best songs by band

[nqcowboy87]

bored as hell no more uni no work on saturdays, so in honour of the slow season here goes

foo fighters - everlong
silverchair - without you
cold chisel - khe sanh
van halen - dreams
kings of leon - king of the rodeo
audioslave - your time has come
grinspoon - hold on me
nickelback - how you remind me
blink 182 - dammit
metallicca - the unforgiven II
shihad - home again
red hot chilli peppers - scar tissue
incubus - wish you were here
u2 - electrical storm/city of blinding lights (couldnt split them)
korn - twisted transistor
rage against the machine - calm like a bomb
offspring - defy you
john butler trio - zebra
queens of the stone age - little sister
powderfinger - love your way
ac/dc - thunderstruck
nirvana - smells like teen spirit
coldplay - clocks
oasis - wonderwall
paul kelly - dumb things
bruce springsteen - radio nowhere

thoughts?

 

[Tonearm Terrorwrist]

Back in Black for AC/DC

 

[Nuke]

Thunderstruck or It's A Long Way To The Top would be my picks as AC/DC's best.
Queen's best is Bohemian Rhapsody (even though, as a Queen fan, it's not even my favourite Queen song!)

 

[BLKOUT!]

Foo Fighters - Next Year
Silverchair - Pure Massacre
Cold Chisel - Khe Sanh
Van Halen - N/A
Kings Of Leon - Molly's Chambers
Audioslave - Show Me How To Live
Grinspoon - N/A
Nickelback - Lol
Blink 182 - What's My Age Again
Metallica - Blackened
Shihad - N/A
RHCP - Otherside/Give It Away
Incubus - Pardon Me
U2 - With Or Without You
Korn - Got The Life
RATM - Guerilla Radio
The Offspring - All I Want/Gone Away
John Butler Trio - N/A
QOTSA - N/A
Powderfinger - My Happiness
Ac/DC - Thunderstruck
Nirvana - Heart Shaped Box
Coldplay - Parachutes
Oasis - Acquiesce
Paul Kelly - N/A
Bruce Springteen - Don't know enough of his work, loved Radio Nowhere though

 

[RedVDave]

Assuming the best songs are not necessarily the most successful, also whited the bands I don't know much about or have not heard enough of their stuff to comment on.

Foo fighters - Come Back
Silverchair - Freak
Cold chisel - khe sanh
van halen - dreams
kings of leon - king of the rodeo
Audioslave - What You Are / Shadow On The Sun / Be Yourself / I Am The Highway (bah sorry can't pick one).
grinspoon - hold on me
nickelback - how you remind me
blink 182 - dammit
Metallica - Hero Of The Day
shihad - home again
Red hot chilli peppers - Give It Away
Incubus - A Certain Shade Of Green
U2 - The Saints Are Comming
KoRn - Freak On A Leash
Rage against the machine - Killing In The Name
Offspring - Want You Bad
john butler trio - zebra
Queens of the stone age - Feel Good Hit Of The Summer
powderfinger - love your way
ac/dc - thunderstruck
Nirvana - Stay Away
coldplay - clocks
Oasis - Live Forever
paul kelly - dumb things
bruce springsteen - radio nowhere

 

[Munky]

Here we go IMO:

Aerosmith - Dream On
Alice In Chains - Man in the Box
Allan Brothers - Bue Sky
The Beards - Best Beard Out
Black Sabbath - NIB
Blue Oyster Culd - Astronomy
Bob Seger - Hollywood Nights
Bon Jovi - Lay Your Hands on Me
Boston - Foreplay/Longtime
Cheap Trick - I Want You To Want Me
Cold Chisel - Khe Sanh
Cream - White Room
Creedence - Fortunate Son
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
Deep Purple - Black Night
Dire Straits - Sultans of Swing
The Doors - Roadhouse Blues
The Eagles - Hotel California
Foreigner - Hot Blooded
Guns N Roses - Estranged
Heart - Crazy on you
Iron Maiden - Flight of Icarus
Journey - Anyway You Want It
Judas Priest - Hellion/Electric Eye
Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower (Yes I know it's a cover)
Kiss - Love Gun
Led Zeppelin - Heartbreaker
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Free Bird
Megadeth - Hangar 18
Metallica - Fade To Back
Motley Crue - Kickstart My Heart
Muse - Invincible
Offspring - Kids Aren't Alright
Ozzy Osbourne - Bark At The Moon
Pearl Jam - Black
Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
Poison - Nothin But A Good Time
The Police - Every Little Thing She Does is Magic
Queen - I Want It All
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Snow (Hey Oh)
Rush - New World Man
Scorpions - No One Like You
Simon & Garfunkel - THe Sound of Silence
Skid Row - 18 & Life
Soundgarden - Spoonman
Stone Temple Pilots - Trippin on a Hole in a Paper Heart
Tears For Fears - Mad World
Tenancious D - Kickapoo
Thin Lizzy - Whiskey in the Jar
Tom Petty - Learning to Fly
U2 - Ultra Violet (Light My Way)
Van Halen - Dreams
Whitesnake - Cryin in the Rain
The Who - The Seeker
ZZ Top - La Grange

