Your favorite-ever top 5 songs

[Tony2or4]

Of all the songs ever recorded, which five are your favorites?

Let me start off with mine:

Man of the World (Fleetwood Mac - the original line-up)
Woodstock (Matthew's Southern Comfort)
Homeward Bound (Simon and Garfunkel)
Will You (Hazel O'Connor)
Blackberry Way (The Move)

[Seti]

Paint it Black - Rolling Stones
Wonderful Life - Black
Birdhouse in your Soul - They might be giants
Waterfall - Stone Roses
Chasing Cars - Snow Patrol

Problem with these lists is, despite this being my all time 5 Ever, it will have changed by next week.

[GoBig]

Inca Roads - Frank Zappa
Bargain - The Who
Lingo - Bill Bruford
Hear About it Later - Van Halen
Who Knows Where the Time Goes - Fairport Convention

[jsc15]

Oh! Sweet Nuthin' by The Velvet Underground
Into Dust by Mazzy Star
Echoes by Pink Floyd
Neon Lights by Kraftwerk
There's No Way Out Of Here by David Gilmour

[robsco]

The list today.

There Is A Light That Never Goes Out - The Smiths
Speedway - Morrissey
Motorcycle Emptiness - Manic Street Preachers
Jealous Guy - John Lennon
The Wild Ones - Suede

Subject to change within 24 hours.

[Kinky]

Here's my top list .... getting it down to 5? No flippin cat in hells chance EVER

Accept - Balls to the Wall
Accept - Starlight
AC/DC - Back in black
AC/DC - Highway to Hell
AC/DC - Sin City
America - Horse with no name
Anthrax - Potters Field
Anvil - Metal on metal
Asia - Sole Survivor
Aslan - This Is
Black Sabbath - Snowblind
Blitzkrieg - Blitzkrieg
Bob Dylan - I and I
Bob Dylan - Sara
Budgie - Breadfan
Cactus World News - The bridge
Deep Purple - Child in time
Deep Purple - Knocking at your back door
Diamond Head - Am I evil
Dio - Holy Diver
Dire Straits - Sultans of Swing
Eminem - Without Me
Eurythmics - I want it all
Faith No More - Epic
Fastway - Easy Livin'
Foo Fighters - Best of You
Foreigner - Juke Box Hero
Gary Moore/Phil Lynnot - Out in the fields
Guns N' Roses - Nightrain
Ian Dury & the Blockheads - Hit me (with your rythm stick)
Iron Maiden - Running Free
Janes Addiction - Just Because
Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower
Jimi Hendrix - Crosstown Traffic
Journey - Don't Stop Believin'
Kate Bush - Running up that hill
Led Zeppelin - Kashmir
Linkin Park - Numb
Love/Hate - Wasted in America
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Free Bird
Mamas Boys - Needle in the groove
Mamas Boys - Power and Passion
Megadeath - Train Of Consequences
Motley Crue - Looks that kill
Motorhead - Overkill
Muse - Butterflies and Hurricanes
Neil Young/Crazy Horse - Hey hey my my (into the black)
Neil Young - Needle and the damage done
Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
Ozzy Ozbourne - Flying High Again
Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
Pink Floyd - Echoes
Placebo - The Bitter End
Queens of the Stone Age - No One Knows
Queensrÿche - Queen Of The Reich
Rage Against The Machine - Killing in the name of
REM - Losing my religion
Saxon - 20,000 Feet
Simon and Garfunkel - Mrs. Robinson
The Boomtown Rats - Rat Trap
The Clash - London Calling
The Cult - She sells sanctuary
The Prodigy - Diesel Power
The Specials - Ghost Town
The Stranglers - Peaches
Thin Lizzy - Chinatown
U2 - Party Girl
U2 - Vertigo
UB40 - Sardonicus
Undertones - Teenage Kicks
Van Halen - Panama
W.A.S.P. - Wild Child
Yes - Owner of a Lonely Heart
ZZ Top - La grange

[The Hypno-Toad]

Kinky said:

Some really great tunes

Some relly good stuff there but bending the rules a little bit.

