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Three song introduction
I missed out on getting tickets to see the Divine Comedy in London this year, but fond some going spare for the Cambridge date, easily drivable within an hour for me, and I have a friend in the town I thought I could meet up with and bring along to the gig. She's up for it but admits she's never heard a note of TDC, so I sent her a Spotify playlist of a few highlights from each album to give her an idea of what to expect. But no, she's got a limited bandwidth connection which rules out Spotify, so she asked if I could perhaps email her a few mp3s instead.
Swiftly skirting issues of file-sharing for the moment (besides, it's all for the greater good of TDC if I convert her to The Cause, as I suspect I will), I decided 3 songs would be a good balance between giving her an introduction to the music and not overstuffing her inbox. So I chose:
Songs Of Love
Down In The Street Below
Our Mutual Friend
Did I choose correctly?
If you had to introduce someone to a beloved act of yours, with only three songs to demonstrate their particular marvels, what would you choose?
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Debaser
Tame, Wave Of Mutilation. The first three songs on "Doolittle" by The Pixies. Such a perfect distillation of everything that is good about Pixiedom that you don't actually need to own anything else by them. So more of a summation than an introduction, I suppose.
Pixie3
I'm a Surfer Rosa man myself so I'd go for
Bone Machine
Cactus
River Euphrates
Cactus
That's the one that totally blew me away when I first heard it. Good call.
And another from Surfer Rosa
I'd have to include Where Is My Mind? Fab song, showcases the importance of Kim Deal's voice to good effect.
Good shout
I was thinking
Cecilia-Ann
Where is my Mind?
Gouge Away
So hard to choose.
I think it'd have to be:
Velouria
River Euphrates
Hey
free Pixies concert from 2004 available
at http://www.lalapixiesloveyou.com but you need to be on the list to nab it, I think
I'm on the list
tracklist:
Bone Machine
U Mass
Isla De Encanta
Wave Of Mutilation
Broken Face
Cactus
Caribou
Number 13 Baby
Gouge Away
Tame
Monkey Gone To Heaven
Debaser
Velouria
Hey
Gigantic
Nimrod's Son
Here Comes Your Man
Vamos
In Heaven/Where Is My Mind?
Into The White
Damn near perfect set-list...
that was a great tour.
Where was that, James?
I saw them three times in 2004-2005. I have the official bootleg of the show they did at Meadowbank on 28 August 2005, at which I was present. Idlewild, the Fannies and Pixies = a fucking GREAT night out. Here's the setlist, which was... well, see for yourself:
Bone Machine
Stormy Weather
Head On
U-Mass
Monkey Gone To Heaven
Wave Of Mutilation
Broken Face
Gouge Away
Caribou
I Bleed
Ed Is Dead
Planet Of Sound
Hey
Debaser
Tame
Blown Away
Winterlong
In Heaven
Wave Of Mutilation (UK Surf)
La La Love You
Here Comes Your Man
Cactus
Vamos
Where Is My Mind
Gigantic
it says
2004.05.01 - Indio, CA
hope that helps
me?
I'm a bit lost
Thats from
Coachella Festival
They are regularly adding live shows to download for $4 a pop on their brand new site http://www.pixiesmusic.com/
Nice one from Manchester 3rd Oct 88 just added
01.Bone Machine
02.Break My Body
03.Isla de Encanta
04.Isla de Encanta (part 2)
05.Broken Face
06.There Goes My Gun
07.River Euphrates
08.Nimrod’s Son
09.Ed is Dead
10.I’m Amazed
11.Where Is My Mind?
12.Levitate Me
13.Dead
14.Cactus
15.Caribou
16.Something Against You
17.Manta Ray
18.I’ve Been Tired
19.Monkey Gone to Heaven
20.Tame
21.Gigantic
My Divine Comedy three
Becoming More Like Alfie
Charmed Life
The Summerhouse
Mine...
Certainty of Chance
Gin-soaked Boy
The Complete Banker
my DC three are
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can't stand Mr. Clever Clever Coconut Heid
Why has no-one picked "My Lovely Horse"?
Never mind it being DC's best record, it's possibly the finest song ever written.
So perhaps
My Lovely Horse:
Trafalgar:
And the IT Crowd new emergency number jingle:
Job done.
PERFECT.
Bruce
Thunder Road, 10th Avenue Freeze Out, Born To Run.
Other Springsteen albums are available.
Racing In The Street,
Promised Land and Factory?
BTW Is this a misprint?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Collection-1973-1984-Bruce-Springsteen/dp/B003QZ...
£13.93 ?!?
If it is a misprint ...
... they are still misprinting it.
An absolute steal !
Stiff Little Fingers
Suspect Device - first single - a statement of intent and fully representative of the first couple of years
Silver Lining or Just Fade Away or Picadilly Circus - mid-period power pop
Guitar & Drum - title track from last album to show age hasn't slowed them down
SLF
Mine would have been Johnnywas, Tin Soldiers and At The Edge.
