In no particular order, really. Just a breath of fresh air and a thumb of the nose to that Rolling Stone business...

1. Mama Cass - "Dream a Little Dream of Me"
2. David Bowie - "Quicksand"
3. Laurie Anderson - "O Superman"
4. Madonna - "Frozen"
5. Sinead O'Connor - "Success Has Made A Failure Of Our Home" (I'd love to say Tammy Wynette, but I've never been able to find her version)
6. Eartha Kitt - "I Wanna Be Evil"
7. Deee-Lite - "Groove Is In The Heart"
8. Stevie Wonder - "Higher Ground"
9. Queen - "Mustapha"
10. Prince - Oh, whichever. Pick one for me.

Not in any order...

Crazy by Patsy Cline
Keeping The Dream Alive by Freiheit
Lazy Line Painter Jane by Belle & Sebastian
Infinite & Unforseen by k.d. lang
Never Alone by The Harlem Community Gospel Choir (from the 'Fame' soundtrack)
One by U2
Don't Let Me Down by The Beatles
Bizarre Love Triangle by New Order
Goodbye To Love by Carpenters
A Town Called Malice by The Jam

In no special order:

1.Big Stuff-Lady Day
2.West End Bluse-Louis Armestrong
3.Sophisticated Lady-Duke Ellington
4.Handful Of Keys-Fats Waller
5.Lonely Teardrops-Jackie Wilson
6.Earth Song-Chaka Khan & Rufus
7.Power Fantastic-Prince
8.Remind Me-Patrice Rushen
9.Imaginary Playmates-Rene & Angela
10.Roll 'Em, Pete-Pete Johnson

1.Patsy Cline - Crazy
2.Cat Stevens - peace train
3.Henri Salvador - chambre avec vue
4.Dolly Parton & Kenny Rogers - islands in the stream
5.David Bowie - buddha of suburbia
6.Johnny Cash - ballad of Ira Hayes
7.Dolly Parton - the grass is blue
8.Bob Dylan - Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues
9.Prince - dance with the devil
10.Greenwheel - breathe

I could do a top 1000 list as I love music everyone else hates!

In no particualr order:-


1) If u go away- New kids on the block
2) wanngirl- Jeremy Jordan
3) Wait for me- Stacye and Kimiko
4) Don't wanna fall in love- Jane Child
5) The best man-Glenn Mendeiros
6) Shes got that vibe- R kelly
7) Misunderstanding (radio/12" remix)- Al b sure
8) Whatever it takes- Basic black
9) Turned Away- Chukki Booker
10)Whenever you close your eyes- Tommy Page

Bomus track "nikki"- Glenn Medeiros!

Everybody Here Wants You -- Jeff Buckley

A Different Drum -- Peter Gabriel

4 Corners -- Digable Planets

You Got It Bad Girl -- Stevie Wonder

Deacon Blues -- Steely Dan

My One and Only Love -- John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman

Umi Says -- Mos Def

And God Created Woman -- Prince

Love and You and I -- Jazzanova

Speak No Evil -- Wayne Shorter

off the top . . .

1. NOT THE RED BARON – Tori Amos
2. A CHAIN OF FLOWERS – The Cure
3. CONDITIONED SOUL – Eurythmics
4. LOVE OR MONEY – Prince
5. I HAVE NOT BEEN TO OXFORD TOWN – David Bowie
6. PULL OUT THE PIN – Kate Bush
7. EUROPE IS MY PLAYGROUND – Suede
8. BEDLAM BRIDGE – Midnight Oil
9. SILVER & GOLD – U2
10. THE FLAME – Arcadia

In no order...

Someday We'll All Be Free - Aretha Franklin or Donny Hathaway
Shake Your Body (Down to the Ground) - The Jacksons
This Is It - Kenny Loggins
Heart to Heart - Kenny Loggins
What A Fool Believes - The Doobie Brothers
I Would Die 4 U - Prince
Wind Beneath My Wings - Bette Midler
Just Between Us - Norman Brown
Central Park West - John Coltrane
My Funny Valentine

Oh yeah, I forgot "for all time" by Michael Jackson!

and i forgot "walking in the rain" by grace jones!

namepeace said:

What a great and ecclectic mix

I'll put a quick list up too

Nina Simone....This Years Kisses

Steely Dan...Black Cow,Aja and Deacon Blues

Joni Mitchell...A Strange Boy

Prince...Power Fantastic

Peter Gabriel...I Grieve

Bjork...Aurora

Kate Bush...Blow Away

Stereolab....Cybele's Reverie

P.J.Harvey...Good Fortune

Jeff Buckley...Last Goodbye,Everybody Here Wants You

Nina Hagen Band's Naturträne
The Cure's 10:15 Saturday Night
Joy Division's Wilderness
Franz Ferdinand's Shopping For Blood
The Euryhmics' This Is The House
Doe Maar's Bella Donna
Depeche Mode's Blasphemous Rumours
Ryuichi Sakamoto & David Silvian's Forbidden Colours
Radiohead's Pyramid Song
Queens Of The Stone Age's God Is On The Radio

hold this thread, i'll be back in a few hours

GooeyTheHamster said:

Ummm... Is that song I listened to with you?

