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If you were to compile a CD of your all-time favourite music
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What would your 15 tracks be?
1. Primal Scream - Swastika Eyes
2. Pink Floyd - Welcome to the Machine
3. Muse - Hysteria
4. Cold - Whatever You Became
5. The Cure - Just Like Heaven
6. The Polyphonic Spree - Fireworks
7. Nine Inch Nails - The Perfect Drug
8. Tubeway Army - Are Friends Electric
9. Chemical Brothers - The Test
10. Primal Scream - Some Velvet Morning
12. Aerosmith - Pink
13. Rage Against the Machine - Bullet in the Head
14. Tears for Fears - Mad World
15. Marilyn Manson - The Last Day on Earth (for some reason i never fully grew out of liking some of Manson's stuff...even though i've never been a goth :eek2: )
1. Primal Scream - Swastika Eyes
2. Pink Floyd - Welcome to the Machine
3. Muse - Hysteria
4. Cold - Whatever You Became
5. The Cure - Just Like Heaven
6. The Polyphonic Spree - Fireworks
7. Nine Inch Nails - The Perfect Drug
8. Tubeway Army - Are Friends Electric
9. Chemical Brothers - The Test
10. Primal Scream - Some Velvet Morning
12. Aerosmith - Pink
13. Rage Against the Machine - Bullet in the Head
14. Tears for Fears - Mad World
15. Marilyn Manson - The Last Day on Earth (for some reason i never fully grew out of liking some of Manson's stuff...even though i've never been a goth :eek2: )
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2. Led Zep - Heartbreaker
3. Alice in Chains - Dirt
4. Green Day - Hitchin' a Ride
5. Robert Plant - Mighty Rearranger
6. Silverchair - Freak
7. Good Charlotte - Hold On
8. Led Zep - The Rain Song
9. Athlete - Vehicles & Animals
10. Panic! At the Disco - I Write Sins Not Tragedies
11. Led Zep - In My Time of Dying
12. InMe - Underdose
13. The Kinks - Days
14. Jimmy Eat World - Pain
15. Jimmy Eat World - The Middle
2. Kaiser chiefs - I predict a riot
3. Killers - Mr Brightside
4. Oasis - Importance of being idle
5. Charlatans - One To Another
6. Arctic Monkeys - Mardy Bum
7. Foo Fighters - Monkey Wrench
8. Finch - Letters to you
9. Blink 182 - All the small things
10. Ash - Girl From Mars
11. Supergrass - Late in the day
12. Ocean Colour Scene - The day we caught the train
13. Green Day - Basket Case
14. New Order - True Faith
15. Garbage - Special
Would probably have to make it a double/triple cd though - there's loads I've missed off there!!!!!! :yes:
One of the joys of burning CDs is that I can constantly change such lists on a whim.
Having said that, I am sure that there would be some Manics, Stone Roses, Gun's n' Roses, Led Zep on each CD.
And you'd probably find "Video Killed The Radio Star" on most...
2) Cheap Trick - Surrender
3) Simon & Garfunkel - El Condor Pasa
4) Bruce Springsteen - Thunder Road
5) Derek & The Dominos - Layla
6) The Beatles - I Saw Her Standing There
7) Leonard Cohen - Suzanne
8) Johnny Cash - Ballad of a Teenage Queen
9) John Denver - Annie's Song
10) Tom Waits - Grapefruit Moon
11) Led Zeppelin - Hey, Hey What Can I Do
12) Bob Dylan - Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts
13) The Proclaimers - Letter From America
14) Van Morrison - Into The Mystic
15) Bob Dylan - Love Minus Zero/No Limit
Do I spy a fellow Radio 2 listener?
Anyway, today my list would be, in no particular order;
1. Blue Oyster Cult - Don't Fear The Reaper
2. U2 - One
3. U2 - The Unforgettable Fire
4. Jimmy Ruffin - What Becomes of the Broken Hearted
5. The Moody Blues - Nights In White Satin
6. Derek and the Dominoes - Layla
7. Eddie Grant - Electric Avenue
8. Blondie - Hanging On The Telephone
9. Gary Numan - Cars
10. Depeche Mode - Enjoy The Silence
11. David Gray - Sail Away
12. Rolling Stones - Paint It Black
13. Eva Cassidy - Fields of Gold
14. The Jam - A Town Called Malice
15. Prince - Purple Rain
2. Muse - Citizen Erased
3. Muse - THe groove
4. Less than Jake - all my best friends are metalheads (never gets old
5. Cradle of filth - The fire still burns
6. Get up Kids - Washington Square Park
7. SikTh - Peep Show
8. The Haunted - Shadow World
9. The Wayriders - Shotgun
10. The Dillinger Escape Plan - Setting fire to sleeping giants
11. System of a Down - The Metro
12. Papa Roach - Legacy
13. Interpol - Obstacle 1
14. In Flames - Clayman
15. Dream Theater - Endless Sacrifice
Those are just songs that spring to mind of being in my playlists for a long time which i dont seem to get bored of. I'm sure there are a lot of others that i;ve listened to loads and meant a lot to me but 15 will do
The Killers- Mr Brightside
Kaiser Chiefs- Oh my God
Coldplay- The Scientist
Jimmy Eat World- Hear you me
Meriwether- Paper Airplane Machine
Matchbook Romance- Promise
Dashboard Confessional- Vindicated
Brand New- The quiet things that no one ever knows
Funeral For a Friend- History
Straylight run-Existentialism on prom night
Fall out Boy- Saturday
Taking Back Sunday- Head club
Rise Against- Paper wings
Green Day- Good riddance
Yellowcard- Only One
God no :crazyeyes
It's from a line in a Badly Drawn Boy track and it refers to the "soundtrack of my life", it really meant something to me...
