Music.............. What's Yours?

[FieroBUZZ]

A local radio station asked people to send in their 20 favourite songs of all time.  Pretty hard to do, as the list flip flops often, but have a stab at it.

I'll post mine later so as not to influence your listing with the correct songs. 

Almost time to try to redo those cd's for the car (not that car).   

Think of 20 songs you just have to have on that desert island.

[MacPhail]

Interesting topic for the "mods" section.   

Here is my Top 20 (and just 1 song/artist) in no particular order:

1.   Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin
2.   Coma - Guns'n'Roses
3.   Stray Cat Blues - Rolling Stones
4.   Train Kept a Rollin' - Aerosmith
5.   Heart of Gold - Neil Young
6.   Whiskey in the Jar - Metallica
7.   Maggie - Rod Stewart
8.   Number of the Beast - Iron Maiden
9.   Crazy Train - Ozzy
10. Piece of My Heart - Janis Joplin
11. Lola - The Kinks
12. Domino - KISS
13. Blaze of Glory - Jon Bon Jovi
14. White Room - Cream
15. Behind Blue Eyes - The Who
16. Rollin' - Limp Bizkit
17. Darling Nikki - Prince
18. Pussy Liquor - Rob Zombie
19. Jesus of Suberbia (all parts) - Green Day
20. The End - The Doors

There are easily dozens of songs that could fit in my "Top 20" list...it's so hard to decide!

Cheers, Derek

[FieroBUZZ]

Interesting topic for the "mods" section.   

I'm old.............. 

Well, I'll join in.  It isn't as easy as I thought.  Off the top of my head, and one song per artist. Most picked for suitability in the car.

3 Matches to Mr. Mac    

No particular order.

1. Led Zeppelin   -   Stairway to Heaven
2. The Doors       -    The End
3. Aerosmith   -   Train Kept a Rollin'
4. Don Dokken    -    When Love Finds a Fool
5. Tragically Hip -   Put It Off
6. Deep Purple   -   Child in Time
7. Rush      -   Limelight
8. Scorpions   -   Still Loving You
9. Grace Slick   -   Face to the Wind
10. Smith's   -    How Soon is Now
11.Ted Nugent  -   Stranglehold
12.K's Choice    -   I'm Not an Addict
13.Steppenwolf   -   Magic Carpet Ride
14.Rolling Stones-   Gimme Shelter
15.Golden Earring-   Twilight Zone
16.I Mother Earth-   Summertime in the Void
17.Jimi Hendrix   -   Machine Gun
18.Bif Naked   -   Letdown
19.Bush   -   Letting the Cables Sleep
20.Matthew Good-   Symbolistic White Walls

[MacPhail]

Interesting that you have Gimme Shelter as the top song from the Stones.  I was leaning towards Sympathy for the Devil, but find that Guns'n'Roses have a better version of it; however, they were already on my list.  Heck, the whole Appetite for Destruction album could be on the list for that matter!

The Tragically Un-Hip?     I HATE The Hip!  Way over played and overrated here in Kingston ("The Home of the Hip" as K-Rock 105.7 claims) if you ask me.  When The Hip come on - or Rob Baker doing something to promote the downtown arena disaster - I change the station.  Matthew Good has also been over played - an excellent artist, but too much air time (must be those damn Canadian content rules).

Deep Purple - good choice.  Lot's of songs of theirs to pick from.  Rush - I would have went with Closer to the Heart probably.

Other songs that come to mind for a Top 20 list include:

Show Must Go On - Queen
Heavy Metal - Sammy Haggar
Cum On Feel The Noize - Quiet Riot
Rock of Ages - Def Leppard
Love Song - Tesla
Silent Lucidity - Queensryche
Kickstart My Heart - Motley Crue
The Man Who Sold the World - Nirvana
Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
We're Not Gonna Take It - Twisted Sister
Come Out and Play - Offspring
Hurt - Nine Inch Nails
Blue Jean - David Bowie
Radioactive - The Firm

I could go on-and-on-and-on-and....well, you get the point.

I'd also recommend the following albums that are great from start to finish:

The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking - Roger Waters
Blade Runner (soundtrack to the movie) - Vangelis

Cheers, Derek

[FieroBUZZ]

Have to agree about the Hip.  I like 'Put it Off' because it has a really dark feel to it. cruising along after midnight with it cranked really loud is pretty cool.

I like some of Matt Good's stuff.  I find I enjoy songs that have one interesting note or beat or whatever.  Billy Idol songs usually have a neat little riff or note that catches me.

I've played that Queensryche album over and over.  Love the way it flows together.

Now I like Shamus McBurnie's version of 'Whiskey in the Jar' much better.  But as it dates from 1388, it isn't available any more.  Sad when a group sinks to trying to rock out folk songs.............. 

I drive my wife shopping and sit in  the truck with the stereo cranked singing away.  Scares the shit out of people to see and old fat guy screeching.  I especially like it when she comes out complaining that she could hear me in the store.   

[MacPhail]

Now I like Shamus McBurnie's version of 'Whiskey in the Jar' much better.  But as it dates from 1388, it isn't available any more.  Sad when a group sinks to trying to rock out folk songs.............. 

I have the Thin Lizzy version of "Whiskey in the Jar" as well.  Don't care for it as much...too much like a ballad (which it is) whereas Metallica rocks it.

Cheers, Derek

[dguy]

Ok, I'll play.  The following list is subject to change without notice, mostly because when it comes to music I'm about as flexible as it gets so long as tear-in-my-beer style country doesn't get within spitting distance of me.   

• Another Brick in the Wall part 2 - Pink Floyd
• Animals - Nickelback
• Couldn't Stand the Weather - Stevie Ray Vaughan
• Can't You Trip Like I Do - The Crystal Method
• Du Hast - Rammstein
• Mustang Sally - Various^*
• Scatman - Scanman John
• Kickstart My Heart - Motley Crue
• Rock and Roll Machine - Triumph
• After Midnight - Various^**
• Turbo Lover - Judas Priest
• The Power - Snap
• What Do I Have to Do - Stabbing Westward
• Guitar Duel - Steve Vai & Ry Cooder^***
• Lunatic Fringe - Tom Petty & Red Rider
• These Dreams (Are Made of This) - Marilyn Manson
• Heavy Metal (Takin' a Ride) - Don Felder
• The Last of the Mohicans, Main Title - Trevor Jones & Randy Edelman
• Confusion - New Order
• Stormy Monday - Various^****

^*More than a few have had their hands in this one; easiest variant to find seems to be by The Commitments.
^**Eric Clapton's or J.J. Cale's versions most of the time.
^***Guitar duel from Crossroads (no, not the Britney Spears flick) where Ralph Macchio's character dukes it out against the Devil's leading axe man, played by Steve Vai.
^****Anyone who's in to blues knows that there is a lifetime's worth of covers of this tune available, each one unique and arguably as good as the others.


P.s.  MacPhail, you are fined one credit for the misspeling of Sammy Hagar's name.