# A to Z favorite artist and song
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-to-z-favorite-artist-and-song/37399
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [October 18, 2000, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-to-z-favorite-artist-and-song/37399 "2000-10-18T14:22:01Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2000, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-to-z-favorite-artist-and-song/37399/41 "2000-10-19T18:08:22Z")
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You guys sure have brought back some wonderful memories! Frank Zappa, Live at the Fillmore East. I saw them do this on tour at The Summit (now the Compaq Center) in Houston when I was just a wee lass… I love this album. “Stick my fishin’ pole outside…” I need to go listen to it now.
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### Author:  [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2000, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-to-z-favorite-artist-and-song/37399/42 "2000-10-19T19:13:41Z")
I forgot to put the W on my list.
Wallflowers: One Headlight
The hardest part for me was deciding what to leave off. I had tons of things for S, G, B and P.
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### Author:  [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2000, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-to-z-favorite-artist-and-song/37399/43 "2000-10-19T23:53:24Z")
frogstein, just wanted to let you know you’re good people. Great list. You probably liked mine, too!
_“Toledo was just another stop along the Good Kings highway…”_
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### Author:  [@Malarky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malarky)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2000, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-to-z-favorite-artist-and-song/37399/44 "2000-10-20T01:38:19Z")
I did it differently, I did the song title in order…
A=Aerosmith “Ragdoll”
B=
C=Creed “Arms Wide Open”
D=Disturbed “Stupified”
E=Everlast “The Ends”
F=Faith No More "Last Cup of Sorrow
G=
H=
I=INXS “The One Thing”
J=
K=Killsport “Slut”
L=
M=
N=Nine Inch Nails “Ruiner”
O=
P=
Q=Queen “Bohemian Rhapsody”
R=
S=System of a Down “Sugar”
T=Tears for Fears “Shout”
U=U2 “Bullet the Blue Sky”
V=
W=
X=
Y=
Z=
Wow I really can’t think right now…it’s too damn late…I need to sleep…I’ll finish my list some other time…peace
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### Author:  [@DigitalMuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalMuse)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2000, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-to-z-favorite-artist-and-song/37399/45 "2000-10-20T01:50:59Z")
A
Bush-Glycerine
Cure-Inbetween Days
Depeche Mode-Blasphemous Rumours
E
Finger Eleven-Suffocate
Guster- Barrel of a Gun
H
Incubus-Stellar
Jars of Clay-Love Song for a Savior
K
Local H-Bound for the Floor
Mighty Mighty Bosstones- Another Drinking Song
No Doubt-Spiderwebs
Orgy-Eva
Pennywise- Alien
Q
Rammstein- Klavier
Silverchair-Pure Massacre
Tool-Euology
Union Underground- Turn Me on Mr. Deadman
V
W
X- Crytal Ship
Y
Z
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### Author:  [@DigitalMuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalMuse)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2000, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-to-z-favorite-artist-and-song/37399/46 "2000-10-20T01:52:32Z")
Oops. its supposed to be
X-Crystal Ship
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### Author:  [@rackensack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rackensack)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2000, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-to-z-favorite-artist-and-song/37399/47 "2000-10-20T04:59:10Z")
Any Trouble - “Trouble With Love”
Brinsley Schwarz - “What’s So Funny ('Bout Peace, Love, and Understanding)?”
