Top 10 Favorite Songs

[mvd10]

Screw it Americans

One of these songs might be offensive, and pls don't translate. And no I don't actually listen this, but I've been to places where they ended up playing these types of songs (not voluntary, long live peer pressure!). DavidB or other Dutch posters probably know in which region I live now lol.

Other shining examples of Dutch cultural delights
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_swivbEsD50
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQf6nh39Tik

(second song is actually good btw).

I repeat: DON'T TRANSLATE.

I don't actually like these songs, but I just felt like derailing an Atlas thread with Dutch crap . I will come with a serious list later. 12 year old kids getting influenced by these kinds of songs (mainly referring to the first song on the second list) is a real problem btw, in retrospect I probably shouldn't have posted this here lol.

Damn, one of these songs features Jack Chiraq. Atlas has found it's new favourite song .

[Leinad]

Wish You Were Here

^This is one of the ones I almost instantly thought of after posting.

Also while a lot of these lists are pretty good, Crabcake's is excellent.

[MarkD]

In no particular order

"You Have More Friends Than You Know"
"The Sound of Silence"
"Happy Together"
"Stabat Mater" (by Dvorak; first and last movements)
"O, Holy Night"
"You'll Never Walk Alone"
"Bridge Over Troubled Water"
"I'll Make Love To You"
"Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat"
Title song from "Mame"

[HAnnA MArin County]

Way more than 10, but here's a somewhat concise list of some of my all-time favorites (in no particular order)

My Heart Will Go On (Celine Dion)
Because You Loved Me (Celine Dion)

In The Arms of The Angel (Sarah McLachlan)
There Goes My Life (Kenny Chesney)
Fifteen (Taylor Swift)
When You Were Mine (Dixie Chicks)
Something in Red (Lorrie Morgan) 
The Fool (Lee Ann Womack)
She's in Love With the Boy (Trisha Yearwood) 

I'll Never Get Over You Getting Over Me (Expose)
Heaven is a Place on Earth (Belinda Carlisle)
Free Fallin' (Tom Petty)
Sister Christian (Night Ranger)
I Would Do Anything for Love (Meatloaf)
I Knew I Loved You (Savage Garden)

At the Beginning (Richard Marx & Donna Lewis/Anastasia)
You'll Be in My Heart (Phil Collins/Tarzan)
Reflection (Christina Aguilera/Mulan) - this song was really therapeutic when I was coming to terms with my sexuality during my teenage years

And, of course, as is standard for any respectable gay man when listing favorite songs:
"Dancing Queen" (ABBA)

[dead0man]

A Day in the Life - The Beatles

oddly enough, I was listening to this song when I made my list (well, the first part....of my list, not the song)

[Enduro]

Boom Boom...don't really care who does it, I usually pick John Lee Hooker live or the Animals album version.
RHCP's Apache Rose Peacock
Rolling Stones' Sympathy for the Devil
The Who's I'm One
The Animal's It's My Life
Wish You Were Here
More Than A Feeling
I'm Leaving Now the Johnny Cash and Merle Haggard version link

that's enough

Also a freedom list. I would've picked different Animals and The Who songs tho.

[JGibson]

Currently (as of 10.23.2017)
Imagine Dragons "Thunder"
Portugal. The Man "Feel It Still"
Foo Fighters "The Sky Is A Neighborhood"
Alice Merton "No Roots"
Beck "Up All Night"
Theory Of A Deadman "Rx"
Walk The Moon "One Foot"
30 Seconds To Mars "Walk On Water"
U2 "You're The Best Thing About Me"
Kelly Clarkson "Love So Soft"


