Poll of the Day > Your Top Five Favorite Songs of All Time?

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What are y'all favorite songs of all time? Can you think of an actual list of them? For me it's:

1. You've Got A Friend in Me - Randy Newman
2. Hallelujah - Leonard Cohen
3. The entirety of David Bowie's Hunky Dory album.
4. Mr. Blue Sky - ELO
5. Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd

I could post 5 great songs but there's no way I could narrow it to the actual top 5

also watch High Fidelity if you haven't

Sahuagin posted...

I could post 5 great songs but there's no way I could narrow it to the actual top 5

also watch High Fidelity if you haven't

Someone else told me to watch High Fidelity earlier this week. It good?

I've only ever cited three songs as my favorites (and have been citing them for like 25 years now). I'd have a really hard time narrowing down every other song I like to get two more for a "top 5".

#3:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hu7hmBJLpkk


#2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uR_2MMar0s0


#1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kz5scjSQ_WE


There's an argument to be made that I actually like other songs more now - but those are still the ones that I consider my top three in my head just because I'm so used to describing them that way, and because they're so tied up in my own personal sense of identity and nostalgia.

I don't really like hierarching things in general, though. Or saying any one movie/song/book/etc is my favorite. I much prefer just sort of ranking things on a pass/fail scale where I either love, like, dislike, or hate them (or am just kind of apathetic). Especially since which thing I love more on any given day can easily change depending on my mood. I have a very hard time saying "this is a list of my favorite songs, in order, top to bottom".

Though, as a bonus, this is what I'm currently using for the ring-tone on my phone:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vx-Lzo9NxAQ

omg we matched once

pink floyd - wish you were here
tool - h. (all of nima tbh)
audioslave - like a stone
muse - starlight
tom scott - today

Ehm... I don't know that I can narrow it down like that. I don't even think I could do it with bands, artists, or albums.
Edit: Eh, fuck it. Here are a bunch that popped into my head:

Round Here by Counting Crows
Fly From Heaven by Toad the Wet Sprocket
Schism by Tool
Burn by The Cure
Pillar of Davidson by Live (before they went to shit, Throwing Copper is a great album)
Tweeter and the Monkey Man by The Traveling Wilburys
The Chimbley Sweep by The Decemberists
Try Not to Breathe by REM
Shimmy by System of a Down
What It's Like by Everlast
Perfect by Alanis Morissette or Forgiven by Alanis Morissette. Was always confused that other songs from that album got picked over those two, tbh.
Bunch of Tom Petty songs, I suppose. Can't really narrow those down.
Eleanor Rigby or Come Together by The Beatles

Could think of more, but I'll spare you. There's no way I could narrow it down and this list is too long as is.

1. Samurai Heart - Hiroko Moriguchi
2. Rhythm Emotion - Two-Mix
3. Adesso E Fortuna (Eternity) - Akino Arai (English version)
4. Gravity of Love - Enigma
5. Kaze no Uta - Sakamoto Chika

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkjm-OA-fj0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfGQfQwlFlM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_NI92Qxt7E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dr_2W1dTMao
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYBwliFVEE0

Top five.. thats hard.. I think Ill go with

1. You've Got A Friend in Me - Randy Newman
2. Hallelujah - Leonard Cohen
3. The entirety of David Bowie's Hunky Dory album.
4. Mr. Blue Sky - ELO
5. Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd

MICHALECOLE posted...

Top five.. thats hard.. I think Ill go with

1. You've Got A Friend in Me - Randy Newman
2. Hallelujah - Leonard Cohen
3. The entirety of David Bowie's Hunky Dory album.
4. Mr. Blue Sky - ELO
5. Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd

what the

Also I hate Zelda and love whatever that other game was you were talking about

Sayako
Racing into the Night
Itte
Hichcock
Lemon

Those were the first 5 that came to my head.

Offshore (Disco Citizens Remix) - Chicane
Dearly Beloved (Kingdom Hearts II) - Yoko Shimomura
Dosed - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Echo - Trapt
Real & Imagined - Kait Dunton

big krit - hometown hero
drake - gyalchester
clipse - popular demand
chamillionaire - pimp mode
the game - ali bomaye

Rufus Wainwright - Hallelujah
Harry Chapin - Taxi
Queen - Don't stop me now.
Bruce Springsteen - The Rising
Don Mclean - American Pie

For nearly 10 years now, I've been telling myself I want to do an all-time Top 100, just for my own amusement. But damn, music is the hardest thing to rank because it's much more...finicky, than say, films or video games--it can change much more at the drop of a hat. I see 2 songs in this topic that would def make my Top 100 though.

