Topic: RAWK’s own top 100 fave songs of all time

[Timbo's Goals]

Ha ha. Knew you’d succumb Sam. Well in. Amazing list as are so many others.

But this is so weird mate.

Would you believe number one in my own 500 song Alexa playlist is Carole King live at Montreux Jazz Festival performing .... her amazing version of her very own Up on the Roof followed by Oh No Not My Baby. And four places later at number 5 is Shack with Comedy. John Heads counter harmonies still slay me every time.   

Also funnily enough I’ve also got a Veedon Fleece track right up there but I’ve got the following track Bulbs as it fits in a bit more smoothly with my easy listening than the outstanding unique Punches. 

[Another Red]

Impossible.

Like others have said it all depends on the day and my mood. I feel like there are so many perfect songs out there that I could list hundreds and not be able to condense it further. I couldn't even decide what my favourite song is from Pets Sounds or Selected Ambient Works 85-92, let alone create a top 10 list.

[Andy @ Allerton!]

Impossible.

Like others have said it all depends on the day and my mood. I feel like there are so many perfect songs out there that I could list hundreds and not be able to condense it further. I couldn't even decide what my favourite song is from Pets Sounds or Selected Ambient Works 85-92, let alone create a top 10 list.

I think everyone is the same. I probably have about 20,000 'favourite songs'

Just stick a load down that you like right now. That's what I did and I missed off hundreds

[Zeppelin]

I think everyone is the same. I probably have about 20,000 'favourite songs'

Just stick a load down that you like right now. That's what I did and I missed off hundreds

Yeah - I bought a 64GB memory stick to put 'a few' of my favourite songs on to play in the car. It ended up full with 6434 songs on it and there were still some I'd missed off.

[Ziltoid]

Impossible.

Like others have said it all depends on the day and my mood. I feel like there are so many perfect songs out there that I could list hundreds and not be able to condense it further. I couldn't even decide what my favourite song is from Pets Sounds or Selected Ambient Works 85-92, let alone create a top 10 list.

Nice

[Hedley Lamarr]

Here’s my ten, for what its worth.

Velvet Underground - Some Kind Of Love
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - The Ship Song
The Beatles - Something
The Wrens - Hopeless
The Replacements - Unsatisfied
The Weather Station - Thirty
Wilco - Via Chicago
Bowie - Station To Station
Radiohead - Let Down
Portishead - Roads

[Lastrador]

Here’s my ten, for what its worth.

Velvet Underground - Some Kind Of Love
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - The Ship Song
The Beatles - Something
The Wrens - Hopeless
The Replacements - Unsatisfied
The Weather Station - Thirty
Wilco - Via Chicago
Bowie - Station To Station
Radiohead - Let Down
Portishead - Roads

That’s a belter. Made my final list but couldn’t quite put it on the top 20, as it’s still too fresh and hasn’t garnered enough nostalgia points, but in a couple of years, who knows.

[Lee1-6Liv]

My 20, only done one from each artist.

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

Bob Marley - Three Little Birds

The Doors - L.A. Woman

Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watch Tower

St Germain - Rose Rogue

Koudlam - See You All

The Beatles - In My Life

Led Zeppelin - Kashmir

Michael Jackson - Billie Jean

The Who - Baba O'Riley

Violent Femmes - Blister in the Sun

DJ Shadow - Midnight in a Perfect World

Kate Bush - The Man with the Child in his Eyes

Dr Dre - Nuthin' But A G Thang

Neil Young - The Needle and the Damage Done

Groove Armada - At the River

Daft Punk - Da Funk

Leftfield - Open Up

Like Kelly - On Raglan Road

Iris DeMent - Let the Mystery Be

[Elzar]

This is probably a very changeable list:

Jose Gonzalez - Heartbeat
Ben Howard - End of the Affair
Arctic Monkeys - Certain Romance
Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms
Manic Street Preachers -  A Design for Life
Paul Williams - Surf Music
Future Islands - Ran
Dave - Panic Attack
Nas - One Love
Postal Service - Such Great Heights
Doves - There Goes the Fear
The Shins - Sleeping Lessons
The Coral - Dreaming of you
Arctic Monkeys - 505
Pink Floyd - Time
Blur - Tender
Stars - Take me to the Riot
Radiohead - Weird Fishes
Bob Dylan - The Man in Me
Last Shadow Puppets - Pattern

[Timbo's Goals]

Okay, okay, OfuckingK.

 

I get it. I finally get it. I tried to retain positivity for the idea but I think I now see that it’s gone down like a lead balloon with so many. Impossible seems to be the overriding sentiment. So I guess it’s only to the dwindling species of boring arl farts like me who have yet to succumb to the Spotify revolution of music access made as insanely easy as breathing that the joy of compiling a list of the music you’ve scrimped and saved for and begged and borrowed and craved and treasured most down the years holds any real significance or relevance.

Got to say though the overwhelming resistance to doing it has taken me a bit aback. As one who has spent huge chunks of his life listening and sifting and assessing music and deriving huge joy from deciding the ones that to me stand out like beacons it’s puzzling to find so many folks who consider such an enterprise as being entirely fruitless nay impossible.

Sifting through your 45’s and albums to get your fave picks on those old mixer tapes was always a music lover’s joy. What to leave in. What to leave out. Later to become the far more user friendly burned mixer CD’s. But again what joy sifting through your rows of CD’s, so many of them replacements of the albums you’d spent the previous 30 years or so collecting just to have those special 80/90 minute mix compilations for all those car journeys.

So now that’s all gone it would seem. To be replaced by the effortless nod and a wink acquisition of every song ever sung by man, woman or computer. The entire catalogue of human musical endeavour on tap. C’est la vie I guess.

I’m still doing my list btw with little explanations like Sam. Loved that Sam lad.

 

[Sheer Magnetism]

This is probably my top 20 in terms of what's 'best', the rest (in the spoilered part) is a mixture of my favourite songs and stuff that blew me away in terms of quality. I could probably write an essay on each one.

