# You're a fan of x's music, share your faves with a newbie. **URL:** \ **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")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2010, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-fan-of-xs-music-share-your-faves-with-a-newbie/559283/21 "2010-11-04T00:07:21Z")
Just to keep things concise, I’m limiting each list to ten. God knows it isn’t easy, though. Also, B-sides & such (non-regular album tracks) are marked with an asterisk. Talking Heads 1. Crosseyed and Painless 2)\* A Clean Break (Let’s Work) 2. The Book I Read 3. Slippery People 4. Once in a Lifetime 5. Mind 6. Found a Job 7. Making Flippy Floppy 8. Television Man 9. Uh-Oh, Love Comes to Town The dB’s 10. Black and White 11. From a Window (to a Screen) 12. Lonely is as Lonely Does 13. A Spy in the House of Love 14. Storm Warning 15. Bad Reputation 16. Bonneville 17. Love is for Lovers 18. Never Before and Never Again 19. Nothing is Wrong Muse 20. Stockholm Syndrome 21. Darkshines 3)\* The Groove 22. Citizen Erased 23. Butterflies & Hurricanes 24. Hyper Music 25. Microcuts 26. Supermassive Black Hole 27. Bliss 28. Knights of Cydonia ---
**Author:** ![dzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5f9b8f/32.png) [@dzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dzero)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2010, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-fan-of-xs-music-share-your-faves-with-a-newbie/559283/22 "2010-11-04T00:22:58Z")
[![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WtXJXlqqOE) Gossip’s latest album - no bad songs, get the whole album. ---
**Author:** ![gallows\_fodder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8c91f0/32.png) [@gallows\_fodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gallows_fodder)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2010, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-fan-of-xs-music-share-your-faves-with-a-newbie/559283/23 "2010-11-04T00:47:49Z")
Top 13 **Mark Lanegan** songs (incl. collaborations with other artists) One Hundred Days (solo) Kingdoms of Rain (solo) Skeletal History (solo) Live With Me (w/ the Twilight Singers) We Have Met Before (the Gutter Twins) Paper Money (w/Soulsavers) Resurrection Song (solo) Wedding Dress (solo) Strange Religion (solo) Museum (solo) Hanging Tree (w/ Queens of the Stone Age) I’ll Take Care of You (solo) You Will Miss Me When I Burn (w/ Soulsavers) * * * Top 13 **Annette Hanshaw** songs (she was knowns as the “quintessential flapper vocalist” from the 1920s-30s) What Wouldn’t I Do for That Man? The Way I Feel Today Loveable and Sweet My Sin Say It Isn’t So Ain’t He Sweet? If I’d Only Believed in You He’s the Last Word Daddy Won’t You Please Come Home? 6 Feet of Papa Moanin’ Low I’ve Got a Feeling I’m Falling The One in the World ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2010, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-fan-of-xs-music-share-your-faves-with-a-newbie/559283/24 "2010-11-04T00:48:51Z")
The Kinks 1. You Really Got Me 2. All Day and All of the Night 3. Lola 4. Victoria 5. The Village Green Preservation Society 6. Low Budget 7. (Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman 8. Here Comes Flash 9. Celluloid Heroes 10. Sunny Afternoon 11. Apeman 12. Sweet Lady Genevieve 13. Ducks on the Wall 14. Get Back in the Line 15. Dedicated Follower of Fasion 16. A Well Respected Man 17. Sunny Afternoon 18. Attitude 19. Pressure 20. National Health Traffic 1. The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys 2. Feelin’ Alright? 3. Dear Mr. Fantasy 4. John Barleycorn Must Die 5. Glad 6. Stranger to Himself 7. Rock and Roll Stew 8. You Can All Join In 9. 40,000 Headmen 10. Medicated Goo 11. Paper Sun 12. Freedom Rider 13. Colored Rain 14. Heaven is in Your Mind 15. No Face, No Name, No Number 16. Every Mother’s Son 17. Pearly Queen 18. Hole in My Shoe 19. Gimme Some Lovin’ (live) 20. Crying to be Heard. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2010, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-fan-of-xs-music-share-your-faves-with-a-newbie/559283/25 "2010-11-04T00:51:44Z")
**Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes** 1. Sirens of the Night 2. Hearts of Stone 3. Take It Inside 4. Talk To Me 5. Next To You 6. Trapped Again (Hell, let’s just put the whole _Hearts of Stone_ album in here!) 1. The Fever 2. Love on the Wrong Side of Town 3. It’s Been A Long Time 4. Light Don’t Shine **Renaissance** 5. Prologue 6. Song of Scheherazade 7. Ashes Are Burning 8. Touching Once (Is So Hard To Keep) 9. Northern Lights 10. Mother Russia 11. Ocean Gypsy 12. After the Oceans Are Gone 13. The Other Woman 14. Can You Understand? ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2010, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-fan-of-xs-music-share-your-faves-with-a-newbie/559283/26 "2010-11-04T00:58:36Z")
I’m confused-where’s the list for [X](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_%28American_band%29)? Since I in fact haven’t listened to their stuff in years, I’ll do Porcupine Tree instead: 1. Stranger By the Minute 2. Always Never 3. Fadeaway 4. Arriving Somewhere (but not here) 5. Mellotron Scratch 6. Shesmovedon 7. Dark Matter 8. Stars Die 9. Radioactive Toy 10. Tie, 4 Chords that Made a Million/Sound of Muzak (about the same topic essentially) ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2010, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-fan-of-xs-music-share-your-faves-with-a-newbie/559283/27 "2010-11-04T01:03:11Z")
Oh yeah, Renaissance, can’t forget them 1. Running Hard 2. Song for All Seasons 3. Song of Scheherazade 4. Can You Hear Me? 5. Mother Russia 6. Carpet of the Sun 7. Trip to the Fair 8. Things I Don’t Understand 9. Ashes are Burning (live Carnegie Hall version-trading the awful electric guitar solo for the not nearly as awful bass solo) 10. The Winter Tree ---
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**Joni Mitchell** Rainy Night House Michael From Mountains I Had A King Both Sides Now Morning Morgantown Coyote Dreamland Chelsea Morning Blue The Gallery That Song About The Midway Court And Spark My Old Man Carey Night Ride Home Urge For Going Song For Sharon Little Green Woodstock For Free **The Incredible String Band** Very Cellular Song Witches Hat Big Ted Sleepers Awake Ducks on a Pond Painting Box You Get Brighter Lordly Nightshade Queen of Love Cousin Caterpillar Hedgehog Song Red Hair The Sailor and the Dancer You Know What You Could Be Womankind Half Remarkable Question Come With Me White Bird Juggler’s Song and …Koeeoaddi There 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2010, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-fan-of-xs-music-share-your-faves-with-a-newbie/559283/29 "2010-11-04T01:31:56Z")
Alice Cooper 1. Working up a Sweat 2. Be My Lover 3. Blue Turk 4. Raped and Freezin’ 5. Sick Things 6. Hard Hearted Alice 7. It’s Hot Tonight 8. Billion Dollar Babies 9. Nurse Rozetta 10. Pain 11. Scarlet and Sheba 12. Fresh Blood 13. Trick Bag 14. Hell is Living Without You 15. Might as Well be on Mars 16. You’re My Temptation 17. Pick up the Bones 18. Every Woman has a Name 19. Detroit City 20. Run Down the Devil 21. Vengence is Mine ---
**Author:** ![NineToTheSky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5a626/32.png) [@NineToTheSky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NineToTheSky)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2010, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-fan-of-xs-music-share-your-faves-with-a-newbie/559283/30 "2010-11-04T08:58:02Z")
Pink Floyd See Emily Play Flaming It Would Be So Nice Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun Cirrus Minor Cymbaline Echoes Comfortably Numb Sorrow Marooned High Hopes And the (pace **faithfool** ) alternative early days Alice Cooper Titanic Overture Return Of The Spiders Black Juju Ballad Of Dwight Fry Halo Of Flies Desperado Schools Out Hello Hurray Elected I Love The Dead ---
