Bedhead

1. More Than Ever (Transaction De Novo)
2. Unfinished (What Fun Life Was)
3. Never Underdose (Bedhead Loved Macha)
4. Liferaft (WFLW)
5. Powder (WFLW)
6. Hey Goodbye (BLM)
7. The Dark Ages (The Dark Ages EP)
8. Psychosomatica (TDN)
9. Half-Thought (TDN)
10. Crushing (WFLW)
11. Living Well (WFLW)
12. Bedside Table (WFLW)
13. Burned Out (Beheaded)
14. Exhume (TDN)
15. Haywire (WFLW)
16. Extramundane (TDN)
17. Only the Bodies Survive (BLM)
18. Forgetting (TDN)
19. Disorder (4-SongEP19:10)
20. Foaming Love (What Fun Life Was)
21. Felo De Se (Beheaded)
22. You and New Plastic (BLM)
23. Wind Down (WFLW)
24. Beheaded (B)
25. The Present (TDN)
26. The Rest of the Day (Rest of the Day 7”)
27. Left Behind (B)
28. What I’m Here For (4SEP)


God, I love this band.

Undertones

"What's With Terry?"
"Billy's Third"
"Forever Paradise"
"Wednesday Week"
"Julie Ocean"
"Teenage Kicks"
"You're Welcome"
"Male Model"
"Girls That Don't Talk"
"Girls Don't Like It"

...and about 40 others

Vibrators

"24 Hour People"
"Sweet Sweet Heart"
"Petrol"
"Nazi Baby"
"London Girls"
"Flying Duck Theory"
"Baby Baby Baby"
"Destroy"
"Keep It Clean"
"She's Bringing You Down"

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Squeeze

"Cool For Cats"
"Another Nail in My Heart"
"Tempted"
"If I Didn't Love You"
"Up the Junction"
"Separate Beds"
"Pulling Mussels (From the Shell)"
"In Quintessence"
"Slap & Tickle"
"Messed Around"

Elvis Costello

"I Stand Accused"
"Alison"
"Accidents Will Happen"
"New Amsterdam"
"Radio Radio"
"Oliver's Army"
"Pump It Up"
"High Fidelity"
"Watching the Detectives"
"Clowntime is Over"

Joni Mitchell

“Amelia”
“A Case of You”
“People’s Parties”
“Refuge of the Roads”
“Song for Sharon” (ah, hell, all of Hejira)
“The Jungle Line”
“Barangrill”
“Not to Blame”
“Night in the City”
“California”

This is a delightful thread concept.

Björk:

1. Joga (Homogenic)
2. Desired Constellation (Medulla)
3. Pagan Poetry (Vespertine)
4. Bachelorette (Homogenic)
5. Hyperballad (Post)
6. All Is Full Of Love (Homogenic)
7. Oceania (Medulla)
8. I Miss You (Post)
9. I've Seen It All (Selmasongs)
10. Alarm Call (Homogenic)

No Debut songs because "I Miss You" is basically a better version of the best song from it ("Big Time Sensuality").

Xiu Xiu:

1. Clowne Towne (Fabulous Muscles)
2. Save Me Save Me (The Air Force)
3. I Love the Valley OH! (Fabulous Muscles)
4. Rose of Sharon (La Foret)
5. I Broke Up (Knife Play)
6. Sad Pony Guerilla Girl (A Promise)
7. Bog People (La Foret)
8. Crank Heart (Fabulous Muscles)
9. Apistat Commander (A Promise)
10. Ian Curtis Wishlist (A Promise)

Close calls: "Pox," "PJ in the Streets...," "20,000 Deaths For Eidelyn Gonzales, 20,000 Deaths For Jamie Peterson," "Fabulous Muscles."

Inspired by Mark, my own Elvis Costello list:

1. "Accidents Will Happen"
2. "Alison"
3. "Watch Your Step"
4. "I Want You"
5. "Big Tears"
6. "No Action"
7. "What's So Funny..."
8. "Radio Radio"
9. "Beyond Belief"
10. "Pump it Up"
11. "New Amsterdam"
12. "Kinder Murder"
13. "Oliver's Army"
14. "Watching the Detectives"
15. "All the Rage"
16. "Indoor Fireworks"
17. "Uncomplicated"
18. "Mystery Dance"
19. "Brilliant Mistake"
20. "I Don't Want to Go to Chelsea"

Bringing home the mainstream rock - Green Day:

1. "Stuart and the Ave." (Insomniac)
2. "Uptight" (Nimrod)
3. "Pulling Teeth" (Dookie)
4. "Welcome to Paradise" (Dookie version)
5. "Letterbomb" (American Idiot)
6. "Misery" (Warning)
7. "Green Day" (1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hour)
8. "Panic Song" (Insomniac)
9. "Hitchin' A Ride" (Nimrod)
10. "Holiday" (American Idiot) - you know you still like it

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The Replacements:

