Your top five songs of all time

[alphawolf]

Post 'em, friends.


1. Anouk - Nobody's Wife

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2. Red Hot Chili Peppers - My Friends

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3. Arcade - Nothin' to Lose

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4. Bill Withers - Ain't No Sunshine

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5. Lynyrd Skynyrd - Gimme Back My Bullets

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alpha

[instruMENTAL]

Damn this is hard. Ah, I'll try; why not?
In no particular order:

Breaking Benjamin - Sooner or Later
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Metallica - Nothing Else Matters
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Foo Fighters - Rope
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Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
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Seether - Like Suicide
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And there is still soo much more; Disturbed, Alice in Chains, Pearl Jam, Three Days Grace...

[thehammer]

1. Explosions in the Sky - "The Only Moment We Were Alone"
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2. Slow Six - "The Night You Left New York"
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3. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - "Sleep"
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4. Sigur Rós - "Sæglópur"
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5. Mogwai - "Mogwai Fear Satan"
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Top 5 post-rock songs. I can't limit my favorite non-post-rock songs to just 5.

[jkatra]

I'm a jazz fan, so here you go:

Brad Mehldau: "Wonderwall"
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Eric Dolphy: "Hat and Beard"
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Miles Davis: "Flamenco Sketches"
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Antonio Carlos Jobim: "Wave"
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James Williams: "Alter Ego"
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[Income]

I'm into psytrance and drum & bass.

1. Neelix - Expect What To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
(This link will only work for a while)
2. Silent Dust - 1959 (Calibre remix) To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
3. Stan SB - Action To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
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5. Neelix - smoke and mirrors To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

[storm eyes]

Here is one of them...

Pretender (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.) - Sarah Jaffe

and another...

Violent Mood Swings (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.) - Stabbing Westward

this...this...this

Born To Die (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.) - Lana Del Rey

one more...

Bored (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.) -Deftones

The number One...

Nothing At All (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.) - Rob Dougan

[Zodd]

Top 5 is too hard, so I'll make a top 2...

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Tool - Lateralus, Third Eye, Aenima, Reflection etc.

[Zhen]

this is an impossible question!!!

[storm eyes]

I keep thinking.. what will I take out so I can put this one in. :faint:

[envirodude]

If we limit it to post-1980...

David Bowie and Queen--Under Pressure
Smashing Pumpkins – 1979
Psychedelic Furs - The Ghost In You
Talk Talk - It's My Life
U2 - Bad

[davai]

Subject to change...

Dvorak - Slavonic Dances op.46 - No. 7 in C minor

Pink Floyd - Echoes

Philip Glass - Metamorphosis 4

Gregorio Allegri - Miserere mei, Deus

davai - Decorating ................ (it's one of my own, so what :p)

[dontmesswithme]

"Good Bait" as played by Nina Simone

"That's Life" sung by Frank Sinatra

"A Very Good Year" sung by Frank Sinatra

"Depuis Le Jour" by Gustave Charpentier, sung by Kathleen Battle

"Since I've Been Loving You" by Led Zepplin

I think, anyway....

[psykhe]

Eversince the World Began - Survivor

Dreamgirl - Dave Matthews Band

Memory - Epica

Dust in the Wind - Kansas

Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd

...and more. :p

[jfc]

Boston - More Than a Feeling
Joe Satriani - Crushing Day
the Connels - Stone Cold Yesterday
The Beat - Rock n roll Girl
Matthew Good Band - Jenni's Song

[BlackMita]

I tried to narrow down my criteria to longevity of appeal... so I avoided listing works I only discovered in the last 2 years or so.

5
Linkin Park - P5hng Me A*wy (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)

4
Super Metroid OST - Lower Brinstar (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)

3
Chrono Trigger OST - Wind Scene ~ World Map Theme 3 (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)

2
Boards of Canada - Basefree (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)

1
Radix - Paul the Penguin (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)

[satellite opi9]

1. Gymnopédie No. 1 -- To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

2. Dvorak Symphony No. 9 in E Minor -- To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

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4. Pavane -- To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

5. Clair de Lune -- To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

[Samoan Corleone]

Christmas Tree by Lady Gaga
Friday by Rebecca Black
Baby by Justin Bieber
Under the Mistletoe by Justin Bieber
Real Muthaphukkin Gs by Eazy-E

[Aboni]

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[deconspire]

In no particular order:

Since I've Been Loving You-Led Zeppelin (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)

I Know-Helmet (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)

Motion Suggests-Pavement (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)

Calvin-Jon Spencer Blues Explosion (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)

Today Was A Good Day-Ice Cube (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)

[Chazzaroo]

Brubeck - Take Five
Tuck Andress' solo version of Begin the Beguine
Stevie Ray's solo of Little Wing
Anybody doing I'll Take the A Train
Beatles--She loves you

forgot Israel Kamakawiwoʻole -- Over the Rainbow
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there are probably better vids of it, but at least here you can hear it.
forgot Whole Lotta Love -- you know who
forgot Allman Bros -- Ramblin Man
forgot...

