Topic: RAWK’s own top 100 fave songs of all time

[Sudden Death Draft Loser]

Murmur's my favourite as it happens but methinks you're joshing.

 

Serious, they got dull and formulaic after that

[Timbo's Goals]

Would have loved to have gotten involved, but frankly it's an impossible task to select a top 10/20/100 etc

Certainly does seem to be for most in the thread. That said, there's many in the thread who felt the same but have given it a good go. As it is I'm lucky I don't have that problem. I can look back through my 30 and I know there's only another 20 or so which vie with those I've listed as my all time favourites. There are thousands more I guess which I love - even more now that I've listened to some of the recommendations in here [including a couple from The Fall you'll be pleased to know Filler lad  ] - but I don't think any displace the 50 or so I'm fixed on. Mind you as I have said things can and do change from time to time.

[Timbo's Goals]

Serious, they got dull and formulaic after that

Life and How to Live it  - dull. Yeah sure 

[Chip Evans]

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Which is your favourite REM album Chip?

Document or Murmur

But.... Monster is the most underrated multi million selling album of all time. I have a massive soft spot for it. I turned 13 the week after it came out, it was everywhere. 

[nuts100]

I'd have a go
But worried what the RAWK's music snobs would think 
There's going to stuff that will cause complete derision - do I want that 

Even my family state I'm stuck in the 80's so it won't end well

[Sudden Death Draft Loser]

I'd have a go
But worried what the RAWK's music snobs would think 
There's going to stuff that will cause complete derision - do I want that 

Even my family state I'm stuck in the 80's so it won't end well

as long as you don't chose Come on Eileen

[rob1966]

Needed something to keep me going on the execide bike before and I remembered Grendel by Marillion, not listened to this in years - epic 17 minutes.

[nuts100]

as long as you don't chose Come on Eileen

Lol

More like kraftwerk depech mode and songs of that nature. Too scared now 😂

[SamAteTheRedAcid]

as long as you don't chose Come on Eileen

It's a fucking belting tune, not Kevin's fault you've been to too many weddings.

[rob1966]

Lol

More like kraftwerk depech mode and songs of that nature. Too scared now 😂

Kraftwerk, Jean Michel Jarre, Tubeway Army, Gary Numan, Depeche Mode and Yazoo all featured for me as a teenager before I settled in to Rock and Metal

[nuts100]

Kraftwerk, Jean Michel Jarre, Tubeway Army, Gary Numan, Depeche Mode and Yazoo all featured for me as a teenager before I settled in to Rock and Metal

I haven’t seen Laura brannigan yet or Giorgio Moroder yet. It won’t end well 

[Elmo!]

I haven’t seen Laura brannigan yet or Giorgio Moroder yet. It won’t end well 

I'm liking the sound of your list. Get it posted! 

[rob1966]

I haven’t seen Laura brannigan yet or Giorgio Moroder yet. It won’t end well 

You're going to post the same list my wife would be posting 😁

[Zeppelin]

Ok, as requested, here's my list again with (I hope) youtune vids embedded
1. Supper's ready - Genesis

Had to choose this - it's like 6 songs in 1 for a start and the creativity and musicianship is mind blowing. What a shame Genesis ended up the way they did!

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2. Since I've been loving you - Led Zeppelin

First band I ever saw live, nearly 50 years ago. Still the best. Hard to choose one, but this showcases Jimmy's guitar and Robert's voice

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3. Close to the edge - Yes

Again, unbelievable musicianship and stunning changes of mood and pace. I never tire of listening to this.

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4. Who knows where the time goes - Fairport Convention

Sandy Denny wrote this when she was 19. To my ears, the best English singer ever...and Fairport are still touring. Don't miss them if you get the chance.

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5. Comfortably numb - Pink Floyd

That guitar solo.

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6. Sympathy for the devil - The Rolling Stones

The Stones at their best.

