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10 track compilations
Many compilations are over long or have some filler. I have toyed with idea of 10 track playlists for certain bands on my IPOD. The following are 10 track compilations for my overall 3 favourite artists. I have tried wherever possible to avoid the obvious but on occasion a song is too good to leave out:-
Steely Dan
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Sign in Stranger
Bodhisattva
Charlie Freak
Barrytown
Everyones gone to the movies
Green Earrings
Kid Charlemagne
Cousin Dupree
Rikki dont lose that number
Hey nineteen
Richard Thompson
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Shoot out the lights (live)
Never again
Keep your distance
Tear stained letter
I misunderstood
I feel so good
Walking the long miles home
Beeswing
Flee as a bird
The End of the Rainbow
Elvis Costello
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Sulky Girl
Episode of blonde
Greenshirt
Accidents will happen
Man out of time
Suit of lights
The Scarlet Tide
After the fall
Psycho (acoustic version)
I'll wear it proudly
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Dylan
Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands
All Along The Watchtower
Oxford Town
Buckets of Rain
Changing of the Guards
Idiot Wind (Hard Rain version)
Saved
Handy Dandy
Cold Irons Bound
Mississippi
Phew!
This is fun...
Workingman's Blues #2
Po'Boy
Ye Shall Be Changed
Isis
Cat's In The Well
Tangled Up In Blue
The Groom's Still Waiting At The Altar
Subterranean Homesick Blues
Jokerman
Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat
Lily
Rosemary & jack Of Hearts
Things Have Changed
Most Of The Time
Positively Fourth Street
Not dark Yet
Just Like A Woman
Ballad Of A Thin Man
Deolation Row
Thunder On the Mountain
Don't Think Twice Its Alright
Why no Hiaitian Divorce?
My SD favourite track
A noble choice...
Uncle. Possibly my favouite guitar playing of all.
My Dan 10 today
"Katy Lied" - the album
Bravo!
...well said!
I have always regarded HD
as the most unrepresentative of all Steely Dan's songs. Think about it - a cod-reggae number with additional Frampton style Gizmo solo - and it was a single!
It's not really Cod-Reggae
in that it may use the same rock-steady beat, but the vocals don't have any affectation (A la Sting?), and the subject matter is more Latin (with bits of French thrown in for good measure) than pure Caribbean.
The 'giszmo'd' /wah-wah guitar is still technically a stand-out solo in its timing, feel and execution.
There rests the case for the defence M'Lud.
Quintessence
...Giants (live version from forthcoming QE Hall '71 CD)
...er, that takes us up to 40 minutes, so can we leave it at one track?
My Costello would be
Alison
Watching the Detectives
New Lace Sleeves
Man out of Time
Baby Plays Around
So Like Candy
Complicated Shadows
In the Darkest Place
The River in Reverse
I Felt the Chill Before the Winter Came
But heck no Almost Blue, no Pump it Up, no New Amsterdam or Watch Your Step, no God Give Me Strength...ok, let me get back to you
My Costello would be
Alison
Riot Act
I Still Have That Other Girl
Country Darkness
I Hope That You're Happy Now
Couldn't Call it Unexpected (No 4)
The Other End of the Telescope
Indoor Fireworks
The River in Reverse
Beyond Belief
Almost impossible but
I want You
Couldn't Call It Unexpected No.4
When I Was Cruel No.2
Man Out Of Time
The Invisible Man
Party Girl
Kintg Horse
Rockinghorse Road
Lipstick Vogue
So Like Candy
I Want To Vanish
A 10 track Costello Compilation
with no New Amsterdam?
This track and (just about) any other 9 for me
great idea!
I will give some thought to how I would represent The Ramones and The Fleshtones in this ...
and while I think you have chosen an interesting 10 for Steely Dan, I may offer a view once I have considered it!
Tonight, my Dan Ten goes
Doctor Wu
Time Out of Mind
Showbiz Kids
Any Major Dude
Home at Last
Only a Fool Would Say That
The Caves of Altamira
The Royal Scam
Deacon Blues
My Old School
The Fall
The Classical
Blindness
Wings
New Face in Hell
Fortress/Deer Park
The Man Whose Head Expanded
My Ex-Classmates' Kids
Carry Bag Man
Container Drivers
(We Are) Mod Mock Goth
Bob
I'll pile in with a my Bob Marley selection....
Small Axe
Rastaman Live Up
Trenchtown Rock (Live)
Who The Cap Fit
Redemption Song
Natural Mystic
Stir It Up
One Drop
Bend Down Low
400 Years
A Zep 10
Good Times, Bad Times
The Lemon Song
Ramble On
Tangerine
Since I've Been Loving You
Battle of Evermore
Over the Hills and Far Away
Kashmir
Ten Years Gone
Fool in the Rain
Beach Boys
I Get Around
In My Room
Wendy
The Warmth of the Sun
Don't Worry Baby
Good Vibrations
God Only Knows
I Just Wasn't Made for These Times
Caroline No
Surf's Up
*Subject to revision without notice. Your home is at risk if you do not keep up repayments etc.
The Nearest Faraway Place
I Just Wasn't Made for These Times
Don't Talk Put Your Head on My Shoulder
Wild Honey
Let's Go Away for a While
Feel Flows
Disney Girls
Marcella
Cabinessence
Sail On Sailor
Or how about
Wouldn't it be Nice
You still believe in me
That's not me
Don't talk (put your head on my shoulder)
I'm waiting for the day
Let's go away for a while
Sloop John B
God only knows
I know there's an answer
Here today
I just wasn't made for these times*
Pet sounds*
Caroline No*
*bonus tracks
Or even
The Little Girl That I Once Knew
Heroes And Villains
Surf's Up
God Only Knows
Cabinessence
Breakaway
Warmth Of the Sun
Caroline No
IJWMFTT
Add Some Music To Your Day
Bruce Johnston's Beach Boys
Ahh, there would have to be a Disney Girls in there for me...sentimental old c**t that I am.
Bruce Johnston's Beach Boys
Ahh, there would have to be a Disney Girls in there for me...sentimental old c**t that I am.
A Hendrix 10
May This Be Love
Red House
Little Wing
Spanish Castle Magic
All Along the Watchtower
Gypsy Eyes
Who Knows
Pali Gap
Drifting
Freedom
Wot
...No Voodoo Chile?
He's going to
make a slight return to it later
Stones
Can't You Hear Me Knocking
Monkey Man
Stray Cat Blues
All Down The Line
Winter
Slave
Tie You Up (The Pain Of Love)
Beast Of Burden
Streets Of Love
I Wanna Be Your Man
that's avoiding the obvious choices and this will change if I think about it again in ten minutes
Nice.
Tie You Up (The pain of Love) was the second track on my randomiser this morning. Hadn't heard it for years, given that I always thought "Undercover" was pretty crap. I enjoyed it, though.
I would have to have "Soul Survivor" in my Stones top ten aswell.
and Let it Loose
and 100 Years Ago from "Goat's".
You'd have to pick up an obliigatory Keef track too
"All About You" from Emotional Rescue imho
McCartney
Maybe I'm Amazed
Every Night
Junk
The Back Seat of My Car
My Love
Let 'em in
Live & Let Die
Band on the Run
Arrow Through Me
Take it Away
Arrow Through Me
an underrated gem. Here's ten more....
Long Leather Coat
Oo You
Don't Let It Bring You Down
The Loveliest Thing
This Never Happened To Me Before
Golden Earth Girl
I Lie Around
Wanderlust
Tough On A Tightrope
Little Willow
no London Town
or Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey?
Just proves
how tough the '10' limitation is. Good fun though.
Justin Currie
Nothing Ever Happens
Kiss This Thing Goodbye
Move Away Jimmy Blue
Spit in the Rain
Be My Downfall
Not Where It's At
Always the Last to Know
Driving with the brakes on
What is Love For
If I ever loved you
The Ramones
Sheena Is A Punk Rocker
Blitzkrieg Bop
Today Your Love, Tomorrow The World
I Don't Wanna Walk Around With You
Rockaway Beach
I Wanna Be Sedated
She's The One
Teenage Lobotomy
Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue
Pinhead
(a different 10 tomorrow, probably)
Ramones
I think you've got their classics there already so I'll throw in 10 "hidden gems":
I Don't Care
I Believe In Miracles
She Talks To Rainbows
Havana Affair
Garden Of Serenity
Bonzo Goes To Bitburg
I Just Wanna Have Something To Do
Psychotherapy
Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment
Mama's Boy
but we both missed this
(number 11 on the list for me ...)
