The Icrontic 100

Kwitko

One of our local radio stations is counting down the top 1019 songs of all time for Labor Day. Many radio stations do a Labor Day countdown as a way to mark the end of summer. I thought we could do the same here. Thus, forthwith, and heretofore, I present to you:

The Icrontic 100:rockon::Rocker:

The rules are simple:

- Your favorite 20 songs by 20 different artists. No repeats! Let me clarify. No repeat of the same artist on your own list. It's the Top 100, people have to choose some of the same songs otherwise how am I going to tabulate votes?

- Order is not important.
- Any genre is acceptable.
- A solo recording from an artist who normally records with a band is okay. For example, you can put a Cream song and an Eric Clapton song.
- In the event of a tie, songs will be chosen at random.
- Please email your submissions to me at kwitko (at) gmail (dot) com
- The deadline for entries is Sunday, Sept 13 at 11:59 PM.
- No Britney Spears songs!

Ivan

Koreish

No Brit Brit? That's like half my library you just trashed. Guess it's time to go find some good music. :grumble:

UPSLynx

When I get home from work and ponder over my submissions, I will add them here.

*edit*

Lynx's Top Twenty (in no particular order with the exception of A Change of Seasons being the all time fav)

- Dream Theater - A Change of Seasons
- Thee Silver Mount Zion Memorial Orchestra and Tra-La-La Band - Sisters! Brothers! Small Boats of Fire Are Falling From The Sky!
- Alaska in Winter - Horsey Horse [Remix Version]
- Beirut - Elephant Gun
- Explosions in the Sky - What Do You Go Home To?
- Five Iron Frenzy - Every New Day
- Handsome Furs - What We Had
- Muse - Stockholm Syndrome
- MxPx - Misplaced Memories
- Opeth - The Baying of the Hounds
- POD - Thinking About Forever
- Pax 217 - What Is Love
- Pillar - Chasing Shadows at Midnight
- Ratatat - Everest
- Rock Plaza Central - We've Got A Lot To Be Glad For
- Sigur Ros - Saeglopur
- Sunset Rubdown - Stallion
- The Juliana Theory - Everything
- The Killers - Smile Like You Mean It
- Wolf Parade - Dear Sons and Daughters of Hungry Ghosts


I LOVE swedish metal, but when it comes to all time favorites, surprisingly, the slower songs seem to win out.

Two songs I wanted to add but couldn't: Ratatat - Lex and - Nightwish - Over The Hills And Far Away

Leonardo

Leo's

• Rush, Spirit of Radio
  

• Neil Diamond, Song Song Blue
  
  

• The Association, Everyone Knows it’s Wendy
  
  

• AC/DC, Hells Bells
  
  

• Van Halen, Why Can’t this be Love?
  

• Steppenwolf, Born to be Wild
  

• Led Zeppelin, Stairway to Heaven
  
  

• Doobie Brothers, China Grove
  

• The 5^th Dimension, The Age of Aquarius
  

• Elvis Presley, Jailhouse Rock
  
  

• Kansas, Point of Know Return
  

• Steve Perry, Oh Sherry
  

• Beatles, Hey Jude
  

• Rolling Stones, Start Me Up
  

• Lynnrd Skynnrd, Give me Three Steps
  

• The Doors, Light my Fire
  

• The Who, Who are You
  

• Jethro Tull, Locomotive Breath
  

• Boston, Foreplay/Long Time
  

• U2, I still haven't found what I'm looking for
  

...honorable mentions: Janis Joplin, Joe Satriani, ZZ Top, Eric Clapton, Chicago, Creedance Clearwater Revival, Pat Travers, Steely Dan, Santana, Carole King, Paul Simon, Journey, Heart

...truth be told: Beethoven, Ninth Symphony; Saint-Saens, Organ Symphony; Berlioz, Symphonie Fantastique; Vivaldi, The Four Seasons; Bach, Prelude and Fugue in D minor; Richard Strauss, Also Sprach Zarathustra; Rachmaninoff, Piano Concerto No. 2; Sibelius, Finlandia; Stravinsky, The Firebird Suite; Gershwin, Rhapsody in Blue; Dvorzak, New World Symphony; Tchaikowsky, Violin Concerto; Debussy, L'Apre`s midi d'un faune; Gabrielli, brass and organ works (various)...(never have the time to sit still long enough to listen to the masterworks)

There's no way I could make a real top-20 favorites list for popular or classical, but I gave it a good effort.

Obsidian

That's gonna take me way too long to decide. I'll probably just end up copying the top of my last.fm playlist. Nevermind, I'll probably end up wasting a couple hours I could be using to do something productive. If I had to rank them that would take all day. This is the perfect way to try out my new headset.

Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
UNKLE - Rabbit in Your Headlights
Eminem - Sing for the Moment
U2 - Sunday Bloody Sunday
Weezer - Perfect Situation
Coldplay - The Scientist
Kansas - Dust in the Wind
Radiohead - Creep
Hum - Stars
The Pixies - Where is My Mind?
Blink 182 - Adam's Song
The Smashing Pumpkins - Tonight, Tonight
Staind - It's Been A While
Harvey Danger - Flagpole Sitta
Our Lady Peace - One Man Army
Blur - Song 2
Everclear - Father of Mine
Linkin Park - Crawling
Gorillaz - Clint Eastwood
Brand New - Jesus Christ

Don't count my list right away. I'll probably edit it a million times over the next 24 hours. I tried to fit a little Moonlight Sonata or Requiem in there but I couldn't find room. Also, I can't stop listening to Genesis by Justice, this is crazy.

PS: Thrax and Leo have the musical taste of 50 year olds. There's no way Point of Know Return is better than Dust in the Wind, go get your ears checked out.

Thrax

(Reserved spot)

Leo, this may (or may not) surprise you, but we're music twins. I listen to every group/artist you listed on a regular basis.

Kwitko

Plz email list plz.

Obsidian

But this is a forum, we post =[ Anyone else count 19 songs on Leo's list?

pigflipper

Yup, Leo posted only 19 (unless he emailed a full list)

CB

My Top Twenty, in alphabetical order by artist:

Alanis Morissett - You Owe Me Nothing
Barenaked Ladies - The Flag
Ben Folds Five - Annie Waits
Blues Traveler - Price to Pay
Cake - Commissioning a Symphony in C
The Corrs - Queen of Hollywood
Cowboy Mouth - How Do You Tell Someone-
The Cranberries - I Just Shot John Lennon
Evanescence - My Last Breath
Gwendolyn Speaks - Searchlight
Janet Prestley - Earth Beauty
Jewel - Painters
Matchbox Twenty - Stop
MC Frontalot - Secrets from the Future
Mocean Worker - Times of Danger
R.E.M. - The End of the World as We Know It
The Seatbelts - Space Lion
Sigur Rós - Agaetis Byrjun
Splashdown - Karma Slave
They Might Be Giants - They'll Need a Crane

I'll also e-mail it to Kwitko, since them's the rules.

Obsidian

CB said:

The Seatbelts - Space Lion

Wow, I didn't think I would see that one on anyone's list. I was thinking about putting it on mine but I ultimately decided against it partially because there was no way in my mind it would make the top 100.

Lincoln

My list, aka the list likely to see the least number of selections make the 100:

• Ben Folds - Rockin' the Suburbs
  
• Third Eye Blind - Semi-Charmed Life (sans radio edit)
  
• Dispatch - The General
  
• Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
  
• Muse - Take a Bow
  
• Beatles - I am the Walrus
  
• Alanis Morisette - You Learn
  
• Fall Out Boy - I Don't Care
  
• Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun
  
• Incubus - Light Grenades
  
• Panic at the Disco - Nine in the Afternoon
  
• Pink Floyd - Brain Damage
  
• My Chemical Romance - Welcome to the Black Parade
  
• Tenacious D - Tribute
  
• Tool - Schism
  
• The Who - Pinball Wizard
  
• Pearl Jam - Daughter
  
• Frank Sinatra - I Get a Kick Out of You
  
• Ludo - Broken Bride
  
• Faith No More - Epic
  

(ps: picking singles sucks)

Favorite song no one's ever heard of: Space Monkeys - Sugar Cane

CB

Obsidian said:

Wow, I didn't think I would see that one on anyone's list. I was thinking about putting it on mine but I ultimately decided against it partially because there was no way in my mind it would make the top 100.

I tried not to make my decisions based on what I thought would ultimately be on the final list. If I had, none of these songs would have been on it... ;)

GnomeWizardd

Wow I started write a list and ended up with 79 lol Had to start trimming :eek3:

Oh and Leo posted my All time fav Song too! Boston Foreplay / longtime is where its at!



Alterbridge - Blackbird
Boston - Foreplay / Longtime
Breaking Benjamin - Blow me away
Creed - Faceless Man
Dave Matthews Band - Shake me like a Monkey
Def Leppard - hysteria
Elton John - Bennie and the Jets
Eve 6 - Think Twice
Goo Goo Dolls - Let Love In
Green Day - Holiday
Guns and Roses - Paradise City
Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Child
Led Zeppelin - Immigrant Song
Linkin Park - Lying from you
Live - I Alone
Metallica - The Unforgiven II
Motley Crue - Kick start my heart
The Offspring - Gone Away
Ozzy Osborne - Mr Tinkertrain
Red hot Chili Peppers - Otherside

poofie

now i'm feeling less bashful... i'll post what i sent Kwitko this morning. this isn't in any order, and i am too lazy to alphabetize. or use caps.

