What is your List of favorite top 10 songs? Favorite groups? Albums?

Aw, hell, I wasn’t going to, but…

Songs

  1. Six Hours
  2. Might As Well Be On Mars
  3. Eighteen
  4. Hello Hooray
  5. School’s Out - 1-5 all by Alice Cooper
  6. Don’t Fear The Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult
  7. Dream On - Aerosmith
  8. In The Mood - Glen Miller
  9. Smoke On The Water - Deep Purple
  10. Conquistodor - Procul Harum

Albums

  1. Hey Stoopid
  2. Raise Your Fist And Yell
  3. The Last Temptation
  4. Brutal Planet
  5. Dirty Diamonds - again, first five are all Alice.
  6. The Runaways - The Runaways
  7. Led Zeppelin, uh, IV? The one with “Stairway”.
  8. Machine Head - Deep Purple -
  9. American Graffitti soundtrack
  10. News Of The World - Queen

Bands/Artists

  1. Alice Cooper (gee, ya think?! :rolleyes: :smiley: )
  2. You mean there are other artists? :wink: Oh okay…Joan Jett/Runaways
  3. Glen Miller
  4. Queen
  5. Deep Purple
  6. Led Zeppelin
  7. Patsy Cline
  8. '60s Girl Groups
  9. Early Beatles
  10. Roy Orbison

All subject to change, of course, except Alice. That one’s been consistant since '74 - not gonna change now! Odd mix, ain’t it?

It sounds like I need to look for the Album.
You are of course correct about Nimoy. :smack: In my defense, it has been a long time since I saw the video.

A very odd and very good mix. I really enjoy Glenn Miller too, Sing Sing Sing is one of my favorite pieces. Actually, I like everything in your list except Patsy Cline, just not my taste.

Marley23: I don’t know why but I would have thought late 20’s for you between music and other threads.

ZebraShaSha I haven’t even heard of some of your Artists but you might be interested in knowing that I have sat with Pete discussing the direction that Clearwater and the Sloop clubs should be going on board the Wavertree before it was opened to the public. He is one of my heroes. I also was a stagehand for Arlo Guthrie at a Pumpkin Festival around 1990. He is just as nice and down to earth as you would think he was. Folkies are special people in my opinion.

Quint: I have to pick up some more Sinatra. Maybe it is time to borrow my Dad’s ancient albums and try and tape them off.

Jim

Interesting. Maybe because I talk about '70s material so much? Beats me. Either way, I’ve got a couple of months of being 23 left.

Artists I love

Marvin Gaye
Dr. Buzzards Original Savannah Band
Barbra Streisand
Queen
Stevie Wonder
Change
Chaka Khan
ToTo
Ceelo Green
EWF

Songs I Love

Come Get to This - Marvin Gaye
On The Street Where You Live - Vic Damone
You’ve Got to be Carefully Taught - South Pacific
Don’t You Worry 'Bout A Thing - Stevie Wonder
Country Love - Ceelo Green
Africa - ToTo
I Know - Dionne Farris
You Know How to Love Me - Phyllis Hyman
Ain’t Nobody - Chaka Khan
Soon it’s Gonna Rain - Barbra Streisand

Albums I Must have

What’s Going On - Marvin Gaye
Africa - ToTo
Aja - Steely Dan
Miracles - Change
Classic Queen - Queen
Beauty and The Beast - Original Soundtrack
Night and Day - Joe Jackson
Where I Wanna Be - Donnell Jones
The Italian Job - Original Soundtrack
Dr. Buzzard’s Original Savannah Band - Self Titled Album

Top 10 Artists

  1. Bright Eyes

  2. Death Cab For Cutie

  3. Rilo Kiley

  4. The Smashing Pumpkins

  5. The Get Up Kids

  6. Coheed and Cambria

  7. Elvis Costello

  8. Neutral Milk Hotel (and this only for one album)

  9. Bob Marley

  10. Ben Folds
    Top 10 Songs

  11. God Only Knows - The Beach Boys

  12. Make War - Bright Eyes

  13. Hallelujah - Rufus Wainwright (yes, I put this ahead of Jeff Buckley’s)

  14. The District Sleeps Alone Tonight - Postal Service

  15. In Keep Secrets of Silent Earth - Coheed and Cambria

  16. Transatlanticism - Death Cab For Cutie

  17. Muzzle - The Smashing Pumpkins

  18. Up In Arms - The Foo Fighters

  19. In The Aeroplane Over The Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel

  20. Aenema - Tool
    Top 10 Albums

  21. Siamese Dream - The Smashing Pumpkins

  22. Give Up - The Postal Services

  23. Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd

  24. I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning - Bright Eyes

  25. In The Aeroplane Over The Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel

  26. In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 - Coheed and Cambria

  27. My Aim Is True - Elvis Costello

  28. Mellon Collie and The Infinite Sadness - Smashing Pumpkins

  29. Second Stage Turbine Blade - Coheed and Cambria
    10 . Whatever and Ever Amen - Ben Folds Five

I have always wanted to meet any of them, including some of the old blues musicians. When people talk about a dying generation of musicians, there isn’t a better example than those who were at the start of contemporary music. They should be required listening for anyone, in my opinion.

