DVC's estimated top 10 songs of all time

1. Sonic Youth - Cross the Breeze
2. The Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter
3. Bob Dylan - Tombstone Blues
4. Prince - Sign O the Times
5. The Stooges - I Wanna Be Your Dog
6. Husker Du - Chartered Trips
7. Parliament - Wizard of Finance
8. The Beatles - Martha My Dear
9. GZA - Duel of the Iron Mic
10. The Beach Boys - Good Vibrations

Great title for the thread. "Estimated" is the way it should be. If anyone ever found their top ten and settled with it, then they don't listen to anything new.

Can we have instrumentals, too?

Yes.

Make a list, foo'.

In the order I thought of them, then; I'd love it if people downloaded and listened to these:

"May Nothing But Happiness Come Through Your Door" by Mogwai.
"Imagination Parts 1 & 2" by Grooverider.
"Napalm Brain/Scatter Brain" by DJ Shadow.
"Sara" by Bob Dylan.
"Pyramind Song" by Radiohead.
"54 Cymru Beats" by Aphex Twin.
"Two Hearts in 3/4 Time" by The Avalanches.
"Like Hearts Swelling" by Polmo Polpo.
"Amo Bishop Roden" by Boards of Canada.
"Remind Me" by Röyksopp.

Cooooooooool, I'll download and listen to the ones I haven't heard. I'd expect the same from you, except you listen to music by album, so I shouldn't get my hopes up.

Kris Kross-I Missed The Bus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhUx3ENL-RQ

The Rolling Stones - Heartbreaker
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0qb1eh-Qig

Van Halen - Everybody Wants Some
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA8Qg-bfWs0

Songs that bear mentioning that will be ignored by the youth:

1. I've Got You Under My Skin - Frank Sinatra (1956/Songs for Swingin' Lovers)
2. One for My Baby - Frank Sinatra (1958/Frank Sinatra sings for Only the Lonely
3. Something - Frank Sinatra (1979/Triloy: Past, Present and Future)
4. Some Other Time - Tony Bennett with Bill Evans (1975/Tony Bennett Bill Evans Album)
5. So What - Miles Davis Sextet (1959/Kind of Blue)
6. But Beautiful - Billie Holiday (1958/Lady in Satin)
7. How High The Moon - Ella Fitzgerald (1960/Ella in Berlin)
8. Do Nothing 'Til You Hear From Me - Ella Fitzgerald with the Duke Ellington Orchestra (1957/Ella Fitzgerald sings the Duke Ellington Songbook)
9. Lush Life - John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman (1964/John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman)
10. Sing Sing Sing (Live) - Benny Goodman and His Orchestra (1938/The Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert)

Mike, tradition's overrated.

DVC, I'd only heard Dylan's number from your list; my favourite among the new is The Stooges'.

Anyway, my list has changed already.

I think its almost impossible for anybody to have a definitive top 10 but ive thought about mine and here they are..

Elvis-American Trilogy
Oasis- Whatever
Beatles-Day in the life
Elvis-Suspicious Minds
Bob Dylan-Changeing Of Guard
Bob Dylan-Hurricaine
RHCP-Don't Stop
Rolling Stones-Paint it black
Beatles-Rocky Raccoon
Ray Charles-I cant stop loving you

For me these kind of list are always hard to do as my mind goes blank when doing the list.

The guitar riff in that song is insane.

"Remind Me" by Royksopp is incredible, by the way. I didn't like that Mogwai one though. I think post-rock was just a phase for me; I can't stand it anymore.

And everywhere I go
there's always something to remind me
of another place and time
Where love that travelled far had found me

This song is absolutely wonderful.

Untrue. Baseless tradition with no purpose is overrated.

Those songs I've listed are songs that have something that most songs now-a-days lack: a heart and feelings and truth. I listed some alternatives that wouldn't have been mentioned on this list because they've earned mention and have stood the test of time. That's the mark of a truly great work of art, no? And if it remains true to us, then all the better.

I admire and highly regard the works of many more contemporary artists and groups like The Beatles or Pink Floyd or Bob Dylan or the Stones. They're important, all of them. That said, to me, tradition isn't overrated if it's still relevant to the times: love, loss, pain, disapointment and truth will always be relevant.

I was only kidding, Mike.

But for what it's worth, you're talking about pop music alone. That's fine, of course, but I must emphatically disagree with the notion that songs these days lack something that the past didn't.

That Royksopp song is in a Geico commercial, haha! I knew it sounded familiar.

Really? It always saddens me when I hear these things. It's like sharing a lover.

