True that. I feel my list needs a bit of Nightwish for variety but I can't think WHICH ONE!

 

Storytime or Amaranth :kink:

Storytime or Amaranth :kink:

 

See, I think Storytime's a lot too recent to consider. Amaranth is probably the most likely candidate, but while it's excellent, it's just missing something. The Poet and the Pendulum would be a great choice but it goes on too long. Having said that, it's probably the only 10+ minute track I normally have time for. Wish I Had An Angel is another choice but I really don't know.

 

Several acts do this to me, they have a number of excellent songs, but I don't have a clear favourite, and it means they end up not being in my favourite songs despite me loving a lot of their songs. Kelly Clarkson and Paramore are two other examples (although Behind Your Hazel Eyes and Misery Business have pushed ahead in recent months).

Song Of Myself >>> The Poet And The Pendulum :P

Nice to see some songs listed that I would place in my own potential top 20.

I've been thinking of a list for the past 24 hours and it's pretty hard! I will keep at it though and will post it when I'm happy with it. Will probably have to be in alphabetical order as really it's like asking a parent to pick their favourite children!

Edited May 5, 201213 yr by Neil

i'm sure we had one of these topics before, but nearly 18 months on our tastes would differ (and you're all now half-allowed to include "Bad Romance", celebrate GaGa goons x)

 

ik my top 10 list last time was quite wrong with #10, so i'll try this again. ps. shakespeare's sister's "stay" was in there, but alas thanks to it being dreadfully ruined by everyone and everything idk if i want it anymo'. shame. commence intense shuffling of previous top 10~

 

001 Madonna - Hung Up

002 Madonna - Frozen

003 iiO - Rapture

004 Eric Prydz - Pjanoo

005 Aphex Twin - Windowlicker (i flat out forgot this last time)

006 Bodyrox ft. Luciana - Yeah Yeah

007 Roger Sanchez - Another Chance

008 Madonna - Hollywood

009 Massive Attack - Paradise Circus

010 Rui Di Silva ft. Cassandra Fox - Touch Me

 

011 Crystal Castles - Doe Deer

012 New Order - Blue Monday

013 Madonna - Ray Of Light

014 Britney Spears - Till The World Ends

015 iamamiwhoami - T

016 Le Tigre - The The Empty

017 Crystal Castles - Courtship Dating

018 Britney Spears - Gimme More

019 Rihanna - SOS

020 The Prodigy - Warrior's Dance

 

That's definitely not right is it. LMAO god knows :( Feel like Gwen should be in there as well. omggg too hard

Actually one of the best top twenty's I have seen :wub:! So much love for 'Windowlicker' and 'Touch Me' being included.

 

01. Beyoncé ft. Jay-Z "Crazy in Love"

02. Britney Spears "Toxic"

03. Shakira "Whenever, Wherever"

04. Britney Spears "Everytime"

05. Christina Aguilera "Fighter"

06. Rihanna ft. Jay-Z "Umbrella"

07. Beyoncé "Irreplaceable"

08. Nelly Furtado "I'm Like a Bird"

09. Enrique Iglesias "Hero"

10. Kelis ft. André 3000 "Millionaire"

 

It was longer, but then I realised that the songs below the top ten were more recent than these, so just cut it there. There're probably more though that I've forgotten at this moment.

 

I'm shocked you have no Girls Aloud or Cheryl Cole in there! :o

 

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I really do not know what my top twenty would be. My top two for quite a few years has been:

 

1__ t.A.T.u 'All The Things She Said'

2__ The Knife 'Heartbeats'

I can't believe I only just noticed that Namie Amuro's 'What A Feeling' is in Jark's list. WHAT. A. FEELING TUNE. The only K/J-pop song I have any real affection for, if I'm honest.

 

As for the debate going on, I'm not judging anyone, but just on a personal level of instinct, it took me a good while before I felt comfortable putting 'Rabbit Heart' so high up, and only in the past few months do I feel like it can be included without reservations. Likewise, I'm sure Gotye and Loreen's 'My Heart Is Refusing Me' would figure somewhere in my top 100, but they still feel too fresh to judge against all the other songs. I'm really taking the whole thing too seriously...

I can't believe I only just noticed that Namie Amuro's 'What A Feeling' is in Jark's list. WHAT. A. FEELING TUNE. The only K/J-pop song I have any real affection for, if I'm honest.

It's basically the dictionary definition of gay euphoria.

 

I'm shocked you have no Girls Aloud or Cheryl Cole in there! :o

It's just a combination of there not really being a definitive Girls Aloud moment which I prefer over the other and "Fight for This Love" being too recent for my top ten!

