Top ten favourite songs of all time

Was just playing around on youtube getting all nostalgic listening to and watching vids of my favourite tracks of the past. Drew up the following list of mostly songs I danced my socks off to in my early 20s. Thought I'd post them here as links so that the curious can listen to them and encourage others to post their top tens too! Here's my list:

Star – Erasure
Wonderful life – Black
Groove is in the Heart – Dee lite
Shiny Happy People – R.E.M.
Ride on Time- Black Box
Blue Savanah Song – Erasure
Starfish and Coffee – Prince
Birdhouse in Your Soul – They Might be Giants
Don’t stop Til you get enough – Michael Jackson
We are family – Sister Sledge

maybe is I post the word "GAY" the thread will suddenly be mobbed with contributions. That usually does the trick

Farmer Michael Hayes - Christy moore
Spanish Jack - Willy DeVille
Molly Brannigan - Colm O'Dómhnaill
Layla - Eric Clapton
Galway to Graceland - Ron Kavana
Séamisín - Jimmí O Sé
Sweet Jane - Lou Reed & Steve Hunter
Going to my Hometown - Rory Gallagher
Wind of Change - The Scorpions
Shallow Brown - Tony Hall

I'll Have to Say I Love You in a Song - Jim Croce
And Your Bird Can Sing - Beatles
Sand in Your Shoes - Al Stewart
Der Letzte Cowboy - Tommy Beier
Ave verum corpus - W. A. Mozart
In the Living Years - Mike and the Mechanics
Let's Spend the Night Together - Rolling Stones
The Rose - Bette Middler
Non succederà più - Claudia Mori
Eres Tu - Mocedades

*Ecelctic but still dates me*

I don't have an official top ten of all time, but I do have a top 15 U2 songs of all time, which would probably be most of my top ten of all time:

1. Where the Streets Have No Name
2. Where the Streets Have No Name 9/11 tribute - good enough for two slots
3. Bad
4. With or Without You
5. New Year's Day
6. Sunday Bloody Sunday
7. City of Blinding Lights
8. Do You Feel Loved
9. The Unforgettable Fire
10. Ultraviolet (Light My Way)
11. Yahweh
12. Miracle Drug
13. Walk On
14. Beautiful Day
15. Mysterious Ways

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No I am just a dork. Edited it above. I tried to make a top ten for U2 and found it impossible, hence the top 15.

top 15s are okay leeza

I first saw U2 in Edinburgh on the October tour and loved them to bits through Boy, October and War and then went rapidly off them as their raw Irishness turned into midatlantic rock instead.

Gloria has to be one of my favourite tracks of all time from U2

The B-side to the single "With a shout (jerusalem)" was pretty superb too

Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours - Stevie Wonder - Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours - 1970
Someday We'll Be Together - Diana Ross & The Supremes - Cream of the Crop - 1969
Son of A Preacher Man - Dusty Springfield - Dusty in Memphis - 1969
Train in Vain (Stand by Me) - The Clash - London Calling - 1980
Hurricane - Bob Dylan - Desire - 1975
One Way Out - The Allman Brothers Band - At Filmore East - 1971
Isn't She Lovely - Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life - 1976
Sneakin' Sally Through the Alley - Robert Palmer - Sneakin' Sally Through the Alley - 1974
You're the First, the Last, My Everything - Barry White - Can't Get Enough - 1974
I Heard It Through The Grapevine - Creedence Clearwater Revival - Cosmo's Factory - 1970

My favourite poofter hits :

XTC - Dear God
Iggy Pop - Lust for Life
Dusty Springfield - Look of Love
Morrissey - This Charming Man
David Bowie - Changes
Hidden Cameras- Smells Like Happiness
Tom Robinson Band - Too good to be True
U2 - The Fly
Pretenders - Kid
Lou Reed - Walk on the Wild Side

