Top Ten Songs (listing game)

[Cute Irish Bono]

I got this idea from another music forum.


Guide:
Create a list of your top 10 favorite songs concerning a subject, then submit a new subject for the next person. The subject can be anything from genre to words in the title to a specific artist/time period etc.

I'll pick the first subject:

Your favorite britpop songs:

 

[intedomine]

1. Sing - Travis
2. Supersonic - Oasis
3. Parklife - Blur
4. Sonnet - Verve
5. Lemon Tree - Fool's Garden
6. Writing To Reach You - Travis
7. She's In Fashion - Suede
8. Morning Glory - Oasis
9. Talk Tonight - Oasis
10. Bittersweet Symphony - Verve

Top Ten Ginblos.. I mean Top Ten Australian artists.

 

[LuckyNumber7]

1. INXS - Original Sin
2. Cut Copy - Lights and Music
3. INXS - Kick
4. Cut Copy - Eternity One Night Only
5. ACDC - Highway to Hell
6. ACDC - You Shook Me All Night Long
7. INXS - Never Tear Us Apart
8. Cut Copy - Feel the Love
9. INXS - The Swing
10. INXS - Devil Inside

Sorry if I am insulting ye Australians. My knowledge is limited in that subject.

Err... top 10 album openers.

 

[LemonMelon]

Uh, wow, that's a tough one. I'll just name 10 I really like:

1. U2 - Zooropa
2. Television - See No Evil
3. Brian Eno - Burning Airlines Give You So Much More
4. My Bloody Valentine - Only Shallow
5. Beck - The Golden Age
6. Joni Mitchell - All I Want
7. Blur - Beetlebum
8. The Flaming Lips - Race For The Prize
9. Jimi Hendrix - Purple Haze
10. Led Zeppelin - Black Dog

10 favorite guitar solos.

 

[Cute Irish Bono]

1. Led Zeppelin Heartbreaker
2. Led Zeppelin - Whole Lotta Love
3. Oasis - Rock N Roll Star
4. U2 - 11 O Clock Tick Tock (Live Version)
5. U2 - The Fly
6. U2 - Until the End of the World
7. Joe Walsh - Turn to Stone
8. The Auteurs - Modern History
9. Aztec Camera - Rainy Season
10. Blur - Wear Me Down

Your recently found new artists you love (with your favorite songs by them):

 

[nielsgov]

If you count everything within the last year as recently. Not really in an order either.

1. dEUS - Instant Street
2. Porcupine Tree - Anesthetize
3. TV on the Radio - Dancing Choose
4. Amatorski - 22 Februar
5. Okkervil River - Plus Ones
6. Spinvis - Oostende
7. M83 - Midnight City
8. Mogwai - Tracy
9. Godspeed You Black Emperor! - East Hastings
10. Burial - Etched Headplate

Favourite bands not from the UK or USA.

 

[LuckyNumber7]

Making that a bit easy, eh? I'll still mix it up and exclude Ireland. And I'll use an artist that I missed from the first Australian list I made, Sam Sparro.

1. Bryan Adams - Heaven
2. Arcade Fire - Wake Up
3. INXS - Original Sin
4. Bryan Adams - Summer of 69
5. Cut Copy - Lights and Music
6. Arcade Fire - Wake Up
7. Kraftwerk - Neon Lights
8. Nena - 99 Red Balloons
9. Sam Sparro - Black and Gold
10. Arcade Fire - Rebellion (Lies)

HM: Bryan Adams - Everything I Do (I Do it For You), Datarock - Not Me


Hmm... Top 10 songs from a 5-piece band.

 

[Cute Irish Bono]

The Verve.

1. Bittersweet Symphony
2. Weeping Willow
3. A New Decade
4. This is Music
5. History
6. The Rolling People
7. Love is Noise
8. Catching the Butterfly
9. One Day
10. This Time

Your top ten R.E.M. Songs:

 

[cobl04]

Ooh, I've never though about that before.

1. End of the World...
2. Nightswimming
3. Losing My Religion
4. The Great Beyond
5. Bad Day
6. Imitation of Life
7. Orange Crush
8. Man on the Moon
9. Supernatural Superserious
10. What's the Frequency, Kenneth?