ELO
Tightrope
Big Wheels
Twilight
"Xanadu's off, dear"
Shurely shome mishtake - Turn To Stone, Mr. Blue Sky, Telephone Line. Job done, back off to the 'otel, two birds each.
DC
Pop Singer's Fear of the Pollen Count (remixed version)
A Lady of a Certain Age
Gin Soaked Boy
In preparation for the live solo Neil Hannon
Dogs & The Horses (that live radio session version)
The Plough
The Complete Banker
Eels
Souljacker Pt 1
The Look You Giev That Guy
I Like Birds
My Mr E
Susan's House
The Medication is Wearing Off
Fresh Feeling
My E Three:
Hey Man (Now You're Really Living)
Restraining Order Blues
Trouble With Dreams
This is a really tricky one to get right!
ThreeE
The Look You Give That Guy
It's A Motherfucker
The Sound of Fear
E's are good...my three
Novocaine For The Soul
I Like Birds
Bus Stop Boxer
Neil Hannon live
Saw Neil Hannon Live at Kägelbanan in Stockholm last Thursday.
Absolutely IMMACULATE gig. A great selection of songs spread across the albums. And that guy is a natural wit.
A few highlights from the set:
The Complete Banker
The Summerhouse
Becoming More Like Alfie
Songs of Love
Tonight We Fly
Everybody Knows that I love you
Sweden (of course!)
... and, best of all:
A Lady of a Certain Age
More Eels
My Descent Into Madness
Your Lucky Day In Hell
Souljacker Part 1
Rory Gallagher
Laundromat
Used To Be
Can't Believe It's True
All early in his solo career I know, but represent 3 different styles and guaranteed to hook anybody into the wonderful world of Rory (I hope).
Rory
Messin' With The Kid
Daughter Of the Everglades
A Million Mile Away
Neil Young
Revolution Blues
Razor Love
Down By The River
My Neil...
Cinnamon Girl
Only Love Can Break Your Heart
On the Beach
Neil Young
Good choices Johan, but I'd go for:
Cinnamon Girl
Like A Hurricane
Ambulance Blues
Neil again
Old Man
After the Goldrush
Pardon My Heart
NY
Natural Beauty
Horseshoe Man
Stringman (Unplugged)
Neil
Cinnamon Girl
Unknown Legend
Sugar Mountain
Neil Young
Out On The Weekend
Powderfinger
Cortez The Killer
My turn
Electric:
Cowgirl in the Sand
Dangerbird
Powderfinger
Acoustic:
Only Love Can Break Your Heart
Thrasher
From Hank to Hendrix
Penguin Cafe Orchestra
Beanfields
Scherzo and Trio
Giles Farnaby's Dream
That should draw them in enough to blow their mind when they discover Music For A Found Harmonium.
Sisters
Never Land (full length)
Some Kind of Stranger
You Could Be the One
Megadeth
Wake Up Dead
Anarchy in the USA
Hook in Mouth
Whither
Peace Sells But Whose Buyin'?
Sisters of Merc3
Adrenochrome
Temple Of Love (Touched By The Hand of Ofra Haza)
Body Electric
That'd do it
YCBTO?
Sisters...
Driven Like The Snow
Body & Soul
First & Last & Always
2 votes apiece
for Gin Soaked Boy and Complete Banker so far. That's my eyebrows raised somewhat, but whatever floats your boat, folks.
Eyebrows raised even further when I realise it's 17 years since Liberation was released. 17 years!
The Pogues
1. You'll be wanting a drop o' the hellraising stuff:
The Sickbed Of Cuchulainn.
2. To demonstrate this is a band not a geezer:
Thousands Are Sailing
3. Although, having said that, any reports you may have heard that this geezer is a stone cold genius were not exaggerated:
(That's "Misty Morning, Albert Bridge for those without vids)
Good call
Mine would be...
Thousands Are Sailing
Body of an American
The Gentleman Soldier
Mahone
Thousands Are Sailing
Bottle of Smoke
Streets of Sorrow
...all from that bleedin' album.
Steely Dan...
Do It Again
Show Biz Kids
Deacon Blues
You could have picked 3 at random Patrick
I'll go for
Brooklyn (Owes the Charmer)
Rikki Don't Lose that number
Any World
(just to be different)
I'll go for
Don't Take Me Alive
Aja
My Old School
Personally I'd ditch SBK and
Personally I'd ditch SBK and replace it with Kid Charlemagne and I wonder whether Deacon Blues would get edged out by Peg or Josie. But how the heck to you choose just three Dan tracks?
Steely Dan
Reelin' In The Years
Bodhisattva
Hey Nineteen
Tom Waits
Diamonds On My Windshield
Town With No Cheer
Chocolate Jesus
A Tom Waits snapshot
San Diego Serenade
Step Right Up
Burma Shave (the piano version, not that awful Summertime take that was on Singer-songwriters recently)
Tom Waits For No-one
Time
Hold On
In The Neighborhood
Little Feat
Willin'
Dixie Chicken
Long distance love
Perfect...
