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 Hardin Smith
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 Post Number: 192
 Registered: 03-2006
 
 | | Posted on Monday, April 03, 2006 - 08:08 pm: |  | 
 This thread is similar to others on the board, but I don't think any ask this precise question. It's part of my ongoing research into the musical DNA of GBs fans...This was also prompted by playing on a new website, Pandora.com, that purports to be able to construct a whole radio station for you by analyzing your tastes, based on as little as one song...guess what? It works abysmally. Based on the GBs song I put in, it yielded up "Barometer Soup" by Jimmy f-ing Buffet!
 
 Here are my un-ordered choices...
 
 
 1) Elvis Costello
 2) Van Morrison
 3) Leonard Cohen
 4) Tom Waits
 5) Lucinda Williams
 6) Al Green
 7) Go-Betweens
 8) Bob Dylan
 9) Neil Young
 10) Loudon Wainwright III
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 Jeff Whiteaker
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 Post Number: 256
 Registered: 10-2004
 
 | | Posted on Monday, April 03, 2006 - 08:28 pm: |  | 
 Here is my subject to change list:
 
 1. Go-Betweens
 2. Microdisney
 3. The Smiths
 4. Felt
 5. Japan
 6. Cocteau Twins
 7. Nick Drake
 8. John Cale (mainly early to mid 70s stuff)
 9. REM (Chronic Town through Reckoning)
 10. XTC
 
 a few crucial runners up which, on another day, might have supplanted some above entries (my top 10 isn't etched in stone):
 
 11. Aztec Camera (Postcard-era stuff through Knife)
 12. Beach Boys/Brian Wilson (Pet Sounds/Smile/mid-late 60s stuff)
 13. Siouxsie
 14. New Order
 15. Wire
 16. Television
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 kevin
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 Post Number: 273
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 | | Posted on Monday, April 03, 2006 - 08:33 pm: |  | 
 aww jeez Hardin - thats too tough man!
 Give me a day
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 Hardin Smith
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 Post Number: 193
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 | | Posted on Monday, April 03, 2006 - 08:44 pm: |  | 
 I thought you'd have your favorite artists printed on a little card in your wallet, like some people have medic alert cards, Kevin...
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 Kurt Stephan
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 Post Number: 236
 Registered: 04-2005
 
 | | Posted on Monday, April 03, 2006 - 08:46 pm: |  | 
 Yeah, it is too tough. But that won't stop me from trying. Note that this is an "all-time" list, not what I think is the best of current artists--most of these are defunct or not producing great work anymore.
 
 Go-Betweens
 Velvet Underground (Reed and Cale solo included)
 Roxy Music (but NOT Ferry solo)
 Television
 Only Ones
 Neil Young
 Yo La Tengo
 Kristin Hersh (incl. Throwing Muses)
 Richard Thompson
 Beatles (yeah, I'm a sap)
 
 Bubbling under:
 Elvis Costello
 Husker Du/Bob Mould
 Wire
 Joy Division
 Talking Heads
 Sleater-Kinney
 Sonic Youth
 Steely Dan (pre-'77 only)
 Spinanes/Rebecca Gates
 Gang of Four
 PJ Harvey
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 Hardin Smith
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 Post Number: 194
 Registered: 03-2006
 
 | | Posted on Monday, April 03, 2006 - 09:02 pm: |  | 
 Kurt and Jeff, youse guys might enjoy that book I was talking about w/ Kevin, "Rip it up and start again" by Simon Reynolds. It's a history of post punk and it's got great chapters on several of the groups you mention...just finished it and it was just incredibly fun.
 
 LOVE XTC! What the hell has happened to them? Is Partridge content to just be, in essence, curator of his own career?
 
 
 And the Spinanes are (were? are they still extant?) great too...I missed them when they came to Baton Rouge when I was living there. I had tickets but they showed up so late (way after midnight) I had to blow it off, being a working stiff...I heard Rebecca showed up, looking typically fetching, wearing a t-shirt that said, "Fat, Bald and 40"...
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 Kurt Stephan
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 Post Number: 237
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 | | Posted on Monday, April 03, 2006 - 09:12 pm: |  | 
 Hardin, you won't believe this, but I was planning to go downstairs in a couple of minutes to buy that book on my lunch hour. I'm lucky enough to work a block away from Seattle's best indie bookstore (i.e., best bookstore, period).
 
