Greatest Songs of all Time
 

Ive read a post like this similar in this forum before and loved it.

Im a bit of a music manatic and like too find out other peoples favourites and adding them too my ipod.

Well ill start first with my top 10. Most have a reason why i put them in but some are just ones i like.



1. Moby-We are all made of stars:
My favourite song, the first time i ever heard it was 3 years ago waking up on the day that my under 17s Aussie rules football game was on. I layed there and listened too it and loved it, its a great feeling finding a song that you enjoy.

2. Ben Harper-Stay tonight
Coming close 2nd is this song.
It was played at my best friends funeral. Always loved it and always will.

3. Jay-z-My 1st Song
My favourite hip-hop or "rap" song. This is the only Jay-z song i like really with some exeptions. Great beat and lyrics.

4. Pink Floyd-Wish you were Here
Im sure alot of people agree with me on this one, great song. My favourite older song definantly. Radiohead also played this great.

5. CCR-Have you Ever seen the Rain
And half way down the top ten comes this gem. One of the most played songs ever for me, i absolutely love it+many of there other songs.

6. Seal-Crazy
But we're never gonna survive unless we get a little crazy
No we're never gonna to survive unless we are a little crazy.
I could listen too this song over and over again, Great.

7. Wet Wet Wet-Love is all Around
This was played at my parent wedding, it was also the theme song for my favourite movie as a child "The princess and the cobbler." Had too put this in there since its stained into my brain.

8. Puff Daddy and Faith ft. 112-I'll Be missing You
Sad but great song. Tribute too a legend.

9. Lonestar-Walking in Memphis
Only Country/Western song i like, and boy do i like it, Nice song.

10. Uncle Cracker-Follow Me
Ahh uncle cracker how you did so well for sparking up my parties in highschool. Was my 'groups' song, we used too hit the DF as soon as it was played. Ahh the memories.

Wow looking over them i have missed so many songs i love,
-50 cent-Hate it or love it
-Papa Roach-Scars
-Pink Floyd/Led Zeppelin-Knocking on heavens door
-Some ACDC
-Radiohead
-Korn-Word up
-Live
-Eminem
-Bon Jovi



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Sigh, Moby and Jay-Z? The Lonestar version of Walking in Memphis? You make me sad, but variety is the spice of life, I guess.

There's no way I could make a list in order, but here are a few off the top of my head:

Make Me Smile - Chicago
25 Miles - Edwin Starr
Helter Skelter - The Beatles
Ride My See-Saw - The Moody Blues
My Maria - B.W. Stephenson (NOT Brooks and Dunn - just a note for those of you who list Lonestar next to Walking in Memphis)
Jet Airliner - Steve Miller Band
Temptation Eyes - The Grassroots
Summer in the City - The Lovin' Spoonful
The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys - Traffic

Some of the above bands have multiple songs I would list, but I am going for a "sampler" feel, here. Also, I missed a lot of great songs because I am in a hurry.

SpaceAce

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Gimme Shelter- The Rolling Stones
Dock of the Bay- Otis Redding

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Sigh, Moby and Jay-Z? The Lonestar version of Walking in Memphis? You make me sad, but variety is the spice of life, I guess.

There's no way I could make a list in order, but here are a few off the top of my head:

Make Me Smile - Chicago
25 Miles - Edwin Starr
Helter Skelter - The Beatles
Ride My See-Saw - The Moody Blues
My Maria - B.W. Stephenson (NOT Brooks and Dunn - just a note for those of you who list Lonestar next to Walking in Memphis)
Jet Airliner - Steve Miller Band
Temptation Eyes - The Grassroots
Summer in the City - The Lovin' Spoonful
The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys - Traffic

Some of the above bands have multiple songs I would list, but I am going for a "sampler" feel, here. Also, I missed a lot of great songs because I am in a hurry.

SpaceAce

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yehh i do have a sad taste of music.. theres another version of walking in memphis [img]/images/graemlins/crazy.gif[/img] i needa check that out

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wow i like some sad songs looking at that...lets wish this thread never happened

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-Pink Floyd/Led Zeppelin-Knocking on heavens door

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I absolutely LOVE their version.

