422. Sarah Slean - Mary

423) Thelonious Monk - 'Round Midnight...

...Cootie Williams (1944 - original recording)

...Thelonious Monk (1947 - Blue Note)

...Miles Davis (1956)

“‘Round Midnight” is Thelonious Monk’s best-known jazz composition and carries the grand distinction of being the most-recorded jazz standard written by any jazz musician. The Monk CD, Best of the Blue Note Years documents the 1947 group recording of “‘Round Midnight” (1991, Blue Note 95636). A solo version from 1957 is available on Thelonious Himself (1991, Orig. Jazz Classics 254).

Composer Thelonious Monk recorded “’Round Midnight” multiple times, and it is not surprising that these recordings are the place to start in learning this tune. His original version for Blue Note (The Best of the Blue Note Years) is perhaps the most historically significant, while his 1957 solo piano version on Riverside (Thelonious Himself) offers the most intimate glimpse of Monk’s relationship with the tune. For many people, the definitive recording of the tune is not one by Monk at all, but rather the irresistible 1956 recording by Miles Davis (’Round About Midnight).

http://www.jazzstandards....dnight.htm

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424) "Rock! Rock! (Till You Drop)" - Def Leppard

425) The Supremes - You Keep Me Hangin' On

426. Fiona Apple - "Hot Knife"

427. Muhal Richard Abrams - Inneroutersight

A bit of an explaination about my selection, my now favorite radio station is KCSM here in the S F Bay Area, a non commercial all jazz channel . One blessed night after work and on my way home, this song was on. I can't quite describe it as a normal piece or radio friendly, its a performance with no words and minimal instruments. The EP from which this song appears needs to be heard in whole with headphones if possible, its heavly nuanced and eatherial but not so strange that its repellant. No full clip exsists on the tube so you will have to get a feel from the soundclips from amazon or allmusic.com .

http://www.amazon.com/gp/...amp;sr=1-1

http://www.allmusic.com/a...0000116400

428. Depeche Mode - Little 15

429) Pete Shelley - Homo Sapien

430- Bee Gees- How Deep Is Your Love

431 - Sonic Youth - Teen Age Riot

and this song live is just AMAZING.

432) Thomas Dolby - Airwaves




Perhaps best known for blinding us with science, TED Music Director Thomas Dolby has always blurred the lines between composition and invention. As a London teenager, Tom Robertson was fascinated with the convergence of music and technology. His experiments with an assortment of keyboards, synthesizers and cassette players led his friends to dub him “Dolby.”

That same fascination later drove him to become an electronic musician and multimedia artist whose groundbreaking work fused music with computer technology and video. Two decades, several film scores, five Grammy nominations and countless live-layered sound loops later, it's clear Dolby's innovations have changed the sound of popular music.

In the 1990s, Dolby re-created himself as a digital-musical entrepreneur, founding Beatnik, which developed the polyphonic ringtone software used in more than half a billion cell phones. Now back to touring and recording (after a 15-year hiatus), he's using seriously retro technology -- '40s-era oscilloscopes and Royal Navy field-test equipment -- to control his modern synthesizers, in shows that are at once nostalgic and cutting edge. And he continues his tenure as TED's Music Director, leading the eclectic characters of the TED House Band.

http://www.ted.com/speake...dolby.html
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It's fitting that the most electronically-themed song on Thomas Dolby's debut album, the radio reverie "Airwaves," should have the most defiantly acoustic arrangement. Based on a simple grand piano figure colored with simple synthesizers and featuring the album's most melodically uplifting chorus, "Airwaves" is a lovely, mysterious song. The lyrics seem to equate listening to the radio with some kind of subversive, anti-governmental action, and would probably fall apart upon close examination, but touches like the imaginative, percussive use of signal decay as the choruses resolve back into the verses and Bruce Woolley's airy backing vocals make "Airwaves" as powerful as it is.

http://www.allmusic.com/s...0012474663
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433) "Fantasy" - Mariah Carey

[Edited 9/17/12 7:58am]

435. Aerosmith - Kings & Queens

436) Chic - Good Times

437. 'If Only You Knew' - Patti LaBelle

*The song that made me love Patti - *

438) Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)

439) King's X - Flies and Blue Skies...