Joy Division – Love Will Tear Us Apart
Stone Roses – This is the One
The Righteous Brothers – You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling
Led Zeppelin – When the Levee Breaks
Fela Kuti – He Miss Road
Patti Smith – Birdland
Daft Punk – Harder Better Faster Stronger
The Stones – Torn and Frayed
The Velvet Underground – Venus in Furs
Prince – Adore
Young Marble Giants – Final Day
Scott Walker – Rhymes of Goodbye
Refused – New Noise
Animal Collective – What Would I Want? Sky
Talking Heads – Once in a Lifetime
DJ Shadow – Midnight in a Perfect World
The Replacements – Answering Machine
X – The World’s a Mess, It’s in my Kiss
The Beatles – In My Life
Eminem – Criminal

Spoiler

MONEY – Night Came
Smiths – How Soon is Now
The Flamingoes – I Only Have Eyes For You
Soft Cell – Say Hello, Wave Goodbye (12” version)
Janet Jackson – Rhythm Nation
Fugazi – Waiting Room
Constantines – Brother Run Them Down
Japandroids – The Nights of Wine and Roses
Neutral Milk Hotel – King of Carrot Flowers Pt. 1
Radiohead – Lucky
Tricky – Ponderosa
Nine Inch Nails – Closer
Sleater-Kinney – Entertain
Angel Olsen – Dance Slow Decades
Teena Marie – I Need Your Lovin’
Aretha Franklin – The Weight
Teen – Come Back
Bruce Springsteen – Reason to Believe
Molly Nilsson – After Life
Kate Bush – Love and Anger

Allman Brothers – Ramblin’ Man
Urge Overkill – Positive Bleeding
Tindersticks – My Sister
TL Barrett and The Youth For Christ Choir – Like a Ship
Elastica – Connection
Azealia Banks – 212
Lamont Dozier – The Picture Will Never Change
Datarock – Walk Away
The Pogues – The Old Main Drag
Jane – It’s Going to be a Fine Day
Kool Moe Dee – I Go to Work
Devo – Jocko Homo
Frank Ocean – Pink + White
Sufjan Stevens – Chicago
AC/DC – Thunderstruck
Goldie – Sea of Tears
Ike and Tina Turner – River Deep, Mountain High
Heaven 17 – Temptation
Canibus – No Return
Smashing Pumpkins – Muzzle

Bob Dylan – Tombstone Blues
Jane’s Addiction – Ocean Size
Chemical Brothers – The Private Psychedelic Reel
The Twerps – Coast to Coast
The Wonder Stuff – Mission Drive
St Vincent – Teenage Talk
Cocteau Twins – Love’s Easy Tears
Randy Crawford – Street Life
Wayne Kramer – Crack in the Universe
Liz Phair – Chopsticks
Tom Waits – Hold On
Love – You Set the Scene
The Distillers – The Young Fresh Peeling
The Human League – Love Action
Dizzie Rascal – Fix Up, Look Sharp
Raydio – Is This a Love Thing?
Pete Rock and CL Smooth – They Reminisce Over You
Folk Implosion – Mechanical Man
The Isley Brothers – Ohio
The Headless Heroes – The North Wind Blew South

Alphaville – Forever Young
Portishead – Sour Times
The Mountain Goats – This Year
Mclusky – Lightsabre Cocksucking Blues
The Dresden Dolls – Delilah
John Cale – Paris 1919
Clipse – Grindin’
Massive Attack – Unfinished Sympathy
My Bloody Valentine – To Here Knows When
Jeffrey Lewis – Back When I Was 4
The Men – Candy
The Clash – White Man in Hammersmith Palais
Donna Summer – State of Independence
The Bouncing Souls – The Whole Thing
Sinead O’Connor – Jackie
Cayetana – Black Hills
Cut Copy – Pharaohs and Pyramids
Andy Pratt – Avenging Annie
Dick Diver – Year in Pictures
The Kingsmen – Louie Louie

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[Timbo's Goals]

This is probably my top 20 in terms of what's 'best', the rest (in the spoilered part) is a mixture of my favourite songs and stuff that blew me away in terms of quality. I could probably write an essay on each one.

Joy Division – Love Will Tear Us Apart
Stone Roses – This is the One
The Righteous Brothers – You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling
Led Zeppelin – When the Levee Breaks
Fela Kuti – He Miss Road
Patti Smith – Birdland
Daft Punk – Harder Better Faster Stronger
The Stones – Torn and Frayed
The Velvet Underground – Venus in Furs
Prince – Adore
Young Marble Giants – Final Day
Scott Walker – Rhymes of Goodbye
Refused – New Noise
Animal Collective – What Would I Want? Sky
Talking Heads – Once in a Lifetime
DJ Shadow – Midnight in a Perfect World
The Replacements – Answering Machine
X – The World’s a Mess, It’s in my Kiss
The Beatles – In My Life
Eminem – Criminal

Spoiler

MONEY – Night Came
Smiths – How Soon is Now
The Flamingoes – I Only Have Eyes For You
Soft Cell – Say Hello, Wave Goodbye (12” version)
Janet Jackson – Rhythm Nation
Fugazi – Waiting Room
Constantines – Brother Run Them Down
Japandroids – The Nights of Wine and Roses
Neutral Milk Hotel – King of Carrot Flowers Pt. 1
Radiohead – Lucky
Tricky – Ponderosa
Nine Inch Nails – Closer
Sleater-Kinney – Entertain
Angel Olsen – Dance Slow Decades
Teena Marie – I Need Your Lovin’
Aretha Franklin – The Weight
Teen – Come Back
Bruce Springsteen – Reason to Believe
Molly Nilsson – After Life
Kate Bush – Love and Anger

Allman Brothers – Ramblin’ Man
Urge Overkill – Positive Bleeding
Tindersticks – My Sister
TL Barrett and The Youth For Christ Choir – Like a Ship
Elastica – Connection
Azealia Banks – 212
Lamont Dozier – The Picture Will Never Change
Datarock – Walk Away
The Pogues – The Old Main Drag
Jane – It’s Going to be a Fine Day
Kool Moe Dee – I Go to Work
Devo – Jocko Homo
Frank Ocean – Pink + White
Sufjan Stevens – Chicago
AC/DC – Thunderstruck
Goldie – Sea of Tears
Ike and Tina Turner – River Deep, Mountain High
Heaven 17 – Temptation
Canibus – No Return
Smashing Pumpkins – Muzzle

Bob Dylan – Tombstone Blues
Jane’s Addiction – Ocean Size
Chemical Brothers – The Private Psychedelic Reel
The Twerps – Coast to Coast
The Wonder Stuff – Mission Drive
St Vincent – Teenage Talk
Cocteau Twins – Love’s Easy Tears
Randy Crawford – Street Life
Wayne Kramer – Crack in the Universe
Liz Phair – Chopsticks
Tom Waits – Hold On
Love – You Set the Scene
The Distillers – The Young Fresh Peeling
The Human League – Love Action
Dizzie Rascal – Fix Up, Look Sharp
Raydio – Is This a Love Thing?
Pete Rock and CL Smooth – They Reminisce Over You
Folk Implosion – Mechanical Man
The Isley Brothers – Ohio
The Headless Heroes – The North Wind Blew South

Alphaville – Forever Young
Portishead – Sour Times
The Mountain Goats – This Year
Mclusky – Lightsabre Cocksucking Blues
The Dresden Dolls – Delilah
John Cale – Paris 1919
Clipse – Grindin’
Massive Attack – Unfinished Sympathy
My Bloody Valentine – To Here Knows When
Jeffrey Lewis – Back When I Was 4
The Men – Candy
The Clash – White Man in Hammersmith Palais
Donna Summer – State of Independence
The Bouncing Souls – The Whole Thing
Sinead O’Connor – Jackie
Cayetana – Black Hills
Cut Copy – Pharaohs and Pyramids
Andy Pratt – Avenging Annie
Dick Diver – Year in Pictures
The Kingsmen – Louie Louie

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Wowser. Some incredible picks in your monster list. And ta muchly for doing your 20 too!!