I can't better that.
that's weird
just tried an up arrow and got the Karma Timeout, then when my pooter had done its biz the extra up was there!
So there you go. You're speshul!
Nils Lofgren
I Came To Dance
Soft Fun
Moon Tears
Stones
Waiting On A Friend
Let It Bleed
Rock And A Hard Place
Bob Dylan...
Blowin' in the Wind
Like a Rolling Stone
Tangled Up in Blue
The Band
Orange Juice Blues
The Weight
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down (from The Last Waltz)
I would have
Acadian Driftwood in there.
I'd go for...
The Weight
Whispering Pines
It Makes No Difference
I anguished over Whispering Pines.
My favorite Manuel vocal that. But Orange Juice Blues got me curious about The Band in the first place. The Weight is proof that they are wonderful. And that live version of Dixie is the single coolest moment from the coolest member (That would be Levon Helm obviously).
Trust me when I say I swithered.
Free
I'll Be Creepin'
Heavy Load
Soon I Will Be Gone
Randy Newman...
I Think It's Going To Rain Today
Sail Away
Political Science
Ooooooh good call...
Very good call indeed.
Mr Newman
Guilty
Jolly Coppers On Parade
Land Of Dreams
More Randy
Louisiana 1927
Marie
Bad News From Home
The Clash
White Riot
Bankrobber
Straight To Hell
Clash 3
Stay Free
Spanish Bombs
White Man in Hammersmith Palais
Led Zeppelin...
Whole Lotta Love
Since I've Been Loving You
Kashmir
I love this thread...
Can I do every band I like please?
Of course you can!
I'll do a few more:
The Smiths - I'd just give them the William... 12":
William, It Was Really Nothing
Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want
How Soon Is Now?
Pet Shop Boys:
It's A Sin
Being Boring
I Wouldn't Normally Do This Kind Of Thing
Ben Folds (Five):
Philosophy
Don't Change Your Plans
Annie Waits
Sorry, it's the law that...
Any threesome involving the Pet Shop Boys needs Left to my Own Devices. I'd place it over the Cat Stevens-plagiarising It's a Sin.
Good call
I wanted something that would show off their enormo-pop side, but ...Devices would fit the bill perfectly.
seconded
Left to my Own Devices is a particularly amazing song. Original version please and not the cut-down single release.
PSB
Being Boring
Se A Vide E
You only tell me you love me when you're drunk
My Three from the Ben Folds Five
Or should that be My Ben Folds Three...
hmmm, anyway...
Landed
Video
Alice Childress
I'll have probably changed my mind in 5 minutes though...
Go for the obvious
National Express
Perfect Love Song
Absent Friends
If she doesn't fall for those sling her in the Cam.
Personal faves coming up
Boards Of Canada.
1) Roygbiv
2) In A Beautiful Place Out In The Country
3) Dayvan Cowboy
James Yorkston
1) St Patrick
2) I Awoke
3) I Know My Love
Laura Nyro
1) Stoned Soul Picnic
2) Wedding Bell Blues
3) Eli's Comin'
God I could do this all day!
My three Laura Nyro
Beads Of Sweat
Luckie
Gibsom Street
The wonderful Laura Nyro
Poverty Train
Brown Earth
To A Child
I might chuck
Woozy with Cider in instead of I awoke for James Y.
Purely as an intro before forcing the complete works on them.
When the Haar Rolls In
Queen of Spain
Midnight Feast
might do the trick too. He's got a book coming out next year - looking forward to that and accompanying detailed press articles. Clanggggg!
Where is Richard Thompson?
I have not heard him or Fairport Convention (yes I know).
Kind people out there give me three songs from each. You know you want to!
You asked for it...
Fairport...
Meet On The Ledge
Who Knows Where the Time Goes
Matty Groves
RT...
The Great Valerio
Dimming of the Day / Dargai
1952 Vincent Black Lightning
Thank 'ee kind sir...
*runs to the internet*
Here are three later
but no less wonderful Fairport tracks for your delectation:
Breakfast In Mayfair (from Babbacome Lee 1971, the second post RT album)
The Hiring Fair (sublime Ralph McTell-penned tune from the 1985 album Gladys' Leap)
Jewel In The Crown (Julie Matthews wrote this uplifting spoof jingoistic title track from the 1995 album)
A very swift response...
... gleaned from a couple of listens. Fairport ace! Will search out more swiftly. RT Pretty good, not as immediate, will need more plays. But I will do that.
RT
Hard On Me (Mock Tudor)
Beeswing (Mirror Blue)
Keep Your Distance (Hand of Kindness)
Almost
I might be tempted to swap Keep your Distance for Wall of Death to include one with Linda as an example of up tempt bitter/sweet and staggering guitar solo.
