Tournament Of Short Songs (Suggestions)

Just ordered the list of selections. Including the addition of The Jam - Going Underground from me, we have 550 songs.

A.S.a.P. - The Lion
AC/DC - Back In Black
AC/DC - Fire Your Guns
AC/DC - High Voltage
AC/DC - Highway to Hell
AC/DC - Moneytalks
AC/DC - Thunderstruck
AC/DC - Who Made Who
AC/DC — Bad Boy Boogie
AC/DC — Dog Eat Dog
AC/DC — Guns for Hire
Accept — Fast As a Shark
After Forever - Energize Me
After Forever - Follow in the Cry
Alestorm - Keelhauled
Alestorm - Over the Seas
Alestorm - Wenches & Mead
Alice in Chains - Them Bones
Alice in Chains — Man in a Box
Alice in Chains — Would
Alter Bridge - Addicted To Pain
Alter Bridge - Ties That Bind
Amon Amarth - Asator
Amon Amarth - Cry of the Blackbirds
Amon Amarth - Free Will Sacrifice
Amon Amarth - Live for the Kill
Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder God
Amorphis - Black Winter Day
Amorphis - First Doom
Amorphis - In the Beginning
Amorphis - Into Hiding
Amorphis - Magic and Mayhem
Amorphis — You I Need
Anthrax - Caught In A Mosh
Anthrax - Got The Time
Anthrax - Hy Pro Glo
Anthrax - What Doesn't Die
Anthrax — Only
Armored Saint - Book of Blood
Armored Saint - False Alarm
Armored Saint - March of the Saint
Armored Saint - Nervous Man
Armored Saint - Raising Fear
Armored Saint - Reign of Fire
Armored Saint - Tribal Dance
Armored Saint - Warzone
Ashes of Ares - Dead Man's Plight
Ashes of Ares - The Answer
Asia - Go
Asia - Heat of the Moment
At the Gates - Blinded By Fear
At the Gates - Cold
At the Gates - Forever Blind
At The Gates - Under A Serpent Sun
Avenged Sevenfold - Almost Easy
Bad Brains - Right Brigade
Bad Company - Bad Company
Bad Religion - American Jesus
Bad Religion - Them and Us
Black Sabbath - Danger Zone
Black Sabbath - In for the Kill
Black Sabbath - Neon Knights
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Black Sabbath - The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
Black Sabbath - The Mob Rules
Black Sabbath - TV Crimes
Black Sabbath — Turn Up the Night
BLAZE - Ghost in the Machine
BLAZE - Kill and Destroy
Blaze - Ten Seconds
Blaze - The Brave
Blaze - Watching the Night Sky
Blind Guardian - Beyond the Ice
Blind Guardian - Into the Storm
Blind Guardian - Lord of the Rings
Blind Guardian - Theatre of Pain
Blue Oyster Cult - Burnin For You
Blue Oyster Cult - Godzilla
Blue Oyster Cult - This Aint the Summer of Love
Blue Oyster Cult — ETI
Body Count - Body Count's in the House
Body Count - Violent Demise
Bon Jovi - Living On A Prayer
Bon Jovi - You Give Love a Bad Name
Boston - More Than A Feeling
Brainstorm - Revenant
Bruce Dickinson - Abduction
Bruce Dickinson - Accident of Birth
Bruce Dickinson - Chemical Wedding
Bruce Dickinson - Silver Wings
Bruce Dickinson - Soul Intruders
Candlebox - Arrow
Candlebox - Don't You
CCR - Fortunate Son
Children of Bodom - Better off Dead
Children of Bodom - Bodom Beach Terror
Children of Bodom - Everytime I Die
Children of Bodom - Hatebreeder
Children of Bodom - Lake Bodom
Chris Cornell - Can't Change Me
Chris Cornell - When I'm Down
Clutch - Burning Beard
Clutch - Crucial Velocity
Clutch - Cypress Grove
Clutch - The Devil and Me
