# What is your List of favorite top 10 songs? Favorite groups? Albums? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 21, 2006, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-list-of-favorite-top-10-songs-favorite-groups-albums/345517 "2006-02-21T19:53:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2006, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-list-of-favorite-top-10-songs-favorite-groups-albums/345517/1 "2006-02-21T19:53:41Z")
I know that similar polls have been done before but I thought I would start a fresh one. Anyone wanting to link in the old ones is cool by me. Jim **Songs** 1. Imagine John Lennon 2. Kashmir Led Zeppelin 3. Rhapsody in Blue George Gershwin 4. And you and I Yes 5. Guinnevere CSN&Y 6. American Pie Don McLean 7. Allman Brothers Whipping Post 8. What a Wonderful World Louis Armstrong 9. The Times They Are A Changin’ Bob Dylan 10. The Battle of Evermore Led Zeppelin **Groups** 11. Led Zeppelin 12. Pink Floyd 13. Beatles 14. Yes 15. CSN&Y 16. Allman Brothers 17. Stevie Ray Vaughan 18. James Marshall “Jimi” Hendrix 19. Jethro Tull 20. David Bowie **Perfect Albums** 21. Wish you were here Pink Floyd 22. Zeppelin I Led Zeppelin 23. Zeppelin IV Led Zeppelin 24. The White Album Beatles 25. Abbey Road Beatles 26. Close to the Edge Yes 27. Crosby, Stills & Nash CSN 28. Are You Experienced Jimi Hendrix 29. Aqualung Jethro Tull 30. The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust Bowie All of the above is subject to change based on a song coming on the radio. ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2006, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-list-of-favorite-top-10-songs-favorite-groups-albums/345517/2 "2006-02-21T21:03:50Z")
In no particular order, and certainly subject to change… **Songs:** Visions of Johanna - Bob Dylan Spike Drivers’ Blues - Mississippi John Hurt (or a multitude of covers that are almost as good) Cowboy Junkies’ Lament - Townes van Zandt Sympathy for the Devil - Rolling Stones Southern Cross - Crosby Stills & Nash Veronica - Elvis Costello Waiting Room - Fugazi Return of the Grievous Angel - Gram Parsons The Road to Ensenada - Lyle Lovett 1952 Vincent Black Lightning - Richard Thompson **Groups or solo artists** Doc Watson Bob Dylan Grateful Dead Richard Thompson Allman Brothers Gram Parsons/Flying Burrito Brothers Steve Earle Townes van Zandt Bruce Springsteen The Pogues **Albums** Blood on the Tracks - Bob Dylan Graceland - Paul Simon London Calling - The Clash Live as I’ll Ever Be - Chris Smither Rain Dogs - Tom Waits Arkansas Traveler - Michelle Shocked If I Should Fall From Grace With God - The Pogues El Corazon - Steve Earle Trouble No More - John Mellencamp Red on Blonde - Tim O’Brien ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2006, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-list-of-favorite-top-10-songs-favorite-groups-albums/345517/3 "2006-02-21T21:39:46Z")
**Songs:** The Beatles - Come Together ZZ Top - Cheap Sunglasses Frank Zappa - Don’t Eat The Yellow Snow Max Webster and Rush - Battlescar Sugarloaf - Green Eyed Lady Styx - Medley: Put Me On / Mademoiselle The Beach Boys - Surf’s Up, tied with Heroes And Villains Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Chile (Slight Return) (live Stockholm 1-09-69) Muddy Waters - Got My Mojo Working Led Zeppelin - Nobody’s Fault But Mine **Artists:** The Beatles The Kinks The Guess Who The Beach Boys Jimi Hendrix Led Zeppelin Muddy Waters ZZ Top Frank Zappa Dave Edmunds **Perfect Albums:** The Beatles - Abbey Road Paul McCartney - Flowers In The Dirt Max Webster - High Class In Borrowed Shoes The Guess Who - So Long Bannatyne Tom Waits - Nighthawks At The Diner Dave Edmunds - Rockpile Deaf School - Second Honeymoon REM - Fables Of The Reconstruction Brian Wilson - Smile King Crimson - Discipline ask me tomorrow and most of them will be different… ---
**Author:** ![Mayo\_Speaks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c57346/32.png) [@Mayo\_Speaks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mayo_Speaks)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2006, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-list-of-favorite-top-10-songs-favorite-groups-albums/345517/4 "2006-02-21T22:07:41Z")
Quite a bit of overlap between the three. **Groups** 1. U2 2. Pink Floyd 3. Green Day 4. The Who 5. Queen 6. REM 7. [Ten Mile Tide](http://www.tenmiletide.com/music.php) 8. Tenacious D 9. Oasis 10. The Killers (They’d be higher if they had more albums out) **Albums** 1. The Joshua Tree U2 2. The Wall Pink Floyd 3. All That You Can’t Leave Behind U2 4. Achtung Baby U2 5. Tenacious D Tenacious D 6. Automatic for the People REM 7. Bullet in a Bible Green Day 8. (What’s the Story) Morning Glory Oasis 9. 40 Licks The Rolling Stones 10. The Unforgettable Fire U2 **Songs** 1. Running to Stand Still U2 2. Won’t Get Fooled Again The Who 3. One U2 4. All These Things That I’ve Done The Killers 5. Kite U2 6. Karate Tenacious D 7. Everybody Hurts REM 8. Nightswimming REM 9. Baba O’Riley (Teenage Wasteland) The Who 10. Go West Pet Shop Boys ---
**Author:** ![Ghanima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Ghanima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ghanima)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2006, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-list-of-favorite-top-10-songs-favorite-groups-albums/345517/5 "2006-02-21T22:58:18Z")
Off the top of my head, in no particular order: **Groups:** 1. Poe 2. Aimee Mann 3. Radiohead 4. Tenacious D 5. Ween 6. Stevie Wonder 7. The Cure 8. Annie Lennox 9. Fleetwood Mac 10. Sublime **Albums:** 1. Haunted Poe 2. Rumours Fleetwood Mac 3. Lost In Space Aimee Mann 4. OK Computer Radiohead 5. Disintegration The Cure 6. The Mollusk Ween 7. Innervisions Stevie Wonder 8. The Top The Cure 9. Live at Folsom Prison Johnny Cash 10. Fleetwood Mac Fleetwood Mac **Songs:** 1. Amazed Poe 2. Subterranean Homesick Alien Radiohead 3. Primitive Annie Lennox 4. While My Guitar Gently Weeps The Beatles 5. Gold Dust Woman Fleetwood Mac 6. Candlebright Stevie Nicks 7. Untitled The Cure 8. Cry to Me Otis Redding 9. Mutilated Lips Ween 10. Chica Mi Tipo Sublime ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-list-of-favorite-top-10-songs-favorite-groups-albums/345517/6 "2006-02-22T00:00:38Z")
I’ll have to come back for the other two topics, but since I’ve been doing Top Ten Songs in my head recently, here’s that. If you think of “I Wish I Knew” as a Nina Simone song, this would pretty much be my Top Ten artists anyway. When I do these lists, I always limit myself to one song per artist to make it more interesting. I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free (Billy Taylor/Dick Dallas) Superstition (Stevie Wonder) Moanin’ at Midnight (Howlin’ Wolf) Catfish Blues (Muddy Waters) Clair de Lune (Debussy) Redemption Song (Bob Marley) The Bends (Radiohead) Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door (Bob Dylan) Hard Times (No One Knows Better Than I) (Ray Charles) This Sky (Derek Trucks Band) ---
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Groups: Led Zeppelin Bad Company Aerosmith AC/DC Queen Pink Floyd Deep Purple Lynyrd Skynyrd Queensryche Alice In Chains Albums: Physical Graffiti, Led Zeppelin Comes Alive, Peter Frampton Wish You Were Here, Pink Floyd Back In Black, AC/DC One More From The Road, Lynyrd Skynyrd Nevermind, Nirvana Breakfast In America, Supertramp Van Halen, Van Halen Made In Japan, Deep Purple Live At Budokan, Cheap Trick Songs: Do You Feel Like We Do, Peter Frampton Smoke On The Water, Deep Purple Green Grass and High Tides, The Outlaws Stairway To Heaven, Led Zeppelin Money, Pink Floyd Soul Stripper, AC/DC Radar Love, Golden Earring Freebird, Lynyrd Skynyrd I Don’t Believe In Love, Queensryche You Could Be Mine, Guns & Roses ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-list-of-favorite-top-10-songs-favorite-groups-albums/345517/8 "2006-02-22T01:03:14Z")
