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Your favourite top 10 singles, please?

Last post Aug 01, 2008, 6:14 PM by al7478. (21 replies)
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Posted on Jun 27, 2008, 1:22 PM

Your favourite top 10 singles, please?

If someone sat you down in a small room and asked you to name your fav top 10 singles, what would they be?

It could connected to a family holiday, your very first date or just musical brilliance. And they don't have to be in numerical order either.

My favs are as follows:

10) The Who - don't get fooled again
9)Joe Jackson - Is she really going out with him
8)Tom Petty - Free Falling
7)Freida Payne - Band of Gold
6)Longpigs - On and on
5)Squeeze - Is that love
4)Coldplay - Shiver(live version)
3)Big Country - Chance
2)Lenny Kravitz - Are you gonna go my way
1)Crowded House - Its only natural

Posted on Jun 27, 2008, 3:08 PM

97894

Re: Your favourite top 10 singles, please?


Do they have to be singles?



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Posted on Jun 27, 2008, 3:27 PM

97931

Re: Your favourite top 10 singles, please?

JohnDuncan:
Do they have to be singles?


Not exclusively. They could be E.P.'s or albums and 'B' sides.

Posted on Jun 27, 2008, 3:38 PM

97935

Re: Your favourite top 10 singles, please?


Tricky. Might look something like this (today) - though I can't put an order on them right now:

The Right Place (Eddi Reader)
Subdivisions (Rush)
Stay With Me Till Dawn (Judie Tzuke)
Turn It On Again (Genesis)
Cloudbusting (Kate Bush)
Wait (Sarah McLachlan)
Separate Ways/Worlds Apart (Journey)
He Knows You Know (Marillion)
Down To You (Joni Mitchell)
Solisbury Hill (Peter Gabriel)



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Posted on Jun 27, 2008, 3:47 PM

97938

Re: Your favourite top 10 singles, please?

There is some good stuff there, JD. It's really difficult because if I was to pose the same question this evening my favs would probably change dramatically.

Posted on Jun 27, 2008, 8:50 PM

97940

Cool [H]Re: Your favourite top 10 singles, please?

At this moment this is my top ten

New Radicals - you get what you give
Bryan Adams - Run to you
N Trance - Set you free
INXS - Need you tonight
John Lennon - Imagine
Kasabian - Empire
Sophie B Hawkins - Damn I wish I was your lover
The Smiths - This Charming Man
Beastie Boys - Intergalactic
Big Area - Then Jericho

Posted on Jun 27, 2008, 8:53 PM

98031

Re: Your favourite top 10 singles, please?

I could name my 10 favourite tracks in order but none would be singles

Posted on Jun 27, 2008, 8:53 PM

98031

Re: Your favourite top 10 singles, please?

isnt that ''wont get fooled again'' not ''dont get fooled again''??
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

Posted on Jun 27, 2008, 9:20 PM

98033

Re: Your favourite top 10 singles, please?

Lets give it a go not in any proper order though .....

Tubeway Army - Are Friends Electric
David Bowie - Ashes To Ashes
Clash - London Calling
Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill
ELO - Mr Blue Sky
Depeche Mode - Enjoy The Silence
Alanis Morisette - You Oughta Know
Blondie - Atomic
Kinks - You Really Got Me
Smiths - How Soon Is Now

Probably change some later once ive thought more :)
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Posted on Jun 27, 2008, 10:49 PM

97894

Re: Your favourite top 10 singles, please?

Blimey P.P. This is so, so, so, soooo... hard but you know I can`t resist this sort of thing! Well, I`ve thought about it for 15 mins or so and here is a list. Of course, because it`s been done in just 15 mins it`s very likely I`ve missed some of my real top ten. Maybe all of them! Here goes anyway. Oh by the way, these are all singles.


Dollar  -  Give Me Back My Heart


Christina Aguilera  -  Hurt


Bonnie Tyler  -  Total Eclipse Of The Heart


Rush  -  Spirit Of Radio


Voyager  -  Halfway Hotel


Matt Monro  -  Walk Away


Heart  -  Alone


Meat Loaf  -  Two Out Of Three Ain`t Bad


Alan Parsons Project  -  Old And Wise


The Walker Brothers  -  Love Her

It`s a dream it`s out of reach

Posted on Jun 27, 2008, 11:12 PM

97894

Re: Your favourite top 10 singles, please?

plastic penguin:
If someone sat you down in a small room and asked you to name your fav top 10 singles, what would they be?

