Top 10 Songs

[Husker94]

Okay so what are your top 10 songs?  

These are the songs that you never get tired of or bored with--these are the songs that the more you listen to them them more you love them.

10.  Alcohaulin Ass - Hell Yeah
9.  Keep Away - Godsmack
8.  Guilty Conscience - Eminem w/ Dr. Dre
7.  Sweet Soul Sister - The Cult
6.  Simple Man - Lynard Skynard
5.  Back In Black - AC/DC
4.  Down In A Hole - Alice In Chains
3.  Low Man's Lyric - Metallica
2.  Zzyzx Road - Stone Sour
1.  Metal Health - Quiet Riot

Ask me tomorrow and I could probably give ten different answers, but for right now those ten tracks are as good as it gets.

Honorable mention:

Because I Got High - Afroman
Modern Day Cowboy - Tesla
Bury Me With My Guns On - Bobaflex
Rockstar - Nickleback
37 Stitches - Drowning Pool
Falls Apart - Hurt
In This River - Black Label Society
Check Yo Self - Ice Cube
You're Goin' Down - Sick Puppies
Nobody's Fool - Cinderella
Inside The Fire - Disturbed

[Cdog923]

Shine - Collective Soul
December - Collective Soul
Interstate Love Song - Stone Temple Pilots
Drive - Incubus
Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
Let's Go Crazy - Prince
1999 - Prince
Crazy Train - Ozzy Osbourne
No Excuses - Alice in Chains
There Is No Place Like Nebraska - UNL Band 

[Solly]

In no particular order:

Hollywood Nights - Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band
Born to Run - Spruce Springsteen & the E Street Band
Roll with the Changes - REO Speedwagon
How Do You Like Me Now? - Toby Keith
And You, My Love - Chris Rea
The Long Run - The Eagles
Don't Think Twice, It's All Right - Eric Clapton (his version of the Bob Dylan song)
River of Dreams - Billy Joel
Real Fine Place - Sara Evans
Tupelo Honey - Van Morrison

[AlbqHusker]

Wow, this is likely to get a lot of diverse replies.  . Great subject though, curious to see other responses.  Here's mine

Melissa -  Allman Brothers
The River - Bruce Springsteen
We Just Disagree - Dave Mason
What it's Like - Everlast
Running on Empty - Jackson Browne
Willin' - Little Feat
Step Inside This House - Lyle Lovett
Every Wonder Why - Ryan Bingham
La Cienega Just Smiled - Ryan Adams
Home - Shawn Mullins

...with heavy emphasis on lyrics/songwriting and not loud headbanging instruments.

[FreightTrain]

They Call Me The Breeze  Skynard
Midnight Rambler    The Stones
Hoochie Coochie Man  Jeff Heally Band
Hold On Loosely  38 Special
Into The Night   Santana
Midnight Rider Allman Brothers
Bad Company  Bad Company
Gimme Shelter  The Stones
One Way Out Allman Brothers
Mama Kin  Areosmith

Symphony For The Devil  The Stones
Satisfaction  The Stones
Mas Tequila Sammy Hagar
Can't Drive 55 Sammy Hagar
Crossroads Clapton
Jungle Love Steve Miller
Sunshine Clapton
Desperado  Eagles
Hotel California  Eagles
LA Woman  The Doors

[Roscoe Pound]

Billy Joe Shaver- Georgia on a Fast Train 10 times in a row

[bowz]

wow great topic, should have saved this for the off season...    hope folks youtube my songs and others, I know I will.

In no order

The Dance - Garth Brooks - That is Number one, guess the rest are in no order
Change the World Unplugged Version - Eric Clapton
I Wish It Would Rain - The Temptations
It's So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday - Boyz II Men
Desperado - The Eagles
Some Things Never Change - Chris Ledoux feat Garth Brooks
Dream On - The Oak Ridge Boys
Homesick - MercyMe
Western Skies - Chris Ledoux
Simple Man - Lynard Skynard

Runner Up
Jessica - Alman Brothers Band
Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon and Garfunkel
Human - Metallica S&M Version
Friends In Low Places - Garth Brooks
Fire and Rain - James Taylor
The Chair - George Strait
Amazing Grace My Chains are Gone - Chris Tomlin
Amazing Grace - Statler Brothers
Copenhagen - Chris Ledoux
The Look - Roxette
In Color - Jamey Johnson - best version ever was on old AM radio late at night

Songs are because I love they way the rock, emotional attachment, remind me of my wife, eulogies etc, basically the top 10 songs of my life that I can come up with in short order there are many more, maybe later on I will post more songs.  Great topic again

[bowz]

FT Good call on Carlos Santana, have you heard Put Your Lights On by Santana and everlast?  Good combo of above artists I've seen, also no love for Oye Como Va or Black Magic woman?

[FreightTrain]

FT Good call on Carlos Santana, have you heard Put Your Lights On by Santana and everlast?  Good combo of above artists I've seen, also no love for Oye Como Va or Black Magic woman?

Well bowz, I have always loved many kinds of music and trying to whittle it down to ten songs is really impossible for me.  I have wore out many an Abraxis device.  Vinyl, tapes, CDs and I still love those tunes.  All of them.  I have as much love for country songs.  I sat on my dads shoulders and seen Elvis and Johnny Cash live in the fifties.  I sat in the front row watching the Alman brothers.  Front row watching REO and Elton John.  Front row watching the Beach boys, Alabama and Hank Jr.  I love the Blues and that includes many of the old stuff.  I could write several top tens depending on my mood.  I sang in church and all the way into high school. I can play the mouth harp pretty well that I taught myself during years of driving trains on the road.  Music is one of my passions. I could talk music all day long. 

