Poly's favorite 100 songs of the past 25 years

[Dis]

This is very, very difficult for me. To narrow it down that much...

1. The Four Horseman- Metallica
2. Master of Puppets- Metallica
3. The Thing that Should Not Be- Metallica
4. Third Eye- Tool
5. Aenima- Tool
6. Push it- Tool
7. Parabola- Tool
8. 46 & 2 - Tool
9. Sober- Tool
10. Cold and Ugly- Tool
11. The Grudge- Tool
12. Lateralus- Tool
13. Triad- Tool
14. Intolerance- Tool
15. Bottom- Tool
16. 4 degrees- Tool
17. Jimmy - Tool
18. Rime of the Ancient Mariner- Iron Maiden
19. Wasted Years- Iron Maiden
20. ****ing Hostile- Pantera
21. This Love- Pantera
22. Propaganda- Sepultura
23. Spreading the Disease- Queensryche
24. Desperate Cry- Sepultura
25. Bleeding Me- Metallica
26. Sad But True- Metallica
27. Closer- Nine Inch Nails
28. Sweet Dreams- marylin Manson
29. Seventh Son of a Seventh Son- Iron Maiden
30. Alexander the Great- Iron Maiden

arghh. I'm missing tons of songs here I know. These are just the ones I can think of off the top of my head.

[oedo]

I´m very surprised that almost everybody here listens to Rock only and hardly anyone to techno, pop, jazz etc. especialy since pop and techno started out about 25 years ago.

[Berzerker]

Oedo, this thread is for rock and roll songs and it's existence should not be used to draw inferences about other types of music enjoyed by posters.

Techno sucks.

[oedo]

After making my votes, I noticed Jaguars restrictions. feel free to ignore my votes, but then in total please.
It´s ok when you say Rock only, but then I don´t see why the last 25 years only and leaving out the masterpieces that way. it doesn´t make much sense to me.

[Berzerker]

True, 25 years of rock misses out on the 60's and early 70's.

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Lung


Hey, it wasn't my list! I only included it because it was heaps better than the original crap posted. If you read back far enough, you will see that i posted that comparing different genres and periods was pointless.

Dare i ask, what's your list? All Pet Shop Boys and Bronski Beat? Okay, that was low, but Frankine Goes To Hollyowood was pretty cool for it's time

You obviously don't know me very well...

[Dauphin]

I'd like to see a similar poll, but based on albums from all genres.

[OneFootInTheGrave]

well I'd say that it is unfair to give some more points than the others, but I will list the first 20 songs that come to my mind, and they deserve to be in my top 20 ever...

Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
Queen - The show must go on
U2 - Where the streets have no name
U2 - Lemon
Radiohead - My Iron Lung
Radiohead/Unkle - Rabbit in your headlights
Pink Floyd - Echoes
Pink Floyd - Time
David Bowie - Ashes to Ashes
Nirvana - In Bloom
Pearl Jam - Even Flow
Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven
Rolling Strones - Paint it Black
The Police - Every Breath You Take
Sting - Fragile
Talking Heads - Once in a Lifetime
David Byrne - Angels
The Doors - Riders on The Storm
Aphex Twin - On
The Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony gets a honorary mention

[Zopperoni]

Originally posted by oedo
I´m very surprised that almost everybody here listens to Rock only and hardly anyone to techno, pop, jazz etc. especialy since pop and techno started out about 25 years ago.

I sticked to Rock only, because it was requested so by JW in the title post.

However, my current MP3 collection consists for 60% of House and Jazz.

[alva]

Only took one song per group,
Tried to be international,
Went for songs known by most people,
Some will probably over the 25 limit, so what

[b]


1.Nirvana                 - Smells Like Teen Spirit 
2.Tears For Fears         - Mad World 
3.Joy Division            - Love Will Tear Us Apart
4.U2                      - With or Without You
5. XTC                    - making plans for nigel
6.Patti Smith             - Because The Night
7.Bowie                   - under pressure
8.dEUS                    - suds & soda
9.Beck                    - Loser
10.Hole                   - Make me over
11.Joe Jackson            - Real Men
12.Men At Work            - Land Down Under
13.Proclaimers            - I will walk 500 miles
14.Pearl Jam              - Alive
15.Siouxie & The Banshees - Happy House
16.The Pixies             - Debaser
17.The primitives         - crash
18.Alphaville             - Forever Young
19.Bauhaus                - Bela Lugosi's Dead
20. Cranberries           - Zombie
[/b]

[Dr. A. Cula]

Since I'm at the office, I just put winamp in shuffle mode and this is what it came up with:

1. Megadeth - "Mastermind"
2. Deep Purple - "Lalena"
3. Zdob & Zdub - "Vai s-amar de capul meu" (romanian)
4. Billy Idol - "Rebel Yell"
5. Offspring - "Change The World"
6. Nazareth - "Love Hurts"
7. Judas Priest - "The Rage"
8. Ac/Dc - "That's The Way I Wanna Rock'n'Roll"
9. Therion - "Opus Eclipse"
10. Judas Priest - "In Between"
11. Judas Priest - "Burn In Hell"
12. Alice Cooper & Berry Wright - "No Tricks"
13. The Animals - "Talkin' About You"
14. Motorhead - "Louie, Louie"
15. Alice Cooper - "Stolen Prayer"
16. Megadeth - "Ecstasy"
17. Motorhead - "Killed By Death"
18. Rolling Stones - "Paint It Black"
19. Iron Maiden - "Sanctuary"
20. Heavenwood - "Flames Of Vanity"

There you go. I would have put the entire playlist, but it has 900 titles.

Oh, during this search, winamp also chose the entry at number 666, where I keep a recording of our former dictator Ceausescu saying "Happy New Year".

[Dr. A. Cula]

Originally posted by oedo
I´m very surprised that almost everybody here listens to Rock only and hardly anyone to techno, pop, jazz etc. especialy since pop and techno started out about 25 years ago.

I have a CD of a local jazz band, if that counts. But only because I know the singer. And she's cute, too.

[monolith94]

Alva's list is almost *too* hip.

[alva]

Wow, long time since anyone called me hip

Or did you mean something else ?

[monolith94]

forever young? bauhaus? tears for fears? men at work???
yeah - you're dangerously hip.

Although men at work's best work was "It's A Mistake".