1
2
Carter Family - Chewing Gum
4
5

The first two are definitive in the top spot. The other 3 are just the first 3 that came to mind. All of them make me weep with glee. As is true of any list, this doesn't include the Fall or Hank Williams because I couldn't choose for either.

Fuck me, ATR were fucking amazing...

oh nic endo!

1. maudlin of the Well - Birth Pains of Astral Projection
2. Six Organs of Admittance - School of the Flower
3. The Velvet Underground - Femme Fatale
4. Frank Zappa - Who Needs the Peace Corps?
5. John Frusciante - Life's A Bath

I don't know why I never included this, still the greatest song in the history of mankind and probably will be till the earth gets too hot for us to continue. To anyone whose ever loved and then lost:http://youtube.com/watch?v=RFQcOrqQLN8
















These Five Are All Masterpieces Too. I'm Drunk But I Know Shit Right Now. So Turn Out the Lights And Listen:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWAc_b0mjWY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxQMxjX56-8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FmoY0A_lfk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9BJyvm4mw0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFb-xzV1QGI

The Ronettes - Be my baby
France Gall - Poupée de cire, poupée de son
Kraftwerk - Neon lights
Can - Mushroom
Michael Jackson - Don't stop 'til you get enough

The first 2 might indeed be my two favourite songs, while the last 3 are just three of my favourite songs, that happened to came to my mind first.

Shit a duck, that's a good call. That song is dopest.

Same, second to Diamond Sea of course.

Of late:

Melvins - Skin Horse
Pere Ubu - Ubu Dance Party
Faust - J'ai Mal Aux Dents
Ween - Awesome Sound
Captain Beefheart - Sue Egypt

Teen Age Riot-SY
Velouria-Pixies
Loomer-MBV
(I Am Taking Out My Eurotrash) I Still Get Rocks Off - Blonde Redhead
Stars - Hum
The End - The Doors
Heroin - The Vu
Marquee Moon - Television

Diamond Sea damn near brings me to tears and I'm not an emotional person at all. That song is just fucking beautiful.

Ok here we go.

5. Silver Jews - Random Rules - This song can do whatever you want it to - break your heart, make a great car drive even better, a drinking song etc. The lyrics are unreal too, I know lots has been said about the song having 'the greatest opening line in history', but the rest of the song really says something too.

4. HUM - Apollo - one soft guitar line running through the entire song, a perfect vocal delivery,... 6 minutes of healing. Its a bummer when you and your girlfriend can't get things right with the space between each other - something that is hard to convey in a song, but is done perfectly here.

3. Sonic Youth - Sweet Shine - I didn't know Kim had in her, the melody is perfect - the lyrics are amazing. The song is a total downer...

2. Pavement - Pueblo - This song is the perfect jam, and I often wonder why it wasn't stretched out into 10+ minutes of slow-surf exctacy. If you listen to the 'Beach Boys' version on the Crooked Rain deluxe you'll see what I mean. This song just gets you baked.

1. Smashing Pumpkins - Hummer --> Has everything, soft, loud, the best solo of all time, encouraging lyrics. This song has probably racked up more listens in my life then any other song, still moves me. Comes in very casual/inoffensive and then just takes you for a lazy summer trip.

Honourable Mentions:
Pavement - Frontwards - makes the most boring chord progression the best song ever.
Smashing Pumpkins - 1979 - who doesn't like this song?
Some Velvet Morning - in all its incarnations, the slowdive one ?
12RODS - Summertime Vertigo - unbelievable feedbacking and plain ol' rock made into the ultimate off-kilter hook song. (ala 'tired of sex', ...only waaaay better).

My list has a lot of breezey/mid-tempo tunes, kind of songs half way between rocker/ballad... I just have a thirst for them I guess. Alot of epics too... I think a lot of them merry talented musicianship with an ear for texture and dynamics.

sand- lee hazelwood and nancy sinatra
ready to fight- negative approach
the mercy seat- nick cave and the bad seeds
visions of johanna- bob dylan
frankie teardrop- suicide

torn curtain is my favorite television song, even though marquee moon is very close.

These are simply 5 songs that have been amongst constant favourites forever, not juts a top 5.

Glen Campbell - Witchita Lineman
The Velvet Underground - Sister Ray
The Shangri La's - I'll Never Go Home Anymore
Dionne Warwick - Walk On By
Nancy & Lee - Summer wine

this is just atm
slowdive - some velvet morning
brian jonestown massacre - that girl suicide
cocteau twins - cherry coloured funk
cocteau twins - pearly dewdrops drops
the cure - three imaginary boys

robert wyatt - shipbuilding
fennesz - endless summer
teenage fanclub - sparkys dream
cornershop - brimful of asha
whitehouse - just like a cunt
the books - vogt dig for kloppervok

Good one.

Kiss - Black Diamond
Negative Approach - Ready To Fight
The Monkees - I'm Not Your Stepping Stone
The Replacements - Answering Machine
Saint Vitus - Born Too Late

Introitus of Mozart's Requiem. Skull crushing kick in the face good. The rest ain't too shabby either.

Johnny Cash's version of Sunday Morning Coming Down

Perfect Day - Lou Reed. It's really not that great of a song, but it reminds me of someone I miss.

Freight Train - Elizabeth Cotten. One of my favorites for a long long time. One of the few songs I ever bothered learning how to play on guitar.

Cool Water - Hank Williams

softy.

Mogwai - Stanley Kubrick
Terre Thaemlitz - Facilitator
Sonic Youth - Shadow of a Doubt
Sebadoh - Dramamine
Cat Power - Nude as the News