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so i put together a playlist today to fill one cdr and to try and include bands and songs that describe my music affections over my slightly 40 plus years. i began with one of my first albums and tried to include up to my most recent interest. i also kept the list to albums i was into around the time of their release and tried to avoid too many of the "hits" on some of the more popular titles. so here 'tis:

 

 

Jet Paul McCartney & Wings Band On The Run

Do Ya Electric Light Orchestra afterglow

Police On My Back The Clash Sandinista!

Louie Louie The Pretenders Pretenders II

Change Of Heart Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Looking For Lewis And Clark The Long Ryders

Asking Me Lies The Replacements Don't Tell A Soul

Way Down Now World Party Goodbye Jumbo

Daddy Was A Preacher But Mama Was A Go-Go Girl Southern Culture On The Skids

Underground Ben Folds Ben Folds Five

Live Free Son Volt Jay Farrar Trace

Old School Bran Van 3000 Glee

A Song For You Whiskeytown Return Of The Grievous Angel: A Tribute to Gram Parsons

I'm Always In Love Wilco Summer Teeth

Up With People Lambchop Nixon

Life Goes Off Jim O'Rourke Insignificance

Heatherwood Deerhunter Cryptograms

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From roughly 1970- 2003:

 

And When I Die, Blood, Sweat and Tears

Take Me to The Pilot, Elton John

Thick as a Brick, Jethro Tull

Tie Your Mother Down, Queen

Night, Bruce Springsteen

Candy's Room, Bruce Springsteen

Water of Love, Dire Straits

Let it Loose, Rolling Stones

London Calling, The Clash

Bad, U2

Beyond Belief, Elvis Costello

Don't Come Around Here No More, Tom Petty

Slow Train, Bob Dylan

Going To California, Led Zeppelin

Kid A, Radiohead

Dumb, Nirvana

 

Post 2003, it's all over and my musical tastes narrow considerably. :D

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Here's a comp of all live material..

 

Lou Reed/ Transformer --Intro/Sweet Jane

Humble Pie--I'm Ready

Canned Heat--Bullfrog Blues

Kinks--Low Budget

Deep Purple--Lazy

Leon Russell--Mighty Quinn Medley

Genesis--The Knife

Grand Funk--Inside Looking Out

Stones--Midnight Rambler

Neil Young--Powderfinger

Rush--La Villa Strangiato

Yes--Starship Trooper

Allman Bros.--In Memory of Elizabeth Reed

Floyd--Saucerful of Secrets

Hendrix--Star Spangled Banner

Dylan/Band--Blowin'

Grateful Dead--Feedback/We Bid You Goodnight

 

ok, that's two cds..but wtf? :stunned

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kiss - love gun

van halen - jamie's cryin

prince - darlin nikki

twisted sister - stay hungry

iron maiden - wasted years

slayer - angel of death

minor threat - betrayed

black flag - my war

minutemen - i felt like a gringo

descendents - clean sheets

snfu - painful reminder

cure - lullaby

jane's addiction - sympathy for the devil

elliott - superstitions in travel

nomeansno - big dick

drag the river - get drunk

 

i started taking this seriously, but this is way too hard.

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Here's a comp of all live material..

 

Lou Reed/ Transformer --Intro/Sweet Jane

Humble Pie--I'm Ready

Canned Heat--Bullfrog Blues

Kinks--Low Budget

Deep Purple--Lazy

Leon Russell--Mighty Quinn Medley

Genesis--The Knife

Grand Funk--Inside Looking Out

Stones--Midnight Rambler

Neil Young--Powderfinger

Rush--La Villa Strangiato

Yes--Starship Trooper

Allman Bros.--In Memory of Elizabeth Reed

Floyd--Saucerful of Secrets

Hendrix--Star Spangled Banner

Dylan/Band--Blowin'

 

 

Grateful Dead--Feedback/We Bid You Goodnight

 

ok, that's two cds..but wtf? :stunned

 

 

 

that's a cool list. keep 'em coming.

