5 for 5: Another music thread

[YGBFKM]

**** all these TV/movie threads.

No, seriously, **** them.

OK, I'm kidding. Kind of.

Anyway, I'm bored, so I'm starting another music-related thread. If nothing else, a drunken Machine Head will stumble upon it and keep it going for a night or two.

So here's the deal: Your 5 favorite songs from your 5 favorite artists. Links are encouraged. I'll add mine when I get home.

I understand that "favorite artists" is a concept that depends on age, mood and accessibility to and willingness to try recreational drugs, so pick your top 5 at the moment or of all time. I don't give a ****. I just want an excuse to put off reading this book in front of me that I'm vaguely interested in.

Jason Isbell:
Outfit
Decoration Day
In a Razor Town
******* Lonely Love
Go It Alone

Drive-By Truckers
Marry Me
Your Daddy Hates Me
Gravity's Gone
Ghost to Most
Lookout Mountain

Thin Lizzy
Wild One
Vagabond of the Western World
Emerald
Warriors
Johnny

Uncle Tupelo
Steal the Crumbs
Life Worth Livin'
Moonshiner
No Sense In Lovin'
Fifteen Keys

Gov't Mule
Banks of the Deep End
Time to Confess
Beautifully Broken
Soulshine (the original, not the crappy raggae version)
End of the Line

 

[Machine Head]

You don't know me but you know me.

Be back when done with Orko.

 

[Norrin Radd]

My tastes are extremely dorky and mainstream, but they weren't when I first embraced some of these artists:

Metallica:
Orion
Phantom Lord
Dyer's Eve
All Nightmare Long
Rebel of Babylon

Rush:
YYZ
Natural Science
By-Tor and the Snow Dog
Marathon
Subdivisions

Bruce Springsteen:
Racing in the Street
Backstreets
Prove it all Night
This Hard Land
Tougher Than the Rest

Van Halen:
Mean Street
Sinner's Swing!
Hot for Teacher
Little Guitars
Light Up the Sky

Alice in Chains:
Dirt
Sea of Sorrow
Love, Hate, Love
Angry Chair
Hate to Feel

 

[YGBFKM]

My tastes are extremely dorky and mainstream, but they weren't when I first embraced some of these artists:

Metallica:
Orion
Phantom Lord
Dyer's Eve
All Nightmare Long
Rebel of Babylon

Rush:
YYZ
Natural Science
By-Tor and the Snow Dog
Marathon
Subdivisions

Bruce Springsteen:
Racing in the Street
Backstreets
Prove it all Night
This Hard Land
Tougher Than the Rest

Van Halen:
Mean Street
Sinner's Swing!
Hot for Teacher
Little Guitars
Light Up the Sky

Alice in Chains:
Dirt
Sea of Sorrow
Love, Hate, Love
Angry Chair
Hate to Feel

Three of those bands would have made my top 5 at various times in my life. YYZ is a great, great song. That immediately goes on my Gotta Get for the iPod list.

 

[Dick Whitman]

Awesome idea.

Black Crowes
Remedy
My Morning Song
Wiser Time
Twice as Hard
No Speak No Slave

Rolling Stones
Gimme Shelter
All Down the Line
Torn and Frayed
Dead Flowers
Paint it Black

Bob Dylan
Visions of Johanna
Desolation Row
My Back Pages
It's Alright Ma
Gates of Eden

Son Volt
Windfall
Drown
Loose String
Medicine Hat
Jukebox of Steel

Bruce Springsteen
Ghost of Tom Joad
Thunder Road
No Surrender
Atlantic City
Badlands

 

[YGBFKM]

Son Volt
Windfall
Drown
Loose String
Medicine Hat
Jukebox of Steel

If we did a Top 5 albums thread, Trace would be on the list. But I cannot, for the life of me, get into anything else the band has done since. I tried to listen to the latest album and I don't know if it's because I put Trace on such a pedestal, but all the songs just sounded dull. And to me, dull is worse than bad. I mean, Farrar has a once-in-a-lifetime voice, but I can't stand to listen to it on anything since Trace. Jukebox is on ACD, right? I'll have to give it another listen.

