NationStates Jolt Archive

This is a thread which is meant to introduce people to new musicians/bands, and is meant to provide a guide to the songs that someone interested in those musicians/bands could listen to first.

The idea here is to name the 10 best songs by a particular musician/band. The catch is that you have to name the 10 best songs by the musician/bad specified by the previous poster. When you do so, you get to name the next musician/band for the next poster to list from.

The first band: Weezer

The first band: Weezer

Ugh. I'd be hard pressed to pick one good song. *gives up*

Ugh. I'd be hard pressed to pick one good song. *gives up*Lol. I wanna play, too, and don't wanna list a band that I really like, so I picked a band that I only sorta like.

Lol. I wanna play, too, and don't wanna list a band that I really like, so I picked a band that I only sorta like.

*waits with you for someone who likes Weezer to show up and hopefully choose a band one can play with*

The first band: Weezer

1)Say It Ain't So
2)Buddy Holly
3)Undone: The Sweater Song
4)El Scorcho
5)Hash Pipe
6)The Good Life
7)Getchoo
8)Only In Dreams
9)My Name Is Jonas
10)In The Garage

Next: Fugazi

uh...off the top of my head:
Buddy Holly
Pink Triangle
No other one
Only in Dreams
Island in the Sun
The Sweater song
El Scorcho
My name is Jonas
In The Garage
The World Has Turned And Left Me Here


Ok. How about The Pixies?
I'll get us started:
Debaser
Wave of mutilation

I took care of Weezer, someone should be listing Fugazi's Greatest Hits. I'm looking at you, Demented Hamsters.

I took care of Weezer, someone should be listing Fugazi's Greatest Hits. I'm looking at you, Demented Hamsters.
I was wondering what that giant eye in the window was.
But give me a break! We were basically the same time!
And anyway, I don't know any Fugazi songs. Seen them a couple of times, but never bought any albums.

But feel free to complete my Pixies list.

Next: Fugazi

Tracks 1-7: the first mini-LP
8. Great Cop
9. Facet Squared
10. Witness Protection Program

EDIT: If I had a scan of Wat Tyler's Margarine Walker LP at hand I would post it here.

Ok. How about The Pixies?
I'll get us started:
Debaser
Wave of mutilation

hey is the best in my opinion

If I had a scan of Wat Tyler's Margarine Walker LP at hand I would post it here.

:D

Theres just too many good songs to choose from.

The stand out ones i think are:
Where is my mind
Vamos (surfer rosa version)
Caribou
Mr Grieves
Hey
Gouge away
Letter to memphis
Ana


Lets do nirvana next:
I say:
Endless Nameless
Gallons of rubbing alchohol flow through the strip
and it ends there as those are the only good tracks they ever recorded!

Cool thread idea, Jello...

Weezer's ten best songs...their first album. :p




Ok. How about The Pixies?
Hmm...

Monkey Gone to Heaven
Debaser
Gigantic
Where Is My Mind?
I've Been Tired
Bone Machine
Wave of Mutilation
Caribou
Break My Body
Broken Face

I don't have their last two albums, unfortunately.

And I don't know much Fugazi.

How about Pearl Jam? I never got into them.

Well, since Bodies Without Organs didn't specify a band, I guess it can transfer to the Pixies and Exochina answered next and picked Nirvana, so here goes.

Nirvana
Smells Like Teen Spirit
Autopilot
Oh, the Guilt
Even In His Youth
Moist Vagina
In His Hands
Paper Cuts
Lounge Act
Bambi Slaughter
Old Age

Next: to use Kanabia's idea, Pearl Jam

Lets do nirvana next:

Blandest
Aneurysm
Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle
Radio Friendly Unit Shifter
Lithium
Milk It
Love Buzz
In Bloom
Dive
Even In His Youth

EDIT - Damn, if only I could fit Moist Vagina somewhere. Oh well. :p

and it ends there as those are the only good tracks they ever recorded!

Pish.

Well, since Bodies Without Organs didn't specify a band, I guess it can transfer to the Pixies and Exochina answered next and picked Nirvana, so here goes.

