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19 September 2010
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Basic rules: 14 songs, all artists. Only music you could ever listen to for the rest of your life.
Mine:
1) I Saw Her Standing There
2) No Champagne Socialists – Arkells
3) Mushaboom – Feist
4) That’s Amore – Dean Martin
5) American Pie – Don McLean
6) While My Guitar Gently Weeps
7) My Body Is A Cage – Arcade Fire
8) Jungleland – Brice Springsteen and The E-Street Band
9) In My Life
10) I Don’t Know – Sheepdogs
11) 1 2 3 4 – Feist
12) A Rush of Blood To The Head – Coldplay
13) Where Have All The Good People Gone? – Sam Roberts
14) One For My Baby (And One More For the Road) – Frank Sinatra
And, the explantation (it makes everything so much clearer): #4,5,8 are family reminders that I couldn’t forget. # 2,3,7,10,11, and 13 are all Canadian classics of the last 8 years, and well, the Beatles’ songs were one of my personal favs of each of the songwriters. And, I couldn’t think of a more fitting song then what I hear ever night at the end of my favourite music broadcast. Ol’ Blue Eyes – take me away!
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5 November 2011
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1. Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive – Paul McCartney
2. Angelina – Louis Prima
3. Don’t Worry Baby – The Beach Boys
4. Float On – Modest Mouse
5. Happiness Is A Warm Gun – The Beatles
6. Here’s To The Losers – Frank Sinatra
7. House Of The Rising Sun – Animals
8. On An Evening in Roma – Dean Martin
9. Photograph – Ringo Starr
10. Santeria – Sublime
11. Subterranean Homesick Blues – Bob Dylan
12. Teach Your Children – Crosby, Stills and Nash
13. When Will They Shoot? – Ice Cube
14. Wish You Were Here – Pink Floyd
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8.48pm
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That was hard, I just could take my absolutly favourite songs
Golden Slumbers
She Came In Through The Bathroom Window
Get Back
I’ve Got A Feeling
Two Of Us
Let It Be
Revolution
Old Brown Shoe
Maybe I’m Amazed
Jet
Go Now
Silly Love Songs
Mull Of Kintyre
You Never Give Me Your Money
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3.52am
10 August 2011
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(Alphabetical)
Axis Bold as Love (Hendrix) [the guitar at the end makes it all worthwhile]
All Along the Watchtower (Hendrix version of Dylan song) [amazing rendition of what is otherwise, IMO, a so-so song]
Gimme Shelter (Rolling Stones)
I Want To Hold Your Hand [on a desert island, this will keep me in a good mood for days]
Light My Fire (Doors) [love that riff and the build-up at the end]
Lucy In the Sky [need to dream]
Message In a Bottle (Police) [a candidate for best lyrics ever + most appropriate for a desert island]
Monkberry Moon Delight (McCartney) [that riff, that scat singing at the end…]
Oliver’s Army (Elvis Costello)
Penny Lane [love each and every one of those images, not to mention the soaring melody]
Saturday Night (Elton John) [gotta dance]
Summer of ’69 (Brian Adams) [memory lane – I was just a kid, but summer of ’69 – July: Moon Landing, August: Woodstock, September: Abbey Road …]
Suzanne (Leonard Cohen) [on a desert island got to be deep in thought sometimes]
Honorable mention: Since I’ve Been Loving You (Led Zeppelin) [some of Page’s best guitar], Bridge Over Troubled Waters (Simon and Garfunkel), When the Music’s Over (Doors) [fabulous ending], We Used To Know (Jethro Tull), Hesitation Blues (Hot Tuna) [great acoustic guitar and bass], California Dreamin’ (Mamas and Papas), Wicked Game (Chris Isaak), …..
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5.18pm
2 January 2017
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1. Nobody Told Me – John Lennon
2. Little Queenie – Chuck Berry
3. Little Bird – The Beach Boys
4. Lady Madonna – The Beatles (three L’s in a row!)
5. Uptown – Roy Orbison
6. Oh, Pretty Woman – Roy Orbison
7. Keynsham – The Bonzo Dog (Doo Dah) Band
8. You Better Move On – The Rolling Stones
9. The Fool On The Hill – The Beatles
10. All You Need Is Love – The Beatles
11. Yep – Duane Eddy
12. Rebel Rouser – Duane Eddy
13. Hanky Panky – Tommy James And The Shondells
14. What Is Life – George Harrison
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2017:
2.38pm
17 January 2016
Offline 1. A Day In The Life – The Beatles
2. Stairway To Heaven – Led Zeppelin
3. Hallelujah – Jeff Buckley
4. Bohemian Rhapsody – Queen
5. Tupelo Honey – Van Morrison
6. Three Little Birds – Bob Marley
7. Wish You Were Here – Pink Floyd
8. You Can’t Always Get What You Want – Rolling Stones
9. A Case of You – Joni Mitchell
10. Suite: Judy Blue Eyes – CSN
11. Space Oddity – David Bowie (or maybe Rock and Roll Suicide, can’t make up my mind)
12. Hotel California – Eagles
13. God Only Knows – The Beach Boys
14. Tangled Up In Blue – Bob Dylan
Stuff I had to leave behind 
:
Too many Beatles songs to count. I want to sneak all my Beatles music onto my island, damn it!
