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
Crosseyed and Painless
2)* A Clean Break (Let’s Work)
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
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
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
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
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
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
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)
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
Repo Man theme – Does anyone else love this song? I think this is just a great punk rock tune.
I Wanna Be Your Dog – a great pre-punk tune and predesor to many “I Wanna…” songs
Lust for Life – A little overexposed, but the best song about heroin addiciton ever used in a commercial for a cruise ship
Real Wild Child
Candy – A decent song, it’s a duet with Kate Pierson, which is nice.
The Passenger
Cold Metal
Search and Destroy
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.
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.
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.
One Last Goodbye
Flying
Fragile Dreams
Lost Control
Pressure
Release
Emotional Winter
Wings of God
Far Away
The Silent Enigma Dark Suns - Can I just say their Album Existence minus the spoken intro track to make 10? Fine…
One Endless Childish Day
Free of You
Swanlike
The Euphoric Sense
Gently Bleeding
Abiding Space
The Chameleon Defect
Flies In Amber
The Sun Beyond Your Eden
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.
Teargas
Evidence
My Twin
Forsaker
Liberation
Departer
Omerta
For My Demons
Brave
Saw You Drown
Nevermore - Might change if I knew what the person was into, since they cover several topics intensely, but disjointly.
Dreaming Neon Black
The Heart Collector
Enemies of Reality
Seven Tongues of God
Termination Proclamation
The Obsidian Conspiracy
Born
This Godless Endeavor
The Sound of Silence
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.
