The best songs ever

[MAC-W]

If I could only ever listen to one song for the rest of my life it would have to be this one

Holy Mother http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_OHAkzfT_U







and the rest of my top 10 ....

KD Lang - Hallelujah http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_NpxTWbovE

Elton John - Live like Horses http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zw_gEpGqnqQ

ACDC - Thunderstruck http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-f1cwycSWq0

Bob segar - You'll accompany mehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zD_FmHp2RM

Pandora's Box - Its all coming back to me http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPx1dF9E2cM

Pat Benatar - All fired up http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsnYrH3BUP8

Tina Turner - Proud Mary http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCCS5fixC70&feature=fvst

Skyhooks - Women in Uniform http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sb4AdU6rbFc

Proclaimers - Jean http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRIukO5w_RU

Bob Segar - Old time rock & roll http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsSVcRYh8dE







What is your one and only song?





and the rest of your top ten?

 

[doodle]

OH MAN, that's hard to narrow down! In no particular order (and I couldn't decide my number one out of these, AND I'm still debating my top ten!):

Live--Dance With You
Jeff Buckley--Hallelujah
Adele--Hometown Glory
New Order--Temptation
Otis Redding--That's How Strong My Love Is
Florence and the Machine--Cosmic Love
Cake--Daria
The Man Who Sold The World (can't decide between Bowie or Nirvana, haha)
The Beatles--I Want You (She's So Heavy)
Queen--Bohemian Rhapsody

 

[Haven]

"Hearts and Bones" Paul Simon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZ425RKCqco

Edited to add link.

 

[Haven]

My top ten (for right now):

"Hearts and Bones" Paul Simon
"You Can't Always Get What You Want" Rolling Stones
"Ghost" Indigo Girls
"Kashmir" Led Zeppelin
"Fly Me to the Moon" Frank Sinatra
"Desperado" The Eagles
"Pinball Wizard" The Who
"Sugar Magnolia" Grateful Dead
"Africa" Toto
"Brushfire Fairytales" Jack Johnson

I'd probably make an entirely different list in a week.

 

[Brown.Eyed.Girl]

OH MAN, that's hard to narrow down! In no particular order (and I couldn't decide my number one out of these, AND I'm still debating my top ten!):

Live--Dance With You
Jeff Buckley--Hallelujah
Adele--Hometown Glory
New Order--Temptation
Otis Redding--That's How Strong My Love Is
Florence and the Machine--Cosmic Love
Cake--Daria
The Man Who Sold The World (can't decide between Bowie or Nirvana, haha)
The Beatles--I Want You (She's So Heavy)
Queen--Bohemian Rhapsody

I'll have to think more about my top 10, but I absolutely love Jeff Buckley's version of Hallelujah. Definitely one of my top ten. Now to figure out the other 9!

 

[dragonfly411]

My Top Ten

Champagne High - Sister Hazel

Long Trip Alone - Big And Rich

Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen

Simple Man - Lynyrd Skynyrd

Some People Change - Montgomery Gentry

He Stopped Loving Her Today - George Jones

Fishin in the Dark - Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

Secret Garden - Bruce Springsteen

The House That Built Me - Miranda Lambert

Landslide - Fleetwood Mac but also the Dixie Chicks version

Others: The Power of Love (Celine Dion), Killing me to (Sister Hazel), Everything Else Disappears (Sister Hazel), Boondocks (Little Big Town), Wild Horses (Rolling Stones), Whiskey Lullaby (Brad Paisley and Allison Krauss), Carried Away (George Strait), I Need You (Tim McGraw and Faith Hill), Jealous (Shania Twain), Crash (Dave Matthews Band), Buckbeak's Flight (Harry Potter), I dreamed a Dream (Les Miserables), Claire de Lune (Debussy), Over and Over Again (Tim McGraw and Nelly), Waiting on a Woman (Brad Paisley), My Old Friend (Tim McGraw), Only One (Yellowcard, quite possibly my favorite love song ever), Sword and Shield (Sister Hazel), Dream On (Aerosmith), New Way to Fly (Garth Brooks), You Move Me (Garth Brooks), Walking After Midnight (Patsy Cline),

 

[Miss Sparkly]

Top Ten:

O fortuna
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrML6s1wNHk (great translation not so great sound)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HMQOX3h7ZI&feature=related

Jupiter by Holst
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nz0b4STz1lo

Nightingale by Yanni
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhV2ceRw2N4&feature=related

Graham Colton - Best Days - this one would be rest of life
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAOUxV3knbI&ob=av2e

Bon Jovi - Work for the working man
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbHYsBBYslY

Bon Jovi - You give love a bad name
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrZHPOeOxQQ

and that's all I can get before DH is bugging me to get offline to watch a movie

 

[Dancing Fire]

i don't know any of these songs...

