Your Top 20 Favorite Songs

[Harley Quinn]

Thought it'd be interesting to see how varied each poster's taste is/maybe discover a few new songs. As much as I love stuff like Riot Grrrl, Goth, etc. they are pretty sparse in my ultimate favorite songs group. There's also dozens of other songs I love but wouldn't crack my list e.g. Oasis' "Wonderwall" amongst others.

I also noticed my songs tend to be pretty dark/depressing when looking a little deeper lyrically. Shouldn't surprise anybody how female-centric it is either. Trying to get to 20 was actually tougher than I expected as I tried to keep it to just one track per band otherwise I'd have included songs like Unfinished Thought's "Evening" amongst others.

Ordered by artist's last name.

Brassy "Work It Out"
The Breeders "Iris" (SNUB TV 1990 Live Performance Version)
Connie Dover "I Am Going to the West"
Epperley "Shy"
Evanescence "My Immortal"
Garbage "#1 Crush" (Nellee Hooper Remix Version)
Gorillaz "Dare"
Kidneythieves "Spank" (KMFDM Remix Version)
EDITED IN: Letters to Cleo "Dangerous Type"
Ministry "Stigmata"
Nirvana "Lounge Act"
Oasis "Roll With It"
The Offspring "Come Out and Play"
Beth Orton "She Cries Your Name"
Portishead "All Mine"
Shock Treatment OST "Looking For Trade"
Simon & Milo (aka Prozzak) "Get A Clue"
The Spice Girls "Love Thing" (Demo Version)
EDITED IN: Stereophonics "Mr. Writer"
Unfinished Thought "Through Crowded Rooms"
Veruca Salt "Shutterbug"
Within Temptation "Deceiver of Fools"

[STUDZ]

This is too hard, let me give it a shot. In no order.

Bonnie Prince Billy - I See A Darkness
The Cure - Disintegration
Immortal - Withstand The Fall Of Time
Converge - Heaven In Her Arms
Slint - Good Morning Captain
Black Sabbath - Symptom Of The Universe
Low - Murderer
Ride - Here And Now
Talking Heads - This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody) the version from Stop Making Sense
!T.O.O.H.! - Kali
Cryptopsy - Open Face Surgery
Sleater Kinney - Jumpers
The Angelic Process - The Resonance Of Goodbye
Sigur Ros - Untitled 8
Mobb Deep - Shook Ones Part 1
Sonic Youth - Schizophrenia
Brian Eno - The Big Ship
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - Oh My Lord
The Mountain Goats - The House That Dripped Blood
Guided By Voices - Smothered In Hugs

edit: Yes I know this reads as Suicide Playlist. Don't judge me I like bummer music.

[Avid Warehouse Enthusiast]

Good thread, HQ. I knew there was a reason I was starting to tally my favorite riffs last week.

No real order, just what pops into my head and when.
New Model Army - "Vagabonds"
Magic Sword - "Sword of Truth"
Slayer - "Angel of Death"
Gwar - "Sick of You"
Send More Paramedics - "Zombie Crew"
The Outlaws - "Ghost Riders in the Sky"
Sisters of Mercy - "This Corrosion"
Lynyrd Skynyrd - "Simple Man"
New Model Army - "Eleven Years"
First Aid Kit - "Ghost Town"
Dying Fetus - "One Shot, One Kill"
Disillusion - "Back to Times of Splendor"
Johnny Cash - "God's Gonna Cut You Down"
2Pac - "Changes"
Nirvana - "You Know You're Right"
Ice Cube/Dr. Dre - "Natural Born Killaz"
S.O.D. - "March of the S.O.D./Sgt. D and the S.O.D.)" basically one song anyway
Allman Brothers Band - "Midnight Rider"
The Misfits - "Hybrid Moments"
Ray Parker Jr. - "Ghostbusters"

[The Valeyard]

