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

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Ted Nugent- Free For All
The Fall- Slates, Slags, Etc.
The Dead C-Bad Politics
The Chills- Pink Frost
The Human Instinct- Black Sally

― brg30 (brg30), Friday, 23 September 2005 23:02 (eighteen years ago) link

The Damned - New Rose
Captain Beefheart - Pachuco Cadaver
The Doors - Touch Me
The Clash - Armagideon Time
Joy Division - Atmosphere
Prefab Sprout - Lions In My Own Garden (Exit Someone)

That's six, isn't it? Bugger.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 23 September 2005 23:11 (eighteen years ago) link

She's a Rich Girl - hall and Oates
Down Through - Mark Kozelek
Short-Haired Girl - TVzandt/hopkins
Augenblick - ellen allien
betty's lament - isan?

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Saturday, 24 September 2005 00:44 (eighteen years ago) link

just wanted to say i hope this thread never ever dies. i haven't come across a better thread on this thing.

― Wookie Rookie (Wookie Rookie), Saturday, 24 September 2005 00:48 (eighteen years ago) link

Volcano Suns - Soft Hit
Guided By Voices - Blatant Doom Trip
Buzzcocks - I Believe...
Beatles - Tomorrow Never Knows
Joan Armatrading - All the Kings Gardens

That was off the top of my head without reading the rest of the thread. Now I'll see what our survey said ...

― declan zimmerman, Saturday, 24 September 2005 00:55 (eighteen years ago) link

mine it totally wrong. more like five songs i was listening to last nite. oh well.

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Saturday, 24 September 2005 00:57 (eighteen years ago) link

four months pass...

Cat People (Putting out the fire) David Bowie
Lady Don't Mind Talking Heads
Price of Love Bryan Ferry
Out of the Blue Roxy Music
Black is Black Los Lobos

This will most likely change in approx 2 hours...

― Miranda Leigh, Thursday, 23 February 2006 08:53 (eighteen years ago) link

And two seconds after posting that I felt an extreme guilt for not adding Gloria by U2, Avalon by Roxy Music, So Long by Fischer Z arrggghhhh

― Miranda Leigh, Thursday, 23 February 2006 08:55 (eighteen years ago) link

Currently:

Brian Eno - By This River
Devo - Snowball
Kate Bush - This Womans Work
Kraftwerk - Komentmelodie 2
Dexys Midnight Runners - Because Of You

Miranda - some excellent choices. Fischer Z and Los Lobos excepted!

― JohnFoxxsJuno (JohnFoxxsJuno), Thursday, 23 February 2006 11:10 (eighteen years ago) link

T-Rex - Cosmic Dancer
Crucifix - Prejudice
Sparks - #1 song in heaven
New Order - Perfect Kiss
Dusty Springfield - Goin back

― bidfurd__, Thursday, 23 February 2006 11:37 (eighteen years ago) link

Currently:

Beach Boys - Til I Die
Al Green - Love & Happiness
Merle Haggard - Mama Tried
Captain Beefheart - Electricity
Fred Neil - I got a secret

― stew!, Thursday, 23 February 2006 11:42 (eighteen years ago) link

love action - the human league
you made me realise - my bloody valentine
song to the siren - tim buckley
(keep feeling) fascination - the human league
sound of the crowd - the human league

― leigh (leigh), Thursday, 23 February 2006 11:54 (eighteen years ago) link

Thanks JohnFoxxsJuno :) Your choices are very impressive, Brian Eno & Kate Bush especially.

― Miranda Leigh, Saturday, 25 February 2006 00:31 (eighteen years ago) link

fennesz - happy audio
john cage - dream (1948)
aphex twin - qkthr
william basinski - disintegration loop 1.1
philip glass - glassworks: 2. Floe

― Peter Densmore (pbnmyj), Saturday, 25 February 2006 00:43 (eighteen years ago) link

Kinks - Waterloo Sunset
some cambodian guy whose name I can't remember - Quando My Love
Buffalo Daughter - Cyclic
Eno - I'll Come Running
Kate Bush - Sunset

Tried to pull this off without looking at the songs on the thread

― Brakhage (brakhage), Saturday, 25 February 2006 00:50 (eighteen years ago) link

Genesis: Supper's Ready
Genesis: Firth Of Fifth
Queen: Bohemian Rhapsody
Depeche Mode: The Landscape Is Changing
Depeche Mode: Blasphemous Rumours.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 25 February 2006 00:56 (eighteen years ago) link

new order - temptation
notorious b.i.g. - mo money, mo problems
mobb deep - shook ones pt. ii
only ones - another girl, another planet
three 6 mafia - stay fly