Nice one...
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Neil Young
Tell Me Why
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
Barstool Blues
Cowgirl In The Sand
Old Man
Powderfinger
Coming Apart At Every Nail
LA
Southern Man
Mellow My Mind
An alternative Neil selection
Expecting to fly
Cinammon girl
Cortez the killer
Will to love
Like a hurricane
Revolution blues
Southern Pacific
Coupe de Ville
Unknown legend
Love and only love
No "Birds"?
single most tender love song to emerge from Laurel Canyon in the early 70s and there was some stiff competition
Cortez The Killer
Ambulance Blues
Come On Baby Let's Go Downtown
Bite The Bullet
Don't Cry No Tears
Everybody Knows...Live at Fillmore East
Don't Let It Bring You Down
Needle and the Damage Done
The Last Trip To Tulsa
Walk On
Beatles
The Inner Light
long Long Long
Only A Northern song
we Can Work It Out
I've Got A Feeling
Something
Rain
Love You Too
Norwegian Wood
Flying
John Barry
10 *killer* tracks...
The James Bond Theme (natch)
Goldfinger
From Russia With Love
Thunderball
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Wednesday's Child
The Persuaders
You Only Live Twice
Diamonds Are Forever
The Ipcress File
?
What, no Midnight Cowboy ?
Ok, Persuaders be gone
Midnight Cowboy makes it!
Too much Bondage...
...so ditch Diamonds Are Forever and replace with Seance on a Wet Afternoon or the easied-up version A Lion in Winter.
Late reply
sorry, been on holiday.
My feeble attempts at this challenging task so far have been to try and strike a balance between official record company diktat and objective fans' opinion. Remember, this is within the ridiculous, although intellectually bracing, confines of a mere ten tracks
As such, I reluctanctly agreed to the substitution of Wednesday's Child for Midnight Cowboy, but which 'Bondage' track would you replace, in all honesty?
XTC etc
Respectable Street
Harvest Festival
The Man who Murdered Love
This Is Pop
Statue Of Liberty
Mayor Of Simpleton
Vanishing Girl
My Train Is Coming
Neon Shuffle
Grass
Paul Simon (plus some Art)
The only livin' boy in New York
Mrs Robinson
The Boxer
America
I am a Rock
Mother and Child Reunion
American Tune
Slip Slidin' Away
Hearts and Bones
Graceland
Incredible String Band
No Sleep Blues
Painting Box
Way Back in the 1960s
First Girl I Loved
Witches Hat
Minotaur's song
Very Cellular Song
The Half-Remarkable Question
Cousin Caterpillar
The Circle is Unbroken
Am I allowed this?
Various: English (pop-)psych
Dantalion's Chariot - The Madman Running Through The Fields
Pretty Things - Talkin' About The Good Times
Blossom Toes - I'll Be Late For Tea
Stones - Dandelion
Floyd - It Would Be So Nice
The Move - Cherry Blossom Clinic
Bonzos - Equestrian Statue
Idle Race - Impostors Of Life's Magazine
Bulldog Breed - Halo In My Hair
Friends - Mythological Sunday
(Vol 1 in a series of at least 200... and counting...)
some Kirsty
England 2 Columbia 0
He's On the Beach
Fifteen Minutes
Dear John
Titanic Days
In These Shoes
What Do Pretty Girls Do?
Soho Square
You and Me Baby
Caroline
Depeche Mode
Sea of Sin
Enjoy the Silence
Ghost
Wrong
One Caress
Lie to Me
The Sinner in Me
Personal Jesus
Precious
Black Celebration
What? No New Life?
Or the clanking Teutonic People Are People?
Incredible though it seems
Such is the quality of this band's output - amazingly - those songs would be way down the list.
One Caress?
I like you.
Why thank you Ola!
The slowish Martin Gore-sung songs don't normally do it for me, but this one is a corker.
Kate Bush
Cloudbusting
This Womans Work
Army Dreamers
Suspended in Gaffa
Leave it Open
Experiment IV
Sunset
Aerial
Love And Anger
Under The Ivy
That was hard......
Teenage Fanclub
Everything Flows
I Don't Know
Guiding Star
Mellow Doubt
Verisimilitude
Start Again
The Sun Shines From You
Your Love Is The Place Where I Come From
Save
Cells
a different view
Sparky's Dream
December
Guiding Star
I Need Direction
What You Do To Me
Star Sign
The Town & The City
Alcoholiday
Radio
Speed OF Light
Another
About You
Winter
The Cabbage
I'll Make It Clear
If I Never See You Again
He'd Be A Diamond
Escher
Fear Of Flying
Accidental Life
Start Again
The Pixies
Nimrod's Son
Bone Machine
Something Against You
River Euphrates
Wave of Mutilation
No.13 Baby
Gouge Away
Rock Music
Allison
Alec Eiffel
ELO
Livin Thing
Mr Blue Sky
It's Over
Midnight Blue
Waterfall
Can't Get It Out Of My Head
Big Wheels
Above The Clouds
Shangri La
Twilight
The 'Orrible 'Oo
I Can't Explain
Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere
My Generation
So Sad About Us
I Can See For Miles
Underture
Behind Blue Eyes
Won't Get Fooled Again
Naked Eye
The Real Me
Not to all in the Massive's tastes, but here's a nice little Manics one....
Motown Junk
You Love Us
PCP
Faster
Elvis Impersonator
Ready For Drowning
Let Robeson Sing (Ian Brown remix)
The Love of Richard Nixon
Autumnsong
Jackie Collins Existential Fan Club
Manics...
...surely You Love Us should be removed in favour of Love's Sweet Exile?
Gene Clark
With Tomorrow
For a Spanish Guitar
Silver Raven
From A Silver Phial
Strength of Strings
Echoes
Something's Wrong
Full Circle Song
Hear The Wind
Past Addresses
John William Coltrane
Naima
My Favorite Things
Africa
Olé
Afro Blue
Wise One
Lonnie's Lament
Acknowledgement
Song of the Underground Railroad
Out of this World
The B-52's
6060-842
Dirty Back Road
Mesapotamia
Dancing Now
Downtown
Dance This Mess Around
Roam
She Brakes For Rainbows
Hero Worship
52 Girls
Squeeze
I Think I'm Go Go
Footprints
Tough Love
Revue
Cool For Cats
Up The Junction
Vanity Fair
Can Of Worms
The Truth
I Can't Hold On
You not "Tempted" then?
I love King George Street too and also Some Fantastic Place from BBC Sessions (Nicky Campbell show version).
The Jam
Private Hell
Set The House Ablaze
Funeral Pyre
This is the Modern World
Going Underground
Strange Town
When You're Young
Happy Together
The Butterfly Collector
The Bitterest Pill (I Ever Had To Swallow)
good stuff
delighted to see When You're Young in there - such a great single.
Singles not on albums
For me Weller hit his creative peak between All Mod Cons and Setting Sons, those 2 singles (Strange Town too) are just brilliant - and having a 'b' side like Butterfly Collector - brilliant
Jam 10
Pretty Green
Thick as Thieves
Liza Radley
Strange Town
When You're Young
In The Crowd
Dreams Of Children
Running On The Spot
Start
All Around The World
REM
New Test Leper
What's....Kenneth?
Be Mine
These Days
I Believe
A Sad Professor
Find the River
Beat a Drum
You are the Everything
Rockville
R.E.M.
