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Title: Your Top 10 all time best singles records
Post by: felipe on July 13, 2012, 06:26:12 AM
Babyboomer's post prompted me to set this thread up.

Time for some fun folks. Most, if not all of us love music in one form or another. So how about we give it some thought and post our top 10 all time favourite SINGLES records.

The list does not have to be in preferential order just a list will do. Let's say only one track from any one group / artist.

What we could do after 4 or 5 weeks is to pick out the songs that are most frequently selected and have our own poll to find the best.  

Maybe Valle Radio when they come back on air could get involved.  In the future we could have similar polls for best rock tracks, Motown, ballads, pop, classical, etc etc.

If someone from Valle Radio would like to get in touch.........

List it like this so that I can copy the lists into a database

Song  Artist  Year
Title: Re: Your Top 10 all time best singles records
Post by: felipe on July 13, 2012, 06:56:59 AM
This is a lot harder than it looks. So many great singles in the last 40 - 50 years

Song                                           Artist                              Year
Nights in White Satin                Moody Blues                            1967
Relax                                     Frankie Goes to Hollywood          1983
So What                                 Pink                                       2008
Stay With Me                          Faces                                     1971
Let's Go to San Francisco         The Flowerpot Men                     1967
Get Back                                The Beatles                              1969
Riders on the Storm                  The Doors                                1971
Sitting on the Dock of the Bay    Otis Reading                             1968
Purple Haze                             Jimmy Hendrix                           1967
When a Man Loves a Women      Percy Sledge                             1966
Title: Re: Your Top 10 all time best singles records
Post by: Cruzcampo on July 13, 2012, 11:46:25 AM

Here goes,hard to pick ten with so much great music,would probably be very different if including album tracks


Song                                                  Artist                                                         Year

Lucky Man                                    The Verve                                                         1997

Porcelain                                       Moby                                                               2002

Scar Tissue                                   Red Hot Chili Peppers                                          1997

Thats Entertainment                       The Jam                                                            1981

Slight Return                                 Bluetones                                                           1995   

Dont look back in anger                    Oasis                                                                1995

Ashes to Ashes                              David Bowie                                                       1980

What a wonderful world               Louis Armstrong                                                      1967

Fields of gold                                Sting                                                                  1994

Wild Horses                                  Rolling Stones                                                     1971




           
Title: Re: Your Top 10 all time best singles records
Post by: musicdonna on July 13, 2012, 11:51:33 AM
Carnival is Over.  Seekers.  1965 ish??
Title: Re: Your Top 10 all time best singles records
Post by: Cruzcampo on July 13, 2012, 12:00:37 PM
Quote from: musicdonna on July 13, 2012, 11:51:33 AM
Carnival is Over.  Seekers.  1965 ish??

Well that,s one,what about the other nine? :laugh:
Title: Re: Your Top 10 all time best singles records
Post by: jubilado on July 13, 2012, 14:50:38 PM
I have a TOP 122!!!

So difficult, I sent my list to Wrighty but unlike Mark it was not played.


1.   Warmth Of The Sun        Beach Boys
2.   Like A Rolling Stone             Bob Dylan
3.   Whiter Shade Of Pale             Procul Harem
4.   Out Of Time           Chris Farlowe
5.   Moon River           Danny Williams
6.   The Cryin' Game        Dave Berry
7.   Hotel California                Eagles
8.   Crying In The Rain        Everleys
9.   All In The Game                Four Tops
10.  Wichita Lineman                   Glen Campbell

No room for "God Only Knows", "Cupid", "Go now", "Monday, Monday", "Waterloo Sunset", "Don't Let The Sun Catch You Cryin', "Macarthur Park", "Mr Tambourine Man"!!!!!!

Ken Cross

Title: Re: Your Top 10 all time best singles records
Post by: Sierratrekking on July 13, 2012, 22:17:30 PM

Great thread, I'll need some time to think about it.

I'll be back!
Title: Re: Your Top 10 all time best singles records
Post by: felipe on July 13, 2012, 23:03:22 PM
It took me some thinking. And I still don't think I got it right.  Maybe should have been top 50!!!
Title: Re: Your Top 10 all time best singles records
Post by: Tetley on July 13, 2012, 23:47:18 PM
comfarably numb   floyd
gimmi shelter  stones
hey jude   beatles
imagine  lennon
wonderwall  oasis
alright now  free
seagull paul rodgers
free world  neil young
the massia comes again  gary moore
who wants to live forever  freddi 
Title: Re: Your Top 10 all time best singles records
Post by: cantabrian on July 14, 2012, 16:27:05 PM
wild in the country                   elvis presley
his latest flame                              "
temptation                              everly brothers
travellin man                            ricky nelson
la bamba                                 richie valens
rave on                                   buddy holly
week-end                                eddie cochran
summertime blues                             "
c,mon                                     rolling stones
me and you and a dog name boo   lobo

