Of course the lists could be shorter or longer! I also suggest that if you update it from time to time, have the new songs in bold or cursive for a little while. So one has the chance to check out your new discoveries from the music history. You can always change your list by the editing function. And if your list is really long, there might be an idea to include an alphabetical list as well. But no need to feel forced to do ANYTHING. You might already have a hard time from chosing and excluding the damn songs!

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[QUOTE]Originally posted by jfc64:
See if I'm first...a top 100 from me, to be expanded later on:


1. Steely Dan – Doctor Wu
2. Velvet Underground – I Heard Her Call My Name
3. Pixies – Caribou
4. Walker Brothers – No Regrets
5. Love – The Red Telephone
6. Robert Wyatt – Little Red Riding Hood Hit The Road
7. Strapping Young Lad – Imperial
8. Prodigy - Out Of Space (Outro Remix)
9. High Llamas – Literature Is Fluff
10. Deodato – Super Strut
11. Flash & The Pan – Where Were You
12. Iggy Pop – Lust For Life
13. Marlena Shaw – California Soul
14. Hüsker Dü - Chartered Trips
15. Lou Christie – Paint America Love
16. David Bowie – Station To Station
17. Charlatans – Just Lookin’
18. Bob Dylan – Tangled Up In Blue
19. Scott Walker – Rhymes Of Goodbye
20. Neil Young – After The Gold Rush
21. Beatles – A Day In The Life
22. Tom Waits – Burma Shave
23. Llaura Nyro – Timer
24. Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody
25. New York Dolls – Frankenstein
26. Joy Division – Dead Souls
27. Sunset Rubdown – For The Pier (And Dead Shimmering)
28. Nick Drake – Three Hours
29. Herbie Hancock – Chameleon
30. Pere Ubu – Horses
31. Joni Mitchell – Free Man In Paris
32. Jane's Addiction - Three Days
33. Leonard Cohen – Sisters Of Mercy
34. Jefferson Airplane – White Rabbit
35. David Bowie – Starman
36. Elvis Costello – Beyond Belief
37. Lynyrd Skynyrd – Free Bird
38. Cardiacs – Dirty Boy
39. Dexy’s Midnight Runners – Breaking Down The Walls Of Heartache
40. Smokey Robinson – Tracks Of My Tears
41. Tindersticks – If You´re Looking For A Way Out
42. Trentemöller - Into The Trees (Serenetti Part 3)
43. Ramones - Judy Is A Punk
44. Beach Boys – Surf's Up
45. Steely Dan – Deacon Blues
46. Prefab Sprout – Venus Of The Soup Kitchen
47. Walkmen - The Rat
48. Django Reinhardt – Limehouse Blues
49. Focus - Sylvia
50. Triffids – Tender Is The Night (The Long Fidelity)
51. Curtis Mayfield – Move On Up
52. MFSB - K-gee (Joey Negro re-edit)
53. Television – Prove It
54. Elliott Smith – Waltz #2
55. Van Der Graaf Generator - House With No Door
56. Bob Dylan – Like A Rolling Stone
57. The Fall – The Classical
58. Love – You Set The Scene
59. Medicine Head – Coast To Coast
60. Beta Band – Dry The Rain
61. Frank Zappa – Montana
62. Extrawelt – Soopertrack
63. Pink Floyd – Shine On You Crazy Diamonds 1-7
64. Factory - Path Through The Forest
65. Sufjan Stevens - John Wayne Gacy, Jr
66. Moby – Porcelain
67. Squarepusher – Tetra-Sync
68. Donny Hathaway – I Love The Lord, He Heard My Cry (Parts 1 & 2)
69. Nathan Fake - The Sky Was Pink (James Holden Remix)
70. Joy Division – Day Of The Lords
71. Bill Conti – Gonna Fly Now
72. Television – Marquee Moon
73. My Bloody Valentine - Feed Me With Your Kiss
74. Doors – LA Woman
75. Divine Comedy – Songs Of Love
76. Cocteau Twins – Feathers-Oar-Blades
77. Bobby Womack – Across 110th Street
78. Shins - Young Pilgrams
79. New Pornographers – All The Things That Go To Make Heaven And Earth
80. Cannibal Ox – Iron Galaxy
81. Saints - Know Your Product
82. King Crimson – Epitaph
83. The Who – Overture
84. Peggy Lee & Benny Goodman – Where Or When
85. The Who – I’m Free
86. Ministry – Scarecrow
87. Camel – Lunar Sea
88. Tim Buckley – Sweet Surrender
89. Joan Baez - Diamonds And Rust
90. Go-Betweens – In Her Diary
91. Elmore James - Dust My Blues
92. New Order – Bizarre Love Triangle (extended version)
93. Them – It´s All Over Now, Baby Blue
94. Nick Cave – Jangling Jack
95. Moby – New Dawn Fades
96. Stereolab - Plastic Mile
97. Neu! – Hero
98. Rifles - Repeated Offender
99. Danielson – Bloodbook On The Half Shell
100. Agalloch – Bloodbirds

