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Topic: Top 20 Favorite Songs
Posted: August 26 2010 at 03:24

""^^^~~ thats a heck of a list - nice job, have to hunt down some of these

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Posted: August 24 2010 at 16:07

I gotta make splittered listers. SEEEEE.

20 songs that move my body most:

Savatage - Hall of the Mountain King
Judas Priest - One Shot At Glory
Mercyful Fate - A Dangerous Meeting
Death - The Philosopher
Atheist - Elements
Iron Maiden - Prowler
Slayer - Raining Blood
Black Sabbath - War Pigs
Candlemass - Bewitched
Van Halen - Dance The Night Away
The Seatbelts - Tank
King Crimson - 21st Century Schizoid Man
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Megadeth - Hangar 18
Cynic - Veil Of Maya
Alice In Chains - Them Bones
Pink Floyd - Money
Accept - Fast As A Shark
Queensryche - Speak
Danzig - Mother

There are plenty more, but... this is up there!

the 50 that move my hearty heart most: (no one per band limit)

Tom Waits - I Don't Wanna Grow Up
Tom Waits - Tom Traubert's Blues
Tom Waits - Martha
Tom Waits - Dirt on the Ground
Alice In Chains - Nutshell
Alice In Chains - Sickman
Alice In Chains - Rotten Apple
Alice In Chains - Would?
Pink Floyd - Great Gig In The Sky
Pink Floyd - Dogs
Pink Floyd - Don't Leave Me Now
Pink Floyd - Two Suns In The Sunset
maudlin of the Well - Geography
maudlin of the Well - Sleep Is A curse
maudlin of the Well - Interlude 3
Devin Townsend - Nobody's Here
Devin Townsend - Tiny Tears
Pain of Salvation - Ashes
Pain of Salvation - King of Loss
Pain of Salvation - Ending Theme
Vangelis - Memories of Green
Vangelis - Blade Runner Blues
Vangelis - Rachel's Song
Radiohead - Kid A
Radiohead - How To Disappear Completely
Radiohead - Idioteque
Queensryche - Promised Land
Queensryche - Silent Lucidity
Savatage - Believe
Savatage - Somewhere in Time/Alone You Breathe (Wake of Magellan bonus track)
Ayreon - 2084
Ayreon - Pain
Nick Cave - New Morning
Nick Cave - The Good Son
Flaming Lips - The Abandoned Hospital Ship
Flaming Lips - Race for the Prize
Cocteau Twins - Pandora
Cocteau Twins - Persephone
Bjork - Joga
Bjork - Cocoon
The Beach Boys - You Still Believe In Me
The Beach Boys - Don't Talk (Put Your Head On My Shoulder)
The Byrds - Turn Turn Turn
The Byrds - 5th Dimension
The Seatbelts - Memories
The Seatbelts - The Real Folk Blues
Green Carnation - The Burden is Mine
Green Carnation - Alone
Death - Voice of the Soul
Steve Vai - For The Love Of God

Runners up:

Most everything from Savatage, Tom Waits, Nick Cave, Pink Floyd, Pain of Salvation, Ayreon, Vangelis, or maudlin of the Well. These guys got a hold on me.

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Posted: August 24 2010 at 13:31

20 non-prog songs can be a challenge.

AC/DC - Riff raff
Kiss - Creatures of the night
Jim Croce - Time in a bottle
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - The weeping song
Janis Joplin - Me and Bobby McGee
Judas Priest - Turbo lover
Cream - Sunshine of your love
REO Speedwagon - Ridin'the storm out
Neil Young - Rockin'in the free world
Saxon - Strong arm of the law
Motörhead - Iron horse/Born to lose
Whitesnake - Still of the night
Roger Glover & guests - Love is all
Gary Moore - Empty rooms
Van Halen - Mine all mine
Chef - Chocolate salty balls
The Verve - The drugs don't work
Stryper - To hell with the devil
Herman Brood and his Wild Romance - I love you like I love myself
Dr.Hook and the Medecine Show - Freakin' at the freakers ball

Edited by Rolf Bos - August 24 2010 at 13:32

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Posted: August 24 2010 at 06:12

OK NOW A CHALLENGE

MY NON PROG LIST OF TOP 20 SONGS (BY ARTISTS) (FIRST ONES THAT SPRING TO MIND - NOT IN ORDER THO) ALL IN BOLD AS I CANT BE BOTHERED DOING THIS WITH CAPITALS ETC...)

