Music: Please post your top 10 songs ever

[Ben Grimm]

Apparently, I have the maturity of a 9-year-old, but please try to have fun with this admittedly childish question and poll. The poll is unrelated to the thread title. Please post your top 10 songs ever.

Good love advice.​

Aretha Franklin, ‘Respect’​

Sam Cooke, ‘A Change Is Gonna Come’​

Marvin Gaye, ‘What’s Going On’​

Stevie Wonder, ‘Superstition’ - My favorite​

The Rolling Stones, ‘Gimme Shelter’​

Prince and the Revolution, ‘Purple Rain’​

Billie Holiday, ‘Strange Fruit’ - Maybe @kihei is a Holiday fan. idk​

The Ronettes, ‘Be My Baby’​

Bruce Springsteen, ‘Born to Run’​

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[Hockey Outsider]

Why do I feel like you're trying to figure out our password rest hints with all these polls? (Just kidding). Here's my top ten without too much though or effort:

Iron Maiden - "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" (metal)



Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five - "The Message" (rap)



King Crimson - "Starless" (progressive rock)



Yes - "Heart of the Sunrise" (progressive rock)



Stanley Clarke - "School Days" (jazz)



Blaze Bayley - "Stare at the Sun" (metal)



Wishbone Ash - "Throw Down the Sword" (classic rock)



Slayer - "Hell Awaits" (metal)



Judas Priest - "One Shot at Glory" (metal)



KRS-One/BDP - "I'm Still #1" (rap)

 

[Behn Wilson]

No Order:

1. Symphony of Destruction - Megadeth
2. Master of Puppets - Metallica
3. Slayer - Raining Blood
4. Evil - Mercyful Fate
5. Roots Bloody Roots - Sepultura
6. Run to The Hills - Iron Maiden
7. Lights Out (live version) - UFO
8. Smoke On the Water - Deep Purple
9. Children Of The Grave - Black Sabbath
10. Immigrant Song - Led Zeppelin

 

[MVP of West Hollywd]

One song per artist or else half would be Springsteen songs


Bruce Springsteen - Thunder Road
Simon and Garfunkel - The Sounds of Silence
Billy Joel - Piano Man
Bob Dylan - Knockin' on Heaven’s Door
Elton John - Your Song
The Eagles - Hotel California
The Killers - Sam’s Town
Arcade Fire - Intervention
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Otherside
2pac - Changes

 

[VMBM]

The toughest one yet. I simply had to leave out classical, jazz, Piaf/Sinatra/Nat King Cole etc, and concentrate on the so called popular music.

In no order:

Al Stewart - "Year of the Cat"
A pop masterpiece. Schmalz? AOR? I don't care.

Focus - "Hocus Pocus"
That riff by Jan Akkerman...

Duran Duran - "Save a Prayer"
1980s is not my favourite decade of music (even though I mostly grew up then), but this is a true pop gem.

Dr. John - "Big Chief"
Let this be an example of New Orleans music, which I love dearly.

Deep Purple - "This Time Around/Owed to G"
Tommy Bolin's riff in the latter part of the song slays me every time. The first song part is very beautiful too.

Metallica - "Creeping Death"
A hair above MoP for me.

The Beatles - "A Day in the Life"
The best song by the best band ever. Simply perfect song.

Little Richard - "Long Tall Sally"
Just over two minutes of rock 'n' roll perfection.

Howlin' Wolf - "Smokestack Lightning"
Who needs more than one chord for a great song. One of the biggest/most influental voices ever.

Toots and the Maytals - "Funky Kingston"
Could have been "Israelites" by Desmond Dekker or "So Jah Seh" by Bob Marley, but this is the most joyous reggae song ever for me.

 

[frisco]

Kind of changes day to day:
Little Sister-Elvis Presley
Guitar Town-Steve Earle
Jessie's Girl-Rick Springfield
When All Is Said And Done-Abba
Don't Stop Believin'-Journey
Tender Is The Night-Jackson Browne
Downbound Train-Bruce Springsteen
Bohemian Rhapsody-Queen
Part of Me, Part of You-Glenn Frey
Massachusetts-Bee Gees

My Best-Carey