Thompson Permutations
An easy one, because there's so much good stuff to choose from, or a tough one, because there's so much good stuff to choose from..
If I divide up the accessible stuff into the categories of "acoustic" "slow & sad" and "uptempo" and go for a rounded one of each, I find I'm left with (at least) three of each and it doesn't really matter which I choose, they all fit.
King of Bohemia, Beeswing or God Loves a Drunk.
Waltzing's For Dreamers, Keep Your Distance or I Still Dream.
I Feel So Good, Cooksferry Queen or Dad's Gonna Kill Me.
Fairport
Somewhere has to be "Tam lin" surely. I can listen to it on repeat play for hours. A complete masterpiece.
As requested Ganglesprocket
A few songs that haven't been mentioned yet - apart from the first, which you simply can't get around
Fairport:
Who Knows Where The Time Goes (the version from Unhalfbricking is the definitive take)
Crazy Man Michael
Sloth (for a post-Sandy highlight)
Richard Thompson
Woods of Darney (heartbreakingly brilliant song)
King of Bohemia
Gethsemane
Fairport and RT
Fairport (with RT)
Genesis Hall
A Sailor's Life
Crazy Man Michael
RT
Night Comes In (Guitar, Vocal)
All Changing Way (Henry The Human Fly)
Walking on a Wire (Shoot Out the Lights)
Nah, you have to be quite
Nah, you have to be quite selective with Fairport. I would go for
Farewell, farewell
Who knows where the time goes
and Autopsy
As for Richard Thomson's solo stuff - I've not enough knowledge to contribute.
Robert Palmer...
Sneakin' Sally Through the Alley
Looking For Clues
Every Kinda People
No Johnny And Mary?
Come, come Patrick..
Radiohead
Just
Exit Music (For A Film)
Jigsaw Falling Into Place
Or perhaps just Paranoid Android - has ever a single song so perfectly summed up it's creators? Maybe that's a question for another thread…
from back when they still wrote songs
Let Down
Bulletproof
How Can You Be Sure
Nirvana
Lithium
Milk It
You Know You're Right
job done
Waterboys
Fisherman's Blues
A Man Is In Love
Long Way to the Light
Great call on "A Man is in Love"
I adore that song.
I would go with
The Pan Within
Strange Boat
Fishermans Blues
My Divine Comedy 3
-Your Daddy's Car (the live version from the "Everybody Knows" single)
-Our Mutual Friend
-Tonight We Fly
I love the new album mind, particularly Neopolitan Girl.
XTC
River of Orchids
Green Man
Love on a Farmboy's Wages
oh but there's so much other fantastic stuff...
Ooh
Dear God
Easter Theatre
The Wheel And The Maypole
XT3
This Is Pop?
Stupidly Happy
Senses Working Overtime
XT4
Sgt Rock (Is Going to Help Me)
Sensee Working Overtime
Generals and Majors
XT5
I'm The Man Who Murdered Love
Dear Mrs Barnum
No Thugs In Our House
siXTC
Your Dictionary (immediate impact!)
In Loving Memory of a Name
Harvest Festival
R.E.M.
Imitation of Life
New Test Leper
Supernatural Superserious
R.3.M.
Harborcoat
Country Feedback
Crush With Eyeliner
R.E.M 3
Driver 8
So Fast, So Numb
Fall On Me
Two post-Bill Berry?
Controversial!
Mine:
These Days
Finest Worksong
Orange Crush
REM do some old
Superman
So. Central Rain
West Of The Fields
rem
Sitting Still
Welcome To The Occupation
You're In The Air
REM Obvious
Losing My Religion
Man On The Moon
Everybody Hurts
REM Less Obvious
Be Mine
Suspicion
Fretless
Love the less obvious choices.
Fretless is an astonishing song. I don't think I've ever heard anything quite so sad - it's genuinely hard to listen to.
Nick Drake
Poor Boy
Northern Sky
At The Chime of a City Clock
All from the same album, I know, one of my favourite records.
More ND
Fruit Tree
Pink Moon
Hazey Jane I
Spot on, Johan
mine exactly
Welcome to the wonderful world of binky bonk rhythms
Kraftwerk
Neon Lights
Radioactivity
Europe Endless
Depeche Mode
Photographic
Enjoy the Silence
Wrong
OMD
The Romance of the Telescope
Sacred Heart
Joan of Arc (Maid of Orleans)
'I am
electro boy'
Elliott Smith
Happiness
Between the bars
Say yes
Populist I know, but I'd go for..
Son Of Sam
Walz #2 (XO)
Miss Misery
And I'd go for
Waltz #2 (XO)
Junk Bond Trader
Sweet Adeline
(I do have his earlier albums, but I'm a later album kind of gal)
I love his later albums too
Stupidity Tries
In The Lost And Found
Let's Get Lost
Ah Sweet Elliott
Junk Bond Trader
Baby Britain
Happiness (so sad..)
