Watching the Wheels - John Lennon
One Too Many Mornings - Bob Dylan
America - Simon & Garfunkel
Wot's... Uh the Deal? - Pink Floyd
Here Comes the Sun - The Beatles
Burn Your Life Down - Tegan and Sara
Comes a Time - Neil Young
Electric Avenue - Eddy Grant
Don't Dream It's Over - Crowded House

empress, have you heard the electrified 1966 live performance of that song on The Bootleg Series? Bob with The Hawks (The Band) sans Levon; and I really like Robbie Robertson's guitar solo on this.



Great choice! This was always my favorite track on Double Fantasy. Here's the "stripped" version (which I prefer slightly to the official release).

Always been my favorite version of the song, love the way he sings it. Bob alway Sounded best with The Band.

I was trying to think of a Neil young song for my list. Comes a time is a good candidate.

I agree -- The Band just seemed to bring out the best in him. I also love how this performance begins with the click-clack of heels on the floorboards.

They were just a hell of a band. I love the piano intro in his version of like a rolling stone with The Band.

Another song I'd put in my top 10 would probably be knockin on heavens door. It's kind of questionable, though. But when I think back to when I hadn't heard the song a million times, it definitely has to be on there. It was like magic the first several times I heard. So simple, the chord progression is as basic as it can get, but it's so moving. The lyrics, the feeling he puts into it, just the atmosphere of the song.

He's far from being a great singer on a technical level, but I don't measure vocal ability like that. To me, it's all about the soul and the feeling and the sincerity a singer puts into his performance, and in my opinion, there aren't many who do that as well as Dylan. Such conviction in his words and voice.

ah yeah i've heard it! i just listened to it again and it's great, really anything him and The Band did was great, but i don't think it really compares with the acoustic version... there's something gloomy/melancholic about the original version that gets to me. thanks for posting that again though!

the stripped version of it is obviously good too as it doesn't stray too far from the other version, but it's missing that little piano riff that i love! hahaha it's a perfect song though isn't it? i can't even point out exactly what's so great about it but it just is. :P

I really like the atmosphere and textures of the Pat Garrett soundtrack in general. My favorite albums for Dylan's vocals are the '67 basement tapes (for their playfulness), Nashville Skyline (the smooth country crooning), New Morning (singing with a cold! which somehow went well with his skewed piano playing), through '74's Planet Waves -- throughout that period he toned down the nasality and his vocals became more supple and emotive.

It's almost as though the studio version and the live 1966 version of "One Too Many Mornings" are two entirely different songs, so they are almost like apples and oranges, I think. I know what you mean about the stark, melancholic beauty of the original. The live version I've always found sexy for some reason!

I agree with you about missing that rolling piano riff on the official "Watching the Wheels". Now that you've mentioned it, I realize it's that riff which renders something special instrumentally -- it rolls circularly, like the "wheels" John is watching. What I prefer about the other version is the clarity of John's vocals, the fact that they are not double-tracked. One YouTube commenter stated the song would have been even better musically had McCartney and Starr played on it, and I agree. Paul's melodic bass stylings and Ringo's very musical drumming would have suited this track perfectly.

The pat garret album just has this epic feel about the whole thing. The instrumental version of "knockin on heavens door"with the flute is so awesome.

Two of those albums you mentioned, "new morning" and "planet waves" are two of my favorite albums. I agree with what you say about his voice through that time period. He definitely moved away from that signature "speaking" vocal style he used on albums like 'highway 61' and 'blonde on blonde'. He started showin that he could really sing on 'nashville skyline'. And then there's 'desire', which featured great vocal performances, especially In the song 'one more cup of coffee'.

Hmnz, lets see what I come up with, as there's many a tune out there close to my heart.

I'd explain why I picked each of these, but I'd need a thread's worth of description to do any of 'em justice. :/

1. Gino Vannelli - Brother To Brother
2. Hawkwind - Images
3. Pat Metheny Group - To The End Of The World
4. Queensryche - Eyes Of A Stranger
5. Comus - The Herald
6. Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage
7. Pet Shop Boys - Being Boring
8. Devin Townsend - Funeral
9. Frank Zappa - I'm The Slime
10. Wang Chung - To Live And Die In L.A.

This is, of course, unbelievably difficult, but hey, I'll give it a go.

