Just for fun, define a best of for your choice of artist by listing your favourite track from each of their albums in release order. Live albums tracks are OK if unique to that album. Best Ofs are not. Singles excluded unless on an album. Mine in comments….
Album best of…
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I’m on a Steely Dan jag thanks to @NiallB and @Tiggerlion. So here’s their best of by album.
Do it again
Your gold teeth
Daddy don’t live in that New York City no more
Night by night
Kid Charlemagne
Aja
Hey Nineteen
Jack of speed
Godwhacker
Once again, @Twang , you have come up with a spiffing idea for a thread. Hours of fun for all the family.
Well ta Niall!
The fun is going through some of the suggestions on Spotify. Good one, Twang.
OR:
Reeling in the Years
Boston Rag
Bad Sneakers
Rikki Don’t Lose That Number
Don’t Take Me Alive
Deacon Blues
Time Out of Mind
What a Shame About Me
Things I Miss the Most
Equally brilliant.
Equally…
Fire In The Hole
Boston Rag
Monkey In My Soul
Sign On Stranger
Peg
Third World Man
Cousin Dupree
Everything Must Go
Colossal thread, Twang.
Great list Tig.
Glad you like my little thread….credit where credit is due, it was sparked by something @bartleby did a while ago, listing the worst track from each of their albums to create a “worst of” and commenting that most bands would give their right arms to make an album like that.
It’s gone nice though. Has anyone done the Dead yet? 😊
Thanks @Twang. I think a Room 101 compilation thread would be quite fun.
Of corse, to some of us Room 101 has a Steely Dan soundtrack which would make it Hell with minimum effort from our torturers (inserts winky emoticon. Oh hang on, 😉).
I meant to include a different track to the pair of you. Delete The Boston Rag and replace with Bodhisattva, please.
In The City
The Modern World
Down In The Tubestation At Midnight
Eton Rifles
That’s Entertainment
Town Called Malice
Big Bird
Away From The Numbers
not a long album but certainly a goodie
Very similar….
Away from the Numbers
The Modern World
Down in the Tube Station at Midnight
Eton Rifles
That’s Entertainment
Town Called Malice
Set the House Ablaze
Aye, that’s about right
(I’ll just swap Modern World for Standards, and Eton Rifles for Little Boy Soldiers)
Maybe Ghosts from Dig The New Breed?
Nah … House Ablaze it is
psst … Ghosts was on The Gift.
Ghosts is one of my favourite jam tracks – love it.
For me
In The City
The Modern World
To Be Someone
Private Hell
Pretty Green
Town Called Malice
What happened next?
Time for a Paul Weller list:
Uh Huh Oh Yeh
Has My Fire Really Gone Out?
Porcelain Gods
Friday Street
There’s No Drinking After You’re Dead
It’s Written in the Stars
Come On/Let’s Go
22 Dreams
When Your Garden’s Overgrown
Long Time
That’s a nice list- I would listen to that (don’t go for much of the solo stuff.)
You need something off Wake Up The Nation so I’d add ‘No Tears To Cry’ after 22 Dreams.
You’ve also missed out Studio 150, but that’s understandable.
Oh bugger – forgot ‘No Tears To Cry’, and I meant to include it too.
Studio 150?
Wishing On A Star or One Way Road ???
One Way Road just edges it for me
Nice idea! Here’s my Fabs Best Of…
I Saw Her Standing There
Roll Over Beethoven
A Hard Day’s Night
Eight Days A Week
You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away
If I Needed Someone
Eleanor Rigby
A Day In The Life
I Am The Walrus
Back In The USSR
Hey Bulldog
Something
Get Back
Bonus tracks:
Some Other Guy – Live At The BBC
Free As A Bird – Anthology 1
Strawberry Fields Forever (Take 7) – Anthology 2
All Things Must Pass – Anthology 3
Don’t Let Me Down – Let It Be Naked
Lucille – On Air Live At The BBC Volume 2
Bit of a cheat including the Anthologies and so on, but I kept in the spirit of the challenge by (mostly) not including titles from elsewhere!
There’s a Place
It Won’t Be Long
I’ll Be Back
I Don’t Want to Spoil the Party
Help!
In My Life
And Your Bird Can Sing
A Day in the Life (has to be)
Strawberry Fields
Happiness is a Warm Gun
Hey Bulldog
You Never Give Me Your Money
Across the Universe
Ah – you know I was forgetting that SFF was on Magical Mystery Tour! I think all of yours are Lennon tracks besides You Never Give Me Your Money..? I did consciously try to mix up the lead voices etc. Good list though!
Thanks, you are right. Didn’t notice! Nearly chose Let it Be for last one
Or, this (with the MMT UK EP version)
Twist and Shout
It Won’t Be Long
A Hard Days Night
Eight Days a Week
You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away
I’m Looking Through You
And Your Bird Can Sing
A Day In The Life
I Am The Walrus
Happiness Is a Warm Gun
Hey Bulldog
You Never Give Me Your Money
Let It Be
I Saw Her Standing There
All My Loving
If I Fell
No Reply
I’ve Just Seen A Face
In My Life
And Your Bird Can Sing
A Day In The Life
Strawberry Fields Forever
Long Long Long
Hey Bulldog
The Medley
Two Of Us
Tom Waits:
Little Trip to Heaven
Semi Suite
Step Right Up
I Never Talk to Strangers
$29.00
Mr. Siegal
I Beg Your Pardon
Frank’s Wild Years
Jockey Full of Bourbon
Innocent When You Dream
That Feel
Los Angeles Theme
Jesus Gonna Be Here
I’ll Shoot the Moon
Picture in a Frame
God’s Away on Business
Alice
Shake It
I don’t have his latest “Bad As Me.”
Oooh, bit “Single-y” these by the Manics
Motorcycle Emptiness
From Despair to Where
Faster
The Girl Who Wanted to be God
Black Dog on My Shoulder
Let Robeson Sing
Empty Souls
Autumnsong
Jackie Collins Existential Question Time
Postcards of a Young Man
Show me the Wonder
Walk Me To The Bridge
Motorcycle Emptiness
La Tristessa Durera
Yes
A Design For Life
If You Tolerate this ….
Ocean Spray
The Love of Richard Nixon
Autumnsong
Thie Joke Sport Severed
Postcards from a Young Man
The Masses against the Classes
This Sullen Welsh Heart
Between the Clock and the Bed
Rebellious Jukebox
Spectre vs Rector
Rowche Rumble (live)
The Container Drivers
Leave The Capitol
And This Day
Marquis Cha Cha
Eat Y’Self Fitter
Slang King
Spoilt Victorian Child
Bournemouth Runner
Bremen Nacht
Kurious Oranj
Telephone Thing
Edinburgh Man
Everything Hurtz
League of Bald-Headed Men
…then I kind of pick tracks at random from 1993 on as really haven’t listened to the post-93 albums enough.
Excellent work Sir but I of course would go with The Mixer off Shiftwork.
Plus Deadbeat Descendant or H.O.W. from Seminal Live.
Picking up from around where you left off, I’d say:
Birmingham School of Business School
I’m Going to Spain
Hey Student
Bonkers in Phoenix
Oleano
Spencer Must Die
F-‘oldin’ Money
Pumpkin Soup and Mashed Potatoes
Crop Dust
Theme from Sparta FC
Blindness
The Wright Stuff
I’ve Been Duped
Cowboy George
Happi Song
Hittite Man
Junger Cloth
Facebook Troll
How’s that-ah!
None more laid back:
Magnolia
Changes
Crying
Cocaine
Mona
Cloudy Day
A Thing Going On
Teardrops In My Tequila
Riverboat Song
Passion
Slower Baby
This Town
Another Song
Leaving In The Morning
Wot? No Breeze??
Nice song, but a bit too lively. Magnolia is the ultimate in laidback laidbackness.
I prefer Clyde from that album…
Mama Don’t like not being there
Great song, but… Cloudy Day!
Alright Carry On then..
Nice idea. Here are the results from the Basildon jury…
Photographic
The Sun and the Rainfall
Everything Counts
Lie to Me
Black Celebration
Never Let Me Down Again
Enjoy the Silence
One Caress
Home
I Feel Loved
Lilian
Wrong
Broken
Astronomy Domine
Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun
Cymbaline
Grantchester Meadows
If
Echoes
Wots… Uh, The Deal
Us And Them
Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts I-V)
Dogs
Comfortably Numb
The Gunner’s Dream
Learning To Fly
High Hopes
It’s What We Do
This is Think Floyd’s current set (brilliant by the way!). They are playing at least one track from each album, in order!
Astronomy Domine
Remember a day
Green is the Colour
Careful with that Axe, Eugene (ummagumma version)
Summer 68
One of these Days
Obscured by Clouds
Breathe
Time
Great Gig
Brain Damage
Shine On
Sheep
Empty Spaces
Young Lust
Hey You
The Hero’s Return
Sorrow
Coming Back to Life
Allons-y (from The Endless River)
Wish You Were Here
Run Like Hell
Comfortably Numb
As the tour goes on we will be swapping tracks from some of the albums, so will do Pigs or Dogs from Animals instead of Sheep, something else from Momentary Lapse of Reason, Obscured by Clouds, etc etc
Throwing Muses
Fish
Hate My Way
Juno
Mania
Not Too Soon
Pearl
Shimmer
Tar Kissers
Half Blast
Sunray Venus
(slight cheat counting “The Doghouse Cassette” as the first album…)
Actually, forgot to include something from the “The Fat Skier” mini-album, so here’s the revised list.
Fish
Hate My Way
Soap and Water
Juno
Mania
Not Too Soon
Pearl
Shimmer
Tar Kissers
Half Blast
Sunray Venus
cool. Not too Soon is such a great track.
Isn’t it? I know their singles haven’t always been the best tracks, and that not everyone agrees about whether the Tanya-written tracks are “proper” Muses songs, but that is a fantastic tune.
REM. I think I’ve missed an album out so please enlighten me.
Radio Free Europe
So. Central Rain
Maps and Legends
Fall on Me
Welcome to the Occupation
You are the Everything
Half a World Away
Find the River
Bang and Blame
E-Bow the Letter
Imitation of Life
Leaving New York
Accelerate
Oh My Heart
You need something from Up between E-Bow and Imitation.
Inspired me to have a go at REM….I tried to pick different songs from you, but I can’t not have Find The River, and I don’t really like much else on Reveal, maybe I’ll Take The Rain?
