Bob Dylan

Tangled Up in Blue
Tough Mama
Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
When I Paint My Masterpiece
Visions of Johanna
Quinn the Eskimo
It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry
Forever Young
Desolation Row

Like, how bout we make a song with violins and talking about how much I love some woman?

It's more fun to be a victim

There will never be an effective vaccine. I'll never get one anyway.

I agree with you regarding their avant-garde cred, owing mostly to John Cale. But it was their straight-up pop song sensibilities that made their avant-garde outings more available and familiar to the rock music fan. While the Velvet Underground get deserved credit for inluencing Punk and New Wave, stuff like "Black Angel's Death Song" and "Sister Ray" had a palpable influence on bands like Kraftwerk, Killing Joke, the WaxTrax-Era Industrial bands and their descendants. While other Avant-Garde mediums (painting, Film, theater) had largely become legitimized by the late '60's, this was never the case with music, outside of a few very well known composers. I contend that the Mid to Late '80's Industrial movement, prior to being absorbed into the generic Alternative sphere, was the closest approximation of Avant-Garde music being accepted and internalized into the mainstream consciousness. Me, I like both kinds, Country and Western.

Beginning to See the Light
Venus in Furs
Heroin
Pale Blue Eyes
The Murder Mystery
Waiting For The Man
Who Loves The Sun
Jesus
All Tomorrow's Parties
White Light/White Heat

Talking Heads

This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)
Making Flippy Floppy
Cross-eyed and Painless
Swamp
Psycho Killer
And She Was
Cities
Nothing But Flowers
Life During Wartime
Girlfriend is Better

Our hotel smelled like dead hooker vagina (before you ask I had gotten a detailed description from beardown)

ELO is very much a Greatest Hits band. I love a handful of their songs, but don't have a single album. No one is Greatest Hitsier than Tom Petty or the Cars, though.

If you hate Laurence, then don't listen - don't comment. When he co-hosts the B&B show, take that day off ... listen to an old podcast of a Bernstein solo show and jerk off all day.

Swap Swamp for Heaven, it my list is about the same

Elmhurst Steve thinks this is their worst song.

Elmhurst Steve thinks this is their worst song.

Whoops, no idea how I completely botched the title of "When You Sleep" there. I guess I somehow combined it with "I Only Said."

And while "Map Ref" is a cover I still think it's one of the best things they did. The only thing that keeps it from being perfect is the lack of "CHORUS!"

Speaking of which, I'll do Wire

1. The 15th
2. Map Ref
3. Sand in My Joints
4. Mercy
5. Outdoor Miner
6. Ex Lion Tamer
7. I Am the Fly
8. Mannequin
9. I Should Have Known Better
10. Heartbeat

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

Mountain Goats might be the hardest for me.

1. Going to Alaska
2. Store
3. You're in Maya
4. Going to Georgia
5. Orange Ball of Love
6. Source Decay
7. Attention All Pickpockets
8. Weekend in Western Illinois
9. Up the Wolves
10. The Doll Song

I didn't intentionally try to list so many non-album songs.

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

ELO is very much a Greatest Hits band. I love a handful of their songs, but don't have a single album. No one is Greatest Hitsier than Tom Petty or the Cars, though.

Rolling Stones

1. Honkey Tonk Woman
2. Gimme Shelter
3. Brown Sugar
4. Street Fighting Man
5. Jumpin' Jack Flash
6. Under My Thumb
7. Angie
8. (I can't get no) Satisfaction
9. Anybody Seen My Baby?
X. Mixed Emotions

It's more fun to be a victim

There will never be an effective vaccine. I'll never get one anyway.

Les Grobstein's huge hog is proof that God has a sense of humor, isn't it?