Your 15 favorite songs of all time (lyrics, singer, blues, funk)

[iceplayer744]

My 10 are

1. Sweet Child O' Mine - Guns N' Roses
2. Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin
3. Bohemain Rhapsody - Queen
4. Paradise City - Guns N' Roses
5. Patience - Guns N' Roses
6. Bicycle Race - Queen
7. November Rain - Guns N' Roses
8. Kashmir - Led Zeppelin
9. Voodoo Child - Jimi Hendrix
10. American Idiot - Green Day


sorry if a lot of the songs are from the same band but they're all awesome songs.

[Metal_Head]

random order

FATA- After Dinner Payback
AFI- Paper Airplanes
Pantera- Revolution is my Name
Children of Bodom- Red Light in My Eyes Pt 1
Sum 41- The Hell Song
Slipknot- Wait and Bleed
As I Lay Dying- Forever
Avenged Sevenfold- Second Heartbeat
Atreyu- Bleeding Mascara
Misfits- Dig Up Her Bones
Metallica- Enter Sandman
Offspring-Never Gonna Find Me
The Unseen- Scream Out
Slayer- Dittohead
Indefinite Beauty- Roses to Ashes

[Sweet Jane]

No particular order, its hard enough picking 15 as it is
1. Air - Playground Love
2. Sonic Youth - 100%
3. Cat Power - Good Woman
4. The Velvet Underground - Oh, Sweet Nuthin'
5. Smog - Cold Blooded Old Times
6. REM - Losing My Religion
7. Bill Withers - Aint no sunshine when she's gone
8. Neil Young - Harvest Moon
9. The Smiths - The boy with the Thorn in his side
10. Belle and Sebastian - Like Dylan in the Movies
11. Nick Cave - Girl You'll be a woman soon
12.I ggy Pop - Lust for Life
13. Echo and the Bunnymen - The Killing Moon
14. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - I see a darkness
15. The Breeders - Last Splash

[Kentucky Woman]

In no order:

1. In the army now - Quo
2. Slow & Easy - Whitesnake
3. Jukebox Hero - Foreigner
4. For those about to rock - AC/DC
5. Prophets Song - Queen
6. Black Dog - Led Zep
7. Engle - Rammstein
8. Cliche - Fish
9. Kentucky Woman - Deep Purple
10. Freebird - Lynyrd Skynyrd
11. Parisian Walkways - Gary Moore
12. Jane - Jefferson Airplane
13. Urgent - Foreigner
14. Mary Long - Deep Purple
15. You shook me all night long - AC/DC

[hookers with machineguns]

iceplayer, that last song kinda terrorizes the rest of the list. kinda the oddball out of all the songs.
sweetjane, nice list. particular bill withers, excellent.

i think this has been millions of times before, but what the hey i will try.

David Bowie- always crashing in the same car
Joy Division- decades
Velvet Underground- white light, white heat
The Smiths- suedehead
Jefferson Airplane- White Rabbit
The Clash- Lost in the Supermarket
The Jesus and Mary Chain- I hate Rock n Roll
PJ Harvey- We Float
Paul Revere & The Raiders- Indian Reservation
Nine Inch Nails- Sin
Ambulance ltd- Primitive
Johnny Cash- Folsom Prison Blues
Jimi Hendrix- All Along the Watchtower
The Zombies- Time of the Season
The Buzz****s- What Do I Get

[Metal_Head]

Originally Posted by Sweet Jane

No particular order, its hard enough picking 15 as it is
1. Air - Playground Love
2. Sonic Youth - 100%
3. Cat Power - Good Woman
4. The Velvet Underground - Oh, Sweet Nuthin'
5. Smog - Cold Blooded Old Times
6. REM - Losing My Religion
7. Bill Withers - Aint no sunshine when she's gone
8. Neil Young - Harvest Moon
9. The Smiths - The boy with the Thorn in his side
10. Belle and Sebastian - Like Dylan in the Movies
11. Nick Cave - Girl You'll be a woman soon
12.I ggy Pop - Lust for Life
13. Echo and the Bunnymen - The Killing Moon
14. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - I see a darkness
15. The Breeders - Last Splash

the bands you listed ive never heard of...

[Sweet Jane]

Originally Posted by hookers with machineguns

sweetjane, nice list. particular bill withers, excellent.

i think this has been millions of times before, but what the hey i will try.

Jefferson Airplane- White Rabbit
Johnny Cash- Folsom Prison Blues

Thank you! Damn, White Rabbit, I knew I forgot something. Cash and Joy Division too should have been on mine! Wow nice to see us agree on a thread!!