 

[artdecogirl]

Ooooo Doodle I love Live! If DH and I were getting married now Dance with you would be our song! Dolphins cry is another fave, I don't know that I can pick 10 songs but I will try , I can't pick one favorite.

Heavenly Day - patty Griffin
Redeemer and Call on Jesus - Nicole C. Mullen
Sympathy - goo goo dolls
Good enough and song for a winters night - Sarah Mclaughlin
wayfaring stranger - Jack white version
Damn I wish I was your lover - sophie b hawkins
coming undone - korn
Christmas canon - transiberian orchestra
Shameless and To make you feel my love - Garth
Creep - STP

 

[ksinger]

Ooo! Lots of good songs here.

I'm a big fan of many of them, like "Desperado", and "Ghost", (although my favorite Indigo Girls song would be "Galileo"), and "Landslide".

The group that has really stood the test of time for me is October Project, with my favorite song by them being "Paths of Desire". Man, but I wish they had stayed together.

Favorite "piece" would have to be The American Quartet by Dvorak.

Too much good music out there to choose.

Oh, and the mention of Garth is going to make me date myself here, but I remember him (and I didn't know who he was at the time really, only found out about a year later by connecting the face with the local posters) coming through my grocery line at the Consumer's IGA in Stillwater, Amurca. He'd be on his way to play The Cimarron Ballroom every Thursday, Friday and Saturday night! Yee haw! Not sure he was doing country so much back then though. I think he did more of a mix at that point. I didn't ever go to see him though. Country ballrooms weren't my thing then or now.

 

[Tuckins1]

Led Zeppelin- Trampled Under Foot, Misty Mountain Hop, Stairway to Heaven

Van Morrison- It stoned me, Moondance, Tupelo Honey

 

[dragonfly411]

oooo I left out Van Morrison - Into the Mystic

 

[soocool]

Anything by the Moody Blues!

 

[Dancing Fire]

Anything by the Moody Blues!

i know that group.you must be old...

night in white saturn...
tuesday afternoon....

 

[soocool]

Anything by the Moody Blues!

i know that group.you must be old...

night in white saturn...
tuesday afternoon....

It takes an oldie to know an oldie, DF!

BTW, it's Knights in White Satin

 

[Tuckins1]

Anything by the Moody Blues!

You and my FIL would get along swimingly!

 

[Tuckins1]

oooo I left out Van Morrison - Into the Mystic

I just love his voice!!!! Into the Mystic is such a beautiful song!

 

[princesss]

Hmmm...

"American Pie" by Don McLean
"O Fortuna" (Good choice, SB, I'm totally stealing that one)
"Paint it Black" by the Rolling Stones
"Kidnap the Sandy Claws" by Korn (it's a cover of my favourite song from The Nightmare Before Christmas)
"Banana Pancakes" by Jack Johnson
"November Rain" by Guns 'n' Roses
"Lullaby" by The Dixie Chicks
"Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen
"Hallelujah" performed by Rufus Wainwright
"My Way" by Frank Sinatra

 

[soocool]

Anything by the Moody Blues!

You and my FIL would get along swimingly!

Now I feel old!

 

[zoebartlett]

I'm not sure if I can come up with my #1 choice, so here are some of my all time favorites, in no particular order:

Hallelujah -- Jeff Buckley
Galileo -- The Indigo Girls
Into the Mystic -- Van Morrison (That's a really hard one to narrow down because I love all his music.)
True Companion -- Marc Cohn
Building a Mystery -- Sarah MacLachan
Women's Work -- Kate Bush (Did others record this also?)
Romeo and Juliet -- Indigo Girls
Ghost -- Indigo Girls
Red Rain -- Peter Gabriel, Natalie Merchant, and REM did a version of this that's really great.
I Hope You Dance -- Lee Anne Womack

Okay, that's 9. I also love Paul Simon, James Taylor, and so my 10th song would be something from one of them. I can't decide though. Or would it be something from my favorite play: Les Mis?

