1. Sonic Youth - Cross the Breeze
2. The Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter
3. Bob Dylan - Tombstone Blues
4. Prince - Sign O the Times
5. The Stooges - I Wanna Be Your Dog
6. Husker Du - Chartered Trips
7. Parliament - Wizard of Finance
8. The Beatles - Martha My Dear
9. GZA - Duel of the Iron Mic
10. The Beach Boys - Good Vibrations

Great title for the thread. "Estimated" is the way it should be. If anyone ever found their top ten and settled with it, then they don't listen to anything new.

Can we have instrumentals, too?

Yes.

Make a list, foo'.

In the order I thought of them, then; I'd love it if people downloaded and listened to these:

"May Nothing But Happiness Come Through Your Door" by Mogwai.
"Imagination Parts 1 & 2" by Grooverider.
"Napalm Brain/Scatter Brain" by DJ Shadow.
"Sara" by Bob Dylan.
"Pyramind Song" by Radiohead.
"54 Cymru Beats" by Aphex Twin.
"Two Hearts in 3/4 Time" by The Avalanches.
"Like Hearts Swelling" by Polmo Polpo.
"Amo Bishop Roden" by Boards of Canada.
"Remind Me" by Röyksopp.

Cooooooooool, I'll download and listen to the ones I haven't heard. I'd expect the same from you, except you listen to music by album, so I shouldn't get my hopes up.

Songs that bear mentioning that will be ignored by the youth:

1. I've Got You Under My Skin - Frank Sinatra (1956/Songs for Swingin' Lovers)
2. One for My Baby - Frank Sinatra (1958/Frank Sinatra sings for Only the Lonely
3. Something - Frank Sinatra (1979/Triloy: Past, Present and Future)
4. Some Other Time - Tony Bennett with Bill Evans (1975/Tony Bennett Bill Evans Album)
5. So What - Miles Davis Sextet (1959/Kind of Blue)
6. But Beautiful - Billie Holiday (1958/Lady in Satin)
7. How High The Moon - Ella Fitzgerald (1960/Ella in Berlin)
8. Do Nothing 'Til You Hear From Me - Ella Fitzgerald with the Duke Ellington Orchestra (1957/Ella Fitzgerald sings the Duke Ellington Songbook)
9. Lush Life - John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman (1964/John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman)
10. Sing Sing Sing (Live) - Benny Goodman and His Orchestra (1938/The Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert)

Mike, tradition's overrated.

DVC, I'd only heard Dylan's number from your list; my favourite among the new is The Stooges'.

Anyway, my list has changed already.

I think its almost impossible for anybody to have a definitive top 10 but ive thought about mine and here they are..

Elvis-American Trilogy
Oasis- Whatever
Beatles-Day in the life
Elvis-Suspicious Minds
Bob Dylan-Changeing Of Guard
Bob Dylan-Hurricaine
RHCP-Don't Stop
Rolling Stones-Paint it black
Beatles-Rocky Raccoon
Ray Charles-I cant stop loving you

For me these kind of list are always hard to do as my mind goes blank when doing the list.

The guitar riff in that song is insane.

"Remind Me" by Royksopp is incredible, by the way. I didn't like that Mogwai one though. I think post-rock was just a phase for me; I can't stand it anymore.

And everywhere I go
there's always something to remind me
of another place and time
Where love that travelled far had found me

This song is absolutely wonderful.

Untrue. Baseless tradition with no purpose is overrated.

Those songs I've listed are songs that have something that most songs now-a-days lack: a heart and feelings and truth. I listed some alternatives that wouldn't have been mentioned on this list because they've earned mention and have stood the test of time. That's the mark of a truly great work of art, no? And if it remains true to us, then all the better.

I admire and highly regard the works of many more contemporary artists and groups like The Beatles or Pink Floyd or Bob Dylan or the Stones. They're important, all of them. That said, to me, tradition isn't overrated if it's still relevant to the times: love, loss, pain, disapointment and truth will always be relevant.

I was only kidding, Mike.

But for what it's worth, you're talking about pop music alone. That's fine, of course, but I must emphatically disagree with the notion that songs these days lack something that the past didn't.

That Royksopp song is in a Geico commercial, haha! I knew it sounded familiar.

Really? It always saddens me when I hear these things. It's like sharing a lover.

Here's the commercial:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=H02iwWCrXew

Haha, that's actually quite good. All is forgiven, then.

Well, I could also mention classical pieces.

Ravel, Rachmaninoff, Debbusy and men of that era intrest me the most and of course Copeland, Gershwin and Stravinsky and Samuel Barber.

Plz do. I'll gather some of my favorites, too.

Classical Pieces:

Rhapsody in Blue (Gershwin)
Concerto for Clarinet, Strings, Harp and Piano (Copeland)
Fur Elsie (Beethoven)
The Rite of Spring (Stravinsky)
Adagio to Strings (Barber)
1812 Overture (Tchaikovsky)
Bolero (Ravel)
The Blue Danube (Straus)
Winter: The Four Seasons (Vivaldi)
Nimrod: Enigma Variations (Elgar)