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Your TOP ten songs ... yep, it's hard

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Thought I'd kick off another one. This challenge took me ages as I could have listed hundreds ... easily.

But these are mine after careful thought and Ronstadt gets my number 1. Looking back at it, I realise much and all as I like rock, I must be a real soft touch to go for so many quiet love songs

Heartbeats Accelerating – Linda Ronstadt

Song for a Winter’s night – Gordon Lightfoot

Time Passages – Al Stewart

Get here – Oleta Adams

Kill the messenger - Shawn Colvin

Coming up close – ‘Til Tuesday

I drove all night – Cyndi Lauper

Hazard – Richard Marx

Human Touch – Bruce Springsteen
Fields of Gold – Sting

Yours? Mike
 
Hmm this was difficult. In no particular order:

I Just Wanna Be Okay - Ingrid Michaelson

I'll Follow You Down - Shinesdown

Heartburn - The Architects

Shine - Vienna Teng

Until My Last Breath - Tarja Turunen

I'm Your Man - Leonard Cohen

I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For - U2

Wild Child - Enya

Who Wants to Live Forever - Queen

and one guilty pleasure - Someone Like Me - Ylvis xD
 
This was very difficult, but in no particular order :-

Ravel - Bolero
Dee C Lee, - See the day
The Contours - Do you love me?
The Stranglers - Golden Brown
Simply Red - Holding back the years
Guns 'n Roses - Sweet child of mine
Wilson Pickett - Land of a 1000 dances
Frankie goes to Hollywood - Relax
Simon and Garfunkle - Cecilia

Prince Igor
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Warren G and Sissel Kyrkjebø

RRB
 
Of the top of my head and in no particular order

Bette midler ............... Stay with me
Etta James................ At last
Nina Simone .............. I wish I knew how it would feel to be free
Nina Simone ................I loves you porgy
Joe bonamassa and Beth hart .........I'll take care of you
Snow patrol............Chasing cars
The stranglers........Nice and sleazy
Johnny cash...."......Hurt
Roy Orbison........... Crying
Black sabbath...........Fairies wear boots
 
WOW this was really difficult! I could have written a hundred as well.

I'll start by saying that my top ten songs of all time are mostly Elton John songs. So, I will eliminate him and go from there:

Like the others, in no particular order:

1. U2 - Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
2. Bruce Springsteen - Thunder Road
3. Fleetwood Mac - Sara
4. The Eagles - Hotel California
5. The Beatles - Hey Jude
6. Paul McCartney & Wings - Silly Love Songs
7. Queen & David Bowie - Under Pressure
8. Rolling Stones - Tumblin' Dice
9. Journey - Don't Stop Believing
10. Tom Petty - American Girl
(I'm cheating..... )
11. Train - Drops of Jupiter
12. Edwin McCain - I'll Be
13. Genesis - No Reply at All
 
Couldn't possibly name them as there's so many, could list them tonight and change my mind by the end of the week ......................

Hotel California, Thunder Road, Freebird & November Rain would be up there somewhere.
 
Anything by kate bush
Songs by Andrew Lloyd Webber ...
It's all about the bass
Cats of course ...
I will have to keep thinking ....
Like noblehead so many ....
I will make a proper list ...

Great idea ....music is the gift of love ...play on ....

Adding .......
Elaine paige and Barbara Dickson .....I know him so well
Bonnie Tyler ...total eclipse of the heart ....
Don't cry for me Argentina ....Elaine Paige
 
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In no particular order ( and may well change tomorrow ).
Elvis Presley- In The Ghetto
The Stereophonics- Dakota
Frank Sinatra- That's Life
Bob Marley- Redemption Song
T-Rex- Ride a White Swan
Mumm-Ra- She Got You High
Beyonce- XO
Sammy Davis Jr- Mr Bojangles
The Cure- Close To Me
The Killers- Mr Brightside
 
Noooooooooo, not Chasing Cars! Everyone seems to do that at an open mic or karioke. Makes me stick my fingers in my ears and go la la la la la
 


Is now the time to say I saw the killers when they were supporting one of my favourite bands in the upstairs of a pub in LIncoln?
 