Groups (which I choose to interpret as excluding solo artists, to make things easier) The Beach Boys The Beatles Daniel Amos The Kinks Lost Dogs Madness The Moody Blues Something Fierce They Might Be Giants Trip Shakespeare Albums (limited to no more than one per group) Adam Again: Dig The Beatles: Abbey Road David Bowie: The Rise & Fall of Ziggy Stardust & the Spiders from Mars Daniel Amos: Motor Cycle The Kinks: The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society Madness: Keep Moving Sam Phillips: Martinis and Bikinis The Swirling Eddies: Outdoor Elvis Trip Shakespeare: Lulu Stevie Wonder: Songs in the Key of Life Songs - I wouldn’t know where to begin. And these two lists could be radically different if I gave myself 10 more minutes to think them over… ---
**Author:** ![Kilvert\_s\_Pagan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@Kilvert\_s\_Pagan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilvert_s_Pagan)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-list-of-favorite-top-10-songs-favorite-groups-albums/345517/9 "2006-02-22T01:10:52Z")
**groups/artists:** (I’m assuming solo acts are OK…) King Crimson Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention Mike Keneally and Beer For Dolphins Genesis (pre-1977) Adrian Belew Bela Fleck and the Flecktones (back on tour next month!!!) Jean-Luc Ponty The Beatles Jethro Tull Chick Corea and Return to Forever **albums:** _The Universe Will Provide_, Mike Keneally and the Metropole Orkest _Absent Lovers_, King Crimson _Ommadawn_, Mike Oldfield _Starless and Bible Black_, King Crimson _One Size Fits All_, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention _Roxy and Elsewhere_, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention _The Beatles (White Album)_, The Beatles _Brain Salad Surgery_, Emerson, Lake & Palmer _Time Out_, Dave Brubeck Quartet _Dancing_, Mike Keneally and Beer for Dolphins **songs:** _Fracture_, King Crimson _Starless_, King Crimson _Echidna’s Arf/Don’t You Ever Wash That Thing_, Frank Zappa / Mothers _Ommadawn Part 1_, Mike Oldfield _Supper’s Ready_, Genesis _Sartori in Tangier_. King Crimson _The Return of the Giant Hogweed_, Genesis _Aquatarkus (live version)_, Emerson, Lake & Palmer _Waka/Jawaka_, Frank Zappa / Mothers _Four Slices of Toast_, Mike Keneally and the Metropole Orkest ---
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Moving thread from IMHO to Cafe Society. ---
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There are too many for me to make a definitive list, but here is what is coming to me right now (all in no particular order) … Songs 1. **VNV Nation** Beloved 2. **Depeche Mode** Enjoy the Silence 3. **Mesh** I can’t imagine how it hurts 4. **Anything Box** An Ending 5. **Death Cab for Cutie** Passenger Seat 6. **The Cure** Just Like Heaven 7. **Depeche Mode** One Caress 8. **Dead Can Dance** Yulunga (Spirit Dance) 9. **REM** Nightswimming 10. **The Echoing Green** December Albums 1. **Depeche Mode** Black Celebration 2. **Depeche Mode** Violator 3. **Nine Inch Nails** The Downward Spiral 4. **Dead Can Dance** Toward the Within 5. **The Cure** Disintegration 6. **Anything Box** Worth 7. **Death Cab for Cutie** Transatlanticism 8. **Chris Isaak** Forever Blue 9. **Mesh** Who Watches Over Me? 10. **Iris** Awakening Artists 1. **Depeche Mode** 2. **Dead Can Dance** 3. **Anything Box** 4. **Death Cab For Cutie** 5. **Nine Inch Nails** 6. **The Echoing Green** 7. **Mesh** 8. **VNV Nation** 9. **Tool** 10. **Erasure** ---
**Author:** ![some\_white\_dude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b487fb/32.png) [@some\_white\_dude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/some_white_dude)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-list-of-favorite-top-10-songs-favorite-groups-albums/345517/12 "2006-02-22T02:53:43Z")
Albums _In the Aeroplane Over the Sea_ - Neutral Milk Hotel _Surfer Rosa_ - The Pixies _Oddesey & Oracle_ - The Zombies _Yankee Hotel Foxtrot_ - Wilco _Kill the Moonlight_ - Spoon _Daydream Nation_ - Sonic Youth _Illinois_ - Sufjan Stevens _Freewheelin’_ - Bob Dylan _London Calling_ - The Clash _Village Green Preservation Society_\* - The Kinks Artists **Spoon The Beatles Bob Dylan The Kinks The Zombies The White Stripes Sufjan Stevens Radiohead Mission of Burma The Clash** Songs are too hard to figure out. My favorites at the moment are _The Sporting Life_ by **The Decemberists** and about half of **Wold Parade** ’s album _Apologies to the Queen Mary_. \*This album was one of many by the Kinks that were recommended to me in a thread on the Dope. I am aboslutely in love with _Village Green Preservation Society_, and they have other amazing albums as well, so thanks to you all. ---