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My personal favorites:

Classical- Aaron Copland & London Symphony Orchestra: "Fanfare of the Common Man"

Rock- Sevendust: "Follow"

Rap- Wu Tang: "Triumph"

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wow i like some bad songs looking at that...lets wish this thread never happened

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Classic Rock

Imagine - John Lennon
Layla - Derek & the Dominos
Day in the Life - the Beatles
Roadhouse Blues - the Doors
Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix
White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane
Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd
Hotel California - the Eagles
Roundabout - Yes

Personal Favorites

Bus Stop - the Hollies
Woodstock - Crosby, Stills, and Nash
The Letter - the Boxtops
Heroin - Velvet Underground

Rap

Brenda's Got a Baby -2pac
Check the Rhyme - A Tribe Called Quest
Life's a Bitch - Nas
Madness - Deltron
Cream - Wu-Tang Clan

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My Noteable Favorites:

QUEEN - Bohemian Rhapsody
JOURNEY - Open Arms
GUNS' N ROSES - Sweet Child Of Mine
EAGLES - California
BON JOVI - Livin On A Prayer

NOTORIOUS B.I.G - Juicy
MOBB DEEP - Shook Ones II
EMINIEM - Lose Yourself
2PAC - Changes

USHER - Yeah
ALLURE & 112 - All Cried Out
MICHAEL JACKSON - Billie Jean / Smooth Criminal / Beat It/ Bad/ Rock With You
LIONEL RICHIE - Hello
MARIAH CAREY & BOYS2MEN - One Sweet Day

SOULS OF MISCHIEF - 93 Till Infinity
TRIBE CALLED QUEST - Can I Kick It?

WEEZER - Hashpipe
THE VERVE - Bittersweet Symphony
GREEN DAY - Time of Your Life
NIRVANA - Smells Like Teen Spirit

MARVIN GAYE - Lets Get It On

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The obvious number one song for all times present, past, and future:
Dead Kennedys - Too Drunk To F**k

I mean, really, the title of the song alone renders all others pretenders.

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Your post should apparently be titled "My Favorite Songs." They certainly aren't the greatest by any means. Not that there is anything wrong with that. However, Moby sucks and you would have a hard time establishing that more than 15% of the world finds him tolerable at all. I think you need a bit higher approval rating to be considered "great."

For example, CCR and Pink Floyd.

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2. Ben Harper-Stay tonight
Coming close 2nd is this song.
It was played at my best friends funeral. Always loved it and always will.

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Do you mean "Save Tonight" by Eagle Eye Cherry? And if so, just wow.

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Put me in the "the banality of OP makes me too depressed to post a real list" camp.

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1. Shine On - Pink Floyd
2. Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd
3. Dogs - Pink Floyd
4. Time - Pink Floyd
5. Baba Oraily - The Who
6. Behind Blue Eyes - The Who
7. Pigs(Three Different Ones) Pink Floyd
8. Eminence Front - The Who
9. Rolling Stones - Wild Horses
10. Rolling Stones - Gimmie Shelter

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1. Shine On - Pink Floyd
2. Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd
3. Dogs - Pink Floyd
4. Time - Pink Floyd
5. Baba Oraily - The Who
6. Behind Blue Eyes - The Who
7. Pigs(Three Different Ones) Pink Floyd
8. Eminence Front - The Who
9. Rolling Stones - Wild Horses
10. Rolling Stones - Gimmie Shelter

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Personal Favorites

Bus Stop - the Hollies
The Letter - the Boxtops


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Both so very, very good. The Hollies have about a 3/4 miss rate as far as I'm concerned, but the other 1/4 is pure gold: Bus Stop; He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother; Long Dark Road; Stop, Stop, Stop; Look Through Any Window; Long Cool Woman (In a Black Dress).

I also should have had songs by The Kinks and The Doors in my first post.

SpaceAce

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Gimme Shelter- The Rolling Stones
Dock of the Bay- Otis Redding

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Time Has Come Today--The Chambers Brothers

I responded to your post because it is the only one with any actually good songs in it so far (except whoever posited Helter Skelter).

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The obvious number one song for all times present, past, and future:
Dead Kennedys - Too Drunk To F**k

I mean, really, the title of the song alone renders all others pretenders.

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This isn't even the greatest Dead Kennedys song of all-time.

You might do well to try Chemical Warfare or Police Truck or Nazi Punks F*ck Off.

Jeez.

Come on, man.

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-Pink Floyd/Led Zeppelin-Knocking on heavens door

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I absolutely LOVE their version.