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7. Me and Bobby McGhee - Janis Joplin

Janis sings 'I'd trade all of my tomorrows for one more yesterday' - she was dead before the song was released. It still chokes me up when she sings that line.

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8. Tangled up in blue - Bob Dylan

How to choose one Bob Dylan song? 'Blood on the tracks' is probably his greatest album and this is a stand out track but I could have chosen any of 20 songs

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9. Anarchy in the UK - The Sex Pistols

I remember seeing the Pistols do this on 'So it goes' and the venom with which Johnny Rotten sang it was palpable - the audience looked absolutely stunned. Mesmerising.

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10. Thunder Road - Bruce Springsteen

Classic Bruce - cars and girls and a great story.

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11. Strawberry Fields Forever - The Beatles

Again - how do you choose 1 Beatles song?

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12. London Calling - The Clash

If there was one band I wish I'd seen live it'd be the Clash. Their early stuff was so exciting and they managed to retain that when they became a bit more polished with this classic.

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13. Cousin Jack - Show of Hands

Steve Knightley has been called 'the gravel voiced spokesman of the rural poor' and this is probably the best example of his storytelling in a tale of emigration from his native Devon.

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14. Let there be rock - Drive By Truckers

The Truckers are such an underrated band. I love this song - a story about Lynyrd Skynyrd.

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15. Voodoo chile - Jimi Hendrix

Another posthumous release. Incredible guitar playing - what would he have become if he'd not died so tragically?

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16. The Killing Moon - Echo and the Bunnymen

Ian McCulloch used to sit a few rows in front of me in the Main Stand - I never did get the courage to speak to him - I could have told him how good this song is, but i suspect he'd already know!

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17. Oliver's Army - Elvis Costello

A great song from a fellow Red. I could have chosen one of many.

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18. Beeswing - Richard Thompson

I couldn't decide whether to go for acoustic or electric for RT. He's just about my favourite electric guitarist, but this song showcases both his songwriting and his acoustic playing. He's also a really funny man when you see him in concert.

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19. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

The song that invented Heavy Metal? Terrifying.

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20. Fortunate Son - Creedence Clearwater Revival

John Fogerty wrote so many great songs. The first album I bought was 'Cosmo's Factory'. This is actually off 'Willy and the poorboys' and is a great song from the Vietnam War era.

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21. Hard loving man - Deep Purple

'Deep Purple in Rock' is one of my favourite albums - I love the guitar freak out at the end.

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22. The green fields of France - The Men They Couldn't Hang

I spent a couple of holidays touring the Somme area of France and this song really sums up the futility and waste of young lives in the Great War.

The video for this is my own creation

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23. Ghost love score - Nightwish

You really need to listen to the live version from Wacken 2013 to hear this at its best - with the amazing Floor Jansen on vocals, I always get goosebumps when she hits that note at the end. Fantastic.

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24. The last English King - Big Big Train

If ever a band deserved greater recognition it's these guys. Wonderful musicians and some great songs.

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25. Never buy the Sun - Billy Bragg

Billy says it all

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[Timbo's Goals]

It's a fucking belting tune.

Got to agree entirely Sam lad.

I invested a lot of time into Dexys back in the day inspired by Van’s Celtic quests and believing Dexys might provide some further valuable musical inroads into the genre. Needless to say it proved pretty much fruitless as they didn’t have any other stuff that for me came close to matching their two classics.

That said, the amazing Geno and Eileen remain high water marks to grace anybody’s top 50 faves. Moreover, the fact they are so far above the level of the rest of Dexys and Kev Rowlands song pantheon is testament to just how difficult the creation of truly great songs is and how much we should value and cherish those true greats who have proven down the years that they can and have managed that elusive goal.

[Timbo's Goals]

Document or Murmur

But.... Monster is the most underrated multi million selling album of all time. I have a massive soft spot for it. I turned 13 the week after it came out, it was everywhere. 

