Top Ten Top Five

List your top ten go to bands then the top five songs you like from that band.


#1 The Kinks

#5 Waterloo Sunset

#4 A Well Respected Man

#3 Destroyer

#2 Lola

#1 Better Things



#2 The Doors

#5 LA Woman

#4 Light My Fire

#3 The End

#2 Roadhouse Blues

#1 Riders on the Storm



#3 SRV

#5 Look at little sister

#4 Mary Had a Little Lamb

#3 Pride and Joy

#2 Texas Flood

#1 Tin Pan Alley



#4 Rare Earth

#5 Big John Is My Name

#4 Hey Big Brother

#3 I just want to celebrate

#2 Get ready

#1 Ma





#5 Led Zeppelin

#5 Gallows Pole

#4 Baby I’m Gonna Leave You

#3 Since I’ve Been Loving You

#2 Fool In The Rain

#1 Going To California



#6 CCR

#5 Tombstone Shadow

#4 The Midnight Special

#3 Suzie Q

#2 Born of the Bayou

#1 Fortunate Son



#7 Steppenwolf

#5 Magic Carpet Ride

#4 Born To Be Wild

#3 Monster

#2 Snow Blind Friend

#1 The Pusher

#8 Bob Dylan

#5 Hurricane

#4 Maggie’s Farm

#3 Don’t think twice it’s alright

#4 Blowin in the wind

#1 Tangled Up in Blue







#9 Bob Seger

#5 Turn The Page

#4 Against The Wind

#3 Night Moves

#2 Beautiful Loser

#1 Main Street



#10 Blood Sweat and Tears

#5 You’ve Made Me So Very Happy

#4 And when I die

#3 Spinning Wheel

#2 Go Down Gamblin

#1 Lucretia Mac Evil

You're asking the impossible, but I'll go with this for now...


Metal

1. System of a Down
   1. Forest
   2. Stealing Society
   3. Spiders
   4. Pictures
   5. This Cocaine Makes Me Feel Like I'm On This Song
2. Korn
   1. Clown
   2. Children of the Korn
   3. Daddy
   4. A Different World
   5. Love Song
3. Slipknot
   1. Duality
   2. Killpop
   3. Eyeless
   4. The Negative One
   5. Everything Ends
4. Chevelle
   1. Hunter Eats Hunter
   2. Forfeit
   3. Mexican Sun
   4. Closure
   5. Door to Door Cannibals
5. Deftones
   1. My Own Summer (Shove It)
   2. Diamond Eyes
   3. Change (In the House of Flies)
   4. Passenger
   5. Minerva

Rap

1. Outkast
   1. Wheelz of Steel
   2. So Fresh, So Clean
   3. Player's Ball
   4. Rosa Parks
   5. The Train
2. Twista
   1. Creep Fast
   2. Holding Down the Game
   3. On Top
   4. Overnight Celebrity
   5. Heartbeat
3. Too $hort
   1. I'm a Player
   2. Call Me
   3. Lollypops
   4. Coming Up Short
   5. Hey, Let's Go
4. Wu-Tang Clan (including solo projects)
   1. Duck Seazon
   2. Incarcerated Scarfaces [Raekwon]
   3. Liquid Swords [GZA]
   4. Killin' Fields [Method Man]
   5. Bring Da Ruckus
5. Eminem
   1. Say What You Say
   2. Role Model
   3. Drips
   4. Rain Man
   5. Almost Famous

...and given your list, I'd be surprised if you've ever heard any of these 50 songs.

I like pretty much all the songs of my top 10 bands....so I'll just list who they are, not their tunes.

* all 4 headings are interchangeable as far as rank, or order of preference...imho.