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hmmmm . . . top of the head

 

Yes - Yours is No Disgrace

Genesis - The Musical Box

Rush - Vital Signs

The Who - Tommy Overture

Son Volt - Left a Slide

Uncle Tupelo - Looking For a Way Out

Wilco - Kamera

Neil Young - Grandpa's Interview

Iron & Wine - Upward Over The Mountain

Stereolab - Golden Ball

Yo La Tengo - Detouring America With Horns

Belle & Sebastian - Stay Loose

Charlatans - Then/109 Pt.1

The Decemberists - The Tain

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The Beatles Revolution

The Beatles Hey Jude

Bruce Springsteen Incident on 57th Street

Big Star September Gurls

The Doors L. A. Woman

Elton John Burn Down the Mission

George Harrison Isn't it a Pity

Neil Young Like a Hurricane

Bruce Springsteen Thunder Road

Jimi Hendrix Red House

Led Zepplin In my time of Dying

Bruce Springsteen Tougher than the Rest

Los Lobos Will the Wolf Survive

Lynyrd Skynyrd Free Bird

Uncle Tupelo Gun

Uncle Tupelo Chicamauga

Pearl Jam Even Flow

Velvet Underground Sweet Jane

Lou Reed The Blue Mask

Radiohead Just

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hmmmm . . . top of the head

 

Yes - Yours is No Disgrace

Genesis - The Musical Box

Rush - Vital Signs

The Who - Tommy Overture

Son Volt - Left a Slide

Uncle Tupelo - Looking For a Way Out

Wilco - Kamera

Neil Young - Grandpa's Interview

Iron & Wine - Upward Over The Mountain

Stereolab - Golden Ball

Yo La Tengo - Detouring America With Horns

Belle & Sebastian - Stay Loose

Charlatans - Then/109 Pt.1

The Decemberists - The Tain

 

what's stereolab's "golden ball" on? i've recently gotten into them but i don't think i know that one, although i'm not familiar with all the song titles even on the albums i do have.

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what's stereolab's "golden ball" on? i've recently gotten into them but i don't think i know that one, although i'm not familiar with all the song titles even on the albums i do have.

It's on Transient Random Noisebursts With Announcements, but a great version as well on ABC/BBC music ( I actually like that one a bit better). It's a repeating guitar riff trance/jam.

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everyone here has great taste in music, its good news

im not actually gonna make a CDR cos i cant, but it would look something like this

 

The Clash - Train In Vain

Blur - Charmless Man

Oasis - Hello!

Nirvana - Lounge Act

Rufus Wainwright - Poses

Neil Young - Powderfinger

The Band - Arcadian Driftwood

Mannassas - It Doesnt Matter

Jackson Browne - These Days

David Crosby - Almost Cut My Hair

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It's on Transient Random Noisebursts With Announcements, but a great version as well on ABC/BBC music ( I actually like that one a bit better). It's a repeating guitar riff trance/jam.

 

 

how's the rest of that bbc disc? i might have to get that. i've been concentrating on vinyl initially but i'd love to hear some live recordings.

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how's the rest of that bbc disc? i might have to get that. i've been concentrating on vinyl initially but i'd love to hear some live recordings.

best place to start for Stereolab - all live recordings for the BBC, lots of raw energy

 

Disc 1 is throbbing guitar krautrock, disc 2 is eclectic art-rock but still with the same energy

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best place to start for Stereolab - all live recordings for the BBC, lots of raw energy

 

Disc 1 is throbbing guitar krautrock, disc 2 is eclectic art-rock but still with the same energy

 

 

 

The only Stereolab I have is live Stereolab........excelent!!!!

 

 

 

 

-Robert.

