Your favourite top 10 singles, please?

[plastic penguin]

If someone sat you down in a small room and asked you to name your fav top 10 singles, what would they be?

It could connected to a family holiday, your very first date or just musical brilliance. And they don't have to be in numerical order either.

My favs are as follows:

10) The Who - don't get fooled again
9)Joe Jackson - Is she really going out with him
8)Tom Petty - Free Falling
7)Freida Payne - Band of Gold
6)Longpigs - On and on
5)Squeeze - Is that love
4)Coldplay - Shiver(live version)
3)Big Country - Chance
2)Lenny Kravitz - Are you gonna go my way
1)Crowded House - Its only natural

 

[John Duncan]

Do they have to be singles?

 

[plastic penguin]

JohnDuncan:Do they have to be singles?

Not exclusively. They could be E.P.'s or albums and 'B' sides.

 

[John Duncan]

Tricky. Might look something like this (today) - though I can't put an order on them right now:

The Right Place (Eddi Reader)
Subdivisions (Rush)
Stay With Me Till Dawn (Judie Tzuke)
Turn It On Again (Genesis)
Cloudbusting (Kate Bush)
Wait (Sarah McLachlan)
Separate Ways/Worlds Apart (Journey)
He Knows You Know (Marillion)
Down To You (Joni Mitchell)
Solisbury Hill (Peter Gabriel)

 

[plastic penguin]

There is some good stuff there, JD. It's really difficult because if I was to pose the same question this evening my favs would probably change dramatically.

 

[jimdonnelly]

At this moment this is my top ten

New Radicals - you get what you give
Bryan Adams - Run to you
N Trance - Set you free
INXS - Need you tonight
John Lennon - Imagine
Kasabian - Empire
Sophie B Hawkins - Damn I wish I was your lover
The Smiths - This Charming Man
Beastie Boys - Intergalactic
Big Area - Then Jericho

 

[Lost Angeles]

I could name my 10 favourite tracks in order but none would be singles

 

[timwileman]

isnt that ''wont get fooled again'' not ''dont get fooled again''??

 

[crusaderlord]

Lets give it a go not in any proper order though .....

Tubeway Army - Are Friends Electric
David Bowie - Ashes To Ashes
Clash - London Calling
Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill
ELO - Mr Blue Sky
Depeche Mode - Enjoy The Silence
Alanis Morisette - You Oughta Know
Blondie - Atomic
Kinks - You Really Got Me
Smiths - How Soon Is Now

Probably change some later once ive thought more

 

[survivor]

Blimey P.P. This is so, so, so, soooo... hard but you know I can`t resist this sort of thing! Well, I`ve thought about it for 15 mins or so and here is a list. Of course, because it`s been done in just 15 mins it`s very likely I`ve missed some of my real top ten. Maybe all of them! Here goes anyway. Oh by the way, these are all singles.

Dollar - Give Me Back My Heart

Christina Aguilera - Hurt

Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse Of The Heart

Rush - Spirit Of Radio

Voyager - Halfway Hotel

Matt Monro - Walk Away

Heart - Alone

Meat Loaf - Two Out Of Three Ain`t Bad

Alan Parsons Project - Old And Wise

The Walker Brothers - Love Her

 

[fr0g]

plastic penguin:If someone sat you down in a small room and asked you to name your fav top 10 singles, what would they be?

It could connected to a family holiday, your very first date or just musical brilliance. And they don't have to be in numerical order either.

My favs are as follows:

10) The Who - don't get fooled again
9)Joe Jackson - Is she really going out with him
8)Tom Petty - Free Falling
7)Freida Payne - Band of Gold
6)Longpigs - On and on
5)Squeeze - Is that love
4)Coldplay - Shiver(live version)
3)Big Country - Chance
2)Lenny Kravitz - Are you gonna go my way
1)Crowded House - Its only natural

Heh. I have both the Longpigs albums... died a death eh, and yep a very good song.

I think its impossible to pick 10 songs, let alone singles...
But off the top of my head, thinking which songs have been the biggest for me over the years, and now...

Marillion - Grendel
Faith No More - The Real Thing
Boards of Canada - Peacock tail
Aphex Twin - Ageispolis
Pearl Jam - Black
EF - Tomorrow my friend
My Exit Music - Dust
Slayer - At dawn they sleep
Morbid Angel - Abomonations
The Cure - 100 years
Genesis - Mad man moon

in no order, although Grendel has been played so many times I lose count.

 

[plastic penguin]

survivor:
Blimey P.P. This is so, so, so, soooo... hard but you know I can`t resist this sort of thing! Well, I`ve thought about it for 15 mins or so and here is a list. Of course, because it`s been done in just 15 mins it`s very likely I`ve missed some of my real top ten. Maybe all of them! Here goes anyway. Oh by the way, these are all singles.

