Top 10 favorite songs...

I have an assignment for my Music Appreciation class where we have to list our top 10 favorite songs of all time. At first I thought this was going to be an easy assignment, however when I sat down to write my list I'm having a hard time limiting it to 10. Plus for the #1 song I have to write a short explanation of why it is my all time favorite.

Can you guys come up with a list of your 10 favorites? I bet it's harder than you think

-- but here's a working list:

(10) Flow Gently, Sweet Afton (Robert Burns, Alexander Hume)
(9) Marcie (Joni Mitchell)
(8) Mr. Tamborine Man (Bob Dylan)
(7) Lost in the Love of You (Livingston Taylor)
(6) Eleanor Rigby (the Beatles)
(5) From Boulder to Birmingham (Emmylou Harris)
(4) Too Late for Prayin' (Gordon Lightfoot)
(3) The Boxer (Paul Simon)
(2) Farther On (Jackson Browne)
(1) You Can Close Your Eyes (James Taylor)

Top three are in order, after that it's too close to call:

1."Let Down" Radiohead
2."Mayonaise" Smashing Pumpkins
3."Off He Goes" Pearl Jam
4."Thunder Road" Springsteen
5."What'd I Say" Ray Charles
6."Deacon Blues" Steely Dan
7."Would?" Alice in Chains
8."Eleanor Rigby" Beatles
9."Little Wing" Hendrix
10."Like a Rolling Stone" Dylan

For today, at least...

learning to fly--pink floyd
One---U2
The way we were--bar bar Streisand
We've only just begun--The Carpenters
On the Turning away--pink floyd
Solsbury hill--peter gabriel
We said hello/goodbye---Phil Collins
The long and winding road---beatles
while my guitar gently weeps--beatles
Time--pink floyd

I love that song!

Redemption Song- Bob Marley
Into the Mystic- Van Morrison
Jimmy Jazz- The Clash
Every Breath You Take- The Police
Broken Arrow - Robbie Robertson
In My Life - Beatles
House of the Rising Sun - Animals
Calling All Angels - Jane Siberry/KD Lang
One - U2
Love Rescue Me - U2

But here goes, in order:

10. Kayleigh - Marillion
9. Weekend in New England - Barry Manilow
8. Peek-a-Boo - Siouxsie & The Banshees
7. Con Te Partiro - Andrea Bocelli
6. Why Don't You & I - Santana
5. Come Together - The Beatles
4. Inside Out - The Mighty Lemon Drops
3. All I Want is You - U2
2. Tainted Love - Soft Cell
1. Pictures of You - The Cure

I have a really eclectic taste in music, and while there are other songs out there that move me greatly, the above songs really move me deeply, all for different reasons.

The only thing that sucks is that my #1 has been hijacked by HP, and that The Cure allowed it to happen.

Please don't get mad at me for dumping on it, but I have ALWAYS HATE "Tainted Love". It is SO popular, and I hear it on the radio and in stores all the time, and I have never understood the popularity. It just instantly depresses me! (really, sorry, just venting there!)

But I am happy to see "Kayleigh" -great song and nearly forgotten.

I would have picked "Cities in Dust" by Siouxsie & the Banshees....

Okay, better go work on my own list, so folks can pick THAT apart! ;)

I live, breathe, eat and sleep in music. I can't live without it.

Try as I would, I couldn't narrow it down to less than 20 (and was only that 'successful' by limiting it to 'songs' -- I had to throw out all operatic and classical pieces, or I'd need massive doses of aspirin to get through this 'exercise' at all.)

And oh! the pain! the pain of what I threw away…

Jessica -- The Allman Bros. (I could put this on a 'tape loop' and just forget everything.)
Norwegian Wood -- The Beatles
Valse Bebé -- Beausoleil
Down at the Twist and Shout -- Mary-Chapin Carpenter
What a Fool Believes -- The Doobie Brothers
Like A Rolling Stone -- Bob Dylan
Too Much -- Guy Clark
Second Hand News -- Fleetwood Mac
Can't Make Up My Mind -- John Gorka
Mountain Dance -- GRP Live
Ripple -- Grateful Dead
Samson and Delilah -- Grateful Dead
Travelin' Prayer -- Billy Joel
Your Song -- Elton John
Rad Gumbo -- Little Feat
Moondance -- Van Morrison
Sweet Georgia Brown -- Django Reinhardt & Stephane Grappelli
Manzanita -- The Tony Rice Unit
Snake Bite Love -- Zachary Richard
Zarico est pas salé -- Steve Riley & the Mamou Playboys

-- he's a phenomenal talent.