**Author:** ![DfrntBreign](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f6c823/32.png) [@DfrntBreign](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DfrntBreign)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-list-of-favorite-top-10-songs-favorite-groups-albums/345517/13 "2006-02-22T03:33:10Z")
I don’t have time to do this right. Just assume that my list would be similar to the other Zeppelin / Allman Brothers / Pink Floyd lists but heavier on the Santana (especially Lotus). Some names off the top of my head that would have to be considered: Return To Forever (Romantic Warrior or Where Have I Known You Before) moe. (no doy) Jeff Beck (Blow By Blow) Ted Nugent (Ted Nugent) and Lou Reed (Rock And Roll Animal) even though I don’t really like much else by either of them. Screaming Cheetah Wheelies (Magnolia) Gov’t Mule Derek Trucks Band (just bought Songlines today and it already has to be considered) Widespread Panic (Bombs And Butterflies or Space Wrangler) Tommy Bolin (Teaser) See, no way I can do this justice when I should be doing something else, anyway. And I’ll think of ten more as soon as I post. Enough.) ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-list-of-favorite-top-10-songs-favorite-groups-albums/345517/14 "2006-02-22T04:00:17Z")
It’s hard to chose - but (in no particular order): **SONGS** 1 No Sugar Tonight/New Mother Nature 2 Undun 3 Ballroom Blitz 4 Big Man On Mulberry Street 5 Theme from Casino Royale 6 Rhythm Of Life (from Sweet Charity) 7 Birdland 8 Grapefruit Diet 9 Highway 61 Revisited 10 Happy Feet **ARTISTS** 1 The Beatles 2 Santana 3 Manhattan Transfer 4 Moody Blues 5 The Guess Who 6 The Monkees 7 Bette Midler 8 Billy Joel 9 Glenn Miller 10 Uncle Bonsai **ALBUMS** 1 Abbey Road 2 Time And Tide 3 Company 4 There Goes Rhymin’ Simon 5 Stranger 6 Flood 7 Apology 8 Dare To Be Stupid 9 Brasil 10 The Mason Williams Phonograph Record ---
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Songs 1. Statesboro Blues 2. Rosalita 3. They Can’t Take That Away From Me 4. Anything Goes 5. Hey Jude 6. Sympathy for the Devil 7. Guitar and Pen 8. My Pink Half of the Drainpipe 9. Low Spark of High Heeled Boys 10. Shine On You Crazy Diamond Groups 1. The Beatles 2. The Bonzo Dog Band 3. The Allman Brothers Band 4. Pink Floyd 5. The Who 6. Traffic 7. Soft Machine 8. Lyle Lovett 9. The Band 10. Procul Harum Albums 1. Allman Brothers Live at Fillmore East 2. The Who Live at Leeds 3. Traffic – John Barleycorn Must Die 4. Lambert, Hendrix, and Ross – Everybody’s Boppin 5. Abbey Road 6. Lyle Lovett – Live in Texas 7. Procol Harum (their first album) 8. Led Zeppelin I 9. Chicago Original Broadway Cast Album 10. Soft Machine – Third. ---
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**Songs:** 1. The Divine Comedy - Tonight We Fly 2. Husker Du - Celebrated Summer 3. The Replacements - Unsatisfied 4. The Clash - Complete Control 5. Gang Of Four - Natural’s Not In It 6. Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians - Airscape 7. The Pogues - Fairytale Of New York 8. XTC - Mayor Of Simpleton 9. R.E.M. - Perfect Circle 10. The Beatles - Tomorrow Never Knows **Artists:** 1. Husker Du 2. The Beatles 3. The Clash 4. The Replacements 5. Robyn Hitchcock 6. Prince 7. Ramones 8. XTC 9. Otis Redding 10. Sleater-Kinney **Albums:** 1. Husker Du - New Day Rising 2. The Clash - The Clash 3. The Beatles - Revolver 4. Gang Of Four - Entertainment! 5. The Jesus & Mary Chain - Psychocandy 6. Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One 7. Belle & Sebastian - If You’re Feeling Sinister 8. The Replacements - Let It Be 9. New Order - Substance 10. R.E.M. - Murmur ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-list-of-favorite-top-10-songs-favorite-groups-albums/345517/17 "2006-02-22T05:01:26Z")
