Not in order and probably missing a few obvious ones but this is a quicky, off the top of my head list.
1- Oh! Darling- The Beatles
2- Golden Skans- Klaxons
3- Stop Crying Your Heart Out- Oasis
4- Alone- Heart
5- A Change Is Gonna Come- Sam Cooke
6- Shooting Star- Air Traffic
7- I'd Rather Go Blind- Etta James
8- Don't Look Back In Anger- Oasis
9- True Colors- Cyndi Lauper
10- Release Me- Oh Laura
Not in order and probably missing a few obvious ones but this is a quicky, off the top of my head list.
1- Oh! Darling- The Beatles
2- Golden Skans- Klaxons
3- Stop Crying Your Heart Out- Oasis
4- Alone- Heart
5- A Change Is Gonna Come- Sam Cooke
6- Shooting Star- Air Traffic
7- I'd Rather Go Blind- Etta James
8- Don't Look Back In Anger- Oasis
9- True Colors- Cyndi Lauper
10- Release Me- Oh Laura
Great call that.
I used to have a video of a B.B.King and friends concert including a duet of that song with Etta and Dr John. I'd love to find an audio version.
My - by no means all 'hits', some tucked away in albums:
The Healer - John Lee Hooker and Carlos Santana
Drift Away - Dobie Gray
Brown Sugar - The Rolling Stones
Private Investigations - Dire Straits
Respect - Aretha Franklin
Sherry Darling - Bruce Springsteen
Bring Your Fine Self Home - Albert Collins and Johnny Copeland
For Once In My Life - Stevie Wonder
The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face - Roberta Flack
Brain Damage - Pink Floyd
This pretty much changes on a daily basis. At the moment though I would say:
The National - Cherry Tree (this one does not change, this is pretty much as good as music gets IMO)
Wolf Parade - I'll Believe In Anything
Okkervil River - So Come Back, I Am Waiting
Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
The Beatles - Helter Skelter
of Montreal - The Past Is A Grotesque Animal
The Mountain Goats - Broom People
The Magnetic Fields - I Don't Really Love You Anymore
Bright Eyes - First Day Of My Life
Damien Rice - Accidental Babies
Actually most of those would probably be consistently top 20.
This pretty much changes on a daily basis. At the moment though I would say:
The National - Cherry Tree (this one does not change, this is pretty much as good as music gets IMO)
Wolf Parade - I'll Believe In Anything
Okkervil River - So Come Back, I Am Waiting
Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
The Beatles - Helter Skelter
of Montreal - The Past Is A Grotesque Animal
The Mountain Goats - Broom People
The Magnetic Fields - I Don't Really Love You Anymore
Bright Eyes - First Day Of My Life
Damien Rice - Accidental Babies
Actually most of those would probably be consistently top 20.
Oh wow I love all these and you've encouraged me to come up with mine now
The Cyrstal Lake - Grandaddy
Tangled Up In Blue - Bob Dylan
In A Sweater Poorly Knit - mewithoutYou (probably the best song ever made)
Mistaken For Strangers - The National
The Unwinding Cable Car - Anberlin
The Quiet Things That No One Ever Knows - Brand New
Rose Parade - Elliott Smith
Talking Shit About A Pretty Sunset - Modest Mouse
Stella - Kashiwa Daisuke
Banquet - Bloc Party
Likewise mine changes all the time but I'll be damned if any of these make their way out of my playlist anytime in the near future.
edit: Oh I completely forgot about Jesus Etc. by Wilco it's easily up there in my top 10.