1. Perfect Circle
2. Fall On Me
3. Talk About The Passion
4. Everybody Hurts
5. Fireplace
6. At My Most Beautiful
7. Nightswimming
8. The Great Beyond
9. The One I Love
10. Bittersweet Me
ac/dc
Its a long Way to the Top (if you wanna rock'n'roll)
Riff Raff (live)
Rock'n Roll Damnation
Bad Boy Boogie (live)
If You Want Blood Youve Got It
Shoot to Thrill
Back in Black
Guns for Hire
Money talks
Big Jack
this list changes every 10 minutes too
A U2 selection
Even Better than the Real Thing
New Years Day (live from Under a Blood Red Sky)
Bad (live from the EP Wide Awake in America)
City of Blinding Lights
I still haven't found what I'm looking for
Silver and Gold (from Rattle and Hum)
With or Without You
Electrical Storm
Hold me Thrill me, Kiss me Kill me
One
Ah now ...
01 Gloria
02 One Tree Hill
03 Ultraviolet (Light My Way)
04 Acrobat
05 Gone
06 Please
07 Miss Sarajevo
08 Grace
09 Vertigo
10 Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own
U2
- mix of famous and obscure. I can see I'm more keen on Zooropa and less on Achtung B than you guys.
Party Girl (Live at Red Rocks version)
Miss Sarajevo
Everlasting Love (B-side)
Lemon
In God's Country
Another Time, Another Place
New Year's Day
Elvis Presley and America
Heartland
Where The Streets Have No Name
OMD
The Romance of the Telescope
Sacred Heart
Maid of Orleans
Walking on the Milky Way
Stanlow
Sealand
The Misunderstanding
Julia's Song
Enola Gay
The Native Daughters of the Golden West
More OMD
Messages
Almost
The New Stone Age
Genetic Engineering
Radio Waves
Georgia
Red Frame, White Light
She's Leaving
Talking Loud And Clear
Telegraph
Pets
Introspective side
Hey Headmaster
Jealousy
Casanova in Hell
You Only Tell Me You Love Me When You're Drunk
Kings Cross
Extroverted side
Suburbia
Left to My Own Devices
So Hard
A Red Letter Day
I Don't Know What You Want But I Can't Give It Anymore
My PSB
The Theatre
King's Cross
Before
The Way It Used To Be
Rent
This Must Be The Place I Waited Years To Leave
Two Divided By Zero
Home And Dry
So Hard
Domino Dancing
Gah!
'Being Boring' is my personal favourite.
Nevermind. Just me, then.
My PSB
Flamboyant
Always on my Mind
Two Divided by Zero
We All Look Better in the Dark
Paninaro
Can You Forgive Her?
I'm Not Scared (Eighth Wonder)
Suburbia
One More Chance
How can you expect to be taken seriously?
Being Boring?
Anybody?
No?
Definitely ...
their best track.
We were never holding back
worried that
time would come to an end...
Me too
"
PSB Ten
My PSB ten...
Love Comes Quickly
Decadence
Rent
Kings Cross
The Way It Used To Be
Violence
Being Boring
London
Domino Dancing
It's Alright
...But I could go on
Pet Shop Boys
Can You Forgive Her?
Suburbia
This Must Be The Place I Waited Years To Leave
Left To My Own Devices
Where The Streets Have No Name (I Can't Take My Eyes Off You)
Casanova In Hell
It's A Sin
Rent
Being Boring
Paninaro
The Stone Roses
Love Spreads
Made of Stone
She Bangs the Drums
How do you sleep?
What the world is waiting for
Mersey Paradise
Going down
10 storey love song
Waterfall
I am the Resurrection
Ten missing from the above
Scrolling backwards through the page:
1. Fall On Me
2. Town Called Malice
3. Night in the City
4. Monkey Gone to Heaven
5. Neil Jung
6. They Don't Know
7. Something So Right
8. Tired Eyes
9. Say Say Say
10. Till I Die
The Byrds
I'll feel a whole lot better
Set you free this time
Eight miles high
My back pages
So you wan to be a rock 'n roll star
Going back
Hickory wind
You ain't goin' nowhere
Ballad of Easy Rider
Chestnut mare
Goin' back
Everybody Has Been Burned
Apart from that we pretty much agree.
Steve Winwood
No face No name No Number
Can't find my way home.
The Low spark.....
Pearly Queen.
Glad/Freedom Rider
Arc of a Diver
When you see a Chance
Forty Thousand Headmen
Dear Mr. Fantasy
Medicated Goo
Fairports
Come All Ye
Doctor of Physick
Angel Delight
Sloth
A Sailor's Life
Rosie
White Dress
Book Song
Possibly Parsons Green
I'll Keep It With Mine
New Order
Ceremony
Temptation
Dreams Never End
Your Silent face
Thieves Like Us
Lonesome Tonight
Love Vigilantes
Sunrise
Dream attack
Primitive Notion
Scott Walker
Always Coming Back To You
The Bridge
Two Ragged Soldiers
The Amorous Humphrey Plugg (obviously!)
Long About Now
Boychild
Track Five
Blanket Roll Blues
Bolivia '95
Buzzers
but it'll be another 10 next time you ask me
Angels of Ashes
Montague Terrace in Blue
Copenhagen
30th Century Man
The World's Strongest Man
Boy Child
Rawhide
Farmer in the City
Manhattan
The Escape
Walker This Way
The Old Man's Back Again
Jesse
Next
30th Century Man
Montague Terrace In Blue
Mrs Murphy
We Came Through
The Amorous Humphrey Plugg
Plastic Palace People
Boy Child
Mrs Murphy
Sorry to be pedantic but wasn't that The Walker Brothers?
Yeah
Although I have got an EP with Solo John on one side and Solo Scott on teh other alongside The Gentle Rain
and I don't think any other Walkers are on the track but yes, you is right
walker 10
Farmer In The City
Track 3
Sleepwalker's Woman
Clara
Sing Boy Sing
Joanna
On Your Own Again
The War Is Over (Epilogue)
Lights Of Cincinatti
It's Raining Today
Style Council (oh yes)
Speak Like A Child
Headstart For Happiness
Long Hot Summer
Paris Match
A Solid Bond In Your Heart
It Just Came To Pieces In My Hands
My Ever Changing Moods
Here's One That Got Away
Shout To The Top
Changing Of The Guard
But...
it was down hill from then on - but there are some classics here
Mozzer
Now My Heart Is Full
Trouble Loves Me
Nobody Loves Us
Ganglord
Lost
Sunny
Boxers
I Know It's Gonna Happen Someday
To Me You Are A Work Of Art
National Front Disco
how come no bowie
eh !!!
impossible to condense down
to 10 - not like Stones, Zep, Beatles, Dylan - that's simple...
How about all of Aladdin Sane?
Not for me it ain't...
Absolute Beginners
Rebel Rebel
Heroes
Starman
Jean Genie
Blue Jean
Changes
Golden years
Ashes to ashes
Boys keep swinging
I know, sacrilege for most of the Word population but honestly that 10 would do fine for me.
All Ziggy or Hunky Dory maybe
without the singles. would that make 10
I can do it...
Kooks
Without You
Rebel Rebel
Fashion
Queen Bitch
Sorrow
Five Years
Starman
Space Oddity
Rock n Roll Suicide
Bowie X 10
Time
Life on Mars
Drive in Saturday
Starman
Ashes to Ashes
Five years
Fame
Young Americans
Golden Years
Panic in Detroit
or all
of Scary Monsters
Crowded House
World Where You Live
Love This Life
In The Lowlands
It's Only Natural
Whispers and Moans
As Sure As I Am
Black and White Boy
Catherine Wheels
Nobody Wants To
A Sigh
alternate view...
World Where you Live
I Feel Possessed
Nails in my Feet
Distant Sun
Black and White Boy
There Goes God
It's Only Natural
Fall at your Feet
Pour la Monde
Some Obscure B-side :)
The Blue Nile
1. Saturday Night
2. Because of Toledo
3. Stay
4. Let's Go Out Tonight
5. From A Late Night Train
6. A Walk Across The Rooftops
7. Happiness
8. I Would Never
9. Easter Parade
10. Tinseltown In The Rain
So hard.
Billy Joel
Honesty
Movin Out
Leave A Tender Moment Alone
An Innocent Man
Running On Ice
Pressure
Goodnight Saigon
She's Got A Way
Close To The Borderline
Summer Highland Falls
Prefab Sprout
Faron Young
Johnny Johnny
Bonny
Cue Fanfare
I Remember That
Life's A Miracle
The Ice Maiden
Jesse James Bolero
Mercy
The World Awake
Eek!
