10 Songs You Can't Live Without

[Guest NatashaJade]

10 songs, eh?

Okay...

Waitin' for A Superman - The Flaming Lips

Under Pressure - Bowie and Queen

Life on Mars? - Bowie

Wise Up - Aimee Mann

While My Guitar Gently Weeps - The Beatles

Can't Make a Sound - Elliott Smith

Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley

In An Aeroplane Over the Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel

The Only Living Boy In New York - Simon and Garfunkel

Strange Weather - Tom Waits

I would cry if this was all I had, but I would cry more if I didn't have these...

luv

Gin

[Guest Esperanza Xochitl]

Ten of them, REALLY? Ay dios mio! This may be difficult...

1)"California Uber Allis" -Jayne County's version

2)"My Way" -Sid Vicious version

3)"Personality Crisis" -New York Dolls

4)"Pretty In Pink" -Dresden Dolls version

5)"Runs In The Family" -Amanda Palmer

6)"The Point Of It All" -Amanda Palmer

7)"Brown Eyes" -Lady Gaga

8)"One Of The Boys" -Katy Perry

9)"Brief And False Advertisement" -Bright Eyes (Conor Oberst is soooooooo dreamy!)

10)"Night Of The Living Dead" -Tilly And The Wall

[Guest Pica Pica]

In An Aeroplane Over the Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel - great song that one.

[Guest Donna Jean]

This is hard because I love so much music and only ten songs so I will say that to avoid boredom setting in I have selected some of the longest individual pieces around - excluding the long version of Get Ready by Rare Earth.

1) Torn between four Tone Poems by Richard Strauss - Eine Alpensinfonie, Also Sprach Zarathustra, Till Eulenspiegels Lustige Streiche or Tod und Verklärung.

2) Indian Lady by Don Ellis - Live version from the Autumn album (17:18 - take the long cuts)

3) Maria - Maynard Ferguson (the first recording - mid sixties not the disco mid eighties)

4) Gethsemane - Doc Severinsen

5) My Way - Frank Sinatra

6) Redemption - Blood, Sweat and Tears

7) September - Earth, Wind and Fire

8) Anything by Chicago (except from that one album where they foolishly avoided using the horns - their signature sound) - OK, Searching For So Long*/Mononucleosis - the live cut from the Chicago/Earth, Wind and Fire tour - Lee never sounded better!

9) Late in the Evening - Paul Simon

10) The Last Resort - The Eagles (so many others)

It would have been easier to select the 10 I would never want to hear again!

Love ya,

Sally

*Possibly more meaningful to me now than when I was in denial.

See?

This is what ya get when ya ask a trumpet player!

Sheesh!

Donna Jean

[Guest SuperKali]

1) Cassie-Flyleaf

2) Red Sam-Flyleaf

3) Where the Lines Overlap-Paramore

4) The Only Exception-Paramore

5) Aint No Rest For The Wicked-Cage the Elephant

6) Tainted Love-Marilyn Manson cover

7) Popular-The Veronicas

8) Drops of Jupiter-Train

9) 1234-Plain White T's

10) Starstruck-Lady GaGa

Fun, but it definitely feels incomplete.

[Guest Melanieshaman]

1) Cassie-Flyleaf

2) Red Sam-Flyleaf

3) Where the Lines Overlap-Paramore

4) The Only Exception-Paramore

5) Aint No Rest For The Wicked-Cage the Elephant

6) Tainted Love-Marilyn Manson cover

7) Popular-The Veronicas

8) Drops of Jupiter-Train

9) 1234-Plain White T's

10) Starstruck-Lady GaGa

Fun, but it definitely feels incomplete.

Love me some Flyleaf-just recently really discovered them, yes i love Cassie as well as I'm so sick.

As for some people saying how tough or bored you may get, that's the point...10 songs you will NEVER get bored with. I know i second guess both the lists i put up.

Melanie

[Guest Kieri]

It's difficult to make a list of only 10, but then it's difficult to make a list like this anyway. It took me 30 minutes to come up with these, but I know there are many, many others and I probably like several of those more

In no particular order:

1. Muse - Bliss

2. Muse - Plug in Baby

3. Adam Lambert - What Do You Want From Me

4. Flyleaf - All Around Me

5. Lange - Out of the Sky

6. Armin van Buuren - In and Out of Love

7. Bush - The Chemicals Between Us

8. Delerium - Silence (In Search of Sunrise Mix)

9. Incubus - Pardon Me

10. 311 - Amber

[Guest NatashaJade]

In An Aeroplane Over the Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel - great song that one.