Clutch - The Elephant Riders
Clutch - The Incomparable Mr. Flannery
Clutch - The Mob Goes Wild
Coheed and Cambria - The Running Free
Coheed and Cambria — Gravemakers and Gunslingers
Coheed and Cambria — Mothers of Men
Coheed and Cambria — Ten Speed of God's Blood and Burial
Coheed and Cambria — The Running Free
Coheed and Cambria — The Suffering
Cold Chisel - Khe Sanh
Corrosion of Conformity - Clean My Wounds
Corrosion of Conformity - Congratulations Song
Corrosion of Conformity - Drowning in a Daydream
Corrosion of Conformity - King of the Rotten
Corrosion of Conformity - Vote With a Bullet
Death - Pull The Plug
Deep Purple - Black Night
Deep Purple - Space Truckin'
Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus
Diamond Head - Lightning to the Nations
Dimmu Borgir - Spellbound (By the Devil)
Dio - Death by Love
Dio - I Speed at Night
Dio - Lord of the Last Day
Dio - One More For the Road
Dio - Rainbow In The Dark
Dio - Stand Up and Shout
Dio - This Is Your Life
Dio — Evil Eyes
Dio — Just Another Day
Dire Straits - Lady Writer
Dire Straits - Where Do You Think You're Going?
Dire Straits — Lady Writer
Disturbed - Stricken
Domine - Thunderstorm
Donnie Iris — Ah Leah
Down - Stone the Crow
Dream Theater - Another Day
Dream Theater - One Last Time
Dream Theater - The Looking Glass
Dream Theater - Vacant
Dream Theater - Wait for Sleep
Dream Theater- The Silent Man
Edguy - Key to My Fate
Edguy - Power and Majesty
Elvis Presley - A Little Less Conversation
Exodus - Bonded by Blood
Exodus - Piranha
Faith No More - Digging the Grave
Fates Warning - One
Fight - Gretna Greene
Fleetwood Mac - Go Your Own Way
Fleetwood Mac - Rhiannon
FM - That Girl
Foo Fighters - Everlong
Foo Fighters - Monkey Wrench
Foo Fighters - My Hero
Foo Fighters - Up in Arms
Foo Fighters - Wind Up
Foo Fighters — No Way Back
Foo Fighters — Walk
Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out
Gamma Ray - Dethrone Tyranny
Gamma Ray - Land of the Free
Gamma Ray - Men Martians and Machines
Gamma Ray - The Heart of the Unicorn
Gary Moore — After the War
Gary Moore — Out in the Fields
Gary Moore — Wild Frontier
Gates of Ishtar - A Bloodred Path
Gates of Ishtar - Into Seasons of Frost
Genesis - Afterglow
Genesis - Home by the Sea
Genesis - Keep It Dark
Genesis - Land of Confusion
Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
Genesis - Turn It On Again
Gorefest - Get-A-Life
Gorefest - The Glorious Dead
Grave Digger - Excalibur
Grave Digger - Knights of the Cross
Grave Digger - Rebellion (The Clans Are Marching)
Grave Digger - Scotland United
Green Day - Basket Case
Green Day - Brain Stew
Green Day - Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)
Green Day - Hitchin' A Ride
Green Day - Longview
Green Day - Welcome to Paradise
Green Day - When I Come Around
Guns N' Roses - Mr. Brownstone
Guns N' Roses - Right Next Door to Hell
Guns' N Roses - Dead Horse
Hagar Schon Aaronson Shreve — Missing You
Halford - Crucible
Halford - Hell's Last Survivor
Halford - Resurrection
Halford - Saviour
Halford — Heart of A Lion
Halford — Resurrection
Hammerfall - The Dragon Lies Bleeding
Hawkwind- Silver Machine
Helloween - A Little Time
Helloween - Forever And One
