Quick! Pick yout FIVE favorite songs of all time without consulting your record collection

Peter Murphy - "Cuts You Up"
Echo & the Bunnymen - "The Killing Moon"
This Ascension - "August Rain"
Nick Drake - "Which Will"
The Chameleons - "In Answer"

(That's probably not accurate.)

fIve? Just like that? right here goes, right now, no cheating.another five in five seconds....
Whatever...Husker du
My Bloody Valentine...Swallow
Fila Brazillia..a Zed and Ls
God, I'm panicking and trying not to pause, honest...Wire....the 15th
erm, Ramones ...don't wanna go down to the Basement.

did my head in and i lied and cheated am not happy with my list.

uh
mississippi john hurt 'nobody's dirty business'
minutemen 'my heart & the real world'
nirvana 'negative creep'
black sabbath 'supernaut'
can 'vitamin c'

"LOUD WALL OF GIRL GROUP"

great band name, by the way!

My Bloody Valentine, "To Here Knows When"
Parliament, "Ride On"
Sonic Youth, "Schizophrenia"
Primal Scream, "MBV Arkestra (If They Move, Kill 'Em)"
David Banner, "Fuck 'Em"

Here's a quick 5 with my tastes 14 years ago as the theme!

Rush - Tom Sawyer
Butthole Surfers - P.S.Y
Police - So Lonely
Residents - Lizard Lady
Voivod - The Unknown Knows

My 5 favorites in 1985 would have been:

1. Beatles, "Penny Lane"
2. Styx, "Music Time"
3. Marty Balin, "Hearts"
4. Barry Manilow, "Daybreak"
5. Billy Joel, "Pressure"

The Fauves - Dwarf on Dwarf
You Am I - Jaimme's got a Gal
The Stones - Cant ya hear me knockin'
The Replacements - Answering Machine
AC/DC - Whole Lotta Rosie

prefuse 73 - nuno
pavement - father to a sister of a thought
pet shop boys - west end girls
bill frisell - something representative off of the first buster keaton soundtrack disk
essex green - last track on 'everything is green'

without thinking at all, I'm sure some of these are more like #15:

Scala - I Touch Myself
Belle & Sebastian - Century of Fakers
Gareth Gates - Unchained Melody
Baxendale - Music for Girls
The Hacker - Fadin' Away (Dima remix)

my bloody valentine -- "soon"
frank zappa -- "peaches en regalia"
gary numan -- "are 'friends' electric?"
geto boys -- "mind playin' tricks on me"
david bowie -- "space oddity"

Would Be Goods - The Camera Loves Me
Galaxie 500 - Oblivious
Stone Roses - Sally Cinnamon
the Kinks - Two Sisters
Emitt Rhodes - Fresh as a Daisy

"Rosa Parks" - Outkast
"Transmission" - Joy Division
"Airbag" - Radiohead
"Cruisers Creek" - The Fall
"Debaser" - The Pixies

It's weird how little these seem to have to do with what you actually listen to.

Another 5:

Elvis - Long Black limousine
Beatles - I'm Only Sleeping
De La Soul - I Am I Be
Prince - Darling Nikki
Marvin Gaye - I Heard it through the grapevine

Liliput, "Split"
James Brown, "Get Up, Get Into It and Get Involved"
Stereolab, "Jenny Ondioline"
The Art of Noise, "Close-Up"
Brian Eno, "Seven Deadly Finns"

Propaganda - 'Murder of Love'
Magazine - 'Parade'
Be Bop Deluxe - 'Electrical Language'
The Passage - 'Sissies'
Cabaret Voltaire - 'Expect Nothing'

version 2.0:

Neil Young: 'Heart Of Gold'
Rage Against The Machine: 'Bullet In The Head'
Portishead: 'Glory Box'
Beatles: 'I'm Only Sleeping'
2pac: 'California Love'

I like how people with whom I have always thought I had nothing in common musically (like Jay-Kid, for example) can always surprise me by picking one of my favorite songs ("Heart of Gold," for example)!

"Kiss," Prince
"Honky Tonk Heroes," Waylon Jennings
"My Baby Portable Stereo Sound," Pizzicato Five
"Buk-in-Hamm Palace," Peter Tosh
"Crazy on You," Heart

well, whaddoyaknow. i was in doubt whether to choose that one or 'out on the weekend', but 'heart' is better as a song. i think i like the mood in 'out' better, though...

Beatles - A Day In The Life
Leonard Cohen - Hallelujah
Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
Kinks - Village Green Preservation Society
Smiths - William, It Was Really Nothing

Round Two:

Bruce Springsteen - "She's the One"
Fugazi - "Full Disclosure"
Public Enemy - "Brothers Gonna Work It Out"
James Brown - "Licking Stick"
Hank Williams - "I Heard That Lonesome Whistle Blow"

Wish I hadn't had to leave out:

Billy Stewart, "Summertime"
Mamas & Papas, "California Dreaming"
Stevie Wonder, "Another Star"
Lighthouse, "One Fine Morning"
Aretha Franklin, "Oh Me Oh My (I'm a Fool For You Baby)"
Rod Stewart, "You're in My Heart (The Final Acclaim)"

Take 2:

Olivia Tremor Control - NYC-25
Yoko Kanno & The Seatbelts - The Real Folk Blues
Exploding Hearts - Sleeping Aides and Razorblades
Built to Spill - Kicked it in the Sun
The Fall - L.A.

swingin medallions - double shot of my baby's love
funky four plus one - that's the joint
brenton wood - the oogum boogum song
hombres - let it out (let it all hang out)
steve miller - take the money and run

(that's literally off the top of my head, though)

1. Frank Wilson - "Do I Love You? (Indeed I Do)"
2. Patti Jo - "Make Me Believe in You"
3. Pulp - "Common People"
4. R.E.M. - "Wolves, Lower"
5. S-Express - "Theme from S-Express"

Oh fuck! I forgot "God Knows It's True"!! Get "Theme From S-Express" the hell outta there!

