# You're a fan of x's music, share your faves with a newbie.
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**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [November 3, 2010, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-fan-of-xs-music-share-your-faves-with-a-newbie/559283 "2010-11-03T01:38:17Z")
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### Author:  [@Made\_in\_Macau](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Made_in_Macau)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2010, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-fan-of-xs-music-share-your-faves-with-a-newbie/559283/1 "2010-11-03T01:38:17Z")
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
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### Author:  [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2010, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-fan-of-xs-music-share-your-faves-with-a-newbie/559283/2 "2010-11-03T02:08:22Z")
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
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### Author:  [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2010, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-fan-of-xs-music-share-your-faves-with-a-newbie/559283/3 "2010-11-03T02:39:17Z")
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
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### Author:  [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2010, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-fan-of-xs-music-share-your-faves-with-a-newbie/559283/4 "2010-11-03T04:20:34Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2010, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-fan-of-xs-music-share-your-faves-with-a-newbie/559283/5 "2010-11-03T04:27:23Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@BaneSidhe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BaneSidhe)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2010, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-fan-of-xs-music-share-your-faves-with-a-newbie/559283/6 "2010-11-03T04:53:09Z")
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
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### Author:  [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2010, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-fan-of-xs-music-share-your-faves-with-a-newbie/559283/7 "2010-11-03T05:07:10Z")
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?
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### Author:  [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2010, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-fan-of-xs-music-share-your-faves-with-a-newbie/559283/8 "2010-11-03T05:21:23Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2010, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-fan-of-xs-music-share-your-faves-with-a-newbie/559283/9 "2010-11-03T06:07:23Z")
> [@Made\_in\_Macau](#):
>
> 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.
Here’s a few from my gal [Hap](http://www.myspace.com/happyrhodes). 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](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Qn5q8d26DE) version) ([live](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYINyJYOf28) version)
“Temporary and Eternal” ([live](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiIqnvFAoHs) version) ([album](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbBxrhQAFi0) version)
“Words Weren’t Made For Cowards” ([album](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dn3LOFVH4Ks) version)
“When the Rain Came Down” ([studio](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ziLXJQPpF0) version) ([live](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zzcMmfGBjY) version)
“I Say” ([album](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leteLVaLka8) version)
“Glory” ([album](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDd_VE5Rask) version, starts slow) ([Single](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHuHlt5KCLg) version)
“Mother Sea” ([album](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gCUs9oKuO8) version)
“Winter” ([album](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znCo5FI9h9o) version)
“Warpaint” ([album](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9S0bZJAvwjw) version)
“Serenading Genius” ([album](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbCYw1gZYG8) version)
“Collective Heart” ([album](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO9fdShLPRk) version) ([live](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tb0hgQSby5g) version)
“All Things” ([album](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoyqxJf8Ilw) version) ([live](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eACEYTQkoLA) version)
“'Til the Dawn Breaks” ([album](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REjeEiTDi1A) version)
“Hold Me” ([album](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vo_ImDk5uuQ) version) ([live](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcXOiiyHE_c) version)
“Oh The Drears” ([album](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSlE5Qb2zI0) version)
“He Will Come/The Flight” ([album](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqgElL1Vdck) version)
“Terra Incognita” ([fan video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSY7Ub1yj_8) starring cats of The Straight Dope)
“Life On Mars” ([album](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkeYfBFm-pA) version)
“Many Worlds Are Born Tonight” ([album](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDS9tTSpgnU) version) ([very early](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKwaOULuOgM) live version)
“Ra Is A Busy God” ([album](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPNMohJMH7M) version) ([live](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmbHQ0rwCBQ) version)
“Summer” ([original](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mk0pIbzyVwU) version) ([acoustic](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5R8pgPChsJs) version) ([live](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-eySEHBjaM) version)
“Save Our Souls” ([album](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stdOjBDPpbI) version) ([live](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPJ2HRgtquo) version)
“If Wishes Were Horses, How Beggars Would Ride” ([album](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKXIa3rIkOw) version) ([live](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyG_g73R0wY)version)
“Down Down” ([album](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PSd8EnsJt8) version) ([live](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ARhdyo84W8) version)
“How It Should Be” (bonus album track) ([live](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0rdSFqtMbk) version)
“Phobos” ([album](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuitrDdELo4) version) ([live](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHB6oJZ3Xu0) version)
“Because I Learn” ([album](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zOKwjk_OOc) version)
“Feed The Fire” ([album](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQu-AYjzg3w) version) ([acoustic tribute](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGaSu_ul1F8) version) ([live](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyXrAyNzp_I) version w/interview)