My list would probably contains a lot of tracks by Wilco, Primus, Radiohead, Ulrich Schnauss, Converge, The Field, etc...

Looking forward to it!

eh....i dont know if i will do it, that's why i said that

Fav Schnauss and Primus? A top two is a good start!

I'd like to do this. Give me a few days.

1.Oasis- Cast No Shadow
2.Common- I Used To Love H.E.R.
3.The Rolling Stones- Gimme Shelter
4.Nas- I Gave You Power
5.R.E.M.- Losing My Religion
6.The Cure- Just Like Heaven
7.Elton John- Tiny Dancer
8.Fleetwood Mac- Dreams
9.The Verve- The Drugs Don't Work
10.The Goo Goo Dolls- Name
11.U2- Sunday Bloody Sunday
12.The Police- King Of Pain
13.Stevie Wonder- Living For The City
14.Pete Rock & CL Smooth- They Reminisce Over You(T.R.O.Y.)
15.Radiohead- Fake Plastic Trees
16.Tracy Chapman- Fast Car
17.Eminem- Hallies Song
18.Temptations- Get Ready
19.Coldplay- Trouble
20.Slicy Rick- Hey Young World
21.Outkast Da Art Of Storytellin (Part2)
22.Beastie Boys- Paul Revere
23.2pac- Keep Your Head Up
24.Michael Jackson- Dirty Diana
25.Guns N Roses- Sweet Child Of Mine
26.The Beatles- Daytripper
27.Dru Hill- Beauty
28.Cyndi Lauper- Time After Time
29.The Who- Won't Get Fooled Again
30.T.Rex- Bang A Gong (Get It ON)
31.Wu Tang Clan- C.R.E.A.M
32.Jay Z- Public Service Announcement
33.Miles Davis- Blue In Green
34.Anna Nalick- Breathe (2am)
35.The Four Tops- Reach Out
36.Nely Furtado- Turn of The Light
37.Nirvana- Lithium
38.Pearl Jam- alive
39.Eric B & Rakim- Microphone Fiend
40.The Notorious B.I.G- Skys The Limit
41.Mobb Deep- Temperatures Rising
42.The Clipse- Grindin
43.Missy Elliot- The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)
44.Lost Boyz- Renee
45.Gin Blossoms Found Out About You
46.AZ- Sugar Hill
47.Tool- Sober
48.Souls Of Mischief- 93 till Infinty...
49.Smashing Pumpkins- Disarm
50.Kansas- Dust In the Wind
51.Weezer- Say It Ain't So
52.The Clash- London Calling
53.Bob Marley & The Wailers- Could You Be Loved
54.No Doubt- Just A Girl
55.The Smiths- The Queen Is Dead
56.Queen- Bohemain Rhapsody
57.Marvin Gaue- I Heard It through The Grapevine
58.Bob Dylan- Idiot Wind
59.Bee Gees- How Deep is Your Love
60.Cheap Trick- I Want You to Want Me
61.Mariah Carey- Always Be My Baby
62.Sade- Smooth Operator
63.The Shins- New Slang
64.Moby- Southside
65.Fugees- Zealots
66.Beck- Devils Haircut
67.Damien Marley Ft. Nas- Road To Zion
68.Kanye West- Spaceship
69.A Tribe Called Quest
70.Fabolous- Breathe
71.Dr Dre. Ft. Eminem- Forgot About Dre.
72.Blackstreet- Before I Let You go
73.Bruce Springsteen- Dancing In the Dark
74.Mos Def- Mathematics
75.Violent Femmes- Do It All The time
76.Toni Tony Tone- Anniversary
77.Ramones- I Wanna be Sedated
78.M.O.P.- How About Some Hardcore
79.Ludacris- Southern Hosptality
80.The Roots- You Got Me
81.Phil Collins- In The Air Tonight
82.Aerosmith- Dream On
83.Scarface Ft. 2pac- Smile
84.Edie Brickell & The New Bohemians- What I Am
85.Ben E. King- Stand By Me
86.Van Halen- Ain't Talken Bout Love
87.Joy Division- Love Will Tear Us Apart
88.Method Man Ft. Mary J Blige- Your All I Need To Get By
89.Rage Against The Machine- Guerilla Radio
90.The White Stripes- 7 Nation Army
91.Looking Glass- Brandy
92.Blind Melon- No rain
93.Ozzy Osbourne- Crazy Train
94.Hole- Doll Parts
95.Colin Hay- Overkill
96.Average White Band- Pick up the Pieces
97.Red Hot Chili Peppers- Scar Tissue
98.Brand Nubian- One For All
99.112- Only You

