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Post by Adam on Feb 10, 2007 20:09:33 GMT -5
1. Down on the Street - The Stooges (Fun House)
2. I Feel Free - Cream (Fresh Cream)
3. The Moor - Opeth (Still Life)
4. Whole Lotta Love - Led Zeppelin (II)
5. Angel - Massive Attack (Mezzanine)
6. Janie Jones - The Clash (The Clash)
7. Angel of Death - Slayer (Reign In Blood)
8. Rid of Me - PJ Harvey (Rid of Me)
9. Come Together - The Beatles (Abbey Road)
10. Radio Free Europe - R.E.M. (Murmur)
11. I Wanna Get High - Cypress Hill (Black Sunday)
12. Gimme Shelter - The Rolling Stones (Let It Bleed)
13. All I Want - Joni Mitchell (Blue)
14. Cherub Rock - The Smashing Pumpkins (Siamese Dream)
15. Blind - Korn (Korn)
16. Pink Moon - Nick Drake (Pink Moon)
17. War Pigs - Black Sabbath (Paranoid)
18. Overcome - Tricky (Maxinquaye)
19. Where The Streets Have No Name - U2 (The Joshua Tree)
20. Roots Bloody Roots - Sepultura (Roots)
21. Baba O'Riley - The Who (Who's Next)
22. Golden Age - Beck (Sea Change)
23. Overkill - Motorhead (Overkill)
24. Somewhat Derranged - Nine Inch Nails (The Fragile)
25. You Think I Ain't Worth a Dollar, But I Feel Like a Millionaire - Queens of the Stone Age (Songs for the Deaf)
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Post by wayved on Feb 10, 2007 20:35:20 GMT -5
Only Shallow-My Bloody Valentine (Loveless)
Smells Like Teen Spirit-Nirvana
Safe European Home-Clash
RISING POWER-AC/DC (from Flick of the Switch)
Intro/To Be Young (is to be sad, to be high) Ryan Adams
You know what? Most albums I love have killer side one, track one songs. An itemized list to come.
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Post by upinkzeppelin2 on Feb 10, 2007 23:01:51 GMT -5
It seems that "Teenage Riot" has made the most lists thus far if I'm not mistaken.
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Post by Weeping_Guitar on Feb 10, 2007 23:13:33 GMT -5
"Thunder Road" will surely make my list as well.
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Post by Ryosuke on Feb 11, 2007 1:57:39 GMT -5
Lists are for geeks.
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Post by rockysigman on Feb 11, 2007 2:01:18 GMT -5
"Teenage Riot" is the fucking king of album openers. It's a spectacular song, and just so, so perfect to open that album.
Ken, I have to disagree about the rest of Desire being unlistenable. Definately far from being close to Dylan's best, but "Isis" and "One More Cup Of Coffee" are both excellent, IMO.
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Post by Kensterberg on Feb 11, 2007 17:32:21 GMT -5
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Post by upinkzeppelin2 on Feb 11, 2007 21:56:14 GMT -5
"Teenage Riot" is the fucking king of album openers. It's a spectacular song, and just so, so perfect to open that album.
Certainly one of the best. My #9 and the song I always used to open up any extravagant mixed tape I was gonna make. The beginning of it is hypnotic. Goes perfectly with the candle lit on the cover. Yes, I used to do drugs. 
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Post by wayved on Feb 11, 2007 22:29:18 GMT -5
Heres my top 25. these are songs that played over and over again until I got to the rest of the album.
My top 25:
1. Candy Says-Velvet Underground--the best Velvet Underground song. At least to me. It was the first Velvet Underground song I heard.
2. Teenage Riot-Sonic Youth
3. Wouldnt It Be Nice-Beach Boys
4. Hardcore UFOs-Guided By Voices (this is interchangeable with all guided by voices records--all of em have a kick ass track to lead off with--save Mag Earwhig))
5. Wheels of Confusion- black sabath
6. Staple-Buffalo Tom
7. Little Fury Things-Dinosaur Jr
8. Like a Rolling Stone-Bob Dylan
9. Swords and Tequila-Riot
10. Schizophrenia-Sonic Youth
11. Smells Like Teen Spirit-Nirvana
12. Bone Machine-Pixies
13. Folsom Prison Blues-Johnny Cash
14. Alone and Foresaken-Hank Williams Senior
15. Thats What Lifes all about-Paul Collins Beat
16. No Action-Elvis Costello
17. Since K Got Over Me-The Clientele
18. Pop Song 89-REM
19. Search and Destroy-Iggy and the Stooges
20. The Musical Box-Genesis
21. Rusty Cage-Soundgarden
22. Sometimes-Pearl Jam
23. Safe European Home-Clash
24. The World Awake-Prefab Sprout
25. Last of the Mohicans-Cotton Mather
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Post by wayved on Feb 11, 2007 22:32:52 GMT -5
I left out the WHO! Oh well...My list stands.
