5 Favorite songs from a favorite band
 

Replacements:

Answering Machine
Can't hardly wait
Left of the dial
Alex Chilton
I'll be you

Kind of a strange list imo besides Alex Chilton. Mine for The Replacements would be:

I Will Dare
Unsatisfied
Alex Chilton
Androgynous
Here Comes a Regular

Anyway now I'll give a shot at my 5 favorite Elliott Smith tracks

Waltz #2
Angeles
A Fond Farewell
Alameda
Tomorrow Tomorrow

Zeppelin

Achilles Last Stand
Ten Years Gone
In the Light
The Song Remains the Same
Since I've Been Loving You

(ask me again tomorrow and the list will change)

Captain Beefheart
Bill's Corpse
Cardboard Cutout Sundown
Making Love to a Vampire With a Monkey on my Knee
Orange Claw Hammer
My Human Gets Me Blues

Not sure why my list is strange although if I made it again it would probably be different. I will Dare should have been on my list! But Answering machine should have been on yours...

As far as Zeppelin:

The Rain Song
Going To California
No Quarter
Achilles Last Stand
Ten Years Gone

Zeppelin

Today it's:

Black Dog
The Rain Song (live - Song Remains The Same)
Since I’ve Been Loving You (live - Song Remains The Same)
Dancing Days
Ten Years Gone
Misty Mountain Hop

Radiohead:
Pyramid Song
Reckoner
Life in a Glass House
Weird Fishes
Idioteque

The Beatles:
A Day in the Life
Strawberry Fields Forever
Tomorrow Never Knows
Helter Skelter
Ticket to Ride

Both of these change constantly.

The Beatles

Strawberry Fields Forever
A Day In The Life
Tomorrow Never Knows
I'll Be Back
Don't Let Me Down

...but they're ever changing.

Well there are very few bad songs in their whole discography so I guess just about any combination is fine, I've just never considered some of those among their most memorable tracks is all!

Not doing Beatles, because that would give away the results of my countdown.

Simon and Garfunkel

• America
• My Little Town
• The Only Living Boy in New York
• Mrs. Robinson
• Kathy's Song

Billy Joel

• Vienna
• Say Goodbye to Hollywood
• Scenes From an Italian Restaurant
• You May Be Right
• Only the Good Die Young

And I'll throw in a band I don't really like, the Stones.

• She's a Rainbow
• (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
• As Tears Go By
• Jumpin' Jack Flash
• Let's Spend the Night Together

My Replacements list:

Can't Hardly Wait - but the outtake from Tim with guitar instead of horns
Answering Machine
I Will Dare
Left of the Dial
Tie: The Ledge/Sixteen Blue/Seen Your Video

KORN

Proud
Make Me Bad (Sickness In Salvation Mix)
Predictable
What We Do
Narcissistic Cannibal (Featuring Skrillex & Kill The Noise)


Slipknot

Gehenna
My Plague
Prosthetics
The Nameless
The One That Kills The Least

My favorite band will likely never change but my top five songs will. At the moment they are...

Local H

All-Right (Oh, Yeah)
What Would You Have Me Do
Buffalo Trace
The One With 'Kid'
The Summer Of Boats

I know it's obvious to say The Sound of Silence, but surely The Sound of Silence?
I'd be interested to see your Bowie list.

Swans
God Damn The Sun
Blood Promise
The Apostate
Helpless Child
Money Is Flesh (Public Castration Is A Good Idea version)

Current 93
Hourglass for Diana
They Returned to Their Earth
The Blood Bells Chime
The Carnival Is Dead And Gone
The Final Church

These three bands are generally my favorite band

Faith No More:
Just A Man
Helpless
Malpractice
The Real Thing
Smaller and Smaller

Nomeansno:
The Tower
Hunt the She Beast
Real Love
Small Parts Isolated and Destroyed
I Am Wrong/I Need You

Chokebore:
Thin As Clouds
Wash (You Glow)
Well Fed
Van McCoy
Days Of Nothing

Muse:

Hysteria
Dead Inside
Knights of Cydonia
Starlight
Stockholm Syndrome

The original version from Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. would probably make my top ten.

My Bowie list ch-ch-changes a lot, but I keep coming back to "Changes", "Life on Mars?", "Young Americans", "Starman", and of course "Space Oddity"--all big hits.

If I'm going more obscure/underrated, it would be "Oh! You Pretty Things", "Five Years", "Diamond Dogs" (it's a hit, but still underrated), "Soul Love", and "Sound and Vision".

