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For each letter, write the name of a song you like (and also put down who it was recorded by). Try not to use the same artist twice.

A: "Attempted Coup: Madagascar" - Savage Republic
B: "Burn Rubber (Why You Wanna Hurt Me)" - The Gap Band
C: "Carolyn's Fingers" - Cocteau Twins
D: "December" - For Against
E: "Everything Counts" - Depeche Mode
F: "Flower to Hide" - Catherine Wheel
G: "Ghost on the Highway" - The Gun Club
H: "Hammer" - Kitchens of Distinction
I: "I Zimbra" - Talking Heads
J: "J's Heaven" - Slowdive
K: "Kiss" - Prince and the Revolution
L: "Like Leila Khaled Said" - The Teardrop Explodes
M: "My Favourite Buildings" - Robyn Hitchcock
N: "Niggers are Scared of Revolution" - The Last Poets
O: "On Returning" - Wire
P: "Paper Hats" - This Heat
Q: "Quality Crayon Wax O.K." - Essential Logic
R: "Runcorn Report on Western Progress, The" - International Harvester
S: "Stepping Out of Line" - The Au Pairs
T: "Twisted" - Annie Ross
U: "UFO" - ESG
V: "Viva Death Row" - The Monochrome Set
W: "Wawa" - Lizzy Mercier Descloux
X: "XXX" - Helium
Y: "Year of the Tiger" - Look Blue Go Purple
Z: "Zoo-Music Girl" - The Birthday Party

― Ian Riese-Moraine has been xeroxed into a conduit! (Eastern Mantra), Monday, 4 July 2005 17:16 (twenty years ago)

It takes longer than you'd expect.

― Ian Riese-Moraine has been xeroxed into a conduit! (Eastern Mantra), Monday, 4 July 2005 17:21 (twenty years ago)

i love these little games:

"all around the world" - james booker
"beechwood 45789" - the marvelettes
"car song" - woody guthrie
"despair" - manuel gottsching
"easy duz it" - easy e
"for the hand of magdalena" - the lowest of the low
"glad to see you go" - the ramones
"homecoming" - tom t. hall
"imayel ya khail" - frank london's klezmer brass all stars
"jump, man, jump" - piano red
"kiss an angel good morning" - charley pride
"longhair's blues-rhumba" - professor longhair
"midnight special" - leadbelly
"notorious thugs" - notorious big
"outside of a small circle of friends" - phil ochs
"pythagoras, refusing to cross the bean field at his back, is dispatched by the democrats" - tony conrad
"que maravilha" - os brazoes
"run run run" - ann peebles
"susan when she tried" - the statler brothers
"that was the greatest song" - the pooh sticks
"uptown my home" - bg
"valse de cherokee" - ambrose thibodeaux
"when the tingle becomes a chill" - loretta lynn
"xl-30" - shuggie otis
"you can't put your arms around a memory" - johnny thunders
"zing zing" - larry williams

― the temptation of wheat (the temptation of wheat), Monday, 4 July 2005 19:25 (twenty years ago)

"Anthrax" - Kimya Dawson
"Ban Marriage" - The Hidden Cameras
"CandyLand" - CocoRosie
"Death To Everyone" - Bonnie "Prince" Billy
"Everybody Is A Star" - Sly and the Family Stone
"Feel Good Hit Of the Fall" - !!!
"Gin is Not My Friend" - Ish Marquez
"Heart" - Stars
"Imagine" - The Beatles
"Ice On Black Water" - Gravenhurst
"July! July!" - The Decemberists
"King Kong Five" - Mano Negra
"Leaf House" - Animal Collective
"Monkey" - Low
"Nobody Has To Stay" - Mirah
"One in Every Crowd" - Viva Voce
"Pain in my Heart" - Otis Redding
"Que Mala Suerte" - Los de Abajo
"Rapture" Laura Veirs
"Strange Fruit" - Billie Holiday
"Thank You" - Big Star
"Up With The People" - Lambchop
"Vigo" - Aroah
"Wake Up" - The Arcade Fire
"Xmas Tree" Deerhoof
"Youth Against Fascism" Sonic Youth
"Zoology" Puppetmastaz

