Best songs ever

I was thinking about what I wrote in the last post about my list of the "best songs ever." I've never come up with an actual list, but after I wrote that I thought it might be fun to try. So here are my Top 20 most favorite songs, the ones on my hard drive or in my CD collection that I listen to with great delight, the ones I turn the volume up on and start singing along with when no one's looking. I thought 20 was a good number, 10 would be too few, anything over that would be overkill since there are so many songs I like. There's a definite theme- a lot of classic rock, a lot of what I would refer to as "lush melancholy pop anthems." They are listed in no particular order, since ranking them would be a pointless and impossible task. Without further adieu:

• "Time After Time" Cyndi Lauper
• "Silver Spring" Fleetwood Mac
• "You Get What You Give" New Radicals
• "Roxanne" The Police
• "Wouldn't It Be Nice" The Beach Boys
• "Drive" The Cars
• "Just What I Needed" The Cars
• "Masquerade" Madonna
• "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" U2
• "One" U2
• "Sounds of Silence" Simon and Garfunkel
• "Brown-Eyed Girl" Van Morrison
• "Paperback Writer" The Beatles
• "Something" The Beatles
• "Let It Be" The Beatles
• "Tiny Dancer" Elton John
• "White Houses" Vanessa Carlton
• "Linger" The Cranberries
• "I Can't Tell You Why" The Eagles