The All-Time Favorite Songs Ballot Thread • Page 9

Just out of interest, how do you know how many albums you've heard? Is that 7000 albums that you like and have in your collection / iTunes library, or 7000 albums you've heard in total, including albums that you didn't enjoy and wouldn't come back to? If the latter, how do you keep track of that?

 

I made it a project during the pandemic to put all my listening lists from 2010-present, my “to-buy” list, and my database of what I own together into a master spreadsheet of what I’ve heard. Then I went in and added as many albums that I heard and “no’d” prior to 2010 as I could remember. So it’s not perfect, but it’s as close as I can get to a list of everything I’ve heard

It’s been useful for the year-by-year

 

Interesting! That’s quite an undertaking! There’d be some cool stats and graphs and stuff that I’m sure would be possible to make from that master list too.

 

Oh yeah. It honestly would have been impossible if I wasn’t already such an avid record keeper of what I listen to every year and what I own. Working from already assembled lists was the the only way

 

I'm sorry. I had to. It was giving me an eye twitch:

101. Thin Lizzy - "The Boys Are Back in Town"
102. Taylor Swift - "Love Story"
103. Toto - "Africa"
104. Third Eye Blind - "Semi-Charmed Life"
105. Copeland - "Chin Up"
106. Iron and Wine - "Flightless Bird, American Mouth"
107. Jack's Mannequin - "Dark Blue"
108. Bon Iver - "Creeks"
109. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - "Learning to Fly"
110. Jimmy Eat World - "Big Casino"
111. Journey - "Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)"
112. Billy Joel - "Allentown"
113. Peter Gabriel - "In Your Eyes"
114. Al Green - "Have You Been Making Out O.K.?"
115. Joni Mitchell - "A Case of You"
116. The Rolling Stones - "Gimme Shelter"
117. Amy Ray - "Evening in Missouri (The Bondsman)"
118. Coheed and Cambria - "The Light & The Glass"
119. Edison Glass - "Today Has Wings"
120. Tom Lehrer - "The Masochism Tango"
121. Tegan and Sara - "Soil, Soil"
122. Heart - "Mistral Wind"
123. Silent Drive - "The Professional"
124. Bon Iver - "Perth"
125. Maxwell - "Pretty Wings"
126. Lydia - "I Woke Up Near the Sea"
127. Motion City Soundtrack - "L.G. FUAD"
128. The Velvet Underground - "Rock n Roll"
129. Dan Fogelberg - "The Reach"
130. Katy Perry - "Teenage Dream"
131. New Radicals - "You Get What You Give"
132. Coldplay - "Fix You"
133. The Hold Steady - "Stuck Between Stations"
134. Chad Perrone - "Wanting More"
135. Derek and the Dominoes - "Bell Bottom Blues"
136. Mary Chapin Carpenter - "The Moon and St. Christopher"
137. Goo Goo Dolls - "Name"
138. Bruce Springsteen - "Land of Hope and Dreams"
139. Tom Petty - "Free Fallin'"
140. Fall Out Boy - "Tell That Mick He Just Made My List of Things to Do Today"
141. Fleetwood Mac - "I Know I'm Not Wrong (2004 reissue mix)"
142. Iron and Wine - "The Trapeze Swinger"
143. Jack's Mannequin - "American Love"
144. Meg and Dia - "Summer Clothes"
145. The Beatles - "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away"
146. Cyndi Lauper - "Money Changes Everything"
147. Boz Scaggs - "We're All Alone"
148. Mary Chapin Carpenter - "Keeper for Every Flame"
149. Jefferson Starship - "There Will Be Love"
150. Boston - "Hollyann"
151. Pat Benatar - "Shadows of the Night"
152. Averi - "Harwich"
153. Simon and Garfunkel - "The Boxer"
154. Dave Matthews Band - "Grey Street"
155. Robert Ellis Orral - "Flying Colors"
156. Damien Rice - "Cannonball"
157. Chvrches - "Clearest Blue"
158. Tegan and Sara - "Drove Me Wild"
159. Marc Cohn - "Dig Down Deep"
160. Garth Brooks - "Callin' Baton Rouge"
