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

Here is my alternate edition where I care about lyrics and melody, like a stooge

• Stevie Wonder - Living For The City
• The Police - Walking On The Moon
• Boredoms
• Yelle
• A Tribe Called Quest

Pretend I picked one song by the last three. I’m tired.

David Bowie - Sound & Vision
Lou Reed - Street Hassle
Fannypack - Nu Nu (Yeah Yeah)
Clash - Train In Vain
Prince - Kiss

Echo & the Bunnymen - Over the Wall
David Sylvian - Taking The Veil
Joseph Arthur - Travel As Equals
Paul Simon - The Coast
King Crimson - Islands

Will probably be flagellating myself in a bit for not including anything by Roxy Music, David Bowie or Gene Clark.

flying burrito bros - sin city
beach boys - don't worry baby
rem - nightswimming
bob dylan - girl from the north country
elvis presley, scotty, and bill - mystery train

King Crimson - Islands

This is a beautiful melody, which used to float through my head often.

Yes - Awaken
Laurie Anderson - O Superman
Patience & Prudence - Tonight You Belong To me
Rain Parade - Talking In My Sleep
XTC - Ladybird

First two of those would be fairly high up mine and I also love the 5th, will have to check the other two out!

New Order - Ceremony
Phantom/Ghost - Perfect Lovers (Unperfect Love Mix by Tobias Thomas & Superpitcher)
Sakanaction - Music
Owen Pallett - The Great Elsewhere
Bjork - Unravel

Phantom/Ghost - Perfect Lovers (Unperfect Love Mix by Tobias Thomas & Superpitcher)
Perfect. <3.

I still listen to it all the time

b-52s / 52 girls
english beat / save it for later
orb / huge ever growing pulsating brain
cardiacs / dirty boy
heart / barracuda

King Crimson - Islands

This is a beautiful melody, which used to float through my head often.

Thanks! I thought this was the most unusual pick in my selection, given that somehow most KC fans don't think much of the entire Islands album. A couple of years ago, the song made their way onto their setlists (I think thanks to current singer Jakko Jakszyk). I still can't believe that I heard it live last year.

Islands is great and among my favourite KC albums.

Anyway, the question raised by this thread is frankly crippling and I'm afraid I can't indulge.

They're not engraving the 5 on your tombstone, it's just an internet message board! I just picked 5 off the top of my head, from different eras of my listening life, that I thought had a great combination of melody and lyric. I could pick another 50, the list is not definitive.

Thin Lizzy - Do Anything You Want To
Information Society - What's On Your Mind (Pure Energy)
Yo-Yo - You Can't Play With My Yo-Yo
Guns and Roses - You Could Be Mine
Jerry Jeff Walker - Pissing in the Wind

Anyway, the question raised by this thread is frankly crippling and I'm afraid I can't indulge.

Ahmed fakroun - nisyan
denim - the great pub rock revival
Dj PlayStation - press start

only got 3 right now

Not tonight, alas. I suppose I'll sidestep it then:

Alexander Scriabin - Piano Sonata No. 10, Op. 70
Claude Vivier - Lonely Child
Ludwig van Beethoven - String Quartet No. 15 in A minor, Op. 132
Sofia Gubaidulina - The Canticle of the Sun
Ștefan Niculescu - Ison II

xp

Harry styles - sign of the times

xp interested in yr preferred recordings if you've got

Sorry I will try harter

The Beeters - 'A Day of My Life'
Steve E. Wonder - 'Superstation'
Simen and Garfinkle - 'Bridge In The Water'
Bob Dyban - 'Everybody Let's Get Stoned'
Kenny Rodger - '(Can't Stop) Fucking'

― Come and Rock Me, Hot Potatoes (Old Lunch), Tuesday, August 13, 2019 4:06 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

instant classic ilx post

Scriabin: Roger Woodward
Vivier: Susan Narucki, Schönberg & ASKO Ensembles, Reinbert de Leeuw (studio)
Beethoven: Alban Berg Quartett (live, 1989)
Gubaidulina: Mstislav Rostropovich, London Voices
Niculescu: various performers, Cristian Brâncuși

xp

ty!

Sorry I will try harter

The Beeters - 'A Day of My Life'
Steve E. Wonder - 'Superstation'
Simen and Garfinkle - 'Bridge In The Water'
Bob Dyban - 'Everybody Let's Get Stoned'
Kenny Rodger - '(Can't Stop) Fucking'

― Come and Rock Me, Hot Potatoes (Old Lunch), Tuesday, August 13, 2019 4:06 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

instant classic ilx post

― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, August 14, 2019 1:44 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

are "tim machine" the best thing david bowie ?

John Cale - Paris 1919
The Flatlanders - Dallas
The Slits - I Heard It Through the Grapevine
Big Star - Blue Moon
The Go-Betweens - Clouds

Living It Up - Rickie Lee Jones
Protection - Massive Attack
Astral Weeks - Van
The Violet Hour - The Clientele
Life During Wartime - Talking Heads

Protection a great pick, definitely the one that got away from my own 5.

