Top 20 Songs? What Would You Do?

Question

What If?
You woke up tomorrow and were told that
there was a planet destroying asteroid
on a collision course with Earth.
and...
You were one of the few hundreds chosen to
live on a Martian colony that had been built in
secret
but...
Your(and yours alone) one responsibility
would be to choose 20 popular American
songs to be added to the colony's library of
music
you see...
Other people would have other
responsibilities such as; classical, patriotic
christmas, french, italian etc...
but...
You are the only one to pick this particular
genre of songs
and...
You can't duplicate artists or versions of
songs for example...picking two Michael
Jackson songs would not be allowed. And
for example...picking Proud Mary by Tina
Turner and Proud Mary by CCR would not
be allowed either.
What would your 20 be in no particular order?

Here are my top 20:
Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin
Imagine - John Lennon
I Will Always Love You - Whitney Houston
Signed, Sealed, Delivered - Stevie Wonder
Unchained Melody - Righteous Brothers
Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
Thriller - Michael Jackson
Somewhere Over The Rainbow - Judy Garland
Always Be My Baby - Mariah Carey
Free Bird - Lynard Skynard
I Love Rock And Roll - Joan Jett
Never Tear Us Apart - INXS
At Last - Etta James
All By Myself - Eric Carmen
Don’t Let The Sun Go Down On Me - Elton John
Fever - Ella Fitzgerald
Hotel California - The Eagles
The Voice Within - Christina Aguilera
Ironic - Alanis Morisette
And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going - Jennifer Holiday

Answer 1

I tried to pick from different decades... so here's what i came up with

1. Jailhouse Rock - Elvis
2. Hey Jude - The Beatles
3. H.- Tool
4. Bulls on Parage - Rage Against The Machine
5. Stairway to Heaven - Led Zepplin
6. Paint It Black - Rolling Stones
7. November Rain - Guns N Roses
8. Imagine - John Lennon
9. Dream On - Aerosmith
10. Baba O'Riley - The Who
11. One - U2
12. The Wall - Pink Floyd
13. It's The End Of The World As We Know It - R.E.M.
14. Enter Sandman - Metallica
15. Like A Prayer - Madonna
16. Freebird - Lynyrd Skynyrd
17. No Rain - Blind Melon
18. I Walk The Line - Johnny Cash
19. I Wanna Be Sedated - The Ramones
20. Welcome to Paradise - Green Day

Answer 2

Red Hot Chili Peppers! 1. Don't Forget Me 2. Minor Thing 3. Give It Away 4. Can't Stop 5. Dosed 6. She Looks To Me 7. Slow Cheetah 8. Under The Bridge 9. By The Way 10. Scar Tissue 11. This Is The Place 12. Otherside 13. Aeroplane 14. Californication 15. Dani California 16. Desecration Smile 17. Strip My Mind 18. The Zephyr Song 19. Tell Me Baby 20. Snow

Answer 3

1. Michael Jackson- Remember The Time
2. Shakira- Whenever wherever
3. Shaggy- It Wasn't Me
4. Vanilla Ice- Ice Ice Baby
5. The Proclaimers- 500 Miles (I'm Gonna Be)
6. Technotronic- Move This
7. Pearl Jam- Last Kiss
8. Celine Dion- My Heart Will Go On
9. Evanescence- My Immortal
10. Enrique Iglesias- Hero
11. Blind Melon- No Rain
12. Nirvana- Smeels Like Teen Spirit
13. Five For Fighting- 100 Years
14. Los Del Rio- Macarena
15. Natalie Imbruglia- Torn
16. Ricky Martin- Living La Vida Loca
17. Richard Marx- Hazard
18. Creed- With Arms Wide Open
19. Eurythmics- Sweet Dreams
20. Dido- Thank You

It was really hard only choosing one Michael Jackson song!!

♥♥We Love You Michael!!!!♥♥

Answer 4

Yesterday - The Beatles
Pink Moon - Nick Drake
Great Heights - The Postal Service
For Once in my Life - Stevie Wonder
Enjoy the Silence - Depeche Mode
New Slang - The Shins
Blower's Daughter - Damien Rice
Lola - The Kinks
When I Fall - Barenaked Ladies
Hey Ya - Black-eyed Peas
Take a Chance on Me - Abba
The Shining - Badly Drawn Boy
Silent All These Years - Tori Amos
Wise Up - Aimee Mann
Time After Time - Cyndi Lauper
Under the Milky Way - The Church
Hallelujah - Leonard Cohen
Birdhouse in Your Soul - They Might Be Giants
Any Song on Sea Change - Beck
Sweet Jane - The Velvet Underground

