I was thinking about “Basket Case” myself. Especially since this friend of mine is a clinical therapist, anything psychologically-related works good as a tiebreaker.
Anyways, here’s the H-J list I compiled last night. (Whew, been at this a while, think I’ll take a break from this for the weekend…)
Hades “Ground Zero NYC” - released before 9/11, believe it or not!
Hagar, Sammy “I Can’t Drive 55”
HSAS (Hagar Schon Aaronson Schrieve) “Animation/Valley of the Kings”
Hall & Oates “Kiss on my List”
Hallow’s Eve “Lethal Tendencies”
Hawkwind - can’t make up my mind!! any help?
Hayseed Dixie “You Shook Me All Night Long” - comes from an album of AC/DC songs all done hillbilly style. It’s hilarious!
Heart “Barracuda”
Heathen “Heathen’s Song”
Helix “Heavy Metal Love”
Helloweeen “Keeper of the Seven Keys”
Helmet “Unsung”
Jimi Hendrix “Voodoo Child (Slight Return)”
Don Henley “Dirty Laundry”
Hirax “Bombs of Death”
Holocaust “The Small Hours”
Holy Terror “Alpha Omega The Bringer of Balance”
The Honeydrippers “Sea of Love”
Honeymoon Suite “What Does It Take”
The Human League “Don’t You Want Me”
I Mother Earth “Not Quite Sonic” (sorry Achimba, this is a lock)
Iced Earth - “Dante’s Inferno” or “Angels Holocaust/Stormrider”
Ice-T - “Freedom Of Speech” - I really want to use “Race War”, but I don’t have the CD and can’t find it on You-Know-Where… damn!!
In Flames “The Hive”
Infectious Grooves “Punk It Up”
Inner Thought “Diseased Infected Earth”
Iron Angel - need to listen to it again
Iron Butterfly “In-a-Gadda-da-Vida” – the 17 minute version, naturally
Iron Maiden “The Trooper” (or maybe “Powerslave”, any votes?)
Jacob’s Dream, Jag Panzer - no idea; people on the other board will know, but they only post during the week while at work, so…
Jane’s Addiction - I like “Stop”, “Ocean Size” or “Three Days” but I’m open to suggestions.
Jethro Tull “Heavy Horses” (no, NOT “Aqualung”! That is so totally outside their definitive style…)
Billy Joel “Scenes from an Italian Restaurant”
Elton John “Tiny Dancer” - was gonna choose “Funeral/Bleeding”, which is a totally awesome song, but it’s too far outside his style, while “Tiny Dancer” is more or less dead on, and loved by millions. Problem is…I totally HATE that song!! So please, SOMEONE tell me I’m wrong here!!! (Oh, and “Candle in the Wind” would have been a good choice, but when Elton rewrote it for that dead English princess, it totally ruined it for me…)
Journey - Wheel in the Sky
Judas Priest - Painkiller
Oh, and Kansas “Song for America” is already a lock.
For the Foo Fighters, I think “Everlong” trumps “Monkey Wrench.” They’re both great, but “Everlong” is slightly better (bonus: it’s one of David Letterman’s favorites - you hear the band playing it all the time when he comes back from break.) Is “Barracuda” really more representative of Heart than “Magic Man,” though?
Good question…I only have their “best of” so it’s hard to judge. “Magic Man” is pretty unique-sounding, though, and they have a lot of balls-out songs in the “Barracuda” style (Crazy on You, Sleep Alone, etc…)
Hey, I’ve got an mp3 of David Grohl butchering “Stairway to Heaven” on the Kilborn show…maybe I should pick that one for Foo Fighters?? LOL
ELP: I’d go Tarkus over KE9, myself; but if you’re after something not quite so lengthy, have you considered Black Moon? It came out fairly recently (after their reunion), but it’s ELP all over. Personally, I like Pirates over everything else they ever did, though. That’s what I’d pick, but that’s just me.
Jethro Tull: While Aqualung is sort of their definitive song (at least here in the States), it has no flute. How can you have a representative Tull song without flute? I’d go for Budapest.
Well, for ELP I picked just the “single edit” of KE9 (1st Impression pt.2) which I think represents their signature style in an unsually short piece (for them.) I did consider “Tarkus”, or something equally lengthy, but I didn’t want to overwhelm this poor guy…I’m already hitting him with 20 to 40 minute songs by other bands!
Umm…I think you read my Jethro Tull comment, as I chose early on NOT to use “Aqualung”, and to use “Heavy Horses” instead. Which does feature flute.
I’m thinking “Tom Sawyer” for Rush, but the R’s are a good ways away yet…
Hawkwind- Silver Machine or Quark Strangeness and Charm (if that isn’t the perfect example of space rock, I don’t know what is)
Jethro Tull- Heavy Horses is a great choice. Aqualung may be more popular, but it isn’t as representative of anything but the Aqualung album. Budapest is a great song, but not representative of their heyday. If you want something representative of their recent albums, Wicked Windows may be a better choice.
