Your favourite 3 (or more) songs of all time

[tinycowboy]

Tricky, because they change every so often, but right now (in no particular order) it's:

1. Gold Soundz - Pavement (a lovely, lovely song - classic Pavement acher)
2. You Never Should - My Bloody Valentine (when the extra guitar comes in halfway through, I feel like I've left the ground)
3. Plainsong - The Cure (instant classic. I love The Cure)
4. Do You Know How To Waltz? - Low (from silence to wall of sound in 14 minutes. Shocking coming from a band who had barely risen above a whisper on two previous albums)
5. There Is A Light That Never Goes Out - The Smiths (the theme tune of many a drunken evening)

 

[DarrenFreemansPerm]

Right here in my arms - H.I.M

 

[Dave the OAP]

stairway to heaven -zep
freebird - skinnerd
musical box- genesis
besame mucho - andrea bochelli
e lucevan estelle - pavarotti
start me up - stones
if i fell - beatles
wombling merry christmas - rhianna

 

[BadFish]

Badfish - Sublime
Boy with the Arab Strap - Belle and Sebastian
Sally Cinnamon - Stone roses*
Just Like Heaven - The Cure
Vapourtrail - ride
I gotta Move - The Kinks
To Be Someone - The Jam*

Favourtie song changes daily but there will always be a Roses and Jam song in there.

 

[fisons]

1. Good Old Sussex By the Sea
2. Shane Warne Wherever you may be ......
3. Matty Prior's our keeper....

 

[withdeanwombat]

One too many mornings. Bob Dylan.

Days. The Kinks.

House of the Rising Sun. Woodie Guthrie, or The Rolling Stones.


But there are loads, and choice depends on mood.

 

[joeinbrighton]

The Waterboys - Whole Of The Moon
The Kinks - Days
The Beatles - A Day In The Life
U2 - The Unforgettable Fire
Squeeze - Up The Junction
The Eagles - Hotel California
The Stone Roses - Made Of Stone
Oasis - Live Forever
The Cure - In Between Days
Echo & The Bunnymen - The Killing Moon

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

Blue Sky - The Allman Brothers' band
My Baby Just Cares for Me - Nina Simone
Crossroads (Live version) - Cream
Foxtrot - (all 20 minutes of it) - Genesis
It's All Over Now - The Rolling Stones
Reelin' in The Years - Steely Dan
Just like heaven - The Cure
Time Loves a hero - Little Feat.
Please, Please, Please Let Me get What I Want - The Smiths
Promise of a Fisherman - Santana
Brown Street - Weather Report
Beethoven's 7th symphony

 

[tinx]

So difficult to make a short list but this is probably as close as I can get. Mostly due to the meaning they have to me, or reflect a point in my life.

Street Spirit - Radiohead
Everlong - Foo Fighters
Lets get in on - Marvin Gaye
Sitting on the dock of the bay - Otis Redding
Black - Pearl Jam
Fade into you - Mazzy Star
Hunger Strike - Temple of the dog
The Funeral - Band of horses
Wires - Athlete
No one knows - Queens of the stone age
Mersey Paradise - Stone Roses

 

[tinycowboy]

Mersey Paradise - Stone Roses

Nice.

 

[Buzzer]

I couldn't narrow it down to 30 or 50 or even a top 100. All depends on my mood.

 

[otk]

Dancing In The Street - Martha Reeves and the Vandellas

Downtown - Petula Clark

Messages - OMD

 

[hans kraay fan club]

I couldn't narrow it down to 30 or 50 or even a top 100. All depends on my mood.

That.

 

[Perry Milkins]

stairway to heaven -zep
freebird - skinnerd
musical box- genesis
besame mucho - andrea bochelli
e lucevan estelle - pavarotti
start me up - stones
if i fell - beatles
wombling merry christmas - rhianna

Amazing yet you quote an 'Eagles' track on your sig??

 

[Vegas Seagull]

The Jam - English Rose
Joy Division - Atmosphere
The Who - Pinball Wizard

 

[Perry Milkins]

Under the Boardwalk – The Drifters
The Last Resort – The Eagles
Heroes – Bowie
Walk Like a Man – Four Seasons
Stand by Me – Ben E King
Year of the Cat – Al Stewart
More than a Feeling – Boston
Closest thing to Heaven – Kane Gang
Fantasy – Earth Wind and Fire
Life in the Fast Lane – The Eagles

 

[Razzoo]

At this moment it is
Hurricane Bob Dylan
Nightingale Low
Seven and seven is Love
Ask me again in 10 mins and I'd give you three different songs.

 

[Dave the OAP]

Amazing yet you quote an 'Eagles' track on your sig??

I could list out plenty of Eagles Tracks that I really rate, but i was trying to limit myself.

i also missed out Focus, Thin Lizzy, Eva Cassidy, and of course stacks of Mozart , faure, bach etc.

If someone pushed me to find out my song that would be last played at my funeral, it would be La Crimosa, Mozart's Requiem. Possibly the most sublime piece of music ever written

 

[tinycowboy]

If someone pushed me to find out my song that would be last played at my funeral

Ah, funeral songs - a great thread for another day....

 

[Springsteen is a gull]

Easy I can just cut and paste my list from a boring day last week - but our attempt to amuse ourselves was more ambitious.

Top 50 songs - only one song per artist allowed (makes it tough that!)

My list;
1. Thunder Road – Bruce Springsteen
2. Alternative Ulster – Stiff Little Fingers
3. Try a little Tenderness – Otis Redding
4. Teenage Kicks – Undertones
5. Landlocked Blues – Bright Eyes
6. Out there in the night – Only Ones
7. Papa was a rodeo – Magnetic Fields
8. Ever fallen in love with someone – Buzzcocks
9. Rockhard Times – Eels
10. What’s going on – Marvin Gaye
11. All this useless beauty – Elvis Costello
12. Heroin – Velvet Underground
13. Like a Hurricane – Neil Young
14. Creep – Radiohead
15. Aint that enough – Teenage Fanclub
16. Jersey Girl – Tom Waits
17. Hateful – The Clash
18. Pink Houses – John Mellencamp
19. Street Hassle – Lou Reed
20. Down in the tube station at midnight – Jam
21. Don’t Dictate - Penetration
22. Never ever – All Saints
23. And it stoned me – Van Morrison
24. Bring it on – Gaslight Anthem
25. At 17 – Janis Ian
26. So it Goes – Nick Lowe
27. Lustre – Ed Harcourt
28. Goodbye to Love – Carpenters
29. Sail Away – Randy Newman
30. Traffic – Stereophonics
31. Wake me up when September ends – Green Day
32. Father and Son – Cat Stevens
33. Little by Little - Oasis
34. Will You – Hazel O’Conner
35. Let it be – Beatles
36. Jiggery Pokery – Duckworth Lewis Method
37. Too Much too young – The Specials
38. Bad Cover version - Pulp
39. Baba O’Reily – The Who
40. Everybody knows except you – Divine Comedy
41. Burn it down – Dexys Midnight Runners
42. House – Ben Folds Five
43. The Dark is Rising – Mercury Rev
44. Rat trap – Boomtown Rats
45. So far Away – Carole King
46. Night Moves – Bob Seger
47. Please stand up – British Sea Power
48. Romeo and Juliet - Dire Straits
49. I want you – Bob Dylan
50. Last Kiss – Pearl Jam