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The Songfactors' Choice Top Ten #30


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Hear you, B-F. Some of my alltime favorites are probably unknown to many of the people here. I would nominate nearly every song from one of my favorite albums, but few would vote for Tumba - Angélique Kidjo. I think of participating in this rated survey in terms not so much as, The Best Songs Ever, but more like, My Most Beloved Well Known Songs. I'm a voter of broad musical acceptance, but not knowing the titles would preclude me from voting for certain songs. It would be cool if we had a musical link that allowed the nominated songs to be heard. That would lead to a lot of musical awakenings, I am sure.

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It would be cool if we had a musical link that allowed the nominated songs to be heard. That would lead to a lot of musical awakenings, I am sure.

Definitely. I try to give everyone's nominations a chance (when I have the time) by going to YouTube and seeing if they have any music videos, but I have no luck when some songs are obscure. I can't tell ya how many times I wish I could like upload a song somewhere for people to download. If only that wasn't illegal, and some people weren't on dial-up. :P

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Steel (Ron) - was it you who was going to nominate "American Pie" but it went back into the Songfacts Top Ten ? It's been out for a while now, so please go ahead if you'd like to. I was just playing a Don McLean CD. Gee he's great.

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I just updated 'Every Song That's Been In Our Top Tens'. We really have had a lot of variety. I hope to see all of our friends nominate in Top Ten #31.

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Before nominations open though, please don't forget to list your "Nominations CD" for Top Tens #21 to #30 (bluesboy's innovation, and always interesting ). I'll only have 18 this time which I'll do tomorrow, John. Maybe I can add a couple of 'bonus tracks'; two of my favorites that are rather obscure - ones I wouldn't nominate because I doubt that anyone else would know them.

Goodnight All. :)

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Hi Seeker. :) This will be your first !

At bluesboy's suggestion we make a "Phantom CD" of our Nominations every TENTH Top Ten. Here's mine for Top Tens 11 to 20:

Old 55's CD: "DON'T BREAK MY CHAIN Volume #2.

1. Do Wah Diddy Diddy - Manfred Mann

2. Centerfold - J.Geils Band

3. I Say A Little Prayer For You - Aretha Franklin

4. Stop! In The Name Of Love - The Supremes

5. Lyin' Eyes - The Eagles

6. The Tracks Of My Tears - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles

7. All Shook Up - Elvis Presley

8. If You Leave Me Now - Chicago

9. Love Her Madly - The Doors

10.Substitute - The Who

11.The Devil Went Down To Georgia - Charlie Daniels Band

12.Rhiannon - Fleetwood Mac

13.Gloria - Them

14.Riders On The Storm - The Doors

15.Mellow Yellow - Donovan

16.Mr.Tambourine Man - The Byrds

17.Aquarius/ Let The Sun Shine In - The 5th Dimension

18.Somebody To Love - Jefferson Airplane

19.December 1963 (Oh What A Night) - The 4 Seasons

20.Handle With Care - The Traveling Wilburys

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Hey, I got a few of those in the Tens ! I'll put on my Volume 3 tomorrow.

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I missed 3 weeks, so I've only got 14 nominations I'll DJ into this nominations cd #21 - #30.

I'll call it -

From the Vaults - Volume 3

Leavin' on Your Mind - Patsy Cline

Just One of Those things - Ella Fitzgerald

Centerpiece - Lambert, Hendricks & Ross

I Love the Life I Live, I Live the Life I Love - Royal Crown Revue

Jump Children - Flamingos

Wooly Bully - Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs

Incident at Neshabur - Santana

The Change Song - Blodwyn Pig

So Long - Junior Wells

Dreams - Allman Bros.

