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 is Jewish then I apologise for my latent racism.]

Edited Wednesday at 10:18 by benjii

[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 Tuesday at 11:57 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 Tuesday at 14:25 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 Tuesday at 15:26 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. 

[badgerx16]

40 minutes ago, benjii said:

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

La Tristesse Durrera would be my choice.

[Raging Bull]

Jerusalem 

Columbia - oasis

Kashmir - led zeppelin 

The dance - the music

November rain - GnR

Glue - bicep

Cafe Del mar - energy 52

like a prayer - maradona

halo - Beyoncé 

don't pay the ferryman - chris de burgh

[Lee On Solent Saint]

1 hour ago, egg said:

On another day I could have picked many of those. 

Yeah, tough ask to get it down to ten. Even then couldn't find any room for The Carpets or Chilli Peppers

[Holmes_and_Watson]

1 hour ago, egg said:

On another day I could have picked many of those. 

Just what I was thinking looking at the lists. Quite a few I listen to a lot, that could have been adfed.

[Lord Duckhunter]

14 hours ago, Gloucester Saint said:

Sun King - Beatles

Unusual choice. Funnily enough I nearly had the track that fades into Sun King as one of mine. “You never give me your money”, but went Golden Slumbers instead, mainly because it literally led to The End….
 

Interesting that 3 people picked different Beatles tracks from the same album and imo it’s not even their best one…

[revolution saint]

2 hours ago, Lord Duckhunter said:

Unusual choice. Funnily enough I nearly had the track that fades into Sun King as one of mine. “You never give me your money”, but went Golden Slumbers instead, mainly because it literally led to The End….
 

Interesting that 3 people picked different Beatles tracks from the same album and imo it’s not even their best one…

I nearly put “Pleasant valley Sunday” by the monkees just to annoy you. Actually I do really like that track but didn’t make the cut.

[Lord Duckhunter]

40 minutes ago, revolution saint said:

I nearly put “Pleasant valley Sunday” by the monkees just to annoy you. Actually I do really like that track but didn’t make the cut.

Why would it annoy me, it’s a great song. I’ve got Carole Kings demo on my CK play list. 
 

The TV show was shite, but the music great. Great writers & The Wrecking Crew, what’s not to like. 
 

The Rutles were close to my top 10 anyway, Neil Innes was brilliant, and Eric Idols piss take of McCartney was genius imo…

[revolution saint]

36 minutes ago, Lord Duckhunter said:

Why would it annoy me, it’s a great song. I’ve got Carole Kings demo on my CK play list. 
 

The TV show was shite, but the music great. Great writers & The Wrecking Crew, what’s not to like. 
 

The Rutles were close to my top 10 anyway, Neil Innes was brilliant, and Eric Idols piss take of McCartney was genius imo…

You were banging on a while ago about the Monkees not being very good.  CBA to find it now.

[Lord Duckhunter]

1 hour ago, revolution saint said:

You were banging on a while ago about the Monkees not being very good.  CBA to find it now.

Sung properly some of the musics very good. 

Edited Wednesday at 14:32 by Lord Duckhunter

[Turkish]

Melting Pot Blue Mink

Id like to teach the world to sing - New Seekers

Black or White - Micheal Jackson

Equality Street - Brent and Johnson

One Love - Bob Marley

Born This Way - Lady Gaga

Small town boy - Bronski Beat

Edited Wednesday at 14:44 by Turkish

[badgerx16]

58 minutes ago, Turkish said:

Melting Pot Blue Mink

Id like to teach the world to sing - New Seekers

Black or White - Micheal Jackson

Equality Street - Brent and Johnson

One Love - Bob Marley

Born This Way - Lady Gaga

Small town boy - Bronski Beat

Ebony and Ivory - Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder

Edited Wednesday at 15:41 by badgerx16

[RedArmy]

Difficult to pick just 10 but train tracks have definitely got to be up there for me. 

[egg]

32 minutes ago, RedArmy said:

Difficult to pick just 10 but train tracks have definitely got to be up there for me. 

Hey soul sister or drops of jupiter...

[Gloucester Saint]

7 hours ago, Lord Duckhunter said:

Unusual choice. Funnily enough I nearly had the track that fades into Sun King as one of mine. “You never give me your money”, but went Golden Slumbers instead, mainly because it literally led to The End….
 

Interesting that 3 people picked different Beatles tracks from the same album and imo it’s not even their best one…

I find it particularly relaxing and especially this time of year, You Never Give Your Money is a classic as is Golden Slumbers.

I really enjoy Abbey Road but could make a counter argument for several of their albums.

[egg]

8 hours ago, Lord Duckhunter said:

Unusual choice. Funnily enough I nearly had the track that fades into Sun King as one of mine. “You never give me your money”, but went Golden Slumbers instead, mainly because it literally led to The End….
 

Interesting that 3 people picked different Beatles tracks from the same album and imo it’s not even their best one…

Golden Slumbers is magnificent, and brilliantly covered by Elbow. I'm not sure I could pick a best Beatles track, just too many. 

[Farmer Saint]

On 01/07/2025 at 18:49, Holmes_and_Watson said:

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...

Ooh, some interesting ones there - in actual fact one of the songs on there also samples in one of my favourite dance tracks - Setting Sun by the Chems (drums from Tomorrow Never Knows). 

Also you reminded me of Leftfield, so I may have to add Original by them, and also Street Spirit (Fade Out), Pyramid Song and How to Disappear Completely by Radiohead.

Top 10 is so hard to do TBF...top 10 from every genre would be easier.

[Farmer Saint]

On 01/07/2025 at 19:29, egg said:

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

There goes the Fear by The Doves is a tune as well.