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Post by chvrchbarrel on Jan 15, 2021 19:47:08 GMT -6
Let's Go Crazy and EIIRP are good ones. Born Under Punches is one I forgot. The rest of mine are also good ones neader im not gonna tolerate any u2 slander |
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Post by chvrchbarrel on Jan 15, 2021 19:55:09 GMT -6
Bat out of hell
Only shallow
Bark at the moon
Sunday morning
Papa won’t leave you Henry
Didn’t feel like logging into my alt account to do another one
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Post by clouddead on Jan 15, 2021 20:00:31 GMT -6
Straight Outta Compton
NY State of Mind
Ultralight Beam
Bring the Noise
Follow the Leader
what up gangsta
Sippin on some Syrup
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Post by clouddead on Jan 15, 2021 20:07:26 GMT -6
The Watcher and Fuck Wit Dre Day too. Dr. Dre knows how to open an album.
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Post by mookie on Jan 15, 2021 21:05:32 GMT -6
Let’s Go Crazy
Where the Streets Have No Name
Airbag
Cherub Rock
Race For the Prize
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Post by regionrat6337 on Jan 15, 2021 21:09:18 GMT -6
1. Nikes
2. Let's Go Crazy
3. Tangled Up In Blue
4. Is This It
5. Bat Out of Hell
HM: Second Hand News
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Post by Tweet on Jan 15, 2021 21:14:34 GMT -6
Just wanna say these are dope ass picks |
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Post by chvrchbarrel on Jan 15, 2021 21:21:30 GMT -6
Let’s Go Crazy Where the Streets Have No Name Airbag Cherub Rock Race For the Prize Extremely approved list |
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Post by thebosma on Jan 15, 2021 21:35:38 GMT -6
Everything in its right place (Kid A)
All I Want (Blue)
Like a Rolling Stone (Hwy 61 Revisited)
Ultralight Beam (TLOP)
Running Up That Hill (Hounds of Love)
This is a good one
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Post by nanatod on Jan 15, 2021 21:37:45 GMT -6
album openers:
1.Me, Hank & Jumpin' Jack Flash
2.Highway Star
3.Misery and Gin [live]
4.Blame it on the Stones
5.The Year that Clayton Delaney Died
[marty stuart, this one's gonna hurt you; deep purple, machine head; merle haggard, rainbow stew live; kristofferson, self titled first album; tom t hall, in search of a song] in case some of these were too obscure or old country.
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Post by Pale Hose on Jan 15, 2021 22:22:27 GMT -6
No one naming Arcarsenal is criminal.
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Post by andrewvb on Jan 15, 2021 22:27:14 GMT -6
fun one! album openers tend to be super important to my enjoyment of an album. off the top of the head:
velvet underground - sunday morning
sonic youth - teen age riot
silver jews - random rules
lucinda williams - i just wanna see you so bad
animal collective - leaf house
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Post by Timbo on Jan 15, 2021 22:38:44 GMT -6
Lot of good stuff mentioned already, off the top of my head
22 (Over Soon)
I Want Wind to Blow
Teeth Like God's Shoeshine
Agoraphobia/Cover Me (Slowly)
Just Like Honey
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Post by clouddead on Jan 15, 2021 22:48:26 GMT -6
Sade’s “Smooth Operator”
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Post by monasterymonochrome on Jan 16, 2021 0:10:11 GMT -6
Loooove this thread - gonna contribute some answers that y'all haven't posted yet, for variety:
1. Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
2. Patti Smith - Gloria: In Excelsis Deo
3. Songs Ohia - Farewell Transmission
4. Titus Andronicus - A More Perfect Union
5. Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen, We're Floating In Space
HM: Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels); Tears of Rage; Pink Moon; Five Years
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Post by monasterymonochrome on Jan 16, 2021 0:12:27 GMT -6