However have to nitpick on one thing. As a Band afficianado right back to the very start in ‘68 I do have to take issue on Aretha’s version of The Weight. Not often Aretha doesn’t nail the definitive version of anything she sings but the sublime perfection of the original on Big Pink is simply beyond even Aretha’s genius to improve upon.   

[Sheer Magnetism]

Wowser. Some incredible picks in your monster list. And ta muchly for doing your 20 too!!

However have to nitpick on one thing. As a Band afficianado right back to the very start in ‘68 I do have to take issue on Aretha’s version of The Weight. Not often Aretha doesn’t nail the definitive version of anything she sings but the sublime perfection of the original on Big Pink is simply beyond even Aretha’s genius to improve upon.   

Cheers Timbo! They're both great versions, and the Band one probably has more focus on the lyrics. I put the Aretha one high up because it's near enough the peak of her voice, the Muscle Shoals band and Jerry Wexler's production all in one, all driving each other on, and the effect is musically explosive. It's right up there with the best covers of all time for me, as transformative as the Hendrix/Byrds Dylan covers.

[Zeppelin]

I thought I'd add a few comments a la Sam to my picks

1. Supper's ready - Genesis

Had to choose this - it's like 6 songs in 1 for a start and the creativity and musicianship is mind blowing. What a shame Genesis ended up the way they did!

2. Since I've been loving you - Led Zeppelin

First band I ever saw live, nearly 50 years ago. Still the best. Hard to choose one, but this showcases Jimmy's guitar and Robert's voice

3. Close to the edge - Yes

Again, unbelievable musicianship and stunning changes of mood and pace. I never tire of listening to this.

4. Who knows where the time goes - Fairport Convention

Sandy Denny wrote this when she was 19. To my ears, the best English singer ever...and Fairport are still touring. Don't miss them if you get the chance.

5. Comfortably numb - Pink Floyd

That guitar solo.

6. Sympathy for the devil - The Rolling Stones

The Stones at their best.

7. Me and Bobby McGhee - Janis Joplin

Janis sings 'I'd trade all of my tomorrows for one more yesterday' - she was dead before the song was released. It still chokes me up when she sings that line.

8. Tangled up in blue - Bob Dylan

How to choose one Bob Dylan song? 'Blood on the tracks' is probably his greatest album and this is a stand out track but I could have chosen any of 20 songs

9. Anarchy in the UK - The Sex Pistols

I remember seeing the Pistols do this on 'So it goes' and the venom with which Johnny Rotten sang it was palpable - the audience looked absolutely stunned. Mesmerising.

10. Thunder Road - Bruce Springsteen

Classic Bruce - cars and girls and a great story.

11. Strawberry Fields Forever - The Beatles

Again - how do you choose 1 Beatles song?

12. London Calling - The Clash

If there was one band I wish I'd seen live it'd be the Clash. Their early stuff was so exciting and they managed to retain that when they became a bit more polished with this classic.

13. Cousin Jack - Show of Hands

Steve Knightley has been called 'the gravel voiced spokesman of the rural poor' and this is probably the best example of his storytelling in a tale of emigration from his native Devon.

14. Let there be rock - Drive By Truckers

The Truckers are such an underrated band. I love this song - a story about Lynyrd Skynyrd.

15. Voodoo chile - Jimi Hendrix

Another posthumous release. Incredible guitar playing - what would he have become if he'd not died so tragically?

16. The Killing Moon - Echo and the Bunnymen

Ian McCulloch used to sit a few rows in front of me in the Main Stand - I never did get the courage to speak to him - I could have told him how good this song is, but i suspect he'd already know!

17. Oliver's Army - Elvis Costello

A great song from a fellow Red. I could have chosen one of many.

18. Beeswing - Richard Thompson

I couldn't decide whether to go for acoustic or electric for RT. He's just about my favourite electric guitarist, but this song showcases both his songwriting and his acoustic playing. He's also a really funny man when you see him in concert.

19. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

The song that invented Heavy Metal? Terrifying.

20. Fortunate Son - Creedence Clearwater Revival

John Fogerty wrote so many great songs. The first album I bought was 'Cosmo's Factory'. This is actually off 'Willy and the poorboys' and is a great song from the Vietnam War era.

21. Hard loving man - Deep Purple

'Deep Purple in Rock' is one of my favourite albums - I love the guitar freak out at the end.

22. The green fields of France - The Men They Couldn't Hang

I spent a couple of holidays touring the Somme area of France and this song really sums up the futility and waste of young lives in the Great War

23. Ghost love score - Nightwish

You really need to listen to the live version from Wacken 2013 to hear this at its best - with the amazing Floor Jansen on vocals, I always get goosebumps when she hits that note at the end. Fantastic.

24. The last English King - Big Big Train

If ever a band deserved greater recognition it's these guys. Wonderful musicians and some great songs.

25. Never buy the Sun - Billy Bragg

Billy says it all

[Timbo's Goals]

I thought I'd add a few comments a la Sam to my picks

1. Supper's ready - Genesis

Had to choose this - it's like 6 songs in 1 for a start and the creativity and musicianship is mind blowing. What a shame Genesis ended up the way they did!

2. Since I've been loving you - Led Zeppelin

First band I ever saw live, nearly 50 years ago. Still the best. Hard to choose one, but this showcases Jimmy's guitar and Robert's voice

3. Close to the edge - Yes

Again, unbelievable musicianship and stunning changes of mood and pace. I never tire of listening to this.

4. Who knows where the time goes - Fairport Convention

Sandy Denny wrote this when she was 19. To my ears, the best English singer ever...and Fairport are still touring. Don't miss them if you get the chance.

5. Comfortably numb - Pink Floyd

That guitar solo.

6. Sympathy for the devil - The Rolling Stones

The Stones at their best.

7. Me and Bobby McGhee - Janis Joplin

Janis sings 'I'd trade all of my tomorrows for one more yesterday' - she was dead before the song was released. It still chokes me up when she sings that line.

8. Tangled up in blue - Bob Dylan

How to choose one Bob Dylan song? 'Blood on the tracks' is probably his greatest album and this is a stand out track but I could have chosen any of 20 songs

9. Anarchy in the UK - The Sex Pistols

I remember seeing the Pistols do this on 'So it goes' and the venom with which Johnny Rotten sang it was palpable - the audience looked absolutely stunned. Mesmerising.

10. Thunder Road - Bruce Springsteen

Classic Bruce - cars and girls and a great story.

11. Strawberry Fields Forever - The Beatles

Again - how do you choose 1 Beatles song?

12. London Calling - The Clash

If there was one band I wish I'd seen live it'd be the Clash. Their early stuff was so exciting and they managed to retain that when they became a bit more polished with this classic.