Elvis Costello - “Mystery Dance”
Ducks Deluxe - “Please, Please, Please”
Eddie and the Hot Rods – “Do Anything You Wanna Do”
Flamin’ Groovies – “Feel a Whole Lot Better”
Ian Gomm – “Hold On”
Richard Hell and the Voidoids – “Betrayal Takes Two”
The Jags – “Here Comes My Baby”
The Knack – “Good Girls Don’t” _(I know, but stylistically, it’s the only thing that works, since I’m not that fond of anything by the Kursaal Flyers or Kilburn and the High Roads – though the latter would’ve let me sneak Ian Dury in here)_
Nick Lowe – “I Knew the Bride”
The Modern Lovers – “Someone I Care About”
The Nazz – “Open My Eyes”
The Only Ones – “Another Girl, Another Planet”
Graham Parker and the Rumour – “Pourin it All Out”
_I’m afraid I have to punt on Q – can’t fit anyone in without violence to the theme of my list_
The Records – “Starry Eyes”
Shoes – “If You’d Stay”
Bram Tchaikovsky – “Girl of My Dreams”
Tracey Ullman – “You Broke My Heart in 17 Places” (had to get Kirsty MacColl in here somewhere, if only as songwriter, and U’s don’t grow on trees)
The Velvet Underground – “Foggy Notion”
Wreckless Eric – “Reconnez Cherie”
X-Ray Spex – “Oh Bondage Up Yours”
Yachts – “Suffice to Say”
_Once again, I’m at a loss to come up with anything for Z_
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### Author:  [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2000, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-to-z-favorite-artist-and-song/37399/48 "2000-10-20T05:52:38Z")
Oh crap, yet another music thread to distract me from my work. Boss is gonna kill me. Oh well. More hours for me. 🙂
Amos, Tori - (Picking just one would be an insult to the others)(and shame on you, Coldfire, for putting an Asia song ahead of Tori’s entire catalog :))
Blink 182 - Adam’s Song
Cure, The - Fascination Street
Dream Theater - Another Day
Eels, the - Last Stop This Town
Fatboy Slim - Right Here, Right Now
GWAR - The Road Behind
Hendrix, Jimi - 3 Little Pigs
Insane Clown Posse - HELLalujah
Jane’s Addiction - Stop
K’s Choice - Believe
Louis Armstrong - What a Wonderful World
M Polnareff - La poupee qui dit non
Nine Inch Nails - Hurt
Our Lady Peace - Theif
Pink Floyd - When the Tigers Broke Free
Queen - (See Tori Amos)
Rush - The Analog Kid (my favorite Rush song at the moment)
Stevens, Cat - Oh, Very Young
Tool - Aenima
Urge Overkill - Positive Bleeding
Violent Femmes - American Music
Wings - Live and Let Die
XTC - Bizarre Love Triangle
Yes - Starship Trooper
Zevon, Warren - Werewolves of London
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### Author:  [@xanadu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xanadu)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2000, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-to-z-favorite-artist-and-song/37399/49 "2000-10-20T21:17:27Z")
Aerosmith- Dude Looks Like a Lady
The Beatles- Ob-La-Di
Cream- I Feel Free
Duran Duran- Electric Barbarella
The Eagles- Seven Bridges Road
Fleetwood Mac- Go Your Own Way
Genesis- I Can’t Dance
Don Henley- Dirty Laundry
Indigo Girls- Closer To Fine
Jefferson Starship- We Built This City
The Kinks- You Really Got Me
Led Zepplin- Whole Lotta Love
The Mamas and the Papas- California Dreamin’
Nena- 99 Luftballoons
Roy Orbison- Pretty Woman
The Police- Message In a Bottle, Wrapped Around My Finger
Queen- Bohemian Rhapsody
REO Speedwagon- Blinded By the Light
Bob Seger- The Fire Inside
Tina Turner- Proud Mary
U2- New Year’s Day
Van Morrison- Someone Like You
Joe Walsh- Rocky Mountain Way
X- Crystal Ship
Weird Al Yankovic- Yoda
Warren Zevon- Werewolves of London
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### Author:  [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2000, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-to-z-favorite-artist-and-song/37399/50 "2000-10-21T01:32:26Z")
The Animals- House of the Rising Sun
Blue Oyster Cult- Don’t Fear the Reaper
Chuck Berry- You Never Can Tell
Doors- Riders on the Storm
E-
The Flys- Got You Where I Want You
Guns N Roses- Rocket Queen
Henley, Don- Boys of Summer
I-
Janis Joplin- Piece of My Heart
Kool and the Gang- Jungle Boogie
Led Zeppelin- No Quarter/Stairway to Heaven
Monkees -Daydream Believer, Heart and Soul, etc.
Nirvana- Dumb
Oldfield, Mike- Tubular Bells
Pink Floyd- Dark Side of the Moon
Q- ?