Who do I contact to ensure that in the next life, I come back as someone who plays guitar even half as well as Tony Rice?

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edit: typo

…but if you find out, let me know. I want to be there to hear it. :)

My favorites today won't be my favorites tomorrow.

Lessee:

10) Pixies "Hang Wire"
9) John Coltrane "Equinox"
8) The Rolling Stones "Let It Bleed"
7) Television "Little Johnny Jewel"
6) Bassholes "Gonna Write Me a Letter"
5) The Shins "So Says I"
4) The Velvet Underground "The Murder Mystery"
3) Sly and the Family Stone "Underdog"
2) Iggy and the Stooges "I'm Sick of You"

And the greatest song of all time:
1) The Fall "The Container Drivers"

(and maybe just a few others who will remain nameless ;)) would pick a less well known Television song. Sir. I salute you. And your VU pic is interesting as well.

Lloyd and Verlaine just go fucking nuts.

And as far as "The Murder Mystery" goes, I love the interplay of the vocals -- and the coda gets stuck in my head with astonishing regularity.

for about a year. It was my inspiration to switch completely from playing drums to playing guitar.

I've heard a lot of live versions of LJJ, but none which comes close to the one on The Blow Up

...and it's a hell of a performance, too. But the last solo on the "Blow Up" take is just mindbending.

;)

You're right, it is tough :(... I don't know if these are my "top 10", but they're 10 of my favorite songs.

In no particular order (no way can I pick a "favorite"):

While My Guitar Gently Weeps - Beatles
Eleanor Rigby - Beatles
Yesterday - Beatles
Something - Beatles
Hey Jude (flame on, assholes! }() - Beatles
Sunday, Bloody Sunday - U2
Karma Police (I don't know why) - Radiohead
Axel F - ??? (theme song from Beverly Hills Cop)
The Crunge - Led Zeppelin
Dazed and Confused - Led Zeppelin

Betcha can't tell what my favorite band is :D

The list I turned into the professor had like 4 Beatles tracks on it (including Yesterday and While my Guitar Gently weeps) some Zeppelin and some U2 were also on my list.

Interestingly enough I don't even remember all the songs that I turned in. I was agonizing over this assignment for so long that my "official" top ten got jumbled up with all my other favorites

A quick, incomplete list, subject to change at any point:

Garden Song Dave Mallet
Here Comes The Sun Beatles
Matthew John Denver
Scream Young Dubliners
Natural Beauty Neil Young
Don't Think Twice Dylan
Alice's Restaurant Arlo Guthrie
Sound of Fear Eels
Jimmy's Road Willie Nelson
Blues Jam Stevie Ray & Buddy Guy

10 "Behind Blue Eyes" (The Who)
9 "Heart to Hang On To" (Townshend, Lane)
8 "Thrasher" (Neil Young)
7 "The Water is Wide" (Karla Bonoff's recording)
6 "Son of a Preacher Man" (Dusty Springfield)
5 "Think" (Aretha Franklin)
4 "Where to Now, St. Peter" (Elton John/Bernie Taupin)
3 "Where I Live" (Bill Staines)
2 "The Wolf that Lives in Lindsey" (Joni Mitchell)
1 "Carolina in My Mind" (James Taylor)

Would need a separate category for favorite dance tunes.

1. Pretenders Stand By Me
2. White Stripes 7 Nation Army
3. Cab Calloway Minnie the Moocher
4. Elvis Costello My Funny Valentine
5. Harold Melvin and the Bluenotes If You Don't Love Me by Now
6. The Rolling Stones Satisfaction
7. Sinead O'Connor Nothing Compares to U
8. from the Bollywood movie Yadeein soundtrack Jaba Dil Mele
9. Stevie Wonder All in Love is Fair
10. Red Hot Chilly Peppers Give it Away
11. sorry I can't stop at 10
Yeah Yeah Yeahs Maps
12. Nirvana Smells Like Teen Spirit
13. Living Color Cult of Personality
14. Classics IV Spooky
15. The Detroit Cobras Hey Sailor(Solaney)

