your own fucking ten

My Bloody Valentine, "Soon" -- I refuse to explain this one again, I think I've done it about five different times on this board. Check the older threads. ;-)

The Cure, "A Forest" -- any particularly strung-out live version that I've got around, but especially the one from Germany in the early nineties I have where the mid-section is nothing but minimal guitars slowly building up again, and then the keyboard bass line hits...aaah. Bliss.

a-ha, "The Swing of Things" -- my semi-secret favorite love song of all time, particularly appropriate given the lyrics about distance and separation. My romantic life in a nutshell. *mopes*

A R Kane, "Up" -- song title describes song. Up, up and out, a rise to the heavens, and my god that voice.

Arvo Pärt, "Cantus [in memory of Benjamin Britten]" -- I doubt a sadder five minutes of music exists anywhere. When an orchestra heaves a huge, infinite sob. Talk about a tribute.

Young Marble Giants, "Wurlitzer Jukebox" -- this is actually a cheat, the entire damn album is so great, but I'll single this one out for now thanks to the chorus sticking in my head for some reason. One of those eternally, quietly perfect bands who don't do much and don't have to.

Tool, "Reflection" -- currently my favorite song of the year flat out, and without question an astounding performance. A song where * everything* connects from start to end, subtle to blasting and back, and the last minute is sheer emotional release and chill. Didn't hurt seeing a live version a few nights ago that just about knocked me on my butt.

The Divine Styler, "Width in My Depth" -- not actually typical of his material, but it's astoundingly pretty and one heck of a prayer to boot.

Motorhead, "Ace of Spades" -- because it rocks.

Joy Division, "Transmission" -- if electricity had a voice.

1) Wild Mountain Thyme - The Byrds (Fifth Dimension) The inimitable vocals never sounded so bittersweet, and the layered humming-with-strings middle section...man oh man...

2) Rainin' - Bobby Darin (The Very Best Of Bobby Darin: 1966-1969) A buried b-side classic, criminally ignored. Perfectly detailed arrangement with a cool brass section. Equally playful and mournful trumpet sings along with Darin, and the sax solo is pure Zalman King in Rick’s Americain.

3) On the Wings of a Nightingale - Everly Brothers (EB ’84) Unabashedly retro and Jeff Lynne is involved (gulp)...but this may be truly the last outstanding song Paul McCartney ever penned. Beatles optimism circa '64 channeled through the still (or, at least, was then) solid harmonies of the Don 'n' Phil.

4) Stealin' - Arlo Guthrie (Running on Down the Road) Hillbilly iambic I first heard in "Two-Lane Blacktop," playing in the background as Warren Oates tells James Taylor "One day this speed'll run all over you." Muchos infeciones.

5) Any Old Time - Maria Muldaur (Maria Muldaur) Will make you want to pack your Faulkner and head on out to the Land of the Stainless Maiden, or something like that.

6) Wheels - Flying Burrito Brothers (Gilded Palace of Sin) Though I used to blow it off, I have since come to recognize this as one of their greatest numbers. Great song for the road.

7) Hard - Grey Eye Glances (Eventide) Hooked from the opening line and chords. Bright-eyed and intelligent, but still thankfully humble and not overbearing. Too bad the rest of the album I found to be fairly forgettable.

8) Sorry to Be So Long - John & Beverly Martyn (Road to Ruin) So what do people think of the Beverly years? Whenever I listen to a track like this, I shuffle back and forth between thinking she was a pretty bad singer to thinking she was one of the best.

9) Annie - Ronnie Lane (Rough Mix, w /Pete Townsend) Ronnie could write 'em couldn't he? One of his finest. Though I'm still trying to figure what he sings after "Winter has come, Annie..." Anybody know?

10) Daring Night - Van Morrisson (Avalon Sunset) Penultimate song on Avalon Sunset (the album with "Have I Told You Lately"). For Van’s vocal riffing and the symphonic arrangement that manages to sound utterly spontaneous even though it's utterly orchestrated. Fantastic stuff, fits right in with that 60s album he made with the long tunes. :)

Beach Boys, "I Can Hear Music"-- Right now I'm going to say this is the.greatest.song.ever. You don't hear enough people talking about the Barry/Greenwich songwriting team. They're tops, yeah?

Moreno Veloso, "Enquanto Isso"-- Makes you wonder why we couldn't've updated traditional American music the way the Brazilians have update their trad. sounds.

Magnetic Fields, "Sad Little Moon"-- Go, Steve.

Talking Heads "And She Was"/David Byrne, "Miss America"-- Talking Heads are my favorite group ever and I just got tickets to see Dave for the first time. Also, today I read that big bad essay on David Byrne's lyrics at talking-heads.net. I guess the guy's, like, smart or something.

2) As lonley as the wind thru pine forrests, as stark as a shaker meeting house. Is it about losing love or losing buisness or losing hope in G-d. We are not sure but at the end of three minutes you feel hopeless and elgaic. It Reminds me of Elizabeth Bishops One Art

3) X Ray Spex Germ Free Adolescence

Being clean in Body, means being clean in Mind. Sterlizing your body makes you sterlize yourself. Love is a virus ,just calm down and let it move you.

4) Tom Paxton Forrest Lawn

It has everything irony , pastiche, sarcasm , a nasty streak of anti consumermism and a jaunty sing song melody that betrays everthing

5) The 6ths Turn to go

Jangling Charm is undercut with a meloncholic sigh. It is a sort of film strip running through your head. Trying despratly to plead for permanance by nostalgia .

6) Big Black Fish Fry

Pure electrictronic aggro. Does not mean anything but it sneaks thru your gut and spine.

7) Sinnead O Connor No Mans Woman

A song that indicates liberation of women. Not by hating men but by putting them away. Men cause pain and the "only loving man who does not treat you bad " is G-d. He liberates you, forgives you and gives you strength and hope. Nuns are the new femminists

8) Shirley Bassey Big Spend

Claim a standard by having the biggest brass ovaries. Every 2 cent bitch who claims the diva title should be forced to hear this. The horns are as penatrating as a two foot cock and the whoredom seems classy

9) Sun Ra Outer Spaceways Incorparated.

If they are selling interglatic flights in 2410 they will be selling it with this. The sound of a true visionary who belived his schtick and had the skills to back it up

10 Mary Gautier Drag Queens in Limosines

The best i hate small towns, big city liberation song in a long time. The power of finding like minds told in short story style with acoustic guitars and a drum . Sounds haggard and hopeful and a bit like a very young June Carter Cash

10 more , just names
1) Ben Folds Five - Carrying Cathy
2) Billy Bragg- Moving the Goal posts
3) Eliza Carthy- In the Company of Men
4) Rufus Wainwright- Somewhere over the Rainbow
5) Bran Van 3000- Discosis
6) Beck- Diamond Dogs
7) Christnia Agularia- Emimenem Diss
8) God Speed You Black Emperor -Moya
9) Saint Saens - Wedding Cake
10) Polly Jean Harvey - Shelia Na Gig

i) donna summer - "love to love you baby"

what can one say that hasn't been said? the pouting melodies interlock and pile, the beat throbs, the voice shifts from pure air to laughs to pants for over 16 entrancing minutes.

i) pixies - "alec eiffel"

for the angelic coda, which melody makes heart-rending the goofy lines about archways and aerodynamics.

iii) the trammps - "hooked for life"

in despair and in love, in desperate obsessive love, he pleads helplessly. the mocking strings won't relent.

iv) the trammps - "disco party"

some songs earn their cliches. "let the good times roll, let the rhythm take control" never made this much sense.

v) elliot carter - string quartet no 2

strings fight and howl, then a slow section that feels bottomless, then strings spit on the calm.

vi) led zeppelin - "how many more times?"

blues improved by being pummeled into mechanical rhythm.

vii) led zeppelin - "that's the way"

the guitars stare away in longing.

2) Neu!-"Hero" Sounds like the Velvets rocking out in a wind tunnel. I love the way Neu's rockers change in pace like a car shifting gears.

3)The Fall-"Just step s'ways" GRATE Fall stomper from Hex enduction hour. Great opening line too: "When what used to excite you does not, it's like you used up all your allownace of experience".

4) Jimmy castor Bunch-"Troglodyte" This is freakin' hilarious and as funky as a slurry pit. "I'll sock it to ya daddy!!" "Her name was Bertha Butt/One of the Butt sistas!"

5)Ultramarine-"Kingdom" Sweet pastoral techno with a luverly vocal from Robert Wyatt. "We're low, we're low/mere rabble we know"

6)Bone Thugs N' Harmony-"Ready 4 war" I always thought they were shit.I am so wrong. I just got a lend of "The art of war" and it's fantastic. Especially this tune and the rapping is fantastic.

7) Basement Jaxx-"Breakaway" Dark, clipped robo-funk with a vocal that sounds like a zombiefied Alvin Chipmunk.

8) Barry White-"Playing your game baby" From Groove Armada's "All back to mine" mix. Lush production with a swoonsome, hypnotic groove. "Playing your game baby/your game baby/nobody but youuuuuuuuu and me!"

9)The Congos-"Fisherman" Balmy, hazy Perry production with enchanting falsetto from The Congos. Might as well get the most out of this as summer draws to a close.

10)Slum Village-"Raise it up" Probably the best hip-hop tune I heard all year. "I aint got none of that dough and none of them cars/I aint fucked none of them ho's in none of them bars". A melody that sounds like a distorted music box.

10) Dillard & Clark - "Through the Morning, through the night" - heartbroke Everly bros. harmonies from ex-byrd & hippie bluegrass buddies

9) Ike & Tina Turner - "Betcha Can't Kiss Me (Just One Time)" - sinister groove, sabotaged by Ike's chipmunks vocal on the chorus, but still sexy and pissed off

8) The Deadly Snakes - "Pirate Cowboy" - pisstake of the Velvets or pure demented stompalong? both.

7) Van Morrison - "Madame George" - TB Sheets version - aging Irish transvestite, bottle caps and dominoes

6) The Remains - "Don't Look Back" - America's short-lived answer to the Stones on a pure garage number that somehow goes through all these sophisticated time changes and talks about God but retains its innocence

5) Elton Motello - "Pogo Pogo" - phony punk rock can be better than "real" punk rock

4) Alfreda Brockington "Your Love has Got Me Chained and Bound" - Philly soul on the verge of turning into disco, hammering 4/4 beat, diva vocals that peels paint off the walls

3) Alex Chilton - "Alligator Man" - Marc Bolan lost in a swamp

2) Bo Diddley - "Pills" - singing about dope and rock n roll nurses while playing a giant square guitar in a plaid tuxedo at its best.

1) Bob Dylan - "Ballad of Hollis Brown" - pre-electric punk rock bobby d., the song Nick Cave has been trying to write for 25 years.

yep.

Black Box Recorder: "Weekend"
Crowded House: "Don't Dream It's Over"
Nelly featuring City Spud: "Ride wit' Me"
Elton John: "Philadelphia Freedom"
Gloria Gaynor: "Never Can Say Goodbye"
New Order: "Bizarre Love Triangle"
Daft Punk: "Digital Love"
Dr. Alimantado: "Best Dressed Chicken in Town"
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers: "Moanin'"
Lee Morgan: "The Sidewinder"

Radiohead- "I Might be Wrong" ( It's got a gorgeous, frail chorus set against menacing twang and mechanized beats and it's... danceable!)

Aaliyah - "Try Again" (Annoyed me while it was receiving heavy radio and MTV play, but I decided to really *listen* to it the other day and now I'm belatedly loving it.)

Low - "Over the Ocean" ( Who'd ever imagine that Alan and Mimi would deliver a frantic, jagged post-punk teen anthem? Well, no one, but that doesn't make this particular piece of delicate, intricate music any less serenely beautiful.)

The Stooges- "Search and Destroy", The Pixies - "Debaser" (Rock.)

Piano Magic- "No Closure" (Human. Devastatingly so.)

Boards of Canada- "Amo Bishop Roden" (see Melissa's response. Also, I listened to this while driving home from a seaside holiday and the lonely, lonely synths soundtracking the rolling hills was breathtaking. Rural Countryside!)

DJ Food- "The Crow" (I'm going to say something so that you'll *need* to hear it. Imagine the Avalanches covering Godspeed You Black Emperor!)

Speaking of GYBE!- "String loop manufactured during torrential downpour". (I've said this before on ILM- it's "To Here Knows When" the morning after.)

Also, I listened to Spiritualized's "All of My Tears" in-store and found it strikingly pretty so I'm downloading it now.

All of "Daydream Nation".

Basement Jaxx - "Romeo": judging by the number of times I've ended up singing it out loud it's the best pop song of the year. Appropriate dance: finger-wagging.

All Seeing I - "First Man In Space": there's a stiffness to it I find very appealing.

Toumani Diabate and Ballaki Sissoko - "Bi Lamban": highly brittle and beautiful guitar shimmer.

Dexy's Midnight Runners - "This Is What She's Like": I posted to ILM mentioning it and immediately found myself playing it for an hour straight.

