OK format changed.....re-edited.
On my merry way to work this morning I was listening to a few old tracks and it got me thinking. When I hear a good tune, or appreciate a good song, I want to share it, I want others to hear how good things are. One thing led to another and I started thinking of tracks that would make it into my all time 'best album'. Obvioulsy this album is 499290 songs long, but it's a starting point. I'm open to being swayed away from my choices if you think there are better....Let's get eclectic..come on deadmen.
I'll edit this list as and when:
Quote[Pop]
1.Blur - Girls and Boys
2.The Beatles - Help
3.
4.
5.
Dance
1. Happy Mondays - Step On
2. The Prodigy - Out of Space
3. Rob D - Clubbed to Death
4. Primal Scream - Moving on Up
5. Orbital - Halcyon
6. Future sound of London- Papua New Guinea
7. Faithless - Insomnia
Hip Hop / Old School
1. House of Pain - Jump Around
2. Ice Cube - AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted
3. Grandmaster FLash - The Message
4. Grandmaster Flash - White Lines
5. Public Enemy - Fight the Power
6.
Rock and Roll
1. The Rolling Stones - Sympathy For the Devil
2. Little Richard - Long Tall Sally
3. Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah
4. Chuck Berry - Johnny B Goode
5.
Heavy / Rock
1. Motorhead - Ace of Spades
2. Rage Against the Machine - Killing in the Name of
3. Foo Fighters - Everlong
4. NIN - head like a hole
5. Sepultura - Roots
6. Killing Joke - Money is not our god
7. Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
8. Guns and Roses - Paradise City
9. Pantera - Mouth For War
Country and Western / Bluegrass etc
1. Jerry Reed - Amos Moses
2. Dusty Springfield - Spooky
3. Johnny Cash - A Boy Called Sue
4.
5.
New Wave?
1. Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus
2. New Order - Blue Monday
3.
4.
5.
Reggae / Ska
1. Bob Marley - Jammin
2. The Specials - Too Much Too Young
3. The Specials - Message to Rudy
4.
5.
Jazz / Blues
1. Howlin' Wolf - Smokestack Lightin'
2. Fats Waller - Alligator Crawl
3. Charles Wright - Express Yourself
4. Otis Redding - Cigarettes and Coffee
5. Miles Davis - Gone
Mowtown / Soul
1.Smokey Robinson - Track Of My Tears
2.Otis Redding - Cigarettes and Coffee
3.Stevei Wonder - Superstition
Punk & Punk'ish & Guitar based dirty shenanigans....
1. The Clash - London Calling
2. The Jam - Down the Tube Station at Midnight
3.
Needs a Home:
My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult - Do You Fear For Your Child
What would you put in and why, I'll start you with some obscure'ish stuff.
1. Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus - One of the ones I listened to again this morning, there's something maudling but catchy about the sounds, very like their other stuff, but more defining.
2. Charles Wright - Express Yourself - Another old and gold, sampled a million times, but the original holds together well. Just enough funk to keep you going, trumpets chirping in with a solid bass line. I could listen to this all day.
Another one I'm chewing over is Amos Moses by Jerry Reed. It's a C&W which I don't like, but this has a nice guitar riff running in it and sounds clean. I'm trying to have a nice spread...
MadNess get in here and gimme some metal. There are a few tunes I like, but I need input. I like some Rammstein stuff, one track in particular, but I'm sure you can add.
When the levee breaks by Led Zeppelin is a personal fav of mine. Robert Plant's vocals are at their best.
For whom the bell tolls by Metallica fantastic driving guitars.
Jesus just left chircago/waiting for the bus by ZZtop lovely dirty blues.
prodigy - outer space
The Doors - LA Woman
Pink Floyd - Careful with that axe Eugine
The Stranglers - Peaches
Ministry - Jesus built my hotrod (thrash/deathmetal (ish))
Happy Mondays - Step Off
Primal Scream - every single track off screamadelica
just thinking about these songs makes me want to go and play them...
infact im going to now !!