Cream of the crop:

Bob Dylan
Bob Marley
Miles Davis
Jimi Hendrix
John Coltrane
Charlie Parker
Stevie Wonder
Charles Mingus
Thelonious Monk
Wes Montgomery



Go to top 10:

Yes
Traffic
The Clash
The Doors
Steely Dan
Frank Zappa
Moody Blues
Grateful Dead
Return to Forever
Velvet Underground


Secondary top 10:

CCR
Jeff Beck
Pink Floyd
Beach Boys
David Bowie
King Crimson
Talking Heads
Rolling Stones
Weather Report
Earth, Wind & Fire


3rd Tier:

ELO
Cream
CSN&Y
Beatles
Santana
The Who
Tom Waits
Warren Zevon
Simon & Garfunkel
(Any Motown/or any James Brown)

I listed my top ten bands/artists in my 3 favorite categories -- Jazz Fusion, Jazz and Prog. I'm kind of like Yoga in that I don't really have favorite songs as it's a constantly changing and evolving thing.

Jazz Fusion:

Weather Report
Mahavishnu Orchestra
Return To Forever
George Duke
Pat Metheny Group
Jean Luc Ponty
Jan Hammer
Bill Brufords Earthworks
Allan Holdsworth
Michal Urbaniak


Prog Rock:

Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Genesis
Yes
King Crimson
The Nice
Pink Floyd
Vangelis
The Doors
Kansas
Rush



Jazz:

Wes Montgomery
Miles Davis
Larry Young
Toots Thielemans
John Coltrane
Melvin Rhyne
Bill Evans
Joey Defrancesco
Tony Monaco
Grant Green

Worth a thread necro.


Nine Inch Nails
I Do Not Want This
Closer
Perfect Drug
Happiness in Slavery
The Becoming


Pink Floyd
Comfortably Numb
Money
Shine On You Crazy Diamond
Welcome to the Machine
Hey You


Skynyrd
Freebird
I Never Dreamed
Coming Home
Simple Man
Whisky Rock A Roller


Pearl Jam
Yellow Ledbetter
Black
Alive
Immortality
Inside Job


Tom Petty
Runnin Down a Dream
Refugee
Don't Do Me Like That
Breakdown
You Got Lucky


Rolling Stones
Gimme Shelter
Sympathy for the Devil
You Can't Always Get What You Want
Paint it, Black
Beasts of Burden


Steven Wilson
Stars Die
Arriving Somewhere But Not Here
Regret #9
Watchmaker
All The Blue Changes


Alice in Chains
Over Now
Would?
Man in the Box
Nutshell
Heaven Beside You


The Offspring
All I Want
Not the One
Self Esteem
LAPD
Genocide

War on Drugs
An Ocean Between the Waves
Under the Pressure
Nothing to Find
Strangest Thing
In Chains

Bump for the new people.

Maybe bump 'Welcome to the Machine' for 'Dogs' and 'Inside Job' for 'Corduroy'.

I started this last time it was bumped and fucked up my post and didn’t want to start over, so I’ll try again.

Red Hot Chili Peppers

• This Velvet Glove
• Easily
• I Could Have Lied
• Transcending
• Funky Monks

Jane’s Addiction

• Then She Did
• 3 Days
• Mountain Song
• Ted, Just Admit It
• Of Course

Pearl Jam

• Immortality
• Crazy Mary
• Nothing Man
• Rats
• Off He Goes

The Clash

• Garageland
• Washington Bullets
• Guns of Brixton
• Clampdown
• Bankrobber... no... (White Man) in Hammersmith Palais... no... Bankrobber

Social Distortion

• Down Here With the Rest of Us
• Don’t Drag Me Down
• Dear Lover
• Moral Threat
• Mass Hysteria

Queens of the Stone Age

• Auto Pilot
• God is in the Radio
• Song for the Dead
• Burn the Witch
• You Got a Killer Scene There, Man

Rage Against the Machine

• No Shelter
• Wake Up
• Township Rebellion
• Born of a Broken Man
• Revolver

Tom Petty/Heatbreakers

• Crawling Back to You
• You Don’t Knoe How it Feels
• Learning to Fly
• Last DJ
• Something Good Coming

Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros

• Bhindi Bhagee
• Mega Bottle Ride
• Global a Go-Go
• Burnin’ Streets
• Get Down Moses

Primus

• Southbound Pachyderm
• American Life
• Damn Bluecollar Tweekers
• To Defy the Laws of Tradition
• The Toys Go Winding Down

TheDayMan said:

I started this last time it was bumped and fucked up my post and didn’t want to start over, so I’ll try again.
Pearl Jam

• Immortality
• Crazy Mary
• Nothing Man
• Rats
• Off He Goes

Tom Petty/Heatbreakers

• Crawling Back to You
• You Don’t Knoe How it Feels
• Learning to Fly
• Last DJ
• Something Good Coming

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I like how we have nine different songs here out of ten possible.

Crawling Back to You (and Wildflowers) is phenomenal. I think the reason I didn't choose it for my list is because the War on Drugs...well, entire discography probably owes itself to Wildflowers and I've been listening to a lot of War on Drugs lately. I probably wouldn't consider any of the other songs to be in my top ten.

Off He Goes is something that I loved the first couple of times I heard but I dont think it has the staying power of some of their other classics. My top 20 Pearl Jam songs are all very fluid, though.

Clayton said:

I like how we have nine different songs here out of ten possible.

Crawling Back to You (and Wildflowers) is phenomenal. I think the reason I didn't choose it for my list is because the War on Drugs...well, entire discography probably owes itself to Wildflowers and I've been listening to a lot of War on Drugs lately. I probably wouldn't consider any of the other songs to be in my top ten.

Off He Goes is something that I loved the first couple of times I heard but I dont think it has the staying power of some of their other classics. My top 20 Pearl Jam songs are all very fluid, though.

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Pearl Jam and Tom Petty are both tough ones for this kind of thing. I could be happy rotating different songs from both of them to fit my go to 5 for a few days before I get back to my first list.

I’ve never listened to the War on Drugs, but the rest of your list is excellent, so I’ll check them out.

Pearl Jam (very difficult to pick just 5)
* Black
* Given to Fly
* Off he goes
* Yellow Ledbetter
* Alive

REM
* The one I love
* Losing my religion
* It's the end of the world as we know it (and I feel fine)
* Everybody hurts
* Drive

Iron Maiden (another very difficult top 5)
* Hallowed by thy name
* The Clansman
* The evil that men do
* The Trooper
* Ever dream
* Nemo

Nightwish (I love all of these in their live versions, with Tarja or Floor singing)
* Ghost love Score
* The poet and the pendulum
* Phantom of the Opera
* Ever Dream
* Nemo

Metallica
* One
* Fade to black
* Master of puppets
* The call of Ktulu
* The unforgiven

TheDayMan said:

I’ve never listened to the War on Drugs, but the rest of your list is excellent, so I’ll check them out.

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If you do then 'Lost in the Dream' is the album to start with.

For most of these groups I have many more than 5 favorites and I could probably swap in several more groups for some of these as favorites.

The Rolling Stones

• Brown Sugar
• Gimme Shelter
• Paint It Black
• Sympathy For The Devil
• Under My Thumb

The Who

• My Generation
• I Can See For Miles
• The Kids Are Alright
• Anyway, Anyhow, Anwhere
• Won't Get Fooled Again

Roxy Music

• Out Of The Blue
• Amazona
• The Thrill Of It All
• Mother Of Pearl
• Both Ends Burning

Velvet Underground

• Heroin
• Some Kinda Love
• Sweet Jane
• Pale Blue Eyes
• Rock & Roll

New York Dolls

• Personality Crisis
• Jet Boy
• Pills
• Don't Start Me Talkin'
• Bad Girl

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

• Oliver's Army
• Alison
• From A Whsiper To A Scream
• Clubland
• Riot Act

Neil Young

• Like A Hurricane
• Rockin in the Free World
• After The Gold Rush
• The Needle and The Damage Done
• Only Love Can Break Your Heart