Roots Manuva - Run Come Save Me: Actually what I like best about the album is the marvellous cover which has Manuva striding along the road, looking ten feet tall, implacable and ancient. Music also good.

Scritti Politti - "The Sweetest Girl": post-structuralist tongues untie (so that they might kiss).

The Beatles - "A Day In The Life": except for the silly doomchord, it's a great song. In some parallel and finer world, they never recorded anything afterwards, and just dissolved into their times like paint in water.

New Order - "Regret": see above, really. (There's a thread - songs which should have been bands' farewells).

The Clientele - "From A Window": Classic English psych themes (Mother, playtime, dreaming etc.) and a steady rhythmic pull.

Kate Bush - "Wuthering Heights": I hear so much Morrissey in this.

Some of these tracks can be further investigated here.

Beta Band - Eclipse
American Analog Set - Two Way Diamond I / II / Don't Wake Me (live)
Outkast - 13th Floor / Growin' Old
John Coltrane - Ole
Shipping News - Actual Blood
Mogwai - 2 Rights Make 1 Wrong
Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan's 115th Dream
Aaliyah - something in the middle of the album, don't know what it's called
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Nomadic Reverie (All Around)
DJ Shadow - Building Steam with a Grain of Salt

1. isaac hayes, 'by the time i get to phoenix' - so slow, so monumnetal, every beat hits harder when it finally comes.

2. radar bros, 'godess' - dolorous, accusatory, murderous.

3. company flow, 'patriotism' - spitting, vitriolic, almost obscene in its ugliness. and perfect for all that. a real hairs on back of neck record.

4. stevie wonder, 'you and i' - for the way it blends the hymnal and the secular into such a fragile, sad, beautiful paean to the comfort a love can give [while simultaneously acknowledging that said love might not last forever]. lodges a lump in m'throat harder than anything save beach boys' 'warmth of the sun'. but this is better somehow.

5. guided by voices, 'crocker's favourite song' - if i have to choose just the one pollard song... the sound of staring up at the sky and just dreaming.

6. albert ayler, 'angels' - just so strange, so otherworldly, the way the sax just keeps urging the song along at its own, stop-start pace.

7. white stripes, 'death letter' - blows me away, every time, for exactly the same reason zep's 'in my time of dying' was my favourite ever song, aged 15. especially the entended live versions.

8. screaming trees, 'black diamond desert' - spaced out psychedelic epic, just vocal, dubbed out piano and echo-drenched electric guitar. really beautiful, evocative.

9. specials, 'ghost town' - just perfect, in every way shape and form.

10. brainiac, 'i am a cracked machine' - they were sooooo awesome live when i saw them, very disturbing; unforgettable.

1.) My Bloody Valentine – Honey Power Only recently discovered in a Borders for 4 bucks. I have no idea if the songs on this EP were recorded before/concurrently/after “Loveless.” (Common sense tells me concurrently.) It may very well end up being my favorite MBV release.

2.) Arthur Russell – Let’s Go Swimming Currently writing a piece on Mssr. Russell, so I’ve been spinning mp3’s of his glorious future-disco pretty much non-stop. I hate to quote myself, but: “a lazy, amniotic drift like some ageless, graceful neuter, swathed in a nimbus of echo and reverb.”

3.) Basement Jaxx – Romeo Song of the year? Probably. It’s a guilty pleasure (all the best bits and pieces from 30 years of “dance” music strung together) executed with such finesse and charm that it transcends itself.

4.) Lightning Bolt – 13 Monsters Thump. Thump thump thump. Thump thump thump. Blarrrrggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Thump. Thump thump thump. Thump thump thump. Blarrrrggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Repeat as necessary.

5.) Tarwater – (well, just about anything….) Minimal art-pop transposed to a neo-electronica setting. If the Young Marble Giants were ex-German dance artists…

6.) Hombre Ojo - La Musica Nothing more or less than a perfect slice of minimal but oceanic house, dropped at the end of Matt Herbert’s excellent “Let’s All Make Mistakes” mix CD. The offspring of the Russell piece above.

7.) Trick Daddy – I’m A Thug I have no idea why (it’s definitely the chorus NOT the verses) but this makes me grin like an idiot every time I hear it.

8.) The Clash – Time Is Tight Bonus for the haters: it’s an INSTRUMENTAL chumps, so no Stummer- idiot-bark to get in your way.

9.) The Slits – Shoplifting (Peel Session) The perfect thing to play screaming out of a parking lot at 80 mph after a rather shitty job interview. ;]

10.) Replikants – Escape From The Cyber-ghetto Cheap-ass vocodered hiphop written by ex-hardcore kids too cheap to buy a Powerbook, having just read (and maybe not thoroughly digested) Eno’s Oblique Strategies and John Cage. And even better than that.

10) Big Star - "The Ballad Of El Goodo" - Number 1 Record
Drum fills and chord progresisons tumble like drunkenly falling down the stairs.

9) Angus MacLise - "St. Mark's Epiphany" - Invasion of the Thunderbolt Pagoda
The rhythms are truly amazing - you go back and forth between thinking it's free and thinking it's just really complicated, and you never really know which is which.

8) Tom Waits - "Get Behind The Mule" - Mule Variations
Try this one out when you're drunk, or just waking up to go to work. "I'll stir my brandy with a nail, boys." That about sums it up.

7) Pink Floyd - "Interstellar Overdrive" - Relics
Stodge riff turns into improv nonsense, with great bell-tone guitar sounding like an impatient elevator.

6) The Proclaimers - "Cap In Hand" - Sunshine On Leith
Scottish nationalism never seemed this simple.

5) John Lennon - "How Do You Sleep" - Imagine
Hating Paul McCartney never seemed this easy.

4) The Jesus Lizard - "My Own Urine" - Head/Pure
Sounds it.

3) PJ Harvey - "Dress" - Dry
Yeah Anthony, I'm feelin' the early PJ. I like girls.

2) Gord Downie - "Vancouver Divorce" - Coke Machine Glow
The first time Gord's vocal stumblings seemed appropriate. Makes me smile wistfully.

1) Quannum Spectrum - "I Changed My Mind" - EP
Stuck in my head for days, weeks, eons. Yay for pop muzik.

Sonic Youth -- The Sprawl.

Fabolus -- Can't Deny It

Isley Broters -- Contageous

Geraldine Fibbers -- In Seven or In Ten

Aaliyah -- More Than A Woman.

That oldies song which I don't remember the artist/title of -- "Who walks around the streets of the city/smiling at everybody she sees/Everyone knows its Mindy"

His Name Is Alive: "Wishing Ring" - I always wanted to do a remix of this, removing the Hendrix guitar (which I like) and letting the rhythm breath.

Nobukazu Takemura: "Sign" - life inside a playstation can be beautiful.

Lord Finnesse: "You Know What I'm About" - especially when blended with

Snoop's "Pump Pump" on Mixmaster Mike's Neckthrust One mixtape.

Johnny Hartman & John Coltrane: "Lush Life" - the words in this song are amazing, & Hartman's delivery is smooth as glass (but not fragile!)

Nina Simone: "Here Comes The Sun" - first time on record I've believed it.

Built To Spill: "Car" - sometimes wide-eyed is perfect.

Jonathan Richman: "Rooming House On Venice Beach" - A perfectly balanced take on nostalgia & youthful thrill-seeking.

Cowboy Junkies: "Thousand Year Prayer" - I like their new record.

1. Associates - "White Car in Germany".

Will still sound like the future in 3001 AD, - martial robot beats, keening cold war synths and THAT voice. Listen to this and the other early Associates singles and realise that Rankine had invented, perfected, chewed-up and then discarded practically all of the key elements of today's post-rock, electronica, trip-hop genres. In 1981!

2. David Bowie - "Waiting For The Man" from Bowie at The Beeb

Makes the song PROWL. Did I ever tell you that Ronno is the greatest guitarist of all time? No-one, bar Johnny Ramone, is even close. Which leads on to....

3. The Ramones - "Glad to See You Go"

OK, so I bought the remastered versions of Leave Home and The Ramones. It was time to retire my old vinyl anyway! Their greatest "song that's not mentioned much". Great melody and a chorus that kicks like a piledriver.

4. 23 Skidoo - "Coup"

Early 80's industro-funkmeisters whip it up with Aswad's brass section. Brutally, irresistably funky.

5. Echo and The Bunnymen - "Flowers"

Title track from the unexpectedly brilliant new 'un. Garagey, Televison-ish verse leads into their most epic chorus since The Killing Moon. Mac can still make the plainest of lyrics sound fresh, and Will is definitely INTERESTED this time around.

6. Mellow - "Another Mellow Winter" from "Another Mellow Summer"

Frog-pop is probably old hat by now, especially with the disappointing Air record. Anyway, who cares, this has some nice plastic mellotron and proggy/Beatlesy undertones- and you can sing "Satellite of Love" along with the chorus of this one. Try it - Bom, Bom, Bom, Satellite of Love, Bom,Bom, Bom, Satellite.....

7. Scott 4 - "Lefturno"

Nice kraut-country outfit, not so much of the kraut in this track, but some nice crispy slide guitar and deep beats. Good lyrics - "head down figurin', figurin'"....

Numbers 8-11 to follow, as I need to send this before my PC crashes. Why 11? Well Mark informed me that 10 was a cockfarmer's number, so I'll go for the indulgence of 11. Ok?

1, Basement Jaxx - 'Romeo' What Tom said. Single of the year. 2, Cex - 'rjyan kidwell's funeral' Alternating clean and crushingly distorted heavy breaks with the most achingly gorgeous digital melody superimposed over the top. It's just possible that Aphex has finally met his match.

3, Associates - 'Party Fears Two' One of you lot suggested that this might well be the best single ever made. Coming home on the bus last night through London's August dusk, drunk on vodka, I finally understood why.

4, Piano Magic - 'You Came To My Party Dressed As A Shadow' Minimalist gothic (with a small g) stalker pop: 'I have jars full of your breath, I have shelves of your words, but you have nothing of me but a space where I would be'

5, Shellac - 'Prayer To God' Albini goes totally over the top and it's great, best thing he's done since Big Black

6, Cannibal Ox - 'The F-word' Maybe not quite as inventive musically or lyrically clever as some of the other tracks on The Cold Vein but it doesn't resonate any the less for it. 'Like we're friends and shit.'

7, Insides - 'Clear Skin' 40 minute remix of Euphoria which I'd forgotten I owned until I stumbled upon Saturday morning mid cd-search. One long sparkling chime of a track that doesn't grow tired despite never really going anywhere.

8, The Go-Betweens - 'Wrong Road' The stately circular string riff underpins the exiled in London lyrics perfectly.

9, Red House Painters - 'Mistress' The most shoegazy they ever got but the surging loveliness of the music can't quite hide the brutality of the song.

10, Pere Ubu - 'Final Solution' As stated elsewhere, the best fuck you mom I'm an angst ridden teenager song in the world ever.

Anyhoo, this is the list of stuff that I listened to in high school, that which is dear to me even though completely unfashionable to any group of listeners except maybe the occasional Starbucks purveyor... c'est la vie, I say:

1. Crowded House - Four Seasons in One Day 2. Jayhawks - Two Hearts 3. Grant Lee Buffalo - Honey, Don't Think 4. Jeff Buckley - Lover, You Should've Come Over 5. Edie Brickell - Good Times 6. Joe Henry - Buckdancer's Choice 7. World Party - Mystery Girl 8. Tom Waits - Johnsburg, Illinois 9. Ron Sexsmith - Strawberry Blonde 10.Aimee Mann - That's Just What You Are

2. Shox Lumania-I Have No Shoes. New York art fag response to New Romantic. With Eastern European overtones. The Fischer Spooner of 1982. I miss them.

3. Pixies-Palace of the Brine. Utah-The Underrated State.

4. Super Furry Animals-Rings Around the World. Let all the children boo-gay. Does he really sing "with this post-rock geritol/gonna vaporize your soul"? Uh, guess not.

5. Sadistic Mika Band-Picnic Boogie. Speaking of boo-gay. Krazee Japanese glamabilly. Nutty!

6. Edwin Starr-H.A.P.P.Y Radio. I luv inspirational Up With People-style disco, it really hits the spot these days. This has a real Village People/Jacques Morali feel to it.

7. Gloria Gaynor-I Am What I Am I luv it even more if it's an ultra-corny showtune anthem. So what if I love each sparkle and each bangle, I ask you?

8. Buffy St. Marie-Not the Lovin' Kind. Awesome hell hath no fury grind. Would have fit nicely on Broken English.

9. Eagle-Suzi Quatro. Local faves. Power pop with cowbell and "Fox on the Run" keyboards. Funny lyrics-"she'll burn you up like toast in the sky."

10. Janis Joplin-Little Girl Blue. She does empathy really really well.

8. The Kinks - "You Still Want Me"

The second single, the one before "You Really Got Me". Moptop- ordinaire verse erupts into high-energy chorus. Smells ike Muswell Hill spirit. That's several times I've mentioned the terms "verse" and "chorus". Could it be that I'm limbering up for that long promised debate on songwriting, Mr Pinefox, sir?