QuoteOriginally posted by FatBob@Apr 28 2005, 02:03 PM
prodigy - outer space
The Doors - LA Woman
Pink Floyd - Careful with that axe Eugine
The Stranglers - Peaches
Ministry - Jesus built my hotrod (thrash/deathmetal (ish))
Happy Mondays - Step Off
Primal Scream - every single track off screamadelica
just thinking about these songs makes me want to go and play them...
infact im going to now !!
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Hold on there trigger, you can't have a whole album. One song from Screamadelica maybe, it is a good album, pick a tune, and why.....
Step On you mean? I'd agree with that one, a changer of a generation of music. I like the Prodigy, but dunno if Out of Space is their best track? What about Voodoo People. Always liked that....gonna add it if I can get you to concur.
Not heard the rest so it's open to the rest of the community.
QuoteOriginally posted by Gh0st Face Killah@Apr 28 2005, 12:15 PM
When the levee breaks by Led Zeppelin is a personal fav of mine. Robert Plant's vocals are at their best.
For whom the bell tolls by Metallica fantastic driving guitars.
Jesus just left chircago/waiting for the bus by ZZtop lovely dirty blues.
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Not heard these gfk, any other volunteers.
On a breakbeat tip try Fibbonacci Sequence by B.T. Stunning tune.
Oh and Clubbed To Death by Rob Duggan is another, very chilled tune indeed. Its featured in The Matrix.
break on through - the doors
sympathy for the :devil: - rolling stones
stop the rock - apollo 440.
and a whole reel of kylie numbers. :blush:
Coolio - Gangster's Paradise
/Mr T "I ain't concurring nobody fool"
Movin on up from screamadelica album if really pushed but i just think the whole album from start to finnish is just a journey for the sunday morning after the rave.
movin on up is just such an anthem for a generation.
also step off :whistle: :blush: DOH!! Step on
i went for outer space cos it was the one i still liked today (esp the boing). heard charlie to death and alot of the voodoo/firestarter type stuff i had on vinyl that has just been rinsed to death when mixing !!. when raving outer space was always the one that got the place kicking at 5.00am in the rain in a field somewhere. :dribble: :blink:
Added what I feel like cos it's my thread, unless anyone wants to get all passionate....Nicely put fateth bobeth...you won mate.
I do like Clubbed to Death, always have, and this thread is doing what I hoped and reminding me of some class tunes.
Coolio....not sure if I like it that much, although I can see it's merits I think there are better tunes in the same genre.
I think tomorrow, I'm gonna split it up and make it genre based. Dougie Fresh etc etc, coming up.
thought of a few more, i delved deep into my box last night when the wife was safley strapped into the bed (oohh-er missus).
the specials - too much too young/guns of navarone (live)
The best two-tone single ever guns of navarone was my fave, great bouncy tune huge horns and that noise that only lynval gooding could make!. great war movie as well.
(have too say there is a slight possibility that 'message too you rudy' or the one that really kicked off the whole ska thing 'gangsters' would equally be as good. for me tho the thrill of finding such an astoundingly good track as the guns of navarone on the AA side was the clincher..
UB40 - Dont slow down/Dont let it pass you by AA single
House of pain - jump around oh my gosh!! BOSS TUNEAGE
The Clash - Bank Robber
The Damned - Love Song ohh yeah "Just for you heres a love song...."
Baby D - Let me be your Fantasy /airhorns aplenty/whistle posse/horn crew/junglist massive "only for the U.K. hardcore raver OI OI!!!!"
time too get some sleep now, more box investigation and suggestions to come
cmon OB get ur Ozric tentacles out for the boys :blink:
QuoteOriginally posted by FatBob@Apr 28 2005, 11:01 PM
The Damned - Love Song ohh yeah "Just for you heres a love song...."
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The Stranglers "nice 'n' sleazy"
Motorhead "Ace of Spades"
Squeeze "Take me I'm yours"
The Dickies "Eve of destruction"
my 2p worth
;)
Age of consent-New Order, Mainly because it sounded well against the rumble of my 460 cu powered Capri. :devil:
..... and, She's lost control by joy division, as it annoys the hell out of the wife. :whistle:
Ok slight change of format....anyone still interested or shall I crack on, on my own...
