Okay!

Sade

1. Smooth Operator
2. No Ordinary Love
3. Paradise
4. Nothing Can Come Between Us
5. Hang On To Your Love
6. The Sweetest Taboo
7. It Is a Crime
8. Soldier Of Love
9. By Your Side
10. Your Love Is King

Britney Spears

1. Toxic
2. Baby One More Time
3. Oops!... I Did It Again
4. Til The World Ends
5. (You Drive Me) Crazy
6. Stronger
7. I'm a Slave For You
8. Sometimes
9. Overprotected
10. Hold It Against Me

Looks good. I'm wondering if we should include "Sabre Dance" from his band Love Sculpture. If we would count that, it would be number 2 or 3, I think. (If we can put "Different Drum" on the Linda Ronstadt list....)



"(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding" is a really hard song to place on this list. It's unquestionably the biggest song he ever wrote, and arguably the most important song of his career--certainly in the top two.

But he never really recorded it as a solo artist. It was originally released with his group Brinsley Schwartz, and if that's the version we're ranking, it's probably placed about right. The famous version was of course by Elvis Costello--but the odd thing is that it originally was released as a Lowe b-side, credited to "Nick Lowe and His Sound". So does that make it a Lowe recording? I suppose not, but it's a weird abberation.

You could also argue for the inclusion of "Teacher Teacher" by Rockpile.

These are now in:

Crests
Dave Edmunds
Nick Lowe
Sade
311
Metric
Offspring
Britney Spears
Lighthouse Family

I decided not to count the stuff they did with groups, and I saw that "What's So Funny" was released as a solo Nick Lowe single, so I assumed that counted. Are you saying that the B side release of that song is with Costello singing?

I believe so. Everything I've seen says it's the same version that later appeared on Costello's US album. If there's a Lowe solo version with him singing, I've never heard it (apart from live versions--there are a couple of those out, so maybe that qualifies).

Needs a Nick Cave list, how about this:

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

1 - The Mercy Seat
2 - Where the Wild Roses Grow
3 - Red Right Hand
4 - Into My Arms
5 - Weeping Song
6 - Stagger Lee
7 - Papa Won't Leave You Henry
8 - Tupelo
9 - Henry Lee
10 - Deanna

Collective Soul badly needs revision

Collective Soul (revision)
1. Shine
2. The World I Know
3. December
4. Precious Declaration
5. Heavy
6. Gel
7. Where the River Flows
8. Listen
9. Why Pt. 2
10. Run

some new lists for artists which do not have one yet

Silverchair
1. Tomorrow
2. Freak
3. Straight Lines
4. Ana's Song (Open Fire)
5. Pure Massacre
6. Anthem for the Year 2000
7. Israel's Son
8. The Greatest View
9. Abuse Me
10. Without You

Stereophonics
1. Dakota
2. The Bartender and the Thief
3. Handbags and Gladrags
4. Mr. Writer
5. Local Boy in the Photograph
6. Pick a Part That's New
7. Maybe Tomorrow
8. Have a Nice Day
9. Moviestar
10. Just Looking

Ash
1. Shining Light
2. Goldfinger
3. Orpheus
4. Girl From Mars
5. Wildsurf
6. Oh Yeah
7. There's a Star
8. Angel Interceptor
9. You Can't Have It All
10. Burn Baby Burn

And here are a few lists I did:

Savage Garden
1. Truly Madly Deeply
2. I Knew I Loved You
3. I Want You
4. To The Moon And Back
5. The Animal Song
6. Crash And Burn
7. Affirmation
8. Hold Me
9. The Best Thing
10. Break Me Shake Me

Ace of Base
1. All that She Wants
2. The Sign
3. Don't Turn Around
4. Beautiful Life
5. Cruel Summer
6. Lucky Love
7. Living In Danger
8. Wheel of Fortune
9. Always Have, Always Will
10. Happy Nation

Aphex Twin (revision)
1. Windowlicker
2. Digeridoo
3. Come to Daddy
4. On
5. Analogue Bubblebath 1 [as AFX]
6. Girl/Boy Song
7. Quoth [as Polygon Window]
8. Ventolin
9. Donkey Rhubarb
10. Pulsewidth

Autechre
1. Basscadet
2. Second Bad Vilbel
3. Gantz Graf
4. Flutter
5. Cavity Job
6. Eutow
7. Garbagemx36
8. Keynell 1 [as Gescom]
9. Bike
10. Fold4, Wrap5

The KLF
1. What Time is Love?
2. 3 A.M. Eternal
3. Justified & Ancient
4. Last Train to Trancentral
5. Doctorin' the Tardis [as The Timelords]
6. All You Need is Love [as The JAMs]
7. Madrugada Eterna
8. Fuck the Millennium [as 2K]
9. It's Grimm Up North [as The JAMs]
10. Kylie Said to Jason

Great job, Zach!

Thank you, Bruno. I added a list for Autechre and The KLF as well.

Good job, Zach!

Lew, please add these remaining Top 10's.

Could "Miss You Love" make part?

Newly added:

Ace of Base
Ash
Autechre
KLF
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Savage Garden
Silverchair
Stereophonics

Updated:

Aphex Twin
Collective Soul

Lupe Fiasco
1. Kick, Push
2. Superstar
3. Daydreamin'
4. The Show Goes On
5. I Gotcha
6. Paris, Tokyo
7. Hip Hop Saved My Life
8. Bitch Bad
9. Out of My Head
10. Battle Scars

Tegan and Sara
1. Walking with a Ghost
2. Back In Your Head
3. The Con
4. I Hear Noises
5. Hell
6. Speak Slow
7. Alligator
8. Northshore
9. Monday Monday Monday
10. Living Room

The Cribs
1. Moving Pictures
2. Hey Scenesters!
3. Men's Needs
4. We Share the Same Skies
5. Mirror Kissers
6. Cheat on Me
7. Come On, Be a No One
8. You Were Always the One
9. What About Me
10. Don't You Wanna Be Relevant?

Powderfinger
1. My Happiness
2. Lost and Running
3. Sunsets
4. Pick You Up
5. (Baby I've Got You) On My Mind
6. All of the Dreamers
7. Passenger
8. The Metre
9. Living Type
10. The Day You Come

Because that's a woefully old list?

I proposed a revision to this back in August. Ah, yes, here it is:

Journey (revision)

1. Don't Stop Believin'
2. Open Arms
3. Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)
4. Lights
5. Faithfully
6. Any Way You Want It
7. Wheel In The Sky
8. Lovin' Touchin' Squeezin'
9. Who's Crying Now
10. Only The Young

Not only are you quite right that "Believin'" is the clear choice for number one (and certainly WAY bigger than
"Wheel In The Sky") but not having "Lights" on the list is absurd, too.

Zach suggested moving "Lovin' Touchin' Squeezin'" up two spots, but other than that no one objected to this list. Let's nail this down and get it revised. Comments?