Your Best 3 Music Tracks

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If you had to chose your best 3 music tracks (not full cd's) ... what would you choose? ... Could make for an interesting thread, and will enable many to create a really good playlist on sites such as Spotify ...

but would be good if everyone only responds once so take your time in choosing

 

[Anonymous]

In no particular order.

House That Jack Built - Aretha Franklin

Song To The Siren - This Mortal Coil

The Robots - Kraftwerk

Ask me the same question tommorrow and I'd probably give a different answer!

 

[JamesOK]

This is a hard one, but here goes.

Summer of 69 - Bryan Adams

Its Raining Men - Weathergirls

Barbie Girl - Aqua

...

Only joking.

God Only Knows - Beach Boys

Hayling - FC Kahuna

Fools Gold (12") - Stone Roses

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Although, like BobbyG above, if you asked me this tomorrow it probably wont be the same!

 

[idc]

This work in progress as a third is proving very difficult.

Pink Floyd - Time to reperesent all prog rock.

Thomas Newman - Still Dead from American Beauty to represent soundtracks.

The third is difficult because I would like something punk/new wave (London's Calling) or post rock instrumental (Hoppipolla) or trip hop (We Come 1) or something else.......

 

[Anonymous]

Just had 3 really great tracks come up on my iPod

M83 - Skin Of The Night

The Mission - Tower Of Strength

Oakenfold - Ready Steady Go

Impossible to choose 3 absolute favourites - Radiohead are prob my favourite band but difficult to pick one song
btw - Hayling by FC Kahuna as previously mentioned - great track - first heard it on CSI Miami a few seasons back- rest of the album not quite so good.....

 

[Big Chris]

Opeth - Blackwater Park

Dream Theater - Disappear

Queen - In The Lap Of The Gods..... Revisited.

 

[Anonymous]

Pink Floyd: Comfortably numb

Led Zeppelin: Stairway to heaven

Gns N Roses: November rain

 

[Anonymous]

It's a tough call but here goes.

She Sells Sanctuary - The Cult

Candle - Sonic Youth

Def Con One (Doomsday Powermix) - PWEI

Notable close runs were:- Red Barchetta-Rush, Lost Patrol-Big Country, Blood Brother-The Mission, Ghost Of Your Father-New Model Army, Everlong-Foo Fighters or On and On-Longpigs

 

[Anonymous]

great thread , impossible to pick a top 3 , but these 3 are getting alot of playtime on my mp3 player lately

sledghammer - peter gabriel

state of independance - donna summer

point of view - d b boulevard

i could pick 300 more to be honest..

 

[Anonymous]

try bakerman-- laidback
quincy jones the dude
street life randy crawford

 

[Anonymous]

Greetings

in 1st place .....david sylvian DARSHAN

in 2nd place .....david sylvian GODS MONKEY

in 3rd place ......david sylvian FIREPOWER live

Just running in a new bk monolith subwoofer with these tracks, well good

 

[Anonymous]

Actually not so difficult as I thought it would be...

Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb

Deep Purple - Child In Time

Led Zeppelin - Kashmir

 

[Miggs]

I could pick 3 different songs everyday, but at his moment at 3.07am Thursday morning it is as follows...

Pink Floyd - Shine on you crazy diamond

Deep Purple - Child in time

Led Zeppelin - Going to California

Miggs

 

[Frank Harvey]

JamesOK: Hayling - FC Kahuna

Great track!

I don't think I could pick 3, there's just too many.

 

[Anonymous]

try bakerman-- laidback

I thought I was the only one to enjoy this number - do you know of anything similar?

 

[Frank Harvey]

Got the CD single!

Similar stuff to that? Well I'd say that's more 'mainstream'...if you're after 'downtempo' stuff that's instrumental, but not the sort you'd find in the charts, there's tons of the stuff. I've made a few recommendations over at our blog (link in bio) with links to their Last FM pages, of recent stuff I've found. See what you think of those - if you like them, there's lots more where that came from!

 

[Anonymous]

john jed:
try bakerman-- laidback

I thought I was the only one to enjoy this number - do you know of anything similar?

If you like this and the FC Kahuna track try Zero 7. If I didnt know better Id have thought the Kahuna one was Zero 7.

Also try Lemon Jelly, Kinobe,Mint Royale and the masters of chillout Air. The Cafe Del Mar albums are also excellent. Especially Volumen Cinqo.

 

[5cats35]

And you and I - Yes = had this played on Alan Freeman's last Saturday Rock Show!

Willow - Joan Armatrading

American Pie - Don McClean

That's at the moment but my choice constantly changes!

 

[Anonymous]

As of right now,

Shine On You Crazy Diamond Parts 1 -5 by Pink Floyd

The Ninth Wave by Kate Bush

Fake Plastic Trees by Radiohead

 

[Anonymous]

hmm. some of my choices have already been taken (the Pink Floyd stuff). my choices would change depending on what you mean by "best 3 tracks"; do you mean just generally or do you mean best tracks for using as a demo/reference?

i'll give you both choices as they are radically different!

demo/reference

Eagles - Hotel California (Live) (from the Hell Freezes Over album)

Pink Floyd - The Great Gig In The Sky (from the Dark Side Of The Moon album)

Prince - Blue Light (from the Symbol album. for bass more than anything)

my actual favourite songs

Andy Stewart - Scottish Soldier

G N' R - Sweet Child O Mine

S Club Juniors - Feel The Beat (from the Together album. seriously, if you can get past the fact it's a bunch of 12 & 13 year olds singing, the songs are actually pretty good!)

 

[Gerrardasnails]

dim_span:
If you had to chose your best 3 music tracks (not full cd's) ... what would you choose? ... Could make for an interesting thread, and will enable many to create a really good playlist on sites such as Spotify ...

but would be good if everyone only responds once so take your time in choosing

We do a top five each year for all members of the family at Christmas and then shuffle them all day. Very difficult but:

1. Down in a tube station (at midnight) - The Jam
2. Paranoid Android - Radiohead
3. Mr Brightside - The Killers

 

[hammill]

Tricky, but if you only have 3 tracks, you might as well make them long ones:

Genesis: Suppers Ready (5:1 remix, 1973-2007 Box set Live from the Rainbow version)

Yes: Starship Trooper (Live from Wembley BBC 1979)

PFM Alta Loma 9 Til Five (PFM Cook)

 

[Anonymous]

Tough one that, current top 3 (in no particular order) would be:

Pink Floyd - Shine on you crazy diamond

Journey - Don't Stop Believing

Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody

 

[Anonymous]

At the minute, I'd say my top three would be, in no particular order:

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Ten Years Kashmir Mvt. II (orc/perc/choir mix) by Corner Stone Cues

Trailblazing by Steve Jablonsky

ÿHurt by Johnny Cash

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Although there are a slew of fantastic tracks on high rotation in my collection.

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(and I also like Bakerman by Laid Back, not one of my favourite but a very good track nonetheless)ÿ

 

[Anonymous]

No1 - God Only Knows - The Beach Boys

No 2 - Girl, You'll be a woman soon - Urge Overkill Version, although Neil Diamond's original is not shabby either

No 3 - Strawberry Fields Forever.