rock (jazz/classical/.../other): FAVOuRITE songs/tracks

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  1. Bob Dylan: “Girl From The North Country” - The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan (1963)
  2. The Velvet Underground: “Pale Blue Eyes” - The Velvet Underground (1969)
  3. Billy Holliday (words by Abel Meeropol): “Strange Fruit” (1939)
  4. Tim Buckley: “Driftin’” - Lorca (1970)
  5. Bob Dylan: “Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands” - Blonde on Blonde (1966) – this is my 2nd favorite vocal performance ever, and my favorite lyrical refrain/chorus of all time:
  6. Sad-eyed lady of the lowlands,
  7. Where the sad-eyed prophet says that no man comes,
  8. My warehouse eyes, my Arabian drums,
  9. Should I leave them by your gate,
  10. Or, sad-eyed lady, should I wait?
  11. i have two ideas of what the line “My warehouse eyes, my Arabian drums” means: (1)
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    literally, his warehouse eyes are his “sunglasses” which is a metaphor for fame/mystique/image, and the Arabian drums in this scenario constitute his music career—both of which he is offering his Sad-Eyed Lady
    , and the other is (2)
    Spoiler: Highlight to view
    a deeper metaphor about his heart (Arabian drums) and soul (his warehouse eyes—eyes have been a continuous metaphor for the soul for humans). In either case he is offering up his entire world to this lady (“should I leave them by your gate”) regardless of whether or not she will accept him (“should I wait?”)
  12. Nico: “Afraid” - Desertshore (1970)
  13. Van Morrison: “Astral Weeks” - Astral Weeks (1968)
  14. The Beatles: “Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)” - Rubber Soul (1965)
  15. Albert Ayler: “Ghosts: First Variation” - Spiritual Unity (1964) – basically any variation
  16. Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band: “Electricity” - Safe As Milk (1967)
  17. The Velvet Underground: “I’ll Be Your Mirror” - The Velvet Underground & Nico (1966)
  18. Mark Lanegan: "Borracho" - Whiskey For The Holy Ghost
  19. The Residents: “N-ER-GEE (Crisis Blues)” - Meet The Residents (1973/4) – I would love to have the mini-suite of "Numb Erone/Guylum Bardot/Breath and Length/Consuelo's Departure/Smelly Tongues" count.
  20. Pere Ubu: “Final Solution” (1975)
  21. Joanna Newsom: “Emily” - Ys (2006)
  22. Richard Hell & the Voidoids: “Love Comes In Spurts” - Blank Generation (1975)
  23. Nico: “Frozen Warnings” - The Marble Index (1968)
  24. Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band: “Pachuco Cadaver” - Trout Mask Replica (1969)
  25. Bob Dylan: “Visions of Johanna” - Blonde on Blonde (1966)
  26. The Doors: “The End” - The Doors (1966)
  27. Tom Waits: “Anywhere I Lay My Head” - Rain Dogs (1985) – this is my favorite vocal performance on record
  28. Neu!: “Hallogallo” - Neu! (1971)
  29. The Doors: “People Are Strange” - Strange Days (1967)
  30. The Velvet Underground: “What Goes On” - 1969: The Velvet Underground Live with Lou Reed (1969)
  31. Soft Machine (Robert Wyatt): “Moon In June” - Third (1970)
  32. The Fleshtones: “American Beat” (1979)
  33. Red Krayola: “War Sucks” - The Parable of Arable Land (1967)
  34. Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band: “Frownland” - Trout Mask Replica (1969)
  35. Pere Ubu: “Street Waves” (1976) - single placed later on - The Modern Dance
  36. Lisa Germano: “…Of Love And Colors” - Geek The Girl (1994)
  37. The Velvet Underground: “Sister Ray” - White Light/White Heat (1967)
  38. Bob Dylan: “Desolation Row” - Highway 61 Revisited +++ The Bootleg Series Vol. 7: No Direction Home: The Soundtrack (1965)
  39. Norman Greenbaum: “Spirit In The Sky” (1969)
  40. Pink Floyd: “Careful With That Axe, Eugene” - Ummagumma (1969)
  41. Dirty Three: “I Offered It Up To The Stars And The Night Sky” - Whatever You Love, You Are (2000)
  42. Pink Floyd: “Interstellar Overdrive” - The Piper At The Gates of Dawn (1967)
  43. The Rolling Stones: “Get Off My Cloud” (a single that was placed on - December’s Children (And Everybody’s)) (1965)
  44. Bob Dylan: “Gates of Eden” - Bringing It All Back Home (1965)
  45. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds: “Foi Na Cruz” - The Good Son (1990)
  46. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds: “The Ship Song” - The Good Son (1990)
  47. Ry Cooder: “Feelin’ Bad Blues” - Music By Ry Cooder (1986) – originally on the soundtrack for Crossroads
  48. Nirvana: "Smells Like Teen Spirit" - Nevermind (1991) - at first i loved it, then i hated it, and then i loved it, and i love it still.
