Favorite songs by _______________

// November 24th, 2009 // No Comments » // Blog

Stolen from SisD / Holly Hitch

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It’s simple: Listed below are some of the most successful singers and bands of the past 50 years. Name your favorite song by each one. Do this however you want. You can do them off the top of your head or think long and hard about each one and even do research to jar your memory. If you don’t know or like any songs by a given artist, feel free to type in “none” or “pass.”

Copy the rules and post your list as a note and tag me and whatever other friends of yours you think would enjoy this exercise. If I didn’t tag you but you are reading this list, post a list anyway and also tag me. Feel free to add comments to your choices.

Eagles
-Take It Easy

Led Zeppelin
-The Lemon Song

Rolling Stones
-You Cant Always Get What You Want

Stevie Wonder
-Superstition

Elton John
-Your Song

The Temptations
-I Cant Get Next To You

Bee Gees
-Stayin Alive

Paul Simon (with or without Garfunkel)
-You Can Call Me Al

Bob Marley
-I Shot The Sheriff

Earth, Wind & Fire
-Shining Star

Fleetwood Mac
-Landslide

James Taylor
-How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You)

Queen
-Fat Bottomed Girls

Rod Stewart
-Maggie May or Young Turks

Steely Dan
-hey Nineteen

Tom Petty (solo or with the Heartbreakers)
-American Girl (If I had to pick one. Petty annoys me.)

Madonna
-Lucky Star or Like A Prayer

U2
- None. U2 is way overrated.

R.E.M.
-Man On the Moon

John Mellencamp
-Little Pink Houses or Play Guitar

Hall & Oates
-Private Eyes

Janet Jackson
-What Have You Done For Me Lately

Journey
-Faithfully

Wham!/George Michael
-I Want Your Sex

Lionel Richie/Commodores
-Easy

Duran Duran
- The Reflex or Girls On Film

Michael Jackson/Jackson Five
-Dirty Diana or Smooth Criminal

Billy Joel
-The Entertainer

Bruce Springsteen
-Going Down (Just because he says the word down 93 times in 3 minutes. )

Bryan Adams
-Summer Of 69

The Police/Sting
-Every Breath You Take

Talking Heads
-Psycho Killer

Van Halen
-Hot For teacher

Whitney Houston
-How Will I Know

Sheryl Crow
-Picture (Duet with Kid Rock)

Mariah Carey
-Dont have a favorite…..

David Bowie
-Ziggy Stardust

- added by derek –

The following bands should be on the list too… all of them are surely more popular and sold more records than Sheryl Crow, John Mellencamp, Bryan Adams or Wham on the previous list…

ABBA
-Take a Chance On Me

ACDC
-Thunderstruck. I already own a clock, and I can count to 4. So I dont need to listen to ACDC.

Aerosmith
-Hangman Jury

Beatles
-Paperback Writer

Blink 182
-Dont Leave Me

Chicago
-Hard Habit To Break

Crosby, Stills & Nash (and Young)
-Teach Your Children

Dave Matthews Band
-Happy To Be Stuck With You (What? Thats Huey Lewis and The News? Sounds exactly the same to me.)

Deep Purple
-Smoke On The Water

Def Leppard
-Photograph

Depeche Mode
-People Are People

Eric Clapton
-Layla

Foo Fighters
-Dont have a favorite

Foreigner
-Juke Box Hero

Goo Goo Dolls
-Honestly cant recall any song of theirs I like.

Green Day
-Longview

Guns ‘n Roses
-Dont Damn me

Heart
-Barracuda

Jefferson Airplane / Jefferson Starship / Starship
-We Built This City (C’mon… I grew up in the 80′s)

Jimi Hendrix
-Hey Joe

Live
-LIghtning Crashes….. its the only one I know.

Metallica
-Am I Evil?

Nirvana
-Ugh! I just wish the other two would have taken Cobain’s lead.

No Doubt
-Just A Girl

Pearl Jam
-That one that bores me…. oh wait… .That was all of them

Peter Gabriel
-Sledgehammer

Pink Floyd
-Wish You Were Here

Prince
-Darling NIkki

Radiohead
-Dont know any of their songs actually.

Red Hot Chili Peppers
-True Men Dont Kill Coyotes

REO Speedwagon
-Take It On The Run

Rush
-Time Stand Still or Freewill or Tom Sawyer or 4 hours of Neil Farting…. Dude… you cant pick just one favorite Rush song.

Santana
-Black Magic Woman

Smashing Pumpkins
-Eh… Not a fan.

Smokey Robinson (And The Miracles)
-Tears Of A Clown

Steve Miller Band
-Jungle Love

Styx
-I’m OK

Sublime
-Eh…. not a fan

Supertramp
-Give A Little Bit

The Cars
-Tonight She Comes

The Clash
-Should I Stay Or Should I Go

The Cure
-Friday I’m In Love (The only Cure song my wife doesnt like :] )

The Doors
-The End or Roadhouse Blues

The Stylistics
-You Make Me Feel Brand New

The Supremes / Diana Ross
-Baby Love

The Who
-Squeeze Box or Baba Oreilly

Weezer
-Buddy Holly

ZZ Top
-La Grange