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Old 08-22-2009, 10:16 PM   #1
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Favorite Songs of All Time?

Here's a rough draft of my Top 100. Post your favorites tooooooo

100: For Real - Okkervil River
99: Mistaken for Strangers - The National
98: Vaporous - Elsiane
97: Frontier Village Dali - Nobuo Uematsu
96: I Don't Need Your Love - Aereogramme
95: Daily Routine - Animal Collective
94: Lay Low - My Morning Jacket
93: Stinkfist - Tool
92: The Unforgettable Fire - U2
91: Staring At The Sun - TV on the Radio
90: Satellite Mind - Metric
89: The Latest Toughs - Okkervil River
88: Matroshka - Dredg
87: Boy With A Coin - Iron & Wine
86: Your Rocky Spine - Great Lake Swimmers
85: Heretics - Andrew Bird
84: A Sunday Smile - Beirut
83: Blood Bank - Bon Iver
82: Unsettled - Gavin Harrison and 05ric
81: Compliments - Bloc Party
80: Thrash Unreal - Against Me
79: Bloodmeat - Protest The Hero
78: Moby Octopad - Yo La Tengo
77: You Are Not Alone - Nobuo Uematsu
76: Teflon - The Mars Volta
75: Soul Meets Body - Death Cab For Cutie
74: Bloodhail - Have a Nice Life
73: Sanzen - Dredg
72: Reptilla - The Strokes
71: Two Weeks - Grizzly Bear
70: Miracle Mile - Pompeii
69: Skullcrusher Mountain - Jonathan Coulton
68: PDA - Interpol
67: DLZ - TV on the Radio
66: For Real - Okkervil River
65: Presence of the Lord - Blind Faith
64: John Allyn Smith Sails - Okkervil River
63: Heretics - Andrew Bird
62: Famous Blue Raincoat - Leonard Cohen
61: Nude - Radiohead
60: Where The Streets Have No Name - U2
59: New Pin - Oceansize
58: Lord, I'm Discouraged - The Hold Steady
57: Man Next Door - Massive Attack
56: Hope Leaves - Opeth
55: Tom Traubert's Blues - Tom Waits
54: Blue Ridge Mountains - Fleet Foxes
53: Cartoon Show Room - Dredg
52: Those Who Are Shining - Yoko Shimomura
51: Star of Something Beautiful - Porcupine Tree
50: Map of the Problematique - Muse
49: Ice Monster - Minus the Bear
48: Take Me To The Riot - Stars
47: Sunday Bloody Sunday - U2
46: Motion Picture Soundtrack - Radiohead
45: Heart Attack In A Layby
44: Yankee bayonet - The Decemberists
43: I Will Possess Your Heart - Death Cab For Cutie
42: Nursery Rhyme - UNKLE
41: Stem/Long Stem - DJ Shadow
40: Blue in Green - Miles Davis
39: The Twist - Frightened Rabbit
38: Bug Eyes - Dredg
37: Savant - Oceansize
36: Little Sister - Queens of the Stone Age
35: Subterannean Homesick Alien - Radiohead
34: Black Star - Radiohead
33: Earthmover - Have a Nice Life
32: Loss of Me - Nobuo Uematsu
31: Mad World - Gary Jules
30: Halo - Porcupine Tree
29: Teardrop - Massive Attack
28: Wolf Like Me - TV on the Radio
27: Six Days At The Bottom of the Ocean - Explosions in the Sky
26: A Stone - Okkervil River
25: Glass - Bat For Lashes
24: Lost Coastlines - Okkervil River
23: Skinny Love - Bon Iver
22: Knights - Minus The Bear
21: When The Levee Breaks - Led Zeppelin
20: No Surprises - Radiohead
19: Anesthetize - Porcupine Tree
18: Slow Show - The National
17: In The Aeroplane Over The Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel
16: With or Without You - U2
15: Unless It's Kicks - Okkervil River
14: Way Out of Here - Porcupine Tree
13: There There - Radiohead
12: Starlight - Muse
11: Head Rolls Off - Frightened Rabbit
10: Idioteque - Radiohead
9: All Along The Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix Experience
8: The Sound of Muzak - Porcupine Tree
7: Climbing Up The Walls - Radiohead
6: Song of Our So-Called Friend - Okkervil River
5. Baba O'Riley - The Who
4. Walk Away Renee - The Left Banke
3: All I Need - Radiohead
2: Province - TV on the Radio
1: Let Down - Radiohead
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Old 08-22-2009, 10:18 PM   #2
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Can you give me, I dunno say, the rest of my life to compile the list?
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...I like songs. There's no way for me to make a list of my favourites, as they are completely dependent on my mood. Some days, my favourite songs are The Blood Brothers, and other days, it will be Laura Marling. Some days, I will listen to a single track for three hours straight, and other days, I will skip through every song half a minute in.

