-The Best Songs Per Genre-

Hey guys, havn't used these forums in a while. Been listening to a lot of music lately, and i'm curious about the top songs on your playlists (also, i can download some songs posted in the future ).

well here are my top picks per group (going Title- band):

Pop

Keep Em Seperated- The Offspring
No Fear- The Rasmus
Sail Away- The Rasmus


Rock

It's My Life- Bon Jovi
Anna Molly- Incubus
The Kids Aren't Alright- The Offspring
Chapter Four- Avenged Sevenfold



Rock (70's and 80's)

Aces High- Iron Maiden
Bees Gees- Stayin Alive



Hip Hop & Rap

Tout Le Monde Debout- Neg'Marrons (pardon my french)
Mockingbird- Eminem
Till I Collapse (Remix)- Eminem & 50 Cent


Classical & Beautiful

Your Hand In Mine- Explosions in the sky ( Strongly Strongly recommended)
Now We Are Free- Hans Zimmer Gladiator soundtrack
9 Crimes- Damien Rice (This ones pretty good too if youre in a quiet mood)


Metal and Songs for pumping you up

Next In Line- Children of Bodom
Right Side of the Bed- Atreyu
Praise you in this storm- Casting Crowns (No screamin =])



Modern Classics

Hurt- Johnny Cash
Kryptonite- 3 Doors Down


Feelin A Little bit Maverick

The Final View- Nujabes


I'm a lot more eager to hear about your guys's than about sharing mine..so dont be shy and share, my iPod needs some serious stuffing and there are many unhead of songs that will definitely be good=].

Hard Rock:
Van Halen - Dance the Night Away
ACDC - Who Made Who

Classic Rock:
Kansas - Carry on Wayward Son
Styx - Too Much Time on My Hands

Country:
Eagles - Peaceful Easy Feeling

Jamming:
Joan Jett - I Love Rock and Roll
Joe Walsh - Life's Been Good
Nightranger - Rock in America

WTF:
Cake - You Turn the Screws

Okay, try these:

Angry:
Korn - Coming Undone
My Chemical Romance - Welcome to the Black Parade
30 Seconds to Mars - The Kill

Mellow:
The Fray - How to Save a Life
Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars
Modest Mouse - Float On

Funny:
Weird Al Yankovic - White and Nerdy

WTF:
Cake - You Turn the Screws

Remember: Sheep go to Heaven, goats go to Hell

Parody/Satire:

David Watts - The Kinks
Lola - The Kinks

Hard Rock:

You Really Got Me - The Kinks
White Room - Cream

Pop:
Love Me Do - The Beatles
From Me To You - The Beatles
You've Got To Hide Your Love Away - The Beatles

Blues-rock:

Can't Find My Way Home - Blind Faith
Had To Cry Today - Blind Faith
Keep On Growing - Derek and the Dominos

Psychedelic rock:

Tales Of Brave Ulysses - Cream
Voodoo Child (Slight Return) - Jimi Hendrix Experience
Waiting For The Sun - The Doors (though quite frankly, all of their songs are pretty damn good)

uhhhh.... well here's my list...

Pop
pick a beatles song , any beatles song, they were the kings, but I'll have to go with:

Here comes the sun
something
hello goodbye

Rock
the beatles were rockers too see:

Revolution- The Beatles(John Lennon)
Layla- Eric Clapton
Fire- Jimi Hendrix
Get Back- The Beatles(McCartney)

Well, these are currently the most listened to tracks in my i!tunes music library.

Blues:
Before You Accuse Me - Eric Clapton
Have You Ever Loved A Woman? - Derek & The Domino's
The Thrill Is Gone - B.B King
Baby Please Don't Go - Muddy Waters


Pop:
Change The World - Eric Clapton
Hold My Hand - Hootie & The Blowfish
Let It Be - The Beatles

Classic Rock:
Crossroads - Cream
Free Ride - Edgar Winter Group
While My Guitar Gently Weeps - George Harrison & Eric Clapton (Live In Japan)

Psychadelia:
Friend Of The Devil - Grateful Dead
White Room - Cream
The Music Never Stopped - Grateful Dead

Americana/Folk:
Pink Houses - John Mellencamp
Sunshine - Jonathon Edwards
Like A Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan
R.O.C.K In The U.S.A - John Mellencamp

yeah, not very varied.... but some of those songs i've listened to non-stop, so it really doesn't show my musical tastes in the full light.

Pop-ish
Muse-bliss

Rave/dance
Prodigy-Smack my ***** up (video was quite nice too )
Prodigy-Voodoo people

Heavy
Vermillion-Slipknot
Eyeless-Slipknot

Psychedelic
The End-The Doors

Psychedel-ish
Tool-46 & 2
Tool-Vicarious

I also like Rapture by Hurt, but have no idea where to put it. In the 'Good' section I would imagine.

