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sarramkrop 05.21.2008 09:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jimbrim
teenage fanclub - sparkys dream


Odd and interesting choice. I haven't listened to that song in years.

jimbrim 05.21.2008 01:43 PM

yeah, i dont know a great deal about the band, but i adore that track.

atsonicpark 05.21.2008 02:03 PM

boredoms - super going
thinking fellers union local # 282 - hornet's heart
roy orbison - in dreams
captain beefheart - sheriff of hong kong
wire - pink flag (the song)

dunno if those are my favorite songs ever necessarily, but they're the ones I've listened to the most.

copper 05.21.2008 03:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fluxequalsrad

4. HUM - Apollo - one soft guitar line running through the entire song, a perfect vocal delivery,... 6 minutes of healing. Its a bummer when you and your girlfriend can't get things right with the space between each other - something that is hard to convey in a song, but is done perfectly here.


Quote:

Originally Posted by Sonic Youth 37
Stars - Hum



wise thinking!

Hum - Stars
Slint - Good Morning, Capitain
My Bloody Valentine - You Made Me Realise
Iron & Wine & Calexico - He Lays In The Reins

still need a 5th one...

radarmaker 05.21.2008 05:23 PM

What, 5 songs? Ever? Fuck.

This'll do until I change my mind:

I Wanna Be Your Dog - The Stooges
On Some Faraway Beach - Brian Eno
New Paths To Helicon pt 1 - Mogwai
Travelling Light - Tindersticks
Higher Than The Sun - Primal Scream

radarmaker 05.21.2008 05:24 PM

Oh, and one of the live versions of What Goes On that just goes on forever...

cryptowonderdruginvogue 05.21.2008 06:16 PM

Too hard to decide but heres 10 songs I like a lot... off the top of my head
(in no order)

Joy Division - Disorder
Billie Holiday - Gloomy Sunday
Sonic Youth - Candle
Francoise Hardy - Tous Les Garcons Et Les Filles
Animal Collective - Banshee Bat
The Velvet Underground - All Tomorrows Parties
Beck - Lampshade
Bob Dylan - Desolation Row / I Want You / Don't Think Twice It's Alright / + so many more
Chet Baker - Let's Get Lost / My Funny Valentine
Pink Floyd - If / Set The Controls To The Heart Of The Sun / Echoes
Ween - A Tear For Eddie
Rolling Stones - Sweet Virginia / You Got The Silver / Let It Bleed
Jacques Brel - Amsterdam
Spiritualized - Medication
Brian Eno - Here Come The Warm Jets
Talking Heads - The Big Country
Philip Glass & Allen Ginsberg - From Wichita Vortex Sutra
Townes Van Zandt - Waitin' Around To Die
Jandek - Nancy Sings
Peter Sarstedt - Where Do You Go To My Lovely

Dead-Air 05.22.2008 12:18 AM

Just 5 that are among my favorites that I thought of right now...

"Atlantis" - Sun Ra
"Sister Ray" - Velvet Underground
"She's in a Bad Mood" - Sonic Youth
"Everything Merges with the Night" - Brian Eno
"Queen" - Melvins

andrei 05.22.2008 12:38 AM

5 songs that i've listened a lot lately (i can't say that they are my all time fav 5, cause i don't have something like that):

Anthony Braxton, Peter Brotzmann Duo - (Improv #2) (1985 05 04 - Wuppertal)
Black Engine - Ku Klux Klowns
Dimension X (Corsano + Massimo Zu | not that prog band) - Almost Human
Patti Smith - Ghost Dance
Cecil Taylor Unit - (Improv #1) (1983 09 04 - Saalfelden)

Toxa 05.22.2008 09:20 AM

for now:

g. america (grant olsen) - world's worst keep secret
free kitten - seasick
carsick cars - 蘑菇 (mo gu)
waldo the dog faced boy - tim's pillow
lowbelly - two centuries later

copper 05.22.2008 03:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by radarmaker
What, 5 songs? Ever? Fuck.


its freaking difficult.

