I'm compiling a list so that I can burn a cd for my car...

Nirvana - all apologies, sliver
ABBA - SOS
The Killers - Mr. Brightside (David Bowie's queen bitch upgraded?)
The Beatles - Yesterday
The Cure - Just like heaven, friday i'm in love
A-Ha - Take on me
Queen - Don't stop me now, bohemian rhapsody
Neil Young - After the gold rush, looking for a love, don't cry no tears
Rick Springfield - Jessie's girl
Cake - I will survive
The Bugles - Video killed the radio star
Michael Jackson - Smooth criminal, billie jean
David Bowie - The man who sold the world, changes
Cindi Lauper - Time after time (i'm sure there's a better version than hers)
Goldfinger - 99 Red baloons
Bon Jovi - You give love a bad name, living on a prayer
Madonna - Material Girl
U2 - With or without you
DJ Sammy - Heaven (yeah, fuck bryan adams)
Weezer - across the sea, why bother, keep fishin
The Pixies - Gigantic, here comes your man
Vonda Shepard - you belong to me (fuck you)
Don Mclean - Vincent
Marcy Playground - sex and candy
Morrissey - the more you ignore me the closer i get
REM - what's the frequency kenneth?, king of the road, strange currencies (or everybody hurts... same song, different key)
Rage against the machine - killing in the name
blind melon - no rain
white stripes - dead leaves and the dirty ground, you're pretty good lookin for a girl
the fall - spinetrak
robert miles - children
ramones - i wanna be sedated, blitzkrieg bop
beach boys- breakaway
violent femmes - blister in the sun
ours - gravity, femme fatale
buddy holly - oh boy
kansas - carry on my wayward son
rolling stones - paint it black
statler brothers - flowers on the wall
johnny cash - i walk the line, folsom prison blues
willie nelson - crazy, on the road again
john lennon - jealous guy, crippled inside
hank williams - nobody's lonesome for me
flogging molly - drunken lullabies, if i ever leave this world alive
kris christopherson - me and bobby mcgee (is there a better version of this?)
proclaimers - 500 miles
huey lewis and the news - power of love
GNR - paradise city, welcome to the jungle
modern english - melt with you
jimmy soul - if you want to be happy
geto boys - damn it feels good to be a gangsta, mind playing tricks on me
tupac - changes, hit 'em up, never call you bitch again

shit i left my list at home. well, i'll make this post anyway since i'm curious what you guys would nominate.

Greatest? Those are hardly the "greatest" songs by those respective artists.

However, as far as songs that are kick-ass, you made a decent list so far. As far as the "pop" genre goes, I'm not sure what it is exactly. I always differentiated pop from rock, but it looks like your interpretation is that rock is a subset of pop, which makes sense too.

Dschinghis Khan - Moskau

[quote="sheerheartattack"]Greatest? Those are hardly the "greatest" songs by those respective artists.

However, as far as songs that are kick-ass, you made a decent list so far. As far as the "pop" genre goes, I'm not sure what it is exactly. I always differentiated pop from rock, but it looks like your interpretation is that rock is a subset of pop, which makes sense too.[/quote]

yeah it's pretty biased... also, what do you think are better songs by each artist? i guess by pop i mean cathartic/feel good/sing along songs? at least that's what it ends up meaning to me.

LIST UPDATED LOL

Well, like Queen, their "greatest" song is probably "Bohemian Rhapsody," along with a few other iconic songs. "Don't Stop Me Now" just hasn't reached that same level of legendary status, although that says nothing about what would be best to put on a playlist.

My Sharona by The Knack is a pretty quintessential pop rock song. Oh and basically anything by Cheap Trick (esp. "I Want You To Want Me" and "Surrender").

[quote="sleepyhead"]My Sharona by The Knack is a pretty quintessential pop rock song. Oh and basically anything by Cheap Trick (esp. "I Want You To Want Me" and "Surrender").[/quote]
i always found my sharona to be kind of annoying. *shrugs* i'd putsurrender on if it weren't for guitar hero killing that song for me.. i've heard it too much.

[quote="GoldenRhino"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T6XIBIjKck
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcsVOFh-Ipo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSixvdZlT0E[/quote]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1WWTOdAqcA

i forgot about the ramones... added.

Huge props on the Cure and Morrissey on that list (though for Morrissey I might have to say Why Don't You Find Out for Yourself is a better choice). I don't get how you can make a list with Michael Jackson on it and leave Thriller off of it though. Also, for the Pixies I'd have to say either Here Comes Your Man or Wave of Mutilation over Gigantic. And for Bon Jovi, how can you forget Living on a Prayer?

[quote="Marekenshin"]Huge props on the Cure and Morrissey on that list (though for Morrissey I might have to say Why Don't You Find Out for Yourself is a better choice). I don't get how you can make a list with Michael Jackson on it and leave Thriller off of it though. Also, for the Pixies I'd have to say either Here Comes Your Man or Wave of Mutilation over Gigantic. And for Bon Jovi, how can you forget Living on a Prayer?[/quote]

thriller is all the video for me... the song is really not that great... doesn't really have the same content that smooth criminal has. on more thought, billie jean belongs on the list. here comes your man? yeah i'll do that. reminds me to add violent femmes.

living on a prayer?

that reminds me... Ours - femme fatale... and REM - king of the road

How about some Journey? Or alternatively "Oh Sherrie" by Steve Perry. Oh, and as long as there's no objections to hair metal for this list, get Animal by Def Leppard on there.

There are far too many great pop songs for this to be a realistic undertaking, but I like it anyway.

[quote="zenkalia"]I'm compiling a list so that I can burn a cd for my car...


Don Mcleon - Vincent
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If you mean Don [b]McLean, [/b], then how did you forget "American Pie"?

[quote="Marekenshin"]There are far too many great pop songs for this to be a realistic undertaking, but I like it anyway.[/quote]
yeah but if i can fill one cd (700mb/5mb per song = 140 songs?) then i'd have myself a pretty good little cd there.

[quote="A.Fish"][quote="zenkalia"]I'm compiling a list so that I can burn a cd for my car...


Don Mcleon - Vincent
[/quote]

If you mean Don [b]McLean, [/b], then how did you forget "American Pie"?[/quote]

lolololol

however, that reminds me... buddy holly.

[quote="sleepyhead"]How about some Journey? Or alternatively "Oh Sherrie" by Steve Perry. Oh, and as long as there's no objections to hair metal for this list, get Animal by Def Leppard on there.[/quote]

journey? no. kansas on the other hand...