squonk

Is it possible to make an all-time top fifty? Sure you can pick 80 songs and narrow it down to a final half-century but then, if they are ALL great and mean a lot to you, how do you pick a number one?

I've made this attempt anyway , maybe if you have the time you'd care to list your own "finest fifty"?





1. SEX GANG CHILDREN - Mauritia Mayer (Extended Mix) - Execution & Elegance
2. SUBMARINE - Junior Elvis - Submarine
3. 1,000 VIOLINS - Like A Thousand Violins - Halcyon Days
4. GANG OF FOUR - I Love A Man In Uniform
5. BIVOUAC - Drank - Tuber
6. CODEINE - Tom - The White Birch
7. THE SWEETEST ACHE - Tell Me How It Feels
8. CATHERINE WHEEL - Black Metallic - Ferment
9. MAE - Suspension - The Everglow
10. SNOW PATROL - Run - The Final Straw
11. REVOLVER - Don't You Wonder Why - 10" single
12. RADIOHEAD - Fake Plastic Trees - The Bends
13. HOPE OF THE STATES - Blood Meridian - Left
14. THE SEA URCHINS - Cling Film - Stardust
15. NADA SURF - Popular - High/Low
16. TH' FAITH HEALERS - Don't Jones Me - Lido
17. ULTRA VIVID SCENE - Mercy Seat - Ultra Vivid Scene
18. SWERVEDRIVER - Duel -
19. THE ATARIS - The Saddest Song - So Long, Astoria
20. LONG-VIEW - Further - Mercury
21. BLOC PARTY - So Here We Are - Silent Alarm
22. SHELLAC - Doris - Uranus 7" EP
23. RIDE - Sennen - Nowhere/Forever EP
24. THE SIDDELAYS - What Went Wrong This Time - CD86 compilation
25. THE KILLERS - Mr. Brightside - Hot Fuss
26. BRAKES - Heard About Your Band -
27. THE GUN CLUB - The Breaking Hands - Mother Juno
28. BRILLIANT CORNERS - Your Feet Never Touch The Ground - Somebody Up There Likes Me
29. BLINK 182 - What's My Age Again - Enema Of The State
30. AMERICAN FOOTBALL - Stay Home - American Football
31. LOWGOLD - Mercury - CD Single
32. JJ72 - October Swimmer - JJ72
33. POWER OF DREAMS - There I Go Again - Immigrants, Emmigrants And Me
34. SINISTER CLEANERS - Longing For Next Year - Shine
35. COMSAT ANGELS - Independance Day
36. MAXIMO PARK - Going Missing - CD Single
37. THE SEBADOH - Love Is Stronger - The Sebadoh
38. PSYCHEDLIC FURS - Sister Europe - Psychedelic Furs
39. MODERN ENGLISH - Gathering Dust - Mesh And Lace
40. PAULINE MURRAY & THE INVISIBLE GIRLS - Dream Sequence -
41. MILLTOWN BROTHERS - Never Come Down Again - Slinky
42. PACIFIC - Jetstream - Doing It For The Kids (Creation compilation)
43. THE STILLS - Lola (Stars And Stripes) - CD Single
44. AMUSEMENT PARKS ON FIRE - Blackout - The Taste Makers (Sampler)
45. ALTERED IMAGES - See Those Eyes - Pinky Blue
46. FEEDER - Pushing The Senses - Pushing The Senses
47. THE CHAMELEONS - In Shreds -
48. DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE - The New Year -
49. SMASHING PUMPKINS - Stand Inside Your Love - Rotten Apples: The Best Of Smashing Pumpkins
50. GREEN DAY - Basket Case - Dookie

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NGGRPLZ

This would require the type of time and sensitive information that I would wish to get
compensated for. Just giving away a list of your boiled down essence --->a list of yr 50
most cherished songs... to anonymous strangers ... who may in turn go on to turn a buck
at your expense.... seems a little foolhardy. More than once I've seen something I or
others said or referenced suspiciously end up in a well known blog which someone got
paid for. Not us.