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I submit "New York's Alright if You Like Saxophones," by Fear

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"Mr. Tambourine Man" - Bob Dylan
"Wagon Wheel" - Old Crow Medicine Show
"Tiny Dancer" - Elton John
"St. Andrew's Fall" - Blind Melon
"Jessica" - Allman Brothers Band
"American Pie" - Don McLean
"Hallelujah" - Jeff Buckley
"One Big Holiday" - My Morning Jacket
"Karma Police" - Radiohead
"New Slang" - The Shins

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I submit "New York's Alright if You Like Saxophones," by Fear

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I would sooner nominate "I Don't Care About You," but that's just me.

Of course, you have a point...

New York's alright if you wanna get pushed in front of the subway

New York's alright if you want to freeze to death

New York's alright if you wanna get mugged or murdered

New York's alright if you're a homosexual...

Nice.

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No particular order:

Do You Feel Like We Do- Frampton
Nights In White Satin- Moody Blues
Love Me Tender/American Trilogy-The King
He Stopped Loving Her Today (shut your mouth)- George Jones
Blue Eyes Cryin In The Rain-Willie Nelson
Fearless/Wish You Were Here- Floyd
Still Crazy After All These Years/Slip Sliding Away- Simon
Sounds of Silence/Bridge Over Trouble Water- Simon and Garfunkel
Fire and Rain- Taylor

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as bad as some of the songs were in this particular run, i love these 'best songs of all time' threads, i get a lot of good ones from them...

keep them coming.

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Tupac - Changes
The Animals - Don't let me be misunderstood
Ben Harper - Morning Yearning
Bone Thugs - Notorious thugs
Souls of mischief - 93 til infinity
Tom Petty - Learning to fly
Bruce springsteen - I'm on fire
Jimi Hendrix - Hey Joe
Faith no more - Epic
Mr Bungle - Pink cigarette
The Verve - Bittersweet symphony
Wu Tang Clan - Ain't nothing to [censored] with

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OK,

(The Band)
Ophelia
Stagefright
The Weight
Up on Cripple Creek
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
... Nevermind, just get "The Last Waltz"

(Van Morrison)
Domino
Wild Night
Brown Eyed Girl
Caravan
Tupelo Honey
Moondance
Into the Mystic
Gloria

(The Moody Blues)
The Story in Your Eyes
The Question
In Your Wildest Dreams

(The Kinks)
Living on a Thin Line
Apeman
All Day and All of the Night
(Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman
Lola
Set Me Free
Tired of Waiting For You

(Stevie Wonder)
Uptight
I Was Made to Love Her
Pretty much everything he ever did
Boogie On Reggae Woman
Superstitious
Sir Duke

(The Temptations)
I Can't Get Next to You
Since I Lost My Baby
Ain't Too Proud To Beg
I Wish It Would Rain

(The Four Tops)
Standing in the Shadows of Love
Bernadette
It's the Same Old Song
Most everything they did

(Marvin Gaye)
Mercy Mercy me
Too Busy Thinking About My Baby
Let's Get It On

(Ray Charles)
Hit the Road Jack
The Mess Around
What'd I Say

(Chuck Berry)
Maybellene
Roll Over Beethoven
School Days
Too Much Monkey Business
Sweet Little Sixteen
Johnny B. Goode
You Never Can Tell

(Steve Miller Band)
Jungle Love
Threshold/Jet Airliner
The Stake
Abracadabra
Rock 'N Me
The Joker

(The Beatles)
Right, like I have that kind of time.

(Elvis Presley)
See "Beatles"

(Bachmann-Turner Overdrive)
Hey You
Let it Ride
You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet
Let it Roll (Down the Highway)
Takin' Care of Business

(The Guess Who)
American Woman
Undun
Share the Land
Star Baby
Clap for the Wolfman
Dancin' Fool

(The Doobie Brothers)
Long Train Running
China Grove
Black Water
Jesus is Just Alright
Listen to the Music

(The Allman Brothers)
Ramblin' Man
Midnight Rider

(Creedence Clearwater Revival)
Susie Q
Run Through the Jungle
Fortunate Son
Hey Tonight
Have You Ever Seen the Rain
Bad Moon Rising
Born on the Bayou
The Midnight Special

(Johnny Rivers)
Secret Agent Man
The Seventh Son
The Midnight Special
Poor Side of Town
Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu

(Jethro Tull)
Living in the Past
Aqualung

(The Lovin' Spoonful)
Summer in the City
Younger Girl
You Didn't Have to be so Nice
Did You Ever Have to Make Up Your Mind
Daydream
Nashville Cats
Do You Believe in Magic

(The Spencer Davis Group)
I'm a Man
When I Come Home
Gimme Some Lovin'

(The Traveling Wilburys)
Tweeter and the Monkeyman
End of the Line
Handle With Care
Last Night

(The Grass Roots)
Temptation Eyes
Midnight Confessions
Let's Live For Today
Wait a Million Years
Two Divided by Love
Sooner or Later

(Tom Jones)
Sexbomb
What's New Pussycat
It's Not Unusual

(Three Dog Night)
One
Joy to the World
Eli's Coming
Out in the Country
Mama Told Me (Not to Come)
Old Fashioned Love Song
Shambala
Never Been to Spain
Black and White

(Paul Revere and the Raiders)
Kicks
Indian Reservation

(The Mamas and the Papas)
California Dreamin'
Words of Love
I Call Your Name
I Saw Her Again Last Night
Creeque Alley

(Simon and Garfunkle)
Mrs. Robinson
Hazy Shade of Winter
The Sounds of Silence
Homeward Bound
The Boxer
Cecilia
Scarborough Fair
I am a Rock

(The Zombies)
She's Not There
Tell Her No
Time of the Season

Rufus Thomas - Push and Pull
Edwin Starr - Agent Double-O Soul
Cornelius Brothers and Sister Rose - Treat Her Like a Lady
The Tymes - So Much in Love
The Dominoes - Sixty Minute Man
The Cars - Just What I Needed
R.B. Greaves - Take a Letter Maria


Edit: I still managed to forget The Scorpions, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors and many others.

I love music.

SpaceAce
(Sorry if there are duplicates from my original post, I got tired of checking.)

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WHAM - Jitterbug

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"Mr. Tambourine Man" - Bob Dylan
"Wagon Wheel" - Old Crow Medicine Show
"Tiny Dancer" - Elton John
"St. Andrew's Fall" - Blind Melon
"Jessica" - Allman Brothers Band
"American Pie" - Don McLean
"Hallelujah" - Jeff Buckley
"One Big Holiday" - My Morning Jacket
"Karma Police" - Radiohead
"New Slang" - The Shins

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Uhhhhh....

Even if you realize thats a cover, I cant ever imagine my top 10 including a cover. If you havent written the song, you dont deserve much credit.

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"Mr. Tambourine Man" - Bob Dylan
"Wagon Wheel" - Old Crow Medicine Show
"Tiny Dancer" - Elton John
"St. Andrew's Fall" - Blind Melon
"Jessica" - Allman Brothers Band
"American Pie" - Don McLean
"Hallelujah" - Jeff Buckley
"One Big Holiday" - My Morning Jacket
"Karma Police" - Radiohead
"New Slang" - The Shins

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Uhhhhh....

Even if you realize thats a cover, I cant ever imagine my top 10 including a cover. If you havent written the song, you dont deserve much credit.

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i am aware that it's a cover, i just like jeff buckley's version a lot better than leonard cohen's. i agree it's a lot more meaningful if an artist writes the song, but if you think performers shouldn't get credit for a song they didn't write, you're counting out an extremely large percentage of songs. many of the world's greatest songs were written by songwriters who do not perform them.

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Pearl Jam and Tool. exclusively. nothing gay like lonestar.

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"Mr. Tambourine Man" - Bob Dylan
"Wagon Wheel" - Old Crow Medicine Show
"Tiny Dancer" - Elton John
"St. Andrew's Fall" - Blind Melon
"Jessica" - Allman Brothers Band
"American Pie" - Don McLean
"Hallelujah" - Jeff Buckley
"One Big Holiday" - My Morning Jacket
"Karma Police" - Radiohead
"New Slang" - The Shins

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Uhhhhh....


Even if you realize thats a cover, I cant ever imagine my top 10 including a cover. If you havent written the song, you dont deserve much credit.

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yeah, Hendrix's "All Along the Watchtower" was such a hack job. [censored] that guy.

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the best song ever is obviously Angel of Death by Slayer.

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p.s. OP please never post again