1. "Here Comes a Regular"
2. "Can't Hardly Wait"
3. "Unsatisfied"
4. "Answering Machine"
5. "Talent Show"
6. "I'll Be You"
7. "Bastards of Young"
8. "16 Blue"
9. "Within Your Reach"
10. "Nobody"


The Pernice Brothers:

1. "Somerville"
2. "Subject Drop"
3. "Saddest Quo"
4. "How to Live Alone"
5. "Baby in Two"
6. "Working Girls"
7. "Our Time Has Passed"
8. "Bryte Side"
9. "Crestfallen"
10. "Cronulla Breakdown"

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My Mats List:

1. "I Will Dare"
2. "Androgynous"
3. "Answering Machine"
4. "Little Mascara"
5. "Unsatisfied"
6. "Here Comes A Regular"
7. "Tommy Gets His Tonsils Out"
8. "Bastards of Young"
9. "I.O.U."
10. "All Shook Down"
11. "Alex Chilton"
12. "Favorite Thing"
13. "Red Red Wine"
14. "Waitress in the Sky"
15. "Left of the Dial"

I just made this 13 song Hold Steady comp for a friend who wanted to try them out. Here it is:

1. "Most People Are DJs"
2. "Certain Songs"
3. "Killer Parties"
4. "Hornets! Hornets!"
5. "Cattle and the Creeping Things"
6. "Your Little Hoodrat Friend"
7. "Charlemagne in Sweatpants"
8. "Stevie Nix"
9. "Stuck Between Stations"
10. "First Night"
11. "Massive Nights"
12. "Chillout Tent"
13. "Southtown Girls"

I would also put "The Swish" and "Positive Jam" (from the first record) and "Chicago Seemed Tired Last Night" and "How A Resurrection Really Feels" (from the second) on a longer comp, but this one was just a teeth-cutter.

Rufus Wainwright:

1. Poses - Poses
2. Beauty Mark - s/t
3. Greek Song - Poses
4. The Art Teacher - Want Two
5. The Maker Makes - Brokeback Mountain Official Soundtrack
6. Vibrate - Want One
7. Gay Messiah - Want Two
8. Danny Boy - s/t
9. Old Whore's Diet - Want Two
10. Little Sister - Want Two

Silver Jews (alphabetical order):

1. Black And Brown Blues (The Natural Bridge)
2. How Can I Love You If You Won't Lie Down? (Tanglewood Numbers)
3. How to Rent a Room (The Natural Bridge)
4. Inside the Golden Days of Missing you (The Natural Bridge)
5. New Orleans (Starlite Walker)
6. People (American Water)
7. Pretty Eyes (The Natural Bridge)
8. Punks in the Beerlight (Tanglewood Numbers)
9. Random Rules (American Water)
10. Smith & Jones Forever (American Water)
11. Tennessee (Bright Flight)
12. The Frontier Index (The Natural Bridge)
13. The Poor, the Fair and the Good (Tanglewood Numbers)
14. Time Will Break The World (The Natural Bridge)
15. Trains Across the Sea (Starlite Walker)

And one more that slipped my mind:
Buckingham Rabbit (American Water)

Joni Mitchell:

Blue (Blue)

Help Me (Court and Spark)

Hejira (Hejira)

Down To You (Court and Spark)

Amelia (Hejira)

A Case of You (Blue)

Coyote (Hejira)

Rainy Night House (Ladies of the Canyon)

Jericho (Don Juan's Reckless Daughter [although I prefer the live version on Miles of Aisles])

The Arrangement (Ladies of the Canyon)

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Iron and Wine

1. Sodom, South Georgia (Our Endless Numbered Days)
2. Upward Over the Mountain (Creek Drank the Cradle)
3. Swans and the Swimming (9-20-02)
4. Jezebel (Woman King EP)
5. He Lays In the Reigns (9-20-02)
6. Promising Light (Creek Drank the Cradle)
7. Weary Memory (Creek Drank the Cradle)
8. Muddy Hymnal (Creek Drank the Cradle)
9. Fever Dream (Our Endless Numbered Days)
10. Passing Afternoon (Our Endless Numbered Days)
11. Southern Anthem (Creek Drank the Cradle)
12. Minor Piano Keys (10-01-01)
13. Each Coming Night (Our Endless Numbered Days)
14. Carissa’s Weird (10-01-01)
15. Faded From the Winter (Creek Drank the Cradle)
16. In My Lady’s House (Woman King EP)
17. Bird Stealing Bread (Creek Drank the Cradle)
18. Naked As We Came (Our Endless Numbered Days)
19. Cinders and Smoke (Our Endless Numbered Days)
20. A History of Lovers (9-20-02)
21. Sunset Soon Forgotten (Our Endless Numbered Days)
22. Mothers of the Rodeo (9-20-02)
23. Foot of the Manger (10-01-01)
24. 16, Maybe Less (In the Reigns EP)
25. The Trapeze Swinger (????? Soundtrack)
26. Lion’s Mane (Creek Drank the Cradle)
27. Sea and the Rhythm (Sea and the Rhythm EP)
28. Beneath the Balcony (10-01-01)
29. Promise What You Will (Creek Drank the Cradle)
30. An Angry Blade (Creek Drank the Cradle)

quote:

25. The Trapeze Swinger (????? Soundtrack)

In Good Company.

