My Favorite Tracks From My Current Favorite Albums
Submitted by geek on Wed, 12/03/2003 - 13:15
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- Beck - Sea Change - "Guess I'm Doing Fine"
- The Clash - London Calling - "Rudie Can't Fail"
- Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True - "Sneaky Feelings"
- Elvis Costello - This Year's Model - tie between "No Action" and "(I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea"
- Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks - "Tangled Up In Blue"
- Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan - "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right"
- Bob Dylan - Halloween Mask - "Who Killed Davey Moore?"
- John Lennon - John Lennon / Plastic Ono Band - "Hold On"
- Joni Mitchell - Blue - "All I Want"
- The Modern Lovers - The Modern Lovers - "Hospital"
- Van Morrison - Astral Weeks - "Sweet Thing"
- Van Morrison - Saint Dominic's Preview - tie between "Gypsy" and "Jackie Wilson Said (I'm In Heaven When You Smile)"
- Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea - "King of Carrot Flowers Part 1"
- New York Dolls - Rock 'N Roll - "Personality Crisis"
- Gram Parsons - Grievous Angel - "Love Hurts"
- Liz Phair - Exile in Guyville - tie between "Divorce Song" and "F*** and Run"
- Ramones - The Ramones - "I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend"
- Todd Rundgren - Something / Anything? - tie between "Couldn't I Just Tell You," "It Wouldn't Have Made Any Difference," and "It Takes Two To Tango (This Is for the Girls)"
- Cat Stevens - Tea for the Tillerman - "Wild World"
- The Strokes - Is This It - tie between "Barely Legal" and "Hard to Explain"
- They Might Be Giants - Lincoln - "Ana Ng"
- They Might Be Giants - Severe Tire Damage - "Birdhouse in Your Soul"
- Townes Van Zandt - Rear View Mirror - "For the Sake of the Song"
- The Velvet Underground - Loaded - tie between "Oh! Sweet Nuthin'" and "Lonesome Cowboy Bill"
- The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground - "Pale Blue Eyes"
- Wilco - Summerteeth - "We're Just Friends"
- Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - tie between "I Am Trying To Break Your Heart" and "I'm The Man Who Loves You"
Wow, you've got some killer music listed here!
This may seem very cliched, but I'd have a tough time choosing between I Am Trying to Break Your Heart, Kamera, Poor Places (that's the one with the 'yankee..hotel.....foxtrot ending, or I am remembering wrong?) and Reservations off of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. My, that's a good album. I'll change my mind in a month. Or not.
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
I guess I have weird taste. I'm partial to "Ashes of American Flags" or "Heavy Metal Drummer." But really, there's not a song I don't like on it.
And hey, both of you have to comment on "I Am Trying to Break Your Heart on this list.
I would rank Ashes on up there as well. So many great songs...
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
Is that a furtive way of saying you don't like "Heavy Metal Drummer" as much as the others? :-)
I really love the song. Sure, it's more of a straightforward happy pop song than the other more melancholy songs on the album, but I love the nostalgic look back on the singer's "age of innocence", before he became as somberly reflective as he is on the rest of the album. Keeping that in mind, I think the "straightforward happy pop song" theme is very appropriate.
But once again, every song on that album is good if not great.
Whoops! Not intentionally, it wasn't. I dig it, it just ain't my fave.
As you said, they're all great.
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
Thanks a lot, LBangs. I must admit, though, if I had made this list a year or so ago, it would have been very embarrassingly different.
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot was one of the hardest to choose tracks from. I really do love every track on that album. And, yes, "Poor Places" is the song with that ending.
I was also struggling with choosing a track from This Year's Model. (Did I ever thank you for that? Your "100 Best Rock Albums" list played a large part in me asking for it for Christmas!) I may have to replace one of the songs I have listed with "Hand in Hand" or "This Year's Girl" or "Lipstick Vogue" or .....
YHF is a hard one to divy up into single songs.
I'm very thrilled you're enjoying This Year's Model so much. I'm glad my list inspired you to pick it up, although knowing your taste, I'm sure you would have eventually nabbed it anyway. My fave's Lipstick Vogue, but again, they are almost all great.
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
I couldn't find the post where I heard about Wilco, but they're on many lists and I'd like to thank everyone who has them posted because I started listening to them yesterday - wonderful stuff!
I'd like you say you're welcome, but I think that would be a little weird since I started listening to Wilco because of Listology as well! In any case, I'm glad you're liking it. It really is some great music.
If you like Wilco, you may want to try Uncle Tupelo. That's the band Jeff Tweedy and Jay Farrar were in before they broke up. They made some really great albums that I personally like better than Wilco. Farrar also went solo with a band called Son Volt. Traces is a great album that I never tire of listening too. It's too hard to recommend an Uncle Tupleo album as all are great. Earlier ones are more rock oriented. Latter ones more folk/alt country.
I agree. Uncle Tupelo was one of my favorite bands of the 90's. I would recommend starting with Anodyne and working backwards.