Helloween - I Want Out
Helloween - I'm Alive
Helloween - If I Could Fly
Helloween - Murderer
Helloween - Push
Helloween - Sole Survivor
Helloween - The Chance
Helloween - Twilight of the Gods
Helloween - Warrior
Helmet - Unsung
Iced Earth - Birth of the Wicked
Iced Earth - Burning Times
Iced Earth - I Died For You
Iced Earth - Last December
Iced Earth - Red Baron/ Blue Max
Iced Earth - Slave to the Dark
Iced Earth - The Hunter
Iced Earth - Vengeance is Mine
Immortal - Blashyrkh (Mighty Ravendark)
In Flames - Episode 666
In Flames - Ever Dying
In Flames - Stand Ablaze
Iron Maiden - Futureal,
Iron Maiden - Wrathchild
Iron Savior - Atlantis Falling
Iron Savior - Riding on Fire
Jacob's Dream - Kinescope
Jacob's Dream - The Warning
Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower
Jimi Hendrix - Fire
Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American
Jimmy Eat World - The Middle
Joe Satriani - Always With Me, Always With You
Joe Satriani - Ceremony
Joe Satriani - Chords of Life
Joe Satriani - Mind Storm
Joe Satriani - Redshift Riders
Joe Satriani - The Extremist
Joe Satriani - Three Sheets to the Wind
Joe Satriani - Up in the Sky
Judas Priest _ Reckless
Judas Priest - Breaking the Law
Judas Priest - Dissident Aggressor
Judas Priest - Down in Flames
Judas Priest - Freewheel Burning
Judas Priest - Heading Out to the Highway
Judas Priest - Hell Bent For Leather,
Judas Priest - Jawbreaker
Judas Priest - Rapid Fire
Judas Priest - Reckless
Judas Priest - Running Wild
Judas Priest - The Green Manalishi (With the Two-Pronged Crown)
Judas Priest - The Hellion/Electric Eye
Judas Priest - Tyrant
Judas Priest — Diamonds and Rust
Judas Priest — Green Manalishi
Judas Priest — Hell Patrol
Judas Priest — Riding on the Wind
Kamelot - A Sailorman's Hymn
Kamelot - Farewell
Kamelot - Forever
Kamelot - Ghost Opera
Kamelot - Lost & Damned
Kamelot - Sacrimony (Angel of Afterlife)
Kamelot - Soul Society
Kamelot - The Black Halo
Kansas - Carry On Wayward Son
Kansas - The Wall
Kenny Loggins - Danger Zone
Killers - Impaler
Killers - The Beast Arises
King’s X — Complain (35.30)
King’s X — Prisoner
Kiss - Detroit Rock City
Kiss - Love Gun
Kiss - Only You
Kiss - Sure Know Something
Kiss - The Oath
Kiss — Love Gun
Kiss — Strutter
Labyrinth - Heaven Denied
Labyrinth - Living in a Maze
Lamb Of God - Laid To Rest
Led Zeppelin - Immigrant Song
Led Zeppelin - Living Loving Maid
Led Zeppelin - Rock & Roll
Living Colour - Cult Of Personality
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Gimmie Three Steps
Lynyrd Skynyrd - What's Your Name
Magnum - Kingdom of Madness
Magnum - Soldier of the Line
Magnum - The Prize
Magnum - The Spirit
Manowar - Death Tone
Manowar - Metal Daze
Mars Volta - The Widow
Mastodon - Blasteroid
Mastodon — Curl of the Burl
Matthew Good Band — Hello Time Bomb
Megadeth - A Tout Le Monde
Megadeth - Angry Again
Megadeth - Countdown to Extinction
Megadeth - Dread and the Fugitive Mind
Megadeth - Kick the Chair
Megadeth - Lucretia
Megadeth - Mechanix
Megadeth - Peace Sells
Megadeth - She-Wolf
Megadeth - Skin O' My Teeth
Megadeth - Symphony of Destruction
Megadeth - Take No Prisoners
Megadeth - Train of Consequences