― sibsi (sibsi), Monday, 4 July 2005 19:58 (twenty years ago)

Acid Tabla Dub - Suns of Arqa
Back To The Days Of The Romans - Lou Christie
Cross My Heart - Phil Ochs
Death Of The European - Three Johns
Elvis, The Last Ten Days - The Nightingales
Fat Boy - Billy Stewart
Graveyard - Public Image Ltd
Hanging Man - Blue Orchids
I Can Do - Robert Forster
Jennifer Juniper - Donovan
Kimble - Lee Perry
Lanternlight - Peter & the Wolves
Margery - Pearls Before Swine
New Bully In Town - Laughing Clowns
Open Up Your Heart - Thomas & Richard Frost
Passivecation Program - Mark Stewart
Qui Peut Dire? - Francoise Hardy
Roman P - Psychic TV
Sand All Yellow - Kevin Coyne
Temptation - Everly Brothers
Urban Kids - Chelsea
Vieux Amis - Victoria Williams
Wild Child In A World Of Trouble - Fred Neil
Xtabay - Yma Sumac
Zipcode - Saint Etienne

― Dee Xtrovert (dee dee), Monday, 4 July 2005 20:04 (twenty years ago)

"Q" is the only letter for which I didn't have any "Oh my god I love this song" candidates ...

"Another Star" - Stevie Wonder
"Bad Time" - Grand Funk
"Coyote" - Joni Mitchell
"Daybreak" - Barry Manilow
"Edge of Seventeen" - Stevie Nicks
"Forever Came Today" - Supremes
"Galaxy" - War
"Happy Together" - Turtles
"I'd Be So Happy" - Three Dog Night
"Just Got Lucky" - JoBoxers
"Karma Killer" - Robbie Williams
"Love Will Keep Us Together" - Captain & Tennille
"Miracles" - Jefferson Starship
"No Good to Cry" - Wild Weeds
"One Fine Morning" - Lighthouse
"Penny Lane" - Beatles
"Questions 67 and 68" - Chicago
"Right Back Where We Started From" - Maxine Nightingale
"Summertime" - Billy Stewart
"Time (Clock of the Heart)" - Culture Club
"U Got the Look" - Prince w/ Sheena Easton
"Wild Is the Wind" - Nina Simone
"Xanadu" - Olivia Newton-John
"You Are My Starship" - Norman Connors
"Zor and Zam" - Monkees

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Monday, 4 July 2005 20:06 (twenty years ago)

A Secret Revealed Unwittingly - Sun City Girls
B.U.G. - Ruins
Casablanca Moon - Slapp Happy
Diamond Shine - The Clean
E Is For Everybody - Cooler Kids
Farewell Angelina - Jeff Buckley and Gary Lucas
Girl You Need a Change of Mind - Eddie Kendricks
He's Frank (Slight Return) - The Monochrome Set
I Don't Want to Spoil the Party - Rosanne Cash
Jaffa Boy - Bird Nest Roys
King's Lead Hat - Brian Eno
Let's Build a Dyson Sphere - The Golden Dawn
Mine Your Own Business - Honeybunch
Now Be Thankful - Fairport Convention
Old Pervert - The Soft Boys
People Who Have Bad Mind - Mini-Musical Female Duet
Qu'ran - Brian Eno & David Byrne
River Euphrates - Pixies
Shoot the Boss - Spaceheads
Tracy - Screeming Custard!
U.S. '80s-'90s - The Fall
Vertical Slum - Swell Maps
What Folks Say About Me - Prof. Alex Bradford
X X Sex - Fuzzbox
You Can't Judge a Book By Its Cover - Bo Diddley
Zenna & Marie - Hans Appelqvist

― Douglas (Douglas), Monday, 4 July 2005 20:31 (twenty years ago)