9. The Zombies - "Don't Cry For Me"

Another old one. That's because I'm old too, and I like old things. I need a Zombie's expert here, because I bought a second copy of Odessey and Oracle recently to get 16 bonus tracks of out-takes, singles and b-sides, of which this is one. (Yes, I know I should have bought the box-set, and I will, but later!) Anyway, the lousy sleevenotes don't give much away about the extra tracks, and I have a suspicion that this could be one of tracks recorded by the first line-up of Argent, after the Zombies had split in 1969. All I now is that it was included on a posthumous 1973 album "Time of the Zombies". It sounds like Rod Agent or Chris White singing rather than Colin Blunstone, and the chugging guitar sounds unlike Paul Atkinson's rather less "rock" style. If you know what's going on here let me know. I realize that it's the sort of question that one should address to Mojo's letters page, but I bet someone on FT knows.

10. Vic Godard and The Leopards - "Nasty Man"

Recorded live sometime in the late 90's and included on the 20 Odd years album. "You're a dirty little fucker/you're a dirty little fucker/laddie YOU!!"

11. Section 25 -"New Horizon"

Yep, the Factory box set has been dusted down and given a spin. Very long uber-grim intro gives way to a slightly looser and less martial bass n drum feel than most vintage Factory. Still very gloomy indeed. Yus, Can were big in Blackpool alright. Blackpool (kraut) rock! Hee Hee! Geddit.

New Order: "Bizarre Love Triangle"
Missy Elliott featuring Nelly Furtado: "Get Ur Freak On"
Skip James: "Devil Got My Woman"
The Jaynetts: "Sally Go Round the Roses"
Roy Davis, Jr.: "Join His Kingdom"
Azeem: "Immz Rmx"
Full Intention Presents Shana: "I'll Be Waiting (Gray & Pern Club Mix)"
De La Soul featuring Q-Tip: "A Roller Skating Jam Named 'Saturdays'"
Barbara Tucker: "Beautiful People"
Toots & the Maytals: "Pressure Drop"

Yeah, but *who* supplied those vocal overdubs? Sorry, it doesn't say. Released as a b-side to "If It Don't Work Out" in America in June '69.

1) Orchids "Striving For The Lazy Perfection"
2) Galaxie 500 "Tell Me"
3) Ride "Today"
4) Ramones "Ramona"
5) The Dream Syndicate "Tell Me When It's Over"
6)House of Love "Love in a Car"
7)The Durutti Column "The Missing Boy"
8) This short MP3 of "Balloon",a song off the forthcoming 14 Iced Bears collection.
9) Aislers Set "The Way To Market Station"
10) Petula Clark "Don't Sleep In The Subway"

Beenie Man - Ring Pon Finger Computer Cougar - Stunt Pilot Squarepusher - My Red Hot Car Gang Starr - Work Sugar - JC Auto (Live) Ui - Ms. Lady

That's all for now...

Letter from An Occupant - The New Pornographers [there's been some great stuff coming out of Canada lately]

In Walked Bud - Thelonious Monk [live 1958]

When I'm With You - New Order [eleven minute version of old Sparks track recorded live in Italy 1982]

Child of Nature - The Beatles [The lovely acoustic demo version. There's loads of unreleased Beatles tracks that are much more interesting than the stuff on the crap Anthology series]

And Your Bird Can Sing - The Beatles [the earlier Byrdsy version but without the stoned laughter featured on the Anthology 2 take.]

Exultation - Henry Cowell [I don't understand what anyone sees in John Cage]

The Way to Market Station - The Aislers Set

The Times We've Known - Bob Dylan [old Charles Aznavour song from Dylan's 1998-99 tour]

I have all of the above apart from New Pornographers and T Monk on MP3. If anyone wants copies just drop me an email. (Did anything ever come of the idea of exchanging mp3s on ILM?)

scott.bassett@wsurrey-ha.sthames.nhs.uk

"New Dawn Fades", Joy Division
"Wish You Were Here", Pink Floyd (I don't even like PF)
"Hit 'Em Up Style (Oops!)", Blu Cantrell
"Don't Let Me Be The Last To Know", Britney Spears
"Fiesta (Remix)", R. Kelly
"He's On The Phone", St. Etienne
"Into The Groove", Madonna
"Turn Off The Light", Nelly Furtado
"Mausoleum", MSP
""It's So Easy", GNR

And if it counts, Otis got this damn foreign version of Barbie Girl in my head.

Sun Ra: "Love in Outer Space" (Something Else version)
Paperclip People: "Throw"
Patrice Rushen: "Haven't You Heard"
Jonathan Richman: "That Summer Feeling" (I, Jonathan version)
Armand Van Helden: "Gandhi Khan" ("Trance sucks in case you need an update/It's white/Too white/Republican Nazi white")
Brian Eno: "Discreet Music" (every night before bed)
Fela: "Roforofo Fight" (Robert Christgau played it on his Village Voice radio show)
The Coup: "Wear Clean Draws"
The Four Tops: "Reach Out I'll Be There"
Joy Division: "She's Lost Control"

A*Teens - "Voulez Vous"
A*Teens - "Gimme Gimme Gimme (A Man After Midnight)"
Ace of Base - "Voulez-Vous Danser"
Eiffel 65 - "My Console"
Aqua - "Cartoon Heroes"
ATC - "Around the World" (Russian version)
Toya - "I Do"
Mya - "Free"
Michelle Branch - that song that goes "you're everywhere to me"
Misfits - "Bullet"

10-15 would be Ride - Seagull, Swervedriver - Last Train To Satanville, BJM - Everyone Says, Chapterhouse - Breather & B&S - Sleep The Clock Around.

"Atmosphere", Joy Division
"Play", Jennifer Lopez
"Money Ain't A Thing", Jay-Z
"The Way I Am", Eminem
"The Humpty Dance", Digital Underground
"Love Will Tear Us Apart", Joy Division
That Sarina Paris song
still "Fiesta (Remix)"
"New Dawn Fades", Joy Division (someone borrowed The Holy Bible, can you tell I need a new depressing thing?)
"If You Could Read My Mind", Amber

Low - Shame
Beta Band - Fifteen
Keith Jarrett - La Scala, Part 1
Autechre - Dael
Jean-Luc Godard - Histoire(s) du cinema (disc 3)
Beta Band - Around the Bend
Magnetic Fields - I Don't Believe in the Sun
June of 44 - Sanctioned in a Birdcage

20) Eartha Kitt- Where is My Baby
19) Third Party - Pop Muzic
18) Bran Van 3000- Discosis
17) Marianne Faithfull- Wild Mountain Thyme
16) Buck Owens- Cigarettes , Whiskey and Woman
15) Comus- The Comus Song
14) Fela Kuti- Teacher dont teach me no nonesens
13) Kasey Chambers- Barrricades and Brick Walls
11) Gang Of Four- I Love a Man In Uniform
10) Tori Amos-Northern LAd
09) Mahalia Jackson- There was a balm in Gileadad (sp)
08) Tammy Wynette- Stand by your man
07) Smog- Dress Sexy at my Funeral
06) Madonna- Vouge
05) Cage - Sonota for prepared piano one
04) Sex Pistols - God Bless The Queen
03) Lou Reed- Metal Machine Music
02) Shangri Las- You Cheated You Lied
01) Judy Garland- Somewhere over the rainbow

I am also obsessed (obsessed) with the song My Funny Valentine . I have made a play list with a dozen versions of it.

Some titles.

1. Lloyd Cole, 'Half Of Everything' // Lloyd putting on such an *act*. 'By now you're probably thinkin' I'm some crazy kind of fool...'

2. Clientele, 'Josephn Cornell' // still as groovy as they get, in my experience, and not quite like any of their other tracks (or vice versa); but Ewing's nomination is fine too.

3. Carter Family, 'Single Girl, Married Girl' // Is this good? I don't know.

4. The Byrds, 'Why' // that enigmatic lyrical fragment, that rush, that McGuinn solo so supercharged and on the end. (And all those versions.)

5. Altered Images, 'See Those Eyes' // I have only just heard this. It seems interesting.

6. The Visitors, 'Bliss' // remarkable quality of emotion, kinesis, well, *movement* in this brief, startling piece.

7. Kristin Hersh, 'The Key' // gets me every time I rediscover it on old tape B-side. Sunny afternoons, but not in the usual cheery way; dryness, piles of paper, the passing of time. And that 'If I had a daughter' line!

8. Rolling Stones, 'Mona' // it's all in the throb of the first 5 seconds.

9. Proclaimers, 'Letter From America' // well, no-one else is talking about this - a little masterpiece of harmony, suggestion, emotion, the cold evenings of early 1988.

10. Magnetic Fields, 'Long Vermont Roads' // maybe some day my editor will ask me to write not a sentence but an essay on this - for the last 9 months or so it has come to feel like the most extraordinarily diverse, complex, rich, deep, lush, fascinating, moving thing I have heard in years.

"One Minute Man", Missy Elliot f/ Jay-Z
"Romeo", Basement Jaxx
"Take a Bow", Madonna
"Don't Let Me Be The Last To Know", Britney
"Don't You Want Me", Human League
"Goody Two Shoes", Adam Ant
"Danger", Mystikal f/ Nivea (still stupidest name ever)
"Gypsies Tramps And Thieves", Cher
"What About Your Friends", TLC
this one Craig David song that isn't "Fill Me In"

"Let me blow your mind"-Eve ft Gwen Stefani

"Get me off"-Basement Jaxx

"Rings around the sun"-Super Furry Animals. Status Quo go techno

"Little L"-Jamiroquai

"Jumpin' Jack Flash"-Ananda Shankar. Thanks for reminding me, Nick

"Kingdom"-Ultramarine

"Playing your game baby"-Barry White. I want to be reincarnated as Barry White's larynx

"Rewind"-Cylob

"Crystal"-New Order. Should have put this in the last time.

1. Eartha Kitt-Where Is My Baby (Yeah, me too. Spooky! I love the music of the gays!)

2. Barbara Mason-Another Man

3. Canned Heat-Going Up the Country

4. Baba Jinde (Flirtation Dance)-Babatunde Olatunji

5. Culture Beat-Mr. Vain

6. Nip Drivers-You Need Us

7. Taxi Girl-S.O.S. Mannequin

8. I Hate Music-the Mad

9. Hawkwind-Urban Guerilla

10. The Girl in the Car with the Glasses and the Gun-the Screamers

1) Reel 2 Reel - I Like To Move It ( = the best song in the world by some margin)

2) Pnau - Need Your Lovin' Baby (house so chumpy you can carve it)

3) En Vogue - Work It Out (post-coital ambivalence)

4) Kid 606 - Sometimes (like a vicious toddler who paints a glorious sunset)

5) Armand Van Helden - Flowers (dig those eunuch vocals)

6) Another Level - Bomb Diggy (Bump & Flex Vocal Mix) (Bump & Flex = the most fun generic producer ever)

1. I Think We're Alone Now, Tiffany
2. I'm Real, J-Lo w/ Ja Rule
3. H to the Izzo, Jay-Z

They're all playing at the same time, intermixing. It's really bizarre, especially since I don't know how the Tiffany song got there.

To round out the top ten:

4. Money Ain't a Thing, Jay-Z w/ Jermaine Dupri
5. Bootylicious, Destiny's Child
6. The Theme song from the Jeffersons
7. Love Will Tear Us Apart, Joy Division
8. Atmosphere, Joy Division
9. Party UP, DMX
10. Your Disco Needs You, Kylie

Mitch: You nasty

Big Black 'Bad Penny'

Pixies 'Vamos'

Bass Selective 'Blow Out (part II)'

Serge Gainsbourg 'Ford Mustang' or...maybe.. Jane Birkin 'Apocalypstick'

Aaliyah 'Are You That Somebody?'

Tindersticks 'Trouble Every Day' phew! some movie. eeep.

Throwing Muses 'Bright Yellow Gun'

Zed Bias 'Neighborhood'

Beta Band, "Fifteen", ten times.

Ronettes: Be My Baby

Thirstin Howl The 3rd: Brooklyn Hard

Get Up Kids: Anne Arbour

JSBX: Dynamite Lover

'Mats: Within Your Reach

Lemonheads: Luka

Jay And The Americans: Cara Mia

4 Tops: Baby I Need Your Lovin'

L7: I Used To Love Him (But I Had To Kill Him)

1. Plone - Plock...I love their album today!
2. Steward - My True Friends Are Golden
3. Barbara Morgenstern - Mjisnjedschaz...I need more stuff from Monika records!
4. Sebadoh - Skull
5. Heartworms - I Don't Need To Know
6. Cub - New York City
7. My Favorite - Working Class Jacket
8. The Carpenters - Solitare

"California Love", 2Pac
"Walking On Sunshine", Jennifer Lopez
"Turn Out The Lights", Nelly Furtado
"Revol", Manics
"Atomic", Blondie
"Stutter", Joe f/ Mystikal
"What's My Name?", Snoop
"H to the Izzo", Jay-Z
"Fiesta", R. Kelly (I can't get this out of my head)
"Try Again", Aaliyah (My roommate didn't know who she was, no matter how many songs I named, videos I described, or even off Romeo Must Die. So I sang Try Again and she remembered who she was, and now the song is stuck there)

The Passage - Angleland (This sequencer KILLS!)