Athlete - Wires

Avril Lavigne - I'm With You

Ayumi Hamasaki - ever free

Brandy - What About Us

The Corrs - Dreams

Evanscence - Everybody's Fool

Kelly Clarkson - Hear Me

Koda Kumi - Yume no Uta

Jamelia - Numb (Linkin Park cover)

Mariah Carey - Fly Like A Bird

Mary J Blige - No More Drama

Michelle Branch - Til I Get Over You

Nelly Furtado - Try

Sade - By Your Side

Stacie Orrico - More To Life

Starsailor - Alcoholic

Utada Hikaru - Simple and Clean

Utada Hikaru - Sakura Drops

The Veronicas - Mouth Shut

Washed Out - You and I

 

Pretty much every one of these songs is tied to some relatively significant moment in my life.

Edited May 5, 201213 yr by Neil

Windowlicker still sounds modern now.

Hmm I'll try to throw my hat in the ring then. I've never even attempted a top 10 or 20 of all time, so this is tough. There's no way on earth I could put them in order, so it's just a random list from me. It's a real mixture of genres and I'm hesitant to put too many newer songs in because it's impossible to tell if they'll stand the test of time yet. Here goes...

 

REM - Nightswimming

Kate Bush - This Woman's Work

Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill

Meat Loaf - Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf - Couldn't Have Said It Better

Counting Crows - Colorblind

Robyn - Dancing On My Own

Pat Benatar - Love Is A Battlefield

Tina Turner - River Deep Mountain High

Heart - Alone

Heart - All I Wanna Do Is Make Love To You

Madonna - Like A Prayer

ABBA - Lay All Your Love On Me

ABBA - Angel Eyes

Alannah Myles - Black Velvet

Belinda Carlisle - Heaven/Leave a Light On (I can't decide here, but I'm not having them both)

Wicked - Defying Gravity (either the original Idina Menzel version or Kerry Ellis' rock version - both equally as good in different ways)

Corona - Baby Baby (I know, I know, but I was a 90s child, what can I say?)

Leona Lewis - Run/Broken/Happy/Bleeding Love (she's only getting one on my final list, but I don't know which yet)

N-Trance and Kelly Llorenna - Set You Free (best dance track ever in my opinion)

Marina and the Diamonds - Numb

 

So that's 20. I'm not sure if I've made good choices or not, and I'm 100% positive I'll want to change some of them the longer I think about it. That was hard!

Edited May 7, 201213 yr by PaulM1983

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I think compiling a list of all time favourite songs is SO hard - comparing a late 90s song with something from 2010 feels like comparing apples and oranges to me. Songs age, get overplayed, have a sound that suita the era etc. I'd find it much easier to list my top 20 from each year.

 

SAYING THAT, here's my attempt at producing a top 20:

 

01. Brandy & Monica – The Boy Is Mine

02. Spice Girls – Too Much

03. Beverley Knight – Black Butta

04. Melanie C – Never Be The Same Again

05. TLC – Waterfalls

06. All Saints – Never Ever

07. Whitney Houston – It's Not Right But It's Okay

08. Ellie Goulding – Guns And Horses

09. Spice Girls – Viva Forever

10. Keri Hilson ft. Kanye West & Ne-Yo– Knock You Down

11. Brandy – What About Us?

12. Spice Girls – Stop

13. Aaliyah – More Than A Woman

14. Destiny's Child – Bills, Bills, Bills

15. Estelle – American Boy

16. Janet Jackson – Together Again

17. Kate Bush – Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)

18. Beverley Knight – Gold

19. Little Boots – Stuck On Repeat

20. Lady Gaga ft. Beyoncé – Telephone

 

The order of this could change on the flip of a coin and I'm sure there's a few I've forgotten, but that's pretty much it.

Edited May 7, 201213 yr by AaronTM

I couldn't do a top 20 and I'm sure even now I've left some amazing things out but here's a top 40, in alphabetical order as I love them all pretty much equally:

 

Tori Amos 'Cloud On My Tongue'

Tori Amos 'Cornflake Girl'

Antony & The Johnsons 'Hope There's Someone'

Arcade Fire 'Rebellion (Lies)'

Meg Baird 'Do What You Gotta Do'

Björk 'Vökuró'

Blondie 'Atomic'

Bon Iver 'Holocene'

The Bravery 'An Honest Mistake'

Bright Eyes 'Hit The Switch'

Kate Bush 'Hounds Of Love'

The Chemical Brothers 'The Private Psychedelic Reel'

The Cure 'Lovesong'

Depeche Mode 'Enjoy The Silence'

DJ Mehdi 'Signatune (Thomas Bangalter Remix)'

Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man 'Mysteries'

Janis Ian 'At Seventeen'

Interpol 'Obstacle 1'

Carole King 'It's Too Late'

The Knife 'Marble House'

Ladytron 'Destroy What You Touch'

M83 'Midnight City'

Aimee Mann 'Little Bombs'

Monkey Swallows The Universe 'Bloodline'

New Order 'True Faith'

Portishead 'The Rip'

Pulp 'Do You Remember The First Time?'