album openers: 1.Me, Hank & Jumpin' Jack Flash 2.Highway Star 3.Misery and Gin [live] 4.Blame it on the Stones 5.The Year that Clayton Delaney Died [marty stuart, this one's gonna hurt you; deep purple, machine head; merle haggard, rainbow stew live; kristofferson, self titled first album; tom t hall, in search of a song] in case some of these were too obscure or old country. Never listened to a regular Tom T. Hall album, but his greatest hits is ridiculously good. That's How I Got To Memphis and Homecoming are all-timers. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2021 0:48:26 GMT -6
One of my absolute favorites:
Others that I can think of off the top of my head:
A Tribe Called Quest - Excursions
Elliott Smith - Speed Trials
Nick Cave - We No Who U R
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Post by venom on Jan 16, 2021 13:09:50 GMT -6
also going with a list of songs not already mentioned:
1. movin' on up (screamadelica)
2. head like a hole (pretty hate machine)
3. smells like teen spirit (nevermind)
4. care of cell 44 (odessey and oracle)
5. a little crazy (goodnight rhonda lee)
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Post by zircona1 on Jan 16, 2021 13:40:18 GMT -6
I agree with a lot of what's been mentioned, I'll add:
Welcome to the Jungle
Devil's Haircut
Angel of Death
Great Expectations (Gaslight Anthem)
Rock 'N Roll Star (Oasis)
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Post by monasterymonochrome on Mar 12, 2021 13:20:27 GMT -6
Steven Hyden just posted this ranking of his 100 Best R.E.M. songs - a pretty unique list, IMO, with the top five being So Central Rain, Nightswimming, These Days, Sweetness Follows, and Driver 8. So where do y'all stand? 1. Find The River 2. So. Central Rain 3. Try Not To Breathe 4. Stumble 5. Shaking Through HM: Sweetness Follows, Superman, Talk About The Passion |
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Post by Timbo on Mar 12, 2021 13:24:40 GMT -6
ah the yearly R.E.M. ranking. I'll bite.
1. Finest Worksong
2. Driver 8
3. So Central Rain
4. Nightswimming
5. Maps and Legends
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Post by monasterymonochrome on Mar 12, 2021 13:33:35 GMT -6
ah the yearly R.E.M. ranking. I'll bite. 1. Finest Worksong 2. Driver 8 3. So Central Rain 4. Nightswimming 5. Maps and Legends Just went thru the archives and we ranked REM in 2018 and 2019, but NOT 2020 - high time for round 3! |
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Post by Tweet on Mar 12, 2021 13:50:55 GMT -6
I’ll let UA or clouddude find my list from last time to see how it compares:
Cuyahoga
Catapult
Nightswimming
Losing my Religion
(Don’t go back to) Rockville
Automatic for the people
Murmur
Document
Life’s Rich pageant
New adventures in hi-fi
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Post by Kamera on Mar 12, 2021 14:00:50 GMT -6
At the moment: Cuyahoga Catapult Losing my religion Pop Song 89 Nightswimming |
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Post by zircona1 on Mar 12, 2021 15:17:49 GMT -6
Begin the Begin
Find the River
The Wake-Up Bomb
Country Feedback
Pilgrimage
HM: The One I Love, At My Most Beautiful, I Took Your Name, Nightswimming
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2021 15:35:30 GMT -6
Finest Worksong is always number 1.
I've become re-obsessed with Losing My Religion after watching the Song Exploder episode about the song.
And the rest:
Leave
Try Not To Breathe
Perfect Circle
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Post by nanatod on Mar 12, 2021 16:23:58 GMT -6
can't get there from here
it's the end of the world as we know it
nightswimming
so. central rain
radio free europe
half a world away isn't bad
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Post by nanatod on Mar 12, 2021 16:25:39 GMT -6
occasional reminder that I and former lolla board member "atomic" saw rem on the reckoning tour, but in different parts of the country.
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Post by Kamera on Mar 20, 2021 16:48:52 GMT -6
Top 5 Production of The Archers
5. I Know Where I’m Going
4. Black Narcissus
3. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
2. A Matter of Life & Death
1. The Red Shoes
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Post by Tweet on Apr 15, 2021 19:10:43 GMT -6
Top 5 Black Keys Albums:
Thickfreakness
Chulahoma
Rubber Factory
Brothers
Attack & Release
"I Got Mine"
"10 AM Automatic"
"Hard Row"
"Lonely Boy"
"When The Lights Go Out"
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