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yesterday, on manchesters local radio station (key 103) they had the top 103 songs of all time voted for by the public.

all was well until the last 5, then i dont know what happened.,

number 5, U2 - one
number 4, will young                                 ???
number 3, queen- bohemian rapsody
number 2, oasis - wonderwall
number 1, robbiw williams -angels.

i mean robbie williams!!! i thought oasis would have been number 1 with it being manchester and would have loved it to be, but robbie williams?!?

i could think of about 103 songs that i could put before that.

Anyhow little rant over, what would youre top 5 songs be of all time.

mine would be:

5) oasis - ciggarettes and alcohol
4) Stone roses - i am the resurrection
3) Queen - bohemian rapsody
2) Nirvana - smells like teen spirit
1) Oasis - wonderwall

Youre go.

mine would be . . . . . . . .

(pre-children)
No 5    Rolling Stones     Brown Sugar
No 4    Beatles                Sgt Pepper
No 3    Chilli peppers      Under the bridge
No 2    Tom Petty            Free Falling
No 1    Louis Armstrong  Wonderful World

NOW, 3 kids later

No 5     Big Cook Little Cook theme **
No 4     Teletubbies theme tune
No 3     Anything by the Tweenies
No 2     ANY music link played on Cbeebies
No 1     Balamory theme tune, or PC Plum song


funny how things change!

** Has anyone been watching the Cricket on C4, was that Big Cook Little Cook doing the links between adverts? My kids insist it WAS them but I'm not sure.

5 Elvis Presley - An American Trilogy
4 Elvis Presley - Make Me Know It
3 Elvis Presley - Power Of My Love
2 Elvis Presley - Such A Night
1 Elvis Presley - If I Can Dream

Do you see a theme emerging here  ;) :)

M.

definitely none of those that were voted in their list!

um... right now this is what springs to mind. It'd probably change later.

5 - Jonie Mitchell, Woodstock
4 -
3 -
2 -
1 -

OK - that's as far as I can get. I could vote for whole albums, but I can't decide which is my favourite song.

let's try again...

4 - Jimi Hendrix, 1984 (a merman I should long to be)
3 - Cat Stevens, King of the trees, the boy with the moon and stars on his head, the wind...
2 - Pink Floyd, Echoes, Shine on you crazy diamond, Breath, Comfortably numb
1 - The Grateful Dead, Dark Star, Sugar Magnolia, China Cat Sunflower/I know you rider

Oh and Bjork's Vespertine - the whole album

I seem to be having trouble deciding!

LMAO Madmum - I know the feeling.  Woke in the night singing Tweenies theme tune.  WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME  ::)

And yes, it is Big Cook and Little Cook doing the ads - somehow doesn't seem right if they are not acting like total morons does it  ;)

love this site, it is far more interesting than Cbeebies site that my pc seems to know how to access on it's own now!
Love BCLC, can't believe that they are doing Cricket, maybe the Aussies could use them! At least the tea would be made from interesting food!

Madmum, only just noticed that your bunny is called Elvis...good choice.

M.

He's a bigfan too - he wears a white jumpsuit all the time!
He was named by my 10 year old who would put his top five songs as follows:

No 5      Jailhouse Rock by Elvis
No 4      Don't be cruel  by Elvis
No 3      His latest flame   by Elvis
No 2      Hard Headed Woman by Elvis
No 1      Stuck on You   by guess who!!!

Another theme here I think

Here are mine.  You can tell which era I come from:

Heard it through the grapevine - Marvin Gaye
Here, there everywhere            -  The Beatles
Auqa marina                              -  Santana
Blue                                           -  Joni Mitchell
Wichita Lineman                        -  Glen Campbell

Of course tomorrow they will be entirely different depending on what mood I am in.   :) busy_lizzie  

wow, Glenn Campbell - didn't think of that one!

Maybe a possible money earner for this site, A4A CD, ideal to take to the lottie, or put on your I-pod of course!

We could all send in a list and the most popular go on a CD, possible title "Can you dig it?"

