The All-Time Favorite Songs Ballot Thread • Page 6

Mildly surprised that Chris doesn’t know the Snow Patrol song. It’s so good.

 

@CarpetElf and I were talking about his list and now I’m stalking everyone else’s and avoiding mine

 

I never really gave Snow Patrol a chance until my fiancee got me into their really excellent last album.

 

The one thing I know my list will underrepresent is like pre-50s musical theater/jazz/classical because the only method I can reasonably do is to go off my master list list of albums I've heard and own. Oh well. This list will be a moving target.

 

Quick rundown on these:

David Ford – Song for the Road (2008)

My wife gave me this song on a mix CD shortly after we started dating, when we were about to go long distance for the first time. Four years later, it was our first dance song at our wedding. Just a really lovely, thoughtful, interesting love song. I like his other stuff, but this is hands down my favorite song of his.

Feeder – Feeling a Moment (2005)

The album this song is from (called Pushing the Senses) is definitely one I'd recommend. It's produced by Gil Norton and really has that Futures/Recovering the Satellites sweep. This song is one of those openers that is just so melodically propulsive that it's hard not to get swept up in it. A few other really beautiful, big rock songs on that record.

Matthew Ryan – Return to Me (2003)

Best way I can describe Matthew Ryan is that he was kind of doing Horrible Crowes before Horrible Crowes. (Appropriately enough, he did a record produced by Brian Fallon in 2016 that sounds like Elsie.) This song/album is my favorite of his, though.

David Nail – Home (2016)

The album this is from is some nice, solid radio-friendly country. I like it, don't necessarily love it (though, it's got some killer features from Vince Gill, Brothers Osborne, and Logan Brill). But this song...man, it's just in another galaxy from everything else he's done. A lot of country artists write songs about home/hometowns/going home/leaving home/loving home. I've never heard a better take on it than this. Also, Lori McKenna is his duet partner here, so that helps.

Snow Patrol – Run (2003)

I'm sure you've heard this one at some point. It's really the song that made them. Final Straw definitely gets my endorsement, though. The perfect mid-way between their kind of off-kilter indie rock beginnings and the stadium-sized arena rock of their later albums.

Brett Eldredge – Sunday Drive (2020)

Eldredge was kind of a radio country guy for a long time, and he was enjoyable enough in that mode without ever really wowing me. Great voice, so-so songs. His album from last year really elevated him for me. He worked with the guys who produced Golden Hour and went for something a lot more personal and timeless in the songs. This one is a personal one for me, because I listened to it a lot on my way home from seeing my grandma for the last time. But I think you'd like the record.

The Alternate Routes – Carry Me Home (2010)

I think we've talked about these guys before. They're somewhere between, like, Damnwells-style roots rock and U2. I really love the album this song is from; just really solid, catchy, fun, huge-sounding rock songs.

Abandoned Pools – From Long Sleep (2012)

I don't actually like the album this song is from that much, and I'm hit or miss on this band otherwise, aside from a few songs. I got assigned this album for review early on when I was writing for AbsolutePunk. Not much else about it stuck, but I fell head over heels in love with this song.

 

I adore Final Straw and Eyes Open. Really excellent down-the-middle 2000s mainstream rock albums.

 

I actually saw The Alternate Routes open for Averi at their biggest ever headline show right before they broke up. I wish I could say I remembered much about them, but they didn't make a huge impression.

I will definitely be checking these songs out this week.

 

rest my chemistry is such a heat check interpol pick

 

shoutout oasis shoutout liam shoutout potato shoutout craig

 

Idk what this means. But speaking of Oasis, they just missed the cut. My pick was The Masterplan.

 

Also wanted to share my list with one song per artist just because there were way too many great songs I had to leave off lol.

1. My Chemical Romance - It's Not a Fashion Statement, It's a Fucking Deathwish
2. Motion City Soundtrack - Even If It Kills Me
3. Fightstar - Palahniuk's Laughter
4. Death Cab for Cutie - What Sarah Said
5. Kamelot - Center of the Universe
6. La Dispute - You & I in Unison
7. Radiohead - Motion Picture Soundtrack
8. The Used - Pieces Mended
9. Copeland - Erase
10. Relient K - Empty House

11. Chad Perrone - Keep Us Around
12. The Hotelier - Dendron
13. Evanescence - Imaginary
14. mewithoutYou - Wolf Am I! (And Shadow)
15. The Birthday Massacre - Kill the Lights
16. There Will Be Fireworks - River
17. The Smiths - Asleep
18. Busted - Meet You There
19. Frou Frou - Let Go
20. Saosin - 3rd Measurement in C