 

[Sam Mills 51]

Nicely done, YGBFKM. I'll give it my best ... :
(First two groups are indisputable ... last three depends on day. Extensive catalog for many of them makes the tracks largely interchangeable ... )

Genesis:
"Squonk"
"Firth of Fifth"
"Blood On The Rooftops"
"Duchess"
"Home By The Sea/Second Home By The Sea"

Rush:
"La Villa Strangiato"
"YYZ"
"Marathon"
"Natural Science"
"Everyday Glory"

Stevie Wonder:
"Ribbon In The Sky"
"Another Star"
"Visions"
"Creepin'"
"Lately"

Earth, Wind & Fire:
"That's The Way Of The World"
"In The Stone"
"After The Love Has Gone"
"Love's Holiday"
"September"

Billy Joel:
"Captain Jack"
"Scenes From An Italian Restaurant"
"Summer, Highland Falls"
"New York State of Mind"
"My Life"

 

[PCLoadLetter]

I'll take a crack at it...

Elvis Costello
Accidents Will Happen
Riot Act
Suit of Lights
New Amsterdam
You Little Fool

Butch Walker
The Weight of Her
Ships in a Bottle
Synthesizers
Summer of '89
Vessels

Crowded House
Recurring Dream
Nails in my Feet
Fall at your Feet
Don't Dream it's Over
Walking on the Spot

U2
A Celebration
A Day Without Me
Bad
City of Blinding Lights
The Electric Co.

Ben Folds
Landed
Underground
Philosophy
Cologne
The Luckiest

I could just as easily have gone with the Smiths, Elliott Smith, Joe Jackson, the English Beat and the Who.

 

[Songbird]

Oasis (very hard to do 5, so these are 5 of the 25 or 30 that could be on this list):
Morning Glory:
Falling Down:
The Importance of Being Idle:
Acquiesce:
She's Electric:

Oingo Boingo:
Who Do You Want to Be Today:
Sweat:
Nothing Bad Ever Happens to Me:
Private Life:
Nothing to Fear:

Depeche Mode:
Enjoy the Silence:
Policy of Truth:
Personal Jesus:
Strangelove:
It's No Good:

Fiona Apple:
Anything We Want:
Criminal:
Fast As You Can:
Limp:
Not About Love:

Guns N' Roses:
Sweet Child O' Mine:
Patience:
Cold November Rain:
Don't Cry:
Welcome to the Jungle:

 

[Sam Mills 51]

I was thinking of a second list of five too, PCLL. Elton John, James Taylor, Marvin Gaye, The Police and pick any one of Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins or Steve Hackett ...

 

[YGBFKM]

http://Elvis Costello
Accidents Will Happen
Riot Act
Suit of Lights
New Amsterdam
You Little Fool

I say this in all seriousness: I've never been interested in Elvis Costello ... until I heard him on my son's Sesame Street DVD doing a parody of "Red Shoes." In case you're wondering, it's a duet with Elmo in which he relates the bummer that is trying to count to 10 after Cookie Monster ate his "Red 2." Holy ****, just typing that sentence cracks me up. Anyway, it's a serious earworm (I may or may not have spent my entire ride to work the other day singing verses out loud in my car), and it has me thinking about seeking out some of his music. "Red Shoes" is literally the only song of his I'm familiar with.

 

[YGBFKM]

Oasis (very hard to do 5, so these are 5 of the 25 or 30 that could be on this list):
Morning Glory:
Falling Down:
The Importance of Being Idle:
Acquiesce:
She's Electric:

Oingo Boingo:
Who Do You Want to Be Today:
Sweat:
Nothing Bad Ever Happens to Me:
Private Life:
Nothing to Fear:

Depeche Mode:
Enjoy the Silence:
Policy of Truth:
Personal Jesus:
Strangelove:
It's No Good:

Fiona Apple:
Anything We Want:
Criminal:
Fast As You Can:
Limp:
Not About Love:

Guns N' Roses:
Sweet Child O' Mine:
Patience:
Cold November Rain:
Don't Cry:
Welcome to the Jungle:

What kind of goofy-ass list is this?