 I love XTC but they didn't make my list because of serious quality control problems since "English Settlement" or so.
 
 I saw Rebecca Gates play a solo gig in a nearly empty club about five years ago, after releasing her first and only solo CD (an EP). Don't know what's become of her since. It's a shame, because the second and third Spinanes albums are really wonderful.
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 Andy Robinson
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 | | Posted on Monday, April 03, 2006 - 09:29 pm: |  | 
 Wow . . .  in a stream of consciousness stylee and as I start am swinging between are there really ten enduring artistes and will ten be enough.
 
 1. The Go Betweens - naturally
 2. Jonathan Richman
 3. Richard Thompson
 4. Billy Bragg
 5. Bare Naked Ladies
 6. Prefab Sprout
 7. Lambchop
 8. Aztec Camera
 9. Jackie Leven
 10. Jimmy Webb - as a songwriter, rather than a singer
 11. Cowboy Junkies
 12. Counting Crows
 
 Those are probably artistes that have endured for years - I'm thinking other lists too.
 
 One for comfortable old slippers that I know I can always go back to e.g. Joe Jackson. Julia Fordham, Bacharach, The Pogues and The Clash
 
 Those that have not yet produced or did not produce a big enough canon yet to break into the list e.g. Jeff Buckley, Rufus Wainwright, The Streets, The Redskins, Judith Owen or maybe that I'm beginning to get to know and have potential e.g. The Lucksmiths
 
 And finally those that I like a lot mostly but who sometimes I don't get or who basically (I think) messed up e.g. Tom Waits, American Music Club, Prince, Nick Cave, Microdisney/Fatima Mansions/High Llamas/Cathal Coughlan, Elvis Costello, Finn Brothers
 
 I appreciate that some of these artists have been criticised elsewhere on the thread but hey it's my list.
 
 Also the beauty of the thing is that like most of you we are all constantly finding new stuff that may are not join in the major list or that sometimes just stands on its own as a work of excellence.
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 spence
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 | | Posted on Monday, April 03, 2006 - 10:16 pm: |  | 
 Wire
 Pale Fountains
 Josef K
 Scott Walker
 Go Betweens
 Debussy
 Television
 REM
 Blue Aeroplanes
 Velvets
 The Clash
 David Bowie (75-80)
 Momus (el and creation era)
 Robert Cray
 Massive Attack (still can't believe the genius here)
 The Monochrome Set.
 Paul Haig (early eighties)
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 Jeff Whiteaker
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 Registered: 10-2004
 
 | | Posted on Monday, April 03, 2006 - 10:49 pm: |  | 
 Awesome list, Spence.  Especially for mentioning the Paleys, Scott Walker, Josef K, and Momus.  I love the Pale Fountains and even some Shack (like their first album Zilch).  I can't remember if they've come up in discussions before, but they were truly amazing to my ears.
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 Hardin Smith
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 | | Posted on Monday, April 03, 2006 - 11:12 pm: |  | 
 Hey put it out there, Andy - let your freak flag fly...I defy anybody to say their choices are morally superior to yours...I, for one, am crazy about a lot of your choices: Prefab, Thompson, Bragg, Microdisney (way preferred over Cathal's solo work), Nick Cave, Prince (his new disc is actually great, I think) and Billy Bragg (did you get the box set?).
 
 My tastes are way too all over the map to neatly encapsulize in a list of 10, but that's part of the fun of it...
 
 I was listening to Los Lobos yesterday while cleaning house (which I do every six months whether it needs it or not) and Jesus, what an awesome and awe-inspiring band...sheer musical bliss and I didn't even find space for em on my list....
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 Randy Adams
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 | | Posted on Tuesday, April 04, 2006 - 04:19 am: |  | 
 I hate these lists.  The top ten ranked folks in terms of how many CDs of theirs I have are:
 
 1.  The Hollies--35 entries.  This terminally unhip band made some of the very best pop & rock in the 1960s.  Forget the singles and go to the albums.  After Graham Nash left things thinned out a lot but "Confessions of a Mind" and "Romany" are still classics.
 
 2.  The Fall -- 23 entries.  For me, they started seriously losing interest value in the early 90s but there's still always something worth hearing.
 
