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Post by RocDoc on Feb 14, 2007 17:06:36 GMT -5
Completely random order cos I have no idea how any of you do this ‘definitive’ exercise, time and again, of ‘Yes, I like this ‘X’ WAY better than that ‘Y’’:
Joe Jackson - One More Time (Look Sharp)
English Beat - Mirror in the Bathroom (I Just Can't Stop It)
“ “ - I Confess (Special Beat Service)
Black Sabbath - Sweet Leaf (Master of Reality)
Deep Purple - Highway Star (Machine Head)
Soundgarden - Let Me Drown (Superunknown)
The Oils - Redneck Wonderland (Redneck Wonderland)
Powderfinger - Waiting For The Sun (Odyssey Number 5)
Richard Thompson - When The Spell Is Broken (Across A Crowded Room)
Aerosmith - Same Old Song And Dance (Get Your Wings)
....Tyler squeezes some serious nut-crunching high notes while singing this one!
Tom Waits - Emotional Weather Report (Nighthawks At The Diner)
‘….that the crack of dawn better watch out’
Janes Addiction - True Nature (Strays)
Rush - One Little Victory (Vapor Trails)
The Donnas - It's On The Rocks (Spend The Night)
Danko Jones - Forget My Name (We Sweat Blood)
...the above four albums came out at pretty much the same time (I think) and all began strong and carried right on through.
Beatles - It Wont Be Long (WITH the Beatles)
….not the album where I first grew to love this song, where it was actually song #4, but here it opens.
Mott The Hoople - All The Way To Memphis (Mott)
....BIG on Mott The Hoople back in the day. The even more sublime Rock And Roll Queen was also opener on some import compilation that I paid big bux for.
Alice Cooper - Hello Hooray (Billion Dollar Babies)
…the Ezrin touch, smoove as silk. Great Cooper disc.
Funkadelic – Maggot Brain (Maggot Brain)
The Band - Don't Do It (Rock Of Ages)
…and yes it’s a live set, so I may as well put RnR Animal’s Sweet Jane down too. OK, I won't.
Since I normally favor a live set over a studio album, that sorta arbitrary prohibition hog-ties me just a bit.
But I absolutely LOVE this 'Don't Do It'.
And it opens.
Living Colour - Cult Of Personality (Vivid)
Little Feat - Rock And Roll Doctor (Feats Don’t Fail Me Now)
…my I-net namesake and a song which pushed me indirectly to my avocation.
REO Speedwagon –
Roll With the Changes (You Can Tune a Piano, But You Can't Tuna Fish)
….I can hear the ‘R E-fucking-O?? Sure Doc.’.
To you I say hell yeah. THIS was a great song. NOT a K Cronin ballad which invariably blow. This is a true ensemble piece of the highest order, say WeverTF you will.
AC / DC- Highway to Hell (Highway to Hell)
Almost put RnR Damnation up...
Mountain - Mississippi Queen (Climbing)
...this one makes me feel so good I wanna go out and KILL someone.
Yeah.
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Post by upinkzeppelin2 on Feb 14, 2007 18:29:38 GMT -5
Cult of Personality!!! Good pick.
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Post by frag on Feb 15, 2007 8:56:38 GMT -5
If I'm not too late...
This was a lot more trying than the album closer list.
1. Thunder Road - Bruce Springsteen (Born to Run)
2. Like a Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan (Highway 61 Revisited)
3. Gimme Shelter - The Rolling Stones (Let it Bleed)
4. I am Trying to Break Your Heart - Wilco (Yankee Hotel Foxtrot)
5. Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana (Nevermind)
6. I Zimbra - Talking Heads (Fear of Music)
7. London Calling - The Clash (London Calling)
8. Taxman - The Beatles (Revolver)
9. Radio Free Europe - REM (Murmur)
10. Welcome to the Working Week - Elvis Costello & the Attractions (My Aim is True)
11. White Light/White Heat - The Velvet Underground (White Light/White Heat)
12. Kill the Poor - Dead Kennedys (Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables)
13. We Dance - Pavement (Wowee Zowee)
14. As I Sat Sadly By Her Side - Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds (No More Shall We Part)
15. Refugee - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers (Damn the Torpedoes)
16. Baba O'Riley - The Who (Who's Next)
17. Summer Babe (Winter Version) - Pavement (Slanted & Enchanted)
18. Back in the USSR - The Beatles (The Beatles)
19. Where the Devil Don't Stay - The Drive-By Truckers (The Dirty South)
20. Life Wasted - Pearl Jam (Pearl Jam)
21. Hold My Life - The Replacements (Tim)
22. Serve the Servants - Nirvana (In Utero)
23. Nebraska - Bruce Springsteen (Nebraska)
24. Red Rain - Peter Gabriel (So)
25. Village Green Preservation Society - The Kinks (Village Green Preservation Society)
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Post by Kensterberg on Feb 15, 2007 10:26:21 GMT -5
Funny Frag, I had no problem doing this one, but the closers list is kicking my ass.