I appreciate the links. I have some spare time staring me in the face this week, so I can check them out. Also, PM me some words and phrases when you get a chance. I could use another of those creative challenges.

 

[Songbird]

Oingo Boingo is right up your sledgehammering way. Great music to pound **** to.

Will send words and phrases.

 

[Sam Mills 51]

Oingo Boingo is right up your sledgehammering way. Great music to pound **** to.

Yup ... about as subtle as a sledgehammer. But I do enjoy "Dead Man's Party."

 

[PCLoadLetter]

Elvis Costello
Accidents Will Happen
Riot Act
Suit of Lights
New Amsterdam
You Little Fool

I say this in all seriousness: I've never been interested in Elvis Costello ... until I heard him on my son's Sesame Street DVD doing a parody of "Red Shoes." In case you're wondering, it's a duet with Elmo in which he relates the bummer that is trying to count to 10 after Cookie Monster ate his "Red 2." Holy ****, just typing that sentence cracks me up. Anyway, it's a serious earworm (I may or may not have spent my entire ride to work the other day singing verses out loud in my car), and it has me thinking about seeking out some of his music. "Red Shoes" is literally the only song of his I'm familiar with.

That video's brilliant.

His early stuff is amazing. I'm not a big fan of his recent stuff, but you can't go wrong with the early albums.

My favorite album is "Get Happy!!" which is a tribute to the old Stax soul sound. I'd recommend that or "King of America," which is by far his best stab at doing Americana, and featured a good chunk of Elvis Presley's old band. My favorite from that album is "Suit of Lights":

 

[Sam Mills 51]

Elton John:
"Goodbye Yellow Brick Road"
"Funeral For A Friend (Love Lies Bleeding)"
"Someone Saved My Life Tonight"
"High-Flying Bird"
"Skyline Pigeon (Piano Version)"

James Taylor:
"Long Ago and Far Away"
"Carolina In My Mind"
"On The 4th of July"
"I Will Follow"
"Music"

Marvin Gaye:
"What's Going On"
"What's Happening Brother"
"Right On"
"Inner City Blues"
"Mercy, Mercy Me (The Ecology Song)"

The Police:
"Synchroncity II"
"King Of Pain"
"Don't Stand So Close To Me"
"Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic"
"Spirits In A Material World"

Steve Hackett:
"Spectral Mornings"
"Star of Sirius"
"Icarus Ascending"
"Shadow of the Hierophant"
"Every Day"

 

[YGBFKM]

James Taylor:
"Long Ago and Far Away"
"Carolina In My Mind"
"On The 4th of July"
"I Will Follow"
"Music"

Not a fan of his collaboration with Oscar the Grouch.

 

[dooley_womack1]

Beatles
--Hey Jude
--In My Life
--Ticket to Ride
--Day Tripper
--The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill

Styx
--Light Up
--Sweet Mademoiselle
--Sing for the Day
--The Grand Illusion
--Eddie

Kansas
--What's on My Mind
--Fire With Fire
--People of the South Wind
--Play the Game Tonight
--Gotta Rock On

Rush (based on their stuff from more than 30 years ago)
--Fly by Night
--Circumstances
--Songbird
--Times Stand Still
--Anthem

Foreigner
--Feels Like the First Time
--Cold as Ice
--Can't Wait
--Jukebox Hero
--Headknocker

 

[PCLoadLetter]

OK, I've edited my list to include YouTube links for everything.

If you haven't seen the video for Butch Walker's song "Synthesizers," watch it now. Especially if you're a Dazed and Confused fan.

 

[YGBFKM]

OK, I've edited my list to include YouTube links for everything.

If you haven't seen the video for Butch Walker's song "Synthesizers," watch it now. Especially if you're a Dazed and Confused fan.

As hip as I am, I've NEVER heard a Butch Walker song. I will remedy that tonight.