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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"

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Thursday, 3 February 2005 03:02 (twenty-one years ago)

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

― The Velvet Overlord (The Velvet Overlord), Thursday, 3 February 2005 03:08 (twenty-one years ago)

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'

― arjun (arjun), Thursday, 3 February 2005 04:14 (twenty-one years ago)

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)

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 3 February 2005 04:22 (twenty-one years ago)

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"

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 3 February 2005 04:28 (twenty-one years ago)

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

― youn, Thursday, 3 February 2005 04:28 (twenty-one years ago)

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

― Jessie, Thursday, 3 February 2005 04:55 (twenty-one years ago)

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

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 3 February 2005 04:56 (twenty-one years ago)

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

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Thursday, 3 February 2005 05:19 (twenty-one years ago)

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"

― Douglas (Douglas), Thursday, 3 February 2005 05:24 (twenty-one years ago)

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

― Snowy Mann (rdmanston), Thursday, 3 February 2005 14:02 (twenty-one years ago)

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'

― Jay-Kid (Jay-Kid), Thursday, 3 February 2005 14:17 (twenty-one years ago)

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

― The Obligatory Sourpuss (Begs2Differ), Thursday, 3 February 2005 14:36 (twenty-one years ago)

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...

― Jay-Kid (Jay-Kid), Thursday, 3 February 2005 19:38 (twenty-one years ago)

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

― Dr. Z Indahouse (AaronHz), Thursday, 3 February 2005 20:38 (twenty-one years ago)

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"

― Matt Chesnut, Thursday, 3 February 2005 20:40 (twenty-one years ago)

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)"

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Friday, 4 February 2005 00:51 (twenty-one years ago)

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.

― sleep (sleep), Friday, 4 February 2005 00:59 (twenty-one years ago)

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)

― chuck, Friday, 4 February 2005 01:21 (twenty-one years ago)

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"

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 4 February 2005 01:24 (twenty-one years ago)

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

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 4 February 2005 01:53 (twenty-one years ago)

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"

― The Obligatory Sourpuss (Begs2Differ), Sunday, 6 February 2005 16:42 (twenty-one years ago)

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.

― Kim (Kim), Monday, 7 February 2005 03:14 (twenty-one years ago)

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

― Aaron A., Monday, 7 February 2005 03:17 (twenty-one years ago)

five months pass...

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"

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Saturday, 6 August 2005 22:52 (twenty years ago)

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

Arrgh, excruciating thread...

― Nag! Nag! Nag! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Saturday, 6 August 2005 23:09 (twenty years ago)

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"

― jmeister (jmeister), Saturday, 6 August 2005 23:25 (twenty years ago)

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)"

― p.j. (Henry), Sunday, 7 August 2005 01:29 (twenty years ago)

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

― t. fiend (t. fiend), Sunday, 7 August 2005 01:46 (twenty years ago)

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

― Michael B, Sunday, 7 August 2005 04:19 (twenty years ago)

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

― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Sunday, 7 August 2005 04:24 (twenty years ago)

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.

― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Sunday, 7 August 2005 04:45 (twenty years ago)

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

― I'm Hi, Jared Fogle (ex machina), Sunday, 7 August 2005 04:52 (twenty years ago)

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.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Sunday, 7 August 2005 05:54 (twenty years ago)

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)

― etc, Sunday, 7 August 2005 06:04 (twenty years ago)

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

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 7 August 2005 07:02 (twenty years ago)

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

this is fuckin' hard.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 7 August 2005 07:05 (twenty years ago)

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

― lykvun stratta, Sunday, 7 August 2005 07:41 (twenty years ago)

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.)

― avery keen-gardner (avery keen-gardner), Sunday, 7 August 2005 08:25 (twenty years ago)

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!

― chris andrews (fraew), Sunday, 7 August 2005 09:37 (twenty years ago)

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.

― Trayce (trayce), Sunday, 7 August 2005 10:52 (twenty years ago)

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"

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 7 August 2005 13:47 (twenty years ago)

Whoops, that's six!

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 7 August 2005 13:48 (twenty years ago)

jmeister's list could EASILY be my list...

― petesmith (plsmith), Sunday, 7 August 2005 14:23 (twenty years ago)

Rolling Stones: Torn and Frayed
Pavement: Summer Babe
Bob Dylan: Like A Rolling Stone (live 1965 with the Band)
The Clash: Complete Control
Bruce Springsteen: The Promised Land

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Sunday, 7 August 2005 14:37 (twenty years ago)

Wait, not Torn and Frayed. I meant Loving Cup.

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Sunday, 7 August 2005 14:41 (twenty years ago)

pram 'chrysalis'
mum 'there are a number of small things'
kate bush 'wuthering heights'
primal scream 'higher than the sun'
spoonfed hybrid 'boys in zinc'

― keith m (keithmcl), Sunday, 7 August 2005 15:12 (twenty years ago)

nina simone - "baltimore"
goldie - "inner city life"
beach boys - "god only knows"
vitalic - "poney part 2"
bob hund - "allt på ett kort"

― Kornél Kovács (Kornél Kovács), Sunday, 7 August 2005 16:42 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

Mirrorball by Everything But the Girl
When I'm Not Around by Junior Boys
Man in the Mirror by Michael Jackson
Consequence by the The Notwist
The Only Momemt We Were Alone by Explosions in the Sky

― Wookie Rookie (Wookie Rookie), Friday, 23 September 2005 17:49 (twenty years ago)

current 5:
velvet underground - "sister ray"
pineapples - "come on closer"
brian eno - "needles in the camel's eye"
andrew wk - "its time to party"
slade - "cum on feel the noize"

― petesmith (plsmith), Friday, 23 September 2005 18:03 (twenty years ago)

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