You're a fan of x's music, share your faves with a newbie.

Lets say you know a certain artist/band’s catalogue intimately - list your top 10 or 20 of their songs as though sharing with a newcomer. No poll just your faves.
Multiple lists for the same artist allowed - but no repeats and no snarking at another’s list allowed.

From me - XTC/Andy Partridge

  1. No Language In Our Lungs
  2. Ship Trapped In The Ice
  3. Extrovert
  4. Earn Enough For Us
  5. Beating Of Hearts
  6. Bland Leading The Bland
  7. Scarecrow People
  8. Another Satellite
  9. Stupidly Happy
  10. Rocket From A Bottle

It’s a start eh?
Please could someone help me start with Zappa?

MiM

Zappa?

  1. Peaches en Regalia
  2. Trouble Every Day
  3. You’re Probably Wondering Why I’m Here
  4. The Little House I Used to Live In
  5. King Kong (all variations)
  6. Dancing Fool
  7. My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama
  8. Directly From My Heart to You
  9. Willie the Pimp
  10. Camarillo Brillo

Stan Ridgway

Camouflage
I Wanna Be A Boss
God Sleeps In A Caboose
Big Heat
Calling Out To Carol
Crow Hollow Blues
Into The Sun
Mission Bell
Sixteen Tons
End Of The Line
Mama Had A Stove
Mexican Radio

Wire (in no particularly order)

Three Girl Rhumba
12XU
Pink Flag
Practice Makes Perfect
Outdoor Miner*
I Am The Fly
Two People in a Room
The 15th*
Map Ref 41N 93W*
The Finest Drops*

*These are the ones that are probably the “easiest” to get into (melodic, not too aggressive). Map Ref 41N 93W is one of my all-time favorite songs.

I posted this in the other thread too - my top Prince songs:

Okay, I have compiled my favourite Prince songlist. I could only get it down to 23 songs; sorry.

Ripopgodazippa / Crystal Ball (Disk 1)
Da Bang / Crystal Ball (Disk 2)
Don’t Play Me / Crystal Ball (Disk 4)
Fascination / Crystal Ball (Disk 4)
Thunder / Diamonds and Pearls
Joy In Repetition / Graffiti Bridge
Thieves in the Temple / Graffiti Bridge
Colonized Mind / LOtUSFLOW3R
Anna Stesia / Lovesexy
Mountains / Parade - Under the Cherry Moon
Planet Earth / Planet Earth
Chelsea Rodgers / Planet Earth
The Greatest Romance Ever Sold / Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic
She Spoke 2 Me / The Vault: Old Friend 4 Sale
When the Lights Go Down / The Vault: Old Friends 4 Sale
There Is Lonely / The Vault: Old Friends 4 Sale
Something In The Water (Does Not Compute) / 1999
Te Amo Corazon / 3121
Incense and Candles / 3121
The Dance / 3121
I Wanna Melt With U / O(+>
Damn U / O(+>
And God Created Woman / O(+>

You can load 'em up off my computer if you like.

Rush:

  1. Freewill
  2. Red Barchetta
  3. Entre Nous
  4. The Pass
  5. Scars
  6. Spirit of Radio
  7. Caravan
  8. Half the World
  9. Subdivisions
  10. Mission
  11. The Body Electric
  12. Natural Science
  13. Faithless
  14. Bet Your Life
  15. The Manhattan Project
  16. Ghost Of A Chance
  17. Closer To The Heart
  18. Far Cry
  19. Faithless
  20. Everyday Glory

Def Leppard

  1. Truth?
  2. Saturday Night [High ‘n’ Dry]
  3. Go
  4. Hysteria
  5. Billy’s Got A Gun
  6. Where Does Love Go When It Dies?
  7. Work It Out
  8. Kings Of Oblivion
  9. Love Don’t Lie
  10. Desert Song
  11. Rock On
  12. No Matter What
  13. Women
  14. Gotta Let It Go
  15. Me And My Wine
  16. Rock Rock! [Till You Drop]
  17. Rocket [live version]
  18. Pearl Of Euphoria
  19. Now
  20. Demolition Man

Husker Du (chronological order):

  1. In A Free Land
  2. Gravity
  3. Real World
  4. It’s Not Funny Anymore
  5. Eight Miles High
  6. Something I Learned Today
  7. Never Talking To You Again
  8. Chartered Trips
  9. Pink Turns To Blue
  10. Turn On The News
  11. I Apologize
  12. Celebrated Summer
  13. Terms Of Psychic Warfare
  14. Books About UFOs
  15. Flip Your Wig
  16. Makes No Sense At All
  17. Divide And Conquer
  18. Don’t Want To Know If You Are Lonely
  19. Sorry Somehow
  20. Could You Be The One?