LOL, ok.
2. Belle and Sebastian - Is It Wicked Not To Care?
3. Idlewild - American English
4. The Moody Blues - Nights in White Satin
5. Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
6. Pink Floyd - Summer of 68
7. Faure - Pavane
8. Edward Elgar - Cello Concerto (1st movement)
9. Radiohead - Exit Music (for a film)
9. The Levellers - Fifteen Years
10. The Levellers - What a Beautiful Day
11. The Avalanches - Frontier Psychiatrist
12. Radiohead - Paranoid Android
13. Foreigner- I Wanna Know What Love Is
14. Mew - 156
15. Pulp - Sunrise
I think I might need to release a double album, because 15 ain't enough.
2. killswitch engage - the end of heartache
3. dream theater - the glass prison
4. iron maiden - fear of the dark
5. led zeppelin - whole lotta love
6. derek and the dominoes/eric clapton - layla
7. dire straits - money for nothing
8. tool - parabol/parabola
9. fuel - hemorrhage (in my hands)
10. in flames - swim
11. funeral for a friend - escape artists never die
12. bob marley & the wailers - duppy conqueror
13. pink floyd - shine on you crazy diamond
14. lamb of god - laid to rest
15. black label society - in this river
Groove Theory- Tell Me
Xscape- Who Can I Run To?
The Cure- Catch
Stevie Wonder- Ebony Eyes
Sting & The Police- Please Don't Stand So Close To Me
Total- Can't You See
Bill Withers- Ain't No Sunshine
Michael Jackson- I Just Can't Stop Loving You
Queen Latifah- Just Another Day
Prince- Don't make me choose one coz I just can't!
Conner Reeves- Ordinary People
Erica Badu- 4 Leaf Clover
Doris Day- Blue Skies (yeah yeah, but have you heard it? it's friggin amazin!)
Ollie & Jerry- Breakin', There's No Stopping Us
Al Green- Let's Stay Together
Kool & The Gang- Fresh
yes yes, I can't count...
2. Supergrass - Caught By The Fuzz
3. Manic Street Preachers - Motown Junk
4. The Doors - LA Woman
5. Van Morrison - The Way Young Lovers Do
6. The Beatles - Blackbird
7. The Verve - History
8. Bob Dylan - Just Like A Woman
9. Rolling Stones - Wild Horses
10. Jimi Hendrix - The Wind Cries Mary
11. Jeff Buckley - Last Goodbye
12. The Beatles - Something
13. Oasis - Slide Away
14. Pulp - Babies
15. Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah
It's a bit of a rushed job and I feel that I may come to regret some of my choices/omissions later on.
1. Cherubs - Club Hoola Hoops Walls
2. Radiohead - Let Down
3. The Arcade Fire - Wake Up
4. The Smashing Pumpkins - Geek USA
5. Cherubs - Hey Bunny
6. Interpol - Evil
7. Cherubs - This Awful Morning
8. Radiohead - Exit Music (for a Film)
9. Cherubs - 9* Out of 10
10. 22-20s - friends
11. Bloc Party - Banquet
12. Antony & the Johnsons - Hope There's Someone
13. Imogen Heap - Hide and Seak
14. My Chemical Romance - I'm Not Okay (I promise)
15. Funeral for a Friend - Juneau
1) The Stone Roses - Elephant Stone
2) Stellastarr* - Untitled
3) The Darkness - Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time
4) The Beatles - Here Comes the Sun
5) Queen - Who Wants to Live Forever
6) Pulp - Underwear
7) Free - My Brother Jake
8) Oasis - Some Might Say
9) Nick Drake - Hazey Jane I
10) Michael Jackson - Black or White
11) Led Zeppelin - When the Levee Breaks
12) Led Zeppelin - Immigrant Song
13) Led Zeppelin - The Song Remains the Same/The Rain Song (alright so I cheat)
14) Doobie Brothers - Listen to the Music
And last but by no means least,
15) Afroman - Crazy Rap