Alright I’m about to make a CD, for my own personal enjoyment, and so far I only have one song. Can you give me some cool songs.
By cool I mean as cool as " Dammit" by Blink182.
you need to give us more to work with than that… tastes, size, etc etc
umm, i want about 12 songs.
i thought i summed up what i thought was cool when i said i liked " Dammit", but i guess not. But i don’t have any certain taste or theme for the CD. I’m just looking for any cool rock/punk songs, whatever you think is cool is fine.
I’m not much of a fan of the poppy stuff but some of these might fit your tastes.
Millencolin - Happiness for Dogs
The Dickies - She’s a Hunchback
The Dickies - Gigantor
Toy Dolls - My Wife’s a Psychopath
Bad Religion - Punk Rock Song
Bad Religion - Hooray for me
Misfits - I turned into a martian
Misfits - Astrozombies
Boris the Sprinkler - My radio is telling me to kill (those guys on the radio)
Amazombies - At the bar
The Hard Ons - Wog food
Black Flag - Gimme Gimme Gimme
Black Flag - No Values
Couch Flambeux - Wot a caper
There’s a place to start anyway.
Use these or ignore them. I happen to like them.
Graham Parker - Pouring It All Out
Rolling Stones - Stray Cat Blues
Camper Van Beethoven - Eye of Fatima, Pt. 2
Dinosaur Jr. - Thumb
Meat Puppets - Sam
John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band - God
Rod Stewart - Twisting the Night Away
Muddy Waters - Mannish Boy
The Band - The Shape I’m In
Bob Dylan - Gospel Plow
Ray Charles - The Sun’s Gonna Shine Again
Stevie Wonder - You Haven’t Done Nothin’
Willie Nelson - Time of the Preacher
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Tuesday’s Gone
Billy Bragg - There is Power in a Union
Midnight Oil - Only the Strong (and the rest of 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1 and all of Red Sails in the Sunset)
Wasted - Camper Van Beethoven
It’s Catching Up - Nomeansno
Super Rad - Aqua Bats
Boredom - The Buzzcocks
Disco Man - The Damned
Beer For Breakfast - The Replacements
Attack Of The Mole Men - The Dickies
Jonathan - Nerf Herder
Bad Guy Reaction - The Rezillos
The Slow Descent Into Alcoholism - New Pornographers
I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone - Sleater-Kinney
Hawaii - The Young Canadians
I don’t know the Blink 182 song. Sorry. I think these songs are cool:
Wasted and Ready - Ben Kweller
Mass Romantic - New Pornographers
Alicia Amnesia - Butch Walker
Tick - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Get Over It - OK Go
Head Like a Hole Covered by Devo
That’s When I Reach for My Revolver - Mission of Burma
Monkey on Your Back - Clinic
Eventually - Brendan Benson
Don’t know if these are your style, but I like 'em.
Smoke on the Water - Deep Purple
Six Days - DJ Shadow
Seether - Vereuca Salt
Seven Nation Army - White Stripes
Paranoid - Black Sabbath
Run - Pacifier
Sabbath Bloody Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Something Borrowed, Something Blue - Ben Lee
Tainted Love - Soft Cell
Dammit is a great song, good launch point.
My suggestions:
artist - title
Operation Ivy - The Crowd
Stiff Little Fingers - Alternative Ulster
Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards - Vietnam
Mighty Mighty Bosstones - The Impression That I Get
MxPx - Let It Happen
NOFX - The Brews
Rancid - Leicester Sqaure
Rancid - Black Derby Jacket
Slackers - Information Error
Treble Charger - American Psycho
(a sneaky feeling tells me none of these songs will end up on your CD)
Extrapolating from Dammit, your CD should include:
Third Eye Blind - Semi-Charmed Life
Grinspoon - Just Ace
Weezer - Buddy Holly
Jimmy Eat World - Sweetness
Sum 41 - Fat Lip
Foo Fighters - The One
Jebediah - Leaving Home
American Hi-Fi - Flavor Of The Week
Nada Surf - Popular
The Offspring - Self-Esteem
Green Day - Basket Case
Lit - My Own Worse Enemy
Descendants - I’m The One
Bowling For Soup - Girl All The Bad Guys Want
I’ve gone a bit more pop than other posters, but I have a feeling that is what you’re after.
I’ll second “I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone” by Sleater-Kinney.
For the New Pornographers, I’d recommend “Letter from an Occupant.” Operation Ivy, I suggest “Sound System.”
Planet of Sound - the Pixies
Grace- Supergrass
Shining Light - Ash
Drunken Butterfly - Sonic Youth
Stereo - Pavement
“Jonathan” by Nerf Herder works best if you actually know the Modern Lovers. (“Please God, don’t let me end up like Jonathan Richman…”)
Because my copy of “Smash It Up” doesn’t include my favorite Damned song, I am determined to put “Jet Boy Jet Girl” on every compilation. Of course, “I Feel Alright”* is playing on my internet radio station right now, that’s a good one.
*Yes, I know it’s a cover of the Stooges “1970”
okay… using Blink 182 - Dammit as a starting point…
post modern pop-punk is the order of the day:
Bowling for Soup - Suckerpunch
The Atari’s - In this Diary
American Hi-Fi - The Art of Losing
Sugarcult - Stuck in America
The Starting Line - Up and Go
Finch - What it is to Burn
Allister - Overrated
Good Charlotte - Riot Girl
New Found Glory - My Friends over You
All-American Rejects - Swing Swing
That should get you started.
WHAAT?! People haven’t heard of the Modern Lovers (or Jonathan Richman)? It’s a travesty I tells ya.
BTW, is that Damned album you have called “Smash It Up” or is it called “Machine Gun Etiquette”? If it is “Smash It Up”, what is the difference between the two?
Also, I’m going to second some of the suggestions others have made:
Descendants - I’m The One
Stiff Little Fingers - Alternative Ulster
Meat Puppets - Sam
Midnight Oil - Only the Strong
The Hard Ons - Wog Food
you want catchy pop punk? here’s 6 you should love
Millencolin - Lozin Must
Ghoti hook - Seasons
Dwarves - Everybody’s Girl
NOFX - philthy phil philanthropist
Weezer - El scorcho
Gob - Nothing New
oh yeah one more
The ataris - San dimas HS football rules
Another vote for
“The Brews” - NoFX
and I’ll add…
“Million” - Jawbreaker
“Brain Stew” - Green Day
“Story of My Life” - Social Distortion
“Forsythia” - Veruca Salt
“Here Comes Your Man” - the Pixies
“Kung Fu” - Ash
“Take It Off” - the Donnas
“Pump It Up” - Elvis Costello (was that with the Attractions?)