13. Cousin Jack - Show of Hands

Steve Knightley has been called 'the gravel voiced spokesman of the rural poor' and this is probably the best example of his storytelling in a tale of emigration from his native Devon.

14. Let there be rock - Drive By Truckers

The Truckers are such an underrated band. I love this song - a story about Lynyrd Skynyrd.

15. Voodoo chile - Jimi Hendrix

Another posthumous release. Incredible guitar playing - what would he have become if he'd not died so tragically?

16. The Killing Moon - Echo and the Bunnymen

Ian McCulloch used to sit a few rows in front of me in the Main Stand - I never did get the courage to speak to him - I could have told him how good this song is, but i suspect he'd already know!

17. Oliver's Army - Elvis Costello

A great song from a fellow Red. I could have chosen one of many.

18. Beeswing - Richard Thompson

I couldn't decide whether to go for acoustic or electric for RT. He's just about my favourite electric guitarist, but this song showcases both his songwriting and his acoustic playing. He's also a really funny man when you see him in concert.

19. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

The song that invented Heavy Metal? Terrifying.

20. Fortunate Son - Creedence Clearwater Revival

John Fogerty wrote so many great songs. The first album I bought was 'Cosmo's Factory'. This is actually off 'Willy and the poorboys' and is a great song from the Vietnam War era.

21. Hard loving man - Deep Purple

'Deep Purple in Rock' is one of my favourite albums - I love the guitar freak out at the end.

22. The green fields of France - The Men They Couldn't Hang

I spent a couple of holidays touring the Somme area of France and this song really sums up the futility and waste of young lives in the Great War

23. Ghost love score - Nightwish

You really need to listen to the live version from Wacken 2013 to hear this at its best - with the amazing Floor Jansen on vocals, I always get goosebumps when she hits that note at the end. Fantastic.

24. The last English King - Big Big Train

If ever a band deserved greater recognition it's these guys. Wonderful musicians and some great songs.

25. Never buy the Sun - Billy Bragg

Billy says it all

Terrific read that Zep. Really enjoy reading the reasons. Got to say though I'd have thought if Cosmo's was your very first CCR buy you might have gone for their 11 hour long Grapevine masterpiece 

[Red_Mist]

I thought I'd add a few comments a la Sam to my picks

1. Supper's ready - Genesis

Had to choose this - it's like 6 songs in 1 for a start and the creativity and musicianship is mind blowing. What a shame Genesis ended up the way they did!

I’ll have a go at this at some point, but I’d already stuck Supper’s Ready in at number one as well.

Don’t know how accessible it would be if someone was coming to it cold, first listen. Potentially quite tricky I would guess!  But for me it’s a mind bending trip that I got to know every mad lyric, chord and solo of by about the age of 12 (thanks to thin walls and my older brother playing it to death in the bedroom next door) and I haven’t got tired of it yet.

[Timbo's Goals]

Cheers Timbo! They're both great versions, and the Band one probably has more focus on the lyrics. I put the Aretha one high up because it's near enough the peak of her voice, the Muscle Shoals band and Jerry Wexler's production all in one, all driving each other on, and the effect is musically explosive. It's right up there with the best covers of all time for me, as transformative as the Hendrix/Byrds Dylan covers.

Fascinating SM. Just had a listen for the first time in decades and I can see what you mean about peak of her powers. Arguably the finest female vocalist of them all singing like she completely owns this amazing Robbie Robertson/Band masterpiece with the musical back up to kill for. I love how it knocked you for six. It's only very occasionally music does do that and when it does it's a moment to savour forever.

But... there's always a but   

When I first heard The Weight on the Vic bar's juke box in '68, a good 2 years prior to Aretha's cover, it literally stopped me in my tracks. I was transfixed and beguiled by it. There'd never been anything remotely like it and certainly not in that heyday of Pepper and psychedelia. I was only able to find the song title and the group name by a process of elimination rummaging through all the flip pages of the little wall mounted juke box. When I eventually worked out what song it had to be I didn't even know whether the song was called The Band or the group was called The Weight.

But such was the complete absence of any publicity back in those days. It was never played on the radio or mentioned in the NME or melody maker. Anyroad at Rushworths in town I was soon able to find out that it was the single release from an album called Music From Big Pink by a group called The Band. Needless to say the album was duly bought, listened to repeatedly for months on end and remains to this day on a par at least with Astral Weeks and The Band's second album as the finest albums I've ever owned amongst the hundreds of great albums/cassettes/CD's I've bought down the years.

And the point of the monologue? 

Well, by the time Aretha's amazing cover came along the authentic purity of the original with its crystal clear guitar, piano and organ and backwoods vocal harmonies was inevitably so engrained into my very soul and psyche that anything else inevitably passed me by such that even The Band's own nod to Aretha's version in the Last Waltz with Pop and Mavis Staples accompanying them to provide that gospel/soul flavour left me merely pining for the original diamond.

Also - and something you may or may not have noticed - my favourite verse with the wondrous Rick singing so hauntingly about Crazy Chester and his dog Jack - is for some reason absent from Aretha's version. Naughty girl. 

[Red Ol]

Impossible this .. ah well. This would be today's top 20 but tomorrow could be entirely different

The Rolling Stones:  Sympathy for The Devil
 
The Small Faces:  Tin Soldier

The Clash:  Tommy Gun

David Bowie:  Rock and Roll Suicide

Nick Drake:  One of These Things First

Iggy and The Stooges:  Raw Power

The Sex Pistols:  Submission    

Radiohead:  Exit Music

Buffalo Springfield:  For What It’s Worth

Xray Specs:  Identity

The Kinks:  Waterloo Sunset

The Fall:  Bingo Master’s Breakout

Manic Street Preachers: A Design For Life

Buzzcocks:  What Do I Get

Jefferson Airplane: White Rabbit

The Velvet Underground:  Candy Says

The Ramones:  Sheena is A Punk Rocker

That’s Life:  Frank Sinatra

Sparks:  This Town Ain’t Big Enough For Both Of us

The Beatles:  in My Life

[LiamG]

Pachanga Boys - Time

Such a good tune that

[AndyMuller]

Wow, first time I’ve ever listened to Aretha Franklin - The Weight and I am absolutely blown away. Thanks Sheer and Timbo!

[Filler.]

Black Sabbath: Paranoid
HMHB: Footprints
Sun Ra: Nuclear War
Francis MacDonald & Harry Pye: Sometimes I feel Like a Record That's Scratched.
Alvarius B: The Reason
Mudhoney: Mudride


will fill the rest in over time...