Strokes - Take it or Leave It (I'll take it)

Tindersticks - Sweet Release (Another not-quite-there album with great moments. This is one)

52nd Street - Cool As Ice (Fab Factory electro-funk)

Scritti Politti - Philosophy Now (head-spinning studio-pop trickery)

St. Etienne - Hobart Paving (Don't forget to catch me)

New Order - Slow Jam (They're back!)

Nightingales - Son of God's Mate (grimy cynicism from Robert Lloyd. Did you know the Prefects have re-formed?)

Orbital - Doctor?

1. Princess Supastar - Bad Babysitter (I predict you'll be fed up of me proclaiming how good this is by the end of the year) 2. Björk - An Echo, A Stain (or anything from Vespertine really, but this one hasn't been getting enough mentions) 3. Brigitte Fontaine - Pipeau 4. Pleasure - Joyous (Funk/Jazz/Disco from 1977. One for the 'how could I have possibly not known of the brilliance of this for so long' thread) 5. Kid606 - Chart Topping Radio Hit (one for the 'best track 1 on album' thread). I also like the Eminem cover on the "$" trilogy, especially the locked grooves at the end) 6. Beach Boys - Tears In The Morning/Feel Flows (okay, I'm cheating here as I probably heard these for the first time last year when the Sunflower-Surf's Up CD reissue came out, but too good not to include) 7. Stereolab - Naught More Terrific Than Man (Since someone's already picked Spacemoth, try this lovely song from "Sound-Dust" about the battle between good and evil over (hu)mankind. A close third: Long Life Love off the "Captain Easychord" EP) 8. France Gall - Pense à moi (Take 5, only better) 9. Sally Stevens - Scorpio (the Shirley Bassey pastiche that plays over the end credits of The Simpsons episode "You Only Move Twice". He loves German beer!) 10. The Free Design - Day Breaks (from their comeback album "Cosmic Peekaboo". Beautiful Chris Dedrick song dealing with the death of his sister.)

1. Princess Supastar - Bad Babysitter
2. Björk - An Echo, A Stain (or anything from Vespertine)
3. Brigitte Fontaine - Pipeau
4. Pleasure - Joyous
5. Kid606 - Chart Topping Radio Hit(or the Eminem cover on the "$" trilogy, especially the locked grooves at the end)
6. Beach Boys - Tears In The Morning/Feel Flows
7. Stereolab - Naught More Terrific Than Man (or Spacemoth, or Long Life Love)
8. France Gall - Pense à moi
9. Sally Stevens - Scorpio (from "You Only Move Twice")
10. The Free Design - Day Breaks

The Smiths - "Death of a Disco Dancer": determined anti-hedonism shown to be right at Morrissey's heart. Unlike some other Smiths songs (and unlike all solo Moz) it would still be wonderful even if reduced to an instrumental.

Ultramarine and Robert Wyatt - "Kingdom": if it hadn't been for those decades of Tory domination, how different would everything have been?

Jay-Z - "The Takeover": transformation of egotism into genius and of self-aggrandisement into artform evolves to highest level ever, ever possible, by anyone.

The Avalanches - "A Different Feeling": will probably, still, end up my track of the year. Pop music as if in a dream: why does anyone ever have to wake up?

Luke Haines - "Bernie's Funeral / Auto Asphixiation": he *is* a medievalist at heart, and a near-genius: it becomes clearer every day that pop may not be his long-term home.

DMX - "What's My Name?": High Germanic quasi-fascism comes home to a parallel vision of hip-hop shaped, above all else, by "Live Is Life" and "Rock Me Amadeus". James Brown? Who?

A-Ha - "Take On Me": pinnacle of mid-80s pop, aspirationally Anglo- American only on the most superficial level.

The Notorious BIG - "Juicy": he was on top, triumphant, but still yearning. This should have been The Hit.

Fotheringay - "The Sea": the News From Nowhere of pop music, and there is no higher compliment than that for me. Unwriteable now?

Flying Saucer Attack - "Land Beyond The Sun": things are now so unavoidably complicated that, perhaps, this is the closest we'll ever come. I think it's enough.

Keith Jarret - Koln Concert Pt 1
Bjork - Undo
Stereolab - Captain Easychord
Kid 606 - Strum
Boards of Canada - Happy Cycling
Matmos - memento mori
Luomo - Synkro
Gimmik - Monitor
A Guy Called Gerald - The Nile
Broadcast - Echo's answer

"Simplify" - Kingsbury Manx (my life in three verses) "Vapour trail" - Ride (to put a smile on my face) "Can't wait too long" - Beach Boys (ditto) "Life support" - Fluke (love that Bill Nelson sampling) "Your mind and we belong together" - Love (freaky) "Melo part one" - Durutti Column (lovely) "Buried wild blind" - Felt (ditto) "Don't let me down" - Beatles (a heartfelt cry) "When will you come home?" - Galaxie 500 (ditto) "Chosen time" - New Order (just because...) "

Labi Siffre - "A number of words"
The Coup - "Wear clean draws"
Dr Israel - "Inna city pressure"
Jimmy Bo Horne - "Spank"
Fast Eddie Smith - "Acid Thunder"
Cajmere - "The percolator" (chit chat remix)
Scott Walker - "Jackie"
Billy Butler - "Right track"
Rodney P - "Big tings we inna"
Syl Johnson - "Is it because I'm black?"

Laurie Anderson/William S Burroughs: "Sharkey's Night"

The Beach Boys: "Feel Flows"

Lori & The Chameleons: "Touch"

Harry Nilsson: "Together"

Philip Glass: "Ange Des Orages"

Cath Carroll: "To Close Your Eyes Forever"

Archetti/Wiget: "Stuck 8"

Kaffe Matthews in collaboration with the weather on Sanda Island, July 1999: "Weather Made" track #1

Rachel's: "Honeysuckle Suite"

The Pinefox: "We'll Never Be Cool" (Aug 2000 kitchen recording)

AGF/DLAY: "The Return of Us"

[Temptation to provide descriptions with above or, better, turn 'em all into links to 30sec lo-res MP3 files on a web-site outweighed by effort involved in doing either].

David Axelrod - The Mental Traveler

Sonny Boy Williamson - Let Your Conscience Be Your Guide

Erma Franklin - Piece of My Heart

The Birds - Say Those Magic Words

Susan Cadogan - Hurt So Good

Playgroup - Too Much

Josef K - The Missionary

Diana Ross and The Supremes - Love Child

Sparks - The Town Ain't Big Enough....

The Zombies - Gotta Get A Hold of Myself

808 State - Olympic (Flutey Mix)

'Funnily' enough, reminded of greatness of this track (and hence compelled to bring LP down to London after recent parental visit) by its inclusion on a similar ILM list by person who took the most vituperative offence at *those* ILE threads.

It is, Doc. And if the album's deleted, I'd be happy to do a CD-R of it for you.

The only one (so far) of all the vinyl LPs I liberated from my bedroom at the folks' place that surprised me in a good way. Actually, Philips Glass's North Star too.

Fuck all yall

- Aesop Rock, "No Regrets" - Dismemberment Plan, "Back and Forth" - Fugazi, "Epic Problem" - Joel R. L. Phelps, "Landslide" - John Coltrane, "Blue Train" - John Fahey, "When The Fire And The Rose Are One" - Kind of Like Spitting, "43C" - Mission of Burma, "Forget" - The Mountain Goats, "Going to Port Washington" - Outkast, "B.O.B"

1) At The Drive-In - One Armed Scissor: dynamic.

2) Slint - Good Morning, Captain: Cutis Anserina inducing "I miss you"

3) Hank Williams - Lovesick Blues: the man who stays in the bar until the barmaids mop up the hearts from the floor discards his own heart as floor-fodder.

4) Beachwood Sparks - Once We Were Trees: whaddya mean they're shit?

5) Madge Bishop's Shellsuit - The Sunset Rule: going down on life.

6) Oxes - And Giraffe Natural Enemies: for invigorating post/math- rock with that sexual frustration and innate tension it always never had.

Don't have another 4, that'll have to do.

can you feel it x The Jacksons - the video sold it to me

all i need x Air - for the one in my life

wooden ships x CSNY - sweet sound a da sixties maaaan

red alert x Basement Jaxx - this tune never goes stale for me

i am the resurrection x - Stone Roses cooler at 3min38, wikkid guitar

storm 3000 x Leftfield - never forget the first time baby. tripping!

nightshift x Commodores - ultimate chill out choon

perfect x Smashing Pumpkins - for da lady in da life

arvo part x In memory of benjamin brittan - beautiful.

Oh, they are. But one person's shit is another's useful compost.

3) "All Is Full Of Love" - Bjork (simply love the music video to this one...)

4) "In The End" - Linkin Park From "Hybrid Theory"

5) "Dana" - Asha From "Satellite" (Two thumbs-up to this Singaporean female singer, complete with a powerful voice and superb song-writing skills. Excellent song about the story of a young fallen angel. A must-listen!)

6) "The Kids Aren't Alright" - The Offspring From "Americana"

7) "Spider" - System Of A Down From "System Of A Down" and the OST "Scream 3")

8) "Humpty Dumpty Love Song" - Travis From "The Invisible Band" (never mind what others say...i just like this song)

9) "Creep" - Radiohead (ALL TIME FAVOURITE!)

10) "What If" - Creed From "Human Clay"

2. Junior Jack-Thrill Me (another one I've been plugging)

3. The Avalanches-Live at Dominoes. (the suns been shining and this sounds great)

4. Medicine-Ape can't kill Ape

5. Medicine-Capital Rocka

6. Basement Jaxx-Get Me Off (Superchumbo remix) Superchumbo is Tom Stephane I'm told who is crap really but it's a good mix.

7. Death in Vegas-Scorpio (when you hear this you'll understand)

8. Jimmie Rodgers-T for Texas (slightly out of sync with the rest of the list I guess).

9. Velvet Underground-Heroin (getting alot of repeating lately, not sure why)

10. Lucinda Williams-One Night Stand (again if you've heard the song you'll understand).

2) Missy Elliot - 4 My People (Basement Jaxx Remix)
Currently loving the cod-bittersweet instrumental outro.

3) Courtney Melody - Ruff Like Me (MJ Cole Remix)
Soca beatz + reggae toonz + crunchy production skillz + wildfire toastinz = mad stomper.

4) Malaria vs Chicks On Speed - Kaltes Klares Wasser (The Modernist Remix)
Awesome euro-house if euro-house meant what it should mean.

5) Kardinal Offishall - Ol' Time Killin' (Remix)
For Busta Rhymes' ragga toasting.

6) Pay As U Go Kartel - Wickedest Ting
Not only are Pay As U Go more nuanced, more eclectic and more reliable than So Solid Crew, but they're more effortlessly poptastic as well. Luvvin' it, luvvin' it, luvvin' it.

7) Gerling - Dust Me Selecta
I'd forgotten just how fizzy-dizzy fabulous this unlikely diva house tune from Aussie electro-indie kids actually was.

8) Sticky ft. Lady Stush - Dollar Sign
It's no "Boo!", but what is? Sticky + nasty female always = success, because of the weird complementary balances between science and sex, rudeness and clinicalism.

9) Brandy - Apart
Weird echoes of Kate Bush in this odd Eastern-flavoured swingbeat number.

10) TNT - Easy Lovin' You
Far superior to the more common remix, the original version of this is a hopelessly lustful quagmire of papery latin breaks, jazzy licks and one majorly overheated diva.

I could prob name another ten, I also forgot to include Everlasting Life by Mr Jon Carter.

Al Green - Sweet as Love (Strong as Death)

I Roy and Leo Graham - News Carrier

Locust - The Girl With the Fairytale Dream

Ween - Let Me Lick Your Pussy

The Human League - You've Lost That Loving Feeling

Bobbie Gentry - Ode To Billy Joe

Peaches - Fuck The Pain Away

4 Hero - Cooking Up Yah Brain

Pentangle - No More, My Lord

Extra observations....... #1: Tim Finney is a pimp. #2. Everyone is doing the down south gold fronts parody to death these days.....corny white girls that don't even like hiphop putting foil on their teeth like it didnt stop being funny in mid 2000......eat shit woman......I thought it was totally unviable as a comedic device until I saw the dog in the Ludacris - Saturday video....good stuff. 3. The white guy from "Swollen Members" is currently the most annoying bitchass in hiphop.....I want to rip his fucking throat out with my teeth......his fucking voice....rumor has it he started smoking just last year (this guy is like 25)....you can tell, he's always smoking cigarettes on film and in pictures, exhaling all overstyled and teenage-like, you know, with his eyes closed, leaning back, upwards in a jetstream so the cloud billows above his head.....how fucking 9th grade is this guy....remember when you started smoking and you thought it was cool and you liked to watch your cloud? it always looked thicker when it rained......the black guy can suck my fat cock too.....worst lyricists in hip hop right this minute, no contest, entirely because they try so hard....."even my peoples play CD in prison"....oh, those cu-raaaazy prisons in "vancity" and "t-dot"!!.......haha then you WOKE UP!!!.....I love how Canadian hiphoppers try to big up the tiny crime presence in their cities......come now child, you got a handful of bikers that dont even shoot shit up, 3 or 4 black guys that drove up from Seattle and NYC to pimp dumb 15-yr old ice-nigga-digga white girls, and your weed dealer who also fixes computers.....hahaha that's hardcore!.......and I love how Moka Only is trying to be all scary these days too....fun fact: he's the mulatto with dreads in the LEN: STEAL MY SUNSHINE video eating cotton candy....hahaha......Canadian hiphop man, I'm telling you.

