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28 days...6 hours...42 minutes...12 seconds
I have WAY TOO MANY to name....but I will try.

Here are the first few that I can think of.

The Arcade Fire - Wake Up



Watching this video just shows how energetic they are at shows, and it shows through their music as well. They have dozens of songs that I listen to all the time. Crown of Love, Neighborhood #3, Rebellion. All great, but in choosing one, I chose this one. On a plus side, it's got David Bowie. If the songs sounds familair, but you can't place it. They did another version of it for the trailer to Where The Wild Things Are.



Nine Inch Nails - Hurt



A lot of people prefer the Cash version, and I like that version too. But I was more emotionally affected by this one. It's depressingly beautiful and real. If I were to chose only a handful of songs to throw into a vault for people light years later to find, this one would make it. This version would make it.

There are two songs from this next artist, Elliott Smith. I couldn't choose just one. Both of these songs are beautiful and emotional.

Elliott Smith - Twilight



Elliott Smith - Fond Farewell



A person I wish was around today to still give me the joy of music. I can only imagine what more he could have offered people in terms of his music. R.I.P Elliott.


Nirvana
- Where Did You Sleep Last Night



One of the best covers of all time. He sings it with so much heart.

The Smashing Pumpkins - Disarm

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I love the Smahing Pumpkins, but this is their one song that speaks volumes to me. I can listen to it on days end, never get tired.

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Otherside



To this day, my favourite Chili Peppers song. It's obvious what the song is about and it will forever be on my list of favourites.

More to come.....
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not that many of my favorite songs are on youtube, here's one of my favorite covers.

snakefinger - the model (original by kraftwerk)




and while i'm at it, none of my many favorite michael nyman tunes are on youtube.... sigh!

Bravura in the Face of Grief (original version)
An Eye for Optical Theory (original version)
The Kiss
Nose List Song
Bird Anthem
L'escargot
numerous others...

Oh well, at least... here's a live version of the wedding tango from Drowning by Numbers




Rage Against the Machine !
Freedom
Sleep Now in the Fire
Killing in the Name
Fistful of Steel
Wake Up
Maggie's Farm
Bulls on Parade
Know Your Enemy
No Shelter
Testify
Guerilla Radio
Calm Like a Bomb



Audioslave
Moth
Shadow on the Sun
Out of Exile
Like a Stone
I Am the Highway
Cochise
Gasoline



Metallica
Master of Puppets
Seek and Destroy
Ride the Lightning
Enter Sandman
The Four Horsemen



Seal
Kiss from a Rose
Waiting for You
Walk on By
Prayer for the Dying



The Killers
Tranquilized
Mr. Brightside
All of these Things that I've Done
Smile Like You Mean it
When you were Young



Reel Big Fish
The Set Up
Down in Flames
Sell Out
She's Famous Now
Kiss Me Deadly



Muse
Knights of Cydonia
Starlight
Stockholm Syndrome
Time is Running Out
Take a Bow
Hysteria




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All of New Order's Technique, but particularly:





Lou Reed - Coney Island Baby



REM - You Are The Everything



The Only Ones - Another Girl Another Planet



Kate Bush - Cloudbusting



The KLF - What Time Is Love?



The Fatima Mansions - Bertie's Brochures



Marianne Faithfull - The Ballad of Lucy Jordan



Curve - Ten Little Girls



Dexys - Geno



Scores of Nick Cave songs but today: Let Love In



I'll stop before I use up all YouTube's bandwidth.
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Now that YouTube's recovered I'll get along to the good stuff.

The Fall - Free Range



I could spend a couple of pages posting Fall songs but you'll have to make do with this and my patented Mark E Smith impression-ah.

The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony



And finally(ish): The Cult - She Sells Sanctuary




I'm a major fan of The Monkees, so I love a lot of songs by them. Unfortunately, my favorite of their songs, "Porpoise Song", isn't on Youtube -- covers are, but they're not the same. Not at all.