[Son of Spion]

Kate Bush - This Woman's Work.
Tubeway Army - Are 'Friends' Electric?
Gary Numan - Metal.
Pet shop Boys - Love Comes Quickly.
The The - Heartland.
Stone Roses - I Wanna Be Adored.
Rage Against The Machine - Testify.
Jimi Hendrix - Purple Haze.
Radiohead - High And Dry.
Placebo - Without You I'm Nothing.
Mansun - Disgusting.
Tears For Fears - The Working Hour.
Soft Cell - Youth.
Unkle - Bloodstain.
Mogwai - R U Still In 2 It?
God Is An Astronaut - Pig Powder.
Magazine - Motorcade.
Public Image Limited - Public Image.
Depeche Mode - In Your Room.
Sex Pistols - Pretty Vacant.
A-Ha - Hunting High And Low.
Velvet Underground - Venus In Furs.
Cocteau Twins - Musette And Drums.

The Doors - The End.
Pixies - Monkey Gone To Heaven.
Metallica - Nothing Else Matters.
Pearl Jam - Jeremy.
Foo Fighters - Everlong.
IAMX - After Every Party I Die.
Doves - Firesuite.
PJ Harvey - The Whores Hustle and the Hustlers Whore.
Air - All I Need.
Little Dragon - Twice.
Cabaret Voltaire - Just Fascination.
Folk Implosion - The Natural One.
Flowered Up - Weekender.
Happy Mondays - 24 Hour Party People.
Durutti Column - Never Known.
Human League - Being Boiled.
The Cult - Love.
Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy.
Talk Talk - Give It Up.
Bauhaus - Hollow Hills.
Joy Division - Shadowplay.
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here.
The Damned - New Rose.
Lush - Desire Lines.
Breeders - Canonball.
Blue Oyster Cult - Don't Fear The Reaper.
Echobelly - Dark Therapy.
Stranglers - No More Heroes.

Smashing Pumpkins - 1979.
Lamb - Gorecki.
Ian Brown - Corpses.
Deftones - Change (in the house of flies).
My Vitriol - Always Your Way.
The Cure - Plainsong.
Icehouse - Icehouse.
Al Stewart - Year Of The Cat.
Heatwave - Boogie Nights
Yvonne Elliman - If I Can't Have You.
The Real Thing - Can You Feel The Force.
Ultravox - Maximum Acceleration.
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Electricity.
David Bowie - Ashes To Ashes.
Visage - Fade To Grey.
The Normal - Warm Leatherette.
B-Movie - Nowhere Girl.
Gina X - No GDM.
David Sylvian - Red Guitar.
Japan - Television.
U2 - I Will Follow.
Love And Money - Jocelyn Square.
John Foxx - Underpass.
John Foxx And The Maths - Interplay.
Ex Post Facto - Oceanic Explorers.
Sneaker Pimps - Post Modern Sleaze.
Fields Of The Nephilim - Vet For The Insane.

The Mission - Tower Of Strength.
Sisters Of Mercy - Alice.
House Of Love - Shine On.
Prefab Sprout - Cars And Girls.
The Beloved - The Sun Rising.
Nirvana - Something In The Way.
Vök - Lightning Storm.
Kaelan Mikla - Kalt.
Pleasure Symbols - Death and Between.
Tusks - Toronto.
Bird - A War.
Twilight Sad - Drown So I Can Watch.
The Clash - White Riot.
Takotsubo Men - 5ft Vicious.
Cecil - Upside Down Smile.
Jakob - Everything All Of The Time.
B-52s - Rock Lobster.
Killing Joke - Love Like Blood.
Jacques Brel - Amsterdam.
China Crisis - Jean Walks In Fresh Fields.
Buena Vista Social Club - Chan Chan.
Buzzcocks - What Do I Get.
New Order - Everything's Gone Green.
Teardrop Explodes - Poppies (in the field).
Siouxsie And The Banshees - Christine.
Violent Femmes - Color Me Once.
Echo And The Bunnymen - All My Colours.
Machines Of Loving Grace - Golgotha Tenement Blues.
Iggy Pop - The Passenger.
Simple Minds - Sweat In Bullet.
Sonic Youth - Kool Thing.
Gang Of Four - Damaged Goods.
Nightmares In Wax - Black Leather.
Section 25 - Desert.
The Beatles - In My Life.
Gerry And The Pacemakers - Don't Let The Sun Catch You Crying.
Robin S. - Show Me Love.

[red mongoose]

I Melt With You - Modern English
Space Age Love Song - Flock of Seagulls
Baba O'Riley - The Who
This Modern Love - Bloc Party
Can't Stand Losing You - The Police
Sunday Bloody Sunday - U2
Pictures of You - The Cure
Thunder Road (acoustic) - Bruce Springsteen
Fuck and Run - Liz Phair
Train in Vain - The Clash
Destination Ursa Major - Superdrag
Vacation - The Go Gos
Favorite T - Lemonheads
Co-Coward - Bettie Serveert
European Medicine - Superchunk
Too Bored to Die - Bad Cash Quartet
Throne of Gold - Steel Pulse
Dancing with Myself - Billy Idol
I Would Die 4 You - Prince
The Bitterest Pill - The Jam

Fake Plastic Trees - Radiohead
Blue - Jayhawks
Lately (cover) - Jodeci
Black Boys on Mopeds - Sinead O'Connor
Hallelujah (cover) - Jeff Buckley
Here's Where the Story Ends - The Sundays
My Best Friend's Girlfriend - The Cars
All This Useless Beauty - Elvis Costello
Noon Rendezvous - Shiela E.
Limelight - Rush
The Drugs Don't Work - The Verve
Angie - The Rolling Stones
Smash it Up - International Noise Conspiracy
Decent Days and Nights - Futureheads
Photograph - Def Leppard
I Remember You - Skid Row
Pretty in Pink - Psychedelic Furs
Nightswimming - REM
In a Big Country - Big Country
Don't Look Back in Anger - Oasis

Stand Inside Your Love - Smashing Pumpkins
Away with the Pixies - Ben Lee
Surrender - Cheap Trick
Cannonball - Damien Rice
Do What You Like - Digital Underground
Someone New - Eskobar
Radiation Vibe - Fountains of Wayne
There is a Light that Never Goes Out - The Smiths
Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth - Primitive Radio Gods
Your Ex-Lover is Dead - Stars

[SamAteTheRedAcid]

Ha ha. Knew you’d succumb Sam. Well in. Amazing list as are so many others.

But this is so weird mate.

Would you believe number one in my own 500 song Alexa playlist is Carole King live at Montreux Jazz Festival performing .... her amazing version of her very own Up on the Roof followed by Oh No Not My Baby. And four places later at number 5 is Shack with Comedy. John Heads counter harmonies still slay me every time.   

Also funnily enough I’ve also got a Veedon Fleece track right up there but I’ve got the following track Bulbs as it fits in a bit more smoothly with my easy listening than the outstanding unique Punches. 

I'll have to have a listen to that Carole King gig...sounds good.

Bulbs...I always wondered if the lads from The Coral had a copy of Veedon Fleece, if you have a listen to the bassline, then listen to Dreaming of You...pretty close. Of course it's just a couple of chords or whatever, but always made me think...

[jambutty]

These days, lots of us have playlists on our music apps.

An small eclectic sample of mine.  Mostly rockers.  I suspect few will be on yours.

