Kreese’s TOP 200 SONGS

Sweet Emotion – Aerosmith. ("Sweet Emotion. Talk about things nobody cares. Wearing other things nobody wears. You call my name but I gotta make clear. I can’t say baby where I’ll be in a year." Simply the best song I’ve heard. They may be better but hey I love Aerosmith so this is top)
Drain You – Nirvana ("the water is so yellow I’m a healthy student. You’re my vitamins" Kurt Cobain went on record once as saying this was his favourite song he’d written.)
Love Spreads – The Stone Roses ("Love spreads her arms, waits there for the nails.")
The End – The Doors (11 minute Jim Morrison classic. "this is the end, my only friend the end". Used in Apocalypse Now to great affect. "he took a face from the ancient gallery and he walked on down the hall")
Purple Haze – Jimi Hendrix ("scuse me while I kiss the sky")
Smells Like Teen Sprit – Nirvana (The song of the 90’s youth generation. "With the lights out it’s less dangerous here we are now entertain us. I feel stupid and contagious. Here we are now entertain us. A mulatto. An albino. A mosquito. My libido." And at the end he’s singing "A denial")
Highway to Hell – AC/DC

I Wanna Go Where The People Go – Wildhearts (pub song number one no longer on the jukebox at the Black Cross. Curses. "I want to go where the c*nts like me are buried 6 feet underground")
One – Metallica (I thought it was unusual that One is track 4 on the album lol. "I can’t remember anything. Can’t tell if this is true or dream. Deep down inside I feel the to scream. This terrible silence stops me."
Desire – U2 ("Yeah lover I’m on the streets, gonna go where the bright lights and the big city meet. With a red guitar on fire. Desire")
Song 2 – Blur ("Woooooo Hoo and I feel heavy metal")
More Human than Human – White Zombie

Enter Sandman – Metallica ("Sleep with one eye open. Gripping your pillow tight. Exit : Light. Enter : Night. Take my hand we’re off to never never land."
Black No 1 – Type O Negative

Jeremy – Pearl Jam ("Clearly I remember picking on the boy. Seemed a harmless little shit. But we unleashed the lion.")
The Real Thing – Faith No More ("You want it all but you can’t have it")
Love In An Elevator – Aerosmith ("lingerie second floor, she said can I see you later love just a little more". More great Aerosmith stuff. The day they make a bad album is the day I keel over and push up the daisies.)
Big Empty – Stone Temple Pilots ("time to take her home, her dizzy head is conscience laden. Time to wait too long. These conversations kill." I used to crank the volume on this one on a Sunday morning)
For The Love Of God – Steve Vai (Dreamy guitar song. 6 minutes of Steve Vai playing music to make you think you were in heaven. Soft drums help Steve’s guitar sound more crystal clear and the notes can almost be felt drifting through the air towards you. He plays at unbelievable speed in places too.)
Bohemian Rhapsody – Queen (accompanied by the first ever music video. Also in Wayne’s World. Made headbanging in cars more common. There are too many quoteable lines in here just listen to it. This is a classic and I doubt if there is anyone anywhere who disagrees.)
Under The Bridge – Red Hot Chilli Peppers (Under the bridge downtown is where I drew some blood. Under the bridge downtown I could not get enough". Another song about drugs. Particularly heartfelt and personal for Anthony Kleidis of the Chilli Peppers. How All Saints can get away with covering this I don’t know it should be illegal to screw with perfection.)
Iris – The Goo Goo Dolls (Very special song. When I heard it first Tourette was singing along and that’s how I remember it. It’s our song and it’s beautiful. Just like she is.)
Lucky Man – The Verve (my song. When I sit down and think about it life’s been good. Maybe not great but it could have been worse and I still have one thing to cling to)
Dragula – Rob Zombie (nice hat Rob)
Self Esteem – The Offspring ("Late at night she knocks on my door, drunk again and looking to score. Now I know I should say no but it’s kind of hard when she’s ready to go. I may be dumb. I’m not a dweeb. I’m just a sucker with no self esteem." Song about rejection. Found comfort here many a time.)
Buddy Holly – Weezer ("oo ee oo I look just like Buddy Holly and you’re Mary Tyler Moore. I don’t care what they say about us anyway. I don’t care about that." Good live song.)
Nice guys Finish Last – Green Day ("Don’t pat yourself on the back you might break your spine" Great song to start off a party atmosphere. Great way to start an album)
Killing In The Name – Rage Against The Machine (Amazing live hearing thousands of people scream Killing in the Name of and F*ck you I won’t do what you tell me. Rage’s signature song.)
Run To The Hills – Iron Maiden (Song about the invasion of America driving out the native American people. "Women and children and cowards attack")
Street Spirit (Fade Out) – Radiohead (Our copy of this CD is currently with Tourette so this piece of musical splendour can only be heard on one side of the Atlantic. Not that I’d have it any other way. Anything for the happiness of my nearest and dearest.)
Nancy Boy – Placebo