So I'll just show off these three:



Love Is Only Sleeping ~ The Monkees



Cuddly Toy ~ The Monkees



Saturday's Child ~ The Monkees

Michael Jackson's been getting a lot of attention lately, but I love this catchy little song by his brother, Jermaine:



Dynamite ~ Jermaine Jackson

Love this song and the music video. Corey Hart is sexy too:



Sunglasses at Night ~ Corey Hart

Of course, there's Madonna:



Bedtime Story ~ Madonna



Into The Groove* ~ Madonna

*almost any version of this song is good.

Others I like:



Der Kommissar ~ After The Fire



The Boys of Summer ~ Don Henley



One Thing ~ Finger Eleven



Savin' Me ~ Nickelback



Get Happy ~ Happy Thought Hall



Take My Time ~ Junior Senior

I'll post more later....



It's really hard to pinpoint my favorite songs in a list because there's way too many of them!

Here is a sample of my favorite songs though:

The Beatles - Strawberry Fields Forever
The Beatles - Come Together
The Beatles - Nowhere Man
The Beatles - Help
The Beatles - Happiness is a Warm Gun
The Beatles - All You Need is Love
The Beatles - Dear Prudence
Bryan Adams - Summer of '69
Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
U2 - Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
Guns 'n Roses - Don't Cry
Guns 'n Roses - Sweet Child of Mine
Cat Stevens - The Wind
Cat Stevens - The First Cut is the Deepest
Cat Stevens - Lady D'Arbanville
Cat Stevens - Father and Son
John Lennon - Isolation
John Lennon - How?
John Lennon - Woman
John Lennon - I'm Losing You
John Lennon - Hold On
John Lennon - Nobody Told Me
Michael Jackson - Billie Jean
Michael Jackson - Beat It
Michael Jackson - Man in the Mirror
Michael Jackson - Will You Be There?
Michael Jackson - Rock With You
Michael Jackson - Off The Wall
The Doors - L.A. Woman
The Doors - Roadhouse Blues
The Doors - Riders on the Storm
The Doors - Break on Through (To The Other Side)
Ben E. King - Stand By Me
Oasis - Champagne Supernova
Oasis - Supersonic
Oasis - Wonderwall
Oasis - Columbia
Oasis - Live Forever
The Temptations - My Girl
The BeeGees - How Deep Is Your Love?
REM - Nightswimming
Metallica - Unforgiven
Coldplay - Fix You
The Outfield - Your Love
The Cars - Magic
Billy Idol - Eyes Without a Face
Def Leppard - Hysteria
Def Leppard - Animal
Scorpions - Wind of Change
Green Day - Jesus of Suburbia
Green Day - When I Come Around
Green Day - Macy's Day Parade
Green Day - 21 Guns
Green Day - Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)
Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven
Led Zeppelin - Whole Lotta Love
Led Zeppelin - Ramble On
Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
Tears for Fears - Everybody Wants to Rule the World
Kid Rock - Only God Knows Why
Creed - One Last Breath
Pearl Jam - Jeremy
Pearl Jam - Black
Nirvana - Lithium
Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
Nirvana - Come As You Are
Nirvana - The Man Who Sold The World
Nirvana - All Apologies
Nirvana - Dumb
Nirvana - Something in the Way
Nirvana - Rape Me
Puddle of Mudd - She Hates Me
Puddle of Mudd - Blurry
The Dandy Warhols - Get Off
Foo Fighters - Best Of You
Foo Fighters - Let it Die

The list is neverending



The amazing Dave Grohl performing Foo Fighters' hit, and one of my all-time favorite songs, Best of You on acoustic guitar. You can feel the raw emotions and pain in Dave's voice! This is a stunning performance!

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The Boys of Summer ~ Don Henley
Is AOR an accepted term with people who care about music? Anyway, if I was making a list of my favourite AOR songs, Boys of Summer would be in the top two.

The list only contains two songs, by the way, and the other one is this:



Mullet-tastic!