Here are mine;

Love & Affection - Joan Armatrading

Heart Of Glass - Blondie

Babylon - David Grey

Bonny - Prefab Sprout

From The Morning - Nick Drake

Edited by The Hypno-Toad on Sunday 16th January 22:19

[tractorguy]

Ozzy Osbourne (ft Lemmy and Slash) - I Ain't No Nice Guy
Bruce Springsteen - Racing In The Street
The Pogues - Fairytale Of New York
Saxon - Princess Of The Night
Damn Yankees - High Enough

[Kinky]

Feck, I missed Prodigys 'Diesel Power'

[War Pig]

Wow this is hard.

John Martyn - Dancing.
Rory Gallagher - Barley & Grape Rag
Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - The Tracks Of My Tears
April March - Chick Habit
Johnny Thunders - You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory

[Laplace]

War Pig said:

John Martyn - Dancing.

How I miss the big man!

[JaymzDead]

Again it changes daily, but at the moment in no particular order:

Metallica - Blackened
Slayer - Black Magic
Turmoil - Playing Dead
Neurosis - Locust Star
Pride & Glory - Losin' Your Mind

[CRACKIE]

The Sundays ~ You're not the only one I know.
New Order ~ Thieves like Us.
Curtis Mayfield ~ Move on Up.
The Cure ~ Open.
Roachford ~ Testify.

• Prefab Sprout ~ Bonny The Toad knows and beat me to it

Edited by CRACKIE on Tuesday 18th January 00:34

[worsy]

Marillion - Jigsaw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDO_O1CS6d0
Fish - Raingods Dancing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmSEQiiVPds
WASP - Take Me Up http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92XcCradQHo&
Live - Run to the water http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJnf1KDzInk
Big Country - Eiledon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zocsutaGWec

Edited by worsy on Tuesday 18th January 08:42

[bigmac146]

sound of silence (Simon and Garfunkel)
November Rain (Guns n Roses)
American Pie (Don Mclean)
All these things (The Killers)
All along theWatchtower (Jimi)

[HereBeMonsters]

According to last.fm:

1 Nirvana – Dumb
2 Sonic Youth – Superstar
3 Nirvana – Polly
4 The Kinks – Waterloo Sunset
5 Joy Division – Love Will Tear Us Apart

So I guess "most played" doesn't equal favourite in this case. Only the Joy Division track would be in my personal choice, along with (in no particular order):

My Back Pages - Bob Dylan
Wooderson - The Gaslight Anthem
Zero - Smashing Pumpkins
Chapel Hill - Sonic Youth

[andy400]

Difficult one.

Jump - Van Halen

Roll With the Changes - REO Speedwagon

Homebound - Ted Nugent

Riflemen of War - Seth Lakeman

Don't Fear (The Reaper) - BOC

Although I'll probably change my mind.

[Sim89]

Mansion On The Hill - Bruce Springsteen
Hard To Find - The American Analog Set
A Mind Of Her Own - Pedro The Lion
The Hand That Rocks The Cradle - The Smiths
The Moon Is Down - Explosions In The Sky

Impossible to choose really

[The Hypno-Toad]

CRACKIE said:

The Sundays ~ You're not the only one I know.
New Order ~ Thieves like Us.
Curtis Mayfield ~ Move on Up.
The Cure ~ Open.
Roachford ~ Testify.

• Prefab Sprout ~ Bonny The Toad knows and beat me to it

Edited by CRACKIE on Tuesday 18th January 00:34

If you like the original CRACKIE, you might like this,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woCMkuLq5us
Tom Ford - Bonny

Takes a truly amazing song & makes it even sadder....

