[GN85]

Post what you think is the single best song by each of some of the artists or bands that you listen to. I'm hoping this can help me and others discover some new good music without sifting through a bunch of crap. Yeah i know, lazy me. I'll start:

Cypress Hill - Insane in the Brain
Air - People in the city
Groover Armada - At the River
Oasis - D'You Know What I Mean?
Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 1 Mvt. 2
Falco - Rock Me Amadeus
Bran Van 3000 - House Lights
The Beatles - I am the Walrus
Everlast - Sad Girl
The Pixies - I bleed
Fatboy Slim - Brimful of Asha
Duran Duran - Come Undone
David Bowie - Space Oddity
Bob Dylan - Lay Lady Lay
Guns n Roses - Welcome to the Jungle

 

[pitom]

"Blind Faith" - Dream Theater

 

[Tryptonique]

Quote:

Originally Posted by GN85 /img/forum/go_quote.gif Post what you think is the single best song by each of some of the artists or bands that you listen to. I'm hoping this can help me and others discover some new good music without sifting through a bunch of crap. Yeah i know, lazy me. I'll start: Cypress Hill - Insane in the Brain Air - People in the city Groover Armada - At the River Oasis - D'You Know What I Mean? Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 1 Mvt. 2 Falco - Rock Me Amadeus Bran Van 3000 - House Lights The Beatles - I am the Walrus Everlast - Sad Girl The Pixies - I bleed Fatboy Slim - Brimful of Asha Duran Duran - Come Undone David Bowie - Space Oddity Bob Dylan - Lay Lady Lay Guns n Roses - Welcome to the Jungle

Say whaaaat?

You picked D' You Know What I mean over Turn Up The Sun, Don't Look Back in Anger, or the Importance of Being Idle? You must be smokin' crack (teasing).

I also prefer: Monkey Gone To Heaven, Where Is My Mind, or heck..even Dig For Fire over I Bleed. No accounting for taste, eh?

As for Duran Duran...I gotta go with Save A Prayer or perhaps Ordinary World.

Space Oddity is cool, though. There is a well-done cover of it here:

www.myspace.com/cold

(first song on the playlist)


Here are 10 artist favs...there is a LOT of diversity here too!

dredg - Not That Simple
The Cure - The Same Deep Water As You
Smashing Pumpkins - Once Upon A Time
Marilyn Manson - Coma White
R.E.M - Daysleeper
Marcy Playground - Rebel Sodville
Brian Vander Ark - And Then We Fell
Rob Zombie - American Witch
Chevelle - Point #1
Filter - The Missing
Garbage - Run Baby Run

 

[Happy Camper]

I am the Walrus?`

 

[Tryptonique]

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Originally Posted by Happy Camper /img/forum/go_quote.gif I am the Walrus?`

If you are a Beatles fan, you should really check this out:

Playing The Beatles Backwards: The Ultimate Countdown | JamsBio Magazine

Basically, this guy lists his favorite 185 Beatles songs. However, instead of just providing a numerical list, he writes in depth about why he made those selections. One of the most extensive musical commentaries I have seen on the web about the Beatles.

You can also see the full list here:

http://magazine.jamsbio.com/2009/01/...-countdown/20/

 

[GN85]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tryptonique /img/forum/go_quote.gif Say whaaaat? You picked D' You Know What I mean over Turn Up The Sun, Don't Look Back in Anger, or the Importance of Being Idle? You must be smokin' crack (teasing). I also prefer: Monkey Gone To Heaven, Where Is My Mind, or heck..even Dig For Fire over I Bleed. No accounting for taste, eh? As for Duran Duran...I gotta go with Save A Prayer or perhaps Ordinary World. Space Oddity is cool, though. There is a well-done cover of it here: COLD on MySpace Music - Free Streaming MP3s, Pictures & Music Downloads (first song on the playlist) Here are 10 artist favs...there is a LOT of diversity here too! dredg - Not That Simple The Cure - The Same Deep Water As You Smashing Pumpkins - Once Upon A Time Marilyn Manson - Coma White R.E.M - Daysleeper Marcy Playground - Rebel Sodville Brian Vander Ark - And Then We Fell Rob Zombie - American Witch Chevelle - Point #1 Filter - The Missing Garbage - Run Baby Run

lol that's a horrible cover imo

. There's a better one sung by a woman, heard it in this car commercial here in Canada. Infinity or something, can't remember.

Oasis has so many good songs that if you like their genre of music it's very hard to pick out a single one as the best. Same with Garbage.

 

[buddhashenglong]

This thread has the makings of a digital Battle Royale, but I will hop in the ring.
Megadeth - Tornado of Souls
Mos Def - Champion Requiem
Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers - Free For All
Way too many toss ups out there, good luck.