White Man in The Hammersmith Palais - The Clash
Ghost Town - The Specials
Sister Europe - The Psychedelic Furs
96 Tears - ? & The Mysterions
Dirt - Iggy
Fever - The Dust Junkys
Johnny Hit & Run Pauline - X
Nitcomb - Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros
Venus - Television
Erotica - JulieFilth&Sin

It'll be different tomorrow

Barry Manilow - I write the songs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-fev20voMc
Bye Bye Baby – Bay City Rollers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7O7zZDNBKks
YMCA – The Village People: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zKpu04Y8Mw
Copacabana - Barry Manilow: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKsVhyiISY8
Greased Lightning: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUM83EvSLdI
can't smile without you - barry manilow: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqEOUQvM_h4
The Cast Of Grease - Summer Nights: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7vq9f84RbY...feature=related
Paris Hilton - I Want You : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hp65b0LqHZw...feature=related
Victoria Beckham Live: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2vZP4HcAgQ...feature=related
Marianne Faithfull - As Tears Go By: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jf9w2hJIqUk

Just play any of these when you want everyone to leave. Although maybe BtC´s list will probably work better.

Oi! What's wrong with my list? Anyone clubbing in London in 1989/90 will know most of these. Erasure is the only particularly 'gay' band in there but when I was a student they had general appeal.

Given up as it would change every hour. I've been promising myself I'd do a few lists recently so here's a list of some of my favourite slower ones.

1. Bad English - Price of Love
2. Heart - Who will you run to
3. Great White - She only
4. John Waite - Great White
5. Stevie Nicks - Has anybody ever written anything for you
6. Enuff z nuff - For now
7. Marillion - No one can
8. Mother Love Bone - Crown of thorns
9. Berlin - Hideaway
10. Cyndi Lauper - Unhook the stars
11. Wendy and Lisa - Waterfall
12. Carly Simon - Do the walls come down

Paris Hilton a favourite singer, Batallion Boy? Does she sing? Heaven help us. Get him back on medicaments please, someone.

Since I'm here, might as well comment too: 1. Dancing Queen 2. Knowing me, Knowing you 3) Dreamers - Jack Savoretti 4) Heartbreaker - Dionne Warwick 5) Tomorrow's Children - Maggie Reilly.

BattalionBoy listed songs to be played if anybody wanted others to leave a room. Certainly not an appropiate top ten list for this thread.

Anyway, here's my top ten:

1. Pink Floyd - Time
2. Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond
3. Pink Floyd - Echoes
4. Pink Floyd - Dogs
5. Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
6. Pink Floyd - One of These Days
7. Pink Floyd - Fearless
8. Pink Floyd - Sheep
9. Pink Floyd - On The Turning Away
10. Pink Floyd - Childhood's End

Pink Floyd - "Childhood's Dream"

No offence, but if it is in your top 10 songs then at least take the trouble to get the artist correct.

I read this thread and you all have terrible music taste (except for Sin who gets kudos for Ghost Town).

Thanks,
Dave

If we all had the same tastes hardly anybody would ever get a shag.

I wouldn't shag anyone that had ever owned an Erasure or U2 CD.

well I wouldn't shag you either matey. Why don't you post something constructive instead.

I only choose him because he fitted under the poofter heading. Not really a fan to be honest.

Could you buck the thread up by letting us have an insight into your taste then - or is it too anticlaphystic?

FFS, there was no 'poofter' heading. The second post was a JOKE at my own expense because unlike the heated "gay" threads this one plummetted out of the top 20 without any responses. God sometimes you have to spell it out . . .

It is supposed to be a thread about YOUR FAVOURITE TOP TEN SONGS OF ALL TIME

and breathe ...

Ok. "The Timewarp" by Damian. I wouldn't want to shag you either so "na na na".

That was a top one another 9 are missing.

What no theme. Cor that's a hard one.

It's CORR, Andrea Corr!

"plummetted" [sic] without responses in only 31 minutes? That's gay posting in the first place.

So far there's been nothing gay about his thread - it's been deadly serious lads!