Metallica - Fight Fire With Fire
Metallica - Fuel
Metallica - Hit The Lights
Metallica - Motorbreath
Metallica - The Memory Remains
Metallica - Through the Never
Metallica - Whiplash
Michael Jackson - Beat It
Midnight Oil - Beds are Burning
Midnight Oil - Blue Sky Mine
Midnight Oil - Forgotten Years
Midnight Oil - Progress
Midnight Oil - Read About it
Monster Magnet — Negasonic Teenage Warhead
Montrose - I Got The Fire
Montrose — Bad Motor Scooter
Motley Crue - Home Sweet Home
Motorhead - Ace Of Spades
Motorhead - Iron Fist
Motorhead — Bomber
Muse - Hysteria
Muse - Supermassive Black Hole
Muse - Time is Running Out
My Dying Bride - The Forever People
Napalm Death - Mass Appeal Madness
Napalm Death - Unchallenged Hate
Napalm Death - You Suffer
Nightwish - Amaranth
Nightwish - Bye Bye Beautiful
Nightwish - Dark Chest of Wonders
Nightwish - Dead to the World
Nightwish - Nemo
Nightwish - Stargazers
Nightwish - Wish I Had an Angel
Nirvana - Come As You Are
Nocturnal Rites - Eternity Holds
Nocturnal Rites - Lost in Time
Nuclear Assault - Hang the Pope
Oasis - Acquiesce
Oasis - Don't Look Back in Anger
Oasis - Wonderwall
Operator - The Only One
Opeth - Benighted
Opeth - Coil
Opeth - Hope Leaves
Opeth - Slither
Opeth - The Lines In My Hand
Ozzy Ozzbourne - Bark at the Moon
Pantera - Cowboys from Hell
Pantera - Mouth for War
Paradise Lost - I See Your Face
Peter Gabriel - Moribund The Burgermeister
Peter Gabriel — Solsbury Hill
Phil Collins - Easy Lover
Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall
Pink Floyd - Hey You
Pink Floyd - Run Like Hell
Pink Floyd - Waiting for the Worms
Police — Can’t Stand Losing You
Powderfinger - (Baby I've Got You) On My Mind
Powderfinger - My Happiness
Primal Fear - Chainbreaker
Primal Fear - Silver and Gold
Primal Fear - Visions of Fate
Primal Rock Rebellion - No Place Like Home
Primus - My Name is Mud
Primus - Tommy the Cat
Pyramaze - A Beautiful Death
Pyramaze - Year of the Phoenix
Queen - Another One Bites the Dust
Queen - Death On Two Legs
Queen - Don't Stop Me Now
Queen - Killer Queen
Queen - Stone Cold Crazy
Queen - The Show Must Go On
Queen - We Are the Champions
Queen — Dragon Attack
Queens of the Stone Age - No One Knows
Queensrÿche - I Don't Believe in Love
Queensryche - Queen of the Reich
Queensryche - Spreading the Disease
Queensryche — Walk in the Shadows
Rage Against the Machine - Bulls on Parade
Rage Against the Machine - Guerilla Radio
Rainbow - Black Sheep of the Family
Rainbow - Kill the King
Rainbow - Long Live Rock 'N' Roll
Rainbow - Self Portrait
Rainbow - Starstruck
Rammstein - Du Hast
Rammstein - Sonne
Ratt- Lay it Down
ReVamp - Head Up High
ReVamp - Wild Card
Running Wild - Final Gates
Running Wild - Port Royal
Running Wild - Soldiers of Hell
Rush - Beneath Between and Behind
Rush - Closer to the Heart
Rush - Distant Early Warning
Rush - Driven
Rush - Fly By Night
Rush - Limelight
Rush - Passage to Bangkok
Rush - The Enemy Within
Rush - Tom Sawyer
Rush - YYZ
Rush — A Passage to Bangkok
Russell Allen - Atomic Soul
Russell Allen - Loosin' You
Russell Allen - Voodoo Hand
Sabaton - Carolus Rex
Sabaton - Coat of Arms
Sabaton - Far From the Fame