1.) "Street Hassle"-Lou Reed
2.) "A Quick One, While He's Away"-The Who (Rolling Stones' Rock n Roll Circus version)
3.) "What Is Life"-George Harrison
4.) "Tangled Up In Blue"-Bob Dylan
5.) "Sweet Jane"-Velvet Underground
6.) "King Horse"-Elvis Costello
7.) "Alex Chilton"-The Replacements
8.) "The Man Who Sold the World"-Nirvana (gotta give them a slight edge over Bowie at the moment)
9.) "Ever Fallen In Love"-Buzzcocks
10.) "Tango 'Til They're Sore"-Tom Waits
11.) "Steven"-Alice Cooper
12.) "Pictures Of Matchstick Men"-Camper Van Beethoven
13.) "The Punk And the Godfather"-The Who
14.) "Rise"-Public Image Ltd.
15.) "Watermelon In Easter Hay"-Frank Zappa
16.) "Fairytale Of New York"-The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl
17.) "Little Triggers"-Elvis Costello
18.) "Alone Again Or"-Love
19.) "Wuthering Heights"-Kate Bush
20.) "Got To Get You Off My Mind"-Solomon Burke

This is perpetually changing to where I'll get pissed when I open this thread again. 20 isn't enough.

[The Art of Rasslin']

This is too hard, let me give it a shot. In no order.

Bonnie Prince Billy - I See A Darkness
The Cure - Disintegration
Immortal - Withstand The Fall Of Time
Converge - Heaven In Her Arms
Slint - Good Morning Captain
Black Sabbath - Symptom Of The Universe
Low - Murderer
Ride - Here And Now
Talking Heads - This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody) the version from Stop Making Sense
!T.O.O.H.! - Kali
Cryptopsy - Open Face Surgery
Sleater Kinney - Jumpers
The Angelic Process - The Resonance Of Goodbye
Sigur Ros - Untitled 8
Mobb Deep - Shook Ones Part 1
Sonic Youth - Schizophrenia
Brian Eno - The Big Ship
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - Oh My Lord
The Mountain Goats - The House That Dripped Blood
Guided By Voices - Smothered In Hugs

'playlists to kill yourself to' my god you're my boardbro and all and this is all great music but try to listen to something a little more positive sometimes my man, like your hero in your sig would.

[STUDZ]

This is too hard, let me give it a shot. In no order.

Bonnie Prince Billy - I See A Darkness
The Cure - Disintegration
Immortal - Withstand The Fall Of Time
Converge - Heaven In Her Arms
Slint - Good Morning Captain
Black Sabbath - Symptom Of The Universe
Low - Murderer
Ride - Here And Now
Talking Heads - This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody) the version from Stop Making Sense
!T.O.O.H.! - Kali
Cryptopsy - Open Face Surgery
Sleater Kinney - Jumpers
The Angelic Process - The Resonance Of Goodbye
Sigur Ros - Untitled 8
Mobb Deep - Shook Ones Part 1
Sonic Youth - Schizophrenia
Brian Eno - The Big Ship
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - Oh My Lord
The Mountain Goats - The House That Dripped Blood
Guided By Voices - Smothered In Hugs

'playlists to kill yourself to' my god you're my boardbro and all and this is all great music but try to listen to something a little more positive sometimes my man, like your hero in your sig would.

I like what I like man. I knew it was gonna get some weird looks. I've always been more drawn to depressing music idk. It said favorites. I'm not gonna play that stuff if I'm around people.

I'll add some Jimmy Buffett and party rock in the middle.

[CookieMueller]

I can't believe all the variance on these lists. Mine would be almost entirely Beatles, Sleater-Kinney and Smiths songs!


edit: I made a quick list. In no order and in no way definitive, just off the top of my head, and still more than half songs by the above artists...


Ronettes - Be My Baby
Darlene Love - Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)
Madonna - Rescue Me
Trina - Da Baddest Bitch
Lil Kim - Queen Bitch
Smiths - Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others
Smiths - Still Ill
Smiths - Rubber Ring
Morrissey - Jack The Ripper
Morrissey - Seasick, Yet Still Docked
Sleater-Kinney - The Ballad of a Ladyman
Sleater-Kinney - Was It A Lie?
Sleater-Kinney - The End of You
Le Tigre - I'm So Excited
Le Tigre - LT Tour Theme
Beatles - Run For Your Life
Beatles - Things We Said Today
Beatles - Something
Beatles - You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
The Cure - Boys Don't Cry

[The Valeyard]

I actually made a conscious effort to avoid the Beatles because so much of that goes without saying to me. They feel like they should be a given in some form.

I can't believe I forgot "Be My Baby." I knew this would get me.

[Springtime for Epic]

This question would have been a lot easier for me 10-15 years ago but I feel like my list would change weekly. There are still a definite 5-10 songs I'll always adore but don't know about 20. I'll think about it and see.

[CookieMueller]

I actually made a conscious effort to avoid the Beatles because so much of that goes without saying to me. They feel like they should be a given in some form.