Off the top of my head...

Big Dipper - Cracker
New York City - They Might Be Giants
After Hours - Velvet Underground
Like Cockatoos - The Cure
Tenderness - Otis Redding
I Want You - Elvis Costello
No. 13 Baby - The Pixies
Big Time Sensuality - Bjork
Six Different Ways - The Cure
Head On - Jesus and Mary Chain

Wow. Now I wanna make a CD.

NO PARTICULAR ORDER

GOLDEN LADY - STEVIE WONDER
(IT NEVER RAINS IN) SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA - TONY TONI TONE
UNTIL YOU COME BACK TO ME - AREATHA FRANKLIN
WHAT'S MISSING - ALEXANDER O'NEAL
I'M READY - KANO
NE HEARTBREAK - NEW EDITION
WHY YOU WANNA TREAT ME SO BAD - PRINCE
CAUSE YOU LOVE ME - DENICE WILLIAMS
COMFORT OF A MAN - STEPHANIE MILLS
HEARTBREAK HOTEL - THE JACKSON
PYT - MICHAEL JACKSON

Marcy Playground's Coming Up From Behind
Björk's One Day [Trevor Morais Mix]
Goldfrapp's Strict Machine
Kate Bush's The Dreaming
Mark Lanegan, Josh Homme, And PJ Harvey's Powdered Wig Machine
KD Lang's Simple (as presented on Hymns Of The 49Th Parallel)
Joan Osborne's St. Teresa
Soulwax's Slowdance
Tori Amos' Spacedog
Trey Parker [aka Eric Cartman]'s Kiss From A Rose

BinaryJustin said:

Yes. It is the woman that makes chicken sounds and describes beauty in words I can not translate wholy to do her justice.

You know what? There is one Bjork song I really like.

It's the version of 'Hyperballad' with the string quartet. It touched me when I first heard it.

kev1n said:

I second, "Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues" ... 'He got away!

In no order and purely off the top...

Kate Bush-"Love and Anger"
Jennifer Holiday-"And I'm Telling You I'm Not Going"
Talking Heads-"Once In a Lifetime"
Aretha Franklin-"The Weight"
Ani DiFranco-"Dilate"
The Pharcyde-"Passin' Me By"
Madonna-"Vogue"
New Radicals-"Get What You Give"
Edwin Starr-"25 Miles"
Cyndi Lauper-"Product of Misery"

GooeyTheHamster said:

No fair! you went twice!

1) Undertones - Teenage Kicks
2) Magnetic Fields - The Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side
3) The Sundays - Here's Where the Story Ends
4) Bob Dylan - Leopard Skin Pill-box Hat
5) Gram Parsons - Return of the Grievous Angel
6) Pavement - Type Slowly
7) The Fall - Cruiser's Creek
8) Can - Halleluhwah
9) Brian Eno - The True Wheel
10) My Bloody Valentine - To Here Knows When
[Edited 11/18/04 16:50pm]

damosuzuki said:

Ooh! Class. Do you like 'The Dark End Of The Street'?

Heck, yeah...I was just playing Gilded Palace of Sin last night. I think the versions of Do Right Woman and Dark End...are two of the best "White Boy Soul" tracks ever recorded...

BinaryJustin said:

"Living For The City"/Stevie Wonder
"I'm Stretched On Your Grave"/Sinead O'Connor
"Little Wing"/Jimi Hendrix
"Stone Free"/Jimi Hendrix
"Fight The Power"/Public Enemy
"Radio Clash"/The Clash
"Train In Vain"/The Clash
"Love Is A House"/Force MD's
"Lady Marmalade"/LaBelle
"Them Belly Full"/Bob Marley
"Freakshow"/Ani DiFranco
"Cloud Blood"/Ani DiFranco
"Carry You Around"/Ani DiFranco
“Chocolate City”/Parliament
"Funk Get's Stronger, Pt. 1"/Funkadelic
"Two Lonely Hearts (On The Subway)"/Meshell Ndegeocello
"Step Into The Projects"/Meshell Ndegeocello
"Soul On Ice"/Meshell Ndegeocello
“Suffragette City”/David Bowie
“That Voice Again”/Peter Gabriel
"Fencewalk"/Mandrill
"Mango Meat"/Mandrill
"Somewhere"/Aretha Franklin
"Spanish Harlem"/Aretha Franklin

CarrieMpls said:

Supernova said:

i said TEN.

thesexofit said:

You weren't kidding about loving music everyone else hates!

Anxiety said:

Ten, shmen.