Madmum, I hope you weren't being derogatory about Glen Campbell.  ;D  ;D  Think the reason for that unlikely choice is that it was a particuarly happy time in my life, when I met my husband.  Out also at that time was My Song, Elton John and Space Oddity, David Bowey. Hearing them all brings it all back - music is great!!  :D busy_lizzie

Hey Buzy Lizzie was not having a dig at Glenn, those songs are fab too.

There's just too much to choose from, I really like some of the "old stuff" as well like Frank Sinatra etc.
I was bought up on the old musicals etc, so won't knock anything unless it's rap (and no that's not rhyming slang!)
Can't see the point of waving your fingers around while shouting and wearing clothes that I just want to pull up to where they were meant to be worn! Can't be doing with all this show your pants and have your jeans down around your knees!
off my soapbox and back to planting bulbs now!

Quote from: madmum on August 30, 2005, 12:14:51
mine would be . . . . . . . .

NOW, 3 kids later

No 5     Big Cook Little Cook theme **
No 4     Teletubbies theme tune
No 3     Anything by the Tweenies
No 2     ANY music link played on Cbeebies
No 1     Balamory theme tune, or PC Plum song


funny how things change!

Wot no Wiggles??!!

Quote from: aquilegia on August 30, 2005, 12:19:36
definitely none of those that were voted in their list!

um... right now this is what springs to mind. It'd probably change later.

5 - Jonie Mitchell, Woodstock
4 -
3 -
2 -
1 -

OK - that's as far as I can get. I could vote for whole albums, but I can't decide which is my favourite song.

let's try again...

4 - Jimi Hendrix, 1984 (a merman I should long to be)
3 - Cat Stevens, King of the trees, the boy with the moon and stars on his head, the wind...
2 - Pink Floyd, Echoes, Shine on you crazy diamond, Breath, Comfortably numb
1 - The Grateful Dead, Dark Star, Sugar Magnolia, China Cat Sunflower/I know you rider

Oh and Bjork's Vespertine - the whole album

I seem to be having trouble deciding!

I have the same problems with single tracks - I do not buy compilations be they by one band or (even worse) a compilation of bands.  There is always far too much chaff to get through as they are always someone elses choice - this is why I rarely listen to music radio before 9pm.  I will think about my top 5 tracks but for now here is my permanently evolving top 5 albums:

Incredible String Band - The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter
Beta Band - The Three EPs
Gorky's - Bwyd Time
Nick Drake - Pink Moon
PF - Piper at the Gates  of Dawn

Bands with albums just outside are Spacement 3/Spiritualized, Stone Roses, Inspiral Carpets, Grateful Dead, Love.  Depending on my mood any of these could make it - I think it is the sunny day that is making it quite accoustic today.  My indivcual trcks would probably be culled from these as well.

PS I am sure I have forgotten somebody.

QuoteNick Drake - Pink Moon

'Place to Be' is in my top 5 songs, which are:

1. 'Stack O'Lee' - Mississippi John Hurt
2. 'Revelator' - Gillian Welch
3. 'Jordan River' - Max Romeo
4. 'Place to Be' - Nick Drake
5. 'Misty Morning' - Bob Marley

Anything by the Judds! Great for two-stepping, romance, feeling blue, the whole enchilada! And no, no spell check! Lottie  ;D

Donovan - Season of the Witch
The Great Society - White Rabbit
Incredible String Band - There is a Green Crown
Grateful Dead - Mountains of the Moon
Nick Drake - Which Will

In any order - as I say my choice depends upon my mood and is very variable.

Um.. answers to this do give away your age!!! Not sure if I have the titles right. The favourites that i can think of right now are:

Some say (I got Devil) - Melanie Safka
Take this longing - Leonard Cohen
All along the watchtower - Jimi Hendrix
Sukiyaki - Sakamoto Kyu (I have clip for this, if you want it, sent me a pm)
Banana boat song?(Day-oh, day-ay-ee-oh, daylight come and I wanna go home...) by Harry Belafonte I think.

ok, i couldnt make my mind up before one what songs so, im just going to stcik anothe rlist of lots of songs, and just bands which should be there too:

Oasis (any song)
Stone Roses (any song)
Doves - pounding
The smiths - panic                 (this choce has no link whatsoever to manchester... hoenstly)
verve- drugs dont work
Razorlight - golden touch
Libertines - cant satnd me now
Babyshambles - gang of gin
The killers (any song)
Green day - basket case
Blur - various songs, apart from any that beat oasis in the charts  ;)

There we go!

