The All-Time Favorite Songs Ballot Thread • Page 8

The only reason I’m even doing this is because I already have this as a starting point, but now I’m annoyed because it’s going to have so much recent bias

 

Lots of great ones on here though.

 

Well duh they’re the best songs of the decade Craig.

 

(Pet peeve, but everyone should always label lists “favorite” instead of “best.”)

 

I’m objectively right about every song on that list tho…

Man, I wish I could sleep normally.

 

Definitely no songs I dislike on there (though, I can't listen to SKM anymore). A few instances where I'd pick different songs from certain albums.

 

Yeah I should drop him and Rhye. Made this at the end of 2019. The whole playlist is 310 songs, it just shows 100 on the embed for some reason. It's also not in order, I just tried to make it flow.

 

71% sorted. I will finally finish this tonight.

 

There's some stuff on this that I'd like to tinker with, but that would drive me insane. Going with what the sorter spit out.

1. Goo Goo Dolls - "Iris"
2. Billy Joel - "Summer, Highland Falls"
3. Journey - "Faithfully"
4. Whitney Houston - "I Want to Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)"
5. Jim Croce - "The Hard Way Every Time"
6. Motion City Soundtrack - "Hold Me Down"
7. Bob Dylan - "Boots of Spanish Leather"
8. Gratitude - "Feel Alright"
9. Don Henley - "Land of the Living"
10. Jimmy Eat World - "Dizzy"
11. Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes - "(I've Had) The Time of My Life"
12. Earth, Wind, and Fire - "September"
13. Billy Joel - "Until the Night"
14. Prince and The Revolution - "I Would Die 4 U"
15. Journey - "Don't Stop Believin'"
16. The 1975 - "Settle Down"
17. Toto - "Rosanna"
18. Prince and The Revolution - "Purple Rain"
19. Warren Zevon - "Werewolves of London"
20. Kacey Musgraves - "Miserable"
21. Kool & the Gang - "Celebration"
22. Bob Cleary - "I'll Be Blind"
23. Bruce Springsteen - "Incident on 57th St."
24. Nina Simone - "Don't You Pay Them No Mind"
25. Dan Fogelberg - "Stolen Moments"
26. Fleetwood Mac - "What Makes You Think You're the One"
27. Brand New - "The Boy Who Blocked His Own Shot"
28. Sammy Davis, Jr. - "What Kind of Fool Am I?"
29. Prince- "Adore"
30. Pat Benatar - "Promises in the Dark"
31. Jack's Mannequin - "Rescued"
32. Billy Joel - "I Go to Extremes"
33. Bruce Springsteen - "Born to Run"
34. Tevin Campbell (as Powerline) - "I 2 I"
35. Warren Zevon - "The French Inhaler"
36. Lionel Richie - "Tonight Will Be Alright"
37. Prince - "Little Red Corvette"
38. Death Cab for Cutie - "Transatlanticism"
39. Bon Iver - "Blood Bank"
40. The Jackson 5 - "I Want You Back"
41. Rufus featuring Chaka Khan - "Egyptian Song"
42. Prince - "When You Were Mine"
43. .38 Special - "Caught Up in You"
44. Kacey Musgraves - "Space Cowboy"
45. Boz Scaggs - "Georgia"
46. Something Corporate - "I Woke Up in a Car"
47. England Dan and John Ford Coley - "Nights Are Forever Without You"
48. Meat Loaf - "I Would Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)"
49. The Left Banke - "Walk Away Renee"
50. Prince - "I Wanna Be Your Lover"
51. Dan Fogelberg - "Illinois"
52. Elton John - "Indian Sunset"
53. Marc Cohn - "True Companion"
54. Joe Cocker - "I Stand in Wonder"
55. Imogen Heap - "Hide and Seek"
56. The 1975 - "Sex"
57. Coheed and Cambria - "Wake Up"
58. Bob Dylan - "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue"
59. Gin Blossoms - "Hey Jealousy"
60. The Weakerthans - "Plea from a Cat Named Virtue"
61. The Gaslight Anthem - "The '59 Sound"
62. Misery Signals - "The Failsafe"
63. The New Amsterdams - "Fountain of Youth"
64. The Five Stairsteps - "O-o-h Child"
65. Don Henley - "The Boys of Summer"
66. Christopher Cross - "Minstrel Gigolo"
67. Trevor Hall - "The Lime Tree" (the version from The Rascals Have Returned EP, not the full-length)
68. Prince - "I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man"
69. Taylor Swift - "Lover"
70. Darryl Hall - "Dreamtime"
71. Jim Croce - "I Got a Name"
72. Bruce Hornsby and The Range - "Every Little Kiss"
73. Mandy Moore - "The Whole of the Moon"
74. Sandy Denny - "The Music Weaver"
75. Something Corporate - "Konstantine"
76. Foo Fighters - "Best of You"
77. Warren Zevon - "Desperadoes Under the Eaves"
78. Stevie Wonder - "Superstition"
79. Lionel Richie - "All Night Long (All Night)"
80. Straylight Run - "Existentialism on Prom Night"
81. James Taylor - "Sweet Baby James"
82. Averi - "Mouth Full of Sand"
83. Rush - "Time Stand Still"
84. Cat Stevens - "How Can I Tell You"
85. Raspberries - "Overnight Sensation (Hit Record)"
86. Dessa - "Mineshaft II"
87. Bruce Springsteen - "Jungleland"
88. The Beach Boys - "God Only Knows"
89. Eric Clapton - "It's in the Way That You Use It"
90. Ray Lamontagne - "Burn"
91. Boston - "A Man I'll Never Be"
92. The Killers - "When You Were Young"
93. Mary Chapin Carpenter - "The Hard Way"
94. As Tall As Lions - "Acrobat"
95. Anberlin - "Adelaide"
96. Phil Collins - "Something Happened on the Way to Heaven"
97. Averi - "In Tune"
98. Sara Bareilles - "Basket Case"
99. As Tall as Lions - "Stab City"
100. Tegan and Sara - "Call It Off"