Anyone who knows anything about King's X knows about how criminally underrated they are. Prog-rock riffing with Beatle-esque harmonies, a wonderfully emotive soul-singing frontman and perhaps the most melodically gifted guitar player in the world, all neatly wrapped in a power-trio package renowned for the excellence of their live shows sound interesting at all? King's X is the band for you.

http://www.sputnikmusic.c...-X-Dogman/

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440. Bauhaus-She's in Parties

http://www.youtube.com/wa...j6eYBvD5cI

[Edited 9/20/12 2:54am]

441. Within Temptation - Stand My Ground

442. Regina Spektor - Chemo Limo

443. Motley Crue - Primal Scream

444) The Handsome Family - My Ghost

Hm. Seems like this thread might be getting a bit long. Freezing my browser.

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445) Grateful Dead - Dark Star

Dark Star is one of a handful of songs that were used by the Grateful Dead as a vehicle for their most exploratory playing. No two versions are the same in tone, style, tempo, length, vibe, energy, style, etc. They may hit some of the same themes, but they don't play the song the same way twice. This particular version from May of 1972, in Rotterdam, right in the middle of one of their two most "famous" tours, commonly known as "Europe 72", is widely considered the longest performance of the song, clocking in at just over 48 minutes. Now you're probably saying, "Cerebus, why in the crap would anybody want to listen to one song for 48 minutes?" Well, because it's really not 'one song'. Within this 48 minutes they cover more musical ground than most groups (then or now) do in an entire concert (the only thing like it would be jazz, where the musicians also start with a basic them or structure and take off from there). For instance, listen at 5:30, 9:50, 17:30, 21:00, 32:00, 35:00, 37:00, 40:00, 43:30, etc. And that's not even touching on the several minute drum break in the middle or the two verses. Imagine being a teenager in Rotterdam in the early 70s, deciding to go check out this band you'd heard about from America and you end up getting this as part of the show. Heh.

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446. Erykah Badu- Didnt Cha Know

447) Jojo Mayer & Nerve - Mindwash...

NERVE was initiated in the spring of '98 by drum wizard Jojo Mayer as an experimental platform for a handful of New York musicians interested in the cultural phenomenon of intelligent electronic DJ culture and the opportunity it created as a gateway to new musical paradigms and pioneered the movement of live “electronic” music. His basic idea was to deconstruct electronic music and reverse engineer the textures and rhythms of digital production within a live performed context. Live drums, bass, keyboards and live interactive sound processing - no loops, sequencers, or pre- production. All sounds and rhythms performed in real time!

http://www.myspace.com/jojomayernerve

i]More recently, Jojo has been venturing into New York's Techno / Multimedia / Avantgarde / club scene by promoting his own weekly party event called PROHIBITED BEATZ. This new platform for live "Drum n" Bass", "Nu-Skool Breaks", "Speed Garage" and the latest stylistical hybrids and mutations in DJ culture, has also provided the back drop for his first solo project called NERVE. Described as an "endeavor in reverse engineering the textures and rhythms of the current stream of computer generated music into a live performed, improvisational format", NERVE and PROHIBITED BEATZ have created a reputation in the New York scene that already goes way beyond "a serious buzz".[/i]

http://www.drummerworld.c...Mayer.html

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448. Luther Vandross - Papillon ( aka Hot Butterfly )

This is a recent discovery for me as I did not know Luther actually sang this song first, my apologies for not knowing who Greg Diamond was but he gave Luther one of his first feature songs after many sessions of being a back up singer. This plus The Glow of Love by Change are his first solo singles, he even goes back to singing backup for Chaka Khan who had the successful hit covering this song.

I chose not to include Chaka's version because it would be a distraction from him. Enjoy.

449. 'Ribbon In The Sky' - Stevie Wonder

450. Marc Anthony - When I Dream At Night

451) "No Surrender" - Bruce Springsteen