Struggling Man - Jimmy Cliff

People Get Ready - the Impressions

The Last Thing on My Mind - Jose Feliciano

Crying in the Chapel - the Orioles

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Alright. My nominations from lists 21 to 30 (had to leave out some of my favourites, though)

1. Free Electric Band -- Albert Hammond

2. Build Me Up Buttercup -- The Foundations

3. Friday On My Mind -- The Easybeats

4. Windy -- The Association

5. Sweet Soul Music -- Arthur Conley

6. Bittersweet Symphony -- The Verve

7. All Or Nothing -- Small Faces

8. Natural Born Bugie -- Humble Pie

9. Love You -- Syd Barrett

10. Ain't That A Shame -- Fats Domino

11. Father and Daughter -- Paul Simon

12. Night Train -- James Brown

13. Be My Baby -- The Ronettes

14. Now That I've Found You -- The Foundations

15. My Sweet Lord -- George Harrison

16. Africa -- Toto

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I haven't been keeping track of my noms for the "CD"s, but searching the archives provided these tracks for TT#21 - #30

CD #3

All Along The Watchtower

Goldfinger

Scenes From An Italian Restaurant

You're My World

Unchained Melody

Right Place (Wrong Time)

Beware Of Darkness

Cottonmouth

Sailing

Easy

Higher And Higher

All My Life (Ronstadt/Neville)

Summer Breeze

Shake A Tail Feather

Doctor My Eyes

The Game Of Love (Branch/Santana)

Bad Boys (Miami Sound Machine)

I Got A Name

No Expectations

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Pretty funky CD here.

The Rain, The Park, and Other Things - The Cowsills (16)

Read My Mind - Sweetbox (7)

L.O.V.E. - Nat King Cole (20)

Someday - Nickelback (8)

Tank! - Yoko Kanno and the Seatbelts (11)

Don't Stop Believin' - Journey (9)

Mandolin Rain - Bruce Hornsby (6)

Rock'N Me - The Steve Miller Band (24)

With or Without You - U2 (56) 6th yay :P

Bob - Weird Al (2)

100 Years - Five for Fighting (34)

Against The Odds - Phil Collins (20)

Jesus Freak - DC Talk (0)

Work - Jimmy Eat World (0)

You Raise Me Up - Josh Groban (5)

Swingtown - Steve Miller Band (21)

Play That Funky Music - Wild Cherry (36)

Earth Angel (Will You Be Mine) - The Penguins (30)

The Prayer - Andrea Bocelli (9)

Steam - Peter Gabriel (8)

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I joined the madness at list #20.

The Lizard's nominations 20-30:

1. "Space Oddity"- David Bowie

2. "The Hardest Button to Button"- The White Stripes

3. "Helter Skelter"- The Beatles

4. "Seek and Destroy"- Metallica

5. "Beat on the Brat"- The Ramones

6. "Back in the Saddle"- Aerosmith

7. "Knights of Cydonia"- Muse

8. "Over the Hills and Far Away"- Led Zeppelin

9. "Not to Touch the Earth"- The Doors

10. "Spanish Castle Magic"- The Jimi Hendrix Experience

11. "The Message"- Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five

12. "Give Peace A Chance"- John Lennon

13. "Breaking the Law"- Judas Priest

14. "Run for the Hills"- Iron Maiden

15. "Killing in the Name"- Rage Against the Machine

16. "Janie Jones"- The Clash

17. "Lithium"- Nirvana

18. "Otherside"- Red Hot Chili Peppers

19. "Generation Landslide"- Alice Cooper

20. "Anarchy Burger"- The Vandals

21. "Echoes"- Pink Floyd

22. "The Rising"- Bruce Springsteen

I don't think all those songs would fit on one CD. Echoes alone is about 23 minutes.

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I see...great songs that you nominated, by the way!

Thanks Seeker. Ditto with yours ! We're many years apart in age but we have some remarkably similar tastes. Here's my 18 songs.

"DON'T BREAK MY CHAIN" Volume #3

Jailhouse Rock - Elvis Presley

Midnight Train To Georgia - Gladys Knight & The Pips

He'll Have To Go - Jim Reeves

Wild Thing - The Troggs

Oh, Pretty Woman - Roy Orbison & The Candymen

Piano Man - Billy Joel

Massachusetts - The Bee Gees

As Tears Go By - Marianne Faithfull

Saturday In The Park - Chicago

We Will Rock You - Queen

Dancing In The Street - Martha & The Vandellas

Make It Easy On Yourself - The Walker Brothers

I Can't Stop Loving You - Ray Charles

What Becomes Of The Broken Hearted - Jimmy Ruffin

Long Tall Sally - Little Richard

Judy In Disguise (With Glasses) - John Fred & His Playboy Band

Still The Same - Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band

Walking To New Orleans - Fats Domino

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My CD of Nominations - #3 (in alphabetical order)

