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Post by theyknowwhatimean on Jul 30, 2014 9:54:20 GMT -5
Moonage Daydream. Full Stop. It'd have to be up there no doubt, the verses with the "I'm an alligator! I'm a mama-papa coming for you!" is classic Bowie from that period and the choruses certainly are impressive |
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Post by mimmihopps on Jul 30, 2014 13:07:51 GMT -5
Can be changed by time to time, but some songs are always there for me:
Blue Boy - Orange Juice
Action Time and Vision - Alternative TV
This One's For You - Ed Harcourt
Don't Dream It's Over - Crowded House
Ghosts - The Jam
The World Is Full Of Crashing Bores - Morrissey
Time Of Season - The Zombies
In My Life - The Beatles
Ruby Tuesday - The Rolling Stones
The Killing Moon - Echo and The Bunnymen
Reel Around The Fountain - The Smiths
Sorry it's 11.
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Post by matt on Jul 30, 2014 13:27:48 GMT -5
The Smiths - There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
Oasis - Live Forever
U2 - New Year's Day
Morrissey - Speedway
R.E.M. - Fall On Me
Arcade Fire - Modern Man
The Beatles - In My Life
The Beach Boys - Wouldn't It Be Nice
Bruce Springsteen - Atlantic City
Simon & Garfunkel - The Boxer
Honourable Mentions (on the shortlist!):
Arctic Monkeys - Fake Tales of San Francisco
Nirvana - In Bloom
The Verve - A New Decade
The La's - Son of a Gun
Coldplay - Politik
The Kinks - Mr Churchill Says
Frank Turner - Redemption
Embrace - Drawn From Memory
Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees
Frightened Rabbit - State Hospital
Franz Ferdinand - Jacqueline
Sigur Ros - Varuo
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Post by lahaine on Jul 30, 2014 14:14:38 GMT -5
Moonage Daydream. Full Stop. It'd have to be up there no doubt, the verses with the "I'm an alligator! I'm a mama-papa coming for you!" is classic Bowie from that period and the choruses certainly are impressive No British Vocalist for me has come close before or after to that performance. Bowie was the man in the 70's, I know Stevie Wonder was up there producing classic after classic and Sex Pistols did leave their mark. But the 70's belonged to Bowie, he is the equal of the Beatles for me, yeah he's had a right few stinkers but alone for his 70's and early 80's work he's greatest solo performer Britain's every produced bar none. |
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Post by oasisserbia on Jul 30, 2014 15:02:02 GMT -5
the beatles - a day in the life
the rolling stones - gimme shelter
the velvet underground - venus in furs
david bowie - space oddity
pink floyd - echoes
arcade fire - wake up
the prodigy- smack my bitch up
bob dylan - like a rolling stone
john lennon - imagine
sex pistols - pretty vacant
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Post by theyknowwhatimean on Jul 30, 2014 15:13:48 GMT -5
It'd have to be up there no doubt, the verses with the "I'm an alligator! I'm a mama-papa coming for you!" is classic Bowie from that period and the choruses certainly are impressive No British Vocalist for me has come close before or after to that performance. Bowie was the man in the 70's, I know Stevie Wonder was up there producing classic after classic and Sex Pistols did leave their mark. But the 70's belonged to Bowie, he is the equal of the Beatles for me, yeah he's had a right few stinkers but alone for his 70's and early 80's work he's greatest solo performer Britain's every produced bar none. Without a doubt I'd agree on him being him being the greatest solo performer Britain's produced, but on the 70s belonging to Bowie, what about Led Zeppeling? |
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Post by lahaine on Jul 30, 2014 15:41:17 GMT -5
No British Vocalist for me has come close before or after to that performance. Bowie was the man in the 70's, I know Stevie Wonder was up there producing classic after classic and Sex Pistols did leave their mark. But the 70's belonged to Bowie, he is the equal of the Beatles for me, yeah he's had a right few stinkers but alone for his 70's and early 80's work he's greatest solo performer Britain's every produced bar none. Without a doubt I'd agree on him being him being the greatest solo performer Britain's produced, but on the 70s belonging to Bowie, what about Led Zeppeling? I just give Bowie the nod for changing his style but Zeppelin were the band of the 70's, they were the biggest band in the world bar none. I always find it strange when the papers say Oasis were the biggest British Band since The Beatles back in the 90's, bloody Zeppelin were selling Records by the millions especially in the States. |