Originally Posted by Metal_Head

the bands you listed ive never heard of...

Really? Wow, get listening to more music. At least 12 of them should be widely known by anyone who knows much about music

[Sneer]

this is going to be difficult...
1. stairway to heavan- led zep
2. suddenly- BRMC
3. Layla- eric clapton
4. bohemian rhapsody- queen
5. new rose- the damned
6. crosstown traffic- hendrix
7. you really got me- the kinks
9. dazed and confused- led zep
10. street spirit- radiohead
11. lucy in the sky of diamonds- the beatles
12. black sabbath- black sabbath
13. seven nation army- white stripes
14. ace of spades- motorhead
15. this monkeys gone to heavan- the pixies
16. dont look back in anger- oasis
17. london calling- the clash
18. painted black- rolling stones
19. i wanna be adored- stone roses
20. nirvana- smells like teen spirit.

i gave you 20 as i couldnt fit it all into 15. so many more i wish i could add.

[Enfilade]

1. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under The Bridge
2. John Frusciante - The Sides
3. John Frusciante - Dying Song
4. The Beatles - Eleanor Rigby
5. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik
6. At The Drive-In - Invalid Litter Dept.
7. The Beatles - Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
8. Coldplay - Green Eyes
9. Coldplay - Shiver
10. Thursday - For The Workforce, Drowning
11. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Don't Forget Me
12. Radiohead - The Bends
13. Ben Harper - Touch From Your Lust
14. Emery - Digusing Mistakes With Goodbyes
15. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

In somewhat order.. and I'm missing sososo many

[Urban Hat€monger ?]

15 ?

Wimps ...have my top 100 , although I should point out this was written almost 2 and a half years ago , it would be very different now


100 SIGUE SIGUE SPUTNICK - LOVE MISSILE F1-11

You either had to be dead or need a sense of humour transplant not to love this.Never before has a blatant cash in been so much fun to listen too.Their album even had adverts between the songs.

99 TOM JONES - IT`S NOT UNUSUAL

This is what i`m usually singing (badly) after a good night out.Classic song too

98 JUDAS PRIEST - YOU`VE GOT ANOTHER THING COMIN

One of the greatest metal songs ever written.Halford`s vocals are godlike

97 HEFNER - SONG FOR THE CIGARETTES

More cigarette references than a formula one race.I can`t think of any song where the singer refers to events in his life by the ***s he was smoking at the time.

96 QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE - FEELGOOD HIT OF THE SUMMER

Not so much of a song.More of a checklist for a good night out ... still rocks though

95 1000 HOMO DJ`S - SUPERNAUT

A fantastic sabbath cover done by an Al Jourganson/Ministry side project.Worth getting just for the 'Hey *******'B side with a cop pulling a guy over & giving him abuse while in the background you have the backing vocals repeadedly chanting the songs title.

94 ED HARCOURT - SHANGHAI

A singer songwriter with a difference ... he`s not afraid to rock out a bit,class song too.

93 IRON MAIDEN - SANCTUARY

The nearest they ever got to being'punk rock'such a shame they left that direction to write 15 min epics about sailors shooting seagulls or something.

92 ASH - JESUS SAYS

I know the album was **** but i STILL think this is their best single

91 DIVINE COMEDY - LOVE WHAT YOU DO

I thought this was probably one of the best singles of 2001.It did **** all so i guess that says more about what i think than anything else does

90 SMASHING PUMPKINS - TODAY

In all honesty this could be any song of Siamese Dream it was such a good album but i`ve gone with this one.Shame after this they went **** & Corgan turned into a whining slaphead.

89 AUTEURS - LENNY VALENTINO

This band are easily the best kept secret in Britain.Intelligent rock without the pretentiousness of Radiohead`s later efforts.

88 GRANDADDY - THE CRYSTAL LAKE

Beautiful & chilled out song , just the sort of thing to calm you down after a hard day.

87 CHEAP TRICK - I WANT YOU TO WANT ME

Pure unashamed pop & all the better for it.Catchy as hell

86 MENSWEAR - DAYDREAMER

Horrible band that exemplified everything bad about the Britpop movement but this song was so good i forgave & just enjoyed the music (Well just this song anyway)

85 BLACK GRAPE - KELLY`S HERO`S

Jesus was a black man , No Jesus was Batman , no no no that was Bruce Waaaaaaaaaaayne..... How can you not like a song with lyrics like that.

84 JESUS & MARY CHAIN - UPSIDE DOWN

Their first single. A primal blast of raw feedback somehow shaped into some sort of a song.