Dollar - Give Me Back My Heart

Christina Aguilera - Hurt

Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse Of The Heart

Rush - Spirit Of Radio

Voyager - Halfway Hotel

Matt Monro - Walk Away

Heart - Alone

Meat Loaf - Two Out Of Three Ain`t Bad

Alan Parsons Project - Old And Wise

The Walker Brothers - Love Her

I know. A friend of mine and I, some years ago, sat in a pub and within 20 mins our top 10 changed about 5 or 6 times.

 

[Charlie Jefferson]

1) The Way That He Sings - My Morning Jacket
2) The Boy With The Thorn In His Side - The Smiths
3) Impossible Germany - Wilco
4) I'm A Cuckoo - Belle & Sebastian
5) Kissing The Lipless - The Shins
6) Waitin' For Superman - The Flaming Lips
7) Oh Brother! - The Fall
8) Suedehead - Moz
9) Go Or Go Ahead - Rufus Wainwright
10) My October Symphony - Pet Shop Boys

Ever changing, bar number 1, but that's the nature of these infuriating yet lovable lists.

 

[Clare Newsome]

Well, it's impossible, isn't it? Can it just be top 10 artists? Guess not... If it has to be singles, today's selection in no particular order:

Elvis Presley - I Got Stung

Elvis Costello - Oliver's Army

Frank Sinatra - One for my baby

Nancy Sinatra - Sugar Town

Dusty Springfield - The Look of Love

Crowded House - Distant Sun

The Rolling Stones - Wild Horses

Stevie Wonder - Superstition

Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah

The Beatles - Yesterday

And believe it or not, that's quite contemporary by my standards (i've spent most of the morning listening to the Ella Fitzgerald Songbooks on vinyl...)

 

[plastic penguin]

You've got great taste, Claire. I love Costello, Buckley, the Prefab 4 and I omitted Bowie.

My alternative last night is:

David Bowie - Ashes to ashes
The Jam - The bitterist pill
Crowded House - Don't dream its over
Elvis Costello - Alison (my aim is true)
The beatles - Hello, goodbye
Labi Siffre - Something inside so strong
Rolling Stones - Tops ('B' side to Start me up)
The Kinks - Waterloo sunset
The Supremes - Baby love
Muse - Plug in baby

Sorry for the alternative, But given how difficult it is I feel there's no other choice but to add others outside my original choice

 

[survivor]

You knew I wouldn`t be able to stop at just 10! Here`s 10 more!

Abba - The Name Of The Game

Marillion - Beautiful

Carpenters - Goodbye To Love

Elvis Presley - My Boy

Kate Bush - This Womans Work

Andy Williams - Moon River

The Smiths - The Boy With The Thorn In His Side

Rammstein - Sonne

Journey - Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)

Jim Steinman - Rock `n` Roll Dreams Come Through

Sorry but I just couldn`t help myself!

 

[plastic penguin]

No problem. . .I added an alternative top 10, so I think the "finger of blame" firmly points in my direction.

 

[Anonymous]

PP this one is so hard, it's like mission impossible, this list will self destruct in erm about 10 minutes

Michael Johnson - True Love

Eagles - Busy being fabulous

Amazing Rythmn Aces - Who will the next fool be

Moody blues - The other side of life

Genesis - That's all

Pink Floyd - Money

Go West - We close our eyes

Huey Lewis & News - Stuck with you

Jackson Browne - Here come those tears again

Al Stewart - On the Border

OK I know they are not all singles...

 

[Thaiman]

The Eagles - Please come home for Christmas

Elvis - Way down

Al Stewart - year of the cat

Metallica - until it sleeps

Slayer - dead skin mask

Poison - Talk dirty to me

Michael Bolton - How Am I Supposed To Live Without You

Elvis - always on my mind

Knife - Rockwell

Bob Marley - Exodus

 

[Anonymous]

Fleetwood mac- man of the world

The kinks- days

Elvis- freight train

Thin lizzy- the boys are back

The kinks waterloo sunset

Stone roses- fools gold

Julian cope- East easy rider

The beach boys-God only knows

Bob dylan- Maggies farm

Simon and garfunkle- The boxer

Hard!

 

[Anonymous]

At the moment I'd say :

Whitesnake - "Don't Break My heart Again"
Nightwish - "Nemo"
Kate Bush - "The Big Sky"
Madonna - "Frozen"

Can't think of any more!

 

[Alec]

Wishlist - Pearl Jam
Midlife Crisis - Faith No More
Son Of A Preacherman - Dusry Springfield
Sympathy For The Devil - Guns N' Roses
Los Angeles Is Burning - Bad Religion
Ever Fallen In Love... - Buzzcocks
Another Girl, Another Planet - The Only Ones (think this was a single, it was released on 7", whatever that is...).
Lover, You Should've Come Over or Everybody Here Wants You - Jeff Buckley
Find The River - R.E.M.

And an honourable mention to Michael Stipe's EP of covers of In The Sun by Joseph Arthur. And many more, actually.