No 'Lions In My Own Garden (Exit Someone)'?
Here we go
1. Appetite
2. Bonny
3. Goodbye Lucille #1
4. Cruel
5. Cue Fanfare - [is this the only song to mention Bobby Fischer?]
6. Life's A Miracle
7. I Remember That
8. Lions In My Own Garden (Exit Someone)
9. We Let The Stars Go
10. Technique - [is this the only song to mention Jodrell Bank?]
Virtually
spot on Chaos to my own selection, though I might lose "Cue Fanfare" for the acoustic "When Love Breaks Down", and if I drop "Technique" can I have both "Jesse James Symphony" & "Jesse James Bolero"?
You know,
you can't!
Them's the rules..
If only ...
Prefab Sprout had not suffered the overblown 80's production and the dreaded Fairlight/Emulator thingy ...
Simply wrong
without Doo Wop In Harlem.
ABBA
One Man One Woman
SOS
Dancing Queen
Knowing Me Knowing You
Tiger
Our Last Summer
Slipping Through My Fingers
As Good As New
The Winner Takes It all
The Day Before You Came
Canuck connection
JONI
----
Circle Game
Free Man in Paris
Both sides now
Shades of Scarlet conquering
A case of you
Urge for going
Last time I saw Richard
The same situation
See you sometime
Amelia
Leonard Cohen
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The Stranger Song
The Partisan
Famous Blue Raincoat
If it be your will
Tower of Song
Dance me to the end of love
One of us cannot be wrong
Boogie Street
In my secret life
Dress Rehearsal Rag
Rufus Wainwright
Going To A Town
Beautiful Child
Pretty Things
I Don't Know What It is
Peach Trees
The Art Teacher
Crumb By Crumb
Cigarettes And Chocolate Milk
California
Millbrook
Andy Partridge from Fuzzy Warbles
Dame Fortune
Born Out Of Your Mouth
Obscene Procession
Everything'll Be Alright
My Train Is Coming
Work
This Is The End
Bumpercars
End Of The Pier
Genie In a Bottle
Broooce...
Atlantic City
Thunder Road
Lonesome Day
Racing In The Street
One Step Up
Ghost Of Tom Joad
This Hard Land
Long Walk Home
Working On A Dream
American Land
Alternative one....
Atlantic City (Seeger Sessions Version)
Youngstown
Further Up The Road
Incident on 57th Street
Jungleland
Radio Nowhere
The E Street Shuffle
Growin' Up
My Love Will Not Let You Down
Ramrod (Live in New York version)
The Price You Pay
Lonesome Day
Red Headed Woman
Candy's Room
Darkness on The Edge of Town
The River
Highway 29
Backstreets
Tougher than the Rest
It's Hard to be a Saint in the City
Kinks Kompilation
Sweet Lady Genevieve
See My Friends
Some Mother's Son
I Go To Sleep
Shangri-La
Mindless Child of Motherhood
Death of a Clown
Animal Farm
God's Children
Oklahoma USA
Kontroversially
David Watts
Two Sisters
Love Me Till The Sun Shines
Do You Remember, Walter?
Picture Book
Phenomenal Cat
Australia
Autumn Almanac
She's Bought A Hat Like Princess Marina
Come Dancing
Booo?
Racing In the Street
The Promise
Sherry Darling
Jungleland
Growin Up
Highway Patrolman
10th Ave Freezeout
Badlands
Fire
Devils And Dust
The Smiths
Sweet and Tender Hooligan
What Difference Does It Make?
Bigmouth Strikes Again
A Rush And A Push And The Land Is Ours
The Queen Is Dead
Frankly Mr Shankly
Panic
Last Night I Dreamt Somebody Loved Me
This Charming Man
You Just Haven't Earned It Yet Baby
I know this thread is over...
but "I know its over" has to be in there
The Clash
Garageland
White Man in Hammersmith Palais
Complete Control
City of the Dead
London Calling
Safe European Home
I Fought The Law
Spanish Bombs
Working For the Clampdown
Rebel Waltz
bugger - it's impossible - can I have a free 4 track ep with Armagideon Time, Should I Stay or Should I Go, Straight to Hell and This is England on it?
Train in Vain
is a must imho
Lost in the Supermarket and Guns of Brixton and I'm So Bored of the USA and Magnificent Seven
Clash
Why is "The Call Up" not recognised as one of their greatest recordings - not their best song, maybe but the production makes it
not an easy ten
Clash City Rockers
I Fought The Law
London Calling
Train In Vain
Safe European Home
White Man In Hammersmith Palais
The Prisoner
Rock The Casbah
Complete Control
The Call Up
Magazine
The Light Pours Out Of Me
You Never Knew Me
Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)
Motorcade
Shot By Both Sides
The Great Beautician In The Sky
Burst
Because You're Frightened
Parade
A Song From Under The Floorboards
http://open.spotify.com/user/gunsofbrixton/playlist/7sTv6IsMsFWjfIxZYFAt...
My all time favourite band
The Light Pours Out Of Me
Philadelphia
Rhythm of Cruelty
Permafrost
Motorcade
Shot By Both Sides
Sweetheart Cintract
Because You're Frightened
Model Worker
A Song From Under The Floorboards
both great 10s
but I'd have to have Believe that I Understand on there too.
Reggae (no Marley)
The Abyssinians - Declaration Of Rights
Augustus Pablo - King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown
The Congos - Fisherman
Delroy Wilson - Cool Operator
Dr. Alimantado - Best Dressed Chicken in Town
Horace Andy - Skylarking
Linton Kwesi Johnson - Sonny's Lettah (Anti-Sus Poem)
Junior Murvin - Police And Thieves
Althea & Donna - Uptown Top Ranking
Culture - Two Sevens Clash
I'd replace Althea and Donna
with Black Uhuru - 'Youth of Eglington'
Stevie Wonder
Never Had A Dream Come True
Happier Than The Morning Sun
Keep On Running
You've Got It Bad Girl
Big Brother
Superstition
Tuesday Heartbreak
Bird Of Beauty
I Wish
Higher Ground
The Band
This Wheel's On Fire
Whispering Pines
4% Pantomime
Sleeping
Evangeline
Jemima Surrender
Rocking Chair
Christmas Tonight
Daniel and the Sacred Harp
Chest Fever
The Stranglers
Down In The Sewer
No More Heroes
Tank
Toiler On The Sea
The Raven
Baroque Bordello
Nuclear Device
Tramp
North Winds
Since You Went Away
Stranglers II
I'd go for a few different onese:
Down in the Sewer
No More Heroes
The Raven/ Longships
Dead Loss Angeles
Tramp
5 Minutes
Tank
Always the Sun
Hanging Around
Strange Little Girl
Van Morrison
(Straight To Your Heart )Like A Cannonball
Tupelo Honey
Not Supposed To Break Down
I Forgot That Love Existed
Someone Like You
Listen To The Lion
Foreign Window
In The Garden
Contemplation Rose
Stepping Out Queen Part2
The Stranglers post Hugh Cornwell
Really.!Honest! The band sold it's soul to the devil at Guildford crossroads around 2001 and have been producing great music ever since. Spotify "Norfolk Coast" and "Suite 16" if you don't believe me.
Norfolk Coast
Big Thing Coming
I've Been Wild
Lost Control
I Don't Agree
Life's Too Good
Spectre Of Love
Summat Outta Nothing
Bless You
Relentless
Baz era Stranglers
Sorry but I couldn't stand the singer after Hugh but so pleased now that they have Baz and are back to the traditional 4 four piece line-up.
I can name five from their latest album that would give their old classics a good run for their money:
Unbroken
Spectre Of Love
Barbara (Shangr-La)
Relentless
She's Slipping Away
Eels/eels/EELS
Last stop: This Town
Novocaine For The Soul
Fucker
The Medication's Wearing Off
Mr E's Beautiful Blues
The Look You Gave That Guy
Fresh Feeling
Can't Help Falling In Love
I Need Some Sleep
My Beloved Monster
Hard to beat....