ELP- How about Tocatta? It’s a cover, but it’s a manageable size and does have their typical sound.
I either like the rest of the songs on KGS’s list or am not familiar with the band to disagree.
KnightNavro, I just picked “Ist Impression, Part 2” of KE9 for ELP. Despite being a paltry five minutes long, it captures the essence of their sound – and after including Edge of Sanity “Crimson” (40:00) and Dream Theater “A Change of Seasons” (23:08) I didn’t want to overwhelm the poor guy.
Killing Joke- Either “Eighties” (Now known both for being in the film “Weird Science”, and the subject of a lawsuit after Nirvana ripped it off…) or “Millenium” , which was played at a lot of new years’ parties few years ago…
Probably “21st Century Schizoid Man”, or something from “Larks Tongues in Aspic”…luckily I only have the Wetton/Lake era on CD, so I don’t have to worry about representing that Adrian Belew crap.
Part of the trouble is, I have so many fargin’ CDs, some of which I haven’t listened to in YEARS, that it’s tough for me to pin down a single selection. In fact, I think I figured out once that if I listened to all of my CDs back to back, 24 hrs a day, it would take about 8 months to get through them all…
Of course I just talked to my friend last night and he hasn’t even started working on his collection yet…grr…
Uh, Al Green never did a version of “Ain’t No Sunshine”. You must be thinking of Bill Withers. Besides, Green’s stuff is usually joyful–“Let’s Stay Together” or “Take Me to the River” would be better choices.
oooooh, I can’t believe somebody mentioned ISIS. How cool, KGS, if you don’t already own ISIS, you must download it. I would pick the song Poison Eggs. He sounds like a wild cat in heat.
Somebody should start their own thread…My Ultimate mix. So everybody can list songs from their own collection.
Just going to make suggestions for a few of the bands I’ve seen already listed that I’m familiar enough with to have an idea of what sums up their sound the best, and though my first instinct is to list my favorite song(s), I’ll try to stay true to the OP’s request:
Alice in Chains: Nutshell, Down in a Hole, or Grind
Anthrax: A.D.I./Horror of it All
Coldplay: Clocks or Amsterdam
Faith No More: The Real Thing (great musical and lyrical representation of the band’s talents)
Foo Fighters: New Way Home
Led Zeppelin: if not Kashmir, then Dazed and Confused
soulmurk: You’re late, dude. I already chose “Rooster” for AIC and “Indians” for Anthrax, which are both a lock.
Coldplay: huh? ain’t got none.
Faith No More: I chose “Epic” because, despite being somewhat outside of their style, it’s by far their most important song, having spawn the whole nu-metal scene and all. (Of course, now that I think about it…)
Led Zeppelin: I considered those, and “Since I’ve Been Loving You”, and “Communication Breakdown”, and “The Rover”, and “When the Levee Breaks”, and…finally gave up and settled for “Stairway to Heaven” It was heading that way, anyways.
Ministry: Excellent choice…it’s a tossup between that and “N.W.O.”
Iron Maiden: I chose “The Trooper” because of the effect when it follows “In-a-Gadda-da-Vida” when you play the songs in alphabetical order.
QOTSA: good choice!
Ok…where did we leave off? (checks above) Oh yeah, the K’s:
Kansas “Song for America”
Katatonia (2 CDs are incoming, so I’ll have to get back to this one)
Killing Joke “Aeon” – this one is why it took me so long to get back to this thread, because they have NO “signature” sound, every album sounds totally different, even different songs on some CDs sound totally different. I finally decided on this one because it’s the only one that fuses new wave/dance/industrial into one. Plus, it freakin’ rocks.
King Crimson – “21th Century Schzoid Man”
King Diamond – stuck on this one too…need to listen to them all over again.
Kings X - “Faith Hope Love”
Kiss “Detroit Rock City” - an easy choice because it’s the only song from “Double Platinum” that I can stand.
KMFDM - “Stray Bullet”
Kreator - “Toxic Trace”
Krokus - “Screaming in the Night” (the greatest power ballad EVER)
Kyuss - “Green Machine”
and some L’s:
Laaz Rockit - “Fire in the Hole” is the prelim. choice, but I’m gonna listen to these again to be sure
Greg Lake - leaning towards a live version of “Lucky Man”, since his solo stuff sucks.
Led Zeppelin - “Stairway to Heaven”
Geddy Lee - “My Favorite Headache”
Huey Lewis & the News - “I Want a New Drug”
Liquid Jesus - “Better or Worse”
Little River Band - “Take It Easy On Me” - pretty much a lock, but I’m thinking of “Reminiscing” just to change the mood a bit.
Live - “I Alone” (if it’s the song I’m thinking of…can never keep 'em straight)
Living Colour - “Better or Worse”
Loudness - “Black Wall”
Lords of the New Church - “Russian Roulette” or “New Church” or maybe even “Opening Nightmares”…
Loverboy - “Working for the Weekend” (with “Lucky Ones” a close 2nd)
