Whats Your Favourite Song?

QantasA333 · Sat Jun 23, 2007 11:30 am

Well, what is it? I am compiling a list of all-time favourite songs, and would like to know your favourites. What are they?

No music videos please as I want your top 5 favourites from the 70's, 80's, 90's and todays music.

So your top 5 favourite songs, No# 1 is your favourite song of all time and No# 2-5 are your next favourites.

So start posting your favourites!

Cheers,
Leigh (QantasA333)

AeroWesty · Sat Jun 23, 2007 12:22 pm

#1: Go West - Village People (My theme song!) bouncy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2sNBAl47eQ

#2: Back For Good - Take That
#3: An American Tune - Paul Simon
#4: Casino Royale - Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
#5: Walk Away Renee - The Left Banke

KFLLCFII · Sat Jun 23, 2007 2:15 pm

#1: The Allman Brothers Band - "Melissa" (Song)

#2: Alter Bridge - "Down to My Last" (Song)

#3: Pink Floyd - "Take it Back" (Song)

#4: Incubus - "Echo" (Song)

#5: Pink Floyd - "Comfortably Numb" (Song)

ShannoninAMA · Sat Jun 23, 2007 2:39 pm

Tough choice, you could probably re-arrange my 1-5 in any order.

1. Hells Bells - ACDC

2. Live and Let Die - Guns N Roses (I know, they didn't sing it originally)

3. Enter Sandman - Metallica

4. Sweet Child of Mine - Guns N Roses

5. Paradise City - Guns N Roses

Honorable mention
Highway to Hell - ACDC
Welcome to the Jungle - Guns n roses
Dance the night away - Van Halen
Knockin on Heavens Door - Guns N Roses

Shannon

[Edited 2007-06-23 07:42:20]

DeltaAVL · Sat Jun 23, 2007 11:29 pm

Quoting AeroWesty (Reply 1):
#1: Go West - Village People (My theme song!)

Kicking video, too.

My personal favorites are as follows:

1. U2 - Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of (Song)

2. Coldplay - Fix You (Song)

3. Celine Dion - You and I (Song)

4. Andreas Johnson - Glorious (Song)

5. Keane - Hamburg Song (Song)

vikkyvik · Sun Jun 24, 2007 1:46 am

Quoting ShannoninAMA (Reply 3):
Tough choice, you could probably re-arrange my 1-5 in any order.

- you could probably re-arrange my top 50 in any random order...

Anyway, here's a random selection of 5 of my top songs:

1.) "One" - Metallica

2.) "Paradise City" - GnR

3.) "La Villa Strangiato" - Rush

4.) "Rapunzel" - Dave Matthews Band

5.) "Thunderstruck" - ACDC

ShannoninAMA · Sun Jun 24, 2007 2:16 am

Quoting Vikkyvik (Reply 5):

1.) "One" - Metallica

Quoting Vikkyvik (Reply 5):

5.) "Thunderstruck" - ACDC

Quoting Vikkyvik (Reply 5):
2.) "Paradise City" - GnR

Quoting KFLLCFII (Reply 2):

#5: Pink Floyd - "Comfortably Numb" (Song)

Quoting KFLLCFII (Reply 2):

#3: Pink Floyd - "Take it Back" (Song)

Great taste yes

Shannon

AeroWesty · Sun Jun 24, 2007 2:18 am

Quoting DeltaAVL (Reply 4):
Kicking video, too.

The scary part is I still know how to dance like that. ziplip

HAWK21M · Sun Jun 24, 2007 2:55 am

Tanhaee from Dil Chahtha hai.
bigthumbsup

regds
MEL

1stfl94 · Sun Jun 24, 2007 3:03 am

Hmm tough one, five personal favourites

One- Metallica

Ghost Love Score- Nightwish

Show Must Go On- Queen

High Hopes- Pink Floyd

Crazy Train- Ozzy Osbourne

flyorski · Sun Jun 24, 2007 3:08 am

Right now I have been listening to a lot of "Gorillaz":

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0

I also like "Wise Guys" (germany)

and

"Weird Al Yankovic"

And of course classics like: Bob Marley and etc.