83 BREEDERS - CANNONBALL

Melody Makers 1993 single of the year.Like Blondie jamming with the Ramones

82 HANOI ROCKS - DON`T EVER LEAVE ME

Thank god Axl Rose never used this for the GnR covers album.Do yourself a favor & get the original.

81 THEREPY? - SCREAMAGER

The nearest a British band ever got to writing anything like Smells Like Teen Spirit.EVERBODY i know liked this song.

80 PINK FLOYD - ARNOLD LAYNE

Beleive it or not they were a very good psychadelic pop band at one time.Funny as hell too

79 SPACE - YOU & ME VS THE WORLD

I`ve lost count of the number of films that have included this song.Very personal to me too.

78 PORTISHEAD - SOUR TIMES

This is one of those songs I was sick to death of hearing at the time but when it stopped getting played i sorta missed it.

77 BETA BAND - DRY THE RAIN

I will now sell 5 copies of the 3 EPs by the Beta Band.....

76 RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS - HIGHER GROUND

Pisses over their own material

75 CORNERSHOP - LESSONS LEARNED FROM ROCKY 1 TO ROCKY 3

Scathing attack on the music industry , great riff borrowed from the Stones at their best & still my favorite single of the year so far.

74 RAMONES - BABY I LOVE YOU

The Ramones were not a punk band .They were a Rock n Roll band who just happened to play fast,they could slow it down too judging by this song plus it was produced by the legendary Phil Spector.

73 ELASTICA - CONNECTION

Their career highlight , having this song used as the music to Trigger Happy TV

72 WIRE - OUTDOOR MINER

Possibly the most melodic punk song ever written

71 SLADE - *** ON FEEL THE NOIZE

They would probably been given more credit for their contribution to music had they not done merry xmas everyone , and remind us of it ...EVERY ****ING YEAR.

70 CURE - LULLABY

Their best single off their best album. You couldn`t get away from this in 89/90

69 BEATLES - HELTER SKELTER

The song that invented Grunge. Thurston Moore from Sonic Youth said so and as it was him who got Nirvana signed so if you disagree you can go argue with him.

68 UNDERTONES - TEENAGE KICKS

John Peel`s favorite song.As i`m not John Peel it only makes 68

67 LOU REED - WALK ON THE WILD SIDE

OK so his name sounds like a book you`d find in a toilet but this is a great song & EVERYBODY in the UK (TV , radio , media ect) missed out the blow job reference.

66 MOTORHEAD - ACE OF SPADES

EVERY metal covers band i know does this for an encore

65 STRANGLERS - GOLDEN BROWN

I never really did see them as punks.They seemed to me to be more like a bunch of old pub rockers.This however was a class tune.

64 PRODIGY - FIRESTARTER

I remember seeing the video on TV for the first time in the pub. Everybody was just staring at the screen jaws wide open in disbelief.

63 GORKYS ZYGOTIC MYNCI - YOUNG GIRLS & HAPPY ENDINGS

Brilliant parody of teen pop love songs.The basic premace for the song is a pop star telling a girl he didn`t write a love song coz he loves her but he wrote it to make money. Sheer genius.

62 SONIC YOUTH - SUNDAY

A gem in the middle of a 10 year long downturn in quality songs.

61 TELEVISION - MARQUEE MOON

Wonderful song ... I have a 16 min version somewhere

60 JANES ADDICTION - BEEN CAUGHT STEALING

One of the funkiest songs ever written by a white man

59 BUZZ****S - EVER FALLEN IN LOVE WITH SOMEONE YOU SHOULDN`T HAVE

They did the whole thing better than all those crappy American immitators

58 KINKS - YOU REALLY GOT ME

Credited by some as the first ever metal song of all time.Van Halens version was alright too

57 EELS _ NOVOCAINE FOR THE SOUL

Brilliant song from possibly the most criminally ignored band to come out of the U.S.

56 PUBLIC ENEMY - DON`T BELEIVE THE HYPE

I just didn`t get rap till I heard this.

55 SUPERGRASS - RICHARD III

One of the heaviest songs they`ve ever done complete with Star Trek style theremins.Shut the people in the press calling them the new Monkees up too.

54 DAMNED - SMASH IT UP

For a band called the Damned who played punk rock & wrote a song about smashing up things I have to say the first time I heard it I was expecting something a little more ...um violent & heavier.Grew to love it in time.

53 GOMEZ - WHIPPIN PICADILLY

Great song from a once great band.Now however they sound more like a school orchestra tuning up.

52 THIN LIZZY - DON`T BELEIVE A WORD

It`s a farce none of this bands work were on the top 100 rock list.So here they are on mine & this is my favorite Thin Lizzy tune.

51 IGGY POP - THE PASSENGER

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