1. MRI - "Tied to the 80s" . Wrenches my heart out while making me want to dance my ass off. Listening to it, I feel like I'm watching myself dancing from outside - my arms waving around, feeling great, but I know something's wrong. What a track.

2. King Crimson - "Starless" . Big, lumbering, veeeeery serious - but I love it. My girlfriend thinks it's "guy music," and I think she's probably right.

3. EPMD - "Da Joint" . Probably not their best single or anything, but I've been walking around for five days going "Nah-nah-na.na.na, it's da joooooint" pretty much nonstop. I look and sound ridiculous doing it too btw.

4. Gary Numan - "I Die: You Die" . He really does have something special going on; I remember chuckling at Mark S.' insistence that Numan is a Grade A genius, but listening to the records is always disorienting in a refreshing and amazing way - as opposed to in a "here is some music that is trying to disorient you" way.

5. ABBA - "SOS" . Okay, I've been convinced. They are seriously amazing and wonderful, and I feel totally lame having slandered them in the past. It's funny to look back at old (ha, like a year or so) posts I made and cringe!

More later; I have to be at work in like six hours, shit!

magnetic fields- luckiest guy on the lower east side
spoon- stay dont go
low- point of disgust
beach boys- trader
bonnie prince billy- a minor place
cannibal ox- straight off the D.I.C.
yeah yeah yeahs- y control
walkmen- rue the day
flaming lips- waitin for a superman
wilco- via chicago

i am so fucking predictable.

A Foot In Coldwater - "Anything You Want". What an incredible one-hit wonder. It rocks - like a cradle, not like Deep Purple - under a keening purr and rasp.

Voivod - "Golem". Like Peter Murphy gone cyborg.

More later.

Rush -- Big Audio Dynamite. -- "Somehow i stay thin, while the others grow fat"

Ballet for a Rainy Day/1000 Umbrellas/Season Cycle -- XTC. One of the best-orchestrated song triads in the pop canon.

Ted, Just Admit It -- Jane's Addiction. Got Teeth?

Moonshiner -- Bob Dylan. Heartfelt vocal stylizing and campfire harmonica; and all in one tune.

The Hard Way -- Guided By Voices (circa 1990) tied with Glittering Girl from the Who (1967).

Feelin' Blue -- CCR tied with the Kinks' Australia.

Ride into the Sun -- Velvet Underground ("Loaded Outake"). Whoda thunk Lou could long for the country?

---last but not least

Seventh Son -- Mose Allison. You'll never be half this cool. Happy 75th, Mose.

Iron Maiden - "Aces High"
Missy Elliot - "Gossip Folks"
New Order - "The Him"
Mocky - "Fuck All Night"
The Cure - "Piggy In The Mirror"
Eminem - "Lose Yourself"
Purcell/Sandstrom - "Hear My Prayer, O Lord"
Lady Stush - "Dollar Sign"
Daniel Bedingfield - "Gotta Get Through This"
Kelly Rowland - "Stole"

Steve Harley - Sebastian
Samantha Mumba - I'm right here
Jay Z - Girls girls girls
Wedding Present - Brassneck
Johnny Kidd and the Pirates - Shakin all over
Yellow Note vs. Pukka - naked, drunk and horny
Perry Como - Hot diggity
Duran Duran - notorious
McAlmont & Butler - Back For Good
Missy Elliot - Work it (the remix one at the end of her new album)

Low - Whitetail -- Because Galaxy 500 aren't quite slow enough...

Slint - Washer -- Because it sounds like winter, and I like winter...

Sigur Ros - Track 4 -- Because they make Mercury Rev sound like... well... Mercury Rev...

My Bloody Valentine - When You Sleep -- Because I need my indie-cred just like everyone else...

Trail Of Dead - It Was There That I Saw You -- Because sometimes MBV's wall of sound feels more like a small fence...

Radiohead - Exit Music -- Because I am sad...

Mogwai - Christmas Steps -- Because Slint sing...

Godspeed You! Black Emperor - She Dreamt She Was A Bulldozer... -- Because the end is extremely fucking nigh...

Captain Beefheart - Electricity -- Because I can't be serious my whole fucking life now can I?

Codeine - Wird -- Because Red House Painters suck...

1) Missy Elliot w/ Ludacris - "Gossip Folks"
2) Talking Heads - "Once in a Lifetime"
3) Big Black - "Kerosene"
4) Mike Ness - "Long Black Veil"
5) The Fall - "English Scheme"
6) Out Hud - "The L Train is a Swell Train and I Don't Want to Hear You Indies Complain"
7) Robyn Hitchcock - "Flavour of Night"
8) Nico - "I'll Keep It With Mine"
9) The Harvey Averne Barrio Band - "Girl From the Mountain"
10) Jacques Dutronc - "Et Moi, Et Moi, Et Moi"

2. The Coral "Shadows Fall"--don't know much about these, but I dig the song

3. Of Montreal "In The Army, Kid"

4. Wire "In The Art Of Stopping"--this totally rocks the house

5. Barry Adamson "Achieved In The Valley Of Dolls--seductive and lush

6. The Books "Motherless Bastard"--I love this song, especially the beginning

7. Kruder & Dorfmeister/Bomb the Bass Bin "Bug Powder Dust"--who can deny k&d?

8. Add N to X "Add Insult to Injury"--coming to my city tomorrow!

9. VHS or Beta "Heaven"--anyone who can sit still while listening to Le Funk is not someone to invite into your bed

10. Enon "Old Dominion"

“River Deep, Mountain High,” Ike and Tina Turner.
“Wedding Bell Blues,” The 5th Dimension.
“She’s Not There,” The Zombies.
“Aquele Abraco,” Gilberto Gil.
“Funkentelechy,” Parliament.
“Poison Arrow,” ABC.
“On the Bugged Tip,” Big Daddy Kane.
"My Baby Portable Stereo Sound," Pizzicato Five.
“See You Next Lifetime,” Erykah Badu.
“Empty Hands,” Karsh Kale.

OK, with much the same caveats as before, here's a Top 10:
1. Lockarm - Bring The Muzik Back
2. Missy ft. Ludacris - Gossip Folks
3. Pluto Shervington - Dat
4. Suicide - American Mean
5. Stereolab - John Cage Bubblegum (from Basil Tahan's 3CD live bootleg comp)
6. Daniel Bedingfield - Friday
7. John Holt - Never, Never, Never
8. Golden Boy ft. Miss Kittin - Rippin Kittin (ellen allien remix)
9. April March - Micky et Chantal
10. Cassette Boy ft. DJ Rubbish - Fly Me To New York

*thinks...* "At the End of the Line" -- the one with the opening guitar part that just makes your heart skip a beat, yes? :-)

I have no ten at present. I hate music! Won't have it in the house.

missy - "x-stacy" (yeah, fuck it, i just ain't feeling the new one. rant to appear on-blog soon.)O
dmx - "what you gonna do?"
beenie man - "who am i?"
el-p - "deep space 9mm" (what the fuck is ilm doing to me?!)
sonic tooth - "xpressway to yr skull"
thunder & lightning - "deliver me"
scarface - "my block"
clinic - "porno"
dirtbombs - "ode to a black man"
memphis bleek - "is that yo chick?"

Anyhow:

Beck, "Fuckin With My Head (Mountain Dew Rock)": vintage Nuggets fuzz-pop disguised as avant-grunge.

Space, "Magic Fly": Clockwork Orange disco.

Family Four, "Rap Attack": FINALLY got this thanks to Matos' recommendation and the instrumentation is surprisingly "rare groove" ca. 1970 funk for an old-school hip-hop song.

The Streets, "Weak Become Heroes (Royksopp's Memory Lane)": As if this song couldn't be any more perfectly wistful.

The Rapture, "House of Jealous Lovers": First impression - "enh, it's Fugazi trying disco. Whoop-de-shit." Eighth impression - "DAMN DAMN DAMN DAMN DAMN"

RJD2, "True Confessions": Catholicism + heavy metal guitar solo, hooray!

Busta Rhymes vs. Chris Huelsbeck, "Spherical Rhymes": I imagine this is what a Nintendo exploding in the middle of a hip-hop club sounds like.

Joe Buddens, "Focus": Who the hell IS this guy? What the hell is with his VOICE? Who the hell is PRODUCING this? Why isn't this song EVERYWHERE ON THE RADIO AND MTV RIGHT THE HELL NOW?

Chosen Few, "Shaft": Can funk wah-wah and reggae skank coexist? Oh yes they can.

Kid606, "Now I'm Completely Fucked": BOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOM

Jess: VIVA LOS DIRTBOMBS

(i don't know nate, but i need to play it off somehow. also, i saw it in tim's best albums of 2002 list so i thought i owed it to myself to at least try it. his flow has improved 1000x since co flow. which isn't saying much, but is.)

Shan't! You wacky kids and your mp3 players and mixed playlists.

Lightning Bolt - Ride The Skies
Indian Summer - Angry Son
Assfactor 4 - Dorothy
Men's Recovery Project - In Khartoum
Forcefield - Endless Dribbler
Polvo - Fast Canoe
Jandek - Your Other Man
This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb - Grampa
A Minor Forest - But The Pants Stay On
Mirah - Cold Cold Water

After reading about it at ILM, I went out and scored a copy of the Rough Trade Rock and Roll 1 compilation and it has been on my system quite a bit the past few days.

10- The Stooges-- “I Got A Right” -- I always loved this song and used to have it on some mix tapes and I am glad to have a copy.

9- Halo of Flies-- “Headburn” – This has a great angry sound. I’ve been on the look for a copy of the album for years, but I have never come across a copy.

8- The Fall-- “Dr. Bucks Letter” -- “There are four things I cannot live without…” I need to get caught up with these guys, as this song is cool and has some great sounds.

7- l.a.l. -- “Phobias” -- This is a cool song by a group I know absolutely nothing about. Anyone know anything about these people?

Some other songs I have been getting into…

6- Crescent-- “Light Will Pour From Our Eyes” -- I don’t know what the lyrics mean, but this song and recording has a very nice atmosphere.

5- Bola-- “Pae Paoe” -- This song is lovely, haunting and catchy in way that a lot of IDM related music never gets to be. People get freaky over Boards of Canada and I agree they are cool, but I listen to the new Bola A LOT more these days than BOC.

4 & 3- The Cure—“Play for Today” & “A Forest” -- The guitars on these two songs absolutely shimmer… I have been listening and getting into The Cure’s early music all the time, I really only knew their singles and some of their later albums.

2- Palace – “Gulf Shores” -- Between the lyrics and the ragged accompaniment, it really sets a mood.

1- Biosphere – “When I Leave” -- I’ve been listening this every night before I sleep and I generally nod off a little bit after this one plays and mind you nodding off in this case is not a bad thing.

(1) "Eighties" by Killing Joke - surprise!
(2) "Hybrid Moments" by the Misfits
(3) "Can't Get Loose" by Barry Adamson
(4) "To Hell With Poverty" by Gang of Four
(5) "Ambulance Song" by Cop Shoot Cop
(6) "Deuce" by Kiss
(7) "Some Strange Reaction" by Firewater
(8) "Five Minutes" by the Stranglers
(9) "(I'm) Stranded" by the Saints
(10) "Behind the Door" by the Circle Jerks
and
(11) "The Prophet's Song" by Queen.....for still I fear and still I dare not laugh at the madman.