FatB, check out Max Romeo and the Upsetters - Chase the Devil.....it'll remind you of something...You'll definitely like it.
blur - girls & boys or parklife
the La's - there she goes
beastie boys - no sleep till brooklyn, fight for your right
tupac - california love
sugerhill gang - rapers delight
public enemy - fight the power
snoop dogg - nuthin but a g thang
faithless - insomnia
faith no more - from out of nowhere, epic
guns n roses - welcome to the jungle, paradise city, sweet child o' mine
jimi hendrix - red house
nine inch nails - closer
cream - sunshine of your love
nirvana - in bloom, lithium, tourette's
oasis - whatever, live forever
pearl jam - alive
blondie - atomic
portishead - roads, glory box
red hot chilis - give it away, under the bridge
the orb - little fluffy clouds
theres a few for you to think about.
Red Hot Chilli's - Brandy
Tupac - Changes
TDWY ft. Shorty - Player's Holiday
Moby - In My Heart (both the original and the Ferry Corsten remix)
Otis Redding - Cigarettes and Coffee
Fats Waller - Alligator Crawl
Outlandish - Aicha (CN remix)
Come on gents, anyone can post a list of songs, let's have a little reasoning.
For example;
Quoteblur - girls & boys or parklife - Which?
the La's - there she goes
beastie boys - no sleep till brooklyn, fight for your right - Which?
tupac - california love - The original is better in my opinion - Dear Mama was good though, a new style in what at the time was a tired genre
sugerhill gang - rapers delight - Same era'ish, what about White Lines, better lines, better bass
public enemy - fight the power
snoop dogg - nuthin but a g thang
faithless - insomnia - Great tune, shame they haven't lived up to it since, maybe 'We Come One'?
faith no more - from out of nowhere, epic
guns n roses - welcome to the jungle, paradise city, sweet child o' mine - Choices choices, from gritty to sh1tty, I reckon the earlier stuff was better, so Welcome to the Jungle?
jimi hendrix - red house
nine inch nails - closer
cream - sunshine of your love
nirvana - in bloom, lithium, tourette's - All good, I always like the 'Jesus doesn't want me for a sunbeam, on the unplugged album, and if you were going to pick a Nirvana tune, wouldn't it be Teen Spirit ?
oasis - whatever, live forever
pearl jam - alive
blondie - atomic
portishead - roads, glory box
red hot chilis - give it away, under the bridge - Virgin have ruined this tune for me, but good shout
the orb - little fluffy clouds
I appreciate my opinion counts for nothing, but it's good for discussion purposes.
Right reasoning then:
Red Hot Chilli's - Brandy - saw them perform this live last year, was absolutely incredible
Tupac - Changes - the defining moment in tupac's career where he came to the attention of the masses
TDWY ft. Shorty - Player's Holiday - my favourite summer tune of all time - sampling Bill Withers with a laid back rap over it, didnt get the credit or respect it deserved
Moby - In My Heart (both the original and the Ferry Corsten remix) Both the original and Ferry Coreten's remix are immensely powerful dance tracks, especially as the section is lookng a little bare.
Otis Redding - Cigarettes and Coffee - In my opinion his greatest song, everyone cites Dock of the Bay, but they are mainly the people who don't know any more of his music
Fats Waller - Alligator Crawl - The best boogiewoogie/jazz piano player... ever....
Outlandish - Aicha (CN remix) - Another incredible summer tune, but with quite powerful lyrics, certainly rare to have such depth from a remix.
All righty, one for each category. I have fairly obscure tastes but I'll try to keep these to reasonably well-known things, and I'll try not to include anything recent too for that all-time greats feel ;) :
Pop: New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle
Dance: Autechre - Bike
Hip Hop/Old School: Beastie Boys - She's Crafty
Rock & Roll: I'm Walkin' - Fats Domino
Heavy: Pantera - Mouth For War (good lord, as a metal fan where to begin?)
New Wave: Human League - Love Action
Reggae/Ska: Bad Manners - Skinhead Love Affair (not a genre I know really, sorry)
and a couple of other categories, maybe...
Jazz: Miles Davis - Gone
Blues: Howlin' Wolf - Smokestack Lightnin'
Electro: My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult - Do You Fear For Your Child (not really sure which category it lives in, but it needs to be included)
There are only 2 categories of music:
Country & Western :)
Well, I went through your little list of differant genres, & tried to think of the song/s that were pure 100% pop/rock whatever to me (that I could think of at the time) multiple choices came due to not being able to decide myself & its your album so I figured i'd give you the job.
