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