(12) "Loose" by the Stooges (yeah, I know it's a cliché)
(13) "Nostalgia (for an Age yet to Come)" by Buzzcocks
(14) "Adrenochrome" by Sisters of Mercy
(15) "Science Friction" by XTC
(16) "Uncontrollable Urge" by Devo
(17) "Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment" (live version on IT'S ALIVE) by the Ramones
(18) "Bomber" by Motorhead
(19) "Mutiny in Heaven" by the Birthday Party
(20) "Monkey Man" by the Rolling Stones

10. Big Black- "Kerosene" or "Bazooka Joe"
9. Sigur Ros- "Ny Batteri"
8. Built To Spill- "I Would Hurt A Fly"
7. Godspeed You Black Emperor!- "BBF3"
6. Black Flag- "Fix Me"
5. The Boredoms- "Acid Police"
4. Autechre- "Cichli"
3. Fugazi- "Argument"
2. Frodus- "Psaurcacneosisa"
1. Frodus- "Year of the Hex"

01) penguin cafe orchestra - "music for a found harmonium"
02) la dusseldorf - "rheinita"
03) fred frith - "norgarden nyvla"
04) goblin - "la caccia"
05) john oswald - "dab"
06) king crimson - "discipline"
07) the fall - "frenz"
08) john cale - "ex-cathedra"
09) harmonia - "les demoiselles"
10) terry riley - "you're nogood"

dude, don't blame shit on ilm! you should replace this with Ace The Space - 9 is a classic. a better 9mm track you see

Man, if you can't guess these then, pffft!

Bet I'm still fucking logged in and everything. But guess anyway. Though guessing won't work if I'm still logged in. BRAAHS!

I'd be happy to fill up a couple of CD-Rs for you - what sort of stuff is of interest?

1. Talk Talk - "Eden"
2. The Cure - "Lullaby"
3. Killing Joke - "Unspeakable"
4. The Sound - "Winning"
5. Adonis - "No Way Back"
6. Cabaret Voltaire - "Yashar"
7. Out Hud - "Hair Dude, You're Stepping On My Mystique"
8. Television - "Elevation"
9. Disco Inferno - "Entertainment"
10. Scritti Politti - "Small Talk"

dionysos - song for jedi
eminem - 8 mile
shaunta - california
luciano berio - corale
sacha - mr tiddles (thanks, siegbran)
data 80 - love was made for two
arsenïk - je t'emmerde
kevin blechdom - i am nastay
ladytron - light and magic
brokeback - in the reeds

Thru the eyes of Ruby - The Smashing Pumpkins (Their best ever. Almost prog-rock)

When the Levee Breaks - Led Zeppelin (I love heavy dirges)

On the Silent Wings of Freedom - Yes (Give it a try... just beautiful)

Oily Water - Blur (Hypnotic... I love the fuzzed-out ad infinitum repeat ending)

Polyethylene part 1 & 2 - Radiohead (One of the best little known RH songs, along w/ Palo Alto)

What Goes On - Velvet Underground (You MUST know this one, hypnotic ad infinitum repeat factor here)

Bone Machine - Pixies (Great pop song. Don't you just love the way that Steve Albini makes drums sound)

La Tristessa Durera - Manic Street Preachers (Oh, that riff...)

My Father My King - Mogwai (Mammoth 20 min.long build-up. Albini drum factor. 'Nuff said.)

Boat Song - Shihad (Why doesn't anyone know this great Kiwi rock band? Go and find it!)

Didn't quite made it (but got close enough):

Glenn - Slint
Cath Carroll - Unrest
I Don't Believe in the Sun - The Magnetic Fields
Spark - Tori Amos
Scentless Apprentice - Nirvana
Pacifica - Appliance
Caustic Acrostic / Slo Crostic - Fugazi

My first list was probably the best. My taste got dodgy at some point.

(look no elephant 6!)

Jimmy Scott - Exodus
Bob Dylan - I Threw It All Away
Gustav Mahler - Das Lied von der Erde
Hugo Wolf - Die Bekehrte
Benjamin Britten - O Waly, Waly
Roy Acuff - Just to Ease My Worried Mind
The Delmore Brothers - Blow Yo' Whistle, Freight Train
Shirley Collins - I Sing of a Maiden That Is Makeless
Judy Garland - Have Yourelf a Merry Little Christmas
The Beach Boys - Cuddle Up
The Pinder Family/Jos. Spence -Take Me over the Tide
Alfred Karnes - I Am Called to the Foreign Field
General Echo - Arleen
Jimmie Davis - She's a Hum Dum Dinger (From Dingersville)
Joao Gilberto - Valsa (Como Sao Lindo Os Youguis)
Television Personalities - Smashing Time
Shop Assistants - Somewhere in China
Annette Hanshaw - Love Me Tonight
The Shangri-Las - He Cried
The New Lost City Ramblers - When First Unto This Country

(Hey, I have a thread idea!)

low - shame
aphex twin - xtal
the orb - little fluffy clouds
the posies - flavour of the month
my bloody valentine - sometimes
the lemonheads - down about it
sixpence none the richer - kiss me
susuma yokota - azukiiro no kaori
mazzy star - halah
red house painters - new jersey

The Jam: Art School
The Monochrome Set: Noise
Warsaw: You're No Good For Me
Bill Withers: Use Me
The Flying Lizards: Her Story
The Thermals: No Culture Icons
Louis Jordan: A Chicken Ain't Nothing But a Bird
Art: Ugly People with Fancy Hairdos (intro only)
Women and Girls of the Bo-Sa-So-Sho Tribe: Si Nopo Da
Yximalloo: Mahi Mahi Fish Song

Beach Boys - Can't wait too long
Kate Bush - Never be mine
Johnny Mercer - Ac-cent-tchu-ate the positive
Leadbelly - The Midnight Special
Frank Sinatra - I'm a fool to want you
Al Green - How can you mend a broken heart?
New Order - Crystal
Lewis Taylor - Lovelight
Jimi Hendrix - Third stone from the sun
Edwyn Collins - The gospel according to Tony Day

They made it stoner rock, except the beat is sort of va-va-voom vaudevillian too.

Gilberto Santa Rosa: La Agarro Baja
La Lupe: Que Bueno Boogaloo
La Lupe: Going Out of My Head
La Lupe: El Emigrante
Fela Kuti: Water No Get Enemy
D'Angelo, Femi Kuti, Macy Gray & The Soultronics: Water No Get Enemy
Res, Tony Allen, Ray Lema, Baaba Maa, Positive Black Soul & Archie Shepp: No Agreement
Frank Sinatra: Love is Here to Stay
Grupo Niche: Cielo de Tambores
Common: I Am Music [somewhat half-heartedly--I'd like it more without him, I think]

E-Dancer-Velocity Funk

Mr Velcro Fastener-Be My Computer

Electric 6-Danger! High Voltage! (Thin White Duke Remix)

DJ Sneak-Fix My Sink

D12 Vs Human League-Don't You Want Purple Pills

Les Rhythmes Digitales-Hypnotise

Frankie Knuckles-Your Love

Alex Gopher and Demon Present Wuz or whatever that bloody track is called

Church Of Ecstacy-Confess to the Acid Mix

Altern8-Activ8

That's the b-side - 'Dance With Colin'.

That is a great song, isn't it? I don't have the best of collection with it on it, but I saw them do it live and the recent live DVD has a wonderful version on there.

YOKO ONO - Walking on Thin Ice - from the rap to the vomit - a seminal record.

SOFT CELL - Martin - Oft-overlooked freebie with the Art of Falling Apart album, this is a cult classic - and is so far ahead of its time it hurts.

ALISON MOYET - This House - One of the most miserable but strangely uplifting songs ever written, this showcases Britain's finest voice and lets the others know how its done. Brilliant lyric - and any song that begins with the line "Whose sticky hands are these" is alright by me.

THE SMITHS - Bigmouth Strikes Again - Morrissey an moan about this record all he likes - it's the Smith's finest hour. Rip roaring melody and as ever genius lyrics. Should have spent 3 years at number one. Easy.

ABBA - The Day Before You Came - their most ambitious single, and also one of their last. Beautifully produced and possibly one of their most maudlin outings..... the sad, monotone delivery and batty lyric clinch it for me. Great record.

VIRGINIA ASTLEY/DAVID SYLVIAN - Some Small Hope - just beautiful.

COCTEAU TWINS - Road River and Rail - if only Ms Fraser would get a childminder and get back in the studio.... this was their greatest single-that-never-was.

MASSIVE ATTACK - Unfinished Sympathy - need I explain?

MARMION - Schoneberg - Hooj Choons finally released this record after it being on import for years - a fine, fine example of why Europeans can show us a thing or two about dance music.#

Other notable mentions - Air, Way Out West, Flying Lizards, Groove Armada, Depeche Mode, Frazier Chorus, Buzzcocks, Richard Ashcroft and Blondie.

1.) "Echoes Myron." Guided by Voices. shit yeah, it's cool. :)
2.) "Video Killed the Radio Star." Lolita No. 18.
3.) "Whatever." En Vogue (remixed by Towa Tei---must be heard to be believed)
4.) "I Want You Back." (readymade 527 mix) Jackson Five.
5.) "Want It All Back." (clavinet hater version) Kanno Yoko + the Seatbelts featuring Yamane Mai.
6.) "El Derecho de Vivir en Paz." Ground Zero.
7.) "I Don't Care." New Order.
8.) "A2G." Blackalicious.
9.) "Disorder." (the live Les Baines Douches version) Joy Division.
10.) "Widow's Weed." Laika.

23 Skidoo - Ethics
Robert Wyatt - At Last I am Free
Delroy Wilson - Better Must Come
Roots Radics - Alien Aborts
Ansel Collins - Nuclear Weapon
L.Crosdale - Set Me Free
Human League - Interface
Temptations - Papa Was A Rollin' Stone
Minny Pops - Dolphin Spurt
Etta James - Tell Mama
Slaughter and The Dogs - Where Have All the Bootboys Gone?
Judy Street - What
Mud - Dyna-mite
Essential Logic - Aerosol Burns
The Fall - Stepping Out
Dillinger - Natty Kung Fu
Willie Mitchell - That Driving Beat
Joy Division - From Safety to Where?
King Tubby - In Love Dub
Augustus Pablo - Rocker's Rock

Human League - "Don't You Want Me?"

Gary Numan - "Cars"

Nena - "99 Luftballoons"

Sam Roberts - "Don't Walk Away Eileen"

Steve Reich - Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices, and Organ

Styx - "Fooling Yourself (Angry Young Man)" (This is a very bad song but it's been stuck in my head.)

Heitor Villa-Lobos - 5 Preludes for Guitar

Sonic Youth - "Radical Adults Lick Godhead Style"

Fred Frith - Freedom In Fragments

Of course that's just this evening.

Spiritualized - "Medication"
Spacemen 3 - "Take Me To The Other Side"
Pink Floyd - "One Of These Days"
Vertabrats - "Left In The Dark"
Velvet Underground - "I Can't Stand It"
The Church - "Comedown"
The Kinks - "Better Things"
Bailter Space - "Make"
The Avengers - "The Amerikan In Me"
Spiritualized - "Medication"
Spacemen 3 - "Take Me To The Other Side"
Pink Floyd - "Interstellar Overdrive"
Vertabrats - "Left In The Dark"
Velvet Underground - "I Can't Stand It"
The Church - "Comedown"
The Kinks - "Better Things"
Bailter Space - "Make"
The Avengers - "The Amerikan In Me"
Duran Duran - "Hold Back The Rain"
The Clash - "The Card Cheat"

Supper's Ready - Genesis
Firth Of Fifth - Genesis
Dancing With The Moonlight Knight - Genesis
The Landscape Is Changing - Depeche Mode
Told You So - Depeche Mode
Blasphemous Rumours - Depeche Mode
Hide & Seek - Howard Jones
Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
Don't Hang Up - 10cc
God Only Knows - Beach Boys

*the best remix ever btw

ok stop it wih the garage already. soemthing else must've come out lately

Yummy Fur - Policemanoid
Devo - Freedom of Choice
Strawberry Switchblade - Since Yesterday
ARE Weapons - Don't Be Scared
Shiina Ringo - Yattsuke Shigoto
Dat Politics - Pie
KG - Jukebox Rider
Screamers - 122 Hours of Fear
Os Mutantes - Bat Macumba
Rocketship - Hey Hey Girl

2) Steve Hackett - "Time to Get Out" If the bomb can do it for you, we refuse to take your orders, we remember what you taught us

3) Chicago Transit Authority - "Introduction" and let us play for you

4) Janis Ian - "The Seaside" Oh the sunlight in prisms, she reflected me, tell me could you be, tell me would you be true to me

5) Mellow Candle - "Buy or Beware" You tell me time and time again you'll give me wine and water, but for the 32nd time, I want no water with my wine, I want no water with my wine

6) Pink Floyd - "Stay" Midnight blue burning gold a yellow moon is growing cold

7) Thinking Plague - "This Weird Wind" I'll tell you a weird wind moving through violet air blending the scents of the secret night flowers

8) Petula Clark - "I Know a Place" It's a swinging place a cella fulla noise it's got an atmopshere of its own somehow

9) Illusion - "Roads of Freedom" And there'll be other dreams, that come to nothing in the wind

10) Sally Oldfield - "Wampum Song" Sweet wise woman weaving him wampum by the light of the crimson sun

roXor!

