Just like dolcevita did with the top 100 movies list, I'll kick off a second round of the "getting to know your fellow mods" phase with lists made up of our favorite songs. Zingaling and lovemerox will follow.

I'll start alphabetically, going from the numbers to Br-. Here's #1-10, with a lil' quote from the song.

1984 - David Bowie
They'll split your pretty cranium, and fill it full of air
And tell that you're eighty, but brother, you won't care
You'll be shooting up on anything, tomorrow's never there
Beware the savage jaw...Of 1984

1999 - Prince
But life is just a party, and parties weren't meant to last
War is all around us, my mind says prepare to fight
So if I gotta die I'm gonna listen to my body tonight

A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall - Bob Dylan
I've stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains,
I've walked and I've crawled on six crooked highways,
I've stepped in the middle of seven sad forests,
I've been out in front of a dozen dead oceans,
I've been ten thousand miles in the mouth of a graveyard,
And it's a hard, and it's a hard, it's a hard, and it's a hard,
And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall

Always Coming Back Home to You - Atmosphere
All of a sudden I'm in front of some man
No he's a youngin but he's got a gun in his hand
He looks fifteen, he looks frantic, no he looks afraid
Immediately apprehensive til I heard him say
“Do you want this It's not mine I promise
I found it on my block in between a couple garages
Didn't wanna leave it for a child to stumble over
I don't even know how to hold it."

Badge - Cream
Thinkin' 'bout the times you drove in my car
Thinkin' that I might have drove you too far
And I'm thinkin' 'bout the love that you laid on my table

Ball and Biscuit - The White Stripes
Let's have a ball and a biscuit sugar
And take our sweet little time about it
Let's have a ball girl
And take our sweet little time about it
Tell everybody in the place to just get out
And we'll get clean together
And I'll find me soapbox where I can shout it

Bang Bang - Nancy Sinatra
I was five and he was six
We rode on horses made of sticks
He wore black and I wore white
He would always win the fight

Birdhouse in Your Soul - They Might Be Giants
Blue canary in the outlet by the light switch
Who watches over you
Make a little birdhouse in your soul
Not to put too fine a point on it
Say I'm the only bee in your bonnet
Make a little birdhouse in your soul

Bittersweet Symphony - The Verve
'Cause it's a bitter sweet symphony, that's life
Try to make ends meet, try to find some money then you die
I'll take you down the only road I've ever been down
You know the one that takes you to the places where all the things meet, yeah

Blaze - Strike Anywhere
We live in violence, after slumber.
In a vanquish, shoveled over.
Jaded shades to hope onto.
You are many, they are few.
Without a force to question.
The hollow opressor to public deception.
Through all this time we write...
Human Solutions!

The only people I've heard of are Bob Dylan, Prince, and The White Stripes. I've never heard any of those songs.

Bittersweet Symphany made The Verve absolutely no money

But it's a catchy song that EVERYONE knows!

If you've seen Cruel Intentions, you've heard Bittersweet Symphony. If you've ever listened to an alternative station, you've heard Bittersweet Symphony...

I'm not a fan of the band, but the song rocks.

There's a sound clip here: http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/_/id/6596227/sort/rank?pageid=rs.RS500&pageregion=blob&rnd=1104694186674&has-player=true&version=6.0.12.857

Zingaling, you've never heard of They Might Be Giants? They did the theme song to "Malcolm in the Middle". Download Birdhouse in Your Soul here: http://www.paradise-engineering.com/quotation/birdhouseinyoursoul.mp3

Also, you've heard Bang Bang. It's the first song in Kill Bill Volume 1...

Post #1492...

Great choice

The reason why it made the band no money? They didn't get permission from The Rolling Stones to use part of one of their songs in it

hehe

Twas the Rolling Stones. Not Aerosmith.

At least it wasn't as obvious as Vanilla Ice using the bass from Bowie's "Under Pressure" :wink:

Heh, it was funny hearing Vanilla Ice try to say how it was different

I didn't follow it, and I'm glad, heh. Vanilla Ice twas pathetic...

I'll do #11-20 in a couple minutes, I just gotta find a way to organize 'em that isn't alphabetical

Ohhhhhh yeah. I did hear of those two. Just didn't recognize them.

#11-20 - in a random order!

Get Off My Cloud - The Rolling Stones
I live in an apartment on the ninety-ninth floor of my block
And I sit at home looking out the window
Imagining the world has stopped
Then in flies a guy who's all dressed up like a Union Jack
And says, I've won five pounds if I have his kind of detergent pack

Hummingbird - Wilco
His goal in life was to be an echo
The type of sound that floats around and then back down
Like a feather
But in the deep chrome canyons of the loudest Manhattans
No one could hear him
Or anything

Humpty Dumpty - Aimee Mann
Say you were split, you were split in fragments
And none of the pieces would talk to you
Wouldn't you want to be who you had been
Well baby I want that too
So better take the keys and drive forever
Staying won't put these futures back together
All the perfect drugs and superheros
Wouldn't be enough to bring me up to zero

Mr. Brightside - The Killers
I just can’t look its killing me
And taking control
Jealousy, turning saints into the sea
Swimming through sick lullabies
Choking on your alibis
But it’s just the price I pay
Destiny is calling me
Open up my eager eyes
‘Cause I’m Mr Brightside

Jungle Boogie - Kool and the Gang
Get down, Get down, Get down...