the brilliant green is my favourite band ever…

10 or 20 tracks, eh…

In no particular order, since I have no desire to order them…

Talk to Me
Blackout
Love Baby
Funny Girlfriend
Moldy Hole!
I Never Dreamed
Running So High
That Boy Waits For Me
Green Wood Diary
I’m a player in TV games
Baby London Star
Rock n Roll
Gloomy Sunday ~hitoribocchi no nichiyoubi~
Goodbye and Good Luck (Piano Version)
Sono Speed De
Call My Name
Baby London Star
Going Underground
Bye! My Boy!
Can’t Stop Cryin’

That not only covers my favourite songs, it gives a good overview of their shifting style.

Here’s a few from my gal Hap. I included several live versions to prove the vocals aren’t studio trickery, and because they’re good, and several are a lot of fun. In my not at all humble opinion. I have so many favorites they’re not really in any sort of order.

“The Chariot” (album version) (live version)
“Temporary and Eternal” (live version) (album version)
“Words Weren’t Made For Cowards” (album version)
“When the Rain Came Down” (studio version) (live version)
“I Say” (album version)
“Glory” (album version, starts slow) (Single version)
“Mother Sea” (album version)
“Winter” (album version)
“Warpaint” (album version)
“Serenading Genius” (album version)
“Collective Heart” (album version) (live version)
“All Things” (album version) (live version)
“'Til the Dawn Breaks” (album version)
“Hold Me” (album version) (live version)
“Oh The Drears” (album version)
“He Will Come/The Flight” (album version)
“Terra Incognita” (fan video starring cats of The Straight Dope)
“Life On Mars” (album version)
“Many Worlds Are Born Tonight” (album version) (very early live version)
“Ra Is A Busy God” (album version) (live version)
“Summer” (original version) (acoustic version) (live version)
“Save Our Souls” (album version) (live version)
“If Wishes Were Horses, How Beggars Would Ride” (album version) (liveversion)
“Down Down” (album version) (live version)
“How It Should Be” (bonus album track) (live version)
“Phobos” (album version) (live version)
“Because I Learn” (album version)
“Feed The Fire” (album version) (acoustic tribute version) (live version w/interview)
“Find Me” (album version)
“Charlie” (album version)
“Crystal Orbs” (album version)
“One And Many” (album version)
“Look For The Child” (album version) (live version)
“Off From Out From Under Me” (album version)
“Treehouse” (album version)
“In Hiding” (album version) (acoustic version)
“Lay Me Down” (album version) (live version)
“Possessed” (album version) (live version, after Queen’s “Lily of the Valley”)
“If So” (album version) (live version)
“Don’t Want To Hear It” (album version)
“Proof” (album version) (live version)
“The Wretches Gone Awry” (album version)
“Tragic” (album version)

For starters, anyway. All that barely scratches the surface. For as sick as people are for me bringing her up all the time, I don’t care. I’m very proud to be a fan of hers, because her talent is real, and deep. 11 albums’ worth of great songs, no filler. Not that I don’t skip over one or two every now and then, but not many and not often. Her talent isn’t just about one or two songs. It’s about a body of work over 25+ years, that’s all high-quality, and all done in obscurity and on a shoestring budget. This album’s

For the very lucky people who get into her music, the more they listen, the more amazed they’ll be, because once you’re into it, the music never gets tired, never grows old, there can be something new to hear in every song with every listen. I’ve been a passionate fan for over 22 years, and I’m still constantly amazed by her voice and music. Not to mention she’s a wonderful person too, smart, funny, kind and interesting. She has an interesting background story too, starting with the fact that her maternal grandfather Dave Stamper was a songwriter for vaudeville, Broadway (the Ziegfeld Follies) and movies, plus somewhere back in time she’s related to Cecil Rhodes, but that’s not her fault. That’s just the beginning of her story. She doesn’t make music anymore and may never record another album, but as long as I have a breath in me, her music will be accessible to those who want to hear it, because it shouldn’t be forgotten, it’s just too good.

These are my 20 favourites but I’ve ordered them as if I was making a hits collection or something - like trying to create a good “flow”.

