Top Ten

If you had to pick your all time top 10 songs what would it be? Mine would be (in no particular order)

1. Read em and Weep - Meatloaf
2. Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
3. Bad Day - Daniel Powter
4. Rio - Duran Duran
5. Space Oddity - David Bowie
6. November Rain - Guns n Roses
7. Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong
8. Beautiful - Christina Aguilera
9. Tears and Rain - James Blunt
10. Hold on Tight - ELO

That is so difficutl...

Jimmy Eat World: 23
The Fray: How To Save A Life
Grace Potter: Apologies
The Verve Pipe: The Freshman
Jimmy Eat World: Disintegration
INXS: Never Tear Us Apart
The Honorary Title: Stay Away
Gavin DeGraw: I'm In Love With A Girl
Nada Surf: See These Bones
Augustana: Sweet & Low

It'll probably change pretty soon, but those are always near the top. "Bad Day" from Daniel Powter seems so out of place on your list for some reason

I suppose it is a little odd compared to the others, but its one I like to play full blast in the car while singing hideously out of tune

I must admit I've not heard of a couple of yours Callum, but I like The Verve Pipe and INXS

Too hard but in no particular order from my hard drive, some of my fave

Dire Straits - Private Investigations
Aztec Camera - Oblivious
Simple Minds - Glittering Prize
Imagination - Just an illusion
The Beatles - In my life
cold play - Yellow
Gary Numan - Cars
David bowie - The man who sold the world,
Queen - My best friend
Howard Jones - Noone is to blame

Only ten?!? No fair! But I can't resist these 'favourites lists' type topics so here goes:

Max Romeo – Chase The Devil
Dave Brubeck – Blue Rondo a la Turk
Underworld – Born Slippy
Kate Bush – Houdini
Sex Pistols – God Save The Queen
Sugababes – Freak Like Me
The Sweet – Blockbuster
The Byrds – Eight Miles High
Kool & The Gang – Hollywood Swinging
BJ Cole – Gnossienne #5 (Erik Satie)
Stump – Bone
Frank Zappa – Inca Roads
Stereolab – Slow Fast Hazel
Sophie Ellis-Bextor – Murder On The Dancefloor
Metallica – Master Of Puppets
Jimi Hendrix – Voodoo Chile
Chic – Good Times
XTC – Dear God
NWA – F**k The Police
Led Zeppelin – Black Dog
Glen Campbell – Wichita Lineman
Tenor Saw – Ring The Alarm
Matt Monro – We're Gonna Change The World
CassetteBoy – Fly Me To New York
Abba – Dancing Queen
Detty Kurnia – Coyor Panon
Pink Floyd – Great Gig In The Sky
The Carpenters – Calling Occupants (Of Interplanetary Craft)
Dragonforce – Through The Fire And The Flames
Venetian Snares – Gentleman
Fela Kuti – Water No Get Enemy
Depeche Mode – Personal Jesus
The Beatles – Strawberry Fields Forever
Claude McLin – Jambo
Isaac Hayes – Theme From 'Shaft'
Stone Roses – Fools Gold
Barbra Streisand – Guilty
Elvis Presley – Hound Dog
Lynyrd Skynyrd – Freebird
John Coltrane – Giant Steps
Destiny's Child – Bills, Bills, Bills
Yes – Roundabout
Rihanna – Umbrella
Gustav Holst – 'Jupiter' (from The Planets Suite)

OK, so that might have been a bit more than ten, but what are you gonna do? Sue me?

Varied choice there Les
I love Kate Bush, and its such a shame about Isaac Hayes

I think the only one there I could definitely say I dont like is Elvis, although there are about 3 or 4 I havent heard of (Cassette Boy rings a bell, but I'm not sure, so I'm of to Youtube )

Edit: Nope the Cassette Boy one was definitely not what I was thinking of

My mum and dad were always playing music as we grew up so my faves cover a few decades. The most popular music of today doesn't really do anything for me.

In no particular order

1. A Couple More Years - Dr Hook
2. Summer Breeze - Isley Brothers
3. We're all alone - Boz Scaggs
4. The Ballad of Lucy Jordan - Marianne Faithfull
5. Feel the need in me - Detroit Emeralds
6. I'd love you to want me - Lobo
7. Brandy - Scott English
8. Soolaimon - Neil Diamond
9. Woman Woman - Gary Puckett
10. Venus - Shocking Blue

My mum used to love Dr Hook, my favourite was the one everyone knows, Sylvia's Mother.

How on earth did we manage before Youtube I thought Soolaimon was one I hadnt heard from Neil Diamond, but realised it was as soon as it started to play. Good choice :thumbs:

These list games are cruel. I should absolutely shoot myself for not including these:

Blue Oyster Cult - Godzilla
Christina Aguilera - Genie In A Bottle
The Timelords - Doctorin' The Tardis
Scott Walker - Jackie
The Clash - London Calling
Joni Mitchell - Refuge Of The Roads*
They Might Be Giants - Ana Ng
Mr Big - Green Tinted Sixties Mind
The Shamen - Ebeneezer Good
Nirvana - All Apologies

(* Refuge Of The Roads is mind-alteringly beautiful for two reasons; the seismic rumble of Jaco Pastorius, and Joni's conceit of rhyming 'moon' and 'june' which according to rock legend she did for a bet. How cool is that? You go girl.)

My mum used to play "Jackie" a lot but I never liked it. I agree with Les about the lists though, how can you just choose 10? And mine vary according to how I feel. One I missed out (and was reminded of by Les's inclusion of Scott Walker) was "The Sun aint gonna shine any more". How could I have forgotten that one?

If I'm in a really soppy mood I'd have to include "From a distance", which I once heard Tilda Swinton singing. Or she might have been miming.

I've also thought of loads of others, a few of which are

Zephyr - Red Hot Chilli Peppers
Buck Rodgers - Feeder
Blink 182 - All The Small Things
Bitterswett Symphony - The Verve
Hotel California - The Eagles
Imagine - John Lennon
Fairy Tale or New York - Kirsty MacColl and the Pogues

Romeo - Mr Big
New Kid in town - the Eagles

The Artist/Song Association game reminded me of another one I really like, which is totally different from the rest of the stuff I like


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDm_ZHyYTrg

Love Eurythymics Let`s go.

Reminds me of whizzing around in the rental Vaux Astra car, I had after a crash, someone had left that on, and that was first thing that played, when started the engine.