# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![Made\_in\_Macau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eada6e/32.png) [@Made\_in\_Macau](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Made_in_Macau)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 9:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-fan-of-xs-music-share-your-faves-with-a-newbie/559283/61 "2010-11-05T09:40:53Z")
I’ve had my Zevon list up my sleeve to see if it matched the first one posted - not one! Warren Zevon I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead My Shit’s Fucked Up The Hockey Song Studebaker Don’t Let Us Get Sick Werewolves Of London Play It All Night Long Splendid Isolation Mutineer Frank and Jesse James MiM ---
**Author:** ![DfrntBreign](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f6c823/32.png) [@DfrntBreign](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DfrntBreign)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-fan-of-xs-music-share-your-faves-with-a-newbie/559283/62 "2010-11-05T09:55:02Z")
**Transatlantic** 1. All Of The Above 2. We All Need Some Light 3. Mystery Train 4. My New World 5. In Held (Twas) In I 6. Duel With The Devil 7. Suite Charlotte Pike 8. Bridge Across Forever 9. Stranger In Your Soul 10. The Whirlwind\* Gee, that\*\* was easy! \*Yeah, The Whirlwind is the name of the CD, but it’s really one 78 minute song divided into 12 (sorry, XII) parts. It should be heard as a whole, but if you want an excerpt, [VII. Evermore](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4J6AJD2-aL4) is pretty nice. \*\*That’s every song on every “regular” studio release. If I was trying to _convert_ someone, I’d play their “Live In Europe” DVD and, maybe, the Beatles medley from “Live In America”. ---
**Author:** ![NineToTheSky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5a626/32.png) [@NineToTheSky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NineToTheSky)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-fan-of-xs-music-share-your-faves-with-a-newbie/559283/63 "2010-11-05T10:22:30Z")
As a staunch defender and advocate of 70s progressive music, I would like to introduce… _Yes_ Harold Land Astral Traveller Yours Is No Disgrace Starship Trooper Heart Of The Sunrise Close To The Edge And You And I Siberian Khatru Soon The Revealing Science Of God Turn Of The Century Awaken Onward _Genesis_ The Musical Box The Fountain Of salmacis Supper’s Ready Firth Of Fifth The Carpet Crawlers Los Endos Pigeons Snowbound Follow You, Follow Me Mama Home By The Sea As I was writing this, I saw **DfrntBreign** ’s post. Thank you: you’ve just achieved what this thread is about. You’ve introduced a great new group to me. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-fan-of-xs-music-share-your-faves-with-a-newbie/559283/64 "2010-11-05T11:10:28Z")
> [@gallows\_fodder](#): > > Top 13 **Mark Lanegan** songs (incl. collaborations with other artists) This is the only list that absolutely baffles me. I think Lanegan’s best stuff is on the 3 albums he has done with former Belle & Sebastian member Isobel Campbell - _Ballad of the Broken Seas_, _Sunday at Devil Dirt_ and _Hawk_. So in keeping with the OP: Top 13 Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan songs Come on Over (Turn Me On) Snake Song Come Undone No Place To Fall You Won’t Let Me Down Again Get Behind Me Time of the Season The Raven Who Built the Road Trouble Black Mountain (Do You Wanna) Come Walk with Me? The Circus Is Leaving Town ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-fan-of-xs-music-share-your-faves-with-a-newbie/559283/65 "2010-11-05T12:49:08Z")
Teenage Fanclub. 1. The Concept (Bandwagonesque) 2. I Need Direction (Howdy!) 3. Ain’t That Enough (Songs From Northern Britain) 4. Sparky’s Dream (Grand Prix) 5. Star Sign (Bandwagonesque) 6. Slow Fade (Man-Made) 7. Everything Flows (A Catholic Education) 8. The Cabbage (Thirteen) 9. Radio (Thirteen) 10. Don’t Look Back (Grand Prix) 11. God Knows It’s True (A Catholic Education) 12. What You Do To Me (Bandwagonesque) 13. Neil Jung (Grand Prix) 14. Escher (Thirteen) 15. Did I Say (…A Shortcut to Teenage Fanclub) 16. The Fall (Shadows) 17. Your Love Is The Place I Come From (Songs From Northern Britain) 18. When I Still Have Thee (Shadows) 19. Cul-de-Sac (Howdy!) 20. Speed Of Light (Songs From Northern Britain) Started with thirteen songs, quickly realized that wasn’t enough…there were about ten more I thought of including here. ---
**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 5, 2010, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-fan-of-xs-music-share-your-faves-with-a-newbie/559283/66 "2010-11-05T13:06:21Z")
**Okkervil River:** (1) Black (2) Westfall (3) Okkervil River Song (4) So Come Back, I Am Waiting (5) A Girl In Port (6) Red (7) The War Criminal Rises And Speaks (8) A Stone (9) The Velocity of Saul at the Time of His Conversion (10) Plus Ones **Bright Eyes:** (1) Let’s Not Shit Ourselves (To Love and Be Loved) (2) The Calendar Hung Itself (3) Arc of Time (Time Code) (4) Don’t Know When But a Day Is Gonna Come (5) Lua (6) Haligh, Haligh, a Lie, Haligh (7) Hot Knives (8) Easy/Lucky/Free (9) June on the West Coast (10) Something Vague ---
**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 5, 2010, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-fan-of-xs-music-share-your-faves-with-a-newbie/559283/67 "2010-11-05T14:36:46Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > **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 No Daria love? I won’t be soothed. 