Honestly want to extend this to 200 so I'm not agonized about what's not listed, but nobody wants to read that shit.

 

Did anyone point out that you have "Settle Down" by The Dangerous Summer twice.

I was typing this into an excel sheet so I can catch up to what I haven't heard and was like...hmmm

 

Aww shit. One of them is supposed to be “No One’s Gonna Need You More.” Will change!

On a similar note, you have a Springsteen song labeled as “I Go to Extremes.”

 

Going to have fun looking through this later and checking out the (many!) song I don't think I've heard. But I'll start by saying that I could have written down your top 3 before ever looking at this.

One small surprise: I believe you consider O your all-time favorite album, but no songs from it here? Which one from that album was closest to making the list?

 

the cat’s name is virtute

 

the list is great, typo notwithstanding

 

Whoops!

The Bruce song is "Born to Run"

 

156. Cannonball
214. The Blower’s Daughter
326. Delicate

100 is not a lot of songs! Haha

I honestly didn't think there'd be much here you didn't know, either. Curious if you discover anything. I'm taking yours, George's and Pat's and I'll target a couple records for MWE I think.

 

I have loved that song for YEARS and never once noticed I was reading that title wrong...

 

“Delicate” was probably one of my last 30 or so cuts.

 

So I've heard something near 7,000 albums. Let's assume an average of 10 song per album. So I've heard 70,000 songs, roughly, if we just stick to things I've heard full albums of.

So even down that far, "Delicate" is in the top .5% of everything I've ever heard.

So y'know. These lists are fun. But the difference between #40 and #340 isn't all that wide.

 

yes that’s why i listed 250. even then, it felt brutal cutting down from 500.

 

I may indulge in the sheer vanity of typing out my 101-250 because it’s making me grind my teeth not to. Haha

 

Yeah, I totally get it. I’m sure there’s some all-time favorite album that I wasn’t able to represent on my list as well.

 

It’s also funny who I thought was dominating the list but then the cutoff makes it look otherwise. Like there are a bunch of Marc Cohn that just missed

 

I spent like 20 slots across Bruce, Butch, Andrew, and JEW. Which, honestly, seems pretty correct in terms of my own personal musical lore, haha

 

Yeah that’s me with Bruce, Prince and Billy Joel, which scans