Jump to content

Your top 20 Farrar songs...

remphish1

By remphish1,
in Someone Else's Song

 Share Followers 0

Recommended Posts

remphish1

remphish1

Posted
Posted

List your top 20 favorite Farrar songs..I just got inspired after listening to the Search the other day which I just got on vinyl!

 

No particular order

Chickamuga

Criminals

Wipe The Clock

Before I Break

John Hardy

Slate

Still be Around

Fifteen Keys

Loose String

Ten Second News

Catching On

No More Parades

Medicine Hat

Flow

Question

Outside the Door

Six String Belief

Underground Dream

Circadian Rhythm

Jukebox of Steel

Link to post
Share on other sites
jokin' dealer

jokin' dealer

Posted
Posted

Also in no particular order

1. Graveyard Shift

2. Still Be Around

3. Chickamauga

4. Postcard

5. Drown

6. Catching On

7. Flow

8. Route

9. Atmosphere

10. 6 String Belief

11. Caryatid Easy

12. Picking Up the Signal

13. Straightface

14. Right On Through

15. Windfall

16. Action

17. Highways and Cigarettes

18. Breathe Our Iodine

19. Buzz & Grind

20. Methamphetamine

Link to post
Share on other sites
brianjeremy

brianjeremy

Posted
Posted

I made my brother a killer 4 disc comp. of Farrar's work a year ago but I deleted the play list last week. One disc for each period: Tupelo, SV mach 1, Solo, SV mach 2. If I could just go back in time...

 

Windfall

Slate

Grindstone

Whiskey Bottle

Still Be Around

Tear Stained Eyes

Live Free

Driving The View

Route

Back Into Your World

Methamphetamine

The Picture

Feel Free

Damn Shame

Voodoo Candle

Barstow

Greenwich Times

6 String Belief

Jet Pilot

Cocaine and Ashes

 

Seriously tough to just choose 20. These are my favorite right now.

Link to post
Share on other sites
Maggie

Maggie

Posted
Posted

Creosote

No More Parades

Last Minute Shakedown

Left a Slide

Medicine Hat

Route

Tear Stained Eye

Bandages & Scars

Methamphetamine

Slate

Fifteen Keys

Fall Down Easy

Still Be Around

Wipe the Clock

Steal the Crumbs

Anodyne

Outside the Door

Feel Free

Cahokian

Buzz & Grind

 

This is way too hard to do. These are basically 20 random songs that jumped at me as I scrolled through my collection.

 

For some reason nothing from No Depression stood out.

Link to post
Share on other sites
DrNo

DrNo

Posted
Posted

Glad to see someone include "Left A Slide". That's a vastly underrated Son Volt tune.

 

Creosote

No More Parades

Last Minute Shakedown

Left a Slide

Medicine Hat

Route

Tear Stained Eye

Bandages & Scars

Methamphetamine

Slate

Fifteen Keys

Fall Down Easy

Still Be Around

Wipe the Clock

Steal the Crumbs

Anodyne

Outside the Door

Feel Free

Cahokian

Buzz & Grind

 

This is way too hard to do. These are basically 20 random songs that jumped at me as I scrolled through my collection.

 

For some reason nothing from No Depression stood out.

Link to post
Share on other sites
hardwood floor

hardwood floor

Posted
Posted

love jay

 

6 String Belief

Barstow

Catching On

Chickamauga

Cocaine and Ashes

Driving The View

Drown

Highways and Cigarettes

Jukebox of Steel

Looking for a Way Out

Loose String

Methamphetamine

Outside the Door

The Picture

Route

Slate

Still be Around

Tear Stained Eye

Underground Dream

Whiskey Bottle

Windfall

 

wow, nobody else has looking for a way out on their list

 

i think one of jay's best

 

great stuff, though, love reading these

Link to post
Share on other sites
jakobnicholas

jakobnicholas

Posted
Posted

Tough to choose. I'll include some stuff off Sebastapol & Terroir Blues, both which have some great tunes...