Rolling Stones- Paint it Black, Under my Thumb, Mother’s Little Helper, Tell Me…
Springfield, Dusty- Son of a Preacher Man
Tool- Forty-six and Two
Urge Overkill- Girl, You’ll be a Woman Soon
Venga Boys- Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom
The Who- Behind Blue Eyes
X-?
Yardbirds- For Your Love
The Zombies- Tell Her No
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### Author:  [@DynoSaur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DynoSaur)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2000, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-to-z-favorite-artist-and-song/37399/51 "2000-10-21T02:58:01Z")
Hey, look…my first post. And I refuse to be limited by the silly one-song-per-letter rule 😉
A: AC/DC - You Shook Me All Night Long, Hells Bells, etc
B: Blues Brothers - Sweet Home Chicago
Barenaked Ladies - If I Had $1000000, What a Good Boy
Beatles - Revolution #9, etc, etc, etc, etc
C: Charlie Daniels Band - The Devil Went Down to Georgia
D: Dire Straits - Walk of Life
Dido - Here With Me
E: Everclear - Normal Like You
F: Bryan Ferry - More Than This
Faith No More - Epic
G: Peter Gabriel - In Your Eyes
H: Sophie B. Hawkins - As I Lay Me Down
I: Billy Idol - Rebel Yell
J: James - Out to Get You, Laid, Born of Frustration
Billy Joel - You May Be Right
Jesus Jones - Right Here, Right Now
K: KISS - Rock and Roll All Night
Kansas - Carry on My Wayward Son
L: Led Zeppelin - D’yer Mak’r, Kashmir, etc…
John Lennon - Instant Karma
Lit - My Own Worst Enemy
M: Sarah McLachlan - Elsewhere
Steve Miller - The Joker
N: NewOrder - Bizarre Love Triangle
NIN - Head Like a Hole
O: Offspring - Something to Believe In
P: Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb, Take It Back, Learning to
Fly, Wish You Were Here, etc, etc, etc
Perfect Circle - Judith
Liz Phair - Supernova
Q: Queen - We Will Rock You/We Are the Champions,
Crazy Little Thing Called Love
R: Rush - Limelight, Dreamline, Totem, etc, etc, etc
Reel Big Fish - The Set-up (You Need This)
S: Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run, etc, etc
STYX - Come Sail Away (the Cartmanized version)
Paul Simon - You Can Call Me Al
T: They Might Be Giants - We Want a Rock, Birdhouse in Your
Soul
Talking Heads - Once In a Lifetime, Take Me to the River
Twisted Sister - We’re Not Gonna Take It
U: U2 - Mysterious Ways
V: Stevie Ray Vaughan - The House is Rockin’, Pride and Joy
W: Joe Walsh - Life’s Been Good
X: XTC - The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead
Y: Weird Al Yankovic - One More Minute, Christmas at Ground
Zero, The Night Santa Went Crazy
Z: ZZ Top - Sharp-Dressed Man
Like I said…I refuse to be limited in my selection 🙂
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### Author:  [@xanadu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xanadu)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2000, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-to-z-favorite-artist-and-song/37399/52 "2000-10-22T23:04:21Z")
> [@](#):
>
> \*Originally posted by xanadu \*
> \*\*Aerosmith- Dude Looks Like a Lady
> The Beatles- Ob-La-Di
> Cream- I Feel Free
> Duran Duran- Electric Barbarella
> The Eagles- Seven Bridges Road
> Fleetwood Mac- Go Your Own Way
> Genesis- I Can’t Dance
> Don Henley- Dirty Laundry
> Indigo Girls- Closer To Fine
> Jefferson Starship- We Built This City
> The Kinks- You Really Got Me
> Led Zepplin- Whole Lotta Love
> The Mamas and the Papas- California Dreamin’
> Nena- 99 Luftballoons
> Roy Orbison- Pretty Woman
> The Police- Message In a Bottle, Wrapped Around My Finger
> Queen- Bohemian Rhapsody
> REO Speedwagon- Blinded By the Light
> Bob Seger- The Fire Inside
> Tina Turner- Proud Mary
> U2- New Year’s Day
> Van Morrison- Someone Like You
> Joe Walsh- Rocky Mountain Way
> X- Crystal Ship
> Weird Al Yankovic- Yoda
> Warren Zevon- Werewolves of London \*\*
Oops. “Blinded By the Light” isn’t by REO Speedwagon, it’s by Manfred Mann. So that means that I get to replace it with REM’s “Shiny Happy People.”
