Your top 10 tracks

[benjii]

Continuing the musical theme, what's your Top of the Pops? Not easy. There are literally loads of songs. Not what is objectively the best, but what you like/what has moved you.

1. Smashing Pumpkins, 1979

2. Alice in Chains, Would?

3. Nirvana, Smells Like Teen Spirit

4. Pantera, Mouth for War

5. Smashing Pumpkins, This Time

6. Climie Fisher, Love Changes (everything)

7. Kanye West, All of the Lights

8. Jeff Buckley, Lover You Should've Come Over

9. Unida, Black Woman

10. FKA Twigs, Two Weeks 

 

Honourable mentions:

- about twenty other Smashing Pumpkins tracks 

- several other Alice in Chains tracks

- Fetty Wap, Trap Queen

- Arianna Grande, No Tears Left to Cry

- Madonna, Like a Prayer 

- Slayer, Raining Blood

- Kunt and the Gang, Paperboy

- Placebo, Nancy Boy

- Miley Cyrus, Midnight Sky

- Kak Hatt, Just How You Like It

- Johnny Cash / Nine Inch Nails, Hurt

 

[P.s. if none of the above are Jewish then I apologise for my latent racism.]

[badgerx16]

Answering this question could result in many different selections. Here is one that I could run with;

 

The Clash - White Man in Hammersmith Palais

Deep Purple - Smoke on the Water

Portishead - Glory Box

Nova Twins - K.M.B.

Metallica - All Nightmare Long

Lacuna Coil - Enjoy the Silence

Disturbed - Sound of Silence

Janice Ian - Seventeen

The Hollies - He Ain't Heavy ( He's My Brother )

Johnny Cash - Hurt

 

Leaving no room for the Foo Fighters, Iron Maiden, Linkin Park, RATM, REM, Kate Rusby, and so many others.

 

 

Edited 9 hours ago by badgerx16

[Lord Duckhunter]

The Weight-The Band

Maybe I’m amazed-Paul McCartney

Say you love me-Fleetwod Mac

Golden Slumbers/Carry that weight/ The End-The Beatles 

Drive my Car-The Beatles 

Rock & Roll-Led Zeppelin 

Pretty Vacant-Sex Pistols 

How does it feel-Slade 

Suite:Judy Blue eyes-Crosby Stills and Nash

Shotgun Willie-Willie Nelson 

 

[spyinthesky]

Hit and Run.........................................................Contours
What Becomes of The Brokenhearted...............Joan Osborne & The Funk Bros
Aint Too Proud To Beg........................................Temptations
Function At The Junction....................................Shorty Long
Baby You Mean What You Say............................Drifters
Open The Door To Your Heart............................Darrell Banks
Tainted Love........................................................Gloria Jones
Heaven Must Have Sent You..............................The Elgins
A Change Is Gonna Come...................................Sam Cooke
Do I Love You (Indeed I do).................................Frank Wilson
Run For Cover.......................................................The Dells
Helpless................................................................Four Tops
Uptight..................................................................Stevie Wonder
(Come 'round here) I'm the one you need...........Miracles
Tracks of My Tears...............................................Smokey Robinson
Take Me In Your Arms And Love Me....................Gladys Knight & The Pips
Shotgun.................................................................Junior Walker & The Allstars
In Crowd.................................................................Dobie Gray
This Old Heart of Mine...........................................Isley Bros
(extended version by Mosogotam)
Bills Bag..................................................................Billy Preston

and many more!!!!

 

[whelk]

I’m no good at lists but Into the Mystic - van Morrison 

 

[trousers]

Apologies... I'll have to duck out of this survey as my music tastes are probably far too un-trendy for the Saintsweb music snobs....

[Farmer Saint]

Shine on you Crazy Diamond - Pink Floyd

High Hopes - Pink Floyd

Free Bird - Lynyrd Skynyrd

Powerslave - Iron Maiden

Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Iron Maiden

La Grange - ZZ Top

Hurt - Johnny Cash

Aerials - System of a Down

Epitaph - King Crimson

Dust in the Wind - Kansas

 

And I was only alive when 3 of them were released 😜

Edited 6 hours ago by Farmer Saint

[aintforever]

Off the top of my head...

1. Guns n Roses, Paradise City

2. Pearl Jam, Black

3. Air, You Make It Easy

4. Beatles, Something

5. Metallica, For Whom the Bell Tolls

6. Nick Cave, Into My Arms

7. Amy Winehouse, You Know I’m No Good

8. Mazzy Star, Fade Into You

9. Oasis, Masterplan

10. Nirvana, Drain You

[Raging Bull]

34 minutes ago, trousers said:

Apologies... I'll have to duck out of this survey as my music tastes are probably far too un-trendy for the Saintsweb music snobs....

chris de burgh? 
 

 

[badgerx16]

38 minutes ago, trousers said:

Apologies... I'll have to duck out of this survey as my music tastes are probably far too un-trendy for the Saintsweb music snobs....