Michael Jackson:

  1. Billie Jean
  2. Blood On The Dance Floor
  3. Scream
  4. Bad
  5. They Don’t Care About Us
  6. Beat It
  7. Smooth Criminal
  8. Black Or White
  9. You Rock My World
  10. Dirty Diana
  11. In The Closet
  12. Leave Me Alone
  13. Who Is It?
  14. She’s Out Of My Life
  15. Human Nature
  16. Stranger In Moscow
  17. Will You Be There?
  18. Man In The Mirror
  19. Earth Song
  20. Smile

14 from Off The Wall
1, 6, 15 from Thriller
4, 7, 10, 12, 18 from Bad
8, 11, 13, 17 from Dangerous
3, 5, 16, 19, 20 from HIStory
2 from Blood On The Dance Floor: HIStory In The Mix
9 from Invincible

Madonna

  1. Music
  2. Into The Groove
  3. Hung Up
  4. Vogue
  5. Material Girl
  6. Open Your Heart
  7. Like A Prayer
  8. Papa Don’t Preach
  9. Borderline
  10. American Life
  11. Express Yourself
  12. Jump
  13. Bad Girl
  14. Secret
  15. Justify My Love
  16. What It Feels Like For A Girl
  17. Bedtime Story
  18. Frozen
  19. Live To Tell
  20. Drowned World/Substitute For Love

9 from Madonna
5 from Like A Virgin
2 single-only, on The Immaculate Collection
6, 8, 19 from True Blue
7, 11 from Like A Prayer
4 from I’m Breathless
15 from The Immaculate Collection
13 from Erotica
14, 17 from Bedtime Stories
18, 20 from Ray Of Light
1, 16 from Music
10 from American Life
3, 12 from Confessions On A Dance Floor

This is fun, I’m going to have to stop myself from doing all sorts of artists. Yoko Ono top 20, anyone? I know you’re all dying to discover the riches of the Yoko Ono catalogue.

Wow. No “Diane”? So few from “Warehouse:”…?

Anyways:

Skinny Puppy:

  1. Warlock
  2. Testure
  3. Assimilate
  4. Goneja
  5. Dig it
  6. Inquisition
  7. Killing Game
  8. Smothered Hope
  9. Spasmolytic
    10.Tin Omen

If you make it through those, you’re either now a fan, or ready to knock me in the back of the head with the heavy end of a pool cue. Enjoy!

Peter Gabriel

Everyone knows Sledgehammer. Here are some other tracks of his, most of which are more representative of his style. In alphabetical order:

Biko (from PG3, 1980)
Burn You Up, Burn You Down (from Hit, 2003) *
A Different Drum (from Passion, 1989)
Digging in the Dirt (from Us, 1992)
Down to Earth (from WALL-E soundtrack, 2008)
Downside Up (live, from Hit, 2003) **
Games Without Frontiers (from PG3, 1980)
I Don’t Remember (from PG3, 1980)
I Grieve (from Up, 2002)
Intruder (from PG3, 1980)
Lovetown (from Philidelphia soundtrack, 1994)
Mercy Street (from So, 1986)
Mother of Violence (from PG2, 1978)
No Self Control (from PG3, 1980)
The Rhythm of the Heat (from Security, 1982)
Running to the Rain (from Long Walk Home, 2002)
San Jacinto (from Security, 1982)
Signal to Noise (from Up, 2002)
Sky Blue (from Up, 2002)
Solsbury Hill (from PG1, 1977)

  • Also available in a different mix on the self-titled Big Blue Ball album, 2008
    ** Originally recorded for OVO, 2000, but with Gabriel only on backing vocals

Kate Bush

Army Dreamers (from Never For Ever, 1980)
Babooshka (from Never For Ever, 1980)
Breathing (from Never For Ever, 1980)
Cloudbusting (from Hounds of Love, 1985)
A Coral Room (from Aerial, 2005)
The Dreaming (from The Dreaming, 1982)
Eat the Music (from The Red Shoes, 1993)
Hammer Horror (from Lionheart, 1978)
Hounds of Love (from Hounds of Love, 1985)
King of the Mountain (from Aerial, 2005)
The Man With the Child In His Eyes (from The Kick Inside, 1978)
Moments of Pleasure (from The Red Shoes, 1993)
Rubberband Girl (from The Red Shoes, 1993)
Running Up That Hill (from Hounds of Love, 1985)
Sat In Your Lap (from The Dreaming, 1982)
The Sensual World (from The Sensual World, 1989)
Suspended In Gaffa (from The Dreaming, 1982)
This Woman’s Work (from The Sensual World, 1989)
Wow (from Lionheart, 1978)
Wuthering Heights (from The Kick Inside, 1978)

I may do some more artists later when I have more time.

I was going to do one for Kate Bush but my list would be pretty much identical to Lobot’s - except I’d swap 'Eat The Music and ‘Wow’ for ‘Hello Earth’ and ‘Get Out Of My House’.

