My 100 Favourite Songs - Part 2

Welcome to Part 2 of my Top 100 Favourite Songs list.  They're divided into 5 groups of 20; the first 4 are in no particular order.

Part 1 can be seen HERE.

Part 3 HERE 

Something I found when I was compiling my Top 100 was that songs I used to number among my all-time favourites, I no longer do.  For instance, I used to adore 'The Way It Is' by Bruce Hornsby and The Range, but when I listened to it again, as I listen to them all before including them, it didn't do anything for me.  I much prefer the sampled version: 'Changes' by 2Pac, and was about to add that instead when I realised that what I was enjoying most of all was the beauty of the late lamented Tupac Shakur in the video!

But I'll stick it on here as a bonus song anyway, so you can see it too 😉.

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Back to it!

...and here is my second group of twenty, a random mix of musical types, as before!

Bohemian Like You - The Dandy Warhols (2000)

Message of Love - The Pretenders (1981)

I wavered between this and 'Brass In Pocket', but I decided that, although I played the latter about 20 times a day when it first came out, I've heard it so many times that I'm not sure I shall ever need to again.  Thus, not a Top 100!

Silver Machine - Hawkwind (1972)

One of the first singles I ever bought :)

 The Order of Death - Public Image Ltd (1984)

Dig A Pony - The Beatles (1969)

I'm not much of a Beatles fan - I appreciate how good their music is but most of it doesn't quite hit the spot for me.  Except for this.

Castles Made of Sand - Jimi Hendrix (1967)

Method Man - Wu-Tang Clan (1993)

I love how the voice of Clifford Smith Jnr, aka Method Man, just melts into the flow and the rhythm of this.

Can't You Hear Me Knocking - The Stones (1971)

(We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang - Heaven 17 (1981)

Hello Meow - Squarepusher (2006)

Hey Boy Hey Girl - The Chemical Brothers (1999)

If I had a quid for every time I've drunkenly danced to this at 2 am... not for some years now, though!

Burlesque - Family (1972)

Pure Shores - All Saints (2000)

I adored the soundtrack to the film The Beach, and used to play it over and over about 20 years ago.  

Feel The Need In Me - The Detroit Emeralds (1972)

You Wear It Well- Rod Stewart (1972)

I bought this when I was just 13, and remember playing it in the living room about 20 times on the day I got it.  Still love it now.  

Wichita Lineman- Glen Campbell (1968)

Bittersweet Symphony - The Verve (1997)

Somebody Loves Me - George Gershwin (1924)

sung by Margot Bingham on Boardwalk Empire

(yes, Margot Bingham aka Max in The Walking Dead!)

Owner of a Lonely Heart - Yes (1983)

As perfectly early 80s soft rock as Africa by Toto!

Maybe I'm Amazed - Paul McCartney (1970)