1)"Still Ill" The Smiths- explanation: perfectly showcases Johnny Marr's technical ability and pop sensibility, Morrissey's lyrics convey a sense of regret and sad nostalgia for the past that The Smiths spent the rest of their career trying to recreate. And all that within a catchy, memorable three-minute pop formula.
2)"Killer Cars" Radiohead
3)"Paint a Vulgar Picture" The Smiths
4)"There is a Light that Never Goes Out" The Smiths
5) "Coney Island" Death Cab for Cutie
6) "Velouria" The Pixies
7) "I've Made Enough Friends" The Wrens
8) "Everything Counts" Depeche Mode
9) "Love Will Tear Us Apart" Joy Division
10) "While You Sleep" My Bloody Valentine

Edit: Honorable mention for Elvis Costello: "Lip Service"

1. What a Wonderful World - Ray Charles - It makes me cry. It makes me cry for happy because of it's beautiful simplicity. It also makes me cry for sad because sometimes it's so hard to to find those small but all important joys. It has the power to send me into a deep despair for what isn't and it gives me hope for what could be.

Otherwise, in no particular order, the other 9

Happy Together - Turtles
Just to See Her - Smokey Robinson
Fast Car - Tracy Chapman
Someone Like You - Van Morrison
No One in the World - Anita Baker
Long as I Can See the Light - ccr
Cats in the Cradle - Harry Chapin
I Hope You Dance - Leanne Womack
China - Tori Amos

Into the Mystic – Van Morrison
The Darker Side of Life – Steve Pride
Eyes of the World -- Grateful Dead
Cure for Pain -- Morphine
Running to Stand Still – U2
Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues – Bob Dylan
Sunday Morning Coming Down -- Kris Kristofferson
The Weight – The Band
Space Toby – The Pistolarrows
Ghosts of Saturday Night – Tom Waits


Mine would change from day to day, though (other than Into the Mystic, which is bound to always be in the top 10 somewhere).

Innocent when you dream

definitely an alternate

it changes weekly

in the fifteen minutes I have before I have to leave the house.

Let me get back to you...

really need room for at least 50, but... here goes... songs I couldn't live without today.


1. Dancing Barefoot - Patti Smith
2. Miles Davis - Freddie Freeloader
3. Beginning to See the Light, and Satellite of Love - VU
4. NoFx - The Idiots Have Taken Over
5. Ramones version of Needles and Pins, I Wanna Be Sedated
6. Moxy Fruvous version of Goodnight Irene
7. Bowie - Suffragette City
8. Bach - most of his compositions
9. Rolling Stones - Mother's Little Helper
10. Robyn Hitchcock - Raymond Chandler Evening

hon mention: BIlly Bragg Waiting for the Great Leap Forward


looks like I'm a mod romantic ;)

At Last; by Etta James
What a Wonderful Life; by Louis Armstrong
Landslide; by Fleetwood Mac/Stevie Nicks
Still the Same; by Bob Segar
Wonderful Tonight; by Eric Clapton
Keep Me In Your Heart For a While; by Warren Zevon
Goodnight Saigon; by Billy Joel
Fire and Rain; by James Taylor
You're Still the One; by Shania Twain
Running on Empty; by Jackson Browne/Dust in the Wind; by Kansas (tie)

:eyes:

:hi:

:smoke:

1. West End Girls -Pet Shop Boys
2. Pay to Cum! -Bad Brains
3. You're so Vain -Carly Simon
4. Do Ya -the Move
5. This Ain't No Picnic -The Minutemen
6. Change Gonna Come -Sam Cooke/Otis Redding
7. With Age -Karate
8. Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos -Public Enemy
9. A Town Called Malice -The Jam
10. Breaking all the House Rules -Budgie

I have soooo been in a Bad Brains mood! Nice list.

"Seasons In The Sun", Terry Jacks (lyrics by Rod McKuen!)
"I've Never Been To Me", Charlene.
Wait... wait... I've got more...
oh no, what's happening to me? Ohhhhh my HEAD.....
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:-)

AAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!