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### Author:  [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2000, 9:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-to-z-favorite-artist-and-song/37399/53 "2000-10-23T09:30:15Z")
> [@](#):
>
> \*Originally posted by spooje \*
> \*\*
> Z-Who’s behind the Door? \*\*
‘Z’ for ‘Zebra’.
[sub]preview then post[/s]
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### Author:  [@plastiktom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plastiktom)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2000, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-to-z-favorite-artist-and-song/37399/54 "2000-10-24T13:59:45Z")
A Afghan Whigs:gentleman
B Black Box Recorder : child psychology
C Nick Cave : are you the one (i’ve been looking for)
D dEUS : Jigsaw you
E Elevate : tuxedo mouthpiece
F The Fall : cruiser’s creek
G Girls against boys : disco 666
H PJ Harvey : Catherine
I Idlewild : Actually its darkness
J Jellyfish : she still loves him
K Kiss My Jazz : jesus
L LRD : hypnotise
M Mazzy star : fade into you
N Nirvana : Ffloyd the barber
O ol’ dirty bastard : money
P palace brothers : I send my love to you
Q cant think
R REM : crush with eyeliner
S Nina Simone : he needs me
T The the :infected
U Unbeleivable truth
V Velvet underground : all tomorrow’s parties
W Tom waits : I never talk to strangers
X dont like any
Y dont like any
Z dont like any
I have a lot of S in my cd colection…
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### Author:  [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2000, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-to-z-favorite-artist-and-song/37399/55 "2000-10-24T16:07:20Z")
Song & show it is from:
Anything but Lonely (Aspects of Love)
Buenos Aires (Evita)
Capped Teeth and Caesar Salad (Song&Dance)
Dangerous Jade (Evita)
Eva Beward of the City (Evita)
Far Deadlier than the Male (Jeeves)
God’s Own Country (Beautiful Game)
Half A Moment (Jeeves)
It’s A Pig (Jeeves)
Jellicle Ball (CATS)
King Herod’s Song (Jesus Christ Superstar)
Lady’s Got Potential (Evita)
Married Man/Music of the Night (Aspects of Love/
Phantom of the Opera)
Next Time You Fall in Love (Starlight Express)
One Rock and Roll Too Many (Starlight Express)
Perfect Year (Sunset Boulevard)
Rainbow High (Evita)
Superstar (Jesus Christ Superstar)
Think of Me/There’s Me (Phantom of the Opera/Starlight
Express)
U.N.C.O.U.P.L.E.D. (Starlight Express)
Valults of Heaven (Whistle Down the Wind)
When You Want to Fall in Love (Song&Dance)
You Must Love Me (Evita)
Zindagi
Now to start on the foreign language lists…
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### Author:  [@HalberMensch242](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HalberMensch242)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2000, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-to-z-favorite-artist-and-song/37399/56 "2000-10-24T16:21:05Z")
Apoptygma Berzerk- Love Never Dies
Beborn Beton- Peach
Chemical Brothers- Setting Sun
ChemLab- Sodium Halo
Depeche Mode- Halo…and many more
Einsturzende Neubauten- Stella Maris, Yu Tang
Funker Vogt- International Killer
Front Line Assembly- Mindphaser
front242- quite unusual
Good Courage- What did i do to deserve this?
