Thursday, January 9, 2014

Top Ten Lists Part One

I have decided to write a series of posts that list the top ten songs by the multitude of artists I have heard. I am doing this primarily out of sheer boredom and secondarily because at times, it helps to organize stuff. Do go through the lists and should you feel so inclined, listen to the songs. Onward with the first part then

Dream Theater

1) A Nightmare to Remember 
2) The Silent Man
3) Scene 5: Through Her Eyes. This is a MUST LISTEN
4) Hollow Years
5) Take Away My Pain
6) The Count of Tuscany. It's about 20 minutes long. Be warned
7) Scene 12: Finally Free- Nicholas' last dance so to speak
8) Wait for Sleep
9) Afterlife
10) Beneath the Surface

Oasis (Top 7 in this case)

1) Champagne Supernova
2) Wonderwall
3) Let There Be Love
4) Morning Glory
5) Lyla
6) Turn Up the Sun
7) The Importance of Being Idle

Dire Straits (10 songs; one tie. Thus top 9)

1) Romeo and Juliet
2) Brothers in Arms
3) Private Investigations 
4) Portobello Belle
5) Wild West End/Walk of a Life
6) Six Blade Knife
7) Down to the Waterline
8) Money for Nothing
9) Tunnel of Love

Poets of the Fall (Saw most of these songs LIVE in concert)

1) Carnival of Rust
2) Skin
3) Roses/War/Cradled in Love
4) Desire/Temple of Thought
5) Fragile/Delicious/3 AM
6) Locking Up the Sun/Diamonds for Tears
7) The Ballad of Jeremiah Peacekeeper/Heal My Wounds
8) Smoke and Mirrors/Lift
9) Miss Impossible/Someone Special
10) Signs of Life

Coldplay

1) The Scientist/Fix You
2) Yellow
3) Life in Technicolor (Instrumental)
4) Up With the Birds
5) Violet Hill/Speed of Sound
6) Paradise/Charlie Brown
7) Us Against the World
8) Every Teardrop is a Waterfall
9) Viva la Vida
10) Sparks/Trouble

AC/DC (Top 7 here too)

1) Highway to Hell
2) You Shook Me All Night Long. This song is very special because it is vulgar and yet does not contain a SINGLE expletive
3) Hard as a Rock/Back in Black
4) Shoot to Thrill. Duh. Tony Stark's anthem!
5) Hell's Bells
6) Rock n' Roll Ain't Noise Pollution. It is not.
7) Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap

Green Day

1) 21st Century Breakdown
2) Wake Me Up When September Ends
3) Jesus of Suburbia
4) Boulevard of Broken Dreams
5) Holiday/Basket Case
6) American Idiot
7) 21 Guns/Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)
8) Welcome to Paradise
9) Amy
10) Carpe' Diem

Guns and Roses (The OLD GNR, not the new one. Yes I am aware they had Buckethead)

1) Estranged
2) November Rain
3) Sweet Child o' Mine
4) Don't Cry/Civil War
5) So Fine/Patience
6) The Garden
7) Night Train/Welcome to the Jungle
8) One in a Million. This song is under rated 
9) You're Crazy/Mr. Brownstone
10) Rocket Queen

Queen

1) Bohemian Rhapsody
2) Radio Ga Ga
3) A Kind of Magic
4) We Are the Champions
5) We Will Rock You
6) Innuendo/I Want to Break Free
7) Another One Bites the Dust
8) Hammer to Fall
9) Crazy Little Thing Called Love
10) Don't Stop Me Now

And that ends the first part. 9 bands here. More to come folks. Stay tuned :)

The Bilge Master


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