Anyways, maybe I'm just being paranoid. Or stingy?
Maybe.


Anyhoots, cheers!
Thanks for your essense.

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RVCA

Ahhh! I want to do this. After hell week is over, I will,

-reserved-

miniraptor-x

I'll have to do this too

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ThePhanastasio

All right, I finally finished mine! There are links to each song, although some of them are live and such, and I wasn't about to spend hours uploading studio versions of a bunch of songs.

They're not all in the alternative / indie genres, but there are a handful of those included.

I'll probably realize that I've overlooked something particularly obvious at some point. There's only one song per band / artist, as well.

1.) Queen - The Prophet's Song
2.) Phish - Rift
3.) Neutral Milk Hotel - Gardenhead / Leave Me Alone
4.) Talking Heads - Memories Can't Wait
5.) Soft Machine - All White
6.) The Beau Brummels - Only Dreaming Now
7.) Hawkwind - D-Rider
8.) Sound Tribe Sector 9 - Metameme
9.) Themselves - It's Them
10.) Busdriver - Imaginary Places
11.) Electric Prunes - I Had Too Much To Dream (Last Night)
12.) Mike Gordon - Take Me Out, Pt. 2
13.) CocoRosie - Good Friday
14.) Leonard Cohen - Famous Blue Raincoat
15.) Julia Nunes - Balloons
16.) The Ramones - I Just Want To Have Something To Do
17.) The Polyphonic Spree - Section 14 (Two Thousand Places)
18.) The Dresden Dolls - Dear Jenny
19.) The Disco Biscuits - Home Again
20.) Old Crow Medicine Show - Wagon Wheel
21.) Jeff Buckley - Corpus Christi Carol
22.) Regina Spektor - Chemo Limo
23.) The Grateful Dead - Box Of Rain
24.) Band Of Horses - Is There a Ghost?
25.) Tim Buckley - Hallucinations
26.) The Small Faces - Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake
27.) Trey Anastasio - A Case Of Ice and Snow
28.) Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit
29.) Oysterhead - Little Faces
30.) Jewel - Deep Water
31.) The Beatles - Within You Without You
32.) Richard Thompson - Gethsemane
33.) Modest Mouse - Ocean Breathes Salty
34.) Bob Dylan - Visions of Johanna
35.) DoseOne - Etherial Downtime
36.) Heldon - Cotes de Cachalot
37.) Imogen Heap - Hide and Seek
38.) Tobacco - Creepy Phone Calls
39.) Moby Grape - Come In the Morning
40.) Alias - Divine Disappointment
41.) moe. - Darkness
42.) Sarah Brightman - Eden
43.) Shpongle - Turn Up the Silence
44.) Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers - I'm Straight
45.) The Incredible String Band - Minotaur's Song
46.) The Arcade Fire - Keep the Car Running
47.) Lotus - 72 Hrs Awake
48.) The Velvet Underground - The Black Angel's Death Song
49.) Metric - Blindness
50.) Elliott Smith - Twilight

Insane Guest

^With links? Damn son, you took your time with that one...Well done.

downwardspiral

Probably not all that definitive, I thought this list up off the top of my head in 10 minutes but it's pretty accurate. Also probably about the first 15 are the only ones in order.

