My Top 100 Hits of All time

[Sttew]

Hey, first time poster on the Music Board!

Three years ago I started compiling my all time personal Top 100 hits playlist for my iPod. I did it for myself, but when I mentioned to mates at a New Year's dinner party they decided to do the same thing. Like anything, a favorite song for one person may be absolute crap to another, and that's the beauty of this. Its not about compiling a list of critically acclaimed or top selling songs but The 100 songs that have influenced my life for one reason or another.

The top 10 has remained pretty settled since I started compiling the playlist settled, but there has been and probably will be movement in the next 90 songs, and chances are the top 10 will change in time. The only golden rule is that a song has to have been out for at least 2 years to be considered (remember the 3XY Top Hits of All Time listener surveys in the 70's and a current top 10 hit would always be right up there!?)

FYI, my top 10 is:

1. Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty
2. Imagine - John Lennon
3. Goodbye Yellowbrick Road - Elton John
4. Fix You - Coldplay
5. You're So Vain - Carly Simon
6. Born To Run - Bruce Springsteen
7. Empire State of Mind - Alicia Keys
8. Only Love Can Break Your Heart - Neil Young
9. Little Lion Man - Mumford & Son
10.Take it to the Limit - Eagles

You can tell I was a 70's kid!

 

[benji2]

Thanks for the post. good reading. What a countdown it would make if everyone here posted their Top 10/20/100 hits.... I'd be happy to compile this once the Top 100 Movie Countdown and Xmas is out of the way. I agree a song would need to be at least 2 years old to be eligible.

Good idea?

 

[screech]

I have been planning to do this myself for a long time, it is a massive task

 

[Eddie Dingle]

I think the only thing that really matters is that the number one song is..

Baker Street by Gerry Rafferty.

The greatest song ever written and recorded.

 

[Eddie Dingle]

So kudos to the op.

 

[benji2]

Hey, first time poster on the Music Board!

Three years ago I started compiling my all time personal Top 100 hits playlist for my iPod. I did it for myself, but when I mentioned to mates at a New Year's dinner party they decided to do the same thing. Like anything, a favorite song for one person may be absolute crap to another, and that's the beauty of this. Its not about compiling a list of critically acclaimed or top selling songs but The 100 songs that have influenced my life for one reason or another.

The top 10 has remained pretty settled since I started compiling the playlist settled, but there has been and probably will be movement in the next 90 songs, and chances are the top 10 will change in time. The only golden rule is that a song has to have been out for at least 2 years to be considered (remember the 3XY Top Hits of All Time listener surveys in the 70's and a current top 10 hit would always be right up there!?)

FYI, my top 10 is:

1. Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty
2. Imagine - John Lennon
3. Goodbye Yellowbrick Road - Elton John
4. Fix You - Coldplay
5. You're So Vain - Carly Simon
6. Born To Run - Bruce Springsteen
7. Empire State of Mind - Alicia Keys
8. Only Love Can Break Your Heart - Neil Young
9. Little Lion Man - Mumford & Son
10.Take it to the Limit - Eagles

You can tell I was a 70's kid!

Haven't actually made a list of my own yet but Baker St and Imagine would be very high in my list, probably Top 10 as well.

 

[raskolnikov]

FYI, my top 10 is:

1. Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty
2. Imagine - John Lennon
3. Goodbye Yellowbrick Road - Elton John
4. Fix You - Coldplay
5. You're So Vain - Carly Simon
6. Born To Run - Bruce Springsteen
7. Empire State of Mind - Alicia Keys
8. Only Love Can Break Your Heart - Neil Young
9. Little Lion Man - Mumford & Son
10.Take it to the Limit - Eagles

You can tell I was a 70's kid!

The bolded would also be in my top ten, or close to it.

A mate of mine did his top 500 a few years ago. It took him a whole long weekend pretty much occupied with composing it. I did my top 100 a couple of years ago but lost it somehow. My top ten off the top of my head would look something like this.

1. I Want You Back - The Jackson 5
2. Total Eclipse of the Heart - Bonnie Tyler
3. Don't Look Back in Anger - Oasis
4. Heaven (must be there) - Eurogliders
5. If I Could - 1927
6. If You Want My Love - Cheap Trick
7. Common People - Pulp
8. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Elton John
9. Imagine - John Lennon
10. Knocking on Heaven's Door - Guns n Roses

 

[benji2]

Edited 21/12: My Top 20 is now something like this. This could get consuming:
1. I Got You - Split Enz
2. Baker St - Gerry Rafferty
3. Heart's a Mess - Gotye
4. Wicked Game - Chris Isaak
5. Midnight City - M83
6. Epic - Faith No More
7. Bittersweet Symphony - Verve
8. Take On Me - A-Ha
9. Imagine - John Lennon
10. Buy Me A Pony - Spiderbait
11. Cattle and Cane - Go-Betweens
12. Whole of the Moon - Waterboys
13. Touched - VAST
14. O Superman - Laurie Anderson
15. Life in a Northern Town - Dream Academy
16. Time to Pretend - MGMT
17. Cars - Gary Numan
18. Breakaway - Big Pig
19. No Cars Go - Arcade Fire
20. No Aphrodisiac - Whitlams

 

[Silent Alarm]

Is this your 10 favourite songs that were hits?