It's one the few albums I listen to all the way through these days. This song in particular has everything I adore about NMH. Jeff Mangum just recorded a cover song for a tribute album which makes me excited to think we may get something new from him one of these days.

Luv

Gin

[Guest Pica Pica]

It's one the few albums I listen to all the way through these days. This song in particular has everything I adore about NMH. Jeff Mangum just recorded a cover song for a tribute album which makes me excited to think we may get something new from him one of these days.

Luv

Gin

You listened to any A Hawk and a Hacksaw with Jeremy Barnes the drummer off this album - it's really good stuff, sort of Klezmer inspired - seen them a few times now.

[Guest cael]

1.Born Wrong- alex davis

2.Fagette- athens boys choir

3.6 feet from the edge -creed

4.du haust- ramstine

5.if i was you vampire- marlyin manson

6.knifes and pens- black veil brides

7.what hurts the most-rascal falts

8.before he cheats- carrie underwood

9.if only you were a boy-alex davis

10.the metrosexual threw off my gay dar- athens boys choir

[Guest Hoslers_wife]

This is gonna be hard....

1)James Otto 'Just got started lovin you' (Nick and I's first song)

2)Bass Hunter 'Boten Anna'

3)Linkin Park 'In the end'

4)Eagle Eye Cherry 'Save tonight'

5)Josh Turner 'Why don't we just dance?'

6)Hollywood Undead 'city'

7)Jeffree star/Hollywood undead 'Turn off the lights'

8)Guns n Roses 'patience'

9)Britney Spears 'piece of me'

10)Chris Young 'The man I want to be'

[Guest Aurora Christy]

Crazy Possessive - Kaci Battaglia

Decpeticon - Le Tigre

The Riddle - Gigi D'Agostino

Hands Open - Snow Patrol

love You - Lily Allen

Bittersweet - Beborn Beton

Feel Fine - Tune Up!

Ain't No Harder Style - Showtek

Can I Walk With You - India.Arie

Converting Vegetarians - Infected Mushroom

[Guest Melanie Dawn]

For today..while I mourn...

Dio-All the Fools Sailed Away

Dio-Lock Up the Wolves

Dio-Holy Diver

Dio-Rainbow in the Dark

Dio-Don't Talk to Strangers

Dio-Rock and Roll Children

Dio-Last In Line

Dio-We Rock

Dio-Heaven and Hell

DIo-Kickapoo (from Tenacious D and the Pick of Destiny)

I miss you already Ronnie \m/ \m/

Crying

Melanie Dawn

[Guest ~Dawn~]

1. Lost Horizon - Lost in the Depths of Me

2. Jeff Buckley - Grace

3. Pain of Salvation - Used

4. Sanctuary - Ascension to Destiny

5. Death - Spirit Crusher

6. Jeff Buckley - So Real

7. Winterhawk - Free to Live

8. Guns n' Roses - There Was a Time

9. Amon Amarth - Runes to my Memory

10. Ensiferum - Treacherous Gods

It was tough picking 10. :x

[Guest Jay_son]

coz of the other half:D

Embrace - Target (I like the "everything is possible, its beautiful!" lyrics)

Placebo - Running up that hill

Alicia keys - thats how strong my love is (another one to blame on the significant other in my life)

Razorlight - I cant stop this feeling I've got

I know thats only 5....I am having to think hard on the rest!

[Guest JulieAnneCD]

Here are my top ten...under protest. It's sooooo hard to narrow it down!

These are in no particular order, either.

1. Losing My Religion-R.E.M.

2. Pillar Of Davidson-Live

3. Viva Forever-Spice Girls

4. Thirteen-Danzig

5. Brian Wilson-Barenaked Ladies

6. Where I Find My Heaven-Gigolo Aunts

7. Alegria-Cirque du Soleil

8. Fall In The Light-Lori Carson

9. I Can See Clearly Now-Jimmy Cliff

10. Possession-Sarah McLachlan

[Guest JulieAnneCD]

My Last Serenate by Killswitch Engage

My Curse by Killswitch Engage

YESSS....They are sooooo good live! I saw them in Indianapolis last year and these two songs were the best of the whole show!