Sabaton - Gott Mit Uns
Sabaton - Night Witches
Sabaton - No Bullets Fly
Sabaton - Poltava
Sabaton - Screaming Eagles
Sabaton - The Final Solution
Sabaton - To Hell And Back
Sabaton - Uprising
Samson - Hammerhead
Samson - Hunted
Samson - Take Me to Your Leader
Samson - Too Close to Rock
Samson - Vice Versa
Saxon - And the Bands Played On
Saxon - Dragon's Lair
Saxon - Ministry of Fools
Saxon - Princess of the Night
Saxon — Ride Like the Wind
Scar Symmetry - 2012: The Demise Of The 5th Sun
Scar Symmetry - Chaosweaver
Scar Symmetry - Mind Machine
Scar Symmetry - Pitch Black Progress
Scorpions - Blackout
Sepultura - Refuse/Resist
Sevendust - Black
Sevendust - Praise
Seventh Wonder - A Day Away
Seventh Wonder - Long Way Home
Seventh Wonder - Walking Tall
Sick Of It All - Injustice System
Skid Row - 18 and Life
Skid Row - Monkey Business
Skid Row - Slave to the Grind
Skid Row - Youth Gone Wild
Slayer - Ghosts of War
Slayer - Necrophiliac
Slayer - Raining Blood
Slayer - South Of Heaven
Slayer - War Ensemble
Soilwork - As We Speak
Soilwork - Shadowchild
Soilwork - The Chainheart Machine
Soundgarden - Burden in My Hand
Soundgarden - Rusty Cage
Soundgarden - Spoonman
Soundgarden — Kickstand
Stratovarius - Hunting High and Low
Stratovarius - S.O.S.
Styx - Renegade
Symphony X - Absence of Light
Symphony X - Frontiers
Symphony X - In the Dragon's Den
Symphony X - Incantations of the Apprentice
Symphony X - Of Sins and Shadows
Symphony X - Out of the Ashes
Symphony X - Sea of Lies
Symphony X - The Damnation Game
Symphony X - The Sacrifice
Symphony X - The Turning
System of a Down - BYOB
System of a Down - Chop Suey
Temple of the Dog - Hunger Strike
The Angels — Blood on the Moon
The Angels — Take A Long Line
The Automatic - Monster
The Beatles - Helter Skelter
The Beatles - While My Guitar Gently Weeps
The Clash - Rock the Casbah
The Company Band - Zombie Barricades
The Cult - Love Removal Machine
The Cult - Rise
The Cult - She Sells Sanctuary
The Cult - Wild Flower
The Jam - Going Underground
The Scorpions - Rock You Like A Hurricane
The Scorpions — 321
The Scorpions — Blackout
The Scorpions — No One Like You
The Scorpions — Pictured Life
The Stranglers - No More Heroes
The Who - Behind Blue Eyes
The Who - The Seeker
The Who — The Real Me
Thin Lizzy - Are You Ready
Thin Lizzy - Cold Sweat
Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak
Thin Lizzy - The Boys Are Back In Town
Thin Lizzy — Bad Reputation
Thin Lizzy — The Warrior
Thin Lizzy — Waiting For an Alibi
Thrice - All That's Left
Thrice - Deadbolt
Thrice - Image of the Invisible
Tierra Santa - Alas de Fuego
Tierra Santa - Azote de Dios
Tierra Santa - Drácula
Tierra Santa - Sangre de Reyes
Timo Kotipelto - Lord of Eternity
Timo Kotipelto - Reasons
Trail of Tears - Enigma of the Absolute
Trail of Tears - The Daughters of Innocence
Triumph — Never Say Never
UFO - Can You Roll Her
UFO - Doctor Doctor
Van Halen - Ain't Talking About Love
Van Halen - Drop Dead Legs
Van Halen - Hot For Teacher
Van Halen - Panama
Van Halen - Unchained
Velvet Revolver -Slither
Venom - Welcome To Hell
Virgin Steele - Twilight of the Gods
Whitesnake - Here I Go Again
Y&T — Mean Streak
ZZ Top - La Grange