Or just 10 songs?

It'd be interesting to see people's 10 favourite number one singles.

 

[Cruyff14]

Hey, first time poster on the Music Board!

Three years ago I started compiling my all time personal Top 100 hits playlist for my iPod. I did it for myself, but when I mentioned to mates at a New Year's dinner party they decided to do the same thing. Like anything, a favorite song for one person may be absolute crap to another, and that's the beauty of this. Its not about compiling a list of critically acclaimed or top selling songs but The 100 songs that have influenced my life for one reason or another.

The top 10 has remained pretty settled since I started compiling the playlist settled, but there has been and probably will be movement in the next 90 songs, and chances are the top 10 will change in time. The only golden rule is that a song has to have been out for at least 2 years to be considered (remember the 3XY Top Hits of All Time listener surveys in the 70's and a current top 10 hit would always be right up there!?)

FYI, my top 10 is:

1. Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty
2. Imagine - John Lennon
3. Goodbye Yellowbrick Road - Elton John
4. Fix You - Coldplay
5. You're So Vain - Carly Simon
6. Born To Run - Bruce Springsteen
7. Empire State of Mind - Alicia Keys
8. Only Love Can Break Your Heart - Neil Young
9. Little Lion Man - Mumford & Son
10.Take it to the Limit - Eagles

You can tell I was a 70's kid!

Anybody who has BTR in their top 10 is OK by me.

 

[Silent Alarm]

Just sussing a list of number 1s in Australia... Avril Lavigne's comeback single, Girlfriend, was released in 2007.

 

[benji2]

I had to read the OP twice ... seems to be any song that influenced you so long as it was released no later than 2012. To be safe, kept my list to songs that at least some people would know. Favourite No.1s would be another interesting challenge.

 

[thurmanmunson]

Top 50 off the top of my head (only one track per artist):

AC/DC 'Jailbreak'
Muddy Waters 'Mannish Boy'
Derek & The Dominoes 'Layla'
Dead Boys 'Sonic Reducer'
Zeppelin 'Since I've Been Loving You'
Black Sabbath 'Sabbath Bloody Sabbath'
Rolling Stones 'Gimme Shelter'
Stooges 'Loose'
Howlin' Wolf 'Backdoor Man'
Iggy Pop 'Lust for Life'
Black Flag 'Depression'
Germs 'We Must Bleed'
Minor Threat 'Straight Edge'
Shellac 'Wingwalker'
Killdozer 'New Pants and Shirt'
Melvins 'Honey Bucket'
Ramones '(Do You Remember) Rock 'N Roll Radio'
The Who 'Baba O'Riley'
13th Floor Elevators 'You're Gonna Miss Me'
Jesus Lizard 'Glamourous'
Sonic Youth 'Teenage Riot'
Gauze 'Crash The Pose'
Birthday Party 'Dead Joe'
Boss Hog 'Hustler'
King Snake Roost 'Dead All Over'
Electric Eels 'Agitated'
Pixies 'Velouria'
Rose Tattoo 'Bad Boy For Love'
Motorhead 'Ace of Spades'
Metal Urbain 'Paris Maquis'
Joy Division 'Transmission'
Anti-Cimex 'Game of the Arseholes'
Poison Idea 'Pure Hate'
Big Black 'Kerosene'
Barry Adamson 'The Man With The Golden Arm'
Alice in Chains 'Them Bones'
Cows 'Hitting The Wall'
The Scientists 'Human Jukebox'
Tom Waits 'Downtown Train'
Swans 'In My Garden'
Slayer 'Seasons In The Abyss'
Talking Heads 'The Great Curve'
The Mark Of Cain 'Battlesick'
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds 'The Mercy Seat'
Mudhoney 'Suck You Dry'
Neil Young 'The Needle & The Damage Done'
My Bloody Valentine 'When You Sleep'
Beasts Of Bourbon 'Chase The Dragon'
Lubricated Goat 'In The Raw'
Soundgarden 'Outshined'

 

[Engimal]

A top 100 would be such a hard task!

 

[Roobs321]

Just sussing a list of number 1s in Australia... Avril Lavigne's comeback single, Girlfriend, was released in 2007.

To be fair, that is how it felt at the time. She did seem to vanish there for a few years after her massive breakthrough success in 2002-03. I think the same could be said for Nelly Furtado in 2006. It's not enough of a gap to be a comeback really, but in pop terms they both exploded back into the spotlight after feeling like distant memory.

A top 100 seems almost impossible to me (but fun). I have attempted a top 10 every few years. Looking at my last one, I've barely listened to some of them in the ensuing years.

