Favorite Songs

[Cdub]

Here's my top ten:

1. "The Youth of the Nation" by POD
2. "The Stranger" by Billy Joel
3. "Life is Beautiful" by Sixx AM
4. "Stairway to Heaven" by Led Zepplin
5. "Pinball Wizard" by The Who
5. "Losing My Religion" by Rem
6. "Don't Fear The Reaper" by HIM
7. "Don't Fear The Reaper" by Blue Oyster Cult
8. "Piano Man" by Billy Joel
9. "Mother" by Danzig
10. "Behind Blue Eyes" by The Who

[zuludelta]

Oh geez... I could fill up a whole notebook of my favourite songs. I'm a huge music junkie (all genres).

The first twenty-five favourite songs that come to mind:

1. The Beatles - Across the Universe
2. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Castles Made of Sand
3. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
4. Bob Marley and the Wailers - Redemption Song
5. Jô Hisaishi - The Sixth Station
6. Shonen Knife - Concrete Animals
7. Sublime - Badfish
8. Regina Spektor - Us
9. Steve Vai - Tender Surrender
10. Jeff Buckley - Morning Theft
11. Elliott Smith - Say Yes
12. A Girl Called Eddy - People Used To Dream About The Future
13. Buklod - Kanlungan (Sanctuary)
14. Pantera - Becoming
15. Al Green - I'm So Tired Of Being Alone
16. Buck 65 - Roses and Bluejays
17. Asin - Sa Malayong Silangan (In The Far East)
18. Marvin Gaye - What's Going On?
19. Blue Scholars - The Distance
20. Eraserheads - Walang Nagbago (Nothing's Changed)
21. Do As Infinity - Azayaka na hana (Radiant Flower)
22. St. Louis Blues (a traditional song, but I'm very partial to Django Reinhardt's version)
23. The Radioactive Sago Project - Alaala ni Batman (Memories of Batman)
24. Fatal Posporos - P.A.G.A.S.A.
25. Joey Ayala at ang Bagong Lumad - Bathala (Sky God)

[UnkoMan]

Favourite song? So hard to choose. I like so many.

Instead I will tell you my favourite song off one of my favourite albums from one of my favourite artists, which I just happened to be listening to.

Tom Waits - Eggs and Sausage.

[Figure Fan]

Geez..

I'm like Zulu. Hard to pin down my favorites. If I were to try, then:

Everlong - Foo Fighters
Black Balloon - Goo Goo Dolls
Talk Shows On Mute - Incubus
Shooting Star - Bad Company
Bold As Love - Jimi Hendrix

Oh gosh..too hard. Those are five of my favorites, in no particular order. I might have to revisit this post!

[Placebo]

cant really cut it down, so here's my current "on the go" ipod playlist
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Il Nino: God Save Us
Spineshank: Synthetic
Metallica: Fuel / Battery / The Memory Remains
Iron Maiden: Powerslave / Man On The Edge
Killswitch Engage: My Last Serenade
Limp Bizkit: Break Stuff
Korn: Coming Undone / Blind
Deftones: My Own Summer
Offspring: Nitro / Beheaded / Gotta Get Away
American Head Charge: Just So You Know
Apocalyptica: I'm Not Jesus
Soil: Breaking Me Down / Halo
Mindless Self Indulgence: I Hate Jimmy Paige
Nine Inch Nails: Closer / Perfect Drug
A Perfect Circle: Judith / The Noose
Disturbed: Stupify / Down With The Sickness
Drowning Pool: Bodies
Kittie: Brackish / Charlotte
Placebo: Every You Every Me
Face To Face: I Wont Lie Down / God Is A Man
Fall Out Boy: This Aint A Scene It's An Arms Race / Golden
Fear Factory: Linchpin
CKY: 96 Quite Bitter Beings
MushroomHead: Sun Dousnt Rise
Billy Idol: Rebel Yell
Cranberries: Zombie
Daft Punk: Harder Better Faster Stronger
Incubus: Drive / Certain Shade Of Green
Nirvana: Polly / Smells Like Teen Spirit
Cold: Just Got Wicked / Stupid Girl
Staind: For You
Machine Head: Davidian
Pantera: Walk
Jack Off Jill: Fear Of Dying / My Cat
Queen Adreena: Pretty Like Drugs / Jolene
Bloodhound Gang: I Hope You Die / Bad Touch
Goo Goo Dolls: Iris
Skindred: Bruises / Steppin' Razor
Hatebreed: I Will Be Heard
Coal Chamber: Loco / Sway / Shock The Monkey
Lordi: Blood Red Sandman
Mudvayne: Dig
Powerman 5000: Worlds Collide / Drop The Bombshell
Union Underground: Turn Me On Mr Deadman
Slipknot: Duality / Wait And Bleed / Surfacing
Stone Sour: Bother / 30.30.150
KMFDM: Megalomaniac / Juke Joint Jezebel
Nickelback: How You Remind Me
Stiltskin: Inside
Alice Cooper: Schools Out
Radiohead: Creep
3 Doors Down: Kryptonite
3 Days Grace: I Hate Everything About You
Adema: Giving In / The Way You Like It / Immortal
System Of A Down: Chop Suey / Sugar
Rammstein: Reise Reise / Du Hast / Moskau
Guano Apes: Big In Japan
Guns N Roses: Sweet Child Of Mine
Marilyn Manson: Mobscene / Fight Song
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[lugaru]