Nirvana
Smells Like Teen Spirit
Autopilot
Oh, the Guilt
Even In His Youth
Moist Vagina
In His Hands
Paper Cuts
Lounge Act
Bambi Slaughter
Old Age

Next: to use Kanabia's idea, Pearl Jam

Looks like sumones trying to show off with their knowledge of obscure songs?

Looks like sumones trying to show off with their knowledge of obscure songs?Lol. Not show off, especially, I just find that most of Nirvana's very best songs are non album tracks. You know, like "Gallons of Rubbing Alcohol Flow Through the Strip"

Next: to use Kanabia's idea, Pearl Jam

Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town
Spin the Black Circle
Corduroy
Do the Evolution
Off He Goes
Dissident
Red Mosquito
Whipping
Yellow Ledbetter
Indifference

Next a little shift: The Kinks

Next a little shift: The Kinks

Village Green Preservation Society
Come Dancing
Two Sisters
Johnny Thunder
Days
Father Christmas
You Really Got Me
Yes Sir, No Sir
Dead End Street
Sunny Afternoon


Next: Hawkwind

Too bad I think of songs as, "Track 7" is really good on that one CD! :p

Next: Hawkwind
Motorhead
Sonic Attack
Levitation
Lost Johnny
Brainbox Pollution
Spirit of the Age
Angels of Death
Hurry On Sundown
Urban Guerilla
Death Trap

Next: Motörhead

Next: Motörhead
Orgasmatron
Ace of Spades
Iron Horse
Dead Men Tell No Tales
Live To Win
Bomber
Speed Freak
Loser
City Kids
Overkill

Next: The Business

Village Green Preservation Society
Come Dancing
Two Sisters
Johnny Thunder
Days
Father Christmas
You Really Got Me
Yes Sir, No Sir
Dead End Street
Sunny Afternoon


Next: Hawkwind

...what? no Waterloo Sunset?

...what? no Waterloo Sunset?

Nope. It suffers from overplay and doesn't really connect with me like the songs I listed. I was not just being wilfully perverse.

Bah, this thread was too cool an idea to let die.

Someone do Blue Öyster Cult.

Bah, this thread was too cool an idea to let die.

Someone do Blue Öyster Cult.
I guess nobody knows any songs by the Business...lol.

I guess nobody knows any songs by the Business...lol.


Thats the name of an average covers band that does the rounds at pubs in town :confused:

Thats the name of an average covers band that does the rounds at pubs in town :confused:No, they're a long time punk (Oi!?) band, but I'm not familiar with them.

I guess nobody knows any songs by the Business...lol.

Nope. Heard of them, though...

Bah, this thread was too cool an idea to let die.

Someone do Blue Öyster Cult.

At the risk of showing that my knowledge of dodgy metal bands actually knows few bounds, and also despite the fact I just plain don't understand metal:


Monsters.
Black Blade.
Debbie Denise.*
Joan Crawford.
Godzilla.
I Am The One You Warned Me Of.
The Red & The Black.
Before The Kiss A Redcap.
Hot Rails To Hell.
E.T.I.
(Don't Fear) The Reaper.



* BÖC and Patti Smith: now how kewl is that?


Next on the chopping block: CRASS, and yes both sides of Yes, Sir I Will only count as one tune.

Someone do 'Bright Eyes'.

Nope.

Next: Bob Dylan

1. Like A Rolling Stone
2. Desolation Row
2. Blowin' in The Wind
3. Motorpsycho Nitemare
4. Ballad of A Thin Man

or
Eric Clapton
1. Layla (when with Derek and The Dominos)
2. Hey, look! Eric Clapton only has 1 good song. One-hit wonder?

Eric Clapton
1. Layla (when with Derek and The Dominos)
2. Hey, look! Eric Clapton only has 1 good song. One-hit wonder?

I refer you to his guitar work on the 1966 Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton LP in order to correct your opinion. This album also shows that he hasn't come anywhere close to living up to his true potential over the last 40 years of feckless time wasting and fretboard noodling.