We recently listed are top 5 favorite Soul Asylum songs. Part 2 are numbers 6-12. Another way I look at is the songs I can listen to over and over again and not get tired of them. Post you previous 5 and your new ones; in any order.

Sometime to return
Cartoon
Marionette
Veil of tears
Success is not so sweet.

6-12 in no particular order...
Somebody To Shove
Long Way Home
Black Gold
Closer To The Stars
Oxygen
String of Pearls
spinning

CrazyLittleWoman wrote: Bittersweetheart (my very first favorite SA song -- and it's still my favorite)
The Sun Maid
Promises Broken (favorite Dan song)
Easy Street
Stranger (new favorite)

Again, only Bittersweetheart is ranked as first. The others (on both lists) are in no particular order.

So, here are the current 6-12 (subject to change according to mood and passage of a few weeks):

Masquerade
Closer to the Stars
Sometime to Return
Marionette
Something Out of Nothing
Brand New Shine
We 3

There should be some songs from GDU on here. I always forget stuff from GDU because I think of those songs as a unit. I almost always listen to the album as a whole and I like all the songs on it, so I forget to think of them individually as favorite songs.

There are also a lot of later songs that should be on this list. Oh, the pain of excluding other great songs.

How about a top 25 list? That would ease a lot of the sorrow.

First 5...
Never Really Been
Cartoon
Bittersweetheart
All Is Well
Oxygen

6-12...
Sometime To Return
Somebody To Shove
Bus Named Desire
Easy Street
Just Like Anyone
Crazy Mixed Up World
Misery

Oh yeah...No particular order...

Chains
Freaks
No Man's Land
Grounded
Twiddly Dee

p-9
Long Way Home
Cartoon
Made to be Broken
Spinnin'

Okay, maybe this is cheating because I never answered the top 5 question because it was too hard to narrow down, so here's 10 in no particular order:

Freaks
Never Really Been
Stranger (original version)
Caged Rat
Sometime to Return
Can't Go Back
Made to be Broken
P-9
Closer to the Stars
favorite new song Slowly Rising (live version) with All is Well as runner up

See, I still couldn't stick with 10 even. Sorry

My top 5:

Never Really Been
We 3
Freak Accident
Black Star
Lonely For You

6-12 (in no order again)

Without a Trace
Closer To The Stars
Slowly Rising
Sometime To Return
Nice Guys (Don't Get Paid)
Draggin' The Lake
Artificial heart

Not really sure of this at all, as my tastes change depending on my mood. I was thinking of songs I love to hear and, also would love to hear at shows. Artificial Heart has really grown on me, particularly after hearing the band do it at the Nyes show, it was just such a special moment. Slowly Rising and Sometime To Return are just two of the greatest rock songs the band has, they totally kick ass on them. Closer is obvious, Without a Trace has always been one of my favorite songs, especially the opening line. Nice Guys I would love to hear in concert.... been waiting a long time for that one. Draggin' the Lake is one of my favorites off CFAS, and i always liked that a lot. Honorable mention will go to What We're Dealing With, which got chopped off at the last second to add Artificial Heart.

Phil

(Top 5; not in any particular order)

All the King's Friends
Oxygen
Cartoon
Runaway Train
Sometime To Return

(6-12; not in any particular order either)

Stranger
Directions
Freak Accident
Artificial Heart
Closer To the Stars
Never Really Been
Easy Street