161. Justin Timberlake - "Let the Groove Get In"
162. Coheed and Cambria - "The Velourium Camper I: Faint of Hearts"
163. The Tallest Man on Earth - "The Dreamer"
164. AC/DC - "You Shook Me All Night Long"
165. Brandi Carlilie - "Throw It All Away"
166. Billy Joel - "Prelude/Angry Young Man"
167. Glen Campbell - "Wichita Lineman"
168. Creedence Clearwater Revival - "Bad Moon Rising"
169. Lori McKenna - "The Fixer"
170. The Moody Blues - "Never Comes the Day"
171. Averi - "When You Gracefully Creep In"
172. Pousette-Dart Band - "Yaicha"
173. Smokey Robinson and The Miracles - "The Tracks of My Tears"
174. Meg and Dia - "Fighting for Nothing"
175. Outlaws - "Green Grass and High Tides"
176. Leonard Cohen - "Chelsea Hotel No. 2"
177. Mary Chapin Carpenter - "He Thinks He'll Keep Her"
178. Taylor Swift - "Dress"
179. Gordon Lightfoot - "Shadows"
180. Vanessa Carlton - "A Thousand Miles"
181. Phoebe Bridgers - "Chinese Satellite"
182. Brandtson - "Mexico"
183. Bonnie Raitt - "I Can't Make You Love Me"
184. American Football - "Never Meant"
185. Rush - "Limelight"
186. The Hold Steady - "Your Little Hoodrat Friend"
187. The Moody Blues - "New Horizons"
188. Taylor Swift - "Everything Has Changed"
189. M83 - "Midnight City"
190. Tina Turner - "One of the Living"
191. Chad Perrone - "Awake in the Morning"
192. Metallica - "No Leaf Clover"
193. Peter Paul and Mary - "El Salvador"
194. Mates of State - "Mistakes"
195. The Rolling Stones - "Sway"
196. Mree - "Grow"
197. Marc Cohn - "Walking in Memphis"
198. The Velvet Underground - "Oh Sweet Nuthin'"
199. 2pac - "Changes"
200. John Waite - "Missing You"
201. Billy Joel - "Stiletto"
202. Paulson - "Slow Down"
203. Brooks and Dunn - "That Ain't No Way to Go"
204. Bob Seger and The Silver Bullet Band - "Brave Strangers"
205. John Mayer - "I Don't Trust Myself (with Loving You)"
206. Chad Perrone - "Anything or Anyone"
207. Demi Lovato - "Remember December"
208. The Replacements - "Unsatisfied"
209. Japandroids - "The House on Heaven Hill"
210. Billy Joel - "2,000 Years"
211. Stealer's Wheel - "Star"
212. Ray Parker, Jr. - "Ghostbusters"
213. Bob Cleary - "Walked Into My Life"
214. Damien Rice - "The Blower's Daughter"
215. The Weakerthans - "Psalm for an Elks Lodge Last Call"
216. The Moody Blues - "Nights in White Satin"
217. Warren Zevon - "Lawyers, Guns, and Money"
218. Goo Goo Dolls - "Black Balloon"
219. Billy Joel - "Vienna"
220. Riendeau - "Death Row Tull"
221. Mandy Moore - "Have a Little Faith in Me"
222. Van Morrison - "Into the Mystic"
223. Motion City Soundtrack - "Antonia"
224. Ride - "Vapour Trail"
225. The Hooters - "And We Danced"
226. The Damnwells - "She Goes Around"
227. Hanson - "Been There Before"
228. Bob Dylan - "One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later)"
229. Bruce Springsteen - "Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)"
230. Bob Dylan - "Don't Think Twice, It's Alright"
231. Bruce Springsteen - "Thunder Road"
232. The Get Up Kids - "The One You Want"
233. Goo Goo Dolls - "Acoustic #3"
234. James Taylor - "Fire and Rain"
235. Taylor Swift - "Treacherous"
236. Taking Back Sunday - "Miami"
237. Cartel - "Honestly"
238. This Day and Age - "Slideshow"
239. Harry Belafonte - "Shenandoah"
240. Tegan and Sara - "The Con"
241. The Format - "She Doesn't Get It"
242. Stevie Wonder - "Isn't She Lovely?"
243. Crowded House - "Don't Dream It's Over"
244. Fall Out Boy - "America's Suitehearts"
245. Garth Brooks - "Standing Outside the Fire"
246. Cheap Trick - "Surrender"
247. Fall Out Boy - "What a Catch, Donnie"
248. 36 Crazyfists - "The Great Descent"
249. Bon Iver - "Holocene"
250. George Harrison - "All Things Must Pass"

