Top Ten Songs From Your Favourite Artists

Obviously, if you love a band, you'll love the majority of their output, but there should a special handful of their songs that you rank above the rest. A particular group that sums up his/her/their quality as an artist and remain more memorable than the rest.

My favourite band is The Talking Heads and my ten favourites go something like this...

The Talking Heads

1. "Once In A Lifetime (Remain In Light)
2. "What A Day That Was" (Stop Making Sense)
3. "Love -> Building On Fire" (Single)
4. "This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody) (Speaking In Tongues)
5. "Life During Wartime" (Fear Of Music)
6. "Take Me To The River" (More Songs About Buildings And Food)
7. "Burning Down The House" (Speaking In Tongues)
8. "Psycho Killer" (Talking Heads 77)
9. "Girlfriend Is Better" (Speaking In Tongues)
10. Thank You For Sending Me An Angel" (More Songs About Buildings etc)

Honourable Mentions: "Found A Job", "Heaven".

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Dead Can Dance

1. Xavier (Within the Realm of the Dying Sun)
2. Summoning of the Muse (Within the Realm of the Dying Sun)
3. The Ubiquitous Mr. Lovegrove (Into The Labyrinth)
4. Fortune presents Gifts not according to the Book (Aion)
5. Advent (Spleen And Ideal)
6. In Power We Entrust the Love Advocated (Garden of Arcane Delights EP)
7. Mesmerism (Spleen And Ideal)
8. The Host of Seraphim (The Serpent's Egg)
9. Black Sun (Aion)
10. The Carnival Is Over (Into The Labyrinth)

Honorable mentions: Rakim (Toward The Within), A Passage In Time (Dead Can Dance), Yulunga (Into The Labyrinth)

Pink Floyd

1. "Time" (The Dark Side of the Moon)
2. "Echoes" (Meddle)
3. "Comfortably Numb" (The Wall)
4. "Dogs" (Animals)
5. "Wish You Were Here" (Wish You Were Here)
6. "Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts I-V) (Wish You Were Here)
7. "One of these Days" (Meddle)
8. "Careful with that Axe, Eugene" (Relics)
9. "Have a Cigar" (Wish You Were Here)
10. "Money" (The Dark Side of the Moon)

Tough call, really. Pink Floyd are more of an album band than a song band.

Here's another one for ye...

Icehouse

1. "Street Cafe" (Primitive Man)
2. "Taking The Town" (Sidewalk)
3. "We Can Get Together" (Icehouse)
4. "Nothing Too Serious" (Man Of Colours)
5. "Icehouse" (Icehouse)
6. "Glam" (Primitive Man)
7. "Hey Little Girl" (Primitive Man)
8. "Crazy" (Man Of Colours)
9. "Great Southern Land" (Primitive Man)
10. "Electric Blue" (Man Of Colours)

Honorable Mentions: "Walls", "Man Of Colours", "Satellite" (I was a bit iffy about including this anywhere, considering it is a terrible song, but for some strange reason, I like it).

Only 10? Damn, that's hard.

Weezer

1) "The World Has Turned and Left Me Here" (Blue Album)
2) "Across the Sea" (Pinkerton)
3) "The Good Life" (Pinkerton)
4) "Troublemaker" (Red Album)
5) "Holiday" (Blue Album)
6) "Surf Wax America" (Blue Album)
7) "Island in the Sun" (Green Album)
8) "(If You're Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To" (Raditude)
9) "Perfect Situation" (Make Believe)
10) "Say It Ain't So" (Blue Album)

HM: Rest of Blue and Pinkterton, especially "Buddy Holly", "Burndt Jamb" (Maladroit), "Photograph" (Green), "The Greatest Man That Ever Lived" (Red)

I don't always participate in music threads.. but when I do, it's to make lists

The Cure

1. Lullaby (Disintegration)
2. The Funeral Party (Faith)
3. One Hundred Years (Pornography)
4. Cold (Pornography)
5. Disintegration (Disintegration)
6. Sinking (Head on the Door)
7. Close To Me (Head on the Door)
8. The Drowning Man (Faith)
9. The Top (The Top)
10. From The Edge of the Deep Green Sea (Wish)