SUZI QUATRO - CANDY MAN/ 48 CRASH

THE RUNAWAYS - CHERRY BOMB/ BORN TO BE BAD

THE SWEET - ACTION/ COCKROACH

KISS - THE OATH/ UNDER THE ROSE

PETRA - JUDAS KISS

DELIVERANCE - WEAPONS OF OUR WARFARE

TOURNIQUET - MICROSCOPIC PATHOGENIC DISSONANCE

SKYHOOKS - LIVING IN THE 70S/ LOVE ON THE RADIO

ACDC - FOR THOSE ABOUT TO ROCK WE SALUTE YOU

RICHARD MARX - HAZZARD

STEVE PERRY - OH SHERRIE

ALICE COOPER - GIMME/ BILLION DOLLAR BABIES

GARY NUMAN - LISTEN TO THE SIRENS/ REPLICAS (LIVE FROM 'DARK LIGHT')

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Posted: August 24 2010 at 05:50

This is ridiculously hard so i will just choose my favourite song from my top 20 albums....

These are not necessarily my faves but my life wouldnt be complete without them

PROG LIST

1 AYREON - The Human Equation

'Loser'
2 PINK FLOYD - The Wall

'Comfortably Numb'
3 VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR - Pawn Hearts
'A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers' (love 'Killer' too!)

4 RUSH - Moving Pictures
'Limelight'
5 YES - Fragile
'Starship Trooper'

6 DREAM THEATER -
'Octavarium' or 'Sacrificed Sons'

7 MAGMA
'MDK'

8 GENESIS - Foxtrot
'Suppers Ready'

9 KING CRIMSON - In The Court Of The Crimson King
'21st Century Schizoid Man'

10 HAWKWIND - Space Ritual
'Orgone Accumulator'

11 ELP

'Tarkus'

12 ATOMIC ROOSTER - DEATH WALKS BEHIND YOU
'Death Walks Behind You'

13 THE BEATLES - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
'A Day in the Life'

14 JETHRO TULL - AQUALUNG
'Aqualung'

15 KRAFTWERK - The Man-Machine
'The Robots'

16 NEKTAR - A Tab In The Ocean
'A Tab In The Ocean'

17 CAMEL - Mirage
'Freefall' or 'Lunar Sea'

18 PORCUPINE TREE - Deadwing
'Shallow'

19 PFM
'Il Banchetto'

20 CARAVAN - IN THE LAND OF GREY AND PINK
'Nine Feet Underground'

special mention - 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner' - IRON MAIDEN

and

'Gypsy' - URIAH HEEP

Edited by AtomicCrimsonRush - August 24 2010 at 05:59

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Posted: August 22 2010 at 11:39

Octavarium - Dream Theater
The Shattered Fortress - Dream Theater

The Sixth Extinction - Ayreon
Mouth Of Madness - Circus Maximus
The Necromancer - Rush

Anesthetize - Porcupine Tree
Dark Matter - Porcupine Tree

Dogs - Pink Floyd
Echoes - Pink Floyd

The Journey - Abarax
Journey's End - Abarax
All These Walls - Abarax
Crying Of The Whales (both parts) - Abarax

Not so prog (or not prog at all):

Fool's Overture - Supertramp
Hallowed Be Thy Name - Iron Maiden
Fade To Black - Metallica
Old Man - Ensiferum

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Posted: August 22 2010 at 06:10

20 different bands and no particular order as between themselves. It threatened to become a Floyd/Beatles list mania otherwise. Tongue

Pink Floyd - Echoes
The Beatles - Because
King Crimson - Starless
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Genesis - Firth of the fifth
Shakti - Shringar
Gentle Giant - Just The Same
Stevie Wonder - Summer Soft
Magma - Kohntarkohz pt-2
Mahavishnu Orchestra - One Word
Black Sabbath - Sabracadabra
The Who - Baba O Reilly
Yes - South Side of The Sky
Radiohead - Subterranean Homesick Alien
Annie Haslam - Rockalise
ACT - Manipulator
Tori Amos - Girl
Steely Dan - Aja
Minnie Riperton - Minnie's Lament
Supertramp - Rudy

Edited by rogerthat - August 22 2010 at 06:11

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Posted: August 21 2010 at 20:58

No particular order, just 20 favorites.

