Your top twenty tracks? Can you do it?

[Death on Credit]

1. Shine A Light by the Rolling Stones
2. Abandoned Love by Bob Dylan
3. All Along the Watchtower by the Jimi Hendrix Experience
4. Sister Ray by the Velvet Underground
5. London Calling by the Clash
6. Desperadoes Under the Eaves by Warren Zevon
7. Tell Me Why by Neil Young
8. Search and Destroy by the Stooges
9. Like A Rolling Stone by Bob Dylan
10. Strawberry Fields Forever by the Beatles
11. One of Us Cannot Be Wrong by Leonard Cohen
12. Sympathy for the Devil by the Rolling Stones
13. Venus in Furs by the Velvet Underground
14. Dark End of the Street by the Flying Burrito Brothers
15. You Set the Scene by Love
16. Kick Out the Jams by MC5
17. Stairway to Heaven by Led Zeppelin
18. Astral Weeks by Van Morrison
19. Janie Jones by the Clash
20. Johnny B. Goode by Chuck Berry

 

[PinkFreud]

I don't know if I could even do a Top 10! I guess I'll try...

1. Bittersweet Symphony - The Verve
2. In My Time of Dying - Led Zeppelin
3. Babe I'm Gonna Leave You - Led Zeppelin
4. House of the Rising Sun - The Animals
5. Gimme Shelter - The Rolling Stones

GAH IT'S TOO HARD!!! I'm giving up here, I'll need more time to figure it out. These 5 might change by then too, this is just a "rough draft" if you will...

I reached a sudden and shocking conclusion today about what my top song of all time is. "Foolin' Yourself (The Angry Young Man)" by Styx would top my list, as it actually describes perfectly how I think and feel.
In fact, after having done some serious thinking, I believe I can name my top 20! I base this off of which songs evoke the most emotional response from me, be it a reminder of a summer that I had a lot of fun in, or a part of my life I feel the song spells out; whatever it is that made these songs stand out to me as I contemplate my life...

1. Foolin' Yourself (The Angry Young Man) - Styx
2. Bittersweet Symphony - The Verve
3. Hotel California - Eagles
4. Houses of the Holy - Led Zeppelin
5. House of the Rising Sun - The Animals
6. Gimme Shelter - The Rolling Stones
7. Brain Damage/Eclipse - Pink Floyd (they have to go together imo)
8. Pigs (Three Different Ones) - Pink Floyd
9. Over The Hills and Far Away - Led Zeppelin
10. Breed - Nirvana
11. Roll With The Changes - REO Speedwagon
12. Behind Blue Eyes - The Who
13. Angie - The Rolling Stones
14. Let It Be - The Beatles
15. No Rain - Blind Melon
16. The World I Know - Collective Soul
17. Tiny Dancer - Elton John
18. Be My Lover - Alice Cooper
19. (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay - Otis Redding
20. Goodbye Stranger - Supertramp

 

[Darrell]

Ted Nugent - Stranglehold
Steely Dan - The Royal Scam
Hendrix - Watchtower
Rare Earth - Tobacco Road
Robin Trower - Bridge of Sighs
Outlaws - Green Grass and High Tides
ZZ Top - La Grange
Aerosmith - Lord of the Thighs
Rick Derringer - Rock n Roll Hoochie Coo
Blue Oyster Cult - Bucks Boogie
Kiss - Black Diamonds
Ronnie Montrose - Bad Motor Scooter
The Funkadellics - Maggot Brain
Elton John - Love Lies Bleeding
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms
Yes - Roundabout
Jethro Tull - Farm Is a Freeway
The Smithereens - A Girl Like You
Doobie Brothers - Who'll Stop The Rain
Alman Brothers - One More Silver Dollar

But wait ... therse's sooo much mooooore!

 

[The Beatles]

20. My Generation- The Who
19. Hotel California- The Eagles
18. Paint It Black- Rolling Stones
17. Canadian Railroad Trilogy- Gordon Lightfoot
16. Crazy Train- Ozzy Osbourne
15. One- Metallica
14. Back In Black- AC/DC
13. You Won't See Me- The Beatles
12. Your Song- Elton John
11. Imagine- John Lennon
10. Wreck of The Edmund Fitzgerald- Gordon Lightfoot
9. Pull Me Under- Dream Theater
8. She Said She Said- The Beatles
7. Lovely Rita- The Beatles
6. Baba O' Reiley- The Who
5. Fire/Purple Haze (tie)- Hendrix
4. Let It Be- The Beatles
3. Light My Fire/ Break On Through (tie)- The Doors
2. A Day In The Life- The Beatles
1. Won't Get Fooled Again- The Who

 

[Foxhound]

1. I like the songs in your list better than I like those in "Rolling Stone's" list.

2. "Satisfaction" should be in your top ten somewhere. It's too influential a tune to leave out entirely.

3. One of your Beatles' tracks should be replaced with a track of theirs that spearheaded the British Invasion in 1964. "I Want to Hold Your Hand" was far more influential a tune than almost anything they did in their later years.

 

[The Beatles]

1. I like the songs in your list better than I like those in "Rolling Stone's" list.

2. "Satisfaction" should be in your top ten somewhere. It's too influential a tune to leave out entirely.

3. One of your Beatles' tracks should be replaced with a track of theirs that spearheaded the British Invasion in 1964. "I Want to Hold Your Hand" was far more influential a tune than almost anything they did in their later years.

Yeah I'd probably put Satisfaction or I Want To Hold Your Hand if I was doing a rolling stone type list (the BEST songs of all time) these are only my personal favorite./

 

[Foxhound]

Yes, interesting. "Favourite" would mean exactly that. "Greatest" should probably be synonymous with "most influential". "Top" though could mean either or some combination of the two.

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[Kuaizi]

Hmmmm my top twenty tracks. Let's give it a shot!
I tried to order them best I could:

20. Any Way You Want It - Journey
19. The Boys are Back in Town - Thin Lizzy
18. Time and a Word - Yes
17. Head Over Heels - Tears for Fears
16. Rocket Man - Elton John
15. Tom Sawyer - Rush
14. Philosophy - Ben Folds Five
13. We're Ready - Boston
12. Its a Lie - Fiction Plane
11. Time - Alan Parsons Project
10. Love, Reign o're Me - The Who
9. Queen/David Bowie - Under Pressure
8. Can't Get It Out of My Head - E.L.O.
7. Summer, Highland Falls - Billy Joel
6. Across the Universe - The Beatles
5. Us and Them - Pink Floyd
4. Every Little Thing She Does is Magic - The Police
3. Land of Confusion - Genesis
2. Out the Blue - John Lennon
And finally number one, I've sang this song with my friends and family, by myself, and listened to it so many times over the years:
1. Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody

This took forever, and I feel this is the best list I could have come up with, all with some sort of emotional attachment and evoking of feeling, and long standing within my playlists and compilations. This is the only way I could have narrowed it down. Unfortunately, no women artists made the top twenty, a few were close though. Sorry ladies!!

 

[Cosmic Harmony]

I like your list Kuaizi. What a pleasant surprise to see Ben Folds in there.

 

[Kuaizi]

Thanks Cosmic, I know Ben Folds is great!