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Post by upinkzeppelin2 on Feb 11, 2007 22:46:56 GMT -5
7. Little Fury Things-Dinosaur Jr
Sweet.
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Post by Galactus on Feb 11, 2007 23:11:27 GMT -5
7. Little Fury Things-Dinosaur JrSweet. It almost made my list too, top thirty... |
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Post by Dr. Drum on Feb 12, 2007 6:57:01 GMT -5
1. Scott Walker – Farmer in the City (Tilt)
2. Television – See No Evil (Marquee Moon)
3. XTC – Making Plans for Nigel (Drums and Wires)
4. Elvis Costello – Brilliant Mistake (King of America)
5. Laurie Anderson – From the Air (Big Science)
6. Prince – Let's Go Crazy (Purple Rain)
7. King Crimson – Red (Red)
8. The Who – Baba O'Riley (Who's Next)
9. Rush – Tom Sawyer (Moving Pictures)
10. Leonard Cohen – Bird On a Wire (Songs From a Room)
11. Brian Eno/David Byrne – America is Waiting (My Life in the Bush of Ghosts)
12. Hunters and Collectors – Say Goodbye (Human Frailty)
13. David Bowie – Space Oddity (David Bowie a.k.a. Space Oddity)
14. Bruce Cockburn – Lovers in a Dangerous Time (Stealing Fire)
15. U2 – A Sort of Homecoming (The Unforgettable Fire)
16. The Beatles – Back in the USSR (White Album)
17. Simon and Garfunkel – The Sound of Silence (Sounds of Silence)
18. Talking Heads – Burning Down the House (Speaking in Tongues)
19. Stars – Your Ex-Lover is Dead (Set Yourself On Fire)
20. Nick Cave – Into My Arms (The Boatman's Call)
21. Velvet Underground – Sunday Morning (The Velvet Underground and Nico)
22. Jane Siberry – One More Colour (The Speckless Sky)
23. The Rheostatics – Record Body Count (Melville)
24. The Cure – In Between Days (The Head On the Door)
25. The Pogues – If I Should Fall From Grace With God (If I Should Fall From Grace With God)
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Post by Kensterberg on Feb 12, 2007 12:27:27 GMT -5
I had completely forgotten that "In Between Days" is the first cut on The Head on the Door. That is an ace opener, even if it does sound remarkably like the band was trying to make a New Order song. Elvis' "Brilliant Mistake" is another perfect kick-off for, old El's had more than a few of those over his career (let's not forget what a great opener "Beyond Belief" was for Imperial Bedroom, either, or "Clubland" for Trust).
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Post by Kensterberg on Feb 12, 2007 12:32:45 GMT -5
"Teenage Riot" is the fucking king of album openers. It's a spectacular song, and just so, so perfect to open that album. Ken, I have to disagree about the rest of Desire being unlistenable. Definately far from being close to Dylan's best, but "Isis" and "One More Cup Of Coffee" are both excellent, IMO. Isis isn't a bad song, but the studio rendition is horrible -- downright unlistenable compared to the live performances. That song is definitively captured with the live cut from Biograph, which is not identical to the version on Live: 1975 (BTW, the same can be said of "Romance in Durango" which is sleep inducing on record but in at least one live cut -- again from Biograph -- positively blisters). One More Cup of Coffee is also better live, but it's still a mediocre Dylan song. Desire is IMO one of the most disappointing records of Bob's career, and marks the beginning of a long drought. He wouldn't make another album that was better than mediocre until Infidels (though certainly there were some brilliant sparks here and there throughout succeeding records, including the absolutely sublime "Every Grain of Sand" from 1980's otherwise thoroughly mediocre Shot of Love). |
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