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

No, that's all wrong. That's yesterday's list. Today's is:

1. "She's Lost Control" - Joy Division
2. "Ugly Face" - Nina Nastasia
3. "Plainsong" - The Cure
4. "Love Train" - The O'Jays
5. "Levi Stubbs' Tears" - Billy Bragg

Wait, what about tomorrow's list?

1. "The Partisan" - Leonard Cohen (version)
2. "Waterloo Sunset" - The Kinks
3. "Battle of Evermore" - Zeppelin (I know, I know, but I'm... just being honest)
4. "Hitherto" - Cocteau Twins
5. "Time is the Diamond" - Low

Ah, fuck it.

"love train"? seriously? i mean, fun song and all that. i guess i've never paid close enough attention to it to consider it as among the best of anything... maybe I should?

Yeah, I'm not even trying to be objective. It's entirely a subjective list. When I heard "Love Train", I was in a certain place and I felt a certain way and the song just rushed into me and stuck somewhere, a joyful glue aneurysm waiting to burst and stick to everything. A different day and I'd have put "Are Friends Electric?" or "Ring my Bell" or, fuck, I don't know, Shannon's "Let the Music Play" or something. Or some Dusty. Or some Al Green. Or some OutKast. Or some Streets. Or Smiths. Or Yes. Or the last Avril single that, inexplicably, I really love (the one about nobody being home or something along those lines). Or whatever. Ha, it just goes on and on, this music addiction thing and sometimes I wonder if I'll be personally strong enough to keep carrying it forward...

(Ahem *cough*)

That is a very quick brainstorm and I would need more time to properly scan everything, but Missy is way out at the top.

my new one:
Elis Regina & A.C. Jobim, "Aguas de Marco"
The Sugarcubes, "F***ing in Rhythm and Sorrow"
Sam & Dave, "When Something Is Wrong With My Baby"
Sweet, "Ballroom Blitz"
Parliament, "Flashlight"

Johnny Cash - Cocaine Blues
Yo La Tengo - From A Motel 6
Funkadelic - You Can't Miss What You Can't Measure
NWA - Straight Outta Compton
Gang of Four - I Found That Essence Rare

Underworld-Two Months Off
Misfits-Where Eagles Dare
Gang of Four-I Found That Essence Rare (I thought of it before I read the last post, I swear, that is a great choice though)
Takkyu Ishino-The Rising Suns
Clash-The Card Cheat

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

great band name, by the way!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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"

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)"

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.

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

Arrgh, excruciating thread...

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

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