Pomenitul:: the sun canticles is so amazing! Great selections.

John Lemon - I machine

Lynyrd Cohan – Haleylulu

“The Lakes of Canada” - The Innocence Mission
“My One and Only Love” - all versions esp. late-period Chet Baker
“Landscape for Future Earth” - Keith Jarrett
“Freedom ‘90” - George Michael
“Dry Bones” - Delta Rhythm Boys

Glad you like it, Moka! All five aim for ecstasy, each in their own way.

god i don't know

the clash - london calling
clifford brown - i'll remember april
cornelius - god only knows
eyedea & abilities - by the throat
jun togawa - radarman

that's just what popped into my head, i don't actually have a favorite five songs

Lonely Child def one of my favourite compositions

The other four are liable to change, but Lonely Child is up there at all times.

Juno "Help Is on the Way"
Sinatra "It's a Lonesome Old Town"
Meat Loaf "Two Out of Three Ain't Bad"
Afghan Whigs ft Marcy Mays "My Curse"
Bee Gees "Mr Natural"

Charlotte Hatherley - 'Suspiria'
Stereolab - 'Les Yper-Yper Sound'
The Orb - 'We're Pastie to be Grill You'
John Gavanti - 'I Awake'
Basia - 'Time and Tide'

John Cale - Paris 1919
The Flatlanders - Dallas
The Slits - I Heard It Through the Grapevine
Big Star - Blue Moon
The Go-Betweens - Clouds

― Chris L, Wednesday, August 14, 2019 11:26 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

amazing choices

Final Fantasy - The CN Tower Belongs to the Dead
Souls of Mischief - ‘93 Til Infinity
Real Life - Send Me An Angel
Gary Numan - Down In The Park
Freur - Doot-Doot

PP Arnold - Life is But Nothing
Frankie Valli - The Night
Nico - These Days
Willie Wright - Right on for the Darkness
Mr Twin Sister - Echo Arms

Frankie Valli - The Night

^^yes

Echo & the Bunnymen - Over the Wall
David Sylvian - Taking The Veil
Joseph Arthur - Travel As Equals
Paul Simon - The Coast
King Crimson - Islands

Will probably be flagellating myself in a bit for not including anything by Roxy Music, David Bowie or Gene Clark.

― Valentijn

AARGH! Sometimes I shouldn't post here while I should be working instead. I just realised that I managed to make an error in one of my supposedly-five-favourite-songs-of-all-times picks. It's as if my brain did some sort of erroneous auto-correct after typing 'the Co':
The Paul Simon selection should be 'The Cool, Cool River'
While I do like The Coast, there's five or six songs from the Rhythm Of The Saints album that I would rank above it. Over the last few years, I got increasingly fascinated with The Cool, Cool River.

Nu Shooz - Point of No Return
Flat Worms - 11816
Jake Xerxes Fussell - Have You Ever Seen Peaches Growing on a Sweet Potato Vine?
Big Thief - Paul
Hailu Mergia - Anchin Kfu Ayinkash

Foo Fighters - Ever Long
3 Doors Down - Super Man
Match Box 20 - Smooth (featuring Carlos Santaña)
Power Man 5000 - When Worlds Collide
Blink 182 - The Deftones
Tool - Blink 182
Sugar Ray - Are You Jimmy Ray?
Tool - Se7ven (featuring Kevin Spacey, that shit was fucked up)
Green Jello - This actually featured Maynard from Tool
Jucifer - This was Maynard's Side Project with Less Claypool of Primas
Monica - Don't Take It Personal (Just One of Dem Days)
Dmytro Yaremchuk - Хай Буде Щастя Любов

Sir Mix-A-Lot – Swap Meet Louie
The Rolling Stones – Hey, You, Get Offa iCloud
California Raisins feat. the Slits – I Heard It Through the Grapevine 2020
Jan Hammer – Can’t Touch This
Big Thief – Rattails

^ gets it

Stabbing Westward - What Do I Have to Do?
Mamma Mia - Meryl Streep feat. ABBA
Treeship - The 5 Saddest Lyrics Phoebe Bridgers Ever Wrote
Leonard Cohen - I'm Sad I Never Got to Hang Out With Phoebe Bridgers Before I Died of Leukemia
Filter - Lol Nice Shot Bro (feat. Maynard James Keynes of TOOL)

XXX_Temptation - C'mon Feel The Temptation! (feat. "Marky" Mark Wohlburg)
Juice WRLD - Juicy (feat. Notoriously Big "Big Papa" Christopher George Latore Wallace)
The Drake - Tootsie on the Side (feat. Dustun Hoffmen)
Blinded by the Lights - Mannfred Mann Earth's Band (feat. The Weekend)
Flo-Rider - Apple Bottom-Style Jeans (feat. T and the Pains)