Queensrÿche - Roads to madness
Doors - The end
Santana - Song of the wind
Uriah Heep - Echoes in the dark
Rainbow - Stargazer
Warhorse - Solitude
Deep Purple - Burn
Golden Earring - Back home
Kansas - Magnum opus
Focus - House of the king
Pestilence - Mind reflections
Procol Harum - Grand hotel
Klaus Schulze - P.T.O.
Death - Lack of comprehension
Savatage - Gutter ballet
Led Zeppelin - Dazed and confused
10CC - The wall street shuffle
Brainbox - Down man
Pink Floyd - Astronomy domine
Queen - Father to son

Edited by Rolf Bos - August 22 2010 at 06:15

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Posted: August 13 2010 at 21:03

In no particular order:

In the Name of God - Dream Theater

The Glass Prison - Dream Theater

The Count of Tuscany - Dream Theater

Pull me Under - Dream Theater

Voices - Dream Theater

The Grand Conjuration - Opeth

Deliverance - Opeth

La Villa Strangiato - Rush

Cygnus X-1: Book 2 - Rush

Roundabout - Yes

Siberian Khatru (<-Spelling) - Yes

From the Beginning - ELP

The Divine Wings of Discovery - Symphony X

The Walls of Babylon - Symphony X

Tubular Bells (the whole thing) - Mike Oldfield

Bramfatura - 3

Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd

A Change of Seasons - Dream Theater

Octavarium -Dream Theater

Evermore - Transatlantic

Yes, I am a Dream Theater fan, if that wasnt hard to guess

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Posted: August 13 2010 at 13:26

Scarborough Fair - Simon And Garfunkel

Stairway To Heaven - Led Zeppelin

Papa Was A Rollin Stone - The Temptations

Nights In White Satin - The Moody Blues

Entangled - Genesis

Your Move - Yes

Time Was - Wishbone Ash

Love Reign Over Me - The Who

Desperado - The Eagles

Rudy - Supertramp

Ricochet part II - Tangerine Dream

Winter Wine - Caraven

Memories Of Old Days - Gentle Giant

Waiting - Porcupine Tree

Whipoorwill - The Ozark Mountain Daredevils

Jungleland - Bruce Springsteen

Paintbox - Pink Floyd

Long Train Running - Doobie Brothers

Jessica - The Allman Brothers

Perfect Strangers - Deep Purple

All off the top of my head on a Friday evening with a weekend to enjoy music and more music.

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Posted: August 09 2010 at 15:30

I'll start with those that others mentioned above (in the order mentioned):

Starless

Close To The Edge

Blood On The Rooftops

The Endless Enigma/Fugue

Yours Is No Disgrace (Yessongs version)

My Generation (Live At Leeds version)

And to round out, today's winners (taken from my list of Top 100) are live:

All Day And All Of The Night- KINKS (One From The Road version)

Black Magic Woman/Gypsy Queen- SANTANA (Moonflower version)

Highway Star- DEEP PURPLE (Made In Japan version)

Hoedown- ELP (Welcome. . . version)

I've Seen All Good People- YES (Classic Yes version)

Level Five- KING CRIMSON (Eyes Wide Open version)

Roadhouse Blues- DOORS (An American Prayer version)

Sunday Bloody Sunday- U2 (Under A Blood Red Sky version)

Wring That Neck- DEEP PURPLE (Deep Purple In Concert version);

and randomly selected from '60's origin groups:

Surf's Up- BEACH BOYS

19th Nervous Breakdown- ROLLING STONES

'Golden Slumbers' medley- BEATLES

Over, Under, Sideways, Down- YARDBIRDS

Burning Of The Midnight Lamp- JIMI HENDRIX

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Posted: August 08 2010 at 05:07

1. Supper's Ready - Genesis

2. Roads to Moscow - Al Stewart

3. Yours is no Disgrace - Yes (Yessongs)

4. Refugees - Van der Graaf Generator

5. The Valentyne Suite - Colosseum (Original version incl. Beware the Ides of March)

6. My Generation - The Who (Live at Leeds)

7. Porroh Man - Big Country

8. Epitaph - King Crimson

9. Always the Way - James Reyne

10. Spoonfull - Cream (Wheels of Fire)

11. Anthem - Alex Harvey

12. Cygnet Committee - Bowie

13. The Revealing Science of God - Yes

14. The Endless Enigma - ELP

15. Song for Europe - Roxy Music

16. Evening Over Rooftops - Edgar Broughton

17. Man-erg - Van der Graaf Generator

18. A Day in the Life - The Beatles

19. O Superman - Laurie Anderson

20. Saucerful of Secrets - Pink Floyd (studio version)

Edited by ten years after - August 08 2010 at 05:08

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Posted: August 05 2010 at 20:00

I can't resist making a good list. So here is mine, limiting it to one song per artist (which is really difficult for me).