Hi I'm back from my two day holiday  :)  I'm an old woman, nearly 50. but I LOVE Stone Roses, Resurrection.  it must be one of my all time favourite records.  I love everything about it  :)

I'm glad Max Romeo has found his way onto this forum  ;D  Sukiyaki - I thought there was only me had heard of him  ;D  I am a big fan of Bob Marley and I really like Rock Steady  :)  Jimi Hendrix and Pink Floyd I like, Janis Joplin who no-one has mentioned. 

My fave records though - probably Rod Stewart Mandolin Wind, or Jodie  :)
I love Tim Hardin's Reason to Believe.  My faves though are Billie Holliday and Nina Simone :).  They are both dead so I go to Rod gigs which I enjoy a whole lot  ;D

Wardy, I'm older than you and also like Janis, Billie and Nina (Four Women and Cherish are special). Being in at the beginning of rock n roll anything (before 1963)by Elvis and too many others to mention (23rd member of Johnnie Mathis British Fan Club!)

Anything by David Wilcox. Solomon Burke, Percy Sledge, Sam Cook -the list is endless............... but a few that I find I go back to are

Unchained Melody by Al Hibbler  (have 11 diff artists but NOT
                                                    Robson & whatsisname or Gareth)
It's What You Do - by Dick Gaughan
On and On - by Stephen Bishop
For the First Time - by Rod Stewart
Everything I Own - by Ken Bishop
One Thing - by Runrig
Hope that I Don't Fall in Love - by Juliet Turner + Brian Kennedy

wardy, i used to work at wembley and once, when rod stewart was due to play at 8pm he turned up in the crowd at lunchtime  :o.
he claimed that backstage was boring so he came out for a drink with his fans and to watch the earlier performers.
top bloke.
put on a good show too  ;D
Tara xx

dam forgot bob M, he there too :D

Impossible to answer as there are different favourites for different moods..... however..... of the top of my head....

Ella fitzgerald- The music goes round and round
Eric Clapton- Wonderful Tonite
Dolly Parton - Jolene
REM - Everybody hurts
Elvis Presley - caught in a trap.

BUT.... I am a huge fan of Kerrang, so

Good Charlotte - lifestyles of the rich and the famous
franz ferdinand- take me out
the LA's - there she goes
tenacious D - anything!
System of a down - chop suey

Quote from: wardy on August 31, 2005, 21:45:54
Hi I'm back from my two day holiday  :)  I'm an old woman, nearly 50. but I LOVE Stone Roses, Resurrection.  it must be one of my all time favourite records.  I love everything about it  :)

Have to agree whole heartdedly - Mani's bass in that track is ausome and the whole (full length) track fits together that it must be a classic - well done Wardy for reminding me of one track that is truly in my my top five - well sometimes at least.  :)

PS - Dr Strangely Strange - Dr Dim & Dr Strange - bizarre and classis too.

Stone Roses' 'Resurrection'? - more of a 'Fool's Gold' man myself, and 'Sally Cinnamon'...

Green Day also very popular round here. The 4 year old loves 'em!

Reggae is my #1 love, though, especially Gregory Isaacs,  the Mighty Diamonds & Burning Spear...

Thougt really hard about this but ......    at the mo
dock of the bay
trouble (coldplay)
harvest for the world (isley bros)
you're the best thing (style council)
romeo & juliet (dire straights)
also for entertainment value 'the rinky-dink panther' tune.  How can anyone remain down when they hear that ?

I like reggae too TM - takes me back to the 70's.  I listen to Mark Lamarr if he's on as we usually get a good dose  :)
I'm with you EJ with Jolene - fab or what  ;D
I look Tammy Wynette Stand by Your man when she sings that bit about "cuz after all he's just a mayyyyyn"  ;D

Quote from: aquilegia on August 30, 2005, 12:19:36
5 - Joni Mitchell, Woodstock
4 - Jimi Hendrix, 1983 (a merman I should long to be)
3 - Cat Stevens, King of the trees, the boy with the moon and stars on his head, the wind...
2 - Pink Floyd, Echoes, Shine on you crazy diamond, Breath, Comfortably numb
1 - The Grateful Dead, Dark Star, Sugar Magnolia, China Cat Sunflower/I know you rider

Oh and Bjork's Vespertine - the whole album

And to add to those:

5. Circle Game
4. Castles made of sand and If six were nine

2. Wish you were here, Atom Heart Mother and Fat olf Sun

Plus also Santana's Caravanserai album, especially Song of the wind and Ravi Shanka's Reflection.