 

[roofromoz]

Aerosmith - Livin'On The Edge
Arcade Fire - My Body Is A Cage
Ash - Shining Light
At The Drive In - Catacombs
Beastie Boys - Sabotage
The Beatles - A Day In The Life
Betchadupa - Aiming For Your Head
Birds Of Tokyo - Wild At Heart
Blur - For Tomorrow
Cake - I Will Survive
Cold Chisel - You Got Nothing I Want
Coldplay - Viva La Vida
Crowded House - Private Universe
The Darkness - I Believe In A Thing Called Love
Dire Straits - Going Home
The Doors - LA Woman
The Eagles - New Kid In Town
ELO - Turn To Stone
End Of Fashion - The Game
Eskimo Joe - Planet Earth
Everclear - Volvo Driving Soccer Mum
Evermore - Come To Nothing
Faith No More - Digging The Grave
Flight Of The Conchords - Mutha Uckas
Foo Fighters - All My Life
Franz Ferdinand - Ulysses
The Fratellis - Flathead
Garbage - Vow
Green Day - Welcome To Paradise
Guns N Roses - November Rain
The Hives - Hate To Say I Told You So
Incubus - Make Yourself
Kaiser Chiefs - I Predict A Riot
Kasabian - Shoot The Runner
The Killers - Somebody Told Me
Led Zepplin - Kashmir
Limp Bizkit - Behind Blue Eyes
The Living End - Save The Day
Lonely Island - I'm On A Boat
Metallica - One
Midnight Oil - Power And The Passion
Muse - Hysteria
NERD - She Wants To Move
Nirvana - About A Girl
No Doubt - New
The Offspring - Come Out And Play
Pearl Jam - Go
Pink Floyd - Have A Cigar
Powderfinger - All Of The Dreamers
The Prodigy - Breathe
Queen - Innuendo
Radiohead - Paranoid Android
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Sir Psycho Sexy
Regurgitator - The Song Formerly Known As
Rolling Stones - Paint It Black
Scissor Sisters - Filthy / Gorgeous
The Screaming Jets - I Need Your Love
Shihad - Sleepeater
Silverchair - Emotion Sickness
Soulwax - E Talking
Soundgarden - The Day I Tried To Live
Split Enz - One Step Ahead
Stone Temple Pilots - Plush
The Strokes - Undercover Of Darkness
Supergrass - Caught By The Fuzz
System Of A Down - Chop Suey
The Tea Party - Temptation
Travelling Wilburys - Heading For The Light
Weezer - El Scorcho
Weta - Where Have You Been
Wolfmother - New Moon Rising
You Am I - Damage
Zed - Renegade Fighter

 

[Mong]

foo fighters - All my life
silverchair - Israels son
cold chisel - None
van halen - N/A
kings of leon - No comment
audioslave - your time has come
grinspoon - Anything off guide to better living (awesome album)
nickelback - No comment
blink 182 - dammit
metallica - BATTERY !!
shihad - No comment
red hot chilli peppers - Give it Away
incubus - wish you were here
u2 - Whatever the song for the batman movie was
korn - freak
rage against the machine - Bulls on Parade
offspring - We are One
john butler trio - zebra
queens of the stone age - No comment
powderfinger - None
ac/dc - thunderstruck
nirvana - Heart Shape Box
coldplay - clocks
oasis - wonderwall
paul kelly - No comment
bruce springsteen - None

Going to listen to some old Offspring after doing that. Haven't listened for ages

 

[nqcowboy87]

Kings Of Leon - Molly's Chambers

good song my favourite four kings of leons songs are king of the rodeo, talahina sky, california waiting and mollys chambers, closers alright as well

 

[Everlovin' Antichrist]

I'm old so my list is pretty different.

Tool - 46 & 2
VAST - Touched
Tea Party - Save Me
Slade - Hear me callin'
Queen - '39
T Rex - Metal Guru
Status Quo - Down Down
Cold Chisel - Forever Now
ELO - Rockaria
The Move - Blackberry Way
Wizzard - See my Baby Jive
Led Zeppelin - Immigrant Song
Cheap Trick - Surrender
Beach Boys - God Only Knows
Deep Purple - Smoke on the Water
The Police - Every Breath You Take
The Clash - London Calling
AD/DC - It's a Long Way to the Top
Korn - ADIDAS (not a Korn fan, just like this song)
Supertramp - Dreamer
10CC - Life is a Minestrone
Beatles - Twist and Shout
Earth, Wind and Fire - September
The Turtles - Eleanor
The Kinks - Apeman
Manfred Mann - My Name is Jack
The Hollies - He Aint Heavy, he's my brother

 

[Red Bear]

QOTSA - Go with the Flow

 

[nqcowboy87]

Tea Party - Save Me
The Police - Every Breath You Take
The Clash - London Calling

my picks would be
heaven coming down
roxanne
rock the casbah

 

[Everlovin' Antichrist]

All great songs too, except Roxanne, I really don't like it for some reason.