21. Moving Mountains - 8105
22. The 1975 - Frail State of Mind
23. Grimes - IDORU
24. Carly Rae Jepsen - Run Away With Me
25. Say Anything - Cemetery
26. Mae - The Fisherman Song (We All Need Love)
27. City Sleeps - Sleep With Me
28. Damien Rice - I Remember
29. John Mayer - Slow Dancing in a Burning Room
30. Anberlin - (*Fin)

31. Epica - Chasing the Dragon
32. Frightened Rabbit - Floating in the Forth
33. The Reign of Kindo - Psalm
34. The Night Game - Do You Think About Us?
35. The Early November - Call Off the Bells
36. Charli XCX - Backseat
37. Hellogoodbye - Finding Something to Do
38. Emarosa - Epoch Coda
39. Taylor Swift - Red
40. Captain, We're Sinking - A Bitter Divorce

41. American Football - Never Meant
42. Anchor & Braille - Before I Start Dreaming
43. fun. - Be Calm
44. The Postal Service - The District Sleeps Alone Tonight
45. Imogen Heap - Daylight Robbery
46. Frank Turner - Redemption
47. Coldplay - A Sky Full of Stars
48. Charlie Simpson - Lost
49. The Cure - Disintegration
50. The Sundays - Goodbye

51. Chairlift - I Belong in Your Arms
52. Manchester Orchestra - Sleeper 1972
53. All American Rejects - Another Heart Calls
54. Frank Ocean - Strawberry Swing
55. The Classic Crime - The Beginning (A Simple Seed)
56. Gunship - Dark All Day
57. The Format - She Doesn't Get It
58. Metallica - Fade to Black
59. The Microphones - The Moon
60. Neutral Milk Hotel - Holland 1945

61. Babymetal - Akatsuki
62. Caroline Polachek - Insomnia
63. McFly - Touch the Rain
64. Japandroids - The House That Heaven Built
65. Joshua Radin - Star Mile
66. Infinity Crush - Happy Hour
67. Silverstein - Call it Karma
68. Underoath - Fault Line, A Fault of Mine
69. Coheed and Cambria - 2's My Favourite 1
70. Fall Out Boy - The (After) Life of the Party

71. Paramore - Never Let This Go
72. Mannequin Pussy - In Love Again
73. Promise of Redemption - It Just Takes Time
74. letlive. - The Sick, Sick, 6.8 Billion
75. Dance Gavin Dance - And I Told Them I Invented Times New Roman
76. Stars - How Much More
77. Usher - Crash
78. Jeff Martin - Runway
79. Kanye West - Runaway
80. Panic! at the Disco - It's Time to Dance

81. Ellie Goulding - Hanging On
82. Muse - Bliss
83. Keane - Everybody's Changing
84. Have Mercy - Let's Talk About Your Hair
85. Deas Vail - Birds
86. Bjork - Pluto
87. Slayer - Angel of Death
88. Chvrches - Night Sky
89. Eminem - Kill You
90. Acceptance - Glory/Us

91. Lydia - Sleep Well
92. Jimmy Eat World - Dizzy
93. Clipping. - Blood of the Fang
94. Circa Survive - The Difference Between Medicine and Poison is in the Dose
95. Muna - It's Gonna Be Okay, Baby
96. 65daysofstatic - Come to Me
97. Taking Back Sunday - Set Phasers to Stun
98. Ling Tosite Sigure - ハカイヨノユメ
99. Porter Robinson - Musician
100. The Killers - Mr Brightside

 

I remember you mentioning that!

Yeah, I've never seen them live or anything. I think they had two very solid albums leading up to the one this is from (called Lately, from 2010), which just felt a lot more assured to me. Then they made one more in 2014 and kind of fell off the map after that. They've released a few singles since, but no full-length projects, which has been frustrating since I felt like they were just hitting their stride.

 

@CarpetElf On the subject of that Middle East song (which I also adore), have you ever heard the Mree cover of it? I swear it's one of the most beautiful things I've ever heard.

 

just a bold song choice. not a bad thing. just never would have expected that one if you told me an interpol song would be on the list.

 

I have not. Only cover I've heard is the Gang of Youths one.

