Lennon/McCartney is the only songwriter(s) that you can really say have written a 100 great songs (as previously mentioned).

I bet I could come pretty close to naming 100 "excellent" Bob Dylan songs, with the rest being only "pretty damn good". I bet I could get over 50 in just the first 10 years of his career.

its just too bad I don't have an appreciation for Bob Dylan so I wouldn't know where to start oh well.

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Oops, sorry Liberalkid...I meant to quote you, but I accidentally edited your message. That happens sometimes.

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Originally posted by tomwaits4noman:
I could probably remove the grinder man songs and include more bad seeds songs.

Please don't.

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This does not include the pre brithday party Boys next door songs or song track work.

The Boys Next Door stuff's not much chop, except for their transitional EP Last Hee Haw, and the last track from Door, Door

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Originally posted by tomwaits4noman:
I could probably remove the grinder man songs

Please, get rid of the Grinderman tracks and add these B-Day Party tracks:

"Happy Birthday"
"Guilt Parade"
"Waving My Arms"
"Catman"
"Riddle House"

All from Hee-haw, no less.

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Originally posted by Maximum Jack:

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Originally posted by tomwaits4noman:
I could probably remove the grinder man songs

Please, get rid of the Grinderman tracks and add these B-Day Party tracks:

"Happy Birthday"
"Guilt Parade"
"Waving My Arms"
"Catman"
"Riddle House"

All from Hee-haw, no less.

Er, none of these is from Hee Haw

When I listed the five-headed songwriting team of Radiohead to have written 100 “great” songs, I wasn’t being facetious. I have about 140 Radiohead songs; they have a ton of material on hard to find singles and EPs, as well as all of their proper studio work. The last twenty or so songs are just B-sides and other rarities that are in fact, “great.” I didn’t add them just to make the hundred—whether it is the gorgeous grower, “Fog,” or their first instrumental song, the trippy, “Meeting in the Aisle,” or the haunting, PJ Harvey-esque piano ballad, “How I Made Millions”—these are all great songs.

Here are 100 great songs by Radiohead:

1. You
2. Creep
3. How Do You Do?
4. Stop Whispering
5. Thinking About You
6. Anyone Can Play Guitar
7. Ripcord
8. I Can’t
9. Lurgee
10. Blow Out

11. Planet Telex
12. The Bends
13. High and Dry
14. Fake Plastic Trees
15. (Nice Dream)
16. Just
17. My Iron Lung
18. Bullet Proof…I Wish I Was
19. Black Star
20. Sulk
21. Street Spirit (Fade Out)

22. Talk Show Host

23. Airbag
24. Paranoid Android
25. Subterranean Homesick Alien
26. Exit Music (For a Film)
27. Let Down
28. Karma Police
29. Fitter Happier
30. Electioneering
31. No Surprises
32. Lucky
33. The Tourist

34. Everything in its Right Place
35. Kid A
36. The National Anthem
37. How to Disappear Completely
38. Treefingers
39. Optimistic
40. Idioteque
41. Motion Picture Soundtrack

42. Packt Like Sardines in a Crushed Tin Box
43. Pyramid Song
44. Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors
45. You and Whose Army?
46. I Might Be Wrong
47. Knives Out
48. Dollars & Cents
49. Like Spinning Plates
50. Life in a Glass House

51. True Love Waits

52. 2+2=5 (The Lukewarm)
53. Sit Down, Stand Up (Snakes & Ladders)
54. Sail to the Moon (Brush the Cobwebs of the Sky)
55. Backdrifts (Honeymoon Is Over)
56. Where I End and You Begin (The Sky Is Falling In)
57. We Suck Young Blood (Your Time Is Up)
58. There There (The Boney King of Nowhere)
59. I Will (No Man's Land)
60. A Punch Up At A Wedding (No No No No No No No No)
61. Myxomatosis (Judge, Jury & Executioner)
62. Scatterbrain (As Dead As Leaves)
63. A Wolf at the Door (It Girl. Rug Doll.)

64. 15 Steps
65. Bodysnatchers
66. Nude
67. Weird Fishes/Arpeggi
68. All I Need
69. Faust Arp
70. Reckoner
71. Jigsaw Falling into Place
72. Videotape

73. Down is the New Up
74. Go Slowly
75. Last Flowers
76. Up on the Ladder
77. Bangers & Mash
78. 4 Minute Warning

79. Pearly
80. Meeting in the Aisle
81. Polyethylene (Parts 1 & 2)
82. Palo Alto
83. Paperbag Writer
84. I Am a Wicked Child
85. Gagging Order
86. Fog (Again)
87. Punchdrunk Lovesick Singalong
88. Yes I Am
89. How I Made Millions
90. Killer Cars
91. The Trickster
92. Hurricane
93. Inside My Head
94. The Drugs Don’t Work
95. Fog
96. Outtooth
97. Reminder
98. Melatonin
99. Million Dollar Question
100. Worry Wort

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Originally posted by Bhob:

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Originally posted by Maximum Jack:

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Originally posted by tomwaits4noman:
I could probably remove the grinder man songs

Please, get rid of the Grinderman tracks and add these B-Day Party tracks:

"Happy Birthday"
"Guilt Parade"
"Waving My Arms"
"Catman"
"Riddle House"

All from Hee-haw, no less.