Okay, back at it now… ARTISTS Bob Marley Nina Simone Derek Trucks Band Howlin’ Wolf Radiohead Stevie Wonder Tori Amos The Beastie Boys Jimi Hendrix Carlos Santana ALBUMS Allman Brothers Band - _At Fillmore East_ Howlin’ Wolf- _His Best_ Stevie Wonder - _Talking Book_ The Beatles - _Abbey Road_ Radiohead - _OK Computer_ R.E.M. - _Automatic for the People_ Bob Marley and the Wailers - _Live at the Roxy_ Los Lobos - _Colossal Head_ Derek Trucks Band - _At Georgia Theatre_ [my copy of _Songlines_ came in the mail today, and I thought the same thing **DfrntBreign** did - I’m sure if we did this thread in a month or two, it’d make my Top Ten. I’ve already got a song from the album on my list.] Santana - _Santana_ ---
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In no particular order; and as always, subject to change due to mood, whim, planetary alignment or simply remembering something better: **Songs** 1. Orion - Metallica 2. Face to Face - Sevendust 3. Will You Smile Again? - …and You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead 4. Don’t Let Me Die Nervous - Califone 5. Weary Memory - Iron and Wine 6. 3 Days - Jane’s Addiction 7. Aenima - Tool 8. 3 Libras - A Perfect Circle 9. Not An Addict - K’s Choice 10. Gravity Rides Everything - Modest Mouse **Groups** 1. Sigur Ros 2. Modest Mouse 3. TV On the Radio 4. Built to Spill 5. Sevendust 6. Soul Coughing 7. Iron and Wine 8. Nine Inch Nails 9. Songs: Ohia 10. Autechre **Perfect Albums** 1. This is a Long Drive for Someone With Nothing to Think About - Modest Mouse 2. The Real Thing - Faith No More 3. Among the Living - Anthrax 4. Stay Hungry - Twisted Sister 5. The Moon and Antarctica - Modest Mouse 6. The Lonesome Crowded West - Modest Mouse 7. Aenima - Tool 8. The Downward Spiral - Nine Inch Nails 9. A Rush of Blood to the Head - Coldplay 10. Antichrist Superstar - Marilyn Manson And oh so many more… ---
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Like everyone else’s, this list would change with each typing. Albums 1 Songs for Swingin Lovers- Sinatra 2 Pet Sounds- Beach Boys 3 Crooked Rain Crooked Rain- Pavement 4 Surfer Rosa/ Come On Pilgrim- Pixies 5 Exile On Main Street- Rolling Stones 6 Exile in Guyville- Liz Phair 7 New York- Lou Reed 8 London Calling- The Clash 9 Paul’s Boutique- Beastie Boys 10 My Aim is True- Elvis Costello Songs 1 Sing Sing Sing- Benny Goodman 2 Summer Babe- Pavement 3 Been Caught Stealin’- Jane’s Addiction 4 Shake Rattle and Roll- Bill Haley and his Comets 5 If You Want Blood- AC/DC 6 Peggy Sue- Buddy Holly 7 You Make Me Feel So Young- Frank Sinatra 8 Head On- Pixies (cover of Jesus and Mary Chain) 9 Heart Shaped Box- Nirvana 10 Billie Jean- Micheal Jackson Artists 1 Pavement 2 Pixies 3 Beastie Boys 4 Frank Sinatra 5 Elvis Costello 6 Johnny Cash 7 Beach Boys 8 Pogues 9 Tragically Hip 10 Elvis ---
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The following lists were put together off the top of my head in about fifteen minutes while watching _Law & Order_. They will change as soon as I turn on the radio and think “ARGH! How could I hve forgotten \*\*that \*\*one?!?” **Groups:** Pink Floyd Led Zeppelin The Grateful Dead Bob Marley Rush Bruce Springsteen Tom Petty Lynyrd Skynyrd Paul Simon (with or without Art Garfunkel) The Beatles **Albums:** Dark Side if the Moon - Pink Floyd Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen War - U2 Back in Black - AC/DC Paranoid - Black Sabbath Revolver - The Beatles American Beauty - The Grateful Dead Pyromania - Def Leppard Who’s Next - The Who Rumours - Fleetwood Mac **Songs:** Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin Fearless - Pink Floyd Landslide - Fleetwood Mac Back in the Saddle - Aerosmith No Woman No Cry - Bob Marley Ripple - The Grateful Dead Bell Bottom Blues - Derek and the Dominoes Thunder Road - Brice Springsteen Subterranean Homesick Blues - Bob Dylan War Pigs - Black Sabbath [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-list-of-favorite-top-10-songs-favorite-groups-albums/345517.md?page=2)