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"Graveyard Shift" - Uncle Tupelo

For me: Uncle Tupelo - No Depression Really introduced me to country music (via punk, of course). Also inspired me to finally start writing my own songs.

JUST ADDED: Taj Mahal & The Phantom Blues Band- Shoutin' In Key (Live)

Did anyone yet mention Dusty Groove?

Steely Dan - "Peg" Public Enemy - "Don't Believe the Hype"

Shit sandwich.

Dogbowl - Flan Sly & The Family Stone - There's a Riot Goin' On The Sea & Cake - Everybody The Clean - Anthology (disc 2) About that Dogbowl: Suitably bizarre, yet still tuneful... The guy has a strange voice that is not for everybody. And the record is a post-apocalyptic Odyessy, complete with bizarre creatures, including a boy-headed dog, cannibals, flying eyeballs, and a pet fish that lives outside of his fish tank. The music has a Broadway-on-acid quality that is hard to describe any further. Worth picking up from Amazon for 65

Anyone want an album of theirs produced by Jon Brion?

The Everly Brothers - The Very Best Of... Roky Erickson - Demon Angel: A Day & Night With Roky Erickson Wire - Send The Wrens - The Meadowlands

But, where would you fit in?

You can choose anyone... be they dead or alive. I'm listening to Harry Nilsson this morning and thinking about how much I would have loved to have played with him got me thinking about this. (Especially getting him to sing on a new song of mine that I cannot sing!!!) So, who for you, and in what capacity? My list: Harry Nilsson (vocalist/musician) Brian Eno (producer/musician) Roy Wood (producer/musician) Nick Lowe (musician/producer) James Burton (musician) Steve Cropper (musician/producer) Willie Nelson (vocalist/guitar/gettin' stoned)

Harry Nilsson - Pandemonium Shadow Show/Aerial Ballet/Pandemonium Aerial Ballet The Exploding Hearts - Guitar Romantic The Fall - The Real New Fall LP Dusty Springfield - Dusty In Memphis

Were I in NYC, I would try to get there. Good luck and have a great gig!

"I'll Feel A Whole Lot Better" - The Byrds

"California Girls" The Beach Boys version, not the Diamond Dave version. That said... "Hot For Teacher" has a pretty great opening, too!!!

Thanks, Matt. And everyone else who listened. I do appreciate the boost and the props.

Tell me about this one. I like the look of that album cover!

JOAN GANZ COONEY (Creator, "Sesame Street;" Founder, Children's Television Workshop)

Otis Redding singing: "These... arms.. of... miiiiiiinnneeee..."

Radiohead - The Best Of... (2-disc version) Peter Laughner - Take the Guitar Player For a Ride House Of Freaks - Tantilla 13th Floor Elevators - The Psychedelic Sounds Of...

There are the obvious: "A Hard Day's Night", of course. "Rocks Off" (Rolling Stones) -- has the greatest single snare hit in all of rock & roll. But also: "Get Ready For Love" (Nick Cave) -- Starting with the throbbing band, followed by Nick's howl of the song's title and the gospel choir's response of "Praise Him..." Also, every single Ramones song: "One, Two, Three, Four!!!"

Les Paul The man who invented both the solidbody electric guitar AND multitrack recording. or, for another musical one: Leon Theremin Invented not only his namesake instrument (the first electronic instrument and precursor to the synthesizer) but also an electronic bugging device used by the KGB (and later, US) during the Cold War. And, there is no shortage of information on him (including a great documentary for YOU to watch).