Perfect Circle
Harborcoat
Begin The Begin
Feeling Gravity’s Pull
King Of Birds
I Remember California
Country Feedback
Find The River
What’s The Frequency, Kenneth?
Leave
At My Most Beautiful
Imitation Of Life
Leaving New York
Living Well Is The Best Revenge
Alligator Aviator Autopilot Antimatter
Ah thanks -‘You’re in the Air’.
Nice list, was hard to choose!
I seem to have picked all the doomy ones. This may be an insight into my character.
And I have picked a lot of unrequited/longing/separation ones. 🙂
Unrequited? That’s what you think, lady..
Sorry missed these. My R.E.M. list is down the bottom!
Ooh, yes, let me play at XTC Best Of… (excludes the Dukes albums, reluctantly, for purity’s sake)
I’m Bugged
Beatown
Ten Feet Tall
Towers Of London
Leisure
Love On A Farmboy’s Wages
This World Over
Season Cycle
Across This Antheap
My Bird Performs
The Last Balloon
Church Of Women
(Though wih the usual caveat that tomorrow I could produce another equally heartfelt list with none of the above songs reappearing. Bit of a Partridge/Moulding fan.)
Only one duplicate!
Statue Of Liberty
Are You Receiving Me?
Making Plans For Nigel
Travels in Nihilon
It’s Nearly Africa
Deliver Us From The Elements
This World Over
1000 Umbrellas
Poor Skeleton Steps Out
Omnibus
River Of Orchids
We’re All Light
Not sure Are You Receiving Me? really qualifies, as it was a non-album single which was added as a bonus to the CD release. Anyway:
This Is Pop
Meccanik Dancing (Oh We Go!)
Scissor Man
Living Through Another Cuba
All Of A Sudden (It’s Too Late)
Wonderland
All You Pretty Girls
Earn Enough For Us
The Mayor Of Simpleton
Books Are Burning
Your Dictionary
Stupidly Happy.
The Sprouts finest…
Cruel
Horsin’ Around
I Remember That
Dublin
We Let The Stars Go
Avenue Of Stars
When You Get To Know me Better
Ride
The Best Jewel Thief In The World
I Never Play Basketball Now
Appetite
Hey Manhattan
Horsechimes
Doo Wop In Harlem
A Prisoner Of The Past
Wild Card In The Park
Last Of The Great Romantics
The Songs Of Danny Galway
Cruel
Appetite
I Remember That
Tiffany’s
We Let The Stars Go
The Mystery Of Love
Cowboy Dreams
Ride
The Best Jewel Thief In The World
Bonus Track:
I Trawl The Megahertz
@colrow26 – Well, that’s just spooky…
@KDH haha yeah quite a few duplicates there and I only omitted Tiffanys at the last moment
@colrow26 And both submitted at exactly the same time!
Nice work. @KDH. @colrow26 and @count_jim_moriaty.There I was getting concerned that Mr McAloon hadn’t made an appearance yet and here are several different takes on his finest moments. Mine would probably have been slightly different.
I do love Swoon but am not sure I can agree with @Locust who argues that it is PF’s finest album. But it is stupendous. (BTW, Lo, I was at Södra Teater this evening to watch Kajsa and Malena perform Historier frän en väg. Very good they were too and the audience were ecsatatic. That album is 30 years old. Which means I’ve been here rather a long time!)
God Save The Queen
The Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle
XTC
This is Pop
Meccanik Dancing (Oh We Go!)
Complicated Game
Towers of London
Jason and the Argonauts
Funk Pop a Roll
I Remember the Sun
That’s Really Super, Supergirl
Mayor of Simpleton
Then She Appeared
Easter Theater
I’m the Man who Murdered Love
That’s was virtually impossible!
Another great selection! I once tried to create a Best Of XTC playlist on iTunes, but left out so few tracks I just used “shuffle” on Artist instead. Pretty consistent output.
Layla
Ramones:
Blitzkrieg Bop
Commando
Sheena Is A Punk Rocker
Don’t Come Close
Rockaway Beach (Live)
Do You Remember Rock ‘n’ Roll Radio?
The KKK Took My Baby Away
Outsider
Howling at the Moon (Sha-La-La)
Something to Believe In
I Wanna Live
I Believe in Miracles
Censorshit
Somebody to Love
I Don’t Want to Grow Up
Stiff Little Fingers:
Alternative Ulster
Wait and See
Just Fade Away
Is That What You Fought the War For?
Each Dollar a Bullet
Can’t Believe in You
Tinderbox
Half a Life Away
Guitar & Drum
When We Were Young
I’d go for My Dark Places off No Going Back, otherwise in accord.
Seeing them in Brighton in March. Go For It!
Dark Places and When We Were Young was a tough call.
My Dark Places is probably the most personal and powerful song the band have done – I went for Young because of the autobiographical/anthemic nature of it.
Reading for me (last night of the tour)
And when we were young has a nice bit of SLF self-reference, with its At The Edge section.
Route 66
Down The Road Apiece
That’s How Strong My Love Is
Stupid Girl
Yesterday’s Papers
She’s A Rainbow
Sympathy For The Devil
Midnight Rambler
Wild Horses
Rock’s Off
Angie
Fool To Cry
Beast Of Burden
Emotional Rescue
The ‘Oo:
The Kids Are Alright
So Sad About Us
Mary Anne with the Shaky Hand
We’re Not Gonna Take It
Heaven and Hell (Live)
Baba O’Riley
Doctor Jimmy
Slip Kid
New Song
You Better You Bet
Eminence Front
Mirror Door
Led Zeppelin
Communication Breakdown
What Is And What Should Never Be
Immigrant Song
The Battle Of Evermore
No Quarter
Kashmir
Nobody’s Fault But Mine
In The Evening
Poor Tom
European Only Bonus Tracks;
Hey Hey What Can I Do (from the Led Zeppelin box set)
Baby Come On Home (from Box Set 2)
Something Else (from the BBC sessions)
Or….
Communication Breakdown
Whole Lotta Love
Celebration Day
When the Levee Breaks
Dancing Days
Kashmir
Achilles’ Last Stand
In the Evening
Wearing & Tearing
Only three duplicates….
Iron Maiden:
Phantom of the Opera
Murders In The Rue Morgue
Hallowed Be Thy Name
Revelations
Aces High
Heaven Can Wait
The Clairvoyant
Holy Smoke
From Here to Eternity
Sign of the Cross
The Angel and the Gambler
Brave New World
Paschendale
The Reincarnation of Benjamin Breeg
Satellite 15… The Final Frontier
If Eternity Should Fail
Time Will Show the Wiser
Fotheringay
Who Knows Where the Time Goes
Tam Lin
Sir Patrick Spens (or, in initial pressings, Poor Will and the Jolly Hangman)
Angel Delight
Wake Up John (Hanging Song)
Rosie
Polly on the Shore
Rising for the Moon
Sandy’s Song (what a shitty album is this!!)
The Poor Ditching Boy
The Widow of Westmorlands Daughter
The Hiring Fair
Portmeirion
Red and Gold
Claudy Banks
Diamonds and Gold
Dangerous
Still a Mystery
Neil Gow’s Apprentice
Over the Next Hill
Love on a Farmboys Wages
Celtic Moon
Home
(Jeez, that was a labour. I now know why I stopped listening, buying, going etc etc. Having said, the last track is actually rather good. (This version isn’t so hot, mind)
Thea Gilmore
Pontiac to Home Girl
The Resurrection Men
Inverigo
December in New York
Many nstream
Josef’s Train
Call Me Your Darling
Icarus Wnd
Listen, the Snow is Falling
God’s Got Nothing on You
Love Came Looking For Me
Live Out Loud
Excellent. I feel a playlist coming on.
I’ll do an Aimee Mann one over the weekend.
Maybe Steve Earle too.
When i live my dream
Wild eyed boy from freecloud
Width of a circle
Life on Mars
Starman
Jean Genie
Sorrow
We are the dead
Sweet thing/candidate/sweet thing reprise
Can you hear me
Wild is the wind
Subterraneans
Heroes
Be my wife
DJ
Ashes to ashes
China girl
Moonage Daydream
Loving the alien
As the world falls down
Never let me down
Black tie white noise
Buddha of suburbia
Changes
I’m afraid of Americans
Thursdays child
Heathen(the rays)
The Loneliest guy
Always crashing in the same car
Under Pressure
Where are we now?
I can’t give everything away
Naughty Lunaman! You sneaked in two from Diamond Dogs…unless you’re counting one of them on David Live.
Foul! Live tracks only permissible if not on a studio album.
Yes missed the Live track rule in my haste.
I’ll be taking out –
Sweet thing/candidate/sweet thing reprise – David Live
Be my wife – Stage
Moonage daydream – Ziggy Stardust(The Motion sountrack)
Changes – Live in Santa Monica ’72
Always crashing in the same car – VH1 storytellers (very close call for Low nomination)
Under Pressure (A Reality Tour – Shame!)
Sorry (;
Sadly rules are rules. 😂
Cheers Twang. Nice thread by the way (;
New Model Army:
Running In The Rain
The Attack
Poison Street
I Love The World
Vanity
Bad Old World
No Pain
Stranger
Red Earth
High
States Radio
Qasr-el-Nil Bridge
Born Feral
It’s hard to pick from the last few albums, in my opinion. They’ve been patchy.
No pain = megachoon.
Anyone fancy doing Prince. A daunting catalogue there. And The Fall part 2.
I thought about Neil Young, and quailed almost instantly.
True that – we have a list too daunting to contemplate emerging
Prince
Neil Young
The Fall (complete career)
and of course Bob Dylan
Oh I dunno, I’ll have a crack at Dylan
Song To Woody
Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right
My Back Pages
With God On Our Side
Love Minus Zero/No Limit
Like A Rolling Stone
I Want You
All Along The Watchtower
Lay, Lady, Lay
If Not For You
Quinn The Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)
Knocking On Heaven’s Door
Lily Of The West
Forever Young
Tangled Up In Blue
You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere
Hurricane
Changing Of The Guards
Got To Serve Somebody
Solid Rock
Every Grain Of Sand
Jokerman
Tight Connection To My Heart
Brownsville Girl
Death Is Not The End
Most Of The Time
Born In Time
Sittin’ On Top Of The World
Delia
Trying To Get To Heaven
Mississippi
Spirit On The Water
Beyond Here Lies Nothing
Must Be Santa
Scarlet Town
That Lucky Old Sun
Nevertheless (I’m In Love With You)
That was quite difficult. Some albums it was difficult to pick between 4 or 5 songs, others it was difficult to find 1. Quite a few obvious choices, but they’re the ones I like the best.
