My 100 Favourite Songs - Part 5: The Top Twenty

 ⭐ It's Top 20 time! ⭐

Welcome to the final part of My 100 Favourite Songs - it was so difficult to decide on my Top 20.  Some I thought were in it turned out not to be when I listened to them again, and vice versa.  I've also managed to narrow down my Top 10 - I would have liked to do a proper top twenty countdown but the order would have changed from week to week.  

I hope you have enjoyed listening to some of my favourites, and perhaps they've brought back some memories of your own, too.

Enjoy!

Part 1 HERE

Part 2 HERE

Part 3 HERE

Part 4 HERE

Street Fighting Man - The Stones (1968)

  Chiquita - Aerosmith (1979)

Blowin' Free - Wishbone Ash (1972)

 Public Image- Public Image Ltd (1978)

Fortunate Son - Creedence Clearwater Revival (1969)

Heroes - David Bowie (1977)

Wait Until Tomorrow - Jimi Hendrix (1967)

This was the best I could find - stacks of cover versions on YouTube; this was the only actual one with Hendrix singing!

Sweet Home Alabama  by Lynyrd Skynyrd (1974)

Found A Job - Talking Heads (1978)

I remember having this album on a lot when my then-boyfriend bought it, and I kept thinking, oh, there's that really good one again, before I worked out which one it was. You know how certain tracks kind of steal into your brain almost before you know you love them.

Movin' Out - Aerosmith (1973)

⭐ The Top Ten ⭐

In no particular order....  

Freebird - Lynyrd Skynyrd (1973)

Was my number one favourite song for ages - still love the musical outro soo-oo much.

Family Affair - Sly and the Family Stone (1971)

(I'm A) Road Runner - Junior Walker & The AllStars (1966)

My Old School - Steely Dan (1973)

Civilian - Wye Oak (2011)

I discovered this beautiful song when it was featured on The Walking Dead; I like this acoustic version of it best. I never tire of listening to it.  Walking Dead  below!

Hangman Jury - Aerosmith (1987)

One Way Street - Aerosmith (1973)

How do you pick your favourite song from your favourite band?  It's a toss up between this and Hangman Jury.  This was from a set they did on the MTV Unplugged series in about 1989.  Hangman Jury featured too, but I couldn't find a decent video of it.

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 Gimme Shelter - The Stones (1969)

Just a shot away...

No one Came - Deep Purple (1971)

Just brilliant.  The instrumental bits are sublime. 

Black Water - The Doobie Brothers (1974)

If I had to choose one favourite song ever, it would probably be this one.  Loved it since I bought the album in the late 70s.  I'd like to live in it.  That violin.  

My 100 Favourite Songs - Part 4

Part 4 of my Top 100 Favourite Songs, the first 80 of which are in no particular order.  

I didn't intend for this to be about my own memories, just the songs themselves, but a few have crept in here!  Hope that works okay - enjoy!

Part 1 HERE

Part 2 HERE

Part 3 HERE

Part 5 (top 20) HERE

 Jealous Again - The Black Crowes (1990)

Seen them a few times ... Donington 1991 and Glastonbury 1993 stand out.  Below video: me at each one!!  

Simone, on the right in the Glastonbury picture, was Italian, and pronounced them 'The Black Crow-ez' , i.e. as two syllables, with the 'Crow' bit to rhyme with 'vow'.  Don't know why that popped into my head!

Just Like Paradise - David Lee Roth (1988)

My sister, when we were on the way to see DLR at Wembley, on March 1st 1991 (St David's Day!!).  These days, our tube journeys are somewhat less rock 'n' roll.

Take Me In Your Arms (Rock Me A Little While)

- The Doobie Brothers (1975)

Reminds me of a pub called The County Tavern in Northampton.  Was a good rocker/biker pub.  It's now a soulless place with varnished floorboards and menus on the tables, of course.

 Trampled Under Foot ~ Led Zeppelin (1975)

 Tired of Being Alone - Al Green (1971)

  I'm Not The Man I Used To Be - Fine Young Cannibals (1989)

When I bought this I was living with a friend who loved it too; that was in the days of vinyl singles, and we used to have it on repeat.

Might Just Take Your Life - Deep Purple (1974)

Skewiff (Mend The Fuse) - The Faces (1973)

One day the 14 year old me decided to play the B side of 'Cindy Incidentally', and was blown away.

Tumbling Dice - The Stones (1972)

Get up (I feel like being a) sex machine~  James Brown (1970)

 Free and Easy - The Almighty (1991)

Reminds me of the Lupus Club, a biker hangout in an old warehouse in Northampton.  It didn't have a licence, so there was a notice up saying that all drinks were gratis but you could donate a pound per beer to the club for expenses.  Awesome place, had some good bands on and it was open until everyone had gone home (in the days before 24 hour opening).  

The whole area was razed to the ground in the early noughties, including the winding cobbled streets behind, and now boasts a car park and lots of nasty shops like Aldi.  

Not so much 'Everything's so free and easy.  Everything's so free and wild'.  More 'Everything's so safe and neutral.  Everything's so cloned and bland'.  Kind of sums up the second half of the 20th Century versus the 21st.

The Tears of a Clown - Smokey Robinson and The Miracles (1967)

 8 Ball - Underworld (1998)

I particularly love 4.30 onwards - so beautiful

Cloudbusting - Kate Bush (1985)

Warszawa - David Bowie (1977)

Run Run Run - Jo Jo Gunne (1972)

 Pretzel Logic - Steely Dan (1974)

Seagull - Bad Company (1974)

Summer Breeze - The Isley Brothers (1974)

Was there ever such a summery summer record?

Join Together- The Who (1972)

Never was a Who fan, but I love this.