Name your top [number] songs ever

[Demilich]

What is "bass playing" anyway?

It sounds kinda stupid saying that Lemmy and Cliff weren't "bass players". They were playing a bass, no matter how they played it, they were still "playing bass".

Songs:

1. Bathory - One Rode to Asa Bay
2. Katatonia - not sure.. but there are a lot of possibilities here
3. Bathory - Dies Irae
4. Bathory - Shores in Flames
5. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
6+. something by Empyrium, Summoning, Goat Horn, Aeternus, Slough Feg, Tankard, more Bathory, and many more bands besides...

 

[Black Winter Day]

Add:

"Three Days" by Janes Addiction

 

[Henrik Main]

I'm only going to mention my fave metal songs, as I guess my favourite punk songs don't make for an interesting read for y'all.

1349 - Beyond The Apocalypse, Singer Of Strange Songs
Aeternus - Warrior Of The Crescent Moon, Under The Eternal Blackened Sky
Arcturus - To Thou Who Dwellest In The Night, The Chaos Path
Borknagar - Oceans Rise, Colossus, Revolt, The Genuine Pulse, Four Element Synchronicity
Behemoth - Horns Of Baphomet
Behexen - By The Blessing Of Satan
Blood Red Throne - Chaos Rising
Brodequin - JudasCradle
Cannibal Corpse - Unleashing The Bloodthirsty, Innards Decay, Buried In The Backyard, I Cum Blood, Beyond The Cemetary
Cattle Decapitation - Chunk Blower
Cryptopsy - Defenestration, Abigor, Slit Your Guts, Benedictine Convulsion
Darkane - Chaos vs. Order
Darkthrone - In The Shadow Of The Horns, Earth's Last Picture, To Walk The Infernal Fields, Inn I De Dype Skogers Favn
Decapitated - Perfect Dehumanization, Nihility, Names, etc

Gah, I realise this will take an eternity. Better stop here before it all goes out of hand :\

 

[JayKeeley]

Spirit Crusher

Listening now. Just one of the greatest songs ever. Almost certainly the greatest Death [metal] song anyway.

 

[einride]

3. Manschmal wenn Sie Schläft (alternate version + outro)

hähä

 

[Thanatopsis123]

I've decided that Tool's Parabol/Parabola is one of the best songs ever.

 

[Ellestin]

Best best song ever is Vital Remains - Dawn of the Apocalypse
After that there are too many best songs ever to bother taking names

 

[Demilich]

new list: (no order)

Hendrix - Voodoo Child
Comus - Drip Drip
Incredible String Band - Good as Gone, A Very Cellular Song, Maya, Job's Tears, Red Hair, Lover Man, etc etc.
Dulcimer - Starlight
COB - Let It Be You, Oh Bright Eyed One, Chain of Love, Blue Morning, Music of the Ages,
Colour Haze - House of Rushammon, Love, Peace, Brothers and Sisters, Fire, Tempel, etc
Pentagram - Burning Savior, Much Too Young to Know, Target, Lazy Lady, Starlady, etc
Warning - Watching From a Distance, Echoes, The Return
The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Maybe Tomorrow, Wisdom, All Around You, etc.
Woods of Ypres - all of Against the Seasons
Agalloch - In the Shadow of Our Pale Companion
Current 93 - A Song for Douglas After He's Dead, Earth Covers Earth, Calling for Vanished Faces II etc
Tir Na Nog - Mariner's Blues
Bathory - One Rode to Asa Bay (yeah, still... though I haven't heard it in a bit), Call From the Grave, Enter the Eternal Fire, Necromansy, Raise the Dead, Gods of Thunder of Wind and of Rain, Man of Iron, Ring of Gold, etc
Katatonia - Brave, Day, Endtime, Omerta, I Am Nothing, etc
Black Sabbath - most of the first few albums
The Beatles - Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds, Eleanor Rigby, Tomorrow Never Knows, etc
Burzum - Lost Wisdom, Ea Lord of the Depths, Han Som Reiste, En Ring Til Å… Herske
Bread Love and Dreams - Amaryllis, My Stair-Cupboard at 3 AM, Hymn for Sylvia
Asphyx - Thoughts of an Atheist, The Rack, Evocation


Could go on but why!?