La Bomba - Azul Azul
Sensual un movimiento sensual
sensual un movimiento muy sexi
sexi un movimiento muy sexi
y aqui se viene azul azul con este baile que es una bomba

Hands Down - Dashboard Confessional
Hands down this is the best day I can ever remember,
I'll always remember the sound of the stereo,
the dim of the soft lights,
the scent of your hair that you twirled in your fingers
and the time on the clock when we realized it's so late
and this walk that we shared together.
The streets were wet
and the gate was locked so I jumped it,
and let you in.
And you stood at the door with your hands on my waist
and you kissed me like you meant it

I'm An Errand Girl for Rhythm - Diana Krall
If you want to swing and shout
Get your heels and get about
I'm an errand girl for rhythm, send me
Just get hip and follow through
I'll deliver straight to you
I'm an errand girl for rhythm, send me

Maxwell's Silver Hammer - The Beatles
Bang! Bang! Maxwell's silver hammer
came down upon her head
Clang! Clang! Maxwell's silver hammer
made sure that she was dead

Sunday Bloody Sunday - U2
And it's true we are immune
When fact is fiction and T.V. reality
And today the millions cry
We eat and drink while tomorrow they die
The real battle just begun
To claim the victory Jesus won
On a Sunday bloody Sunday
Sunday Bloody Sunday

ewww.

bitch.

:? I hardly know any of them. I feel so out of touch.

I love your first list, most of those songs are some of my favorites, especially Bittersweet Sympathy and 1999

Second list - only one I like is U2, and I haven't heard of the rest

You've never heard of Jungle Boogie, zach? Also, if you know oldies, you've probably heard Get Off My Cloud.

I know Get Off My Cloud - its good.

Jungle Boogie isn't rining a bell, even though I love oldies :?

Let me see if I can find a copy online...

It'll ring a bell once you hear the first three seconds.

Ok. Thanks

http://www.scottfortney.com/_Sound/musi ... Boogie.mp3

One of the cooler bass lines...Hotel California's gotta neat one, but you've gotta really listen...

OH duh. Now I know who it is Good choice.

Shame on me. I have a horrible memory of songs. I cant remember any of my favorites. Isnt that sad?

Certainly only a couple of those songs would be in my list (and a couple means like 2 or 3).

rusty...

although I LOVE Led Zeppelin, I wanted to make room for at least 70 artists...so you're only going to see 2-3 songs from the Stones, Beatles, Led Zeppelin, David Bowie, and Mr. Clapton

And if there's 2-3 songs that would be on your own list in only twenty songs, I'd say that's pretty good, considering all the songs availble to choose from...

#21-30 in a random order...

I Wanna Riot - Rancid
Cause I'm a kid who's got a lotta problems
If I throw a brick maybe the brick will go and solve them

I'm Afraid of Americans - David Bowie
Johnny's in America
Johnny looks up at the stars
Johnny combs his hair
And Johnny wants pussy in cars
Johnny's in America

Imagine - John Lennon
Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace...

Heartbreaker - Led Zeppelin
It won't take long just watch and see how the fellas lay their money down.
Her style is new but the face is the same as it was so long ago,
But from her eyes, a different smile like that of one who knows.
Well, it's been ten years and maybe more since I first set eyes on you.
The best years of my life gone by, here I am alone and blue.
Some people cry and some people die by the wicked ways of love;
But I'll just keep on rollin' along with the grace of the Lord above.

Mambo Italiano - Rosemary Clooney
A girl went back to Napoli
Because she missed the scenery
The native dances and the charming songs
But wait a minute, something's wrong...

My Iron Lung - Radiohead
We're too young to fall asleep
To cynical to speak
We are losing it
Can't you tell?
We scratch our eternal itch
A twentieth century bitch
And we are grateful for
Our iron lung

Wednesday Morning, 3 a.m. - Simon and Garfunkel
I can hear the soft breathing of the girl that I love
As she lies here beside me asleep with the night
And her hair in a fine mist floats on my pillow
Reflecting the glow of the winter moonlight
She is soft, she is warm, but my heart remains heavy
And I watch as her breasts gently rise, gently fall
For I know with the first light of dawn I'll be leaving
And tonight will be all I have left to recall

Darling Nikki - Prince
I knew a girl named Nikki
I guess you could say she was a sex fiend
I met her in a hotel lobby
Masturbating with a magazine
She said how’d u like to waste some time
And I could not resist when I saw little Nikki grind

Criminal - Fiona Apple
I've been a bad, bad girl
I've been careless with a delicate man
And it's a sad sad world
When a girl will break a boy
Just because she can

Tragic Kingdom - No Doubt
The cold wind blows as it snows
On those who fight to get in
On heads that are small
disillusioned as they enter
They're unaware what's
Behind castle walls
But now it's written in stone
The king has been overthrown
By jesterly fools
And the power of the people
Shall come to believe they do rule

Bittersweet Symphony is a classic song. good choice

yes yes and yes!