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Best title tracks
Posted by Native on 31 March 2011 - 2:22pm.
Just listening to The Queen Is Dead and was wondering what everyones favourite title tracks are?
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some favourites
Iggy & The Stooges - Raw Power
Jim Ford - Harlan County
Mavis Staples - You Are Not Alone
SAHB - Next
Roky Erickson with Okkervill River - True Love Cast Out All Evil
Thelonious Monk - Brilliant Corners
Dr Alimantado - Born For A Purpose
Jim Ford's Harlan County
Back in Black
is one which springs immediately to mind.
Showing my age here...
Jackson Browne: "Late for the Sky" and "For Everyman"
The Eagles: "Hotel California"
Pink Floyd: "Wish You Were Here"
John Martyn: "Solid Air" and "Bless The Weather"
The Stranglers: "No More Heroes"
Roxy Music: "For Your Pleasure" and "Avalon"
Steely Dan: "Gaucho" and "Aja"
but perhaps most of all
The Boss: "Born To Run"
Brooooce
Born to run ?
The Jam
In The City
(This Is The)Modern World
All Mod Cons
The Gift
Bowie:
Station To Station
Heroes
Young Americans
The Clash:
London Calling
Doors
L.A. Woman
Late For The Sky' - already noted above
Aja - Steely Dan
Cry Tough - Nils Lofgren
Show Some Emotion - Joan Armatrading
1999 - Prince
Talk To Your Daughter - Robben Ford
Exodus - Bob Marley
London Calling - The Clash
Copperhead Road - Steve Earle
a few for starters.
The best by a long shot
Television - Marquee Moon
I thank you.
For me:
Tom Waits - Alice / Rain Dogs
Blur - Parklife
Massive Attack - Protection
Bob Marley - Exodus
El-P - Fantastic Damage
Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun
Tom Baxter - Skybound
Mos Def - True Magic
Good stuff!
Kraftwerk - Autobahn
Iron Maiden - Fear Of The Dark (although a not very good album)
Metallica - Master Of Puppets
Kate Bush - Hounds Of Love
James Brown - The Payback
Bruce Springsteen - The Ghost Of Tom Joad
Neil Young - Harvest Moon
Where to start...
Simple Minds - New Gold Dream
Billy MacKenzie - Beyond The Sun
Avalanches - Since I Left You
Lloyd Cole & Commotions - Rattlesnakes
Junior Boys - Last Exit
And all suitably marvellous albums too.
Here's some more
Trans Europe Express
Paid In Full
What's Going On
I Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You
Astral Weeks
also I really like the JAMC song "Psychocandy". Although not on the original lp, it came free on a bonus single when I bought the album.
*edit* Just spotted Dr Alimantado's Born For A Purpose. Excellent selection!
Welcome To The Pleasuredome - Frankie
Kings of the Wild Frontier - Adam & The Ants
Born to Run - Broooooooooooooce
Let There Be Rock - AC/DC
My Generation - The 'Orrible 'Oo
A few of mine...
Randy Newman - Sail Away
Steely Dan - The Royal Scam
Richard and Linda Thompson - Shoot Out the Lights
True dat
Burial - Untrue
At the moment
Long Player, Late Bloomer.
Some
King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King
Iron Maiden - Number Of The Beast
Motorhead - Ace Of Spades
Metallica - Master Of Puppets
Slade - We'll Bring The House Down
Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story
Faces - Ooh La La
Squeeze - Cools For Cats
Richard & Linda Thompson - I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight
Paul Weller - Wake Up The Nation
A Few
Autobahn
Young Americans
Station to Station
Boys Outside
Here, My Dear
Zoot Allures
Gaucho
Let It Die
Expensive Shit
The Modern Dance
Mine
Other than the Frankie/Bowie/Kraftwerk ones already mentioned...
The Art of Falling Apart - Soft Cell
Architecture and Morality - OMD
Black Celebration - Depeche Mode
Warriors - Gary Numan
Working with Fire and Steel - China Crisis
Once Upon a Time - Simple Minds
Heathen - Bowie
(sort of) Plastic Age - The Buggles
Graceland - Paul Simon
Thriller - Michael Jackson
Interesttingly, the Depeche Mode one was the first and only of their albums that actually has a title track. God, I sound like Patrick Bateman.
Prince
Dirty Mind
Controversy
1999
Purple Rain
Sign O' The Times
Crystal Ball
Gold
3121
Planet Earth
10cc
How Dare You!
An instrumental opener; I never tire of it.
Must be millions!
But the one that immediately springs to mind is Leaders of the Free World by Elbow.
They never bettered this track. IMO, of course.
Can
Future Days. The albums's a masterpiece and this is one of the best tracks.
not that I'm rooted in the 70s or anything...
Dixie Chicken - Little Feat
Fly Like An Eagle - Steve Miller Band
Hejira - Joni Mitchell
Desperado - Eagles