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Post by asimarx on Jul 30, 2014 15:53:32 GMT -5
Can be changed by time to time, but some songs are always there for me: Blue Boy - Orange Juice Action Time and Vision - Alternative TV This One's For You - Ed Harcourt Don't Dream It's Over - Crowded House Ghosts - The Jam The World Is Full Of Crashing Bores - Morrissey Time Of Season - The Zombies In My Life - The Beatles Ruby Tuesday - The Rolling Stones The Killing Moon - Echo and The Bunnymen Reel Around The Fountain - The Smiths Sorry it's 11. Best list I've seen so far! :-) Gonna try to compile my own top 10 tomorrow... |
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Post by WirralRiddler on Jul 30, 2014 18:05:32 GMT -5
Beatles - A day in the life
Smiths - What difference does it make
The Who - My Generation
The Kinks - You really got me
Sex Pistols - God save the Queen
Jimi Hendrix - Purple Haze
Stone Roses- Mersey Paradise
Arctic Monkeys - Do I wanna know
Rolling Stones - Satisfaction
Elvis Presley - If I can dream
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Post by mimmihopps on Jul 31, 2014 1:50:36 GMT -5
Can be changed by time to time, but some songs are always there for me: Blue Boy - Orange Juice Action Time and Vision - Alternative TV This One's For You - Ed Harcourt Don't Dream It's Over - Crowded House Ghosts - The Jam The World Is Full Of Crashing Bores - Morrissey Time Of Season - The Zombies In My Life - The Beatles Ruby Tuesday - The Rolling Stones The Killing Moon - Echo and The Bunnymen Reel Around The Fountain - The Smiths Sorry it's 11. Best list I've seen so far! :-) Gonna try to compile my own top 10 tomorrow... Thank you.  Looking forward to see your list. If I may add a few more, I'd love to these ones on my list too: Cold Days From The Birdhouse - The Twilight Sad Slow Parade - Broken Records Keep Yourself Warm - Frightened Rabbit New England - Billy Bragg Jeane - The Smiths |
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Post by defmaybe00 on Jul 31, 2014 6:44:59 GMT -5
Arctic Monkeys - When The Sun Goes Down
Coldplay - The Scientist
The Libertines - Up The Bracket
The Killers - Read My Mind
The Neighbourhood - Sweater Weather
Bob Dylan - Don't Think Twice It's All Right
Jake Bugg - Seen It All
The Fratellis - Baby Fratelli
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - Everybody's On The Run
Kodaline - All I Want
It was hard
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Post by asimarx on Jul 31, 2014 12:33:13 GMT -5
Best list I've seen so far! :-) Gonna try to compile my own top 10 tomorrow... Thank you. Looking forward to see your list. This turned out to be more work than actually I'm willing to invest, so from the top of my head: :-) My Bloody Valentine - Sometimes Joy Division - Transmission Doves - There Goes The Fear R.E.M. - Perfect Circle The Fall - The Classical Sonic Youth - The Diamond Sea The Jam - Going Underground Van Morrison - Sweet Thing XTC - Making Plans For Nigel Pulp - Do You Remember The First Time? The La's - Timeless Melody Yeah, it's 11 as well. New Order and about 683 bands/songs should have been in there, too. Nevermind. I especially liked the (not so obvious) late 70's/80's-indie/post-punk stuff you included. I mean it's quite easy and obvious to go for the likes of Hendrix/Beatles/Stones/Who/Pistols/Bowie/Velvets/Floyd/Kinks. Although I love all of them. Well except for anything prog-rock and most of Hendrix's later output. Too much masturbation. Anyway, The Zombies are great too! I had Odessey and Oracle on CD lying around untouched and unheard for a very long time until I finally put it on late last year. It didn't leave my stereo for weeks, criminally underrated I must say! |
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Post by theyknowwhatimean on Jul 31, 2014 12:34:55 GMT -5
Without a doubt I'd agree on him being him being the greatest solo performer Britain's produced, but on the 70s belonging to Bowie, what about Led Zeppeling? I just give Bowie the nod for changing his style but Zeppelin were the band of the 70's, they were the biggest band in the world bar none. I always find it strange when the papers say Oasis were the biggest British Band since The Beatles back in the 90's, bloody Zeppelin were selling Records by the millions especially in the States. They might mean biggest British band IN BRITAIN as opposed to just biggest British band. It's like Coldplay, they can sell records by the bucket loads in the US which Oasis never could, but in the Britain, they're not half as big. Same thing with U2 |