Yeah.
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Old 08-22-2009, 10:21 PM   #4
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Mine's a rough draft for eternity. So yeah. It'll be recompiled, renewed, whatever, probably for all of the time I have to hear songs come out of speakers. But those are some that came to mind and I really wanted to actually finish a list for the first time in my life. D:

So just list off or talk about songs that are really special to you. I do not require a top 100 list simply because I posted one. :P
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Old 08-22-2009, 10:25 PM   #5
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I posted my top 50 of the new millennium in the pitchfork thread. I may do other decades (seeing that I have a lot less 80s and 90s stuff it'll be a lot easier)
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Old 08-22-2009, 10:27 PM   #6
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I guess I should retitle that list "One-Hundred Songs That I Really Like In No Order", since only Number 1 is accurate in terms of placement and I honestly just took a playlist of 100 hand-picked songs and wrote it down. XD
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Old 08-22-2009, 10:29 PM   #7
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I've decided at this moment that "Take Pills" by Panda Bear is my favorite songs of all time.
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I probably couldn't list my top ten favorite songs, let alone my top 100.
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Old 08-22-2009, 10:33 PM   #9
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Mine generally change. There was a point in life where the only thing I would listen to is "Wolf at the Door" by Radiohead. I would not listen to any other songs. Not even other Radiohead ones. My list in the P4k thread is more of a compilation of Panfan of all ages (most of my prog has been bumped off the list but The Mars Volta and Porcupine Tree remain, there's still some hip hop from when I was really into rap last year, etc.)
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Yeah, narrowing it down to 100 was hard as hell. I went through my library and had 259 songs on the original playlist. Then I just cut most of them and cried a little before basically taking the list and writing the whole thing down. I wanted to put thought into the placement, but every time I did, I like another song better, but WHAT ABOUT THIS SONG, and then wait I want this song. In short, I gave up after a while. But I was like goddammit I am going to have a list at the end of all of this. What you see if what I got. It's a lovable Frankenstein of every phase I ever went through, but there's a lot of songs I wish were on there...

In conclusion, earlier today I said Pitchforks list make me realize that to make the perfect list, I must do it myself. I was sure of this. However, it turns out that I hate even my own list.

There is no perfect list, my friends. I have failed.

Although, Let Down is still the best song ever.
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I'm glad you clarified that this is not a list in order, because Staring at the Sun is way too good to be placed in the 90s
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"Pleasant Valley Sunday" is #1.
I wouldn't even be able to think about a list this big for a few years.

And remember, "I'm-a Luigi, number one!"
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Old 08-23-2009, 12:51 PM   #13
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I went back and tried making a genuine, honest-to-god Top Three at the very least. I managed to get Let Down and Province written down, but number three was a fierce battle. Unfortunately, it seems those two songs (which in themselves are subject to change) are the only constants I'll ever have.
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My top five probably goes something like this here.

5. 'Drift Away'--Dobie Gray
4. 'Never Been to Spain'--Three Dog Night
3. 'Starman'--David Bowie
2. 'Car Jamming'--The Clash
1. 'Dragon Attack'--Queen

Maybe not, though.
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POSSIBLE CANDIDATES for a big ol' list:

Steven Wilson - Veneno Para Las Hadas, Harmony Korine and Insurgentes - All of these are simply full of unbelievable ethereal beauty. Insurgentes is without a doubt one of my favorite albums EVAR.

Pure Reason Revolution - Deus Ex Machina - One of the catchiest things I've ever heard, and simply orgasmic.

Muse - Map of the Problematique and Starlight - See above.

DJ Shadow - Stem/Long Stem **Transmission 2 - a perfect distillation of the emotion of floating, longing, and gazing into infinity.

The Black Mages - The Skies Above - Beautiful in so many ways, and Mr. Goo is THE MAN.

The Mars Volta - Ilyena - Some of the most intense music I've seen, with ridiculous grooves and huge bursts of rhythmic madness.

Porcupine Tree - Drown With Me and Anesthetize - Drown With Me demonstrates how to rock the hell out of an acoustic, and combining that with the many dubbed vocal harmonies and overall delivery creates something awesome. Anesthetize is epic in every sense of the word and some that don't exist yet.

R.E.M. - Feeling Gravity's Pull and Oddfellows Local 151 - R.E.M. is one of the few bands whose vocals and lyrics truly get to my soul, and I love their darker side.

UNKLE - Nursery Rhyme/Breather - Part intense, part truth/beauty.

Radiohead - Let Down and Where I End And You Begin (The Sky is Falling In) - pure liquid emotion.

THAT'S ALL FOR NOW, FOLKS

p.s. I thought you would have Billie Jean Galef D :
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^^Drift Away gets the award for "Greatest song I thought I'd hate when I saw the album cover".

My favorite bands are Flogging Molly, The Offspring, The Dropkick Murphys, Aerosmith, Queen, Journey, The Eagles, AC/DC, R.E.M, and The Police, in no particular order after the first three. Any list would consist almost entirely of those ten with somewhere between 20-30 from other bands.
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Get out of my head Charles, but replace Offspring with Nick Cave and Doctor Steel.
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Comparing styles of music is a lot like comparing styles of visual art. Pointless.
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...Aaaaand where was anyone doing that? As far as I can tell, this was a topic about your favorite song or songs, not your favorite style of music.
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My favourite song is probably Champaign Supernova by Oasis. I am too lazy to compile a list of other songs I like.
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