Create a CD with your 20 favorite songs (2nd attempt)

Okay, a simple "name your twenty or so favorite songs" should be easier to deal with then my previous existential attempt. So, create a CD with your 20 favorite songs
My top 20 (it stays essentially the same as 20 songs representative of humanity).
1. Louie Armstrong - Wonderful World
2. Symphony No. 9 (Ode to Joy) - Beethoven
3. Back to Good - Matchbox 20
4. Alien - Bush
5. Canon in D Major - Pachebel (sp?)
6. Imagine - John Lennon
7. Shadowlands - Bruce Hornsby
8. Night Swimming - REM
9. The Hurricane - Bob Dylan
10. Say it Ain't So - Weezer
11. Plush - Stone Temple Pilots
12. Yellow Ledbetter - Pearl Jam
13. Walk on the Ocean - Toad the Wet Sprocket
14. Fake Plastic Trees - Radiohead
15. Blowin' in the Wind - Joan Baez
16. Jack and Diane - John Cougar Mellencamp
17. The Gambler - Kenny Rogers
18. Juicy - Notorious BIG
19. Changes - Tupac
20. Reflections - The Supremes

Wow, that was damn tough. There were a lot of AMAZING songs I had to leave off. Additionally, I'm somewhat surprised to find what a male dominated list I ended up with. While partially (and perhaps majorly) a function of the fact that they were largely excluded from the musical realm until the 50's, i'm still a bit surprised to see it come out that way.

1) One, Metallica
2) Someday I'll Be Saturday Night, Bon Jovi
3) Dante's Inferno
4) One Step Up, Bruce Springsteen
5) Hold Me Down, Tommy Lee
6) Patience, GNR
7) Friends In Low Places, Garth
8) For Whom the Bell Tolls, Metallica
9) Crazy Train, OZZY
10) Smoke Rings in the Dark, Gary Allen
11) Don't Go Away Mad, Motely Crue
12) Time for Me to Fly, REO Speedwagon
13) Hard Habit to Break, Chicago
14) Eye of the Tiger, Survivor?
15) Final Countdown, Europe
16) Run, Collective Soul
17) Until You Call on the Dark, Danzig
18) Iris, Goo Goo Dolls
19) Voodoo, Godsmack
20) Poem, Taproot

In no particular order...

Radiohead - Bulletproof
Neil Young - Like a Hurricane
Leonard Cohen - Hallelujah
Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues
The Beatles - Something
Bob Dylan - Hurricane
Andy Williams - Moon River
U2 - One
Chuck Berry - Johnny B. Goode
Roberta Flack - Killing Me Softly
The Eagles - Hotel California
Beastie Boys - No Sleep Till Brooklyn
Simon and Garfunkel - Sound of Silence
Crowded House - Don't Dream Its Over
Superstition - Stevie Wonder
Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter
The Ramones - Sheena is a Punk Rocker
REM - Drive
Derek and the Dominos - Layla
The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony

1. I'm in Heaven- Jason Nevins f. Holly
2. Dreams- Roberta Childs
3. Ecstasy- Johnny Vicious
4. One More Night- Amber
5. Where Does That Leave Us- George Lamond
6. Tom's Diner- Suzanne Vega
7. Tears May Fall- TKA
8. Temptation- Corina
9. Take Me in Your Arms- Lil Suzy
10. Clocks- Coldplay
11. Blurry- Puddle of Mudd
12. Hero of the Day- Metallica
13. Don't Tell Me- Madonna
14. Open Your Heart- Madonna
15. All Cried Out- Allure f. 112
16. I'm Missing You- Case
17. Til The End of Time- Tupac
18. Survival of the Fittest- Mobb Deep
19. Music Makes Me High- The Lost Boyz
20. Jump Around- House of Pain

1. Death Blooms - Mudvayne
2. Prod - Mudvayne
3. I Will Be Heard - Hatebreed
4. A Call For Blood - Hatebreed
5. Blind - Korn
6. Bleak - Opeth
7. Harvest - Opeth
8. One - Metallica
9. Fade to Black - Metallica
10. Love You to Death - Type O Negative
11. Love Hate Thing - Carfax Abbey
12. Would - Alice In Chains
13. Mother - Danzing
14. Rusted - Black Lable Society
15. What I always Wanted - Kittie
16. Servered - Kittie
17. Sober - Tool
18. Heritic Song - SlipKnot
19. Wait and Bleed - Slipknot
20. Solitaire Unraveling - Mushroom Head

1) "Last Caress" - Misfits
2) "On a Black Hearse Through Hell" - Witchery
3) "Speak No Evil" - Mad Sin
4) "Who Killed the Cheerleader" - Nekromantix
5) "Mother" - Danzig
6) "Raining Blood" - Slayer
7) "Big Iron" - Marty Robbins
8) "War Pigs" - Sabbath
9) "Fucking Hostile" - Pantera
10) "Rainbow in the Dark" - Ronnie James Dio
11) "Blood and Fire" - Type O Negative
12) "Devil's Dance Floor" - Flogging Molly
13) "Sick Boys" - Social D
14) "Fall Children" - AFI
15) "Freebird" - Lyryrd Skynyrd
16) "Steal Away the Night" - Ozzy
17) "More Human than Human" - White Zombie
18) "Motorbreath" - Metallica
19) "Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner" - Iron Maiden
20) "Bad Medicine" - Bon Jovi

I have too many songs that I love, and mean a lot to me, so I'll call this "20 songs that are coming to mind now, but certainly not an exhaustive list"

Radiohead - Let Down
Radiohead - High and Dry
Radiohead - How to Disappear Completely and Never be Found (the original title of the song :), for those of you that are Radiohead fans)
Smashing Pumpkins - Cherub Rock
Alice in Chains - Nutshell
Coldplay - Shiver
U2 - Last Night on Earth
White Zombie - Electric Head Part 1
A Tribe Called Quest - Date Rape
Eminem - The Way I Am
Pearl Jam - Alive
Live - Lightning Crashes
Nine Inch Nails - Wish
Sigur Ros - Track 8 off of the CD "()"
Sm:)e Mix Session 1 Track 9, "Mr. Kirk"
Tool - The Grudge
Toad the Wet Sprocket - Nightingale Song
Deftones - Digital Bath
Orbital - Halcyon (and on)
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Power of Equality

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Originally posted by kc
16) Run, Collective Soul

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That one was *extremely* difficult for me to leave off the list....it battled with "reflections" until the moment i hit the post button.