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Post by mimmihopps on Jul 31, 2014 12:51:58 GMT -5
Thank you. Looking forward to see your list. This turned out to be more work than actually I'm willing to invest, so from the top of my head: :-) My Bloody Valentine - Sometimes Joy Division - Transmission Doves - There Goes The Fear R.E.M. - Perfect Circle The Fall - The Classical Sonic Youth - The Diamond Sea The Jam - Going Underground Van Morrison - Sweet Thing XTC - Making Plans For Nigel Pulp - Do You Remember The First Time? The La's - Timeless Melody Yeah, it's 11 as well. New Order and about 683 bands/songs should have been in there, too. Nevermind. I especially liked the (not so obvious) late 70's/80's-indie/post-punk stuff you included. I mean it's quite easy and obvious to go for the likes of Hendrix/Beatles/Stones/Who/Pistols/Bowie/Velvets/Floyd/Kinks. Although I love all of them. Well except for anything prog-rock and most of Hendrix's later output. Too much masturbation. Anyway, The Zombies are great too! I had Odessey and Oracle on CD lying around untouched and unheard for a very long time until I finally put it on late last year. It didn't leave my stereo for weeks, criminally underrated I must say! Great list as well. "Odessey and Oracle" is a timeless classic. Have you watched "Control" by Anton Cobijn? It's sad, but "Transmission" sounds like if it was written for the ending scene of the film. I don't know if you ever heard of The Veils, but the singer and the front man of the band is the son of the keyboard player from XTC. The Veils sound like much more "Alternative" than XTC, but still a good band. |
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Post by asimarx on Aug 1, 2014 2:36:59 GMT -5
Have you watched "Control" by Anton Cobijn? It's sad, but "Transmission" sounds like if it was written for the ending scene of the film. I don't know if you ever heard of The Veils, but the singer and the front man of the band is the son of the keyboard player from XTC. The Veils sound like much more "Alternative" than XTC, but still a good band. I'm not too fond of Control, to be honest. Never liked those feature film biopics on musicians in general, as they tend to simplify history. I much prefer 24 Hour Party People, if just for its pure hilariousness.  Joy Division surely have written a lot of songs that could potentially soundtrack (mostly unhappy) "endings". But I think Transmission actually makes an exception in the JD catalogue. Musically it's propulsive and upbeat, and contrary to most other Curtis' works, I find the lyrics to Transmission to be almost positive and life-affirming. It's kind of meta-music. A song about being lost in music that in itself manages to draw you in. Love the intro with the distant synths, and then Peter Hook enters with his incredible bass figure. So powerful. Yeah, I know The Veils. Been listening to some of their stuff, well, must have been like 9 to 10 years ago. Never heard or read anything of them since. Kinda vanished from the spotlight. |
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Post by allingoodtime on Aug 14, 2014 11:57:10 GMT -5
If I had to create a top 100 songs list Oasis would have:
Wonderwall
Champagne Supernova
Stop Crying your heart out
Cast no shadow
Going Nowhere
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Post by allingoodtime on Sept 22, 2014 11:18:47 GMT -5
Shit..going through George Harrisons songs, he has some real gems!
Isn't it a pity
All things must pass
Give me love
My Sweet Lord
Got my mind set on you
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Post by mkoasis on Sept 22, 2014 20:32:57 GMT -5
I have an officially prepared list for threads like this...
Oasis - I hope I think I know
The Verve - Lucky Man
Beatles - In My Life
The Jam - Going Underground
Strokes - Someday
Smashing Pumpkins - This Time
Ramones - We're a Happy Family
Smiths - There is a Light that Never Goes Out
Buzzcocks - You Say You Don't Love Me
The Cure - Out of this World
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Post by mkoasis on Sept 22, 2014 20:34:06 GMT -5
Oh and two more:
Rock the Casbah - the Clash
Like a Hurricane - Neil Young
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