WestJetYQQ · Sun Jun 24, 2007 5:16 am

#1 - The Pull - Chicago
#2 - Superman - Five for Fighting
#3 - Fix You - Coldplay
#4 - Desperado - The Eagles
#5 - Amanda - Boston

Here is a video of my #1 song, ThePull. This is one of the only places to see it, as the album was not released.

This video, along with one containing Fix You can be seen in my profile.

Cheers
Carson

AirPacific747 · Sun Jun 24, 2007 6:11 am

Simple Minds - Don't You Forget About Me

Dire Straits - Sultans Of Swing

Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits - Money For Nothing

Mark Knopfler - Sailing To Philadelphia

Mark Knopfler - What It Is

Rolling Stones - Paint It Black

Rolling Stones - I Can't Get No Satisfaction

Tracy Chapman - Fast Car

Tracy Chapman - Baby Can I Hold You

Tracy Chapman - Talkin' About A Revolution

The Connells - 74-75

Lionel Richie - All Night Long

U2 - Where The Streets Have No Name

U2 - Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For

U2 - Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me

ZZ Top - Gimme All Your Lovin'

Kylie Minogue & Nick Cave - Where The Wild Roses Grow

Some of my favourites and the list goes on and on!

I like 80's music and early 90's

[Edited 2007-06-23 23:24:38]

[Edited 2007-06-23 23:30:20]

B747forever · Sun Jun 24, 2007 6:24 am

I love all of Green Days and Michael Jackson. They really good.

charlienorth · Sun Jun 24, 2007 6:46 am

Van Halen-Beautiful Girls

Kenny Wayne Shepherd-Blue on Black

Fleetwood Mac-Go your own way..You make lovin' fun

Johnny Cash-There you go

Dean Martin-On an evening in Roma

Roy Orbisom-Oh,pretty woman...also like Van Halen's version

too many more to list

ShannoninAMA · Sun Jun 24, 2007 7:16 am

Quoting AirPacific747 (Reply 12):
Simple Minds - Don't You Forget About Me

Dire Straits - Sultans Of Swing

Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits - Money For Nothing

Mark Knopfler - Sailing To Philadelphia

Mark Knopfler - What It Is

Rolling Stones - Paint It Black

Rolling Stones - I Can't Get No Satisfaction

Tracy Chapman - Fast Car

Tracy Chapman - Baby Can I Hold You

Tracy Chapman - Talkin' About A Revolution

The Connells - 74-75

Lionel Richie - All Night Long

U2 - Where The Streets Have No Name

U2 - Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For

U2 - Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me

ZZ Top - Gimme All Your Lovin'

Kylie Minogue & Nick Cave - Where The Wild Roses Grow

Quoting Charlienorth (Reply 14):
Van Halen-Beautiful Girls

Kenny Wayne Shepherd-Blue on Black

Fleetwood Mac-Go your own way..You make lovin' fun

Johnny Cash-There you go

Dean Martin-On an evening in Roma

Roy Orbisom-Oh,pretty woman...also like Van Halen's version

Damn, you guys need to get a better idea of what 5 is Wink

Shannon

AirPacific747 · Sun Jun 24, 2007 7:30 am

Quoting ShannoninAMA (Reply 15):
Damn, you guys need to get a better idea of what 5 is

Hey who cares... :P pick 5 random songs from my list, there ya go... Big grin

charlienorth · Sun Jun 24, 2007 7:35 am

Quoting ShannoninAMA (Reply 15):

Damn, you guys need to get a better idea of what 5 is

Shannon

Adult ADD....even started reading an article but I got distracted watching something..don't remember what..damn! it was only a couple minutes ago ..or was it yesterday..what was the subject we were discussing??

HAWK21M · Sun Jun 24, 2007 2:00 pm

Tanhaee.