 

2 minutes ago, Raging Bull said:

chris de burgh? 
 

 

Patricia the Stripper.

[Weston Super Saint]

6 minutes ago, badgerx16 said:

 

Patricia the Stripper.

Rule 1?

[Farmer Saint]

6 minutes ago, badgerx16 said:

 

Patricia the Stripper.

Borderline is a "borderline" good song. As is " Spanish Train".

[whelk]

20 minutes ago, aintforever said:

Nick Cave, Into My Arms

 

3 hours ago, badgerx16 said:

The Clash - White Man in Hammersmith Palais

Good shouts 

[badgerx16]

2 minutes ago, Farmer Saint said:

Borderline is a "borderline" good song. As is " Spanish Train".

"Who Pays the Ferryman" isn't bad.

[badgerx16]

3 minutes ago, Weston Super Saint said:

Rule 1?

Would that be her, as the Judge put it, in her "working clothes" ?

[revolution saint]

Summertime - Sundays

Tin Soldier - Small Faces

Gimme Shelter - Merry Clayton

Hazy Shade of Winter - Bangles

Copperhead Road - Steve Earle

Wichita Lineman - Gomez

Sittin on the dock of the bay - Otis Redding

My Foolish Friend - Talk Talk

R U Mine? - Arctic Monkeys

Absolute Beginners - The Jam

Edited 5 hours ago by revolution saint

[hypochondriac]

A list takes a long time but I'd have some steely Dan in mine and probably Sam Cooke. 

[Mixedkebab]

Agadoo- Black Lace

We’re having a Gangbang- Black Lace

Theres no-one quite like Grandma- St Winifred’s School Choir

We Like to Party!- Vengaboys

The Stonk- Hale and Pace

The Fuck Shop- 2 Live Crew

Chanson D’Amour- Manhattan Transfer

I’ve never met a Nice South African- Spitting Image cast

Wet Ass Pussy- Cardi B

Snooker Loopy- Chas n Dave and the Matchroom Boys 

 

[Farmer Saint]

1 hour ago, revolution saint said:

Summertime - Sundays

Tin Soldier - Small Faces

Gimme Shelter - Merry Clayton

Hazy Shade of Winter - Bangles

Copperhead Road - Steve Earle

Wichita Lineman - Gomez

Sittin on the dock of the bay - Otis Redding

My Foolish Friend - Talk Talk

R U Mine? - Arctic Monkeys

Absolute Beginners - The Jam

Love Tin Soldier (and also All or Nothing). Small Faces were class.

[revolution saint]

19 minutes ago, Farmer Saint said:

Love Tin Soldier (and also All or Nothing). Small Faces were class.

Cheers, yep, well before my time too but loads to like about Small Faces and Steve Marriott voice is great.

[egg]

1 hour ago, revolution saint said:

Summertime - Sundays

Tin Soldier - Small Faces

Gimme Shelter - Merry Clayton

Hazy Shade of Winter - Bangles

Copperhead Road - Steve Earle

Wichita Lineman - Gomez

Sittin on the dock of the bay - Otis Redding

My Foolish Friend - Talk Talk

R U Mine? - Arctic Monkeys

Absolute Beginners - The Jam

Some good stuff in there. I hadn't realised Gomez had covered Wichita Lineman. Just listened to it and it's brilliant. Cheers. 

[revolution saint]

Just now, egg said:

Some good stuff in there. I hadn't realised Gomez had covered Wichita Lineman. Just listened to it and it's brilliant. Cheers. 

Cheers, yeah, that's the one on one of those Radio 2 Live Lounge type compilations I think?  I remember having to buy the whole CD to get it on the jukebox but sounds great.  I've got this fella:https://soundleisure.com/product/sl15-slimline-cd-jukebox/  It's probably the most self indulgent thing I've bought but bloody amazing. 

[egg]

1 minute ago, revolution saint said:

Cheers, yeah, that's the one on one of those Radio 2 Live Lounge type compilations I think?  I remember having to buy the whole CD to get it on the jukebox but sounds great.  I've got this fella:https://soundleisure.com/product/sl15-slimline-cd-jukebox/  It's probably the most self indulgent thing I've bought but bloody amazing. 

Blimey, that's an impressive bit of kit, and why not. There's nothing wrong with buying an album for 1 track - any excuse to buy more! My thing is vinyl which is a big cash reducer. 

[Holmes_and_Watson]

10 off the top, so must be some of my favs, if I can't get to my 2 Unlimited collection...

 

It's Alright (Baby's Coming Back)" - Eurythmics

Tomorrow Never Knows - The Beatles

Reasons to be Cheerful Part 3- Ian Dury and the Blockheads pushes out Are Friends Electric? - Tubeway Army

Eurodisco -Bis

All the Things She Said - Simple Minds

Life's What You Make It - Talk Talk

Koko - Goldfrapp

Open Up - Leftfield & Lydon

Rock the Casbah - The Clash, pushes out E=MC2 - Big Audio Dynamite

All I need - Air, pushed out Mercy Seat - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

I'm stopping before I remove others for Radiohead or David Deviant and his Spirit Wife or the Prodigy or...

