If you can only keep 25 songs

[MasterShakes]

In no particular order...

1) NOFX - "The Decline" (any punk fan who doesn't have this song on their list is insane... best punk song ever)
2) Matthew Good - "Hello Time Bomb"
3) Matthew Good - "Alert Status Red"
4) Matthew Good - "While We Were Hunting Rabbits"
5) Matthew Good - "Tripoli"
6) Mother Love Bone - "Chloe Dancer / Crown of Thorns"
7) The Smashing Pumpkins - "Mayonaise"
8) Bruce Springsteen - "Jungleland"
9) Bruce Springsteen - "Badlands"
10) Bruce Springsteen - "Atlantic City"
11) Bruce Springsteen - "The River"
12) Bruce Springsteen - "Born To Run"
13) Live - "Lightning Crashes"
14) Live - "Pillar of Davidson"
15) Sugar - "Hoover Dam"
16) Pearl Jam - "Alive"
17) Pearl Jam - "Corduroy"
18) Pearl Jam - "Nothingman"
19) Pearl Jam - "Present Tense"
20) Pearl Jam - "Immortality"
21) Pearl Jam - "Insignificance"
22) Pearl Jam - "Sleight Of Hand"
23) Pearl Jam - "Parting Ways"
24) Pearl Jam - "Garden"
25) Pearl Jam - "Release"

[12ozLongneck]

In no particular order:

Belle and Sebastian - "Get Me Away From Here, I'm Dying"
Old 97s - "Barrier Reef"
Elliott Smith - "St Ides Heaven"
Built To Spill - "Center of the Universe"
Interpol - "The New"
Centro-matic - "Post-It Notes From the State Hospital"
The Mendoza Line - "Baby I Know What You're Thinking"
Modest Mouse - "Custom Concern"
Guided By Voices - "I Don't, So Now I Do"
The Blue Aeroplanes - "Your Ages"
Spoon - "Lines In the Suit"
Reverend Horton Heat - "Big Sky"
The Shins - "New Slang"
The Kinks - "Till the End Of the Day"
Quasi - "Our Happiness Is Guaranteed"
Centro-matic - "All Hail The Label Scouts"
REM - "Country Feedback"
Lilys - "Socs Hip"
Grandaddy - "The Warming Sun"
Clem Snide - "Let's Explode"
Frank Black - "10 Percenter"
L'il Cap'n Travis - "Natural Fool"
Pinback - "Lyon"
Pixies - "Subbacultcha"
Wilco - "Candy Floss"

[Rick Nebiolo]

There wasn't one song on your list I recognized (allthough a few bands do seem vaugely familiar).

We need the "Other Topics For Over 50 Yrs Old" Forum now [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

~ Rick

[daveymck]

I cant do this, you are asking someone who has listened to the music he loves for the last 17 years to trim down 1,000CD's and probably another few hundred mp3 based albums to cut down to 25 songs its absolute madness.

I have just got a 40gig mp3 player as I didnt want to have to make decisions to get down to 5 gig.

Its interesting seeing Leatherface on the list as they are from near me and are not that big so surprised to see them mentioned here.

[Rick Nebiolo]

OK, not counting classical or jazz here's 25 I'd want as keepers:

Beach Boys - Wouldn't It Be Nice"
Beatles - "In My Life"
Big Country - "In a Big Country"
Blues Traveler - "Hook"
Bob Dylan - "Knockin On Heaven's Door"
Bob Marley - "No Woman No Cry"
BoDeans - "Dreams"
Bruce Cockburn - "If I had a Rocket Launcher"
Bruce Springsteen - "The River"; "Rosalita"
Clash - "London Calling"
The Connells - "Scotty's Lament"
Cowboy Junkies - "Come Calling"; "Because Cheap Is How I Feel"
Cranberries - "Free to Decide"
Creedence Clearwater Revival - "Fortunate Son"
David Johansen - "Cool Metro" (because I saw DJ perform
it live in a small club)
Diana Ross and the Supremes - "You Can't Hurry Love"
Doors - "Roadhouse Blues"
Dramarama - "Anything, Anything"
Emmylou Harris - "Wrecking Ball"
Eric Burden - "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood"
Fleetwood Mac - "Dreams" (the "Rumors" album was issued to every college
kid in the seventies, sort of like Ipods are now).
General Public - "Tenderness"
Gin Bloosoms - "Follow You Down"
Indigo Girls - "Closer To Fine"
Janice Joplin - "Piece Of My Heart"
Led Zepplin - "Over the Hills and Far Away"
Lone Justice - "Sweet, Sweet Baby (I'm Falling)"
mike l. "someone sh_t in the pool again"
Modern English - "I'll Stop the World" (did they ever have another good
song?)
Replacements - "I'll Be You"
Richard and Linda Thompson - "Wall of Death"; "Dimming of the Day"
Romantics - "What I Like About You"
REM - "Man on the Moon"; "Losing My Religion"
Rolling Stones - "Stray Cat Blues"; "Can't You Hear Me Knocking"
Roy Orbinson - "Anything You Want"
Van Morrison - "Wild Night"

Sorry, that's more than 25 but I sort of went down alphabetically on my playlist [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

Cool or Not Cool? (remember I'm 50 yrs old [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img])

~ Rick

PS Fun part was I just got to listen to every song I put on this list

[Michael Davis]

Nice Indigo Girls selection, Loser.

Actually I like your list more than most of those suggested by people in my age group.

-Michael

[Rick Nebiolo]

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1. Bare Naked Ladies...Lovers in a dangerous time"

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Cool. I'm more familar with the Bruce Cockburn version but
had the BNL version on my hard drive. Liked it and wonder who wrote it?

~ Rick

[Rick Nebiolo]

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Nice Indigo Girls selection, Loser.

Actually I like your list more than most of those suggested by people in my age group.

-Michael

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My guess is "Closer to Fine" could be your theme song given your situation.

In your honor I made sure no U2 song made the list but "I Will Follow" could have.

Just put up a the Throwing Muses cut "Green" from their first album. Great on headphones this time of night but too arty to make my top 25.

Til Tuesday's (Aimee Mann's old band) "Don't Watch Me Bleed" could have made it.

I should have included ex Sex Pistol Sid Vicious (the dead one) doing "My Way". BTW, this version of the song closes two great movies.

~ Rick

[Ulysses]

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flaming lips - fight test

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Goddammit, 41 songs for me now.

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Its interesting seeing Leatherface on the list as they are from near me and are not that big so surprised to see them mentioned here.

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They became the cool band to have a sticker from on your Volvo around 1999 on the East Coast when they reunited and toured with Hot Water Music. Some people actually bought their old albums too (like me, I was only about 12 when they broke up before, so I missed them) and they kick all kinds of ass.

A buddy of mine did an interview with Frankie Stubbs when they came to Chapel Hill. Frankie spent most of the time complaining that none of the toilets in the places he played had doors, and he couldn't take a dump in peace. He said some kid had come up to him earlier and asked for an autograph while he was pinching one, and he said, "If you don't mind, mate, I'm a bit occupied at the moment." [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] Crotchety old bastard.

Also, I probably should have put "Accident Prone" or "Jinx Removing" by Jawbreaker on my list.

NT