Lakshya

Two of the best ever.

regds
MEL

ferengi80 · Sun Jun 24, 2007 8:41 pm

My top 5 are: -

1. Shine Son - Dennis Locorriere
2. Hurt - Johnny Cash
3. Lady - Kenny Rogers
4. Candle in the Wind (1997 version, written in tribute to Diana, Princess of Wales) - Elton John
5. I am... I said - Neil Diamond.

I particularly like country music - Dennis Locorriere, for those of you who don't know, was the lead singer with Doctor Hook. Excellent!

dba4u · Sun Jun 24, 2007 9:14 pm

Offshore - Chicane
The house of house - Cherrymoon Traxx
It's a dream - DJ Panda
Spring - RMB
Nichts ist so hart wie das Leben - Bohse Onkelz

lapper · Sun Jun 24, 2007 9:42 pm

My Top 5 at the moment:

#1: Derek And The Dominos - "Anyday" (Song)

#2: Pink Floyd - "Wish You Were Here" (Song)

#3: Stevie Ray Vaughan - "Voodoo Chile" (Song)
(Stevies studio version of this sounds better though and great cranked up loud on the iPod)

#4: Scissor Sisters - "Don't Feel Like Dancing" (Song)

#5: Eric Clapton & Paul McCartney - "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" (Song)

Femme · Mon Jun 25, 2007 12:31 am

Very difficult to narrow it down to five but here goes in no particular order:

1 Anytime you need a friend - Mariah Carey

2 Still haven't found what I'm looking for - U2

3 Earthsong - Michael Jackson

4 Losing my religion - REM

5 I'm alive - Celine Dion

Plus to many dance tracks to mention !!

Claire Big grin

9V-SPF · Mon Jun 25, 2007 12:57 am

Tough question...spontaneously I would nominate the following five songs (in no particular order):

Guster - Medicine (Song)

U2 - Beautiful Day (Song)

The Offspring - Self Esteem (Song)

Snow Patrol - Run (Song)

The Verve - Lucky Man (Song)

...and a lot more songs that would deserve to be on this list Smile

RobTrent · Mon Jun 25, 2007 1:02 am

Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
Talking Heads - This is the place
Peter Gabriel - Shock The Monkey
Gary Numan - Are Friends Electric
Kate Bush - Cloudbusting

Regards
Rob

Edit=Typo

[Edited 2007-06-24 18:28:56]

Dougloid · Mon Jun 25, 2007 1:15 am

Ahhhhhhhh.

Shake, Rattle and Roll-Big Joe Turner
Kansas City-Wilbert Harrison
Born Under A Bad Sigh-Albert King
Goin' Back To Florida-Lightnin' Hopkins
Living In America-James Brown.

Bonus five:

When We Move To The Outskirts of Town-Albert King
Lila Lou-Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys
Wasted Days and Wasted Nights-Freddie Fender
Turn Me Loose-Dion
I'm On A Roll-Dr. John

FighterPilot · Mon Jun 25, 2007 3:50 am

#1 Fade To Black ~ Metallica
#2 Mutter ~ Rammstein
#3 The Thing That Should Not Be ~ Metallica
#4 Dreaming (DJ Tiesto Remix) ~ BT
#5 Wish You Were Here ~ Pink Floyd

Honorable Mentions
Sandstorm ~ Oasis
Adagio For Strings ~ DJ Tiesto
Comfortably Numb ~ Pink Floyd
Traffic ~ DJ Tiesto
Slip Out The Back ~ Fort Minor

Some of my favourite "songs" are actually sets by Paul Oakenfold, so I figure I should mention them too:
"Live From Creamfields Liverpool"
"Live From Home In Leicester Square"
All from the '99 Essential Mix CD

Cal airplane

NWADC9 · Mon Jun 25, 2007 12:56 pm

Superman - Five for Fighting
100 Years - Five for Fighting
Amsterdam - Coldplay
The Scientist - Coldplay
Clocks - Coldplay
Fix You - Coldplay
Welcome to the Jungle - Guns 'n Roses
Start Me Up - Rolling Stones
Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Baba O'Reily - The Who
Learning to Fly - Foo Fighters

