Hussain M Elius

I must confess, making this list was harder then I thought. Ever since I got the idea about publishing list of my favourite songs on my every birthday (that would be today =), I have been trying various different approach. One of them was having a number of great songs grouped in various themes (Romance, Motivation, etc.). Another, which resulted in ~ 20 or so playlists, consisted of telling the (not so interesting) story of my life via the themes of the playlists. The latter was an interesting project, imho, but it meant there were way too many songs for me to categorize.

But at the end, I decided on a simple list. I was going to go with Top 20, but even the primary draft consisted of 45 tracks. I cut some down, added a few more, and here we are. Because of the constraint I set up for myself, it was, as I said earlier, way more difficult then I thought. Despite that, I managed to cut in a couple of light-hearted songs on this list.

So here it is! My Top 50 Favourite songs! I am going to dub this mixtape, if you will, Songs for a Temporary Insanity for no good reason other than me liking title. Not sure whether the fact that most of the songs here are power music coincide with temporary insanity.

1. Step up/Nobody’s Listening/It’s Going Down [Live] – Linkin Park
2. Second 2 None (feat. Mike Shinoda) – Styles of Beyond
3. Hell Yeah – Dead Prez
4. Dance with the Devil – Immortal Technique
5. 1985 – Bowling for Soup
6. High School Never Ends – Bowling for Soup
7. Butterfly – Crazy Town
8. Boy In The Anorak – Little Man Tate
9. Obocheton – Nemesis
10. Holiday – Green Day
11. Shout 2000 – Disturbed
12. Faint – Linkin Park
13. Nine Thou [Superstars Remix] – Styles of Beyond
14. Fired Up – Hush
15. Welcome to Detroit City (feat. Eminem) – Trick Trick
16. Take a Look Around – Limp Bizkit
17. Fuel – Metallica
18. Tears Don’t Fall – Bullet for my Valentine
19. Points of Authority – Linkin Park
20. All Star – Smashmouth
21. Without Me – Eminem
22. Southern Fried – Ludacris
23. Hey You (feat. Mike Shinoda) – Styles of Beyond
24. Almost – Bowling for Soup
25. Angel – Flipsyde
26. Be Somebody – 3 Doors Down
27. Mocking Bird – Eminem
28. Lose Yourself – Eminem
29. Give It All – Rise Against
30. Born To Lead – Hoobastank
31. We Made It (feat. Linkin Park) – Busta Rhymes
32. Hit That – The Offspring
33. In The End – Linkin Park
34. Stan (feat. Dido) – Eminem
35. The Game – Disturbed
36. Over My Head (Better Of Head) – Sum 41
37. Scars – Paparoach
38. Cleanin’ out my Closet – Eminem
39. Onuprerona – DJ R@F and Jasper
40. Pothchola – Artcell
41. Points of Authority/99 Problems/One Step Closer – Linkin Park and Jay-Z
42. Criminal – Disturbed
43. Inside Out (feat. Scooter Ward) [Remix] – Revielle
44. Take That – Styles of Beyond
45. Kill ‘Em In The Face (feat. Bishop Lamont) – Styles of Beyond
46. Black or White – Michael Jackson
47. White & Nerdy – “Weird Al” Yankovic
48. Bad to the Bone – George Thorogood and The Destroyers
49. Leave A Scar [Alternate Version] – Marilyn Manson
50. Oniket Prantor – Artcell

From here on out, every year I’ll publish a list of songs with emphasis to the ones I discovered that year. I might’ve missed some of my faves this year, but I’ll try to snick ‘em in in the later ones.

And while we are at it, this is my last.fm account where you might be interested in browsing my loved tracks. You can also download all the tracks listed here from my mediafire account.