Er, none of these is from Hee Haw

Apologies, they are all on the Hee-Haw reissue on Buddah Records, 2000, which compiles some early singles with The Birthday Party LP and the Hee Haw EP.

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Originally posted by FragileKidA:
When I listed the five-headed songwriting team of Radiohead to have written 100 “great” songs, I wasn’t being facetious. I have about 140 Radiohead songs; they have a ton of material on hard to find singles and EPs, as well as all of their proper studio work. The last twenty or so songs are just B-sides and other rarities that are in fact, “great.” I didn’t add them just to make the hundred—whether it is the gorgeous grower, “Fog,” or their first instrumental song, the trippy, “Meeting in the Aisle,” or the haunting, PJ Harvey-esque piano ballad, “How I Made Millions”—these are all great songs.

Here are 100 great songs by Radiohead:

didn't you just name every song off every record Radiohead released with a few bsides ?!? that's like saying every song they put out is great. I mean sure, they're great musicians (i'm a huge fan) but then there's great and there's Great and from what i've understood of this thread, we're looking for the latter definition of "great"

agree with brainofp its most of the radiohead album tracks... Climbing up walls missing????
Most of Pablo honey... it was ok not great...
personally iwould only have you, anyone can play guitar and Blow out (the most under rated of their songs I think) not big fan of Creep..
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I wanted to cover all aspects of Cave
but if I had focused more on Birthday party i would have listed
I am only going by the songs that are credited to Cave, remember Rowland S. Howard wrote some of the songs as well
so classics such as Riddle House and Guilt Parade are left off
- going by credit list from allmusic so if I am wrong Forgive me...

The Birthday Party album

1. Mr Clarinet
2. The Hair Shirt
3. Friend Catcher
4. Happy Birthday

Prayers on Fire

5.Zoo music girl
6.Cry
7. Nick The Stripper
8. Ho- Ho
9. King Ink
10. Dull Day
11. Kathys Kisses

Junk Yard

12. Shes hit
13. Dead Joe
14. Hamlet
15. Big Jesus trash can
16. Kiss me black
17. Kewpie Doll
18. Release the bats

Hee Haw ep

19. A Catholic Skin
20. Death by Drowning

The Bad Seed ep

21. Sonnys Burning
22. Wild world
23. Fears of gun
24. Deep in the woods

Mutiny ep

25. Jennifer's Veil
26. Mutiny
27. Swampland
28. Say A Spell

The Peel Sessions

29. Rowland Around In That Stuff

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I thought I made it clear, when I said, that I have a little over 140 songs by Radiohead, so I still cut out 40 songs. I didn't include every single B-Side and every single song off their proper albums. I always thought that every album they have made was great and thus why the majority of every album was included.

It sucks because you make the time and effort, come home on your lunch break and work on finalizing that list instead of eating and all people can state is that you listed all of their songs and all of the B-sides. Many people think different things are great, I still stand by all of those songs being great, in my opinion. Guess I was wrong again, as usual.

heh i didn't mean to diss ya Fragile kid A, we were just pointing out that its a list of most of the albums with a few tracks missing then again the band has what 7 albums so to make a list of 100 songs you may need to include most of the tracks... its just a list.... no big deal

Isn't the drugs don't work by the Verve...???

personally would have included Banana Co.

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Originally posted by FragileKidA:
their first instrumental song, the trippy, “Meeting in the Aisle,”

I agree with most of your list, Fragile'. And I'm pretty sure, the songs I would drop from your list, could actually be replaced by some of the songs you left off.

Thanks for Reminding me about "Meeting in the Aisle" by the way. I used to listen to that song all the time, but it fell off my radar a few years ago.

Awesome...

I mean, "Great"...

Thanks Ritter-fan. I would be interested to know what you would remove and add, if you don't mind?

And thanks for the compliment. Not in a self-righteous manner but I also felt good about my list because I knew that they have a lot of really great songs. And some of the B-Sides that have never been heard by others are amazing.

Nice list Fragile. I am also a massive Radiohead fan. However, I just think you are being far too generous here. Here is my perspective on your list:

Eliminate:

How Do You Do?
Stop Whispering
Thinking About You
Anyone Can Play Guitar
Ripcord
I Can’t
Lurgee
Blow Out
(Nice Dream)
Bullet Proof…I Wish I Was
Sulk
Fitter Happier
No Surprises
Treefingers
Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors
Knives Out
Dollars & Cents
Sit Down, Stand Up (Snakes & Ladders)
Where I End and You Begin (The Sky Is Falling In)
Scatterbrain (As Dead As Leaves)
Meeting in the Aisle
Paperbag Writer
I Am a Wicked Child
Gagging Order
Punchdrunk Lovesick Singalong
Yes I Am
Killer Cars
The Trickster
Hurricane
Inside My Head
The Drugs Don’t Work
Fog(original)
Reminder
Melatonin
Million Dollar Question
Worry Wort


I adore most of these songs. However, I hardly see how they can be constituted as great. Although some of them may very well be. If say, "Pablo Honey" is made of great songs, it could be argued as one of the best albums ever made. We are talking about great songs here, and that album is quite mediocre in my opinion. Also, a song like "Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors" or "Treefingers" although nicely fitting in to the context of their respective albums, are not great songs, they are just crafty transitional pieces. I'm sure a lot of the songs I listed are some peoples favorites, of course not everyone is meant to agree.

