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Has anyone got a definitive top 10 Not bsnds, but actual songs. Mine change from day to day. They can't be 2 songs from the same band.

 

Bit like TT Top of the fucking Pops

 

I'll go first...

 

In no particular order

 

1) Safe European Home -The Clash

2) Holiday in Cambodia -Dead Kennedys

3) What's the Story Morning Glory - Oasis

4) Dogs- Pink Floyd

5) Stepping Out- Joe Jackson

6) Strange Town - The Jam

7) Let the Mermaids Flirt With Me - Mississippi John Hurt

8) God Save the Queen - Sex Pistols

9) Zombie Woof - Frank Zappa

10) Roots Radicals Rock Reggae - Stiff Little Fingers

 

Edit - I'm bevied and missed out 9 ??

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If no 2 songs from the same band, then...

 

1. Shine On You Crazy Diamond - Pink Floyd

2. Telegraph Road - Dire Straits

3. Storm - Godspeed You Black Emperor

4. Driving The Last Spike - Genesis

5. A Change of Seasons - Dream Theater

6. Lonely in the Night - Eric Johnson

7. Right In Two - Tool

8. And Justice For All - Metallica

9. When The Water Breaks - Liquid Tension Experiment

10. Between The Bars - Elliott Smith

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Impossible this late.

 

I'll contribute in the morning.

You absolute light weight :shaking fist:

 

If this was the BBC ... Well there would be a cover up and we'd say fuck all but this is TT, a bastion of society and we wont stand for it. Well, ok but just make sure you post it tomorrow ok!

 

By the way, when I snuff it and they torch me, as my coffins going through the curtain the solo from Dogs by Pink Floyd will play, it's a hauntingly beautiful melody. I already have this written in to my will.

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Mine probably changes every week but here are 10 songs I've never grown sick of.

 

1. That's Entertainment - The Jam

2. I'm am the Resurrection - The Stone Roses

3. A Certain Romance - The Arctic Monkeys

4. Sympathy for the Devil - The Rolling Stones

5. Slide Away - Oasis

6. The Circle - Ocean Colour Scene

7. Oliver's Army - Elvis Costello

8. Old Red Eyes is Back - The Beautiful South

9. A Song for the Lovers - Richard Ashcroft

10. Something Changed - Pulp

 

That's just off the top of my head today - would be very different in a few days bar probably the top 5.

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1. Living on a prayer- Bon Jovi

2. These are the days of our lives - Queen

3. Kickstart my Heart - Motley Crüe

4. Wish you were Here - pink floyd

5. Stairway to heaven - led Zeppelin

6. Thunderstruck- AC/DC

7. Animal - Def Leppard

8. Here I go again - whitesnake

9. As the days go by - daryl braithwaite

10. Beds are burning- midnight oil

 

Basically any rock song!

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Going through my iTunes I've got it down to thirty; I'll try to narrow it down further tomorrow :P.

 

Tank Park Salute-Billy Bragg
Wall of Death-REM
Europa (Earth's Cry Heaven's Smile)-Santana
The Crossing-Johnny Clegg & Savuka
The Queen and the Soldier-Suzanne Vega
Gravity-Coldplay
Fallen For You-Sheila Nicholls
Where is the Love-Black Eyed Peas
Chasing Cars-Snow Patrol
Back in the Night-Dr Feelgood
Advice For the Young at Heart-Tears For Fears
Paranoid-Black Sabbath
Lady Fantasy-Camel
Turn Me On-The Tubes
Rise Up-Home
Child of Vision-Supertramp
Circumstances: (In Love, Past, Present, Future Meet)-Capability Brown
Romeo and Juliet-Dire Straits
These Times-Safetysuit
The Ass's Ears-Greenslade
Sit Down-James
Days-Kirsty MacColl
Ommadawn-Mike Oldfield (Cheating a bit)
The Needle and the Damage Done-Neil Young
Don't Look Back in Anger-Oasis
Paint it Black-Rolling Stones
Doctor Doctor-UFO
Is it Like Today?-World Party
Leaf and Stream-Wishbone Ash
Seven Seconds-Youssou N'Dour & Neneh Cherry
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Alabama song - Neil Young

Scientist - Cold Play

Stan - Eminem

Creep - Thom Yorke

Blackbird - Beatles

Sit down - James

Coffe and TV - Blur

Lets go- the Ramones

 

Still thinking of the rest.

creep is by Radiohead mate, not Thoms solo stuff
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I hope you don't mind me interpreting 'song' to be 'musical work'.

 

Gustav Mahler: Symphony #10 (the Mazetti edition)

Giuseppe Verdi: Requiem

Michael Tippett: A Midsummer Marriage

Richard Strauss: Ein Heldenleben

Hector Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique

Igor Stravinsky: Le Sacre de Printemps

Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony #9

Camille Saint-Saens: Organ Symphony

Antonio Vivaldi: Gloria

Edward Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius

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Alabama song - Neil Young

Scientist - Cold Play

Stan - Eminem

Creep - Thom Yorke

Blackbird - Beatles

Sit down - James

Coffe and TV - Blur

Lets go- the Ramones

 

Still thinking of the rest.