Pick one

[Edited 2007-06-25 06:12:48]

ShannoninAMA · Mon Jun 25, 2007 1:00 pm

Quoting NWADC9 (Reply 27):
Welcome to the Jungle - AC/DC

Not to nitpick...but that was by Guns n roses Wink

NWADC9 · Mon Jun 25, 2007 1:13 pm

Quoting ShannoninAMA (Reply 28):
Quoting NWADC9 (Reply 27):
Welcome to the Jungle - AC/DC

Not to nitpick...but that was by Guns n roses

Opps

ebs757 · Mon Jun 25, 2007 2:05 pm

Coldplay- Clock's
Coldplay- Talk
Coldplay- Fix You
Coldplay- The Scientist

And Just about everything U2

MadameConcorde · Mon Jun 25, 2007 6:32 pm

My way - Frank Sinatra

Milord - Edith Piaf

O sole mio (Napolitan song - truly a great classic)

MadameConcorde · Mon Jun 25, 2007 6:48 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzCMfO1Uq68

Quoting MadameConcorde (Reply 31):
Milord - Edith Piaf

A320ajm · Mon Jun 25, 2007 7:04 pm

1. Bitter Sweet Symphony by The Verve
2. Chasing Cars by Snow Patrol
3. Vertigo by U2
4. Mr Brightside by The Killers
5. I Predict a Riot by The Kaiser Chiefs

Reagrds
A320ajm

freckles · Wed Jun 27, 2007 3:57 am

1. Ronan Keating - Baby Can I Hold You Smile

2. Marc Cohn - Walk Through The World
3. Rogue Traders - In Love Again
4. Hafdis Huld - Happily Ever After
It's hard to narrow it down to five...
5. Feeder - Just The Way I'm Feeling

Smile

+ anything by Ronan Keating Big grin

FlyDeltaJets87 · Wed Jun 27, 2007 4:06 am

Let's See:

1) Walkin' in Memphis, by Marc Cohn

2) Livin' on a Prayer, Bon Jovi

3) Danger Zone, by Kenny Loggins

4) American Soldier, by Toby Keith

5) God Bless the USA, by Lee Greenwood

Those are my top five for the purpose of this list, though there are many more songs I could easily put up there.

AllegiantAir · Wed Jun 27, 2007 4:15 am

1)Face Down Red Jumpsuit Apparatus

2)I Write Sins Not Tragedies Panic! At The Disco

3)Dammit Blink-182

4)Where Is The Love? Black Eyed Peas

5)Pain Jimmy Eat World

Pohlcat · Wed Jun 27, 2007 1:26 pm

Some I have...

When We Dance
In The Air Tonight - Phil Collins
Mercy Street - Peter Gabriel
Sledgehammer - Peter Gabriel
Growing Up - Peter Gabriel
More Than This - Peter Gabriel
Stand Or Fall- The Fixx
Secret Separation - The Fixx
Push - Matchbox Twenty
Bent - Matchbox Twenty
December - Collective Soul
Heavy - Collective Soul
Tremble For My Beloved - Collective Soul
Over My Head (Cable Car) - The Fray
Heaven Forbid - The Fray
Spill The Wine - War
Why Can't We Be Friends? - War
Low Rider - War
Lights - Journey
Open Arms - Journey
Line Of Fire - Journey
Whiter Shade Of Pale - Procol Harum
Homburg - Procol Harum

And anything and everything from Coldplay, Pinback, Weezer, Def Leppard, Genesis, The Cure, Toad The Wet Sprocket (all time favorite)......

I could go on, but I'd be typing all night! biggrin

When you're a music junkie like me, there is no such thing as one favroite song

piercey · Wed Jun 27, 2007 3:07 pm

Quoting ShannoninAMA (Reply 3):
1. Hells Bells - ACDC

2. Don't Stop Me Now - Queen

3. Famous Last Words - My Chemical Romance

4. Plan B - MuteMath

5. Tie: Supermassive Blackhole - Muse and Mr. Brightside - The Killers

btw, obligatory off-topic Trevor Hoffman video

piercey in CLE Sad

leigh pilgrim · Thu Jun 28, 2007 3:09 am

These..................

