Sandor 797 Posted October 15, 2006 Share Posted October 15, 2006 Making these lists can give serious reason for a major headache. I had to leave out literally HUNDREDS of great songs which "just didn't make it...". They were all worthy of gaining a top 10 spot it seems. Nonetheless; after some pondering here it is: my personal top 10's from the 60's, 70's, 80's and 90's. The 00's only feauture 5 songs, since the decade is far from over and many songs haven't had a far time to develop so to speak. The 60's1. Bridge Over Troubled Water, Simon And Garfunkel2. Suzanne, Leonard Cohen3. Nights In White Satin, The Moody Blues4. Yesterday, The Beatles5. Stand By Me, Ben E. King6. Crying, Roy Orbison7. A Whiter Shade Of Pale, Procol Harum8. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction, The Rolling Stones9. A Space Oddity, David Bowie10. What A Wonderful World, Louis ArmstrongThe 70's1. Stairway To Heaven, Led Zeppelin2. Your Song, Elton John3. Imagine, John Lennon4. Riders On The Storm, The Doors5. Angie, The Rolling Stones6. Bohemian Rhapsody, Queen7. Let It Be, The Beatles8. Knockin On Heaven's Door, Bob Dylan9. Hotel California, The Eagles10. Paradise By The Dashboard Light, Meat LoafThe 80's1. With Or Without You, U22. Billie Jean, Michael Jackson3. Goodnight Saigon, Billy Joel4. Purple Rain, Prince5. The River, Bruce Springsteen6. In The Air Tonight, Phil Colllins7. Africa, Toto8. Brothers In Arms, Dire Straits9. Mama, Genesis10. Careless Whisper, George MichaelThe 90's1. Nothing Else Matters, Metallica2. Losing My Religion, R.E.M.3. One, U24. Are You Gonna Go My Way, Lenny Kravitz5. Wonderwall, Oasis6. Creep, Radiohead7. Under The Bridge, Red Hot Chili Peppers8. Angels, Robbie Williams9. November Rain, Guns N' Roses10. Unfinished Sympathy, Massive AttackThe 00's1. Fallin', Alicia Keys2. Clocks, Coldplay3. Ordinary People, John Legend4. Everybody's Changing, Keane5. If I Ain't Got You, Alicia Keys Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted October 15, 2006 Share Posted October 15, 2006 A very good list untill we get to the naughties...1. Fallin', Alicia Keys2. Clocks, Coldplay3. Ordinary People, John Legend4. Everybody's Changing, Keane5. If I Ain't Got You, Alicia keysNot a single memorable song on there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandor 797 Posted October 15, 2006 Author Share Posted October 15, 2006 You're quite wrong Stefan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeinAR 1,949 Posted October 15, 2006 Share Posted October 15, 2006 Making these lists can give serious reason for a major headache. I had to leave out literally HUNDREDS of great songs which "just didn't make it...". They were all worthy of gaining a top 10 spot it seems. Nonetheless; after some pondering here it is: my personal top 10's from the 60's, 70's, 80's and 90's. The 00's only feauture 5 songs, since the decade is far from over and many songs haven't had a far time to develop so to speak. The 60's1. Bridge Over Troubled Water, Simon And Garfunkel2. Suzanne, Leonard Cohen3. Nights In White Satin, The Moody Blues4. Yesterday, The Beatles5. Stand By Me, Ben E. King6. Crying, Roy Orbison7. A Whiter Shade Of Pale, Procol Harum8. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction, The Rolling Stones9. A Space Oddity, David Bowie10. What A Wonderful World, Louis ArmstrongThe 70's1. Stairway To Heaven, Led Zeppelin2. Your Song, Elton John3. Imagine, John Lennon4. Riders On The Storm, The Doors5. Angie, The Rolling Stones6. Bohemian Rhapsody, Queen7. Let It Be, The Beatles8. Knockin On Heaven's Door, Bob Dylan9. Hotel California, The Eagles10. Paradise By The Dashboard Light, Meat LoafThe 80's1. With Or Without You, U22. Billie Jean, Michael Jackson3. Goodnight Saigon, Billy Joel4. Purple Rain, Prince5. The River, Bruce Springsteen6. In The Air Tonight, Phil Colllins7. Africa, Toto8. Brothers In Arms, Dire Straits9. Mama, Genesis10. Careless Whisper, George MichaelThe 90's1. Nothing Else Matters, Metallica2. Losing My Religion, R.E.M.3. One, U24. Are You Gonna Go My Way, Lenny Kravitz5. Wonderwall, Oasis6. Creep, Radiohead7. Under The Bridge, Red Hot Chili Peppers8. Angels, Robbie Williams9. November Rain, Guns N' Roses10. Unfinished Sympathy, Massive AttackThe 00's1. Fallin', Alicia Keys2. Clocks, Coldplay3. Ordinary People, John Legend4. Everybody's Changing, Keane5. If I Ain't Got You, Alicia Keysfor the most part all I can say about your choices are ugh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted October 15, 2006 Share Posted October 15, 2006 Who is right then, the majority of the audience who voted fore this via a TEXT message?So far James Blunts 3 singles are more memorable then your selections, albeit for the wrong reasons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandor 797 Posted October 15, 2006 Author Share Posted October 15, 2006 We have a secret James Blunt admirer on board! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted October 15, 2006 Share Posted October 15, 2006 James Blunt should be shot in the face for Goodbye My Lover! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandor 797 Posted October 15, 2006 Author Share Posted October 15, 2006 That's the second person this week you feel should be 'shot in the face'... What kind of a creep are you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romão 2,274 Posted October 15, 2006 Share Posted October 15, 2006 You´re redeemed in my eyes, Roald, you chose Brothers in Arms Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted October 15, 2006 Share Posted October 15, 2006 That's the second person this week you feel should be 'shot in the face'... What kind of a creep are you? Urgh...the grotesk lyrics, the grating highpitched squeel that sounds like a 16 year old girl losing her virginity to a black man. The stilted and overdramatic delivery.Even in my present state I can listen to songs about heartbreak and sorrow, and even find some solace in them, but this...Shot...in...the...face! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romão 2,274 Posted October 15, 2006 Share Posted October 15, 2006 I hate James Blunt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted October 15, 2006 Share Posted October 15, 2006 I feel your pain and anger brother! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeinAR 1,949 Posted October 15, 2006 Share Posted October 15, 2006 I like James Blunt, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandor 797 Posted October 15, 2006 Author Share Posted October 15, 2006 For some reason, I kinda like James Blunt. His vocals remind me of a younger Chris DeBurgh and the simplicity of his songs add a sense of innocence to his songs.Yet; I heard the entire album and in the end, the simplicity that graces his singles, kills the album. With such a limited arsenal of chords under his belt, and basically the same arrangment over and over again, every song eventually feels like a rewriting of the same idea.Still; two songs stand out: the opening High and the closing No Bravery, which documents the horrors Blunt experienced while stationed as a soldier in Servia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted October 15, 2006 Share Posted October 15, 2006 which documents the horrors Blunt experienced while stationed as a soldier in Servia.Were he should have been shot in the face!So let's move on from James Blunt, there must be more interesting artists to talk about on a John Williams MB? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin 2 Posted October 15, 2006 Share Posted October 15, 2006 This is one of my favorite songs.And it's new too! Justin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ollie 1,059 Posted October 15, 2006 Share Posted October 15, 2006 Roald has some decent songs listed, although I don't care about his choices for the 90's and 00's cause most popular music went to crap then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted October 15, 2006 Share Posted October 15, 2006 You are just old.Did I not prove logically that the 90's was the best decade for pop music? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ollie 1,059 Posted October 15, 2006 Share Posted October 15, 2006 Nope, you proved why it was poor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted October 15, 2006 Share Posted October 15, 2006 Have we become sooo old, you and I, that we have outlived our usefullness? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ollie 1,059 Posted October 15, 2006 Share Posted October 15, 2006 Speak for yourself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted October 15, 2006 Share Posted October 15, 2006 Would that constitue...a joke? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hitch 57 Posted October 15, 2006 Share Posted October 15, 2006 LOL No! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandor 797 Posted October 15, 2006 Author Share Posted October 15, 2006 To get back to the 00's: perhaps my choices may leave you guys cold, but wait a few years and see what songs are still being played on a regular basis. Critics thought Elton John's Your Song was a terrible song, a fluke, and see how well remembered it is until this day?Perhaps something like Christina Aquilera's Beautiful (actually a Linda Perry song) has great potential to be a modern classic. Or Gavin DeGraw's Follow Through (great song!). Keane's Somewhere Only We Know, Coldplay's The Scientist, Outkast's Hey Ya,... Great songs ladies and gentleman...Although I must admit the decade so far seems far less great than the 60's, 70's, 80's or 90's... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romão 2,274 Posted October 15, 2006 Share Posted October 15, 2006 Has there been any new band in the last 10 years that will leave a lasting legacy 20 years from now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandor 797 Posted October 15, 2006 Author Share Posted October 15, 2006 Perhaps Coldplay or Keane. Remember these guys have released just a few albums and who knows what the future has in store for them. U2 or The Beatles didn't really get going until a few albums. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted October 15, 2006 Share Posted October 15, 2006 Perhaps something like Christina Aquilera's Beautiful (actually a Linda Perry song) Linda Perry is doing to much songs, and they are pretty much about the same thing.Does Pink even really excist of is she a Linda Perry concept? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandor 797 Posted October 15, 2006 Author Share Posted October 15, 2006 It's funny how much you know... Or are you a fast Googler? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted October 15, 2006 Share Posted October 15, 2006 I'm exposed to pop music on 3FM for some 7 hours and 25 minutes a day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Breathmask 555 Posted October 15, 2006 Share Posted October 15, 2006 That sucks, doesn't it?- Marc, who has to hear the same crap at work all day over and over and over and over again... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted October 15, 2006 Share Posted October 15, 2006 It's better then the endless droning of printing machines Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Breathmask 555 Posted October 15, 2006 Share Posted October 15, 2006 Sure, but I get so annoyed when I walk in and hear the same song I heard 10 times on the day before and just know I'm going to be hearing that another 10 times on that day. And half of it is shit anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted October 15, 2006 Share Posted October 15, 2006 On 3FM it's not too bad, though I got sick of Coldplay's Talk really really fast.Of course Roald loves that shit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Breathmask 555 Posted October 15, 2006 Share Posted October 15, 2006 It's either QMusic or Radio 538 where I work. Both are guilty of playing the same crap all day long. QMusic has this thing on Saturday where you can call in and choose what song is played. "Today, you decide what you listen to!" they say. Then of course, everyone calls in to hear the same old rubbish they've been playing all week. Yuck.- Marc, who's glad when he can get out and turn on his iPod with good music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted October 15, 2006 Share Posted October 15, 2006 You actually have a job now?I thought you were 13? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Breathmask 555 Posted October 15, 2006 Share Posted October 15, 2006 I do have a job. It's a monkey's job, but still.And I'm 19, you old git. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted October 15, 2006 Share Posted October 15, 2006 Monkey's don't Moderate message boards.Or they shouldn't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ollie 1,059 Posted October 15, 2006 Share Posted October 15, 2006 Young people think they know everything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashinyobject 0 Posted October 15, 2006 Share Posted October 15, 2006 Yes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romão 2,274 Posted October 15, 2006 Share Posted October 15, 2006 Youth is wasted on the young Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted October 15, 2006 Share Posted October 15, 2006 Young people think they know everything.You mean the Dutch? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Breathmask 555 Posted October 15, 2006 Share Posted October 15, 2006 Young people think they know everything.That's just what old people think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted October 15, 2006 Share Posted October 15, 2006 Soon you will be old too, and then I'll have the last laugh! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Breathmask 555 Posted October 15, 2006 Share Posted October 15, 2006 What's your point?If I'm old, then you're even older.You'll be, like, really old. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romão 2,274 Posted October 15, 2006 Share Posted October 15, 2006 It´s not the years, it´s the milleage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
veggiemusician 0 Posted October 15, 2006 Share Posted October 15, 2006 Does anything think that listening to James Blunt is like Chewing siverfoil? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ollie 1,059 Posted October 15, 2006 Share Posted October 15, 2006 that's just what old people thinkYes but I've got more film scores than you do..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted October 15, 2006 Share Posted October 15, 2006 I'm not even thirty, just because i'm slightly balding does not mean I'm old, it just runs in the family.And if I don't shave for a few days I have some white hair on my chin, but that's because red heads loose their pigment faster.This does not make me old!Does anything think that listening to James Blunt is like Chewing siverfoil?I don't feel silver foil should be shot in the face though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hitch 57 Posted October 15, 2006 Share Posted October 15, 2006 Nothing beats being 107. I can still jive to Fred and Ginger. Just about! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeinAR 1,949 Posted October 15, 2006 Share Posted October 15, 2006 You are just old.Did I not prove logically that the 90's was the best decade for pop music?no Stefan you've been repeatedly proven wrong. The 90's was a decade mostly devoid of talent.The black hole was so bad that even greats like John Williams, Jerry Goldsmith, and James Horner were harmed by the suction, indeed James Horner's talent may have been complete sucked away. It would explain a great many things.U2 a band in need of a plane crash Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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