You're an FM DJ: 26 songs in alphabetical order by artist - What tracks do you pick?

OK! Mr. Eclectic goes to work and comes up with the most convuluted list anyone has ever seen. Ready?

Abba - Dancing Queen
Band, The - The Weight
Chicago - 25 or 6 to 4
Dean Friedman - Humor Me
Eurythmics - Here Comes The Rain Again
Fogelberg, Dan - Same Old Lang Syne
Godspell - Day By Day
Hank Williams Jr. - A Country Boy Can Survive
Imbruglia, Natalie - Torn
John Mellencamp - Jack and Diane
Kingston Trio - Tom Dooley
Lawrence Welk - Calcutta
Men At Work - Down Under
Night Ranger - Sister Christian
O’Jays - Love Train
Paul Revere and the Raiders - Indian Reservation
Queen - Fat Bottomed Girls
Rod Stewart - Maggie May
Sam Cook - Chain Gang
Tom Petty - Free Fallin’
UB40 - Red Red Wine
Vinton, Bobby - Blue Velvet
Waits, Tom - Jersey Girl
XTC - I Am The Walrus
Young, Paul - Everytime You Go Away
Zevon, Warren - Werewolves Of London

Oh that was fun. If I ever programmed a radio station this way, I’d be ushered out the door and asked not so politely to never return. But I like all those songs.

Dangit - drawing blanks on the X and Y here. :D[list=A][li]Amos, Tori - Winter[/li][li]Blur - You’re So Great[/li][li]Cardigans - Rise and Shine[/li][li]The Dandy Warhols - Solid[/li][li]Erasure - When I Needed You[/li][li]Fountains of Wayne - Hey Julie[/li][li]Gene - Fighting Fit[/li][li]Hersh, Kristin - Beestung[/li][li]Ivy - You Don’t Know Anything[/li][li]Jars of Clay - Only Alive[/li][li]Kula Shaker - Shower Your Love[/li][li]Lush - 500[/li][li]Morrissey - My Love Life[/li][li]Nada Surf - Popular[/li][li]Old 97’s - Timebomb[/li][li]Plumb - Drugstore Jesus[/li][li]Quarashi - Malone Lives[/li][li]The Rentals - Seven More Minutes[/li][li]The Smiths - Asleep[/li][li]They Might Be Giants - Dead[/li][li]U2 - Sunday Bloody Sunday[/li][li]Violent Femmes - Good Feeling[/li][li]Weezer - Only In Dreams[/li][li]X[/li][li]Y[/li][li]The Zombies - She’s Not There[/li][/list]

Cool thread!

Some heaviness:

40 Below Summer - Rope
Alexisonfire - .44 Caliber Love Letter
Boy Sets Fire - Curtain Call
Chimaira - Down Again
Downset - Fallen Off
Every Time I Die - The Logic Of Crocodiles
From Autumn To Ashes - The After Dinner Payback
Glassjaw - Hover
Hatebreed - I Will Be Heard
In Flames - Cloud Connected
Jane’s Addiction - Whores
Killswitch Engage - My Last Serenade
Lamb Of God - 11th Hour
Machinehead - All Falls Down
Norma Jean - Shotgun Message
Otep - Possession
Poison The Well - For A Bandaged Iris
Quicksand - Dine Alone
Refused - Refused Are Fucking Dead
Shadows Fall - Thoughts Without Words
Today Is The Day - Black Dahlia
Unloco - Panic
Vision Of Disorder - Landslide
Walls Of Jericho - Home Is Where The Heart Is
Yakuza - Yama

I’ve been racking my brains all day, and this is what I have come up with. Please forgive me, for I am drunk.

A: AC/DC - Whole Lotta Rosie
B: Bowie, David - Rock N’ Roll Suicide
C: Cult, The - Fire Woman
D: Depeche Mode - Walking In My Shoes
E: Eurythimics - There Must Be An Angel
F: Feeder - Come Back Around
G: Garbage - Cup Of Coffee
H: Hole - He Hit Me (And It Felt Like A Kiss) cover.
I: Idol, Billy - White Wedding
J: Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower
K: Kinks, The - My Sharona
L: Linkin Park - In The End
M :Manic Street Preachers - There By The Grace Of God
N: Nickelback - Never Again
O: Ozzy Osbourne - Suicide Solution
P: Police, The - Don’t Stand So Close To Me
Q: Queen - I’m Going Slightly Mad
R: REM - Orange Crush
S: Suidakra - Au Dudlachd
T: Type O Negative - Set Me On Fire
U: U2 - Pride In The Name Of Love
V: Vines, The - Paint it Black. cover
W: Wheatus - A Little Respect
X: Xymox, Clan Of - No Words
Y: Yazoo - Only You
Z: ZZ Top - Sharp Dressed Man

I gotta say, XTC & Zevon make this possible.