I´m rediscovering dear Elliott thanks to the Massive
Waltz #2 just made me cry for the first time in years (since the last time I heard it...).
Is Figure 8 the most Massive approved?
Figure 8 is very wonderful...
however, I prefer XO.
The Cure
A forest
Just like heaven
To wish impossible things
Radiohead
Talk Show Host
My Iron Lung
Reckoner
Which Talk Show Host? Romeo
Which Talk Show Host? Romeo & Juliet OST or B-side to Steet Spirit?
B-side.
I like the R+J OST version, but there's something really special about the original.
In fact, hell with it: my three Radiohead would be:
Street Spirit
Bishop's Robes
Talk Show Host.
There we go. The Street Spirit single release. Probably the best work they ever did.
Radiohead
Controversial view but I still reckon The Bends is the best album, before they started disappearing slightly up their more emotion free and experimental rear entrance.
Black Star!
Bones
and Exit Music for a Film from Ok Computer
You are right.
It is all other opinions which are controversial. Mr badger_king on another thread finds room in his top 50 for 5 Radiohead albums, none of which are the one with all the songs...
David Bowie
(Can't believe no-one's done Mr Bowie yet, unless I scrolled past by mistake)
Suffragette City
Let's Dance
Young Americans
I'd make some ch-ch-changes...
Rebel Rebel
Golden Years
Ashes to Ashes
My take...
Five Years
Life on Mars?
Scary Monsters and Super Creeps
Early to late
Letter to Hermione (1969)
Sweet Thing/Candidate/Sweet Thing (reprise) (1974)
Heathen (The Waves) (2002)
Bowie 3
Cat People
Because You're Young
The Man Who Sold The World
Three more from Mr Bowie
Life on Mars
Station to Station
Teenage Wildlife
More DB
Bewlay Brothers
Width of a Circle
Sunday
close...
Cygnet Committee
Teenage Wildlife
Conversation Piece (new version)
(i could think of a million combinations - his song list is unsurpassed)
close...
Cygnet Committee
Teenage Wildlife
Conversation Piece (new version)
(i could think of a million combinations - his song list is unsurpassed)
Velvet Underground
Pale Blue Eyes
Sweet Jane
Waiting For The Man
Good choice but I'd have to include...
...Sister Ray. Nothing else like it.
I only like the guitar solo on Pale Blue Eyes so that song would have to go.
...sorry folks...
... (mumbles) the Beatles:
Hey Jude
A Day In The Life
Drive My Car
Mine would have more Lennon
In My life
A Day In The Life
I Am The Walrus
Fabs...
Ticket to Ride
Help
Drive My Car
Wow, fellow Beatles fans!
I didn't think there was anyone else who likes the Beatles on here ;-)
my three:
Hey Bulldog
Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey
erm, is it cheating if my third track is the entire medley from Side 2 of Abbey Road?
.
We Can Work it Out
Strawberry Fields Forever
Don't Let me Down
Joe Dolce
Shaddap Your Face
Erm....
*tumbleweed*
THIS is Why I Love This Site
Arf Arf. Have an arrow
Gregory Isaacs
Night Nurse
Mr Cop
Rumours
The Fall
Totally Wired
The Classical
Paintwork
The National and David Ackles
An obvious pairing of course.
The National:
Baby We'll Be Fine
Brainy
Bloodbuzz Ohio
David Ackles:
Love's Enough
Down River
Montana Song
David Ackles
Or, just for a little variation, you could have these thrilling three:
Waiting for the Moving Van
House above the Strand
Be My Friend
Felt
Evergreen Dazed
Primitive Painters
Ballad Of The Band
Can't let a mention of Felt pass by unacknowledged...
Mine:
Riding on the Equator
Free
FinalResting of the Ark
Burning Spear
Door Peep
Travelling
Jah No Dead (version from "Rockers" soundtrack)
The Alan Parsons Project
Eye In The Sky
Old And Wise
Time
John Coltrane
Wise One
Olé
Afro-Blue (Live at Birdland version)
Anyone listening to those three for the first time will have their mind CONSUMMATELY BLOWN.
Roxy Music
Ladytron
Do The Strand
My Only Love
Roxy 3
Both Ends Burning
Pyjamarama
Editions Of You
Roxy 3.0
In Every Dream Home A Heartache
All I Want Is You
Virginia Plain
singles
Pyjamarama
Street Life
All I want is You
album tracks
For Your Pleasure
Mother of Pearl
Manifesto
My 3 Roxy
Ain't That So
Street Life
Pyjamarama
Go Betweens
Cattle And Cane
The Wrong Road
Dive For Your Memory
Nice, here's my three
Bachelor Kisses
Bye Bye Pride
Love Goes On
Go-Betweens 3
Finding You
German Farmhouse
Poison In The Walls
Gobbity Twins
Bye Bye Pride
Right Here
Streets of Your Town
yes yes no
I'd replace streets with Spring Rain
Solo Years
Grant
Broadway Bride
Open Invitation
Haven't I Been A Fool
Robert
Is This What You Call Change
Warm Nights
Demon Days
Stevie Wonder...
Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours
Superstition
Sir Duke
Awesomeness
But I'd pick:
Livin' For The City
As
Sunshine Of My Life
Good
but both wrong:
Uptight
Higher Ground
Another Star
Stevie Two-der
I Wish
Superstition
Higher Ground
Early to late
I Was Made To Love Her (1967)
Golden Lady (1972)
Free (1987)
Supertramp...
School
Give a Little Bit
The Logical Song
Alternative three
Hide In Your Shell
Fool's Overture
Goodbye Stranger
Child of Vision
How could you leave that out?
Crowded House
Weather With You
Whispers And Moans
Distant Sun
Oooooh, Crowded House...
Into Temptation
Distant Sun
Together Alone
I'll have another 3 from the Finn Brothers as that's an entirely different band *cough*
Everyone is Here
Won't Give In
Angel's Heap
Oooooh again
Into Temptation
When you Come
Pineapple Head
Almost right, Hannah ;-)
Into Temptation
Catherine Wheels
Together Alone
all from together alone
Kare Kare
Walking On The Spot
Catherine Wheels
Superb album.
Less obvious, just as brilliant
Hole In The River
Never Be The Same
Fingers of Love
All good. Very very good. Wrong though...:)
Fall At Your Feet
Silent House
Don't Dream It's Over
Prefab Sprout
The Ice Maiden
Johnny Johnny
Nightingales
great shout
though I'd have to find room for "swans" there somewhere (not sure where though)
ZZ Top...
La Grange
Tush
Sharp Dressed Man
ZZ Top...
La Grange
Tush
Sharp Dressed Man
ZZ Topper
Tube Snake Boogie
Legs
Got Me Under Pressure
Blue Nile
Tinseltown In The Rain
From A Late Night Train
Family Life
Blue Nile 2
Because of Toledo
Headlights on the Parade
Tinseltown in the Rain
Sly and the Family Stone
Dance To The Music
I Want To Take You Higher
Family Affair
Talking Heads
Born Under Punches
This Must Be the Place
Heaven
Talking Heads 3
Cities
Slippery People
Found A Job
just one change please
swap heaven for Love Goes to a Building On Fire and I'm happy. It kind of captures Byrne's vocals in their early days plus the very strong new wave influence.
T
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Not heard that one.
...which period's that from?
It actually remains unreleased
Avidfan is obviously a bit of an elitist. :)
Joni Mitchell
Morning Morgantown
Roses Blue
My Old Man
Mine...
Cactus Tree
In France They Kiss on Mainstreet
Rainy Night House
Early to late
The Last Time I Saw Richard (1971)
Hejira (1976)
Chinese Cafe (1982)
Ivor Cutler...
I Believe in Bugs
Bugs
I'm Walking to a Farm
My 4 year old daughter
insists that "Mud" should be on your list too. (I'm a proud proud parent)
I wanted to edit my post...
Unfortunately it took an age and I had to catch the 10.55 bus to Oxford. It should read Dust instead of Bugs.
A Tribe Called Quest
Verses From The Abstract
Bonita Applebum
Description Of A Fool
Close but no cigar
Electric relaxation
Oh My God !
Award tour
John Martyn...
...(May You Never is omitted on grounds of over-familiarity)
Just Now (1971)
Certain Surprise (1977)
Fisherman's Dream (1984, perhaps his last truly great song)
JM...
Solid Air
Couldn't Love You More
One Day Without You
Or...
Spencer The Rover
Small Hours
Couldn't Love You More
Singer/songwriters corner
Elton John:
Your Song
Daniel
Candle In The Wind
Gilbert O'Sullivan
Nothing Rhymed
Alone Again (Naturally)
We Will
Three more from Reg
60 Years On
Grey Seal
Someone Saved My Life Tonight
Reg Again
Mona Lisas And Mad Hatters
Teacher I Need You
Rocket Man(I Think It's Going To Be A Long Long Time)
Tim Buckley
Buzzin' Fly
Song To The Siren
Sweet Surrender
Tim Buckley
a very contrasting three to yours:
It Happens Every Time
Pleasant Street
Goodbye and Hello
Wilco
Ashes Of American Flags
Pot Kettle Black
Handshake Drugs
Great choices.
Although I couldn't leave I Am TryingTo Break Your Heart off.
Wilco 3
Outtasite (Outta Mind)
Heavy Metal Drummer
I'm Always In Love
I Am Trying To Break Your Heart Off ...
... is a great song title : - ).
No, it's these three
Why Would You Wanna Live
I'm The Man Who Loves You
Solitaire
The Hold Steady
Positive Jam
Your Little Hoodrat Friend
First Night
Or equally
Stuck Between Stations
Charlemagne in Sweatpants (just for the line 'Tramps like us and we like tramps'
Constructive Summer
I found it genuinely difficult to choose.
