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Originally posted by sans_success:
Wow, your girlfriend knows nothing about music.

She told me that if I knew so much I should make her a CD. So I made a mix for her, but she said it wasn't that great. How could it not be great? It was 89 tracks spead over 364 minutes grouped into 6 genres (indie, alt, pop, punk, electronic and americana) with some random odds and sods thrown in that fit with the general feel.

I think I went a bit over the top...

Dump her

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Originally posted by Mick_DH:

She told me that if I knew so much I should make her a CD.

What she actually meant was, "Buy me flowers, and take me to dinner."

5 releases that generated controversy because of their packaging:

Australia The Lucky Cunt - TISM
Blind Faith - Blind Faith
Country Life - Roxy Music
If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears - Mamas and the Papas
Anarchy - Chumbawamba

Top 5 Most Enjoyable Microhouse Tracks

1. Akufen - Deck The House (Album: My Way)
2. MRI - Tied to the 80's (Album: All That Glitters)
3. Luomo - Tessio (Album: Vocalcity)
4. Herbert - Something Isn't Right (Album: Scale)
5. Isolée - Jelly Baby/Fish (Album: Wearemonster)

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Originally posted by Bhob:
5 releases that generated controversy because of their packaging:

Australia The Lucky Cunt - TISM
Blind Faith - Blind Faith
Country Life - Roxy Music
If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears - Mamas and the Papas
Anarchy - Chumbawamba

Never Mind the Bollocks might garner honorable mention. Apparently "Bollocks" was a vulgar term in '77?

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Originally posted by Maximum Jack:

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Originally posted by Bhob:
5 releases that generated controversy because of their packaging:

Australia The Lucky Cunt - TISM
Blind Faith - Blind Faith
Country Life - Roxy Music
If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears - Mamas and the Papas
Anarchy - Chumbawamba

Never Mind the Bollocks might garner honorable mention. Apparently "Bollocks" was a vulgar term in '77?

Some nice picks there Bhob, i wouldn't have thought of them if I'd written that one. I would probably have gone for some more obvious picks. What springs to mind are:

Beatles - "Yesterday and Today", people weren't too fond of the butchered babies.
Lennon/Ono - "Two Virgins", that had to be sold in brown bags over here for reasons of 'decency'

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Originally posted by Maximum Jack:

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Originally posted by Bhob:
5 releases that generated controversy because of their packaging:

Australia The Lucky Cunt - TISM
Blind Faith - Blind Faith
Country Life - Roxy Music
If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears - Mamas and the Papas
Anarchy - Chumbawamba

Never Mind the Bollocks might garner honorable mention. Apparently "Bollocks" was a vulgar term in '77?

Sure was, MJ. After the Pistols won their case, Johnny Rotten said that If they couldn't have used "Bollocks", they were going to use "Stones".

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Originally posted by Mick_DH:

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Originally posted by Maximum Jack:

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Originally posted by Bhob:
5 releases that generated controversy because of their packaging:

Australia The Lucky Cunt - TISM
Blind Faith - Blind Faith
Country Life - Roxy Music
If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears - Mamas and the Papas
Anarchy - Chumbawamba

Never Mind the Bollocks might garner honorable mention. Apparently "Bollocks" was a vulgar term in '77?

Some nice picks there Bhob, i wouldn't have thought of them if I'd written that one. I would probably have gone for some more obvious picks. What springs to mind are:

Beatles - "Yesterday and Today", people weren't too fond of the butchered babies.
Lennon/Ono - "Two Virgins", that had to be sold in brown bags over here for reasons of 'decency'

The other obvious one is Randy Pie's debut (I think).

5 songs that peaked on the Billboard Hot 100 at a number contained in the title of the song:

One Bad Apple - The Osmonds
1-2-3 - Len Barry (peaked at 2)
25 or 6 to 4 - Chicago (peaked at 4)
Seventh Son - Johnny Rivers
#9 Dream - John Lennon

Five classic songs of teenage death and disgrace:

1 "Last Kiss" (J. Frank Wilson)
2 "Endless Sleep" (Jody Reynolds)
3 "I Can Never Go Home Anymore" (The Shangri-Las}
4 "Teen Angel" (Mark Dinning)
5 "Tell Laura I Love Her" (Ricky Valance)

Top 5 songs with the lyric “splinter” or “splinters”

