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Top 10 songs ever

In honor of WXPN's countdown of the top 885 songs of all time, here is my vote for 10 best, or what it would've been had I voted on time:

1. Doors - Light My Fire
2. The Who - Won't Get Fooled Again
3. Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run
4. Derek and the Dominoes - Layla
5. Billy Joel - Piano Man
6. John Lennon - Imagine
7. Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
8. Dylan - Like a Rolling Stone
9. Beatles - Hey Jude
10. U2 - Sunday, Bloody Sunday

...and, man, I can't believe I have to leave out Romeo And Juliet, Orange Sky, Hallelujah, Bobby McGee, everything by Pearl Jam, everything by Zeppelin...

What are your lists? (Looking at other people's lists here might help.)

I might try to start a meme next week, once their top 100 is revealed...

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I love Pillar of Davidson, as you well know. But I distinguish between songs I like and good songs, and for me, PoD doesn't quite make the good songs list. The "songs I like" list would be at least half different, with PoD, "Rock & Roll Dreams" by Meat Loaf, probably "Under Pressure" by Queen, possibly "Birdhouse In Your Soul" by TMBG...

Massive Attack...that's techno, yes? I'm curious to hear if there's any techno at all on this list. XPN is as good as any station at cross-genre stuff (there was a blues song recorded in the 1920s on the countdown yesterday), but they probably have limits. I'm betting that Dr. Dre and LL Cool J will also manage to miss the top 885, though a Beastie Boys or two might make it.

And re Pink Floyd: Dogs is a great choice, though for me it would be third, behind Comfortably Numb and Shine On I-V. But they played Echoes yesterday! All of it!

That's a good point about good songs vs songs I like... I think Time is Running out and PoD might not have made it if I was thinking just of good songs. Though PoD would be really close to the list, it would probably be on the outside looking in.

Massive Attack is Trip-Hop, I.E. a mix between Hip Hop and Techno. Kind of like a more techno-heavy The Roots (who are awesome). I never really listen to XPN, or really any radio for that matter, but now I'm curious, I might have to give them a listen. Especially if they actually played Echoes in it's entirety. That takes balls.

As far as my list goes, though, I could seriously add another paragraph or two about why each of those songs rules. Maybe I will when I post it to my journal.

Also, when I was spell checking this entry just now with LJ, it doesn't have techno in it's dictionary. It suggestions:

Tech no, Tech-no, Technion, Teaching, Tech, Techs, Teched, Torching, Tench, Chino, Tachyon, Teach, Tenor, Etching, Tenon, Ten

I don't even know what tench, tenon, or teched means.

Massive Attack? Techno? What planet do YOU live on?

Just for that comment, I'm going to put a guide to Electronic music in my LJ just to show you how off you were. And, also, because I think I'm behind on my condescention quota, at least in the "Electronic Music Snobbery" category.

--Jeff

Eh. I just don't know techno, and I'm okay anyway with saying I just don't like it in general. And yes, Jeffy, you had a little something to do with that.

I wuv you!

Desh, I'm ashamed. Well, at least it didn't work the other way around and make me lose my ire regarding Pearl Jam.*

--Jeff

* With the exception of one song... "Even Flow". I don't know why, but it's a really good song, in spite of Eddie Vedder.

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