1. Summertime (Doesn't really matter which version: I love this song)
2. When will I see you again --- The Three Degrees
3. Valentine --- Ten
4. I'd love you to want me --- Lobo
5. Everybody hurts --- REM
6. Angel --- Sarah McLachlan
7. Reminiscing --- The Little River Band
8. The last resort --- Eagles
9. No bravery --- James Blunt
10. Gethsemenae (I only want to say) --- Ted Neeley, from the soundtrack to the movie "Jesus Christ Superstar".

I should say something for each song but I took a lot of time adding and subtracting from the list that I kinda ran out of steam.

Warm Love was recorded during a live during a performance on Musikladen in 1974 - and you know what Homer says about 1974. I don't know if this version of Warm Love counts since it's not an album cut, but I'm a recorded live performance enthuiast. And that is what I tried to do with this list is to include my favorite artist and genres. For instances, I like songs in languages other than English, so I include this version of SOS is from Agnetha's Elva kvinnor i ett hus album.

I agree with Trollheart:


Top Ten list.
10. Warm Love - Van Morrison


9. SOS - Agnetha Fältskog

8. Samba Triste - Baden Powell
Not to be confused with Lord Baden-Powell of the British Army who started Scouting.


7. The Fountain Of Salmacis - Genesis


6. Delia - Blind Willie Mctell


5. Chaconne in D minor BWV 1004


4. Cath - Death Cab for Cuite


3. Bizarre Love Triangle - New Order


2. Back Street Girl - The Rolling Stones


1. Across The Universe - The Beatles

MY gwad what a task o well let me try


Evelyn 'Champagne' King-Love Come Down
:Pretty much one of the best pop songs ever made

Dir en Grey-GLASS SKIN
:SEX

Non Phixion-14 Years Of Rap
:Pretty much one of the best rap songs ever made all the rappers here Slay it

J Devil-Evilution
:Prob one of the best Rockstars in my generation Jonathan davis

Datsik & Infected Mushroom - Evilution ft. Jonathan Davis (Music Video) - YouTube

Deftones-When Girls Telephone Boys
:The synths frank plays in this song are eargasam

kill the noise-Perfect Combination
:Another one of the best DUB-POP songs evarrrrr!!!!

'I Can't Believe It's Not Rock'-Staging A Traffic Jam
:SEX

Staging A Traffic Jam- Daniel Johns and Paul Mac - YouTube

Wu-Tang Clan-Let My Niggas Live
:THe bass in this song is sharp enough to cut u in half Ninja style

Dimmu Borgir-The Insight & The Catharsis
:the hole song is cool but the best part of Dimmu was ICS vortex then end is like OOO **** METAL \m/

I.C.S Vortex(Simen Hestnæs) Tribute Part 5(Live) - YouTube

Down-Lysergik Funeral Procession
:this song rocks reminds me of dead crow on the hot highway my region i live in and just overall DIRTY



ok maybe not my favs but my gwad how could anyone go through thousands of songs LOL

I always thought the lyrical work in 'across the universe' is some of the best from any Beatles song.

Nice work, Neapolitan. Although a huge Genesis fan, I purposely left out any of their, or any prog band's material, as I reasoned this should be the ten songs that resonate down through my life, that I couldn't live without, that say something about me or move me in a way other songs don't, and that, should I have to choose only ten songs to have on a ipod on a desert island (with unlimited charge, of course!) I would have on that player. Though I love prog, and AOR (and metal) I could find only the one song (the one from Ten) that fit that description.

Even so, it was hard, and I know that there are many, many songs that didn't make the cut that could/should have, but that was in the end what I narrowed it down to.

Nice to see one of Agnetha's songs on your list: are her other albums good? I have only heard "I stand alone"...

This is just what I've thrown together, if I took the time to listen to each and every song in my library and pondered for hours on which ones I liked better than others, this will likely look entirely different. And I did write a paragraph on why I chose each but my laptop crapped up so I'll let the music speak for itself. :)

10. Korn - Open Up


9. The Cure - Love Song


8. Martin Grech - Open Heart Zoo


7. Queens of the Stone Age - Mosquito Song


6. Blur - Cofee and TV


5. The Stanglers - Golden Brown


4. Aphex Twin - April 14th


3. Radiohead - Paranoid Android


2. Black Light Burns - Cruel Melody


1. Nine Inch Nails - The Becoming


It's a real shame that I had to leave Tool and Coil off the list though, they have released so much ground-breaking meterial in their time...

