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

The Spoons - Nova Heart
Trashcan Sinatras - Hayfever
Finn Brothers - Only Talking Sense
Talk Talk - New Grass
Depeche Mode - It's No Good

6. Blind Willie Johnson, "Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground"
7. New Order, "Temptation"
8. The New Pornographers, "Letter From an Occupant"
9. All Saints, "Pure Shores"
10. Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell, "Ain't No Mountain High Enough"

Elliott Smith, "Say Yes"
Ghostface Killah, "Nutmeg"
Fugazi, "Smallpox Champion"
Mission of Burma, "Academy Fight Song"
Superchunk, "From the Curve"

Kinks - Sunny Afternoon
Left Banke - Walk Away Renee
Nancy Sinatra - These Boots Are Made For Walkin'
Beatles - I Feel Fine
Rivieras - California Sun

cannibal ox- the f word
modern folk quartet- this could be the night
television- venus
underworld- juanita/kiteless/to dream of love
the walkmen- rue the day

Bryan: Thanks. I'd honestly seriously considered just saying
"1-5) Superchunk - 'Slack Motherfucker'".

Right now, at least

...that was very, very hard

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Leon Russell - This Masquerade
Rolling Stones - Last Time
Jefferson Airplane - Don't You Want Somebody To Love
The Casinos - Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye
Neil Young - Cortez The Killer

Kiley Dean, "Keep It Movin"
Hole, "Violet"
Mystikal, "Bouncin Back"
Delta 5, "Mind Your Own Business"
Jesus Lizard, "Puss"

The last one's always the hardest

1. New Order - Everything's Gone Green
2. Simple Minds - A Brass Band In African Chimes
3. The Past Seven Days - Raindance
4. Nick Drake - Hanging On A Star
5. Robyn Hitchcock - I Used To Say I Love You

10. "New Toy" by Lene Lovich

Yes. Makes me wish Thomas Dolby had done a whole album with her!

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"