Death & the Maiden 05.23.2008 12:59 AM

An alternative six:
1. Laughing Clowns - Eternally Yours
2. The Chills - Pink Frost
3. The Gordons - Coalminer's Song
4. Television - Marquee Moon
5. The Smiths - This Charming Man
6. The Clean - Getting Older

atsonicpark 05.23.2008 07:18 AM

complete - hot as hell
complete - into the night
complete - beautiful sunrises
complete - hoogie boogie land
complete - dream-ing

frades 06.14.2008 10:01 AM

sonic youth - "swimsuit issue"
beatles - "it's all too much"
zazie and axel bauer - "a ma place"
led zeppelin - "heartbreaker"
dire straits - "heavy fuel"

lucyrulesok 06.16.2008 07:11 AM

currently -
microphones - i want to be cold
magnetic fields - the luckiest guy on the lower east side
cure - the lovecats
jacques brel - amsterdam
joanna newsom - monkey and bear

GrungeMonkey 06.16.2008 07:36 AM

hmm well this changes every day so...

"Night After Sidewalk" - Kaki King
"The Diamond Sea" - Sonic Youth
"Only Shallow" - My Bloody Valentine
"Dont Talk (Put Your Head On My Shoulder)" - The Beach Boys
"Range Life" - Pavement

Toilet & Bowels 06.16.2008 07:44 AM

at the moment

killdozer - going to the beach
the brentwoods - buri buri bash
teenage jesus & the jerks - racial mixing
el michels affair & wu-tang clan - glaciers of ice
channel live - mad izm

batreleaser 06.16.2008 08:34 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by batreleaser
this is gonna be impossible, but ill try.

the velvet underground-the black angel's death song

sun ra-the cosmos

suicide-frankie teardrop

john coltrane-untitled 1, a love's supreme

public image ltd.-albatross


more:

beefheart-dachau blues

beefheart-ice cream for crow

the dead kennedys-kill the poor

steve reich-drumming

derek bailey-my melancholy baby

black flag-fix me

gastr del sol-dry bones in the valley

mc5-ramblin rose

the stooges-tv eye

the fall-who makes the nazis?

the fall-i am damo suzuki

can-sing swan song

devo-monogoloid

james chance and the contortions-flip your face

mars-puerto rican ghost

metallica-batterey

the velvets-sister ray

the bad brains-the big takeover

painkiller-devil's eye

fred frith-thea und nat

sonic youth-silver shirt, brave men (run in my family), express way to yr skull.

ennio morricone-theme from 'the good the bad and the ugly'

neu!-super 16

merzbow-iron glass blocks and white lights

the wu tang clan-da mysterey of chessboxin

glenn branca-the ascencsion

im just kinda throwing down tracks that pop in my head without much thought, see what comes up.

sarramkrop 06.16.2008 08:53 AM

Now:

Boogie Witch - Transfiguration Boogie
Husker Du - Statues
Pink Reason - Up The Sleeve
Pussy Galore - Undertaker
Mutators - Paper Words

Everyneurotic 06.16.2008 09:04 AM

close to the edge...either yes' or ruinzhatova's version.
galaxie 500 - blue thunder
agnostic front - victim in pain
anita lane - sexual healing
xhol caravan - love potion 25

demonrail666 06.16.2008 09:21 AM

As we speak:

Still at number one it's Chic, with their disco stormer 'Everybody Dance'.

Bubbling under at number two we have New Order's joyous 'Ceremony'.

A new entry at number three, it's Pussy Galore with their colourfully titled 'Spit 'n' Shit'.

Another climber sees Eyehategod at number four with 'Crimes Against Skin'.

Holding onto the number five spot for another week, it's Blondie with their disco dancefloor-smasher: 'Heart of Glass'.

mangajunky 06.16.2008 10:54 AM

Sonic Youth - Shadow of a Doubt

Led Zeppelin - In My Time of Dying

Beach Boys - Good Vibrations

Paul Simon - Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard

Birthday Party - Mutiny in Heaven

boy - my choices are kinda schizo

atsonicpark 06.16.2008 11:13 AM

boredoms - super going
captain beefheart - sheriff of hong kong
slowdive - souvlaki space station
john fahey - desparate man blues
joy division - new dawn fades

LittlePuppetBoy 06.16.2008 12:22 PM

This is hard:

Confusion-Fela Kuti
They-The U-Men
Optomistic-Radiohead
Mayonaise-Smashing Pumpkins
Hey Joni-Sonic Youth

pantophobia 06.16.2008 09:00 PM

right now

Half Japanese - Firecracker Firecracker
Boredoms - Super Going
B-52s - Private Idaho
Free Kitten - Monster Eye
Mudhoney - Hate the Police


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