I can't believe I forgot "Be My Baby." I knew this would get me.

Yeah, I probably would choose even more Beatles songs if I thought about it more.

I also immediately regretted not working in “Give Me Back My Man” by B-52s so I feel you.

[Cool, Bad, & Handsome]

No real order

Kanye West - Runaway
Pure Food and Drug Act - Eleanor Rigby
Jennifer Holiday - And I'm Telling You
John Legend - Let's Get Lifted
New Radicals - You Get What You Give
Queen - Don't Stop Me Now
No Doubt - New
Information Society - Walking Away
Kendrick Lamar - The Spiteful Chant
T.I. - I'm Illy
Billy Idol - Flesh For Fantasy
Santa Esmeralda - Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood
Lindstrøm & Christabelle - Baby Can't Stop
Isaac Hayes - Walk On By
Audioslave - Cochise
TLC - What About Your Friends
Dio - Don't Talk To Strangers
Dio - Sunset Superman
Oasis - D'You Know What I Mean?
Florence + The Machine - Hunger

[Zetterberg is Go]

Using the most played on my iPod that I keep on random 99% of the time.

Pearl Jam: Alive
Mastodon: High Road
Soundgarden: Spoonman
Mastodon: Crystal Skull
Metallica: The Shortest Straw
Angry Samoans: Lights Out
Mastodon: March of the Fire Ants
Metallica: Whiplash
Mastodon: Iron Tusk
Nirvana: Turnaround
Mastodon: Blood and Thunder
Metallica: Through the Never
Metallica: Eye of the Beholder
Slayer: Postmortem
CKY: 96 Quite Bitter Beings
Slayer: Epidemic
Queen: Killer Queen
Black Sabbath: War Pigs
Stone Temple Pilots: Big Bang Baby
Presidents of the USA: Lump

[Firmino of the 909]

No order, let's give this a crack.

Metallica: Ride the Lightning
Anthrax: Madhouse
Method Man & Mary J. Blige: You're All I Need to Get By
Wu-Tang Clan: C.R.E.A.M.
Foreigner: Jukebox Hero
Bob Marley & The Wailers: Buffalo Soldier
David Bowie: Suffragette City
Dio: The Last In Line
Ice Cube: It Was a Good Day
Mark Morrison: Return of the Mack
Metallica: The Call of Ktulu
Nirvana: Drain You
Damian Marley: Welcome to Jamrock
Pink Floyd: Time
Alice in Chains: Rooster
The Stooges: I Wanna Be Your Dog
Nate Dogg & Warren G: Regulate
Van Halen - Eruption
Ozzy Osbourne - Shot in the Dark
Eazy-E: Boyz-n-the-Hood (have you ever been on a bus with 50 other people with everyone rapping out this song? yeah bro)

I may have missed something but I doubt it. I don't explore new music or fucking anything so I probably would have made this as my list five years ago.

[cobainwasmurdered]

I ended up keeping it to one song per artist (except I had to have 2 Nirvana) because it ended up having way too much Johnny Cash, Nirvana and Kinks because that's the mood I'm in right now. My top songs fluctuate a lot but these songs are always in them or at least hold a special place for me:

Alice in Chains: Man In The Box
Ayumi Nakamura: KAZE NI NARE~
The Beatles: Helter Skelter
Black Sabbath: Paranoid (the first metal music video I ever saw!)
Foo Fighters: My Hero
Hieroglyphics: At The Helm
Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child
Johnny Cash: Hurt (I had like 10 Cash songs on here)
Kinks: What I Like About You
Metallica: One (the music video version with "Johnny Got His Gun" cut into it)
Nirvana: Lithium
Nirvana: Come As You Are
Pantera: Walk (POINTS)
Pixies: Gigantic
Queen: Another One Bites The Dust
Ramones: I Wanna Be Sedated
Refused: New Noise
Rolling Stones: Sympathy For The Devil
Veruca Salt: Volcano Girls
2Pac/Dre: California Love

[Baby Shoes]

I may have to sit down and figure this out.  Really good topic but I love trash music more than anything so my list will probably be super embarrassing.  Like, real trash as in I am more likely to listen to Lindsay Lohan "Rumors" than Stevie Nicks and I am okay with that.

[AA484]

Way too hard but I'll give it a shot at some point.