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without:

"True Love's Ways" Buddy Holly
"Love me Tender" EP
"The Weight" The Band
"Because" Dave Clark Five
"This Magic Moment" the one by Jay and The Americans
"Do you Feel Like I do?" Peter Frampton
"Baby I love your Way" PF
"Rocket Town" Michael W. Smith
"Ode to Joy" LVB
"It is Well" Horatio Spafford

One of my favorites would probably be "Love Crusade" or maybe "Picture Perfect", but "Rocket Town"? Ah well, it is no worse than all the Eleanor Rigby fans.
Then again, I am sure my list is cheesy, reflecting my preference for "make up rock"

1. Little Fighter - White Lion - fires me up "don't ever let 'em end, the things you do"
2. Roll with the changes - REO Speedwagon
3. Walkin' on sunshine - Katrina and the Waves
4. Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen (okay, I was reminded of that by another person's list)
5. Bad Reputation - Joan Jett
6. I've got the music in me - Kiki Dee
7. Hot time (in this city tonight) - Triumph
8. Paradise City - Guns N' Roses
9. Easy Livin - Head East
10. I remember U - Skid Row

Just like Heaven-the cure
your the one for me-D Train
I'd love to change the world-Alvin Lee & Ten years after
Man in black-Johnny Cash
Paint it black-Rolling Stones
Thats the way i've always heard it should be-Carly Simon
Bohemian Rhapsody-Queen
Space Oddity-david Bowie
Imagine-john Lennon
Alison-Elvis costello

I'm all over the map but these songs are always in my car. Each one reminds me of a time in my life and the people that were around me.

I could have included that. I could also have included Depeche Mode's Personal Jesus.

It would be easier if I could do my top 50 songs!

we looked a little funnny having our first dance to it but it meant a lot to me.

This is too hard... my list for now, and in no particular order:

Life on Mars?
You Can't Quit Me, Baby
To Bring You My Love
The Knife
Almost Blue
Crazy Fingers
Where Do You Think You're Going?
Good Vibrations
Like a Rolling Stone
Sunshine Superman

My ten favorite songs today (as others have said, subject to change; also, I am including only "popular" songs rather than classical favorites, hymns, etc):

1. I Need A Lover - John Mellencamp (then Cougar)
2. Because The Night - Patti Smith Group
3. Never Going Back Again - Fleetwood Mac
4. There She Goes - The La's (and ONLY the La's version)
5. This Beat Goes On/Switchin' To Glide - the Kings
6. Hungry Like The Wolf - Duran Duran
7. Burnin' Love - Elvis Presley
8. Private Conversation - Lyle Lovett
9. Ring Of Fire - Johnny Cash
10. Somebody's Crying - Chris Isaak

edit: I forgot to include The Way You Look Tonight as performed by Frank Sinatra; I'd bump the Kings to include Frank.

Rock-a-hula!:bounce:

Dovers - "I Could Be Happy"
Sparks - "Amateur Hour"
Can - "Shikaku Maru Ten"
Hollies - "Suspicious Look In Your Eyes"
Wire - "Options R"
Robert Wyatt - "At Last I Am Free"
This Heat - "Begining the Hours"
Beach Boys - "I'll Bet He's Nice"
Zombies - "She Does Everything for Me"
Soft Machine - "Dada Was Here"

nice list JP

"Like a Hurricane" - Neil Young
"Filipino Box Spring Hog" - Tom Waits
"Sisters of the Moon" - Fleetwood Mac
"She's a Mystery to Me" - Roy Orbison
"Out There" - Dinosaur Jr
"Miracles" - Jefferson Starship
"Ashes to Ashes" - David Bowie
"Sweet Marie" - The Anniversary
"The Green Manalishi" - Fleetwood Mac (Peter Green)
"Stand Inside Your Love" - Smashing Pumpkins

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As one, and ah two.

Moonlight Seranade - Glenn Miller
Taxi - Harry Chapin
Someone Saved My Life tonight - Elton John
Some Enchanted Evening - Jay and The Americans
You're Going to Lose That Girl - Beatles
Who's Been sleeping in My Bed? - Barry Manilow
Style - Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin (From the movie Robin and the Seven Hoods)
Singing in the Rain - Sammy Davis Jr or Taco
Puttin on The Ritz - Taco
And the Door is Still Open to my Heart - Dean Martin
Hitchin a Ride - Vanity Fair
Sugar Sugar - The Archies
This Moment in Time - Engelbert Humperdink
Love and Marriage - Frank Sinatra

thats enough for right now.

Moonlight Serenade and Pennsylvania 6-5000 are probably my favorites of his.

If I put Dean Martin on my list, I think it will be "Memories Are Made Of This."