 

 

Life Worth Livin

Wipe The Clock

Criminals

Windfall

Ten Second News

Too Early

Picking Up the Signal

Back Into Your World

Straightface

Feel Free

Different Eyes

Drain

Feed Kill Chain

Damaged Son

Make it Alright

All of Your Might

Hanging On To You

Dent County

Station to Station

World Waits For You

Link to post
Share on other sites
nodep5

nodep5

Posted
Posted

Anything from 1992-1998 would likely work for me.

 

just an aside, as retrospectives go, the son volt retrospective is glorious. the original Son Volt lineup and their three proper albums will be one of my favorites periods in music or from a musician/band. They were a steady workhorse (no frills) just straight up awesome.

 

ok back to the list

 

Cresote (amazing acoustic guitar work)

Windfall (an all time great song, instant classic, instantly familiar, masterpiece of a song on a masterpiece of an album)

Link to post
Share on other sites
CortezTheKiller

CortezTheKiller

Posted
Posted

It was incredibly difficult for me to limit this to twenty.

 

Uncle Tupelo

Chickamauga

Slate

Still Be Around

Looking For a Way Out

 

Son Volt

Windfall

Tear-Stained Eye

Too Early

Out of the Picture

Left a Slide

Creosote

Methamphetamine

Bicycle Hotel

Circadian Rhythm

No Turning Back

Roll On

 

Solo/Other Projects

All of Your Might

Heart on the Ground

Hanging on to You

No Rolling Back

Low Life Kingdom

 

He's also done some killer covers - Mystifies Me, Looking at the World Through a Windshield, Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way? (frequent closer on Son Volt's last tour), Going, Going Gone, Effigy, and Lucifer Sam immediately come to mind.

Link to post
Share on other sites
Maggie

Maggie

Posted
Posted

 

 

He's also done some killer covers - Mystifies Me, Looking at the World Through a Windshield, Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way? (frequent closer on Son Volt's last tour), Going, Going Gone, Effigy, and Lucifer Sam immediately come to mind.

 

 

I'm obsessed with that cover of Going, Going, Gone. Almost put it on my list, but didn't want to take up space that could go to a Farrar original

Link to post
Share on other sites
hardwood floor

hardwood floor

Posted
Posted

I KNOW! not only one of his best, but for me one of the best F-ing songs in the entire F-ing world.

 

couldn't agree more

 

looking for a way out is one of my 10 favorite non-GBV tracks ever

 

 

He's also done some killer covers - Mystifies Me, Looking at the World Through a Windshield, Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way? (frequent closer on Son Volt's last tour), Going, Going Gone, Effigy, and Lucifer Sam immediately come to mind.

 

the one time i saw Uncle Tupelo they closed with Effigy

 

just absolutely freaking mind-blowing

Link to post
Share on other sites
Calexico

Calexico

Posted
Posted

Good to see Circadian Rhythm on the list somewhere. 20 Jay Farrar songs would be doing a huge list a great injustice. Jay/Son Volt did a great version of The Kinks I'm Not Like Everybody Else as well. Methamphetamine is a recent classic too. I love the heck out of that song.

Link to post
Share on other sites
jgriff

jgriff

Posted
Posted

Windfall (#1)

Tear Stained Eye (#2)

Catching On

Out of the Picture

Live Free

Picking Up the Signal

Left a Slide

Creosote (#3)

Last Minute Shakedown

Driving the View

Right on Through

Hanging Blue Side (#4)

Gramophone (#6)

Methamphetamine (tie #3)

L Train

Dynamite

Cocaine and Ashes (not sure why I like this one so much)

No Turning Back (#7)

Jukebox of Steel

 

Solo

Clear Day Thunder (#9)

Barstow

Feed Kill Chain (#8)

Vitamins (#10)

No Rolling Back

Link to post
Share on other sites

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

Guest
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.

Loading...
×
 Share
Followers 0
Go to topic listing
×
×
  • Create New...