Our two favourite Iron and Wine songs are the exact same ones, although reverse order for me.

The Replacements:

1. Bastards of Young
2. I Will Dare
3. Alex Chilton
4. Unsatisfied
5. Androgynous
6. Left of the Dial
7. Favorite Thing
8. Here Comes a Regular
9. Skyway
10. Little Mascara
11. Can't Hardly Wait
12. Answering Machine
13. Kiss Me on the Bus
14. Waitress in the Sky
15. Merry Go Round

Libertines:
(no particular order)
1. Time For Heroes
2. Tell The King
3. Up The Bracket
4. Can't stan dme now
5. What a waster
6. Don't look back into the sun.
7. skag and bone man
8. Bangkok
9. Music when the lights go out
10. What became of the likely lads.

Babyshambles (in no order):
1. I wish
2. The Blinding
3. You talk.
4. Sticks and Stones
5. Fuck Forever
6.Monkey Casino
7. Pipedown
8. Blackboy lane
9. bolloywood to battersea
10. killamangiro

Meat Loaf:
1. Is nothign sacred
2. Objects in the rear view mirror often appear closer than they are
3. Id do anything for love (but i won't do that)
4. 2 out of 3 ain't bad.
5. Bat Out Of hell.
6. I'd Lie For you (and that's the truth)
7/ Paradise by teh dashboard lights
8. heaven can wait.
9. for cryign out loud
10. Read em and weep

The Kinks:

Village Green (Village Green Preservation Society - not the title track, but the second Village Green song)

Waterloo Sunset (Something Else)

Shangri-La (Arthur, Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)

Autumn Almanac (1967 single/various compilations)

God’s Children (Percy soundtrack)

Animal Farm (Village Green Preservation Society)

Big Sky (Village Green Preservation Society)

Days (1968 single/various compil.)

All Of My Friends Were There (Village Green Preservation Society)

Dead End Street (1966 single/various compil.)

Beach Boys:

Cabinessence (20/20)

Good Vibrations (Smiley Smile)

Wouldn't It Be Nice (Pet Sounds)

I Just Wasn’t Made For These Times (Pet Sounds)

God Only Knows (Pet Sounds)

Surf’s Up (Surf's Up)

I Know There’s An Answer (Pet Sounds)

The Night Was So Young (Love You)

Disney Girls (1957) (Surf's Up)

The Warmth of the Sun (B-side to "Dance, Dance, Dance"/various compil.)

I'm going to do Shihad. Noone's done them yet, and they're a terribly underrated band (which is a crying shame, because they're leagues better than many of the current popular bands around. Arctic Monkeys? Get bent).

Anyways, here goes, in no particular order:

All The Young Fascists. (LITNH).
Shot In The Head. (LITNH).
Guts & Glory. (LITNH).
My Mind's Sedate. (TGE).
The General Electric. (TGE).
Pacifier. (TGE).
Wait And See. (TGE).
Just Like Everybody Else. (TGE).
Home Again. (Pacifier Live).
It's A Go. (S/T).
La La Land. (S/T).
Leo Song. (S/T).
A Day Away. (S/T).
Missionary. (S/T).
Hate Boys. (S/T).
Dark Times. (LITNH).
Deb's Night Out. (Pacifier Live).
Pig Bop. (S/T).
Yr Head Is A Rock. (S/T).
Only Time. (TGE).

Stevie Wonder

1. Superwoman (Music of My Mind)
2. I Was Made To Love Her (I Was Made To Love Her)
3. Higher Ground (Innervisions)
4. I Wish (Songs In The Key)
5. Living For The City (Innervisions)
6. Bird Of Beauty (Fulfillingness First Finale)
7. As (Songs In The Key)
8. Love Having You Around (Music Of My Mind)
9. Happier Than The Morning Sun (Music Of My Mind)
10. Big Brother (Talking Book)
11. Another Star (Songs In The Key)
12. Golden Lady (Innervisions)
13. Too High (Innervisions)
14. Master Blaster (Jammin') (Hotter Than July)
15. You Are The Sunshine Of My Life (Talking Book)
16. He's Misstra Know-It-All (Innervisions)
17. I'm Wondering (?)
18. Contusion (Songs In The Key)
19. Boogie On Reggae Woman (Hotter Than July)
20. Uptight (Everything's Alright)

I've left Superstition off the list because I just can't judge it with any pretence of objectivity any more, I've heard it so much and everyone knows it so well. It's probably Stevie's greatest moment, being a song so universally loved by everyone that hears it, but it's not my favourite through overexposure. Slot it in yourself if you can.