I can't believe I didn't include "Refugee" on my list ... I may have to edit mine a bit further.
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Post by Thorngrub on Feb 15, 2007 10:38:55 GMT -5
Sweet Leaf, Highway Star, Same Old Song & Dance, - and especially 'One Little Victory' - , these are all fucking stellar openers Roc !
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Smells Like Teen Spirit, London Calling, and Life Wasted I think are great choices too, frag. A lot of people chose Baba Oreilly and hot damn no wonder, this song has got to be near the Top Slot. Back In The USSR I think is a good choice - I just recently acquired me a vinyl edition of the white album, and thoroughly enjoyed re-acquainting myself with it, properly.
Refugee is a pretty solid opener too.
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Post by Paul on Feb 15, 2007 13:30:59 GMT -5
don't have time for a list right now, but I gotta throw in "Victoria" by the Kinks from the Arthur album.
Actually here some great Kinks album openers:
David Watts - Something Else
Village Green Preservation Society - VGPS
Victoria - Arthur
20th Century Man - Muswell Hillbillies
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Post by RocDoc on Feb 15, 2007 19:36:44 GMT -5
Cult of Personality!!! Good pick.
Sweet Leaf, Highway Star, Same Old Song & Dance, - and especially 'One Little Victory' - , these are all fucking stellar openers Roc ! Stellar, I thought so....but I can also see that there's virtually like nothing up there post-1980. All sorts of Replacements/Clash/Nirvana, those were never big on my musical diet ever, especially as 'album bands'. Liked lots of Nirvana, but for this thing here, I just picked the bands I recalled who registered as having had several knockout songs per disc and I AMG'd a good 50% of them to see whether the good 'uns were the leadoff... Nope, not going to do the closers that way here, haven't got the time to invest. Maybe I'll just read yours, without doing all that footwork myself. Maybe I can count on thorn to put down enough 'old man music' flat out rawkin' closing tracks to keep me entertained. He seems to have a pretty good perspective of 'past worth' in regards to 'The Classix'. 
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Post by tuneschick on Feb 16, 2007 9:46:43 GMT -5
Am I too late? Oh well, this'll change in about 4 minutes anyway.
But for now...
1. Roadrunner - Modern Lovers (Modern Lovers)
2. Wouldn't It Be Nice - Beach Boys (Pet Sounds)
3. London Calling - The Clash (London Calling)
4. Silence Kit - Pavement (Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain)
5. Web in Front - Archers of Loaf (Icky Mettle)
6. Blitzkrieg Bop - Ramones (Ramones)
7. Coma Girl - Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros (Streetcore)
8. Your Ex-Lover is Dead - Stars (Set Yourself on Fire)
9. Cinnamon Girl - Neil Young (Everybody Knows This is Nowhere)
10. Mass Romantic - New Pornographers (Mass Romantic)
11. Accidents Will Happen - Elvis Costello (Armed Forces)
12. (Sittin' on the) Dock of the Bay - Otis Redding (Dock of the Bay)
13. Sick of Myself - Matthew Sweet (100% Fun)
14. Hard to Laugh - The Pursuit of Happiness (Love Junk)
15. Johnny B. Rotten - The Monks (Bad Habits)
16. Sunday Bloody Sunday - U2 (War)
17. The Good in Everyone - Sloan (One Chord to Another)
18. Radio Free Europe - R.E.M. (Murmur)
19. Set Out Running - Neko Case (Furnace Room Lullaby)
20. Don't Give Up on Me - Solomon Burke (Don't Give Up on Me)
21. I Will Dare - The Replacements (Let It Be)
22. It's a Wonderful Lie - Paul Westerberg (Suicaine Gratifaction)
23. Blister in the Sun - VIolent Femmes (Violent Femmes)
24. Good Times Roll - The Cars (The Cars)
25. Burning Down the House - Talking Heads (Speaking in Tongues)
Boiling under:
Night Nurse - Britta Phillips and Dean Wareham (L'Avventura)
I Saw Her Standing There - The Beatles (Please Please Me)
The Sound of Silence - Simon and Garfunkel (Sounds of Silence)
Ace of Spades - Motorhead (Ace of Spades)
Janie Jones - The Clash (The Clash)
Lloyd, I'm ready to Be Heartbroken - Camera Obscura (Let's Get Out of This Country)
The Milkman of Human Kindness - Billy Bragg (Life's a Riot with Spy vs Spy)
Kelly Nicoll - Salteens (Short-Term Memories)
Supermodel - Juliana Hatfield (Become What You Are)
Losin You - Amy Millan (Honey From the Tombs)
Smells Like Teen SPirit - Nirvana (Nevermind)
Let'sgetabittarockin - The 101ers (Elgin Avenue Breakdown Revisited)
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Post by RocDoc on Feb 16, 2007 16:00:46 GMT -5
I very much like that Solomon Burke pick....reminds me that I still have to find his new Country disc somewhere...have you heard any of it yet, Tunes?
