If I were to ever do the list again, I feel this song would be added. I heard it for the first time this week and I have listened to it a billion times.



(It is You Won't Know by Brand New when Youtube eventually screws up my link.)

And so it is in one place, here it is from 1 down to 100.

Don't Dream It's Over - Crowded House
Everytime You Go Away - Hall & Oates
Fall At Your Feet - Crowded House
Wait For Me - Hall & Oates
Shimmer - Fuel
Passover - Joy Division
The Suffering - Coheed and Cambria
The Letter - Acceptance
South Side of the Sky - Yes
A Favor House Atlantic - Coheed and Cambria
Walk on Water or Drown - Mayday Parade
It's Late - Queen
Little Red Corvette - Prince
Drive - The Cars
Delusional - Saves the Day
Waiting - Mae
Art of Heartbreak - Hall & Oates
Fire Inside (feat Greta Svabo Bech) - Gemini (Mr FijiWiji Remix)
Take Cover - Acceptance
I Can Barely Breathe - Manchester Orchestra
A Premonition - Katatonia
Sucked Out - Superdrag
Debaser - Pixies
So Many Ways - New Found Glory
Locked Out - Crowded House
Love Song - Tesla
To Be With You - Mr. Big
Glory/Us - Acceptance
Posture Photo 8 Counts Are Better - Bakelite
O'Bleek - FenixTx
Henry Krinkle - Stay (Fabian Mazur Remix)
The March of the Black Queen - Queen
Private Universe - Crowded House
Wait - Adventure Club
Watching You - Ether
Fast Car - Tracy Chapman
Silent Sun I - Brokenkites
Edge of Seventeen - Stevie Nicks
Space - Something Corporate
It's Tricky - Run DMC
Love Will Find a Way - Yes
Phoebe Cates - FenixTx
Owner of a Lonely Heart - Yes
Diseases of Yore - MC Frontalot & Jonathan Coulton
Straw Dog - Something Corporate
Do The Vampire - Superdrag
Spirit of Radio - Rush
Method Function - Bachelor Machines (Beatloaf Remix)
When I Come Around - Green Day
Don't Stop Believin' - Journey
Your Love - Outfield
Honestly - Cartel
You Say - Vertical Horizon
Naked - Goo Goo Dolls
Gypsy - Fleetwood Mac
Treasures - The Rocket Summer
Eyesore - New Found Glory
Distant Sun - Crowded House
Take on Me - a-ha
Nevermore - Queen
Empty Garden (Hey, Hey Johnny) - Elton John
Two Princes - Spin Doctors
Dancing Through Sunday - AFI
You Can Do Magic - America
This Conversation Is Over - Acceptance
Hook - Blues Traveler
Want You Bad - Offspring
I Ain't Gonna Take it This Time - Hall & Oates
The Difference (Calming Down) - Mystic Crock
Did It In a Minute - Hall & Oates
I Was a Fool - Tegan & Sara
Dreamtime - Daryl Hall
Chocolate - The 1975
FRNKNSTYN - Notion
Out of Touch - Hall & Oates
Medicated - National Product
Come Sail Away - Styx
Our Song - The Spill Canvas
Goodbye Yellowbrick Road - Elton John
Everybody Wants to Rule the World - Tears for Fears
I'm in Pieces - Hall & Oates
Wintertime - Steve Miller Band
Let Me Go - 3 Doors Down
Africa - Toto
Freak of the Week - Marvelous 3
Tempter - June
Retro City - Adventure Club
Eye in the Sky - Alan Parsons Project
Within Our Reach - CMA
Company Calls Epilogue - Death Cab for Cutie
The Warrior - Scandal
You Shook Me All Night Long - AC/DC
Have You Ever Seen the Rain - CCR
Be Calm - fun.
Fall - Something Corporate
You're My Best Friend - Queen
Into My Arms - Mylo
An Apology - LeMMino featuring Veela
The Show Must Go On - Queen
We Are the World - USA for Africa

MAYS LETS HAVE EM!!

Post-mortem notes:

- Part of the reason why it took so long as it is depressing to know that the Youtube links got fucked up by going to phpBB3 and it's depressing to know just how often videos get deleted from Youtube. I reallly, honestly feel like I am the only person left that gives a crap about links staying the same during my lifetime on the Internet.

- Unlike my list of games which I futz with all the time, there were definitely songs I had just forgotten about. Part of this is not being in the habit of running to Google Spreadsheets every time a song comes on.

- I can't believe how much this hung over my head. I know my next four projects - Cyberganked, finish the game I started with Mike Sousa, Beaver album and Cryptozookeeper 2. I feel reborn in this thing being complete, and I am AWARE that it is the lowest-ranking project of them all that nobody except myself cared about.

- When I was a kid, maybe 10 years old, I would write out all the pop songs of the day, from 1 to 100 and try to guess their order for Casey Kasem's show that weekend. I would tape them to my wall. You remember stuff like that and it's amazing I'm not bouncing my head against the properly-textured walls in a straightjacket in a mental institution for the criminally autist.

