Your Top 25 Favourite Songs

[yamiiguy]

Self-explanitory really, list your top 25 favourite songs or even what you think are the top 25 best songs, not necessarily your favourite. Here are mine, in no particular order. And no classical please, if so I would have to extend it to top 250

The Beatles - Revolution
The Beatles - Come Together
The Beatles - Back in the USSR
The Beatles - Hey Jude
The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night
The Beatles - Help!
Bob Dylan - Like a Rolling Stone
Bon Jovi - Livin on a Prayer
Coldplay - Viva la Vida
Deep Purple - Smoke on the Water
Derek and the Dominoes - Layla
Fleetwood Mac - Second Hand News
Fleetwood Mac - Dreams
Fleetwood Mac - Don't Stop
Fleetwood Mac - Go Your Own Way
Fleetwood Mac - The Chain
Fleetwood Mac - Little Lies
Jean-Michel Jarre - Oxygene (Part IV)
Jeff Wayne - Eve of the War
John Lennon - Imagine
Journey - Don't Stop Believin'
Nik Kershaw - The Riddle
Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
Sigur Ros - Hoppipolla

[dvdjunkie]

I could do 250 songs and never even get close to Classical Music (which I truly loathe), so after a lot of searching and scratching off, and remembering some songs here are my Top 25 Most Popular (to me) Songs:

The Beatles Let It Be
The Beatles Come Together
Paul McCartney & Wings Live & Let Die
Paul McCartney & Wings Silly Love Songs
Badfinger No Matter What
The Cranberries Go Your Own Way (Fleetwood Mac cover)
Jimi Hendrix Foxey Lady
The Tragically Hip Music@Work
The Tragically Hip New Orleans Is Sinking
The Tragically Hip Gus The Polar Bear in Central Park
The Wonders That Thing You Do!
Hot Legs Neanderthal Man
Marilyn Manson Sweet Dream (are made of this)
Miley Cyrus The Climb
Billy Ray Cyrus Some Gave All
Rick Springfield Jessie's Girl
Alice Cooper School's Out
Rod Stewart Maggie May
The Who Baba O'Riley (Teenage Wasteland)
The Who Pinball Wizard
The Who Won't Get Fooled Again
The Who Who Are You
Rick Nelson Poor Little Fool
Iron Butterfly Inna-Gadda-Da-Vida
Bob Seger Hollywood Nights


Pretty eclectic list. Let's see what the rest of you have.

[blackcauldron85]

I had a list of 51, then I weeded down to 41. From those 41 songs, I figured that these are the songs that mean the most to me.

Besides #1, I didn't feel like putting them in order.

1. Hanson- A Song to Sing
2. Aslyn- That’s When I Love You
3. Roy Orbison- Only the Lonely
4. Fefe Dobson- Everything
5. Cyndi Thompson- What I Really Meant To Say
6. Extreme- More Than Words
7. Billy Joel- The Longest Time
8. Blessid Union of Souls- Light In Your Eyes
9. The Platters- The Great Pretender
10. The Beatles- If I Fell
11. The Beatles- Yesterday
12. Mandy Moore- Extraordinary
13. Mandy Moore- I Wanna Be With You
14. Mandy Moore- Cry
15. Mandy Moore- Crush
16. Hilary Duff- Fly
17. Hilary Duff- So Yesterday
18. Elvis Presley- One Night
19. Elvis Presley- Suspicious Minds
20. BBMak- Still On Your Side
21. Britney Spears- I’m Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman
22. Backstreet Boys- One In A Million
23. Backstreet Boys- Climbing the Walls
24. Backstreet Boys- Incomplete
25. Richard Marx- Right Here Waiting

*edit* Totally forgot Eric Clapton's "Tears in Heaven".

*edit* Totally forgot Take That's "Back For Good". And Scene 23's "I Really Don't Think So", which was in my initial list of 41... And The Police's "Every Breath You Take". This is hard. And Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody"...I should've just posted my long list.

[Goliath]

Only 25?! What are you doing to me?!

Okay, but only in alphabetical order...

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The Beatles- Help!

The Beatles- Here comes the sun

The Beatles - Let it be

Always a big source of comfort, and a powerful, convincing song at the same time.

The Beatles- Penny Lane

Bob Dylan - Blind Willie McTell

It's not just an ode to a great blues singer, but a bone-chilling history of the hardships of black people in the US, sung with amazing intensity.

Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan's 115th dream

Bob Dylan - Desolation Row

Are the lyrics non-sensical? I don't even know what they mean. But the brilliance is that, the way they're arranged and sung, they form a logical song.