Blackalicious - Alphabet Aerobics

Gift of Gab]
Artificial amateurs, aren't at all amazing
Analytically, I assault, animate things
Broken barriers bounded by the bomb beat
Buildings are broken, basically I'm bombarding
Casually create catastrophes, casualties
Cancelling cats got their canopies collapsing
Detonate a dime of dank daily doin dough
Demonstrations, Don Dada on the down low
Eatin other editors with each and every energetic
Epileptic episode, elevated etiquette
Furious fat fabulous fantastic
Flurries of funk felt feeding the fanatics
Gift got great global goods gone glorious
Gettin godly in his game with the goriest
Hit em high, hella height, historical
Hey holocaust hints hear 'em holler at your homeboy
Imitators idolize, I intimidate
In a instant, I'll rise in a irate state
Juiced on my jams like jheri curls jockin joints
Justly, it's just me, writin my journals
Kindly I'm kindling all kinds of ink on
Karate kick type brits in my kingdom
Let me live a long life, lyrically lessons is
Learned lame louses just lose to my livery
My mind makes marvelous moves, masses
Marvel and move, many mock what I've mastered
Niggas nap knowin I'm nice naturally
Knack, never lack, make noise nationally
Operation, opposition, off, not optional
Out of sight, out of mind, wide beaming opticals
Perfected poem, powerful punchlines
Pummelling petty powder puffs in my prime
Quite quaint quotes keep quiet it's Quannum
Quarrelers ain't got a quarter of what we got uh
Really raw raps, risin up rapidly
Riding the rushing radioactivity
Super scientifical sound search sought
Silencing super fire saps that are soft
Tales ten times talented, too tough
Take that, challengers, get a tune up
Universal, unique untouched
Unadulterated, the raw uncut
Verb vice lord victorious valid
Violate vibes that are vain make em vanished
? well would a wise wordsmith just
Weaving up words weeded up, I'm a workshift
Xerox, my X-ray-diation holes extra large
X-height letters, and xylophone tones
Yellow back, yak mouth, young ones yaws
Yesterday's lawn yards sell our (yawn?)
Zig zag zombies, zoomin to the zenith
Zero in zen thoughts, overzealous rhyme ZEA-LOTS!....

(good....can you say it faster?)

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 01:08 (twenty years ago)

A Million Miles Away - Plimsouls
B.L.O.S.S.O.M. - Komeda
Complete Control - The Clash
D is Drugs - Busride
Everybody's Happy Nowadays - Buzzcocks
Fly Into the Sun - Sundial
Going Underground - The Jam
Holiday In Cambodia - Dead Kennedys
I Do - Lisa Loeb
Je suis sublime - Elizabeth (Filles Gone Wild comp)
Kool Thing (Sonic Youth)
Leek, I'm a Freak! - Adjeef the Poet (Pebbles 3 comp)
My Minds Playin' Tricks on Me - Geto Boys
Not If You Were The Last Dandy On Earth - Brian Jonestown Massacre
Oh! - Sleater Kinney
Punk Boy- The Headcoatees
Quien Puso El Bomp! - Los Teen Tops
Reasons to be Beautiful - Hole
Spellbound - Siouxisie and the Banshees
The Back of Love - Echo and the Bunnymen
Unfinished Sweet - Alice Cooper
Voices Green and Purple - The Bees (Pebbles 3 comp)
Wait for the Blackout - The Damned
X Offender - Blondie
Yellow - Coldplay
Zoo Music Girl - The Birthday Party

― Orbit (Orbit), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 01:32 (twenty years ago)

Leek, I'm a Freak! - Adjeef the Poet (Pebbles 3 comp)

great track, but it's mistitled (there and elsewhere) - it's really "ieek"

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 01:44 (twenty years ago)

A, alligators all around
B, bursting balloons
C, catching colds
D, doing dishes
E, entertaining elephants
F, forever fooling
G, getting giggles
H, having headaches
I, imitating Indians
J, juggling jellybeans
K, keeping kangaroos
L, looking like lions
M, making macaroni
N, never napping
O, ordering oatmeal
P, pushing people
Q, quite quarrelsome
R, riding reindeer
S, shockingly spoiled
T, throwing tantrums
U, usually upside-down
V, very vain
W, wearing wigs
X, x-ing x's
Y, yackety-yakking
Z, zippety zound!