Dog Faced Boy
It's A Motherfucker
Things The Grandchildren Should kNow
Railroad Man
Dirty Girl
3 Speed
Climbing To The Moon
Beautiful Freak
Souljacker Pt 1
Cancer For The Cure
Mr E
Souljacker Pt 1
Girl From The North Country (Transmission Version)
Flyswatter
Going Fetal
Dog Faced Boy
Your Lucky Day In Hell
Climbing To The Moon
The Good Old Days
Fresh Feeling
Manchester Girl
Another 10 Eels
Susan's House
Your Lucky Day In Hell
My Descent Into Madness
The Medication Is wearing Off
Jeannie's Diary
Fresh Feeling
Friendly Ghost
I'm Going To Stop Pretending That I Didn't Break Your Heart
Sweet Li'l Thing
Mighty Fine Blues
Free
Sweet tooth
I'll be creepin'
Songs of yesterday
Heavy load
Be my friend
Don't say you love me
Love you so
Soon I will be gone
My brother Jake
Goodbye
Elvis Presley
In The Ghetto
Long Black Limousine
Mystery Train
Danny Boy
Peace In The Valley
Heartbreak Hotel
Polk Salad Annie
An American Trilogy
Burning Love
I Washed My Hands In Muddy Water
just can't help
believing
probably
I've been working on this since the thread was posted - there's that and another 12 or so that are justifiable.
Surely Elvis deserves some extra rations ?
Off-topic - have you lost some of your handle ?
I believe
he's been re-mastered :-)
back to
mono
SPARKS
Barbecutie
Ugly Guys With Beautiful Girls
Balls
The Willys
Never Turn Your Back On Mother Earth
This Town Ain't Big Enough...
Something For The Girl With Everything
Lost And Found
Lighten Up Morrissey
Amateur Hour
Alternative Sparks
No.1 Song in Heaven
Dick Around
Waterproof
Rockin Girls
In the Future
Talent is an Asset
Angst in my Pants (Plagiarism version)
Suzie Safety
Music that you can Dance To
Suburban Homeboy
Belle and Sebastian
The State I Am In
The Boy With The Arab Strap
If she wants me
I'm Waking Up To Us
String Bean Jean
Get Me Away From Here, I'm Dying
Lazy Line Painter Jane
Another Sunny Day
Lord Anthony
Judy And The Dream Of Horses
Radiohead?
Surely I'm not the only fan left?
Bishop's Robes
Paranoid Android
I Might Be Wrong
Blow Out
The Gloaming (Live At Glastonbury)
Down Is The New Up
Banana Co.
Optimistic
Climbing Up The Walls
Motion Picture Soundtrack (Acoustic)
Family Favourites
Bangers And Mash - Peter Sellers & Sophia Loren
Gather In The Mushrooms - Benny Hill
My Boomerang Won't Come Back - Charlie Drake
Court Of King Caractacus - Rolf Harris
Boom Oo Yata-Ta-Ta - Morecambe And Wise
Lily The Pink - The Scaffold
Three Wheels On My Wagon - New Christy Minstrels
Tubby The Tuba - Danny Kaye
Bare Necessities - Phil Harris
Windmill In Old Amsterdam - Ronnie Hilton
Some goodies, but...
...what about Right Said Fred - Bernard Cribbins.
But thank you for leaving Ernie out of it...
Trevor Horn
Video Killed the Radio Star - Buggles
Hand Held in B&W - Dollar
Instinction - Spandau Ballet
Owner of a Lonely Heart - Yes
All of My Heart - ABC
Close (to the edit)- Art of Noise
Two Tribes - Frankie
Slave to the Rhythm - Grace Jones
Left to My Own Devices - Pet Shop Boys
I'm a Cuckoo - Belle & Sebastian
Or alternatively:
The ten original tracks of Lexicon of Love
Warren Zevon
Roland Headless Thompson
Werewolves of London
Hasten Down the Wind
Accidentally Like A Martyr
Veracruz
French Inhaler
Searching for A Heart
Johnny Strikes Up The Band
Desperados Under the Eaves
Frank and Jesse James
Waiting for Waits
Take it with me
You can never hold back Spring
Jockey full of Bourbon
Day after tomorrow
Heart attack and vine
Swordfishtrombones
Hoist that rag
Goin' out west
The Briar and the rose
Time
easily the hardest to pick....
but an attempt, I'll probably have changed my mind tomorrow
Anywhere I Lay My Head
Time
Lullaby
Alice
Starving In The Belly Of A Whale
Sins Of My Father
Lie To Me
Intro (3) - Track 7 of "Nighthawks"
Singapore
Step Right Up
Big Jackie Leven
10 gems by the big man from the Kingdom of Fife:
Soft Lowland Tongue
Call Mother a Lonely Field
Gylen Gylen
Men in Prison
Poortoun
Jim 0'Windygates
Single Father
Keys to the Forest
Stranger in the Square
Classic Northern Diversions
Can't believe you missed off...
The Sexual Loneliness of Jesus Christ
Sir Paul Weller
Hung Up
Sunflower
Sea Spray
Amongst Butterflies
Shadow Of The Sun
Come On, Let's Go
Echoes Round The Sun
Fly On The Wall
Into Tomorrow
Wild Wood
Or even
Into Tomorrow repeated ten times. At least that's what I did when it first came out! Brilliant single.
The Go Betweens
A Bad Debt Follows You
The Old Way Out
The Wrong Road
Cattle And Cane
Head Full Of Steam
Bye Bye Pride
Streets Of Your Town
German Farmhouse
Too Much Of OneThing
Darlinghhurst Nights
Can't argue with that...
...maybe Dive For Your Memory?
Also missing
The Clarke Sisters
1. Quiet Heart
2. Bye Bye Pride
3. Cattle and Cane
4. Love is a Sign
5. Magic In Here
6. Streets of Your Town
7. You Wont Find It Again
8. Bachelor Kisses
9. People Say
10. Mrs. Morgan
Apology accepted
Wot no apology?
1. Bachelor Kisses
2. Apology accepted
3. Cattle and Cane
4. Streets of your Town
5. Right Here
6. Newton Told Me
7. When she sang about Angels
8. Draining the pool
9. Dive for your memory
10. Karen (for purely personal reasons to be honest)
Great, belated, return to form?
Finding You?
Here Comes a City?
Their two best moments for me...
such a shame they appear on what would turn out to be their final album.
English Psychedelia Vol 2
The Soft Machine - Feelin' Reelin' Squeelin'
Family - Scene Thru the Eye of a Lens
Kaleidoscope - A Dream for Julie
The Fire - Father's Name is Dad
The Californians - The Cooks of Cake and Kindness
Timebox - Gone is the Sad Man
Warm Sounds - Nite is a'Comin'
Anan - I Wonder Where My Sister's Gone
Status Quo - Technicolour Dreams
The Bee Gees - Sir Geoffrey Saved The World
(... and there's much, much more where this came from...)
John Martyn
Spencer the Rover
I'd Rather Be the Devil
Outside In (version from "Live at Leeds")
Bless the Weather
Glistening Glyndebourne
One World
Dancing
Small Hours
Hurt in your Heart
Our Love
What, no Fabs?
Blackbird
Day In The Life
We Can Work It Out
Octopus's Garden
Here Comes The Sun
Here, There & Everywhere
Eleanor Rigby
Lovely Rita
Norwegian Wood
You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
Beatles Band 10
Tomorrow Never Knows
Baby You're A Rich Man
Penny Lane
Rain
Here Comes The Sun
You Never Give Me Your Money
Dear Prudence
Paperback Writer
Day Tripper
It's All Too Much
More Beatles
And Your Bid Can Sing
I Am The Walrus
Helter Skelter
Norwegian Wood
The Night Before
You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
Tommorrow Never Knows
Blackbird
Don't Let Me Down
Strawberry Fields Forever
Basically, perm any 10 from all of them
10cc
Une Nuit a Paris
Old Wild Men
Worst Band in the World
Hospital Song
Headline Hustler
Blackmail
Brand new Day
Don't Hang Up
How Dare You
I'm Mandy fly Me
Stiff Little Fingers
Suspect Device
Back To Front
Guitar & Drum
Can't Believe In You
Piccadilly Circus
Alternative Ulster
Straw Dogs
Tin Soldiers
Just Fade Away
Is That What You Fought the War For?
