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Top Five Sunday Comics
1) The Far Side
2) Calvin and Hobbs
3) The Boondocks
aw fuck, there isn’t anything else worth reading
Five fave DC bands
1) Fugazi
2) Q and Not U
3) Circus Lupus
4) The Warmers
5) Branch Manager
6) Hoover/Crownhate Ruin
7) Autoclave
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oops. . .
Five Bands of whom I appear to be the only existing fan
1) Carrie Nations
2) The Bananas
3) Trusty
4) X-Ray Spex
5) The Clean
Five Fave Bands from the UK
1) Belle and Sebastian
2) The Smiths
3) The Pogues
4) Joy Division
5) The Buzzcocks
…don’t feel alone, there’s another one around here….
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What I wrote last June in the "I just saw" thread:
I like X-Ray Spex too, as I’m sure some others here do as well.
Top 10 jazz trumpeters:
Miles Davis
Lee Morgan
Louis Armstrong
Kenny Wheeler
Roy Eldridge
Dizzy Gillespie
Kenny Dorham
Donald Byrd
Blue Mitchell
Booker Little
Top 10 jazz saxophonists:
John Coltrane
Charlie Parker
Lester Young
Coleman Hawkins
Albert Ayler
Ornette Coleman
Dexter Gordon
Joe Henderson
Jackie McLean
Booker Ervin
Top 10 jazz pianists:
Bill Evans
Keith Jarrett
McCoy Tyner
Herbie Hancock
Bud Powell
Wynton Kelly
Ahmad Jamal
Cecil Taylor
Art Tatum
Oscar Peterson
Top 10 jazz singers:
Billie Holiday
Anita O`Day
Ella Fitzgerald
Sarah Vaughan
Dinah Washington
Helen Merrill
Abbey Lincoln
Astrud Gilberto
Peggy Lee
Chris Connor
5 Beautiful Arab Strap Tunes
Girls Of Summer (Live)
Serenade (Live)
Blackness
Here We Go
I Still Miss U
Wanna Have Sex On The Beach
4 Non-Jazz-Playing ‘Jazz Bands’ ![]()
Johnny hates Jazz
de Jazzpolitie
DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince
Kiss my Jazz
You forgot Cap`n Jazz ![]()
Fave acoustic blues artists:
Robert Johnson
all the blind guys:Blind Willie Johnson,Blind Willie McTell,Blind Lemon Jefferson,Blind Blake
Sleepy John Estes
Barbeque Bob
Lonnie Johnson
Furry Lewis
Fred McDowell
Skip James
Bukka White
Mississippi John Hurt
Fave artists from California:
Red House Painters
X
Idaho
Dream Syndicate
Mountain Goats
Drive Like Jehu
Steely Dan
Richard Buckner
Opal/Mazzy Star/Hope Sandoval
Pavement
den Buck’s list of the most important Californian (although born in Chicago IL) not mentioned in SG’s list:
Warren Zevon
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Best things to come from a 1 hour radius of my home
1) Miles Davis
2) Uncle Tupelo
3) Bob Heil (inventer of the talk box)
4) Chuck Berry
5) Tennessee Williams
6) The inventer of Pet Milk
Perfect Songs (songs I can listen to on enldless repeat)
1) Freak Scene
2) Start Choppin’
3) Jamie-Weezer
4) Letter From an Occupant-New Pornographers
5) I Gotta Be Me-The Banana’s
6) Poked it With a Stick-The Warmers
7) Tango ’till they’re Sore-Tom Waits
Haitian Fight Song-Charles Mingus
9) Promises-The Buzzcocks
10) Shady Lane-Pavement
11) Shakepears Sister-The Smiths
12) Fairytale of New York-The Pogues
13) SugarCube-Yo La Tengo
14) For Want Of-Rites of Spring
15) Mr Weekend-Branch Manager.
5 Beautiful Prince Tunes
I Love U But I Don’t Trust U Anymore
A Case Of U
The Beautiful Ones
Another Lonely Christmas
I Hate U
5 Beautiful Marilyn Manson Tunes
Doppleherze
The Man That U Fear
Count To 6 & Die
Tourniquet
The Nobodies (Acoustic)
Malc-I like the perfect songs idea :aliensmile:
my list of perfect songs(or just songs I never get tired of)
Dinosaur Jr-The Lung,Severed Lips,They Always Come,Thumb,Get Me,Get Out Of This,etc.
Husker Du-Indecision Time,Real World,Chartered Tips,Celebrated Summer,Divide And Conquer,etc.
Eleventh Dream Day-Dream Of A Sleeping Sheep,Makin Like A Rug,Bomb The Mars Hotel,Baghdad`s Last Ride,Two Smart Cookies,Tarantula,etc.
My Bloody Valentine-When You Sleep,Sometimes,Feed Me With Your Kiss,Strawberry Wine,etc.
Sonic Youth-Expressway To Yr Skull,Starpower,Cross The Breeze,Total Trash,Teenage Riot,etc.
Buffalo Tom-Mineral,Would Not Be Denied,Stymied,Scottish Windows,Tailights Fade,etc.
John Coltrane-Naima,Crescent,Alabama,Impressions,etc.
Charles Mingus-Haitian Fight Song,Meditations,Fables Of Faubus,Goodbye Pork Pie Hat,Hog Callin Blues,etc.
more another time
Hey, Asalami Alaykum, you forgot these ![]()
Pavement: here, debris slide, we dance, box elder m.o., frontwards etc.
Neutral Milk Hotel: the entire In The Aeroplane Over The Sea album
Built to Spill: Car
Modest Mouse: 3rd Planet
Pavement-Box Elder,Debris Slide,Range Life,Here,Gold Soundz,Newark Wilder,etc.
Freakwater-Gone To Stay,Waitress Song,Picture In My Mind,A Song You Could Cry For,Your Goddamn Mouth,etc.
Yo La Tengo-Tom Courtney,Drug Test,Blue Line Swinger,Deeper Into Movies,etc.
Velvet Underground-Heroin,I`m Beginning To See The Light,Run Run Run,Sister Ray,What Goes On,etc.
Tom Waits-Tango Till They`re Sore,Who Are You,Kentucky Ave,Telephone Call From Istanbul,Gun Street Girl,etc.
Miles Davis-All Blues,Blue In Green,Nefertiti,Right Off,Prelude,Iris,etc.
Bill Evans-Gloria`s Step,Spartacus Love Theme,My Man`s Gone Now,Mother Of Earl,Elsa,etc.
Eric Dolphy-Fire Waltz,Hat And Beard,Softly As In A Morning Sunrise,Out There,Serene,etc.
Blind Willie Johnson-If I Had My Way…,God Moves On The Water,Soul Of A Man,Let The Light Shine On Me,When The War Was On,etc.
Blind Willie McTell-Travelin Blues,Southern Can Is Mine,Scary Day Blues,God Don`t Like It,Razor Ball,etc.
The Stooges-1970,No Fun,I Wanna Be Your Dog,TV Eye,Your Pretty Face Is Going To Hell,Shake Appeal,etc.
MC5-Kick Out The Jams,Come Together,Rocket Reducer no.62,Shakin Street,Sister Anne,etc.
Ramones-Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment,Beat On The Brat,Do You Wanna Dance,Let`s Dance,Rockaway Beach,etc.