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 03:46 (twenty years ago)

"ATP Track, The" - Push Button Objects
"Battery" - Metallica
"calbruc" - autechre
"Dracula Mountain" - Lightning Bolt
"Escaped And Lost Down in Medina" - Ghost
"Fett's Vette" - MC Chris
"G" - Labradford
"Helicon+On+On" - Orgwai
"In E" - Acid Mothers Temple
"John Barleycorn" - Traffic
"Knife Thrower, The" - Mirah & Ginger Brooks Takahashi
"Lusty" - Lamb
"Moi... Lolita" - Alizée
"Nor' Wester Head-On/Last Kakapo Dreams of Flying" - Roy Montgomery
"Old Artist" - Archive
"Pino Pomo" - Plaid
"Queer" - Garbage
"Ritournelle" - Colleen
"Spem in Alium" - Kronos Quartet
"To Bring You My Love" - PJ Harvey
"Untitled Space" - Kawabata Makoto w/ Kinski
"Violaine" - Cocteau Twins
"Weight" - Isis
"XYZ" - Boards of Canada
"Yayayaya" - Bardo Pond
"Zion Poison" - Muslimgauze

What I learned is all the great songs start with S.

― Leeeeeee (Leee), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 04:39 (twenty years ago)

Am I The Same Girl - Barbara Acklin
Ball Park Incident - Wizzard
California Man - The Move
Didn't I Blow Your Mind This Time - Delfonics
Everything Is Free - Gillian Welch
Free - Deniece Williams
Girls - The Moments & the Whatnauts
Here I Go Again - Archie Bell & the Drells
It Tears Me Up - Percy Sledge
John, I'm Only Dancing - David Bowie
Kentucky Rain - Elvis Presley
Lead Me On - Bobby Bland
Me and Mrs. Jones - Billy Paul
Ninety Nine and a Half (Won't Do) - Wilson Pickett
One Girl Too Late - Brenda and the Tabulations
People Make The World Go Round - Stylistics
Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars (Corcovado) - Antonio Carlos Jobim
Rock Your Baby - George McCrae
South African Man - Hamilton Bohannon
The Girl That Radiates That Charm - Arthur Alexander
Uptown - The Crystals
Vigilante Man - Woody Guthrie
We Love You - Rolllng Stones
Xorepse Mou Tsifteteli - Rosa Ezkanazi
You Want It, You Got It - Detroit Emeralds
Zeimbekiko Tis Evdokias - Manolis Loaizos

― Allen Baekeland (Allen Baekeland), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 04:57 (twenty years ago)

Leek, I'm a Freak! - Adjeef the Poet (Pebbles 3 comp)
great track, but it's mistitled (there and elsewhere) - it's really "ieek"

-- shine headlights on me

But "Leek" is more hilarious! ("Ieek" only slightly less so.)

Afternoon Delight - Starland Vocal Band
Bears - Zebra
Carey - Joni Mitchell
Dancing Queen - ABBA
Every 1's A Winner - Hot Chocolate
Flash Light - Parliament
Geraldine I Need Money More Than I Need You - Classic Ruins
Heavy Music - The Bob Seger System
It's Not Funny Anymore - Hüsker Dü
Just Lust - Buzzcocks
Kid Stuff - MX-80 Sound
Like I Used To Do - Melissa Etheridge
More Than A Feeling - Boston
New Rose - Damned
Our Lips Are Sealed - Go-Gos
Poptones - Public Image Ltd.
Queen Jane Approximately - Bob Dylan
Rain - Beatles
Slow Dog - Belly
Trampled Underfoot - Led Zeppelin
Up-Tight - Stevie Wonder
Voivod - Voivod
We Are The Road Crew - Motorhead
Xanadu - Olivia Newton-John
Yo-Yo - The Osmonds
Zebra Ranch - 'Debris