Haven -- I love Africa too!
Dragongly -- I also love Tim McGraw and some of Garth Brooks' songs as well.

 

[artdecogirl]

So many great songs! True companion - Marc Cohn and Lullaby - Dixie chicks are such great emotional songs.
My dad was a moody blues fan and I remember the cover art from one of their albums that I loved, I would sit and stare at the jacket, I think it was every good boy deserves favour? While my mom would dance around the room with my little sister to CCR.

 

[zoebartlett]

I wouldn't call this one the best song ever, but I used to play it over and over again, and I still love it: Not Ready to Make Nice by the Dixie Chicks.

 

[sillyberry]

10 songs to listen to forever. Yikes. I totally wouldn't know where to begin!

How about my 10 most played songs on iTunes? They're...random, and largely reflect that I listen to music mostly while working out and driving, both times I like to be pumped up.

1. Mr. Brightside, The Killers
2. Save a Horse (Ride a Cowboy), Big & Rich
3. Yeah!, Usher
4. Since U Been Gone, Kelly Clarkson
5. As Cool As I Am, Dar Williams
6. Both Hands, Ani Difranco
7. Don't Cha, Pussycat Dolls
8. Breathe (2 AM), Anna Nalick
9. You're So Vain, Carly Simon
10. Hey Ya!, OutKast

You know, I don't think a single one of those would make my list of "best songs ever"...

But my single forever song would probably be...yeah, I got nothing. I'll think about it some more.

 

[Dancing Fire]

Anything by the Moody Blues!

i know that group.you must be old...

night in white saturn...
tuesday afternoon....

It takes an oldie to know an oldie, DF!

BTW, it's Knights in White Satin

both of us was WRONG

Nights in white Satin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9muzyOd4Lh8

 

[Porridge]

Good idea SillyBerry! Here are my top 10 most played in iTunes*:

1. Sweet Disposition - the Temper Trap
2. The Largo movement from Xerxes - Handel (strings)
3. Time to Pretend - MGMT
4. Groove is in the Heart - Deee-lite
5. Family Tree - TV on the Radio
6. I'll be Seeing You - Billie Holiday
7. I'm Not Alone - Calvin Harris
8. Float On - Modest Mouse
9. The Book of Love - Peter Gabriel
10. Death - White Lies

*This list is not exhaustive and is subject to (frequent) change

ETA to address the original post, the one I would listen to forever if I had to would be the largo movement from Xerxes. It technically is a song, at least it was originally, but I prefer the instrumental version (strings). I'm not massively into classical or anything, but listening to this piece immediately makes me release a big sigh of relief and think that everything is right with the world. I can't find the version I have on my iTunes, but here is a pretty nice one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-kS8tNAvJM&feature=related

 

[Sabine]

Ones that always get me...

U2 With or Without You

Meatloaf I would do anything for love (but I won't do that)

and def. already mentioned just by reading the first few replies, Jeff Buckley Hallelujah.

 

[Sabine]

I wouldn't call this one the best song ever, but I used to play it over and over again, and I still love it: Not Ready to Make Nice by the Dixie Chicks.

Ohhh...this one gives me chills at times, usually when I'm really into it, belting it out offkey while driving by myself on a long car trip.

 

[Haven]

I wouldn't call this one the best song ever, but I used to play it over and over again, and I still love it: Not Ready to Make Nice by the Dixie Chicks.

I'm like this with Fleetwood Mac's Landslide. I could listen to that song on repeat for days at a time.
Same with Paul Simon's Another Galaxy, and any Sarah McLachlan album.

ETA: And, I play Good Things by BoDeans on repeat for MONTHS at a time!

 

[Bunny007]

My "favorite" song changes on a weekly basis (aka the song I listen obsessively to), so I 'm just going to list the top ten most listened to songs on my itunes (this is going to be a strange mix, so bare with me :

1. Summer in the City- Regina Spektor
2. La vie en Rose- Edith Piaf
3. New Slang- the Shins
4. Lights- Journey
5. Smooth Criminal- Michael Jackson
6. 40 Day Dream- Edward Sharpe
7. Sweet Child Of Mine- Guns N Roses
8. Tired of Being Alone- Al Green
9. Come on Home- Franz Ferdinand
10. Change Your Mind- Kilers

 

[Porridge]

3. New Slang- the Shins

LOVE this. We've similar taste I bet, a lot of those feature in my iTunes too!