Julie

[Guest Carden]

Happiness In Slavery - Nine Inch Nails

Kingdom of Rust - Doves

Do You Want To Touch Me - Joan Jett

Dead End Justice - The Runaways

Supernaut - Ministry

Blister In The Sun - Violent Femmes

Roots Radicals - Rancid

Innocent - Our Lady Peace

Annie's Song - John Denver

Fairytale of New York - The Pogues

[Guest vertigo]

These are the songs that I remember putting on repeat for days, if not weeks:

1. Dir en grey - mushi [for being the most depressing song ever]

2. The Prodigy - Omen [for the energy exceeding mc²]

3. Air - Talisman [for keeping me in my room, playing the same bassline over and over again]

4. Michael Nyman - The Heart Asks Pleasure First [for being the most beautiful piece that I couldn't learn on piano]

5. God Is An Astronaut - Suicide by Star [for getting me into post-rock, and out of my obsessive Japanese music fever]

6. Rammstein - Mein Herz Brennt [for making me love the German language]

7. Dir en grey - Toguro [for my Dir en grey fandom, and epic vocals]

8. Yann Tiersen - Comptine d'Un Autre Été [for being the most beautiful piece that I DID learn on piano]

9. Rise Against - Chamber the Cartridge [for making me jump around like an idiot]

10. Kashiwa Daisuke - Requiem [for giving me a little trip in my brain every time]

[Guest Natalie92]

10?!?!? Ma'am that is an outrage! Limiting a girl to 10 songs (although one of the top 40 stations in Richmond does a great job of playing the same 5 songs over and over again, thank god we got another one a few months ago) is ridiculous! Now onto the list (liable to change at any time without warning and most likely will within an hour, subject to credit approval, prices may vary by location, songs are not listed in any particular order, limit one song per artist)

Black or White -- Michael Jackson (also happened to be #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 when I was born)

Wonderwall -- Oasis

Born To Run -- Bruce Springsteen

Bad Romance -- Lady Gaga

Silver Lining -- Rilo Kiley

(You Should Be) Doubly (Gratified) -- Mike Doughty

Misery Business -- Paramore

Livin On A Prayer -- Bon Jovi

With A Little Help From My Friends -- The Beatles

1985 -- Bowling For Soup

Natalieg

[Guest Unplugged]

In no particular order...

Changes - David Bowie

Ziggy Stardust - David Bowie

Ana Ng - They Might Be Giants

Cow Town - They Might Be Giants

Slow Ride - Foghat

Party Hard - Andrew WK

Hey Piper - Midnight Brown

Another Brick in the Wall - Pink Floyd

Alala - Cansei De Ser Sexy

Frankenstein - Edgar Winter Group

And yes my musical tastes are pretty much all over the place.

[Guest Renny-sama]

1. November Rain- Guns n Roses

2. God knows-Aya Hirano

3. Wish I had an angel- Nightwish

4. Starfire - Dragonforce

5. Without a fight- Hoobastank

6. Kiss me goodbye- Angela Aki

7. The price of Freedom- Takeharu Ishimoto

8. Dirge of the fourteenth- Yoko Shimomura

9. I stand alone- Godsmack

10. Into the night- Chad Kroeger Ft Carlos Santana

these are my top ten... some of them are from video game soundtracks and anime so yeah...

[Guest iCb]

Shinedown - 45

Rise Against - Swing Life Away

Daft Punk - Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger

Pendulum - Hold Your Colour

The Pillows - Little Busters

Cibo Matto - Sci fi Wasabi

Strife II ft. Serenity - Just in Time to Catch the Sunrise

Asian Kung-fu Generation - Siren

The Human Abstract - Polaris

Sparrowsound - Free to a Good Home

I'm cheating on #10 since that's an album, but it pretty much has to be listened to as a whole. I was going to link to a download for it since it's a free album, but the label's website is more or less gone currently.

[Guest Genesis]

1. Scissor Sisters - I Can't Decide

2. APH Prussia - Einsamkeit

3. Kanon Wakeshima - Kagami

4. 3OH!3 - Follow me down (Ft. Neon Hitch)

5. Canon Rock

6. Say Anything - Wow, I Can Get Sexual Too

7. Astrosexy - Now or Never

8. The Pillows - Ride On a Shooting Star

9. Brown Eyed Girls - Abracadabra

10. Suzanne Vega - Tom's Diner

Wow, less than half of the songs I've listed are in English.

[Guest LazyLinePainterJane]

Silent All These Years - Tori Amos

Bad Romance - Lady GaGa

All You Need Is Love - The Beatles

Across the Universe - Fiona Apple

I Try - Macy Grey

Not a Pretty Girl - Ani DiFranco

Bank Accounts - Sarah Slean

Here Comes the Sun - The Beatles

Beautiful Life - Charlotte Martin

Criminal - Fiona Apple