Richard III – Supergrass

100 Mile City – Ocean Colour Scene

Amazing – Aerosmith (song about Steven Tyler’s recovery from drug abuse. "In a blink of an eye you finally see the light". Highly personal song and those always score big when you know what went into them)
Everything Zen – Bush

Light My Fire – The Doors (greatest piano solo in rock music. "cmon baby light my fire, try to set the night on fire")
Paranoid – Black Sabbath

Golden Brown – The Stranglers ("Never a frown with Golden Brown." "Golden Brown finer temptress through the ages she’s heading west". Song about heroin if anyone is in any doubt.)
Common People – Pulp ("You’ll never fail like common people. Watch your life slide out of view. Then drink and dance and screw cause there’s nothing else to do")
Alice What’s The Matter – Terrorvision ("something bout you really picks me up like a hot cup of coffee in a hot coffee cup. Feels like a Saturday man easy going")
Jumper – Third Eye Blind (lovely but simple guitar solo makes this song so very listenable)
The Beautiful People – Marilyn Manson ("I don’t want you and I don’t need you. Don’t bother to resist I’ll beat you" Marilyn Manson is scum plain and simple. I like the way this song sounds but the lyrics plain suck. He’s trying to be clever he’s trying to shock. It doesn’t impress me, music is about music and always will be for me. Which is why I never listen to any band just because there’s a girl in it that looks pretty like some people.)
I Can Dream – Skunk Anansie ("pain is your beauty, it hurts the vision in your eyes. Your eyes are smiling now they watch me cry they watch me die. I can dream. I can dream. I can dream that I’m someone else.")
Sabotage – The Beastie Boys (normally I’m not a big rap fan but the video for this song won me over)
Smoke On The Water – Deep Purple ("Smoke on the water, fire in the sky")
Mama Kin – Aerosmith (Steven Tyler has this tattooed on his arm)
Better Man – Pearl Jam ("she lies and says she still loves him, can’t find a better man, she dreams in colour she dreams in red." Eddie Vedder’s most personal song. About his mother and how she stayed with Eddie’s step father although he beat her.)
The Perfect Drug – Nine Inch Nails
Black Hole Sun – Soundgarden (a high point in an impressive career for the Seattle rock band. "In my eyes, indisposed, in disguise, as no one knows, hides the face, lies, the snake, the sun, in my disgrace, boiling heat, summer stench, neath the black the sky looks dead, call my name through the cream and I’ll hear you scream again")
Infinite Dreams – Iron Maiden ("Infinite Dreams I can’t deny them, infinity is hard to comprehend.")
Been Caught Stealing – Jane’s Addiction ("When she wants something and she don’t wanna pay for it she just walks right through the door")
Monkey Wrench – Foo Fighters (No one though Dave Grohl’s post Nirvana project would do so well. They surprised everyone and this is a prime example of how he’s only slightly distanced himself from Nirvana to get his own sound.)
Kung Fu – Ash ("cmon Jackie Chan, oh oh oh oh oh" Amazing live song full of energy)
Ready To Go – Republica (They made a big splash over here with a new sound. Lead singer Saffron’s red hair was very distinctive too.)
I Alone – Live (a song that will always remind me of the 2 best summers of my life. "I alone love you". First summer was the one it came out and I was over seeing my brothers after finishing high school (they live in the US) 1995. The second was 1998 summer when I got to meet Tourette. After I’d been to see her Iris meant more but this was our song for a while. I still think of her "I alone tempt you")
Creep – Radiohead (He sounds so sad singing on this. "I wish I was special. But I’m a creep. I don’t belong here.")
Queer – Garbage (My mother’s favourite word. Doesn’t quite mean the same thing over here US folks lol)
Wild And Wonderful – The Almighty (Scottish rock band. Probably unheard of stateside. I recommend Powertrippin as a place to start)
Slip Slide Melting – For Love Not Lisa (From the movie the Crow. Great song I think it’s being played by the band as Eric Draven destroys the gang upstairs.)
Shit List – L7 (Used in Natural Born Killers as Juliette Lewis stamps on a cops head.)
Live Forever – Oasis ("I said maybe I don’t really wanna know how your garden grows cause I just wanna fly. Lately did you ever feel the pain, in the morning rain, as it soaks you to the bone" My favourite Oasis tune I believe their first single)
She Said – Longpigs (Longpigs lead singer is called Crispin Hunt. True story)
Setting Sun – Chemical Brothers (Helped by a spooky video and contribution from Noel Gallagher)
Breathe – Prodigy (finally a song that made dance accessible to rock fans and made heavy guitar accepted by dance people. A real boundary crosser loved by just about everyone. Very rare.)
Blind In Texas – WASP ("I live in California what I am supposed to do get on a horse and ride all the way back to LA" "Yeah don’t fall off")
Fates Warning – Iron Maiden ("Are we the lucky ones saved for another day, or they the lucky ones who are taken away" A real thought provoker this one. Disturbingly 9 years old yet I clearly remember buying this lol)
Something to Believe In – Poison ("they called me up last Christmas Eve and told me the news, I tried all night not to break down and cry as the tears rolled down my face, I felt so cold and empty like a lost soul out of place." "Underneath the broken old Neon signs that used to read Jesus Saves")
Pleasure Seeker – Social Distortion ("cmon and play the games don’t feel no shame – that’s what Eve said to Adam before she came")
Are You Gonna Go My Way – Lenny Kravitz