I only ever listen to one song, really. On constant loop

https://youtu.be/YDgTRY9vGCM

I lived through all this, to get through this pain. A world full of lies, that made me this way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGkhAAr_MLY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LKznMzSUv8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgNI8pme8kc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0tc-SrtE2s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J4zrP7wmm0

That's impossible to name, but here's the top 5 most played according to iTunes (which I had to reinstall about a year ago so it lost all my data). These aren't my all time top 5, but the ones I've listened to more often recently than any others.

The Cowboy in the Continental Suit, by Marty Robbins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftetdzHNtgI

Pirate Metal Drinking Crew, by Alestorm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4z2yNxfBRM4

Look Out (Here Comes Tomorrow), by the Monkees
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3ePA-y83ng

I Have Known Love, by Silver Apples
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEEKRcLerIg

Custom Machine, by Bruce & Terry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RfODerqtuc

What a weird selection. Western, Pirate Metal, Pop, Psychedelia, and Surf Rock.

I have way too many more than 5 but here are 5 of the ones I always come back to:

https://youtu.be/d0uVYOWdvz0

https://youtu.be/y3Cy7B9x0qk

https://youtu.be/2tsUn2UreZc

https://youtu.be/sElE_BfQ67s

https://youtu.be/WXLrQJbDZFc

depends on time and mood, wish youtube had a counter so i could see what played the most, there is also a big difference between heard the most favorite and mean something to you favorite, it's probably impossible to quantify tracks but i'll try picking some anyway, no way i can just pick 5 though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHPxlJgsfzs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CC5ca6Hsb2Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwL7np6vdjU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oadhHk2xs6c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQAf6MQj1kE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oextk-If8HQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TB1x67Do5U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPc8QMycGno
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hji4gBuOvIQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-M318_AtSN4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HgbOMci_Io
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6LCykRfXL8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lbit0npQTno
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsq1xeDINrg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjHSWHhbWiU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27zOar_iEOA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfv0ZgZ1MD4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPKJRlptsjM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZT0zAyGSn4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVTXPUF4Oz4

so much more but gotta stop at some point

Hmmm. Impossible task, as everyone has said. I wonder what I would come up with off the top of my head. I suppose the following are the songs that I'm usually the most happy to have come up on my standard music mix right now:

1) Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood (Santa Esmerelda - Kill Bill - version) Great except for that whiny part.
2) Hotel California, acoustic version. Still strong college memories.
3) Ride (Vines). Or Green Day's Holiday or some other 2000ish punk.
4) Zeromus Black Mages? Need something video game on the list.
5) Piano Man.

Pink Floyd gets a special call out. I love Floyd...when I'm in the mood for Floyd, and at that point I listen to *gasp* albums. Maybe Us and Them to pick a track.

Skynyrd probably should have made my list somewhere also: they're well represented in my top 20 songs. Or Smells Like Teen Spirit. Or Superstition. Or Smashmouth's I'm a Believer. Or the theme from Top Gear 2. :)

Here are 5 songs.

1. Better Off Alone - Alice Deejay
2. Vanity and Greed - Silverstein
3. Believe - Cher
4. One Hundred Sleepless Nights - Pierce the Veil
5. Midnight Train to Georgia - Gladys Knight & The Pips

I'm going to have to really sit down and think about this for a while before I post a definitive list but,

Nade Duck posted...

tool - h. (all of nima tbh)

This album changed my life and how I look at music. Like I still catch details in this one that I didn't notice before and it's what? 25ish years old at this point? I mean I'm going to be digesting things on later Tool albums until I die too, but something happened with those guys between Opiate and nima that put them on their own level from that album afterwards. I've actually been taking a deep dive on Fear Innoculum lately and Tool is just...in their own dimension as a thing. That's not some hipster fanboy sentiment, that's just a thing that is.

I honestly think I might change my list.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kz5scjSQ_WE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vx-Lzo9NxAQ

I've always really liked these songs, too