Bob Dylan - Don't think twice, it's allright

Bob Dylan - I want you

Bob Dylan- Hurricane

Can you listen to the lyrics about this grave injustice, and hear that haunting violin, and not cry at the end? I can't.

Bob Dylan - Stuck inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues again

Boudewijn de Groot - Eva

Holland's best performer, still after 40 years. This song has God talking about the creation of Eve.

Boudewijn de Groot- Prikkebeen

This is a beautiful surreal medieval fairy tale (at least that's my interpretation). Credits to lyricist Lennaert Nigh.

Boudewijn de Groot- Kinderballade

Don McLean - American Pie

Greater lyrics have never been written. A wonderful cryptic puzzle. There's a lot of amazing allegory going on in here.

Frank Sinatra - I've got you under my skin

The best vocalist of all time performs the best love song of all time.

Frank Sinatra - The girl from Ipanema (with Antonio Carlos Jobim)

As if Frank's voice wasn't enchanting enough, he gets company from ACJ...

Joe Cocker - With a little help from my friends

Have you seen his performance at Woodstock?!

The Kinks - Celluloid Heroes

Obligatory inclusion for every lover of the classic Hollywood movies (and of poetry).

Martha and the Vandellas - Heatwave

Neil Young - Rockin' in the free world

If only for the wonderful irony surrounding the hijacking and abuse of this song after 9/11...

Stephen Malkmus - Ballad of a thin man

Don't tell Bob I put this cover of his song (from the movie I'M NOT THERE) on the list, but Stephen makes the song even better.)

Simon & Garfunkel - April come she will

Only a very short nursery rhyme, but so beautiful, because of the way it's sung.

Simon & Garfunkel - The Sound of Silence

"Hello darkness, my old friend"... There's nothing else to say...

Wim Sonneveld - Huis, tuin en keukenliedje

Dutch stand-up comedian and singer from the 1960's.
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[StitchExp626]

1. Beauty and the beast
2. Under the Sea
3, Mickey Mouse Club anthem
4. Friend like me
5. True To Your Heart
6. Kiss The Girl
7. Circle Of Life
8. Shooting Star
9. Someday
10. Colours Of The Wind
11. You've Got A Friend In Me
12. Cruella De Vil
13. He's A Tramp
14. Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo
15. Zip A Dee Doo Dah
16. Whistle While You Work
17. Star Is Born
18. Part Of Your World
19. A Whole New World
20. Can You Feel The Love Tonight
21. When You Wish Upon A Star
22. A dream is a wish your heartmakes
23. Everybody wants to be a cat
24. Working Song
25. Home

[yamiiguy]

This wasn't your top 25 disney songs by the way, if they are your favourite then of course you can post them.

[Lazario]

No special order...exactly:

1. Goldfrapp - "Crystalline Green"
2. Alanis Morissette - "Head Over Feet"
3. Imani Coppola - "Forget Myself"
4. David Bowie - "Cool World"
5. Tina Turner - "Paradise is Here"
6. Madonna - "Secret Garden"
7. Air - "Sexy Boy"
8. Bis - "Chicago"
9. BT & Tori Amos - "Blue Skies"
10. Kylie Minogue - "Can't Get You Out of My Head"
11. Bjork - "Human Behaviour"
12. Joan Osborne - "Crazy Baby"
13. Goldfrapp - "Utopia"
14. Duran Duran - "Rio"
15. Bjork - "Pagan Poetry"
16. Marilyn Manson - "Long Hard Road Out of Hell"
17. Til Tuesday - "Voices Carry"
18. Robbie Williams - "Millennium"
19. Spice Girls - "Say You'll Be There"
20. George Michael - "Father Figure"
21. Sneaker Pimps - "Spin Spin Sugar"
22. Whale - "I Miss Me"
23. Robert Palmer - "I Didn't Mean to Turn You On"
24. Bjork - "Hyperballad"
25. Lords of Acid - "Stripper"


There are so many more, and if I come back to it - this list is subject to change.