“Find Me” ([album](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlX-fj34n6Q) version)
“Charlie” ([album](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBmM7Lyjbe0) version)
“Crystal Orbs” ([album](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYiay0DCgqY) version)
“One And Many” ([album](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DE24px4tLR4) version)
“Look For The Child” ([album](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5DQRwe3vjY) version) ([live](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLMaDkk2d6w) version)
“Off From Out From Under Me” ([album](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzZJI7XdfBw) version)
“Treehouse” ([album](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HU5O64gptk) version)
“In Hiding” ([album](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_uANJVYfoM) version) ([acoustic](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d41vZoZ4_sg) version)
“Lay Me Down” ([album](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sF3nyqRTXjM) version) ([live](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kp3hmZwEgN8) version)
“Possessed” ([album](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmCbggDcN00) version) ([live](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDu8xn6jxOY) version, after Queen’s “Lily of the Valley”)
“If So” ([album](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U29IAJ51HMY) version) ([live](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yMkLOTSfLc) version)
“Don’t Want To Hear It” ([album](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kh1GbY8qY0c) version)
“Proof” ([album](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3k3mxF64m7k) version) ([live](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHaUqUtC4xs) version)
“The Wretches Gone Awry” ([album](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LZ79ZVTleE) version)
“Tragic” ([album](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnlxU8hPPyU) 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](http://www.youtube.com/user/happyrhodesalbums#grid/user/95237FC5497C5450)
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](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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.
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### Author:  [@multimediac17](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/multimediac17)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2010, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-fan-of-xs-music-share-your-faves-with-a-newbie/559283/10 "2010-11-03T06:40:19Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Darth\_Nader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Nader)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2010, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-fan-of-xs-music-share-your-faves-with-a-newbie/559283/11 "2010-11-03T06:43:04Z")
> [@woodstockbirdybird](#):
>
> Husker Du (chronological order):
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!
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### Author:  [@Lobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobot)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2010, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-fan-of-xs-music-share-your-faves-with-a-newbie/559283/12 "2010-11-03T08:04:54Z")
**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.
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### Author:  [@multimediac17](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/multimediac17)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2010, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-fan-of-xs-music-share-your-faves-with-a-newbie/559283/13 "2010-11-03T08:51:47Z")
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_
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### Author:  [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2010, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-fan-of-xs-music-share-your-faves-with-a-newbie/559283/14 "2010-11-03T12:23:51Z")
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]
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### Author:  [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2010, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-fan-of-xs-music-share-your-faves-with-a-newbie/559283/15 "2010-11-03T12:32:13Z")
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
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### Author:  [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2010, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-fan-of-xs-music-share-your-faves-with-a-newbie/559283/16 "2010-11-03T12:39:03Z")
**RealityChuck** , no _Tubas in the Moonlight_? You are dead to me now.
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### Author:  [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2010, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-fan-of-xs-music-share-your-faves-with-a-newbie/559283/17 "2010-11-03T13:03:07Z")
Gah! Teach me to post right before I go to bed, and not preview properly.
> [@Equipoise](#):
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> “How It Should Be” (bonus album track) ([live](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0rdSFqtMbk) version)
Here’s the [bonus album track](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCTzc2hb2X8).
> [@Equipoise](#):
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> 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](http://www.youtube.com/user/happyrhodesalbums#grid/user/95237FC5497C5450)
And this should have been…
[This album’s](http://www.youtube.com/user/happyrhodesalbums#grid/user/95237FC5497C5450) 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!
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### Author:  [@Small\_Clanger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Clanger)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2010, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-fan-of-xs-music-share-your-faves-with-a-newbie/559283/18 "2010-11-03T14:54:32Z")
[QUOTE=RealityChuck]
The Bonzo Dog Band…
3. Jazz, Delicious Hot, Disgusting Cold
[/QUOTE]
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
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### Author:  [@Gordon\_Urquhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gordon_Urquhart)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2010, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-fan-of-xs-music-share-your-faves-with-a-newbie/559283/19 "2010-11-03T21:05:25Z")
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).
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### Author:  [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2010, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-fan-of-xs-music-share-your-faves-with-a-newbie/559283/20 "2010-11-03T23:22:21Z")
> [@Darth\_Nader](#):
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> Wow. No “Diane”? So few from “Warehouse:”…?
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”.
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