― methanie tanner (methanie tanner), Saturday, 25 February 2006 01:51 (eighteen years ago) link

Velvet Underground "Sister Ray"
Joy Division "Atmosphere"
The Smiths "Reel Around the Fountain"
The Modern Lovers "Roadrunner"
The Fall "Hit the North"

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Saturday, 25 February 2006 02:16 (eighteen years ago) link

Funky Four +1 - That's the Joint
Delfonics - La La Means I Love You
Merle Haggard - That's The Way Love Goes
Laura Nyro + Labelle - Gonna Take A Miracle
George McCrae - Rock Your Baby

― Allen Baekeland (Allen Baekeland), Saturday, 25 February 2006 03:40 (eighteen years ago) link

Beach boys - Wouldn't it be nice
Caetano Veloso - Qualquer coisa
Ricardo Villalobos - Dexter
Dungen - Panda
Love Affair - Bringing on back the good times

― jimnaseum (jimnaseum), Saturday, 25 February 2006 03:47 (eighteen years ago) link

the flirtations - nothing but a heartache five times in arow

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Saturday, 25 February 2006 03:53 (eighteen years ago) link

omg the flirtations pwn.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Saturday, 25 February 2006 04:30 (eighteen years ago) link

witches & the warlock "the wanderer"
13th floor elevators "dust"
flipper "sex bomb"
neil young "revolution blues"
ike & tina "i idolize you"

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Saturday, 25 February 2006 04:37 (eighteen years ago) link

1. The Ramones - I Wanna Be Sedated
2. Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliot - Get Ur Freak On
3. James Chance And The Contortions - Flip Your Face
4. Audio 2 - Top Billin'
5. X - Johnny Hit And Run Pauline

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Saturday, 25 February 2006 05:48 (eighteen years ago) link

I just heard that Flirtations song for the first time in the last couple days. So so so great.

― A. Lingbert (A. Lingbert), Saturday, 25 February 2006 08:24 (eighteen years ago) link

1. Stevie Wonder - "For Once In My Life"
2. Outkast - "Bombs Over Baghdad"
3. Gza - "Fourth Chamber"
4. Parliament - "Mothership Connection" (Single Edit)
5. Prince - "Scarlet Pussy"

― Englebert Humperdinck Fan Club President (R. J. Greene), Saturday, 25 February 2006 08:48 (eighteen years ago) link

I can't believe I picked "Scarlet Pussy" over "Erotic City". Oh well, I could have done worse.

― Englebert Humperdinck Fan Club President (R. J. Greene), Saturday, 25 February 2006 08:58 (eighteen years ago) link

at this moment

feel the darkness - poison idea

whatsoever the dance - bootsy collins (or whatever his first band was called)

Scumbag fucker - blowfly - we just did the vocals on this saturday. Imagine a motown act singing a mentors song. absolutely insane.

cumbia and jazz fusion - charles mingus

fuck the kids - Antiseen

― Uncle Tom (Uncle Tom), Monday, 27 February 2006 05:58 (eighteen years ago) link

If I'm to do this quickly and without consulting my record collection, then there's no way this will be my favorites "of all time." Instead, here's my favorites at the moment, according to what pops into my head:

The Go Betweens - "Cattle and Cane"
OMD - "Souvenir"
Photek - "Consciousness"
PSB - "Before"
Joni Mitchell - "The Boho Dance"

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Monday, 27 February 2006 06:18 (eighteen years ago) link

* Harry Woods/Jimmy Campbell/Reg Connelly - 'Try A Little Tenderness'
* Robert Melin & Guy Wood - 'My One and Only Love' (Chet Baker, Johnny Hartman, etc.)
* Leonard Coehn - 'If It Be Your Will'
* Robin Holcomb - 'The Graveyard Song'
* Robin S - 'Show Me Love'

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 27 February 2006 06:29 (eighteen years ago) link

Five more I like as much as my first batch:

EBTG - "Mirrorball"
Underworld - "Pearl's Girl"
Omni Trio - "Renegade Snares" (original version)
XTC - "Senses Working Overtime"
Divine Comedy - "Your Daddy's Car"

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Monday, 27 February 2006 06:34 (eighteen years ago) link

grace jones - slave to the rhythm (blooded) kate bush - cloudbusting fleetwood mac - sara pet shop boys - west end girls underworld - juanita

― danny invincible (michael w.), Monday, 27 February 2006 15:28 (eighteen years ago) link

sweet talking guy (the chiffons)
never never (the libertines)
strange town (the jam)
wasn't it you (the action)
stop that girl (vic godard and subway sect)

