100 Songs That Should Be On Your iPod or Your iPod Is Crrrap
 

It's just a list! Songs that in my opinion are great. They are in no order, in fact it's better to have them on shuffle to really mix it up.

1) The Beatles - I Feel Fine
2) The Rolling Stones - (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction
3) Bob Dylan - It’s All Right Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)
4) Miles Davis - So What
5) B.B. King - Help The Poor
6) Muddy Waters - Rollin’ Stone
7) Hank Williams - Lost Highway
8) Derek & The Dominos - Layla
9) Guy Clark - Boats To Build
10) John Coltrane - Giant Steps
11) Otis Redding - Respect
12) Dave Brubeck - Take Five
13) Duke Ellington - Take The A Train
14) Count Basie - One O’Clock Jump
15) Crosby, Stills & Nash - Suite: Judy Blue Eyes
16) The Jayhawks - Waiting For The Sun
17) Julie London - Cry Me A River
18) The Who - I Can’t Explain
19) Creedence Clearwater Revival - Down On The Corner
20) Sister Rosetta Tharpe - Up Above My Head I Hear Music In The Air
21) Elvis Costello - Pump It Up
22) Johnny Cash - I Walk The Line
23) Roy Orbison - Running Scared
24) The Jam - Down The Tube Station At Midnight
25) Bruce Springsteen - Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)
26) Buddy Holly - Rave On
27) Elvis Presley - All Shook Up
28) The Allman Brothers Band - Blue Sky
29) The Lovin’ Spoonful - Do You Believe In Magic
30) Jackson Browne - These Days
31) Eddie Cochran - Twenty Flight Rock
32) Robert Johnson - Last Fair Deal Gone Down
33) Webb Pierce - There Stands The Glass
34) Elmore James - Dust My Broom
35) Chuck Berry - Johnny B. Goode
36) Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - I Second That Emotion
37) James Brown - Please, Please, Please
38) Frank Sinatra - One For My Baby (And One More For The Road)
39) Dean Martin - Memories Are Made Of This
40) The Faces - Ooh La La
41) Ray Charles - Mess Around
42) Jerry Lee Lewis - Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On
43) Charlie Parker - Yardbird Suite
44) The Band - It Makes No Difference
45) Son Volt - Tear Stained Eye
46) Wilco - Box Full Of Letters
47) R.E.M. - Find The River
48) Little Richard - Long Tall Sally
49) Don Williams - ‘Til The Rivers All Run Dry
50) Dave Dudley - Six Days On The Road
51) The Clash - London Calling
52) Lefty Frizzell - Long Black Veil
53) Jimi Hendrix - Purple Haze
54) Shawn Colvin - Tennessee
55) Mary Chapin Carpenter - Rhythm Of The Blues
56) Django Reinhardt - Minor Swing
57) Roy Buchanan - The Messiah Will Come Again
58) The Beach Boys - Wouldn’t It Be Nice
59) Gene Vincent - Be-Bop A Lula
60) The Temptations - (I Know) I’m Losing You
61) The Four Tops - Reach Out I’ll Be There
62) Aretha Franklin - Chain Of Fools
63) The Staple Singers - Respect Yourself
64) Gordon Lightfoot - If You Could Read My Mind
65) Kris Kristofferson - Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down
66) Sam & Dave - Soul Man
67) Howlin’ Wolf - Back Door Man
68) Leonard Cohen - Bird On A Wire
69) Neil Young - Sugar Mountain
70) Kathy Mattea - Standing Knee Deep In A River (And Dying Of Thirst)
71) The Byrds - I Feel A Whole Lot Better
72) Brook Benton - Rainy Night In Georgia
73) Thelonious Monk - ‘Round Midnight
74) Louis Armstrong - West End Blues
75) Etta James - At Last
76) Freddie King - Have You Ever Loved A Woman
77) Booker T. & The M.G.’s - Green Onions
78) Ray Price - Crazy Arms
79) Jr. Wells - Messin’ With The Kid
80) Marvin ***e - I Heard It Through The Grapevine
81) The Del Vikings - Come Go With Me
82) The Platters - The Great Pretender
83) Sonny Rollins - St. Thomas
84) Wilson Pickett - In The Midnight Hour
85) The Impressions - People Get Ready
86) Billie Holiday - God Bless The Child
87) Nat “King” Cole - Unforgettable
88) Solomon Burke - Everybody Needs Somebody To Love
89) Willie Nelson - Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain
90) Jimmy Rogers - Walking By Myself
91) Patsy Cline - Faded Love
92) Arthur “Big Boy” Crudup - That’s All Right
93) Wynonie Harris - Good Rockin’ Tonight
94) Led Zeppelin - Black Dog
95) The Kinks - You Really Got Me
96) Bobby “Blue” Bland - Further On Up The Road
97) Simon & Garfunkel - Homeward Bound
98) Sam Cooke - A Change Is Gonna Come
99) Janis Joplin - Piece Of My Heart
100) Lucinda Williams - Lake Charles