Good topic! I'll edit this post when I get back from work and put in a few of my favorite songs.

[ow_tiobe_sb]

So many songs, so little time...in alphabetical order (according to artists currently on my iPod):

Andromeda - "Crescendo of Thoughts" and "Extension of the Wish"
Avantasia - "Another Angel Down"
Circus Maximus - "Mouth of Madness"
Coheed and Cambria - "Everything Evil," "In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3," and "No World for Tomorrow"
Cruachan - "Bloody Sunday," "Death of a Gael," and "Ossian's Return"
Darkwater - "All Eyes on Me" and "The Play, Part II"
Dear Leader - "A Nation Once Again" (Live version) and "My Life as a Wrestler"
Dream Theater - "A Change of Seasons," "Strange Deja Vu," "The Dance of Infinity," "The Glass Prison," and "In the Presence of Enemies (Parts I & II)"
Evergrey - "Watching the Skies" and "The Encounter"
H.I.M. - "Stigmata/Sigillum Diaboli," "Dark Sekret Love," "Your Sweet Six Six Six," "When Love and Death Embrace," "The Beginning of the End," "Love You Like I Do," and "Vampire Heart"
Iron Maiden - "22 Acacia Avenue," "Where Eagles Dare," "Flight of Icarus," "Rime of the Ancient Mariner," and "Caught Somewhere in Time"
Jethro Tull - "A New Day Yesterday," "Bourée," "For a Thousand Mothers," "Locomotive Breath," "Thick as a Brick," "A Passion Play," "Back-Door Angels," "Skating Away on the Thin Ice of the New Day," "Minstrel in the Gallery," "Baker St. Muse," "Songs from the Wood," "Hunting Girl," "Pibroch (Cap In Hand)," "Heavy Horses," "Old Ghosts," and "Broadsword"
Pink Floyd - Anything on Wish You Were Here or Animals and many other tracks too numerous to mention.
Queensrÿche - "Queen of the Reich"
Rush - "2112," "Bastille Day," "By-Tor and The Snow Dog," "The Trees," "YYZ," "Limelight," "The Spirit of Radio," "Freewill," and "Subdivisions"
The Sheila Divine - "Like a Criminal," "Awful Age," "Hum," "I'm a Believer," "We All Have Problems," and "Dramatica"
Smashing Pumpkins - Anything on Siamese Dream
Spheric Universe Experience - "Burning Box Gala," "Saturated Brain," "Mental Torments," "Neptune's Revenge," "World of Madness"
Symphony X - "Set the World on Fire (The Lie of Lies)," "Domination," "The Walls of Babylon," "The Eyes of Medusa," "The Divine Wings of Tragedy," "The Odyssey," and "In the Dragon's Den"
Tool - "Hush," "Cold and Ugly," "Bottom," "Undertow," "Ænema," "Schism," "Parabola," "Ticks and Leeches," "Lateralus," "Jambi," "The Pot," and several other Tool song titles I am reluctant to mention in this family-friendly forum.

