i was hoping that each of you could give me 5 songs that i should listen to. i'm not putting any stipulations on this, just give me 5 songs that will help me expand my music library. i'll try and listen to your guys' suggestions, and then get back to you. thanks, and i look forward to seeing your suggestions.
The Young New Mexican Puppeteer by Tom Jones. M-A-R-T-I-N-A by Phranc. Got My Mind Set On You George Harrison. Take It On The Run by REO Speedwagon. Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm by Crash Test Dummies. These 5 should cover the five worst songs in your little collection. Your welcome.
i've heard the last three. if the tom jones and the phranc song are half as bad, i think i'll save myself the torture of listening to them. then again...
The Amps- Pacer The Breeders- Huffer (theres another song called huffer by a band called the breeders thats totally different, and its pretty bad. the one im thinking of has a girl (kim deal) singing) Pixies- Debaser Ramones- Judy is a punk Modest mouse- Wild pack of family dogs
Pixies--Gigantic The Yardbirds--Heart Full of Soul Cream--White Room Al Green--Let's Stay Together Run DMC--Christmas in Hollis
i was going to suggest this one, partly becasue my band does a cover of it, but i didnt because i already had 2 kim deal songs on there.
Neil Young -- Cortez the Killer Slayer -- Mandatory Suicide John Williams -- Theme from "Jaws" Toni Basil -- Mickey Pantera -- &^%$*n' Hostile
the La's "There She Goes" John Coltrane "India" the Jam "Ghosts" Orbital "Belfast" Sly and The Family Stone "Family Affair" That should about cover it. History in a nutshell.
Okay, okay, I'll give you five great songs to go in as well. $10 Bill by Cop Shoot Cop. James Connolly by Black 47. Cultural Zero by Brainiac. Surrender remake by Paw. 13 Men by Miss Ann Margaret.
stranglers- golden brown 12 rods- girlsun built to spill- carry the zero the shins- girl on the wing jurassic 5- jurass finish first
What an interesting thread. Me And The Farmer by The Housemartins Little Musgrave by John Wesley Harding Up With People by Lambchop The Mortician's Daughter by Freedy Johnston 1963 Vincent Black Lightning by Richard Thompson
El Scorcho - Weezer You and Me - Big Bad Voodoo Daddy Digital Bath - Deftones Bar Room Hero - Dropkick Murphy's Special Olympics - Stephen Lynch
thanks for all of the replies so far, guys. i haven't heard of many of the songs, other than the weezer and deftones song. so, i am excited to hear the new stuff. if you haven't replied yet, do so, and i'll try to get all of the songs at once. thanks for your input. nathan
If the goal is to "expand" your collection, we'd have to know what you like already, but here are 5 from different genres: WORLD MUSIC "Aicha" - Cheb Khaled My favorite example of "Rai" music, a very cool fusion of Eastern (Arab/Berber) influences with modern Western pop. CLASSIC ROCK "Madame George" - Van Morrison In case your "Van Mo" exposure is limited to the overplayed stuff like "Brown Eyed Girl" or "Moondance." This long "story in song" is the center piece of his best (and one of my favorite of anyone) album, "Astral Weeks." PUNK/IRISH FOLK (admittedly, an obscure genre) "Fairytale of NY" - The Pogues with Kirsty McColl Fantastic duet with Shane and Kirsty about a drunk tank in NY on Christmas eve. If you haven't heard the Pogues, I'm not sure there's much like them out there. COUNTRY/FOLK (tie) "Angel From Montgomery" - John Prine and Bonnie Raitt Prine is way undervalued as a song writer, and his voice has a unique quality that harmonizes beautifully with Raitt here... "If You Were the Woman, and I Was the Man" - Cowboy Junkies w/John Prine ...and with Margot Timms here.