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Fav Schnauss and Primus? A top two is a good start!

eh...favorites by Ulrich Schnauss: a letter from home, blumenthal, Shine, Einfeld, In between the years, Medusa, ...

favorites by Primus: John The Fisherman, Mr Know-it-all, Tommy the cat, My name is mud, Southbound pachyderm, Bob's party time lounge, ...

I like the diversity in your list, Michael. But PSA as the best Jay-Z song..?

Here is my top 10:

1. Flaming Lips - Do You Realize
2. XTC - Dear God
3. Bjork - All Is Full of Love
4. Don McLean - American Pie
5. Radiohead - Paranoid Android
6. Of Montreal - Grotesque Animal
7. Michael Jackson - Billie Jean
8. Outkast - B.O.B.
9. Styx - Come Sail Away
10. Daft Punk - Da Funk

1. Us and Them - Pink Floyd
2. You Never Give Me Your Money - The Beatles
3. Idioteque - Radiohead
4. Lost In The Supermarket - The Clash
5. Blues From Down Here - TV On The Radio
6. Gone - Kanye West
7. Daylight - Aesop Rock
8. Teenage Wildlife - David Bowie
9. Disintegration - The Cure
10. Lyrics of Fury - Eric B. and Rakim
11. Hymn 43 - Jethro Tull
12. I Am The Walrus - The Beatles
13. Styrofoam Boots/Its All Nice On Ice Alright... - Modest Mouse
14. Static - Godspeed You Black Emperor!
15. It Ain't Hard To Tell - Nas
16. Alabama - Neil Young
17. The Final Cut - Pink Floyd
18. Battery - Metallica
19. Monkey Man - The Rolling Stones
20. 2112 - Rush
21. Going To California - Led Zeppelin
22. Hang on to Yourself - David Bowie
23. Clowne Towne - Xiu Xiu
24. Bent Life - Aesop Rock feat. C-Ray Walz
25. Hey Joni - Sonic Youth
26. Airbag - Radiohead
27. Don't Stop Me Now - Queen
28. Protect Ya Neck - Wu-Tang Clan
29. The Cool - Lupe Fiasco
30. Stepfather Factory - El-P
31. So Lonely - The Police
32. Beat Connection - LCD Soundsytem
33. Around The World - Daft Punk
34. Kissing The Lipless - The Shins
35. The What - Notorious B.I.G. feat Method Man
36. Cortez The Killer - Neil Young
37. Feeling Yourself Disintegrate - The Flaming Lips
38. Silent Shout - The Knife
39. 3030 - Deltron 3030
40. Heart Of The City (Ain't No Love) - Jay-Z
41. Upward Over The Mountain - Iron & Wine
42. All Alone - Gorillaz
43. High Five (Rock The Catskills) - Beck
44. Crazy - Gnarls Barkley
45. Sloop John B - The Beach Boys
46. My Way - Frank Sinatra
47. Pink - Boris
48. Duel of the Iron Mic - GZA
49. BBF3 - Godspeed You Black Emperor!
50. Chillout Tent - The Hold Steady
51. I Just Can't Win - The Strokes
52. Chicago - Sufjan Stevens
53. Viorar Vel Til Loftarasa - Sigur Ros
54. Red Hill Mining Town - U2
55. Purple Rain - Prince
56. Holiday - Weezer
57. 3rd Planet - Modest Mouse
58. Hold On To Your Genre - Les Savy Fav
59. Long, Long, Long - The Beatles
60. Dead Flowers - The Rolling Stones
61. Epitaph - King Crimson
62. Move Your Feet - Junior Senior
63. King's Crossing - Elliot Smith
64. Highwayman - The Highwaymen
65. Tangled Up In Blue - Bob Dylan
66. All I Need - Jay-Z
67. Two Words - Kanye West
68. Blood - El-P
69. 11:35 - Aesop Rock
70. Untitled #1 - Sigur Ros
71. Da Mystery Of Chessboxin' - Wu-Tang Clan
72. Stuck Between Stations - The Hold Steady
73. Goodbye Yellowbrick Road - Elton John
74. Fabulous Muscles (Mama Black Widdow) - Xiu Xiu
75. Ego Tripping At The Gates Of Hell - The Flaming Lips
76. Province - TV On The Radio
77. Time - David Bowie
78. Black Steel - Tricky
79. Daydreaming - Massive Attack
80. Une Annee Sans Lumiere - The Arcade Fire
81. Michigan Girls - Califone
82. No Hits - Black Mountain
83. Tea In The Sahara - The Police
84. Sun Of Nothing - Between The Buried And Me
85. Lonesome Tears - Beck
86. After The Goldrush - Neil Young
87. The Toys Go Winding Down - Primus
88. U Hurt Me - Burial
89. Scenes From An Italian Restaurant - Billy Joel
90. Dogs - Pink Floyd
91. Rock n' Roll With Me - David Bowie
92. Young Folks - Peter, Bjorn & John
93. Casimir Pulaski Day - Sufjan Stevens
94. Life's A Bitch - Nas
95. Be Easy - Ghostface Killah
96. Perpetual Change - Yes
97. The Rain Song - Led Zeppelin
98. As Above, So Below - Klaxons
99. Wandering Star - Portishead
100. House Of Jealous Lovers - The Rapture