Maybe some of us don't have Ipod's because they are an easy choice, have terrible headphones and an interface that is not conducive to a serious music fan (it's AAC or nothing according to them).

BTW I only have 4 out of the 100 listed on my player so I am very happy to join the crap brigade.

I like some of the oddball choices... but most are pretty obvious. I am curious though... of the entire Beatles catalog why did you choose I Feel Fine? It's an alright song but I'd immediately think of something from their later worker in it's stead. Just seems their later work has aged much better then that song in particular.

iPods are crrap in general, imho ;)

I literally have none of those. Nor do I recognise any of them at all.

I have an astounding zero of those, not that any of them are bad, just not anything I have an interest in.

Wait I lied, I have two

1) You can't tell the difference between the two media. AAC formatting uses the same encryption that MP3 formatting uses. The key difference being that there's a digital watermark denoting its adherence to Apple's patent.

2) You're wrong, iPods support different media. It's the iTunes program that isn't WMA compatible and that's only because Microsoft won't license it to them. My MediaMonkey player enables me to synchronize with the iPod's operating system fairly efficiently (nor have I had a single problem with it).

3) If you use a third-party OS (like RockBox) you can listen to lossless formats like FLAC on your iPod without much hassle. Something that many other MP3 players' operating systems aren't capable of.

And jackhammer, threads like these are the reason I love this forum so much. It's cheeky and a little snide but I love the title and don't see much reason for offense when the OP just made a fantastic contribution to the forum.

I still think an old Zune is money better spent :D

EDIT: Actually I can't really speak for any thing. I don't have an mp3 player, I've only seen a few of them in action. I do plan on getting one eventually when I get the scratch... I tried to buy a CD the other day from a rasta stand and I actually bartered with the guy over 5 dollars. ... it was depressing.

http://cdn-www.cracked.com/articleim...op_40_ipod.jpg

.......And that's why I don't have an iPod.

Those things have so many problematic issues with them it's a wonder that Microsoft ever made money on them. My 5th-gen iPod is still going strong after five years and I see no reason to ever upgrade it.

It may use the same encryption but a generic MP3 portable player doesn't recognise the files and are therefore unplayable. AAC files work with I tunes and compatible PC based players but MP3 players generally don't play them.

Posting a generic list of the songs we HAVE to have is the sort of topic that you love to rip apart. Just because I don't have those tracks on my MP3 doesn't mean I'm crap and I can argue that a boring cliched list of songs is the reason why I DON'T own a generic piece of hardware and gladly listen to my own collection of tunes that are every bit as good as those tunes even if people don't have the individualism to search for them instead of conforming to conformist cliches.

Bolded are the one's I've got, although I honestly haven't listened to those tracks in a long time, if ever, save Giant Steps, Pump it Up and Find the River.

Even though I do own a significant number of those, not a single one is loaded on my iPod at the moment. I guess it's crap then. Man, I'm such a loser for having a constantly evolving taste in music.

I know iTunes is shit, it doesn't take a law degree to figure that out. Which is why I don't use it, it's not exactly that difficult to switch to foobar, MediaMonkey, WinAmp, whatever you like. AAC files never even come into the picture.

The iPod, on the other hand, is a miracle of industrial design and is so laboriously intuitive that it's almost idiotic to try and write it off as a "conformist cliche". And this is coming from a guy who hates Apple (Macs are shit too, by the way).

Why try to derail a thread that's clearly productive? We all know you don't listen to sacred cows (apparently something you pride yourself on), what reason would you have to get offended by someone offering their own hundred-song list? How is this any worse than the hundred-albums list that people spread around?

In the immortal words of the OP:

I ****ing, ****ing, ****ing, ****ing HATE Sugar Mountain.

I'd be lucky to have 3 of these songs on my player...