Spanish Peanut?
How about "76 Trombones"?

Whipped Cream and Lollipop and Zorba the Greek come to mind.

"Ceremony" New Order
"Black Metallic" Catherine Wheel
"Monkey Gone to Heaven" Pixies
"Mote" Sonic Youth
"With or Without You" U2
"At Night" Buffalo Tom
"In Your Eyes" Peter Gabriel
"Paint it Black" Rolling Stones
"Don't Want to Fall in Love" Chris Isaak
"Crazy" Patsy Klein (Willie)

;)

Mad props for including "Mote."

makes me melt and wish I had just an iota of that talent.
Thanks for Mote. Seems we have a lot of Sonic Youth fans on DU!

Should have had that on my list, along with Something So Strong or Don't Dream It's Over by Crowded House.

Top ten is easy, but picking a all-time fave is implausible.

In no particular order:

In Between Days (Cure)
Captivate (Nitzer Ebb)
Fun to be Had (Nitzer Ebb)
Blue Monday (New Order)
To the Hilt (Die Krupps)
Headhunter (Front 242)
Bizarre Love Triangle (New Order)
Love Will Tear Us Apart (Joy Division)
All Good Girls (Die Warzau)
Helter Skelter (Meat Beat Manifesto)

(Can you tell I'm a child of the 80s/90s?)

Edited: Typo

I miss real new-wave and industrial. I think I'll go home and listen to Ministry, maybe some Bauhaus.

1 See how you are - X
2 Ring of Fire - Johnny Cash
3 Instant Karma - Lennon
4 My Back Pages - Dylan
5 My Baby Thinks he's a Train - Rosanne Cash
6 Can't Hardly Wait - The Replacements
7 Let's all turn on - Hoodoo Gurus
8 My Old Friend the Blues - Steve Earl
9 My Friend Ringo - Young Fresh Fellows
10 Anything off the first 3 albums by Blue Oyster Cult - (tribute to my teenage years)

I think I'm going to this "Stream of Conciousness" style.
A shmear of my favorites:

The Beatles: The Long and Winding Road, If I Fell, In My Life, The Night Before, Fixing a Hole
The Rolling Stones: As Tears Go By, Dance Little Sister
The Who: The Punk and the Godfather, We're Not Gonna Take It, Pictures of Lily, Another Tricky Day, Squeeze Box
Steely Dan: Kid Charlemagne, My Old School
John Lennon: Watching the Wheels, Power to the People
The Moody Blues: Gemini Dream, Isn't Life Strange
Yes: It Can Happen
Genesis: Tonight, Tonight, Tonight
Phil Collins: One More Night, I Missed Again
Elton John: Rocket Man, Little Jeannie, Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting
Billy Joel: My Life, An Innocent Man, A Matter of Trust
Seals & Crofts: Get Closer
Dan Fogelberg: Longer
John Denver: Fly Away
The Bee Gees: How Deep Is Your Love, Love You Inside Out
Bruce Springsteen: Prove It All Night, I'm Going Down, Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out
Huey Lewis: If This Is It
Nilsson: Coconut
Tears for Fears: Shout, Head Over Heels
The Human League: Keep Feeling Fascination
Duran Duran: Is There Something I Should Know
Fleetwood Mac: Gold Dust Woman, Tusk, Monday Morning
Asia: Only Time Will Tell
Earth, Wind, & Fire: Sing a Song, Let's Groove
The Temptations: I'm Losing You
James Brown: Sex Machine, Living in America

That's only the tip of the iceberg, people. :)

Love's Theme - Barry White
Somnambulist - BT
Girl Can't Help It - Journey
More Than This - Bryan Ferry - Roxy Music
Life in A Northern Town - Dream Academy
Father Figure - George Michael
Set The Night To Music - Roberta Flack & Maxi Priest
Minor Earth Major Sky - A-Ha
I knew you were waiting - Aretha Franklin & George Michael
The Right Thing - Simply Red



Again, this changes a lot, and these are in no particular order.


Honorable Mention:

Kooler Than Jesus - My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult
Welcome to Paradise - Front 242

#1 All-time favorite has and always will be:

"My Girl" - Temptations

After that in no particular order would be......