The Fall – see above-ah!
Here goes…only accounting for canonical/official releases, otherwise it’ll get messy!
Soft And Wet
I Wanna Be Your Lover
When You Were Mine
Controversy
Little Red Corvette
When Doves Cry
Paisley Park
Sometimes It Snows In April
Sign O’ The Times*
Forever In My Life*
I Wish U Heaven
Electric Chair
The Question Of U*
Thieves In The Temple*
Cream
My Name Is Prince
Space
Bob George
Gold
I Like It There
In This Bed I Scream*
The Holy River*
Sleep Around*
Love Sign*
Crucial*
Get Loose!*
Circle Of Amour*
Wasted Kisses
It’s About That Walk
So Far, So Pleased
Family Name
East
Reflection
Black Sweat
Chelsea Rodgers
Dreamer*
(There’ll Never B) Another Like Me*
Future Soul Song
PretzelBodyLogic
This Could Be Us
Ain’t About To Stop
Big City
*Tracks chosen from each album/disc of a multiple release, eg 2CD/3CD
And…relax.
Truth
Age of Consent
The Perfect Kiss
Bizzarre Love Triangle
Run
Ruined In A Day
Crystal
Jetstream
Sugarcane
Tutti Frutti
Bog off. Regret is the only decent track on Republic…
or alternatively…
Dreams Never End
Your silent Face
Love Vigilantes
As It Is When It Was
Dream Attack
Regret
Primitive Notion
Waiting for The Siren’s Call
Hellbent
Plastic
Dreams Never End
Age Of Consent
This Time Of Night
All Day Long
Dream Attack
Regret
Someone Like You
Dracula’s Castle
I’ll Stay With You
Singularity
U2:
The Electric Co
Gloria
Two Hearts Beat as One
Bad
In Gods Country
All I Want Is You
Who’s Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
Stay (Faraway, So Close!)
Staring at the Sun
Walk On
Vertigo
Magnificent
The Miracle Of Joey Ramone
Whose Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses? Are you fucking mental? Almost any other track on the album is better.
Love Is Blindness
Acrobat
Ultraviolet
Zoo Station
are all better and that’s ignoring any of the singles. Seriously.
Good point – Horses was the first that came to mind.
I’m also wavering towards Lemon from Zooropa …
Oh I still go with Stay – big fuck off soaring U2 chorus and that line about “you can lip synch to the talk shows”
Its easily their most underappreciated album. Daddy’s Gonna Pay For Your Crash Car has grimy riffs and drums that would last other bands whole careers
Clash:
White Riot
Stay Free
Death Or Glory
Somebody Got Murdered
Straight to Hell
This Is England
UK releases only, so no White Man In Hammersmith Palais – I suppose I could lever it in between Stay Free and Death Or Glory and argue that the US release was available in the UK
Some cross over…
Janie Jones
Stay Free
Death Or Glory
Rebel Waltz
Ghetto Defendant
Fugazi:
Waiting Room
Provisional
Repeater
KYEO
Smallpox Champion
Version
Five Corporations
Epic Problem
Agree with all of these, except it should be Merchandise instead of Repeater.
YOU ARE NOT WHAT YOU OWN!
That run on side one of Repeater > Brendan #1 > Merchandise is just unbelievably good.
Yep. Probably one for the front loaded albums thread. God, I love that band.
Talk Talk
Have You Heard the News
Tomorrow Started
Give It Up
Eden
After the Flood
Sylvian solo:
Red Guitar
Steel Cathedrals
Silver Moon
Let The Happiness In
I Surrender
Blemish
Emily Dickinson
I Am The Resurrection
Love Spreads
Red Shoes
Lipstick Vogue
Party Girl
King Horse
Big Tears
Just A Memory
Watch Your Step
I’m Your Toy
Beyond Belief
The Invisible Man
The Comedians
Sleep Of the Just
I Want You
Walking On Thin Ice
Veronica
Couldn’t Call It Unexpected
I Almost Had A Weakness
All the Rage
Bamalamabamaloo
Love Field (live)
I Want To Vanish
Temptation (live)
My Dark Life
I Still have That Other Girl
Broken Bicycles\Junk
When I Was Cruel No.2
Peroxide Side (Blunt Cut)
Still
Bedlam
Almost Ideal Eyes (live)
The Sharpest Thorn
Turpentine
My all Time Doll
Bullets For The New Born King
Tripwire
Married To My Hack
Used this as a rough guide but ignored Il Sogno and Piano Jazz cos I don’ own the former or rate the latter as a Costello album. The live track arrangements are different enough to be included.
http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Discography
I Almost Had A Weakness rather than The Birds Will Still Be Singing?
Naw!
Yeah you are probably right but I love that lyric
Thank you for the flowers
I threw them on the fire
And I burned the photographs that you had enclosed
GOD they were ugly children
Carnival of Sorts (Box Cars)
Perfect Circle
7 Chinese Brothers
Driver 8
Fall On Me
Finest Worksong
You Are The Everything
Half A World Away
Nightswimming
Crush With Eyeliner
Leave
At My Most Beautiful
Imitation of Life
(Stopping there. )
(starts)
Leaving New York
Living Well Is The Best Revenge
Mine Smell Like Honey
I like Leaving New York in fairness. I just struggle to include those last two with the rest. They’re good and all, and agree that they’re the best thing on their respective albums. Ah go on then. Let em on. I like the last two records but just not quite enough.
She’s Lost Control
Isolation
We’re Not Deep
Me and the Farmer
Actually…
Bow down
Me and the Farmer
Bow Down is on the second album, dude. Though it’s a damned good shout.
I apologise unreservedly . You’ll have my resignation on your desk first thing in the morning.
Sniff.
Buuuuuuuut you diiiiiiiiiiid.
Buuuuuuuut you diiiiiiiiiiid.
I’ve only just got this.
Flag Day
I Can’t Put My Finger On It
That’s not what I’ve heard, missus
*squeak-squeak-squeak*
Timeless Melody
Bus Stop
Goodbye Mr Ed
Amazing
You Belong In Rock’n’Roll
Could be an alternative list, could be a paean to the Moose…
Honey, you’re fresh!
Bruce….
Growin’ Up
4th July, Asbury Park (Sandy)
Thunder Road
Badlands
The Price You Pay
Highway Patrolman
No Surrender
Because The Night (live)
Brilliant Disguise
Human Touch
If I Should Fall Behind
Red Headed Woman (live)
Youngstown
My Love Will Not Let You Down (live)
My City Of Ruins
Devils and Dust
American Land
Detroit Medley (live)
Girls In Their Summer Clothes
Kingdom Of Days
Land Of Hope And Dreams
The Ghost Of Tom Joad
Oasis
Slide Away
Some Might Say
D’ya Know What I Mean?
Rockin Chair (If The Masterplan counts…)
Gas Panic!
Songbird
Turn Up The Sun
Bag It Up
Yes, The Masterplan counts, and I’ll take Fade Away from it.
I also have a soft spot for the overblown-ness of All Around The World.
Apart from those 2 differences of opinion, as you were
First three albums:
Live Forever
Cast No Shadow
Stand By Me
The Book I Read
Stay Hungry
Paper
The Great Curve
Crosseyed and Painless (live)
This Must Be The Place
Take Me To The River (live)
And She Was
Love For Sale (hello @tiggerlion!)
Nothing But Flowers
To be honest, you could pick almost any tracks from their albums and I’d be delighted.
Same here. I gave that almost no thought and didn’t look at the track listings, and it’s a completely satisfactory list.
I did a TH list too but I couldn’t settle with the tracks I chose.
Psycho Killer and Once in a lifetime kept coming back everytime I chose another track.
As Tiggerlion said – you could pick so many tracks. A great band.
Eunice
You’ll be The Scarecrow
Manchester Girl
Susan’s House
Climbing To The Moon or 3 Speed – I can’t choose!!
It’s a Motherfucker
Souljacker Pt1
A Good Day To be You
What I Remember Most
Dirty Girl
Things The Grandchildren Should Know
The Look You Give That Guy
A Line In The Dirt
I Like The Way This Is Going
KInda Fuzzy
Lockdown Hurricane
Hmmmm. We differ somewhat @dogfacedboy .
I Can’t Get Next To You
Hello Cruel World
Manchester Girl
Manchild
The Medication’s Wearing Off (agree that this is the toughest of tough decisions)
Something is Sacred
Bus Stop Boxer (this could easily have been Fresh Feeling or Woman Driving, Man Sleeping)
Sonnet No 3 (Like a Duck)
Taking a Bath in Rust
The Good Old Days
If You See Natalie
Tremendous Dynamite
In My Younger Days
Spectacular Girl
Peach Blossom
A Swallow in the Sun (with Lockdown Hurricane an EXTREMELY close second)
Christ that was tough. I feel emotionally drained.
The Cams
Second Skin
One Flesh
Swamp Thing or Soul in Isolation or Tears or Seriocity
Truth isn’t truth anymore
Masoko Tanga
Does Everyone Stare?
When The World Is Running Down
Too Much Information
King Of Pain
Working Class Hero
Crippled Inside
John Sinclair
Aisumasen
Nobody Loves You When you’re Down and Out
Just Because
Just Like Starting Over
I’ll take Bruce, if that’s okay:
Growin’ Up
4th July, Asbury Park (Sandy)
Jungleland
Racing In The Street
Stolen Car
Atlantic City
Bobby Jean
Jersey Girl
One Step Up
Human Touch
If I Should Fall Behind
Light Of Day
Straight Time
Sad Eyes
Mansion On The Hill
The Rising
Devils & Dust
Pay Me My Money Down
Gypsy Biker
Working On A Dream
The Promise
Land Of Hope And Dreams
American Skin (41 Shots)
Does everyone else go for Sandy from TWTIATESS?
I’d have thought it would have to be something off side 2 – I’m a New York City Serenade man, myself, but Rosalita feels the logical consensus choice.
When this album was discussed a few months ago I discovered that I’m the only person in the world who likes Wild Billy’s Circus Story. Best thing on it for me.
As ever, so very very lonely….
You’ve always been a sucker for Oompah music.