The topic in hand is tracks we should have on 'our IPOD' and not our PC based media player ( which should play every file known to man if we play that way).

What you are saying is that I should have those files on my player and if I dare to counteract it I am out of order?

I like to move with the times and think progressively. Just because I don't agree with a personal list doesn't mean I am rocking the boat.

I do apologise for listening to music that doesn't fit into the cliche that my age suggests.

When I suggest songs and albums that people half my age haven't even heard of, then I think I should at least be given a little respect for suggesting my choices or should I just conform to please everyone?

I don't think the OP is meant to put anybody down. I just think it's a thinly veiled list of his favorite music. Nothing wrong with that - but a thread may be over the top.

While I've heard over 80 of those, these are the only ones I have:

The fuck are you on about?

Unless I'm deeply mistaken, this thread is just a list of songs this guy likes. You can continue playing this role if you want, it's not winning you anything.

Just to clarify I have ZERO of those songs on my iPod.

The only one that is even in my library is The Clash song. But it's not on my iPod because I only put new music I'm checking out on my iPod since it's an old Nano with only 4 GB...

Good lord man!


Also I find it funny that that seems small. I remember when computers got a gig or memory.

So why are you arguing about it then?

You have made threads about Metacritic E.G and their deplorable tastes and yet I have questioned a list and I'm wrong?

It's double standards and because I have dared to question a list that you have found acceptable then I am wrong for doing so...

The bottom line is that I don't like the list and you are telling me I am wrong to say that I don't like it. Your double standards are beyond belief Sam.

That list is a good list but generic beyond belief and if I posted a similar 100 songs you have to have on your Ipod , then I would get stick and deservedly so.

**** it. I will stay with listening to what I like and do not need any vindication for it. **** this forum.

^

:laughing:

I only have these songs on my iPod so I guess that makes me a failure but I'm ok with that.

I could rename this thread to the slightly more PC "100 Songs I'd Like You to Have on your iPod or your iPod is Conceivably Deficient". Or perhaps "The MB Unleash Your Anger and Spew Forth Vitriol Thread"?

Either way I'm focusing on the positives. This thread has reminded me to get some Robert Johnson and Kris Kristofferson.

That's an interesting list Jedey, you don't happen to be in your 50s or 60s do you?

Don't mean to be a doosh I'm just curious.

His profile says he's 49.

So I was off by one year, not bad.

Sorry the thread title caused so much controversy, I didn't mean to offend anyone I was just trying to make an eye catching title. You must admit it's hard to take it seriously when you spell crap with three r's. Also I wasn't expecting people to get into it over iPods, I was just too lazy to write generic MP3 portable mass storage listening device.

I was hoping people would talk about the music and/or artists, maybe even submit their own lists that in their opinion are great.

Once again my intention was a little light hearted fun and I apologize for hurt feelings.

Thanks, John

According to my calculations, this means the average prog song is 42 hours and 50 minutes. Nice.

I made a list cos I'm that ****ing mad bored. Sorry for hijacking your thread.

