"Its the last piece of the puzzle but you just cant make it fit..."

Well Folks, this is it. Sixty songs from three people that are identified as 20 of their favorite songs.

Now, personally I don't know that these are my twenty favorite of all time. And in fact there are some startling omissions from this list that make me a little embarrassed. For example, Howard Jones; how can you put together a list of twenty favorite songs and not include Ho Jo? But at the same time, I think I could come up with 20 songs of just people who came out in the first decade of the MTV era and have a very very comprehensive list. But, alas, I don't work for a music blog (or even more desirably a music magazine) so this is twenty of my favorite songs as I wrote the list. And as I said already I have grave regrets about it, which is why, in a couple of weeks there will be a gigantor post of my one hundred songs of all time. (Which of course is subject to change at any time).


My List
Song⎯Artist

1. Brazil⎯Australian Cotton Club Orchestra
   
2. One More Night⎯Stars
   
3. That's Really Super, Supergirl⎯XTC
   
4. The Globe⎯Big Audio Dynamite II
   
5. Goody Two Shoes⎯Adam Ant
   
6. She's an Angel⎯They Might Be Giants
   
7. Take Me I'm Yours⎯Squeeze
   
8. Let My Love Open The Door⎯Pete Townshend
   
9. Tiny Spark⎯Brendan Benson
   
10. Hey Julie⎯Fountains of Wayne
    
11. Wake Up⎯Arcade Fire
    
12. Love On a Farmboy's Wages⎯XTC
    
13. Dirty Old Town⎯The Pogues
    
14. My Shit's Fucked Up⎯Warren Zevon
    
15. Six Different Ways⎯The Cure
    
16. Bigmouth Strikes Again⎯The Smiths
    
17. 40'⎯Franz Ferdinand
    
18. All These Things That I've Done⎯The Killers
    
19. Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses⎯U2
    
20. The Girl From Ipanema⎯Stan Getz & João Gilberto
    

Josh’s List

1. Birdhouse In Your Soul—They Might Be Giants
   
2. Blister In The Sun—The Violent Femmes
   
3. When Will You Come Home⎯Galaxie 500
   
4. New Slang—The Shins
   
5. Jumping Someone Else’s Train—The Cure
   
6. Scythian Empires —Andrew Bird
   
7. Where Is My Mind?—The Pixies
   
8. A House Is Not A Motel—Yo La Tango
   
9. Love Will Tear Us Apart—Joy Division
   
10. I Deserve Someone Nice—The No-No’s
    
11. Swallowing You—Meg Lee Chin
    
12. That’s How I Escaped My Certain Fate—Mission Of Burma
    
13. Age Of Consent—New Order
    
14. Lonesome Graveyard—House Of Freaks
    
15. Paranoid Android—Radiohead
    
16. Monster Hospital (MSTRKRFT Remix)—Metric
    
17. Dark Center Of The Universe—Modest Mouse
    
18. Ever Fallen In Love?—The Buzzcocks
    
19. Southern Belle—Elliot Smith
    
20. Birdman—Ride
    

Quick editorial note on Josh's list two of the songs are available in about three hundred different versians. So for purposes of listening to them, you should note that Scythian Empires comes from the album Armchair Apocrypha and Dark Center of the Universe comes off of the Night on the Sun EP. The rest of the songs you can assume are album versions of the songs.

Elizabeth's list

1. La Mer—Charles Trenet
   
2. Got A Hold On Me—Mark Kozelek
   
3. Dinosaur—Low
   
4. Any Way—Journey 18
   
5. Girlfriend In A Coma—The Smiths
   
6. Baba O’riley—The Who
   
7. Digital Love—Daft Punk
   
8. Here Come Your Man—Pixies
   
9. I’m A Cuckoo—Belle & Sebastian
   
10. Heartbeat—Annie
    
11. Crimson & Clover—Joan Jett
    
12. You’re My Best Friend—Queen
    
13. I Believe In A Thing Called Love—The Darkness
    
14. Kiss—Prince
    
15. Ice Ice Baby—Ben Kweller
    
16. Ballad Of Easy Rider—The Byrds
    
17. Mushaboom—Feist
    
18. Love All Kinds Of
    
19. Blue—Evan Dando
    
20. No. 1 In C—Bach
    

Quick editorial note on Elizabeth's list. There were a couple of songs that she didn't list the artist for; one is La Mer, I am about ninety-nine percent certain that the version she has given me is the version by Charles Trenet (and I listed it as such) off of an album called Anthologie de la Chanson Francaise: La selection ideale. There are a lot of crazy French letters and accent marks in there so don't count on the spelling to help you out too much. There is also a song in there that she listed as "Love All Kinds of" and there the descriptions stop. So I don't know. Good Luck.

Well as promised there is the list. The cool thing about it is that I feel like I know them a little better for it.