Seems impossible to make a list with my top 100 songs!
btw,it would be very interesting to read some comments about your #1 song.

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1. Us and Them - Pink Floyd (Lawrence_Of_Suburbia)
1. Flaming Lips - Do You Realize (Cyrone)
1. Oasis- Cast No Shadow (Michaelbchnn)
1. Steely Dan – Doctor Wu (jfc64)

My number one song...Steely Dan - Doctor Wu:

This one shines when I'm in a peaceful mood...then I can think about this figure, Doctor Wu...who is he?

I did a top 100 songs from this decade on another board, and so that can do for this. Although it's alphabetical, instead of crazily attempting to put them in any order of likingness:

13 & God- Men Of Station
Acorn, The- Crooked Legs
Adem- Long Drive Home
Antarctica Takes It!- Antarctica
Arcade Fire- Wake Up
Au- rr vs. d
Beirut- Postcards From Italy
Benni Hemm Hemm- I Can Love You In A Wheelchair
Ben's Symphonic Orchestra- A Short Trip To Brazil
Beulah- Emma Blowgun's Last Stand
Bodies Of Water- These Are The Eyes
Bowerbirds- My Oldest Memory
Breathe Owl Breathe- Run Off
Broken Social Scene- Anthems For A Seventeen Year Old Girl
Calexico- Black Heart
Califone- Spider's House
Chad VanGaalen- Willow Tree
Choir Of Young Believers- Burn The Flag
The Choir Practice- Running On
Chris T-T- Battersea Bridge Baptism
Clem Snide- Your Favorite Music
David Kitt- Song From Hope St.
Delgados, The- No Danger
Deus- Nothing Really Ends
Diane Cluck- Monte Carlo
Divine Comedy, The- Count Grassi's Passage Over Piedmont
Doveman- Honey
Eberg- Sober In June
Eels- Mr. E's Beautiful Blues
Efterklang- Himmelbjerget
Elbow- Asleep In The Back
Final Fantasy- This Is The Dream Of Win And Regine
Flotation Toy Warning- Donald Pleasance
Fog- Wallpaper Sink Or Swim
Fujiya & Miyagi- Collarbone
Function- Sinai (Freedom Doesn't Care What I Do)
Get Well Soon- Prelude
Grandaddy- He's Simple, He's Dumb, He's The Pilot
Hjaltalin- Goodbye July
Hood- Still Rain Fell
I'm From Barcelona- We're From Barcelona
Jens Lekman- Pretty Shoes
Jim O'Rourke- Get A Room
Joanna Newsom- Peach, Plum, Pear
Jong Pang- Small Cut Sensations
Jonquil- Lions
Kinit Her- The Pin Globes
Le Loup- We Are Gods! We Are Wolves!
Loney, Dear- I Am John
Mechanical Bride- See Worlds
Mercury Rev- The Dark Is Rising
Misophone- The Sea Has Spoken
Misty's Big Adventure- She Fills The Spaces
The Motifs- Secret Address
Múm- Green Grass Of Tunnel
My Latest Novel- Sister Sneaker Sister Soul
Nag's Head, The- I Shot A Man In Romford, Just To Watch Him Die
National, The- About Today
Natsume- Warm Days
Notwist, The- One With The Freaks
Orphans & Vandals- Mysterious Skin
Orval Carlos Sibelius- Albert's Suspended Lake
