I’ll read the others after I’ve responded to the thread, so my list isn’t coloured by everyone else’s ideas.
(BTW, great thread idea JBW - not meaning to push you or anything, but if you ever felt like resurrecting the 6@6, I’d be up for it)
My List:
Architecture in Helsinki - Souvenirs
Beyoncé - Crazy in Love
Elvis Costello - Welcome To The Working Week
Death Cab For Cutie - Photobooth
Eminem - Business
Fountains of Wayne - Utopia Parkway
Get Up Kids - Mass Pike
Hüsker Dü - Don’t Want To Know If You’re Lonely
Interpol - Stella Was A Diver And She Was Always Down
Jimmy Eat World - Goodbye Sky Harbor
Kid 606 - Never Underestimate The Value Of A Holler
Lucksmiths - Music To Hold Hands To
Mates Of State - Everyone Needs An Editor
New Order - Temptation
Outkast - Rosa Parks
Public Enemy - Terminator X
Queens Of The Stone Age - The Lost Art Of Keeping A Secret
Radiohead - Kid A
Smashing Pumpkins - To Forgive
They Might Be Giants - Ana Ng
Underworld - Born Slippy
Velvet Underground - Stephanie Says
Weezer - Tired Of Sex
XTC - Dear God
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps
Zwan - Lyric
I took the attitude that I can’t possibly cover everything that I love, so I might as well offer up a nearly random mix of the old and new and the pop and the alternative
Hüsker Dü - Yeah, I’d have to say it’s up there in my favourites for the year, too. It just sounds so real, which is pretty much the opposite of every other YYY song you’ll hear.
Despite that, I do like YYY. At first I thought as you did, but this song, and a few others, like Y-Control and No, No, No have begun to turn me around. I’m really thinking I’ll buy the album when I get some money.
I had totally written off Yeah Yeah Yeah’s, among with several other hip bands from New York, as all fashion, no passion. Which admittedly shows my prejudice towards any band featured on the cover of NME.
But sometimes you can be surprised.
I have to agree with you gex gex and admit that Y-Control is also a great song. It is if as they really matured from flaccid crotch grabbing nü-garage rock to… well, something completley different on those last tracks on the album. Let’s just hope they continue from where they left off on their next venture, I think it could be pretty exciting.
Thanks. btw, you’re in the northern Virginia area, aren’t you? You should come to a dopefest sometime.
I was going strong from my own collection up until about U. Then I had to do some research for the last few letters. X and Z in particular were tough to find.
Probably showing my age, but if they let me do the KSHE Classix show one Sunday morning:
Angel- The Tower
Benatar, Pat- Stranger in the Night
Chicago- Ballet for a Girl in Buchanon
Duek, Les- Old Judge Jones
ELP- Rodeo
Franks, Michael- Born with the Moon in Virgo
Gypsy- Dead and Gone
Hartsfield- Race the Sun
Iron Butterfly- Scorching Beauty
Journey- Look into the Future
Kings, The- This Beat Goes On/Switch into Glide
Lake- Between the Lines
Murphy, JF & Salt- The Last Illusion
Nektar- Remember the Future
Ozark Mountain Daredevils- Chicken Train
Poco- Rose of Cimmaron
Queen- The Prophet’s Song
Renaissance- Mother Russia
Stackridge- Slark
Triumvirat- Late Again
Uriah Heep- Salisbury
Vangelis- The Friends of Mr Cairo
Wishbone Ash- Persephone
X ??
Young, Jessie Colin- Ridgetop
Zebra- Who’s Behind the Door
Aerosmith- You’re My Angel
Billy Idol- Dancin’ With Myself
Clarks, The- Born Too Late
Dire Straits- Walk of Life
Eddie Money- Take Me Home Tonight
Foreigner- I Want to Know What Love Is
Golden Earring- Radar Love
Heart- All I Want to Do is Make Love to You
INXS- Beautiful Girl
Joe Jackson- Is She Really Going Out With Him?
Kenny Loggins- Danger Zone
London Beat- I’ve Been Thinkin About You
Moody Blues- I Know You’re Out There Somewhere
Neil Diamond- Sweet Caroline
OMD- If You Leave
Police, The- Roxanne
Queen- Another One Bites the Dust
Rolling Stones- Little T&A
Sinead O’Conner- The Emperor’s New Clothes
Tom Petty- Won’t Back Down
U2- With or Without You
Van Halen- When It’s Love
White Snake- Here I Go Again
Young, Neil- Heart of Gold
ZZ Top- Pearl Necklace
The Allman Brothers: “Whipping Post,” the 20-minute Live at the Fillmore East version
The Beatles: “Day Tripper” Chicago: “Beginnings”
The Dorsey Brothers: “Tangerine” Earth, Wind & Fire: “Shining Star” (live version)
Aretha Franklin: “(You Make Me Feel Like) Natural Woman”
Marvin Gaye (with Tammi Terrell): "Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing
Jimi Hendrix: “Voodoo Chile” Note: This is the 20-minute jam with Jack Cassidy & Stevie Winwood, not “Slight Return” Indigo Girls: “Closer to Fine”
The John Coltrane Quartet: “My Favorite Things”
Carole King: “Jazzman” Led Zeppelin: “The Rain Song”
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: “Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in D Major, Opus No. 20” Screw your college radio format; it won’t kill kids to listen to a little classical.