All-Time:
Tier 1
Foo Fighters "The Pretender"
Paramore "Crushcrushcrush"
AWOLNATION "Sail"
Walk The Moon "Shut Up and Dance"
Imagine Dragons "Radioactive"
Weezer "Pork and Beans"
The White Stripes "Seven Nation Army"
Evanescence/Paul McCoy "Bring Me To Life"
The Killers "Somebody Told Me"
Muse "Uprising"
Green Day "Holiday"
OneRepublic "Counting Stars"
Finger Eleven "Paralyzer"
Paramore "Ain't It Fun"
Kongos "Come With Me Now"
Nickelback "How You Remind Me"
Linkin Park "In The End"
Shinedown "Second Chance"
Lorde "Royals"
Katy Perry "Teenage Dream"
Queens Of The Stone Age "No One Knows"
Rise Against "Savior"
Red Hot Chili Peppers "Dani California"
Disturbed "The Sound of Silence"

Tier 2
Foster The People "Pumped Up Kicks"
Imagine Dragons "Demons"
Katy Perry "Hot N Cold"
Kings Of Leon "Use Somebody"
Muse "Resistance"
Ellie Goulding "Burn"
Skillet "Monster"
Paramore "Still Into You"
Taylor Swift "Shake It Off"
Gwen Stefani "Hollaback Girl"
Twenty One Pilots "Ride"
Cold War Kids "First"
Lady Gaga "Poker Face"
Dream "He Loves U Not"
X Ambassadors "Renegades"
Train "Hey, Soul Sister"
Kelly Clarkson "Since U Been Gone"
Franz Ferdinand "Take Me Out"
Adele "Hello"
Modest Mouse "Float On"
Nothing But Thieves "Trip Switch"
Foals "Mountain At My Gates"
Green Day "Know Your Enemy"
Foo Fighters "Rope"
Three Days Grace "Chalk Outline"
Lorde "Team"
Green Day "Bang Bang"
Kings Of Leon "Sex On Fire"
The Neighbourhood "Sweater Weather"
Foo Fighters "Walk"
Linkin Park "What I've Done"
Red Hot Chili Peppers "Dark Necessities"
Theory Of A Deadman "Not Meant To Be"
Twenty One Pilots "Stressed Out"
Three Days Grace "Break"

[vanguard96]

1. Lady in Black (Uriah Heep)
2.) Mr. Vain (Culture Beat)
3.) Sunshine Day (Osibisa) (this would be my campaign song if I were to run for anything)
4.) Brother Louie (Modern Talking)
5.) The living Daylights (Aha)
6.) What is love (Haddaway)
7.) Sweet Dreams (La Bouche)
8.) Hit the ground running (Alice Morton)
9.) Sky (Sonique)
10.) Be my lover (La Bouche)

Trapped in the Early 90's. You would have loved it in Japan - circa 1992-95. Juliana's Tokyo.

What do you think of older Italo disco? Was it before your time?

Or about German synth pop groups like Propaganda or Alphaville that were big in discos but also on the charts?

BTW, The Living Daylights is a great track - and the OST album in my opinion is the last great Barry soundtrack before he got all moody in the final years of his career.

[NewYorkExpress]

Currently (as of 10.23.2017)
Imagine Dragons "Thunder"
Portugal. The Man "Feel It Still"
Foo Fighters "The Sky Is A Neighborhood"
Alice Merton "No Roots"
Beck "Up All Night"
Theory Of A Deadman "Rx"
Walk The Moon "One Foot"
30 Seconds To Mars "Walk On Water"
U2 "You're The Best Thing About Me"
Kelly Clarkson "Love So Soft"


All-Time:
Tier 1
Foo Fighters "The Pretender"
Paramore "Crushcrushcrush"
AWOLNATION "Sail"
Walk The Moon "Shut Up and Dance"
Imagine Dragons "Radioactive"
Weezer "Pork and Beans"
The White Stripes "Seven Nation Army"
Evanescence/Paul McCoy "Bring Me To Life"
The Killers "Somebody Told Me"
Muse "Uprising"
Green Day "Holiday"
OneRepublic "Counting Stars"
Finger Eleven "Paralyzer"
Paramore "Ain't It Fun"
Kongos "Come With Me Now"
Nickelback "How You Remind Me"
Linkin Park "In The End"
Shinedown "Second Chance"
Lorde "Royals"
Katy Perry "Teenage Dream"
Queens Of The Stone Age "No One Knows"
Rise Against "Savior"
Red Hot Chili Peppers "Dani California"
Disturbed "The Sound of Silence"