1 Leona - Love Letter
2 Micheal buble - Lost
3 Take that - greatest day
4 Chris Brown - With You
5 David Guetta + Kelly Rowland - When love takes over
6 Fergie - Big Girls Don't Cry
7 The Fray - How To Save A Life
8 The Script - The Man who cant be moved
9 James Morrison - You Give me something
10 Pixie Lott - Cry Me out'
1. It's not a fashion statement, its a ****ing deathwish - My Chemical Romance
2. Second Heartbeat - Avenged Sevenfold
3. Looking Up - Paramore
4.Nightmare - Avenged Sevenfold
5. 4 Words to choke upon - Bullet for my valentine
6.Buried Alive - Avenged Sevenfold
7. Dirty Little Secret - All American Rejects
8. Kryptonite - 3 Doors Down
9. Breathe - Greenwheel
10 You and Me - Lifehouse
The actual 10 will change based on what I've most recently heard, but 1 & 2 are pretty fixed
1. Everybody Hurts - REM
2. Set The Fire To The Third Bar - Snow Patrol
Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
Columbia - Oasis
The Universal - Blur
Temple Of Love - Sisters Of Mercy
A Design For Life - Manic Street Preachers
Common People - Pulp
Baggy Trousers - Madness
Basket case - Green Day
Currently (it's hard to narrow it down to 10, and most of these would probably be different on another day), and in no particular order
Depeche Mode - Enjoy The Silence
Blur - Parklife
New Order - True Faith
The Cure - In Between Days
Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart
Lotus Eaters - The First Picture Of You
Radiohead - Creep
Crowded House - Don't Dream It's Over
Kate Bush - Hounds Of Love
The Stranglers - Golden Brown
That's a pretty good 10 - now i want to add True Faith to mine
Misguided Ghosts - Paramore
Make You Feel My Love - Adele
Dancing In The Dark - Bruce Springsteen
Lipstick & Bruises - Lit
Woods - Bon Iver
Possibility - Lykke Li
All I Wanted - Paramore
Creep - Radiohead
Brick By Boring Brick - Paramore
Numb - Linkin Park
1) When You're Looking Like That - Westlife
2) I'll See You Again - Westlife
3) Back For Good - Take That
4) Tiger Feet - Mud
5) Poison - Alice Cooper
6) Twist & Shout - The Beatles
7) Songbird - Oasis
8) Man in the Mirror - Michael Jackson
9) Mr Brightside - The Killers
10) She's Electric - Oasis/Please Please Me - The Beatles/There's A Place - The Beatles/A Million Love Songs - Take That (too many so I figured they could all go on )
Hard to narrow down to 10, but these always feature on my mp3 player.
Tesla - Signs
Blue Oyster Cult - (Don't Fear) The Reaper
AC/DC - Back In Black
Alestorm - Captain Morgan's Revenge
Buffalo Springfield - For What Its Worth
Steeleye Span John Of Ditchford
Steeleye Span - You Will Burn
Skid Row - 18 & Life
Foreigner - Juke Box Hero
Rainbow Since You've Been Gone
1. It's Only Rock and Roll - The Rolling Stones
2. Airwaves - Kraftwerk
3. Evil - Ladytron
4. Flamboyant - PSB
5. The Only Living Boy in New York - Simon and Garfunkel
6. Sexy Boy - Air
7. I Started Something...- The Smiths
8. Use Me - Grace Jones
9. Cities - Talking Heads
10. You Keep It All In - The Beautiful South
Hard to narrow down to 10, but these always feature on my mp3 player.
Tesla - Signs
Blue Oyster Cult - (Don't Fear) The Reaper
AC/DC - Back In Black
Alestorm - Captain Morgan's Revenge
Buffalo Springfield - For What Its Worth
Steeleye Span John Of Ditchford
Steeleye Span - You Will Burn
Skid Row - 18 & Life
Foreigner - Juke Box Hero
Rainbow Since You've Been Gone
nice to see some Steeleye Span getting a mention on here - just rediscover Now We Are Six and been listening to it on a loop recently, it used to scare the bejeezus out of me as a kid.
Picking a definitive top ten would be impossible, here's some of my favourites.
Shelter From The Storm - Bob Dylan
What A Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong
Heart Of Gold - Neil Young
Brown Eyed Handsome Man - Buddy Holly
Sara - Fleetwood Mac
A Day In The Life - The Beatles
Because The Night - Patti Smith
All Along The Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix
Gimme Shelter - The Rolling Stones
Superstar - The Carpenters
Comments
1- Oh! Darling- The Beatles
2- Golden Skans- Klaxons
3- Stop Crying Your Heart Out- Oasis
4- Alone- Heart
5- A Change Is Gonna Come- Sam Cooke
6- Shooting Star- Air Traffic
7- I'd Rather Go Blind- Etta James
8- Don't Look Back In Anger- Oasis
9- True Colors- Cyndi Lauper
10- Release Me- Oh Laura
Great call that.
I used to have a video of a B.B.King and friends concert including a duet of that song with Etta and Dr John. I'd love to find an audio version.
My - by no means all 'hits', some tucked away in albums:
The Healer - John Lee Hooker and Carlos Santana
Drift Away - Dobie Gray
Brown Sugar - The Rolling Stones
Private Investigations - Dire Straits
Respect - Aretha Franklin
Sherry Darling - Bruce Springsteen
Bring Your Fine Self Home - Albert Collins and Johnny Copeland
For Once In My Life - Stevie Wonder
The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face - Roberta Flack
Brain Damage - Pink Floyd
The National - Cherry Tree (this one does not change, this is pretty much as good as music gets IMO)
Wolf Parade - I'll Believe In Anything
Okkervil River - So Come Back, I Am Waiting
Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
The Beatles - Helter Skelter
of Montreal - The Past Is A Grotesque Animal
The Mountain Goats - Broom People
The Magnetic Fields - I Don't Really Love You Anymore
Bright Eyes - First Day Of My Life
Damien Rice - Accidental Babies
Actually most of those would probably be consistently top 20.