Hocico- Flesh for Flesh
Iggy Pop- Lust for Life
i got nothing for J
Krafwerk- Computer Love
LeÆther Strip- kill a raver
Mesh- trust you
NIN-take your pick
Oingo Boingo- Weird Science
Project Pitchfork- KNKA
got nothing for Q
Rammstein- Du Richt So Gut
Skinny Puppy-The Choke
The The- anything off of the Nake Self
got nothing for U
VnV nation- Solirary, Standing…etc
Wolfsheim- Once in a Lifetime
X marks the paddlewalk- Meglomaniac
Yellow C- corrupt
Zoviet France- control432
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### Author:  [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2000, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-to-z-favorite-artist-and-song/37399/57 "2000-10-25T00:25:51Z")
Louis Armstrong-“Skokiaan”
The Beatles-“Ticket to Ride”
Johnny Cash-“Ring of Fire”
Blossom Dearie-“The Say It’s Spring”
Duke Ellington & Billy Strayhorm-“Lush Life”
Aretha Franklin-“Think”
George & Ira Gershwin-"‘S Wonderful"
Bernard Herrmann-“Vertigo” score
The Ink Spots-“I Don’t Want to Set the World on Fire”
Etta James-“Tell Mama”
Aram Khachaturian-“Gayaneh”
Turner Layton-“Pennies from Heaven”
Wolfgang A. Mozart-“The Marriage of Figaro”
Carl Nielsen-“Symphony No.5”
Roy Orbison-“Dream Baby”
Sergei Prokofiev-“Symphony No.5”
“Queer Notions” by Coleman Hawkins (OK, a bit of a cheat there)
Rodgers & Hammerstein-“Oklahoma!”
The Shirelles-“Will You Love Me Tomorrow”
Talking Heads-“Crosseyed and Painless”
Tracey Ullman-“They Don’t Know”
Velvet Underground-“Some Kind of Love”
William Warfield-"Ol’ Man River"
XTC-“Senses Working Overtime”
Lester Young-“All of Me”
ZapMama-“Abadou”
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### Author:  [@sulawesi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sulawesi)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2000, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-to-z-favorite-artist-and-song/37399/58 "2000-11-02T05:33:30Z")
My first post!
A - A Perfect Circle - Judith
B - Beck - Sexxlaws
C - Cure, The - Charlotte Sometimes
D - Depeche Mode - Never Let Me Down Again
E - Everlast - So Long
F - Foo Fighters - My Hero
G - Goo Goo Dolls - Black Balloon
H - Hole - Northern Lights
I - ?
J - Jane’s Addiction - Been Caught Stealing
K - Korn (JUST the OLD Korn) - Clown
L - Live - Selling the Drama
M - Manson, Marilyn - Man That You Fear
N - No Doubt - Simple Kind of Life
O - Orgy - Social Enemies
P - Pearl Jam
Q - ?
R - Remy Zero - Gramarye
S - Smashing Pumpkins - To Sheila
T - Tool - Sober
U - U2 - Beautiful Day
V - VAST - Flames
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### Author:  [@Dragon\_Phoenix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragon_Phoenix)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2000, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-to-z-favorite-artist-and-song/37399/59 "2000-11-02T06:43:59Z")
My fave subject (see also my home page [http://www.geocities.com/hennieschaper](http://www.geocities.com/hennieschaper)) - these are mainly from my top100.
ABBA: The winner takes it all
Boudewijn de Groot: Testament
Carpenters: This masquerade
Dire Straits: private investigations
Eagles: Desperado
Fischer Z: Red skies over paradise
Genesis: Mad man moon
H
Icehouse: Hey little girl
Janis Ian: Jesse
Kate Bush: The man with the child in his eyes
Lou Reed: Perfect day
Marillion: Kay-leigh
Natalie Imbruglia: Torn
O
Peter Gabriel: San Jacinto (live)
Queen: Killer queen
Roberta Flack: The first time ever I saw your face
Simon and Garfunkel: Sound of silence
Ten CC: I’m not in love
Uriah Heep: July morning
Volumia!: Hou me vast
W
X
Yes: Owner of a lonely heart (not in my top100, but close)
Zombies: Time of the season
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### Author:  [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2000, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-to-z-favorite-artist-and-song/37399/60 "2000-11-02T12:00:53Z")
Boudewijn de Groot? Do we have another Dutchman in the house??
Welcome aboard, Kaaskop! Amsterdam here. And shame on you for selecting Volumia 😃
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