Songs For The Deaf

I've spent a long time on this. I don't mean recently.

For years I've sort of wondered what my top ten favorite songs of all time are. I guess I probably got the idea the first time I heard Santeria. I remember the exact campfire at rathtrevor in grade 10, listening to Sublime, and pondering what other nine songs could be my favorite of all time.

I think I've created the list. I come back to it every so often, and every time I leave it, it feels incomplete. Funny enough, Santeria isn't anywhere close to my top ten anymore. Maybe if I made a top ten songs I loved in high school, that would crack it, along with 311 and various flavours of the week.

So I started with a pile of great songs, and added and removed songs until it didn't feel right to take out any more. I'm left with 10 songs.

I have a tough time classifying one song higher or lower than another, outside of my top 3.

1. Go With The Flow - Queens of the Stone Age
2. Baker Street - Foo Fighters
3. Passive - A Perfect Circle

The Rest

Turn The Page - Metallica
Black - Pearl Jam
The World I Know - Collective Soul
Outside - Staind
Tied My Hands - Seether
Spaceman - Bif Naked
Crescent Moon - Cowboy Junkies

A few of these songs have different versions, and in each case I like one version much more than the other.

I guess this list is open to criticism, but I already know that this doesn't make up anyone else's top ten. I think a major criticism might be that the list lacks breadth. It doesn't span the scope of music that I listen to, and I realize that. I just like this music more than the rest. It doesn't mean I don't like other stuff.

'Don't say it doesn't matter'