Inspired by IMU, Boyd, and over a dozen beers. Just pick an artist you like a lot and say your 10 favorite songs by them. Not sure what the point of this is but it sounds like a good idea right now. These are not really in order. Thatd take more effort than Im capable of right now.

Grateful Dead

1. Terrapin Station
2. Box of Rain
3. Scarlet Begonias
4. Eyes of the World
5. St Stephen
6. Uncle John's Band
7. Just A Little Light
8. Jack Straw
9. New Speedway Boogie
10. Shakedown Street

Bob Dylan

1. Tangled Up in Blue
2. Desolation Row
3. Shelter From the Storm
4. Blowin in the Wind
5. Maggie's Farm
6. Idiot Wind
7. Positively 4th St
8. Hurricane
9. With God on Our Side
10. Visions of Johanna


More to follow later probably. Also probably should have thought this through more but whatever

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I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
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Ke$ha

1. "Your Love Is My Drug"
2. "Tik Tok"
3. "Take It Off"
4. "Kiss n Tell"
5. "Stephen"
6. "Blah Blah Blah"
7. "Hungover"
8. "Party at a Rich Dude's House"
9. "Backstabber"
10. "Blind"

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That's my purse! I don't know you!

How can you leave Wicked Garden of STP's top 10?

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That's my purse! I don't know you!

I'm gonna take a second and come back with Beatles, Jimi, and Pink Floyd. Maybe Phish.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

May your seconds take years and then decades.

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No "Ripple" for the Dead

These are all very provisional for me.
GBV!
1. Queen of Cans and Jars
2. Over the Neptune/Mesh Gear Fox
3. Echos Myron
4. As We Go Up
5. Exit Flagger
6. Dusted
7. My Valuable Hunting Knife
8. Game of Pricks
9. Drag Days
10. Surgical Focus

Spiritualized
1. Spread Your Wings/Feel Like Goin Home
2. Angel Sigh
3. Feel So Sad
4. Smiles
5. Medication
6. Lay Back in the Sun
7. Shine a Light
8. Let It Flow
9. The Slide Song
10. Home of the Brave/The Individual

Dylan
1. It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)
2. Like A Rolling Stone <- This is a cliched answer for a legitimate reason IMO.
3. Tangled Up in Blue
4. Love Minus Zero
5. If You See Her, Say Hello
6. John Wesley Harding
7. I Threw It All Away
8. Maggie's Farm
9. Hurricane
10. Blowin' in the Wind

Beatles

1. Across the Universe
2. A Day In the Life
3. Strawberry Fields Forever
4. I Am The Walrus
5. Revolution
6. Help!
7. Helter Skelter
8. Rocky Raccoon
9. The Fool on the Hill
10. While My Guitar Gently Weeps

The Jimi Hendrix Experience

1. Red House
2. Hey Joe
3. Bold As Love
4. All Along The Watchtower
5. Burning of the Midnight Lamp
6. The Wind Cries Mary
7. Voodoo Chile
8. Little Wing
9. Stone Free
10. Spanish Castle Magic

Pink Floyd

1. Wish You Were Here
2. Time
3. Comfortably Numb
4. Mother
5. Marooned
6. High Hopes
7. Have A Cigar
8. Pigs
9. Shine On You Crazy Diamond I-V
10. Arnold Layne

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

It would make my Top 20. Theres a reason I said I probably didnt think it through enough. 24 hours from now my Dead and Dylan lists could look pretty different. Nice Dylan 10 though, and I agree on Like a Rolling Stone. It was the first one I left off probably.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Youre about to hate my Beatles 10.....

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Your subconscious is smarter than you

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Here's a free tip .... change out that shitfest "Across the Universe" with, say, "Come Together" ... or even just a recording of a group of gibbons playing kazoos with their asses.

Anyway, here's another purposeless list that nobody else wants to read, with the obvious (if you know me) choice - Steely Dan:

1] Do It Again
2] F.M. (second best vamp ever ... #1 you ask? Lou Reed's "Take a Walk on the Wild Side")
3] Green Earrings
4] Pretzel Logic
5] Aja
6] Rikki Don't Lose That Number
7] Hey Nineteen
8] Reelin' In The Years (their live version really brings out the killer straight-ahead shuffle feel)
9] Kid Charlemagne
10] Peg

Honorable Mentions: Gaucho; Security Joan

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- Henry George

Arthur Russell:

1) A Little Lost
2) I Couldn't Say It To Your Face
3) This Time Dad You're Wrong
4) Keeping Up
5) This Is How We Walk On The Moon
6) That's Us/Wild Combination
7) Arm Around You
8 ) Soon To Be Innocent Fun
9 ) You Can Make Me Feel Bad
10) Is It All Over My Face

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Don't take it personally.

Talkin shit about the best song the Beatles ever composed. And here we were getting a lot famously til now Don. For shame.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

I remember seeing Donald Fagen on Letterman when Gaucho first came out and Letterman asked him what bodacious meant. Fagen said in his nasal whine, "It's a word that's used to describe cowboys."