― dr x o'skeleton, Monday, 27 February 2006 15:45 (eighteen years ago) link

5 current favourites :

Scientist - The Mummy's Shroud
Felix - Tigerstripes
Bloc Party - This Modern Love
Killjoys - Johnny Won't Get To Heaven
Swamp Children - Call Me Honey

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Monday, 27 February 2006 17:10 (eighteen years ago) link

Wiley -- Pies

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Monday, 27 February 2006 17:16 (eighteen years ago) link

"The Captain of Her Heart"
"Baker Street"
"In the City"
"Running on Empty"
"Against All Odds"

― Barrett Proxmeyer, Monday, 27 February 2006 17:32 (eighteen years ago) link

"Anyone Who Had a Heart"
"Norwegian Wood"
"They Can't Take That Away from Me"
"Public Image"
"The Look of Love"

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 27 February 2006 17:49 (eighteen years ago) link

No.

― Dan (Curmudgeon) Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 27 February 2006 18:11 (eighteen years ago) link

today let's go with:
Beach Boys - "God Only Knows"
Randy Newman - "Lonely At the Top"
Fleetwood Mac - "Never Going Back Again"
Beatles - "Blackbird"
ABBA - "Name of the Game"

― Dominique (dleone), Monday, 27 February 2006 18:19 (eighteen years ago) link

turtles - happy together
bowie - heroes
isaac hayes - walk on by
michael jackson - billie jean
stevie wonder - golden lady

― älänbänänä (alanbanana), Monday, 27 February 2006 18:22 (eighteen years ago) link

"Jurubeba," Gilberto Gil & Jorge Ben
"Porno 3003," Pizzicato Five
"Ain't No God in Mexico," Waylon Jennings
"Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered," Ella Fitzgerald
"I'm Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down," Ann Peebles

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Monday, 27 February 2006 18:28 (eighteen years ago) link

Kinda funny ... I had forgotten I had posted on this one the first time around. As I was scrolling through the first three songs that came to mind were "Freebird," "Wanna Be Starting Somethin', and "Down By the River."

Um, then I reached my first post:

Lessee ...

1. "Revolution," Beatles
2. "Freebird," Lynyrd Skynyrd
3. "Beat It," Michael Jackson
4. "Rockin' in the Free World," Neil Young
5. "B.O.B.," OutKast

At least I'm consistent. :-) Other two that occurred to me this time were Talking Heads' "Found a Job" and David Banner's "Mississippi"

― Chris O., Monday, 27 February 2006 21:42 (eighteen years ago) link

Triumph - Wu Tang Clan
In the Trees - Faze Action
White Man in Hammersmith Palace (sp?) - Clash
Heather - The Wedding Present
House of Jealous Lovers - The Rapture

― paulhw (paulhw), Monday, 27 February 2006 21:47 (eighteen years ago) link

This thread drives me wild with regret.

― paulhw (paulhw), Monday, 27 February 2006 21:48 (eighteen years ago) link

Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls
The Ramones - I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend
New Order - True Faith
Saint Etienne - Avenue
The Ronettes - Be My Baby

― daavid (daavid), Monday, 27 February 2006 21:48 (eighteen years ago) link

Today's selection (based entirely on things I've listened to recently because I have a memory like a sieve) :

"It's Only Obvious" - The Orchids
"The Blues are Still Blue" - Belle and Sebastian
"When We Were Young" - Whipping Boy
"Boys Don't Cry" - The Cure
"You Don't Have To Say You Love Me" - Dusty Springfield

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 27 February 2006 22:26 (eighteen years ago) link

"Alberto Balsam" - Aphex Twin
"The State I Am In" - Belle & Sebastian
"Dracula Mountain" - Lightning Bolt
"French Disko" - Stereolab
"TNT" - Tortoise

― beaux knee (boney), Monday, 27 February 2006 22:30 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh, shit, one of mine has to go for Johnny Boy "You Are The Generation That Bought More Shoes And You Get What You Deserve", which hasn't actually ever been far from my mind since I first heard it (except when compiling my lists, obviously, see "mind like a sieve"). But I don't know which one.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 27 February 2006 22:32 (eighteen years ago) link

ride "leave them all behind"
shannon "let the music play"
stevie wonder "living for the city"
808 state "pacific"
4 hero "hold it down"

― something less threatening (heywood), Monday, 27 February 2006 22:57 (eighteen years ago) link

eight years pass...

althea and donna - uptown top ranking
big star - thirteen
claude debussy - clair de lune
m83 - midnight city
young marble giants - final day

― Moka, Sunday, 7 September 2014 21:24 (nine years ago) link

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