The Wailers - I Made a Mistake
Sugar Simone - King without a Throne
The Paragons - The Tide Is High
The Ink Spots - My Prayer
Roxy Music - Sunset
Nara Leão - Cavalgada
Dusty Springfield - I've Been Wrong Before
Laura Nyro and LaBelle - Desirée
Buddy Holly - Listen to Me
Bill Withers - Lean on Me
Marcia Aitken and Trinity - I'm Still in Love/Three Piece Suit
The Louvin Brothers - He Can Be Found
Tom T. Hall - Homecoming
Timi Yuro - Hurt
Samantha Jones - I Deserve It
The Byrds - One Hundred Years from Now
Bobbie Gentry - I Wouldn't Be Surprised
Little Jimmy Scott - Come What May
Lord Kitchener - Neighbor, Neighbor

Toots and the Maytals - Pomp and Pride

Boards of Canada - ROYGBIV
Beck - Sexx Laws
Funkadelic - Maggot Brain as it's playing
Aruna Sairam - Karunai Madi Tavazhum
Styx - Renegade
Husker Du - Something I Learned Today
Husker Du - Chartered Trips
Smashing Pumpkins - Here's to the Atom Bomb
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
Raajeswari Padmanabhan - Ragam Thanam Pallavi

1, Janes Addiction: Three Days
2,Jimi Hendrix: Belly button window
3,Sadistic Mika Band: Milky Way
4,Air: All I Need
5,Rufus Wainwright:Oh What A World
6,Iron Maiden: Prowler
7,Black Sabbath:Faries wear boots
8,Ian Dury and the Blockheads:Sex and drugs and rock roll
9,Buena Vista Social Club: Pueblo Nuevo
10,Gil Scott Heron: The revolution will not be televised

10 Richard X and Jarvis 'Into U'
9 Snoop and Pharrell 'Beautiful'
8 Missy vs Fatboy Slim 'Gossip Folks'
7 Avalanches 'Since I Left You'
6 Daft Punk 'Too Long'

To be continued.

Sorry are these supposed to be to do with something or just things that are currently giving me a huge unruly erection?

"fuck it...i'm buying a city...new mannie, louisana...biiiiiiitccch!!"

A Change Is Gonna Come - Sam Cooke
Summer Breeze - The Isley Brothers
Be Thankful For What You've Got - William DeVaughan
Virginia Plain - Roxy Music
I've Got You Under My Skin - Frank Sinatra
Misty - Johnny Mathis
Kinky Afro - Happy Mondays
Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want - The Smiths
All or Nothing - Small Faces
Cold Sweat - James Brown

1. "Thela Hun Gingeet" by King Crimson
2. "Womantown" by Gang of Four
3. "Ride a Rocket" by Lithium
4. "Left Hand Black" by Danzig
5. "Harlequin" by Killing Joke
6. "Movement of Fear" by Tones on Tail
7. "Open My Eyes" by the Nazz
8. "Straighten Out" by the Stranglers
9. "Fast as a Shark" by Accept
10. "Rainy Season" by Howard Devoto

Jeff Buckley - Eternal Life
Pixies - Wave Of Mutilation
Ikara Colt - One Note
Smashing Pumpkins - Thru The Eyes Of Ruby
Talking Heads - Found A Job
Elbow - Powder Blue
British Sea Power - Lately
The Rapture - House Of Jealous Lovers
McLusky - World Cup Drumming
Buzzcocks - Ever Fallen In Love

Donna Summer - Dim all the lights
Dr. Alimantado - Gimme mi gun
Kanye West - Breathe in breathe out
L.A.L. - Phobias
The Cure - Pictures of you
ZZ Top - Rough boy
The Pogues - Rainy night in Soho
Guns N' Roses - One in a million
Toto - Africa

Dr. Dre ft. Eminem, "Forgot About Dre"
Britney Spears, "Toxic"
Sufjan Stevens, "All Good Naysayers, Speakup! Or Forever"
Stereolab, "Blips, Drips, and Strips"
Four Tet, "She Moves She"
Talk Talk, "New Grass"
Nine Inch Nails, "Hurt"
Basement Jaxx, "If I Ever Recover"
Velvetron, "One to Ten"
Sade, "Kiss of Life"

Shipping News - "Actual Blood"
Public Image Ltd. - "Swan Lake"
Godflesh - "Christbait Rising"
Cocteau Twins - "The Hollow Man"
Sophia - "If Only"
Isis - "Deconstructing Towers"
Love Spirals Downwards - "Love's Labour's Lost"
Radiohead - "Sit Down. Stand Up."
Hood - "Her Innocent Stock Of Words"
The God Machine - "Dream Machine"

three six mafia - 'ghetto chick' -- if i stay up to watch uncut i'm always sort of upset about having to sit through this because it has the suckiest video ever. (EVER! it's really bad. there's a reason they only show it on uncut, i guess. because it's really tame.) but it's the best song on da unbreakables!

alexisonfire - 'pulmonary archery' -- when i saw them live they played the intro to it and everyone freaked out and i didn't know why. but i think it has a video for it or it's just one of the few recognizable intros. it's an awesome song.

big tymers - 'this is how we do it' -- i had the first thirty seconds of it when i started, deleted everything in the playlist, now when it goes around i get a few more seconds every time. they were showing a re-run rap city on wednesday that i hadn't seen and mannie and baby were on and i felt so pleasantly disposed toward them. i don't think i'd ever felt that way before but they seemed so personable and self-effacing. mannie got on the decks and i wish i could have been there. maybachs for days.

mike jones and magno ft. chamillionaire - 'day 2 day grindin' -- 'eh, has anybody else seen this cat leanin back in the greenish lac with the throwback and the phoenix cap, ragtop with the sceens attached. it don't take a true genius, act like you don't know that the king is back-- it's koopa, i pop my trunk and flash the lights while you beat it back.'

juvenile - 'numb numb' -- i left this playing loud when i drove up to the second window today. closed the window and turned it up between the two windows. it was loud and i felt obnoxious and cool. i hope she thought i was a drugdealer or something.

e-40 ft. clipse - 'quarterbackin' -- 'now, of course you know i ain't talkin about sports.'

lil wayne - 'i don't give a fuck freestyle' -- the best part of this tape is baby's encouragement before each track. 'let's do this shit, homie. sq, ya bitch. c'mon bust this shit open for me, homie... size it up, bitch. pull a big-ass ak from under your shirt, motherfucker.' etc. (from the 'ignition' freestyle, same tape: 'i need you to go on this nigga track for me dawg and just fuck this motherfucker up. do this for your boy, wayne.')

the distillers - 'hall of mirrors' -- a proud achievement.

that's all I can handle right now.

2) Galaxy in Turiya by Alice Coltrane.

3) The Kiss by Judee Sill.

4) New Grass by Talk Talk.

5) Alberto Balsalm by Aphex Twin.

6) Modena by Keith Fullerton Whitman.

7) Dolphin by Linda Perhacs.

8) Wolf at the Door by Radiohead.

9) Sometimes by My Bloody Valentine

10) Misprints by The Matthew Herbert Big Band

Queen Adreena - Razorblade Sky
Cranes - Starblood
The Wedding Present - Suck
Red House Painters - Take Me Out
My Bloody Valentine - When You Sleep
Swans - Love Of Life
Black Sabbath - War Pigs
Hood - Norfolk
Aereogramme - Yes
Mineral - Gloria

Alice Coltrane, "Galaxy in Satchidananda."

Mike Heron, "Audrey."

Incredible String Band, "Air."

Mileece, "Nightfall."

Nico, "Evening Of Light."

Maryanne Amacher, "Synaptic Island."

John Cale, "Big White Cloud."

Vladimir Ussachevsky, "Suite From No Exit 1-6."

United States of America, "Cloud Song."

aphex twin digeridoo

:zoviet*france: white dusk do any of you guys like coil? Well, anyhow, more people need to hear this. download this track and "something this beautiful."

808 state flow coma this track is tremendous.

autechre rae

this heat 24 track loop

stereolab cybele's reverie emperor tomato ketchup OWNZ.

morton subotnick silver apples of the moon

univers zero malaise

arnold dreyblatt and the orchestra of excited strings group velocity

judee sill jesus was a crossmaker

portishead roads "regardless of what they say---how can it feel this wrong?" my GOD. the strings!

talk talk new grass describing this is besides the point. it is pensive and beautiful and contains some of the best songwriting and production I've ever heard.

oliver messiaen louange a l'eternite de jesus the myung-whun chung version. but, also, performed solo on the ondes-martenot (messiaen called that version "oraision") it is glorious. This is the saddest song I've ever heard.

judee sill crayon angels

silver apples a pox on you i dedicate this song to my ex-lover. oh yeah.

omara portuondo ¿d?de estabas t? steamy, upbeat cuban music with impeccable arrangements.

Ok, so it's more than ten, and I could even list more, but who the fuck cares?

searchers - sweets for my sweet
korgis - i need your lovin
donald fagen - maxine
roxy music - more then this
manu dibango- satiko
ub40 - the earth died screaming
bob marley - chances are
groove armada - at the river

The Clash: White Man in Hammersmith Palais
Mojo Nixon - Don't Want No Foo-Foo Haircut On My Head
Blondie: Dreaming
Led Zeppelin: The Rover
Cream: White Room
Doors: Break on Through
Alice Cooper: Halo of Flies
Teddy & Patches: Suzy Creamcheese
Brian Jonestown Massacre: That Girl Suicide
Spiritualized: Medication
Verve: Bittersweet Symphony
Paris Combo: Attraction
Gil Scott Heron: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Neil Diamond: Solitary Man

Bye Bye Badman - Stone Roses
Leave This City - Sundays
Wheels of Confusion - Sabbath
That's the Way - Zeppelin
Shapes of Things - Jeff Beck
You Wear it Well - Rod the Mod
Big Boring Wedding - GBV
Acquiesce - Oasis
Bold as Love - Jimi
Hello It's Me - Todd Rundgren

wrist-slashing beats!

2. Mr. Lif - Friends and Neighbors...songs can be heartfelt and political and be about the people you know and still be funky as fuck

3. Fishbone - Pressure...for when you absofuckinglutely are about to kill ever last motherfucker out there

4. They Might Be Giants - Alienation's For the Rich...if only for the lyric "but I'm workin' to make it better with a six of Miller High Life"

5. Cee-Lo ft. Ludacris - Childz Play...the problem with Speakerboxxx/The Love Below is the lack of Organized Noize beats, this shit is OOOOOON

6. Homer Simpson - Very Good Beer...mmmmmm beer aaaaaaaaah

7. Zach De La Rocha/DJ Shadow - March of Death...release your fucking album already dillhole

8. Manu Dibango - Soul Makossa...the greatest crime Michael Jackson will ever get away with is wholesale ripping off the bassline & chanted bit from this song with Wanna Be Starting Something

9. Radiohead - Knives Out..."funky"

10.Masters of Illusion - We All Over...this was probably the last album on which Keith bothered with actually fucking rhyming, it's the album that makes me remember why I liked him; it's Motion Man aka Jacky Jasper that really fucking owns this song though

journey - don't stop believin'
smif 'n wessun - bucktown
aphex twin - xtal
nas - star wars
janet jackson - when we oooo
the streets - empty cans
bubba sparxxx - jimmy mathis
lil kim - came back for you
unkle - in a state (dfa remix)

Star Sign - Fannies
Arthur's Theme -- Christopher Cross
The Show - Doug E Fresh
Highwire Days - Psych Furs
Whatever's Cool With Me - Dino Jr
Deadbeat Club - B-52s
Tired Eyes - Neil Young
Moody Blue - Elvis
Silver Springs - Fleetwood Mac
and of course Wichita Lineman - Glenn Campbell

Disco Inferno - "Entertainment"
The Streets - "Dry Your Eyes"
The Streets - "Get Out of My House"
Frankie Goes to Hollywood - "Two Tribes (Annihilation)"
Happy Mondays - "Kinky (Groovy?) Afro"*
The Art of Noise - "Beat Box (Diversion Two)"
Maze - "Joy and Pain"
Soul II Soul - "Back to Life"
Energy 52 - "Cafe del Mar (Kid Paul mix)"
The Black Keys - "Have Love, Will Travel"

* - Anybody know the real name to this song? Is it "Kinky Afro" or "Kinky Groovy Afro"?

b.i.g. - long kiss goodnight -- i had the whole first verse memorized before i ever bought life after death. i downloaded wake up show freestyle where he spits it after lil cease sets it off with his light shit. make your mouthpiece obese like della reese / when i release you lose teeth like lil cease / nigga please, blood flood your dungarees / and that's just the half of my warpath / laugh now cry later, i rhyme greater / than the average playa hater and spectators buy my cd twice / they see me in the streets they be like 'yo he nice' / but that's on the low though / be the cats with no dough tryna play me at my show / i pull out four-fours and go up in they clothes / short change niggas, snort caine niggas / extortion came quicker, bought the range nigga. etc.

mobb deep - up north trip -- i downloaded it after an ilm mention, some guy talking about listening to mobb deep on his walkmen while working up north on a fishing boat, after a day of shitty work-- i forget exactly how it went and the search thing never works for me. it's a great song.

olivia - all -- someone i don't know singing against a tweaked version of the damn beat. it doesn't make sense right away but is very, very good.