Westlife
Flying Without Wings
Flying Without Wings again but slightly different
And Again
Can We Get Away With It Again?
And Again (We Did it)!
Bloimey, This is Easy
And Again with Jingle Bells
Is it Mothers' Day soon?
This'll Do - We Can Wear Our Long Coats for This One
Flying Without Wings 2009
very good....
,.... although I may be seeking recompense for the coffee on the keyboard incident
Waterboys
Peace of Iona
Too close to heaven
Dont bang the drum
Is she conscious?
Red Army Blues
Glastonbury song
Strange Boat
Fishermans Blues
On my way to heaven
And a bang on the ear
mmm
what about "A Song For The Life" ? It's my favourite of theirs, he says selfishly
Have you missed one?
I saw Mike Scott at Canterbury a few years back and he clearly left out the obvious.
Have seen them about 5 times
and every set list has been different but the constant is The Whole of the moon which is a great song but deserves a rest. 'A song for life" is indeed great but equally I could have picked the whole Fishermans Blues album.
You could have
but you didn't pick The Stolen Child - magical in so many ways.
Beach Boys
1. The Beach Boys are crap
2. The Beach Boys are crap
3. The Beach Boys are crap
4. The Beach Boys are crap
5. The Beach Boys are crap
6. The Beach Boys are crap
7. The Beach Boys are crap
8. The Beach Boys are shite
9. The Beach Boys are crap
10. Sloop J. B
You forgot
Ba-ba-ba Barbara Ann. Jolly good, that one.
The Beatles
1. Helen Wheels
2. Uncle Albert
3. Mr. Blue Sky
4. Jumping Jack Flash
5. Rain
6. That one about a parking meter
7. a working class hero
8. a photograph
9. everything must change
10. the beatles are not very good
The Beatles
A Day In The Life
I Am The Walrus
Strawberry Fields
Happiness Is A Warm Gun
She Loves You
In My Life
Hey Jude
Something
Help
Yesterday
Yeah I agree they were crap !
Gavin Bryars
1. Jesus'
2. Blood
3. Never
4, Failed
5. Me
6. Yet
7. There's
8. One
9. Fing
10. I
Elliott Smith
10 of around 50 copper-bottomed classics...
Division Day
Miss Misery
No Name #1
The Biggest Lie
Alameda
Between the Bars
Waltz #2
Baby Britain
Easy Way Out
King's Crossing
The Divine Comedy
In Pursuit Of Happiness
The Booklovers
The Summerhouse
A Lady Of A Certain Age
The Certainty of Chance
I'm All You Need
Lost Property
Queen Of The South
Your Daddy's Car
Charmed Life
Where are you going with your fetlocks flowing...?
Festive Road
Don't Look Down
Through A Long and Sleepless Night
Absent Friends
Sunrise
Perfect Lovesong
Count Grassi's Passage over Piedmont
Bernice Bobs Her Hair
Geronimo
Eric The Gardener
Wot no
National Express?
Jes' kiddin'...
Graham Nash did it much better...
:-)
Roxy Music
Editions Of You
Virginia Plane
Mother Of Pearl
Do The Strand
Pjamarama
Avalon
Oh Yeah (On The Radio)
All I Want Is You
Trash
In Every Dream Home A Heartache
Bert Jansch
How much more Bert could this compilation be? None. None more Bert
Strolling Down the Highway
Needle of Death
Jack Orion
The Waggoner's Lad
Alman
Bright New Year
Avocet
Kingfisher
The Black Swan
High Days
Silly Woman?
No?
Red faced
at the omission of Blues Run The Game?
Ry Cooder
Always Lift Him Up/ Kanaka Wai Wai
How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live ?
Crazy 'Bout An Automobile (Every Woman I Know)
Dark End Of The Street
I Got Mine
Why Don't You Try Me ?
He'll Have To Go
Paris, Texas
Hank Williams
Monkey Wash, Donkey Rinse (with David Lindley)
Aimee Mann
4th of July
Stupid thing
You could make a killing
Choice in the matter
Calling it quits
You do
Guys like me
I can't help you anymore
Freeway
Phoenix
Red Vines?
gasp
Good Call
As well as 'Red Vines', my alternative Aimee Mann 10 would include:
One
Deathly
Susan
Save Me
Goodbye Caroline
Lost In Space
Going Through The Motions
I Can't Get My Head Around It
Thirty One Today
Thirty-one today
seconded. Great song.
I'd Have to Find Space for 'Til Tuesday songs, so:-
Will She Just Fall Down
Coming Up Close
Lovers Day
What About Love
Save Me
Fifty Years After The Fair
Stupid Thing
4th Of July
This Is How It Goes
Freeway
I've had to bump 'Other End Of The Telescope'
Townes van Zandt
Be Here to Love Me
Second Lover's Song
Pancho and Lefty
If I Needed You
White Freight Liner Blues
To Live is to Fly
For the Sake of the Song
Waiting 'Round to Die
Tecumseh Valley
Lungs
No dead skunks round here
Overseas Call
You mother and I
Primrose Hill
White Winos
Career moves
Westchester county
Five years old
Harry's wall
Plane too
Motel Blues
Elbow
1. Newborn
2. Switching Off
3. Great Expectations
4. One Day Like This
5. Scattered Black and Whites
6. Asleep in The Back
7. Forget Myself
8. The Bones of You
9. Station Approach
10. Mirrorball
so many good songs...
* Powder Blue
* Red
* Newborn (Acoustic Version)
* Fugitive Motel
* Grace Under Pressure
* Leaders Of The Free World
* The Fix
* One Day Like This
* An Audience With The Pope
* Stumble
very good band
Dr Feelgood
01 All through the city
02 Cheque book
03 Wolfman callin'
04 World in a jug
05 Keeka smeeka
06 Eileen
07 Don't wait up
08 Night time
09 As long as the price is right
10 Baby Jane
Clem Snide
Your Favourite Music
Loneliness Finds it's own way
Chinese Baby
The Ballad of David Icke
Born a Man
Nothing is over.Not Yet
Jews for Jesus Blues
Something Beautiful
Me No
Fontanelle
When We Become ...?
Rather partial to this one.
One for the Bank Holiday and its weather
Bank Holiday - Blur
Sofa (Of My Lethargy)- Supergrass
The Family Coach - The Lilac Time
At The Seaside - Peter Bjorn and John
Everyday Is Like Sunday - Morrissey
Lunch - Durrutti Column
September - David Sylvian
Autumn Almanac - The Kinks
Chalkhills and Children - XTC
Bank Holiday Monday - The Lilac Time
Boy Bands done good
Keep on Movin' - Five
Wham Rap! - Wham
Rule The World - Take That
Crazy Horses - The Osmonds
(I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone - The Monkees
I Want You Back - Jackson 5
Ordinary World - Duran Duran
5 Colours In Her Hair - McFly
In The Country - Cliff and The Shadows
Pretty Vacant - The Sex Pistols
Here Come the Girls
Be my Baby - The Ronettes
Baby Love - The Supremes
Cruel Summer - Bananarama
Walk Like an Egyptian - Bangles
No Scrubs - TLC
2 become 1 - Spice Girls
Never Ever - All Saints
Sound of the Underground - Girls Aloud
Freak Like Me - Sugababes
Don't Cha - Pussycat Dolls
Girls - Strictly Sixties
Betty Everett - The Shoop Shoop Song (It's In His Kiss)
Shangri-las - Out in the Streets
Crystals - Uptown
Cookies - Chains
Velvelettes - Needle in a Haystack
Paper Dolls - Something Here in My heart
Shirelles - Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow
Ikettes - I'm Blue (Gong-Gong Song)
Supremes - Where did Our Love Go?
Ronettes - Baby I Love You
Ten Gibb Ones
To love somebody
Jive Talking
Nights on Broadway
How deep is your love?
