Your top 10 songs of all time?

[mervyn]

Oh, that changes by the hour, let alone by the day. But I do have some favourites....

Richard Thompson - 1952 Vincent Black Lightning
Neu! - Hallogallo
Al Stewart - Nostradamus
Fairport Convention - She Moves Through the Fair
Hawkwind - Spirit of the Age
The Monkees - Me and Magdalena
The Temptations - Papa Was a Rolling Stone (the album version, with the extra long intro)
David Sylvian - Orpheus
Bob Seger - Hollywood Nights
The Passions - I'm In Love With a German Filmstar

I'll probably have a new list by 9am...

Here’s a weird thing Quinny. I can’t tell you how much I hated the Monkees in the 60s. An ersatz poor copy of the Beatles, un-talented (imo), created by a couple of American TV producers. Would switch off immediately I heard them on the radio, and felt that way for the next 55 years. Then suddenly one day last year I heard Me and Magdelana, immediately loved it, play it regularly, and still can’t believe it’s my despised Monkees.

 

[Forest of Dean Green]

David sylvian! Ok, we can be friends

Me too! Loved Japan and Sylvian. He’s disappeared off the radar now sadly. And I see Let the Happiness In on your list too. What a song. Probably my fave too

 

[mervyn]

Love letters, Ketty Lester. Happens to be John Lennox’s all time favourite.
Chelsea Bridge, Gerry Mulligan. jazz favourite.
Donna Summer. I feel love.
Bowie, Letter to Hermione
Bowie, The man who sold the world.
Bonzo Dog Doo Dah band The intro and the outro. Always makes me laugh.
Summer Time Blues, Eddy Cochran.
Sweet Gene Vincent. Ian Dury.
Doctor Wu. Steely Dan.
Rachmaninov 7th.

 

[Quinny]

Here’s a weird thing Quinny. I can’t tell you how much I hated the Monkees in the 60s. An ersatz poor copy of the Beatles, un-talented (imo), created by a couple of American TV producers. Would switch off immediately I heard them on the radio, and felt that way for the next 55 years. Then suddenly one day last year I heard Me and Magdelana, immediately loved it, play it regularly, and still can’t believe it’s my despised Monkees.

I totally get your feelings, Mervyn, although I didn't mind some of their 60s stuff, even if they were a manufactured band (Nesmith was the only one of the four who was a genuine musician of any worth, given what he did outside the band). But their albums after Head (I know Head is very much a marmite album, but I liked it) were poor (especially their 80s Pool It!) and you got the feeling they were trying to cash in on The Monkees name. Badly.

But by the time Good Times! was recorded, they were old men, Davy had passed away, and it was an album written by the remaining three who seemed finally at peace with The Monkees: it is easily the best album they released. And I know Me and Magdelena wasn't written by them, but they made it their own.

 

[Quinny]

Me too! Loved Japan and Sylvian. He’s disappeared off the radar now sadly. And I see Let the Happiness In on your list too. What a song. Probably my fave too

He was interviewed on BBC 6Music a couple of months back - he's still around. Mind you, he sees himself more an artist than a musician (both visually and aurally) and believes in "looking forward" and not at his past works, so I doubt we'll see any more art-rock albums from him: he's been pretty much avante-garde musically since Dead Bees on a Cake (although the Manafon remixed album was pretty good).

 

[Butternubs]

He was interviewed on BBC 6Music a couple of months back - he's still around. Mind you, he sees himself more an artist than a musician (both visually and aurally) and believes in "looking forward" and not at his past works, so I doubt we'll see any more art-rock albums from him: he's been pretty much avante-garde musically since Dead Bees on a Cake (although the Manafon remixed album was pretty good).

Small metal gods video was hypnotic

 

[Ironman]

In no particular order:

The Dandy Warhols - Bohemian like you
Queen - Father to son
U2 - One tree hill
Travis - Driftwood
Radiohead - Bodysnatchers
Gomez - Get myself arrested
REM - World leader pretend
Michael Kiwanuka - Cold little heart
The Killers -All these things that I’ve done
The Smiths - How soon is now

Jeeze that was hard, but it’ll all change later when my memory kicks in.

 

[Lousy Pint]

Just listening to 'Lucky Man' by ELP.
I'm in floods!
Great story behind this track. Lake first wrote it when he was 12. The moog bit at the end was Emerson's first go with it. Awesome song!
RIP Keith and Greg

 

[Dorset Green]

1/ Like a Hurricane - Neil Young
2/ Moondance - Van Morrison
3/ Light my Fire - The Doors
4/ One - U2
5/ Great Skua - British Sea Power
6/ Pain - The War on Drugs
7/ No more Turning Away - Pink Floyd
8/ Waving Flags - British Sea Power
9/ Suppers Ready- Genesis
10/ Strangers - James

 

[Bernie Bernbaum]

Eclectic list there. 2 British Sea Power tracks, top stuff

 

[BDW]

After Glastonbury today any 10 by Cat Steven’s. Awesome performance by someone who has recovered from tuberculosis.

 

[Lev Yashin]

Like all before me my list would change constantly.
1, Who wants to live forever— Queen
2, The Rose—- Bette Midler
3, Fairytale of New York—- The Pogues
4, Fields of Athenrye———Various Artists
5, Sweet little sixteen ——Chuck Berry
6, Hello Mudder, Hello Fadder —— Alan Sherman
7, When I’m sixty four———The Beatles
8, It’s Now or Never———Elvis Presley
9, Mr Piano Man———Billy Joel
10, Bridge over troubled waters ——-Simon and Garfunkel
As you can tell from this selection I might be classed as ancient!

 

[Martin Brock]

Late to the party replying to this thread. In no particular order, off the top of my head:

The Song of the Western Men (aka Trelawney) - Rev Hawker
Semper Fidelis - John Philip Sousa
My Darling's Downsized - Chris Wood
A New England - Kirsty MacColl's version (I think even Billy Bragg might acknowledge her version was better)
Country Feedback - REM
Street Spirit (Fade Out) - Radiohead
Stars of Track and Field - Belle and Sebastian
How Soon Is Now? - The Smiths
100 Years of Solitude - Levellers
Gloria - Patti Smith

Honourable mention for Waltz #2 by Elliott Smith which just misses out.

M

 

[Fergy]

Madness - Bed and Breakfast Man
Squeeze - Up the Junction
The Jam - That’s Entertainment
Dexy’s Midnight Runners - Geno
Electronic - Getting Away With It
Style Council - Walls Come Tumbling Down
INXS - Never Tear Us Apart
Tears For Fears - Head Over Heals
The Cure - Just Like Heaven
The Verve - Lucky Man
The Smiths - The Boy With The Thorn In His Side

 

[Andy S]

Not in any particular order…

Beatles - In my life
Pink Floyd - Comfortably numb
Iron Butterfly - In a Gadda da Vida
John Farnham - You’re the voice
Phil Collins - Something in the air
Dave Brubeck - Take 5
AC/DC - Highway to Hell
Andre Rieu - Highland Cathedral
Richard Wagner - Ride of the Valkyries
Otis Redding - Dock of the Bay

I might be along with next week’s favourite Top Ten a bit later on! Even a top 50 wouldn’t have been easy!