[trousers]

Oh, go on then....

 

Ship to Shore (1982) - Chris de Burgh

Discovery (1977) - Chris de Burgh 

Crusader (1979) - Chris de Burgh

Perfect Day (1977) - Chris de Burgh

Making the Perfect Man (1992) - Chris de Burgh

Turning Around (1974) - Chris de Burgh 

The Painter (1975) - Chris de Burgh 

Eastern Wind (1980) - Chris de Burgh

High on Emotion (1984) - Chris de Burgh

Quiet Revolution (1999) - Chris de Burgh

[CB Fry]

6 minutes ago, trousers said:

Oh, go on then....

 

Ship to Shore (1982) - Chris de Burgh

Discovery (1977) - Chris de Burgh 

Crusader (1979) - Chris de Burgh

Perfect Day (1977) - Chris de Burgh

Making the Perfect Man (1992) - Chris de Burgh

Turning Around (1974) - Chris de Burgh 

The Painter (1975) - Chris de Burgh 

Eastern Wind (1980) - Chris de Burgh

High on Emotion (1984) - Chris de Burgh

Quiet Revolution (1999) - Chris de Burgh

You've just picked his really obvious songs.

[egg]

Absolutely impossible to come up with a top 10, but:

Love will tear us apart - Joy Division 

There is a light that never goes out - Smiths 

Pounding - Doves 

Smells like teen spirit - Nirvana

Beatles and the Stones - House of love 

Echo Beach - Martha and the muffins

Uncertain smile - The The

Rattlesnakes - Lloyd Cole and the commotions 

Lovesong - The Cure 

Bonny - Prefab Sprout

[benjii]

3 hours ago, aintforever said:

 

6. Nick Cave, Into My Arms

Amazing track. Should probably be on my list actually. Straight to You is also amazing.

[benjii]

I don't believe in an interventionist God
But I know, darling, that you do
But if I did, I would kneel down and ask him
Not to intervene when it came to you
Will not to touch a hair on your head
Leave you as you are
If he felt he had to direct you
Then direct you into my arms

Into my arms, oh, Lord
Into my arms, oh, Lord
Into my arms, oh, Lord
Into my arms

And I don't believe in the existence of angels
But looking at you I wonder if that's true
But if I did, I would summon them together
And ask them to watch over you
Well, to each burn a candle for you
To make bright and clear your path
And to walk, like Christ, in grace and love
And guide you into my arms

Into my arms, oh, Lord
Into my arms, oh, Lord
Into my arms, oh, Lord
Into my arms

But I believe in love
And I know that you do too
And I believe in some kind of path
That we can walk down, me and you
So keep your candles burning
Make her journey bright and pure
That she'll keep returning
Always and evermore

Into my arms, oh, Lord
Into my arms, oh, Lord
Into my arms, oh, Lord
Into my arms

 

🥹

[Gloucester Saint]

I’m going to give you tomorrow - Benny Troy

Disco 2000 - Pulp

A Pillow of Winds - Pink Floyd

Design for Life - Manic Street Preachers

Going Underground - The Jam

Spandau Ballet - Gold

Sun King - Beatles

I’ll go where your music takes me - Jimmy James & Vagabonds

You can go your own way - Fleetwood Mac

Lake Poets - Shipyards

[Lee On Solent Saint]

In no particular order

Sweet Child O' Mine - GNR

I Wanna Be Adored - Stone Roses

Waterloo Sunset - The Kinks

The Universal - Blur

Loose Fit - Happy Mondays

Animal Nitrate - Suede

Alive - Pearl Jam

Disco 2000 - Pulp

No One (Not Even The Rain) - The Charlatans

There She Goes - The La's

[benjii]

2 hours ago, Gloucester Saint said:

I’m going to give you tomorrow - Benny Troy

Disco 2000 - Pulp

A Pillow of Winds - Pink Floyd

Design for Life - Manic Street Preachers

Going Underground - The Jam

Spandau Ballet - Gold

Sun King - Beatles

I’ll go where your music takes me - Jimmy James & Vagabonds

You can go your own way - Fleetwood Mac

Lake Poets - Shipyards

If I was going to have a Manics track, it would be Motorcycle Emptiness.

[egg]

2 hours ago, Lee On Solent Saint said:

In no particular order

Sweet Child O' Mine - GNR

I Wanna Be Adored - Stone Roses

Waterloo Sunset - The Kinks

The Universal - Blur

Loose Fit - Happy Mondays

Animal Nitrate - Suede

Alive - Pearl Jam

Disco 2000 - Pulp

No One (Not Even The Rain) - The Charlatans

There She Goes - The La's

On another day I could have picked many of those.