In answer to your few Q's + a few changes-
blur - Girls & boys - pure brit pop
beastie's - Looking down the barrel of a gun - 2nd album after there were supposed 1 hit wonders, came back with new sounds & skills, played there own instruments & sampled the hell out of just about everything
rapers delight/white lines - probably have to put both in as basically they brought rap to the masses
faithless - insomnia - everything they've done since sounds exactly the same as insomnia, just with a differant drop off in the middle
G n' R - welcome to the jungle or paradise city - both sum up what G n' R were all about in there prime, for me paradise city would just sneak it.
Nirvana - teen spirit - yea i guess, i was just being differant on that one, but if your gonna pick 1 song that launched a whole scene, it'd be teen spirit
& whatever on the rest of em :dummy:
QuoteOriginally posted by BlueBall@May 4 2005, 01:56 PM
There are only 2 categories of music:
Country & Western :)
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No you are wrong I'm afraid its
Drum & Bass :dribble:
Updated below......I'd forgotten about the whole Blues/Jazz etc genre..Howlin Wolf - Bang on, I've got a couple of old vinyls, sound great. I can't believe we've had no Beatles / Elvis or 70's stuff, a little less suprising, nothing that stands out is relatively new....any more for any more, any comments on the existing line up?
Oh, incidentally, I have half of my office working on it too.
Motown - Smokey Robinson - Track Of My Tears
Motown - Marvin Gaye - anything from the album "What's Going On".
Country and Western - Johnny Cash - A Boy Called Sue or The Man Comes Around
Pop - Don Henley - The Boys Of Summer
Pop - The Beach Boys - take your pick for perfect 60s summer pop
Rock and Roll - Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run
Rock and Roll - The Clash - so many, but the obvious is London Calling (or do you want a "Punk" section?)
Rock and Roll - Little Richard - Long Tall Sally
Rock and Roll - Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah
Hard Rock - no Led Zepp or Cream? The founders of the genre.
Depends on your definition of "New Wave", but I would have thought The Jam fitted in there.
And I object to the Beatles being in Rock and Roll - they were a pop band if ever I heard one :)
I thought The jam lived on the edges of punk and so would the clash. so can we have a soft punk genre.
can you add "down in the tube station at midnight."
And help by the Beatles is total pop.
QuoteOriginally posted by Benny@May 5 2005, 09:59 AM
Pop
1.Blur - Girls and Boys
2.The Beatles - Help
3.
4.
5.
Dance
1. Happy Mondays - Step On
2. The Prodigy - Out of Space
3. Rob D - Clubbed to Death
4. Primal Scream - Moving on Up
5. Orbital - Halcyon
6. Future sound of London- Papua New Guinea
7. Faithless - Insomnia
Hip Hop / Old School
1. House of Pain - Jump Around
2. Ice Cube - AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted
3. Grandmaster FLash - The Message
4. Grandmaster Flash - White Lines
5. Public Enemy - Fight the Power
6.
Rock and Roll
1. The Rolling Stones - Sympathy For the Devil
2. Little Richard - Long Tall Sally
3. Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah
4. Chuck Berry - Johnny B Goode
5.
Heavy / Rock
1. Motorhead - Ace of Spades
2. Rage Against the Machine - Killing in the Name of
3. Foo Fighters - Everlong
4. NIN - head like a hole
5. Sepultura - Roots
6. Killing Joke - Money is not our god
7. Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
8. Guns and Roses - Paradise City
9. Pantera - Mouth For War
Country and Western / Bluegrass etc
1. Jerry Reed - Amos Moses
2. Dusty Springfield - Spooky
3. Johnny Cash - A Boy Called Sue
4.
5.
New Wave?
1. Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus
2. New Order - Blue Monday
3.
4.
5.
Reggae / Ska
1. Bob Marley - Jammin
2. The Specials - Too Much Too Young
3. The Specials - Message to Rudy
4.
5.