[Elladorine]

1. She Says - Howie Day
2. Snow (Hey Oh) - Red Hot Chili Peppers
3. Runaround - Blues Traveler
4. Savior - Rise Against
5. Letters From the Wasteland - The Wallflowers
6. Crying - Roy Orbeson & K.D. Lang
7. Northern Lad - Tori Amos
8. Fall Down - Toad the Wet Sprocket
9. Slide - Goo Goo Dolls
10. Wonderful - Everclear
11. Brick - Ben Folds Five
12. Livin' on a Prayer - Bon Jovi
13. Don't Stop Believin' - Journey
14. Asleep at the Wheel - Bloodhound Gang
15. I Won't Back Down - Tom Petty
16. Money for Nothing - Dire Straights
17. Change - Blind Melon
18. Hole Hearted - Extreme
19. Land of Confusion - Genesis
20. No Pressure Over Cappuccino - Alanis Morissette
21. One Girl Revolution - Saving Jane
22. Fake it - Seether
23. You Oughta Know - Alanis Morissette
24. With or Without You - U2
25. Sick of Myself - Matthew Sweet

[Disney's Divinity]

It was really difficult to approach this topic for several reasons. First, I have a predisposition to think of what’s new first (because that’s what’s closest to my memory and I also don’t have a lot of albums from older singers, because of financial limitations). Then there’s the fact that my mind has a hard time remembering every song I’ve ever liked before, since I’ll forget some artists here and there, and some songs I’ll forget over time though I liked them. And I’m also leaving out Disney songs, end credit songs, and musicals. So, yeah, there are a lot of songs, a lot of artists, a lot of covers, etc. that it’s impossible to convey everything that I really enjoy, that may get left off in the end (like Mariah Carey, The Corrs, etc. etc. etc.).

Regardless, the first 10 or so are likely not to change for a long time. The others are indefinitely set.

1. “Because of You” by Kelly Clarkson
2. “Iris” by The Goo Goo Dolls
3. “Too Much” by Spice Girls
4. “She Thinks His Name Was John” by Reba McEntire
5. “9 to 5” by Dolly Parton
6. “1985” by Bowling For Soup
7. “Irvine” by Kelly Clarkson
8. “Till You Love Me” by Reba McEntire
9. “I’ll Be Watching You” by The Police
10. “Lucky” by Britney Spears
11. “This Kiss” by Faith Hill
12. “Imagine” by John Lennon (as sung by Dolly Parton)
13. “Deeper Than The Holler” by Randy Travis
14. “Long Black Train” by Josh Turner
15. “It’s My Life” by No Doubt
16. “It Matters To Me” by Faith Hill
17. “Stop and Stare” by One Republic
18. “Songs About Rain” by Gary Allan
19. “Almost” by Bowling For Soup
20. “The Way You Loved Me” by Taylor Swift
21. “I Write The Songs” by Barry Manilow
22. “You Raise Me Up” by Josh Groban
23. “These Dreams” by Heart
24. “Good As I Was To You” by Lorrie Morgan
25. “Boys Boys Boys” by Lady Gaga
26. “Beautiful Disaster” by Kelly Clarkson
27. “Silver and Gold” by Dolly Parton
28. “Fancy” by Reba McEntire
29. “Alyssa Lies” by Jason Michael Carroll
30. “Does He Love You?” by Reba McEntire
31. “Crazy for You” by Madonna
32. “Maybe” by Kelly Clarkson
33. “Love Story” by Taylor Swift
34. “Don’t Let The Sun Go Down On Me” by Elton John
35. “Something in Red” by Lorrie Morgan
36. “My Life Would Suck Without You” by Kelly Clarkson
37. “Bobby” by Reba McEntire
38. “Bad Romance” by Lady Gaga
39. “Material Girl” by Madonna
40. “Hot ‘n’ Cold” by Katy Perry
41. “Not Ready to Make Nice” by Dixie Chicks
42. “Jesse’s Girl” by Rick Springfield
43. “Sober” by Kelly Clarkson
44. “The River of Dreams” by Billy Joel
45. “It’s Raining Men” by Weather Girls
46. “Unchained Melody” by The Righteous Brothers
47. “Falling Slowly”
48. “If I Could Turn Back Time” by Cher
49. “The Secret of Life” by Faith Hill
50. “Praying For Time” by George Michael (Carrie Underwood cover)
51. “The Star-Spangled Banner” by Whitney Houston

I couldn't possibly leave only 25.

