Your favorite songs

I won't bother with a Top Ten list; some people have more, some people have less. But if you knew you'd be stuck on a desert island for the rest of your life, what songs would you want with you? Here are my must haves:

#1 More Than A Feeling (1976) - BOSTON
#2 Turn to Stone (1977) - ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA
#3 Manhattan Skyline (1986) - A~ha
#4 Uprising (2009) - Muse
#5 Unfinished Sympathy (1991) - Massive Attack
#6 Wait For You (1989) - Bonham


#7 Don't Bring Me Down (1979) - ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA
# 8 Creep (1992) - Radiohead
#9 Funky Town (1987) - Pseudo Echo
#10 In A Big Country (1983) - Big Country
# 11 Wild Boys (1984) - Duran Duran

Very very difficult choice.

I'm going to go with the first things that come to mind.

- Queen - The Prophet Song
- Queen - The Show Must Go On
- Queen - Brighton Rock
- Ultravox - Hymn
- Ultravox - One Small Day
- Ultravox - Serenade
- Maria Callas - Softly Awakes My Heart
- Jussi Bjorling and Robert Merrill - Au Fond du Temple Saint
- Maria Callas - The Shadow Song
- Joan Sutherland - The Mad Scene from Lucia di Lammermoor

I'm sure I could double it.

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Erica Ambler wrote:

Music is better with tits.

Jeff Lynne was a right tit, though the music wasn't any better because of it.

I thought the simplest way to actually list favourites (from an otherwise enormous selection of choices) is to list one song per artist.

Girls On Film Night Version - Duran Duran
Heart - Pet Shop Boys
Policy of truth - Depeche Mode
Tom Sawyer - Rush
No One Like You - The Scorpions
The Phantom And The Opera - Iron Maiden
Burn - The Cure
Hangar 18 - Megadeth
Bittersweet Symphony - The Verve
Major Tom - Peter Schilling
It's My Life - Talk Talk
Live To Tell - Madonna
Don't think of Me - Dido
Possession - Sarah McLachlan
Wish I Could Fly - Roxette
Are you Happy Now - Michelle Branch
Wonderful - Adam Ant
Broken Land - The Adventurers
Babe - Styx
Big In Japan - Alphaville
Relax - Frankie Goes To Hollywood
I Won't Bleed For You - Climie Fisher
Urgent - Foreigner
Special - Garbage
No Promises - Ice House
Valotte - Julian Lennon
Another One Bites The Dust - Queen
It's Been Awhile - Staind
Drive - REM
When Doves Cry - Prince
SOS - ABBA
More Than A Woman - BeeGees
Run to you - Bryan Adams

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Forgot to mention these

The Voice - The Moody Blues
Free - 4 Strings
Sleeping Satellite - Tasmin Archer
Corps Etranger - Ishtar (a hit from the French charts)

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Best use of a vocoder IMO.

-The Trees by Rush
-Brown Sugar by The Rolling Stones
-Good times Roll by The Cars
-Night Life by Foreigner
-Girl on the Moon by Foreigner
-Permanent Vacation by Aerosmith
-Start Me Up by The Rolling Stones
-Honkey Tonk Women by The Rolling Stones
-Jungle Love by The Steve Miller Band
-Abracadabra by The Steve Miller Band
-Back in the Saddle by Aerosmith
-Kings and Queens by Aerosmith
-Love in an Elevator by Aerosmith
-Double Vision by Foreigner
-Castle Walls by Styx
-Limelight by Rush
-Feelin' Stronger Every Day by Chicago
-Hot For Teacher by Van Halen
-Jamie's Cryin' by Van Halen
-25 or 6 to 4 by Chicago
-Saturday in the Park by Chicago
-(Oh) Pretty Woman by Van Halen
-Panama by Van Halen
-Miss You by The Rolling Stones
-Until the End of Time by Foreigner
-Red Barchetta by Rush
-Black Dog by Led Zeppelin
-Fool in the Rain by Led Zeppelin
-Rock and Roll by Led Zeppelin
-Won't Get Fooled Again by The Who
-Baba O'Riley by The Who
-Cat Scratch Fever by Ted Nuget
-Cities on Flame with Rock and Roll by The Blue Oyster Cult
-Burnin' for You by The Blue Oyster Cult
-Renegade by Styx
-Just What I Needed by The Cars
-Miss America by Styx
-Mademoiselle by Styx

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Trying to listen to that tune but I'm getting no sound. I'm posting from my iPhone 4S, and all of the volume levels I'm aware of are at peak. Have no headphones attached. What am I doing wrong?

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Erica Ambler wrote:

Thought you were a Galaxy man, Shark.

I was, but I upgraded about 3 Saturdays ago. Definitely an improvement.

You were right about that mute toggle switch - never noticed that before. Working fine now.

It's a decent song, but I'm not keen on that sawtooth synth line. Sounds a bit weedy, though that might just be Utube's compression. Will compare on Spotify.

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Erica Ambler wrote:

"Run baby run, I'm your setting sun ... "

Thanks, I've got to catch the 26.

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Survival (MUSE)
More Than A Feeling (Boston)
Don't Bring Me Down (Electric Light Orchestra)
Unfinished Sympathy (Massive Attack)
Manhattan Skyline (A-ha)
Bohemian Rhapsody (Queen)
Bittersweet Symphony (The Verve)
Wait For You (Bonham)
Uprising (MUSE)
Revolution (The Beatles)
Sunshine (Soundtrack to the movie "Sunshine" by John Murphy)

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bitchcraft wrote:

I thought the simplest way to actually list favourites (from an otherwise enormous selection of choices) is to list one song per artist.

Girls On Film Night Version - Duran Duran
Heart - Pet Shop Boys
Policy of truth - Depeche Mode
Tom Sawyer - Rush
No One Like You - The Scorpions
The Phantom And The Opera - Iron Maiden
Burn - The Cure
Hangar 18 - Megadeth
Bittersweet Symphony - The Verve
Major Tom - Peter Schilling
It's My Life - Talk Talk
Live To Tell - Madonna
Don't think of Me - Dido
Possession - Sarah McLachlan
Wish I Could Fly - Roxette
Are you Happy Now - Michelle Branch
Wonderful - Adam Ant
Broken Land - The Adventurers
Babe - Styx
Big In Japan - Alphaville
Relax - Frankie Goes To Hollywood
I Won't Bleed For You - Climie Fisher
Urgent - Foreigner
Special - Garbage
No Promises - Ice House
Valotte - Julian Lennon
Another One Bites The Dust - Queen
It's Been Awhile - Staind
Drive - REM
When Doves Cry - Prince
SOS - ABBA
More Than A Woman - BeeGees
Run to you - Bryan Adams

Good call on Schilling's "Major Tom." Bowie never did anything so good.

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Bowie never did anything for me. I like "Fame" and "Golden Years" tolerably well, but they're his tops, IMO. And neither can touch Schilling's "Major Tom."

"Good call on Schilling's "Major Tom." Bowie never did anything so good."

wow

You have been drunk posting for quite some time I see, Mr Khan

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