 

[screech]

1 - The Killers - When You Were Young
2 - The Dandy Warhols - Get Off
3 - Neil Finn - Hole In The Ice
4 - The Sleepy Jackson - This Day
5 - MGMT - Kids
6 - The Killers - Losing Touch
7 - Mew - The Zookeeper's Boy
8 - MGMT - Electric Feel
9 - Fleetwood Mac - The Chain
10 - Pearl Jam - State of Love and Trust

 

[Eddie Dingle]

Top 50 off the top of my head (only one track per artist):

AC/DC 'Jailbreak'
Muddy Waters 'Mannish Boy'
Derek & The Dominoes 'Layla'
Dead Boys 'Sonic Reducer'
Zeppelin 'Since I've Been Loving You'
Black Sabbath 'Sabbath Bloody Sabbath'
Rolling Stones 'Gimme Shelter'
Stooges 'Loose'
Howlin' Wolf 'Backdoor Man'
Iggy Pop 'Lust for Life'
Black Flag 'Depression'
Germs 'We Must Bleed'
Minor Threat 'Straight Edge'
Shellac 'Wingwalker'
Killdozer 'New Pants and Shirt'
Melvins 'Honey Bucket'
Ramones '(Do You Remember) Rock 'N Roll Radio'
The Who 'Baba O'Riley'
13th Floor Elevators 'You're Gonna Miss Me'
Jesus Lizard 'Glamourous'
Sonic Youth 'Teenage Riot'
Gauze 'Crash The Pose'
Birthday Party 'Dead Joe'
Boss Hog 'Hustler'
King Snake Roost 'Dead All Over'
Electric Eels 'Agitated'
Pixies 'Velouria'
Rose Tattoo 'Bad Boy For Love'
Motorhead 'Ace of Spades'
Metal Urbain 'Paris Maquis'
Joy Division 'Transmission'
Anti-Cimex 'Game of the Arseholes'
Poison Idea 'Pure Hate'
Big Black 'Kerosene'
Barry Adamson 'The Man With The Golden Arm'
Alice in Chains 'Them Bones'
Cows 'Hitting The Wall'
The Scientists 'Human Jukebox'
Tom Waits 'Downtown Train'
Swans 'In My Garden'
Slayer 'Seasons In The Abyss'
Talking Heads 'The Great Curve'
The Mark Of Cain 'Battlesick'
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds 'The Mercy Seat'
Mudhoney 'Suck You Dry'
Neil Young 'The Needle & The Damage Done'
My Bloody Valentine 'When You Sleep'
Beasts Of Bourbon 'Chase The Dragon'
Lubricated Goat 'In The Raw'
Soundgarden 'Outshined'

Where is Baker Street?

****en.

 

[Sttew]

Where is Baker Street?

****en.

Whenever I hear that sax solo, it instantly sends me back to good times in 1978. No other song does for me what Baker Street does, and nobody will ever do justice to the song like Gerry Rafferty.

 

[Cruyff14]

1. Bruce Springsteen - Backstreets
2. Don Henley - Boys of Summer
3. Manfred Mann - Blinded By The Light
4. Bruce Springsteen - Growin' Up
5. Billy Joel - Say Goodbye To Hollywood
6. Bruce Springsteen - Lost In The Flood
7. New Radicals - You Only Get What You Give
8. The Eagles - In The City
9. Spencer & Antfood - Trek
10. Death Cab For Cutie - Cath

With attempting to limit my Springsteen input, it'd look something like this. The top three are the only real certainties.

 

[Sttew]

1. Bruce Springsteen - Backstreets
2. Don Henley - Boys of Summer
3. Manfred Mann - Blinded By The Light
4. Bruce Springsteen - Growin' Up
5. Billy Joel - Say Goodbye To Hollywood
6. Bruce Springsteen - Lost In The Flood
7. New Radicals - You Only Get What You Give
8. The Eagles - In The City
9. Spencer & Antfood - Trek
10. Death Cab For Cutie - Cath

With attempting to limit my Springsteen input, it'd look something like this. The top three are the only real certainties.

Good eclectic mix, if not Springsteen skewed!!

 

[thurmanmunson]

Where is Baker Street?

****en.

Good song, no doubt, but it wouldn't be in my Top 100

 

[Cruyff14]

Good eclectic mix, if not Springsteen skewed!!

Could have a top 10 of just Bruce to be honest!

I was clearly born in the wrong era too!

 

[Eddie Dingle]

Good song, no doubt, but it wouldn't be in my Top 100

But it would be in your top 1.

 

[thurmanmunson]

'Paradise' by Coldplay and 'Parklife' by Blur are probably in my Top 5 most hated songs. The CIA could use those songs in their torture sessions.

 

[Red Black and Blue]

1. Buffalo Springfield- For What It's Worth
2. Bob Dylan- The Times They Are A Changing
3. Otis Redding- Sittin' On The Dock Of The Bay
4. The Beatles- Here Comes The Sun
5. Red Hot Chilli Peppers- Under The Bridge
6. Cat Stevens- Father and Son
7. Rolling Stones- Sympathy For The Devil
8. The Killers- Smile Like You Mean It
9. Guns and Roses- Civil War
10. Kings Of Leon - The Bucket