Foreigner - Dirty White BoyThe Toadies - Possum Kingdom
― Steampig, Monday, 24 December 2012 18:58 (eleven years ago) link
oh man soundgarden forgot about them. "black hole sun" all the way for me. and then i am so done. but i love that song.
― scott seward, Monday, 24 December 2012 19:18 (eleven years ago) link
The entire Beach Boys discography can be boiled down to a 7" with "Don't Worry Baby" on one side and "Good Vibrations" on the other, and honestly I can take or leave "Good Vibrations."
― 誤訳侮辱, Monday, 24 December 2012 19:26 (eleven years ago) link
Electric Six - Danger! High Voltage!
i'm not a big E6 fan but this is really their worst song
― frogbs, Monday, 24 December 2012 19:33 (eleven years ago) link
The entire Beach Boys discography can be boiled down
no
― If I was a carpenter, and you were a douchebag (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 24 December 2012 19:58 (eleven years ago) link
lol@ steely dan. one for the headz there
no idea what you are talking about. that one dan song is more than enough for me.
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Monday, 24 December 2012 21:24 (eleven years ago) link
Hi Iago! Happy Christmas as well, I feel a bit bad about jumping on you on this thread even if you are unjustly depriving yourself of the Blondie back catalogue.
― Matt DC, Monday, 24 December 2012 23:38 (eleven years ago) link
― 誤訳侮辱, Monday, December 24, 2012 2:26 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lol now do the beatles
― iatee, Monday, 24 December 2012 23:41 (eleven years ago) link
It's OK, Matt DC. I must say, I know Blondie the least of the three so I am going to give them another shot. Merry Xmas to you too!
― Iago Galdston, Monday, 24 December 2012 23:45 (eleven years ago) link
oh yeah, happy holidays everyone! Could 2012 have sucked any worse? I guess if Mittens won, but otherwise, a bummer of a year
― Iago Galdston, Monday, 24 December 2012 23:50 (eleven years ago) link
"Union City Blue" is my pick for best Blondie song which sounds nothing like "Heart of Glass" (which I love, and generally my favourite Blondie songs somewhat resemble it). But I guess that's a question for a Blondie thread.
― a panda, Malmö (a passing spacecadet), Monday, 24 December 2012 23:50 (eleven years ago) link
that bob marley one
― goodbye normative genes (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 25 December 2012 00:13 (eleven years ago) link
I hate the Beatles more than anyone you know hates anything.
― 誤訳侮辱, Tuesday, 25 December 2012 02:27 (eleven years ago) link
you sound cool
― iatee, Tuesday, 25 December 2012 02:36 (eleven years ago) link
these are all subjective but I guess that's the point. feel free to debate any of them cos i prolly don't know what i'm talking about.
The Eagles "I Can't Tell You Why"Heart "These Dreams"The Alan Parsons Project "Eye In The Sky"Fall Out Boy "Dance Dance"Sugar Ray "Someday"Chris Isaak "Wicked Game"Del Amitri "Roll To Me"Powerman 5000 "When Worlds Collide"Boyz II Men "Motownphilly"The Flamin' Groovies "Shake Some Action"Rod Stewart "Maggie May"
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 25 December 2012 04:17 (eleven years ago) link
Eagles, Alan Parsons, Flamin Groovies, and Rod all OTM for me
― Iago Galdston, Tuesday, 25 December 2012 06:34 (eleven years ago) link
Rod Stewart - Young Turks
Is surely what you meant.
― small-scale fux with (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Tuesday, 25 December 2012 07:45 (eleven years ago) link
Man, Heart is essential listening
― when worlds coincide (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 25 December 2012 07:48 (eleven years ago) link
smashing pumpkins - cherub rock
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 25 December 2012 07:55 (eleven years ago) link
hope I don't piss anyone off too bad with this one, but: Shriekback - My Spine (Is the Bassline)
Have tried, but nothing else I've heard by them grabs me at all. If any huge fans think I am missing out on the rest of their catalog, I would love some suggestions.
― beard papa, Tuesday, 25 December 2012 08:16 (eleven years ago) link
cat power - metal heart
― nostormo, Tuesday, 25 December 2012 11:12 (eleven years ago) link
not really large catalogues i guess, but stillbeach house - zebraxx - vcrbon iver - skinny love
― niels, Tuesday, 25 December 2012 14:17 (eleven years ago) link
I think if you only picked Strawberry Fields Forever and associated boots flying around that would be enough for The Beatles.
