# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2010, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-fan-of-xs-music-share-your-faves-with-a-newbie/559283/41 "2010-11-04T17:52:45Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > **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) You seem to have misspelled “Mr. Blue Sky” on your list. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2010, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-fan-of-xs-music-share-your-faves-with-a-newbie/559283/42 "2010-11-04T18:13:33Z")
> [@Bob Ducca](#): > > **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 Great list! I would add: Passenger Side Candyfloss and if it’s not cheating, a couple from the “Mermaid Avenue” CD with Billy Bragg: California Stars Hesitating Beauty ---
**Author:** ![Swords\_to\_Plowshares](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@Swords\_to\_Plowshares](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swords_to_Plowshares)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2010, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-fan-of-xs-music-share-your-faves-with-a-newbie/559283/43 "2010-11-04T18:18:17Z")
> [@The\_Scrivener](#): > > Muse > > 1. Stockholm Syndrome > 2. Darkshines > 3)\* The Groove > 3. Citizen Erased > 4. Butterflies & Hurricanes > 5. Hyper Music > 6. Microcuts > 7. Supermassive Black Hole > 8. Bliss > 9. Knights of Cydonia Why not anything from The Resistance? ---
**Author:** ![Ian\_D.Bergkamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Ian\_D.Bergkamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ian_D.Bergkamp)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2010, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-fan-of-xs-music-share-your-faves-with-a-newbie/559283/44 "2010-11-04T18:43:12Z")
**Brian Jonestown Massacre:** (1) Swallowtail (2) Anenome (not a typo) (3) Spun (4) Straight Up and Down (5) Miss June '75 (6) Nevertheless (7) That Girl Suicide (8) Everyone Says (9) Servo (10) Oh Lord **The Decemberists:** (1) The Rake’s Song (2) I Was Meant for the Stage (3) July, July! (4) The Hazards of Love 2 (5) My Mother Was a Chinese Trapeze Artist (6) Odalisque (7) The Tain (8) Kingdom of Spain (9) Grace Cathedral Hill (10) California One-Youth and Beauty Brigade ---
**Author:** ![Swords\_to\_Plowshares](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@Swords\_to\_Plowshares](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swords_to_Plowshares)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2010, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-fan-of-xs-music-share-your-faves-with-a-newbie/559283/45 "2010-11-04T18:57:05Z")
**Anberlin** - in no particular order 1. Godspeed 2. Paperthin Hymn 3. A Day Late 4. Dance, Dance, Christa Paffgen 5. Time and Confusion 6. The Resistance 7. Feel Good Drag 8. The Haunting 9. There Is No Mathematics To Love And Loss 10. The Promise (cover) Best album - Cities (IMO) ---
**Author:** ![Invisible\_Chimp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f05b48/32.png) [@Invisible\_Chimp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Invisible_Chimp)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2010, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-fan-of-xs-music-share-your-faves-with-a-newbie/559283/46 "2010-11-04T19:28:50Z")
Richard Thompson 1 King Of Bohemia 2 Cooksferry Queen 3 From Galway To Graceland 4 Guns Are The Tongues 5 Old Thames Side 6 She Cut Off Her Long Silken Hair 7 1952 Vincent Black Lightning 8 Dry My Tears And Move On 9 I Can’t Wake Up To Save My Life 10 I Feel So Good 11 Dark Hand Over My Heart 12 Al Bowlly’s in Heaven 13 Razor Dance 14 Crawl Back 15 A Heart Needs A Home 16 Dimming Of The Day 17 Shoot Out The Lights 18 I Misunderstood 19 Valerie 20 Sibella ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2010, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-fan-of-xs-music-share-your-faves-with-a-newbie/559283/47 "2010-11-04T19:30:06Z")
> [@faithfool](#): > > Alice Cooper… Good list, my list for the 'Coop… Be My Lover Desperado Blue Turk Generation Landslide Billion Dollar Babies Muscle of Love Welcome to my Nightmare I’m the Coolest Wish You Were Here You and Me (live Muppets version :D) I’m Your Gun Roses on White Lace Prince of Darkness ---
**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, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-fan-of-xs-music-share-your-faves-with-a-newbie/559283/48 "2010-11-04T21:10:54Z")
**Jimmy Buffett** 1. Havana Daydreamin’ 2. Trying to Reason With Hurricane Season 3. One Particular Harbor 4. A Pirate Looks At Forty 5. Desperation Samba 6. If The Phone Doesn’t Ring, It’s Me 7. Incommunicado 8. God’s Own Drunk 9. Party At The End Of The World 10. Apocalypso 11. It’s 5 O’Clock Somewhere 12. That’s My Story And I’m Stickin’ To It 13. Volcano 14. Cuban Crime of Passion 15. Tiki Bar \*\* Warren Zevon\*\* 1. The Envoy 2. Seminole Bingo 3. Back In The High Life Again 4. Hasten Down The Wind 5. Piano Fighter 6. Poor Poor Pitiful Me 7. Keep Me In Your Heart 8. Mohammed’s Radio 9. Desperadoes Under the Eaves 10. Life’ll Kill Ya ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2010, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-fan-of-xs-music-share-your-faves-with-a-newbie/559283/49 "2010-11-04T21:42:48Z")
> [@Bob Ducca](#): > > You seem to have misspelled “Mr. Blue Sky” on your list. 🙂 Chuckle…it’s just never been on my list of faves, though it’s definitely a prototypical ELO song. ---
