5 for 5: Another music thread

I'm right there with you on loving Elvis Costello's old stuff, but I definitely side with My Aim is True and This Year's Model well ahead of Get Happy!! I guess I liked him more with his punky (if not punk) edge.

 

Frank Sinatra:
Summer Wind
It Was a Very Good Year
The Lady Is a Tramp
I'll Be Seeing You
Fly Me To the Moon

Beatles:
Dear Prudence
Two of Us
Day in The Life
I Saw Her Standing There
She's Leaving Home

Steely Dan:
Don't Take Me Alive
Bodhisatva
Deacon Blues
Do it Again
King of the World

Rolling Stones:
Gimme Shelter
Love in Vain
Honkey Tonk Women
No Expectation
Jumpin' Jack Flash

CSNY:
Suite: Judy Blue Eyes
Almost Cut My Hair
Dear Mr. Fantasy
Long Time Coming
Wooden Ships

Govt. Mule, Pink Floyd, R.E.M just missed.

 

Elvis Presley
Suspicious Minds
How Great Thou Art (live)
Return to Sender
Burning Love
American Trilogy

Pink Floyd
Comfortably Numb
Wish You Were Here
Money
Have A Cigar
Waiting for the Worms

The Eagles
Already Gone
Take It to the Limit
Peaceful Easy Feeling
Midnight Flyer
Seven Bridges Road

KISS
Shout It Out Loud
I Just Wanna
Heaven's on Fire
I Love It Loud
Hard Luck Woman

Aerosmith
Dream On
Livin' on the Edge
What It Takes
Rag Doll
I Don't Wanna Miss a Thing

 

Wilco
I Am Trying To Break Your Heart
The Late Greats
She's A Jar
Misunderstood
Jesus Etc.

Jason Isbell
Decoration Day
Goddamn Lonely Love
Cigarrettes and Wine
Streetlights
Codeine

Drive-By Truckers
Righteous Path
Women Without Whiskey
Sink Hole
Zip City
Rebels

Ryan Adams
Jacksonville Skyline
Bar Lights
Excuse Me While I Break My Own Heart Tonight
Dear Chicago
Houses On The Hill

The Hold Steady
Lord I'm Discouraged
Stuck Between Stations
Sequestered In Memphis
Constructive Summer
Slapped Actress

 

No Outfit? I almost left it off because it seems too simple of a choice. But damn if those lyrics don't get me every time.

Your DBT list is interesting. Women Without Whiskey, Sink Hole and Zip City were 6-8 on my list yesterday, but would likely make my top 5 half the time if I made a list 10 more times. Your Daddy Hates Me is my wild card. They never play it live and it's not well known, but the guitar is just filthy.

Thanks for the Ryan Adams list. I just started getting into his music, but Jacksonville Skyline is the only one there I know. I'll have to check out the other four.

 

Happy that Thin Lizzy is getting some love, and surprised that Spoon is so well-represented.

Also, on the subject of my metal leanings, while I like a lot of Pantera's stuff, they are more of a utilitarian choice for me.

 

I like Outfit, but it tumbles off my list based on douchebags who quote the chorus. It's a great song, though.

DD and YGBFKM, your lists make me want to drink with both of you. I'd have a triumphant Hold Steady night with DD and a depressing Uncle Tupelo night with YGBFKM. I didn't pick those bands, but your lists are pretty much exactly what I would have chosen.

And I'll add a Wilco list:
The Late Greats
Heavy Metal Drummer
Say You Miss Me
Red-Eyed And Blue
Summerteeth

 

I could probably do this list of every month and never have a duplicate, but here goes for today's choices:

REM

Flowers of Guatemala
Superman
Exhuming McCarthy
Begin the Begin
These Days

Led Zeppelin

Bron-Y-Aur
Tangerine
In the Light
No Quarter
Nobody's Fault But Mine

Rolling Stones

Moonlight Mile
Dead Flowers
Shattered
She's So Cold
Loving Cup

U2

Where the Streets Have No Name
Trip Through Your Wires
Angel of Harlem
One Tree Hill
Elevation

Tom Petty

Free Fallin'
American Girl
Deliver Me
Change of Heart
The Waiting

 

I get what you're saying about Outfit, Big. It's almost become his "Stairway to Heaven." it'll probably drop from my list eventually, but the father/family stuff grabs me more than ever given my personal life in the last couple years. My latest Isbell obsession is Sunstroke, which includes a Wilcoish sonic interlude in the middle and his typical great lyrics.

 

WILCO
At Least That's What You Said
Via Chicago
Misunderstood
Art of Almost
You Are My Face

RUSH
La Villa Strangiato
Working Man
Limelight
Witch Hunt
Analog Kid

THE HOLD STEADY
How A Resurrection Really Feels
Slapped Actress
The Swish
Weekenders
Your Little Hoodrat Friend

BEN FOLDS (SOLO and FIVE)
The Battle of Who Could Care Less
Bastard
Don't Change Your Plans
Bitches Ain't Shit
Army

PEARL JAM
Release
Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town
Porch
Just Breathe
Nothingman

 

When I see Isbell perform, I fucking love Outfit. But if I'm being honest with myself, I don't listen to it over and over again if I'm driving in my car like some of the others. The lyrics are so good, but I think maybe it's just been overplayed (by me) a bit too much. I think with Isbell, I could fit seven or eight different songs into that Top 5 any given month. Like Never Gonna Change, for instance, is probably one of my favorite live songs ever. I love The Magician. I think Dress Blues breaks my heart a little more every time I hear it ("... to fight somebody's Hollywood war" is just such a great line). Danko/Manuel, Stopping By, Last Song I Will Write... so many contenders. Did you see he said he's starting to record a new album today? Yes, please.

Ryan Adams is essentially Dave Kingman for me. When he hits it, he can hit it a mile. I think he is (or was) such a beautiful writer. I mean, he wrote Houses On The Hill when he was like friggen 19, and it has some of my favorite imagery in all of music. It's like a 2:50 second short story about a guy fussing around in his girlfriend's mom's attic.

http://open.spotify.com/track/1KBGTDJcdnVqGnQTSz8mC8

There are so many terrible Ryan Adams songs. He doesn't just have terrible songs, he has entire albums of terrible music. Not album, but albums. But when he was young and Catlin Cary was playing fiddle, he was a damn genius.

Dear Chicago, too. One of my favorite sad songs ever.

http://open.spotify.com/track/2J8P81JjKemQZczm1mfp3s


Wilco was probably the hardest list.

 

Good Wilco list. I'd replace Misunderstood and You Are My Face with Far, Far Away and I'll Fight.

Misunderstood is a good song if I'm listening on my iPod or in the car, but it's a great song live.