ow_tiobe_sb
Phantom Bunburyist and Fop o' th' Morning

[Verfall]

I'll just do a top 5:

Nothingface - Murder is Masterbation
Mushroomhead - Nowhere to Go
Stan Rogers - Northwest Passage
Rankin Family - Tramp Miner
Opeth - Ghost Reveries/Harlequin Forest

[Cdub]

I'll contiue from 11.

11. "Teenage Wasteland" by The Who
12. "Carry On My Wayward Son" by Kansas
13. "Dust in the Wind" by Kansas
14. "Run" by Gnarls Barkley
15. "Handlebars" by Flobots
16. "Hounddog" by Elvis Presley
17. "Crazy" by Gnarls Barkley
18. "I'm Fat" by Weird Al
19. "Constipated" by Weird Al
20. "Disheartened" by Poisinous Spirit (local band)

[docdelorean88]

Hard to narrow down. Almost any beatles( :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:) song, because i've heard some more than others!

[BWPS]

Taking Back Sunday - Cute Without the E (Cut from the Team)

[lugaru]

Here's about 10 of my favorites with you tube clips so you know what I'm talking about...
(btw I'm sure your all thinking "oh great, some more weird lugaru picks)


Chingon: Malagueña salerosa    a classic Mexican song for wooing the ladies performed awesomely with electric guitars + one of the guitar players is Robert Rodriguez of Sin City fame.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6I3tH6tUr8s

Cafe Tacuba: Bar Tacuba  ethno punk at it's finest

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_JGxvPy4-E

Lila Downs: Paloma Negra    A good drinking song to weep your eyes out to sung by Lila Downs, who I've seen live twice.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WS_BpR4KZfM

Dark Tranquility: Of melancholy burning    Poetic and heavy, but there's a part around minute 2:30 that makes it legendary

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4oRQMJ3bUY

Bjork: Venus as a Boy   just always loved the way this one is aranged, + the ladies love it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itajxYY3EIs

At the gates: Blinded by fear   just a very important song by a very important band

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SF0U77bm9mc

Massive Attack + Tricky: Karmacoma   trippy song, cool video with The Shinning and Barton Fink references

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGwcz_DzyyI

Tricky: love cats   A very sexy cover of The Cure   (video is some dudes cats I guess)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOD42trITX0

Dream Theater: Metropolis pt 1     interesting version of it too

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNp4tMcpM10

Control Machete: Danzon   some mexican hip hop mixed with danzon music

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7WSySqIOSs

[Ephemeris]

Here are some of my favorites:

Alice In Chains - Man In The Box
Camel - Lady Fantasy: Encounter/Smiles For You/Lady Fantasy
Dio - Rainbow In The Dark
Dream Thaeter - Pull Me Under
Grandmaster Flash & Melle Mel - White Lines (Don't Do It)
Gustav Holst - Mars: The Bringer Of War
Iced Earth - When The Eagle Cries, Gettysburg (1863): The Devil To Play/Hold At All Costs/High Water Mark
Iron Maiden - Run To The Hills, Rime Of The Ancient Mariner
Judas Priest - You Got Another Thing Coming, The Ripper
Kamelot - Don't You Cry, Karma
Led Zeppelin - No Quarter
John Lennon - Imagine
Live - The Dam At Otter Creek
Megadeth - A Tout Le Monde, Symphony Of Destruction
Metal Church - Gods Of Wrath
N.W.A. - Straight Outta Compton
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here, Echoes, On The Turning Away, Comfortably Numb, Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts I-V, Parts VI-IX)
Queensryche - Silent Lucidity
Quiet Riot - Metal Health
Renaissance - Mother Russia
Riot - Fire Down Under
Sugar Hill Gang - Rapper's Delight
Tool - Ænema
UFO - Rock Bottom
Uriah Heep - Gypsy
The Who - Behind Blue Eyes