 

[spikes77]

mmm let's see what i can ramble off

in the woods - 299 796 km/s, heart of the ages
arcane sun - avatar, longing for eden's rain
empyrium - waldpoesie, many moons ago
sigh - slaughterman suite,
ulver - soelen gaaer bag aase ned, the future sound of music
maudlin of the well - Birth pains of astral projection, girl with a watering can
unholy - daybreak, wanderer
opeth - the twilight is my robe, in the mist she was standing
edge of sanity - crimson and i'll put uncreation here too
katatonia - rainroom, quiet world, clean today
skepticism - the march and the stream,
the gault - the shore becomes the enemy
unicorn - eversince, hiding again, the likes of noone
summoning - the passing of grey company, marching homewards
this empty flow - stream, snow blind
dornenreich - reime faucht der... nachtlich liebend
Naervaer - 92-tid-99

I could have probably put a controlled bleeding song or two but i've only discovered their greatness this past year

 

[Demilich]

hähä

you got beef with emo Nargaroth?

 

[General Zod]

Not in order:

Iced Earth - Dracula
Queensryche - Take Hold of the Flame
Metallica - For Whom the Bell Tolls
Dio - The Last in Line
Motley Crue - 10 Seconds to Love
Amon Amarth - Death in Fire
Opeth - Face of Melinda
Nevermore - Dreaming Neon Black

Updated:

In hindsight, the Crue pick was a nostalgia pick. Note even sure if it's my favorite Crue song. The Amon Amarth pick was a "pick of the day" kind of pick.

Given a little more thought, and in the spirit of Metal, my list goes to 11.

Anthrax - Medusa
Aska - Crown Of Thorns
Dio - All the Fools Sailed Away
Iced Earth - Dracula
Mad Season - Long Gone Day
Metallica - For Whom the Bell Tolls
Nevermore - Dreaming Neon Black
Opeth - Face of Melinda
Queensryche - Take Hold of the Flame
Redemption - Memory
Zero Hour - Demise & Vestige

Zod

 

[Ellestin]

Dulcimer - Starlight

great song indeed, Sonnet to the Fall is another highlight from that disregarded gem of an album.
Ever heard anything by Spirogyra? They're one of my favouriite number from the period, heavily ISB-influenced but more proggy in an early Crimson sense.

Also I might have to add Fullmoon's The Pagan Mountain as a perfectly suitable best song ever, be it only for the bonerific primeval riff kicking in at 1'15''

 

[Dev]

Just in passing, some tracks that certainly made an impression on me in recent months. Not metal at all though. I'd be glad to elaborate if I had more time. Links if you're curious about some of these :

Mr.Bungle - The Bends

Miles Davis - Blue in Green

Mats & Morgan - Hollmervalsen
I believe the whole album was recorded on TV, or at least it was played there which is amazing when you think of it.

(the keyboardist is blind if
ever you were wondering)

(see : [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIcPHLoV4oU&feature=related[/ame] & [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xsauw4Upv0&feature=related[/ame] )

Gong - Master Builder


The Avalanches - Frontier Psychiatrist
Good fun

Gentle Giant - Schooldays
This will please Doomcifer. The middle section starting around 2.50 is just amazing.

Scott Walker - Farmer in the City
Excuse the video

Talkings Heads - Heaven (hard to choose there)


Off the top of my head.

 

[Demilich]

great song indeed, Sonnet to the Fall is another highlight from that disregarded gem of an album.
Ever heard anything by Spirogyra? They're one of my favouriite number from the period, heavily ISB-influenced but more proggy in an early Crimson sense.

Dulcimer's s/t is amazing NEARLY start to finish, with things like the chorus from Pilgrim from the City, and the closer, Suzanne, dragging it down a little bit. A few too many campy, uninspired bits plaguing an otherwise great listen.

Yeah, I have a Spirogyra album downloaded but I rarely listen to it. On the ipod it goes!

 

[Ellestin]

Not metal at all though.

o rly

I was planning on listening to Mats & Morgan MUCH more. Maybe next year.

@ Demilich: St. Radigunds is my fave from Spirogojira. Feels like a Dickens like Christmas tale at sea somehow.

 

[EVERLOSTINDEADETERNITY]

Last December by Iced Earth
Hero by Nightrage
Keeper of the seven keys by Helloween
Funeral In Carpathia by Cradle Of Filth
Terror Shark by Municipal Waste
Total Desaster by Destruction
Kingdom Come by Manowar
In flames you burn by Dream Evil
Food for the Gods by InFlames
Coerced Coexistence by Inflames
Everlost by Inflames
Dead Eternity by Inflames
Chemistry by Susperia
Pure by Lost Horison
Crucified For The Innocence by Deicide
Hearts Of Fire by Hammerfall
Elimination By Overkill
Overkill by Overkill

and my number one

VICTORIOUS MARCH by AMON AMARTH