Tier 2
Foster The People "Pumped Up Kicks"
Imagine Dragons "Demons"
Katy Perry "Hot N Cold"
Kings Of Leon "Use Somebody"
Muse "Resistance"
Ellie Goulding "Burn"
Skillet "Monster"
Paramore "Still Into You"
Taylor Swift "Shake It Off"
Gwen Stefani "Hollaback Girl"
Twenty One Pilots "Ride"
Cold War Kids "First"
Lady Gaga "Poker Face"
Dream "He Loves U Not"
X Ambassadors "Renegades"
Train "Hey, Soul Sister"
Kelly Clarkson "Since U Been Gone"
Franz Ferdinand "Take Me Out"
Adele "Hello"
Modest Mouse "Float On"
Nothing But Thieves "Trip Switch"
Foals "Mountain At My Gates"
Green Day "Know Your Enemy"
Foo Fighters "Rope"
Three Days Grace "Chalk Outline"
Lorde "Team"
Green Day "Bang Bang"
Kings Of Leon "Sex On Fire"
The Neighbourhood "Sweater Weather"
Foo Fighters "Walk"
Linkin Park "What I've Done"
Red Hot Chili Peppers "Dark Necessities"
Theory Of A Deadman "Not Meant To Be"
Twenty One Pilots "Stressed Out"
Three Days Grace "Break"

The Bolded songs are among my all-time favorites.

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

Screw it Americans

One of these songs might be offensive, and pls don't translate. And no I don't actually listen this, but I've been to places where they ended up playing these types of songs (not voluntary, long live peer pressure!). DavidB or other Dutch posters probably know in which region I live now lol.

Other shining examples of Dutch cultural delights
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_swivbEsD50
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQf6nh39Tik

(second song is actually good btw).

I repeat: DON'T TRANSLATE.

I don't actually like these songs, but I just felt like derailing an Atlas thread with Dutch crap . I will come with a serious list later. 12 year old kids getting influenced by these kinds of songs (mainly referring to the first song on the second list) is a real problem btw, in retrospect I probably shouldn't have posted this here lol.

Damn, one of these songs features Jack Chiraq. Atlas has found it's new favourite song .

How about this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qU_dn6GqaeM

[HisGrace]

I do better with albums or acts, songs just feels so arbitrary since there are so many of them. I'll keep it to one per artist and stick to rock/pop songs (no jazz) to make it simpler.

Bohemian Rhapsody- Queen
No Surprises- Radiohead
Strawberry Fields Forever- The Beatles
The Rain Song- Led Zeppelin
How Soon is Now- The Smiths
Gimme Shelter- The Rolling Stones
Beetlebum- Blur
Shangri-La- The Kinks
Teenage Dream- T-Rex
All the Young Dudes- Mott the Hoople

[Modernity has failed us]

It's been five years since I first posted in this thread and I still can't pick individual songs, so here's 10 bands:

1. Silent Planet
2. The Devil Wears Prada
3. Converge
4. Dance Gavin Dance
5. Death Grips
6. August Burns Red
7. Kendrick Lamar
8. My Chemical Romance
9. Enter Shikari
10. Run The Jewels

[vanguard96]

I do better with albums or acts, songs just feels so arbitrary since there are so many of them. I'll keep it to one per artist and stick to rock/pop songs (no jazz) to make it simpler.

Bohemian Rhapsody- Queen
No Surprises- Radiohead
Strawberry Fields Forever- The Beatles
The Rain Song- Led Zeppelin
How Soon is Now- The Smiths
Gimme Shelter- The Rolling Stones
Beetlebum- Blur
Shangri-La- The Kinks
Teenage Dream- T-Rex
All the Young Dudes- Mott the Hoople

What would your jazz list be?

And cool to see T-Rex (& Mott the Hoople) on your list. I love glam/art rock 70's and Marc Bolan was such a great live presence.

