Farmerinthecity's Top 100 songs

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Here is my list. In alphabetical order, kind of.

Arcade Fire: Neighbourhood #1 (Tunnels)

Arvo Part: Cantus in Memorium Benjamin Britten

The Beach Boys: God Only Knows

Belle and Sebastian: Expectations

Bill Withers: Aint no Sunshine

Bjork: Unravel

Bob Dylan: Like a Rolling Stone

Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy: I See A Darkness

Brian Eno: An Ending (Ascent)

Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band: Dropout Boogie

Daft Punk: One More Time

Dave Brubeck Quartet: Take Five

The Divine Comedy: Tonight We Fly

Emancipator: Anthem

Ennio Morricone: The Ecstasy of the Gold

Ennio Morricone: Gabriel’s Oboe

Four Tet: Unspoken

French Teen Idol: Rome Shrugged

Gil Scott Heron: The Revolution Will not be Televised

Godspeed You! Black Emperor: Moya

Godspeed You! Black Emperor: Blaise Bailey Finnegan III

Jeff Buckley: Hallelujah

John Cale: Hanky Panky Know How

John Cale: The Endless Plain of Fortune

Joy Division: Love Will Tear Us Apart

Julian Cope: Safesurfer

Kate Bush: Wuthering Heights

Kevin Coyne: It Hurts

The Kinks: Waterloo Sunset

La Bradford: S

LCD Soundsystem: All My Friends

Lou Reed: Perfect Day

Love: Alone Again Or

Love: Andmoreagain

Luke Kelly: The Foggy Dew

Martin Hayes & Dennis Cahill: The Night Poor Larry was Stretched

Massive Attack: Unfinished Sympathy

Michael Jackson: Billie Jean

Midlake: Van Occupanther

Midlake: Small Mountain

Morrissey: Speedway

My Bloody Valentine: Sometimes

Neil Young: Harvest

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds: Sorrows Child

Nirvana: Smells Like Teen Spirit

Palace Brothers: I Send My Love to You

Palace Brothers: There is No One What Will Take Care of You

Palace Music: Come In

Phil Manley: Commerical Potential

Pixies: Where is My Mind?

Pixies: Catcus

The Pogues: Fairytale of New York

The Pogues: Thousands are Sailing

The Pogues: Lullaby of London

The Pogues: Pair of Brown Eyes

Public Enemy: Rebel Without a Pause

Radiohead: Paranoid Android

REM: Let Me In

REM: Country Feedback

Robert Hood: Stark Reality

The Rolling Stones: Gimme Shelter

Rory Gallagher: I’m Not Awake Yet

Roy Orbison: In Dreams

Saul Williams: Black Stacey

Scott Walker: Farmer in the City

Serge Gainsbourg: Je T’aime Moi Non Plus

Shearwater: Rooks

Simon and Garfunkel: Sound of Silence

The Smiths: How Soon Is Now?

The Smiths: Death of a Disco Dancer

Sparklehorse: Saturday

Stevie Wonder: Superstition

Tim Hardin: Black Sheep Boy

Tindertsticks: Blood

Tindersticks: Travelling Light

Rollerskate Skinny: Speed to My Side

U2: The Wanderer

Tindersticks: Kathleen

Huck Notari: I Want to Win

Planxty: Cliffs of Dooneen

Glen Campbell: Witchita Lineman

Hank Williams: I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry

ABBA: Dancing Queen

Blondie: Heart of Glass

Jefferson Airplane: White Rabbit

Harry Nilsson: Everybody’s Talkin

Passengers: Miss Sarajevo

Dire Straits: Sultans of Swings

Talking Heads: Road to Nowhere

The Ronettes: Be My Baby

Otis Redding: Sitting On The Dock of the Bay

Jackie Wilson: (You’re Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher

The Velvet Underground: Venus in Furs

The Velvet Underground: I’ll Be Your Mirror

The Wedding Present: Suck

The Wedding Present: Heather

Whipping Boy: Twinkle

Whipping Boy: We Don’t Need Nobody Else

Whipping Boy: Users

The XX: Intro

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Which album is Expectations from Farmer?

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Excellent.

Do we have a general consensus that Wichita Lineman is the best song ever, so?

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Some load of dross in that

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I’m up to about 60, have more crossover with yours than the others already @farmerinthecity, I’d be close enough to finished but I’m trying not to do more than one song an artist at the mo. I’ll probably give that up as it doesn’t do justice to too many of them.

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I would have included Moya by Godspeed You Black Emperor in my 90s list if I’d remembered it.

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I thought @farmerinthecity 's music snobbery would rule out cover versions. :eek:

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Tiger Milk - the first one.

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There’s a noticeable lack of Beatles tunes in the lists so far.

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Holy crap, i know over 30

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25 for me.

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It might be the demographic, but I think a lot of people think they are over rated.

I’m going to do a list, for my own memory really more than anything. I’m breaking it into 4 sections of 25, Childhood, teenage, 20’s and an everything else section.

Trying to remember for better or worse what I actually liked at the time, and not necessarily what my favour ute 100 might be right now.

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[quote=“caoimhaoin, post: 914287, member: 273”]It might be the demographic, but I think a lot of people think they are over rated.

I’m going to do a list, for my own memory really more than anything. I’m breaking it into 4 sections of 25, Childhood, teenage, 20’s and an everything else section.

Trying to remember for better or worse what I actually liked at the time, and not necessarily what my favour ute 100 might be right now.[/quote]
Its a difficult one Kev, I reckon anyone doing a list now would change it next week.

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I’m tipping away at one at the moment and am sure within a couple of days of posting I’ll have about 20 different songs that didn’t come to mind.

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[quote=“Thrawneen, post: 914236, member: 129”]Excellent.

Do we have a general consensus that Wichita Lineman is the best song ever, so?[/quote]

Not in my view but the consensus seems to be showing it, God Only Knows and Waterloo Sunset as being the frontrunners.

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My technique was to go through my iPod. That’s why the alphabetical thing went a bit weird towards the end as a bunch of them are under various artists.

I put down possible songs for the list. I had 350 odd when I finished. Then I just cut the shit out of it.

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[quote=“farmerinthecity, post: 914293, member: 24”]My technique was to go through my iPod. That’s why the alphabetical thing went a bit weird towards the end as a bunch of them are under various artists.

I put down possible songs for the list. I had 350 odd when I finished. Then I just cut the shit out of it.[/quote]
They should feature heavily if we have a best albums list.

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That’s an excellent list, fair fucks:clap::clap:
Hard to know what to pick from something like Mi Media Naranja or the likes of Godspeed when the pieces are so much better listened to as a whole, glad you didn’t forget Mark Linkous and you picked the right song too.

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[quote=“Thrawneen, post: 914236, member: 129”]Excellent.

Do we have a general consensus that Wichita Lineman is the best song ever, so?[/quote]
No. Sometimes has been on most lists, wouldn’t argue with that one

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[quote=“farmerinthecity, post: 914293, member: 24”]My technique was to go through my iPod. That’s why the alphabetical thing went a bit weird towards the end as a bunch of them are under various artists.

I put down possible songs for the list. I had 350 odd when I finished. Then I just cut the shit out of it.[/quote]
350, fuck that’s commitment. I’m getting very frustrated picking one song an artist but I’m going to try to stick to it. It’s forcing some quite generic choices though, how do you pick one Bob Dylan or Clash song for example?