😉 ---
**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 5, 2010, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-fan-of-xs-music-share-your-faves-with-a-newbie/559283/68 "2010-11-05T14:47:03Z")
> [@Made\_in\_Macau](#): > > I’ve had my Zevon list up my sleeve to see if it matched the first one posted - not one! If I go the next 40 years without hearing “Werewolves of Londaon” again, it will be just about right. “Mutineer” and “I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead” just missed the cut for my list. I tried to just deal with 10. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-fan-of-xs-music-share-your-faves-with-a-newbie/559283/69 "2010-11-05T16:46:14Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > If I go the next 40 years without hearing “Werewolves of Londaon” again, it will be just about right. “Mutineer” and “I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead” just missed the cut for my list. I tried to just deal with 10. Werewolves of London is overdone, but I like it OK. Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner has been my favorite since my friend sang it at a talent show in high school. And My Shit’s Fucked Up is so good and clever, but takes on so much more weight considering Zevon was diagnosed with cancer right after making this song. ---
**Author:** ![Made\_in\_Macau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eada6e/32.png) [@Made\_in\_Macau](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Made_in_Macau)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-fan-of-xs-music-share-your-faves-with-a-newbie/559283/70 "2010-11-05T16:46:26Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > If I go the next 40 years without hearing “Werewolves of Londaon” again, it will be just about right. “Mutineer” and “I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead” just missed the cut for my list. I tried to just deal with 10. I know what you mean - it’s just - we gigged it for years and it makes me smile thinking about that. MiM ---
**Author:** ![Meurglys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@Meurglys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meurglys)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-fan-of-xs-music-share-your-faves-with-a-newbie/559283/71 "2010-11-05T16:49:49Z")
**Yello** in alphabetical order The Rhythm Divine Let Me Cry Bostich Desire The Evening’s Young I Love You Live at the Roxy Lost Again Of Course I’m Lying The Rhythm Divine Vicious Games **Peter Hammill** / **VDGG** 7 van der Graaf songs, then 13 solo ones, broadly in date order Running Back White Hammer House with no Door Lemmings Arrow La Rossa Wondering Vision Easy to Slip Away Red Shift The Comet, the Course, the Tail Been Alone so Long Losing Faith in Words Ophelia Paradox Drive Labour of Love Four Pails Beside the One You Love I Will Find You A Better Time I tend to listen to whole albums at a time, not individual tracks, so tomorrow I might decide that all the tracks (not just _Arrow_) on _Godbluff_, for instance, are great and should all be on this list! As it is, I’ve confined myself to a song per album and that seems to work pretty well… ---
**Author:** ![multimediac17](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/839c29/32.png) [@multimediac17](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/multimediac17)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-fan-of-xs-music-share-your-faves-with-a-newbie/559283/72 "2010-11-05T16:56:04Z")
Dolly Parton: 1. Coat Of Many Colors 2. Jolene 3. Baby I’m Burnin’ 4. The Last Thing On My Mind (with Porter Wagoner) 5. Peace Train (Holy Roller Mix) 6. 9 To 5 7. Islands In The Stream (with Kenny Rogers) 8. Better Get To Livin’ 9. Dumb Blonde 10. Mule Skinner Blues (Blue Yodel No. 8) 11. The Bargain Store 12. Joshua 13. I’ll Oilwells Love You 14. Love Is Like A Butterfly 15. Backwoods Barbie 16. Save The Last Dance For Me 17. Just Because I’m A Woman 18. Stairway To Heaven 19. Travelin’ Thru 20. I Will Always Love You ---
**Author:** ![Alka\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Alka\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alka_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-fan-of-xs-music-share-your-faves-with-a-newbie/559283/73 "2010-11-05T16:57:26Z")
**Arcade Fire** Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels) Neighborhood #3 (Power Out) Wake Up Haiti Surf City Eastern Block [Intervention (Live, Sydney 2008)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIlqFTZuBkg) Windowsill No Cars Go [The Guns of Brixton (Live, acoustic)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8lVkg4ecPk) Rococo ---
**Author:** ![FrigidLizard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3bc359/32.png) [@FrigidLizard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FrigidLizard)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-fan-of-xs-music-share-your-faves-with-a-newbie/559283/74 "2010-11-05T18:07:14Z")
**Counting Crows:** Sullivan Street Perfect Blue Buildings A Long December American Girls Up All Night You Can’t Count On Me A Murder of One If I Could Give All My Love To You Miami Black and Blue Holiday In Spain Hard Candy Amy Hit the Atmosphere She Don’t Want Nobody Near Accidentally In Love Mr. Jones Anna Begins Omaha Goodnight Elizabeth I Wish I Was A Girl Any Given Sunday ---
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-fan-of-xs-music-share-your-faves-with-a-newbie/559283/75 "2010-11-05T19:13:57Z")