A late entry or 3:
Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill (Hounds Of Love)
Jethro Tull - A New Day Yesterday (Stand Up)
Jethro Tull - With You There To Help Me (Benefit)
UFO - Doctor, Doctor (Phenomenon)
Wishbone Ash - Doctor (Wishbone IV)
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Post by tuneschick on Feb 16, 2007 16:11:25 GMT -5
I haven't, no, though I'd like to. Actually, Don't Give Up on Me is the only Burke album I have, which is pretty sad. I absolutely love it though, especially that title track. Gorgeous.
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Post by Paul on Feb 16, 2007 17:37:45 GMT -5
Ok, here are a few more -- I'm leaving off/forgetting tons! (these are not in order of my favorites)
Misunderstood - Wilco (Being There)
At Least That's What You Said - Wilco (A Ghost Is Born)
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart Club Band - Beatles (SPLHCB)
A Hard Day's Night - Beatles (AHDN)
Drive My Car - Beatles (Rubber Soul)
Sure Shot - Beastie Boys (Ill Communication)
Jimmy James - Beastie Boys (Check Your Head)
Wouldn't It Be Nice - Beach Boys (Pet Sounds)
Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana (Nevermind)
Sometimes - Pearl Jam (No Code)
Last Exit - Pearl Jam (Vitalogy)
Life Wasted - Pearl Jam (Pearl Jam)
Safe European Home - the Clash (Give 'em Enough Rope)
Magnificent 7 - the Clash (Sandanista)
Break On Through - the Doors (the Doors)
Schizophrenia - Sonic Youth (Sister)
Pattern Recognition - Sonic Youth (Sonic Nurse)
100% - Sonic Youth (Dirty)
Teenage Riot - Sonic Youth (Daydream Nation)
Baba O'Riley - the Who (Who's Next)
Like A Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan (Hwy 61)
Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 - Bob Dylan (Blonde on Blonde)
Rocks Off - Rolling Stones (Exile On Main St.)
Lost At Birth - Public Enemy (Apocalypse '91)
Silence Kit - Pavement (Crooked Rain Crooked Rain)
Freedom - Jimi Hendrix (First Rays of the New Rising Sun)
Badlands - Bruce Springsteen (Darkness on the Edge of Town)
Zuton Fever - Zutons (Who Killed the Zutons)
20th Century Man - the Kinks (Muswell Hillbillies)
Victoria - the Kinks (Arthur or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)
David Watts - the Kinks (Something Else by the Kinks)
My Name Is Jonas - Weezer (Blue album)
Tonight's the Night - Neil Young (Tonight's the Night)
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Okay, boss man just told me to split for tonight...have a good weekend everyone.
If it's not too late I may think of a few more.
Later.
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Post by Paul on Feb 16, 2007 17:38:37 GMT -5
Shit -- I left off the mighty AC/DC and Metallica -- fuck!
add Highway to Hell and Battery (from Master Of Puppets)
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Post by RocDoc on Feb 16, 2007 18:17:49 GMT -5
Rocks Off!
Yessss!
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Post by Kensterberg on Feb 20, 2007 11:47:16 GMT -5
Bump -- and a reminder: all lists are due and final this Friday at 6:00 p.m. Mountain Time. Got that, or does anyone need a refresher on when Mountain Time is, etc.? This is gonna be an interesting list to total up. I've already arranged to have the voting machines put "Thunder Road" at the top of the list, so the contest really is for number two. |
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Post by kmc on Feb 20, 2007 15:05:19 GMT -5
I can't do a list, as I can't even begin to get a grip on all the cool music out there to narrow down a top 25. Some cosiderations:
Stars - Your Ex-Lover Is Dead
Wolf Parade - You Are A Runner And I Am My Father's Son
Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
The Who - Baba O'Reilly
The Kinks - Victoria
Pavement - Summer Babe (Winter Version)
Camera Obscura - Lloyd, I'm ready to Be Heartbroken
TV On The Radio - I Was A Lover
My Bloody Valentine - Soft As Snow (But Warm Inside)
The Velvet Underground - Candy Says
Led Zeppelin - Good Times, Bad Times
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
The Strokes - You Only Live Once
Sonic Youth - Pattern Recognition
The Knife - Silent Shout
The Shins - Sleeping Lessons
The Decemberists - Leslie Anne Levine
TOOL - The Grudge
Tapes 'n Tapes - Just Drums
...and on and on.
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