  49. Lisa Germano: “Baby On A Plane” - Excerpts From A Love Circus (1996)
  50. John Fahey: “A Raga Called Pat, Pts. III & IV” - The Voice of the Turtle (1968)
  51. Mercury Rev: “Car Wash Hair” (1991)
  52. Pere Ubu: “My Dark Ages” (1976) – B-side to “Street Waves”, which could have been the closer of the apocalyptic anxious love story that is - The Modern Dance
  53. The Velvet Underground: “White Light/White Heat” - White Light/White Heat (1967)
  54. Royal Trux: “Ice Cream” - Twin Infinitives (1990)
  55. Coley Jones: “Drunkard’s Special” - The Anthology of American Folk Music (192?/3?)
  56. John Lennon: “Mother” - John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band (1970)
  57. Tom Petty: “WildFlowers” - Wildflowers (1994)
  58. Michael Jones: “After The Rain” - After The Rain (1988)
  59. Jimmy Cliff: “Many Rivers To Cross” - The Harder They Come [soundtrack] (1972)
  60. John Fahey: “Fare Forward Voyagers” - Fare Forward Voyagers (Soldier’s Choice) (1973)
  61. Leonard Cohen: “Winter Lady” - The Songs of Leonard Cohen (1967)
  62. The Velvet Underground: “Stephanie Says” - VU (1969, released 1985) – “Caroline Says II” on Lou Reed’s Berlin is a cover of this (his own – at the time vaulted) song.
  63. Jerry Garcia: “Love Scene” - Zabriskie Point [soundtrack] (1970)
  64. Talk Talk: “I Believe In You” - Spirit of Eden (1988)
  65. Faust: “Why Don’t You Eat Carrots?” - Faust (1971)
  66. Lambchop: “Begin” - I Hope You're Sitting Down [aka Jack's Tulips] (1994)
  67. Television: “Marquee Moon” - Marquee Moon (1977)
  68. Sly & the Family Stone: “Spaced Cowboy” - There’s A Riot Goin’ On (1971)
  69. Smokey Robinson & the Miracles: “Tears of a Clown” (1970)
  70. The Seeds: “Can’t Seem To Make You Mine” - The Seeds (1966)
  71. Underground Lovers: “Eastside Stories” - Leaves Me Blind (1992)
  72. Leonard Cohen: “Sisters of Mercy” - The Songs of Leonard Cohen (1967)
  73. One: “II Car Raga” - One (1972)
  74. Leonard Cohen: “Stories of the Street” - The Songs of Leonard Cohen (1967)
  75. Buggles: “Video Killed The Radio Star” (1979) – very few statements are as true as this, and I think that the cheesy “New Wave” synth-pop sound is the only way to compose this song “on new technology”! – this is one of the greatest songs of all time!!!!!!
  76. AC/DC: “Rock and Roll Ain't Noise Pollution” - Back In Black (1980)
  77. Pere Ubu: “Ubu Dance Party” - Dub Housing (1978)
  78. Traffic: “Hole In My Shoe” (1967)
  79. Traffic: “Dear Mr. Fantasy” - Mr. Fantasy (1967)
  80. Led Zeppelin: “Babe, I’m Gonna Leave You” - Led Zeppelin I (1968)
  81. Led Zeppelin: “Dazed And Confused” - Led Zeppelin I (1968)
  82. PJ Harvey: “To Bring You My Love” - To Bring You My Love (1995)
  83. The Mothers of Invention: “Brown Shoes Don’t Make It” - Absolutely Free (1966) – if you consider both sides of the album to be one complete song then think of this entry as Suite No. 2: "The M.O.I. American Pageant" (2nd in a Series of Underground Oratorios)
  84. Mercury Rev: “Chasing A Bee” - Yerself Is Steam (1991)
  85. The Rolling Stones: “Paint It Black” (put on the U.S. version of - Aftermath (1966)
  86. The Fleshtones: “Let’s See The Sun” - Roman Gods (1980)
  87. Tommy James & the Shondells: “Crimson & Clover” (1968)
  88. Pere Ubu: “The Modern Dance” – The Modern Dance (1977) – the song is slightly altered on the album version: the single had a duck squeak instead of the railroad spike at the break of the rhythm guitar and bass.
  89. Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band: “Safe As Milk” - The Mirror Man Sessions (1967)
  90. Red House Painters: “24” - Down Colorful Hill (1992)
  91. Pere Ubu: “Hand A Face A Feeling” - New Picnic Time (1979) – aka “Kingdom Come” / “Jehovah’s Kingdom Come”
  92. Faust: “Kraustrock” - Faust IV (1973)
  93. Robert Wyatt: “Sea Song” - Rock Bottom (1974)
  94. Spiritualized: “Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space” - Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space (1997)
  95. The Residents: “Not Available” - Not Available (supposedly recorded in 1974, released 1978) – does this count?
  96. Pere Ubu: “Heaven” (1977)
  97. The Stranglers: “Golden Brown” - La Folie (1981)
  98. Bob Dylan: “Farewell, Angelina” - The Bootleg Series Vol. 1-3 (1965)
  99. Cop Shoot Cop: “Lo.Com.Denom.” - Consumer Revolt (1992)
  100. Cop Shoot Cop: “Shine On Elizabeth” - Headkick Facsimile EP (1988)
  101. Mercury Rev: “Blood On The Moon” - Lego My Ego (1992)
  102. Talk Talk: “The Rainbow/Eden/Desire” - Spirit of Eden (1988)
  103. The Doors: “Crystal Ship” - The Doors - (1966)
  104. Eric Burden & the Animals: “Ring of Fire” - Love Is (1968)
  105. The United States of America: “I Won’t Leave My Wooden Wife For You, Sugar” - The United States of America (1967)
  106. The Residents: “Six Things To A Cycle” - Fingerprince - (1976)
  107. Laurie Anderson: “O Superman (For Massenet)” (1981)
  108. Love: “Alone Again Or” - Forever Changes (1967)
  109. Link Wray: “Rumble” (1958)
  110. Kim Carnes: “Bette Davis Eyes” (1981)

  112. there are so many others….