**Charles Mingus** Goodbye Pork Pie Hat Better Git It In Your Soul Fables of Faubus (the version from ‘Mingus Ah-Um’ for the music; the ‘Original Faubus Fables’ from ‘Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus’ for the social commentary) Haitian Fight Song All the Things You Could Be If Sigmund Freud’s Wife Was Your Mother Pithecanthropus Erectus Jump Monk Ecclesiasticus The Shoes of the Fisherman’s Wife Are Some Jive Ass Slippers ---
**Author:** ![Nonsuch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nonsuch/32/2922_2.png) [@Nonsuch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nonsuch)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-fan-of-xs-music-share-your-faves-with-a-newbie/559283/76 "2010-11-05T21:26:03Z")
I tapped into this thread thinking, “Maybe I could do XTC.” Kudos to the OP. **Alejandro Escovedo** She Towers Above Gravity/Falling Down Again Baby’s Got New Plans Two Angels Put You Down Pissed Off 2 AM The Last to Know (live) I Was Drunk Rosalie Castanets Across the River Sacramento & Polk Chelsea Hotel '78 Sad & Dreamy ---
**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 5, 2010, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-fan-of-xs-music-share-your-faves-with-a-newbie/559283/77 "2010-11-05T23:33:19Z")
> [@Nonsuch](#): > > I tapped into this thread thinking, “Maybe I could do XTC.” Kudos to the OP. [snip] Ditto, and the mere thought of trying to select a top ten from their incredibly long and varied discography gives me a case of the vapors… but I’m going to try it anyway: XTC (srsly, their exclusion standing as the most glaring, damning indictment of the Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame for their lack of focus on rock and their kowtowing to mainstream markers of success): 1. Wake Up 2. Yacht Dance 3. Seagulls Screaming Kiss Her, Kiss Her 4. Living Through Another Cuba 5. Real By Reel 6. Brainiac’s Daughter (names be damned; the Dukes of Stratosphear WERE XTC, so it counts) 7. Then She Appeared 8. Statue of Liberty 9. The Wheel and the Maypole 10. Grass “Difficult” doesn’t begin to describe it… Hey **Nonsuch** , give us your list anyway. Go on… esp with XTC, there’s no such thing as a less-than-magnificent top ten, so go ahead! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Made\_in\_Macau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eada6e/32.png) [@Made\_in\_Macau](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Made_in_Macau)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2010, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-fan-of-xs-music-share-your-faves-with-a-newbie/559283/78 "2010-11-06T00:06:07Z")
> [@The\_Scrivener](#): > > Hey **Nonsuch** , give us your list anyway. Go on… esp with XTC, there’s no such thing as a less-than-magnificent top ten, so go ahead! 🙂 Hell yes! Come on Nonsuch - if you and The Scrivener and I get 1 person each to buy anxtc track, it will mean Andy can get 3 more toy soldiers and may be inspired to write some more! Do it! MiM ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2010, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-fan-of-xs-music-share-your-faves-with-a-newbie/559283/79 "2010-11-06T01:07:45Z")
Provisional Shakira Mebarak list (I don’t have all her albums yet): 1. Ciega, sordomuda 2. Underneath Your Clothes 3. Poem to a Horse 4. Don’t Bother 5. Si te vas 6. Objection (Tango) 7. ¿Dónde están los ladrones? 8. Whenever, Wherever (_or_ Suerte) 9. Moscas en la casa 10. How Do You Do 11. Timor 12. Dreams for Plans The Church, off the top of my head: 1. Reptile 2. Swan Lake 3. Under the Milky Way 4. Lullaby 5. Two Places at Once 6. Lost 7. City 8. Dome 9. Ripple 10. Monday Morning 11. Terra Nova Cain 12. Hotel Womb 13. Grind ---
**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 6, 2010, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-fan-of-xs-music-share-your-faves-with-a-newbie/559283/80 "2010-11-06T01:21:57Z")
> [@Ruffian](#): > > **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. Shocker Khan and I met at a Barenaked Ladies concert seven years ago this month and we’ve both seen the band an embarrassingly number of times. We actually just saw Steve Page’s solo show here in Chicago a couple of nights ago and it was fantastic. About 50/50 BNL songs and solo stuff. He did a couple off your list there, in fact… Old Apartment and Tonight is the Night I Fell Asleep at the Wheel. His new band includes strings and and horns as well as drums/bass/guitar/etc so the old songs sound new and fresh. “Jane” was amazing, as was “I Live With it Every Day.” You’ve inspired me to do my own BNL list. Stay tuned! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-fan-of-xs-music-share-your-faves-with-a-newbie/559283.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-fan-of-xs-music-share-your-faves-with-a-newbie/559283.md?page=5)