Your Top 5 Songs of All Time

[KevShmev]

Found it on Amazon used for four dollars plus shipping so snagged a copy. I’ll let you know my thoughts after I’ve checked it out!

 

[jammindude]

1. Supper’s Ready - Genesis
2. Cygnus X-1: Books 1&2 - Rush
3. Lateralus - Tool
4. Beyond the Pale - Pain of Salvation
5. The Province - IQ

[Stadler]

Glad to see some love for the Damn Yankees! One of my favorite bands back when I was in junior high/high school.

I was so ready for a 3rd album by them at some point, but it sadly never came.  We did get the Shaw/Blades album in '95 and the Tommy Shaw solo album, 7 Deadly Zens, in the later 90's, though, and those felt like loose extensions of the Damn Yankees sound to a certain extent, so they were basically the next best thing, for me anyway.

This is news to me. I'm a big fan of Damn Yankees (I have both records and even a single from a soundtrack), and I have both the Blades/Shaw records (Hallucination and Influence).  I'm a sucker for those harmonies.

[TAC]

I thought Damn Yankees was pretty disappointing.

[Lowdz]

I thought Damn Yankees was pretty disappointing.

Not the first time you’ve been wrong Tim 

[ronnibran]

Glad to see some love for the Damn Yankees! One of my favorite bands back when I was in junior high/high school.

I was so ready for a 3rd album by them at some point, but it sadly never came.  We did get the Shaw/Blades album in '95 and the Tommy Shaw solo album, 7 Deadly Zens, in the later 90's, though, and those felt like loose extensions of the Damn Yankees sound to a certain extent, so they were basically the next best thing, for me anyway.

This is news to me. I'm a big fan of Damn Yankees (I have both records and even a single from a soundtrack), and I have both the Blades/Shaw records (Hallucination and Influence).  I'm a sucker for those harmonies.

The song "Shine On" from Jack Blades solo album features Tommy Shaw so is another less known gem with their harmonies.

https://youtu.be/BIguahpbqrY

[KevShmev]

Glad to see some love for the Damn Yankees! One of my favorite bands back when I was in junior high/high school.

I was so ready for a 3rd album by them at some point, but it sadly never came.  We did get the Shaw/Blades album in '95 and the Tommy Shaw solo album, 7 Deadly Zens, in the later 90's, though, and those felt like loose extensions of the Damn Yankees sound to a certain extent, so they were basically the next best thing, for me anyway.

This is news to me. I'm a big fan of Damn Yankees (I have both records and even a single from a soundtrack), and I have both the Blades/Shaw records (Hallucination and Influence).  I'm a sucker for those harmonies.

I hear that.  Some of those Shaw/Blades songs give me a strong Simon & Garfunkel vibe.

[jingle.boy]

I thought Damn Yankees was pretty disappointing.

Of course you did.

Never caught the Blades/Shaw releases. Thankfully, they’re both on Spotify.

[hefdaddy42]

I thought Damn Yankees was pretty disappointing.

Not the first time you’ve been wrong Tim 

[King Puppies and the Acid Guppies]

So I've compiled every song listed in this thread into a playlist and for my own enjoyment used live versions when I could.

This is going to be an epic playlist to listen through! Just over 40 hours of music!

If anyone here uses Plex+Tidal for their music library I can share the link to the playlist with you. Just let me know.

[Architeuthis]

Dude, that's awesome you took the time to do that. I would like to listen to that playlist. 

[Elite]

Awesome! Not on Spotify?

[King Puppies and the Acid Guppies]

Awesome! Not on Spotify?

I could probably import the playlist into Spotify, but I'm not sure how many of the songs are available on there.

Dude, that's awesome you took the time to do that. I would like to listen to that playlist. 

It took a while to compile. I'm still missing one song, Endless Dream by Yes. I need to go dig out my old Yes CD's and see if I have that one and I can rip it into Plex. For some reason that album isn't available on Tidal.

[King Puppies and the Acid Guppies]

Here's the Spotify playlist, but it's missing 11 songs. All the Transatlantic, Neal Morse, and Spock's Beard stuff isn't on Spotify. As well as Kevin Gilbert and Michael Kiske.

In other news, I did find the Yes album Talk in my collection, so I just need to rip it into Plex.

[dparrott]

Blur - Tame
DT - Home
Ringo Deathstarr - Guilt
Duran Duran - Hold Back The Rain (7 minute remix)
Oasis - Stand By Me

That's leaving rap songs out.

[Cool Chris]

Duran Duran - Hold Back The Rain (7 minute remix)

Haven't listened to those remixes in a long time. I do not recall that one being one of my faves, but an interesting choice. I will try and listen to that album sometime soon.

[hefdaddy42]

Here's the Spotify playlist, but it's missing 11 songs. All the Transatlantic, Neal Morse, and Spock's Beard stuff isn't on Spotify. As well as Kevin Gilbert and Michael Kiske.

Thank you very much!

[ReaperKK]

Here's the Spotify playlist, but it's missing 11 songs. All the Transatlantic, Neal Morse, and Spock's Beard stuff isn't on Spotify. As well as Kevin Gilbert and Michael Kiske.

Thank you very much!

I know what playlist I'm going to be listening to this afternoon.