1. Beautiful Day – U2
2. Always Look on the Bright Side of Life – Monty Python
3. Stuck in a Moment.. – U2
4. Your Life is Now – John Mellencamp

5-11 (in no particular order and with an extra one added as I couldn't decide which one to leave out )

Your’re in my Heart – Rod Stewart
A Man and a Woman - U2
Handbags and Gladrags – Rod Stewart
Peaceful World – John Mellencamp
Escape – Rupert Holmes
Something – JB’s version
I am the Walrus - Bono version

For me it is more about the lyrics and what they mean to me or a specific time when I heard the songs.

Most of you won't have heard of these, here goes

David Sylvian - Taking the Veil
Grant Lee Buffalo- Jupiter and Teardrop
American Music Club- Jonny Mathis' Feet
Thomas Dolby- I love You Goodbye
Tom Waits - most of Asylum Years
Smashing Pumpkins - most of Machina/The Machines of God

ps, I made No1 on the Peter Gabriel Realworld Remixed Website Top Twenty Chart, so I'm a happy bunny!

www.realworldremixed.com/toptwenty.php

Steve

a) Morrissey is celibate and not gay.
That song is by The Smiths and not Morrissey solo.

Apart from that though I thought everything else about the post was brilliant. Well done. Sorry, it's a Sunday and I'm grumpy because it's raining and I've run out of cigarettes and crack.

So let's get the rules straight. It's a top ten list so you need ten songs. Posting six songs would come under the top 6 thread. And there's no gay theme running through this thread.


So's the Pope and Cliff Richard.

I agree entirely. For all my favourite songs there is more than just the song. There is a story behind every one.

I do have a theory that almost all everybodies favourite music comes from their formative years (16-24?) or a period of extreme emotional stress.

This is a gay thread.

Go away, sweetie.

Ok, great. That means I can post my top lesbo songs then, right?

Ah! That explains why you're here then.

Maybe it should just be a camp thread? In this case then the need to prove the sexuality of the artists would not be an issue. So....

1. "Long live love" by Sandie Shaw
2. "All the things she said" by Tatu
3. "No one can hold a candle to you" by Raymonde
4. "Dress you up" by Madonna
5. "Constant Craving" by KD Lang
6. "Drive that fast" by The Kitchens of Distinction
7. "Sexuality" by Billy Bragg (I'm suggesting nothing other than it's a great pop song so don't even go there).
8. "The one I love" by REM
9. "Tiger" by Abba

... and seeing as how there seems to be some doubt:

10. "There is a light that never goes out" by The Smiths

I wish I could have thought of something more recent to fit in there, but it's been a while since I heard a good, catchy and original pop song. Anyone know if Rhiana is perceived to be "camp". In which case, feel free to remove any of these are replace with "Umbrella".

x

These are in no particular order and I couldn't cut it down to 10 and I don't even think this is the true top 10. There are far far too many songs to mention

• Think Twice - Celine Dion
• Someday - Mariah Carey
• Don't forget about us - Mariah Carey
• Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
• Its a pity - Tanya Stephens
• It feels so good - Sonique
• Lets stay together - Tina Turner version
• Unbreak my heart - Toni Braxton
• Twisted - Keith Sweat
• Get upon it - Kut Klose
• Guiltiness - Bob Marley
• I Still Believe - Mariah Carey version

Was he gay?

Agree, agree esp about the extreme emotional stress theory. Those are the times when songs seem to speak to me and I identify with them more. Seems to happen once or twice a year, so I have built up my song catalogue from there .

Not my most favorite songs, but the stuff I "danced" to, when I was in my early twenties. In fact I cant even listen to some of it anymore.

Oh, and I chose the least-gayest I could remember (although I have my doubts about The The).