There are people who have made better blues and girl scream pop, better concrete or used sitars in their tracks more interrestingly, had better riffs or did the studio as an instrument thing...so for all the goodies in their immense catalogue you could actually get away w/SFF. Besides, so many tendencies are there in one single song that its a good sum.
That's what I do anyway.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 25 December 2012 17:48 (eleven years ago) link
America - A Horse With No Name
― Talcum Mucker, Tuesday, 25 December 2012 20:26 (eleven years ago) link
Jukebox or Moon Pix version?
― Only Built For Cuban Linux (Leee), Tuesday, 25 December 2012 20:40 (eleven years ago) link
Ventura Highway by America is hundred times better than Horse With No Name.
― Jamie_ATP, Tuesday, 25 December 2012 20:42 (eleven years ago) link
i mean seeeeriously rules so hard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5J54RVZjYs
― Jamie_ATP, Tuesday, 25 December 2012 20:43 (eleven years ago) link
And to play to type:
Bardo Pond - "Tommy Gun Angel"Cocteau Twins - "Donimo"Dead Can Dance - "Summoning of the Muse"Stereolab - you know, the one that sounds like Neu! or Faust.
― Only Built For Cuban Linux (Leee), Tuesday, 25 December 2012 20:47 (eleven years ago) link
cat power - metal heartJukebox or Moon Pix version?
metal heart is the song i was going to post -- but i need both versionsi want her to keep recording this every 10 years until she's 90 years oldit's the only cat power song i need by a wide margin
― passion it person (La Lechera), Tuesday, 25 December 2012 20:47 (eleven years ago) link
Electric Six, but 'Gay Bar' instead of 'D!HV'.A bit unfair on Rod Stewart, as he had loads more great songs besides 'Maggie May' - although everything since about 1992 can be skipped.
― I saw three shi*s come sailing in... (snoball), Tuesday, 25 December 2012 23:00 (eleven years ago) link
Lazy and obvious, but...Mudhoney - Touch Me I'm Sick. Honestly assumed this would be mentioned in first 5 replies
They're great and all, but really.
― Master of Treacle, Wednesday, 26 December 2012 05:30 (eleven years ago) link
radiohead, maybe 'there there'. nb i love radiohead
― Tome Cruise (Matt P), Wednesday, 26 December 2012 05:37 (eleven years ago) link
should be good for another hundred posts or so *crosses fingers*
― Tome Cruise (Matt P), Wednesday, 26 December 2012 05:38 (eleven years ago) link
oh i know who is the ultimate example of this for me is bjork
― Tome Cruise (Matt P), Wednesday, 26 December 2012 05:40 (eleven years ago) link
America - A Horse With No Namei love about 9 songs by this band
― billstevejim, Wednesday, 26 December 2012 06:33 (eleven years ago) link
Fela "Lady"Neu! + La Dusseldorf "Hallogallo"
I don't think saying "this band can be reduced" is a bad thing. I think it shows a clarity of intent.
― capital in ruins, thousands dead (flamboyant goon tie included), Wednesday, 26 December 2012 07:48 (eleven years ago) link
Until recently, the only Grateful Dead song I ever needed (or wanted) to hear was "Box of Rain."
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Wednesday, 26 December 2012 13:53 (eleven years ago) link
No I think he said "Hot Legs"
― xanthanguar (cwkiii), Wednesday, 26 December 2012 15:36 (eleven years ago) link
"cat power - metal heartJukebox or Moon Pix version?"
moon pix
― nostormo, Wednesday, 26 December 2012 15:36 (eleven years ago) link
otm, but i like them both. fortunately, the rules do not limit different recordings of the one song
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 26 December 2012 15:39 (eleven years ago) link
Blue Cheer's version of "Summertime Blues." I like that one OTT cover tune, have no need for any more by them.
― Rocking Disco Santa (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 26 December 2012 15:45 (eleven years ago) link
coldplay - yelloweminem - my name iskanye west - through the wirethe strokes - last nightbright eyes - waste of paintthe smiths - how soon is nowgorillaz - clint eastwooddelibes - lakme (the flower duet)
― nicky lo-fi, Wednesday, 26 December 2012 16:00 (eleven years ago) link
how soon is now is a good smiths pick. kinda get all your smithiness right there. could definitely understand someone picking ace of spades by motorhead for the same reason.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 26 December 2012 17:51 (eleven years ago) link
I was about to say that "How Soon Is Now" is a distinctly bad Smiths pick, since it doesn't sound much like anything else they did! It's a total one-off in their catalog. And is 2-3 minutes too long. If I had to pick one song to get all your Smithiness from, it'd be "Still Ill".