Page France- Chariot
Paris Motel- I Lost My Heart / Philippe, Philippe
Paul Duncan- Red Eagle
Phosphorescent- I Am a Full Grown Man (I Will Lay in the Grass All Day)
Polyphonic Spree, The- We Sound Amazed
Port O'Brien- I Woke Up Today
Postal Service- Such Great Heights
Psapp- Rear Moth
Psychid- Split Lip Sucker
Radical Face- Glory
Ramona Cordova- Giver's Reply
The Real Tuesday Weld- Dorothy Parker Blue
Repairman- Smiling White Noise
Satellite- Let Me Lighten Up The Load
Shearwater- Leviathan, Bound
Shugo Tokumaru- Clocca
Sigur Ros- Starálfur
Slaraffenland- Polaroids
The Sleepy Jackson- Good Dancers
Sol Seppy- Human
Sons Of Noel And Adrian- Damien
Sparklehorse- Gold Day
St. Thomas- Strangers Out Of Blue
Stars And Sons- Comfy Now
Stephen Jones- Someplace Too Far Away
Subtle- The Mercury Craze
Suburban Kids With Biblical Names- Rent A Wreck
Sufjan Stevens- The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades Is out to Get Us!
Syd Matters- Everything Else
Thee More Shallows- Freshman Thesis
Wet Nose Hero- Roberto The Animator
Wheat- Little White Dove
Why?- Gemini (Birthday Song)
Wilco- Reservations
Windmill- Tokyo Moon
Winks, The- Guitar Swing
Yasushi Yoshida- Picture Of Three Life
Yoyoyo Acapulco- Kamasutra Tsunami

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Originally posted by space75:
Seems impossible to make a list with my top 100 songs!
btw,it would be very interesting to read some comments about your #1 song.

quote:

1. Us and Them - Pink Floyd (Lawrence_Of_Suburbia)
1. Flaming Lips - Do You Realize (Cyrone)
1. Oasis- Cast No Shadow (Michaelbchnn)
1. Steely Dan – Doctor Wu (jfc64)

I just love the lyrics to the song, which is something you can't say for most Oasis songs.

Some songs that would be on that list:

The National: All the Wine, Wasp Nest
Sufjan Stevens: Concerning the UFO Sighting Near Highland, Chicago (adult, easy-listening contemporary version), All the Trees of the Field Will Clap Their Hands
Explosions in the Sky: Your Hand in Mine
Devendra Banhart: Will is my Friend
Sam Roberts: Waking the Dead, Brother Down
Mum: We Have a Map of the Piano, I'm 9 Today
Spiritualized: Soul on Fire
Radiohead: Videotape
Animal Collective: Peacebone
Avett Brothers: Shame
U2: Where the Streets Have No Name
White Stripes: Sister, Do You Know My Name
Iron & Wine: Fligtless Bird, American Mouth
Rush: Something for Nothing
The Beatles: I'm Looking Through You, Hey Jude, I've Just Seen a Face
The Band: Up on Cripple Creek
Bedouin Soundclash: Santa Monica
Beck: Paper Tiger, Elevator Music
Ben Harper: Morning Yearning, Better Way

...that's quite the list already, actually.