Originally Posted by jimbrim

teenage fanclub - sparkys dream

Odd and interesting choice. I haven't listened to that song in years.

[jimbrim]

yeah, i dont know a great deal about the band, but i adore that track.

[atsonicpark]

boredoms - super going
thinking fellers union local # 282 - hornet's heart
roy orbison - in dreams
captain beefheart - sheriff of hong kong
wire - pink flag (the song)

dunno if those are my favorite songs ever necessarily, but they're the ones I've listened to the most.

[copper]

Originally Posted by fluxequalsrad

4. HUM - Apollo - one soft guitar line running through the entire song, a perfect vocal delivery,... 6 minutes of healing. Its a bummer when you and your girlfriend can't get things right with the space between each other - something that is hard to convey in a song, but is done perfectly here.

Originally Posted by Sonic Youth 37

Stars - Hum

wise thinking!

Hum - Stars
Slint - Good Morning, Capitain
My Bloody Valentine - You Made Me Realise
Iron & Wine & Calexico - He Lays In The Reins

still need a 5th one...

[radarmaker]

What, 5 songs? Ever? Fuck.

This'll do until I change my mind:

I Wanna Be Your Dog - The Stooges
On Some Faraway Beach - Brian Eno
New Paths To Helicon pt 1 - Mogwai
Travelling Light - Tindersticks
Higher Than The Sun - Primal Scream

[radarmaker]

Oh, and one of the live versions of What Goes On that just goes on forever...

[cryptowonderdruginvogue]

Too hard to decide but heres 10 songs I like a lot... off the top of my head
(in no order)

Joy Division - Disorder
Billie Holiday - Gloomy Sunday
Sonic Youth - Candle
Francoise Hardy - Tous Les Garcons Et Les Filles
Animal Collective - Banshee Bat
The Velvet Underground - All Tomorrows Parties
Beck - Lampshade
Bob Dylan - Desolation Row / I Want You / Don't Think Twice It's Alright / + so many more
Chet Baker - Let's Get Lost / My Funny Valentine
Pink Floyd - If / Set The Controls To The Heart Of The Sun / Echoes
Ween - A Tear For Eddie
Rolling Stones - Sweet Virginia / You Got The Silver / Let It Bleed
Jacques Brel - Amsterdam
Spiritualized - Medication
Brian Eno - Here Come The Warm Jets
Talking Heads - The Big Country
Philip Glass & Allen Ginsberg - From Wichita Vortex Sutra
Townes Van Zandt - Waitin' Around To Die
Jandek - Nancy Sings
Peter Sarstedt - Where Do You Go To My Lovely

[Dead-Air]

Just 5 that are among my favorites that I thought of right now...

"Atlantis" - Sun Ra
"Sister Ray" - Velvet Underground
"She's in a Bad Mood" - Sonic Youth
"Everything Merges with the Night" - Brian Eno
"Queen" - Melvins

[andrei]

5 songs that i've listened a lot lately (i can't say that they are my all time fav 5, cause i don't have something like that):

Anthony Braxton, Peter Brotzmann Duo - (Improv #2) (1985 05 04 - Wuppertal)
Black Engine - Ku Klux Klowns
Dimension X (Corsano + Massimo Zu | not that prog band) - Almost Human
Patti Smith - Ghost Dance
Cecil Taylor Unit - (Improv #1) (1983 09 04 - Saalfelden)

[Toxa]

for now:

g. america (grant olsen) - world's worst keep secret
free kitten - seasick
carsick cars - 蘑菇 (mo gu)
waldo the dog faced boy - tim's pillow
lowbelly - two centuries later

[copper]

Originally Posted by radarmaker

What, 5 songs? Ever? Fuck.

its freaking difficult.

[Death & the Maiden]

An alternative six:
1. Laughing Clowns - Eternally Yours
2. The Chills - Pink Frost
3. The Gordons - Coalminer's Song
4. Television - Marquee Moon
5. The Smiths - This Charming Man
6. The Clean - Getting Older

[atsonicpark]

complete - hot as hell
complete - into the night
complete - beautiful sunrises
complete - hoogie boogie land
complete - dream-ing

[frades]

sonic youth - "swimsuit issue"
beatles - "it's all too much"
zazie and axel bauer - "a ma place"
led zeppelin - "heartbreaker"
dire straits - "heavy fuel"

[lucyrulesok]

currently -
microphones - i want to be cold
magnetic fields - the luckiest guy on the lower east side
cure - the lovecats
jacques brel - amsterdam
joanna newsom - monkey and bear

[GrungeMonkey]

hmm well this changes every day so...

"Night After Sidewalk" - Kaki King
"The Diamond Sea" - Sonic Youth
"Only Shallow" - My Bloody Valentine
"Dont Talk (Put Your Head On My Shoulder)" - The Beach Boys
"Range Life" - Pavement

[Toilet & Bowels]

at the moment

killdozer - going to the beach
the brentwoods - buri buri bash
teenage jesus & the jerks - racial mixing
el michels affair & wu-tang clan - glaciers of ice
channel live - mad izm

[batreleaser]

Originally Posted by batreleaser

this is gonna be impossible, but ill try.

the velvet underground-the black angel's death song

sun ra-the cosmos

suicide-frankie teardrop

john coltrane-untitled 1, a love's supreme

public image ltd.-albatross

more:

beefheart-dachau blues

beefheart-ice cream for crow

the dead kennedys-kill the poor

steve reich-drumming

derek bailey-my melancholy baby

black flag-fix me

gastr del sol-dry bones in the valley

mc5-ramblin rose

the stooges-tv eye

the fall-who makes the nazis?

the fall-i am damo suzuki

can-sing swan song

devo-monogoloid

james chance and the contortions-flip your face

mars-puerto rican ghost

metallica-batterey

the velvets-sister ray

the bad brains-the big takeover

painkiller-devil's eye

fred frith-thea und nat

sonic youth-silver shirt, brave men (run in my family), express way to yr skull.

ennio morricone-theme from 'the good the bad and the ugly'

neu!-super 16

merzbow-iron glass blocks and white lights

the wu tang clan-da mysterey of chessboxin

glenn branca-the ascencsion

im just kinda throwing down tracks that pop in my head without much thought, see what comes up.

Now:

Boogie Witch - Transfiguration Boogie
Husker Du - Statues
Pink Reason - Up The Sleeve
Pussy Galore - Undertaker
Mutators - Paper Words

[Everyneurotic]

close to the edge...either yes' or ruinzhatova's version.
galaxie 500 - blue thunder
agnostic front - victim in pain
anita lane - sexual healing
xhol caravan - love potion 25