I really do love a lot of music!

Redclanger - good choice! It's good to find another Dead Head. Most people just look at me blankly when I mention the GD or think they are a heavy metal band (I mean really, do I look as if I like heavy metal?) And PF too - Mr Aqui and I were discussing which was our favourite PF album - I could only get it down to Atom Heart Mother (possibly actually just my favourite!), Wish you were here, Piper, Meddle, The Wall and Dark side of the moon.

My son has been into Pink F for years and he's only 23 now.  We went to the Off the Wall concert held at the castle in town last year.  Fab gig and the eery back drop was great for the light show thingy  :o   For a tribute band they were really good (I'm not a purist as you might guess) but even the hardened Floyd fans loved it.  I though PF were great on live aid as was The Who  :)

Hendrix fan here too.  There will be a talky bit about him on Radio 2 soon.  they are previewing it now so don't miss it  :)

Busy-Lizzie I am older than you, in fact I think I am older than everybody!! I like... WAIT FOR IT  :o
 
Vera Lynn
Bing Crosby
Gracie Fields.
Seriously I really do like such a different section of music/songs impossible to name my favs. I really love country & western , Tammy Wynette,Conway Twitty,Johnny Cash and anything by Bette Midler, Katy Melua, Barbara Dickson ,Barbara Streisand,Celine Dion, Tina Turner.
Last but by no means least Judy Garland who I was thrilled to be at one of her last contacts in London.
Lorna.

This is a toughie - especially as nowadays I never know song names - just track numbers. Even that is becoming a mystery to me as most of the music I listen to now I have downloaded onto my i-pod (a sentence I never thought I would say, only found out I needed one when I saw they came in pink, didn't even know what it did at the time!!!!)


Like EJ, this changes all the time, depending on mood etc.... At the moment I would say:

5. Green Day - there current single - when September somes, or something like that?!?
4. Feeder - Love Pollution
3. Maroon 5 - she will be loved (think it is called that anyway!)
2 - The Killers - Mr Brightside
1 - Feeder - Find the colour

Wardy - how could I forget. Love Janis Joplin too. Especially Ball and Chain and another one, the name of which currently escapes me. (let's see if Mr Aqui knows...)

Don't try to guess my age by the type of music I like (mostly stuff recorded between 1967 and 1974). I was born after this!

Quote from: daisymay on September 02, 2005, 14:22:21
5. Green Day - there current single - when September somes, or something like that?!?
4. Feeder - Love Pollution
3. Maroon 5 - she will be loved (think it is called that anyway!)
2 - The Killers - Mr Brightside
1 - Feeder - Find the colour

Wake me up when Septemebr ends - greenday, DM. but love that selection!

Paul Simon wrote some beautiful songs so he must be in the top 103

I like "still crazy" 

"I met my old lover on the street last night,
she seemed so glad to see me I just smiled
and we talked about some old times and drank ourselves some beers
still crazy after all these years"

Aaaaaaaaaaaagh   

Hi Adam, Robbie Williams songs wouldn't be in my top 103 either - and what is Will Young doing in the top 5?! ???  Wonderwall would be in my top 103, but not my top 5 ... top 5 songs is so difficult:  I could just about tell you my top 10 bands but to narrow it down more than that ... well, I'll have a go.