 

[IanG]

Crowded House - Don't Dream It's Over
Kings Of Leon - Sex On Fire
Air Supply - Every Woman In The World
Nickleback - Gotta Be Somebody
Split Enz - I Got You
Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
Bryan Adams - Everything I Do (I Do It For You)

Crowded House - Private Universe

I wont argue with that one either. That and Distant Sun are my 2 favourite songs of their's

 

[Matt23]

Foo fighters - Monkey wrench
Silverchair - ana's song
Cold chisel - Flame trees
Van halen - Jump
The Clash - Guns of Brixton
Grinspoon - Black Friday
Nickelback - Side of a Bullet
Blink 182 - Josie
metallica - Master of puppets
Red hot chilli peppers - Californication/Snow
U2 - Pride/Beautiful day
Rage against the machine - Bulls on Parade
Offspring - Come out and play
John butler trio - Better then
The Rolling Stones - Paint it black
Pennywise - Bro Hymn
Green Day - Basket case/welcome to Paradise
Powderfinger - Passenger/My Happiness
Guns N' Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine
AC/DC - Back in Black
Nirvana - Heart shaped box
Pearl Jam - Alive
Alice in Chains - Would?
Paul kelly - To her door
Bruce springsteen - Glory days/The Rising
Split Enz - Message to my girl
Beastie Boys - Sabotage/No sleep till Brooklyn
Def Leppard - Rocket

 

[Bazal]

From the original list (the ones that I listen(ed) to enough anyway)

foo fighters - Stacked Actors
silverchair - Ana's Song
cold chisel - When the War is Over
grinspoon - Lost Control
metallicca - Enter Sandman
shihad - The General Electric
red hot chilli peppers - Otherside
incubus - Nice to Know You
offspring - Gone Away
queens of the stone age - Go With the Flow
powderfinger - My Happiness

 

[RedVDave]

Might as well add on with my own list as well:

Hed PE - Bartender
A Perfect Circle - Thinking Of You
Alice In Chains - Rooster
Anthrax - Black Lodge
Avenged Sevenfold - Almost Easy
bad Religion - new dark ages
Billy Talent - Try Honesty
Chris Cornell - Pillow Of Your Bones
electric six - Danger (High Voltage)
faith no more - midlife crisis
Filter - Hey man nice shot
Fozzy - Broken soul
Frenzal Rhomb - Russell Crowe's Band
hater - who should I kill?
Helmet - Unsung
Hole - Plump
Jane's Addiction - 3 Days
Jerk - Deception 101
Joe Satriani - Devil's Slide
Kiss - I walk alone
Kyuss - green machine
Lagwagon - making friends
less than jake - all my best friends are metalheads
linkin park - one step closer
me first and gimme gimmes - I believe I can fly
Mudhoney - Suck You Dry
Muse - Bliss
nine inch nails - Starf--kers Inc.
NOFX - Franco Un-American
One day as a lion - wild international
papa roach - last resort
Pearl Jam - do the evolution
Pennywise - f--k authority
Placebo - song to say goodbye
primus - electric uncle sam
Radiohead - talk show host
Rancid - maxwell murder
rise against - like the angel
rob zombie - dragula
Serj tankian - empty walls
sevendust - enemy
smashing pumpkins - today
sonic youth - kool thing
Soungarden - Burden In My Hand
Staind - mudshovel
Stone Sour - Through Glass
STP - Plush
SOAD - Toxicity
temple of the day - say hello 2 heaven
dandy warhols - bohemian like you
distillers - the hunger
Hives - hate to say I told you so
Melvins - sweet willy rollbar
Strokes - new york city cops
Vines - black dragon
White Stripes - fell in love with a girl
Tool - Eulogy
Velvet revolver - big machine
white zombie - more human than human
zwan - honestly
ZZ Top - La Grange

 

[Red Bear]

Private Universe is an awesome song

lol Rock the Casbah. Best song by the Clash is Complete Control or Guns of Brixton

Might do one with my list in a couple of days, post-exams

 

[Apey]

of the bands i don't mind/actually know several of their songs

cold chisel - flame trees
audioslave - like a stone
metallica - enter sandman
red hot chilli peppers - this velvet glove (favourite band, could pick about 8)
u2 - pride (in the name of love)
john butler trio - good excuse/better than
pearl jam - given to fly (2nd fav band, really hard to choose)
powderfinger - my happiness
ac/dc - long way to the top (don't listen to these guys enough)
nirvana - smells like teen spirit or heart-shaped box
oasis - wonderwall/don't look back in anger

 

[nqcowboy87]

Kings Of Leon - Sex On Fire

that my least favourite kol song with a bullet.

i forgot about pearl jam - given to fly
dire straits - brothers in arms (especially after that soo video they did with it in 2005?)