 

[Tryptonique]

Quote:

Originally Posted by GN85 /img/forum/go_quote.gif lol that's a horrible cover imo . There's a better one sung by a woman, heard it in this car commercial here in Canada. Infinity or something, can't remember. Oasis has so many good songs that if you like their genre of music it's very hard to pick out a single one as the best. Same with Garbage.

Hmmm interesting. I like the Space Oddity cover I linked to just because I think it conveys the sense of isolation and alienation that the song requires. If you don't like the vocalists vocal style, though (or think it is overwrought -which I wouldn't blame anyone for thinking) it probably wouldn't do much for you.

Anyway...I agree about Oasis and Garbage. I was just giving you a bit of a hard time and attempting to point out some of my own personal faves.

-E

 

[Linchpin]

All That Remains - This Calling
Bloodsimple - What If I Lost It
Breaking Benjamin - Diary of Jane
Coal Chamber - Something Told Me
Disturbed - Meaning of Life
Dry Cell - Body Crumbles
Fear Factory - Slave Labor
Godsmack - I Stand Alone
Ill Nino - When It Cuts
In Flames - Trigger
Kasabian - Empire
Korn - Right Now
Lamb of God - Redneck
Limp Bizkit - Hot Dog
Linkin Park - Place for my Head
Lost Prophets - Burn Burn
Motorhead - Ace of Spades
Mudvayne - Determined
Mushroomhead - One More Day
Rammstein - Mein Herz Brennt
Seether - Needles
Slipknot - Wait and Bleed
Spineshank - New Disease
Static X - The Only
Stone Sour - Orchids
System of a Down - Revenga
Three Days Grace - Overrated

Sorry if it's a bit long, I skipped over half the artists in my music library as it is.

 

[-=Germania=-]

Fleet Foxes - Winter White Hymnal
The Weepies - Gotta Have You
Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah
Death Cab For Cutie - I will follow you into the Dark
Ella and Louis - Summertime
Owl City - Hello Seattle
Zero 7 - Futures
Motion City Soundtrack - Lets get ****ed up and Die / Everything is Alright
Tracy Chapman - Behind the Wall
The Black Ghosts - Any Way You Choose to Give it
Amos Lee - Colors
Bon Iver - Skinny Love
The Academy Is... - Skeptics and True Believers
Keane - This is the Last time
Imogen Heap - Let Go
Vampire Weekend - Oxford Comma
Madeleine Peyroux - I'm Allright
Anberlin - Promise
Augustana - Sunday Best
Basshunter - DOTA och spelar
Josh Gracin - Brass Bed
Pilot Speed - Barely Listening
Sara Bareilles - Gravity
Natasha Bedingfeld - Soulmate
Josh Turner - Would you go with me


EDIT: Adding on to the list

Glasvegas - Geraldine
Bjork - Joga
Boston - More than a feeling
A Fine Frenzy - You picked me
The Low Anthem - Charlie Darwin
Ben Folds - Still Fighting It ?Luckiest
Sugarcult - Pretty Girl (Live Session)
Kate Walsh - Tonight
Matt Wertz - 5:19
Kill Hannah - Lips Like Morphine
Monty - Ella
Corinne Bailey Rae - Put Your Records on
Wired all Wrong - Nothing at all
Miss Li - Let Her Go
Lady Antebelum - Love Don't Live Here
Tristan Pettyman - Madly
Cold War Kids - Hang Me Out to Dry
The Wombats - Lets Dance to Joy Division
Brandi Carlile - The Story
Eric Church - Lightning
Squeeze - Pulling Muscles
Sia - Breathe Me
Goldfinger - 99 Red Balloons
Matt Mathanson - Bulletproof Weeks
Jack Johnson - Broken
Tokio Hotel - Rette Mich
Copeland - Priceless
Halfway to Hazard - Daisy
Justice - D.A.N.C.E.
Elliot Smith - Needle in the Hay
Macy Gray - Time of Your Life
Moby - Natural Blues
Mutemath - Plan B
Patty Griffin - Time will Do the Talking
Robyn - Dream On
Stefano Belloni - Antonia
Steven Reich - Music for 18 Musicians
Common - Be
Foghat - Slow Ride
Nils Lofgen - Keith Don't Go

 

[nakedhand]

This will be difficult.. interesting thread!