Kirsty MacColl - probably Days, but I like all her songs;
Pulp - tempted to go for Mis-shapes, Mistakes, Misfits, but I think I'd choose Dishes (from This is Hardcore);
Beautiful South - love their clever lyrics ... aah, how can I choose?  Either Good as Gold or Don't Marry Her, F*** Me, I think;
U2 - something from War - probably 40 (that dates me!);
Roxy Music - something from Stranded, don't know what - maybe Psalm;
Ultravox - probably Reap The Wild Wind or Hymn;
David Bowie - another "aah how can I choose?" moment ... if I have to pick, Wild Is The Wind;
Japan - Despair - or Gentlemen Take Polaroids - or maybe Ghosts;
Transvision Vamp - Baby I Don't Care.  Or maybe Tell That Girl To Shut Up.  Or maybe Sex Kick
The White Stripes - something from Elephant, but no idea what.

Oops, that's 10, nearly all with alternatives - said I couldn't pin it down to 5.  And I haven't mentioned Catatonia, or The Verve, or The Alarm, or Larry Norman ... this is way too difficult for me ...   :-\

Juliet
Wow, Japan - that's a blast from the past
Used to have photos of David Sylvian on my books at school!
Also liked Forbidden Colurs - think that was his solo work

I had his picture on my bedroom wall, madmum ;)
Forbidden Colours was with Riuchi Sakamoto - I still have the single somewhere ...

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Wake me up when Septemebr ends - greenday, DM. but love that selection!

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ah yeh - should have proof read, had meant to type comes instead of somes! but would still have been wrong, closer though! Glad you approve  :)

The old Oasis stuff would prob make my top 10, though am still sulking as we had tickets for their latest tour and they got lost in the post, so we missed it!  :'(

well you missed a fantastic show, i saw them in Manchester, they were great! one hit after another a real good miz of old and new, By the way people get oasis' new album. its really good,  ;D

Adam, got the new Oasis CD it is great. Really like Mucky Fingers!

What about Morrissey? Got his You are the Quarry and it has some fab tracks on it. You can't beat some of the old smiths classics though, This Charming Man. Also love Suedehead - cool video to go with it.

When I was a teenager I drove from London to Dover with a tone-deaf friend who sang William It Was Really Nothing all the way - think it's put me off the Smiths for life :( - shame as I think I'd really like them otherwise!

Woke up in the middle of the night last night and thought - Meatloaf! (not something you really want to happen, I have to say) - forgot him when I was making my list.  Oh dear, & I really love his songs, especially Life Is A Lemon and I Want My Money Back ... can I make it my top 20 songs, Adam?!

Quote from: adam04 on September 03, 2005, 20:15:28
well you missed a fantastic show, i saw them in Manchester, they were great!

thanks for rubbing it in!!  :'(   :'(      ;)

Have got their new album, not overly keen, much prefer their earlier stuff.

meatloaf is good, not sure on my fav, in fact i suppose it has to be bat out of hell.

the smiths are good, like Pani or there is a light that never goes out.

Ooo almost forgot, love Marc Bolan, "White Swan", sorry, forgot that one! Lottie  ;D

I just bought a Jimmy Cliff cd today, and anything with his voice is currently in my top 5.  I can't explain why but I've been strangely drawn to him since I was about 14.

I suppose that I'm taking this to the fave voices but anyway, Elvis, Ray Charles, Dean Martin, Jimmy Cliff and Tony Bennett - young & old voice  :)

M.

Maddy I'm with you on all those choices.  I really like JC's Wild World  :)  Dean Martin I'd thought about him and I love That's Amore, Gentle on my Mind etc  You've set me off now I'll be singing it all night  :)

Oooh forgot about Nat KingCole.  Nature boy and that sort of stuff

 The more you try and think about it, the more the choices change... for the moment:

Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
Val Doonican - Snowbird (years of listening to it, as a child, 8-track cartridge on car journeys)
John Denver - Follow Me
The Czars - their version of 'Angel Eyes'
Jamshied Sharifi - Prayer for the Soul of Layla.

Not a massive Jimmy Cliff fan, but 'Struggling Man' and 'Hard Road to Travel' are wonderful IMO...

I really shouldn't keep reading this thread because it is impossible to narrow it down!

My Motown selection would be:

Me and Mrs Jones - Billy Paul
Grapevine - Marvin Gaye
Smoke gets in your eyes - The Platters
When a man loves a woman - Percy Sledge
Tears of a clown - Smokey Robinson
Chain Gang - Sam Cooke

just thought of another::

Greenday - time of your life.