 

Neil Young was difficult for me; could have been any of twenty (I'm already thinking "Don't Cry No Tears" would've been a better choice).

 

Coldplay likewise, though a smaller pool, "Life in Technicolor ii" came close.

 

"Sit Down" is classic, not many songs you can listen to 500 odd times and still enjoy as much as the first!

 

I hope you don't mind me interpreting 'song' to be 'musical work'.

 

Gustav Mahler: Symphony #10 (the Mazetti edition)

Giuseppe Verdi: Requiem

Michael Tippett: A Midsummer Marriage

Richard Strauss: Ein Heldenleben

Hector Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique

Igor Stravinsky: Le Sacre de Printemps

Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony #9

Camille Saint-Saens: Organ Symphony

Antonio Vivaldi: Gloria

Edward Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius

 

If we're going classical I'd put Carmina Burana at the top of my list.

 

I'd go for Beethovens 6th over 9th.

 

Symphonie Fantastique I'd agree.

 

The Sleeping Beauty ballet score by Tchaikovsky.

 

Four Seasons-Vivaldi

 

The Planets-Holst

 

Mass in B minor-Bach

 

Bit stuck after those; hear things that I like but can never remember the titles, there's something by Elgar that sends shivers down my spine but can't remember what it's called.

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Sorry, I was being lazy. It's the acoustic version I like. Strangely overlooked the song I'm the bends album, green plastic trees was my most played song at one point was tough to just pick one. Might cheat like Mike :P

https://youtu.be/15gt_GEUSK0

no need to apologise mate! I've just been an obsessed Radiohead fan for 20 years so thought I'd pipe up :P
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Neil Young was difficult for me; could have been any of twenty (I'm already thinking "Don't Cry No Tears" would've been a better choice).

 

Coldplay likewise, though a smaller pool, "Life in Technicolor ii" came close.

 

"Sit Down" is classic, not many songs you can listen to 500 odd times and still enjoy as much as the first!

 

 

I had to relisten to the album to find the name, I always refer to it as whisky bar. The song you picked is probably his best one, but the music for the chorus excites me, like when you've just done something special and tickles that part is f your brain were you can't help but smile.

 

With James I already loved them, but when it was posted on here about "Sit Down" being co-wrote by someone in a wheelchair it added another level.

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Top ten (today); story behind all thirty of them (and more) but but I'd be here all night typing.


Tank Park Salute-Billy Bragg

Wall of Death-REM

Europa (Earth's Cry Heaven's Smile)-Santana

The Crossing-Johnny Clegg & Savuka

Lady Fantasy-Camel

Child of Vision-Supertramp

These Times-Safetysuit

The Needle and the Damage Done-Neil Young

Don't Look Back in Anger-Oasis

Seven Seconds-Youssou N'Dour & Neneh Cherry

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By the way, when I snuff it and they torch me, as my coffins going through the curtain the solo from Dogs by Pink Floyd will play, it's a hauntingly beautiful melody. I already have this written in to my will.

 

This is mine...

 

 

My wife wants The Crossing and Seven Seconds (both on my list) if she goes first.

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Randoms that pop into my head.

 

Out of time - chris farlowe

Spirits having flown - bee gees

Watchin the wheels - john lennon

The circle - ocean colour scene (acoustic)

Touch me - the doors

Sweet sixteen - the fureys

Stuck on you - lionel ritchie

This the one - stone roses

Slight return - blutones

Story of ths blues - mighty wah

Whiter shade of pale - procul harem

Friday on my mind - easy beats

Modern love - david bowie

Sail this ship alone - beautiful south

Babies - pulp

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Randoms that pop into my head.

 

Out of time - chris farlowe

Spirits having flown - bee gees

Watchin the wheels - john lennon

The circle - ocean colour scene (acoustic)

Touch me - the doors

Sweet sixteen - the fureys

Stuck on you - lionel ritchie

This the one - stone roses

Slight return - blutones

Story of ths blues - mighty wah

Whiter shade of pale - procul harem

Friday on my mind - easy beats

Modern love - david bowie

Sail this ship alone - beautiful south

Babies - pulp

 

that's my go to karaoke song. right in my vocal range and one of the few songs i actually know the lyrics to. good choice.

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Que sera, sera by Doris Day. This was top of the pops when I was doing National Service in Singapore 1950's. Whenever I hear it (not often these days) I can close my eyes and am transported back to those days.

 

plus: anything by Nat King Cole and Ella Fitzgerald.

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Que sera, sera by Doris Day. This was top of the pops when I was doing National Service in Singapore 1950's. Whenever I hear it (not often these days) I can close my eyes and am transported back to those days.

 

plus: anything by Nat King Cole and Ella Fitzgerald.

 

I had an email exchange with her daughter recently; I discovered an autographed two dollar bill given to my dad by "someone" a couple of years back (says "To Rex. Good luck London Dec 7th 1966") and it looked to me like it could be her signature. Dad knew everyone who was anyone in the music biz back then, Beatles included, but I think the only two people he'd have asked for an autograph would have been Ella and Sinatra. Her daughter thinks it's genuine so probably worth a few quid but it's going nowhere :).

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