blur

Jammin....Bob Marley

Children....Robert Miles

Someday at Christmas...Stevie Wonder

Music and Wine....Blue Six

Canon in D Major....Pachelbel

Paisley Park....Prince

Castles Made of Sand....Jimmy Hendrix

What a Wonderful World....Louis Armstrong

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it is impossible for me to rank or include all, but here are a few:

Oh Darling!- the beatles

I'm So Tired- the beatles

Like Spinning Plates- Radiohead

Mr Pitiful- Otis Redding

It's Oh So Quiet- Bjork

Kid Charlemagne- Steely Dan

Five Years- David Bowie

Lover, You Should've Come Over- Jeff Buckley (we miss you)

Martha- Tom Waits

Waltzing Matilda- Tom Waits

I'll Wear It Proudly- Elvis Costello

How Can You Mend a Broken Heart- Al Green

Mayonaise- Smashing Pumpkins

I'll just have to stop there, could continue on for a long time.

Any Jeff Buckley fans?

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I can't have a favorite songs of all-time, but I can list some greats..

Anything by the Grateful Dead(except disco dead)

Bob Marley - Trenchtown Rock

Weezer - Slob, Pink Triangle, Say it aint so, etc.

Phish - Well any Phish will do :)

The Roots - Adrenaline!

The Hope Conspiracy - You've been warned

Blind Melon - Tones of Home

The list could go on, and on...and on some more

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phish, right on about the roots! they are badass, just got the JZ Unplugged.... sweet.

did you by chance get to the latest Hampton shows? haven't seen the boys in a few years now.

YEM would have to be on my list too. And Glide! It always reminds me of the rats playing the pots and pans in "Muppets Take Manhattan"

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1. Black Dog Led Zeppelin

2. I still haven't found what I'm looking for U2

3. Take Hold of the Flame Queensryche

4. Crazy Little Thing Called Love-Queen

5. Last in Line DIO

6. Anarchy in the UK Sex Pistols

7. One U2

8. Electric Eye Judas Priest

9. When Doves Cry Prince

10. God Bless America-Kate Smith

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From a child of the 80s:

I Want a New Drug - Huey Lewis and the News

Do You Believe in Love - Huey Lewis and the News

Freeze Frame - The J Geils Band

Every Little Thing She Does is Magic - The Police

Feelin That Way/Anytime - Journey

Hot for Teacher - Van Halen

Unchained - Van Halen

Heavy Metal - Sammy Hagar

New World Man - Rush

YYZ - Rush

Satch Boogie - Joe Satriani

Can't Look Away - Trevor Rabin

We Will Rock You/We Are The Champions - Queen

We Can Be Heroes - David Bowie

Future Love Paradise - Seal

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Off the top of my head...

"Won't Get Fooled Again" - The Who

"Angel of Death" - Slayer

"Tom Sawyer" - Rush

"Dante's Inferno" - Iced Earth

"Holy Wars...The Punishment Due" - Megadeth

"Floods" - Pantera

"White Room" - Cream

"TNT" - AC/DC

"And then there was Silence" - Blind Guardian

"Blackened" - Metallica

"Crystal Mountain" - Death

Yes, I like it heavy.

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