"Cruising" - Smokey Robinson

"Crying" - Roy Orbison

"I'm Gonna Be Strong" - Gene Pitney

"Ooo Baby, Baby" - Smokey Robinson

"I Love Your Face" - Smokey Robinson

"I Got You Babe" - Sonny & Cher

" Yesterday" - The Beatles

The entire score from "Les Miserables" - does that count as one?

"Witchcraft" - Frank Sinatra

But I rather suspect Bullwinkle is a Smokey fan.

It varies over time. It's actually not so hard if you don't worry too much about it, and just let it come stream of consciousness-like.

In no particular order:

Marlene Dietrich's Favorite Poem- Peter Murphy
Solsbury Hill- Peter Gabriel
Drowning Man- U2
Fragile - Sting
Duettino, from Lakme- Delibes
The Voyeur of Utter Destruction as Beauty- David Bowie
The Old Ways - Loreena McKennitt
Have You In Mind - Versigh
Life During Wartime - Talking Heads
Stay - David Bowie

Hmmmmm, I'll pick

The Asphalt World, by (London) Suede

Hmmmmm, I'll pick

The Asphalt World, by (London) Suede

It depends on the day, the time of day, my mood--and is probably affected by the fact I'm newly in love:

(In no particular order):

The Cure - Fire in Cairo
Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill
Van Morrison - These Dreams of You
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Neil Young - Like A Hurricane
Bob Dylan - On A Night Like This
Echo and the Bunnymen - Turquoise Days
Johnny Cash - Ring of Fire
Nanci Griffith - Late Night Grand Hotel
Simple Minds - Wish You Were Here (original song, NOT a cover of Pink Floyd!)
Peter Gabriel - That Voice Again
Spandau Ballet - Gold
Queen - Long Away
Lucinda Williams - Right On Time
Teardrop Explodes - When I Dream

(Yes, I love Spandau Ballet! I'm officially out of the lame music closet! :>)

Gold and True are my faves!

1. Claire De Lune-Claude Debussy
2. Imagine-John Lennon
3. Biko-Peter Gabriel
4. Bohemian Rhapsody-Queen
5. Tiny Dancer-Elton John
6. You go to my Head-Billie Holliday
7. Blackbird-Beatles
8. Wish You were Here-Pink Floyd
9. Possession-Sarah McLachlan
10. Both Sides, now-Joni Mitchell

and a couple more, This Woman's Work-Kate Bush
and Supper's Ready-Genesis

my top 10 favorite songs are:

1. Bad Religion - Let Them Eat War
2. Strike Anywhere - Amplify
3. Dillinger Four - Supermodels Don't Drink Colt .45
4. Dropkick Murphys - We Got the Power
5. Bad Religion - Sowing the Seeds of Utopia
6. Strike Anywhere - Infrared
7. Dropkick Murphys - The Gauntlet
8. Strike Anywhere - Blaze
9. Bad Religion - Overture
10. Bad Religion - The Empire Strikes First

I have to say, that's pretty good for a computer reading my mind. I'd put my top 10 at:

1. Bad Religion - Let Them Eat War (did iTunes nail that one, or what? I suppose the fact that I've played it over 1000 times since last August had something to do with it.)
2. Strike Anywhere - Infrared
3. Dropkick Murphys - The Gauntlet
4. Loreena McKennitt - The Mummer's Dance (single version)
5. Strike Anywhere - Amplify/Blaze (they're actally one song that happens to be divided into two tracks on the CD)
6. Bad Religion - The Empire Strikes First
7. NOFX - The Decline ('course, a song that long could account for all 10 in one go)
8. Dillinger Four - file under "ADULT URBAN CONTEMPORARY"
9. Flogging Molly - Within a Mile of Home
10. Bad Religion - Anesthesia

Oh yeah, why is number one number one? There's something about that opening riff. I dunno what it is, but it gets me going.

In no particular order:

"I Go Crazy" - Paul Davis
"Sunflower Cat (Some Dour Cat) (Down With That)" - Bruce Hornsby
"Every Little Kiss" - Bruce Hornsby
"Even Now" - Barry Manilow
"This One's For You" - Barry Manilow
"Beautiful Day" - U2
"Seasick, Yet Still Docked" - Morrissey
"Ask" - The Smiths
"Interesting Drug" - Morrissey
"Waiting for a Girl Like You" - Foreigner

I KNEW Morrissey, Manilow and the Smiths would be on yours!

Where are Hall & Oats?