Dude (Looks Like A Lady) – Aerosmith

Lust For Life – Iggy Pop ("Here comes Johnny late again, with the liquor and drugs")
Karma Police – Radiohead ("arrest that girl her Hitler haircut is making me feel ill.")
China Girl – David Bowie ("why don’t you shut your mouth" nice one Dave)
Nothing Ever Happens – Del Amitri ("Close circuit camera’s in department stores shoot the same movies every day. And the stars of these films neither die nor get killed just survive constant action replay.")
Laid – James ("The people complain about the noises above but she only comes when she’s on top")
Jesus Says – Ash (another corking track and Ash sound much more smooth now they added another guitar player)
London Calling – The Clash ("London Calling to the far away towns" like mine for example calling me to watch Aerosmith in June)
Freak On The Leash – KoRn (another band Tourette got me to listen to, I’m beginning to lose count lol. Thanks again, always opening my eyes and mind)
Nothing Else Matters – Metallica ("So close no matter how far. Couldn’t be much more from the heart. Forever trusting who we are and nothing else matters. Never opened myself this way. Life is ours we live it our way. All these words I don’t just say and nothing else matters. Trust I seek and I find in you, every day for us something new. Open mind for a different view and nothing else matters.")
Rockafeller Skank – Fat Boy Slim

Still Got The Blues – Gary Moore (great soulful track)
You Oughta Know – Alanis Morrisette ("would she go down on you in a theatre")
Just Looking – Stereophonics