Tangerine – Led Zeppelin
Going To California – Led Zeppelin
Are You Experienced? – Jimi Hendrix
Little Wing – Jimi Hendrix
Me and Bobby McGee – Janis Joplin
Ball and Chain – Janis Joplin
Behind Blue Eyes – The Who
Baba O’Riley – The Who
Under Pressure – Queen / Bowie
Starman – David Bowie
Moonage Daydream – David Bowie
Light My Fire – The Doors
When The Music’s Over – The Doors
Purple Rain – Prince and the Revolution
I Can’t Help Falling In Love – Elvis Presley
Summer Wind – Frank Sinatra
It Was A Very Good Year – Frank Sinatra
Ain’t Love A Kick In The Head – Dean Martin
And… pretty much my entire awesome music collection? No man, I’m taking it ALL. 
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7.11pm
26 January 2017
Offline Just for fun I am not doing any repeat artists.
It Makes No Difference – The Band
Such A Night – Dr. John
Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues – Bob Dylan
Carolina In My Mind – James Taylor
Suite: Judy Blue Eyes – Crosby, Stills, Nash
Till the Morning Comes – Neil Young
Heroes and Villians – The Beach Boys
Echoes – Pink Floyd
Why Don’t You Write Me – Simon and Garfunkel
Terrapin Station Medley – Grateful Dead
Levon – Elton John
Bluebird – Buffalo Springfield
and last but not least…
I think maybe I won’t take any Beatles or Solo Beatles because it will be too hard listening to some of their music and not all of it.
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11.41am
11 January 2017
Offline I’m going to have one song per year released and can’t use the same artist twice on one side:
Side A: (1964-1970)
1. My Girl
2. Like A Rolling Stone
3. I Got You (I Feel Good)
4. Light My Fire
5. Hey Jude
6. Space Oddity
7. I Want You Back
Side B: (1971-1977)
1. American Pie
2. Superstition
3. Bennie And The Jets
4. The Joker
5. Rock And Roll All Night
6. Hotel California
7. Staying Alive
Side C: (1978-1980/Other Songs I Can’t Go Without)
1. Good Times Roll
2. Crazy Little Thing Called Love
3. It’s Still Rock And Roll To Me
4. Daydream Believer
5. We Will Rock You
6. We Are The Champions
7. Free Bird
Side D: (The Beatles)
2. Help !
3. Nowhere Man
5. Revolution
7. Let It Be
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10.59am
2 January 2017
Offline Thought I’d have another go with what I personally think are more sensible song choices than last time.
1. The Monkees – The Porpoise Song
2. The Beatles – Across The Universe (Past Masters version)
3. Small Faces – The Universal
4. Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here
5. Roy Orbison – Blue Bayou
6. The Beach Boys – God Only Knows*
7. The Walker Brothers – The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore
8. John Lennon – Woman
9. David Bowie – Heroes
10. The Beach Boys – Don’t Talk (Put Your Head On My Shoulder)*
11. The Beatles – Here, There And Everywhere
12. Duane Eddy – Love Me Tender (cover)
13. Wings – Little Lamb Dragonfly
*I really wanted to go for two Beach Boys tracks that aren’t from Pet Sounds, but they’re too irresistible to not include!
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2017:
11.36am
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15 February 2015
Offline Oh my god, so difficult. Since there’s no time limit on the songs themselves… 
I’ll choose all the hopelessly long songs. I’ll also refrain from choosing songs that I can reasonably approximate myself — just the ones that HAVE to be listened to in their original recorded glory. So here it is, the list of pieces of recorded music that I think I cannot live without:
1. ‘Echoes’ – Pink Floyd
2. ‘Shine On You Crazy Diamond’ – Pink Floyd
3. ‘The Blue’ – David Gilmour
4. ‘Exogenesis: Symphony’ – Muse
5. ‘Marwa Blues’ – George Harrison
6. ‘Heroes’ – David Bowie
7. ‘No Quarter’ – Led Zeppelin
8. ‘It’s All Too Much ‘ – The Beatles
9. ‘Here, There And Everywhere ‘ – The Beatles
10. ‘Since I’ve Been Loving You’ – Led Zeppelin
11. ‘A Pillow Of Winds’ – Pink Floyd
12. ‘Ashes to Ashes’ – David Bowie
13. ‘Glorious’ – Muse
14. ‘Ballad Of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll)’ – George Harrison
Songs that didn’t make the Final Cut 
‘Hey Bulldog ‘ – The Beatles
‘That’s The Way’ – Led Zeppelin
‘The Rain Song’ – Led Zeppelin (I can play it pretty well)
‘Unintended’ – Muse
‘Hyper Chondriac Music’ – Muse
‘Knights Of Cydonia’ – Muse
‘Little Wing’ – Jimi Hendrix
‘Across The Universe ‘ – The Beatles
A whole lot of Beatles, because I’ve memorised ’em 
Pink Floyd, ditto (e.g., the entire DSotM album)
A long, long list of music that I enjoy greatly but could conceivably live without — the albums I selected the songs from, affiliated soloey things, etc. *cries*
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1.02pm
25 December 2017
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1. Carmelita- Warren Zevon
2. Oh Boy!- Buddy Holly
3. Chantilly Lace- Big Bopper
4. Cmon’ Let’s Go- Ritchie Valens
5. Poor Boy- Elvis Presley
6. A Day In The Life – The Beatles
7. Controversy- Prince
8. Only The Lonely- Roy Orbison
9. I Saw The Light- Hank Williams
10. Death Rattle- Pantera
11. NIB (Full Version)- Black Sabbath
12. Joshua- Dolly Parton
13. Power of My Love- Elvis Presley
14. Dinner With Delores- Prince
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1.31pm
26 January 2017
Offline Ooh, this is a great thread. Very interesting to see people’s picks. I might make a playlist of all the ones I haven’t heard. Here’s mine:
1. The Microphones – I Want Wind To Blow
2. Frank Ocean – Nights
3. Slowdive – Alison
4. The Beatles – Two of Us
5. Talking Heads – This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)
6. Miles Davis – Blue in Green
7. My Bloody Valentine – Sometimes
8. Kero Kero Bonito – Forever Summer Holiday
9. Dave Brubeck – Take Five
10. A Tribe Called Quest – Can I Kick It?
11. John Coltrane – A Love Supreme, Part IV: Psalm
12. The Velvet Underground – Heroin
13. Björk – Hyperballad
14. Radiohead – Motion Picture Soundtrack
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I've sat there on the barstool and I've looked him in the face.
He seemed a little haggard, but it did not slow him down,
he was humming to the neon of the universal sound.
2.34pm
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15 February 2015
Offline Considering how long ago I last posted in this thread, I’m quite impressed by how well the songs I chose hold up. *Pats self on back*
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9.10pm
25 December 2017
Offline QuarryMan said
Ooh, this is a great thread. Very interesting to see people’s picks. I might make a playlist of all the ones I haven’t heard. Here’s mine6. Miles Davis – Blue in Green
9. Dave Brubeck – Take Five
11. John Coltrane – A Love Supreme, Part IV: Psalm
I love the representation of Jazz on your list
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9.22pm
25 December 2017
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1. Fucking Hostile- Pantera
2. Ripple- Grateful Dead
3. Makin’ Whoopee- Frank Sinatra
4. Trouble/Guitar Man- Elvis Presley
5. Black Sweat- Prince
6. Werewolves of London- Warren Zevon
7. You Got It- Roy Orbison
8. Locket Love- Ramones
9. The Grand Tour- George Jones
10. Papa Genes Blues- The Monkees
11. Aliens Exist- blink-182
12. Redundant- Green Day
13. I Want To Break Free- Queen
14. I’m Gonna Love You Too- Buddy Holly
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11.24pm
15 March 2017
Offline I like both of your list @PurplishRain.
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6.19am
14 June 2016
Offline One song only per artist.
I’ve deliberately avoided Beatles/solo Beatles to make it interesting, and to give a few other artists some attention.
If I Can Dream – Elvis Presley
You Got It – Roy Orbison
Tiny Dancer – Elton John
Where the Streets Have No Name – U2
Piano Man – Billy Joel
Kiss From A Rose – Seal
Let’s Stay Together – Al Green
Heroes – David Bowie
Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on my Head – BJ Thomas
How Deep Is Your Love – Bee Gees
September – Earth, Wind and Fire
Purple Rain – Prince
Bittersweet Symphony – The Verve
I’m Not in Love – 10cc
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5.30pm
26 January 2017
Offline PurplishRain said
QuarryMan said
Ooh, this is a great thread. Very interesting to see people’s picks. I might make a playlist of all the ones I haven’t heard. Here’s mine
6. Miles Davis – Blue in Green
9. Dave Brubeck – Take Five
11. John Coltrane – A Love Supreme, Part IV: Psalm
I love the representation of Jazz on your list
Thanks! I was considering putting Trane’s Naima or Ascension, but I was listening to A Love Supreme at the time and was kind of overcome by the beauty of Psalm.
I've been up on the mountain, and I've seen his wondrous grace,
I've sat there on the barstool and I've looked him in the face.
He seemed a little haggard, but it did not slow him down,
he was humming to the neon of the universal sound.
2.01am
18 October 2013
Offline Apart from, ‘Jumping Jack flash’……Which for some reason I have to have, (and I’m not a Stones fan)….It’s hard for me to honestly ‘castaway’ so many songs.
I was pleased to see, ‘Little Lamb Dragonfly’ and “Since I’ve been Loving you’ getting mentions above.
Oooh…..I might have to have ‘Night and Day’ Hot Club de Paris’…….Stephan and Django
Walks towards you………..
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15 February 2015
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I was pleased to see, ‘Little Lamb Dragonfly’ and “Since I’ve been Loving you’ getting mentions above.
ooh good choices, not sure I could live without ’em either (especially ‘Since I’ve Been Loving You’).
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