 3.  Ed Kuepper -- 18 entries not including Saints, Aints or Laughing Clowns.  Love this man's work.  The later albums are a bit thinner but still always at least one-half a very good album.
 
 4.  Marianne Faithfull -- 17 entries.  I've followed her all the way from her early falsetto folkbird warblings to her junk-hazed Dylan readings (try "Visions of Johanna" from the mid-70s) to the 1980s and forward rebirth.  She does a bit more star guest action on her newer records than I'd like but her version of "Tower of Song" is the pinnacle.  Sorry, Robert's doesn't compete.
 
 5.  Go Betweens -- 14 not including solo albums.  I'm very happy that this not very prolific band made it this high up.
 
 6.  Rolling Stones tied with The Church -- a lucky 13 entries each.  The Stones through "Beggars Banquet" are pretty hard to beat but, imho, the booting out of Andrew Oldham was a big mistake.
 
 7.  Byrds tied with Monkees tied with Dusty Springfield -- 12 entries each.
 
 Once I get to the below-12 entries, things get too numerous but my current favorite candidates in this group include Beau Brummels (11 entries), Monochrome Set (10 entries), Toots & the Maytals (10 entries) and think of all the great people who weren't very prolific from the Apartments to April March to the Zombies.
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 David Matheson
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 Post Number: 70
 Registered: 12-2004
 
 | | Posted on Tuesday, April 04, 2006 - 11:26 am: |  | 
 Hardin, it was interesting that aside from the Go-Bs your list contained all solo artists rather than groups.
 I'm surprised that nobody seems to have mentioned The Triffids yet, so I will.
 I like XTC as well, but not in my top 10.
 
 David Bowie
 The Go-Betweens
 The Beatles
 Lloyd Cole
 The Triffids
 Nick Drake
 Luka Bloom
 Split Enz
 Paul Kelly
 Archie Roach
 Billy Bragg
 Indigo Girls
 Midnight Oil
 Johnny Cash
 
 Couldn't stop at 10.
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 Geoff Holmes
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 | | Posted on Tuesday, April 04, 2006 - 11:43 am: |  | 
 Neither will I David...
 Beatles
 Byrds
 Dylan
 Donovan
 Church
 Smiths
 REM
 GoBetweens
 Ride
 Crowded House/Neil Finn
 Triffids
 Ups and Downs
 Monkees
 Cocteau Twins
 ...pop,pop,pop,pop,pop!!!!!
 That site sounds great Hardin! I will be investigating it with glee!!!!
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 XY765
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 Post Number: 41
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 | | Posted on Tuesday, April 04, 2006 - 12:28 pm: |  | 
 Beck
 Beatles
 Tom Waits
 Bob Dylan (up to the mid 70s)
 Luna
 Smiths
 Wilco
 Spacemen 3 (&Spectrum)
 Neil Young (& CrazyHorse though not CSN&Y)
 Go-Betweens
 Velvet Underground (and first two Lou Reed solos)
 Flaming Lips
 
 
 others there or there abouts:
 
 Billy Bragg (up to Don't Try This At Home)
 My Bloody Valentine
 Modern Lovers/and the ML 88 album (and some early Jonathon Richman)
 Wedding Present
 Roy Orbison
 The Stooges (and the Bowie produced solo Iggy albums)
 Yo la Tengo
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 kevin
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 Post Number: 274
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 | | Posted on Tuesday, April 04, 2006 - 03:24 pm: |  | 
 in no order
 
 wire
 joy division
 the clash
 rem (80s only)
 husker du
 replacements
 the fall
 the smiths
 bowie (70s only)
 flaming lips
 
 this list would not be same if you asked the same question next week Hardin - the only certainties to be in it are The Fall and Joy Division
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 Hardin Smith
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 | | Posted on Tuesday, April 04, 2006 - 04:47 pm: |  | 
 Kev, I dig all of your top 10, though they're different than mine. The GBs ain't up there are they? I share the Fall fixation, too - someday you'll have to tell me the stuff to get. With MES' career verging on what? 30 years, there's just so much out there - he's a tough one to get a grip on....
 
