Songs By The Letter - Your Top "A" Songs

Since Pat is on hiatus/broke up with the website, I figured I'd try to step in and spur some discussion! Full disclosure, I stole this from The Avocado.

EVERY MONDAY I will continue with a new thread for the next letter! And probably post some sort of list about which 10 songs were the most popular each week.

• Anyway, the rules are simple, just list your top 25 songs that start with the letter “A”. You can rank them if you want, or just list them in any old order. We can have an unofficial house rule i to only list one song for each artist, just so there would be greater variety, but you don’t have to follow that if you don’t want to. It wouldn’t hurt my feelings if you found a letter with 25 different Blink-182 songs and listed them all.

• If you don’t have 25 songs for a particular letter, you can just list what you have.

• Note that the articles “A” and “The” at the beginning of a song title can be ignored. So “A Day In The Life” would actually show up under D, not A, but Tom Petty’s “The Apartment Song” would show up under A, not T. (That song didn’t make my A list, but it’s the only “The A” song in my library.) Spotify seems to take care of this automatically when I sort by title, but I can’t speak for anything else.

• Also, it’s OK if you combine two songs into one, like, for example, Brain Stew and Jaded, which was on my B list, but I didn’t repeat it on my J list (though I made a note of it at the end). Just don’t list it on two different lists. (I say this as if I’m going to comb through everybody’s list each week to see if they’ve got any repeats.)

• After the letter Z, we’ll have one final post for songs that start with numbers or any other non-alphabetic symbols.

EDIT: It looks like the Bias Sorter is back up if you need a little help deciding!

 

Oooooh

 

This may sound dumb, but are we doing “A” or “U?” The thread title says one and the first rule says the other.

 

Not dumb! A this week, B next week, C the following, etc.

Thanks for pointing it out, fixed in the original post.

 

I’m down for this. Interested to see how hard it will be to get to 25 songs

 

I’m already mad at how many songs I have to leave off haha

 

Yeah I’m just scrolling through my library and I’m already stressed lol

 

50 songs that start with angel or America alone lol

 

My problem is that I don’t think I have all the music I jam anywhere that I can just make a massive list and alphabetize it. Hmmm

 

Here's mine with no repeated artists. Otherwise, Bad Religion would have popped up like 5 times in the top 25 haha.

1. Marianas Trench - Astoria
   
   
2. Jawbreaker - Accident Prone
   
   
3. New Order - Age of Consent
   
   
4. Bo Burnham - All Eyes On Me
   
   
5. Bad Religion - Along the Way
   
   
6. Alkaline Trio - All On Black
   
   
7. New Found Glory - All Downhill From Here
   
   
8. Bowling For Soup - Almost
   
   
9. Foo Fighters - Aurora
   
   
10. The Replacements - Androgynous
    
    
11. Weird Al Yankovic - Amish Paradise
    
    
12. Fun. - At Least I'm Not As Sad As I Used to Be
    
    
13. Blink-182 - Aliens Exist
    
    
14. Good Charlotte - The Anthem
    
    
15. Ludo - Anything For You
    
    
16. Forgive Durden - Ants
    
    
17. Fountains of Wayne - All Kinds of Time
    
    
18. The 1975 - About You
    
    
19. Yellowcard - Always Summer
    
    
20. Bayside - Already Gone
    
    
21. Jimmy Eat World - Always Be
    
    
22. Blxst - About You
    
    
23. The Offspring - Americana
    
    
24. Sparks - Amateur Hour
    
    
25. Fall Out Boy - Alone Together
    

 

I kind of feel like listing the song first makes more sense for the goal of this thread. But that’s just me.

 

But seriously, how are people gonna go through their songs? I haven’t had a full library in forever. I don’t know where to begin.

 

I’ve got my library in Apple Music that has everything I’ve downloaded, streamed, or ripped off CD since like 2005. Then I filtered it alphabetically by song title!

 

"Aurora" is a great pick, might be my #1

 

I had that up to like 2013. Then my computer died and I have not owned my own computer since. I can borrow my mom’s, but I don’t have a centralized hub for all my music. I just use my iPhone and now use Spotify.

 

I could be wrong, but I think Spotify has a “library” of added songs that you can sort?

 

So hard to pick between that, “All My Life,” and “Arlandria.”

 

Not for me! ("All My Life" whips ass though)

 

"A" by Cartel is perfect for this. They didn't even need any other letters.

Other than that, "Aside" by the Weakerthans is probably my personal favorite.

 

Looks like I would have to favorite everything and even then only sort by band or album, not song. Damn.