[Red Ghost]

I couldn't keep it to only 10 songs:

1.  Boys of Summer - Don Henley
(The perfect song, from the first note to the last.  And has there ever been a better use of irony in a song than "Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac"?)

2.  Eiledon - Big Country

3.  Wooden Ships - Crosby, Still and Nash

4.  Even Now - The Call
(A spooky, but uplifting, vision of Christian (and Jewish) persecution in the Last Days)

5.  Jungleland - Bruce Springsteen
(The Clarence Clemons saxophone solo is my all-time favorite instrumental piece)

6.  Winterblue - Heather Nova

7.  You Don't Get Much - BoDeans

8.  Rings - Toad The Wet Sprocket

9.  Minutes to Memories - John Mellencamp
(Lots of good lines in this song:  "An honest man's pillow is his piece of mind."  "Suck it up and tough it out and be the best you can.")

10.  Remembrance Day - Big Country

11.  High Summer - Van Morrison

12.  Restless Natives - Big Country
(A song about Scottish pride and independence.  Has a touch of "There is no Place Like Nebraska" in it with lines such as "I will be with them, in the summer sun and the winter snow, they will come and clouds will go, and show that we are proud again."  Avoid the music video version that includes annoying clips from the movie of the same name - - which was gawdawful by the way.)

13.  Middletown Dreams - Rush

14.  Have I Told You Lately - Van Morrison
(The original is much better, IMO, than the Rod Stewart version that became famous.  Although I do give Rod Stewart credit for saying he thinks this is the best love song ever written.)

15.  In A Big Country - Big Country
(Great song, but one of the worst music videos of all time.)

16.  Locomotive Breath - Jethro Tull

17.  Werewolves of London - Warren Zevon

18.  Californication - Red Hot Chili Peppers

19.  If I had a Rocket Launcher - Bruce Cockburn

20.  Things Have Changed - Bob Dylan

[Red Ghost]

The Look - Roxette

Good call on that one, bowz.  I am not really a pop music fan, but I loved the album that contained that song.  Hey, whatever happened to the gal who was the singer?  When that album came out she was a thin, good-looking Swedish blonde in a little black dress.  I saw her a few years ago in a recent music video and she looked like an old battleaxe, although I couldn't tell for sure if that was done in order to fit the song or if she really had just aged very badly.

[shivas]

Ten of my favorite, in no paticular order:

Blue in Green - Miles Davis
All Along the Watchtower (Originally by Dylan, but covered best by Jimi Hendrix)
What I'd Say - Ray Charles
No Woman No Cry - Bob Marley
Superstition (Both Stevie Wonder and Stevie Ray Vaughan versions)
Get Up - James Brown
Fight the Power - Public Enemy
The Thrill is Gone - BB King
Cult of Personality - Living Color
Crossroads - (Robert Johnson, Cream, and live Clapton versions)

Since the list above is dominated by older songs and african americans,  I had to create another one for equal opportunity purposes:

Black Magic Woman - Santana
Riding the Storm Out / 157 Riverside Avenue - REO Speedwagon
Jessica - Allman Brothers
2112 - Rush (All of side 1 - they have to be heard together! )
Frankenstein - Johnny Winter
Silent Lucidity - Queensryche
Brain Damage / Eclipse - Pink Floyd (these songs should always be played together)
Black Hole Sun - Soundgarden
Eine Kliene Natchmusik - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Seven Nation Army - The White Stripes

[Big Sky Husker]

Pink Cadillac - Bruce Springsteen
Rooster - Alice In Chains
Plush - Stone Temple Pilots
Listen To The Music - The Doobie Brothers
I've Got You Under My Skin - Frank Sinatra
Folsom Prison Blues - Johnny Cash
The End - The Doors
Hey Joe - Jimi Hendrix
Fell On Black Days - Soundgarden
In The Mood - The Glenn Miller Band

Even The Losers - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Baba O'Riley - The Who
Dangerous Type - The Cars
Star Wars Theme Song - John Williams
One Inch Man - Kyuss
Mannish Boy - Muddy Waters
Werewolves of London - Warren Zevon
Come Together - The Beatles
Why Not Me - The Judds
Hawaii Five-O Theme Song - Morton Stevens and the CBS Orchestra

A new song that I think may make the list is by the Foo Fighters; These Days.  

[AlbqHusker]

In no particular order:

Hollywood Nights - Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band
Born to Run - Spruce Springsteen & the E Street Band
Roll with the Changes - REO Speedwagon
How Do You Like Me Now? - Toby Keith
And You, My Love - Chris Rea
The Long Run - The Eagles
Don't Think Twice, It's All Right - Eric Clapton (his version of the Bob Dylan song)
River of Dreams - Billy Joel
Real Fine Place - Sara Evans
Tupelo Honey - Van Morrison

Solid list Solly, but you gotta drop Hollywood Nights for Turn the Page!  The "Omaha" reference makes Turn the Page my favorite of his many great songs.

[who]

In no order

Little Wing  SRV, cover of Hendrix
Baba O'Riley,  The Who
Crystal Ships, The Doors
Moon Dance, Van Morrison
Since I've Been Loving You, Led Zep
Stay, U2
Everybody Wants to Rule the World,  Tears for Fears
Redemtion Song, Bob Marley
Wherever I may roam,  Metallica
Black Hole Son, SoundGarden