Katatonia

1. Inside the City of Glass (Viva Emptiness)
2. Ashen (Night Is The New Day)
3. In The White (The Great Cold Distance)
4. Dispossession (Last Fair Deal Gone Down)
5. Rusted (The Great Cold Distance)
6. A Premonition (Viva Emptiness)
7. One Year From Now (Viva Emptiness)
8. Onward Into Battle (Night Is The New Day)
9. Instrumental (Discouraged Ones)
10. Nowhere (Sounds of Decay EP)


Ulver

1. Wildcat/Rock Massif Pt. I and II (Svidd Neger OST)
2. Let The Children Go (Shadows of the Sun)
3. September IV (Wars of the Roses)
4. Little Blue Bird (A Quick Fix of Melancholy EP)
5. All The Love (Shadows of the Sun)
6. Christmas (Blood Inside)
7. Hallways of Always (Perdition City)
8. Operator (Blood Inside)
9. Hymn I: Of Wolf and Fear (Nattens Madrigal)
10. Theme 7 (Lyckantropen Themes)


And just for comparison to Tyler:

Dead Can Dance

1. The Carnival Is Over (Into The Labyrinth)
2. In the Kingdom of the Blind the One-Eyed Are Kings (The Serpent's Egg)
3. Persephone - The Gathering of Flowers (Within the Realm of a Dying Sun)
4. Xavier (Within the Realm of a Dying Sun)
5. Fortune Presents Gifts Not According to the Book (Aion)
6. Yulanga - Spirit Dance (Into The Labyrinth)
7. Ulysses (The Serpent's Egg)
8. As the Bell Rings the Maypole Spins (Aion)
9. Mesmerism (Spleen and Ideal)
10. In Power We Entrust The Love Advocated (Garden of Arcane Delights EP)

^ Thanks. Looks like we have 5 favourite songs in common.

How would you rate their albums?

1. Within the Realm of a Dying Sun
2. Into The Labyrinth
3. Spleen and Ideal
4. Aion
5. The Serpent's Egg
6. Dead Can Dance
7. Spiritchaser

Hopefully there will be a new DCD album!

The new album is called Anastasis coming out August 13.

hmmmmmm only thing I would do is put Spleen under The Serpent's Egg and the rest I agree with accordingly

Kanye West
1. Blame Game (MBDTF)
2. New Day (WTT)
3. So Appaled (MBDTF)
4. Good Morning (Graduation)
5. Gotta Have It (WTT)
6. Homecoming (Graduation)
7. Jesus Walks (College Dropout)
8. Everything I am (Graduation)
9. Gorgeous (MBDTF)
10. Lost in the World (MBDTF)

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Eminem
1. I'm Back (MMLP)
2. Business (Eminem Show)
3. Marshall Mathers (MMLP)
4. Yellow Brick Road (Encore)
5. I'm shady (SSLP)
6. When Im Gone (curtian call)
7. Sing for the Moment (Eminem Show)
8. Criminal (MMLP)
9. Underground (Relapse)
10. Hallies Song (Eminem Show)

Tom Petty

1. Room at the Top (Echo)
2. Since You Said You Loved Me (Playback)
3. Cry to Me (Playback)
4. I Should've Known It (Mojo)
5. Spike (Southern Accents)
6. Make It Better (forget about me) (Southern Accents)
7. Louisiana Rain (Playback, not the rewritten version from Damn the Torpedoes)
8. Don't Come Around Here No More (Southern Accents)
9. It Ain't Nothin' to Me (Southern Accents)
10. Saving Grace (Highway Companion)

Bet you can't guess what my favorite Petty album is.