I spend the days with my vanity
I'm lost to heaven and I'm lost to earth
Didn't give you minutes, not even moments
All my life in a tower of foil
Shaded feelings, I don't believe you
When you there before my eyes
No one planned it, took it for granted

I count the hours since you slipped away
I count the hours that I lie awake
I count the minutes and the seconds too
All I stole and took from you
But Bonny don't live at home
Bonny don't live at home

Words don't hold you, broken soldiers

All my silence and my strained respect
Missed chances and the same regrets
Kissed the thief and you save the rest
All my insights from retrospect
But Bonny don't live at home.
But Bonny don't live at home.

I count the hours since you slipped away
I count the hours that I lie awake
I count the minutes and the seconds too
All I stole and took from you
But Bonny don't live at home
Bonny don't live at home

Save your speeches, flowers are for funerals.
Save your speeches, flowers are for funerals.

The original
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWRgHVamt7g&fea...

The best song about the end of a relationship and realising you're an idiot ever written.
The Toad knows baby, The Toad knows....

[PaulHogan]

In the same vein as Kinky I could never pick just five. My mood changes. Sometimes you want a boogie and sometimes you want melancholy. For now my top 5 could be picked from this list and the ones I'd have right now are highlighted.

Alan Parsons Project – Don’t Let It Show
B52’s – Rock Lobster
Beach Boys – Sloop John B
Beatles – Here Comes The Sun
Blondie – Union City Blue
Blur – Song 2
Bruce Springsteen – Girls In Their Summer Clothes
Buggles – Video Killed The Radio Star
Chaka Khan – I Feel For You
Chris Rea – Stainsby Girls
Christians – Hooverville
Clash – London Calling
David Bowie – Life On Mars
Depeche Mode – Personal Jesus
Dexy’s Midnight Runners – Geno
Donald Fagan – Ruby Baby
Donna Summer – I Feel Love
Eagles – Hotel California
ELO – Mr Blue Sky
Elton John – Funeral For A Friend
Elvis Costello – Alison
Elvis Presley – Jailhouse Rock
EBTG – The Only Living Boy in New York
Fairport Convention – Meet On the Ledge
Fashion – Move On
Flaming Lips – Do You Realize?
Flock Of Seagulls – I Ran
Freur – Doot Doot
Gnarls Barkley – Crazy
Grace Jones – I’ve done It Again
Grandmaster Flash – White Lines
Guess Who – Undun
Guillemots – Annie, Let’s Not Wait
Heaven 17 – Temptation
Ian Dury – Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick
Jam – Eton Rifles
John Martyn – Couldn’t Love You More
Kaiser Chiefs – I Predict A Riot
Kate Bush – Rocketman
Kid Creole – Stool Pidgeon
La’s – There She Goes
Laid Back – Bakerman
Led Zep – Black Dog
Lou Reed – Prefect Day
Manic Street Preachers – If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
Marillion – Garden Party
Mike Oldfield – Moonlight Shadow
New Order – Blue Monday
Paul Simon – Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes
Peter Gabriel – Solsbury Hill
Peter Gabriel – Here Comes The Flood
Pink Floyd – When The Tigers Broke Free
Police – It’s Alright For You
Queen – The Prophet’s Song
R.E.M. – Nightswimming
Razorlight – America
Richard Hawley – Tonight The Streets Are Ours
Richard Thompson – Can’t Win
Robbie Robertson – Somewhere Down The Crazy River
Rolling Stones – Brown Sugar
Simply Red – Holding Back The Years
Slade – Far Far Away
Soul II Soul – Keep On Movin’
Split Enz – Message To My Girl
Steely Dan – Rikki Don’t Lose That Number
Stone Roses – She Bangs The Drums
Stranglers – Walk On By
Sugarhill Gang – Rappers Delight
Talking Heads – And She Was
Tom Jones – Delilah
U2 – Sunday Bloody Sunday
Undertones – Jimmy Jimmy
Verve – The Drugs Don’t Work
Warren Zevon – Werewolves of London
Who – Baba O’Reilly
Yello – The Race
Zutons – Valerie
ZZ Top – Got Me Under Pressure
10CC – I’m Not In Love