1. Stranger In Your Soul- Transatlantic
2. The Creation- Neal Morse
3. Monsters And Men- The Flower Kings
4. At The End Of The Day- Spock's Beard
5. The Count Of Tuscany- Dream Theater
6. Milliontown- Frost*
7. Close To The Edge- Yes
8. Mei- Echolyn
9. Send A Message From The Heart- Karmakanic
10. In Earnest- The Tangent
11. The Sixth Extinction- Ayreon
12. Late Night Salvation- IZZ
13. Firth Of Fifth- Genesis
14. Free Hand- Gentle Giant
15. Other Half Of The Sky- Moon Safari
16. Mindrevolutions- Kaipa
17. Thick As A Brick- Jethro Tull
18. Sleeping In Traffic- Beardfish
19. Victorian Brickwork- Big Big Train
20. Blackest Eyes- Porcupine Tree

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Posted: August 05 2010 at 00:37

Originally posted by DisgruntledPorcupine

DisgruntledPorcupine wrote:

40footwolf wrote:

13. Painkiller-Death

Ahh yes. Great cover.

I love Judas Priest, but Death's cover utterly eclipses the original in every way, in my mind.

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Posted: August 05 2010 at 00:22

40footwolf wrote:

13. Painkiller-Death

Ahh yes. Great cover.

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Posted: August 05 2010 at 00:15

Morningrise wrote:

No order and I will stick just to prog songs and from 20 different bands:

King Crimson- Starless

Genesis- Firth Of Fifth

Opeth- The Moor

Marillion- Script For A Jester's tear

Spock's Beard- The Light

Porcupine Tree- Fear Of A Blank Planet

Pink Floyd- Echoes

Yes- Close To The Edge

Van Der Graaf Generator- The Sleepwalkers

Camel- Nimrodel/The Procession/The White Rider

Mahavishnu Orchestra- A Lotus On Irish Streams

Gnidrolog- I Could Never Be A Soldier

IQ- Frequency

Anekdoten- Where Solitude Remains

Mastodon- The Czar

Eloy- The Light From Deep Darkness

Kansas- Miracles Out Of Nowhere

Death- Spirit Crusher

Bubu- Sueños De Maniqui

Sigur Ros- Hoppipolla

I'll follow the same rules you did, otherwise this would be way too hard. In no order and only prog(but including post rock and math rock):

1. The Court of the Crimson King-King Crimson

2. Supper's Ready-Genesis

3. It's Five O'Clock-Aphrodite's Child

4. Goliath-The Mars Volta

5. Comfortably Numb-Pink Floyd

6. Close to the Edge-Yes

7. The Dead Flag Blues-Godspeed You! Black Emperor

8. The Psychedelic Warlords(Disappear in Smoke)-Hawkwind

9. Tij-Battles

10. Brown Metal-Hella

11. The Grudge-Tool

12. The Last Baron-Mastodon

13. Painkiller-Death

14. The Space For This-Cynic

15. Empire-Queensryche

16. Take the Long Way Home-Supertramp

17. Jerusalem-Emerson, Lake and Palmer

18. My Ass is On Fire-Mr. Bungle

19. No Me No You-Frost*

20. Family Snapshot-Peter Gabriel

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Posted: August 04 2010 at 23:34

Well I'll just write what comes inmediatly to my mind, 1 per band

Gentle Giant - Prologue

Maneige - Les Epinettes

Frank Zappa - Black Napkins

Cardiacs - The Everso Closely Guarded Line

King Crimson - Formentera Lady

Pain of Salvation - Thorn Clown

Sloche - Stadaconé

Camel - Supertwister

Genesis - Time Table

Yes - Siberian Kathru

BMS - Canto Nomade Per Un Prigioniero Politico

PFM - Geranio

Magma - The Last Seven Minutes

Everything Everything - Schoolin'

William D. Drake - Wolves

Mike Oldfield - To France

Pat Metheny Group - The Roots of Coincidence

Van der Graaf Generator - Pilgrims

Jethro Tull - My God

Mahavishnu Orchestra - A Lotus On Irish Streams

Edited by daslaf - August 04 2010 at 23:35

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Posted: August 04 2010 at 21:59

I started to make a list and couldn't. It's just too hard.

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Posted: August 04 2010 at 20:40

20 of my favourite songs, from different bands:

Hessian Peel – Opeth

Anesthetize – Porcupine Tree

Dread It – Disillusion

Not Even a Name – Leprous

Closer – Anathema

Orion – Metallica

Hyperventilate – Frost*

A Day in the Life – The Beatles

Holiday in Cambodia – Dead Kennedys

Hallowed be Thy Name – Iron Maiden

Three Days – Janes’ Addiction

Implant – Killing Joke

Sober – Tool

Astronomy Domine – Voivod

Isak – Baroness

Go – OSI

Supercrush! – Devin Townsend Project

Haze - Ephrat

The Czar - Mastodon

Consternation - Katatonia

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Posted: August 04 2010 at 19:57

Triceratopsoil wrote:

I think anybody that can choose 20 definite favourite songs hasn't heard enough good music

I'll just say that mine is certainly not definite. They're pretty much just 20 songs I really really like pretty much.