It deserves respect. It takes a lot of puff to blow a tuba.
….er….
I’d have gone for Rosalita or The E Street Shuffle, I reckon.
I’d have picked Rosalita if it could be the live version that was shown on OGWT.
THIS version
I just caught this on the telly over Christmas, can’t remember what it was shown on. It’s joyous isn’t it? The band seem to be having such a great time and the girls jumping on stage to give Bruce a peck on the cheek make me laugh every time.
Joyous is exactly what it is. Feck, you just want to be in The E Street Band, don’t you? Imagine getting paid to have that much fun?
That clip is what it’s all about. Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!
Got to be Incident on 57th Street
The Church
Is this where you live?
You took
One day
Tantalized
Under the Milky Way (it’s the law..could be Destination)
Russian Autumn Heart (Hello Burt)
Aura
Business Woman
Comedown
Anaesthesia
The Faith Healer
Numbers
Lay low
Easy
On Angel Street
Miami
Didn’t bother with Parallel Universe or Persia.
Half decent playlist that lot.
Ruckzuck
Klingklang
Tanzmuzik
Autobahn (well, derr)
Antenna
Europe Endless
Neon Lights
It’s More Fun To Compute
Techno Pop
Pocket Calculator (1991)
Aero Dynamik
Planet of Visions
Jimi
Third Stone From The Sun
Castles Made Of Sand
1983, A Merman I Should Turn To Be…
Machine Gun
Tull…..in all honesty later ones a bit shaky…less familiar. ..
Song for a cuckoo
We used to know
For Michael Collins, Jeffrey and me
My God
Thick as a Brick part 1
Side 1
Skating away on the thin ice of a new day
Baker St. Muse
The checkered flag
Songs from the wood
Velvet green
Orion
Black Sunday
Broadsword
Later, that same evening
Farm on the freeway
Kissing Willie
This is not love
Valley
Spiral
I might be wrong, @Twang – but do I detect two from Songs from the Wood and nowt from Heavy Horses?
Good list tho. With space for Broadford Bazaar and Up the Pool maybe.
You do. My bad. Did it from memory. Should have been the title track from HH!
IIRC Up the pool was on an EP but not an album?
There were enough un(lp)released things on Living in the Past for me to try and sneak it in!
There’s probably a case for new tracks on best ofs being admissible. Not EPs on LPs though Barty you scamp.
I dunno Twang, there was an album’s worth of new material on there. If you ban material that was on extended play singles etc, we’d need to respond the whole list wouldn’t we?
HiI agree EPs are tricky. And I had a track off “Hoy Hoy” mind you it was unreleased where Up The Pool had been released already. Tricky. As you know no one is more Tully than me!
Surely the standout track from Passion Play is “The Hare Who Lost His Spectacles”?
You hold him down Twang, I’ll ‘it ‘im.
Overseer Overture by a country mile!
I don’t hold with this revisionist separate tracks on APP business . There are only two tracks – side 1 and side 2!
Surely someone is working through their Dylan albums as we speak…!?
As @minibreakfast is the only person alive* to have listened to all of the b*st*rds, over to her.
(*or awake)
Balls to that, I’m too busy watching 007. I’ll stick to two-album artists.
Ah, Mish Minibreakfasht!
I’ll Feel A Whole Lot Better
Set You Free This Time
Eight Miles High
My Back Pages
Goin’ Back
You Ain’t Going Nowhere
Drug Store Truck Driving Man
Gunga Din
Close Up The Honky Tonks (live)
All The Things
Kathleen’s Song
Farther Along
Full Circle
Chimes Of Freedom
Set You Free This Time
Eight Miles High
So You Want To Be A Rock ‘N’ Roll Star
Wasn’t Born To Follow
Hickory Wind
Nashville West
Ballad Of Easy Rider
Bad Night At The Whiskey (Live, though a late, post demise release so not really part of the canon)
Chestnut Mare
Pale Blue
Bugler
Changing Heart
Nearly went for Chimes, and Hickory Wind and Chestnut Mare meself!
James Yorkston anyone?
St Patrick
Shipwreckers
I Awoke
The Lang Toun
Queen Of Spain
Martinmass Time
Catch
Feathers are Falling
Broken Wave
And I might as well do Boards Of Canada as well
Melissa Juice
Everything You Do Is A Balloon
Roygbiv
In A Beautiful Place Out In The Country
Alpha And Omega
Dayvan Cowboy
Reach For The Dead
I have included “Long EPs” but not “singles”
The Blessed Kate:
The Man With The Child In His Eyes
Oh England My Lionheart
All We Ever Look For
Sat In Your Lap
Hello Earth
The Sensual World
Why Should I Love You?
Somewhere In Between
Moments Of Pleasure (Director’s Cut)
Lake Tahoe
The Morning Fog (BTD version)
My go….
The Man with the Child in His Eyes
Symphony in Blue
Army Dreamers
Suspended in Gaffa
Cloudbusting
Love and Anger
Moments of Pleasure
Sunset
This Woman’s Work (Directors Cut)
Lake Tahoe
I’ll skip Before The Dawn as apart from Tawny Moon, none are unique tracks. Also add the disclaimer that the above selection will likely change the moment I hit post comment.
And mine…
The Kick Inside
Oh England My Lionheart
The Wedding List
Sat In Your Lap
And Dream Of Sheep
The Sensual World
Why Should I Love You?
A Coral Room
Lily (Director’s Cut)
Misty
Ver Generator….
Octopus
Darkness (11/11)
The Emperor (in his war room)
A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers
Scorched Earth
Pilgrims
A Place to Survive
Sphinx in the face
Ship of Fools (live)
Every Bloody Emperor
Over the Hill
Your Time Starts Now
Dronus
Gog (live)
Room 1210
Respect.
(blushes…)
Fine choices, fitterstoke! I’d substitute “La Rossa” from Still Life as it’s one of my all-time goosebumps songs, but other than that, as Twang said, respect!
Ditto, aside from that perfect playlist.
It was a tough choice – Still Life is probably my favourite LP overall – and La Rossa was the close alternative…I would also have chosen the live Pioneers over c from Vital, if it wouldn’t have broken Twang’s rules…
Kathryn Williams
No One To Blame
Flicker
Mirrorball
Spit On A Stranger
Old Low Light #2
Glass Bottom Boat
Grey Goes
50 White Lines
Dance On The Moon
Circle Round A Tree
Sequins
Beating Heart
I’m A Fool To Want You
I love The track flicker but I’d have to include I can hold you back by k w and r m Hubbert too and probably all hypoxia.
I realise I should make it one track but I can’t choose !!!
For George Michael I’d have
Wham rap
Most of faith album ( too difficult to choose )
Kissing a fool
Spinning the wheel
Amazing
Orville’s Song
Come To My Party (feat. Cuddles and Dippy)
Splutter! Where’s “Love Will Tear us Apart?”
Did Orville actually release two full- length albums?
One song goes a very, very long way.
He most certainly did, and half a dozen singles: https://www.discogs.com/artist/401389-Keith-Harris-3
HMHB song title: Keith Harris Sophomore Effort
Studiously avoiding singles…
Ladytron
Beauty Queen
Mother Of Pearl
Out Of The Blue
Whirlwind
Ain’t That So
My Only Love
While My Heart Is Still Beating
Beauty Queen – good call!
Would prefer Is There Something to the ‘Tron, mind.
Remake/remodel
Editions of you
Mother of pearl
All I want is you
Love is the drug
Manifesto
Running wild
To turn you on
I’ll park Bryan here:
You Won’t See Me
Finger Poppin’
Casanova
One Kiss
Carrickfergus
Sensation
Zamba
All Tomorrow’s Parties
The 39 Steps
You Do Something To Me
I Thought
Positively 4th Street
Heartache By Numbers
Virginia Plain
Soldier Of Fortune
Ah, I was just about to get round to BF solo – here’s my selection…
A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall
Another Time, Another Place
Casanova
This Is Tomorrow
Can’t Let Go
Windswept
The Right Stuff
Will You Love Me Tomorrow
Chain Reaction
Where Or When
I Thought
Positively 4th Street
Shameless
The Bogus M
Sorry, rudely interrupted:
The Bogus Man
Avonmore
Considering I deliberately rejected singles, we have significant overlap!
Feather boa’s and mascara ahoy, it’s time for the Manic Street Preachers…
Stay Beautiful
Repeat
La Tristesse Durera
Faster
PCP
Elvis Impersonator:Blackpool Pier
A Design For Life
If You Tolerate This Then Your Children Will Be Next
Let Robeson Sing
Found That Soul
The Love of Richard Nixon
1985
Your Love Alone Is Not Enough
Rewind The Film
Take Me To The Bridge
Not allowed but HAS to be included in any Manic retrospective
Motown Junk
Yes it does!
(Revolution – Revolution – Revolution)
Can I just swap La Tristesse Durera for From Despair To Where
You’re missing Postcards From A Young Man – I’d add “Some Kind of Nothingness”
I note you are also avoiding Journal For Plague Lovers – me too
Postcards was the nadir. Couldn’t think for a moment of anything I’d include. Toyed with Jackie Collins from Journal but thought better of it
If we can have Motown Junk, I’d have Masses Against The Classes too!
Liverpool’s second best band of 1963…
Love Potion No 9
Ain’t That Just Like Me
Sea Of Heartbreak
Til You Say You’ll Be Mine
Each Time
Desdemona
Hearts In Her Eyes
September Gurls
Somebody Told Me
Dude! Worth it for Hearts in Her Eyes and September Gurls alone.
Aren’t they on the same record tho?
Hearts is on The Searchers and Gurls is on Play For Today….both of their Sire albums. Phew! Thought I’d be drummed out there for a minute!
Well, I never, yes, I had always thought HiHE was on the record, but it was the single I bought ahead of, and on the strength of, bought the album.
Wot, no Smiths?
Reel Around The Fountain
How Soon Is Now?
Well I Wonder
The Queen Is Dead
Half A Person
Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me
His Latest Flame/Rusholme Ruffians
I’d go with:
Still Ill
Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want
The Headmaster Ritual
There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
You Just Haven’t Earned It Yet Baby
Stop Me If You Think You’ve Heard This One Before
His Latest Flame/Rusholme Ruffians
I’ll offer
This Charming Man
Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now (I know the real answer is How Soon Is Now, but I’m being different)
That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore
There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
Panic
Girlfriend In A Coma
Can’t be arsed with Rank to be honest so I’m leaving it at Strangeways…
Ah, but TCM wasn’t originally on The Smiths…
It’s on mine so FRRRRTTTTTTT
I’m with Mr Type on this one.
