Oh Hot Damn, These Are My Jams (Vol 2: The Best Songs Ever)

I'd like to start with the disclaimer that these are NOT the best songs ever. They are MY best songs ever.

I used to make a lot of mix cds in college (yes, my first two years of college were pre-ipod). After getting sick of listening to my ska mixes volumes 1-4 I started making one called "The Best Songs Ever." It was supposed to be a mix of all the songs I'd ever called my favorite. That was too long to fit on one cd, so I narrowed it down to just the songs I'd never gotten sick of. I could only think of 4.

Now there are a few more added to the list, but I've realized that this mix can only be completed on my deathbed (then I hope someone will burn it and play it at my funeral) because any of these songs have the potential of being kicked off the list if I get sick of them in the next year, or decade, or five decades.

My challenge to you is to start your own "Best Songs Ever" list. These are the songs that you wouldn't even THINK of skipping when they come up on shuffle on your ipod/itunes/zune (do zunes even still exist?) The songs that, when you're out in public and you hear them, you grab whoever's closest to you and say "I LOVE THIS SONG," even when you're sober. If the day comes that you skip one of these songs, or don't bust out a huge smile when you hear the first chords/riff, the song's gotta go. Even as I wrote this blog, I realized I had to take a song off my list.

Songs aren't eligible to be added to your list until you've known them for atleast a year. You can't know if something's the best song ever if you've only been listening to it for a couple months. Also, no pretending to be cool in this game. No one's judging, least of all me (hell, half my list was once featured on a VH1 "worst songs ever" countdown. Seriously.)

The Best Songs Ever (as of 3/28/09)
1. The Temptations "Ain't Too Proud to Beg"
2. The Jackson 5 "I Want You Back"
3. Warren G/Nate Dogg "Regulate"
4. Mr Big "To Be With You"
5. Michael Jackson "The Way You Make Me Feel"
6. Spin Doctors "Two Princes"
7. Third Eye Blind "Semi-Charmed Life"
8. (tentative) Green Day "Welcome to Paradise"
9. (tentative) Hanson "Where's the Love"