 

Candidates off the top of my head:

Billy Joel - "Allentown"
Christopher Cross - "Alright"
Goo Goo Dolls - "All Eyes On Me"
Earth, Wind, and Fire - "After the Love Is Gone"
The Dells - "Always Together"
Elton John - "Amy"
Simon and Garfunkel - "America"
Heart - "Alone" (Live in Seattle version)
Nirvana - "All Apologies"
Jimi Hendrix Experience - "All Along the Watchtower"
Richard Marx - "Angelia"
Bonnie Raitt - "Angel from Montgomery"
Journey - "Any Way You Want It"
Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band - "Against the Wind"
Jack's Mannequin - "Annie, Use Your Telescope"
The Academy Is... - "Attention"
Sammy Davis, Jr. - "As Long As She Needs Me"

I'm sure I'm forgetting a ton of top contenders.

 

Haha this is insane and I love it. Feels like I need two weeks for each letter or I won’t be able to keep up.

 

fun project! here Are the first ones thAt come to mind.

Absolutely (Story of a Girl) - Nine Days
Admit It!!! - Say Anything
Ain’t No Sunshine - Bill Withers
All Apologies - Nirvana
All I Really Wanna Do - Bob Dylan
All I Wanna Do - Sheryl Crow
All My Friends - Snakehips (feat. Tianshe & Chance The Rapper)
All Night - Chance The Rapper
All The Small Things - Blink-182
All Too Well - Taylor Swift
Almost Automatic - Good Looks
America - Simon & Garfunkel
American Girl - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Among The Wildflowers - The Hotelier
And It Stoned Me - Van Morrison
Angel From Montgomery - John Prine / Bonny Raitt
Angeles - Elliott Smith
Appointments - Julien Baker
Archie, Marry Me - Alvvays
Asleep - The Smiths
Astral Plane - Valerie June
Astrovan - Mt. Joy
Atlantic City - Bruce Springsteen
Attractive Today - Motion City Soundtrack
August - Taylor Swift

 

1. Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
2. Neil Young - After the Gold Rush
3. Elliott Smith - Angel in the Snow
4. Weezer - Across the Sea
5. Miguel - Adorn
6. Nirvana - All Apologies
7. Van Morrison - And It Stoned Me
8. Joanna Newsom - Anecdotes
9. Real McCoy - Another Night
10. The Smiths - Asleep
11. The Weakerthans - Aside
12. The National - About Today
13. Aaliyah - Are You That Somebody
14. Kendrick Lamar - A.D.H.D.
15. Nine Days - Absolutely (Story of a Girl)
16. Talk Talk - After the Flood
17. Bomb the Music Industry - All Ages Show
18. Mariah Carey - All I Want For Christmas is You
19. blink 182 - Apple Shampoo
20. Balam Acab - Apart
21. Heatwave - Always and Forever
22. Mariah Carey - Always Be My Baby
23. Michelle Branch - All You Wanted
24. Kendrick Lamar - Alright
25. Tom Petty - American Girl

Also:
A$AP Forever - A$AP Rocky
ABC - Jackson 5
About a Girl - Nirvana
Acid Rain - Chance the Rapper
After Hours - We Are Scientists
After the Love is Gone - Earth Wind and Fire
After the Party - The Menzingers
Again I Go Unnoticed - Dashboard Confessional
Against the Wind - Bob Seger
Age of Consent - New Order
Ain't That Peculiar - Marvin Gaye
Alert the Audience! - The Lawrence Arms
Alex Chilton - The Replacements
Alice and Interiors - Manchester Orchestra
All 4 Love - Color Me Badd
All Falls Down - Kanye West
All of the Lights - Kanye West
All or Nothing - O-Town
All Revved Up - Jermaine Jackson
All the Trouble - Arrange
All Too Well - Taylor Swift
All We Ever Needed - The Early November
Always - blink 182
Always On Time - Ja Rule
Am I Doing Right By You? - Ben Seretan
Am I Wrong - Love Spit Love
Ambitionz Az a Ridah - 2Pac
American Classic - Hidden in Plain View
American Gigolo - Weezer
Among the Wildflowers - The Hotelier
And She Was - Talking Heads
And We Danced - The Hooters
Androgynous - The Replacements
Angel - Fleetwood Mac
Angel From Montgomery - John Prine
Angeles - Elliott Smith
Antwan - Bear vs. Shark
Anything - Third Eye Blind
Anywhere I Lay My Head - Tom Waits
Apple of My Eye - Rick Ross
At Your Funeral - Saves the Day
Atlantic City - Bruce Springsteen
August - Taylor Swift
Automobile Noise - The Blue Nile
Ava House - The Menzingers
Award Tour - A Tribe Called Quest
Awful Things - Lil Peep