Patti Smith Group

• Gloria
• Ain't It Strange
• Free Money
• Rock and Roll N****r
• Pumping(My Heart)

Van Morrison

• Moondance
• You're My Woman
• Into The Mystic
• Wild Night
• Tupelo Honey

Talking Heads

• Once In A Lifetime
• Burning Down The House
• Life During Wartime
• Crosseyed and Painless
• Psycho Killer

Country:

1. Waylon Jennings

Lonesome, On'ry and Mean
Love of the Common People
Cedartown, Georgia
Are You Sure Hank Done it This Way
Where Corn Don't Grow

2. Merle Haggard

Living With the Shades Pulled Down
Makeup and Faded Blue Jeans
Mama Tried
Misery and Gin
Branded Man

3. Willie Nelson

Whiskey River
Time of the Preacher
Bloody Mary Morning
Red Headed Stranger
Shotgun Willie

4. Keith Whitley

I'm no Stranger to the Rain
Bitch at the Bottom
I Never Go Around Mirrors
Brother Jukebox
I'm Over You

5. Guy Clark

Dublin Blues
The Carpenter
LA Freeway
Desperados Waiting for a Train
Last Gunfighter's Ballad

6. Jerry Jeff Walker

Jaded Lover
Hairy Ass Hillbillies
Gettin By
Leaving Texas
Mr Bojangles

7. Kris Kristofferson

Best of all Possible Worlds
Me and Bobby McGee
Help me Make it Through the Night
The Taker
To Beat the Devil

8. Hank Williams Sr

Angel of Death
Lost Highway
I Just Don't Like this Kind of Living
I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
I'll Never Get Out of this World Alive

9. Ray Wylie Hubbard

Conversation with the Devil
Lucifer and the Fallen Angels
Cooler 'n Hell
Mother Blues
Up Against the Wall Redneck Mother

10. Emmylou Harris

Bluebird Wine
Queen of the Silver Dollar
Born to Run
Red Dirt Girl
Two More Bottles of Wine

Rock

1. Lynyrd Skynyrd

Things Goin On
You Got That Right
Honky Tonk Night Time Man
Simple Man
Four Walls of Raiford

2. Marshall Tucker Band

Fire on the Mountain
Take the Highway
Can't You See
This Ol Cowboy
Long Hard Ride

3. Allman Brothers

Whipping Post
Jessica
Midnight Rider
Black Hearted Woman
Ramblin Man

4. Rolling Stones

Dead Flowers
Wild Horses
Sweet Virginia
Honky Tonk Woman
Far Away Eyes

5. Tom Petty

Last DJ
Leaning to Fly
You Don't Know How it Feels
Running Down a Dream
Yer So Bad

6. CCR

Lookin Out my Backdoor
Midnight Special
Proud Mary
Have You Ever Seen the Rain
Cotton Fields Back Home

7. Eagles

Already Gone
Lying Eyes
Take it to the Limit
Heartache Tonight
Seven Bridges Road

8. Jerry Lee Lewis

Chantilly Lace
Great Balls of Fire
Whole Lotta Shakin Goin On
Middle Aged Crazy
What Made Milwaukee Famous

9. Carl Perkins

Blue Suede Shoes
Matchbox
Honey Don't
Dixie Fried
Mean Woman Blues

10. Neil Young

Heart of Gold
Old Man
Are You Ready For the Country
Get Back to the Country
The Needle and the Damage Done

TheDayMan said:

I started this last time it was bumped and fucked up my post and didn’t want to start over, so I’ll try again.