Ooh off the top of my head and in no particular order. ( and tbh I could come up with a dozen other top tens )

cortez the killer Neil Young
gala the waterboys
Somewhere, sometime in summertime simple minds
Temptation heaven 17
Nights in white satin moody blues
Rattlesnakes lloyd cole and the commotions
Tangerine Led Zeppelin
All the things she gave me the waterboys
We saw the deep I like trains
A light above descending British sea power
 
cold ethyl said:
Is now the time to say I saw the killers when they were supporting one of my favourite bands in the upstairs of a pub in LIncoln?
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Wow ! Must have been awesome. I have seen them but only in an arena.
 
dannyw said:
Wow ! Must have been awesome. I have seen them but only in an arena.
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Yeah they were good. For ages afterwards a few of my mates would go and see them and get guest list , even when they got bigger. They seem like nice guys.
 
OK . This was really difficult so.....

Procol Harem - Conquistador
The Beatles - Get Back
Labi Siffre - Something Inside So Strong
Blue Oyster Cult - Don't Fear the Reaper
Hazel O'Connor - Will You?
Foreigner - Juke Box Hero
Leonard Cohen - Democracy
Bruce Springsteen - American Skin (41 Shots)
Nickelback - How You Remind Me
Coldplay - The Scientist
 
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Hazel O'Connor--will you
I loved that song
 
I hope you don't mind Mike, but today I've come up with others, which are too good to exclude :-

Otis Redding - Sitting on the dock of the bay
Alexander o'Neall - Criticize
and Hearsay
Al Green - Lets stay together
Carly Simon - Why
UB40- Where did I go wrong
Fleetwood Mac,- Thunder only happens when it's raining
Phil Collins - Another day in Paradise
The Bangles - Eternal Flame
and Be with you

RRB
 
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This is my list. I couldn't just pick 10!

My top 5 are in order, the rest as they come. There are probably well over 2000 songs that I really like and another 3000+ that I would listen too in my collection.


1. Baby I'm For Real. The Originals
2. Tracks Of My Tears. Smokey Robinson
3. Tears Of A Clown. Smokey Robinson
4. Heaven Must Be Missing An Angel. Tavares
5. Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me) The Temptations
6. Always And Forever. Heatwave
7. Hey Girl, Don't Bother Me. The Tams
8. How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You) Junior Walker & The Allstars
9. Just A Little Misunderstanding. The Contours
10. Coldest Days Of My Life. The Chi-Lites
11. I Didn't Mean To Make You Mad. Harold Melvin & The Bluenotes.
12. This Old Heart Of Mine (Is Weak For You). The Isley Brothers.
13. Give Me Just A Little More Time. Chairman Of The Board.
14. Put Yourself In My Place. The Elgins
15. Frankie. Sister Sledge
16. Behind A Painted Smile. The Isley Brothers.
17. My First Mistake. The Chi-Lites.
18. Natural High. Bloodstone
19. You've Got Me Dangling On A String. Chairman Of The Board
20. I Kinda Miss You. The Manhattans.
21. Ms Grace. The Tymes.
22. The Love I Lost. Harold Melvin & The Bluenotes.
23. (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher And Higher. Jackie Wilson
24. Tired Of Being Alone. Al Green
25. La, La, La Means I Love you. The Delfonics
26. Hold On To My Love. David Ruffin.
27. Seven Days Is Too Long. Chuck Wood.
28. Running In And Out Of My Life. The Bar-Kay's.
29. Be Young, Be Foolish, Be Happy. The Tams.
30. Band Of Gold. Freda Payne.
31. Still Waters Run Deep (Peace & Love). The Four Tops.
32. Hey, There, Lonely Girl. Eddie Holman
33. Didn't I Blow Your Mind This Time. Detroit Emeralds.
34. Oh Girl. The Chi-Lites.
35. Let's Stay Together. Al Green.
36. Feel The Need In Me. Detroit Emeralds.
37. Time In A Bottle. David Ruffin.
38. Tell MeTomorrow. Smokey Robinson.
39. Time. Edwin Starr.
40. Ooh Child. The Five Stairsteps.
41. Toby. The Chi-Lites.
42. The Stylistics (anything by them and the The Temptations, et al)

If you haven't heard them, look em up!
Enjoy!
 
Well this is really showing my age because I hardly know any of the songs listed My own favourites would be mostly from the 50's 60's and early70's so many more than 10
 
AnnieC said:
Well this is really showing my age because I hardly know any of the songs listed My own favourites would be mostly from the 50's 60's and early70's so many more than 10
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I have posted two lots of ten and nosher has loads I'm sure Mike wont mind
 
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