[TheSequelOfDisney]

According to iTunes:

1. I Want To Hold Your Hand - T.V. Carpio
2. Don't Stop Believin' - Glee Cast
3. Mamma Mia - Meryl Streep
4. Memory - Cynthia Onrubia and Betty Buckley
5. Halo / Walking On Sunshine - Lea Michele, Amber Riley, Jenna Ushkowitz, Dianna Agron, Naya Rivera and Heather Morris
6. Out Tonight - Rosario Dawson
7. The Winner Takes It All - Meryl Streep
8. Disturbia - Rihanna
9. Touch Me - Company (of Spring Awakening)
10. Let It Be - Carol Woods and Timothy T. Mitchum
11. My Junk - Company (of Spring Awakening)
12. Don't Rain On My Parade - Lea Michele
13. Defying Gravity - Kristin Chenoweth, Idina Menzel and Guards of Oz
14. You Keep Me Hangin' On - Dianna Agron
15. Hair / Crazy In Love - Glee Cast
16. Overture/And All That Jazz - Catherine Zeta-Jones, Renée Zellweger, Taye Diggs and Cast
17. Take A Bow - Lea Michele
18. Keep Holding On - Glee Cast
19. All My Loving - Jim Sturgess
20. Don't Stand So Close To Me / Young Girl - Matthew Morrison
21. It Won't Be Long - Evan Rachel Wood
22. Mama Who Bore Me - Lea Michele
23. Somebody To Love - Glee Cast
24. Mama Who Bore Me (Reprise) - Lea Michele
25. Helter Skelter - Dana Fuchs

I figured the ones that I listen to most often are the ones that I would classify as my favorites.


EDIT: But now that I think about it, it really doesn't. I'll compile a list that actually reflects my favorite songs. Cause even though I might not listen to some songs as frequently as the ones listed, they are still my favorite songs.

[Goliath]

The Beatles- Help!
The Beatles- Here comes the sun
The Beatles - Let it be
The Beatles- Penny Lane
Bob Dylan - Blind Willie McTell
Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan's 115th dream
Bob Dylan - Desolation Row
Bob Dylan - Don't think twice, it's allright
Bob Dylan - I want you
Bob Dylan- Hurricane
Bob Dylan - Stuck inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues again
Boudewijn de Groot - Eva
Boudewijn de Groot- Prikkebeen
Boudewijn de Groot- Kinderballade
Don McLean - American Pie
Frank Sinatra - I've got you under my skin
Frank Sinatra - The girl from Ipanema (with Antonio Carlos Jobim)
Joe Cocker - With a little help from my friends
The Kinks - Celluloid Heroes
Martha and the Vandellas - Heatwave
Neil Young - Rockin' in the free world
Stephen Malkmus - Ballad of a thin man
Simon & Garfunkel - April come she will
Simon & Garfunkel - The Sound of Silence
Wim Sonneveld - Huis, tuin en keukenliedje

Need to make a new list already. Can't believe how I could forget some songs. Only 25 songs is really not enough!

The Beatles- Here comes the sun
The Beatles - Let it be
The Beatles- Penny Lane
Bob Dylan - Blind Willie McTell
Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan's 115th dream
Bob Dylan - Desolation Row
Bob Dylan - Don't think twice, it's allright
Bob Dylan - I want you
Bob Dylan - Hurricane
Bob Dylan - Stuck inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues again
Bob Dylan - Workingman Blues #2
Boudewijn de Groot- Prikkebeen
Boudewijn de Groot - Kinderballade
Cream - White Room
Don McLean - American Pie
Frank Sinatra - I've got you under my skin
Frank Sinatra - Love's been good to me
The Kinks - Celluloid Heroes
Lovin' Spoonfull - Do you believe in magic
Neil Young - Rockin' in the free world
Robert Cray Band - Right next door
Stephen Malkmus - Ballad of a thin man
Simon & Garfunkel - April come she will
Simon & Garfunkel - The Sound of Silence
Wim Sonneveld - Huis, tuin en keukenliedje

It will be different again tomorrow.

[dvdjunkie]

AND THE AWARD FOR LACK OF ORIGINALITY GOES TO:

TheSequelofDisney wrote:

According to iTunes:

This was supposed to be your favorites, not what someone says you like.

C'mon, get with the program, and give us 25 of YOUR favorite songs.

[Lazario]

This topic is RIGGED !!!

How about Top 100? Or 1,000? Either way, it's still very hard limiting oneself.

[TheSequelOfDisney]

AND THE AWARD FOR LACK OF ORIGINALITY GOES TO:

TheSequelofDisney wrote:

According to iTunes:

This was supposed to be your favorites, not what someone says you like.

C'mon, get with the program, and give us 25 of YOUR favorite songs.

Well, it is from my iTunes library, not the actual top 25 songs on iTunes (which, I'm sure none of those are in the top 25, if there even is a top 25). So, I wasn't really being unoriginal. I do need to fix it though, which I might get to, later.

[yamiiguy]

I give! You can post as many as you want but no less than 25!