I definitely like the Smiths as well. Morrissey & Marr were legends together - William It Was Really Nothing, Headmaster Ritual, Reel Around the Fountain, Bigmouth Strikes Again, the list goes on. Sometimes it is better a band does not get back together in some ways... right?

[NewYorkExpress]

Way more than 10, but here's a somewhat concise list of some of my all-time favorites (in no particular order)

My Heart Will Go On (Celine Dion)
Because You Loved Me (Celine Dion)

In The Arms of The Angel (Sarah McLachlan)
There Goes My Life (Kenny Chesney)
Fifteen (Taylor Swift)
When You Were Mine (Dixie Chicks)
Something in Red (Lorrie Morgan) 
The Fool (Lee Ann Womack)
She's in Love With the Boy (Trisha Yearwood) 

I'll Never Get Over You Getting Over Me (Expose)
Heaven is a Place on Earth (Belinda Carlisle)
Free Fallin' (Tom Petty)
Sister Christian (Night Ranger)
I Would Do Anything for Love (Meatloaf)
I Knew I Loved You (Savage Garden)

At the Beginning (Richard Marx & Donna Lewis/Anastasia)
You'll Be in My Heart (Phil Collins/Tarzan)
Reflection (Christina Aguilera/Mulan) - this song was really therapeutic when I was coming to terms with my sexuality during my teenage years

And, of course, as is standard for any respectable gay man when listing favorite songs:
"Dancing Queen" (ABBA)

I love all of the bolded songs...

[HisGrace]

I do better with albums or acts, songs just feels so arbitrary since there are so many of them. I'll keep it to one per artist and stick to rock/pop songs (no jazz) to make it simpler.

Bohemian Rhapsody- Queen
No Surprises- Radiohead
Strawberry Fields Forever- The Beatles
The Rain Song- Led Zeppelin
How Soon is Now- The Smiths
Gimme Shelter- The Rolling Stones
Beetlebum- Blur
Shangri-La- The Kinks
Teenage Dream- T-Rex
All the Young Dudes- Mott the Hoople

What would your jazz list be?

And cool to see T-Rex (& Mott the Hoople) on your list. I love glam/art rock 70's and Marc Bolan was such a great live presence.

I definitely like the Smiths as well. Morrissey & Marr were legends together - William It Was Really Nothing, Headmaster Ritual, Reel Around the Fountain, Bigmouth Strikes Again, the list goes on. Sometimes it is better a band does not get back together in some ways... right?

In addition to it being hard to compare it to rock/pop, Jazz is even more album centric, the songs are often so long, and are often covers of standards, so I don't even think of jazz artists in terms of songs at all, just albums. So for top ten Jazz albums I'd say-

1. My Favorite Things- John Coltrane
2. A Love Supreme- John Coltrane
3. Giant Steps- John Coltrane
4. Bitches Brew- Miles Davis
5. Kind of Blue- Miles Davis
6. Free Jazz- Ornette Coleman
7. Porgy & Bess- Miles Davis
8. Out to Lunch!- Eric Dolphy
9. The Shape of Jazz to Come- Ornette Coleman
10. Headhunters- Herbie Hancock

I'm a huge fan of the dramatic glam rock ballads, and those are my two favorites (even more than anything Bowie did like Life on Mars or Space Oddity) and I had to have a couple of them on there.

Agree on The Smiths. They definitely went out on top.