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1. Sex Type Thing
2. Piece Of Pie
3. Dead & Bloated
4. Unglued
5. Down
6. Crackerman
7. Lounge Fly
8. Tumble In The Rough
9. Dumb Love
10. Wicked Garden

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Musically, it's for shit. There may be all sorts of wonderful ideas and anecdotes surrounding it, the lyrics some may find interesting, even poignant, but as I said, musically, it's for shit.

It's like when a redneck discovers how awful "Proud to be an American" is ... sure, it's rare, and it often takes courage to stand up to say the truth, that it's awful and anyone that likes it should be put on a list to be immolated within the next decade, to help hasten the song's disappearance from the social psyche as a whole. But fear not, the truth shall set you free brother.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

nice.

I put equal stock into lyrics as music when I listen to music. Probably because I couldnt play a guitar worth a shit.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Ah ..... listening to music for the words ..... like tasting food for its color .....

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

I'm not sure what's worse, a big fan of Steely fucking Dan talkin shit to me about music, or said person making amusing salient points while doing it. Either way I think I might hate you Don.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

The only folks I've ever known that hold Steely Dan in low regard (I don't mean don't like it, I mean don't respect it) are those that can't actually listen to music and pick it apart to find out what's going on, and then listen again and again and keep finding layers of wonderment through subsequent listenings, hearing things they never heard in this or that song previously.

Put a different way, it's fine to say you don't like Steely Dan - unless you subsequently wish to present yourself as a music snob .... saying one then the other disqualifies the latter directly because of your stance on the former.

Again, these are the facts, and they are undisputed.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

I have no beef with Steely Dan, although I much prefer the older, edgier, more muscular stuff to their latter day forays into what I'd call pure jazz rock like Aja. Interestingly enough, I think the lyrics deteriorated as the music became smoother. "Kid Charlemagne" plays like a movie. Drug dealers on the run are a lot more interesting than some fucked up broad drinking a big black cow.

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Don't take it personally.

Phish
Harpua
Colonel Forbin's Ascent
The Curtain With
Maze
The Mango Song
Down with Disease
Lifeboy
Stash
Fluffhead
Lizards

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Waiting for the time when I can finally say
That this has all been wonderful, but now I'm on my way

I shouldn't have out those lists together hammered. Forgetting Mr Tambourine Man is embarrassing. That would be in my top 5.

Don, Steely Dan's alright. I'm not sure what you meant though. Of course I can listen to music and hear the bass, rhythm, guitar, etc and understand what they are doing. I think most people can. I'm about the furthest thing from a music snob though. I like what I like and don't care much to argue about it. I was just drunk and trying to talk shit and failing.

I need coffee.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

The things you think are useless I can't understand.

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I actually came up w/ this thread idea, but never came through w/ it.

The Beatles
1. Something
2. Strawberry Fields Forever
3. Back in the U.S.S.R.
4. Hey Jude
5. The Ballad of John & Yoko
6. Sexy Sadie
7. Happiness is a Warm Gun
8. This Boy
9. We Can Work It Out
X. I'm So Tired

Queen
1. Bohemian Rhapsody
2. The March of the Black Queen
3. I Want It All
4. The Prophet Song
5. Sail Away, Sweet Sister
6. Teo Torriate (Let Us Cling Together)
7. It's Late
8. Keep Yourself Alive
9. Another One Bites the Dust
X. Stone Cold Crazy

Also embedded in the song are the 2 glorious Larry Carlton solos.

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

The Clash:
1. Clampdown
2. London Calling
3. Train in Vain
4. Somebody Got Murdered
5. Judy's Been Working for the Drug Squad
6. I'm So Bored With the USA
7. Police on my Back
8. Somebody Got Murdered
9. Stay Free
10. Lost in the Supermarket

The Kinks:
1. All Day and All of the Night
2. Apeman
3. Waterloo Sunset
4. Tired of Waiting for You
5. Stop Your Sobbing
6. Celluloid Heroes
7. A Well Respected Man
8. Victoria
9. Come Dancing
10. Father Christmas

The Who:
1. The Kids are Alright
2. Squeeze Box
3. Happy Jack
4. Baba O'Reiley
5. My Wife
6. A Quick One While He's Away
7. Won't Get Fooled Again
8. My Generation
9. I Can See for Miles
10. Love Reigh O'er Me

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Yacht Rock- Episode 10!!!!!

Lipid and Don Tiny, this one's for you!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yb_XEwgfmDk

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Chubby Checker

The Twist
Twistin' USA
Let's Twist Again
Slow Twistin'
Jingle Bell Twist
Hannukah Twist
Arbor Day Twist
Twistin' for a Dollar
Hey, Man Just Give Me a Dollar
I'll S**k your D**k for a Dollar

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BEST. VIDEO. EVER.