Unfortunatly, not many know of Pete, Arlo, or Woodie these days. Most don’t get my “this machine kills fascists” themed sticker at all.

And, since Pete was all about spreading the joy of music, here are links to websites of almost all the ones I have listed. Most you can download, some you can only listen to clips of.

Mountain Goats
Beat Happening
The Unicorns
The Promise Ring
Jolie Holland
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Tilly and the Wall - Wild Like Children(The entire album, actually)
Modest Mouse
Bright Eyes (You’ll have to play around to find some stuff)

For the following, you can hear a short clip, but can’t download or anything.
Brownie Mcghee - Old Jabo
Charlie Parker - Moose the Mooche
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Patti Smith - Horses
Postal Service - Give Up

(Psst, hey W.E., SSS is Benny Goodman - but he’s great too! )

Agreed.

And agreed (except for your spelling of “their” :slight_smile: ). FWIW, it seems Susannah Hoffs and Matthew Sweet are working together on an album of 60s covers.

I knew that but the MP3 I have of SSS says Glenn Miller and I assumed it was a great cover like Louis Prima’s. Now I am not so sure. If it helps I also like “In the Mood” & “Blue Skies”

Jim

The order of the lists roughly reflects the order in which I first listened to the items. The items closer to the bottom of the list are more likely to change. I’m 19 - I’ve discovered the majority of older rock I listen to by reading reviews online.

Artists
The Beatles
Blur
The Clash
Pink Floyd
Kraftwerk
The Moody Blues
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Gong
Frank Zappa
National Health

Albums
Andrew Lloyd Webber - Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Air - Moon Safari
Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon
The Clash - Sandinista!
The Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed
The Small Faces - Ogden’s Nut Gone Flake
Gong - Camembert Electrique
Soft Machine - Volume Two
Camel - The Snow Goose
Steve Hillage - Fish Rising

Songs
Enya - The Celts
The Beatles - Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
Pink Floyd - Astronomy Domine
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Electricity
Kraftwerk - Autobahn
The Clash - Complete Control
Yonderboi - Intro
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Fortunate Son
Soft Machine - Pataphysical Introduction Pt. 1
The Aquarian Age - 10’000 Words in a Cardboard Box

off the top and likely subject to some change:

Favorite Songs: (in no particular order)

  1. My Funny Valentine by Rodgers and Hart

  2. Famous Blue Raincoat by Leonard Cohen

  3. This Waltz by Leonard Cohem

  4. So What by Miles Davis

  5. For No One by Lennon and McCartney

  6. Song For Sharon by Joni Mitchell

  7. St. Augustine in Hell by Sting

  8. Way Behind the Sun by Pentangle

  9. Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters by Taupin and John

  10. Shadows in the Rain by Sting (From Dream of the Blue Turtles)
    Albums (again, no particular order)

  11. Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band - Beatles

  12. Quadrephenia (Sound Track) - The Who

  13. Parcel of Rouges - Steeleye Span

  14. Chess (Concept Album)

  15. Eleven Kinds of Lonliness Tanita Tikaram

  16. Kinda Blue–Miles Davis (and some of the guys<BG>)

  17. Time Out–Dave Brubeck

  18. Trouble in Tahiti (from the PBS Recorded Production)

  19. Pentangle (by) Pentangle

  20. Heijira – Joni Mitchell

Groups (Performers – still no particular order)

  1. Bob Dylan
  2. The Beatles
  3. The Who
  4. Pentangle
  5. Jethro Tull
  6. Thelonius Monk
  7. Frank Sinatra
  8. Bob Martin
  9. Joni Mitchell
  10. Tanita Tikaram

I always thought these kinds of threads were pointless, but then I realized how fun it is trying to sort out one’s own musical tastes at a given time…

Groups:

Elliott Smith
The Flaming Lips
The Beatles
Roby Lakatos
Radiohead
Simon & Garfunkel
Silvio Rodriguez
Benny Goodman
Bob Dylan
Gipsy Kings
Albums:

The Bends (Radiohead)
Abbey Road (Beatles)
Alouette (Roby Lakatos)
XO (Elliott Smith)
Either/Or (Elliott Smith)
Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme (Simon & Garfunkel)
The Soft Bulletin (Flaming Lips)
The Wall (Pink Floyd)
Eldorado (Electric Light Orchestra)
A 1930’s Benny Goodman live concert album (forgot the name)
Songs:

Waltz #2 (Elliott Smith)
Miss Misery (Elliott Smith)
Fake Plastic Trees (Radiohead)
Paranoid Android (Radiohead)
Tunnel of Love (Dire Straits)
Fight Test (Flaming Lips)
Li Ma Weesu (Youssou N’dour)
Tiger Rag (Benny Goodman)
Human Hands (Elvis Costello)
Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen)

They are almost pointless but they are fun and slightly cathartic.
I also find the lists generated interesting. It is useless for conclusions but surprising None-the-less.

I decided to give this a one time bump and then I’ll will let it wither and die.