Here's the commercial:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=H02iwWCrXew

Haha, that's actually quite good. All is forgiven, then.

Well, I could also mention classical pieces.

Ravel, Rachmaninoff, Debbusy and men of that era intrest me the most and of course Copeland, Gershwin and Stravinsky and Samuel Barber.

Plz do. I'll gather some of my favorites, too.

George Jones & Tammy Wynette - Golden Ring (LIVE)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zAa72Isd3U

Pink Floyd - Childhood's End
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIt3uO8aziw

Classical Pieces:

Rhapsody in Blue (Gershwin)
Concerto for Clarinet, Strings, Harp and Piano (Copeland)
Fur Elsie (Beethoven)
The Rite of Spring (Stravinsky)
Adagio to Strings (Barber)
1812 Overture (Tchaikovsky)
Bolero (Ravel)
The Blue Danube (Straus)
Winter: The Four Seasons (Vivaldi)
Nimrod: Enigma Variations (Elgar)

Red Rider - Lunatic Fringe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp9852hq0W0

Black Sabbath - Tomorrow's Dream
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnVA-1QsJxU

Guns N Roses - Nice Boys
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8pah9jqX-E

Led Zeppelin - Traveling Riverside Blues
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxuFc-QnfK4

Guns N Roses - One In A Million (LIVE 1986)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5rejzm3PhQ

Happy Mondays-Hallelujah 1989
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=1u43h96s28A

Lynyrd Skynyrd - Was I Right Or Wrong (Demo Version)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4c5VnhT8pE
One of my new favorites in terms of lyrics. Plus, the guitar solo in the middle is friggin' sweet.

Van Halen - Atomic Punk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XrdzdsRcE0

Led Zeppelin - You Shook Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wb2vxM6EeYo

This is really a very hard question to answer. I don't think it's possible, at least for me. I have so many favorites. Classic/Rock has always near/dear to me, but there are other styles, songs, singers that have had wonderful songs, I don't think I could possible pick even 100 let alone 10. I think I'd be doing a lot of shuffling around as I remember songs that I forgot to include on my list.


TIS

Lynyrd Skynyrd - Junkie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5-slR8wVWU&feature=user

Led Zeppelin - Somethin' Else (BBC Sessions)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1a4oJGd4VWM

Led Zeppelin - That's The Way
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE3KZxOiUJA

Question Mark And The Mysterians - 96 Tears
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiHHfnV9d_I

Santana - Black Magic Woman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXXmhPAaDDc

If I really had to compile a list, it'd look something like this, in absolutely no order, and with a great expectation that it will change and evolve over time, just like any sort of categorization of exceptional art.

Here we go:

"Heroin" by The Velvet Underground (1967)
"Svefn-G-Englar" by Sigur Rós (2000)
"Talk Show Host" by Radiohead (1996)
"Bold as Love" by The Jimi Hendrix Experience (1968)
"Echoes" by Pink Floyd (1971)
"Peacebone" by Animal Collective (2007)
"Sir Psycho Sexy" - Red Hot Chili Peppers (1991)
"My Horse Must Lose" by The Sound of Animals Fighting (2006)
"Slow" by My Bloody Valentine (1988)
"Dark Matter" by Andrew Bird (2007)

I wouldn't call it my top 10 of all time as much as I would my top ten as of January 5, 5:14 PM.

The Rolling Stones - Reelin' and Rockin' (Alternate Version 1964)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVJrxt6QxZk

Queen - Sheer Heart Attack
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXc_z5x5oQY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sapgT-6Yx-g

The Rolling Stones - Loving Cup
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex1nxuM1fU8

The Who - Young Man Blues (LIVE 1970)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Tke1RvPTDY

Oh well a young man ain't got nothin' in the world these days
I said a young man ain't got nothin' in the world these days

You know in the old days
When a young man was a strong man
All the people they'd step back
When a young man walked by

But you know nowadays
It's the old man,
He's got all the money
And a young man ain't got nothin' in the world these days
I said nothing

Everybody knows that a young man ain't got nothin'.
Everybody!
Everybody knows that a young man ain't got nothin'
He got nothin'
Nothin'

Take it easy on the young man
They ain't got nothin' in the world these days
I said they ain't got nothin'!
They got sweet fuck-all!

The Who - A Quick One While He's Away
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCKlr5qeiQY

Kenny sharp - domer - uprising gold



http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=XsQcIHrV5zU

Led Zeppelin - Nobody's Fault But Mine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UthxH9WbE8E