inspired from that scene in "high fidelity"...i can't think of just a top 5 or anything but off the top of my head...

"bone machine" - pixies - surfer rosa
"serve the servants" - nirvana - in utero
"everything right is wrong again" - they might be giants - they might be giants
"everything in its right place" - radiohead - kid a
"something i learned today" - husker du - zen arcade
"armitage shanks" - green day - insomniac
"tired of sex" - weezer - pinkerton
"can't stand it" - wilco - summer teeth
"taxman" - the beatles - revolver
"like a rolling stone" - bob dylan - highway 61 revisited
"radio free europe" - rem - murmur
"girls & boys" - blur - parklife

"Takin' A Ride"- Replacements, Sorry Ma
"Dig Me Out"- Sleater-Kinney, Dig Me Out
"Rise Above"- Black Flag, Damaged
"Last Time"- Ike Reilly, Salesmen and Racists
"What Are We Waiting For"- The Yayhoos- Fear Not The Obvious
"Holidays In The Sun"- Sex Pistols- Never Mind The Bollocks
"Suspect Device"- Stiff Little Fingers- Inflammable Material

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Don't take it personally.

A Salty Salute, Guided By Voices - Alien Lanes

thought of another...

"facet squared" - fugazi - in on the kill taker

Here are five that came to mind in my sleep addled brain
Where The Streets Have No Name, U2
Everlasting Light, The Black Keys
Flight Test, The Flaming Lips
Tangled Up In Blue, Bob Dylan
Astral Weeks, Van Morrison

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I've got a six-disc changer in the car and Astral Weeks is always in the first slot. That's the one I never switch out. "Ain't nothin' but a stranger in this world."

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Don't take it personally.

"Waiting Room"!

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Don't take it personally.

I keep seeing this referred to as a seminal piece of music and highly influential to a lot of artists ( Van Morrison played a ton of stuff) but am ashamed to say Ive never given it a listen. I will rectify that this week.

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It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

"Welcome to Hell" Bad Meets Evil (aka Eminem and Royce Da 5'9'')

When I was done listening to it for the first time, I had to immediately play it back, and I can't think of a time I've ever done that before....

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"I Am One" - The Smashing Pumpkins - Gish
"Worms of the Senses" - Refused - The Shape of Punk To Come
"Battery" - Metallica - Master of Puppets
"Prelude Vol. 3.0" - Slipknot - Vol. 3 - The Subliminal Verses
"Laid to Rest" - lamb of god - Ashes of the Wake

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Funeral for a Friend (Goodbye Yellow Brick Road) Elton John
Death on Two Legs (A Night at the Opera) Queen
Dancing with the Moonlit Knight (Selling England by the Pound) Genesis
Tom Sawyer (Moving Pictures) Rush
Black Dog (IV) or Whole Lotta Love (II) Led Zeppelin

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"Rules Don't Stop"-We Are Scientist-Barbera (Probably helps that it's the one good song on the record...)
"Marching Bands of Manhattan" -DCFC- Plans
"I Am Trying to Break Your Heart"-Wilco-YHF
Edit: forgot:
"D'You Know What I Mean?"-Oasis-Be Here Now(This could be my ultimate 'Best Track 1', awesome prelude, great crescendo, great guitar solo, and drawn out ending. If only the rest of album was special...)

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team Mully & Hanley
team Meatpants

Achilles Last Stand - Presence (Zeppelin)
Baba O'Riley - Who's Next (The Who)
Bombtrack - Rage Against the Machine (self titled)
Blitzkreig Bop - Ramones (The Ramones)
The Magnificent Seven - Sandinista (The Clash)

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This.

'Once'- Pearl Jam, Ten
'All Right, Oh Yeah'- Local H, Pack Up The Cats
'Aqualung'- Jethro Tull, Aqualung
'Let Me Drown'- Soundgarden, Superunknown

and as much as I hate it, have to say 'Smells Like Teen Spirit'- Nirvana, Nevermind

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Black Keys - Thickfreakness from Thickfreakness
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath from Black Sabbath
Raveonettes - Ally, Walk With me from Lust, Lust, Lust
Weezer - My Name is Jonas from Blue Album

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"Ambitionz az a Ridah"

Hells Bells-Back in Black-ACDC
Aces High-Iron Maiden-Powerslave
Angel of Death-Slayer-Reign in Blood
Holy Wars the Punishment Due-Megadeth-Rust in Peace
Welcome to the Jungle-GNR- Appetite
Runnin with the Devil- Van Halen- Van Halen
Shine on you Crazy Diamond Part 1- Wish you were here- Pink Floyd
2112- Rush- 2112

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Pearl Jam - Brain of J (my favorite by a long shot)
Public Enemy - Whole Lotta Love Going On In the Middle of Hell
Blitzen Trapper - Sleepytime in the Western World
Pink Floyd - One of These Days
Wilco - Misunderstood

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-- source

"Rocks Off" - Rolling Stones - Exiles on Main Street
"Stigmata" - Ministry - Land of Rape and Honey
"Lust for Life" - Iggy Pop - Lust for Life
"Dead Leaves and Dirty Ground" - White Stripes - White Blood Cells
"Shine On You Krazy Ivan Pt. 1" - Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

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I don't remember half the time if I'm hiding or I'm lost

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Proud member of the white guy grievance committee

It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

"Beat It" - Michael Jackson

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Kid Cairo: 2013 March Madness Tournament Winner!

"Cowabunga? Cowa fucking piece of dog shit! This game is diarrhea coming out of my dick!"

Real quick off the top of my head...I know I'm forgettings omething, but I have two sets:

Favorite songs that happen to be the first track:

U2 - Beautiful Day
Matchbox Twenty - Real World
Don Henley - The End of the Innocence

Songs that aren't quite great but really do a great job of setting up the tone for the rest of the album:

U2 - Zoo Station
Collective Soul - Tremble for My Beloved
Ben Folds Five - One Angry Dwarf and 200 Solemn Faces

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"There is a high statistical probability of death by gunshot. A punch to the face is also likely."

-Planet Telex - Radiohead - The Bends
-U2- Zooropa - Zooropa
-Holy Wars - Megadeth - Rust in Peace
-Running On Empty- Jackson Browne - Running on Empty
-Second Hand News - Fleetwood Mac - Rumours.

aphex twin: analogue bubblebath 3 (click on the picture for the song)


somewhere somehow i've still got the original press with the bubblewrap and all of that. i hope. possible casualty of the bon voyage from my parents house...

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Hotel California - Eagles - Hotel California
Black Out - Scorpions - Black Out
Where do the Children Play - Cat Stevens - Tea for the Tillerman
My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys - The Outlaws - Wanted! The Outlaws

And there it is...

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"There is a high statistical probability of death by gunshot. A punch to the face is also likely."

I know many here don't care for that brand of music, but that album is really good.

"Airbag" - Radiohead - OK Computer
"Wake up Dead" - Megadeth - Peace Sells....

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Here are a few that haven't been mentioned yet.....

The Act We Act - Sugar
I Will Follow - U2
My own summer(shove it) - Deftones
Rusty Cage - Soundgarden
Do It For Love - The 77s

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Just chillin' like Garret Quillin.

that's a good one, and probably my favorite album from then.

"it's gonna be a long night" - ween - quebec
"go" - pearl jam - vs.
"to defy the laws of tradition" - primus - frizzle fry