 And Randy, I've dabbled in Marianne Faithfull, too. What a fascinating artist...You may think these are somewhat minor examples of her particular geinus, but I love the slow version of Trouble in Mind, and also, the Kris Kristofferson  song she covered, "The Hawk" (I believe it was called?) for the movie soundtrack. She has a pretty good live DVD out, too, that you probably already have. Did you get the big ass Hollies box set?
 
 David, the group vs. individual artist dynamic is an interesting one, probably worthy of its own thread...the "group" phenomenon is such a strange idea - essentially a boys club for grown men (or women), yet it seems that many of my favorite artists' work suffered once they divested themselves of their bands: Elvis Costello, Bruce Springsteen, Paul and John, David Byrne, Glenn Tilbrook, etc., so maybe there is something to the whole notion.
 
 Geoff, Pandora.com is a cool idea, but being something of a closet Luddite, I was glad that a stinky ole logarithm couldn't predict my tastes so easily...I always get pissed when Amazon's search engine does that "You may like this, too" thing, based on previous searches..."well pal, maybe I won't." Agree about Lloyd Cole, too - he's pretty wonderful and I liked his last album a lot.
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 jerry hann
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 Post Number: 99
 Registered: 07-2005
 
 | | Posted on Tuesday, April 04, 2006 - 05:20 pm: |  | 
 Elvis Costello
 The Go-betweens
 Tom Waits
 Nick Cave
 Bob Dylan
 Neil Young
 Billy Bragg
 Van Morrison ( until mid-nineties)
 The Smiths
 Rockingbirds
 Ron Sexsmith
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 Michael Bachman
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 Post Number: 59
 Registered: 01-2005
 
 | | Posted on Tuesday, April 04, 2006 - 05:47 pm: |  | 
 1. Robyn Hitchcock/Soft Boys/Egyptians
 2. The Go-Betweens
 3. Gram Parsons/Flying Burrito Brothers
 4. The Byrds
 5. The Allman Brothers Band
 6. John Coltrane
 7. The Beatles
 8. Talking Heads
 9. Peter Green era Fleetwood Mac
 10. Fairport Convention/Richard & Linda Thompson
 11. REM (1982-87 period)
 12 Uncle Bob (1961-74)
 13. Syd Barrett (and Piper era Pink Floyd)
 14. Kate Rusby
 15. Julia Fordham
 16. Art Blakey
 17. Miles Davis
 18. Bud Powell
 19. Television
 20. Crowded House/Neil Finn/Finn Bothers
 21. June Christy
 22. Sarah Vaughan
 23. My Bloody Valentine
 24. Slowdive
 25. Karrin Allyson
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 spence
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 Post Number: 307
 Registered: 05-2005
 
 | | Posted on Tuesday, April 04, 2006 - 05:58 pm: |  | 
 Jeff, Get the Shack album HMS Fable, its AWESOME!
 Some new stuff I am witing for our new record is very Pacific Street, that subconciopus influence is still there, has been for 22 years now!
 Oh, Kev reminded me, The Smiths... and XY7, Wilco.
 
 Cheers chaps.
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 Jerry Clark
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 Post Number: 234
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 | | Posted on Tuesday, April 04, 2006 - 06:24 pm: |  | 
 Michael Bachman are you working on an imperial 10 there?
 1. Bob Dylan
 2. Go-Betweens
 3. R.E.M.
 4. Echo & The Bunnymen
 5. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
 6. The Who
 7. The Jam
 8. Public Enemy
 9. Babybird
 10. Pulp
 
 I like the fact my list has 8 acts that are still recording/touring.
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 Andy Robinson
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 Post Number: 23
 Registered: 03-2005
 
 | | Posted on Tuesday, April 04, 2006 - 09:19 pm: |  | 
 Hey Hardin - thanks for the comments! It looks from the lists that theres a lot of common ground for everyone and if I had less of a life there would be some kinds of link between all of the users (other than the Go Be's of course). Yeah I got the box set and there's some interesting bits on the bonuses.
 