And How Soon Is Now wasn’t originally on MIM.
Moose Is Moochey?
King Crimson:
21st Century Schizoid Man (In The Court Of The Crimson King)
Cat Food (In The Wake Of Poseidon)
Cirkus (Lizard)
Larks’ Tongues In Aspic, Part Two (Larks’ Tongues In Aspic)
Lament (Starless and Bible Black)
Starless (Red)
Indiscipline (Discipline)
Sex, Sleep. Eat. Drink. Dream (Thrak)
One Time-Live (B’Boom)
The ConstruKCtion Of Light-Live (Heavy ConstruKCtion)
Disqualifying myself.
If I’d read the OP properly, I’d have noticed that live tracks don’t count unless unique to the album they’re on. One Time was originally on Thrak, but was fleshed out rather handsomely on B’Boom and a few other live outings. The Constukction Of Light was divided into two parts on the album of that name but comes fully joined up on Heavy Construkction.
Islands and Earthbound are from an inferior and unworthy iteration of the Crims and I discard them utterly.
Utterly pointless rules make it more fun!
Agree that Earthbound shouldn’t ever have been released, but Islands? Aren’t you being a little arbitrary, @mike_h? Another facet of the band, good vocals from Boz, a new foil for Fripp in Collins on tenor sax, Giles-like drums, I think it’s grand, actually, no disgrace to the catalogue.
I thought that configuration was rather a retrograde step. Nothing whatsoever against Mel Collins but Wallace and Burrell were a bit ordinary compared to Giles and Lake. That’s my main bone of contention. A dip in the graph.
Boz Burrell’s vocals were much better than John Wetton’s, mind you.
Well Giles and Lake were obviously a hard act to follow. Wallace (McCulloch too) was clearly trying to play “Giles-like” and Burrell wasn’t even a bass player but was co-opted into the role, and exactly like Haskell on the Lizard album, was taught the parts by Fripp. Still enjoyable though.
Absolutely agree with your point on Wetton. In fact after Lake, vocals were always a bugbear with the band.@mike_h
Donovan 1965-1974:
Catch The Wind
Candy Man
Season Of The Witch
Writer In The Sun
Wear Your Love Like Heaven
Hurdy Gurdy Man
Atlantis
Riki Tiki Tavi
Celia of the Seals
Cosmic Wheels
Sailing Homeward
OK here goes
Brown Eyed Girl
Cyprus Avenue
Into the Mystic
Street Choir
Tupelo Honey
St Dominic’s Preview
Snow in San Anselmo
I’ve Been Working
Cul de Sac
Flamingoes Fly
Kingdom Hall
And the Healing Has Begun
Summertime in England
Vanlose Stairway
The Street Only Knew Your Name
Tore Down A la Rimbaud
In the Garden
Queen of the Slipstream
Carrickfergus
Have I Told You Lately That I Love You?
Enlightenment
Carrying a Torch
Too Long In Exile
I’ll Take Care of You
Days Like This
I Will Be There
Rough God Goes Riding
I Have Finally Come to Realise
Philosophers Stone
Midnight Special
Real Gone Lover
Fast Train
Once in a Blue Moon
Just Like Greta
Things Have Gone To Pieces
Behind The Ritual
If In Money We Trust
Holy Guardian Angel
Blimey, I’m exhausted. Bit of quality range there, has to be said – a few albums where I was struggling to pick a standout track, and not in a good way.
True – but on the other hand there are albums in the first half of the list with so any standout tracks that you simply can’t help picking a gem!
MY favourite track on the last album is The Pen Is Mightier Than The Sword.
Yaay, a shout for Rough God Goes Riding, one of my most-played Van songs. I think the latest album is his strongest for a long while and no choice from it would have been ‘wrong’.
Have an Up for an almighty good list Blue Boy, and another one for choosing Snow In San Anselmo. I saw him him play it live at Warwick Arts Centre once; I nearly died of shock, but in an entirely good way.
Let’s have a shorter one. Creedence, followed by John Fogerty solo albums
Walk on the Water
Born on the Bayou
Lodi
Effigy
Long as I Can See the Light
Hideaway
Someday Never Comes
Workin’ On a Building
Almost Saturday Night
I Saw It On TV
Sail Away
Blueboy
Deja Vu All Over Again
Broken Down Cowboy
Moody River
Train of Fools
Del Amitri
Hammering Heart
Kiss This Thing Goodbye
The Ones That You Love Lead You Nowhere
It Might As Well Be You
Not Where It’s At
One More Last Hurrah
Hammering Heart
From This Side Of the Morning
Sometimes I just Have To Say Your Name
Here And Now
Make It Always Be Too Late
Just before You Leave
You know what, I could have put almost anything from Waking Hours, Change Everything or Twisted. Either side of that…not so much. I can’t disagree with your selection either.
AC/DC – you could almost get away with just the title tracks where applicable, but for mine…
She’s Got Balls (High Voltage Aus)
The Jack (TNT Aus)
Problem Child
Whole Lotta Rosie
Rock And Roll Damnation
Touch Too Much
You Shook Me All Night Long
For Those About To Rock (We Salute You)
Flick Of The Switch
Shake Your Foundations
Heatseeker
Thunderstruck
Hard As A Rock
Satellite Blues
Rock N Roll Train
Rock Or Bust
Maybe swap Hells Bells (Back In Black) and Guns For Hire (Flick Of The Switch) – it’s close and I would have trouble making a strong case
Macca:
Maybe I’m Amazed
Back Seat of my Car
Tomorrow
Little Lamb Dragonfly
1985
Love in Song
Beware My Love
I’m Carrying
Arrow Through Me
Coming Up
Wanderlust
Pipes of Peace
No More Lonely Nights
Pretty Little Head
Don’t Get Around Much Anymore
This One
Golden Earth Girl
The World Tonight
No Other Baby
Lonely Road
Riding to Vanity Fair
Ever Present Past
My Valentine
Queenie Eye
(Left off live, classical and side projects)
Bono and ver Hedge
Out of Control
Gloria
40
A Sort of Homecoming
With or Without You
Angel of Harlem
Who’s Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
One
Stay
Miss Sarajevo
Please
Walk On
Kite
City of Blinding Lights
Magnificent
Fez-Being Born
California
Excluding live album, greatest hits and deluxe reissued extra track things
Haterz gonna hate as young Taylor sez 😉
again with WGRYWH on Achtung Baby – as I I said to Rigid Digit , have you even listened to the album – almost anything else on it is superior
Yes! And it’s brilliant
JAMC
Just Like Honey
April Skies
Taste Of Cindy (acoustic version)
Head On
Good For My Soul
Bullet Lovers
Man On The Moon
Ignoring the first Jonathan King album and live albums…..
The Knife
Musical Box
Supper’s Ready
Cinema Show
Silent Sorrow In Empty Boats
Squonk
Blood On The Rooftops
Undertow
Duke’s Travels
Abacab
Home By The Sea
Domino
Driving The Last Spike
Congo
That’s a great list. Wouldn’t be a million miles from my own.
Swap Squonk for Entangled and you have a great run into the superb Blood On The Rooftops.
Keep Yourself Alive
Seven Seas of Rhye
Killer Queen
Death on two…only kidding, Bohemian Rhapsody
Somebody to Love
It’s Late
Don’t Stop Me Now
Crazy Little Thing Called Love
The Kiss
Under Pressure
Radio Ga Ga
A Kind of Magic
Was it All Worth It?
These Are the Days of Our Lives
Mother Love
Singles band ,then.
Or:
Liar
White Queen (As It Began)
Now I’m Here
Bohemian Rhapsody
Tie Your Mother Down
Get Down, Make Love
Don’t Stop Me Now
We Will Rock You (Live Killers fast version)
Action This Day
Hammer To Fall
One Vision
The Invisible Man
I’m Going Slightly Mad
Too Much Love Will Kill You
Another One Bites The Dust
The Replacements Johnny’s gonna die (Sorry Ma forgot to take out the trash) Kids don’t follow (Stink) Within your teach (Hootenanny) I will dare (Let It Be) Left of the Dial (Tim) Alex Chilton (Pleased to meet me) I’ll be You (Don’t tell a soul) Sadly Beautiful (All Shook Down)
Within your reach is such a beautiful piece, i was and am amazed it wasn’t a worldwide hit and standard when i got round to hearing it when i bought the box set.
The Monkees (Stopping at Head)
Last Train To Clarkesville
Look Out Here Comes Tomorrow
You Just May Be The One
What Am I Doing Hangin Round
I’ll Be Back Up On My Feet
Porpoise Song
Grace
Arf. And you’re still wrong… It’s Last Goodbye. Or Hallelujah. Or Mojo Pin. Bugger.
It’s:
Last Goodbye
Morning Theft
Time Has Told Me
One of These Things First
Pink Moon
Linton Kwesi Johnson
It Dread Inna Inglan (For George Lindo)
Want Fi Goh Rave
Di Black Petty Booshwah
Peach Dub
Reggae fi Dada
Mi Revalueshanary Fren
If I Waz A Top Natch Poet
Liesense Fi Dub
No Sonny’s Lettah or Street 66? Two of the greatest songs ever recorded by anyone ever in the history of everything!
Waterfall
Ten Storey lovesong
Grant McLennan
Haven’t I Been A Fool
Stones For You
Lighting Fires
The Dark Side of Town
Things Will Change
Coming Up For Air
Hot Water
No Peace In The Palace
Horsebreaker Star
In Your Bright Ray
One Plus One
Objection Mr thread judge!
Charlie has…
2 tracks from “Watershed”
3 tracks from “Fireboy”
4 tracks from “Horsebreaker Star”
2 tracks from “In Your Bright Ray”
I don’t think I’ve ever seen such brazen flouting of the thread rules!
And it was a short OP with pretty simple rules…still didn’t read it!
Roy Harper
Forever
You Don’t Need Money
She’s The One
Another Day
Me And My Woman
The Lord’s Prayer
North Country
Home (live version)
When an Old Cricketer Leaves the Crease
Naked Flame
(Too Many Movies)*
Short And Sweet
No One Ever Gets Out Alive
Stan
Hangman
Hangman (live)
Desert Island
Sail Away
Sleeping at the Wheel
The Fourth World
The Same Old Rock (live)
I Hate The White Man (live)
These Fifty Years
The Monster
Commune (live)
January Man
* The latter stages of Harper’s career are a bit messy with re-releases with amended track listings or the release of previously shelved albums.