I think it's one of their best work. You can have an OBE just listening to it.

Thanks. It's hard to sum up everything you like about music into just 10 songs. I wracked my brains on this trying to come up with the best list possible, but after narrowing the criteria to favotite bands and genres it became slightly easier. In the end it made sense because it is a small cross section to everything I listen to, and every song I heard I thought it was the greatest thing I ever heard, except for Chaconne that song took a little time to grow on me, but it's an incredible piece, I would think Prog amd Metal fans would like for the techinical ablility it takes to play it.

The only two must have on the list are Back Street Girl and The Fountain Of Salmacis. I think the music is just amazing.

I have Agnetha's box set of her Swedish studio albums, it is mostly her singing Schlager with a couple of an exceptions like SOS. She's back by Sven-Olof Walldoff orchestra, which is like a regular string orchestra with bass guitar and drums, not too different from the pit orchestra used for an Andrew Lloyd Weber musical, but the music is more like 60/70-ish Pop. You know she was Mary Magdeline in the Swedish verion of Jesus Chirst Superstar? I don't know if they have that released but her songs are on youtube - it's some of her finest work. If you like Agnetha and Lobo you might like Françoise Hardy

wow captain beefheart nice, ive only listened to one of there albums... and what i heard was very different and original... been a while since ive listened to them gonna make it a point to check out more of them lol

Chuck Berry mention Louis Jordan as one his major influences and I looked into him and been a fan ever since, I love Beans and Cornbread - a song about a food fight.

My Weakness great tune by Ukelele Ike. Cliff Edwards is mentioned in the Guiness Book of World records as the most heard voice in the world, although it is most likely most people don't know who he is by name.

Summertime from The Flaming Lips?

So I tried to do this and it's basically impossible.

U guyz seem like some old farts with some of yall selections LOL :P

Hard question, here's my shot at my top 10:

1) Iron Maiden - Dance of Death
2) Thunder - Love Walked In
3) Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms
4) Meat-Loaf - Two out of Three
5) Metallica - The Unforgiven
6) Prince - Purple Rain
7) REO Speedwagon - Keep on Loving You
8) Iron Maiden - Fear of The Dark
9) Kiss - Psycho Circus
10) Magnum - Spirit

I just sat there for at least 15-20 mins tying to work out an order, as you can see I love Iron Maiden the most. That's my Dad's fault, I was grown up around rock type groups and because I'm only 16 people find it strange I like older and unique groups ;)

This is pretty difficult. I'll give it a go though..

1. Placebo - Come Home
2. Sonic Youth - Wish Fulfilment
3. Pixies - Ana
4. The Lemonheads - Hannah & Gabi
5. Hole - Asking For It
6. Dinosaur Jr - Start Choppin'
7. Elliott Smith - Twilight
8. Slowdive - When The Sun Hits
9. Nine Inch Nails - Something I Can Never Have
10. The Distillers - Dismantle Me

I think? This probably changes so often though.

In no particular order:

Bonnie Prince Billy - I See a Darkness



Bill Evans Trio - Re: Person I Knew



Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Watching Alice



Bon Iver - Re: Stacks



Chet Baker and Wolfgang Lackershmid - You Don't Know What Love Is



Paul Hillier and Theatre of Voices - Magnificat



Cat Stevens - Trouble



The Beatles - Eleanor Rigby



Butthole Surfers - The Shah Sleeps in Lee Harveys Grave



John Coltrane - Countdown

Excuse me? Some of us ARE old farts, Sir! AARP card carryin', bursitis havin', prostate puckerin', nap takin' OLD FARTS! Y'ALL wanna make something of it?!?!

Why, when I was your age, my parents weren't nearly as hip as we are now. You only wish you were this 'with it' and 'groovy'!

Maybe what we need here is a kids table like they have at Thanksgiving, where you can park the young ones and they can jabber on about their Justin Beiber what-have-you or whatever other crap music they're listening to on their EYE-pods, so the ADULTS don't have to listen to them!!!

Dang Whippersnappers!

:beer:

Michael Jackson- Billie Jean
Queen-Bohemian Rhapsody
The Temptations- My Girl
The Stylistics- Stone In Love With You
Marvin Gaye- I Want You
Stevie Wonder- I Wish
Michael Jackson- Stranger in Moscow
Prince- Get Off
James Brown- Get Up ( I feel like being a sex machine)
The Supremes- Where Did Our Love Go