Lindsey Buckingham

1. Castaway Dreams (Under the Skin)
2. Go Insane (from Fleetwood Mac's The Dance, not the studio version from Go Insane)
3. Somebody's Gotta Change Your Mind (Under the Skin)
4. I'm So Afraid (any live version, solo or with Fleetwood Mac, but NOT the studio version)
5. Time Precious Time (Gift of Screws)
6. Without A Leg To Stand On (Buckingham Nicks)
7. D.W. Suite (Go Insane)
8. This is the Time (Out of the Cradle)
9. What Makes You Think You're the One (Fleetwood Mac's Tusk)
10. Treason (Gift of Screws)

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Red Hot Chili Peppers

1.Otherside
2.Road Trippin'
3.Californication
4.Desecration Smile
5.Havana Affair (cover)
6.The Zephyr Song (like the music video)
7.Under The Bridge
8.By The Way (love the music video)
9.Scar Tissue
10.Snow (Hey Oh)

Depeche Mode

1.Personal Jesus
2.Enjoy The Silence (2004 remake)
3.Never Let Me Down Again
4.It's No Good
5.Policy Of Truth
6.Pain That I'm Used to
7.Damaged People
8.The Darkest Star
9.Only When I Lose Myself
10.Precious

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"Top Ten Songs From Your Favourite Artists"

How you wrote this, "Top Ten Songs From Your Favourite Artists" so any songs from any of your favourite artists! Okay, then!

Adele- Hometown Glory
Cold Chisel - Khe Sanh
The Blackwater Fever - Bad Seed
Jimi Hendrix - Hey Joe
Pete Murray - So beautiful
Powderfinger - Like a Dog
Sarah Blasko - Don't U Eva
Joe Cocker - Many rivers to cross
Janis Joplin - Try
Pearl Jam - Alive

You're supposed to pick your top ten favorite songs from each of your favorite artists (or ten songs per however many favorite artists you choose to post about) as clearly illustrated in TylerDurden99's original post.

I still don't get it! You know why? An Aussie wrote it! lol!

Dan Bejar as Destroyer. Order doesn't matter as much, since it's pop and all basically the same stuff.

1. Notorious Lightening (off of the EP)
2. Bay of Pigs (off of the EP)
3. Looters' Follies
4. Blue Eyes
5. Watercolours into the Ocean
6. Suicide Demo for Kara Walker
7. Blue Flower/Blue Flame
8. European Oils
9. Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Sea of Tears)
10. The Music Lovers (off the EP)

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The Doors


1. Break on Through



2. Peace Frog



3. Queen of the Highway



4. Unhappy Girl



5. Wintertime Love



6. The Soft Parade



7. Maggie M'Gill



8. Riders on the Storm



9. Hello I Love You



10. Not To Touch The Earth

Now for numero dos...

Rush

1. "Tom Sawyer" (Moving Pictures)
2. "The Spirit of Radio" (Permanent Waves)
3. "YYZ" (Moving Pictures)
4. "2112" (2112)
5. "Closer to the Heart" (A Farewell to Kings)
6. "Xanadu" (A Farewell to Kings)
7. "Dreamline" (Roll the Bones)
8. "The Trees" (Hemispheres)
9. "Natural Science" (Permanent Waves)
10. "Distant Early Warning" (Grace Under Pressure)

Honourable mentions: "Subdivisions", "Nobody's Hero", "Cygnus X-1", "The Analog Kid", "Working Man", "Something for Nothing", "Red Barchetta", "Witch Hunt", "Limelight", "La Villa Strangiato".

Depeche Mode

1. Fly On The Windscreen (Black Celebration)
2. Blasphemous Rumours (Some Great Reward)
3. A Question Of Lust (Black Celebration)
4. Shake The Disease (Single)
5. Halo (Violator)
6. Stripped (Black Celebration)
7. Black Celebration (Black Celebration)
8. Never Let Me Down Again (Music For The Masses)
9. Enjoy The Silence (Violator)
10. It's No Good (Ultra)

Siouxsie and the Banshees

Swimming Horses



Turn to Stone



Metal Postcard



Peek-a-Boo



Kiss Them For Me



Arabian Knights



Desert Kisses



Green Fingers



Candyman



Spellbound



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