"Charlemagne in Sweatpants" nearly made it instead of "First Night", but I'd want anyone new to THS to hear them do the bruised and lovelorn bit. I chose "Positive Jam" just as a sort of mission statement, and "YLHF" as their most viscerally thrilling melodic rock-out. I could've chosen almost anything.
Scott Walker
Jackie
30 Century Man
Track Three
Scott 2
Lights of Cincinatti
It's Raining Today
Best Of Both Worlds
Scott 3
The Old Man's Back Again
Farmer In The City
Always Coming Back To You
IF I MAY BE SO BOLD
and cut in.
Is anyone actually going to try any of these?
There is only one I have actually never heard and that's James Yorkston.
Maybe you wouldn't mind posting your thoughts if you try an artist for the first time as a result of this thread?
James Yorkston here I come.
Give Woozy With Cider
a listen too.
I have downloaded three Fairport tunes.
And will report once I have had a proper listen.
I hope you like Yorkston, he's one of the very few people whose albums I buy on the day they come out. He's quite Bert Jansch-y talking of whom...
Blackwaterside
As The Day Grows Longer Now
Fresh As A Sweet Sunday Morning
;-)
I've downloaded the songs I
I've downloaded the songs I could find by Warren Zevon, Matthew Sweet and Kirsty MacColl. XTC's "Apple Venus" and "Essential Eels" are in the post.
Granted, I've heard bits and pieces by all of these artists before, but I had always meant to get around to investigating further and it's great to have wise direction.
Early Days, but so far my favoutite is "Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner" by Mr Z.
If you´ve got Essential Eels in the post
You´re in for a treat.
Apple Venus was so F***ing brilliant
I'm getting "Wasp Star" for Christmas - cheers people!
Did you do Yorkston?
Or am I interrupting a diplomatic silence?
if you haven't then
stick this on the Xams list - it's a chuffing bargain
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Moving-Country-Domino-Doubles--Exclusive/dp/B004...
The Triffids
Wide Open Road
A Trick Of The Light
Too Hot To Move, Too Hot To Think
Three more Triffids
Bury Me Deep In Love
Save What You Can
One Soul Less On Your Fiery List
Triffids (cont'd)
Wide Open Road - a great call.
Tender is the Night
Once A Day (even if it is not their own song).
Girls
Mary Gauthier
I Drink
Drag Queens In Limousines
Mercy Now
Lucinda Williams
Car Wheels On A Gravel Road
Right In Time
Drunken Angel
Lucinda
Crescent City
Essence
Real Live Bleeding Fingers & Broken Guitar Strings
Lucinda
Right In Time
Side Of The Road
Crescent City
De Rosa
Much under-appreciated and now tragically defunct Chemikal Underground artistes:
New Lanark
Evelyn
The Engineer
If you only check out one band...
Roy Harper
The Same Old Rock
When An Old Cricketer Leaves The Crease
These Fifty Years
my Roy, all from HQ I'm afraid Carl
The Game (pts. 1-5)
The Spirit Lives - just for the lyrics
When an Old Cricketer Leaves the Crease
Teenage Fanclub
Ain't that Enough
Sparky's Dream
Don't Look Back
Gerry Love is God.
My 3 exactly...
although I will bring on the subs...
Neil Jung
Take The Long Way Round
Radio
Jam
Perm any 3 from the lot, but I offer:
Down In The Tube Station At Midnight
Eton Rifles
Thats Entertainment
Alternatively, just present them with a copy of 'Snap' and the instruction to listen to all of it (at least twice)
Style Council
Speak Like A Child
How She Threw It All Away
Shout To The Top
Rubbish !
The correct answer is...
Headstart for Happiness
Money go Round (still relevent today ??)
Micks Up
For the jam - I'd go with Mr Digit - however for the record
Art School
To be Someone
Scrape Away
3 Jam
Here Comes The Weekend
Carnation
Strange Town
Or equally
Eton Rifles
Town Called Malice
Boy About Town
Or equally
Eton Rifles
Town Called Malice
Boy About Town
Also
Going Underground
Liza Radley
Butterfly Collector
The Jam
Strange Town
Going Underground
Down In The Tube Station At Midnight
That's the 3 A sides.
Now 3 B Sides
Liza Radley
Tales From The Riverbank
The Great Depression
Now 3 of the second track in on albums:
To Be Someone
Thick As Thieves
Ghosts
More Jam
Strange Town
When You're Young
Tales From the Riverbank
The Kinks
Dedicated Follower Of Fashion
Sunny Afternoon
Celluloid Heroes
Or 50 others. Why did I even try? Three from The Kinks! I need to lie down.
Indeed. You could just as well have had
- Sweet Lady Genevieve
- Strangers
- God's Children
Yes! Or
Well Respected Man (he rhymes regatta with get at her - genius award!)
