Top 5 all time songs / Music Recommendations

[Schupac]

Hi everyone.  I really love music, and I am bored at work so I thought of what I think is a nice idea for a thread.

Post your top 5 all time songs 1-5.  People can read them, and if they know those songs, maybe they can post some similar music that you might like.  I really need to fill out my pandora list 

I went with songs and not top 5 bands because some bands have very varying sounds between albums, and you might not like everything by them.  So, here we go:


1.  Johnny Appleseed - The Mescaleros
2.  Hold On - Tom Waits
3.  If I ever Leave this World Alive - Flogging Molly
4.  Whenever you breathe Out, I breathe in - Modest Mouse
5.  Whiskey in the Jar - Thin Lizzy
 

[EarthBall]

Here's a list of my favorite songs of all-time (it's a little heavy on the oldies):

1) God Only Knows - The Beach Boys
2) The Weight - The Band
3) November Rain - Guns N' Roses
4) No Rain - Blind Melon
5) Bring It On Home To Me - The Animals

[EJPLAYA]

1- Here and Now - Luther Vandross
2- A Country Boy Can Survive - Hank Williams Jr.
3- La Grange - ZZ Top
4- The Blues Man - Alan Jackson
5- Endless Love (Luther and Mariah Carey Version)


How's that for an interesting and different mix. That's hard to get down to 5!

[Eja117]

Anything by Nodd Morris
Anything by the Beatles
Disarm - Smashing Pumpkins
Anything by Beethoven
The Star Spangled Banner at your first football game after you've been in France for 5 weeks

[SShorefan 4.0]

Bach's Brandenburg Concertos
Rolling Stones Give Me Shelter
John Lennon Imagine
U2 Bad
Herbie Hancock Cantaloupe Island

(2.5 minutes)

[gustusias]

I'm an older guy, but here goes in no particular order and there are truly so many wonderful, wonderful songs deserving merit. A sew great ones....

You are my sunshine.
Blowing in the wind.
Blackbird by the Beatles
White Christmas by the Drifters, Clyde MacPhatter lead vocalist.
Spanish Harlem by Aretha Franklin

[RAcker]

Paranoid Android - Radiohead
God Only Knows - Beach Boys
Do You Realize?? - The Flaming Lips
Yesterday - The Beatles
Baba O' Reilly  The Who

Just off the top of my head.  I'm sure there are many others upon further thought that I might substitute.

[jackson_34]

at the present for me;

The Beatles - Yesterday
Rolling Stones - Under My Thumb
Jeff Buckley - Last Goodbye
Elliott Smith - Can't Make a Soung
Tom Waits - Ol' 55

and some fairly new songs im really liking at the moment

Bon Iver - Brackett, WI (anyone else liking Bon Iver at the moment?)
Telefon Tel Aviv - The Birds
M83 - Kim & Jessie
Animal Collective - Bluish
Tame Impala - Half Full Glass of Wine (Good upcoming band that I think alot of you will like; Think along the lines of Cream). www.myspace.com/tameimpala

[indeedproceed]

ranking top 5 songs is pretty hard....

but I will say maybe my favorite song of all time is "You got me" by the roots

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBBBhQUl99w

[connerhenry43]

comfortably numb=pink floyd
black steel in the hour of chaos-public enemy
rearviewmirror-pearl jam
sympathy for the devil-rolling stones
welcome to the terrordome=public enemy

as always, i am sure i am forgetting something.

[jackson_34]

ranking top 5 songs is pretty hard....

but I will say maybe my favorite song of all time is "You got me" by the roots

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBBBhQUl99w

Love that song, one of my favourite drum parts of all-time the way ?uestlove breaks down the beat after the third verse... just amazing to think its done by a human not a drum machine.

[Slick]

at the present for me;

The Beatles - Yesterday
Rolling Stones - Under My Thumb
Jeff Buckley - Last Goodbye
Elliott Smith - Can't Make a Soung
Tom Waits - Ol' 55

and some fairly new songs im really liking at the moment

Bon Iver - Brackett, WI (anyone else liking Bon Iver at the moment?)
Telefon Tel Aviv - The Birds
M83 - Kim & Jessie
Animal Collective - Bluish
Tame Impala - Half Full Glass of Wine (Good upcoming band that I think alot of you will like; Think along the lines of Cream). www.myspace.com/tameimpala

HUGE Bon Iver fan, and of course that Dark Was The Night comp (best ever?). His new stuff is fantastic, have you heard blood bank? Great list.

[jackson_34]

at the present for me;

The Beatles - Yesterday
Rolling Stones - Under My Thumb
Jeff Buckley - Last Goodbye
Elliott Smith - Can't Make a Soung
Tom Waits - Ol' 55

and some fairly new songs im really liking at the moment

Bon Iver - Brackett, WI (anyone else liking Bon Iver at the moment?)
Telefon Tel Aviv - The Birds
M83 - Kim & Jessie
Animal Collective - Bluish
Tame Impala - Half Full Glass of Wine (Good upcoming band that I think alot of you will like; Think along the lines of Cream). www.myspace.com/tameimpala

HUGE Bon Iver fan, and of course that Dark Was The Night comp (best ever?). His new stuff is fantastic, have you heard blood bank? Great list.

Firstly welcome to Celticsblog!
Yer, dark was the night is just fantastic, there's basically no song I don't enjoy off it. Blood bank is great aswell, I've listened once or twice so I'll have to make some time to really have a good listen over.

[nickagneta]

Five All-Time Favorite Songs

Come Together - either Beatles or Aerosmith version
Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
Devil Went Down to Georgia - Charlie Daniels Band
Musta Got Lost - J Geils Band live version with Peter Wolf intro lead-in
Business - Eminem

Favorite Holiday Song

Carol of the Bells - Trans Siberian Orchestra featuring Metallica

Favorie Song by Favorite Artist

Jesus of Suburbia  - Green Day

[kenmaine]

Old-timer here. Could list hundreds, but off the top of my head-

Maybe- the Chantels
When a Man Loves a Woman- Percy Sledge
Friday on my Mind- Easybeats
Brainwashed- the Kinks
Here Comes the Night- Them

Couldn't pick one particular Beatles song, or Phil Spector production, but there are dozens.