Top ten hip-hop songs

 

[the tourist]

Not very familiar with the genre, so a little difficult

Kanye West - Diamonds From Sierra Leone
Jay-Z - 99 Problems
Outkast - Ms. Jackson
Nicki Minaj - Superbass
Lupe Fiasco - All Black Everything
Jay-Z - Empire State Of Mind
Kanye West - All Of The Lights
Beyonce - Crazy In Love
Blakroc - Done Did It
Outkast - I Love The Way You Move

(these aren't in order)

Ten Favorite Songs where they're the only song you like on the album.

 

[LuckyNumber7]

I meant top 10 songs of any 5-piece band! But the show must go on.

Hmm, this one's tough.

No order with this, either.

Muse - Time is Running Out (Absolution)
Electric Light Orchestra - Endless Lies (Balance of Power)
John Meyer - Heartbreak Warfare (Battle Studies)
Mat Kearney - Closer to Love (City Of Black & White)
Anti-Flag - This is the End (For You My Friend) (For Blood and Empire)
Lifehouse - You and Me (Lifehouse)
The Von Bondies - C'mon C'mon (Pawn Shoppe Heart)
OAR - Hey Girl (Risen)
Kasabian - Fast Fuse (West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum)

and of course... this list would never be complete without:

Foster the People - Pumped Up Kicks


Top 10 songs of the late 70's (1975-79).

 

[Cute Irish Bono]

Wrong forum.

 

[cobl04]

Wrong forum.

What?

 

[Cute Irish Bono]

What?

Accidently posted in the wrong forum.

 

[the tourist]

You could have edited your post to continue the game. Now there's this strange gap.

 

[cobl04]

No one here reads or posts in that cess pool.

 

[LemonMelon]

Top 10 songs of the late 70's (1975-79).

Again, pretty much just going off of whatever pops into my head first:

1. Television - Marquee Moon
2. Elvis Costello - Alison
3. David Bowie - Heroes
4. Steely Dan - Black Cow
5. Bob Dylan - Shelter From The Storm
6. Blondie - Hanging On The Telephone
7. Joy Division - Disorder
8. The Clash - London Calling
9. Tom Waits - Tom Traubert's Blues
10. Funkadelic - One Nation Under A Groove

Top 10 punk rock tracks.

 

[cobl04]

3. David Bowie - Heroes

Did you ever find another album similar to the krautrock tracks from that album? Beauty and the Beast, Joe the Lion, Blackout, etc...

Top 10 punk rock tracks.

..........Time of Your Life?

 

[Kieran McConville]

Top Ten Laura's Dad Died Songs

 

[Cute Irish Bono]

Again, pretty much just going off of whatever pops into my head first:

1. Television - Marquee Moon
2. Elvis Costello - Alison
3. David Bowie - Heroes
4. Steely Dan - Black Cow
5. Bob Dylan - Shelter From The Storm
6. Blondie - Hanging On The Telephone
7. Joy Division - Disorder
8. The Clash - London Calling
9. Tom Waits - Tom Traubert's Blues
10. Funkadelic - One Nation Under A Groove

Top 10 punk rock tracks.

I will be doing all waves of punk rock.

1. The Clash - Train in Vain
2. The Ramones - I Wanna Be Sedated
3. The Jam - In the City
4. The Suicide Machines - New Girl
5. The Dead Kennedys - Police Truck
6. The Clash - White Riot
7. The Dead Kennedys - Holiday in Commodia
8. Green Day - When I Come Around
9. Green Day - Brain Stew
10. Rancid - Maxwell Murder

Top songs from 2007 (I just picked a random date):

 

[LuckyNumber7]

1. MGMT - Kids
2. The Killers - Shadowplay
3. Kaiser Chiefs - Ruby
4. Bruce Springsteen - Radio Nowhere
5. OneRepublic - Stop and Stare
6. MGMT - Time to Pretend
7. Arcade Fire - No Cars Go
8. The Killers - Tranquilize
9. Kanye West - I Wonder
10. Fall Out Boy - Thnks fr th Mmrs

Wow that's an odd list.

Umm... top 10 most powerful lyrics.

 

[the tourist]

Umm... top 10 most powerful lyrics.

