What are your (up to) five favorite tunes?

[TheLibrarian]

• All the Fools Sailed Away by DIO (1987)
• I Would Do Anything for Love by Meat Loaf (1993)
• Shoot to Thrill by AC/DC (1980)
• I Want My Tears Back by Nightwish (2011)
• Holding Out for a Hero by Bonnie Tyler (1984)

 

[Ulfgeir]

There are also around 200 other songs in my top five.

Yup, that is usually how things go.

 

[Older Beholder]

REM - Everybody Hurts
Joanna Newsom - Monkey & Bear
Sunset Rubdown - Dragon's Lair
Richard Dawson - The Vile Stuff
Death Grips - No Love

 

[payn]

REM - Everybody Hurts

Just simply a classic.

 

[Bedrockgames]

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 64 songs through post #31. Missing Night Rider's Lament - Garth Brooks

Only the hardest question ever. Here is my list I made a while ago of my top 11 songs, but keep in mind it excludes heavy metal (as I was a heavy metal kid growing up and I felt it was easier to just deal with metal on a separate list entirely):
1. Henry Purcell: Funeral March for Queen Mary
2. Beethoven Symphony Number 7
3. Schubert Ave Maria
4. Django Reinhardt: Minor Swing
5. Billie Holiday: Strange Fruit

Continuing with the rest of the list:

6. Ennio Morricone: The Ecstasy of Gold
7. Billie Withers: Ain't no Sunshine
8. Any Williams (composed by Nino Rota): Speak Softly, Love
9. Dolly Parton: Jolene
10. Dire Straights: The Sultans of Swing
11. Erev Shel Shoshanim (many great versions out there, I like Daliah Lavi's)

 

[fba827]

Best Tunes of all time, no contest…

Looney

(Sorry, don’t mean to go on that tangent but it’s the ‘tunes’ I thought of )

 

[Jackdaw McGraw]

Cosmic Love - Florence & The Machine - 2010
Sunrise, Sunset - Perry Como, Fiddler on the Roof - 1968
Requiem - Mozart
Truly, Madly, Deeply - Savage Garden 1990
Wuthering Heights - Kate Bush 1978

 

[Smackpixi]

Just today, not exactly of all time…or I mean, for all time, today.

Pixies - Here Comes Your Man
Tove Lo - Habits
GAYLE - abcdefu
Anything Anything - Dramarama
Express Yourself - NWA

 

[Older Beholder]

Just simply a classic.

I was going to note that Everybody Hurts was an 'all time favourite'
Where as the rest of my list were more current faves.

 

[payn]

Just today, not exactly of all time…or I mean, for all time, today.

Pixies - Here Comes Your Man
Tove Lo - Habits
GAYLE - abcdefu
Anything Anything - Dramarama
Express Yourself - NWA

Lots of pixie love, and a little hip-hop love from the two of us.