[Widdi]

It's always changing but at the moment I would pick the following:

Don't Speak - No Doubt
Cryin' - Aerosmith
You Oughta Know - Alanis Morissette
Dirty Diana - Michael Jackson
Eleanor Rigby - The Beatles
If You're Not the One - Daniel Beddingfield
The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia - Reba McEntire
You're So Vain - Carly Simon
Heaven - Bryan Adams
London Calling - The Clash
Freedom 90 - George Michael
Here Comes the Rain Again - The Eurthymics
Unwell - Matchbox Twenty
Don't Stand So Close to Me - The Police
Killer Queen - Queen
The Devil Went Down to Georgia - Charlie Daniels Band
Don't Let Me Get Me - Pink
When You Were Young - The Killers
Don't Leave Home - Dido
Makes Me Wonder - Maroon 5
Jolene - Dolly Parton
Don't Look Back in Anger - Oasis
Walk On - U2
Human Nature - Madoona
Fighter - Christina Aguilera
I Want Love - Elton John

[2099net]

Well, its impossible to pick favourites, but according to my MP3 player my most listened tracks are:

Six Feet Under - Marion Raven
Hero - Charlotte Perrelli
Teenage Life - Daz Sampson
Duel Duet - from the Motion Picture Shock Treatment
We Close Our Eyes - Reel Big Fish
Alive - Meatloaf
You Are The One - Shiny Toy Guns
Night In My Veins - The Pretenders
My Number One - Elena Paparizou
Wild Dances - Ruslana
Far Away - King of Trolls
Here I Am - Marion Raven
Save Tonight - Eagle-Eye Cherry
Theme of Laura - Silent Hill 2 OST
Keep On Movin' - 5ive
Due South Theme [1997 Version] - Due South Vol 2
End of Me - Marion Raven
Break You - Marion Raven
The Village Green Preservation Society - Kate Rusby

This only lists the top 20 though, so to add a few of my own:

Brimful of Asha (Norman Cook Remix) - Cornershop
Integral - The Pet Shop Boys
Maria - Blondie
We 3 - Soul Asylum
Sleeping In My Car - Roxette

[PeterPanfan]

Netty! Another Reel Big Fish fan! I didn't know they existed!

[AladdinFan]

Right now here's are the song that I hear a lot. I know they are 43 songs but it's hard to chose. There are not in order.

"Telephone"- Lady Gaga (Feat. Beyoncé)
"No Way"- Lady Gaga
"Dance Bailalo"- Kat DeLuna
"Unstoppable"- Kat DeLuna
"Push Push"- Kat DeLuna
"Put It On"- Kat DeLuna
"Calling You"- Kat DeLuna
"Shake It Up"- Kat DeLuna (Feat. Big Ali)
"Cover My Eyes"- Guest
"Perfect"- Guest
"Final Straw"- Guest
"Power of Money"- Sean Kingston
"Think About It"- Jesse McCartney
"Sunshine"- Jesse McCartney
"Tonight Is Your Night" -Jesse McCartney
"Give It Up To Me"- Shakira (Feat. Lil' Wayne)
"Eyes Like Yours"- Shakira
"Evacuade the Dancefloor"- Cascada
"Pyromania"- Cascada
"All Night Long"- Alexandra Burke
"More"- Usher
"Rock Band"- Usher
"Everybody's Girl"- Jennifer Lopez
"Hit Me Up"- Gia Farrell
"SuperBad"- Adrienne Bailon
"Imma Be"- The Black Eyed Peas
"Rock That Body"- The Black Eyed Peas
"Meet Me Halfway" The Black Eyed Peas
"One Day, Some Way"- Drew Seeley
"Jump"- Flo Rida (Feat. Nelly Furtado)
"Good Girls Go Bad"- Cobra Starship (Ft. Leighton Meester)
"Hot Mess"- Cobra Starship
"Speed of Light"- Corbin Bleu
"Rock 2 It"- Corbin Bleu
"Dont Trust Me"- 3OH!3
"Starstrukk"- 3OH!3 (Feat. Katy Perry)
"Celebration"- Madonna
"S.O.S. (Let The Music Play)"- Jordin Sparks
"Don't Waste The Pretty"- Allison Iraheta
"D Is For Dangerous"- Allison Iraheta
"Holiday"- Allison Iraheta
"Beat Me Up"- Allison Iraheta
"Live Like We're Dying"- Kris Allen

[blackcauldron85]

"One Day, Some Way"- Drew Seeley
"Speed of Light"- Corbin Bleu
"Rock 2 It"- Corbin Bleu

Hi. I'm Amy. I think that you and I would be good friends. Solely based on these song choices. But still.