What is Hip - Tower of Power
I Believe - Both Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder's songs
R n R Breakdown - Little Feat
All Hands Up - Quo
Tie Your Mother Down - Queen
Heart of Saturday Night - Dion
Crazy Bout a Mercury - David Linley
Almost anything  by Rockpile, Collective Soul, The Band, Little Feat,
Nothing Can Change This Love -Sam Cooke
Goldfrapp tunes that rock
Birdland - Weather Report
Fanfare - ELP
Get in Trouble - Ray Charles
Don't Break My Heart - Marvin
Got to Give it Up - Marvin
Do it Again - Quo
Ya Dig? - James Gang
Ain't That Peculiar - Chocolate Genius

If ya ain't heard it, try it.

[duvva 💅]

I Melt With You - Modern English
Space Age Love Song - Flock of Seagulls
Baba O'Riley - The Who
This Modern Love - Bloc Party
Can't Stand Losing You - The Police
Sunday Bloody Sunday - U2
Pictures of You - The Cure
Thunder Road (acoustic) - Bruce Springsteen
Fuck and Run - Liz Phair
Train in Vain - The Clash
Destination Ursa Major - Superdrag
Vacation - The Go Gos
Favorite T - Lemonheads
Co-Coward - Bettie Serveert
European Medicine - Superchunk
Too Bored to Die - Bad Cash Quartet
Throne of Gold - Steel Pulse
Dancing with Myself - Billy Idol
I Would Die 4 You - Prince
The Bitterest Pill - The Jam

Fake Plastic Trees - Radiohead
Blue - Jayhawks
Lately (cover) - Jodeci
Black Boys on Mopeds - Sinead O'Connor
Hallelujah (cover) - Jeff Buckley
Here's Where the Story Ends - The Sundays
My Best Friend's Girlfriend - The Cars
All This Useless Beauty - Elvis Costello
Noon Rendezvous - Shiela E.
Limelight - Rush
The Drugs Don't Work - The Verve
Angie - The Rolling Stones
Smash it Up - International Noise Conspiracy
Decent Days and Nights - Futureheads
Photograph - Def Leppard
I Remember You - Skid Row
Pretty in Pink - Psychedelic Furs
Nightswimming - REM
In a Big Country - Big Country
Don't Look Back in Anger - Oasis

Stand Inside Your Love - Smashing Pumpkins
Away with the Pixies - Ben Lee
Surrender - Cheap Trick
Cannonball - Damien Rice
Do What You Like - Digital Underground
Someone New - Eskobar
Radiation Vibe - Fountains of Wayne
There is a Light that Never Goes Out - The Smiths
Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth - Primitive Radio Gods
Your Ex-Lover is Dead - Stars

Love Photograph by Def Leppard, classic. Rare to see anyone who likes anything off that particular Smashing Pumpkins album but Stand inside Your Love is easily the best song on it and meant a lot to me at the time

[SamAteTheRedAcid]

Heart of Saturday Night - Dion

Love Dion. Considered a few for mine. I like Runaround Sue, it amuses me because my wife's Mum is called Sue. Simple things

[Red_Mist]

I’ve had a go and it makes you think about ‘why’. Why does a song make it onto a favourites list? Why would it be impossible not to include it?
For most of the ones on my list, it’s about anticipation. Knowing that there’s a moment in the song that always makes the hairs on my neck stand up, or knowing it’s part of an all time favourite album.

It’s also often about the moment you first heard it. I reckon there’s some kind of strange sweet spot where everything comes together. Your state of mind, who you’re with and where you are. A song can just stomp into your life at exactly the right moment and say, ‘I’m here and I’m gonna hit the spot and you’ll be hooked’. You might’ve heard it before and its beauty or genius might not have registered at that moment. The time wasn’t right. But suddenly it’s got you.

Not sure I could put them in order though….


Genesis - Supper’s Ready
Agree with Zeppelin on this one.

The Horrors - Sea within a sea
First time I heard this was at about 3am in a grungy bar in Spain. It stopped me in my tracks and I put my beer down to listen. At the end i legged it over to the DJ to ask him who it was, and he goes what sounded like “los orros”. Took me weeks to work out what he meant and find the song.

The Rolling Stones - Can’t You Hear Me Knocking
That opening, filthy riff would be enough on its own but the song then goes off on one with a great rambling instrumental.

Pixies - Debaser
Doolittle is up there with my favourite albums and Pixies my favourite bands, so I love hearing that opening bass line. Could’ve picked virtually any song by them.

Human League - The Sound of the Crowd
Just pure 80s. Makes you want to flick your wedge haircut over, dab on the old spice, and go on a night out.

Pink Floyd - Echoes
Like Pixies it could’ve been any number of Floyd tracks but Echoes just got the nod for that long, tense, post-cave section build up to the release before the final verse. Couldn’t be any other band that would do that. Has to be the 23 minute version on Meddle, not that 16 min imposter that appears on a few compilations.

The Stranglers - Down in the sewer
I’ve always loved The Stranglers, and in particular Dave Greenfield’s keyboard wizardry. The last couple of minutes they obviously just said, ‘go Ed Dave, give it some’.

Orbital - Out there somewhere Part 2
I spent every weekend for 6 years 88-93 dancing to music "wholly or predominantly characterised by the emission of a succession of repetitive beats," to quote from the Criminal Justice bill that finally squeezed all the fun out of that particular activity. That leaves a legacy on your musical tastes. I could do a top 20 faves from house and techno alone. A top 100 in fact, but that would be silly. This Orbital track is just one of those that you think to yourself, ‘I wish I knew how to produce that’. You can see that they’ve put thought and effort and layers into it; and it’s almost symphonic in the way it has different movements and eventually comes full circle to return to the original theme. No? Just me then

Carli Simon - Why
Has to be the extended 12” version. Just a beautiful voice and a lovely, moving song.

The The - Uncertain Smile
Again has to be the 12” which is rare as rocking horse shit but I’m lucky enough to have on vinyl. Bit of Jools Holland (much more on the album version) to go with Matt Johnson’s haunting lyrics.

The Raconteurs - The Switch and the Spur
Full of drama. And a western feel to it, which I love. Anything with a brass section gets my vote.

Colourbox - The Official Colourbox World Cup theme
Just makes me smile and usually has me pogo-ing up and down. Again, has to be the long version.

The Clash - Complete Control
Their best track for me by a country mile.

Half Man Half Biscuit - Corgi Registered Friends
One from the incomparable and unsurpassed ‘Achtung Bono’ album. Nigel Blackwell doing what he does best, taking the piss out of the mundane.
It’s been on my Rawk profile pic for years and I used to get PMs asking me for boiler advice!

The Who - Behind Blue Eyes
One of those anticipating a hairs on the neck moment. And it never fails. It’s that transition from a heart-on-the-sleeve ballad, to pure rock n roll via a sudden, almost unexpected sublime guitar. Whoosh…Every time. Who’s Next might be my favourite album ever.

