i would like to see which songs other people choose for their top ten. I may have forgotten some songs that are possibilities, so please don't bug me and say "Oh my god, you don't have such and such on your list!?!?!?". I know its hard to choose, but please post!

here are mine:
1. Jeff Davis County Blues
2. Palmcorder Yajna
3. Love Love Love
4. In the Hidden Places
5. This Year
6. Dilaudid
7. In the Craters on the Moon
8. Bluejays and Cardinals
9. Baboon
10. Home Again Garden Grove

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"Someone was losing, someone was losing something very very dear to him"

These are in no particular order (well, they're in the order I thought of them, which is roughly meaningless) because trying to pick 10 is ludicrously agonizing enough... ordering them is herculean.

Edit: Okay, I ordered them because, upon further reflection, I realized I sort of could. I just wrote down the lyrics that make my head explode and basically ranked them by which songs had more. It was a pretty accurate method, as it turns out.

1. Oceanographer's Choice
2. Weekend In Western Illinois
3. Minnesota
4. Color in Your Cheeks
5. The Young Thousands
6. It's All Here in Brownsville
7. Alphonse Mambo
8. Home Again Garden Grove
9. Chanson Du Bon Chose
10. Going to Utrecht

I also left off what I consider to be "obvious" ones -- ones that every human being with a soul ought to melt at (Baboon, Going to Georgia, No Children, Best Ever Death Metal Band, etc.)

Edit: Made an egregious omission and thus had to bump Prana Ferox. Sorry, song. You're number 11.

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Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 07/18/2008 03:32PM by Here is no why.

hard. impossible. i'm just goin off the top of my head.

1. best ever death metal band in denton
2. love love love
3. palmcorder yajna
4. the young thousands
5. this year
6. up the wolves
7. international small arms traffic blues
8. golden boy
9. no children
10. song for dennis brown

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Edited 5 time(s). Last edit at 07/18/2008 02:46PM by mike.

so hard to choose... heres saying that mine too were not in order. i can't be happy with myself for choosing what i did...getting rid of other songs that i love

ever-changing but for now (and, for fuck's sake, in real order):

1. Maize Stalk Drinking Blood
2. Raja Vocative
3. Minnesota
4. Up the Wolves
5. Narakaloka
6. Carmen Cicero
7. Going to Bogata
8. Alphonse Mambo
9. The Day the Aliens Came
10. The Plague



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/18/2008 03:50PM by Tarbox, Horace.

For fucks sake put them in order !!!

I don't think there's any way I could put them in any order. It completely depends on my mood.

1. Quito
2. Chanson du bon Chose
3. Palmcorder Yajna
4. Song for an old Friend
5. Attention all Pickpockets
6. itzcuintli-totzli days
7. alpha double negative:going to catalina
8. Oceanographer's choice
9. Up the Wolves
10. the recognition scene

So hard to choose!

It's really nice to see that, despite the massive number of songs out there, there're still some songs that crop up on multiple lists -- and not always the ones I would've expected. Which might just mean I'm out of touch with what other tMG fans like.

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Oh God.

Well I'll try:

1. Going to Georgia
2. No Children
3. The Best Ever Death Metal Band In Denton
4. Golden Boy
5. Baboon
6. You or Your Memory
7. Palmcorder Yajna
8. Jaipur
9. Orange Ball of Love
10. Color in Your Cheeks

Subtracting No Children, Going to Georgia and Best Ever Death Metal Band for the obviousness of them:

1. Going to Bridlington
2. Color in Your Cheeks
3. Raid on Entebbe
4. Autoclave
5. If England Were What England Seems, Then We Would Only Have Our Dreams
6. Lion's Teeth (the album version makes me shudder at the string parts and the Come Come to the Sunset Tree version makes me want to cry)
7. Oceanographer's Choice
8. Going to Maryland
9. California Song
10. Love love love

I'm fairly typical, I'm afraid.

I think I need to post more. I read these forums all the time and have posted <10 times. Lame.

Oh dear. I tried this once with Skittixch. Yeah it turned in to like top 40. Of course which version it is also comes in to play... This is a multi level question but on the whole of ALL TIME (right now)


Bottoms up, in no particular order because it depends entirely on my mood:
1. No children
2. Going to Georgia
3. Up the wolves
4. Letter from Belgium
5. Against pollution
6. Cotton (Yes I love WSABH)
7. Nine black poppies
8. This year (duh)
9. Woke up new
10. 4 new trees Poltergeist


....