There's always a chance I may have made an error somewhere.
 
Thanks @RTC. I think there's enough songs in the game, so time for suggesting is over :) Now the job of going through all the songs starts. Don't edit your posts, or change anything, it'd get confusing. If you really want to suggest another song, post a new post.
 
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Oh btw, going through the thread, I'll clear it up: I won't be taking into account who picked which song. So it's possible all your songs get into the game and it's also possible none of them get in :) However, only about 1/4 of the songs suggested in this thread will get into the game. There's like 600 songs in the list and I've yet to add my own songs. It's gonna be hell of a job.

Also, thinking about the format of the game. Preliminary idea:
5 songs with YouTube links (in the vein of Forostar's game) per round, only one goes through. You vote for your favorites. 32 rounds, which adds up to 160 songs.
But it's only an idea, I've yet to start cutting down the songs.
 
Basically, it's my choice which songs will end up in the game, and I'm picking them from the list RTC posted. There really is no other option, since there's 600 songs suggested. However, I'm not gonna go and pick only my favorite songs or only my favorite bands. Hell, I crossed off Ashes Of Ares completely :D I'll try to put as many bands as possible, but of course, Judas Priest or AC/DC or Black Sabbath will have more songs than some lesser known band.

Right now I'm in the process of cutting down the amount of songs per band.

One more thing is that some bands will have multiple songs but I'm gonna try to cover all their different eras. For example:
Black Sabbath - at least one song with Ozzy, at least one song with Dio, at least one song with Tony Martin.

Any suggestions/objections? :D
 
That works for me. The only thing I'd suggest is try to make nice mixture of well known and lesser known songs. Maybe a balance of styles too, e.g. 70's classic rock and 90's metal.
 
There's like 600 songs in the list and I've yet to add my own songs. It's gonna be hell of a job.

Here's a thought to make your life easier: throw out all the songs that are more than four minutes long -- because they aren't "short"!! I know that's a change to the initial parameters, but it would certainly narrow things down and probably would be more representative of at least the thread title, if nothing else.

Either way, this sounds like a fun game.
 
I'll think about it when I finalize the first cutting of the list :D

So far it's going pretty good, I added about 100 of my own songs, taking the list up to 700 songs. So far 200 made the list, 250 left to go through, the rest was cut.
 
Here's a thought to make your life easier: throw out all the songs that are more than four minutes long -- because they aren't "short"!!
Good luck checking out the length of 700 songs.

I'll think about it when I finalize the first cutting of the list :D

So far it's going pretty good, I added about 100 of my own songs, taking the list up to 700 songs. So far 200 made the list, 250 left to go through, the rest was cut.
Could you post yours please, so that we can follow how things are going (which are selected and which not). Unless all the selection ought to be surprises of course.
 
I mixed my list with RTC's list, so I don't have it separated. However, I think I'll need some help with further cutting, more like a second opinion, so after I'm done with first cutting, I plan on sending the list to you and @Mosh (if you guys are interested).
 
I realize that I have thrown in a few relatively unknown songs, but I am confident that some of them could do well, since they have pretty captivating melodies/guitar riffs/solos. I'd love to share them with you guys and see how they take part. I'd be willing to cut out songs from bands where I have more than two choices (or even delete entire bands) in order to keep some material from lesser known bands. Not sure if we can make a "deal" here, you decided the rules and make the final say of course. :)
 
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How I'm dealing with bands I don't know: if there's a lot (more than 4) songs, I pick the ones that are in bold (Knick and Foro did this). If there's just one or two, I move them all to the shortlist, to deal with them later.
 
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