Jazz / Blues
1. Howlin' Wolf - Smokestack Lightin'
2. Fats Waller - Alligator Crawl
3. Charles Wright - Express Yourself
4. Otis Redding - Cigarettes and Coffee
5. Miles Davis - Gone
Mowtown / Soul
1.Smokey Robinson - Track Of My Tears
2.Otis Redding - Cigarettes and Coffee
3.
Punk & Punk'ish & Guitar based dirty shenanigans....
1. The Clash - London Calling
2. The Jam - Down the Tube Station at Midnight
3.
Needs a Home:
My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult - Do You Fear For Your Child
Added...please don't give me and or's I can't pick 'em all...help me out here! Which Beach Boys? Surfin USA? Surfin Safari? Help Me, Rhonda?...Personally I think I get Around...any takers?
QuoteOriginally posted by Benny@May 6 2005, 08:55 AM
Added...please don't give me and or's I can't pick 'em all...help me out here! Which Beach Boys? Surfin USA? Surfin Safari? Help Me, Rhonda?...Personally I think I get Around...any takers?
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Get Around does it for me :)
And I gave you a choice on Marvin for Soul - I'd go for for "What's Going On". Obvious, but a classic nonetheless.
Ooh, Beach Boys? Good Vibrations hands down!!!! :D :D
Benny .....
how can ya fill up the heavy/rock section without ANY metallica
surely "ENTER THE SANDMAN" shoulda got in there somewhere !!!
;) :whistle:
QuoteOriginally posted by MAD_ness@May 9 2005, 02:19 PM
surely "ENTER THE SANDMAN" shoulda got in there somewhere !!!
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If you're going to have Metallica, at least pick something off Puppets.
Sheez, I'm a snob.
ok then
"sanitarium"
:narnar:
If your gonna put a metallica track in it would have to be enter sandman, its the track that single handedly shot them into mainstream music & also killed them off as a proper metal band, once they'd realised they could make money with radio friendly rock they've never looked back.
ignore this, only bumped as I updated it so I don't have to write stuff elsewhere...
dmw - your personal notepad
Low Rider - War
Radar Love - Golden Earring
Don't Fear the Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult
Steppin' Razor - Peter Tosh
Cool for Cats - Squeeze
Run to the Hills - The Maiden.
Babylon's Burning - The Ruts
Ballroom Blitz - The Sweet
No More Heros - The Stranglers
Strutter - Kiss
Highway to Hell - AC-DC
White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane
Gimme All Your Lovin' - ZZ Top
Boom Boom - Jonny Lee Hooker
Sweet Home Chicago - The Blues Brothers
Hash Pipe - Weezer
Runnin' With The Devil - Van Halen
Damn there are just so many!
Pop
The Seahorses - Love is the Law
Dance
N-Trance - Stayin Alive
Hip Hop / Old School
Hamilton Bohannon - DISCO STOMP
Rock and Roll
The Faces - Stay with Me
Heavy / Rock
Aerosmith - Living on the Edge
Country and Western / Bluegrass etc
Kathleen Edwards - Back to Me
New Wave?
Electronic - Get the Message
Reggae / Ska
Dave & Ansel Collins - Double Barrel
Jazz / Blues
Johnny Cash - Hurt
Mowtown / Soul
The Temptations - Papa Was a Rolling Stone
Punk & Punk'ish & Guitar based dirty shenanigans....
Sex Pistols - Pretty Vacant
Bad Religon - Stranger than fiction. For no better reason then i like it.
Dead Kennedys - Let's Lynch The Landlord. Good track, even has some tune to itPretty much how it felt at my uni 'room'
Black Sabbath - Paranoid. nuff said.
Clutch - Immortal. Meaty sounding without the total crap screaming you tend to get in 'heavier' music.
Dropkick Murphys - Kiss Me, I'm Shitfaced. Not techniqely a particualrly great song, but one that i always enjoy hearing and it never fails to me me grin.
NIN - Wish. Better than head like a hole imho.
Eels - novocaine for the soul. Great song from a very, very, very drepressed man. As a close second 'Restraining Order Blues' nearly wins for its name alone.
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Rifles. Great slow building track.
Deftones - Passenger. One of the bands best with additional vocals from the singer from tool.