 

Craigory, when can we expect this

 

Probably a good time to start compiling. Doesn't seem like anyone else is going to chime in.

 

man, I don't know...

1. Elvis Costello - Allison
2. Dire Straits - Tunnel of Love
3. Josh Ritter - Kathleen
4. Elvis Costello - Watching the Detectives
5. Bruce Springsteen - Racing in the Streets
6. Colin Hay - Beautiful World
7. Cat Stevens - Don’t Be Shy
8. The Chiffons - One Fine Day
9. Bruce Springsteen - The River
10. Bruce Springsteen - Thunder Road
11. Old 97s - Singular Girl
12. Steely Dan - My Old School
13. Paul Simon - The Obvious Child
14. The Mountain Goats - The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton
15. Simon & Garfunkel - America
16. Celine Dion - It’s All Coming Back to Me Now
17. Dawes - When My Time Comes
18. Dire Straits - Telegraph Road
19. Fountains of Wayne - Hackensack
20. Dire Straits - Romeo and Juliet
21. Meat Loaf - Bat Out of Hell
22. Josh Ritter - Thin Blue Flame
23. Counting Crows - A Long December
24. Jason Isbell - Cover Me Up
25. Elton John - Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters
26. REM - Nightswimming
27. The Rolling Stones - Dead Flowers
28. Elton John - Tiny Dancer
29. Jason Isbell - If We Were Vampires
30. Magnetic Fields - Book of Love
31. Josh Ritter - Temptation of Adam
32. The Kinks - Waterloo Sunset
33. Jackson C. Frank - Blues Run the Game
34. The Beach Boys - Wouldn’t It Be Nice
35. Bob Dylan - Hurricane
36. Old 97s - Designs on You
37. Old 97s - Big Brown Eyes
38. Tommy James and the Shondells - I Think We’re Alone Now
39. Bob Dylan - Like a Rolling Stone
40. Elvis Costello - Blame It on Cain
41. Colin Hay - Waiting for My Real Life to Begin
42. Dawes - A Little Bit of Everything
43. Counting Crows - Anna Begins
44. Wilco - Box Full of Letters
45. REM - The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite
46. David Bowie - Heroes
47. Bruce Springsteen - Growin’ Up
48. Bruce Springsteen - Jungleland
49. Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
50. Meat Loaf - Paradise by the Dashboard Light
51. Big Star - Thirteen
52. Tom Petty - Walls (Circus)
53. Doris Troy - Just One Look
54. John Craigie - Dissect the Bird
55. Bruce Springsteen - Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)
56. Elvis Costello - Radio, Radio
57. Etta James - At Last
58. Lucinda Williams - Right in Time
59. Dan Wilson - Free Life
60. Meat Loaf - I’d Do Anything For Love (But I Won’t Do That)
61. The Ramones - Do You Remember Rock ’n’ Roll Radio?
62. The Stone Poneys - Different Drum
63. Cat Stevens - Tea for the Tillerman
64. Josh Ritter - Getting Ready to Get Down
65. The Beatles - She Came in Through the Bathroom Window
66. Karen Dalton - Something On Your Mind
67. Wilco - Spiders (Kidsmoke)
68. Tyler Childers - Follow You to Virgie
69. The Clash - Train in Vain
70. The Grateful Dead - Ripple
71. Paul Westerberg - Dyslexic Heart
72. Fountains of Wayne - Hung Up On You
73. X - The World’s A Mess; It’s in My Kiss
74. Drive-By Truckers - Decoration Day
75. Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms
76. John Lennon - God
77. Dire Straits - Hand in Hand
78. Simon & Garfunkel - Homeward Bound
79. John Fullbright - High Road
80. Leonard Cohen - So Long, Marianne
81. Richard and Linda Thompson - I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight
82. Old 97s - Bel Air
83. Nancy Sinatra - Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)
84. John Fullbright - Never Cry Again
85. Jason Isbell - Something More Than Free
86. Janis Ian - At Seventeen
87. Thunderclap Newman - Something in the Air
88. Bob Dylan - Tangled Up in Blue
89. The Band - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
90. Billy Bragg & Wilco - California Stars
91. Paul Simon - You Can Call Me Al
92. The Monkees - Daydream Believer
93. Josh Ritter - Me & Jiggs
94. Gang of Youths - Say Yes to Life
95. Cat Stevens - Where Do the Children Play?
96. Joe Jackson - It’s Different for Girls
97. REM - Gardening at Night
98. Courtney Marie Andrews - May Your Kindness Remain
99. The Beatles - Two Of Us
100. Lucinda Williams - Passionate Kisses

 

Oh shoot sorry I didn't see you say you were gonna start compile...disregard mine if it's too late, it was enough of a win for me to narrow it down to 100 anyway

 

My kind of list, right here.

 

Ha, I have not started compiling yet, so no worries!

 

Low key it's cool to see Fountains of Wayne on more than one list

 

Yes! I was a huge fan. Not to be all like "read this thing I wrote" but I ranked all their songs after Adam died last year if you're interested: Lead Us Not Into Penn Station: Every Fountains of Wayne song ranked - Jukebox Graduates

 

VERY excited to read.

Not to be all like "watch this thing I made," but a friend and I did a cover of Mexican Wine last year after Adam passed:

 

Your whole list is great, but these ones were especially cool to see.

 

Just listened, this is great!

 

Top 10 - Rebellion (lies) by Arcade Fire
just what came to mind

 

This is an impossible task.

All I know is this:

Release by Pearl Jam, In Exile by Thrice, Nightswimming by REM, Lover, you should've come over by Jeff Buckley, Eleanor Rigby by The Beatles and Daylight Fading by Counting Crows are in.

I'll try to make a list tomorrow, wish me luck.

 

Throwing Ooh Child by The Five Stairsteps and The Freshmen by The Verve Pipe into the box.

 

Well shit, this is going to be hard.

 

Right off the bat nominating a classic. Just Blaze killed with this one.

 

9 pages of criminal neglect for "Make Your Own Kind Of Music"

 

This is an all timer. So good it made two people famous. One undeservedly.

 

I remain angry that the Morgan Wallen cover exists.

 

It stinks.