Your favourite five songs in the world ever?

[tallulahtaurus]

What are they guys? I am so intrigued by the potential answers

I also have much iTunes credit and I am interested in downloading songs that people recommend/are passionate about.

My struggles to get answers out of rl friends are falling flat - they never seem to know...
So please tell me yours

My 5 favourite songs are (in this order at the mo although the order changes sometimes):

Kate Bush THE SENSUAL WORLD
The Smiths THAT JOKE ISN'T FUNNY ANYMORE
David Sylvian WEATHERED WALL
David Sylvian RED GUITAR
Busta Rhymes STILL SHINING

[proggrl]

As many know I've only ever had 4.

Currently, it's still echolyn - Shades. The perfect song.

[heartofdavid]

Song to the Siren - Liz Fraser
Sanvean: I Am Your Shadow - Lisa Gerrard
The Music Weaver - Sandy Denny
The Kick Inside - Kate Bush
Waterfront - David Sylvian

[VaporTrail]

oh wow, I don't know if I could choose 5, but I could choose close!

Heartattack In A Layby - Porcupine Tree
The Golden Way - Sylvian
Vapour Trails - The Pineapple Thief
Close Your Eyes - No-Man
Dayvan Cowboy - Boards of Canada
The Drapery Falls - Opeth
Stranger By The Minute - Porcupine Tree


there's 7, I could go on and on though

[Xx_Vanity_xX]

My faveourite ever song, i recently discovered, is Down To Earth by Curiosity Killed The Cat. I love the lyrics in it and the imagery they conjure.

But my other faves are:

To Be With You Again- Level 42 (They played this when i went to see them live and i yelled "OH MY GOD I LAAAAAAAAAAV THIS SOOOONG!")

Masionettes- Heartache Avenue

The Chaffeur- Duran Duran

[krausy]

Well, a couple of mine go back to the good ole days, but they have been on my top ten since I heard them as a kid:

Your Song---Elton John
Baker Street---Gerry Rafferty
Goodbye Stranger---Supertramp
Stuff and Nonsense---Split Enz
The Chauffeur--Duran Duran


and you only asked for five-----my list goes on and on..........

[John Trevethan]

The five best songs ever? ... Impossible to choose! How about the five best from five different genre's? Or the five best from five different decades? But for this moment, at this time I'll attempt to pick five out of the air:

David Sylvian - Ride (really hard to choose a favorite DS track. I was first thinking of September - short, minimal, and ends like an unanswered question... but Ride is just so right with that incredibly breezy feel.)

King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King (For me the quintessential progressive rock song. This song has a special place for me as I remember hearing it on the radio in 1969 when I was a kid. Even then, knowing nothing of music it stuck with me.)

America - Ventura Highway (This song always puts me in a good mood, it evokes that wonderful feeling of driving down the road, escaping everything. Beautiful vocal harmonies, excellent groove. Horse With No Name is right up there too.)

Boards Of Canada - '84 Pontiac Dream (Thanks Vapor Trail! - Intelligent Dance Music: "IDM" - everything is just right: groove, tempo, melody, the sounds, the vibe.)

Three Dog Night - One Is The Loneliest Number (A very special song for me, the first one to ever give me "the chills" when I heard it around age 11 or 12. That feeling hooked me on music, though I seem to experience the feeling less and less as time goes one. The last tune to do it for me was Porcupine Tree's "Arriving Somewhere But Not Here" from their Deadwing album. Thanks to Proggrl for introducing me to PT!)

Yes I know - I managed to sneak in three extra song references in my list of five.

[godisinthesilences]

J.T. Ride is one of my all time favourite David Sylvian songs for all the same reasons you mentioned.

[tallulahtaurus]

Ta for your responses guys. I am wading through the recommendations, with the help of YouTube, the iTunes samples and mp3 searches on altavista...

Reactions so far...

Janet Jackson stole the guitar from that America song - yes the harmonies are indeed v nice.

I really am frustrated by the paucity of Porcupine Tree on iTunes...

I need to listen to Sandy Denny more because the song heart reccomended is something quite beautiful.

I need to hear all of Ride - I bought Everything and Nothing on CD but somehow, having played it once at christmas when I bought it I lost it.

I subsequently downloaded from iTunes all the songs I remember being taken by but I don't have Ride.

And iTunes will only let me download Ride if I buy the rest of the album. Which I don't wanna do cos I already have it on CD/majority in mp3 too...

Grrrr

I am really frustrated by iTunes everything actually...

[New Romantik]

Forgive me if this sounds really cliche or something:

But my favorite music is stuff like The Cure, Buzzcocks, JAPAN, Magazine, and many other punk outfits and NEW WAVE groups.

There's just too many bands to list here, but at least I gave you some of my top favorites!

[Burnsjed]

Obviously just picking 5 songs isn't easy, but hre goes nothing, and I am basically looking for songs that I always go back to, so they have had to pass the test of time!

In no particular order.

Maria Callas - Catalani: La Wally - Ebben? Ne Andro Lontana
David Sylvian - Before The Bullfight
Suede - Asphalt World
Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamonds
David Bowie - Starman

Hhhhmmm guess I will go for those, though could easily pick 5 others by totally different artists.

[E.T.]

I wanted to answer this

picking up 5 tunes is very difficult, so I post tunes that changed my life!

Culture Club : Karma Chameleon
Three Dog Night : Old Fashioned Love Song (I remember, it wasn't Joy to the World)
Prince & the New Power Generation : Gett off
Phoenix : (You Can't Blame It On) Anybody
Japan : Ghosts / The Unconventional

[godisinthesilences]

hhmm i think i might be able to do this

Friends of Mine - Duran Duran
cloudbusting - Kate Bush
silent all these years - tori amos
Orpheus - DS (this song reintroduced me to david after 24 years)Land
Land - Duran Duran
Thalheim - DS

LOL i listened to certain people/bands exclusively for long periods of time....

[Chet]

Lou Reed - Street Hassle
David Sylvian - Weathered Wall
John Cale - Paris 1919
Nico - Chelsea Girls
Nick Drake - Way To Blue

[Meyrav]

I can never choose, but these are the songs which i listened the most last MONTH:

Mystery Jets-Flakes
Mystery Jets-Behind The Bunhouse
Squeeze-By Your Side
David Sylvian-Some Kind Of Fool
Japan-The Art Of Parties/My new career