Red Hot Chili Peppers

• This Velvet Glove
• Easily
• I Could Have Lied
• Transcending
• Funky Monks

Jane’s Addiction

• Then She Did
• 3 Days
• Mountain Song
• Ted, Just Admit It
• Of Course

Pearl Jam

• Immortality
• Crazy Mary
• Nothing Man
• Rats
• Off He Goes

The Clash

• Garageland
• Washington Bullets
• Guns of Brixton
• Clampdown
• Bankrobber... no... (White Man) in Hammersmith Palais... no... Bankrobber

Social Distortion

• Down Here With the Rest of Us
• Don’t Drag Me Down
• Dear Lover
• Moral Threat
• Mass Hysteria

Queens of the Stone Age

• Auto Pilot
• God is in the Radio
• Song for the Dead
• Burn the Witch
• You Got a Killer Scene There, Man

Rage Against the Machine

• No Shelter
• Wake Up
• Township Rebellion
• Born of a Broken Man
• Revolver

Tom Petty/Heatbreakers

• Crawling Back to You
• You Don’t Knoe How it Feels
• Learning to Fly
• Last DJ
• Something Good Coming

Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros

• Bhindi Bhagee
• Mega Bottle Ride
• Global a Go-Go
• Burnin’ Streets
• Get Down Moses

Primus

• Southbound Pachyderm
• American Life
• Damn Bluecollar Tweekers
• To Defy the Laws of Tradition
• The Toys Go Winding Down

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You ever hear the lead singer of Social Distortion's cover album?

I don't know if I've ever had more mixed feelings about a cover.

Punk rock and 50's country is an odd combo, but I kinda like it

Sleater-Kinney:
A Quarter To Three
Dig Me Out
Get Up
Light Rail Coyote
Rollercoaster

Pixies:
Vamos
No 13 Baby
Debaser
Motorway to Roswell
Allison

Propagandhi:
Fuck the Border
...And We Thought That Nation States Were a Bad Idea
A Speculative Fiction
Dear Coach's Corner
With Friends Like These, Who The Fuck Needs COINTELPRO?

Queens of the Stone Age:
Avon
The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret
In The Fade
You Think I Ain't Worth a Dollar, But I Feel Like a Millionaire
Mexicola

Converge:
Reptilian
Eagles Become Vultures
Black Cloud
Concubine
The Broken Vow

Eyedea & Abilities/Oliver Hart (Eyedea's psuedonym):
How Much Do You Pay? (As Oliver Hart)
Blindly Firing (E&A)
Paradise (E&A)
Exhausted Love (E&A)
Burn Fetish (E&A)

Good Riddance:
Made To Be Broken
Shit Talking Capitalists
Shadows of Defeat
Cheyenne
Fire Engine Red

Screaming Females:
Bell
A New Kid
Wishing Well
It All Means Nothing
Tell Me No

Pavement:
Rattled by the Rush
Spit on a Stranger
Shoot the Singer
Embassy Row
Major Leagues

Beastie Boys:
Professor Booty
Paul Revere
Rhymin & Stealin
Hey Ladies
Super Disco Breakin'

Chewbaccer said:

You ever hear the lead singer of Social Distortion's cover album?

I don't know if I've ever had more mixed feelings about a cover.

Punk rock and 50's country is an odd combo, but I kinda like it

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I haven’t listened to it, added it to my library though, love the song you posted. I really like his is other solo album, Cheating at Solitare. It’s got the same kind of influence, also an excellent title for a solo album.

YankeeRebel said:

List your top ten go to bands then the top five songs you like from that band.