I do like Document but not a favourite. My lad bought Monster when it came out but I never got into it for whatever reason. Must give it another go I guess.

[Timbo's Goals]

Cheers Zep. Great stuff. Adds some real class and makes it a damn sight easier to hear your faves.

 

[Chip Evans]

I do like Document but not a favourite. My lad bought Monster when it came out but I never got into it for whatever reason. Must give it another go I guess.

I love the production on Document, it's a great sounding album - and has great singles. First of the 6(?) Scott Litt albums too - he just fit them perfectly at the time.

Think filler will correct me if I'm wrong - but there's a theory that the first Sonic Youth album you hear will always be your favourite Sonic Youth album and all your other listening to them will be biased by that. Think REM are similar for me - when I was getting into music they were the biggest band on earth. I think all my listening to them is biased a bit towards that golden radio singles period from 87 to 95. They also had about 4 careers.  Love them probably more now than I did at any point.

[tubby]

There's an REM thread knocking about on RAWK somewhere.

[red mongoose]

Ah it was very sudden and sad, when it happened a few of our old crowd got together for night and listened through some of the old albums with a few drinks etc was a great night reminiscing.
Particular favs of mine are Trouble Come Down, O, Suffering, Criminal Justice by Satchel and Battle Flag and Fires Comin Down by Pigeonhed.

Yes! That's a beauty, on the "Beautiful Girls" soundtrack.

Timbo, I hope your heel and thumbs are healing nicely. Great shout on "Into Your Arms" on your list. Give this one a spin, pal.

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[nuts100]

You're going to post the same list my wife would be posting 😁

Does she have the squeeze, the skids, big country on it. If she does I swear I’ve never met her 

[Sudden Death Draft Loser]

I haven’t seen Laura brannigan yet or Giorgio Moroder yet. It won’t end well 

Nothing wrong with the occasional bit of Giorgio Moroder

"I Feel Love" is a song by Donna Summer. Produced and co-written by Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2qI6UDD2uQ

[Timbo's Goals]

Timbo,  Give this one a spin, pal.

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Just did Mongo. Loved it. Not heard it before. Superb. The soul, the intensity, that voice. 

[Timbo's Goals]

There's an REM thread knocking about on RAWK somewhere.

You're right Tubs. Here it is. A great thread too. Black and White pauls fave thread  bet he's like a pig in shit/Arabian sand dunes just now

https://www.redandwhitekop.com/forum/index.php?topic=267127.0

[Seebab]

Great list Timbo though I was definitely expecting you to put one of the Astral Weeks songs in there. Madame George perhaps? Hope you haven't gone off Van the Man after his recent antics 

[Kenny's Jacket]

It's a fucking belting tune, not Kevin's fault you've been to too many weddings.

Here here 

[Sudden Death Draft Loser]

It's a fucking belting tune, not Kevin's fault you've been to too many weddings.

It's really not.

Been to hardly any weddings, the types I hang out with generally don't do weddings.

[Kenny's Jacket]

It's really not.

Been to hardly any weddings, the types I hang out with generally don't do weddings.

I bet you dont like wham either
smh

[Crosby Nick]

I’m with Sam and Kenny here.

[jillcwhomever]

I missed the bit about putting on a link, so here goes, also revised my list somewhat. Having read Timbo's big post I found myself regretting my effort somewhat as I found it a really difficult thing to do somehow. I just think with music it's such a personal thing, which is as much about how you feel on a particular day. I change my mind completely about my taste anyway, yet if I was choosing my fav ten books I would find that quite easy to do. Music on the other hand I feel is much more difficult. But thanks for the idea Timbo.

