I’ve decided that I want to make a mixed tape. Only a cd, with about 100 mp3’s on it. 100 Best Songs. Subject to my opinion of course!! But the problem is, I can’t think of 100 songs off the top of my head, so I need suggestions. Unfortunately, this will be genre specific to exclude classical and musicals. But any era will do.
By no means will this be a definitive work. Obviously there are more than 100 fabulous songs. And this is a working list, which will be amended often.
I will start off
1. Under Pressure – Queen and David Bowie
2. Crash – Dave Matthews Band
3. Don’t Stand So Close to Me – The Police
4. Hyper Ballad – Bjork
5. Heartbeats – Jose Gonzalez
6. Never is a Promise – Fiona Apple
7. Northern Lad – Tori Amos
8. Sweet Virginia – Gomez
9. Star Star- The Frames
10. Top of the World – The Dixie Chicks
11. Tears Dry On Their Own – Amy Winehouse
12. I Feel the Earth Move – Carole King
13. With or Without You – U2
14. Rhiannon – Fleetwood Mac
15. Hey Jude – The Beatles
16. Monday Monday – The Mamas and The Papas
17. Happiness is a Warm Gun – The Beatles
18. Heart of Gold – Neil Young
19. As the World Falls Down – David Bowie
20. Close to Me – The Cure
21. My Ain True Love – Allison Krauss
22. Don’t Dream it’s Over – Crowded House
23. Wish You Were Here – Pink Floyd
24. Tears In Heaven – Eric Clapton
25. Killing In the Name – Rage Against the Machine
26. Disarm – Smashing Pumpkins
27. New Slang – The Shins
28. Elderly Woman – Pearl Jam
29. Paint it Black – The Rolling Stones
30. Going the Distance – Cake
31. Plush – Stone Temple Pilots
32. Pink Moon – Nick Drake
33. Santa Maria – The Frames
34. Take it From Me – The Weepies
35. Motorcycle Drive By – Third Eye Blind
36. My World is Empty Without You – The Supremes
37. No More I Love You’s – Annie Lennox
38. Because the Night – 10,000 Maniacs
39. Strong Enough – Sheryl Crow
40. You Were Meant For Me – Jewel
41. I Love You – Sarah MacLachlan
42. Gold Lion – Yeah Yeah Yeahs
43. Running Up That Hill – Kate Bush
44. Superstitious – Stevie Wonder
45. Time After Time – Cindi Lauper
46. Everlong – The Foofighters
47. Fields of Gold – Sting
48. Freebird – Lynard Skynard
49. In Your Eyes – Peter Gabriel
50. Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For – U2
51. Take Me Out – Franz Ferdinand
52. Jeremy – Pearl Jam
53. Say It Ain’t So – Weezer
54. The Winner Takes It All – Abba
55. Sia – Breath Me
56. Foolish Games – Jewel
57. Let Him Fly – Patti Griffin
58. Hide and Seek – Imogen Heap
59. I Don’t Like Mondays – Boomtown Rats
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November 20, 2007 at 10:09 pm
Richard
Hey Jude the beatles; To Love Somebody – Bee Gees: Dancing Queen – ABBA; Piano Man – Billy Joel; Scenes fro a Italian Restaurant – Billy Joel; Put Your Record on – Corine Bailey Rae; Open Arms – Journey; No True Love Waits – Buddy Holly; Tonights the night – Phil Collins; Monday–Monday – Mamas and Papas; California Dreaming – Mamas and Papas;
November 21, 2007 at 2:14 pm
mrc1471
With or Without You by U2, Like a Virgin by Madonna, Purple Rain by Prince, It’s The End of the World by REM, You Can Go Your Own Way by Fleetwood Mac, and that’s all I can think of right now
November 30, 2007 at 1:54 am
James
The Beatles – Happiness is a warm gun; Jimi Hendrix – All along the watchtower; Bob Dylan – A hard rain’s gonna fall; DMB – Don’t drink the water; The Replacements – Rock ‘n’ Roll Ghost; The Pixies – Hey; Captain Beefheart – Her eyes are a blue million miles; Neil Young – Heart of Gold; David Bowie – Space Oddity; The Cure – Close to Me; Morrisey – How soon is now; Crowded House – Don’t dream it’s over; Aretha Franklin – Respect; Elvis – Blue Moon; Eric Clapton – Tears in Heaven; Elvis Costello – Alison; Pink Floyd – Wish you were here; Nick Drake – Pink Moon; Robert Johnson – Hell Hound on my trail; Rage Against the Machine – Killing in the name; Smashing Pumpkins – Disarm; Pearl Jam – Elderly Woman; Third Eye Blind – Motorcycle Drive By; Alison Krauss
November 30, 2007 at 2:32 am
James
- My Ain True Love; James Brown – Please, Please, Please; Booker T & the MGs – Green Onions; Getz/Gilberto – Corcovado; Ralph Stanley – O Death
November 30, 2007 at 3:07 am
James
Roy Orbison – Crying; Jeff Buckley – Hallelujah; The Shins – New Slang; CSNY – Our House; The Who – Teenage Wasteland; Cat Stevens – The wind; Jefferson Airplane – White Rabbit; Rolling Stones – Lady Jane
why do I not have any songs written in the past 20 years?
December 19, 2007 at 2:17 pm
Steve
When are you going to do musicals? I would LOVE to contribute to that
I still have a few more to send you.. Need to remind myself to send them out soon. xoxo
January 15, 2008 at 6:32 pm
Aimee
My Sweet Lord-George Harrison, Folsom Prison Blues (Live)-Johnny Cash, Dream On-Aerosmith, While My Guitar gently Weeps-Beatles, Ain’t No Sunshine-Bill Withers, She Talks to Angels-Black Crowes, I Want You to Want Me-Cheap Trick, I Drove All Night-Cyndi Lauper, Everlong-Foo Fighters-or better yet Dave Grohl doing this unplugged, Stairway to Heaven-Led Zeppelin, Free Bird-Lynyrd Skynard, Fall on Me unplugged-REM, Building a Mystery-Sarah McLaughlin, Mrs. Robinson-Simon & Garfunkle, Shape of My Heart-Sting, Once in a Lifetime-Talking Heads, Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For-U2, In Your Eyes-Jeffrey Gaines, Time After Time-Tuck & Patty instead of Cyndi Lauper. Man I could go on & on!
January 18, 2008 at 1:17 pm
aimee
Omg I can’t believe I forgot American pie by don mcclean!
February 4, 2008 at 10:20 pm
Ferguson
awesome to see some Frames songs on there. love “Santa Maria”. the entire “For the Birds” album is just a brilliant one. Neil Young is my all-time favorite.
February 26, 2008 at 10:16 am
james
the frames “falling slowly”, tommy james and the shondels “crimson and clover”, neil young “helpless”, the beatles “here there and everywhere”
April 27, 2008 at 1:23 pm
elphieandownagepker97
HI I AGREE WITH NUMBA 29! PAINT IT BLACK IS AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!1111
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August 13, 2008 at 5:16 pm
krismakes
Gosh can I get a copy of this cd? ha ha Everyone has great taste in music. I’ll have to have a think and come back to you but here is recent-ish one that I love…Fleur De Saison by Emilie Simon, it’s just wicked, hope you like it?