[Nymyzys]

My musical taste goes all over the place

Kamelot - The March of Mephisto
Tremonti - The Things I've Seen
Delain - Virtue and Vice
Edguy - Fucking with Fire
Alter Bridge - Metalingus
Heart - Never
Sabaton - Resist and Bite
Jorn - Into the Dark
Evanescence - Lies
Billy Joel - Extremes
Sonata Arctica - Dont Say A Word
Eric Carmen - Make Me Lose Control
.38 Special - Caught Up in You
K's Choice - Not an Addict
Serenity - Serenade of Flames
The Cranberries - Linger
Linkin Park - Wretches and Kings
Live - Overcome
Mike and the Mechanics - Living Years
Elton John - Believe

[The Valeyard]

My musical taste goes all over the place

Kamelot - The March of Mephisto
Tremonti - The Things I've Seen
Delain - Virtue and Vice
Edguy - Fucking with Fire
Alter Bridge - Metalingus
Heart - Never
Sabaton - Resist and Bite
Jorn - Into the Dark
Evanescence - Lies
Billy Joel - Extremes
Sonata Arctica - Dont Say A Word
Eric Carmen - Make Me Lose Control
.38 Special - Caught Up in You
K's Choice - Not an Addict
Serenity - Serenade of Flames
The Cranberries - Linger
Linkin Park - Wretches and Kings
Live - Overcome
Mike and the Mechanics - Living Years
Elton John - Believe

I really gotta know how you prioritized these and what you cut from the list.

[Ganja International]

50 Songs I Really Love, Probably Not a List of My Actual 50 Favourites


GZA, Ghostface Killah, Killah Priest & RZA - 4th Chamber
Dean Blunt - 50 Cent
Tom & Jerry - Airfreshner
Arthur Russell - A Little Lost
Benga - B4 the Dual
Groove Chronicles - Black Puppet
Noise Factory- Breakage #4
Brian Eno - Burning Airlines Give You So Much More
Brasstooth - Celebrate Life
Adam F - Circles
Supa Ape - Come Aboard
Burial - Come Down to Us
Danny Weed - Creeper
The Wedding Present - Dare
Xmal Deutschland - Der Wind
Glen Miller - Dungeon
Musical Mob - Echoman
Muslimgauze - Fakir
William Onyeabor - Fantastic Man
The Fall - Fiery Jack
Nick Drake - Fly
These New Puritans - Fragment Two
N.W.A - Gangsta Gangsta
Selena vs X-Men - Give It Up
The Smiths - I Know It's Over
Dizzee Rascal - I Luv U
Nas - It Ain't Hard to Tell
Prince - I Wanna Be Your Lover
Whitney Houston - I Wanna Dance with Somebody
Radiohead - Life in a Glasshouse
D'Cruze - Lonely
Sun Kil Moon - Lost Verses
Artery - Louise
The Rolling Stones - Memory Motel
Tempa T - Next Hype
DJ Vibes - Obsession
Tindersticks - People Keep Comin' Round
Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Perpetuum Mobile
Slew Dem - Playground Vocal
The Rats - Rat's Revenge - Parts 1 & 2
Commodo & JME - Shift
MJ Cole - Sincere
This Heat - Sleep
Skream - Stagger
The Joubert Singers - Stand on the Word
David Bowie - Station to Station
Esthero - That Girl
Lucky Soul - The Great Unwanted
Kaleidoscope - The Sky Children
Wiley - Wot U Call It?

[The Valeyard]

Now I gotta add 30 more. I can do that. Let's 50.

Best thread in the folder.

[Harley Quinn]

Now I gotta add 30 more. I can do that. Let's 50.

Best thread in the folder.

Fuck It... here's my attempt to try to get this shit to 50. I had to double dip on some artists. No order because this is hard enough as it is and was mostly what came to mind immediately.

Evanescence - Going Under
Skinny Puppy - Deep Down Trauma Hounds
Nine Inch Nails - Something I Can Never Have
Smashing Pumpkins - Zero
Oasis - Wonderwall
Nirvana - Son of a Gun (Cover)
Unfinished Thought - Evening
Debra Arlyn - Let It Go
Jennifer Lopez - If You Had My Love
Christina Aguilera - Genie In a Bottle
The Breeders - Iris (1990 SNUB TV Performance)
Collide - Halo
Within Temptation - Ice Queen
DMX - Party Up (What's In Here)
Bare Jr. - You Blew Me Off
Sarah McLachlan - Possession (Piano Version)
Alanis Morissette - Right Through You
Velvet Chain - Treason [Could just as easily throw their song 'Strong' here too tbh]
K's Choice - Virgin State of Mind
Vanessa Carlton - Paradise
Black Sabbath - Iron Man
Madonna - Beautiful Stranger
Kimberly Locke - 8th World Wonder
A Perfect Circle - Judith
Nickelback - Leader of Men
Sinead O'Connor - Troy
Superfine - Stoner Love
Alice in Chains - Man In the Box
Tori Amos - Reindeer King
Goo Goo Dolls - Iris Paula Cole - I Don't Want to Wait