Another Costello (only tracks from original track list, no bonus tracks or b-sides):
Alison
Night Rally
Accidents Will Happen
Secondary Modern
Different Finger
How Much I’ve Lied
Kid About It
Pills and Soap
The Great Unknown
I’ll Wear It Proudly
Home Is Anywhere You Hang Your Head
Last Boat Leaving
After The Fall
I Almost Had a Weakness
Rocking Horse Road
Must You Throw Dirt In My Face?
The Other End of The Telescope
In The Darkest Place
Spooky Girlfriend
Still
The Delivery Man
Freedom for The Stallion
Flutter and Wow
Complicated Shadows
Jimmy Standing In The Rain
Tripwire
Yup I could easily go for those too
Except Different Finger, you nutter
I love that song! 😜
Has to be suit of Lights from DFB’s list. Sheldrake edges it with After the Fall. You are both spot on with Still. Re Spike – there are two songs on there that he rarely if ever plays live in Miss Macbeth and Satellite that I absolutely love.
At least neither of you chose Deep Dark Truthful mirror – dreadful.
Yes After The Fall would be my No.2 but Couldn’t Call It Unexpected No.4 just brings back such great memories of when he ended the 1999 shows with it unamplified (Steve on keys as well) and you could literally hear his shoes squeak as he stalked the very lip of the stage
Still does it sometimes
Oh and in case you were wondering
Best of unreleased \ B side \ rarities Costello by album
Poison Moon
Tiny Steps
Accidents Will Happen (live version – Hollywood High)
Dr Luther’s Assistant
Black sails In the Sunset
Psycho (live)
Town Cryer (fast version)
Baby Pictures
Withered & Died
Having It All
Blue Chair (fast version)
The Ugly Things
St Stephen’s Day Murders
God Only Knows (live)
Basement Kiss
Passionate Fight
Full Force Gale
Suspect My Tears
What Do I Do Now?
In The Darkest Place
Spooky Girlfriend (live at KFOG)
The Monkey
Condemned Man
Mathew Met Mary
American Mirror
Tho’ Deep Dark on Unplugged and Unshaved is really quite good.
Frank Zappa:
Help, I’m a Rock
Call Any Vegetable
The Idiot Bastard Son
King Kong
Love Of My Life
The Air
Peaches En Regalia
The Little House I Used To Live In
The Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue
Chunga’s Revenge
The Mud Shark
Magic Fingers
Eddie, Are You Kidding?
Big Swifty
Blessed Relief
Zomby Woof
Stink-Foot
Cheepnis
Inca Roads
Advance Romance
The Torture Never Stops
Titties & Beer
RDNZL
Filthy Habits
City Of Tiny Lites
Bogus Pomp
Pink Napkins
Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?
You Are What You Is
Valley Girl
Moggio
Baby Snakes
Sad Jane
The Perfect Stranger
Whippin’ Post
Bamboozled By Love
Brown Moses
What’s New In Baltimore?
Let’s Move To Cleveland
G-Spot Tornado
The Mammy Anthem
Approximate
Jesus Thinks You’re a Jerk
Sexual Harassment In the Workplace
Nig Biz
Bolero
The Black Page (New Age Version)
The Evil Prince
Thirteen
Charles Ives
Both “The Mammy Anthem” and “The Evil Prince” are radically different versions to the originals from the much-derided “Thing-Fish” album/musical. I reckon they both count as Live Originals.
Don’t agree with some choices but bravo.
@mike_h
What this thread reveals to me is that I’m a bit of a can’t be arsed with artists with large catalogues. So even with an artist I love, like Bowie, I haven’t heard Earthling and have only listened to Black Star once. I love Echo and the Bunnymen but couldn’t tell you their post-reformation best tracks (as they’re a bit like a post-Berry REM IMHO). Civilian tendencies revealed clearly.
**Tull “fan” shuffles feet and looks shifty**
I think you also get to a time when you just have enough you like of an artist and don’t bother with the rest as life is too short – Bowie is a prime example, also the Stones. I have everything, but why would I listen to A Bigger Bang over Sticky Fingers..?
Because Laugh, I Almost Died is great. You are allowed to listen to both!
I think its only fiction that I have that real completist gene. I’ve read every single novel and short story written by, for example, Philip K Dick and JG Ballard. Whereas Hours and Earthling remain un-listened to.
Everything Falls Apart
It’s Not Funny Anymore
Turn On The News
Books about UFOs
Makes No Sense At All
Don’t Want To Know If You Are Lonely
Could You Be The One
See that’s a catalogue I can get to know.
Who is the artist?
I don’t recognise any of those titles.
Husker Du
@carl you’re in for a treat if you fancy Minnesotan power-pop/hardcore. I would start with Flip Your Wig or New Day Rising as I think they are the best balanced. Zen Arcade is their hardcore masterpiece. The later albums (Candy Apple Grey, Warehouse…) have some ballads that, well let’s just say revealed why they played everything fast. They begat Sugar, whose first two albums are mini-masterpieces, and the Bob Mould solo career. Grant Hart produced this minor classic too.
PSB:
Love Comes Quickly
King’s Cross
Domino Dancing
Being Boring
Dreaming Of The Queen
Before
You Only Tell Me You Love Me when You’re drunk
Home and Dry
Casanova in Hell
The way It Used To Be
Leaving
Vocal
Burn
Hmmm. I think the PSB’s almost always put their best tracks out as singles – which may lead to jadedness through overhearing. I’d go
Love Comes Quickly
Kings Cross
It’s Alright
Being Boring
Dreaming of the Queen
Se A Vide E
New York City Boy
Home and Dry
Numb
The Way It Used To Be
Leaving
Vocal
Pop Kids
I’m more of an upbeat PSBs-er than the slowies.
Tonight Is Forever
Rent
Domino Dancing
This Must Be The Place I Waited Years To Leave
Dreaming Of The Queen
Discoteca
You Only Tell Me You Love Me When You’re Drunk
London
Minimal
The Way It Used To Be
Leaving
Vocal
The Pop Kids
Sultans Of Swing
Lady Writer
Tunnel Of Love
Telegraph Road
Your Latest Trick
Calling Elvis
I’m going to include the 2 side project/partial band albums
My Girl
Embarrassment
When Dawn Arrives
Primrose Hill
One Better Day
Coldest Day
In Wonder
Saturday Night, Sunday Morning
Lola
That Close
Leon
Don’t Let Them Catch You Crying
As no-one seems to have tackled Yes
Survival
Time and A Word
Perpetual Change
Heart of the Sunrise
And You and I
Revealing Science of God
Gates of Delirium
Parallels
Future Times
Machine Messiah
Hearts
Shoot High, Aim Low
Endless Dream
I would have waited forever
That that is
Mind Drive
New State Of Mind
Homeworld
In the presence of
Fly from here
Subway Walls
Some of the later albums are a bit vague to be honest!
Ooh, Perpetual Change over all of the other bells and whistles on that album? Well done, sir. I had to look up Revealing Science…..as I have only ever referred to the tracks as Side 1, Side 2, Side 3 and Side 4. Good choice, though. If I could just extract the terrible drum solo from Side 4, that would be my favourite.
Solo Todd, ignoring live albums.
We Gotta Get You A Woman
The Range War
I Saw The Light
Just One Victory
A Dream Goes On Forever
Real Man
Love Of The Common Man
Determination
Compassion
Hideaway
Pretending To Care
Can’t Stop Running
Second Wind
Property
Tables Will Turn
Mated
Where Does The Time Go?
Stood Up
Courage
Is It A Star?
Something From Nothing
Blind
EBTG….
Bittersweet
Ugly little dreams
Don’t let the teardrops rust your shining heart
Apron Strings
Driving
You lift me up
Rollercoaster
Wrong
Five fathoms
Suppose I should take a go at The Blue Aeroplanes after last night
Gunning The Works
Lover and Confidante
Bury Your Love Like Treasure
Jacket Hangs
Huh!
Vade Mecum Gunslinger
Dark
Top of the Pops
Up In A Down World
Sulphur
Nothing Will Ever Happen In The Future
James (excluding the ‘Night Before’ and ‘Morning After’ Eps…)
Scarecrow
What For?
Come Home
Born Of Frustration
Sometimes
Say Something
She’s A Star
We’re Going To Miss You
Getting Away With It (All Messed Up)
Hey Ma
Moving On
Bitch
Nothing from Wah wah then? Perhaps the early version of tomorrow. Another band where the lead single was generally the best track on the album
GnR
Mr Brownstone
Patience
Coma
Estranged
Attitude
Haven’t bothered with Chinese Democracy and none of the songs I heard live in 2002 have impinged on the old noggin
The Paul Simon Songbook – this was tough!
Sound Of Silence
I Am A Rock
Richard Cory
Homeward Bound
Fakin It
The Only Living Boy In New York
Duncan
Kodachrome
My Little Town
How The Heart Approaches What It Yearns
Hearts and Bones
The Boy In the Bubble
The Obvious Child
Satin Summer Nights
Darling Lorraine
Outrageous
So Beautiful Or So What
Insomniacs Lullaby
Take me I’m yours
Up the Junction
If I didn’t love you
Vanity Fair (tho’ I prefer the stripped down version that was a b-side to a single)
His house, her home
No place like home
Trust me to open my mouth
This could be the last time
Sunday street
Some fantastic place
Heaven knows
Sleeping with a friend
Cradle to the Grave
No space for Electric Trains?
I was trying to avoid a pattern of ‘the lead single” or the “first track”: hadn’t realised how frontloaded the Squeeze are. They always tuck the Holland and Wilkinson songs away toward the end, I note, tho’…….
Take Me I’m Yours
Goodbye Girl
If I Didn’t Love You
Tempted
Black Coffee In Bed
Footprints
Slaughtered, Gutted And Heartbroken
The Day I Get Home
Some Fantastic Place
This Summer
To Be A Dad
Happy Days
Motherless children
King of hearts
Side of the road
Sweet old world
Right in time
Essence
Those 3 days
Everything has changed
If wishes were horses
I don’t know how you’re livin’
Cold day in hell
Factory
Fuck me @retropath2 that very nearly matches what I would have chosen.
