ST#17 Top 25 Favorite Songs
 

I'm taking a class called Analyzing Popular Music and one of our first assignments was to list our top 25 favorite songs, in order, with explanations for the first five. Though this seems easy enough, it was pretty fucking tough. I easily could have just listed 25 Pumpkins songs, or Radiohead songs, but I tried to vary my list as much as possible. What's yours? By the way, this is obviously not an indier-than-thou post because a bunch of my favorite songs are by fairly popular acts. After making the list I thought of changes which I'll add later on if anyone replies.

1. Zwan - Mary Star of the Sea
2. The Beatles - A Day in the Life
3. Radiohead - Paranoid Android
4. Led Zeppelin - Over the Hills and Far Away
5. Smashing Pumpkins - Soma
6. Dave Brubeck Quartet - Take 5
7. The Doors - The End
8. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
9. Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees
10. ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - How Near How Far
11. Explosions in the Sky - The Moon is Down
12. The Microphones - The Glow, Part 2
13. Mogwai - 2 Rights Makes 1 Wrong
14. Morphine - Cure For Pain
15. The Notwist - Consequence
16. Radiohead - Motion Picture Soundtrack
17. Sigur Ros - Svefn-G-Englar
18. Smashing Pumpkins - Set the Ray to Jerry
19. Aphex Twin - Xtal
20. Junkie XL - Zerotonine
21. Metallica - Fade to Black
22. Nirvana - Verse Chorus Verse
23. Pavement - Grounded
24. The Pixies - Where is my Mind
25. Van Halen - Unchained

Animals - House of the Rising Son
Beatles - Happiness is a Warm Gun
Cure - Lovesong
Dean Martin - Ain't That a Kick in the Head
Explosions in the Sky - First Breath After Coma
Explosions in the Sky - The Only Moment We Were Alone
Fiona Apple - Never is a Promise
Morphine - The Night
Mr. Bungle - Pink Cigarette
My Morning Jacket - Steam Engine
Nirvana - Serve the Servants
Otis Redding - These Arms of Mine
Pearl Jam - Rearviewmirror
Pedro the Lion - Secret of the Easy Yoke
Portishead - Roads
Queens of the Stone Age - You Can't Quit Me Baby
REM - EBow the Letter
Rolling Stones - Wild Horses
Sebadoh - Not Too Amused
Smashing Pumpkins - Set the Ray to Jerry
Smashing Pumpkins - Thirty-Three
The Strokes - Hard to Explain
The Temptations - Get Ready
Tom Petty - Walls
Tom Waits - Please Call Me, Baby

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lol

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That is a pretty fucking fantastic list.

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:love:

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:rolleyes:

I don't think I can make an ALL-TIME list, but here's a few of my favorites.

Bjork-Hyperballad (Telegram version).
The Beatles-In My Life.
Atmosphere-Abusing of the Rib.
Blackalicious-Make You Feel That Way.
The Grouch-Wish You A Good Day.
Desaparecidos-$$$$
The Strokes-Trying Your Luck.
Mos Def-Travellin Man (Remix)



This list seems odd and not thought out enough. I'll just leave it at that for now.

these are some of my favorites...

TSP - hummer
TSP - the aeroplane flies high (turns left, looks right)
TSP - by starlight
TSP - behold! the night mare
pearl jam - yellow ledbetter
pearl jam - do the evolution
black sabbath - paranoid
r.e.m. - imitation of life
r.e.m. - drive
r.e.m. - welcome to the occupation
nirvana - on a plain
nirvana - frances farmer will have her revenge on seattle
the cranberries - dreams
beck - pay no mind
beck - nobody's fault but my own
kiss - love gun
the doors - people are strange
foo fighters - for all the cows
the pixies - debaser
the pixies - gigantic
stone temple pilots - interstate love song
marilyn manson - coma white
hole - asking for it
hole - rock star
nine inch nails - the perfect drug