My Favourite Songs Ever

[METALMAN]

Starting to get fed up of this now.

80. Cuyahoga - R.E.M.

Lifes Rich Pageant (1986)

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SWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAM. Good song. Also R.E.M.'s best song, which gives a hint as to their future in this list.

79. Apply Some Pressure - Maximo Park

A Certain Trigger (2005)

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Maximo Park are a very, very average band. Main reason is because they have yet to put out anything even half as good as this. (Graffiti was 7/16ths as good) This is my driving on a sunny day song.

78. Arizona - Kings of Leon

Because of the Times (2007)

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Good song. Also Kings of Leon's best song, which gives a hint as to their future in this list. Molly's Chambers is actually better but I wasn't thinking when I set out this list... This was my morning after a party song until about a couple of months ago, when I stopped listening to music the morning after a party.

77. It's Probably Me - Sting (featuring Eric Clapton)

Lethal Weapon 3 Soundtrack (1992)

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This is an exception to my rule that everything put out by Eric Clapton not involving Cream or Derek and the Dominoes is shite. DO NOT listen to Sting's album version as that is also dreadful. Sting was cool as fuck until he started wanking about with a lute.

76. Jackie - Scott Walker (not featuring Eric Clapton)

Scott 2 (1968)

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The very thought of Scott Walker covering some French guy's song is delightful to behold, and the actual song doesn't disappoint. I actually prefer Montague Terrace and Get Behind Me but they are not on this list. Funny that...

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Number 75 is yet another Ryan Adams song, this time from his 2001 album "Gold".

Number 74 is not Simon and Garfunkel's best song, but I accidentally forgot to include any others so it is as far as this list is concerned.

Number 73 is Sting in his slightly lesser incarnation, as bassist in some band called the Police.

Number 72 is a Who song that had...ELECTRONIC BLIP BLOPS...IN 1971!!! No doubt Skummy will notify me of several hundred bands that had them before this...

Number 71 is a Smiths song about girlfriends having comas. I have seen it live.

[Skummy]

The very thought of Scott Walker covering some French guy's song is delightful to behold, and the actual song doesn't disappoint. I actually prefer Montague Terrace and Get Behind Me but they are not on this list. Funny that...

That "some French guy" was one of the greatest lyricists of all time. And Belgian. With that in mind, "Jackie" is easily one of the three best Brel covers Walker did; along with Amsterdam and Mathilde, and probably the only that one really benefits from the grandiose orchestration. Bloody brilliant stuff. Along a (very) similar line is Eartha Kitt's "The Heel"; another Brel translation that musically is nigh-on identical.

Number 72 is a Who song that had...ELECTRONIC BLIP BLOPS...IN 1971!!! No doubt Skummy will notify me of several hundred bands that had them before this...

Several hundred would be a push, but I could offer you a handful.

[METALMAN]

I got lazy. Sorry. Here's the list:

1. Lazy Line Painter Jane - Belle & Sebastian

2. Dignity - Deacon Blue

3. One Foot In Front Of The Other - Bright Eyes

4. Sports & Wine - Ben Folds Five

5.Tangled Up In Blue - Bob Dylan

6. Can't Stand Me Now - The Libertines

7. Nothing 'Bout Me (remix) - Sting

8. Step Into My Office, Baby - Belle & Sebastian

9. Down On The Street - Adam Green

10. Forbidden Colours - David Sylvian

I'm A Cuckoo - Belle & Sebastian

Come on! Feel the Illinoise! - Sufjan Stevens

Like A Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan

I Was A Kaleidoscope - Death Cab For Cutie

Hoppípolla - Sigur Rós

Heart Of Gold - Neil Young

Anybody Wanna Take Me Home - Ryan Adams

Piazza, New York Catcher - Belle & Sebastian

Cath... - Death Cab For Cutie

20. Birdland - Weather Report

1999 - Prince

September Grass - James Taylor

Suedehead - Morrissey

I Know It's Over - The Smiths

New York, New York - Ryan Adams

While My Guitar Gently Weeps - The Beatles

No Control - Steadman

Hurricane - Bob Dylan

Little Wing - Jimi Hendrix

30. My Old School - Steely Dan

Raspberry Beret - Prince

Haitian Divorce - Steely Dan

Philosophy - Ben Folds Five

William, It Was Really Nothing - The Smiths

Unbilo Titled - Babyshambles

The Model - Belle & Sebastian

Such Great Heights - The Postal Service

Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley

To Be Young - Ryan Adams

40. Answering Bell - Ryan Adams

Behind The Sun - Red Hot Chili Peppers

It Could Have Been A Brilliant Career - Belle & Sebastian

When I Argue I See Shapes - Idlewild

Firecracker - Ryan Adams

When Did You Heart Go Missing? - Rooney

My Winding Wheel - Ryan Adams

The Man of Metropolis Steals Our Hearts - Sufjan Stevens

Mirror Kissers - The Cribs

Little Red Corvette - Prince

50. Escape Artists Never Die - Funeral For A Friend

Title Track - Death Cab For Cutie

The Rock Show - blink-182

No One Would Riot For Less - Bright Eyes

River Below - Billy Talent

Blood Red Summer - Coheed and Cambria

Panic - The Smiths

God Only Knows - The Beach Boys

Frankly, Mr. Shankly - The Smiths

Avalanche - Leonard Cohen

60. A Design for Life - Manic Street Preachers

You Ain't Goin' Nowhere - Bob Dylan

Between The Bars - Elliott Smith

The Partisan - Leonard Cohen

American English - Idlewild

Up On The Roof - James Taylor

Death on the Stairs - The Libertines

Electric Feel - MGMT

Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey - Paul McCartney

Palladium - Weather Report

70. Dejalo - Rilo Kiley

Girlfriend In A Coma - The Smiths

Baba O'Riley - The Who

Walking On The Moon - The Police

Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon & Garfunkel

Wild Flowers - Ryan Adams

Jackie - Scott Walker

It's Probably Me (from the film "Lethal Weapon 3") - Eric Clapton Sting

Arizona - Kings Of Leon

Apply Some Pressure - Maxïmo Park

80. Cuyahoga - R.E.M.

Love Is The Seventh Wave - Sting

Barely Legal - The Strokes

Megalomania - Muse

Wherefore Art Thou, Elvis? - The Gaslight Anthem

Holiday - Madonna

Lowlife - Scanners

Inní mér syngur vitleysingur - Sigur Rós

Karma Police - Radiohead

Tell Me Ten Words - Idlewild

90. Young Love - Mystery Jets

Easy Plateau - Ryan Adams

Living For The City - Stevie Wonder

Club Tropicana - Wham!

Learning To Fly - Pink Floyd

Jet - Wings

Rudie Can't Fail - The Clash

After The Gold Rush - Neil Young

A Brighter Beat - Malcolm Middleton

San Diego Serenade - Tom Waits

100. Glósóli - Sigur Rós