The Sylvers, "Boogie Fever"
Gilberto Gil, "Aquele Abraco"
L'Trimm, "Guys With the Boom"
Bersuit Vergabarat, "Caroncha"
Joni Mitchell/Charles Mingus, "The Dry Cleaner from Des Moines"

Sundar, I only wish I could hear Stairway to Heaven with your ears, because for me it's all smugly slutty highschool girls slowdancing with guys in too tight, pale jeans and untied puffy sneakers.

"God Knows It's True" is indeed the best power pop song evah

Buzzcocks, "Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn't Have Fallen In Love With)"
Old 97's, "Dressing Room Walls"
Nas, "NY State of Mind"
The Clash, "Guns of Brixton"
The Descendents, "Hope"

Scritti Politti - "Confidence"
PiL - "Poptones"
Nina Simone - "Wild Is the Wind"
Sugarcubes - "Birthday"
Triffids - "Beautiful Waste"

Arrgh, excruciating thread...

Daft Punk - "Digital Love"
Miles Davis - "Rated X"
Brian Eno - "Needle in the Camel's Eye"
Cocteau Twins - "Cherry Coloured Funk"
New Order - "Age of Consent"

Van Halen - "Panama"
Damned - "New Rose"
Def Leppard - "Photograph"
Guided by Voices -"Game of Pricks"
Hall & Oates - "I Can't Go For That (No Can Do)"

James Brown, Down & Out in New York City
Fugazi, Bed for the Scraping
The Fall, Bremen Nacht Alternative
The Beatles, She said she said
Rolling Stones, Gimme Shelter

bark psychosis, a street scene
elvis presley, hound dog
lennie de ice, we are e
adam and the ants, stand and deliver
pavement, summer babe

new list

tom waits- hang down your head
antony and the johnsons- blue angel
the millennium- to claudia on thursday
gang of four- i found that essence rare
rolling stones- no expectations

Debbie Deb "When I Hear Music"
Spoonie Gee "Spoonin' Rap"
The Sex Pistols "Anarchy in the U.K."
James Brown "I Can't Stand Myself"
The Stooges "Search and Destroy" (the Bowie mix, until someone does better, which Iggy sure didn't)

These may not be my five favorites. Maybe they're merely the five best.

Boredoms - 7 (Borignal)
Can - Vernal Equinox
Descendents - Cameage
Cibo Matto - Stereotype A
Unwound - Treachary

Pulp - Common People
The Cure - A Forest
The Flaming Lips - The Gash
The Magnetic Fields - All My Little Words
Soft Cell - Say Hello, Wave Goodbye

wow. never make me do that again.

omni trio - "mystic stepper"
human league - "love action"
frankie knuckles ft jamie principle - "baby wants to ride"
juan maclean - "give me every little thing"
2pac ft dr dre - "california love"

um . . . (haha, I did this while listening to superpitcher's cover of "fever" OH NO)

neu! - "hallogallo"
aphex twin - "xtal"
slayer - "angel of death"
nirvana - "in bloom"
angry samoans - "lights out"

scratch angry samoans, it should be Slint - "Good Morning Captain"

this is fuckin' hard.

Five for all time is too hard, in the end I sorta broke it down by decades so everyone got their fair shot:

VU - Sister Ray (to ensure it pisses off the neighbors)
Clash - Death or Glory (hard to pick but wins out for convolving fucking with nuns)
Replacements - Color Me Impressed (the best song on their best record)
Wilco - Misunderstood (for the haters)
Spaceshits - C'mon Let's Suicide (to up the guitar and lo-fi quotients a bit more, because I know that's what ILM likes best)

5 for 2005 - I absolutely cheated here, to check on dates and get song names right, in my perfect world these are the songs that'd be blarin' out of car windows on hot summer nights:

The Fevers - Bound To Cry
Demon's Claws - Blood On My Fangs
King Khan & BBQ Show - Shake Real Low
The Ponys - Ferocious
King Louie - I'm 13 and I'm Too Ugly To Live

1. Surf's Up - Beach Boys
2. Babylon Sisters - Steely Dan
3. Let's Go Out Tonight - Blue Nile
4. Louisiana 1927 - Randy Newman
5. Inca Roads - Frank Zappa/Mothers

(as the thread says songs, I've had to leave out my favourite piece of music ever, which is Steve Reich's 'Variations for Winds, Strings and Keyboards' which would go above all of 'em.)

ack random choices:

the clean - point that thing somewhere else
scorched earth policy - sunset on the loading zone
beach boys - surf's up
velvet underground - waiting for my man
stereolab - metronic underground

btw to all the brtish folks out there, HURRY UP AND BEAT THE FUCKING AUSSIES ALREADY!!, theres only 30 runs required now!

A drunken off my head, I dont post to ILM list:

Cocteau Twins: Summerhead
Adorable: A to Fade In
the Faint: Mote (I prefer it to the original!)
Throwing Muses: Mania (a live version that is chaos compared to the one on the album, but stuns me so much)
Pixies: Hey (love, and then some)

I could do another five in five mins time and it'd change Im sure.

Curtis Mayfield: "The Makings of You"
Love Inc.: "R.E.S.P.E.C.T."
Pharoah Sanders: "The Creator Has a Master Plan"
Nas: "Dance"
Massive Attack: "Protection"
Marlena Shaw: "California Soul"

Whoops, that's six!