 It's funny how Bill's grown older with us - though I was never quiter so thin! I've found I'm listening more now to the next couple of CDs where he seemed to mature a lot in his songwriting and I seem to relate more to that now than some of the solo guitar atuff - I have to be in the right mood now or it sounds a bit brash. Is the tour going anywhere near you? We're off in early May to London - one of our group is something of an obsessive and when he last counted he had seen the Braggmeister something like 50 times - this includes a lot of political rallies and free concerts in the early-mid eighties!
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 abigail law
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 | | Posted on Tuesday, April 04, 2006 - 09:53 pm: |  | 
 dylan
 go-betweens
 joy division/new order
 doris day
 iggy
 tom waits
 fall
 patsy cline
 go-betweens
 nico
 gene clark
 dusty springfield
 neil young 69-78
 hank williams
 smiths
 red house painters/sun kil moon
 presely
 patti smith (first three albums)
 nina simone
 cash
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 Hardin Smith
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 Registered: 03-2006
 
 | | Posted on Tuesday, April 04, 2006 - 10:29 pm: |  | 
 Abigail, you might get the award for most eclectic list. Veddy interesting...Nico's version of "These Days" is superb. Have tons of stuff by Nina Simone, too...for some reason, "My Baby Just Cares For Me" is my fave thing she does - always makes me smile to hear it.
 
 
 Andy, I too have the box set - no (real) surprises, since if you're a fan you already have the bulk of it, but excellent nonetheless, and I've been having a blast revisiting all of it...
 
 Out of the discs it reprises, I think the "green" one (is it "Brewing Up"?) has the love songs that still work for me...love "The Saturday Boy".
 
 I actually saw him in '89, when he came to Baton Rouge, La. of all places...the night before I had seen the Stones at the Superdome in N.O. (back then it was known as something other than a refuge for Katrina victims). I never dreamed that those two worlds would intersect, but lo and behold, Bill talked about the concert at his show - he'd been there too! Something about no matter what bloated rock stars they were, hearing Keef play the opening chords to "Gimme Shelter" still sent shivers up his spine. It was a great show, as you can imagine.
 
 Don't know if he's coming anywhere near LA, but if he does, I'm there, man.
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 Andy Robinson
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 | | Posted on Wednesday, April 05, 2006 - 12:15 am: |  | 
 Missed a few - should of put in The Triffids . . . Josh Rouse . . . Damien Dempsey - anyone heard anything of him?
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 Randy Adams
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 | | Posted on Wednesday, April 05, 2006 - 12:20 am: |  | 
 Yes, Hardin, I do have the big Hollies box set.  It's necessary for the completist in me and has some things I'd otherwise not have but I would NOT recommend it to anyone but a completist.  One of the nice surprises is a very late recording (1988) they did of Nils Lofgren's "Shine Silently."  It's really gorgeous except for whoever the a-hole is who played keys.  It's probably the second-to-last good thing they recorded.  The booklet is nice too.
 
 I haven't heard Nico's version of "Dese Days" in years.  I used to think it comical, wonder if I still would.  She always seemed better in concept than in actual fact.  I remember how disappointed I was with her version of "Heroes" which I was all prepared to love.
 
 I'd like to amend a comment I made up there about the Fall.  After sending off that typically overlong entry I pulled out "The Real New Fall LP" aka "Country on the Click."  That is just a really great record and beats the hell out of a lot of their 90's era albums. It's hugely fun to play guitar to.
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 Kurt Stephan
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 | | Posted on Wednesday, April 05, 2006 - 12:25 am: |  | 
 Not that anyone cares except me and possibly Luke Haines (and I doubt that), but how could I forget the Auteurs from my top ten list? And you lot have named many, many who could easily make my list that I forgot. This list is far too difficult...
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 Hardin Smith
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 | | Posted on Wednesday, April 05, 2006 - 12:29 am: |  | 
 Yeah, I picked it up and thought hmmm, maybe I'm not THAT big a fan...but for the people who are it's gotta be like a fresh shipment of crack!
 
