Top 10 Best Songs

[Purron]

We seem to enjoy the top 10 theme, so how about a discussion of the best songs ever written?

Here's the best 500 from Rolling Stone for reference: 500 Greatest Songs of All Time | Rolling Stone

Can't argue much with their number 1.

Bob Dylan - Like A Rolling Stone (ORIGINAL) - YouTube

Love to hear your choices!

 

[73ss454]

I'll start out with 5 quick and then 5 more tomorrow. (heh)


Crystals - Da Doo Ron Ron [Very Good(-) quality / No mpg4 resolution] - YouTube

 

[73ss454]

Crystals - He's A Rebel [HD video / Good(+) picture quality] - YouTube

 

[73ss454]

Dion - I Wonder Why - YouTube

 

[73ss454]

So Young : Kid Kyle and "The Students" - YouTube

 

[73ss454]

Next month DW and I are married 40 years, this was our wedding song. 2 of my favorite singers singing it here.


Kenny Vance & Johnny Maestro - "Let It Be Me" - YouTube

 

[Purron]

Sinatra. Great song, great singer. 'One For My Baby'(And One more for The Road) Frank Sinatra+Show Sign Off - YouTube

 

[okapi]

No special order-1 doors Light My Fire 2 Traffic Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys 3 Pink Floyd Comfortably Numb 4 Stones Can"t You Hear Me Knocking 5 Hendrix All Along The Watchtower 6 Yes Close To The Edge 7 Beatles Friends And Lovers 8 Al Steward Time Passages 9 Jethro Tull Songs From The Wood 10 Blind Faith Sea Of Joy.

 

[Purron]

This one. Joni Mitchell - Blue - YouTube

 

[MDJO]

This one. Joni Mitchell - Blue - YouTube

Yes, almost any Joni song could be on the list

 

[JOHNNIE36]

Super Sport, congrats on your upcoming 40th anniversary. We are celebrating our 40th this Saturday. Just having a family dinner. Nothing fancy. My vote for best song is Unchained Melody by the Righteous Brothers.

 

[racy]

Dylan and Cash.
Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash - The Girl From North Country - YouTube

 

[racy]

One more, a Neil Young song by Annie Lennox.
Annie Lennox - Don't Let It Bring U Down - YouTube

 

[target2019]

Imagine - John Lennon

 

[racy]

Last one, The Band and The Weight:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xicsALcqoN8

 

[73ss454]

Hard to pick only 10 songs, I could go on all week.


The Ronettes - Be My Baby 1965 Live TV Footage - YouTube

 

[73ss454]

I always loved this song.

IMAGINATION ~ The Quotations 1961.wmv - YouTube

 

[73ss454]

LEGENDS OF DOO WOP - OH ROSEMARIE - YouTube

 

[73ss454]

Richie Rosato My Own True Love - YouTube

 

[73ss454]

The end.


Legends Of DooWop - Chapel Bells - YouTube

 

[Purron]

Awesome song done by just about everyone on the planet. Here's my favorite version.

Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah - YouTube

 

[Purron]

Hard to pick only 10 songs, I could go on all week.

Go for it

 

[HFWR]

In no particular order, and might be different tomorrow:

Whipping Post - Allman Bros at Fillmore East
My God - Jethro Tull Aqualung
Speak To Me/Breathe/On The Run/Time/The Great Gig In The Sky - Pink Floyd DSOTM
Boys of Summer - Don Henley
One of These Nights - Eagles
These Days - Jackson Browne
Who Needs The Peace Corps - The Mothers of Invention
Day Tripper - the Beatles
Losing A Whole Year - Third Eye Blind
Ina-Gadda-Da-Vida - Iron Butterfly

 

[HFWR]

In no particular order, and might be different tomorrow:

Whipping Post - Allman Bros at Fillmore East
My God - Jethro Tull Aqualung
Speak To Me/Breathe/On The Run/Time/The Great Gig In The Sky - Pink Floyd DSOTM
Boys of Summer - Don Henley
One of These Nights - Eagles
These Days - Jackson Browne
Who Needs The Peace Corps - The Mothers of Invention
Day Tripper - the Beatles
Losing A Whole Year - Third Eye Blind
Ina-Gadda-Da-Vida - Iron Butterfly

Today's Top Ten List:

Monster - Steppenwolf
Endless Enigma - Emerson, Lake, and Palmer
Down The Road - Kansas
Jesus Loves Me (But He Can't Stand You) - Austin Lounge Lizards
Illegal Smile - John Prine
Carry On - CSNY, 4-Way Street (Live Version)
Too Rolling Stoned - Robin Trower
Words of Earnest - Goose Creek Symphony
Within You Without You - The Beatles
God Bless The Conspiracy - McKendree Spring

"God Bless The Conspiracy " McKendree Spring - YouTube

 

[David1961]

My top 10 changes every day, but the song "Watching The Wheels" by John Lennon is my early retirement anthem. Love the line "No longer riding on the merry-go-round - I just had to let it go"