Include:
"Morning Bell"
"House of Cards"

Yeah, I see your point. But how you can remove "Ripcord," "Bullet Proof...I Wish I Was," and especially, "No Surprises"? Those are some of my favorites.

I can understand people not really liking Pablo Honey too much but that was a time when Radiohead was very raw and quirky. Another reason I like them is because a lot of those songs I was listening to in my middle school and early high school days, so they have a lot of personal connections.

Finally, I guess I could remove a lot of the PH songs, however, I would still have at least 20 other B-sides to choose from to replace them with. I am not arguing with you here, just stating my opinion.

Yeah man, I totally get what you are saying, and "Bullet Proof" and "No Surprises" were the hardest for me to get rid of. Personal connections play huge with music, at least for me. "Pablo Honey" was the last Radiohead album I bought(well other than Rainbows), which may factor differently than if it had been my first. It actually depressed me a bit that Radiohead was capable of releasing something that wasn't completely brilliant, revealing they were human after all. Thats how I felt when I first listened to Nirvana's "Bleach" as well. I think it might be a bit hard to be objective when you love a band so much. There are many artists that I would have a hard time deliberating what counts as "great", as I already love the songs like they were my children.

Tom Waits
Brian eno ( I can't believe no one has mentioned him)
Bob Dylan
Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth)

Closing in
Daniel bejar- he has to be really close and if your considering collabaration's he should be there

Eric Clapton has to be there, even if his songs are mostly instrumental, blues...they're still great songs.

Ben Folds has to be close as well.

Here's my list of 100 great songs by Stephen Malkmus:
1 Box Elder
2 She Believes
3 Price Yeah!

4 Angel Carver Blues / Mellow Jazz Docent
5 Debris Slide
6 Home

7 Baptiss Blacktick

8 Summer Babe (Winter Version)
9 Trigger Cut / Wounded-Kite At :17
10 No Life Singed Her
11 In The Mouth A Desert
12 Conduit For Sale!
13 Zurich Is Stained
14 Loretta's Scars
15 Here
16 Two States
17 Perfume-V
18 Fame Throwa
19 Jackals, False Grails: The Lonesome Era
20 Our Singer

21 Texas Never Whispers
22 Frontwards
23 Lions (Linden)
24 Shoot The Singer

25 Silence Kit
26 Elevate Me Later
27 Stop Breathin
28 Cut Your Hair
29 Newark Wilder
30 Unfair
31 Gold Soundz
32 Range Life
33 Heaven Is A Truck
34 Fillmore Jive

35 We Dance
36 Rattled By The Rush
37 Black Out
38 Grounded
39 Motion Suggests Itself
40 Father To A Sister Of Thought
41 Extradition
42 Best Friends Arm
43 Grave Architecture
44 AT & T
45 Fight This Generation
46 Pueblo
47 Half a Canyon

48 Stereo
49 Shady Lane
50 Embassy Row
51 We are Underused
52 Starlings of the Slipstream
53 Blue Hawaiian
54 Fin

55 Spit on a Stranger
56 Folk Jam
57 You are a Light
58 Cream of Gold
59 Major Leagues
60 Platform Blues
61 Ann Don't Cry
62 Billie
63 Speak, See, remember
64 The Hexx
65 Carrot Rope

66 Kentucky Cocktail
67 Secret Knowledge Of Backroads
68 Circa 1762
69 So Stark (You're a Skyscraper)
70 Greenlander
71 Drunks With Guns
72 Ed Ames
73 Camera
74 Raft
75 Coolin by Sound
76 Strings of Nashville
77 Haunt You Down
78 Unseen Power of the Picket Fence
79 Nail Clinic
80 All My Friends
81 Hands off the Bayou
82 JMC Retro
83 Brink of The Clouds
84 The Sutcliffe Catering Song
85 Easily Fooled
86 Mussle Rock (Is a Horse in Transition)
87 I Love Perth
88 No More Kings
89 Painted Soliders
90 Harness your Hopes

91 Jenny and the Ess-Dog

92 Vanessa From Queen

93 Pencil Rot
94 Freeze the Saints
95 Loud Cloud Crowd
96 Mama
97 Post-Paint Boy
98 Baby C'mon
99 Malediction

Damn. I'm one song short. Well 99 songs is still pretty good! I could add a couple of other songs but they're just good, not great. Besides I think I may have already exaggerated the quality of a handful of songs on this list by saying they're great.

You think "Jenny and the Ess-Dog" and "Vanessa from Queens" are the only great songs on Stephen Malkmus and Pig Lib?