Hey Felipe !
                 it needs to be the top 50!!!! :wave
Title: Re: Your Top 10 all time best singles records
Post by: felipe on July 14, 2012, 16:32:39 PM
Ahh But the top ten makes you focus your mind to you real favourites. But you broke the rule.  Only one song by one artist :):)
Title: Re: Your Top 10 all time best singles records
Post by: cantabrian on July 14, 2012, 16:51:36 PM
OH NO !!!!!!!!!!!!!
                        i didn,t read the rules!, i just enjoyed a really happy post!

wild in the country                   elvis presley
summertime blues                     eddie cochran
travellin man                            ricky nelson
rave on                                  buddy holly
temptation                              everlys
c,mon                                    rolling stones
me and you and a dog name boo    lobo
sweet dream baby                     roy orbison
end of the line                          travelling wilburys
where do you go--------            peter sarstedt
Title: Re: Your Top 10 all time best singles records
Post by: awaywiththefairies on July 14, 2012, 17:32:41 PM
In no particular order  ;D

Fast Car                           Tracy Chapman
Teenage Kicks                    The Undertones    ...and dedicated to John Peel
Smells like teen spirit           Nivarna
One                                  U2
London Calling                    The Clash
Belfast Child                       Simple Minds
Love will tears us apart        Joy Division
Unfinished Sympathy            Massive Attack
We've only just begun          Carpenters
Ride a White Swan               Marc Bolan


could easily do top fifty :wave
Title: Re: Your Top 10 all time best singles records
Post by: Annastasia on July 14, 2012, 18:44:17 PM


I'm not in love                        10cc
Heaven                                   Bryan Adams
Lets Dance                              David Bowie
Rythmn is a dancer                 Snap
Walk on by                             Dionne Warwick
Guilty                                     Barbra Streisand and Barry Gibb
Angel clare                             Art Garfunkle
Love on the rocks                   Neil Diamond
Weekend in New England        Barry Manilow
Runaway                                 Del Shannon
Title: Re: Your Top 10 all time best singles records
Post by: Babyboomer on July 15, 2012, 08:22:06 AM
We didn't start the fire                 Billy Joel                                1989
Relax Don't Do it                         Frankie Goes to Hollywood         1984
Drive                                           The Cars                             1984
Hot Stuff                                      Donna Summer                     1979
I love the night life                       Alicia Bridges                         1978
Hotel California                          The Eagles                               1977
The Chain                                     Fleetwood Mac                     1977
Summer Breeze                           Seals & Croft                          1972
Question                                      The Moody Blues                   1970
Whiter Shade of Pale                   Procol Harem                           1967
Title: Re: Your Top 10 all time best singles records
Post by: lisa j on July 16, 2012, 18:42:54 PM
Hola,

By no means in any order, also my current top 10, it changes all the time but, these are the usual suspects I keep coming back to:-

1 - Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd
2 - Don't Believe a Word - Thin Lizzy
3 - Bananas - Man
4 - Afterglow - Genesis
5 - Living In the Past - Jethro Tull
6 - The Song Remains the Same - Led Zeppelin
7 - Secret Agent - Rory Gallagher
8 - Blow Away - Kate Bush
9 - Wynona's Big Brown Beaver - Primus
10 - La Villa Strangiato - Rush

Lisa j v)
Title: Re: Your Top 10 all time best singles records
Post by: Wilf and Moira on July 22, 2012, 15:14:18 PM
Tricky,  there's so many, however:-

1.  Juniors Wailing         Status Quo
2.  Troubador               Nicky James
3.  America                  Neil Diamond
4.  Mr Tambourine Man  The Byrds
5.  Paranoid                 Black Sabbath
6.  No Woman No Cry    Bob Marley
7.  Sound of Silence      Simon & Garfunkel
8.  Statesboro Blues      Taj Mahal
9.  Sunshine on Leith     The Proclaimers
10. Celestial Light          Amazing Blondel

:clap: :wave
Title: Re: Your Top 10 all time best singles records
Post by: Talking Heads on July 22, 2012, 21:24:55 PM
I have loads of fave tunes but here goes !

