2008-06-09

167 Songs - New And Improved List Of The Best Songs Ever

Of course, it is difficult to make a list of your favorite songs, you might change your mind all the time and come up with new things to put on the list. I tried making a list once and came up with the list of the 116 best songs ever, here is a new and improved version, I added a few more songs and changed my mind a few more times about which order the songs should be in.

1. Diamanda Galás - Scream of Love
2. Diamanda Galás - Eyes Without Blood
3. Corvus Corax - Millie Anni Passi Sunt
4. Diamanda Galás and Jane's Addiction - Sex Is Violent
5. Rezsõ Seress - Szomorú Vasárnap
6. Diamanda Galás - I Put A Spell On You
7. Diamanda Galás - Gloomy Sunday
8. Billie Holiday - Gloomy Sunday
9. Joy Division - I Remember Nothing
10. Joy Division - In A Lonely Place
11. John Division - Decades
12. John Cale - I Keep A Close Watch
13. The Cure - The Same Deep Water As You
14. Clannad - I Will Find You
15. Roger Dean Young and The Tin Cup - Little Wind
16. Bill Withers - You Just Can't Smile It Away
17. Neil Young - Like A Hurricane
18. Sweetbox - Everything's Gonna Be Alright
19. Corvus Corax - Tanzwut
20. Hocico - Spit As An Offense
21. Diamanda Galás - My World Is Empty Without You
22. Townes Van Zandt and Willie Nelson - Marie
23. Bruce DeBoer - Autumn
24. Dave Bainbridge and Joanne Hogg - Until The Tide Turns
25. Luther Allison - Reaching Out
26. Iona - Divine Presence
27. The Blue Nile - Soul Boy
28. All About Eve - Martha's Harbour
29. The Blue Nile - From A Late Night Train
30. The Danse Society - Somewhere
31. Diamanda Galás - Insane Asylum
32. Diamanda Galás - At The Dark End Of The Street
33. Screams For Tina - Kristen
34. Joan Baez - Diamonds and Rust
35. Diamanda Galás - Let My People Go
36. Mance Lipscomb - Ain't It Hard
37. Joy Division - Love With Tear Us Apart
38. Usherhouse - November Rain
39. Bill Withers - Ain't No Sunshine When She's Gone
40. Corvus Corax - Zauberlehrling
41. Corvus Corax - Rausch
42. Diana Ross and Marvin Gaye - You Are Everything
43. Joy Division - New Dawn Fades
44. Danzig - Sistinas
45. Loreena McKennitt - The Mystic's Dream
46. Hocico - Nightmare
47. Bruce DeBoer - Praying For Bree
48. Mary J. Blige and Method Man - You're All I Need
49. Luther Allison - Serious
50. Jimmy Witherspoon - Everything But You
51. Pink Floyd - Keep Talking
52. Apoptygma Berzerk - Unicorn
53. Lacuna Coil - Enjoy The Silence
54. The Police - Every Breath You Take
55. Gene Loves Gezebel - Kiss Of Life
56. Runrig - Abhainn an t-Sluaigh
57. Enya - I Want Tomorrow
58. Leonard Cohen - Hallelujah
59. Diamanda Galás and Recoil - Strange Hours
60. Loreena McKennitt - Skellig
61. Cage and Darryl Palumbo - Shoot Frank
62. Fiona Kennedy - Riverdance
63. Mance Lipscomb - Baby Please Don't Go
64. Skip James - Devil Got My Woman
65. Clannad - Northern Skyline
66. Leftöver Crack - Heroin or Suicide?
67. Jimmy Reed - Big Legged Woman
68. Jimmy Reed - You Got Me Dizzy
69. Jommy Reed - Honest I Do
70. Jimmy Reed - Bright Lights, Big City
71. Jimmy Reed - I Wanna Be Loved
72. Corvus Corax - Ore Dragonis
73. Corvus Corax - Celtic Roots
74. O'Jays - Now That We Found Love
75. The Mission - Tower of Strength
76. Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere
77. Color Theory - Snowing
78. Luther Allison - Life Is A Bitch
79. Chris Botti and The Blue Nile - Midnight Without You
80. Joy Division - Sound of Music
81. Rita Lynch - Baby I Wonder
82. Clannad - Blackstairs
83. Roberta Flack - Killing Me Softly
84. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
85. Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill
86. Leonard Cohen - Waiting For The Miracle
87. David Honeyboy Edwards - Gamblin' Man
88. Color Theory - Forget His Voice
89. Mississippi John Hurt - Nobody's Dirty Business
90. Skip James - Worried Blues
91. Mance Lipscomb - So Different Blues
92. Skip James - 4 O'Clock Blues
93. Bo Diddley - Bring it to Jerome
94. Nine Inch Nails - Mr. Self-Destruct
95. The Chi-Lites - Oh Girl
96. John Lee Hooker - I'm Gonna Kill That Woman
97. Odetta - God's Gonna Cut You Down
98. John Lee Hooker - Think Twice Before You Go
99. Danzig - How The God's Kill
100. Skip James - Shake 'Em On Down
101. Ma Rainey - C. C. Rider
102. Mamie Smith - Harlem Blues
103. Mance Lipscomb - Sugar Babe
104. Mississippi John Hurt - Stagger Lee
105. The Mission - Daddy's Going To Heaven Now
106. Lead Belly - Black Betty
107. Ebba Grön - Tyna Bort
108. The Blue Nile - Tinseltown In The Rain
109. Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley
110. John Lee Hooker - Devil's Jump
111. Howlin' Wolf - Smokestack Lightnin'
112. Skip James - Crow Jane
113. Mance Lipscomb - Angel Child
114. Mance Lipscomb - Going Up North To See My Pony Run
115. John Lee Hooker - The Numbers
116. Coolio - I'll C U When U Get There
117. Nina Simone - Feeling Good
118. Sunglasses After Dark - Morbid Silence
119. Hocico - Sucios Pensamientos
120. Lydia Lunch and Nick Cave - Some Velvet Morning
121. Ebba Grön - Die Mauer
122. Supertramp - The Logical Song
123. Alice Cooper - Poison
124. Ray Charles - Hit The Road, Jack!
125. Fields of The Nephilim - From The Fire
126. Kate Bush - Cloudbusting
127. Two Gallants - Steady Rollin'
128. Gnarls Barkley - Crazy
129. Bone Orchard - Kickin' Up The Sawdust
130. Ebba Grön - Häng Gud
131. Rita Lynch - Call Me Your Girlfriend
132. Screaming Dead - Night Creatures
133. Frank Stokes - Stomp That Thing
134. Roberta Flack - The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
135. Mance Lipscomb - God Moves On The Water
136. Gorillaz - Feel Good, Inc.
137. Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit
138. Capercaille - Servant to the Slave
139. Gorillaz - Clint Eastwood
140. Mamie Smith - No Good Man
141. Junior Wells - Sweet Sixteen
142. Mario Winans, Q-Tip and Stevie Wonder - Shame On Us: What The Fuss
143. Folk och Rackare - Vänner och Fränder
144. The Locust - The Unwilling... Led By The Unqualified... Doing The Unnecessary... For The Ungrateful
145. Adiemus - Adiemus
146. Michael Jackson - Billie Jean
147. Leonard Cohen - First We Take Manhattan
148. Skip James - I'm So Glad
149. Clannad - Newgrange
150. Venetian Snares - A Lot Of Drugs
151. Mamie Smith - Sweet Man O'Mine
152. Sonny Terry - Lost John
153. Cornelis Vreeswijk - Somliga Går Med Trasiga Skor
154. Brownie McGhee, Lead Belly and Sonny Terry - How Long Blues
155. Máire Brennan - Against The Wind
156. Imperiet - Du Ska Va President
157. Kool Rock Steady - You Ain't Nobody
158. John Lee Hooker - Tupelo Blues
159. Mamie Smith - So What Papa?
160. Skip James - How Long Blues
161. Michael Sembello - Maniac
162. Mance Lipscomb - Mama Don't Allow
163. Nine Inch Nails - Closer
164. Ebba Grön - 800 Grader Celcius
165. Gorillaz - Dirty Harry
166. Ebba Grön - Mamma Pappa Barn
167. Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I totally agree with #120 on your "List Of The Best Songs Ever":

"Lydia Lunch and Nick Cave - Some Velvet Morning"

In my list though it would be among the top 10. ;)

Don G (from Switzerland)