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	The Man With The Child In His Eyes	Kate Bush
4	The Gates Of Delirium	Yes
5	Close To The Edge	Yes
6	Lark's Tongues in Aspic part II	King Crimson
7	Highest	Hillsong
8	Goliath	Karnivool
9	Tin Soldier	Small Faces
10	Knowing Me, Knowing You	ABBA
11	The Name Of The Game	ABBA
12	Laughing	David Crosby
13	Agnus Dei	Michael W Smith
14	Slave To The Rhythm	Grace Jones
15	Southern Man	Neil Young
16	One Of Our Submarines	Thomas Dolby
17	Trapped	Utopia
18	Schoolboy Crush	Average White Band
19	Aller Plus Haut	Tina Arena
20	You Keep Me Hanging On	Vanilla Fudge
21	Hiroshima	Utopia
22	Your Love	Lakewood Church
23	Thursday's Child	David Bowie
24	Last Goodbye	Jeff Buckley
25	MacArthur Park	Richard Harris
26	Elouise	Barry Ryan
27	Cloudbusting	Kate Bush
28	Dance With My Father	Luther Vandross
29	Themata	Karnivool
30	Nights On Broadway	The Bee Gees
31	Song for Athene	John Tavener
32	If I Didn't Love You	Tina Arena
33	Early Warning	Baby Animals
34	Revelation Song	Kari Jobe
35	Mr Big	Free
36	I'm Losing You	The Faces
37	Galveston	Jimmy Web
38	Sleeping Child	Debra Byrne
39	If It Be Your Will	Leonard Cohen with the Webb Sisters
40	Love Child	The Supremes

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