**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, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-fan-of-xs-music-share-your-faves-with-a-newbie/559283/50 "2010-11-04T22:11:13Z")
> [@Swords\_to\_Plowshares](#): > > Why not anything from The Resistance? Well, there’s only four tracks on that that I’d be tempted to include: “Resistance,” “United States of Eurasia,” “Unnatural Selection,” and “I Belong To You” – because listing the Exogenesis Symphony as one track is totally cheating (and listing its movements separately would give that opus too much of a presence on my list). Of those, “US” is the kind of darkly proggy (the organ bit helps) and heavy-riffing track I’ve come to expect from Muse, “USoE” is an achingly lovely number albeit devoted to some of Matt’s most lunatic lyrics since “Exo-Politics,” and “IBTY” was a most delightful surprise, if equally bizarre in its own right (for Matt – unpronouncable French lyrics in the 19th-C. opera credenza, and then there’s that clarinet solo at the end). And TBH, it probably doesn’t help their cases that on their touring over the past year Matt’s been skipping the Chopin outro on “USoE,” they’ve all but dropped “US” from the playlist already, and “IBTY” only got performed, like, twice. (And forget the clarinet solo!) But mainly it was due to my arbitrary limiting the list to a mere ten. You realize, I posted a Musey favorites list that left off “Plug In Baby” (with the guitar riff listed in one magazine poll as the 11th best in the history of rock, and whose performance is always accompanied by those hilarious oversized, confetti-containing Hullaballoons/eyeball-balloons), “Assassin” (any version), “Blackout,” “Hate This and I’ll Love You” (hey, I freakin’ LOVE that song!), “Execution Commentary” (a pet favorite; its heavy breakdown riffing sends me over the edge into ecstasy every time), “Dead Star” (does that track have some of the most complicated rhythms, or what? How Dom counts out that drum part, I’ll never know…), “Map of the Problematique” (a concert staple and the best song Depeche Mode never wrote), “Escape” (that early song that they almost never performed even in their early days, even though that guitar solo was a most telling and teasing promise of things to come), “Fillip,” “Uno,” “Agitated,” “Thoughts of a Dying Atheist,” and… “NEW BORN”. Yep, I left off that perennial staple of virtually ALL their shows for the past decade. The song that defines Muse as much as any other. That kicks things off with two minutes’ worth of piano arpeggios and wraps them up with about three-to-four minutes’ worth of insane heavy-metal riffing and sometimes-sexualized amp abuse. Whew! Sorry to go on like this, but you did ask… and I’m truly obsessed with that band (can you tell?). ---
**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, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-fan-of-xs-music-share-your-faves-with-a-newbie/559283/51 "2010-11-04T22:24:10Z")
> [@Swords\_to\_Plowshares](#): > > **Anberlin** - in no particular order > > 1. Godspeed > 2. Paperthin Hymn > 3. A Day Late > 4. Dance, Dance, Christa Paffgen > 5. Time and Confusion > 6. The Resistance > 7. Feel Good Drag > 8. The Haunting > 9. There Is No Mathematics To Love And Loss > 10. The Promise (cover) > > Best album - Cities (IMO) Revisiting your list, I feel tempted to check this band out, partly because you’re familiar with Muse, but mostly because two of their song titles are in common with great songs by two of my favorite bands – #6 “The Resistance” (Muse, although their song title leaves off the article) and #8 “The Haunting” (The Golden Palominos). Silly, I know, but that probably goes with the territory of being a die-hard Muse fan. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2010, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-fan-of-xs-music-share-your-faves-with-a-newbie/559283/52 "2010-11-04T22:31:19Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > and if it’s not cheating, a couple from the “Mermaid Avenue” CD with Billy Bragg: > > California Stars > Hesitating Beauty It probably is cheating. And how about [“Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqFmNUz7WhY)? ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2010, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-fan-of-xs-music-share-your-faves-with-a-newbie/559283/53 "2010-11-04T22:51:30Z")
> [@Darth\_Nader](#): > > 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! As a Skinny Puppy fan, I can say that there are no objectionable tracks on that list. Good choices, overall. **VNV Nation** 1. Honour 2. Beloved 3. Kingdom 4. Standing 5. The Farthest Star 6. Chrome 7. From My Hands 8. Further 9. Nemesis 10. Perpetual **Mesh (UK)** 11. Leave You Nothing 12. Trust You 13. Petrified 14. It Scares Me 15. Is it so hard? 16. Fragile (US Mix) 17. Not Prepared 18. Only Better 19. Let them crush us 20. From this height ---