weezer - falling for you
alanis morissette - not the doctor
roberta flack - first time ever i saw your face
al green - how do you mend a broken heart
willie nelson - angel flying too close to the ground
ludo - horror of our love
jane monheit - case of you (a joni mitchell cover)
cake - short skirt, long jacket
glen campbell - gentle on my mind
mxpx - move to bremerton
kenny rogers - ruby
hank williams - cold cold heart
mary prankster - blue skies over dundalk
silverchair - tomorrow
they might be giants - she's an angel
stevie wonder - lately
panic! at the disco - lying is the most fun a girl can have without taking her clothes off
dropkick murphys - shipping up to boston
reel big fish - drunk again
billy joel - she's got a way

kryyst

And now a voice of something heavier

Slipknot - Wait and Bleed
All That Remains - Two Weeks
As I Lay Dying - Reflection
Black Sabbath - N.I.B.
Clutch - Electric Worry
Deftones - 7 Words
Iron Maiden - Run to the hills
Korn - Blind
Kyuss - Demon Cleaner
Lamb of God - Laid To Rest
Mastadon - Colony of Birchman
Megadeth - Holy Wars
Metallica - Dyers Eve
Mudvayne - Happy
Pantera - This Love
Sepultura - Refuse/Resist
Slayer - Reign Blood
Taproot - Poem
Tool - Aenima
Volbeat - Human Instrument

CB

poofie said:

they might be giants - she's an angel

This is my second favorite song of all time. It only didn't make my list because my first favorite song is also TMBG. ;)

GnomeWizardd

Fluff I struggled with not putting on that MxPx song

shwaip

Rob Thomas - Ever the Same
Tracy Chapman - Fast Car
Damien Rice - The Blower's Daughter
The Frames - Falling Slowly
Death Cab For Cutie - Brothers on a hotel bed
Dashboard Confessional - Stolen
Jose Gonzalez - Heartbeats
TV on the Radio - Staring at the Sun
Cake - The Distance
Tim - Only you and I
Elliott Smith - The Biggest Lie
Michael Jackson - Dirty Diana
Paul Simon - You Can Call Me Al
Beastie Boys - Intergalactic
Counting Crows - Round Here
Coldplay - Fix you
The Postal Service - The District Sleeps Alone Tonight
Fleet Foxes - Sun it Rises
Matt Nathanson - Pretty the World
Gin Blossoms - Hey Jealousy

Feel free to commence the mocking.

kryyst

shwaip said:

Feel free to commence the mocking.

That's your top 20 songs...what possible point would be to mocking you. It'd be like kicking a dead horse, stealing a blind man's glasses, or cursing out a deaf person behind their back. What I'm saying is, it'd be impossible to cause you any more grief then you cause yourself.

Lincoln

I would take road trips with poofie or shwaip and let them control the tunes.

shwaip

Lincoln said:

I would take road trips with poofie or shwaip and let them control the tunes.#uknowhowiknowuregay

fatcat

seriously, only 20 songs? I could easily pop off a few hundred here...

I'll work on this

fatcat

Fine. I chopped it from 50+ to 20.

Guns N Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine
Queensryche - Silent Lucidity
Ludo - The Horror of Our Love
The Rolling Stones - Sympathy for the Devil
Live - Lightning Crashes
Pink Floyd - Another Brick in the Wall Part 1-3
Sublime - What I Got
Motley Crue - Kickstart My Heart
Johnny Cash - Highwayman
Kenny Wayne Shepherd - Blue on Black
Blues Traveler - The Mountains Win Again
U2 - Where the Streets Have No Name
Eric Clapton - Layla (Acoustic)
Bob Seger - Turn the Page
Cake - Short Skirt, Long Jacket
Tim McGraw - Don't Take The Girl
Don McLean - American Pie
Tom Petty - MaryJane's Last Dance
Led Zeppelin - Kashmir
Eagles - Hotel California

TiberiusLazarus

Pretty sure this is my list:

Metallica - Fade to Black
Ludo - Horror of Our Love
Avenged Sevenfold - Brompton Cocktail
10 Years - Drug of Choice
My Chemical Romance - Welcome to the Black Parade
30 Seconds to Mars - The Kill
Bob Seger - Turn the Page
Harry Chapin - Cat's in the Cradle
Disturbed - Down With the Sickness
Marilyn Manson - Sweet Dreams
MAtchbox Twenty - Unwell
Oasis - Champagne Supernova
Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train
The Postal Service - The District Sleeps Alone Tonight
Shinedown - .45
Third Eye Blind - Semi-Charmed Life
Trapt - Headstrong
3 Doors Down - Kryptonite
Cat stevens - Seasons in the Sun
Johann Pachelbel - Canon in D

Obsidian

shwaip said:

The Postal Service - The District Sleeps Alone Tonight

TiberiusLazarus said:

The Postal Service - The District Sleeps Alone Tonight

The last song I cut from my list :eek:

shwaip said:

Feel free to commence the mocking.

Schwaip, I think I actually like your list the most so far... besides mine of course.