5 for 5: Another music thread

[YGBFKM]

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

Jason Isbell
Decoration Day
******* 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.

 

[YGBFKM]

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.

 

[Big Circus]

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

 

[Captain_Kirk]

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

 

[YGBFKM]

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.

 

[Cosmo]

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
*******
Don't Change Your Plans
******* Ain't ****
Army

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

 

[Double Down]

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.

When I see Isbell perform, I ****ing 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.

 

[YGBFKM]

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
*******
Don't Change Your Plans
******* Ain't ****
Army

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

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.

 

[Cosmo]

Misunderstood is awesome live ... I can't believe I didn't have a place for Jesus, etc. Needs to be a top 10 for Wilco. Ha.

 

[YGBFKM]

Jesus, etc. is great, but I think it suffers from the same thing as Outfit.

 

[YGBFKM]

Drive-By Truckers:
Perfect Timing
A Ghost To Most
Cartoon Gold
Carl Perkins' Cadillac
Decoration Day

Big, why do you hate Patterson Hood?

 

[Cosmo]

Yeah, you're probably right. Saw Wilco in Durham once and Jeff just held the mic out and let the crowd sing the first couple of verses of that song. Great memory.

 

[Big Circus]

Drive-By Truckers:
Perfect Timing
A Ghost To Most
Cartoon Gold
Carl Perkins' Cadillac
Decoration Day

Big, why do you hate Patterson Hood?

Yeah, I realize there is a trend to my list. It's no hate for Pat - if you'd made it 10 for 10 I'd have a few of his songs in there (Two Daughters, Thanksgiving Filter, Flying Wallendas, etc.) It's more of an enduring, borderline creepy Cooley love than anything else. His songs just hit that sweet spot for me. And if "Back of a Bible" had gone on a Truckers album and not a Hood solo album, I'd have that one in the top 10.

As for Wilco, Cosmo's post reminded me of the shows I've seen and made me feel bad for leaving off California Stars. What a great, great live song (and it's damn good on Mermaid Avenue, too).

 

[Double Down]

I could make an entirely different list for just live Wilco songs.

Spiders (Kidsmoke) for instance. Not all that into it as a track, but live it's ****ing amazing.

 

[Versatile]

You could have just started "What are your 25 favorite alt-country songs?"

 

[Double Down]

Drive-By Truckers:
Perfect Timing
A Ghost To Most
Cartoon Gold
Carl Perkins' Cadillac
Decoration Day

Big, why do you hate Patterson Hood?

Yeah, I realize there is a trend to my list. It's no hate for Pat - if you'd made it 10 for 10 I'd have a few of his songs in there (Two Daughters, Thanksgiving Filter, Flying Wallendas, etc.) It's more of an enduring, borderline creepy Cooley love than anything else. His songs just hit that sweet spot for me. And if "Back of a Bible" had gone on a Truckers album and not a Hood solo album, I'd have that one in the top 10.

As for Wilco, Cosmo's post reminded me of the shows I've seen and made me feel bad for leaving off California Stars. What a great, great live song (and it's damn good on Mermaid Avenue, too).

Patterson was always my least favorite of the three. Never disliked him. Not at all. But he would always come in third. I get that the Truckers basically wouldn't be the Truckers if he wasn't the guy cobbling together the whole spooky Southern mystique. And I always liked a lot of his stuff. Nine Bullets. Company I Keep. Let There Be Rock. Dead, Drunk and Naked. Lookout Mountain. All of them are among my favorites. I just wasn't in awe of him like I was Cooley and Isbell.

But Righteous Path changed the whole way I look at him. I don't know why, exactly. Sometimes a song connects with you for reasons that are difficult to explain. I just think it perfectly captures the angst of modern living, what I feels like drown slowly in the worries of life, and it has so many wonderful lines. Got a grill in the backyard and case of beer. Got a boat that ain't seen the water in years... might be one of my all-time favs, because I can picture it so perfectly.

I feel like that song made me reexamine all of Patterson's stuff. Obviously he's always written about big themes, but that one finally spoke to me the same way Zip City and Streetlights did.

 

[YGBFKM]

Patterson doesn't have the natural talent and flair of Isbell or Cooley, but he's a guy who has earned everything he's achieved. To me, that comes through in his songs, and I have a soft spot in my heart for people who achieve success through putting their head down and working their ass off.

I was shocked at how shy he was when I met him briefly a few years ago. He's not a natural showman, but he has dragged that band -- through all it's various lineups -- to heights I think only he believed possible.

Patterson Hood is the real Bruce Springsteen.

 

[albert77]

First Five:

Grateful Dead
Box of Rain
Candyman
Wharf Rat
Black Peter
Morning Dew

The Who
My Generation
Pictures of Lily
Won't Get Fooled Again
I Can See For Miles & Miles
The Real Me

Jimi Hendrix
All Along the Watchtower
Purple Haze
Machine Gun
The Wind Cries Mary
Hey Joe

Neil Young
Cortez the Killer
Cinnamon Girl
Lookout Joe
Powderfinger
Rockin' In the Free World

The Doors
Roadhouse Blues
The End
Love Me Two Times
Light My Fire
Moonlight Drive

My second five will be coming shortly (LOL)

 

[Hey Diaz!]

All this Wilco got me interested in checking out the rest of their catalog.

I only own Summerteeth and YHF, so I just bought used CDs (yes, CDs) of A Ghost Is Born, Sky Blue Sky, Being There, Wilco A.M. and the live album in Chicago. Looking forward to it.

 

[YGBFKM]

YGBFKM-as-a-17-year-old's list

Doors
L'America
Horse Latitudes
The Soft Parade
Wishful Sinful
Maggie M'Gill

Zeppelin
Since I've Been Loving You
Down by the Seaside
When the Levee Breaks
Gallows Pole
In The Evening

Metallica
Leper Messiah
Blitzkreig
Fade to Black
Shortest Straw
Dyer's Eve

R.E.M.
Superman
Begin the Begin
Swan Swan H
Driver 8
Fall on Me

Frank Zappa
Cosmik Debris
Nanook Rubs It
St. Alphonso's Pancake Breakfast
Joe's Garage
Crew ****