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWnapx502uQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTrNQCYh70Y

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-mrqz96yeY

Basically, anything by Pink Floyd and Genesis

Confuscius · Thu Jun 28, 2007 5:25 am

Lindsay Wagner (aka Bionic Woman & Select Comfort Mattress spokesperson) sings Morris Albert's "Feelings".

Sabena332 · Thu Jun 28, 2007 7:41 am

At the moment: Jan Delay - Tuerlich, Tuerlich:

Patrick

PSA53 · Thu Jun 28, 2007 9:53 am

Quoting Piercey (Reply 38):
Piercey

Seeing the Trevor Hoffman video,makes me think of another great closer in Rod Beck, who deserves the "Hells Bells" entry,who sadly past away at 38..He was awesome.RIP,Rod!

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2914994

There are so many favorites it would be unfair to isolate anyone.
But these high frequency plays-

Magic Carpet Ride-Steppenwolf
Wind Cries Mary-Hendrix
Castles Made Of Sand-Hendrix
Mercy,Mercy-Stones
Limelight-Rush
Holiday-Green Day
Born On The Bayou-CCR
Working Man-Rush
Smooth Dancer-Deep Purple
Ain't Talkin About Love-Van Halen
I Put A Spell On You-CCR

ConcordeMach2 · Fri Jun 29, 2007 5:39 am

1 = Lostprophets - Town called Hypocrasy
2 = Lostprophets - Last Summer
3 = Lostprophets - Everyday Combat
4 = Muse - Knights of Cydonia
5 = Biffy Clyro - Saturday Superhouse

In case you didnt get the clue - I love Lostprophets!

Also, I have met Biffy Clyro

af773atmsp · Fri Jun 29, 2007 5:58 am

1. Far Away-Nickelback

2. Photograph-Nickelback

3. If Everyone Cared-Nickelback

4. This Ain't A Scene its an Arms Race-Fall Out Boy

5. Dance Dance-Fall Out Boy

access-air · Fri Jun 29, 2007 9:22 am

Well if we are talking about Secular music, I think Five of my favourite (In no particular order) songs would be:

1. Pipeline - The Chantays

2. New Day For You - Basia

3. Call Me - Blondie

4. Dreams - Fleetwood Mac

5. Here Comes The Sun - The Beatles

I have many, many more favourite songs but these five I could listen to over and over again and not get tired of them....

Cheers, Access-Air

jetmech · Fri Jun 29, 2007 9:03 pm

#1-5; "God save the Queen", The Sex Pistols,

Signed,
A certain Canadian Wink

.

Farcry · Fri Jun 29, 2007 9:28 pm

There are so many (approaching 60) but, here goes...

Bring back my yesterday (Barry White) (if only we could)

Baby Blues (Barry White) Such a sexy song from the 'Voice'

Go West (Pet Shop Boys) A far better version than Village people Westy bigthumbsup

Never blame the rainbows for the rain (Moody Blues)

Shelter of your arms (Willie Nelson)

I seem to have mellowed in my years but still love the Beatles, Stones etc..

CVG777 · Fri Jun 29, 2007 9:45 pm

1. Tonight, Tonight - The Smashing Pumpkins

2. Southern Cross - Crosby, Stills, and Nash

3. Sailing - Christopher Cross

4. Speed of Sound - Coldplay

5. Fire and Rain - James Taylor

There are a lot more than that, but number 1 is definitly my favorite.

Honorable mention: Moskau!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jH8gtrD4_C4 silly

OzarkD9S · Sat Jun 30, 2007 5:58 pm

1. Why Don't We Do It In The Road - The Beatles

2. Domino Dancing - The Pet Shop Boys

3. Perfect Kiss - New Order

4. Spiderman - Michael Buble

5. Dance 10, Looks 3 - From "A Chorus Line"

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