By golly goshkins, this is one of the scariest things I have ever posted.My nerdy friends and I decided about ... oh, eight years or so ago to compile our Top 100 Songs of All Time. Just because. Must have been reading a bit of Nick Hornby. And we're nerds. What can I say? But sheesh, it was really hard. Granted I was sick with CFS at the time, so it was hard to even be able to remember 100 songs. And it's understandable it was so formidable then, because it feels so now. Hence the reason why it's taken me eight years to crack the ton. (And boy, I'm scared I'm gonna wake up sweating at 4am, thrashing myself awake with the remembrance that I forgot my favourite song ever ... or with a desire to delete this post seeing now you know that I have a John Denver song in my Top 100! My God, I feel so ... naked.
I'm still not happy with my top 100. I feel like I want to disclaim all over the place that This Is Subject To Change Without Notice. I'm scared that (a) I've forgotten something which will shame me for the rest of my life or that (b) I don't now, but there must be more than one reason why it's scaring me so much.
Anyway, for your
Oh, yikes.
Okay. Here it is. This group of songs are my favourite 100 songs. I'm not so sure about the order. And did I mention, it's subject to change at any time?
1. These Days - Powderfinger
2. Building the Barn – Maurice Jarre (from the movie Witness)
3. Love Song – Tesla
4. Set You Free – N’Trance
5. Last Goodbye – Jeff Buckley
6. And It Stoned Me – Van Morrison
7. Romeo and Juliet – Dire Straits
8. Always With Me, Always With You – Joe Satriani
9. So Long – Fischer Z
10. The Load Out/Stay – Jackson Browne
11. Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley
12. Son of a Preacher Man – Dusty Springfield
13. Four Walls – Cold Chisel
14. Man With The Child In His Eyes – Kate Bush
15. Further Down the Road – Bernard Fanning
16. Breathe Me – Sia
17. Hit Me With Your Best Shot – Pat Benatar
18. Let It Be – The Beatles
19. Telegraph Road – Dire Straits
20. Photograph – Def Leppard
21. Here I Go Again – Whitesnake
22. Miracle Drug – U2
23. Midnight – Yazoo
24. Drift Away – Dobie Gray
25. Something – The Beatles
26. Annie’s Song – John Denver
27. Heart Of The Matter – Don Henley
28. The Power of Love – Frankie Goes to Hollywood
29. Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring – Bach
30. How To Make Gravy – Paul Kelly
31. May it Be – Enya
32. It’s Hard Letting You Go – Bon Jovi
33. I Remember You – Skid Row
34. So Lonely – The Police
35. Wild is the Wind – Bon Jovi
36. Blue Day – Misex
37. Hold My hand – Hootie & the Blowfish
38. My Love My Life – ABBA
39. Ah! Leah! – Donnie Iris
40. Etcetera Whatever - Over the Rhine
41. Landslide – Dixie Chicks
42. Where the Streets Have No Name – U2
43. Stay – Shakespear’s Sister
44. Learn to Fly – Foo Fighters
45. Estranged – Guns n’ Roses
46. Nothing Compares – Third Day
47. Epic – Faith No More
48. Siren – Divinyls
49. Glycerine – Bush
50. Lay Your Love On Me – Rochford
51. The Name of the Game – ABBA
52. Bat Out of Hell – Meatloaf
53. When a Man Loves a Woman – Percy Sledge
54. Never Gonna Die – Choirboys
55. Walk On – Jimmy Barnes
56. You Don’t Treat Me No Good No More – Sonia Dada
57. Sweet Home Alabama – Lynyrd Skynyrd
58. Shadows of the Night – Pat Benatar
59. Into Temptation – Crowded House
60. Thunder Road – Bruce Springsteen
61. The Day You Went Away – Wendy Matthews
62. Sweet Sweet Love – Russell Morris
63. Signs – Five Man Electrical Band/Tesla
64. Sure Know Something – Kiss
65. I Guess That’s Why They Call It the Blues – Elton John
66. Hoochie Gucci Fiorucci Mama – Australian Crawl
67. Open Arms – Journey
68. I Want You Back – Jackson 5
69. Leather & Lace – Nicks/Henley
70. First Cut is the Deepest – Rod Stewart
71. Trouble – Ray LaMontagne
72. Samson - Regina Spektor
73. Rocket Queen - Guns ‘n Roses
74. Patience - Guns ‘n Roses
75. What It Takes – Aerosmith
76. The Middle – Jimmy Eat World
77. All My Love – Led Zepplin
78. Hanging by a Moment - Lifehouse
79. Alive – POD
80. Oh No Not You Again – Australian Crawl
81. One Perfect Day – Little Heroes
82. Midnight Blue – Lou Gramm
83. Torn – Natalie Imbruglia
84. Brand New Day – Van Morrison
85. One Crowded Hour – Augie March
86. Make it End – Baby Animals
87. We Live for Love – Pat Benatar
88. The Answer – Sarah McLachlan
89. Breathe in Now – George
90. Here Comes the Sun – The Beatles
91. Sweetheart Like You – Bob Dylan
92. Cry – The Mavis’s
93. Show Me Your Glory – Third Day
94. Knocking on Heaven’s Door – Bob Dylan
95. Burn – Ray LaMontagne
96. Tomorrow – Kiss
97. The Strangest Thing – Bernard Fanning
98. Again – Lenny Kravitz
99. Ride On – AC/DC
100. Angels of the Silences – Counting Crows
Thank you! Thank you! You resurrected in my mind some songs I hadn't thot of in ages.....
ReplyDeleteAnd we have some crossover...
8,12,20,21,24!,31,33,39,47,57!,
79,82!,83,99
I have to say I thought I was the only person in the world who liked 'Midnight Blue'.
And 'May it Be' - Are you a Rings fan or an Enya fan?
And my husband has hung out with POD before.
I also love songs by some of the same bands as you, just different songs than the ones you named.
Oh, don't you LOVE being reminded of songs you've forgotten about? I love that! :)
ReplyDeleteI'm an Enya fan more than a Rings fan (although I did think I was going to sob in the cinema in Return of the King, but maybe that was more to do with coming to the end of the Aragorn ride hehe :) No, I just love that song so much. Must buy some Enya.
And Midnight Blue - yeah! Awesome song.
"End of the Aragorn ride"...hehe.
ReplyDelete"I used follow, yeah, that's true.
But my following days are over, now I just gotta follow through"
Mmm. Love that song.
well done. this is a noble undertaking...i wondered where i would start and then "do you believe in love" by huey lewis and the news popped into my head. how's that for self disclosure?
ReplyDeleteErin - Those lines are easier to sing than to live in, aren't they? :)
ReplyDeleteLucy - well done :) I love that song. I remember clearly when it came out. It was the first HLATN song released here in Australia. I would have been about 12 or 13 or something like that.
It is a noble undertaking! It's very scary indeed :)
Number 26 - that's the joke entry to bring a bit of jollity to an otherwise respectable list, right? Worked. I've been laughing all morning.
ReplyDeleteBite me :)
ReplyDeleteThat song is gorgeous.
I don't know how I would even begin to accomplish a list like this! Well done.
ReplyDeleteThanks, P&P. I feel like it sitting there with John Denver in my list is akin to wandering down the main street of my suburb in the nuddy.
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