Night Fever
Stayin Alive
Tragedy
Spirits Having Flown
Grease
Heartbreaker
James Grant (including Love and Money tracks)
I Can't Stop Bleeding
I Don't Know You Anymore
The Hallowing Touch
Going Blank
Who In Their Right Mind (L&M)
Religion
Darkstar
Joscelyn Square (L&M)
This is the Last Time
My Father's Coat
Good call
Mine would be:
Love & Money
Walk the Last Mile
Jocelyn Square
Last Ship on the River
Winter
Whisky Dream
JG Solo
Pray the dawn
I don't know you anymore
Dark country
Jacqueline's Shoes
With Karen Matheson
The Dreaming Sea
Al Stewart
Night of the 4th of May
Paint By Numbers
Soho (Needless to Say)
Palace of Versailles
Apple Cider Re-Constitution
Elvis at the Wheel
Josephine Baker
Accident on 3rd Street
Gina in the Kings Road
Roads to Moscow
Fountains of Wayne
Radiation Vibe
Sink to the Bottom
Survival Car
Leave the Biker
Stacy's Mom
Hackensack
Joe Rey
Supercollider (Fountains turn Rutles on Oasis)
Bright Future in Sales
Mexican Wine
Could have culled almost everything from Welcome Interstate Managers which is a masterclass in songwriting
All, undoubtedly, corkers but feel compelled to add ...
Fire Island
I-95
She's Got A Problem
Someone To Love
This Better Be Good
Denise
Troubled Times
Prom Theme
All Kinds of Time
Barbara H
Love 'Denise'
She works at Liberty Travel,
She's got a heart made of.......gravel
but there must be room for The Girl I Can't Forget!
So my ten are :
The Girl I Can't Forget
Maureen
It Must Be Summer
Red Dragon Tattoo
Denise
Stacey's Mom
Bright Future In Sales
Hey Julie
Better Things
I Want An Alien For Christmas
Only ten Ones
The Whole of the Law
Another Girl, Another Planet
No Peace for the Wicked
From Here to Eternity
No Solution
Out There in the Night
Someone Who Cares
The Big Sleep
Me and my Shadow
Fools
Supertramp
Ain't Nobody But Me
Bloody Well Right
Casual Conversations
Downstream
Dreamer
Fools Overture
From Now On
Hide In Your Shell
Lord Is It Mine
Goodbye Stranger
Pete Wylie/Wah/Mighty Wah/Wah Heat
Better Scream
I Know There Was Something
Story Of The Blues Parts 1 And 2
Hope (I Wish You'd Believe Me)
Come Back (Story Of The Reds)
Fourelevenfourtyfour
Never Fall For A Whore
The Kerry Baby
Heart As Big As Liverpool
Loverboy
Icicle Works
Love Is a Wonderful Colour
Hollow Horse
When It All Comes Down
Up Here In The North Of England
When You Were Mine
Truck Driver's Lament
Stood Before Saint Peter
Starry Blue Eyed Wonder
What She Did To My Mind
Baby Don't Burn
Glaring omission
Wot, no Evangeline! Sacrilege
was deliberate..
never liked the keyboard sound on it
Two songs missing
Seven Horses and Bird's Fly (whisper to a scream).
I also know my brother would ask, where is Reverie Girl.
The Wonder Stuff
Circlesquare
Me, My Mum, My Dad, My Brother
Can't Shape Up
Room 512, All The News That's Fit To Print
The Animals & Me
Sleep Alone
No For The 13th Time
Don't Let Me Down Gently
It's Yer Money I'm After Baby
Cartoon Boyfriend
Madonna
Ray of Light
Beautiful Stranger
Music
Don't Tell Me
Hung Up
Like A Prayer
Lucky Star
Open Your Heart
Vogue
Deeper and Deeper
Sigur Ros
10 party classics
1. Untitled 3 (Samskeyti) (Acoustic)
2. Untitled 1 (Vaka)
3. Agaetis Byrjun (Acoustic)
4. Hoppipolla
5. Svefn-G-Englar
6. Ara Batur
7. Vid Spilum Endalaust
8. Se Lest
9. Hljomalind
10.Untitled 8 (Poppaladio)
Cowboy Junkies
Blue Moon Revisited
Angel Mine
To Live Is To Fly
This Street, That Man, This Life
Oregon Hill
Sweet Jane
Rock and Bird
Me and the Devil
Sun Comes Up, It's Tuesday Morning
Mining for Gold
Good list but
Cowboy Junkies are making music now thats as good as anything they've ever done. Here's a list from their last 3 studio records - Open, One Soul Now and At The End of Paths Taken (I've ignored Early 20th Century Blues as it was a predominantly covers record)
One Soul Now
My Little Basquiat
Bread & Wine
Follower 2
Notes Falling Slow
Dragging Hooks
Stars of Our Stars
Still Lost
Thousand Year Prayer
Mountain
If you haven't heard them for a while, I really recommend digging into their more recent stuff.
Wilco
I Got You (At The End Of The Century)
Heavy Metal Drummer
Can't Stand It
Nothing'severgonnastandinmyway(again)
I Must Be High
Outtasite (Outta Mind)
I'm Always In Love
Kamera
I Am Trying To Break Your Heart
You And I
Excellent choice...
But as an alternative...
1.Forget The Flowers
2.At Least That's What You Said
3.Wilco (The Song)
4.She's A Jar
5.One Wing
6.Hate It Here
7.It's Just That Simple
8.Side With the Seeds
9.I'm The Man Who Loves You
10.Pot Kettle Black
It's tough choosing only 10...
especially off the top of your head without access to Spotify, iPod or CD player!
Julian Cope
I Come From Another Planet Baby
Bill Drummond Said
Fear Loves This Place
Sunspots
Try Try Try
Bandy's First Jump
Double Vegetation
Since I Lost My Head It's Awlright
The Bloody Assizes
Pulsar
Pre-Nirvana American Hardcore/Punk
Bad Brains "Pay To Cum"
Minor Threat "I Don't Wanna Hear It"
D.O.A "Fucked Up Ronnie" (they're Canadian...)
Black Flag "Nervous Breakdown"
The Plasmatics "Butcher Baby"
Big Black "Kerosene"
Sonic Youth "Death Valley '69"
Dead Kennedys "Holiday In Cambodia"
Circle Jerks "Coup d'Etat"
Hüsker Dü "Don't Want To Know If You Are Lonely"
DOA!
A mighty, mighty band. My only suggestion would be their version of The Dils' "Class War" instead.
Scottish Pop
Scottish Pop - Spearmint
Peaches - The Orchids
Don't Talk To Me About Love - Altered Images
Lloyd, I'm Ready To Be Heartbroken - Camera Obscura
I'm A Cuckoo - Belle & Sebastien
The Downtown Lights - The Blue Nile
Walk Out To Winter - Aztec Camera
Club Country - The Associates
Dry The Rain - The Beta Band
Serious Drugs - BMX Bandits
Wham! and George M
Wham Rap! (Enjoy what you do?)
Young Guns (Go for it!)
Everything she wants
Freedom
Careless Whisper
Last Christmas
I'm Your Man
Club Tropicana
The Edge of Heaven
Where did your heart go? (token non-George composition!)
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Faith
Heal the Pain
Waiting for that day
Praying for Time
Jesus to a Child
Fastlove
Older
Spinning the Wheel
The Strangest Thing
Amazing
Eyebrows will no doubt be raised, but I genuinely believe you'd be hard pressed to find a better selection of pop tunes anywhere. There, I've said it.
You have indeed
it's out there now.
Not bad, but I'd swap Praying For Time, Jesus To A Child and Heal The Pain for Freedom '90, Too Funky, and best of all, Outside.
Shack/Pale Fountains/Strands/all Michael Head
Cup Of Tea
Since I Met You
The Girl With The Long Brown Hair
Neighbours
Walters Song
Mood Of The Morning
X Hits The Spot
Jeans Not Happening
Limit
Thank You
Nice one...but you missed these Shacktastic tracks!