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 08:14 (twenty years ago)

"Ant Man Bee" - Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band
"Born to Make You Happy" - Britney Spears
"Can't Get Used to Losing You" - The Beat
"Dead Homiez" - Ice Cube
"Everything Starts With an 'E'" - E-Zee Possee
"Freak Like Me" - Sugababes
"Get Ur Freak On" - Missy Elliot
"Halleluhwah" - Can
"I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man" - Prince
"Jack Your Body" - Steve "Silk" Hurley
"King Harvest" - The Band
"Lonely in a Limousine" - Lifter Puller
"Mark'll Sink Us" - The Fall
"Never Gonna Give You Up" - Rick Astley
"Only the Lonely" - Roy Orbison
"Police and Thieves" - Junior Murvin
"Quit Playing Games With My Heart" - Backstreet Boys
"Rendez-Vu" - Basement Jaxx
"Sexual Healing" - Marvin Gaye
"Too Drunk To Fuck" - Dead Kennedys
"Unsolved Child Murder" - The Auteurs
"Viet Nam" - Minutemen
"White Riot" - The Clash
"Xpressway 2 Yr Skull" - Sonic Youth
"Yes Sir, I Can Boogie" - Baccara
"Zoom" - Fat Larry's Band

― Taste the Blood of Scrovula (noodle vague), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 08:47 (twenty years ago)

"Helicon+On+On" - Orgwai

Orbital vs. Mogwai? Whoa.

― Ian Riese-Moraine has been xeroxed into a conduit! (Eastern Mantra), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 12:53 (twenty years ago)

I tried sticking to the '80s. I believe I succeeded. Kinda.

"Another Nail In My Heart", Squeeze
"Bird Song", Lene Lovich
"Cruel Summer", Bananarama
"Do They Know It's Christmas", Band Aid
"Eurasian Eyes", Corey Hart
"Fields Of Fire", Big Country
"Game Above My Head", Blancmange
"Hold Back The Rain", Duran Duran
"Is There Anybody In There", Hunters & Collectors
"Jacques Derrida", Scritti Politti
"Kinetic", Hilary
"Living In Another World", Talk Talk
"Musclebound", Spandau Ballet
"Never Never Comes", Classix Nouveaux
"One Step Beyond", Madness
"Penthouse & Pavement", Heaven 17
"Quiet Life", Japan
"Real Men", Joe Jackson
"So Much For Everlasting Love", The Sights
"Tell Me Girls", Scary Thieves
"Up On The Catwalk", Simple Minds
"Valentine's Day", ABC
"Walking In My Shoes", Depeche Mode
"Xerox Machine", Adam & the Ants (yeah, I know -- hush it *wink*)
"Yes I Do", Psychedelic Furs
"Zinger", Comsat Angels

― The Kind and Benevolent Oracle of Dee (Dee the Lurker), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 13:52 (twenty years ago)

Aneurysm - Nirvana
Buckets of Flowers, Porno Mags - Consonant
Come On Sister - Seachange
Damaged Goods - GoF
Epedemic - Slayer
Family Man - Paul Okenfold (sp)
Gee Angel - Sugar
Holiday in Cambodia - DK
It Goes On - Furs
Just One Fix - Ministry
Killing Moon - Echo & The Bunny Men
Loser - Beck
Mica - MoB
No Love Lost - Joy Division
Oh Sweet Nuthin' - Velvet Underground
Please - LSL
Queer - Garbage
Realize - Codien
Semaphore - Kinski
The Fields - Chris Brokaw
Ultra Violence - Scream
Victory - Killing Joke
When Doves Cry - Prince
X-static - Foo Fighters
You're My Best Friend - Queen
Ziggy Stardust - Bowie

― Aja (aja), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 15:06 (twenty years ago)