The Cardiacs - Is This The Life
Just makes me headbang, every time.

Tame Impala - Let it happen
Strange one this. Something about it hooked me in and I feel the urge to listen to it quite a lot. Don’t know much about them really.

The Doors - LA Woman
Heard this at a festival and it was right time, place, company. I just thought ‘wow what a song!’

Galaxy 2 Galaxy - Hi-Tech Jazz
As someone summed it up in the YouTube comments: “Detroit. Soul. Funk. Warmth. Detroit. Magical. Techno. Happy times. Soul. Detroit. Smiles.” Couldn’t put it better myself.

Gil Scott Heron - Lady Day and John Coltrane
I love Gil, saw him a couple of times live and his voice was incredible. My sister got me into him after she saw him at the Royal Court in the 80s and then bought me his ‘Reflections’ album which is class from start to finish. Lady Day isn’t on it, but it’s just such an uplifting track that it had to make the cut.

Led Zep - When The Levee Breaks
Always loved it. Just a stone cold classic slice of rock n roll. Air guitar all over the show.

Supertramp - School
I could’ve picked one of 4 or 5 tracks off Crime of the Century. It was my dad’s favourite album so this one’s for him really. In the end I went for the opening track as once again, like Debaser on Doolittle, the opening bars prompt anticipation of the brilliant music to come. Plus there’s that great piano bit!

Enjoyed doing that (and listening to them all again). Nice one Timbo.

Can’t believe Bowie, Buzzcocks, Stevie Wonder, Julian Cope, Joy Division, Neil Young or The Beatles never made it on, but there you go.

Edit: proves one thing, I can’t count, there’s 22.

[redan]

Jeez this is tough. I’ll limit myself to 1 per artist.

Pink Floyd- Dogs
Nine Inch Nails- Hurt
The Beatles- Eleanor Rigby
Nightwish- Ghost Love Score (live)
Led Zeppelin- Since I’ve Been Loving You
The Rolling Stones- Gimme Shelter
REM- Perfect Circle
Oasis- Slide Away
Ryan Adams- Come Pick Me Up
Kanye West- Runaways
Pixies- Monkeys Gone to Heaven
The Coral- Dreaming of You
Madonna- Like a Prayer
Machine Head- Halo
David Bowie- Life on Mars
Depeche Mode- Never Let Me Down
Guns N Roses- Estranged
Radiohead- Let Down
Godspeed You! Black Emperor- Sleep
Prince- Purple Rain

[Mr Grieves]

Nigh on impossible task but here's my top ten of tracks which have been played fairly regularly over the years, in no particular order,

Idiot Wind   - Bob Dylan
That joke isn't funny anymore - The smiths
Are you ready to be heartbroken - Lloyd Cole & the commotions
Waterfall - The Stone Roses
Needle in a haystack - The Velvelettes
Raspberry Beret - Prince
Geno - Dexys Midnight Runners
Both Sides Now - Frank Sinatra's version
Unfinished Sympathy - Massive Attack
Something like you - Michael Head

[Zeppelin]

Jeez this is tough. I’ll limit myself to 1 per artist.


Nightwish- Ghost Love Score (live)

This was just outside my top 20, but I've become a bit obsessed with watching the video of it on Youtube and particularly the 'reaction' vids - watching people's faces when Floor hits that last note is priceless!

[Hazell]

Updated my list with some descriptions and links

Sunny Day Real Estate: In Circles - One for the emo kids which might turn a lot of people off but I can't get enough of that call and response chorus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41YqzHoCgk4
Bloc Party: This Modern Love - Such a great song, the vocals and guitars are terrific, I don't know why it isn't held up as a classic of the genre https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYVE13ND_2E
Elliott Smith: Between The Bars - He's my favourite artist so could have included loads of his songs but this is from my favourite album of his and is just achingly beautiful (if you like sad acoustic music) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5g-91mwiNs
Tiger Trap: My Broken Heart - Mid 90's twee indie pop is probably not for everyone but would make my top 5 favourite songs, I'm a little bit in love with Rose Melberg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNAG1vi53iY
Cocteau Twins: Pearly Dewdrops' Drops - Cocteau Twins sound like nothing else and Elizabeth Fraser's vocals are just awesome, think everyone should check it out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-5Xgw6d3h0
Pixies: Debaser - Been mentioned a few times and rightly so https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVyS9JwtFoQ
Idlewild: Live In A Hiding Place - Mark Lamarr once called them boring but he's a twat. Also, this song isn't on it (but had to include it because I just love it, the chorus is great and the subtle piano is a nice touch) but 100 Broken Windows should get more love as an album, if you like 90's indie, defintitely check it out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-M9PNupZKU
The Cure: Pictures of You - Think everyone knows this song. Was torn between this and Inbetween Days https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmFFTkjs-O0
The National: Fake Empire - If you haven't heard it before, just listen to all of it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KehwyWmXr3U
Arcade Fire: Rebellion (Lies) - Still their best song I reckon and hooks you straight away on first listen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vN2vqaEBhM
Big Star: I'm In Love With A Girl - Alex Chilton's vocals, wow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ow7h-DrMDvo
Another Sunny Day: You Should All Be Murdered - Very Smiths-esque (I would have included them but I can't listen to them anymore because of that prick). Again, needs to be listened to all the way through https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AkXC5m8ueA
REM: It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) - Yep, everyone knows this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0GFRcFm-aY
Cara Dillon: Lark In The Clear Air - Those vocals again, amazing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgjlL8nxm1E
My Bloody Valentine: Soon - I know some posts have included When You Sleep which is great but I love this one just that little bit more. Again great album, if you like that sort of thing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ft56il9bGMk
Neutral Milk Hotel: Two Headed Boy - Don't know why I like this song so much, it shouldn't work but it does. Again the album is considered a classic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TudLjZ_4VhU (something more uptempo from the same album https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLaFLztnL84)
Sonic Youth: Teenage Riot - I can't get into them and this is the only song of theirs I really listen to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPytYrYqDbA
Kate Rusby: Drowned Lovers - Ok, it's folk music which I know a lot of people don't like but it's just so romantic and the flute is great https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYr9nltCeLw
The Softies: It's Love - (Picked I Love You More before but I think I just about prefer this more) More Rose Melberg! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4hufSI710Q
Sugar: If I Can't Change Your Mind - Another classic of the genre https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHnFIaLp_ys

Just a few others because why not.