1. Angel Eyes - Raghav

2. Annie's Song – John Denver – Ranked No.10 on TT #30

3. Bernadine – Pat Boone

4. Besame Mucho – Andrea Bocelli

5. Chapel Of Love – The Dixie Cups

6. Cinderella – Paul Anka

7. Delilah – Tom Jones

8. Delta Dawn – Tanya Tucker

9. It's Not Unusual – Tom Jones

10. Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini - Brian Hyland

11. Summer Holiday – Cliff Richard

12. Sundown – Gordon Lightfoot

13. Venus - Frankie Avalon

14. Venus – The Shocking Blue

15. Woman In Love – Barbara Streisand

16. Words – Bee Gees, The – Ranked No.7 on TT #28

17. Yellow River – Tony Christie

18. Yellow Submarine – The Beatles

Wonder why Tom Jones didn't make any of the TTs

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I nominated:

- Come up and see me (Make me smile) Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel

- Cry me a river - Julie London

- Cotton fields - CCR

- You better move on - Stones

- White Bird - It´s a beautiful day

- Ballad of Lucy Jordan - Marianne Faithfull

- I´ll feel a whole lot better - The Byrds

- Blood & Roses - The Smithereens

- Across the universe - Beatles

- Rose Garden - Lynn Anderson

- Theme for an imaginary Western - Mountain

- Little Sister - Elvis Presley

- Frozen Smiles - Crosby & Nash

- Epitaph - King Crimson

- Monkberry Moon Delight - Paul McCartney

- Indiana wants me - R. Dean Taylor

- Kicks - Lou Red

- Pale Blue Eyes - Velvet Underground

- Absolutely Sweet marie - Bob Dylan

- Shipbuilding - Elvis Costello*

*you´re right, BF, Robert Wyatt´s version is probably better.

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My own nominations make me laugh because they are all over the place, much like I am. :laughing: I think I went on strike during one nomination round, so here are my top 18:

Come to my Window - Melissa Etheridge

Closer to Fine - Indigo Girls

Tribute - Tenacious D

Tie Your Mother Down – Queen

Bernadette - The Four Tops

Round and Round – Ratt

Rock You Like a Hurricane - The Scorpions

Gin and Juice - Snoop Dogg

Forever and Ever, Amen - Randy Travis

Shameless - Garth Brooks

Emotion - Samantha Sang

If I Can't Have You - Yvonne Elliman

Sweet Love - Anita Baker

Through the Fire - Chaka Khan

Jungle Love - Morris Day & The Time

Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof off the Sucker) – Parliament

Oh L'amour - Erasure

Invisible - Alison Moyet

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Here are my nominations for Top Tens 20 to 30:

Lodi - CCR

Downtown - Petula Clark

Rocket Man - Elton John

One Fine Morning - Lighthouse

Life In The Fast Lane - The Eagles

Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is? - Chicago

Old Man - Neil Young

Cruel To Be Kind - Nick Lowe

Big Yellow Taxi - Joni Mitchell

Last Train To Clarksville - The Monkees

Shapes Of Things - The Yardbirds

Maybe Baby - Buddy Holly

Everything I Own - Bread

Midnight Rider - The Allman Brothers Band

Go Your Own Way - Fleetwood Mac

Black Is Black - Los Bravos

Maybelline - Chuck Berry

Expresso Love - Dire Straits

Maggie May - Rod Stewart

Come And Get Your Love - Redbone

Show And Tell - Al Wilson

Don't Call Us, We'll Call You - Sugarloaf

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Right so I dug it out:

Lightening Crashes - Live

Times Like These - Foo Fighters

Runaway Train - Soul Asylum

Crazy Little Thing Called Love - Queen

What's Up - 4 Non Blondes

You Might Thing - Cats

Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm - Crash Test Dummies

No Rain - Blind Melon

Imitation of Life - R.E.M.

Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth with Money in my Hand - Primitive Radio Gods

Save Tonight - Eagle Eye Cherry

Not an Addict - K's Choice

Unwell - Matchbox 20

Jane Says - Jane's Addiction

Drive - Incubus

The Freshman - Verve Pipe

New Days - Asher Lane

'74 - '75 - The Connell's

Pity I don't have a name for the CD yet.

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