Bass Communion: Aum Shinrikyo
Deathprod: Reference Frequencies #3
Biosphere: Antennaria
Aphex Twin: mt saint michel mix plus
Manuel Göttsching: E2-E4
Boards Of Canada: Kid For Today
Future Sound Of London: Slider
Plastikman: Consumed
Transllusion: Dimensional Glide
Drexciya: Powers Of The Deep
Andrea Parker: Melodius Thunk
Thelonius Monk: Caravan
plaid: Eyen
Dead Can Dance: Mesmerism
Cocteau Twins: Wax And Wane
The Cure: A Forest
Depeche Mode: Waiting For The Night
Massive Attack: Better Things
Portishead: Mysterons *NYC live version
DAF: Als Wär's Das Letzte Mal
R.A. Ruggedman: Chains
Delinquent Habits: Midnite Spin
Antipop Consoritum: What Am I
Bikstok Rogsystem: Dukkemand
Jose Gonzalez: Down The Line
Nick Drake: Things Behind The Sun
Pink Floyd: Shine On You Crazy Diamond
The Doors: Crystal Ship
Jeff Buckley: Mojo Pin
Dire Straits: News
Pixies: Blown Away
PJ Harvey: Rid Of Me
Nick Cave: No More Shall We Part
Public Image Ltd. : Another
Mogwai: Batcats
Smashing Pumpkins: Soma
Radiohead: Idioteque
Rammstein: Keine Lust
The Smiths: This Night Has Opened My Eyes
Morrissey: Why Dont You Find Out For Yourself
Tortoise: Glass Museum
The The: Gravitate To Me
TOOL: Sober
Soundgarden: Slaves And Bulldozers
Siouxie And The Banshees: Sin In My Heart
J Majic: Solarize *optical mix
Klute: The Three of Us
Konflict: Star Trails
Korrupt Souls: The Singularity
Raiden: Archangel
Bjork: Hunter
David Bowie: Im Deranged
Stevie Wonder: Visions
Tears For Fears: Advice For The Young At Heart
Cat Power: He War
Les Savy Fav: Brace Yourself
Talk Talk: The Rainbow
...
hmmm I should stop now... before getting to jazz and classical, world and reggae..

 

[jellojoe]

Just running through some of the iTunes catalog:

Air - You Make It Easy
Antarctica - 7759-60784-1-E
Arco - 20000 ft
Asobi Seksu - Sooner
Barbara Morgenstern - Kleiner Aussnitt
Belle & Sebastian - The State I Am In
Bjork - Isobel
Black Sabbath - War Pigs
Blonde Redhead - Oh James
Charlene - Ripoff
Cocteau Twins - Half-Gifts (BBC Sessions)
The Cure - Strange Day (In Orange)
Death Cab For Cutie - Company Calls
Depeche Mode - Everything Counts
EBTG - Another Bridge
The Faint - Your Retro Career Melted
Feist - Gatekeeper
Fugazi - Turnover
Iron Maiden - Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Jane's Addiction - Then She Did...
The Jesus & Mary Chain - April Skies
Keren Ann - La Disparition
KMFDM - Revolution
Kraftwerk - The Model
Ladytron - Startup Chime
Lamb - Gorecki
Luna - Chinatown
Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy
Megadeth - Peace Sells
Metallica - (Anesthesia) Pulling Teeth
Metric - Grow Up and Blow Away
MONO - Karelia (Opus 2)
My Bloody Valentine - To Here Knows When
New Order - Temptation (Retro live disc)
NIN - Sin
Nirvana - Negative Creep (Bleach)
Ozzy Osbourne - S.A.T.O.
Pink Floyd - Us and Them
Pixies - Debaser
Pizzicato Five - Cosmic Blues
Portishead - Western Eyes
Pretty Girls Make Graves - The New Romance
Queensryche - Eyes of a Stranger
Radiohead - My Iron Lung
The Shins - Your Algebra
Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun
Smashing Pumpkins - Hummer
Sonic Youth - Chapel Hill
Stars - Soft Revolution
Stereolab - Ping Pong
U2 - New Year's Day

 

[Signal2Noise]

If this thread continues eventually every song known to mankind will be listed here. But nonetheless here are some singular staples of mine from particular artists that I keep in playlist:

Black Black Heart ~ David Usher
Pepper ~ Butthole Surfers
Pure Morning ~ Placebo
Never Let Me Down Again (aggro mix) ~ Depeche Mode
Mofo ~ U2
Drum Trip/Ecstacy ~ Rusted Root
Beautiful When You're Mad ~ Flu
Weapon ~ Matthew Good
Enemy ~ Days of the New
What's Up ~ 4 Non Blondes
Schism ~ Tool
Change ~ Fishbone
How Soon Is Now ~ The Smiths
Lost ~ Sunlounger feat. Zara

 

[dallan]

Grateful Dead-Eyes of the World or Dark Star -- Depending on version and taste.

 

[buddhashenglong]

Metallica - Disposable Heroes
Curtis Mayfield - Kung Fu
Offspring - We're Not The Ones