Wedding Present: Brassneck - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9DjDh3yjSM
Interpol: PDA - Honestly, listen to it all the way through https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wyeuzCktC4
Stevie Wonder: Superstition - Love the Sesamie Street version! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ul7X5js1vE
Dmitri Shostakovich: Waltz No 2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phBThlPTBEg
My Latest Novel: More boring indie! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkFQilZjpcU
The Knife: Heartbeats - Mentioned before and I love Jose Gonzalez's version as well but the original is just so great https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPD8Ja64mRU
Black Kids: I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You - Thought this was by The Cure first time I heard this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOV6I4fYnvQ
Bob Dylan: Like A Rolling Stone - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwOfCgkyEj0
Velvet Underground - Venus In Furs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwzaifhSw2c
Nick Drake: Cello Song - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4y8WGOJu_c
Foo Fighters: Everlong - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBG7P-K-r1Y
The Clash: Train In Vain - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUzBgeI5dpc
The Cranberries: Dreams - Delores O'Riordan's vocals were just amazing, especially towards the end of the song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yam5uK6e-bQ
Death Cab For Cutie: Sound of Settling - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pphrk6wE5aw
The Decemberists: The Mariner's Revenge Song - Love the stories The Decemberists tell (also check out Sons and Daughters) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPAr7kL-mmg
The Jam: Going Underground - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AE1ct5yEuVY
Joanna Newson: Sadie - Probably not for everyone because she sounds like a witch but still https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFroihAcXHE
Joy Division: Isolation - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bkcPS3GHQY
The La's: There She Goes - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZXLLMbJdZ4
Manic Street Preachers: Faster - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rl2Jv4dzFqg
Mogwai: Yes I Am A Long Way From Home - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1J3-ZOdp3g0
Roddy Woomble: Whiskeyface - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r--ow36O1sU
The Replacements: Left Of The Dial - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUmwzgFXfug
Smashing Pumpkins: Today - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmUZ6nCFNoU
The Twilight Sad: Mapped By What Surrounded Them https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5erz1Q09FU
Alkaline Trio: Mercy Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FljNILAozts
Joyce Manor: Angel In The Snow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPI0B4rcuNI
Husker Du: Could You Be The One - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMe15tWC6gc
Talulah Gosh: Bringing Up Baby - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3BxoJqY8UI
Fleet Foxes: White Winter Hymnal - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrQRS40OKNE
Otis Redding: Hard To Handle - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZxN9iQM7OY
Lifehouse: Hanging By A Moment - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPnK39ax_AM
Tracy Chapman: Fast Car - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwrHwZyFN7M
Biffy Clyro: 57 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvfPtwj5GeM
The Delgados: The Light Before We Land - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hg0k18F2Fkg
Half Man Half Biscuit: National Shite Day - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FR842KUaOw
The Sundays: Here's Where The Story Ends - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHsip5xOenQ
Dead Kennedys: Nazi Punks Fuck Off - Seriously, it's only a minute long, check it out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyc62g7YQM0

[duvva 💅]

Haven’t really enjoyed any of their recent stuff but loved the likes of Fake Empire and Bloodbuzz Ohio from the National.

Not familiar with 57 by Biffy so guessing it’s one of their earlier ones, so will look that up. Not a massive fan of the Foo Fighters but love Everlong, a great song

Thanks Hazell. Good to remember some of these songs I haven’t heard in a while

[Timbo's Goals]

Bulbs...I always wondered if the lads from The Coral had a copy of Veedon Fleece, if you have a listen to the bassline, then listen to Dreaming of You...pretty close. Of course it's just a couple of chords or whatever, but always made me think...

Had a listen to both. Yeah. See what you mean. And both have that country/rockabilly feel. Great songs.

[Timbo's Goals]

Loved reading RM’s and Hazels accompanying notes and listening to some of the stuff I wasn’t familiar with. Takes time but worth the effort. Cheers folks. 

[Hazell]

Haven’t really enjoyed any of their recent stuff but loved the likes of Fake Empire and Bloodbuzz Ohio from the National.

Not familiar with 57 by Biffy so guessing it’s one of their earlier ones, so will look that up. Not a massive fan of the Foo Fighters but love Everlong, a great song

Thanks Hazell. Good to remember some of these songs I haven’t heard in a while

Yeah, 57 is early Biffy Clyro. Agree about Foo Fighters as well, I don't really listen to them all that much, aside from Everlong.

Loved reading RM’s and Hazels accompanying notes and listening to some of the stuff I wasn’t familiar with. Takes time but worth the effort. Cheers folks. 

[Red_Mist]

Yep, some fantastic choices there Hazell. Some tracks I absolutely love. And plenty I don’t know too to give a go (as you’ve clearly got great taste!)

[tubby]

Thought I'd chuck 20 in myself:

Higher Grounds / Cats on Fire
Fall Asleep / Big Joanie
North by North / The Bats
Archie, Marry Me / Alvvays
Ain't Nobody / Hushtones
East Bound and Down / Jerry Reed
Glory Hallelujah / Teleman
Battle of Who Could Care Less / Ben Folds Five
Mass Romantic / The New Pornographers
This Feeling / Natalie Shay
Lips Are Unhappy / Lucky Soul
Why Did You Let My Kitten Die? / Angelica
You Get Me / The Broken Family Band
My Heart is a Drummer / Allo Darlin'
Love Athena / Olivia Tremor Control
Come Saturday / The Pains of Being Pure At Heart
Huddle Formation / The Go! Team
Oceanographer's Choice / The Mountain Goats
Le Pastie De La Bourgeoisie / Belle & Sebastian
No Tic, All Tac / Tullycraft

And here's a Spotify link for anyone interested in having a listen:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5BtCcqkw6MPXLgtnd44W4z?si=ff5928416f8b4c93

[Zeppelin]

Kate Rusby: Drowned Lovers - Ok, it's folk music which I know a lot of people don't like but it's just so romantic and the flute is great https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYr9nltCeLw

Anyone who dismisses 'folk music' out of hand is missing out on some really good stuff - quite apart from Kate Rusby and the aforementioned Cara Dillon there are so many great singers who fall under the folk umbrella - Emily Portman, Maz O'Connor, Eliza Carthy, Kris Drever, Julie Fowlis, Alasdair Roberts, Jon Boden and Karine Polwart to name but a few along with bands like Bellowhead, Lau, Oysterband, Steeleye Span and the incomparable Show of Hands. Forget the 'finger in the ear Arran sweater' image - British Folk music is alive and thriving and producing wonderful new music alongside keeping alive traditional songs.

[Hazell]

Yep, some fantastic choices there Hazell. Some tracks I absolutely love. And plenty I don’t know too to give a go (as you’ve clearly got great taste!)

Thanks!

Anyone who dismisses 'folk music' out of hand is missing out on some really good stuff - quite apart from Kate Rusby and the aforementioned Cara Dillon there are so many great singers who fall under the folk umbrella - Emily Portman, Maz O'Connor, Eliza Carthy, Kris Drever, Julie Fowlis, Alasdair Roberts, Jon Boden and Karine Polwart to name but a few along with bands like Bellowhead, Lau, Oysterband, Steeleye Span and the incomparable Show of Hands. Forget the 'finger in the ear Arran sweater' image - British Folk music is alive and thriving and producing wonderful new music alongside keeping alive traditional songs.

Check out Whiskeyface which I linked to on the previous, it's really a John McCusker song