Sweet Child O Mine – Guns n Roses ("now and then when I see her face it takes away to that special place and if I stay too long I’d probably break down and cry" this song reminds me of everything I’ve ever loved and everyone I’ve ever cared about. It’s my feel good song)
Alright – Cast
Paint It Black – The Rolling Stones (this is one of those songs that just triggers my desire to turn the volume right up)
Come Together – The Beatles ("right now over me" you have at admit John Lennon and Paul McCartney could bang off a tune or 2)
Should I Stay Or Should I Go – The Clash ("should I collate or should I blow")
Freebird – Lynard Skynard ("and this bird you cannot chain and this bird you cannot chain oh no I can’t change oh fly high free bird yeah <huge guitar solo>")
God Save The Queen – Sex Pistols ("We mean it man, we love our Queen God save the queen. No future.")
Stairway To Heaven – Led Zeppelin ("there’s a lady who’s sure all that glitters is gold and she’s buying a stairway to heaven")
Riders On The Storm – The Doors (Jim Morrison is one of my favourite song writers, nearly as good as the brief but outstanding Kurt Cobain period but the man is great)
Hotel California – The Eagles ("some dance to remember some dance to forget")
Hey Joe – Jimi Hendrix ("Going down to shoot my old lady, caught her messing round with another man")
Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life) – Green Day ("it’s something unpredictable and in the end it’s right I hope you had the time of your life")
I Want It All – Queen ("and I want it now")
All Around The World – Oasis (fine guitar work toward the end not seen in any other Oasis songs. Pretty impressive.)
Losing My Religion – REM ("that’s me in the corner that’s me in the spotlight losing my religion")
Perfect Day – Lou Reed ("you made me forget myself, I thought I was someone else, someone good" memories of Mark Renton disappearing into the carpet in Trainspotting)
With Or Without You – U2 (More sounds of guitar that should be ringing out across acres of Irish countryside. Beautiful song.)
Back Street Symphony – Thunder (Used to be a big Thunder fan back in high school. It had the same ring as Guns n Roses and Skid Row and all good stuff like that with an English slant.)
Spork – Lunachicks (as seen live supporting Offspring in 1997)
Father Of Mine – Everclear (Tourette put me on to Everclear and several other bands. Had to love this song she loved it and it really caught on me I played it every day for months.)
Butterfly – Screaming Trees (One of many Screaming Trees songs that I can’t help but love. The lyrics are almost soothing.)
Layla – Derek and The Dominoes ("you got me on my knees I’m begging darling please". Marvellous change of pace for guitar finish)
This Is Not A Punk Rock Song – Bad Religion

Firestarter – Prodigy ("twisted firestarter, punky instigator", *I think lol)
Shelf In The Room – Days Of The New (nice acoustic metal thing going on here. It’s amazing no one thought to do this before it’s great.)
18 and Life – Skid Row ("Ricky was a young boy. He had a heart of stone, lived 9 to 5 yeah he worked his fingers to the bone" Skid Row’s tale of the young kid gone wrong shot his buddy.)
November Rain – Guns n Roses (epic G n R’s song loads of Axl on the piano and shots of him getting rained on and Slash playing guitar in the middle of nowhere.)
Pretty Fly (For A White Guy) – The Offspring ("Give it to me baby uh huh uh huh". It’s about time people started buying Offspring stuff. Flawless live band)
Everlong – Foo Fighters (video of the year for 1997?)
I Am The Resurrection – The Stone Roses ("and I am the truth". I was converted to the Stone Roses by John Squire’s guitar solo’s which is why I now love The Seahorses too)
Everybody Hurts – REM ("take comfort in your friends" This is all so true so heartfelt)
Lightning Crashes – Live (this song holds some very dear memories. I can’t listen to it without feeling a tear coming.)
Cannonball – Breeders
Space Lord – Monster Magnet