Oh wow I love all these and you've encouraged me to come up with mine now
The Cyrstal Lake - Grandaddy
Tangled Up In Blue - Bob Dylan
In A Sweater Poorly Knit - mewithoutYou (probably the best song ever made)
Mistaken For Strangers - The National
The Unwinding Cable Car - Anberlin
The Quiet Things That No One Ever Knows - Brand New
Rose Parade - Elliott Smith
Talking Shit About A Pretty Sunset - Modest Mouse
Stella - Kashiwa Daisuke
Banquet - Bloc Party
Likewise mine changes all the time but I'll be damned if any of these make their way out of my playlist anytime in the near future.
edit: Oh I completely forgot about Jesus Etc. by Wilco it's easily up there in my top 10.
1 Leona - Love Letter
2 Micheal buble - Lost
3 Take that - greatest day
4 Chris Brown - With You
5 David Guetta + Kelly Rowland - When love takes over
6 Fergie - Big Girls Don't Cry
7 The Fray - How To Save A Life
8 The Script - The Man who cant be moved
9 James Morrison - You Give me something
10 Pixie Lott - Cry Me out'
LOADS MORE ):
1. It's not a fashion statement, its a ****ing deathwish - My Chemical Romance
2. Second Heartbeat - Avenged Sevenfold
3. Looking Up - Paramore
4.Nightmare - Avenged Sevenfold
5. 4 Words to choke upon - Bullet for my valentine
6.Buried Alive - Avenged Sevenfold
7. Dirty Little Secret - All American Rejects
8. Kryptonite - 3 Doors Down
9. Breathe - Greenwheel
10 You and Me - Lifehouse
1. Everybody Hurts - REM
2. Set The Fire To The Third Bar - Snow Patrol
Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
Columbia - Oasis
The Universal - Blur
Temple Of Love - Sisters Of Mercy
A Design For Life - Manic Street Preachers
Common People - Pulp
Baggy Trousers - Madness
Basket case - Green Day
That's a pretty good 10 - now i want to add True Faith to mine
in no particular order:
Misguided Ghosts - Paramore
Make You Feel My Love - Adele
Dancing In The Dark - Bruce Springsteen
Lipstick & Bruises - Lit
Woods - Bon Iver
Possibility - Lykke Li
All I Wanted - Paramore
Creep - Radiohead
Brick By Boring Brick - Paramore
Numb - Linkin Park
I'll probably add another 10 soon.
1) When You're Looking Like That - Westlife
2) I'll See You Again - Westlife
3) Back For Good - Take That
4) Tiger Feet - Mud
5) Poison - Alice Cooper
6) Twist & Shout - The Beatles
7) Songbird - Oasis
8) Man in the Mirror - Michael Jackson
9) Mr Brightside - The Killers
10) She's Electric - Oasis/Please Please Me - The Beatles/There's A Place - The Beatles/A Million Love Songs - Take That (too many so I figured they could all go on
Not in any particular order.
Tesla - Signs
Blue Oyster Cult - (Don't Fear) The Reaper
AC/DC - Back In Black
Alestorm - Captain Morgan's Revenge
Buffalo Springfield - For What Its Worth
Steeleye Span John Of Ditchford
Steeleye Span - You Will Burn
Skid Row - 18 & Life
Foreigner - Juke Box Hero
Rainbow Since You've Been Gone
1. It's Only Rock and Roll - The Rolling Stones
2. Airwaves - Kraftwerk
3. Evil - Ladytron
4. Flamboyant - PSB
5. The Only Living Boy in New York - Simon and Garfunkel
6. Sexy Boy - Air
7. I Started Something...- The Smiths
8. Use Me - Grace Jones
9. Cities - Talking Heads
10. You Keep It All In - The Beautiful South
nice to see some Steeleye Span getting a mention on here - just rediscover Now We Are Six and been listening to it on a loop recently, it used to scare the bejeezus out of me as a kid.
Shelter From The Storm - Bob Dylan
What A Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong
Heart Of Gold - Neil Young
Brown Eyed Handsome Man - Buddy Holly
Sara - Fleetwood Mac
A Day In The Life - The Beatles
Because The Night - Patti Smith
All Along The Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix
Gimme Shelter - The Rolling Stones
Superstar - The Carpenters