1) Wilco - Via Chicago
2) Placebo - Without You I'm Nothing
3) Bon Iver - Flume
4) The Flaming Lips - Ego Tripping At The Gates Of Hell
5) Hole - Miss World
6) The Smiths - There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
7) Interpol - Leif Erikson
8) Deftones - Be Quiet And Drive
9) Elliott Smiths - Roman Candle
10) Pixies - Debaser
11) The Jesus And Mary Chain - Reverence
12) Film School - Plots and Pans
13) Les Savy Fav - Kiss Kiss Is Getting Old
14) Sonic Youth - Pattern Recognition
15) My Bloody Valentine - Sometimes
16) Silversun Pickups - Future Foe Scenarios
17) The Strokes - Reptilia
18) Jeff Buckley - Forget Her
19) The National - Lit Up
20) The Smashing Pumpkins - Set The Ray To Jerry
21) Nirvana - Dumb
22) Radiohead - How To Disappear Completely
23) Incubus - The Warmth
24) Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Way Out
25) Talking Heads - Burning Down The House
26) Metric - Monster Hospital
27) Band of Horses - Detlef Schrempf
28) Tokyo Police Club - Nature Of The Experiment
29) Autolux - Subzero Fun
30) Tom Vek - Things Are Here To Stay
31) Wolf Parade - Fine Young Cannibals
32) The Chemical Brothers - Saturate
33) City And Colour - Hello, I'm In Delaware
34) Simian Mobile Disco - Sleep Deprivation
35) Mogwai - Christmas Steps
36) The Shins - New Slang
37) Dinosaur Jr. - I Don't Wanna Go There
38) Frightened Rabbit - The Twist
39) Coldplay - Don't Panic
40) Biffy Clyro - The Go Slow
41) Nine Inch Nails - Sin
42) Brand New - Seventy Times 7
43) Queens Of The Stone Age - Songs For The Dead
44) Arcade Fire - No Cars Go
45) Blur - The Universal
46) Yourcodenameis:MILO - Audition
47) The Distillers - The Hunger
48) Death From Above 1979 - Black History Month
49) JJ72 - Snow
50) Jane's Addiction - I Would For You
51) Simple Mind - Don't You Forget About Me
52) The Cure - Inbetween Days
53) Soundgarden - Superunknown
54) Skunk Anansie - Secretly
55) Eels - Novocaine For The Soul
56) Foo Fighters - My Hero
57) Minus The Bear - Monkey!! Knife!! Fight!!
58) Kosheen - Hungry
59) The Wannadies - You And Me Song
60) The Avalanches - Frontier Psychiatrist
61) Bran Van 3000 - Drinking In LA
62) Outkast - Morris Brown
63) UNKLE ft. Ian Astbury - Burn My Shadow
64) Blondie - Heart Of Glass
65) At The Drive-In - Enfilade
66) The Cult - She Sells Sanctuary
67) Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American
68) Faithless - We Come One
69) Roots Manuva - Awfully Deep
70) Blue Oyster Cult - Dont Fear The Reaper
71) Battles - Tonto
72) System Of A Down - Vicinity Of Obscenity
73) The Besnard Lakes - Albatross
74) DJ Shadow ft. Roots Manuva - GDMFSOB
75) Kings Of Leon - Taper Jean Girl
76) Bjork - Army Of Me
77) De la Soul - Say No Go
78) Idlewild - A Modern Way Of Letting Go
79) A Place To Bury Strangers - To Fix The Gash In Your Head
80) Grandmaster Flash - White Lines
81) New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle
82) Deerhunter - Operation
83) Nick Drake - Things Behind the Sun
84) Duran Duran - Girls On Film
85) Peaches - **** The Pain Away
86) Tears For Fears - Head Over Heels
87) Joy Division - New Dawn Fades
88) Daft Punk - Digital Love
89) David Bowie - Man Who Sold The World
90) The Specials - You're Wondering Now
91) Noisettes - Scratch Your Name
92) Isbells - Coming Home
93) Juliette and The Licks - Got Love To Kill
94) Massive Attack - Angel
95) Sigur Ros - Andvari
96) Rilo Kiley - I Never
97) Steppenwolf - Magic Carpet Ride
98) Modest Mouse - Gravity Rides Everything
99) The Von Bondies - Not That Social
100) Moby - Porcelain

The brand name iPod is used in the same way that Kleenex, Xerox, Q-Tip and Jeep are.

And as lucifer_sam already mentioned, they are not limited to playing ACC files. I use iTunes (for organizing and playing, not for purchasing) and an iPod, with a PC. And I never touch AAC files.

Regarding the list, I only have a handful of those and they're certainly not things that would stay on the iPod in heavy rotation. They'll get thrown on occasionally but that's it. Seems to be a list of "classic well-known staples" which is fine, just not for me as my tastes constantly evolve and I'm constantly on the hunt for new stuff. Plus my iPod is only 8GB with files at minimum 192kbps so things are always getting rotated on and off. :D

As far as I'm concerned nothing stays on my iPod permanently, a few months maybe as I get familiar with something. If I had a 100GB+ brick I suppose some things would stay on. I kind of like having a smaller one though as it stays lean to focus on the stuff I'm currently exploring.

I like this list better. :D Although an awful choice for a Jane's Addiction song...

I love that Jane's tune! It's awesome. Maybe I'll change it to Obvious, but maybe not.

No worries, man. I may have only had one song from that list but I enjoyed your post... :)

Both lists in this thread are pretty epic

You my friend are f**king awesome :)

Beats my 0 out of 100.

With or without that music though my iPod is crap. Not the music, the device. Apple is sh*t.

Ohh, I only have the Sam and Dave song, but I've yet to listen to it.
It's not really a list I would be interested in, though.
What made you decide to make this list?

I think you should stop spamming this forum.