Your top 5 songs that define music for you.

[Mudfuzz]

I'm sure we have done this before. But I feel it is time for this now or again.

Top 5 songs that are IT for you. The songs that define music for you.

Here is/are mine.
Bob Marley - Exodus [first song I ever learned]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nv584jRwh0s[/youtube]

Boris ~ Ganbou-Ki [This is a three parter...]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEyQBtwOb3Q[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_i76PpUT4A[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLeiCPShBvQ[/youtube]

RACHMANINOFF "PRELUDE in C SHARP MINOR" FOR 2 PIANOS
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xk5W4KGL6hU[/youtube]

Ravi Shankar - Raga Rangeela Piloo
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzN2gUGYUGc[/youtube]

Motorhead Orgasmatron!
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdegjWkZW4Q[/youtube]

[oinkbanana]

Smashing Pumpkins - Pastichio Medley
Tori Amos - Suede
Lightning Bolt - Assassins
GY!BE - Bleak, Uncertain, Beautiful...
Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond

[veteransdaypoppy]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDfH_J4MAUQ[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-Q9D4dcYng[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8iWDrln8AY[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFz_M_y-8B4[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2JjJPDz3EE[/youtube]

[smile_man]

Pure UnEvil - My favourite song ever...
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOj_tFjUYNM[/youtube]

Moment of Truth - I can't express how much I love this song, every time I listen to it I have to play it twice. First time I heard rap that didn't suck. RIP Guru.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lH3hrtp1T84[/youtube]

Pattern Against User - Specifically this video, floored when I was in gr. 8, and that guitar...
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lH3hrtp1T84[/youtube]

Cold As Ice - Again, a lot to do with this specific video, so inspiring, perfect mix of electronic and acoustic instruments, Brad is also playing a Bronco . also introduced me to White Rainbow
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aj5yIL3QyhM[/youtube]

Sky's the Ground, Bombs are Plants... - Cemented Ian Williams as one of my favourite musicians ever, this band and lightning bolt caused my love for crazy drum improv over really melodic pieces, and tapping.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9dAYQ6313Y[/youtube]

I Luv the Valley (OH) - Introduced me to Xiu Xiu/Jamie Stewart, very strange listening to it for the first time, tons of emotion... Jamie Stewart is such an inspiration for me musically.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7xe5onQzgI[/youtube]


When Worms Learn to Fly - Again this video has a lot to do with it, love the mix of ambient(ish) stuff with math rock.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqIxpZYSpK4[/youtube]

The Glow Pt, 2 - Sickest fuzz tones I've ever heard, he and Calvin Johnson are the only singersongwriters that I will listen to.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pr8-brAaL4s[/youtube]

Let's Wrestle - Tim Kinsella is the titz.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLXj_3R-Flk[/youtube]

Crimewave - HEALTH got me back into angerierlouderfaster music.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqeC4_kscCg[/youtube]
Suddenly Everything has Changed - The lips have been imeasurably influential on me, best stage presence.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SE2vidProeY[/youtube]

[magiclawnchair]

top 5?

what you ask i can not give...

here are 5 great songs!!!!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7x0BehBmIwk[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQG7XpCiSVA[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyirrcT5a6Q[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7kNKDmrT20[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuDuNfqXnrc[/youtube]

all over 6 minutes!!!

[comtrails70]

(totally sounds like the lava level in zelda windwaker)
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dil5Eh83n8U[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xeasq05zxc[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vovFgAaGXKI[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmRoGtiJp_E[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xf66Lmrqk00[/youtube]
ok..im a dick for cheating but i have to add this (not the song so much as the performance):
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ca783UE2hY[/youtube]

[Ghost Hip]

Epic fuzz, quite ambiance.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYkXjsNGgIM[/youtube]

The Blues.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fM2qhG8mA4[/youtube]

The Power when everyone is into it.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTttNdw2zVI[/youtube]

Punk.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXwNaKM1yM0[/youtube]

SHAKING YOUR GROOVE THANG.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lH-0s0pRleg[/youtube]

[Big Mon]

Black Sabbath-A National Acrobat
Dinosaur Jr.- Kracked
Blind Willie McTell-Talkin' To Myself
My Bloody Valentine-You never Should
Nick Drake-Road

[Houdini116]

Acid Bath - The Bones of Baby Dolls
This song really changed the way I listened/wrote music, at 1:43 that part is a simple chord progression, but what a feeling. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQgUjf3Hh1s[/youtube]

Muddy Waters - Tom Cat
One of the funkiest songs I have ever heard, what a killer groove. I think that whole Electric Mud album was genius.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IynJBgrG2pw[/youtube]

Amanaz - Green Apple
Some African guys playing some groovy stuff, great riffs, vocals, solos. I expected a more traditional sort of sound, but this is some pretty heavy/fuzzy stuff!
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I368EWBLIs4[/youtube]

Fugazi - Waiting Room
One of my favorite basslines, and I've been a big fan Ian's stuff since his Minor Threat days. "In My Eyes" would've also been one of my choices.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTWSSCYUD4E[/youtube]

Hound Dog Taylor - She's Gone
Slide/fuzz bliss.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hq6GULGiad8[/youtube]

Definitely a lot more, but this one too...

R.L. Burnside - Goin' Down South
Heard this sound browsing Youtube a long time ago, that led to Junior Kimbrough>The Black Keys>Kenny Brown>Asie Payton...
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDCcN9qqbUA[/youtube]

[Big Mon]

I can't live with only having one 5 song post. I have to do this:
Roisin Dubh-Thin Lizzy
Supernaut-Black Sabbath
Westron Wynde-John Taverner
Long,Long,Long-the Beatles
Titanium Expose-Sonic Youth
I'll probably post again here soon.

[Wizard]

Slowdive - Celia's Dream
Claude Debussy - Prelude to the Afternoon of A Faun
Beatles - A Day in the Life


this question is actually way too hard. I have so many affairs with so many songs.

[Big Mon]

I told you all this would happen:
Sun Cycle-Blue Cheer
Only Shallow-My Bloody Valentine(it awakened something in me when I saw it on 120 Minutes forever ago)
I am One-Smashing Pumpkins(heard it when I was 13 and got me out of my metal phase)
the entire Everybody Knows this is Nowhere album-Neil Young. I cheated,what?
When the Music's Over-the Doors(lost my virginity to that song,appropriately enough )

[magiclawnchair]

the entire Everybody Knows this is Nowhere album-Neil Young.

we really are related!!!

[bdunlap]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvLS-qWQvb4[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqJVQhVi1ms[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMCeBPT0gi4[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRDHhZzQOGU[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yemSxnGKc6s[/youtube]

[Blurillaz]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQal-lJrSLI[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PG0wksBzKSc[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8M4DUW2CQD4[/youtube]