[Enduro]

Currently (as of 10.23.2017)
Imagine Dragons "Thunder"
Portugal. The Man "Feel It Still"
Foo Fighters "The Sky Is A Neighborhood"
Alice Merton "No Roots"
Beck "Up All Night"
Theory Of A Deadman "Rx"
Walk The Moon "One Foot"
30 Seconds To Mars "Walk On Water"
U2 "You're The Best Thing About Me"
Kelly Clarkson "Love So Soft"


All-Time:
Tier 1
Foo Fighters "The Pretender"
Paramore "Crushcrushcrush"
AWOLNATION "Sail"
Walk The Moon "Shut Up and Dance"
Imagine Dragons "Radioactive"
Weezer "Pork and Beans"
The White Stripes "Seven Nation Army"
Evanescence/Paul McCoy "Bring Me To Life"
The Killers "Somebody Told Me"
Muse "Uprising"
Green Day "Holiday"
OneRepublic "Counting Stars"
Finger Eleven "Paralyzer"
Paramore "Ain't It Fun"
Kongos "Come With Me Now"
Nickelback "How You Remind Me"
Linkin Park "In The End"
Shinedown "Second Chance"
Lorde "Royals"
Katy Perry "Teenage Dream"
Queens Of The Stone Age "No One Knows"
Rise Against "Savior"
Red Hot Chili Peppers "Dani California"
Disturbed "The Sound of Silence"

Tier 2
Foster The People "Pumped Up Kicks"
Imagine Dragons "Demons"
Katy Perry "Hot N Cold"
Kings Of Leon "Use Somebody"
Muse "Resistance"
Ellie Goulding "Burn"
Skillet "Monster"
Paramore "Still Into You"
Taylor Swift "Shake It Off"
Gwen Stefani "Hollaback Girl"
Twenty One Pilots "Ride"
Cold War Kids "First"
Lady Gaga "Poker Face"
Dream "He Loves U Not"
X Ambassadors "Renegades"
Train "Hey, Soul Sister"
Kelly Clarkson "Since U Been Gone"
Franz Ferdinand "Take Me Out"
Adele "Hello"
Modest Mouse "Float On"
Nothing But Thieves "Trip Switch"
Foals "Mountain At My Gates"
Green Day "Know Your Enemy"
Foo Fighters "Rope"
Three Days Grace "Chalk Outline"
Lorde "Team"
Green Day "Bang Bang"
Kings Of Leon "Sex On Fire"
The Neighbourhood "Sweater Weather"
Foo Fighters "Walk"
Linkin Park "What I've Done"
Red Hot Chili Peppers "Dark Necessities"
Theory Of A Deadman "Not Meant To Be"
Twenty One Pilots "Stressed Out"
Three Days Grace "Break"

Majority of this list is a freedom list. I like how diverse it is.

[HillGoose]

dang, hard one.

It changes a lot. As of right now these are my all-time favorites and genre:

1. Fast Car- Jonas Blue ft. Dakota (Tropical House)
2. Smoke- Florida Georgia Line (Country)
3. The Louvre- Lorde (Electropop)
4. Beach Town- Chase Rice (Country)
5. Alive- Krewella (Electronic Dance Music)
6. Slide- The Goo Goo Dolls (Alternative Rock)
7. Chicken Fried- Zac Brown Band (Country)
8. Landslide- Fleetwood Mac (Folk Rock)
9. U Turn- Chase Rice (Country)
10. Wake Me Up- Avicii (Folktronica)

Dang that's all over the place. I seem to like electronic and country overall though.

Eat sleep rave repeat

[kcguy]

I'm not a huge music fan; most of what I know comes from the radio.

Here are ten random songs, in approximately chronological order:

The Mamas and the Papas - "California Dreamin'"
Diana Ross and the Supremes - "You Keep Me Hanging On"
Simon and Garfunkel - "Cecilia"
Bonnie Tyler - "Total Eclipse of the Heart"
Madonna - "Borderline"
The B-52's - "Love Shack"
The Red Hot Chili Peppers - "Under the Bridge"
Ricky Martin - "Livin' la Vida Loca"
Green Day - "Holiday"
Gnarls Barkley - "Crazy"

In no particular order

"You Have More Friends Than You Know"
"The Sound of Silence"
"Happy Together"
"Stabat Mater" (by Dvorak; first and last movements)
"O, Holy Night"
"You'll Never Walk Alone"
"Bridge Over Troubled Water"
"I'll Make Love To You"
"Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat"
Title song from "Mame"

Mark, thank you for making my list look just a little less dated.