― JRN, Wednesday, 26 December 2012 17:57 (eleven years ago) link
Thinking the same myself, a very un-Smiths song to me.
― Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, 26 December 2012 17:59 (eleven years ago) link
its so epic though. and i can definitely see someone who doesn't care about the smiths listening to it a lot. i just meant that lyrically/emotionally its got all the smithiness but then it has the rock wallop and it makes sense for a non-fan to pick that one. more so than the other well known stuff like this charming man or whatever.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 26 December 2012 18:05 (eleven years ago) link
no non-smiths fan is gonna pick still ill as the one smiths song they listen to!
― scott seward, Wednesday, 26 December 2012 18:06 (eleven years ago) link
and suedehead would be prefect for non-moz people too.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 26 December 2012 18:07 (eleven years ago) link
Oh, I wasn't thinking about what song the non-fan would be most likely to enjoy--I was thinking about what song nails the basic essence of the band so well that you could hear just that one track and understand what they're about. But I see now that I may have missed the point of the thread.
― JRN, Wednesday, 26 December 2012 18:20 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, I'm in the camp of loving "How Soon..." and really not being much into other Smiths.
― Rocking Disco Santa (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 26 December 2012 18:31 (eleven years ago) link
Unlike say Jonathan Richman who I love seeing live and have high-fived several of his latter-day records but everybody knows it's Roadrunner forever― capital in ruins, thousands dead (flamboyant goon tie included)
― capital in ruins, thousands dead (flamboyant goon tie included)
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Thursday, 27 December 2012 19:01 (eleven years ago) link
Desmond Dekker - The Israelites
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Thursday, 27 December 2012 20:22 (eleven years ago) link
I love Sleater-Kinney to the ends of the earth, but I don't think they ever touched the perfection of Start Together.
Janis Joplin I also dig, but that famous live version of Ball And Chain is gorgeous, passionate, and probably better than Big Mama Thornton's (the only time I'll ever say that about a white rock band's cover of a black blues song).
And ignoring what a cultural behemoth Johnny B. Goode is, Promised Land is far and away the best song Chuck Berry ever wrote.
― Everything You Like Sucks, Friday, 28 December 2012 06:38 (eleven years ago) link
Low - (other than a handful of their Christmas songs come the season) - Lazerbeam.
― besides Sunny Real Estate (dog latin), Friday, 28 December 2012 09:09 (eleven years ago) link
Desmond Dekker has a surprisingly rich catalogue of songs. I'm always impressed when I listen to his stuff. Songs like 'It Mek', 'Problems', 'Dracula', 'Fu Manchu' are all just as deserving as the classic 'Israelites'.
― besides Sunny Real Estate (dog latin), Friday, 28 December 2012 09:11 (eleven years ago) link
'Roadrunner' is no way my favourite Jonathan Richman song, but that will all depend on your threshold for his schtick. That song is a straight ahead blues/punk number that pulls no punches, but somehow I find something like 'Ice Cream Man', 'Abdul & Cleopatra' or 'The Morning Of Our Lives' far more indicative of his style (and ultimately more entertaining) than 'Roadrunner'.
― besides Sunny Real Estate (dog latin), Friday, 28 December 2012 09:15 (eleven years ago) link
Roadrunner is a bit like Teenage Kicks in that it's a song that sounds so full, such a perfect capturing of an aesthetic, that you don't feel the artist could do any better. You really can get everything you want from that artist from that one song. I've actually had the same thing with Hallogallo, rightly or wrongly.
― Matt DC, Friday, 28 December 2012 12:29 (eleven years ago) link
This is Will Oldham for me, I think. "I See a Darkness" is a great song, but I could take or leave the rest. I've got three or four of his albums (none of which feature the song I actually like) and I've never really been able to connect with his stuff.
― spastic heritage, Friday, 28 December 2012 13:56 (eleven years ago) link
Os Mutantes - Panis et Circenses
― Frederik B, Friday, 28 December 2012 14:30 (eleven years ago) link