Village Green
Living On A Thin Line
(No subject)
A Kinky 3
Shangri-La
Where Have All The Good Times Gone?
Starstruck
Kinda Kinks
Victoria
Well Respected Man
Dead End Street
Populist maybe...
But not many outfits have bettered this triptych :
Waterloo Sunset
Days
Lola
Townes Van Zandt
If I Needed You
Waiting ´round To Die
For The Sake Of The Song
A Townes triptych
Pancho & Lefty
Tecumseh Valley
Snake Mountain Blues
Nick Lowe (solo only)
I Love The Sound Of Breaking Glass
All Men Are Liars
Lately I´ve Let Things Slide
From Nick via danny
Rose of England
The Beast in Me
What's shakin on the Hill
Manic Street Preachers
The Masses Against The Classes
PCP
A Design For Life
Suede
Still Life
New Generation
My Insatiable One
The Kinks
Dead End Street
You Really Got Me
Do You Remember Walter?
I can't abide "Masses..."
I'd go with:
Motorcycle Emptiness
Of Walking Abortion
A Design For Life
and for Suede:
My Insatiable One
The Wild Ones
Trash (gotta give the boy Oakes some love, too)
Oooh.
Manics:
Sleepflower
Die In The Summertime
No Surface All Feeling
Suede:
So Young
Whipsnade
Still Life
suede
The 2 of Us
The Ashpalt World
Still Life
Possibly the greatest final three tracks of any album.
I adore BB Suede
Stay Together (long guitar wig out version)
Bentswood Boys
Whipsnade
Blast you, Blast!
How did I not think of "Stay Together"? Only my favourite Suede song.
I also adore BB-era Suede. Richard Oakley is a seemingly nice lad and a cracking string-botherer, but Bernard still stands head and shoulders above any other British guitarist of his generation other than perhaps Jonny Greenwood and Graham Coxon. But really, as much as I love Radiohead more, it's Bernard's guitar parts that still mesmerise...
Y'know
I was falling in love with you up till Greenwood and Coxon.
You've ruined what could've been a perfect relationship.
No tea, up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire young man and think about what you've done!
I'll speak to you in the morning
Ha
Fair enough. I do think that whatever your opinion of Radiohead and Blur, their respective guitar players are useful little buggers.
MSP
Stay Beautiful
Australia
Send Away the Tigers
Think that spans them. Would like to have added 4st 7lb or Small Black Flowers that Grow in the Sky, which are both great, but a bit scary.
The B-52s
Hero Worship
Mesopotamia
Dirty Back Road
B-53s
Private Idaho
Butterbean
6060-842
Roam
Give Me Back My Man
Rock Lobster
Slightly off topic
3 for a friend who has "Legend" and thinks that's all they need:
Simmer Down
Duppy Conquerer
Keep On Skanking
3 for those who think "Teenage Kicks" is The Undertones' only great single:
Wednesday Week
Julie Ocean
The Love Parade
3 for a friend who says they "gave up on hip hop in the 90s" but is open to persuasion:
NERD - Bobby James
El-P - Stepfather Factory
Atmosphere - Get Fly
Even More Off Topic: 3 Song Endtroduction
Or "I bought these albums - I wish I'd Just downloade these 3 songs
Blur 13
Tender, Bugman, Coffee & TV
Echo & The Bunnymen: Porcupine
The Cutter, Back Of Love, Heads Will Roll
Manics: This Is My Truth
If You Tolerate This, Everlasting, Tsunami
Beck: Midnite Vultures
Sexx Laws, Get Real Paid, Beautiful Way
and the daddy of all eps masquerading as an LP:
The Verve: Urban Hymns
The Drugs Don't Work, Lucky Man, Bittersweet Symphony
Todd
Just One Victory
I Saw The Light
Love Of The Common Man
my Todd
The Last Ride
Love is the Answer
Sons of 1984
Ryan
When The Stars Go Blue
Oh My Sweet Carolina
Nuclear
The Adams Collection
Come Pick Me Up
Firecracker
Two
Chic
Good Times
At Last I Am Free
Burn Hard
Tom Lehrer
Masochism Tango
Poisoning Pigeons in the Park
Send the Marines
Tim Minchin
Peace Anthem for Palestine
Taboo
Inflatable You
I *heart* Tom Lehrer
Poisoning Pigeons in the Park
Bright College Days
I Hold Your Hand in Mine
I don't know any Tim Minchin, always meant to check him out. I shall start with your selection.
Thanks Hannah -
I *heart* him too! YouTube has some great live performances.
Hope you enjoy Tim.
The holy triumverate ..... Bono, Kerr and the Mac
U2
Miss Sarajevo
Where The Streets Have No Name
Out of Control
Simple Minds
The American
Theme for Great Cities
Someone Somewhere in Summertime
Echo & The Bunnymen
Do it Clean
The Killing Moon
The Back of Love