[King Puppies and the Acid Guppies]

Here's the Spotify playlist, but it's missing 11 songs. All the Transatlantic, Neal Morse, and Spock's Beard stuff isn't on Spotify. As well as Kevin Gilbert and Michael Kiske.

Thank you very much!

I know what playlist I'm going to be listening to this afternoon.

And for the next several days, I imagine 

[twosuitsluke]

Here's the Spotify playlist, but it's missing 11 songs. All the Transatlantic, Neal Morse, and Spock's Beard stuff isn't on Spotify. As well as Kevin Gilbert and Michael Kiske.

In other news, I did find the Yes album Talk in my collection, so I just need to rip it into Plex.

Thanks for doing this but please, please change The Decline (by NOFX) from the live version to the original EP version!

Be so interested to hear people's opinions on a punk rock 'epic' 

Also, someone had Frank Turner in one of their top 5 songs! Nice

[hefdaddy42]

Here's the Spotify playlist, but it's missing 11 songs. All the Transatlantic, Neal Morse, and Spock's Beard stuff isn't on Spotify. As well as Kevin Gilbert and Michael Kiske.

Not to be a pain in the butt, but if there is any way to remove the live versions of John Hiatt's "Lipstick Sunset" and Jeff Buckley's "Hallelujah" and replace them with the studio versions, that would make this perfect.  If it's too much trouble, don't bother. 

[twosuitsluke]

Starting to make my way through this playlist, so thanks Puppies!

I'm going to make a special effort to really listen to the songs I already know, and try to appreciate them as someone's favourite all time songs.

[hefdaddy42]

I've been listening to nothing but this playlist the past couple of days.

I'm almost halfway through lol

[King Puppies and the Acid Guppies]

I've been listening to nothing but this playlist the past couple of days.

I'm almost halfway through lol

[King Puppies and the Acid Guppies]

Here's the Spotify playlist, but it's missing 11 songs. All the Transatlantic, Neal Morse, and Spock's Beard stuff isn't on Spotify. As well as Kevin Gilbert and Michael Kiske.

Not to be a pain in the butt, but if there is any way to remove the live versions of John Hiatt's "Lipstick Sunset" and Jeff Buckley's "Hallelujah" and replace them with the studio versions, that would make this perfect.  If it's too much trouble, don't bother. 

Sure! I mostly did the live versions for my benefit, but since I don't listen to the playlist on Spotify, I have no problem with changing them.

I also added the songs from dparrott to the playlist.

Oh, and let me know if you guys would like any other version changes on the playlist.

[Evermind]

Oh, and let me know if you guys would like any other version changes on the playlist.

btw Puppies, while I love the studio version of Pink Floyd's High Hopes, in my mind the definitive version of that song is from Meltdown Concert in 2002 (I don't know if it's on Spotify though)

I'll be spinning this playlist soon, thank you for putting this together!

[King Puppies and the Acid Guppies]

Oh, and let me know if you guys would like any other version changes on the playlist.

btw Puppies, while I love the studio version of Pink Floyd's High Hopes, in my mind the definitive version of that song is from Meltdown Concert in 2002 (I don't know if it's on Spotify though)

I'll be spinning this playlist soon, thank you for putting this together!

I think I have the version from the Pulse concert on the playlist.

[Cool Chris]

btw Puppies, while I love the studio version of Pink Floyd's High Hopes, in my mind the definitive version of that song is from Meltdown Concert in 2002

I've never seen that before, thank you for posting. I couldn't consider it the definitive version, but cool nonetheless. Strange watching him play with no one else I recognize as his usual playing partners. High Hopes might be my #2 favorite PF song, and I am not even sure which version I'd consider my personal favorite. I like the performance at Abbey Road studios. It's a crappy upload, but cool to see it performed without the usual Floydian light show. 

[ReaperKK]

The Meltdown concert is one of my favorite PF related releases. If you haven't watched it Chris you should really take some to check it out.

[Cool Chris]

This?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Gilmour_in_Concert

[ReaperKK]

That's the one. The live version of Breakthrough with Rick Wright is brilliant. I believe that song was supposed to be on the Division Bell but wasn't ready in time.

[Dave_Manchester]

That's the one. The live version of Breakthrough with Rick Wright is brilliant. I believe that song was supposed to be on the Division Bell but wasn't ready in time.

That's right, Gilmour said at the time he dearly wished Rick had written that song in time for The Division Bell, but alas he hadn't.

Broken China (Rick Wright's 1996 solo album) has some of his most beautiful songs. Aside from 'Breakthough', 'Reaching For The Rail' (absolutely gorgeous, I'm surprised David didn't single this one out along with 'Breakthrough' - imagine Gilmour singing Sinead O'Connor's vocals here) and 'Along The Shoreline' are as good as anything Floyd did after The Wall to my ears.

[ReaperKK]

I need to listen to Broken China, I've only heard bits and pieces of it but I've heard a lot of positive things.

[dparrott]

You mostly got live versions of my songs instead of album versions (?)
Guilt is on album Pure Mood
Stand By Me is on album Be Here Now

[King Puppies and the Acid Guppies]

You mostly got live versions of my songs instead of album versions (?)
Guilt is on album Pure Mood
Stand By Me is on album Be Here Now

Yeah I did the live versions for me. I just have my Plex playlist auto synchronize with the Spotify playlist. I will manually change them.