#1 The Kinks

#5 Waterloo Sunset

#4 A Well Respected Man

#3 Destroyer

#2 Lola

#1 Better Things



#2 The Doors

#5 LA Woman

#4 Light My Fire

#3 The End

#2 Roadhouse Blues

#1 Riders on the Storm



#3 SRV

#5 Look at little sister

#4 Mary Had a Little Lamb

#3 Pride and Joy

#2 Texas Flood

#1 Tin Pan Alley



#4 Rare Earth

#5 Big John Is My Name

#4 Hey Big Brother

#3 I just want to celebrate

#2 Get ready

#1 Ma





#5 Led Zeppelin

#5 Gallows Pole

#4 Baby I’m Gonna Leave You

#3 Since I’ve Been Loving You

#2 Fool In The Rain

#1 Going To California



#6 CCR

#5 Tombstone Shadow

#4 The Midnight Special

#3 Suzie Q

#2 Born of the Bayou

#1 Fortunate Son



#7 Steppenwolf

#5 Magic Carpet Ride

#4 Born To Be Wild

#3 Monster

#2 Snow Blind Friend

#1 The Pusher

#8 Bob Dylan

#5 Hurricane

#4 Maggie’s Farm

#3 Don’t think twice it’s alright

#4 Blowin in the wind

#1 Tangled Up in Blue







#9 Bob Seger

#5 Turn The Page

#4 Against The Wind

#3 Night Moves

#2 Beautiful Loser

#1 Main Street



#10 Blood Sweat and Tears

#5 You’ve Made Me So Very Happy

#4 And when I die

#3 Spinning Wheel

#2 Go Down Gamblin

#1 Lucretia Mac Evil

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Nice thread. I'll go, but my top 5 songs for each artist is constantly changing. My top 10 artists changes quite often. I'll try to be as objective as possible and reflect my top 5 favorite songs from my top 10 artists at this point in my life.

I also reserve the right to say that I forgot a song that would make my top 5.

#1 The Beatles

1. It's All Too Much

2. With A Little Help From My Friends

3. A Day in the Life

4. She Said She Said

5. And Your Bird Can Sing

#2 Eminem

1. Deja Vu

2. Phenomenal

3. Die Alone

4. Like Toy Soldiers

5. Music Box

#3 David Bowie

1. Modern Love

2. Space Oddity

3. Ashes To Ashes

4. Changes

5. Soul Love

#4 Bob Dylan

1. Queen Jane Approximately

2. Like A Rolling Stone

3. Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again

4. I Want You

5. One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later)

#5 Pink Floyd

1. Dogs

2. Wish You Were Here

3. The Final Cut

4. Have A Cigar

5. Hey You

#6 The Rolling Stones

1. She's A Rainbow

2. Let's Spend The Night Together

3. Dead Flowers

4. Under My Thumb

5. Moonlight Mile

#7 Led Zeppelin

1. All My Love

2. Fool in the Rain

3. Stairway To Heaven

4. No Quarter

5. Rock and Roll

#8 The Beach Boys

1. The Trader

2. God Only Knows

3. Sloop John B

4. Feel Flows

5. Long Promised Road

#9 Kanye West

1. Gorgeous

2. Father Stretch My Hands Pt. 1

3. Through The Wire

4. 30 Hours

5. Famous

#10 The Clash

1. Train in Vain

2. Lost in the Supermarket

3. Jimmy Jazz

4. Charlie Don't Surf

5. Rock the Casbah

Clayton said:

Worth a thread necro.


Nine Inch Nails
I Do Not Want This
Closer
Perfect Drug
Happiness in Slavery
The Becoming


Pink Floyd
Comfortably Numb
Money
Shine On You Crazy Diamond
Welcome to the Machine
Hey You


Skynyrd
Freebird
I Never Dreamed
Coming Home
Simple Man
Whisky Rock A Roller


Pearl Jam
Yellow Ledbetter
Black
Alive
Immortality
Inside Job


Tom Petty
Runnin Down a Dream
Refugee
Don't Do Me Like That
Breakdown
You Got Lucky


Rolling Stones
Gimme Shelter
Sympathy for the Devil
You Can't Always Get What You Want
Paint it, Black
Beasts of Burden


Steven Wilson
Stars Die
Arriving Somewhere But Not Here
Regret #9
Watchmaker
All The Blue Changes


Alice in Chains
Over Now
Would?
Man in the Box
Nutshell
Heaven Beside You


The Offspring
All I Want
Not the One
Self Esteem
LAPD
Genocide

War on Drugs
An Ocean Between the Waves
Under the Pressure
Nothing to Find
Strangest Thing
In Chains

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For the 10 songs of the two artists we have in common in our top 10, we have 1 song that overlaps lol

Just realized I listed 6 QOTSA songs.