Why would you think otherwise? Let's have 'em.

I largely agree with your criticisms here, that is why I am hoping you give me the go-ahead to create my actual top 100 songs list.

Billy Mays wrote: Thu Nov 08, 2018 1:27 pm This list was like a turd that won't flush, no offense.

Why would I take offense at the comparison of a two-year project finally completing to an unflushed turd?

The important thing is that we know where we stand - you saw the idea and shat out possibly the most cringeworthy collection of tinnitus-inducing horseshit the world has ever seen. You thought you could post with the big boys but you couldn't, you were humiliated and we make fun of you to this day for your inability to put a plan together and execute it. Your taste in music may be the most immature of anyone currently on the Internet and when you do pop in with comments, it's along the lines of how "Roy Orbison was the greatest vocalist of all-time."

No offense!!

This list was like a turd that won't flush, no offense.

Jail. Also hail.

That's probably why. What's to discuss? You like that song. Someone else doesn't. Oh well.

I will say that bringing up One Of These Days prompted me to get seriously into the Meddle album, which had the following effects:

1. It's now my second-favorite Floyd album, behind Animals.
2. It reinforced my opinion that Andrew Lloyd Weber is a fucking plagiarizing hack, and should be in hail.

Jizaboz wrote: Tue Nov 06, 2018 11:58 pm I’ve watched this thread biting my tongue at some entries but yes sir.. good job.

This fascinates me. Many others have made vague comments - why? Is this not a place where we can bust on each other? You're not going to offend me. The whole thing about ranking songs fascinates me and I'd like to describe what I learned:

- I have a limited vocabulary to discuss (over the Internet) why I think a song is good or bad.
- Nothing will ever, ever change someone's mind on a song, whereas with a game I can be told I am missing an instruction or control or something
- It is easy to dismiss a list because the first few songs are not one a person likes and then assume the rest are like that

I dunno. If I were finishing things regularly I'd hit the top 100 games up again after ten more years of games, but I have three things I gotta do first. But I think it's safe the music threads did not generate as much discussion and personal attacks as the game ones have.

I’ve watched this thread biting my tongue at some entries but yes sir.. good job.

I tease my GF with #1 on your list every time she crosses the line. “Hey now HEY NOW” then “The dreeeeam is overr” in an extremely annoying tone haha

Thanks, fellas.

The important thing to remember is that this counts as a "project finished." It may be the only thing I finish this year, but dammit, it's over.

Nice job.

#1 Don't Dream It's Over - Crowded House



This was the one song in this list I actually wanted played at my wedding. Our DJ did not play any of the songs we requested, which I am sure as we look back to this thread is considered a "smooth move" by most of you.

This is my favorite song in the world, I think it's the best song ever made and I probably always will.

Sing it with me.

#2 Everytime You Go Away - Daryl Hall and John Oates



There is a line in Necrotic Drift about how the protagonist and his girlfriend have initiated a break up with each other nine times and the current score is that she is leading him in breakups six to three. The essence of that was autobiographical, as most of that game is. This song isn't one that offers comfort or the blues the first time or even the second, but it eventually starts to capture the feeling of what it's like. In the end they leave, in the end they always leave and it's another example of Daryl riffing at the end.

#3 Fall at Your Feet - Crowded House



Whoa, I had no idea they made a video for this! I get to enjoy this for the first time. At this point Crowded House went from a threesome to a four piece because Neil Finn's tolder brother Tim joined. Neil Finn is the single most talented guy in music in my opinion, and when Tim Finn - who I know nothing about, except that he was one of the main creative forces in Split Enz and he seems like a lunatic with crazy eyes) joined it was awesome because Tim Finn has an edge to him. Which I will grant you is not necessarily obvious in this song.

I don't think this song is particular penetrable in meaning to people unless you are the guys that wrote it. Oh! They all come together at the end of the video. How very nice.

#4 Wait for Me (Live) - Daryl Hall and John Oates



I heard this version off their greatest hits before the studio version - the guitar soloing of G.E. Smith (I presume it's him, he was their guitarist when this came out) at the beginning takes the song to a different place. The studio record sounds limited and sedate in comparison. The live performance made it so that I definitely went out and caught them live 25 years later, but still, I did.

The last half of this song is the best vocalist in the history of the world making it up as he goes along.

#5 Shimmer - Fuel



While I imagine this is slightly tolerable if it comes on the radio for most of you, what it represents to me is that for seven years there wasn't anything new in music that I could find that I enjoyed. Nirvana hit the radio in my hometown in 1991, I think. I was not into them. I was perfectly happy living on Planet Eighties. I still don't like Pearl Jam, Jane's Addiction or Alice in Chains. I do kind of like Soundgarden (I discovered Fell on Black Days after making the list, otherwise it would be on the list) but unless you were actually loathing music for seven years when I was, I can't explain it to you.

So when Shimmer started getting play again, it was like regaining a sense. I could look forward to what was new in rock or alternative or whatever genre this is.

I love the "Oh wow wow" part at 2:45, of course. If you've made it this far I hope that was obvious.