 You can't choose what you associate music with, but I have a strong anchor of "Dese Days" (sounds like Tony Soprano) with a really sad scene from "The Royal Tenenbaums" - it's used to fairly lacerating effect. Such a great song too, one of my alltime faves...Nico's vocal stylings are definitely an acquired taste, but I personally dig them.
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 Kurt Stephan
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 | | Posted on Wednesday, April 05, 2006 - 12:59 am: |  | 
 Hardin, do you have those legendary (notorious) Nico albums like "The Marble Index" and "Desertshore"? I have to admit I'm no fan of the woman and wouldn't buy those albums, but I'm curious what someone who likes her thinks of them. They were a long way from "These Days," from what I've heard.
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 abigail law
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 | | Posted on Wednesday, April 05, 2006 - 09:41 am: |  | 
 chelsea girl, marble index and desertshore are three of my favourite albums - for me they're the greatest things any of the ex-velvet underground members have done which is ironic because she was treated as a joke by the hugely overrated lou reed.
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 jerry hann
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 | | Posted on Wednesday, April 05, 2006 - 10:31 am: |  | 
 On the Billy Bragg theme, I always prefered his "Love songs " more than his more political he always seems to turn every day saying/facts into poetry.
 Hardin I remember seeing him in Sheffield and in the between songs banter was talking about tribute bands etc,and said his tribute artins would call himself the Saturday Boy then went into the song -a sublime moment. But before he said it I just knew that he would was going to say that.
 Other artist I forgot,
 Ben Folds, Mark Mulcahy,REM ( until Bill Berry left),Orchestra Baobab and The Fall (who are the antidote to all that is bad in over commercialised plastic music world.
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 Cichli Suite
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 | | Posted on Wednesday, April 05, 2006 - 10:37 am: |  | 
 Abigail, I think Chelsea girl is fantasic. For me, it's as good as any VU album.
 
 Marble Index is harder to get into, but a great piece of work all the same.  Didn't Lester Bangs rate it as one of the greatest 'art' albums ever made - I can't really recall how he phrased it.
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 Simon Withers
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 | | Posted on Wednesday, April 05, 2006 - 12:38 pm: |  | 
 Roughly going by how much I listen to them, and in a rough order that's not set in stone are...
 
 The Go-Betweens
 Belle & Sebastian
 Nick Drake
 Jefferson Airplane/Great Society
 The Chills
 The Beatles
 Ed Kuepper (big fan, met him on many occasions in the late 80s/early 90s)
 Kate Bush
 REM (til early 90s or so)
 The Cure
 
 Bubbling under… Talking Heads, The Smiths...
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 abigail law
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 | | Posted on Wednesday, April 05, 2006 - 12:55 pm: |  | 
 cichli - not sure what lester bang's had to say on marble index but it is a rewarding (that sounds so naff) album.  I can't listen to ari's song or afraid from desertshore without shivers running up and down my spine.
 
 i avoided reading songs they never play on the radio by james young for a long time because i thought it would paint her in too harsh a light but, even though it was a pretty torrid life she was living toward the end, it didn't diminish my love of her music.
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 Mark Tuffield
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 | | Posted on Wednesday, April 05, 2006 - 02:03 pm: |  | 
 The Go-Betweens
 Orange Juice
 The Pale Fountains/Shack
 The Flatmates
 Throwing Muses
 Prefab Sprout
 Mamas & Papas
 The Byrds
 St Etienne
 The Associates
 
 With far too many others vying for contention…
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 Hardin Smith
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 | | Posted on Wednesday, April 05, 2006 - 04:04 pm: |  | 
 Kurt, I just have Chelsea Girl...my tastes being, as you've probably noticed, more geared to the poppy, accessible side of things (it's the Dick Clark ethos - it has to have a good beat and be easy to dance to), I avoid the more out there, experimental stuff...Having said that, Abigail's raves do picque my curiousity...
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 Bob Mail
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 | | Posted on Wednesday, April 05, 2006 - 04:53 pm: |  | 
 The ten for today. It will change tomorrow
 
 American Music Club
 The Go-Betweens
 Scott Walker
 Laura Nyro
 Frank Sinatra (mid to late 50s)
 REM
 Talking Heads
 The Beatles (Rubber Soul/ Revolver)
 David Sylvian
 XTC
 
 Lots of the others mentioned too such as Chills, Sprouts, Bragg, Al Green. M Gaye. also another band Fountains of Wayne -most excellent and underratted in my opinion.
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 Michael Bachman
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 | | Posted on Wednesday, April 05, 2006 - 05:32 pm: |  | 
 Darn, I forgot Kate Bush in my list! The Dreaming is one of my all time favorites.
 
 I just have Chelsea Girl as well by Nico, but I always wanted to get The Marble index.
 