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> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > You can load 'em up off my computer if you like. Why yes I would like! How might that work? This thread is going exactly as I’d hoped - reminding me of music I’d forgotten (Wire/Soft Boys) and starting me on music new to me (Husker Du/Zappa) Always wanted to listen but never knowing where to start. Thanks! SQUEEZE Can’t Hold On Hope Fell Down If I Didn’t Love You In Quintessence Maidstone Slap and Tickle Someone Else’s Bell This Summer Walk A Straight Line Vicky Verky That was HARD GOLDIE LOOKIN CHAIN Sister Your Mother’s Got a Penis Half Man Half Machine Song For Kelly Monkey Love Guns Dont Kill People - Rappers Do Your Missus is a Nutter Self Suicide Everybody Is A DJ Soap Bar MiM ---
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Pet Shop Boys 1. Can You Forgive Her? 2. Love Etc. 3. Domino Dancing 4. Go West 5. I’m With Stupid 6. How Can You Expect To Be Taken Seriously? 7. What Have I Done To Deserve This? 8. Before 9. Paninaro '95 10. Always On My Mind 11. Suburbia 12. It’s A Sin 13. Left To My Own Devices 14. Rent 15. We’re The Pet Shop Boys 16. Miserablism 17. You Only Tell Me You Love Me When You’re Drunk 18. In Denial 19. West End Girls 20. Being Boring 11, 19 from _Please_ 7, 12, 14 from _Actually_ 3, 10, 13 from _Introspective_ 6, 20 from _Behaviour_ 16 b-side of ‘Was It Worth It?’ 1, 4 from _Very_ 9 single-only, on _Pop Art: The Hits_ 8 from _Bilingual_ 17, 18 from _Nightlife_ 15 b-side of ‘Miracles’ 5 from _Fundamental_ 2 from _Yes_ ---
**Author:** ![Mixolydian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@Mixolydian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mixolydian)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2010, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-fan-of-xs-music-share-your-faves-with-a-newbie/559283/33 "2010-11-04T15:00:17Z")
Doug Sahm/Sir Douglas Quintet She’s About A Mover At The Crossroads Mendicino Is Anybody Going To San Antone? Dallas Alice Dynamite Woman Groover’s Paradise Be Real Yesterday Got In The Way Tennessee Blues (Bobby Charles cover) Texas Me Michoacan Dealers Blues Song Of Everything Lawd I’m Just A Country Boy In The Great Big Freaky City Revolutionary Ways Westside Blues Again Are Inlaws Really Outlaws? Money Over Love You Never Get Too Big And You Sure Don’t Get Too Heavy, That You Don’t Have To Stop And Pay Some Dues Sometimes ---
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The Pat Metheny Group: [The First Circle](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xm0JYojAks) [Are You Going With Me?](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-VNF-EKXSU&feature=related) [Phase Dance](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRNT-TRARpY&feature=related) [Yolanda, You Learn](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlalQ2LEhWI&feature=related) [Minuano (Six Eight)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6WLYYtXXvU) [To The End Of The World](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbVtgr9brZk&feature=related) [September Fifteenth](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CA3lSTDPPuE&feature=related) [San Lorenzo](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmWLAt_KSYE) ---
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> [@The\_Scrivener](#): > > The dB’s > > 1. Black and White > 2. From a Window (to a Screen) > 3. Lonely is as Lonely Does > 4. A Spy in the House of Love > 5. Storm Warning > 6. Bad Reputation > 7. Bonneville > 8. Love is for Lovers > 9. Never Before and Never Again > 10. Nothing is Wrong No “Neverland” or “Living A Lie”? Sacrilege! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2010, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-fan-of-xs-music-share-your-faves-with-a-newbie/559283/36 "2010-11-04T16:13:31Z")
> [@woodstockbirdybird](#): > > No “Neverland” or “Living A Lie”? Sacrilege! _De gustibus non est disputandum._😉 ---