The New York Sensations: “Stolen Moments” Ozark Mountain Daredevils: “Jackie Blue”
Charlie Parker: “A Night in Tunisia”
The Quintet: “Laura” (for non-jazz fans, the Quintet was comprised of Herbie Hancock on piano, Ron Carter on Bass, Tony Williams on drums, Freddie Hubbard on trumpet, and Wayne Shorter [I think] on saxophone)
Maurice Ravel: “Pavanne for a Dead Princess”
Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5
The Temptations: “Just My Imagination (Runnin’ Away With Me)” U2: “New Year’s Day” Velvet Underground: “Femme Fatale”
Stevie Wonder: “As” X: Since I can’t think of anything I like by a band whose name begins with X I will substitute Howlin’ Wolf’s “Smokestack Lightnin.’”
Neil Young: “Down by the River”
Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention: “Dynamo Hum”
It is blues night at the captain’s table. And before I get any grief for not alphabetizing last names I would just like to point out that I am only a FM DJ, replace me with a machine, if you can.
Albert Collins - I Ain’t Drunk
B.B. King - Every Day I Have The Blues
Cephas & Wiggins - Black Cat On The Line
Debbie Davies - 24 Hour Fool
Elmore James - Dust My Broom
Freddie King - Have You Ever Loved A Woman
Gatemouth Brown - Rock My Blues Away
Howlin Wolf - Howlin For My Darlin
Interstate Blues - Elvis Has Left The Building
Junior Wells - Snatch It Back & Hold It
Koko Taylor - Born Under A Bad Sign
Little Walter - Boom Boom Out Go The Lights
Muddy Waters - Got My Mojo Working
Nighthawks - Shake Your Moneymaker
Otis Rush - I Can’t Quit You Baby
Professor Longhair - In The Night
Queen Ida - C’est Moi
Ronnie Earl - Everyday Kinda Mam
Sonny Boy Williamson - Don’t Start Me Talkin
Taj Mahal - Fishing Blues
U.P. Wilson - Walk That Walk
Vaughn Brothers - Telephone Song
Willie Dixon - Back Door Man
X- When It Rains
Yardbirds - I’m A Man
Z.Z. Hill - Down Home Blues
However, I’ll be a BIT more serious. Fact is, X is a pretty pathetic letter of the alphabet. I mean, even with Z, I had to do some thinking (plenty of good ZZTop, Zombies, Zappa, and Zevon songs to choose from). Even Q wasn’t a no brainer.
But heck, there were DOZENS of fantastic Beatles, Byrds, Black Sabbath, Blue Oyster Cult, Bad Company, Beach Boys, Jeff Beck, Buffalo Springfield (yadda yadda yadda) songs I had to pass over for B.
There were LOADS of great songs by Cream, the Cars, Cheap Trick and the Cure that I had to leave off.
There were dozens of deserving songs by artists starting with almost every letter of the alphabet! Dozens of deserving songs that I couldn’t put on the list.
After all that, I’m supposed to settle for an X or XTC song that doesn’t suck quite as hard as all their others? Sorry, I Can’t do that. It’s a matter of principle.
Oh… but I notice I never said which Who song I picked for the W… make it “A Legal Matter.”
Evening everybody, good to be back with you. Hope everyone out there is doing well…I’ve put together a rather extended set for you tonight, so turn down the lights a little, get yourself a little something to drink or otherwise partake in, and we’ll get started…
Zombies - She’s Not There
Young, Jess Colin - Love One Another Right Now
XTC - Ballad of Peter Pumpkin Head
Wonder, Stevie - Superstitious
Ventures - Walk, Don’t Run
U2 - I Will Follow
Talking Heads - Home (Naive Melody)
Scaggs, Bozz - Loam Me A Dime
Rolling Stones - Fingerprint File
Quicksilver Messenger Service - Edward, the Mad Shirt Grinder
Pure Prairie League - Boulder Skies
O’Jays - For The Love of Money
New Riders of the Purple Sage - Henry
Metheny, Pat - Are You Going With Me?
