My Top 40 Favourite Music Pieces

I have thought long and hard about my 40 favourite musical pieces.

From time to time I revise the list, but my top 20 is pretty stable.

My tastes are varied, with prog, gospel, heavy, pop, disco, soul, funk, grunge, tear jerkers and classical favourites from a wide range of decades making it into my list. The music affects my head, my ears, my heart, and my feet, and sometimes all four.

I include links to YouTube videos that existed when I last updated this page, but as YouTube often take down videos I can't guarantee they will still work now.

Rank	Song (click to open video in new tab)	Artist
1	Heart Of The Sunrise	Yes
2	The Day Before You Came	ABBA
3	Lark's Tongues in Aspic part II	King Crimson
4	The Man With The Child In His Eyes	Kate Bush
5	The Gates Of Delirium	Yes
6	Close To The Edge	Yes
7	Tin Soldier	Small Faces
8	Agnus Dei	Michael W Smith
9	Slave To The Rhythm	Grace Jones
10	Highest	Hillsong
11	Goliath	Karnivool
12	Knowing Me, Knowing You	ABBA
13	Thursday's Child	David Bowie
14	Laughing	David Crosby
15	Southern Man	Neil Young
16	The Name Of The Game	ABBA
17	One Of Our Submarines	Thomas Dolby
18	Cloudbusting	Kate Bush
19	Schoolboy Crush	Average White Band
20	MacArthur Park	Richard Harris
21	Aller Plus Haut	Tina Arena
22	Your Love	Lakewood Church
23	Hiroshima	Utopia
24	Revelation Song	Kari Jobe
25	Dance With My Father	Luther Vandross
26	You Keep Me Hanging On	Vanilla Fudge
27	Last Goodbye	Jeff Buckley
28	Song for Athene	John Tavener
29	Early Warning	Baby Animals
30	A Man Needs A Maid	Neil Young
31	If I Didn't Love You	Tina Arena
32	Elouise	Barry Ryan
33	Themata	Karnivool
34	Mr Big	Free
35	I'm Losing You	The Faces
36	If It Be Your Will	Leonard Cohen with the Webb Sisters
37	Sleeping Child	Debra Byrne
38	Simple Boy	Karnivool
39	No Sad Thoughts His Soul Affright (from Hodie)	R Vaughan Williams
40	Nights On Broadway	The Bee Gees

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