What are your (up to) five favorite tunes?

[Cadence]

Another post got me thinking about music, and when different songs came out....

So currently, what are your (up to) five favorite songs/tunes/singles of all time? Please list the year with each (I needed google).

No honorable mentions, no albums, no just groups - it's supposed to be hard. But feel free to call out others if they picked one you think was a solid choice.


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Spotify playlist is currently 121 songs through post #59.

Missing:
Night Rider's Lament - Garth Brooks
Two (Oogie Eeha) - zer0 0ne
High Road - Bendickson Brothers
Couldn't find a Monkey & Bear by Joanna Newsom that was less than an hour.

Duplicate choices:
Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd

 

[Cadence]

• Theme from Superman - John Williams (1978)
• Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd (1979)
• Bad - U2 (1984)
• Heart and Soul - T'Pau (1987)
• Breathe (2AM) - Anna Nalick (2005)

Even though I was in grade school and high school respectively when they came out, I didn't find Comfortably Numb until the late 80s, and Bad until the 90s.

 

[billd91]

Interstellar Overdrive - Pink Floyd (1967)
One Tree Hill - U2 (1987)
Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards - Billy Bragg (1988)
Only Shallow - My Bloody Valentine (1991)
What is Life? - George Harrison (1970)

These are songs that I will almost always turn up the volume for. And though it violates the rules a little, I'm adding 2 that I edited into ringtones for members of my family. They're contextual favorites, so to speak. I'm still trying to find the perfect one for my teen - they're very hard to characterize with a special song compared to my wife and elder child.
If I Ever Lose My Faith in You - Sting (1993)
Father and Daughter - Paul Simon (2002)

 

[payn]

Of all time? Thats a tall order. I like it tho so lets give it a whirl.

Jockey Full of Bourbon - Tom Waits 1986
Where is my mind - Pixies 1988
Isnt it a pity - George Harrison 1970
England - The National 2010
Oh sh!# - Pharcyde 1992

 

[payn]

What is Life? - George Harrison (1970)

All Things Must Pass would for sure be in my top 5 albums of all time.

 

[Ulfgeir]

My favourites (in chronological order. if my googling for dates is accurate):

Gimme, Gimme, Gimme (a man after midnight) - ABBA (1979)
Holy Diver - Dio (1983)
Temple of love (1992 version) - Sisters of Mercy featuring Ofra Haza (1992)
Where the wild roses grow - Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds featuring Kylie Minogue (1995)
The Voice - Eimear Quinn (1996)

 

[payn]

Where the wild roses grow - Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds featuring Kylie Minogue (1995)

So haunting. An excellent choice.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

4'33". John Cage. (1952)

You're Having My Baby. Paul Anka. (1974).

Afternoon Delight. Starland Vocal Band. (1976)

We Built This City. Starship. (1985)

Thong Song. Sisqo. (1999)

Bonus post 2000 edition, because I refuse to accept the surly bond of the number five-

My Humps. Black Eyed Peas. (2005)

 

[Maxperson]

One - Metallica(1988)
Free Fallin' - Tom Petty(1989)
Behind Blue Eyes - The Who(1971)
Heart of Glass - Blondie(1978)
An Justice for All - Metallica(1988)

 

[Charlaquin]

Oh, jeez, that is really hard, but I’ll give it a go. In no particular order…

What If - Emilie Autumn, 2003

This probably isn’t even my favorite Emilie Autumn song, but it has deep personal meaning for me, and is probably the one I feel most confident listing.

Mother Superior - William Control, 2016

My favorite song by the artist I considered my favorite for a very long time, until I learned some stuff about him that made his work very hard for me to continue to enjoy, but I think it still earns a place on the list simply for being so representative of my musical tastes.

The Last Unicorn - Ninja Sex Party, 2016
(original song by America, 1982)

I’m cheating a little bit by listing both the NSP cover and the original, but if I had to pick one version it would be the cover, because it’s so damn beautiful it actually makes me cry.

Monsters - The Midnight, 2020

Just a really damn cool song. Maybe on another day, in another mood, something else might top it on this list, but yeah, I like it a lot.

Where is my mind - Pixies 1988
Editing this one in because it totally slipped my mind (heh), but I saw someone else mention it and had to swap something else out for it.