I’ll add my two cents to the Prince love-in:

  1. Let’s Go Crazy
  2. My Name Is Prince
  3. P Control
  4. Kiss
  5. Alphabet St.
  6. When Doves Cry
  7. Black Sweat
  8. Raspberry Beret
  9. Little Red Corvette
  10. Gett Off
  11. Pope
  12. Head
  13. If I Was Your Girlfriend
  14. Sign O’ The Times
  15. 1999
  16. 7
  17. Diamonds And Pearls
  18. Adore
  19. I Would Die 4 U/Baby I’m A Star (cheating here because they’re two songs, but they should be listened to together)
  20. Purple Rain

12 from Dirty Mind
9, 15 from 1999
1, 6, 19, 20 from Purple Rain
8 from Around The World In A Day
4 from Parade
13, 14, 18 from Sign O’ The Times
5 from Lovesexy
10, 17 from Diamonds And Pearls
2, 16 from Love Symbol
11 from The Hits 2
3 from The Gold Experience
7 from 3121

Clutch (in no particular order):

[ol]
[li]Impetus[/li][li]Juggernaut[/li][li]Piledriver[/li][li]Worm Drink[/li][li]Rock & Roll Outlaw[/li][li]Big Fat Pig[/li][li]Pure Rock Fury[/li][li]Red Horse Rainbow[/li][li]Brazenhead[/li][li]10001110101[/li][li]Land of Pleasant Living[/li][li]Rising Son[/li][li]Walking in the Great Shining Path of Monster Trucks[/li][li]Wishbone[/li][li]High Caliber Consecrator[/li][li]Promoter (Of Eartbound Causes)[/li][li]Spacegrass[/li][li]Wicker[/li][li]Slow Hole to China[/li][li]Heirloom 13[/li][/ol]

The Bonzo Dog Band

  1. Look Out, There’s a Monster Coming
  2. The Intro and the Outro
  3. Jazz, Delicious Hot, Disgusting Cold
  4. Ali Baba’s Camel
  5. Tent
  6. I’m the Urban Spaceman
  7. Humanoid Boogle
  8. Hunting Tigers out in ‘Indiah.’
  9. I’m Bored
  10. My Pink Half of the Drainpipe
  11. Monster Mash
  12. Death Cab for Cutie
  13. No Matter Who You Vote For, the Government Always Gets In
  14. Beautiful Zelda
  15. Busted

RealityChuck, no Tubas in the Moonlight? You are dead to me now.

Gah! Teach me to post right before I go to bed, and not preview properly.

Here’s the bonus album track.

And this should have been…

This album’s breathtaking and astonishing vocals were recorded in the bathroom of her home!

Kate Bush and Peter Gabriel would have been my next two posts, but Lobot beat me. I’ll have to look at the lists closer when I have time to add other favorites.

I really love XTC too!

That’ll sort the sheep from the goats, but you missed Canyons of Your Mind :eek:

Meanwhile…

The Soft Boys (approximately chronologically)

Wading Through a Ventilator
(I Want to be an) Anglepoise lamp
Sandra’s Having Her Brain Out
Leppo and the Jooves
Queen of Eyes <- newbies start here
Kingdom of Love
Underwater Moonlight
I Got the Hots for You
Have a Heart Betty (I’m not Fireproof)
Only the Stones Remain

Mark Knopfler, not counting his collaborative (Dire Straits, Notting Hillbillies, Emmylou Harris) or soundtrack (Last Exit to Brooklyn, The Princess Bride, Local Hero, etc.) work, in chronological order:

  1. Golden Heart 1
  2. I’m The Fool 1
  3. Rudiger 1
  4. Nobody’s Got The Gun 1
  5. What It Is 2
  6. Wanderlust 2
  7. Speedway At Nazareth 2
  8. Silvertown Blues 2
  9. Why Aye Man 3
  10. Devil Baby 3
  11. Quality Shoe 3
  12. You Don’t Know You’re Born 3
  13. The Ragpicker’s Dream 3
  14. Old Pigweed 3
  15. 5:15 AM 4
  16. The Trawlerman’s Song 4
  17. Our Shangri-La 4
  18. Postcards From Paraguay 4
  19. The Car Was The One 5
  20. Get Lucky 5

1* Golden Heart*, 1996
2* Sailing to Philadelphia*, 2000
3* The Ragpicker’s Dream*, 2002
4* Shangri-La*, 2004
5* Get Lucky*, 2010

His material usually takes a while to take hold with me, but once it does I’m a pretty fervent fan (I didn’t care much for The Ragpicker’s Dream when it was released, but now it’s one of my favorite albums from anyone) – that may explain weight toward earlier albums and the absence of anything from Kill To Get Crimson (2007).

I cut “Diane” to make room for “In A Free Land”, just to have an early single; same with “Standing in the Rain” for “Flip Your Wig”.