Originally Posted by unibrowzerzar

Mockingbird- Eminem
Till I Collapse (Remix)- Eminem & 50 Cent

Please... If you listen to Eminem listen to his early catalogue.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a7KR4xYjH4

Rap:

Beatnuts - Off the books
Nas - I can/The World Is Yours
Mos Def feat. Talib Kweli - Definition

Acoustic:

Jack Johnson - Banana Pancakes
Men at Work - Overkill
Scrubs soundrtrack (I'm no Superman)

Rock:

Beatles - Here Comes the Sun
Tenacious D - God, most if not ALL of their songs
Jet - Be My Girl

-Metal-

Metallica-Master of Puppets
Iron maiden-Rhyme of the ancient mariner
Slayer-Reign in blood

Heavy Metal:
Metallica - master of puppets.
Megadeth - Hanger 18.
Slayer - Seasons In The Abyss.

ballads:
Led Zeppelin - stairway to heaven.
the eagles - hotel california
Metallica - Fade To Black.

prog:
Pink Floyd - Comfortably numb
pink floyd - money
Dream Theater - metropolis part 1

hard rock:
AC/DC - hell's bells
ozzy osbourne - crazy train

pop:
No doubt - don't speak
aerosmith - dream on (awesome!)

grunge:
nirvana - smells like teen spirit
pearl jam - alive
soundgarden - black hole sun

funk:
red hot chili peppers - give it away
megadeth - rust in peace (not funk, but damn funky!)

Metal
Iron Maiden -- Alexander the Great (Their most underrated song IMO)
Metallica -- Enter Sandman
Opeth -- Demon of the Fall

Prog/Prog Metal
Dream Theater -- A Change of Seasons
King Crimson -- In the Court of the Crimson King
King Crimson -- Starless
Van Der Graaf Generator -- Killer
Ayreon -- Isolation

Punk/Post-Punk
Bad Religion -- You
Misfits -- Hotel Babylon
Joy Division -– Atmosphere

Classic Rock:

Kashmir - Led Zeppelin
Won't Get Fooled Aagain - the Who
Sympathy for the Devil - Rolling Stones
Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd

Modern Rock:

Cigarettes and Alcohol - Oasis
Stockhom Syndrome/Hysteria - Muse

Pop (all by the Beatles)
The Ballad of John and Yoko
I am the Walrus
Norwegian Wood

Rock
Speak to me, Breathe - Pink Floyd
Stairway to heaven - Led Zep
Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd
Whiskey in the Jar - Thin Lizzy

Funk
Deeper Underground - Jamiroquai
Canned Heat - Jamiroquai
Cosmic Girl - Jamiroquai
Feels just like it Should - Jamiroquai

Other
Brim Full of Asha - Cornershop
Build me up Buttercup - The Goops
Bohemian like you - Dandy Warhols

It's going to be difficult to limit the size of my list . . .

Punk (includes pop-punk and folk-punk):
"I Want to Conquer the World" -- Bad Religion
"Social Suicide" -- Bad Religion
"Operation Rescue" -- Bad Religion
"Supersonic" -- Bad Religion
"The Gold Song" -- The Bouncing Souls
"Better Things" -- The Bouncing Souls
"To the World" -- Strike Anywhere
"Infrared" -- Strike Anywhere
"Nods to Nothing" -- None More Black
"Showdown" -- Propagandhi
"Head? Chest? Foot?" -- Propagandhi
" ...And We Thought Nation-States Were a Bad Idea" -- Propagandhi
"Please Be Here" -- The Loved Ones
"Player Hater Anthem" -- The Loved Ones
"Static" -- Good Riddance
"Radio" -- Alkaline Trio
"Trucks and Trains" -- Alkaline Trio
"This Could Be Love" -- Alkaline Trio
"Bleeder" -- Alkaline Trio
"Lost in the Supermarket" -- The Clash
"Clampdown" -- The Clash
"Train in Vain" -- The Clash
"Sink, Florida, Sink" -- Against Me!
"Walking Is Still Honest" -- Against Me!
"Baby, I'm an Anarchist!" -- Against Me!
"Chutes and Ladders" -- Gray Matter
"Caffeine Blues" -- Gray Matter
"I've Just Seen a Face" -- Gray Matter
"The New World Order" -- Defiance, Ohio
"All Lies" -- NoMeansNo
"The Valley of the Blind" -- NoMeansNo
"Rags and Bones" -- NoMeansNo
"Slow Math" -- Crime In Stereo
"Wayfarer" -- Hot Water Music
"All Heads Down" -- HWM
"This Is What I Want" -- This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb
"Give the Anarchist a Cigarette" -- Chumbawamba
"Laughter in a Time of War" -- Chumbawamba
"Rappoport's Testament: I Never Gave Up" -- Chumbawamba
"Bankrobber" -- The Clash
"Tobacco Island" -- Flogging Molly
"Within a Mile of Home" -- Flogging Molly
"I Believe You, but My Tommy Gun Don't" -- Brand New
"Promises" -- Fugazi
"Long Division" -- Fugazi
"I Hear You Calling" -- Gob
"To Be Someone (Didn't We Have a Nice Time)" -- The Jam
"Town Called Malice" -- The Jam
"Ghosts" -- The Jam
"You're My Miss Washington, D.C." -- Nation of Ulysses
"The Way I Feel About You" -- The (International) Noise Conspiracy
"A New Language" -- The (International) Noise Conspiracy
"Voices of Violence" -- Billy Talent
"Values Here" -- Dag Nasty