Though I guess there’s X, & Zig Zig Sputnik (sp?)

Erm, would that be Sigue Sigue Sputnik?


A : Air, Kelly, Watch The Stars!
B : Ian Brown, FEAR
C : The Charlatans, Then
D : The Doves, There Goes The Fear
E : Elvis Presley, Always On My Mind
F : Furniture, Brilliant Mind
G : Goldfrapp, Lovely Head
H : The Housemartins, Happy Hour
I : The Inspiral Carpets, Bitches Brew
J : Johnny Cash, Ring Of Fire
K : The Kinks, Victoria
L : Lemon Jelly, The Staunton Lick
M : Mazzy Star, Fade Into You
N : Nightmares On Wax, Night's Interlude
O : The Only Ones, Another Girl, Another Planet
P : Pierre Henry & Fatboy Slim, Psyche Rock
Q : Queens Of The Stone Age, Go With The Flow
R : Royksopp, Remind Me
S : The Stone Roses, Fools Gold
T : Tindersticks, No More Affairs
U : Ursula 1000, Hip Length
V : The Verve, This Is Music
W : The Wedding Present, Kennedy
X : XTC, Senses Working Overtime
Y : The Yardbirds, Heart Full Of Soul
Z : The Zombies, She's Not There

The Knack did “My Sharona,” not the Kinks. It still works alphabetically, though.

As long as you don’t make fun of how utterly mainstream mine will be, and the fact that I probably won’t get all the exact song titles right.

  1. Amos, Tori - Your Cloud
  2. The Beatles - With a Little Help from My Friends
  3. Cash, Johnny - Orange Blossom Special
  4. The Doors - Gloria
  5. Ellington, Duke - Duke’s Place
  6. Fitzgerald, Ella - Blue Skies
  7. Gaye, Marvin - What’s Goin’ On?
  8. Henley, Don - End of the Innocence
  9. INXS - Never Tear Us Apart
  10. Jackson, Michael - Goin’ Back to Indiana
  11. King, B.B. - Peace to the World
  12. Lennon, John - Woman
  13. Madonna - Live to Tell
  14. Nelson, Willie - Crazy
  15. Osborne, Joan - Spider Web
  16. Presley, Elvis - Can’t Help Falling in Love
  17. Queen - Bicycle Race
  18. REO Speedwagon - Keep On Lovin’ You
  19. The Sheila Divine - Back to the Cradle
  20. Tears for Fears - I Believe
  21. U2 - Stay (Far Away, So Close)
  22. Van Halen - Runnin’ with the Devil
  23. Wonder, Stevie - Sir Duke
  24. X
  25. Yes - Owner of a Lonely Heart
  26. Zappa, Frank - Little Umbrellas

At The Drive In - One Armed Scissor
Broken Social Scene - Stars and Sons
The Clash - Clampdown
Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus
The Eels - Novocaine for the Soul
Foo Fighters - Big Me
Goldfinger - Wayne Gretzky (Just too funny of a song)
Hot Hot Heat - Talk to Me, Dance with Me
Incubus - Anti-Gravity Love Song
James - Laid
Kula Shaker - Tattva
The Living End - Prisoner of Society
Moby - Honey
Nirvana - Drain You
Offspring - Bad Habit
The Pixies - Where is My Mind?
Queens of the Stone Age - Lost Art of Keeping a Secret
Radiohead - Paranoid Android
The Smashing Pumpkins - Cherub Rock
The Tragically Hip - 50 Mission Cap
Underworld - Born Slippy
Violent Femmes - American Music
Weezer - El Scorcho
XTC - Senses Working Overtime
Young, Neil - Fucking Up
Zebrahead - Check

Surprised by the fact that L was the hardest one for me to get.

I was just making sure you were paying attention, Lisa-go-Blind…:smack:
And mine were painfully mainstream, so don’t worry Heart On My Sleeve. I blame commercial radio…