Top 25 Songs

I engaged in this exercise last year, but I never felt like I really sat down and fulfilled my list to my satisfaction. So, in an effort to further procrastinate, I revised the following list to my current mood. Below are the 25 songs that I would chose if I could only listen to them for the rest of my life. I suppose you could call it my top 25. In order to narrow my list down I limited myself to one song per band/composer--at times that was the most difficult part of the process. Also, they are arranged with being played in mind, not necessarily in order of preference. The first disc would break after the 1812 Overture and the second disc would start at More Than a Feeling. I invite everyone to who hasn’t done this to do so; it’s fun and surprisingly difficult.

1. Don’t Stop Believing’ -- Journey
2. If I Could Turn Back Time -- Cher
3. Drift Away -- Dobie Gray
4. Jupiter from The Planets -- Holst
5. Battle Hymn of the Republic -- Mormon Tabernacle Choir
6. Bohemian Rhapsody -- Queen
7. Pennies from Heaven -- Louis Armstrong
8. Mack the Knife -- Bobby Darin
9. I Want You Back -- Jackson 5
10. Dare -- Stan Bush
11. Hysteria -- Muse
12. 1812 Overture -- Tchaikovsky
13. More Than A Feeling -- Boston
14. Jurassic Park (Theme) -- John Williams
15. Lightning Crashes -- Live
16. Man in the Mirror -- Michael Jackson
17. Defying Gravity -- Wicked
18. Joshua -- Dolly Parton
19. Life is a Highway -- Tom Cochrane
20. Mamma Was A Looker -- Garth Brooks
21. Elvira -- The Oak Ridge Boys
22. Suspicious Minds -- Elvis
23. I’m Shipping Up To Boston -- Drop Kick Murphy’s
24. Sweet Child O’ Mine -- Guns ‘N Roses
25. William Tell Overture -- Rossini