How Soon is Now By The Smiths The Irish Rover by the Pogues and the Dubliners Rocket to the Moon by Runrig In a Big Country by Big Country and Seasons in the Abyss by Slayer
Seven Minutes To Midnight - Wah Heat The Great Dominions - The Teardrop Explodes Poor Leno - Royksopp Open Heart Zoo - Martin Gretch Equator - Sparks
Heavenly "Tool" Slits "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" Mission of Burma "That's When I Reach For My Revolver" Modest Mouse "Teeth Like God's Shoeshine" Zombies "This Will Be Our Year"
Lesser-known songs by fairly well known bands Rammstein: "Links (Zwo Drei Vier)" The Who: "Eminence Front" Megadeth: "A Tout Le Monde" U2: "Bad" Ministry: "Thieves" Great Covers: Kenny Wayne Shepherd: "Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)" Type O Negative: "Black Sabbath" Metallica: "Turn The Page" Godhead: "Eleanor Rigby"
Boards Of Canada- "In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country" from In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country The only song this band(?) should have recorded. Sublime. Anti-Pop Consortium- "9.99" from Tragic Epilogue The worlds most inconsistent experimental/furturist/primitivist rap collective has a lot of great songs, but this is one of the more accesable ones. Lee "Scratch" Perry/The Gatherers- "Words Of My Mouth" from Words Of My Mouth There are many, many versions of this song, but the Gatherers version is far and away the best. Lee Perry is a bad man. Thelonius Monk- "Japanese Folk Song (Kojo No Tsuki)" Straight, No Chaser Goddamn, this is such a great song. Too bad an ex-girlfriend ruined it for me. Morton Feldman- "Piano and string Quartet" Piano and String Quartet OK, this technically isn't really a song, per se, but I consider it an absolutely essential part of my listening collection. Cannibal Ox- "Iron Galaxy" Cold Vein So this makes six, but I'm not counting the last one since it's not a song. plus, I couldn't really leave this off. If i could only listen to one rap album, it would be Cold Vein.
Tom Waits -- The Eyeball Kid Mike Ness -- Charmed Life The Bottle Rockets -- Indiannapolis Joe Ely -- Up on the Ridge Elmore James -- Rollin' and Tumblin'
Frame by Frame-King Crimson Elegant People-Mark Varney Project Wings of Time-Toto Got Tuh B-Tribal Tech Green Earrings-Steely Dan
From the 1980's Mr. Pharmacist - The Fall Dirty Boulevard - Lou Reed Taste of Cindy - Jesus & Mary Chain Independence Day - David Byrne Teenage Riot - Sonic Youth From the 1990's Let's Go Bowling - Lambchop Seeing Other People - Belle & Sebastian Autumn Sweater - Yo La Tengo Range Life - Pavement Song Against Sex - Neutral Milk Hotel From the 2000's Silver Lining - Beulah Dress Sexy At My Funeral - Smog Ballad of Cable Hogue - Calexico Shiver - Giant Sand I Think I Need a New Heart - Magnetic Fields Murf
Megadeth--the song was a single, performed on Letterman, and included on their greatest hits and double live album, not terribly obscure (good cut though) KWS--love him, but nobody out-covers Jimi better than SRV, I'll take Stevie's Voodoo Chile over anyone's, including Jimi. Now for my 5, all instrumental, what the hell "Kill the guy with the ball"--Steve Vai "Love Thing"--Joe Satriani "Trademark"--Eric Johnson "Linus and Lucy"--Gary Hoey "Farm Fiddlin'"--Zakk Wylde
1. "Blue Collar Love" - Starflyer 59 2. "Clogger" - 16 Horsepower 3. "Little Faces" - Oysterhead 4. "Extreme North of the Compass" - Vigilantes of Love 5. "Shake" - KODO Since I can never stick to the limit: 6. "Alive Again" - Trey Anastasio 7. "Letter From A Concerned Follower" - Pedro the Lion 8. "How We Flow" - Soul Junk 9. "The Latest & The Greatest" - Luxury 10. "Goldbrickin'" - The Del McCoury Band