Chuck Berry: Johnny Be Goode

https://youtu.be/T38v3-SSGcM

King Crimson: In the Court of the Crimson King

https://youtu.be/ukgraQ-xkp4

Steely Dan: Midnite Cruiser

https://youtu.be/GD_DyoB4Cjs

Simon and Garfunkel: My Little Town

https://youtu.be/dPZRDWLujsQ

Genesis: Ripples

https://youtu.be/gJa9gEUa0To

The Beatles: Oh! Darling

https://youtu.be/9BznFjbcBVs

Fleetwood Mac: Tusk

https://youtu.be/EmuBOfurv3o

Jackson C Frank

https://youtu.be/f4it9vK6G7o

[rob1966]

You're right Tubs. Here it is. A great thread too. Black and White pauls fave thread  bet he's like a pig in shit/Arabian sand dunes just now

https://www.redandwhitekop.com/forum/index.php?topic=267127.0

If you are referring to the footy then no, he's devastated.

[rob1966]

Does she have the squeeze, the skids, big country on it. If she does I swear I’ve never met her 

Nope, her taste doesn't stretch to those.

[jillcwhomever]

If you are referring to the footy then no, he's devastated.

Is he okay? I'd noticed he hadn't been on since the announcement.

[rob1966]

Is he okay? I'd noticed he hadn't been on since the announcement.

Had a couple of PM's off him this week, he's kicking about the site still. Its got to be hard for people like him, he stopped going when Ashley shit all over Keegan and the day he dreamed of turned into a nightmare. There's a lot of name calling being thrown at Newcastle fans and its not on, as far as I'm concerned, to tar all Geordies with the same brush. Be a shame if we lost him from the site, he's a good lad.

[jillcwhomever]

Had a couple of PM's off him this week, he's kicking about the site still. Its got to be hard for people like him, he stopped going when Ashley shit all over Keegan and the day he dreamed of turned into a nightmare. There's a lot of name calling being thrown at Newcastle fans and its not on, as far as I'm concerned, to tar all Geordies with the same brush. Be a shame if we lost him from the site, he's a good lad.

I totally agree with you on that, seen a few Newcastle fans saying similar things and it's not easy. I hope he stays around anyway. Sorry Timbo will stop now.

[Six Beardy]

[flashhttp://I Heard It Through The Grapevine – Creedence

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I daresay it constitutes a sacrilege to select any version of this fantastic song over Marvin’s classic. Maybe so, but for me it’s always been Creedence’s eleven minute long bass overdrive take. Hypnotic. Sorry Marvin purists.

I'm with you there. Marvin's Grapevine is one of the greatest pop/soul singles ever and you'd think it'd be an impossible song to cover, yet Creedence really pulled it off, it builds and builds and builds to the point  you get so lost in the groove it take on it's own life, becoming it's own entity that you forget it was ever Marvin's song.  (Fogerty pronouncing 'heard' as 'hoid' slighty irritates me though haha)

Oh and the Slits version was great too.

[Ray K]

I haven’t seen Laura brannigan yet or Giorgio Moroder yet. It won’t end well 

I'm just assuming that Giorgio Moroder and Phil Oakey's Together In Electric Dreams will be  the consensus pick for #1.

[Lastrador]

It's really not.

Been to hardly any weddings, the types I hang out with generally don't do weddings.

Your mom and cats?

[nuts100]

I'm just assuming that Giorgio Moroder and Phil Oakey's Together In Electric Dreams will be  the consensus pick for #1.

I'm going to try an put it together this weekend - there's just a lot of stuff that people will shake their head at. But it's also a list that has immense sentimentality as my father and grandad who are both deceased were fantastic musicians. My grandad until his death still taught music, played in big bands, played on the QE2 and The Tower Ballroom and in orchestras. My old man was a folk singer, had a beautiful voice and played in the North West. Pity we were estranged and I never really got to see him sing before he died of Dementia and Lewy Parkinsons. But I'm kind of stuck in the past 

[Six Beardy]

I'm just assuming that Giorgio Moroder and Phil Oakey's Together In Electric Dreams will be  the consensus pick for #1.

Tssk it's a classic and a great fckin song but personally I'd go with Son Of My Father or No 1 Song In Heaven above it.