"A Fierce Pancake" - Stump
"Bellydancer" - Kardinal Offishall
"Catch" - The Cure
"Denim Demon" - Turbonegro
"Elegant Chaos" - Julian Cope
"Fly on the Windscreen" - Depeche Mode
"Go to the Floor" - Missy Elliott
"Hip Hop Quotables" - Ludacris
"Ich bin's" - Einstürzende Neubauten
"Justified and Ancient" - The KLF ft. Tammy Wynette
"Kalhoz" - DePress
"Let Your Body Learn" - Nitzer Ebb
"Michael Caine" - Madness
"No Reply" - The Beatles
"Oceania" - Björk
"P:Machinery" - Propaganda
"Qui sedes ad dextram Patris" from Bach's Mass in B minor
"Running Up That Hill" - Kate Bush
"Sans logique" - Mylène Farmer
"The Power of Lard" - Lard
"Underwear" - Pulp
"Venus in Furs" - The Velvet Underground
"We're Having All the Fun" - Fun Boy Three
"XOYO" - The Passage
"Youth" - Soft Cell
"Zobi la Mouche" - Les Negresses Vertes

― OleM (OleM), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 15:58 (twenty years ago)

"antarctica starts here" - john cale
"birthday" - the beatles
"come on closer" - pineapples
"debaser" - the pixies
"editions of you" - roxy music
"final solution" - pere ubu
"game of pricks" - guided by voices
"here come the warm jets" - brian eno
"i feel love" - donna summer
"just like a woman" - bob dylan
"king heroin" - james brown
"la la means i love you" - the delfonics
"master of the universe" - hawkwind
"no culture icons" - the thermals
"out of focus" - blue cheer
"people take pictures of each other" - the kinks
"que vida!" - love
"rocks off" - the rolling stones
"sister ray" - the velvet underground
"two-headed boy" - neutral milk hotel
"uptown babies dont cry" - max romeo
"vampire blues" - neil young
"when u were mine" - prince
"x offender" - blondie
"yoo doo right" - can
"zen archer" - todd rundgren

― peter smith (plsmith), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 17:21 (twenty years ago)

Orbital vs. Mogwai? Whoa.

Yeah, someone should make this.

― Leeeeeee (Leee), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 17:52 (twenty years ago)

seven years pass...

Was looking over the Fall discography for the poll and realized they have songs starting with every letter of the alphabet (as long as you leave out initial articles). Any other acts this is true of?

― bentelec, Saturday, 6 April 2013 01:27 (twelve years ago)

Cursory searching only turns up They Might Be Giants. (That is in the context of a children's record - might be more in that vein.) Bowie and Zappa both near misses afaict with no x.

― bentelec, Saturday, 6 April 2013 21:53 (twelve years ago)

Rather than a particular favourite, simply the first track alphabetically for each new initial letter, as it appears when sorted by 'Track Title' in my iTunes...

Abaddon's Bolero - ELP
Baba O'Riley - The Who
Cabaret Hoover - Belleville Rendezvous soundtrack
Da Doo Ron Ron - Crystals
Each and Every One - EBTG
Facades - Philip Glass
Gagging Order - Christopher O'Riley
Had to Phone Ya - Beach Boys
I Agree With Pat Metheny - Richard Thompson
J'ai Fait Tout - Emmylou Harris
Kaini Industries - Boards of Canada
L'Amour et la Violence - Sebastien Tellier
MacArthur Park - Beggars Opera
Nagoya Marimbas - Steve Reich
Oasis - Pat Metheny
Pablo Picasso - John Cale
Quark, Strangeness and Charm - Hawkwind
Rabbit Will Run - Iron and Wine
Sad Echoes - Barrington Pheloung
Tables Will Turn - Todd Rundgren
Ugly Man - Rickie Lee Jones
Vaka - Sigur Ros
Wade in the Water - CCS
X Files Theme - Mark Snow
Ya Hozna - Frank Zappa
Zawinul/Lava - Brian Eno

― Bloody Snail, Saturday, 6 April 2013 22:51 (twelve years ago)

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