Answer 5

1. Rhapsody in Blue - George Gershwin
2. That's Life - Frank Senatra
3. Georgia - Ray Charles
4. Folsom Prison - Johnny Cash
5. The Christmas Song - Nat King Cole
6. Blue Rhondo Alla Turk - Dave Brubeck
7. People - Barbara Streistand
8. It ain't necessarily so - Herbie Mann
9. Piano Man - Billy Joel
10, Sherry - Four Seasons
11. Yesterday - Beatles
12. Raindrops keep falling on my head - B J Thomas
13. Only You - Platters
14. You Belong to me - Jo Stafford
15. LA Woman - Doors
16. Taken it easy - Eagles
17. I Left my Heart in Sanfrancisco - Tony Bennett
18. Heartbreak Hotel - Elvis Presley
19. Respect - Aretha Franklin
20. God Bless America - Ethel Merman

If you ask me a month from now I'd probanly give you a different list. There are just too many great songs out there to come up with 20 in a short time.

Answer 6

This is so hard for me I can list more than 20 songs. Anyways here is my 20 songs.

1. Save a Hore Ride a Cowboy-Big & Rich
2. How Do I Live-LeAnn Rimes
3. Yesterday-Mary Mary
4. Shadow-Ashlee Simpson
5. Halo-Bethany Joy Lenz (Haley Scott from One Tree Hill)
6. Bohemian Rhapsody-Queen
7. Pink-Aerosmith
8. Impossible-Christina Aguilera
9. Wikked Lil' Grrrls-Esthero
10. I'll Be-Edwin McCain
11. Fallin'-Alicia Keys
12. Dance, Dance-Fall Out Boy
13. Beep-Pussycat Dolls
14. Hail Mary-2Pac
15. Move Along-The All-American Rejects
16. Vertigo-U2
17. My Immortal-Evanescence
18. Cowboy-Kid Rock
19. So What-Field Mob
20. If This World Were Mine-Cheryl Lynn

Answer 7

Pras and Mya - Ghetto Supastar
Nas - Nas is Like
Chamillionaire - Ridin
DMX - X Gonna Give It To Ya
Dr. Dre - Still Dre
Guns N' Roses - November Rain
Metallica - One
Ludacris - What's Your Fantasy
2pac - Changes
Biggie - Juicy
Eminem - Superman
Led Zepplin - Stairway To Heaven
Deff Leppard - Animal
whitesnake - Here I Go Again
Jay Z - Sunshine
Ja Rule - Mesmerise
Busta Rhymes - Gimme Some More
Xzibit - Get Your Walk On
Luniz - I got 5 on it
meatloaf - i would do anything for love

Answer 8

1. Big Yellow Taxi - Counting Crows feat. Vanessa Carlton
2. My Grown Up Christmas List - Kelly Clarkson
3. Buttons - PCD
4. Call Me When You're Sober - Evanescance
5. Stars Are Blind - Paris Hilton
6. Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head - Burt Bacharach
7. Moon River - Frank Sinatra
8. Somewhere Out There - The Little Mermaid
9. Song Sung Blue - Neil Diamond
10. Blue Suede Shoes - Elvis
11. London Bridge - Fergie
12. Karma - Alicia Keys
13. Summer Sunshine - The Corrs
14. Invisible - Clay Aiken
15. Missisippi Girl - Faith Hill
16. Fur Elise - Beethoven
17. Yo Excuse Me Miss - Chris Brown
18. Burn - Usher
19. Angels - Vanessa Ann Hudgens
20. L.O.V.E - Ashlee Simpson

Wow... that was long...lol. Cool question man. Interesting...

Answer 9

1.death cab for cutie,ill follow you into the dark
2.my chemical romance,helana
3.fall out boy, a little less sixteen candles a little more touch me
4.panic at the disco,but its better if you do
5.nickelback, animals
6.weird al, albaquerky
7.rise aginst, ready to fall
8.beasty boys, brass monkey
9.blink 182, rock show
10.presidents of the united states of america,video killed the radio star
11.green day, basketcase
12.jimmy eat world, the middle
13.queen, bohemian rapcity
14.rammstien, du hast
15.simple plan, shut up
16.system of a down,hyonotize
17.angels and aireaves, do it for me now
18.rockentours, steady as she goes
19.taking back sunday, make dam sure
20.weezer, perfect situation

tough one i had a hard time...the songs are in a rough order

Answer 10

1.far away-nickleback
2.lips of an angel-hinder
3.too little too late-jojo
4.london bridge-fergie
5.i can't hate you anymore-nick lachey
6.some people-leann rimes
7.how to save a life-the fray
8.everytime i hear your name-keith anderson
9.before he cheats-carrie underwood
10.torn-letoya
11.right where you want me-jesse mccartney
12.findin' a good man-danielle peck
13.men and mascara-julie roberts
14.would you go with me-josh turner
15.mountains-lonestar
16.i know you see it-yung joc
17.amarillo sky-jason aldean
18.it's your love-tim mcgraw and faith hill
19.stickwitu-pussycat dolls
20.memories of us-keith urban