PopTodd

That has always been one of my favorites, too. And, about 15 years ago, it would have been THE one in this thread, for me.

The live version of "Surrender": "This next one... is the first song... from our new album! It comes out next month, and it's called... 'Surrender'!"

Beastie Boys - Check Your Head The Dismemberment Plan - Emergency & I the The - Mind Bomb Def Leppard - Yeah!

Oh yeah, my "gateway" to the underground: Meat Puppets - Up On the Sun Odd, in the time when REM and The Smiths were rising in popularity (late 80's) that the Pups would be the band to turn me on the the underground. But I read an interview in a guitar magazine and HAD to hear them.

Just one line (or couplet)... from only one artist. Only one song. ONLY ONE LINE!!! (or couplet). I'm gonna have to think on this one for a little. But maybe today.... "When they say it's all over It's not all over, there's still the pain..." -Thin Lizzy - "Running Back" You may now unleash your Dylan quotes and whatnot.

Eleventh Dream Day - Zeroes and Ones Martin Newell - A Summer Tamarind The Beatles - Live at the BBC

"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.