1 John Lennon - Imagine
2 Human League - Dont you want me
3 Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus
4 Depeche Mode - Everything Counts
5 Duran Duran - Come Undone
6 Soul 2 Soul - Back To Life
7 Alexander O'Neil - Criticise 
8 Billy Idol - Eyes without a face
9 Level 42 - Something About you (shep pettibone remix)
10 Stone Roses - Fools Gold


Steve  :)

Title: Re: Your Top 10 all time best singles records
Post by: annijay on September 02, 2012, 11:50:01 AM
As music's the personal soundtrack of your life,here goes;

Mystery Train --  Elvis
Nadine -- Chuck Berry
Whole Lotta Shakin Goin On --  Jerry Lee Lewis(the BEST jive record ever!)
Here Comes The Sun--George Harrison
God Only Knows--The Beach Boys
Valerie---Steve Winwood
New Kid in Town--The Eagles
Start Me Up---The Stones
Old Love--Clapton
Touched by an Angel---Stevie Nicks
Title: Re: Your Top 10 all time best singles records
Post by: annijay on September 02, 2012, 11:54:45 AM
Blimey-I forgot the greatest Motown track-Ain't too Proud to Beg--the fantastic Temptations with the great David Ruffin!!!!!Realise I'm still way back in the late seventies,but hey,should have been top twenty!!!!!
Title: Re: Your Top 10 all time best singles records
Post by: Pete Bickley on December 31, 2013, 14:49:28 PM
1. Ricky don't lose that number - Steely Dan.

2. Georgia - Ray Charles.

3. Who are you - The Who.

4. No regrets - The Walker Brothers.

5. Rocky mountain way - Joe Walsh.

6. I believe when I fall in love - Stevie Wonder.

7. New frontier - Donald Fagen.

8. Valerie - Steve Winwood.

9. I put a spell on you - Nina Simone.

10. Frankenstein - Edgar Winter Band.
Title: Re: Your Top 10 all time best singles records
Post by: crawdaddy on December 31, 2013, 19:12:59 PM
Only just noticed this thread.
Shows just how observant I am.        :drinks:

Gonna get my head round it tomorrow, but knowing it's gonna be Stones, Beatles, Kinks and other '60's and '70's stuff.      :whistle:
Title: Re: Your Top 10 all time best singles records
Post by: nic.spato on January 05, 2015, 18:42:48 PM
A tough call, but here goes.........dunno what year they were and can't be arsed to look them up.....how rock n roll am I !!!! O0

Stones......Honky Tonk Woman
Dylan.......Like a rolling Stone
Marley......One Love
Stones......Sympathy for the Devil
The Who....Won't Get Fooled Again
John Miles...Music (Just because he has the balls to go for the high note ! )
Kinks...Waterloo Sunset
Small Faces...All or Nothing
Bee Gees....To Love Somebody
Foundations....Build Me Up Buttercup
Love Affair....Rainbow Valley
Marmalade.....Reflections of my life
Peter Sarsted....Where do you go to my lovely
Fleetwood Mac....Oh Well part one
Pistols....Pretty Vacant
Elvis Costello....Olivers Army
Clash.....Should I stay or should I go
Undertones...Teenage Dreams
Iggy Pop .....Passenger
Lou Reed.....Walk on the Wild Side
Bowie.....Drive in Saturday
Cockney Rebel....Come up and see me


Oops....should have stopped at 10  !!
Title: Re: Your Top 10 all time best singles records
Post by: GRACAR on October 09, 2018, 20:44:11 PM
SONG                                                               ARTIST                                                               YEAR

Let's Stick Together                                            Canned Heat                                                         1970                        
Who Knows Where The Time Goes                          Sandy Denny (Fairport Convention)                           1969                          
Stop                                                                 Mike Bloomfield                                                      1968                                                    
Walk On By                                                        Stranglers                                                             1978                                                            
Won't Get Fooled Again                                        The Who                                                               1971                                                              
Whole Lotta Love                                                Led Zeppelin                                                          1969                                                        
Forever Autumn                                                  Moody Blues                                                        c.1970
Steppin Out                                                       Joe Jackson                                                           1982
Light My Fire                                                      Jose Feliciano                                                         1968
Burlesque                                                           Family                                                                   1972
I'm a Man                                                           Chicago                                                                1969
Life's Been Good                                                  Joe Walsh                                                              1978

Just one over, so not too bad, though I could have gone on and on and on and on .................
Title: Re: Your Top 10 all time best singles records
Post by: Queen Clare Shirley on October 09, 2018, 20:59:45 PM
I wanna sex u up   Colour me bad
Waking up the neighbours Bryan Adams
I'm coming up    Diana Ross
Shake it off        Taylor swift
Its all coming back to me Celine Dion
I'm the one who wants to be with you  Mr big
Can't stop the music  Justin timberlake
Build me up buttercup  the foundations
Thank you for the music  Abba
Any disney song ever