**Author:** ![Shocker\_Khan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c57346/32.png) [@Shocker\_Khan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shocker_Khan)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2010, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-fan-of-xs-music-share-your-faves-with-a-newbie/559283/54 "2010-11-04T23:47:51Z")
**EELS** Dirty Girl Fresh Feeling That Look You Give That Guy Blinking Lights (For Me) Railroad Man Flyswatter It’s a M_therf_cker Beginners Luck Trouble With Dreams Grace Kelly Blues End Times Fresh Blood Climbing To The Moon ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-fan-of-xs-music-share-your-faves-with-a-newbie/559283/55 "2010-11-05T01:16:58Z")
**CAKE** 1. Comanche 2. Pentagram 3. I Bombed Korea 4. Ain’t No Good 5. Frank Sinatra 6. The Distance 7. It’s Coming Down 8. She’ll Come Back To Me 9. Italian Leather Sofa 10. Mexico 11. Walk On By 12. Sheep Go To Heaven 13. Opera Singer 14. Shadow Stabbing 15. Short Skirt/Long Jacket 16. Arco Arena 17. Comfort Eagle 18. Wheels 19. Dime 20. End Of The Movie ---
**Author:** ![Swords\_to\_Plowshares](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@Swords\_to\_Plowshares](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swords_to_Plowshares)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-fan-of-xs-music-share-your-faves-with-a-newbie/559283/56 "2010-11-05T01:31:44Z")
(Regarding Muse) > [@The\_Scrivener](#): > > Whew! Sorry to go on like this, but you did ask… and I’m truly obsessed with that band (can you tell?). Fair enough. Just too many good songs. Regarding Anberlin: I guess it’s a coincidence that The Resistance, off of the album New Surrender, came out almost exactly one year before Muse’s The Resistance. That’s the only song I included off New Surrender, though, and I didn’t include any off their new album Dark Is the Way, Light Is a Place. Both are good but their earlier stuff is a bit better IMO. But yeah, you should definitely check out Anberlin, especially the albums Never Take Friendship Personal and Cities. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-fan-of-xs-music-share-your-faves-with-a-newbie/559283/57 "2010-11-05T02:39:07Z")
Eva Cassidy 1. Over the Rainbow 2. Fields of Gold 3. Autumn Leaves 4. Songbird 5. Kathy’s Song 6. Tennessee Waltz 7. Ain’t No Sunshine 8. Blues in the Night 9. Penny to My Name 10. Little Children ---
**Author:** ![Ruffian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71e660/32.png) [@Ruffian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruffian)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-fan-of-xs-music-share-your-faves-with-a-newbie/559283/58 "2010-11-05T03:02:48Z")
**Barenaked Ladies** I can’t sort a top ten, so these are my favorites in no particular order: 1. Aluminum 2. The Night I Fell Asleep at the Wheel 3. When I Fall [one of my all-time favorite songs, period] 4. I Didn’t Mean to Break Your Heart 5. The Old Apartment 6. Straw Hat and Dirty Hank 7. Pinch Me 8. One Week 9. For You 10. Alcohol I could go on…I do love their music. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Nader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Darth\_Nader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Nader)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-fan-of-xs-music-share-your-faves-with-a-newbie/559283/59 "2010-11-05T04:06:14Z")
Would it help if we tried to define the genre? So folks looking for good mellow '70’s singer-songwriter stuff don’t end up wasting their time with- **Ministry:** 01 Stigmata 02 N.W.O. 03 Lies 04 Thieves 05 Jesus Built My Hotrod 06 What About Us? (from the film, A.I.) 07 Khyber Pass 08 So What 09 Animosity 10 Everyday is Halloween Again, ten songs should be enough. I’m totally about sharing my love of music to folks who might not get it, I also understand it’s best done in small amounts. If I could ever do a Merzbow list, it would be at least 144 tracks long. Yes, just because. You could take your clock radio, tune it to static, and record yourself beating the shit out of it, night after night, but it wouldn’t be the same. Masami Akita does it better. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-fan-of-xs-music-share-your-faves-with-a-newbie/559283/60 "2010-11-05T07:29:26Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > \*\* > Warren Zevon\*\* > > 1. The Envoy > 2. Seminole Bingo > 3. Back In The High Life Again > 4. Hasten Down The Wind > 5. Piano Fighter > 6. Poor Poor Pitiful Me > 7. Keep Me In Your Heart > 8. Mohammed’s Radio > 9. Desperadoes Under the Eaves > 10. Life’ll Kill Ya Good list, but I would have traded “Boom-Boom Mancini” for “Back In The High Life Again”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-fan-of-xs-music-share-your-faves-with-a-newbie/559283.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-fan-of-xs-music-share-your-faves-with-a-newbie/559283.md?page=4)