[Vivienne]

If YOU had a chance to choose songs for the "Golden Hour", which songs would be among those on your list?

Amongst my choices would be:-

1. Mr Blue Sky - ELO.
2. I Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor.
3. Good Riddance - Green Day.
4. Unfinished Sympathy - Massive Attack.
5. Friday, I'm In Love - The Cure.
6. Like A Prayer - Madonna.
7. Straight Back Down To Earth - Curiosity Killled The Cat.

[MK Chris]

Good choice, ELO, though I'd substitute that particular song for 'The Way Life's Meant to Be', or 'Ma Ma Ma Belle'.

• ELO - 'The Way Life's Meant to Be'
• Queen - One of a few, maybe 'Killer Queen' or 'Fat Bottomed Girls'
• Andrew WK - 'Party Hard'
• Mike + the Mechanics - 'The Living Years'
• Human League - 'Together in Electric Dreams'
• Ugly Kid Joe - 'Cat's in the Cradle'
• A - 'Starbucks'
• Green Day - 'Welcome to Paradise'
• Marilyn Manson - 'The Beautiful People'
• Kate Bush - 'Wuthering Heights'

[Vivienne]

ELO, the way life's meant to be? I've never heard that? Do you have a link, please? Wuthering Heights is great.

[Bonanzoid]

Andrew W.K. and A, Toph? Nice!

[Zoot]

I'd have -

Iron Man - Black Sabbath
Estranged - Guns n' Roses
Blowing in the wind - Bob Dylan
Whiskey in the jar - Thin Lizzy
Love of my life - Queen
Iris - Goo goo dolls
Fast Car - Tracy Chapman
Jeremy - Pearl Jam
Space oddity - David Bowie
Kashmir - Led Zep
Stay - Lisa Loeb and the nine stories
Polly - Nirvana
Big Empty - Stone Temple Pilots
Fall to Pieces - Velvet Revolver
Wish you were here - Pink Floyd

[Bonanzoid]

Sugar Hill Gang - Rapper's Delight
Toto - Hold the Line
Guns n Roses - November Rain
Alice in Chains - Heaven Beside You
Rage Against the Machine - Sleep Now In The Fire
SOundgarden - Rusty Cage
Living Colour - Cult of Personality
Rod Stewart - Maggie May
Metallica - Nothing Else Matters
Pantera - Cowboys From Hell
Sigur Rós - Hoppípolla.

For some band's I've put in slightly more mainstream songs than I'd normally pick.

[MK Chris]

Iris - Goo goo dolls

Good choice Zoot, I forgot that.

Polly - Nirvana

Another good choice, though if I were going for a Nirvana track, I'd either choose 'The Man Who Sold the World', 'Where Did You Sleep Last Night' or perhaps one of the Meat Puppets covers from the Live and Unplugged album, 'Lake of Fire' maybe.

[Bonanzoid]

Even though none of them are their own songs, Toph?

[MK Chris]

Yep.

[Zoot]

The unplugged album is my favourite nirvana album of all time. That album alone taught me how to play the guitar from scratch.

[rustybike]

Through a lot of though I'd probably have:

Johnny Cash - Hurt
P!nk - Either "Who Knew" or "Humble Neighbourhood"
Blink 182 - Either "First Date", "Stay Together for the Kids" or "Feeling This"
Greenday - Basket Case
Goo Goo Dolls - Iris
Garbage - "Bleed Like Me"
Guns 'n' Roses - Welcome to the Jungle
Foo Fighters - "Low" or "The Pretender"
Andrew W.K - She is Beautiful
Muse - Either "Feeling Good", "Stolkholm Syndrome" or "Hysteria"
The Hives - Hate to say I told you so
MotorHead - Ace of Spades

There are sooooooooo many more songs to choose but they're the only ones I could think of off the top of my head.

[TIAL]

Here we go!

Jimi Hendrix - Crosstown Traffic
Paul McCartney - Live & Let Die
Michael Jackson - Don't Stop Till You Get Enough
Madness - Baggy Trousers
Led Zeppelin - Rock & Roll
Primal Scream - Rocks
Foo Fighers - Monkey Wrench
The Cure - Love Cats
Wham - Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go
Len - Steal My Sunshine
Stevie Wonder - Superstition

[rustybike]

Nice choice with "Live and Let Die" although I do like the GNR version also.

[TIAL]

I've not actually heard the GnR version - does it still have the cod-reggae bit in the middle?

[rustybike]

You know what, I can't remember. It's very good though - not too far off the original but different at the same time. You should have a listen.

[Bonanzoid]

Bob Marley- Could You Be Loved

Excellent call, Ms. Lottie. I can't believe I forgot Bob Marley, although personally I think I'd go with One Love or Three Little Birds over Could You Be Loved.

[pjordan2000]

Lionel Ritchie - Dancing on the Ceiling
Britney Spears - Crazy (You Drive Me) (The Stop Remix)
Rick Astley - It Would Take a Strong Strong Man
Spandeau Ballet - Gold
Warren G - Regulate

[C-Kay]

You're about to get an insight into how odd my record collection is.....

in no order


Boyz 2 Men - End of the Road
Mariah Carey - Heartbreaker
Force & Styles - Pacific Sun
Guns n Roses - November Rain (9 minute version, of course)
Ash - Burn Baby Burn
The Prodigy - Wind it Up
Ultra - Rescue Me (my guilty pleasure track )
Stone Roses - Ten Storey Love Song
Culture Club - Karma Chameleon
Unique - 5am

[le_moribond]

Boomtown Rats-Rat Trap
David Bowie-Golden Years
ELO-Last train to London
Stone Roses-I wanna be adored
Richard Harris-MacArthur Park
Kate Bush-Wuthering Heights
The Stranglers-Always the sun
Nick Lowe-Cruel to be kind
Blur-Stereotypes
Manic Street Preachers-Kevin Carter

I'd add more, but the hour would be up by then!

[Zootsuit]

My selection in no particular order are.....

XTC - Ball And Chain
Depeche Mode - I Feel You
David Bowie - Oh! You Pretty Things
Pink Floyd - See Emily Play
Muse - Hysteria
Foo Fighters - Learn To Fly
Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun
Yes - Rhythm Of Love
Supergrass - Going Out
The Beatles - Taxman
Radiohead - Karma police