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Posted: Dec 02 2009 10:30 pm

Eddie_Hyde wrote:

I'm not quite a celebrity here yet, so I won't put mine up.

Pfft, do it anyway. I love seeing what kinds of music other people listen to.

Joined: Apr 09 2008 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 3112

Well, here's list #2 right now, now that I'm going through another phase.

1)"Dixie Road Rash"
Artist: Common Rider
Album: Last Wave Rockers
Great little surf/folk sound to this one. Great summertime driving song, as well.

2)"Almost Ready"
Artist: Dinosaur Jr.
Album: Beyond
Great '90s college alternative brought back to life. Good stuff.

3)"Chartered Trips"
Artist: Husker Du
Album: Zen Arcade
Beautiful grungy vocals with pretty, yet sloppy music

4)"Newest Industry"
Artist: Husker Du
Album: Zen Arcade
Seriously, if you consider yourself a fan of either punk or grunge, you should own this album, no excuses.

5)"Hamlet Chicken Plant Disaster"
Artist: Jello Biafra/Mojo Nixon/The Toadliquors
Album: Prairie Home Invasion
Mojo Nixon has an awesome country voice, and his mix of anger and tragedy when he belts out some of the lines have an odd beauty to them.

6)"Do You Remember Walter?"
Artist: The Kinks
Album: The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society
Cool little song from a great album, especially when you're in a drunk and happy mood by yourself.

7)"Sleep Long"
Artist: Operation Ivy
Album: Energy (Fuck off, I know it was originally on one of their EP's, but who actually owns them?)
Second Jesse Michaels band I've mentioned on this list, but the man knew how to rock.

Cool

"Cindy's on Methadone"
Artist: Screeching Weasel
Album: My Brain Hurts
It's too bad bands like Blink 182 who tried to emulate Screeching Weasel tried to copy the humor but forgot that you don't have to be immature assholes when you do. The lyrics in this song are at the same time funny in their creativity but still appropriately sensitive.

9)"Gone Daddy Gone"
Artist: Violent Femmes
Album: Violent Femmes
I love the Femmes' early stuff, because it sounded like what beatnicks would have created at the time if they were still around. We need more cool white people music these days.

10)"Kiss Off"
Same as above for everything.

Posted: Dec 03 2009 03:52 am

Elvis is pretty cool. And what do you mean exactly by outlaw country?

Title: Hugh Joined: Sep 23 2007 Posts: 1591

Outlaw country usually means like, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash, et cetera.

Posted: Dec 03 2009 05:28 am

Ross Rifle wrote:

Elvis is pretty cool. And what do you mean exactly by outlaw country?

Willie, Waylon, Cash, Kristofferson, Hank Jr, etc. Maybe Steve Earle. Stuff like that. I'm also a big rockabilly fan.

For some good Elvis, if you're not familier with it, listen to Too Much. Scotty Moore has a badass guitar solo for the time it came out and the style of music.

Posted: Dec 03 2009 10:10 pm

Well then, we definitely do have the exact same taste in music Scam. I'm also really close to Cap and GP.

Joined: May 22 2008 Location: Goshen, VA Posts: 6544

1)"People That Are Going to Hell"
Artist: The Vandals
Album: Hitler Bad, Vandals Good
Fun, silly punk rock from a bunch of goofy California guys who have been doing it right since 1981, even though the line up has changed a few times.

2)"Pull My Strings"
Artist: Dead Kennedys
Album: Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death
This song was always funny and cheered me up, letting me thumb my nose at popular music without looking like a pretentious tool. For the history of the song (which was only performed live once) look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pull_My_Strings

3)"Closing Time"
Artist: Leonard Cohen
Album: The Future
This man could sing the phone book and I would buy it on 8-Track, Vinyl, Cassette and CD. Some people say no one could capture the feeling of loneliness at 3AM like Bob Dylan. I think they meant to say Leonard Cohen.

4)"Steam"
Artist: Peter Gabriel
Album: Us
It's my fervent opinion that Peter Gabriel revolutionized pop music way before anyone really called it that. This song wakes me up, gets me motivated and makes me smile.

5)"No Depression"
Artist: Uncle Tupelo
Album: No Depression
This song is one of those rare songs that actually makes me feel something. When they say "I'm going where there's no depression, a better land that's free from care", I actually believe it and wanna go there too.

That's all I have time for now. I'll do another 5 tomorrow or something.

Posted: Dec 04 2009 05:50 pm

Since my I've moved my music to a different computer and my play count is starting over, I thought I would just put my library on random and listen to whatever comes up, no matter how awful or good. Here is the catch. I have a lot of songs. Most of them are good. But I download a lot of music for my wife and other people (mom, dad, sister-in-law, friends, etc). Plus I will download lots of other random stuff, sometimes for a reason, some for a joke. I probably have every William Hung song, for example.

So I'm just gonna let all of my music run on random for a few weeks and report back and see how interesting it gets. I may end up with a top ten with Neil Diamond, Hank Williams III, Snot, Kris Kross, Mr. Mister, Amy Grant, Juice Newton, Manowar, The Bacon Brothers, and John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band. We'll see.

Joined: Oct 19 2009 Location: Nashville, TN Posts: 1479

Here is mine, although slightly altered. I almost exclusively listen to albums or live shows in there entirety and don't really listen on a song by song basis, so rather than just give you my the track list to most played album, I'll do my favorite track from each.

1. "Sweet Thing" Van Morrison

Astral Weeks is in my opinion the greatest album of all time. If you think you know what Van sounds like but you haven't listened to Astral Weeks, you best educate yourself.

2. "Close to the Edge" Yes

Greatest pipe organ solo in all of rock music

3. "Oh Comely" Neutral Milk Hotel

Great writing, brilliant imagery, emotive singing. Jeff Mangum is the man.

4. "Footprints" Miles Davis

Miles Smiles is an incredible album. Anyone casual Miles fans who need to know where to go after getting Kind of Blue, Bitches Brew, and Birth of the Cool, this is it.
Tony Wlliams's drumming is outrageous.

5. "Gates of Eden" Bob Dylan

The last four songs on Bringing it All Back Home constitute probably my very favorite final four songs on an album. That would be a weird list to write.

6. "Brokedown Palace" Grateful Dead

Off of American Beauty, an album with some incredible and profound lyrical content. If I wasn't already a devout Christian, I could probably invent my own religion out of the lyrics to the songs "Box of Rain", "Ripple", "Brokedown Palace", and "Attics of My Life".

7. "Afro Blue" John Coltrane

Specifically, the version off of One Down, One Up - Live at the Half Note

8. "The Lover" Medeski, Martin & Wood

I saw these guys live back in September and it was one of the most mind-explodingly awesome concerts I've ever been too. Tomorrow's jazz is being played today.

9. "Starless" King Crimson

Heaviest use of a wood block in all of music.

10 "Eyes of the World" Grateful Dead

Unreleased live version from the Winterland show on 10/19/1974. Jerry kicks everyone in the ass with some of his greatest guitar playing, and then the segway the ending jam into one of the most well-sung renditions of "China Doll", another Dead song with incredible lyrics (its a conversation between God and someone who has committed suicide).