 

Incredible

 

1. Van Morrison - Sweet Thing
2. The Isley Brothers - This Old Heart of Mine (Is Weak For You)
3. The Cure - Just Like Heaven
4. Otis Redding - Sitting on the Dock of the Bay
5. Four Tops - I Got a Feeling
6. Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
7. Nick Drake - Pink Moon
8. Jackson 5 - I Want You Back
9. Kate Bush - Runnin Up That Hill
10. Bon Iver - Skinny Love
11. Neil Young - After the Gold Rush
12. Notorious BIG - Juicy
13. Talking Heads - This Must Be the Place
14. Martha & The Vandellas - Heat Wave
15. The Temptations - Ain’t Too Proud to Beg
16. Smashing Pumpkins - Tonight, Tonight
17. Modern English - I Melt With You
18. Bon Iver - Holocene
19. Pearl Jam - Black
20. The Supremes - You Can’t Hurry Love
21. Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes - Wake Up Everybody
22. Weezer - Across the Sea
23. Led Zeppelin - Over the Hills and Far Away
24. The Outfield - Your Love
25. The Drifters - This Magic Moment
26. The Cure - Close to Me
27. Dexy’s Midnight Runners - Come on Eileen
28. Wu Tang Clan - Bring Da Ruckus
29. 4 Non Blondes - What’s Up
30. The Cranberries - Dreams
31. Gin Blossoms - Hey Jealousy
32. Rod Stewart - Maggie May
33. Darlene Love - Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)
34. Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time
35. Outkast - Hey Ya
36. Bruce Springsteen - Thunder Road
37. Smashing Pumpkins - Mayonaise
38. The Notorious BIG - Mo Money, Mo Problems
39. Big Star - Thirteen
40. Weezer - El Scorcho
41. The Eagles - Take it Easy
42. Bon Iver - Towers
43. Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
44. Kim Carnes - Bette Davis Eyes
45. Future - Throw Away
46. Blondie - Dreaming
47. The Killers - Mr. Brightside
48. Pearl Jam - Yellow Ledbetter
49. The Cure - In Between Days
50. Tevin Campbell (Powerline) - I2I
51. Ben E. King - Stand By Me
52. Snap! - Rhythm is a Dancer
53. Smashing Pumpkins - 1979
54. Rhianna - We Found Love
55. Jackson Browne - Running on Empty
56. The Spinners - Honest I Do
57. Deniece Williams - Let’s Hear it for the Boy
58. How to Dress Well - Ready for the World
59. The Smiths - There is a Light That Never Goes Out
60. Mariah Carey - All I Want For Christmas is You
61. The Dead Milkmen - Punk Rock Girl
62. Kanye West - All Falls Down
63. American Football - Never Meant
64. Nas - Life’s a Bitch
65. Neutral Milk Hotel - Holland 1945
66. Avril Lavinge - I’m With You
67. Lynyrd Skynyrd - Free Bird
68. Frank Sinatra - The Way You Look Tonight
69. Fleetwood Mac - Landslide
70. Tupac - Changes
71. Nirvana - All Apologies
72. Korn - Got the Life
73. Sinead O’Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U
74. Vanessa Carlton - White Houses
75. The Beach Boys - God Only Knows
76. Daniel Johnston - True Love Will Find You in the End
77. Elliott Smith - Angel in the Snow
78. Aaliyah - Are You That Somebody?
79. Violent Femmes - Good Feeling
80. Bear vs. Shark - We Were Sad Now We’re Rebuilding
81. Corona - Rhythm of the Night
82. Bright Eyes - First Day of My Life
83. Bob Seger - Night Moves
84. Blind Melon - No Rain
85. Mazzy Star - Fade Into You
86. Phil Collins - In the Air Tonight
87. Boyz II Men - It’s So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday
88. The Ronettes - Be My Baby
89. The Temptations - My Girl
90. The Foundations - Build Me Up Buttercup
91. Otis Redding - Try a Little Tenderness
92. Madonna - Borderline
93. Robin S. - Show Me Love
94. Diana Ross - I’m Coming Out
95. Them - Here Comes the Night
96. All-4-One - I Swear
97. The Cranberries - Linger
98. Dire Straits - Romeo and Juliet
99. The Five Stairsteps - Ooh Child
100. The Blue Nile - A Walk Across Rooftops

 

y’all gotta listen to some metal

 

100 songs is a very small sampling. Like I have tons of hip-hop I like. But I’m not sure any will crack my 100. I’m sure that’s the case with Metal for some people too

 

Smashing Pumpkins r metal

 

Also Korn is on there!

 

pumpkins aren't metal lol but i admittedly missed the korn track

 

Going to take a crack at this tonight, one song per artist.

 

I really need more music from her. She's been doing more twitch streaming lately. Her one-off track "Harvest Moon" was one of the songs on repeat that got me through the start of the pandemic.