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**Electric Light Orchestra** (in chronological order) 10538 Overture (The Electric Light Orchestra / No Answer) Showdown (On the Third Day) Poor Boy (The Greenwood) (Eldorado) Fire On High (Face the Music) Nightrider (Face the Music) Tightrope (A New World Record) Telephone Line (A New World Record) Turn To Stone (Out of the Blue) Jungle (Out of the Blue) Don’t Bring Me Down (Discovery) Twilight (Time) Four Little Diamonds (Secret Messages) Rock ‘n’ Roll Is King (Secret Messages) So Serious (Balance of Power) Alright (Zoom) ---
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**WILCO** Misunderstood Casino Queen Theologians Via Chicago Kingpin Jesus, Etc Handshake Drugs Airline to Heaven I’m the Man Who Loves You I Am Trying to Break Your Heart Heavy Metal Drummer Pot Kettle Black Reservations Poor Places Hummingbird Impossible Germany Hate it Here A Shot in the Arm You and I The Late Greats ---
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Iggy Pop 1. Repo Man theme – Does anyone else love this song? I think this is just a great punk rock tune. 2. I Wanna Be Your Dog – a great pre-punk tune and predesor to many “I Wanna…” songs 3. Lust for Life – A little overexposed, but the best song about heroin addiciton ever used in a commercial for a cruise ship 4. Real Wild Child 5. Candy – A decent song, it’s a duet with Kate Pierson, which is nice. 6. The Passenger 7. Cold Metal 8. Search and Destroy 9. Cry For Love – Not a typical Iggy Pop song, but it’s on an album that Pop collaborated with David Bowie and the latter’s influence can be heard. I like the violins in the song, but that’s just me. 10. Mask I just realized that all I’m thinking mostly of is his older songs; I am not as familiar with his more recent work. ---
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Okay, let’s do my five favorite bands, in alphabetical order just because it’s so hard to figure out which one’s actually my favorite, since each one seems like it when I’m listening to them. Some of these are some tough calls. **Anathema** - So much good stuff it’s hard to leave things out, but trying to also get a range of their stuff style. 1. One Last Goodbye 2. Flying 3. Fragile Dreams 4. Lost Control 5. Pressure 6. Release 7. Emotional Winter 8. Wings of God 9. Far Away 10. The Silent Enigma **Dark Suns** - Can I just say their Album Existence minus the spoken intro track to make 10? Fine… 11. One Endless Childish Day 12. Free of You 13. Swanlike 14. The Euphoric Sense 15. Gently Bleeding 16. Abiding Space 17. The Chameleon Defect 18. Flies In Amber 19. The Sun Beyond Your Eden 20. Patterns of Oblivion **Katatonia** - Such a huge library, I just can’t hit it all. I tried to get a taste of everything, but I could easily get another half dozen in there to round out the progression. 1. Teargas 2. Evidence 3. My Twin 4. Forsaker 5. Liberation 6. Departer 7. Omerta 8. For My Demons 9. Brave 10. Saw You Drown **Nevermore** - Might change if I knew what the person was into, since they cover several topics intensely, but disjointly. 1. Dreaming Neon Black 2. The Heart Collector 3. Enemies of Reality 4. Seven Tongues of God 5. Termination Proclamation 6. The Obsidian Conspiracy 7. Born 8. This Godless Endeavor 9. The Sound of Silence 10. I Am the Dog **Opeth** - Gonna invoke the 20 option here here simply because my brother and I had, at one point, decide to actually make 2 mixes of them, one showcasing their 70s progressive rock influence, and the other their Death Metal influence. Give them one or the other depending on which side they’d like… or both. Chill Stuff: 1. Windowpane 2. Coil 3. Face of Melinda 4. A Fair Judgment 5. To Bid You Farewell 6. Credence 7. Benighted 8. To Rid the Disease 9. Burden 10. Harvest Brutal Stuff: 1. Demon of the Fall 2. Bleak 3. The Drapery Falls 4. Ghost of Perdition 5. The Night and the Silent Water 6. Forest of October 7. Godhead’s Lament 8. Serenity Painted Death 9. Heir Aparent 10. Reverie / Harlequin Forest [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-fan-of-xs-music-share-your-faves-with-a-newbie/559283.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-fan-of-xs-music-share-your-faves-with-a-newbie/559283.md?page=3)