David Bowie:

Station to Station (by far #1)
Andy Warhol
The Width of a Circle
Young Americans
Warszawa

No I'm kidding, obviously "Cat People" is his best

Andrew Jackson Jihad:
- Linda Ronstadt
- I Love You
- White Face, Black Eyes
- American Tune
- People II 2: Still Peoplin'

The Flaming Lips:
- Look...The Sun Is Rising
- Be My Head
- They Punctured My Yolk
- Evil
- Peace Sword (Open Your Heart)

Death Grips:
- You Might Think He Loves You For Your Money, But I Know What He Really Loves You For Your Brand New Leopard Skin Pillbox Hat
- On GP
- Up My Sleeves
- Beware
- NO LOVE

Not a band but whatever Earl Sweatshirt:
- Hive
- Pigeons
- Grief
- Mantra
- Luper

Here's one for Josef. :D

From Now On
Fool's Overture
Goodbye Stranger
Crime of the Century
School

God damn anyone who says a kind word. :yeah:

Swans for me:
Killing for Company
Her
God Loves America
Ligeti's Breath/Hilflos Kind
Blind (technically Drainland but still gets my vote)

Replacements:

Alex Chilton
I Will Dare
Waitress In the Sky
Unsatisfied
Here Comes a Regular

Metallica:

Seek and Destroy
Fade to Black
Harvester of Sorrow
The Unforgiven
Am I Evil?

Slayer:

Angel of Death
At Dawn They Sleep
Seasons In the Abyss
Skeletons of Society
Spill the Blood

Megadeth:

Last Rites/Loved to Deth
Trust
Hangar 18
Tornado of Souls
Killing Is My Business... And Business Is Good

Iron Maiden:

Killers
Hallowed Be Thy Name
The Trooper
Aces High
Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Bathory:

Necromancy
Raise the Dead
A Fine Day to Die
Nordland
Home of Once Brave

:laughing:

Anyway, I lied because my favorite Replacements song is actually "Piano Man" oops I mean "Here Comes a Regular".

Pretty solid picks, inspired me to do my own AJJ list.

Andrew Jackson Jihad:

People II: The Reckoning
Who Are You?
American Tune
Kokopeli Face Tattoo
Unicron

Some more:

The Mountain Goats:

The Best Ever Death Metal Band In Denton
This Year
Going To Georgia
Ethiopians
The Legend Of Chavo Guerrero

The Hold Steady:

Stuck Between Stations
How A Resurrection Really Feels
Lord, I'm Discouraged
Killer Parties
The Weekenders

The National:

Mr. November
Slow Show
Terrible Love
Don't Swallow The Cap
Baby, We'll Be Fine

The lyrics to both blind and god damn the sun are as close to perfection as you can get...

Blind is on the Swans album...Various Failures :)

Thrice

- Silhouette
- The Artist In the Ambulance
- The Arsonist
- Atlantic
- Paper Tigers

Aesop Rock

Battery
Daylight
Zero Dark Thirty
None Shall Pass
Cycles To Gehenna

Lana Del Rey

Cola
Cruel World
Gods and Monsters
Blue Jeans
Ride

It's revisionist history, but I'll take it.

Can't believe I forgot Who Are You?

Michael Jackson

Baby Be Mine
Get On The Floor
Liberian Girl
She Drives Me Wild
This Time Around

Stevie Wonder
That Girl
Frontline
Living For The City
Master Jammin
Superwoman


Marvin Gaye
Flying High in the Friendly Skies
I'll Be Doggon
I Want You
Heard It Through The Grapevine
To Busy Thinking Bout My Baby

Prince
Gett Off
Adore
Shhh
Incense and Candles
Purple Rain

D Angelo
When We Get By
Playa Playa
Brown Sugar
Me and Those Dreamin Eyes of Mine
Lady


Sly and the Family Stone
If You Want Me to Stay
Everybody Is a Star
Life
Hot Fun in the Summertime
Thankyou

Janet Jackson
Throb
My Need
Go Deep
China Love
Funny How Time Flies

The Stylistics
Stone In Love With You
Heavy Falling Out
Rockin Roll Baby
People Make The World Go Round
You Are Everything

just at the top of my head will probably come back later

Kayo Dot

The Manifold Curiosity
Wayfarer
Right hand is the one I want
Immortelle and Paper Caravelle
Amaranth the Peddler

Bauhaus
In the Flat Field
Silent Hedges (BBC Sessions)
St. Vitus Dance
Dark Entries
Departure

Bauhaus
Rose Garden Funeral of Sores (Live version)
Passion Of Lovers
Exquisite Corpse
In The Flat Field
Stigmata Martyr

Tones On Tail
Burning Skies
Twist
Go!
War
Christian Says

Passion Of Lovers and Exquisite Corpse just barely missed the cut for me. I had a really hard time picking only five.

Black Sabbath

Spiral Architect
Into The Void
Thrill Of It All
Sabbra Cadabra
N.I.B.

The Gaslight Anthem

Misery
1930
Mae
Blue Jeans & White T-Shirts
Halloween

The Front Bottoms

Flashlight
Twin Sized Mattress
The Beers
Peach
Lipstick Covered Magnet

Ghost Mice

Cementville
Free Pizza For Live
I'll Be Happy
Boy Meets Girl
The Road Goes On Forever

Billy Woods
The Man Who Would Be King
Gilgamesh
Poor Company
Freedman'so Bureau
The Big Nothing

Armand Hammer
Kanun
Hatchet Job
Soft Places
Where the Wild Things Are
Cloisters

Wolves in Sheeskin
Birth of the Emboweler
Robot Intestines
I Kama Mahali Mbaya
Mudshover
Stained Glass Skyscraper

First Sabbath tune I learned note for note.

My first song ever was Iron Man, but I faked it.