Wednesday 8 June 2011

The List

You know how I said that I love a good list? Well, I really love a good list. A few months back I made a very selective list, which I then turned into a playlist (how good is technology, right?), of my favourite songs of all time. It started out as a top 20, which then morphed into a top 50 and now it’s a top 57.

These, to me, are classic songs by classic bands. Some of them are obvious classics, some of them are (maybe questionable) personal classics, and some of them have just stuck with me for a very long time.

There were a few self-imposed rules applied to the list – one song only per band/artist, the songs had to mean something to me etc. I must also point out that the list isn’t completely reflective of my overall music collection or taste (for example, there is a U2 song on the list and I’m definitely not a U2 fan…I think Bono is a turd). Also, the list is not in any particular order…that would have been way too hard.

Anyways, enough prefacing. Here is the list! And feel free to judge…haters to the left!

1. Longview – Green Day
2. Don’t Forget Me – Red Hot Chili Peppers
3. Everlong – Foo Fighters
4. Rat Fink – The Misfits
5. Stairway to Heaven – Led Zeppelin
6. Wish You Were Here – Pink Floyd
7. Sweet Thing – Van Morrison
8. A Man Needs a Maid – Neil Young
9. This Must Be The Place – Talking Heads
10. Neighborhood #2 (Laika) – The Arcade Fire
11. All Along the Watchtower – Jimi Hendrix
12. Boiled Frogs – Alexisonfire
13. Love Will Tear Us Apart – Joy Division
14. Close to Me – The Cure
15. Bigmouth Strikes Again – The Smiths
16. Know Your Quarry – Biffy Clyro
17.Baba O’Riley – The Who
18. I Never Came – Queens of the Stone Age
19. Nothing Else Matters – Metallica
20. Bandoliers – Them Crooked Vultures
21. Rearview Mirror – Pearl Jam
22. Havana Affair – The Ramones
23. Ashes to Ashes – David Bowie
24. Ashes to Ashes – Faith No More
25. Temptation – New Order
26. Plug in Baby – Muse
27. An Ode to No One – Smashing Pumpkins
28. Love, You Should Come Over – Jeff Buckley
29. These Foolish Things – Ella Fitzgerald
30. New York, New York – Frank Sinatra
31. Money Money 2020 – The Network
32. Parabola – Tool
33. This is the Day – The The
34. Breed – Nirvana
35. Fireball – Deep Purple
36. Carvel – John Frusciante
37. Tomorrow Never Knows – The Beatles
38. Sabotage – Beastie Boys
39. Wild Horses – The Rolling Stones
40. The Perfect Drug – Nine Inch Nails
41. Emo – Blink 182
42. London Calling – The Clash
43. Good Die Young – The Divinyls
44. Sweet Child O Mine – Guns N’Roses
45. There Was a Time – James Brown
46. Fight the Feeling – The Music
47. Summer Cannibals – Patti Smith
48. Bohemian Rhapsody – Queen
49. Fake Plastic Trees – Radiohead
50. America – Simon and Garfunkel
51. Sunday Bloody Sunday – U2
52. Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout Love – Van Halen
53. Tiny Dancer – Elton John
54. Rebels – Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
55. Smallpox Champion – Fugazi
56. Massive – The Loved Ones
57. Paper Tiger - Beck

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