dj screw - in the house tonight ft. lil flip -- i represent the southside of houston texas / i can't drive a acura cause i'm used to lexus. all of flip's good, early stuff is like this, a minute and a half of a big moe or big t hook before we get to hear flip. you can skip ahead but it feels like you're ruining the surprise but if you don't skip ahead you might get bored and skip the whole song entirely. and it's one of those cute, deliberate flip verses that make you melt. now when you see me on the streets, i'm smokin sweets / and i always keep a bad broad next to me / long hair yellabone with a college degree / i see big t's number on my caller i.d.

paul wall - bounce flow -- it's from after da kappa 2k4. paul wall back with the house, and standing more like chamillion than paul wall, which is interesting.

nas ft. billy joel - ny state of mind (lights out remix) -- yeah, funny. it's actually constructed very soundly, not the slapped-together bootleg remix you'd expect. nas's verse is from ny state of mind part two from i am... (you didn't know it's better than the original).

yung ro - loyalty -- just a slowed flow on the girls, girls, girls beat, following the same format as jay but with that texas flavor and saying hoes a lot. i got a country girl that's real slim and pretty / and she call where i'm from the city.

ying yang twins ft. lil jon -- saltshaker (acapella) -- they're voices are amazing without having to sing through that beat, which you can still sense even though it's invisible. all of the clean version sound effects are in there, too, the ohhhhh moans and barks and clipped beeps and cash register sounds over bitch and ass. i can sing along with the regular version now, too.

and nine others that this magnificent record has momentarily made me forget

Salt'N'Pepa, "None Of Your Business"
Britney Spears, "Toxic" (Lenny Bertoldo show mix)
Cherrelle, "I Didn't Mean To Turn You On"
Trina ft. Missy Elliott, "Rewind That Back"
Stardust, "Music Sounds Better With You"
Tom Waits, "Singapore"
Nina Simone, "I'm Gonna Leave You"
Ani DiFranco, "Superhero"
Jamelia ft. Rah Digga, "Bout"
Dawn Penn, "You Don't Love Me (No No No)"

theodore unit: pass the mic
libertines: man who would be king
police: can't stand losing you
viktor vaughn: road rage
viktor vaughn: doper skills
wedding present: my favorite dress
tiefschwarz: renix
lemon d: manhattan
model 500: no ufos (d mix)
jean grae: u don't know bootleg

Dizzee Rascal - Stand Up Tall
Nellie McKay - Clonie
Shystie - Woman's World (Gurlz Stand Up)
Tori Amos - Daisy Dead Petals
Twista ft. TI and Liffy Stokes - Like A 24
Ghostface ft. Missy Elliott - Tush
PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love
Chingy - Bagg Up
Estelle ft. Megaman - Free
An Pierlé - Are "Friends" Electric?

ni ni win shwe - "my darling's love arrow"
huoy meas - "delilah"
joan baez - "east virginia"
oohna truth - "so many ways to die"
my favorite - "burning hearts"
hawkwind - "you'd better believe it"
alan licht - "the old victrola"
marga peters van neijenhof - "confusion"
giant sand - "nyc of time"
mercury rev - "downs are feminine balloons"

New Order "Ceremony" 12" single on vinyl (the mix is the beat)
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds "Mutiny in Heaven" 12" vinyl EP ditto
Fleetwood Mac "The Chain" yeah, shut up.
The Clash "White Man in Hammersmith Palais"
Siouxsie and the Banshees "Spellbound"
Blondie "Contact in Red Square"
Brian Jonestown Massacre "Woo"
Black Crows "Rememdy"
Jimi Hendrix "Manic Depression"
The Smoke "My Friend Jack"

suddenly feel like an ilm whore....

Vitalic - La Rock 01
The Prodigy - Breathe
Annie - Chewing Gum (FakeID remix)
Spektrum - Kinda New (Tiefschwarz Dub)
Britney Spears - Before The Goodbye
The KLF - Last Train To Trancentral
Crazy Titch ft. Keisha - Gully
Tori Amos - Sweet The Sting
Ciara ft. Ludacris - Oh
Davinche ft. Katy Pearl & Kano - Leave Me Alone

Urge Overkill - "Take Me"
RTX - "Speed To Roam"
Go Home Productions - "Love Will Freak Us"
Pavement - "Shoot The Singer (1 Sick Verse)"
Slits - "Vindictive"
MC5 - "Shakin' Street"
John Cale - "Paris 1919"
Wire - "Straight Line"
Air - "La Femme D'Argent"
Elliott Smith - "Junk Bond Trader"

2. the raincoats - "no looking" (last 30 seconds are cathartic and bashy in this way that resolves all the tension of the album. also something i dance like an idiot to.)

3. faust - "no harm" (its the horn part right before the DADDY TAKE THE BANANA part.)

4. adonis - "no way back" (does someone tell adonis to 'jack the box'? awesome!)

5. maurice - "this is acid" (ok - so i listened to the TRAX box today. this song also rules. i think it suprises me both how much it succeeds in its totally straightforward lyrical approach, and how important that is to me in the song.)

6. steve reich - music for 18 musicians (ive had this huge hard-on for clean, futuristic, chiming, and REPETI-TI-TI-TI-TI-TI-TI-TI-TIVE music for the past week.)

7. oneida - "hakuna matata" (see #6.)

8. neu! - "hallogallo" (see #7.)

9. animal collective - sung tongs (this record is gradually gaining steam, and just MIGHT overtake liars for my favorite album of 2004. i dont know - i was resistent at first, and after seeing them live, didnt think id ever want to hear them again. but something about their infantilism/freakfolkism/squelchy-electronics has become this weirdly tasteful experimental-rock aesthetic.)

10. jennifer gentle - valende (cant wait to see these guys open up for a band i sort of hate, dead meadow. i hope their live shows are like the weird-y side of this record. marco? any idea what theyll be like this tour?)

If i could ballpark a very "at the moment list" it would go something like:

Neil Young - Harvest Moon
Elliot Smith - Out On The Weekend, (Neil Young Cover)
Saturday Looks Good To Me - Ambulance
Hrvatski - Gemini (Revision)
Bark Psychosis - 400 Winters
DJ Shadow - The last track on Entroducing
Tullycraft - Twee
Monster Movie - Winter Is Coming
Bowery Electric - the last track off of Lushlife

That probably wasn't very accurate, but it was moreorless a write it as you go type thing.

Talk Talk - "Eden" [Clarke B.]
Pavement - "Elevate Me Later" [peter smith]
Built To Spill - "Car" [Mark]
Neutral Milk Hotel - "Naomi" [Jonathan Williams]
Sonic Youth - "Karen Revisited" [o. nate]
Disco Inferno - "It's a Kid's World" [Nick Southall]
Unwound - "Radio Gra" [Jonathan Williams]
Aphex Twin - "xtal" [kilian Murphy; m.]
Can - "Future Days" [RickyT]
Pixies - "Palace of the Brine" [Arthur]
Daft Punk - "Digital Love" [M. Matos; fred solinger]
Radiohead - "Dollars & Cents" [Melissa W]
Yo La Tengo - "From a Motel 6" [Johnny Badlees]
Wilco - "Jesus, Etc." [Donna Brown]
Boredoms - "Super Good" [dleone]
Wire - "Map Ref 41N 93W" [RickyT]
The Orb - "Little Fluffy Clouds" [kilian Murphy]
...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - "It Was There That I Saw You" [Maciej; Callum]
Megaman 2 - the music on Air Man and Bubble Man's levels (and Wood Man and Crash Man, etc, etc.) [Dan I.]
Hüsker Dü - "Chartered Trips" [sundar subramanian]

Erlend Øye - "The Black Keys Work" (Phonique Remix)
Caribou - "A Final Warning"
Olivia Tremor Control - "Marking Time"
Skygreen Leopards - "The Heron (A Dream of Waters Part 2)"
Dälek - "Speak Volumes"
Fripp & Eno - "Swastika Girls"
Boards of Canada - "Kid for Today"
OOIOO - "I'm a Song"
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - "Theme from Unreleased 'Claris Gardens'"
My Bloody Valentine - "Swallow"

ten:
Warren G feat. Nate Dogg - Regulate
Logic - The Warning
Love & Rockets - Saudade
New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle
Pete Heller - Big Love
Velvet Underground - Pale Blue Eyes
Galaxie 500 - Tugboat
Sueno Latino - Sueno Latino (Guitar Mix)
Nu-Birth - Anytime
My Bloody Valentine - You Made Me Realise

OMG this song is LE SWOON

100 On!Air!Library! Sad Sad Zoo / Feb.
99 Pavement Range Life
98 r - Ziq Brace Yourself Jason
97 The Clientele The Violet Hour
96 Underworld Cowgirl
95 Akufen Skidoos
94 Fugazi Long Distance Runner
93 Elliot Smith Waltz #2 / Miss Misery
92 Ulrich Schnauss Blumenthal
91 Boards Of Canada Dawn Chorus / Everything You Do Is A Balloon
90 The Durutti Column Otis
89 Squarepusher Beep Street
88 Luomo Tessio
87 Daft Punk Revolution 909
86 Nightmares On Wax Capumcap
85 Primal Scream Loaded
84 Madvillian Strangeways
83 Joy Zipper Valley Stream
82 Coldcut Timber
81 Broken Social Scene Anthems For A 17 Year Old Girl
80 Chapterhouse Pearl
79 Organized Konfusion Releasing Hypnotical Gases
78 This Mortal Coil Song To The Siren
77 Moose Untitled Love Song
76 Arovane Tokyo Ghost Stories
75 Eluvium New Animals From The Air
74 Radiohead Motion Picture Soundtrack
73 Massive Attack Unfinished Sympathy
72 Xiu Xiu Clowne Towne
71 Plaid Reishi
70 New Order Thieves Like Us
69 Aphex Twin Rhubarb
68 Explosions In The Sky First Breath After Coma / Your Hand In Mine
67 Saturday Looks Good To Me Ambulance
66 The Sabres Of Paradise Inter – Lergen – Ten - Ko
65 Aphex Twin Xtal / Heliosphann
64 Mogwai Mogwai Fear Satan
63 Cex It’s All About Guilt
62 Steve Reich Music For 18 Musicians – Section I
61 The Dead Kennedy’s Moon Over Marin
60 Radiohead Morning Bell
59 Joy Division Atmosphere
58 Spacemen 3 Revolution / Walking With Jesus
57 Aphex Twin Girl Boy Song
56 Pixies Debaser
55 Oval Line Extension
54 Talk Talk New Grass
53 Keith Fullerton Whitman Modena
52 Air Miami Special Angel
51 Four Tet Slow Jam
50 Global Communication 12 18
49 Bark Psychosis Blood Rush
48 Isan Scraph / Cutlery Flavours
47 Tullycraft Twee
46 Speedy J / Link De – Orbit / Arcadian
45 Tullycraft Sweet
44 Slowdive Souvlaki Space Station
43 Múm I’m 9 Today
42 Boards Of Canada Roygbiv
41 Bark Psychosis The Loom
40 Wu Tang Clan C.R.E.A.M.
39 Slowdive Waves
38 Unrest Cherry Cream On
37 Galaxie 500 4th Of July
36 Isan Cathart
35 Slowdive Machine Gun
34 B12 Hall Of Mirrors
33 Yo La Tengo Autumn Sweater
32 Underground Lovers Excerpt From A Winters Day
31 New Order Bizarre Love Triangle
30 John Callaghan I’m Not Comfortable Inside My Mind
29 Unrest Angel I’ll Walk You Home
28 New Order Perfect Kiss
27 Unrest Breather X.O.X.O
26 Sigur Rós The Nothing Song / Untitled 3
25 The Orb Little Fluffy Clouds
24 Yo La Tengo Deeper Into Movies
23 Hrvåtski Gemini (Revision)
22 Múm Finally We Are No One
21 A Silver Mt. Zion Could’ve Moved Mountains
20 Pixies Crackity Jones
19 Dntel (This Is) The Dream Of Evan And Chan
18 The Jesus And Mary Chain Taste Of Cindy
17 Neutral Milk Hotel Two Headed Boy Part 2.
16 The Jesus And Mary Chain Just Like Honey
15 A Silver Mt. Zion Built Then Burnt (Hurrah! Hurrah!)
14 Squarepusher Iambic 9 Poetry
13 DJ Shadow Midnight In A Perfect World
12 Neil Halstead I Dreamed I Saw Soldiers
11 The KLF Madrugada Eterna
10 Spiritualized Shine A Light
9 Neutral Milk Hotel Holland 1945
8 Slowdive Blue Skied An’ Clear
7 The Smiths There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
6 My Bloody Valentine Sometimes
5 A Silver Mt. Zion The Triumph Of Our Tired Eyes
4 Neil Young Out On The Weekend
3 Füxa Pleasant Orbiting
2 Orbital Halcyon + On + On
1 DJ Shadow What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part - Blue Sky Revisit)

ummm...best thread ever, right?