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Peace, Love, and Understanding- Elvis Costello

Take it Easy (Hell Freezes Over version)- The Eagles

Tangled Up In Blue- Bob Dylan

Your Smiling Face- James Taylor

Powderfinger- Neil Young

Johnny Strikes Up The Band- Warren Zevon

Get Back- The Beatles

Great Day- Paul McCartney

Kid Charlamegne- Steely Dan

Devils and Dust- Bruce Springsteen

Three Views of a Secret- Jaco Pastorius

So What- Miles Davis

I Am Trying to Break Your Heart- Wilco

Not Sport, Martial Art- Jim O'Rourke

 

well, that completes the journey thus far.

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i didn't follow the rules exactly... this is just a mix cd i recently made, but no modern artists are included (so no Califone, My Morning Jacket, Jim O'Rourke, Tim Easton, Wilco, Jayhawks, Tupelo.) I'm 18, by the way...

 

'Til The Money Runs Out - Tom Waits

Big Tears - Elvis Costello

Long Face - Bobby Charles

Barstool Blues - Neil Young

I've Got A Feeling - The Beatles

So It Goes - Nick Lowe

Rockin' Chair (live) - The Band

All Things Must Pass - George Harrison

Washington Bullets - The Clash

Dark End of the Street - The Flying Burrito Brothers

Let Nothing Come Between You - Warren Zevon

Isolation - John Lennon

Diamond Joe ("Masked and Anonymous") - Bob Dylan

At the Crossroads - The Sir Douglas Quintet

Almost Cut My Hair - CSNY

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I'm not sure if mine follows the "rules" exactly. I made a list that compiles, almost year-by-year where my musical tastes have been over the past 15-20 years.(so it doesn't necessarily follow the order of what was new at the time--just when I was really into that band) I kind of dig it. It leaves out a TON of stuff in that it is mostly rock-centric and doesn't pay a lot of attention to other stuff that I was listening to that wasn't at the top of my radar (a lot of jazz, reggae, hip-hop, electronic), but its pretty cool. My *earliest* and most embarrassing hair-metal stuff isn't on here since I probably no longer own any of it in any format anymore, so this list picks up somewhere around 1990 or so when I was in full-on Classic Rock mode in high school and goes chronologically from there. I tried to make it "flow" like a mix I'd like to listen to, tho I haven't given it a spin yet to see if that worked out. Its fun to chart the genre-hopping going on, tho. (even if the scope here is mostly limited to "rock")

 

Magic Carpet Ride - Steppenwolf (a cacth-all song to represent my Classic Rock obsession at the time)

Thorn In My Pride - Black Crowes

Straight to Hell - Drivin' n' Cryin'

Weight of the World - Widespread Panic

Pay For What You Get - Dave Matthews Band

Waiting in Vain - Bob Marley

Ride the Tide - Screamin' Cheetah Wheelies

Jessica - Allman Bros Band

Silence Kid - Pavement

Turn it On - Flaming Lips

Soft Serve - Soul Coughing

Gun - Uncle Tupelo

Blame, Etc - Afghan Whigs

Box Full of Letters - Wilco

Windfall - Son Volt

When You Discover - Buffalo Tom

The Hour Grows Late - Yo La Tengo

Artificial Life - Operation Ivy

The 11th Hour - Rancid

Margin Walker - Fugazi

Born Toulouse Lautrec - New Bomb Turks

Have the Time - The Slackers

Flat Earth Society - Bad Religion

And It Stoned Me - Van Morrison

One Bourbon One Scotch One Beer - John Lee Hooker

How to Disappear Completely - Radiohead

Radio Cure - Wilco

One Too Many Blows to the Head - Dismemberment Plan

Collect the Diamonds - Q and Not U

Last Chance to Dance Trance - Medeski, Martin & Wood

Its All Over Now - Rebirth Brass Band

Set Out Running - Neko Case

Stormy Monday - Allman Bros

He's Gone - Grateful Dead

A Kiss Before I Go - Ryan Adams

Lowdown - My Morning Jacket

Mr. Tough - Yo La Tengo

Hate It Here - Wilco

How a Resurrection Really Feels - The Hold Steady

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