Steve Earle
My Old friend the blues
The rain came down
Johnny come lately
Billy Austin
Tom Ames Prayer
CCKMP
Telephone road
Harlan man
Galway girl
Amerika V. 6.0 (The Best We Can Do)
The Revolution Starts …
Jericho Road
Rake
This City
Calico County
Better Off Alone
Fearless Heart
I Ain’t Ever Satisfied
Copperhead Road
The Other Kind
Goodbye
Feel Alright
Taneytown
The Mountain
When I Fall
Amerika
The Revolution Starts …
Sparkle and Shine
(and I stopped)
Unilever
Wasteland
Coal not dole
That’s how grateful we are
You can’t trust anyone nowadays
Timebomb
Just look at me now
Drip drip drip
Pass it along
Don’t pass go
On e bay
By and by
Add me
Voices that’s all
A remarkable body of work, from rudimentary near-thrash, thru’ quiet bit, shouty bit etc thru’ to the sublime choral folkals.
Not got it? Here is 1.,6. and 14.
4 and 5 should be Rappoport’s Testament, and Sometimes Plunder, I reckon. Circa 1993, Chumbawamba were the best live band around (they were still pretty good when I saw them last – 2013, maybe?)
Avoiding the obvious:
Sugar Never Tasted So Good
Sister, Do You Know My Name?
Dead Leaves a And The Dirty Ground
The Air Near My Fingers
My Doorbell
Conquest
Jolene (does this count? Not on a studio album)
Alice Cooper (to 1980):
Swing Low Sweet Cheerio
Return Of The Spiders
Ballad of Dwight Fry
Under My Wheels
Gutter Cat Vs The Jets
I Love The Dead
Teenage Lament ’74
Only Women Bleed
Wish You Where Here
Road Rats
Wish I Were Born in Beverly Hills
Pain
Why stop at 1980?
From Flush The Fashion, the albums were never great, and then it all became a bit “pantomime” -please enlighten my earholes with what I should be choosing.
I’m Alive (That Was the Day My Dead Pet Returned to Save My Life) (from Zipper Catches Skin may sneak onto the list)
try “no man’s land” from DADA…..a splendidly batshit song about alice as a xmax santa.
he picks up…gets picked up by a bored housewife and wonders aloud about her reaction on finding he has multiple personalites!!!
the album is somewhat hampered by an early 80s production featuring sampled drums….but it can grow on you…….some great riffing on “scarlet and sheba” too.
FISH
Let X=X/It Tango
Blue Lagoon
For A Large And Changing Room
Talk Normal
Coolsville
Freefall
The End of The World
Washington Street
The Beginning Of Memory
(Laurie Anderson)
Aztec Camera/ Roddy Frame
Walk Out to Winter
All I Need is Everything
How Men Are
Stray
Spanish Horses
On the Avenue
Bigger, Brighter, Better
Surf
Western Skies
The Other Side
Damn. You beat me to it.
Good choices though.
His old mucker Edwyn and, firstly, The Juice:
Dying Day
I Can’t Help myself
A Place In My Heart
I Guess I’m Just A Little Too Sensitive
Pushing It To The Back Of my Mind
Someone Else Besides
I’ve Got It Bad
Keep On Burning
Mine Is At
Then I Cried
It Dawns On Me
Too Bad (That’s Sad)
And while we’re doing the Os:
Midnight live
Impact (The Earth Is Burning)
Sad But True
Out There Somewhere? (Part 2)
Way Out->
Funny Break
Easy Serv
Never
The Waterboys
December
The Big Music
This is the Sea
When ye go Away
How Long Will I Love You
Good News
My Love is my Rock in the Weary Land
….to be continued…
Great idea for a thread so I decided to have a try with Was (not Was). Despite them being a band I love dearly it didn’t come out so magnificently. I’d forgotten they only made five albums.
Carry me back to old Morocco
Shake your head (go to bed)
Spy in the house of love
I feel better than James Brown
Your luck won’t last
What, no out come the freaks? You are clearly off your rocker on this one @Kaisfatdad.
By the way I share your love. Would also add Forever’s a long long time from the Orchestra Was album.
Good point Steve. The Orchestra Was album ought to be included. And Sweet Pea Atkinson’s solo album was pretty much a WNW album too.
Jonathan Richman
Someone I Care About
Roadrunner
New England
Egyptian Reggae
Abdul and Cleopatra
That Summer Feeling
Chewing Gum Wrapper
It’s You
When Harpo Played his Harp
Everyday Clothes
Since She Started to Ride
My Career as a Homewrecker
Parties in the USA
You Must Ask the Heart
Surrender
When I Dance
….
Heaven Is In Your Mind
Feelin’ Alright
Shanghai Noodle Factory
John Barleycorn
Many A Mile to Freedom
Shoot Out At The Fantasy Factory
Dream Gerrard
That was Traffic.
Excellent!…Love Traffic….I’d go for
Dear Mr. Fantasy
40,000 Headmen
Medicated Goo
Empty Pages
The Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys
Sometimes I Feel So Uninspired
Dream Gerrard
Here Comes A Man
Nice list @nigelt. And you’ve included a track from that 90s album Far From Home, which I found rather, ahem, uninspired. Maybe I’ll give it another go.
What are high heeled boys anyway?
Edit: Holy Ground is quite good.
Oh no @Declan, I really like Far From Home a lot! Do give it another try. Try Googling ‘high heeled boys’….oh….maybe not….
Mr Fantasy isn’t much better.
Apparently.
Hey Nige, you’ve opened my eyes and ears after years. Definitely is a good and varied album, even if it’s short on milkmanesque tunes. So thanks. @nigelt
Billy Bragg
The Man In The Iron Mask
It Says Here
Levi Stubbs’ Tears
Little Time Bomb
The Marching Song of the Covert Battalions
Tank Park Salute
The Space Race Is Over
Thatcherites
Ingrid Bergman
All You Fascists
Distant Shore
I Almost Killed You
Be Kind To The Boy On The Road
There Will Be A Reckoning
The Midnight Special
Ahh someone else who adores Little Time Bomb – marvellous!
Workers Playtime is definitely my favourite album (because I’m a bit of a softy on the quiet) so the choice of that over “Must I Paint You A Picture?” or “The Price I Pay” was a tough one.
Everything came together on that album. Waiting for the Great Leap Forward for me. “It’s a mighty long way down rock ‘n roll
From Top of the Pops to drawing the dole” – superb
The revolution is just a tee shirt away.
Another vote for that album.
I would have had King James Version from William Bloke, not least because it begins with the line ‘He was trapped in a haircut he no longer believed in’
Gretchen Peters. ..
On a bus to St. Cloud
Love and Texaco
Child of mine
Sunday morning
Five minutes
Jubilee
Man that was hard. She hasn’t made loads of albums but the quality is so high you could pick with a blindfold and a pin TBH. @carl will have a view. ..
The Bevis Frond. For the most part chose songs over face-melt:
Termination Station Grey
South Hampstead Rain
Will To Lose
Driven Away
Lights Are Changing
Good Old Fashioned Pain
Stain On The Sun
High In A Flat
Everyday Sunshine
Could You Fly Higher?
That’s Why You Need Us
Leave A Light On
Can’t Feel It
Down To Earth
Way Back When
The Leaving Of London
Stupid Circle
White Numbers
I Blame The Rain
A hidden national treasure if ever there was one.
Drive-By Truckers
The Living Bubba
Bulldozers And Dirt
Zip City
Road Cases
Decoration Day
Where The Devil Don’t Stay
The Righteous Path
This Fucking Job
Used To Be A Cop
Made Up English Oceans
Ramon Casiano
Anyone going to take a tilt at Now That’s What I call Music?
World Party (has this been done?)
Ship of fools
Thank you world
Sunshine
Hercules
What does it mean now?
The Weight
When You Awake
When I Paint My Masterpiece
A Change is Gonna Come
Arcadian Driftwood
Ain’t That a Lotta Love
Atlantic City
High Price of Love
If I Should Fall
(Not, NTWICM, I should add, tho, as a remark, it could be: The Band.)
I’m going to mix RT and R< in one list. So there.
The Poor Ditching Boy
The End Of The Rainbow
Georgie On A Spree
Dimming Of The Day
Pavanne
Saturday Rolling Around
Banish Misfortune
Wall Of Death
The Wrong Heartbeat
She Twists The Knife Again
Nearly In Love
Waltzing’s For Dreamers
1952 Vincent Black Lightning
Beeswing
Razor Dance (electric version)
Sweetheart On The Barricade
Sights And Sounds Of London Town
Outside Of The Inside
The Boys Of Mutton Street
Dad’s Gonna Kill Me
A Brother Slips Away
Auldie Riggs
Saving The Good Stuff For You
Patty Don’t You Put Me Down
What a fantastic list of songs!
It is, even if I disagree with almost all of them! The well is very deep here.
True. If I went again now, I might come up with something very different.
The best bit of any Richard Thompson record is the end.
Alternatively –
Just a fart in a beret moaning. As always. 😉
You silly, twisted boy…
You’re thinking of the Beastie Boys…
And still no-one attempting the North Face of Neil Young…
Ian Anderson
Black And White Television (Great album, so a tough choice)
In A Stone Circle
The Secret Language Of Birds
A Hand Of Thumbs (Wretched album, so a tough choice)
Kismet in Suburbia
Pax Britannica
“Banker bets, banker wins” for me. ..otherwise full marks.
Been waiting for someone to do Suede. Maybe this will draw y’all out?
The Drowners
The Wild Ones
The Beautiful Ones
Everything Will Flow
Oceans
For The Strangers
Tightrope
Is there anyone who dares parse Black Sabbath’s vast and polarizing discography?
The full meal deal, no half measures.
Paging @Bartleby
You flatter me I’m afraid! I bailed after Born Again. Went a bit tedious metal for me. Up to that point, it fairly easy tho:
Black Sabbath
War Pigs
Children of the Grave
Wheels of Confusion
Spiral Architect
The Writ
It’s Alright
A Hard Road
Wicked World (Live at Last – doesn’t appear on a studio album)
Neon Knights
Turn up the Night
Zero the Hero (probably. Can’t remember)
Paging @Hawkfall?
Neon Knights rather than Children Of The Sea? I always thought Children Of The Sea sounded like it could have been the last great Rainbow track.
I’m feeling a bit thuggish this morning, so it’s the Dio opening numbers – great statements of intent. Children of the Sea and Falling off the Edge of the World probably otherwise.