[The Valeyard]

1.) "Street Hassle"-Lou Reed
2.) "A Quick One, While He's Away"-The Who (Rolling Stones' Rock n Roll Circus version)
3.) "Sweet Jane"-Velvet Underground
4.) "Tangled Up In Blue"-Bob Dylan
5.) "Downtown Train"-Tom Waits
6.) "The Punk And The Godfather"-The Who
7.) "The Man Who Sold the World"-Nirvana (but I like pretty much any version)
8.) "Heroes"-David Bowie
9.) "Ever Fallen In Love"-Buzzcocks
10.) "All My Friends"-LCD Soundsystem
11.) "However Much I Booze"-The Who
12.) "Samson"-Regina Spektor
13.) "She's Got You High"-Mumm-ra
14.) "Rise"-Public Image Ltd.
15.) "Jigsaw Puzzle"-Rolling Stones
16.) "Fairytale Of New York"-The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl
17.) "Little Triggers"-Elvis Costello
18.) "Alone Again Or"-Love
19.) "Wuthering Heights"-Kate Bush
20.) "Be My Baby"-The Ronettes
21.) "Tiny Dancer"-Elton John
22.) "Queen Bitch"-David Bowie
23.) "Alex Chilton"-The Replacements
24.) "Getting In Tune"-The Who
25.) "All Apologies"-Nirvana
26.) "You Can't Always Get What You Want"-Rolling Stones
27.) "Here I Am (Come Take Me)"-Al Green
28.) "You Don't Know How It Feels"-Tom Petty
29.) "White Light/White Heat"-Velvet Underground
30.) "Lazy Line Painter Jane"-Belle and Sebastian
31.) "Purple Rain"-Prince
32.) "Time In A Bottle"-Jim Croce
33.) "Comfortably Numb"-Pink Floyd
34.) "Fuck And Run"-Liz Phair
35.) "Got To Get You Off My Mind"-Solomon Burke
36.) "Where Is My Mind?"-Pixies
37.) "Gotta Get Up"-Harry Nilsson
38.) "It's All Coming Back To Me Now"-Pandora's Box
39.) "Here Comes A Regular"-The Replacements
40.) "What Is Life"-George Harrison
41.) "Crimson and Clover"-Tommy James and the Shondells
42.) "The Air Conditioned Nightmare"-Mr. Bungle
43.) "Jet Boy, Jet Girl"-The Damned
44.) "Amarillo By Morning"-George Strait
45.) "And She Was"-Talking Heads
46.) "Makes No Sense At All"-Husker Du
47.) "Death On Two Legs"-Queen
48.) "Dog Days Are Over"-Florence + the Machine
49.) "Nurse Rosetta"-Alice Cooper
50.) "Operator"-Jim Croce

Perpetually subject to change.

[Youth N Asia]

I’m doing mine in no order and limiting artists to one per. Only way I could even get a list together. Still know I’m going to miss stuff.

REM - Talk About the Passion
The Beatles - Eight Days a Week
The Gaslight Anthem - Rollin’ and Tumblin’
Dance Gavin Dance - Strawberry Swisher III (least likely set in stone song by an artist here)
Warren Zevon - Lawyers, Guns, and Money
Lucky Boys Confusion - Breaking Rules
The Get Up Kids - Holiday
Tegan and Sara - The Cure
The Rolling Stones - She’s a Rainbow
Blink 182 - Pathetic
Jimmy Eat World - Lucky Denver Mint
Pat Benatar - Shadows of the Night
Muse - Mercy
Pearl Jam - Nothingman
Them - Here Comes The Night
Sleater-Kinney- Leave You Behind
Oasis - Don’t Look Back In Anger
OutKast - BOB
Lagwagon - Razor Burn
Donovan - Catch the Wind

PS. Happy to see this much Sleater-Kinney love.