Loggins and Messina - Vahavela (live version)
Knuckles, Red (and the Trialblazers) - Kansas City Star
Jam, The - A Town Called Malice
It’s a Beautiful Day - White Bird
Hendrix, Jimi - Little Wing
Grateful Dead - Unbroken Chain
Fleetwood Mac - Hypnotized
Ethridge, Melissa - You Can Sleep While I Drive
Dylan, Bob - Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues
Cash, Johnny - Cry, Cry, Cry
B-52s - Planet Claire
Armitrading, Joan - Show Some Emotion
Amos, Tori - I can’t see NY
Bush, Kate - Mother stands for comfort
Cranberries - The promises you made
Dire Straits - Private investigations
Eno, Brian - Julie with…
Fleetwood Mac - Albatross
Garbage - Cup of coffee
Heart - Magic man
Icehouse - Hey little girl
Japan - Ghosts
Kayak - Dead bird flies forever
Long, Robert - Afscheid
Martha and the Muffins - One day in Paris
Nena - Nur getraeumt
Oasis - Don’t look back in anger
Pink Floyd - Julia dream
Queen - Love of my life
REM - I get high
Santana - Samba pa ti
Talk Talk - Renee
U2 - With or without you
Vangelis and Jon - I hear you now
Werding, Juliane - Stimmen in Wind
XTC - Making plans for Nigel
Yes - Owner of a lonely heart
Zombies - Time of the season
Allman Brothers Band – Whippin’ Post
Jeff Beck – I Ain’t Superstitious
Cream – Crossroads
Bob Dylan – Highway 61 Revisited
Steve Earle – Copperhead Road
Fleetwood Mac – The Green Manalishi (With a Two-Pronged Crown)
Al Green – Take Me to the River
Jimi Hendrix – Little Wing
It’s a Beautiful Day – White Bird
Jefferson Airplane – Crown of Creation
The Kinks – Sunny Afternoon
John Lennon – Instant Karma
Mountain – This Wheel’s On Fire
Randy Newman – Old Kentucky Home
Roy Orbison – Only the Lonely
Procol Harum – Pilgrim’s Progress
Quicksilver Messenger Service – Pride of Man
Rolling Stones – Gimme Shelter
Boz Scaggs – Loan Me A Dime
Thunderclap Newman – Something in the Air
Uncle Tupelo – Graveyard Shift
Velvet Underground – Sweet Jane
Hank Williams – Your Cheatin’ Heart
X-Ray Spex - Oh Bondage Up Yours
Youngbloods – Darkness Darkness
Warren Zevon – Boom Boom Mancini
Wow, plnnr! I promise I didn’t look at your list before I posted mine. I duplicated three of your songs and eight of your artists! I always have admired your taste!
I almost went with “In Memory of Elizabeth Reed” from “The Fillmore Concerts,” but realized I already had a few long, live jams, plus I already had Duane doing “Loam Me A Dime,” and anything else would be a bit of overkill.
I’m the DJ for an indie & punk show (who didn’t have long to plan his show ;)):
ASTRID - High In The Morning
BAD RELIGION - The Handshake
CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN - Take The Skinheads Bowling
DEAD KENNEDYS - Holiday In Cambodia
EASYWORLD - Second Amendment
FOUNTAINS OF WAYNE - Radiation Vibe
GREEN DAY - Minority
HOT HOT HEAT - Bandages
IMPERIAL RACING CLUB - Big Day Out
JOAN JETT - I Love Rock & Roll
KINESIS - Billboard Beauty
LAGWAGON - Brown Eyed Girl
MAD CAPSULE MARKETS - Good Girl
NIRVANA - Molly’s Lips
OZMA - Turtleneck Coverup
PLACEBO - Every You Every Me
QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE - No One Knows
RILO KILEY - The Frug
SUGARCULT - Stuck In America
TERRORVISION - Perserverance
URUSEI YATSURA - Hello Tiger
VANDALS - My Girlfriend’s Dead
WILDHEARTS - Vanilla Radio
X-RAY SPEX - The Day The World Turned Day Glo
YEAH YEAH YEAHS - Pin
ZWAN - Lyric
A: The All-American Rejects - Swing, Swing
B: Badfinger - No Matter What
C: Nick Cave - Straight to You
D: Depeche Mode - Enjoy the Silence
E: Everclear - Heroin Girl
F: The (Small) Faces - Here Comes the Nice
G: Macy Grey - Sex-O-Matic Venus Freak
H: Hall and Oats - Rich Girl
I: Iggy Pop - Lust for Life
J: Jefferson Starship - Count on Me
K: The Kinks - Destroyer
L: John Lennon - Whatever Gets You Through the Night
M: Van Morrison - Into the Mystic
N: Nazereth - Holiday
O: Oasis - Wonderwall
P: Puddle of Mudd - Blurry
Q: Queensrych - Jet City Woman
R: Rolling Stones - Monkey Man
S: Styx - Sing for the Day
T: Thin Lizzy - Romeo and the Lonely Girl
U: Uriah Heap - The Wizard
V: The Velvet Underground - I’m Waiting for the Man
W: Weezer - Dope Nose
X: XYZ - Take What You Can
Y: The Young Rascals - Good Lovin’
Z: Warren Zevon - Excitable Boy *** R.I.P.
Wow some great playlists here. Some are familiar to - others are more obscure than qaudrangle theorums.
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To varying degrees, you all listed tracks I’ve never heard or been exposed to.
IF the same holds true with my playlist, AND the words barter and burn mean anything to you, take it off the boards and e-mail me.
- I hear you now