Rock Star – Hole (like all good Hole stuff it sounds like Kurt Cobain wrote it but I’m not complaining sounds good unlike Celebrity Skin lol)
Du Hast – Rammstein (translated You Hate)
Violent Mood Swings – Stabbing Westward (more dance based than what they are currently doing. Watch Clerks to see how to do the Stabbing Westward Silent Bob dance, popular in rock clubs)
Yer Old – Reef (Good band live. Naked made them famous with the lead singer screaming "I’ll blow you away" they mellowed since.)
Everything About You – Ugly Kid Joe ("and I hate everything about your sister cause I think sex is overrated too". Ultimate put down song)
Pop Song For Us Rejects – Silverchair (very quiet with lots of acoustic sounds until the really heavy bit at the end. Nice mood change. I also dig The Closing)
Last Child – Aerosmith (All Aerosmith is good I’m trying to be selective. I can’t leave this out. But then how could I leave out Cryin', Monkey on My Back, Rag Doll, Janie’s Got A Gun, Uncle Salty, Back In The Saddle, Crazy, Movin’ Out. Well the list goes on and on I really ought to have an Aerosmith top 50 or something lol)
Shimmer – Fuel ("she calls me from the cold. Just when I was low feeling short of stable". I’ve felt that way before)
Busted Up – Robben Ford (Song before this on the album is He Don’t Play Nothing But The Blues. Excellent blues tune full of soul.)
Surfing With The Alien – Joe Satriani (I just picked out a song at random everything this guy does is brilliant.)
Cold Shot – Stevie Ray Vaughan (Tragically killed in a helicopter crash. Did some excellent blues laden rock songs. Guitar solo’s always worth a listen.)
Greasy Kids Stuff – Steve Vai (Steve plays really solid tunes first seen by yours truly at Expo 92. Steve made me want to play guitar and made me realise I was never going to be that good. All at once.)
Every Me and Every You – Placebo (I’m partial to Pure Morning also)
Oblivion – Terrorvision (the kind of song to make you dance silly)
Jesus Loves You But I Don’t – The Almighty (ballad with vicious lyrics "Kill Your Idol’s")
Peaches – The Stranglers (my brothers played this type of thing a lot I grew up on it. I missed out Bryan Adams Summer Of 69. Next time maybe it’ll be here)
Lullaby – Shawn Mullins ("she’s seen her share of devils in this angel town")
There She Goes – The La’s (theme music from Mike Myers comedy So I Married An Axe Murderer. Think really big cups of coffee)
Neighbourhood – Space ("at 666 lives a Mr Miller he’s the local baker and a serial killer")
Morning Glory – Oasis (my wake up music)
Punka – Kenickie ("I’m a PUNKA too")
Livin On A Prayer – Bon Jovi (The definition of classic modern rock don’t care what anyone says. "Gina works the Diner all day. Working for her man she brings home her pay. For Love.")
Comfortably Numb – Pink Floyd (best thing about Pink Floyd The Wall – Bob Geldoff sitting there with his eyebrows shaved off listening to this)
A Design For Life – Manic Street Preachers ("We don’t talk about love, we only want to get drunk.")
Slide – Goo Goo Dolls ("What you feel is what you are and what you are is beautiful")
On A Rope – Rocket From The Crypt (Garage rock band, well worth a look live)
Heart Of Glass – Blondie

One Week – Barenaked Ladies ("Like Harrison Ford I’m getting Frantic, like Sting I’m tantric, like Snickers guaranteed to satisfy")
Same Old Song And Dance – Aerosmith (more Aerosmith, gotta love it)
Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight – REM ("come and try to waken her" I think lol)
La Isla Bonita – Madonna (I just like it ok lol)
Heart Shaped Box – Nirvana ("cut myself on angel’s hair and baby’s breath")
Rhyme Of The Ancient Mariner – Iron Maiden (at least 13 minutes long. Longer live. Basically it’s the same as the poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge but only quotes it a few times. It’s a story within an epic song. "Water, water everywhere but not a drop to drink")
Spin The Black Circle – Pearl Jam ("oh so big, my whole world, rather you, rather you than her" Pearl Jam’s we love vinyl song)
The One I Love – REM