Sterne - Was hat dich bloß so ruiniert
Héroes del Silencio-Entre dos tierras
Rammstein - Engel
Rage against the Machine - Killing in the name
Sisters of Mercy - Temple of Love '92
Bloodhound Gang - Fire Water Burn
Ministry - Jesus Built My Hotrod
Die Ärzte - Schrei nach Liebe
Megavier - genug ist genug
The The - Dogs of Lust

1. Closer to God - Nine Inch Nails
2. Slayer - Raining Blood
3. Amphetamine - Drax Ltd. II
4. Cheepnis - Frank Zappa
5. Workers - Jeff Mills
6. Can God Fill Teeth? - Lard
7. Straßenkampf - Die Skeptiker
8. Jesus Built My Hotrod - Ministry
9. Silence is Sexy - Einstürzende Neubauten
10. Linger Ficken Good - Revolting Cocks

With the standard 'this is a completely artificial exercise, and the answer depends on which way the wind is blowing' disclaimer, here are ten song that I love. I think the fact that they're all a good few years old means I've got old...

Lazy Line Painter Jane - Belle & Sebastian
Pull The Wires From The Wall - The Delgados
Anthrax - Gang Of Four
A Country Practice - Half Man Half Biscuit
Atmosphere - Joy Division
Mogwai Fear Satan - Mogwai
The Dirge - New Bad Things
Another Girl, Another Planet - The Only Ones
Map Ref. 41°N 93°W - Wire
You Can Have It All - Yo La Tengo

Not in any particular order, my ten (today, now at this moment) are:

T-Rex - Ride a White Swan
EMF - Unbelieveable
Darude - Sandstorm
Rush - Spirit of Radio
Peter Gabriel - Solsbury Hill
Franz Ferdinand - Take me out
The Jam - Monday
Madonna - Ray of Light
Rolling Stones - Paint it Black
The Exponents - Why does love do that to me

Just in case a bit of additional campness is required
Kylie - Can't get you out of my head, .

Some hard decisions had to be made, but I finally narrowed it down to a list of 10:

(in alphabetical order- ranking would be much too difficult)

Blue Eyes - Cary Brothers
Extreme Ways - Moby
In Love With Myself - David Guetta
Konstantine - Something Corporate
Let It Be - The Beatles
Penny on the Train Track - Ben Kweller
Smile Like You Mean It - The Killers
Vienna - Billy Joel
Where the Streets Have No Name - U2
Whole - Benjamin Bates

And currently repeating endlessly on my iPod:
Shake It - Metro Station
Viva la Vida - Coldplay

off the top of me head - and swimming around in it at the moment - and in no particular order...

1. Kanye West featuring Dwele - Flashing Lights
2. Masters At Work featuring India - To Be In Love
3. Azzido Da Bass - Doom's Night (Timo Maas Remix)
4. Prince & The Revolution - Take Me With You
5. The Smiths - Shoplifters Of The World Unite
6. Beastie Boys - Sabotage
7. The Beatles - Things We Said Today
8. New Order - Blue Monday
9. Kym Sims - Too Blind To See It
10. Daft Punk - Da Funk

Plenty of stuff bubbling under... Jay-Z - I Just Wanna Love U / Public Enemy - Can't Do Nuttin' For Ya Man / House Of Love - Feel / My Bloody Valentine - You Made Me Realise / Dinosaur Jr. - Freak Scene / Armand Van Helden - You Don't Know Me ... and so on

To be played in full at my funeral.

Antonio Vivaldi - Concerto No 11 d-moll RV 565, Allegro
The Jayhawks - Eyes of Sarah Jane
Josh Ritter - Golden Age of Radio
R.E.M. - Hollow Man
Eels - Lone Wolf
Elbow - Grounds for Divorce
The Stranglers - Don't Bring Harry
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Into my Arms
Johnny Cash - Hurt
Uncle Tupelo - I Got Drunk

You are right. "Feel", with its trippy guitar riffs and glowing harmonies was amongst there best, but I think that "Destroy the heart" is a contender. This is probably more on a lyrical level. As for "that" My Bloody Valentine song, apparently gig-goers at their recent shows were treated to a 20 minute-strong screaming rendition, which was probably worth the 16 year sabbatical in itself. From that EP though, I pick "Thorn" as the best track, although it has to be said that I am a sucker for a route #1 Indiepop song.