 While Lou Reed certaily has had his ups and downs albums wise, The Blue Mask from 1982 is a great album and 1983's Legendary Hearts is just a tick below. His band at the time with Robert Quine, Fernando Saunders and Fred Maher, cooked. The dvd A Night With Lou Reed from a 1983 concert at The Bottom Line in NYC captures the band in full flight. Not to be missed.
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 Kurt Stephan
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 | | Posted on Wednesday, April 05, 2006 - 06:16 pm: |  | 
 Michael, I couldn't agree with you more about the 1982-83 Lou Reed albums--"The Blue Mask" and "Legendary Hearts" are probably his best solo albums ever, though I suppose the "Transformer" fans would disagree. It's a shame "A Night with Lou Reed" wasn't released as a live album instead of the terrible-sounding, ragged-voiced "Live in Italy," which featured the same band. Lou and the band are fantastic at the Bottom Line show. And though Lou put out a lot of bad solo records and treated Nico like crap, I'd still rather listen to him (or Cale) than her.
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 Jerry Clark
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 Post Number: 243
 Registered: 08-2004
 
 | | Posted on Thursday, April 06, 2006 - 12:46 pm: |  | 
 I feel New York is one of LR's best, he's always been good at wordy/drippy/stupid love songs. Great guitar player too.
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 Ian Britchfield
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 Username: Ian_b
 
 Post Number: 2
 Registered: 03-2006
 
 | | Posted on Thursday, April 06, 2006 - 03:58 pm: |  | 
 Here's 16 or so-
 
 The Go-Betweens
 Billy Bragg
 The Pogues
 The Housemartins
 Stars of Heaven
 Early UB40
 Willard Grant Conspiracy
 The Clash
 The Kinks
 Martin Stephenson
 Bob Marley & The Wailers
 The Specials
 The Proclaimers
 The Sundays
 The Streets
 the Waterboys
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 Matt Ellis
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 Username: Matt_ellis
 
 Post Number: 90
 Registered: 11-2004
 
 | | Posted on Thursday, April 06, 2006 - 06:19 pm: |  | 
 The Go-Betweens
 Sluts of Trust
 The Young Knives
 Radiohead
 Smashing Pumpkins
 Mansun
 Whipping Boy
 New Order
 Queen
 Lambchop
 
 Blimey that was difficult!
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 kevin
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 Username: Kevin
 
 Post Number: 281
 Registered: 05-2005
 
 | | Posted on Thursday, April 06, 2006 - 08:07 pm: |  | 
 Hardin, picking up from your Royal Tennenbaums post, the most harrowing scene in that (excellent)film is the wrist cutting scene in the bathroom where the song playing is Elliot Smiths "needle in the hay". never have a song and a scene been so well matched
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 Hardin Smith
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 Username: Manosludge
 
 Post Number: 248
 Registered: 03-2006
 
 | | Posted on Thursday, April 06, 2006 - 08:10 pm: |  | 
 That WAS harrowing. And yes, an excellent film. Using music well in film like that really is a rarity...I have the DVD and should pull it out, but it almost seems too sad (parts of it), in that nagging, real life way, instead of over the top melodrama..
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 Hardin Smith
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 Username: Manosludge
 
 Post Number: 249
 Registered: 03-2006
 
 | | Posted on Thursday, April 06, 2006 - 08:13 pm: |  | 
 ps - I'm anxiously waiting to hear how many discs are in your collection (see the "Does Size Matter?" Thread)...I bet you could be the prizewinner!
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 kevin
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 Username: Kevin
 
 Post Number: 284
 Registered: 05-2005
 
 | | Posted on Thursday, April 06, 2006 - 08:22 pm: |  | 
 nope. looks like padraigs got this sewn up hardin
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 Hardin Smith
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 Username: Manosludge
 
 Post Number: 255
 Registered: 03-2006
 
 | | Posted on Thursday, April 06, 2006 - 10:39 pm: |  | 
 I stand in awe of Padraig - he is the MF of CDs...
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 Hardin Smith
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 Username: Manosludge
 
 Post Number: 257
 Registered: 03-2006
 
 | | Posted on Thursday, April 06, 2006 - 11:35 pm: |  | 
 BTW, Matt...Sluts of Trust wins the award for best name on this thread...what're they like?
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