11) Evening in Stalingrad
12) Chino love song 1979
13) Alibi
14) Rockin' rockin' pet store
15) Minnesota
16) From TG&Y
17) Counting song for bitter children
18) I've got the sex
19) 02-75
20) Going to Ultrecht


...Take that!

Edit: I forgot Store. That can be the bonus.

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/18/2008 06:56PM by MollySophia.

1. Maize Stalk Drinking Blood
2. Going to Alaska
3. The Day the Aliens Came or, if you prefer (and I rather do) Hawaiian Feeling
4. My Favorite Thing
5. You're In Maya
6. Commandante
7. Sendero Luminoso Verdadero
8. Standard Bitter Love Song #1
9. Attention All Pickpockets
10. Going To Maine

Just right now and in no particular order. This has changed more than could be realistically mapped over the last few years.

I guess this is my current list, and it changes pretty regularly. I put them in the order i'd like to hear them at a show.

1. Cubs in Five.

2. Broom People.

3. Transjordanian Blues.

4. Wizard Buys a Hat.

5. Dino Lupatti's Bones.

6. You're in Maya.

7. Gin and Juice.

8. Raid on Entebbe.

9. Autoclave.

10. The Doll Song.

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/19/2008 12:18AM by Wild Creature.

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7. Nine black poppies

YES!!!

Nine black poppies is one of my favorite songs...except on the album. I forgot about in my list. there's a great intense video of him playing it on youtube. [youtube.com] and also if all of you liked that you may also want to watch him playing a carole king song... one fine day, which also has this shown intensity which i like. [www.youtube.com]

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/19/2008 07:40AM by BobDylan47.

rockin' rockin' pet store
how i left the ministry
going to queens
alpha rats nest
ethiopians
going to maine
going to scotland
commmandante
alpha incipiens
it's all here in brownsville

no order, i don't have that in me.

1. noctifer birmingham
2. alpha incipiens
3. korean bird paintings
4. going to maine
5. collapsing stars
6. us mill
7. alibi
8. fault lines
9. wild sage
10. alpha omega

Current list, off the top of my head, stressful:

Alpha Incipiens
Going to Georgia
Korean Bird Paintings
The Sign
Warm Lonely Planet
Riches and Wonders
The Mess Inside (ok. read: all of all hail west texas)
Commandante
Sign of the Crow
Going to Bridlington

ahhhhhhhh this is too hard why? why did I do this?

Changes everyday but here are the main stays.


1.ontario
2. going to chino (nc 99)
3.Quetzalcoatl is Born (Belgium 96)
4.going to Bridlington (vpro 96)
5.neon orange glimmer song
6.Palmcorder Yajna
7.Snow Crush Killing Song
8. tollund man
9.beat the devil
10.cotton

It seems people are ignoring the "everybody's favorite" songs... but some of those songs ARE my favorites, so I'll include those. This isn't in any particular order, though:

New Chevrolet in Flames
Autoclave
Nine Black Poppies
Alibi
If You See Light
West Country Dream
Minnesota
Going to Georgia
Oceanographer's Choic
Naming Day

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This is why you should be nice to everyone.

Orange Ball of Hate
Against Pollution
Raja Vocative
Hast Thou Considered the Tetrapod?
Broom People
Grendel's Mother
Going to Reykjavik
Song for an Old Friend
Going to Georgia
Cold Milk Bottle

My list (a-hem):

Going to Port Washington
Youre in Maya
Broom people
Tollund man
New chevrolet in flames
Against pollution
Hast thou
Love cuts the string
Orange Ball of hate
Orange ball of love

Damn it. I cannot do this.

its pretty hard to do this. i would have a better list, but i don't have enough money to buy some of the albums.

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"Someone was losing, someone was losing something very very dear to him"

1. Noche del Guajolote
2. Ethiopians
3. First Few Desprate Hours
4. Broom People
5. The Monkey Song
6. Going to Bolivia
7. Attention all Pickpockets
8. Hast Thou Considered the Tetrapod?
9. Noctifer Birmingham
10. Sail On

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Wild Creature
I guess this is my current list, and it changes pretty regularly. I put them in the order i'd like to hear them at a show.

7. Gin and Juice.

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1. No, I Can't
2. No, I Can't
3. No, I Can't
4. No, I Can't
5. No, I Can't
6. No, I Can't
7. No, I Can't
8. No, I Can't
9. No, I Can't
10. No, I Can't