N.I.B.
War Pigs
Children of the Grave
Snowblind
Sabbath, Bloody Sabbath
Symptom of the Universe
Back Street Kids
Juniors Eyes
Neon Knights
Sign of the Southern Cross
Zero the Hero
Then you can fast forward to the reunion album they did with Dio in 1992, Dehumanizer, which is pretty good. Let’s take After All (The Dead) from that one. Then there was the Ozzy reunion 13 from a couple of years back which is not bad too. Let’s take the Planet Caraven revisiting Zeitgest from that one.
Can we put in requests? Anyone want to have a go at Randy Newman? He hasn’t released so many albums but some of them I have not a clue about.
I have the same problem with Massive Attack. The first three albums I know well:
Unfinished sympathy
Karmacoma¨
Man next door
Heligoland and 100th window? Not got a clue.
What a civilian I am!
I Think It’s Gonna Rain Today
Old Kentucky Home
Tickle Me (live)
God’s Song
Rednecks
In Germany before The War
The Girls In My Life (Part 1)
Real Emotional Girl
Dixie Flyer
The Great Nations Of Europe
Feels Like Home
Thanks DFB, I will take a listen to those songs from the later albums. Will also give your Ash list a listen to.
Another Randy Newman selection. (* from Faust which was Randy’s songs performed by both himself and guests)
I Think It’s Gonna Rain Today
Let’s Burn Down the Cornfield
Last Night I Had a Dream (live)
Burn On
Louisiana, 1927
Kathleen (Catholicism Made Easier)
It’s Money That I Love
I’m Different
I Want You to Hurt Like I Do
Feels Like Home (sung by Bonnie Raitt*)
I Miss You
A Few Words in Defense of Our Country
There’s a distinct shortage of jazz artists featured on this thread.
I thought I’d start to put this right by knocking out a quick one for Ella Fitzgerald.
Bad idea! In the 50s she was releasing on average 4 albums a year. Makes Neil Young look like a part timer.
Nina – leaving out all but one live track cos it gets way confusing and even then the whole of that 1964 album is essential – goddamn!)
Don’t Smoke In Bed
Willow Weep For Me
Gin House Blues
I Got It Bad
Pirate Jenny (live)
Don’t Le Me Be Misunderstood
Sinnerman
Blackbird
The Other Woman
Wild Is The Wind
Don’t You Pay Them No Mind
I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free
I Want A Little Sugar In My Bowl
Why? (The King Of Love Is Dead) (although the unedited cut is better)
Nobody’s Fault But Mine
Just Like Tom Thumbs Blues
To Be Young Gifted & Black
Here Comes The Sun
(gets fuzzy after that)
That is one hell of a playlist, DFB. Solid gold all the way through.
Her version of Tom Thumbs Blues is my favourite Dylan cover by anyone I think
Jackie Leven solo (up until 2003)
Soft Lowland Tongue
Call Mother a Lonely Field
Men in Prison
Some Ancient Misty Morning
Jim O’Windygates
Main Travelled Roads
Universal Blue
The Keys to the Forest
Single Father
Exit Wound
Nottamun Town
Classic Northern Diversions
I too was toying with big Jackie, yet became daunted by his prodigious output, let alone Haunted Field releases and Sir Vincent Lone. Great choices, btw
I’m not familiar with the Sir Vincent Lone material, so none of that was in my list.
There are, however, 3 Haunted Valley releases represented there:
For Peace Comes Dropping Slow (great live album!)
The Wanderer
Deep in the Heart of Nowhere
What a remarkable songwriter and singer the big man was. I know that there are quite a few of us Afterworders who hold him in the highest regard.
Thread of the year already?
Here’s a dozen from Lucinda Williams. Really difficult, she’s such a consistent songwriter there’s probably half a dozen I could have picked on each album
Satisfied Mind
I Lost It
Am I Too Blue?
Sweet Old World
Metal Firecracker
Bus to Baton Rouge
Ventura
Are You Alright?
Jailhouse Tears
Copenhagen
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Can’t Close the Door on Love
Jack Names The Planets
Kung Fu
Numbskull
Walking Barefoot
Orpheus
Polaris
Evil Knievel
LOVE Jack Names the Planets and Kung Fu.
Their Supersonic 7″ compilation is one of those perfect hits collections
Fabs
I Saw Her Standing There
Youve really got a hold on me
I should have known better
Every little thing
You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away
Norwegian wood
Here there and everywhere
A Day In The Life (within you without you is a very close second)
I Am The Walrus
While my guitar gently weeps
All you need is love
Come together (I assume I am not allowed the full medley)
Get Back
As time goes by, I’m coming to believe that I Saw Her Standing There is The Fabs’ peak.
Doledrum
Think I may not be entering into the spirit here.
The ‘Tones
Here Comes The Summer
Wednesday Week
It’s Going To Happen
The Love Parade
Singles band? Not much!!
All this way down and no mention of The Skids or Big Country.
Well …
Skids:
The Saints Are Coming
Charade
Circus Games
Blood and Soil
Big Country:
Porrohman
Where the Rose Is Sown
The Seer
King of Emotion
Republican Party Reptile
Skids on tour soon I see, even if Adamson, R.I.P., otherwise occupied. But will they play anything by the Cuban Heels, precursor band I caught at the Hope & anchor in a blur of excitement in, um, 1978.
Sir Roderick (The Mercury Years):
Handbags and Gladrags
Gasoline Alley
Every Picture Tells A Story
Lost Paraguayos
You Make Me Feel (Like A Natural Man)
and if we push the Imperial phase a bit:
Stone Cold Sober
Killing Of Georgie
You Keep Me Hanging On
Police
So lonely
Bring on the night
Dont stand so close to ,me (&, FWIIW, their biggest disappointment of an album – huge anticipation followed by “is that it” – OOAA)
Invisible sun
Synchronicity (1 or 2)
Prickle Eye Bush
Sloe Gin
Cholera Camp
Captain Wedderburn
Roll the Woodpile Down
Roll Alabama
Crowded House anyone?
I started this on Friday but realised i had paid bugger all attention to Intriguer, since corrected…here we go
Mean To Me
Into Temptation
Fall At Your Feet
Private Universe
Silent House
Twice If You’re Lucky
One thing that continues to surprise me on this thread is how few albums certain artists that I hold in high esteem have actually made. Crowded House only did six!
Eilen Jewell also now has six albuns under her belt.
Boundary county
Dusty boxcar wall
Rain roll in
Fist City
Bang bang bang
My hometown
John Martyn – up to end of second Island contract (*John & Beverley Martyn)
Fairy Tale Lullaby
Knuckledy Crunch And Slippledee-Slee Song
Stormbringer*
Auntie Aviator*
Head and Heart
Solid Air
Fine Lines
Spencer the Rover
Outside In (live)
Small Hours
Hurt In Your Heart
Pascanel (Get Back Home)
Could’ve Been Me
Fisherman’s Dream
One Step Too Far
Mmmmm … yes – that version of Outside In on “Live at Leeds” is just incredible.
Odds…
Eternal Ecstasy (Neopolitan)
It Falls Apart (Bedbugs)
Eat My Brain (Good Weird Feeling) or Mercy To Go, that one’s a tough call…
Someone Who’s Cool (Nest)
Come To LA (Cheerleader)
A House
My Little Lighthouse
Now That I’m Sick
I Lied
Why Me
Just Because
The Chemical Brothers
Chemical Beats
Block Rockin’ Beats
Music: Response
It Began In Afrika
Galvanize
Saturate
Horse Power
The Devil Is In The Beats
Superflash (live)
I’ll See You There
Counting Crows.
Round Here
A Long December
Mrs. Potter’s Lullaby
Hard Candy
On A Tuesday In Amsterdam long Ago
Amie
Palisades Park
The National:
Anna Freud
Lucky You
Mr November
Fake Empire
Bloodbuzz Ohio
Pink Rabbits
changed my mind a hundred times.
The first band from Perth on this remarkable thread? Only five studio albums to pick from.
Hell of a summer
Wide open road
One soul less on your fiery list
Jerdacuttup man
Too hot to move, too hot to think
Nobody sings about the Australian summer quite like the Triffids.
So who’s going to do the Go-Betweens?
Charlie Gordon did a Grant McLennan list (see above), but I’m afraid to say that he broke the thread rules quite blatantly.
But in a very good cause, Duke. Come on treat us to a list of Grant’s old band. I’m sure you can do it without even looking at Wiki. I bet Cattle and cane will be in there.
Time now for Grace Jones. Interesting to see the stats on Wiki. Her first three albums made little impact anywhere and giving them a quick listen now I can understand why. Fairly standard disco fodder although I do like her Piaf cover.
Enter Sly and Robbie and she really hit her stride. Nightclubbing is a masterpiece.
Had to make some intelligent guess for the last three albums too.
La vie en rose
Pride / Am I ever going to fall in love with NY City
On your knees
Private Life
I’ve done it again
The apple stretching
Slave to the rhythmn
Party girl
Driving satisfaction
Hurrican Dub
I was going to do Grace (hur) but wussed out because I don’t remember anything of Bulletproof Heart.
The best track from Fame is I Need a Man. The best track on Inside Story is Barefoot in Beverly Hills (summery guitar from that nice Nile Rodgers chappie). Williams Blood probably does it for Hurricane.
Chuck Prophet
Rage and storm
Baton Rouge
Battered and bruised
Whole lot more
New Year’s day (live)
Lucky
Dyin’ all young (live)
Summertime thing
You did (Bomp shooby dooby bomp)
Would you love me?
Bob Wills is still the King
Barely exist
Willie Mays is up at bat
Laughing on the inside
Bad year for rock ‘n’ roll *
* The album Bobby Fuller Died For Your Sins hasn’t been released yet, and this is the only song I’ve heard from it, so I’m being a bit presumptuous there.
icecream man
women in love
cradle will rock
hear about it later
hang em’ high
panama
summer night
black and blue……….by the mighty’ ish VAN HALEN
BUT…..anything after OU812 is crap IMHO.
and anything from the current DLR era is not even that…
The quiet one…
Under The Mersey Wall
Party Seacombe
Beware Of Darkness
Give Me Love
Dark Horse
This Guitar (Can’t Keep From Crying)
This Song
Here Comes The Moon
All Those Years Ago
That’s The Way It Goes
Devil’s Radio
Cheer Down
Any Road