Hardcore/Emo(tional Hardcore)/Post-Hardcore:
"Nicaragua" -- Paint It Black
"Atheists in Foxholes" -- Paint It Black
"Cheap Shot Youth Anthem" -- Kid Dynamite
"Stars and Stripes of Corruption" -- Dead Kennedys
"California Uber Alles" -- DK
"Holiday in Cambodia" -- DK
"Your Emotions" -- DK
"Rise Above" -- Black Flag
"Hidden Wheel" -- Rites of Spring
"Spoke" -- Embrace
"For Want of" -- Rites of Spring
"Persistent Vision" -- Rites of Spring
"In My Eyes" -- Minor Threat
"Seeing Red" -- Minor Threat
"So Long... And Thanks for the Crutches" -- boysetsfire
"Nostalgic for Guillotines" -- boysetsfire
"Full Color Guilt" -- boysetsfire
"After the Eulogy" -- boysetsfire
"Final Communique" -- boysetsfire
"500 Channels" -- Choking Victim
"Hate Yer State" -- Choking Victim
"Crack Rock Steady" -- Choking Victim

Indie:
"Timorous Me" -- Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
"Walking to Do" -- Ted Leo+Pharmacists
"2nd Ave., 11 AM" -- Ted Leo and the Rx
"Bleeding Powers" -- Ted Leo+Rx
"Hearts of Oak" -- Ted Leo/Rx
"Stove by a Whale" -- TL/Rx
"Left and Leaving" -- The Weakerthans
"A New Name for Everything" -- The Weakerthans
"Wellington's Wednesdays" -- The Weakerthans
"Know Your Onion!" -- The Shins
"Turn a Square" -- The Shins
"16 Military Wives" -- The Decemberists
"Yankee Bayonet (I Will Be Home Then)" -- The Decemberists
"Please" -- The Apples In Stereo
"That's Something I Do" -- The Apples In Stereo
"Bukowski" -- Modest Mouse
"Theme for a Pharmacist" -- Chisel
"The Town Crusher" -- Chisel
"An Amateur Thief" -- Chisel

Alternative Rock (includes some post-punk, some prog-rock, and some stuff that just can't really be classified):
"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite" -- R.E.M.
"Man on the Moon" -- R.E.M.
"Ignoreland" -- R.E.M.
"Nightswimming" -- R.E.M.
"Exhuming McCarthy" -- R.E.M.
"The One I Love" -- R.E.M.
"My Name Is Ozymandias" -- Gatsbys American Dream
"The Hunter" -- Gatsbys American Dream
"The White Mountains" -- Gatsbys American Dream
"Louisiana" -- The Walkmen
"Tenleytown" -- The Walkmen
"Emma, Get Me a Lemon" -- The Walkmen
"When the Line Goes Down" -- Q and Not U
"X-Polynation" -- Q and Not U
"Beautiful Beats" -- Q and Not U
"Hooray for Humans" -- Q and Not U
"Everybody Ruins" -- Q and Not U
"It's a Disaster" -- OK Go

Ska/Anything else with horns, because I'm lazy:
"Rudie Can't Fail" -- The Clash
"Only Anarchists Are Pretty" -- World/Inferno Friendship Society
"Annie the Imaginary Lawyer" -- World/Inferno Friendship Society
"Your Younger Man" -- World/Inferno Friendship Society
"Islands" -- The Suicide Machines
"New Girl" -- The Suicide Machines
"Fiend in Wein" -- World/Inferno Friendship Society
"Weird Beard" -- Mad Caddies
"Easy Cheese" -- Mad Caddies
"No Hope" -- Mad Caddies

Pop?/Mainstream whatever/Other:
"(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace Love and Understanding?" -- Elvis Costello
"Oliver's Army" -- Elvis Costello
"Waiting for the End of the World" -- Elvis Costello
"(I Don't Want to Go to) Chelsea" -- Elvis Costello
"Alison" -- Elvis Costello
"I'm Not Angry" -- Elvis Costello
"Mystery Dance" -- Elvis Costello
"With God on Our Side" -- Bob Dylan
"For What It's Worth" -- Buffalo Springfield
"The Times They Are A-Changin'" -- Bob Dylan
"Subterranean Homesick Blues" -- Bob Dylan
"The Wind Cries Mary" -- Jimi Hendrix

Rap:
"Makeshift Patriot" -- Sage Francis
"Sun Vs. Moon" -- Sage Francis
"Slow Down Gandhi" -- Sage Francis

Okay, I think that's it.

"(I Don't Want to Go to) Chelsea" -- Elvis Costello

A great one. So are the other Costello's, for that matter.