Black & White
Daniella
Miles Away
Sgt. Major
Natalie's Party
Comedy
Mr. Appointment
High Rise Low Life
On The Streets Tonight
I Want You
Gilbert O'Sullivan really
In My Hole
That's Love
Susan Van Heusen
Independent Air
Doing The Best I Can
Alone Again Naturally
We Will
Nothing Rhymed
Not In A Million Years
Take Your Foot Off My Toe
The National
Why has this not been added before?
Fake Empire
The Thrilling of Claire
Daughters of the Soho Riots
Secret Meeting
Karen
Mistaken for Strangers
Lit Up
You've Done it Again, Virginia
I Don't Mind
Start a War
Michael McDonald
Rose Darling - Steely Dan
Any World (that I'm welcome to) - SD
Peg - SD
What a Fool Believes - Doobie Brothers
Takin' it to the Streets - DB
Minute by Minute - DB
I Keep Forgettin' - solo
Sweet Freedom - solo
Yah Mo B There - with James Ingram
On My Own - with Patti Labelle
Blue-eyed soul nonpareil
The Fleshtones
American Beat '84
Hexbreaker
Screaming Skull
All Around The World
Theme From "The Vindicators"
Way Down South
God Damn It
Kingsmen-like Medley (from Speed Connection II)
Beer Run
Bigger And Better
What?! No "Girl From Baltimore"
or "I Am What I Am"...?!
well ....
this was a really hard 10 to assemble - and it was done from memory, which is probably why the older favourites were more represented.
I could probably make room for "I Am What I Am" - but what to leave out ?
BTW - did you get the Fleshtones film ? It's great. (Well, I would say that, wouldn't I ? They appear to act as Kryptonite on my critical faculties. I spent £20 in 1984 on a lovely vinyl bootleg of them from Philadelphia, at a time when £20 was a serious chunk of money! That's great too, of course)
10 is tough...
I alread changed my mind on my Julian Cope top 10.
Nope, I never knew there was a Fleshtones movie, is it on DVD?
I wish they would play over here a bit more...well, at all actually!
links
http://garagepunk.ning.com/profiles/blogs/pardon-us-for-living-but-the has the documentary
and "Live At Hurrahs" is available at http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=7788144 and probably elsewhere too
The excellent book is available at
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sweat-Story-Fleshtones-Americas-Garage/dp/082642...
Yes, I'd love to see them again!
Thanks for the
links.
Sorry...double
post!
shite...make that a triple post
Sorry Fraser, it wasn't me, honest! Blame the computer...
A playlist for Now People
September - Earth Wind & Fire
September in the Rain - Dinah Washington
September Song - Frank Sinatra
Pale September - Fiona Apple
September Gurls - Big Star
September - Ryan Adams
September - David Sylvian
September Morn - Neil Diamond
September when it comes - Roseanne & Johnny Cash
September Song - Chet Baker
(may be revisited in, oh I don't know, a month...)
September song
You should ditch one of the versions in there and select the original by Walter Houston. At least you didn't go for Ian McCulloch's embarrassing version.
Gothic Rock...(ridicule is nothing to be scared of)
Sisters Of Mercy "Body Electric"
Flesh For Lulu "Subterraneans"
Ausgang "Weight"
The Cramps "Human Fly"
Love & Rockets "Kundalini Express"
Fields of The Nephilim "Slow Kill"
Alien Sex Fiend "RIP"
Southern Death Cult "Moya"
The Meteors "Mutant Rock"
Xmal Deutschland "Qual"
*taps fingers and waits for James Blast to rip that lot apart...!
The
it's '"The" Sisters Of Mercy'
and no Bauhaus?
you Sir are a scoundrel and a weekend Goth!
I Pah! and spit at your selection (for I only know 3 out of your 10, maybe I'm the weekend Goth)
Swap ?
Could you swap a Boohoos track for The Cramps ? They may have been adopted by goths but they were rock & roll to the tips of their winklepicker boots
Bauhaus & "Lagartija Nick"
were bubbling under...
Yeah, I know technically Cramps & Meteors were not necessarily "gothic" but then neither am I!
Only 3 out of 10 James?! I am surprised by that, mind you a lot of that stuff does not sound too good nowadays - I can only listen to THE Sisters of Mercy and Cramps without cringing.
Cocteau Twins
Five Ten Fiftyfold
Amelia
Melonella
Orange Appled
The Thinner The Air
Blue Bell Knoll
A Kissed Out Red Floatboat
Oil of Angels
Rilkean Heart
Pitch The Baby
Brian Jonestown Massacre
seriously, check out these ten and you'll be hooked...
Hide & Seek
Vacuum Boots
Going To Hell
Not If You Were The Last Dandy on Earth
When Jokers Attack
Anenome
If Love Is The Drug Then I Want To O.D.
That Girl Suicide
Who
Servo
Brian Jonestown Massacre - an introduction
My introduction to BJM, sat in the departure lounge at Ayers Rock Airport, a TV on the wall is tuned to MTV, cue this. A bit surreal to say the least.
I'm not sure what is weirder...
That the band made a video for that in the first place or that MTV would play it!
That track would probably be the last thing I'd play to try and impress the virtues of BJM on anyone!
The Damned
New Rose
Disco Man
Stretcher Case Baby
Melody Lee
Dozen Girls
I Just Can't Be Happy Today
Ignite
Stab Your Back
Love Song
Wait For The Blackout
Wire
12XU
Question Of Degree
Ahead
Silk Skin Paws
Life In The Manscape
Kidney Bingos
Mekon Headman
Outdoor Miner
Map Ref. 41°N 93°W
Follow The Locust
Eh?
Sorry but you seem to have overlooked Ex-Lion Tamer!
Damn, you're right! Can mine go up to 11...
?
Leeds
The Mekons - Where Were You?
The Wedding Present - Kennedy
The Sisters of Mercy - Marianne
Gang of Four - Not Great Men
The March Violets - Snake Dance
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry - Spinning Around
Cud - I've Had It With Blondes
LFO - LFO
Nightmares on Wax - Les Nuits
Soft Cell - Bedsitter
That's a good one
.
TV Theme Music
The Persuaders
The Tra La La Song
The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
The Avengers
Joe 90
Peter Gunn
The Streets of San Francisco
UFO
Hustle (original version)
Doctor Who (original version)
The Flashing Blade
Harry Nilsson
Everybody's Talkin
Without You
One
Me And My Arrow
Cuddly Toy
1941
Coconut
Mournin Glory Song
Without Her
Living Without You
Elton John
Part time Love
Nikita
Are You Ready For Love
Your Song
I'm Still Standing
Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me
I Guess Thats Why They Call It The Blues
Blue Eyes
Rocket Man
Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word
You have put in Nikita
but left out The Ballad of Danny Bailey.
Moody Blues
Blue World
Gemini Dream
I'm Just A Singer(in a rock n roll band)
Dawn Is A Feeling
Talkin Out Of Turn
Go Now
Nights In White Satin
Tuesday Afternoon
Question
Isn't Life Strange
Sufjan Stevens
Dear Mr. Supercomputer
Come on ! Feel The Illinoise !
All Good Naysayers,Speak Up ! Or Forever...
Detroit, Lift Up Your Weary Head !
Chicago
Tahquamenon Falls
Jacksonville
Casimir Pulaski Day
Say Yes ! To Michigan !
Sister Winter
TRICKY
10 songs by the Tricky Kid:
1. Past Mistake
2. You Don't Wanna
3. Bombing Bastards
4. A Song For Yukiko
5. The Lovecats
6. Ponderosa
7. Hell Is Round The Corner
8. Black Coffee
9. Bad Dreams
10.Antimatter
The Nines
Drama Queen
Mary Jane
Darkening Sky
Receiving Me
I Would Never
Insanity(The Sanest Thing You've Got)
Don't Be A Fool
Virginia
Monotony's Song
Lena
Ifs, Buts and Maybes
If.. - The Bluetones
(Nothing But) Flowers - Talking Heads
Maybe I'm Amazed - Macca
If - Bread
Sad But True - Orbital
Maybe Tomorrow - The Everley Brothers
If You Leave - OMD
But Beautiful - Tony Bennett
Definitely Maybe - Jeff Beck
No Ifs, Buts, Maybes - Billy Bremner