Radiohead 'Pyramid Song'

Radiohead 'Street Spirit (Fade Out)'

Fionn Regan 'Be Good Or Be Gone'

Damien Rice '9 Crimes'

Rilo Kiley 'Portions For Foxes'

Robyn 'Dancing On My Own'

Sigur Rós 'Hoppípolla'

Dusty Springfield 'Son of a Preacher Man'

Stereolab 'French Disko'

Sufjan Stevens 'Come On! Feel The Illinoise!'

Sufjan Stevens 'For The Widows In Paradise, For The Fatherless In Ypsilanti'

Suede 'Animal Nitrate'

Patrick Wolf 'The Libertine'

 

 

At least 3 songs have come on my phone this morning that I would place on my list. I knew this was an impossible task. I did however edit my post to include Marina and the Diamonds - Numb. That chorus!! That song does something to me that I can't explain. I think it's just the combination of the vocal, the piano track, and the epic chorus harmonies. Amazing.

I'm playing "River Deep Mountain High" at the moment and realised that should probably be in my top 20, "Proud Mary" probably should be too.

Tori Amos 'Cloud On My Tongue'

Tori Amos 'Cornflake Girl'

Antony & The Johnsons 'Hope There's Someone'

Arcade Fire 'Rebellion (Lies)'

Meg Baird 'Do What You Gotta Do'

Björk 'Vökuró'

Blondie 'Atomic'

Bon Iver 'Holocene'

The Bravery 'An Honest Mistake'

Bright Eyes 'Hit The Switch'

Kate Bush 'Hounds Of Love'

The Chemical Brothers 'The Private Psychedelic Reel'

The Cure 'Lovesong'

Depeche Mode 'Enjoy The Silence'

DJ Mehdi 'Signatune (Thomas Bangalter Remix)'

Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man 'Mysteries'

Janis Ian 'At Seventeen'

Interpol 'Obstacle 1'

Carole King 'It's Too Late'

The Knife 'Marble House'

Ladytron 'Destroy What You Touch'

M83 'Midnight City'

Aimee Mann 'Little Bombs'

Monkey Swallows The Universe 'Bloodline'

New Order 'True Faith'

Portishead 'The Rip'

Pulp 'Do You Remember The First Time?'

Radiohead 'Pyramid Song'

Radiohead 'Street Spirit (Fade Out)'

Fionn Regan 'Be Good Or Be Gone'

Damien Rice '9 Crimes'

Rilo Kiley 'Portions For Foxes'

Robyn 'Dancing On My Own'

Sigur Rós 'Hoppípolla'

Dusty Springfield 'Son of a Preacher Man'

Stereolab 'French Disko'

Sufjan Stevens 'Come On! Feel The Illinoise!'

Sufjan Stevens 'For The Widows In Paradise, For The Fatherless In Ypsilanti'

Suede 'Animal Nitrate'

Patrick Wolf 'The Libertine'

 

 

Mostly solid gold, there Dand. I can't really criticise Son of a Preacher Man but I've always found it to be one of her weaker "famous" songs.

Right-o! here's mine (but some of these tracks would change in the morning!)

 

I do keep a file of my favourite 113 songs which does get added to from time to time - the most recent addition is I Follow Rivers.

 

 

So in no particular order:

 

She Sells Sanctuary - The Cult

Freak Scene - Dinosaur Jr.

Relax - Frankie Goes To Hollywood

1983 (A Merman Should I Turn To Be) - Jimi Hendrix Experience

Hurt - Johnny Cash

Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division

Bittersweet Symphony - The Verve

Blue Monday - New Order

Crown of Thorns - Mother Love Bone

You Made Me Realise - My Bloody Valentine

Cinnamon Girl - Neil Young

Debaser - Pixies

Firestarter - The Prodigy

Common People - Pulp

Say Hello Wave Goodbye - Soft Cell

Ghost Town - The Specials

Fool’s Gold - The Stone Roses

Can’t be Sure - The Sundays

History - The Verve

Dear God - XTC

 

She Sells Sanctuary should definitely have been in my list, can't believe I forgot it.