Bad Habit – The Offspring ("hey man you know I’m really ok, the gun in my hand will tell you the same")
Driving South – The Stone Roses (Love John Squire’s guitar on this one. "Driving south at midnight in a howling hurricane". "Any time you want to sell your soul I got a toll free number you can ring")
LA Woman – The Doors (Give it up for Ray Manzarek ladies and gentlemen. Mr Doors Piano player. "City at night woo cmon" Jim gives it some)
Kind Of Magic – Queen

Where the Streets Have No Name – U2

Anarchy In The UK – Sex Pistols (Ever had the feeling you’ve been ripped off? 100% hype band)
Bulls On Parade – Rage Against The Machine ("I walk through the rubble that used to be a library, line up to the mind cemetery" Rage encouraging reading books.)
Let’s Dance – David Bowie ("put on your red shoes and dance the blues" his lyric not mine lol)
FOD – Green Day

The Passenger – Iggy Pop

High And Dry – Radiohead

Wonderwall – Oasis ("I said maybe you’re going to be the one that saves me" I take this kind of personally)
All Along The Watchtower – Jimi Hendrix

Love Is Strong – The Rolling Stones (yeah I know it’s Bob Dylan but I like the Stones version better)
Bullet With Butterfly Wings – Smashing Pumpkins ("The world is vampire")
The Unforgiven – Metallica ("New blood joins this earth and quickly he’s subdued, through constant pained disgrace the young boy learns their rules….a vow unto his own that never from this day his will they’ll take away")
Nita Nitro – Wildhearts ("don’t try rules because they do not apply" A song about womankind)
Don’t Cry – Guns n Roses ("and don’t you cry tonight I still love you baby")
Only Happy When It Rains – Garbage ("My only comfort is the night gone black. I’m riding high upon a deep depression")
Caught By The Fuzz – Supergrass ("just like a bad dream I was only 15")
Jump, Jive and Wail – Brian Setzer Orchestra

My Generation – The Jam

Slave To The Grind – Skid Row ("I’m just another gear in the assembly line, the noose gets tighter around my throat but I ain’t at the end of my rope")
Addiction – The Almighty ("realised what you did to me and it’s feeding my addiction")
Walk This Way – Aerosmith ("you ain’t seen nothing till your down on the muffin")
Hey Man Nice Shot – Filter ("I wish I would have met you now it’s a little late" Not about Kurt Cobain)
I Can’t Dance – Genesis

Sledgehammer – Peter Gabriel

Would – Alice In Chains

Smack My Bitch Up – Prodigy

Trash – Suede ("we’re trash, you and me, we’re the litter on the breeze, we’re the lovers on the streets")
Here Comes The Sun – The Beatles

Scooby Snacks – Fun Lovin Criminals ( I have an edited version of the song, damn compilation albums. "Ya know we’d never get far riding around in a stolen police car")
Superfire – Girls Against Boys

Sit Down – James

Heroes – David Bowie

Hope Street – The Levellers

Wide Open Space – Mansun (not so big in America)
Good – Better Than Ezra (God Rockers. "It’s good living with you")
The Boys and The Girls Are Doing It – Vital Signs

Go To Hell – Megadeth ("the smell of death permeates the silk within my coffin lay")
Schools Out – Alice Cooper (what a man. Under My Wheels, Lost In America, Teenage Lament ’74, Poison, No More Mr Nice Guy, Feed My Frankenstein and Welcome to My Nightmare also could easily have made the list but I forgot about him. Eep)
Losing My Favourite Game – The Cardigans

Longview – Green Day ("bite my lip and close my eyes, take me away to paradise" classic tune)
Everybody Loves Me But You – Juliana Hatfield (featuring Evan Dando from the Lemonheads on backing vocals/guitar "a cold cold bed and a broken heart")
Rapture – Seed ("stay with me, find time to waste on me, you’ll see the trouble I’ve been through today" saw them live in a tiny bar)
Black Gold – Soul Asylum (sitting in the shadow of Runaway Train – a real gem)
What It Takes – Aerosmith ("you hammer in deep with the devil in your eye" major break up song)