The 50 Songs that are the most impressive to me.

There is one quirky thing about me that anyone who follows my writing should (and probably already does) know about me.... I LOVE making lists! For some reason I feel this incessant need to constantly measure and weigh the value of multiple things in my life and assign a number to it. Maybe it satisfies some inner urge I have to create order in the chaos of life. Whatever the reason, it doesn't matter if I'm listing movies, coffee shops, cutest boys (OK maybe that was in 5th grade), or memories.... regardless of the topic, it gives me an immense feeling of completeness.

There is one list that I am never quite able to finish, and that is my songs list. Every time I begin it, I get so sidetracked by different categories and sub-categories that I can never quite say it's finished. This time, my song list has taken the tune of "The Songs that are the most impressive to me". It started out as my favorite songs of all time but that was so hard it was just never going to end, so it moved to the BEST songs of all time, but that was too intimidating and I didn't feel like enough of a music buff to call myself worthy of such a list (especially considering that my musical knowledge only spans about 30 years) so it eventually became an especially subjective list with the excluding term "impressive" attached to it. So these are not necessarily my favorite songs or the best songs, but they are songs that blow my mind! So here it is....

The 50 Songs that are the most impressive to me....

1. Yellow Ledbetter- Pearl Jam
2. Viva La Vida- Coldplay
3. Free Bird- Lynard Skynard
   
4. With or Without You- U2
5. One- Metallica
   
6. Under the Bridge- Red Hot Chili Peppers
7. Paranoid Android- Radiohead
8. Hallelujah- Jeff Buckley
9. Disarm- Smashing Pumpkins
10. Bittersweet Symphony- The Verve
11. Butterflies & Hurricanes- Muse
12. The Blowers Daughter- Damien Rice
13. Emotional Landscapes- Bjork
14. #41- Dave Matthews Band
    
15. Precious Things- Tori Amos
16. Stronger- Kanye West
    
17. Numb/Encore- Linkin Park & Jay-Z
18. Dig- Incubus
    
19. It's No Good- Depeche Mode
20. Only in Dreams- Weezer
21. Gran Turismo- The Cardigans
    
22. What I've Done- Linkin Park
23. What I've Got- Sublime
24. For What It's Worth- Buffalo Springfield
25. Brick- Ben Folds Five
26. Give it To Me- Timbaland
27. Love Reign on Me- The Who
    
28. Samson- Regina Spektor
29. Where is My Mind- The Pixies
30. Let Go- Frou Frou
31. Nothing Better- The Postal Service
32. Hey Ya- Outkast
33. Oh Jerusalem- Lauryn Hill
34. I Will Posess Your Heart- Death Cab for Cutie
35. The Sky is Over- System of a Down
    
36. Anna Begins- Counting Crows

And then there were a bunch of bands that I thought deserved way more (or maybe I'm just not widespread enough in my musical knowledge). Here are repeat bands who had a second song that deserved mention....

37. Idoteque- Radiohead
38. Clocks- Coldplay
39. Black- Pearl Jam
40. Hysteria- Muse
41. Cherub Rock- Smashing Pumpkins
42. Electric Blue- The Cranberries
43. The Stone- Dave Matthews Band
44. Simple Man- Lynard Skynard
45. It's Good to Be in Love- Frou Frou
46. Love Hurts- Incubus
47. Baba O'Riley- The Who
48. Nothing Else Matters- Metallica
49. Caught a Light Sneeze- Tori Amos
50. Sunday Bloody Sunday- The Who

P.S. If you want to hear any of these songs just look them up on youtube or some better place that has an unlimited musical selection that I'm not cool enough to know about yet.