1. Pixies - Velouria
2. Sonic Youth - The Diamond Sea
3. Placebo - Allergic
4. Interpol - Leif Erikson
5. Dinosaur Jr - Little Fury Things
6. Deftones - Digital Bath
7. The Flaming Lips - Ego Tripping At The Gates Of Hell
8. Elliott Smith - Ballad Of Big Nothing
9. Hole - Violet
10. Nine Inch Nails - Sin
11. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - The Sweets
12. The Smashing Pumpkins - Soma
13. Yourcodenameis:Milo - 17
14. Pavement - Grounded
15. My Bloody Valentine - Cupid Come
16. Nirvana - Heart Shaped Box
17. Brand New - Me vs. Maradona vs. Elvis
18. Arcade Fire - Tunnels
19. Silversun Pickups - Well Thought Out Twinkles
20. Daft Punk - Technologic
21. Lou Reed - Viscious
22. The Distillers - Dismantle Me
23. Modest Mouse - Gravity Rides Everything
24. Radiohead - Idioteque
25. Mudhoney - Touch Me I'm Sick
26. Built To Spill - You Are
27. The Smiths - There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
28. Bon Iver - Flume
29. The Cure - Disintegration
30. The Shins - Past & Pending
31. Pale Saints - Throwing Back The Apple
32. Sparklehorse - Piano Fire
33. The Jesus And Mary Chain - Just Like Honey
34. The Strokes - Reptillia
35. The Thermals - When You're Thrown
36. Treepeople - Outside In
37. Galaxie 500 - Plastic Bird
38. Teenage Fanclub - December
39. Wilco - Via Chicago
40. Jimmy Eat World - The Sweetness
41. A Place To Bury Strangers - Fix The Gash In Your Head
42. Sebadoh - Gimme Indie Rock
43. American Football - Never Meant
44. The Cooper Temple Clause - The Same Mistakes
45. Meat Puppets - Plateau
46. Blue Oyster Cult - Don't Fear The Reaper
47. Mogwai - R U Still In 2 It?
48. The National - Mistaken For Strangers
49. Belle & Sebastian - Dress Up In You
50. Queens Of The Stone Age - I Never Came

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clutnuckle

I already did this list times two.

Cool songs! - Rate Your Music

Insane Guest

Ah, what the hell, I'm bored.

1. Ten Years Gone - Led Zeppelin
2. Hallowed Be Thy Name - Iron Maiden
3. To Bid You Farewell - Opeth
4. Have You Ever Seen The Rain - Creedence Clearwater Revival
5. Achilles Last Stand - Led Zeppelin
6. La Villa Strangiato - Rush
7. Little Wing - Jimi Hendrix
8. Riders On the Storm - The Doors
9. War Pigs - Black Sabbath
10. Learning to Fly - Pink Floyd
11. Comfortaby Numb - Pink Floyd
12. Coming Back To Life - Pink Floyd
13. Doctor Doctor - UFO
14. Pet Semetary - The Ramones
15. Fool In The Rain - Led Zeppelin
16. Hangar 18 - Megadeth
17. Space Oddity - David Bowie
18. Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
19. Gimme Shelter - Rolling Stones
20. Hurt - Nine Inch Nails
21. Excuses - The Morning Benders
22. November Rain - Guns N' Roses
23. Ænema - Tool
24. Redemption Song - Bob Marley
25. Heaven And Hell - Black Sabbath
26. Light My Fire - The Doors
27. The Wicker Man - Iron Maiden
28. The End - The Doors
29. Every Me And Every You - Placebo
30. Last Caress - Misfits
31. I Wanna Be Sedated - The Ramones
32. A Day In The Life - The Beatles
33. Cowboys From Hell - Pantera
34. Land Of Confusion - Disturbed (Genesis Cover)
35. Unknown Soldier - The Casualties
36. Imagine - John Lennon
37. I Fought The Law - The Clash
38. Erotomania - Dream Theater
39. White Riot - The Clash
40. Over The Hills And Far Away - Led Zeppelin
41. Laredo - Band Of Horses
42. Goodbye to Romance - Ozzy Osbourne
43. Us And Them - Pink Floyd
44. Scar Tissue - Red Hot Chili Peppers
45. I Was Wrong - Social Distortion
46. Bron-Yr-Aur - Led Zeppelin
47. Right Now - Van Halen
48. Scream - Misfits
49. Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
50. Baba O' Riley - The Who

No particular order. **** list I know, but these were all my "favorite songs" at some point in my life.

Violent & Funky

Good for you, EMG. My list would be really mainstream too...

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