It could connected to a family holiday, your very first date or just musical brilliance. And they don't have to be in numerical order either.

My favs are as follows:

10) The Who - don't get fooled again
9)Joe Jackson - Is she really going out with him
8)Tom Petty - Free Falling
7)Freida Payne - Band of Gold
6)Longpigs - On and on
5)Squeeze - Is that love
4)Coldplay - Shiver(live version)
3)Big Country - Chance
2)Lenny Kravitz - Are you gonna go my way
1)Crowded House - Its only natural



Heh. I have both the Longpigs albums... died a death eh, and yep a very good song.

I think its impossible to pick 10 songs, let alone singles...
But off the top of my head, thinking which songs have been the biggest for me over the years, and now...

Marillion - Grendel
Faith No More - The Real Thing
Boards of Canada - Peacock tail
Aphex Twin - Ageispolis
Pearl Jam - Black
EF - Tomorrow my friend
My Exit Music - Dust
Slayer - At dawn they sleep
Morbid Angel - Abomonations
The Cure - 100 years
Genesis - Mad man moon

in no order, although Grendel has been played so many times I lose count.


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Posted on Jun 27, 2008, 11:29 PM

98048

Re: Your favourite top 10 singles, please?

survivor:

Blimey P.P. This is so, so, so, soooo... hard but you know I can`t resist this sort of thing! Well, I`ve thought about it for 15 mins or so and here is a list. Of course, because it`s been done in just 15 mins it`s very likely I`ve missed some of my real top ten. Maybe all of them! Here goes anyway. Oh by the way, these are all singles.


Dollar  -  Give Me Back My Heart


Christina Aguilera  -  Hurt


Bonnie Tyler  -  Total Eclipse Of The Heart


Rush  -  Spirit Of Radio


Voyager  -  Halfway Hotel


Matt Monro  -  Walk Away


Heart  -  Alone


Meat Loaf  -  Two Out Of Three Ain`t Bad


Alan Parsons Project  -  Old And Wise


The Walker Brothers  -  Love Her




I know. A friend of mine and I, some years ago, sat in a pub and within 20 mins our top 10 changed about 5 or 6 times.

Posted on Jun 28, 2008, 1:28 AM

98067

Re: Your favourite top 10 singles, please?

1) The Way That He Sings - My Morning Jacket
2) The Boy With The Thorn In His Side - The Smiths
3) Impossible Germany - Wilco
4) I'm A Cuckoo - Belle & Sebastian
5) Kissing The Lipless - The Shins
6) Waitin' For Superman - The Flaming Lips
7) Oh Brother! - The Fall
8) Suedehead - Moz
9) Go Or Go Ahead - Rufus Wainwright
10) My October Symphony - Pet Shop Boys

Ever changing, bar number 1, but that's the nature of these infuriating yet lovable lists.

Posted on Jun 28, 2008, 1:22 PM

98099

Re: Your favourite top 10 singles, please?

Well, it's impossible, isn't it? Can it just be top 10 artists? Guess not... If it has to be singles, today's selection in no particular order:

Elvis Presley - I Got Stung

Elvis Costello  - Oliver's Army

Frank Sinatra - One for my baby

Nancy Sinatra - Sugar Town

Dusty Springfield - The Look of Love

Crowded House - Distant Sun

The Rolling Stones - Wild Horses

Stevie Wonder - Superstition 

Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah

The Beatles - Yesterday
 

And believe it or not, that's quite contemporary by my standards (i've spent most of the morning listening to the Ella  Fitzgerald Songbooks on vinyl...) Big Smile 

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Posted on Jun 28, 2008, 3:15 PM

98163

Re: Your favourite top 10 singles, please?

You've got great taste, Claire. I love Costello, Buckley, the Prefab 4 and I omitted Bowie.

My alternative last night is:

David Bowie - Ashes to ashes
The Jam - The bitterist pill
Crowded House - Don't dream its over
Elvis Costello - Alison (my aim is true)
The beatles - Hello, goodbye
Labi Siffre - Something inside so strong
Rolling Stones - Tops ('B' side to Start me up)
The Kinks - Waterloo sunset
The Supremes - Baby love
Muse - Plug in baby

Sorry for the alternative, But given how difficult it is I feel there's no other choice but to add others outside my original choice
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