In no order:

Arcade Fire - Wake Up
Kanye West ft. Jay-Z - Diamonds From Sierra Leone
Fleet Foxes - The Shrine/An Argument
The Beatles - Strawberry Fields Forever
The Beach Boys - Surf's Up
The Flaming Lips - The Gash
Simon & Garfunkel - The Sounds Of Silence
U2 - Bad
Radiohead - Idioteque
Pedro The Lion - Second Best

Top Ten Guilty Pleasures.

 

[LuckyNumber7]

1. Lady Gaga - Bad Romance
2. Katy Perry - Hot N Cold
3. Nickelback - How You Remind Me
4. Creed - With Arms Wide Open
5. Lady Gaga - Alejandro
6. Eiffel 65 - Blue (Da Ba Dee)
7. Backstreet Boys - I Want It That Way
8. Trick Daddy - Bet That
9. Linkin Park - Numb
10. Adele - Rolling in the Deep

Ten songs you can't help but sing/sing to.

 

[Joey788]

In no particular order:

1. Arcade Fire - Rebellion (Lies)
2. Radiohead - Paranoid Android
3. Gorillaz - Feel Good Inc.
4. U2 - Even Better Than The Real Thing
5. R.E.M. - Losing My Religion
6. Foo Fighters - Everlong
7. Beck - Loser
8. The Beatles - (anything)
9. The Clash - London Calling
10. Elbow - The Bones of You

Top ten songs for driving.

 

[The Sad Punk]

1. St. Etienne - Like A Motorway
2. Tupac & Dr Dre - California Love
3. Sufjan Stevens - Chicago
4. Kitchens of Distinction - Drive That Fast
5. The Flaming Lips - Race For the Prize
6. Cut Copy - Where I'm Going
7. Teen Daze - Shine On You Crazy White Cap
8. Memory Tapes - Bicycle
9. David Bowie - Starman
10. M83 - Midnight City

Top ten songs for driving... at night.

 

[cobl04]

Great one

David Bowie - New Career in a New Town
DJ Shadow - Midnight in a Perfect World
Massive Attack - Exchange
Radiohead - Weird Fishes
Flaming Lips - Convinced of the Hex
Portishead - Machine Gun
Outkast - All of ATLiens
Aphex Twin - Xtal
Cornelius - Drop
CunninLynguists - Stars Shine Brightest

That's a random ten, there's tons of others I love.

Top ten track fives

 

[Joey788]

1. Muse - "Plug In Baby"
2. U2 - "Stay"
3. Radiohead - "Go To Sleep"
4. The National - "Afraid of Everyone"
5. St. Vincent - "Paris is Burning"
6. Pink Floyd - "Money"
7. TV On The Radio - "Wolf Like Me"
8. LCD Soundsystem - "All My Friends"
9. Nine Inch Nails - "Closer"
10. The Killers - "All These Things That I've Done"

Top Ten Songs By Three-Piece Bands:

 

[The Panther]

Top Ten Songs By Three-Piece Bands:

I'm all over this one:

That's All Right - Elvis, Scotty, and Bill
Cream - Sunshine of your Love
Jimi Hendrix Experience - Purple Haze
The Jam - A Town Called Malice
Violent Femmes - Blister in the Sun
The Police - Every Breath You Take
The Police - Message in a Bottle
Blake Babies - Sanctify
Juliana Hatfield Three - My Sister
Nirvana - Heart-Shaped Box


Next -- ten tracks sung by females who ROCKED!

 

[LemonMelon]

Blondie - Hanging On The Telephone
Big Brother & The Holding Company - Piece of My Heart
Heart - Crazy On You
PJ Harvey - Down By The Water
Patti Smith - Gloria
Jefferson Airplane - Somebody To Love
Dusty Springfield - Son of a Preacher Man
Sheryl Crow - If It Makes You Happy
Lucinda Williams - Drunken Angel
Fleetwood Mac - Rhiannon

In honor of the Panther: favorite songs with a number in the title.

 

[nielsgov]

I've probably forgotten loads.

Sigur Ros - Untitled #8 (It's kind of cheating but it's too good)
Bloc Party - Waiting For The 7.18
Arcade Fire - Neighbourhood #3 (Power Out)
Radiohead - 2+2=5
dEUS - 7 Days, 7 Weeks
The National - Conversation 16
Mogwai - R U Still In 2 It
R.E.M. - Driver 8
Interpol - Obstacle 1
Neutral Milk Hotel - Holland 1945

Top 10 favourite songs for a snowy day.