[stasis]

Qualitative Top Five
This is what I would select myself; the most authentic and/or moving pieces within what I would call my favorite genres of music. You won't like it.

5. Atrax Morgue - Living Dead (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)
4. Steel Hook Prosthesis - The Excruciation Sequence (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)
3. Arvo Pärt - Te Deum (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)
2. Prurient - Cocaine Death (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)
1. Black Boned Angel - Supereclipse II (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)



Quantitative Top Five
This is what I have played the most by count over the past few years, according to last.fm. Two tracks bumped (1 and 6) because I could not find them streaming anywhere. No overlap. You might like it.

5. Nový Svět – Souvenir de Kashmir (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)
4. Haus Arafna – Blood (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)
3. Unto Ashes – Convivio / Canzoni (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.) (partial sample only)
2. Doseone – Civilization (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)
1. Death in June – The Mourner's Bench (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)


Both methods of ranking have advantages and disadvantages and I'm not sure which is more meaningful a measure anymore. A good excuse to list ten tracks instead of five.

[admittedheretic]

In no order.

KottonMouth Kings - Peace Not Greed (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)
Tool - Lateralus (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)
Linkin Park - In The End (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)
Eve 6 - Anytime (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)
Garth Brooks - Standing Outside the Fire (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)

[Fishism]

This is tough....

Sweet Child O' Mine - Guns N Roses
Reckoner - Radiohead
Disarm - Smashing Pumpkins
Interstate Love Song - Stone Temple Pilots
Cornerstone - Arctic Monkeys

[Aboni]

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[deconspire]

Qualitative Top Five
This is what I would select myself; the most authentic and/or moving pieces within what I would call my favorite genres of music. You won't like it.

Truer words may never have been spoken. But at least I now know there actually was a target audience for Metal Machine Music.

[stasis]

Truer words may never have been spoken. But at least I now know there actually was a target audience for Metal Machine Music.
Yes. But even then Lou Reed's work was nothing new. To understand where these artists are coming from, we must return to the Futurist movement of the early 1900s. One highly influential Mr. Russolo will explain (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.). With regard to the transgressive character of the found sounds and elements, the sampling which dominates these contemporary genres, Dada has certainly been influential as well.

This is all very stuffy and proper, I assure you. The taste can be acquired.

[timeineternity]

You won't like it.

Who doesn't dig some Arvo Pärt?

Yes. But even then Lou Reed's work was nothing new. To understand where these artists are coming from, we must return to the Futurist movement of the early 1900s. One highly influential Mr. Russolo will explain (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.). With regard to the transgressive character of the found sounds and elements, the sampling which dominates these contemporary genres, Dada has certainly been influential as well.

This is all very stuffy and proper, I assure you. The taste can be acquired.

Certainly, I very much have an appreciation for the idea of enjoying sounds simply for their own sake, to listen with positively childish pleasure à la John Cage (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.), but I will always love the über-melodic pop of the Beach Boys, the sublime counterpoint of Bach, et al. I try to enjoy a wide range of sounds without being limited to convention, but... sometimes when I chance upon a work that is purely 'noise', I just get bored (albeit, recognizing an actual 'idea' behind such a work will certainly abate the boredom for me). I blame rapacious environmental conditioning.



Oh, and I cannot come up with a top 5.

[stasis]

Who doesn't dig some Arvo Pärt?
People in the anti-Satie camp. Those who regard Górecki's third as training wheel music for zinfandel-tilting yuppies. Diehard baroque drones. Proud owners of the entire Rush discography. And Estonians, apparently.


sometimes when I come across a work that is purely 'noise', I just get bored. I blame rapacious environmental conditioning.
I find that I am bored by noise that seems intended to be as random or free-form or wild as possible. For example, I have never been able to appreciate the Japanese noise art and it does seem like a cultural disconnect. Use of noise as a more precise instrument (paradoxically!), on the other hand, is something else in my opinion. It does often require active listening though, and it is perhaps more readily boring than something with a hook if the artist is mediocre.

[deconspire]

Yes. But even then Lou Reed's work was nothing new. To understand where these artists are coming from, we must return to the Futurist movement of the early 1900s. One highly influential Mr. Russolo will explain (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.). With regard to the transgressive character of the found sounds and elements, the sampling which dominates these contemporary genres, Dada has certainly been influential as well.

Eh, I had a couple of intelligently written paragraphs to post, but decided to scrap them. I enjoyed the article, but I felt like it was just a verbose way to say, "go study Ohm's Acoustic Law". At any rate, it's a musical movement that few are good at which makes it all the more interesting to me. I can see how someone with a lot of electronica knowledge would eventually be attracted to this style.
This is all very stuffy and proper, I assure you. The taste can be acquired.

I've actually rather enjoyed Black Boned Angel - Supereclipse II upon repeat listening. You start to hear the hooks after a while. But it's still too relentlessly dissonant for me to seek out.