1) “Loser” – Beck – Mellow Gold

“and my time is a piece of wax, fallin' on a termite… who's chokin' on the splinters”

It’s inexplicable really, in a song filled with so many wonderfully memorable random free-style lines, how the above part has become one of my favorite “lyrics” from any song. I don’t know what it means but I have this mystical conviction that the line has a hidden and indecipherable genius to it. Trying to imagine time, not just any time but Beck’s time, as a piece of wax is difficult enough, but interpreting the nonexistent metaphorical significance of it falling on a termite that apparently is working itself to death is just a total mind fuck. It also helps that this is my favorite Beck song. Apparently the song samples a cover of the Dr. John song "I Walk on Gilded Splinters”. Soy una astilla…

2) “Title Track” – Death Cab for Cutie – We Have the Facts and We’re Voting Yes

“Talking how the group had begun to splinter/ And I could taste your lipstick on the filter”

Gibbard and Co. are the masters of pop poetry – the fitting elegance of the lyrics and Gibbard’s bittersweet vocal delivery shine through as centerpiece on almost all their songs. Unlike the above song, this track’s lyrics introduce the listener to the unfolding narrative of the results of a drama filled one-night stand/wedding crash hullabaloo. This time the “splinter” falls right before maybe my second favorite lyrical line, as the hushed dissonance of the songs spuriously shifts up in tempo and production volume. Again, it is one of my favorite Death Cab songs and I get chills every time I listen to it. This is starting to turn into a pattern.

3) “Harborcoat” – R.E.M. – Reckoning

“They crowded up to Lenin with their noses worn off/ A handshake is worthy if it's all that you've got/ Metal shivs on wood push through our back/ There's a splinter in your eye and it reads react”

For whatever reason, listening to this song re-energizes me and makes me want to pump my fist in the air with a rock n’ roll “fuck yeah” cry, as if cheering on Peter Buck while he stammers erratically around the stage. I’m not really sure how a splinter can read or what that has to do with communism, but I love this song.

4) "Heroes in a Half Shell" – Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

“Teenage mutant ninja turtles/
Splinter taught them to be ninja teens”

Seriously, you had to see this coming.

5) “Fight This Generation” – Pavement – Wowee Zowee

“look for the splinters/ you might see where they come in”

Though this isn’t exactly one of my top Pavement songs, it is a showcase of the slow rock “experimentalism” that defined this album. It starts out sounding eerily similar to “We Dance”. The resounding string part (cello?) makes it memorable, and perhaps brought me back this track enough for me to remember the “splinters” part comes in.

Alright, that’s all I can think of for songs with the word splinter(s) in the lyrics for now. I’m sure I’ve missed out on some classics but who cares. I can't believe I just spent like 2 hours writing about music that revolves around the word splinter...

Top 5 Songs That Describe My Current Life Story(in sound or lyrics)

1.Pyramid Song-Radiohead
2.Paper Bag-Fiona Apple
3.Hands Away-Interpol
4.The Art Teacher-Rufus Wainwright
5.Let Down-Radiohead

Top 5 dance/electronica albums of this decade:

1. Sound of Silver - LCD Soundsystem
2. Discovery - Daft Punk
3. The Warning - Hot Chip
4. LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem
5. Silent Shout - The Knife

Pixies! That was an Amazing list.

Very awesome. "Fight this Generation" is actually one of favorite Pavement songs. I discovered them in my early college days, and it became something of a theme song for a while.

Have you heard the song "Splintering" by Arizona. It's a very good track. You should check it out.

Ha yes, thank you. I too discovered Pavement in college (maybe I should make a top 5 bands discovered in college list), but that was a little later than your college experience. The important thing is that we now know which song has uses the word "splinters". Believe it or not I came up with idea for that list in the, ahem, bathroom at work on Friday. Weird day. I'm just glad I could revive this thread, and I'll check out that song

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Originally posted by Shadrach:
Pixies! That was an Amazing list.

Yeah, we should have more lists like that.

Top 5 songs with "sun" in the title:

1. Here Comes The Sun - The Beatles
2. Sunday Sun - Beck
3. Staring At The Sun - TV On The Radio
4. When The Sun Goes Down - Arctic Monkeys
5. Blister In The Sun - Violent Femmes

Top 5 Spooky Albums Directly related to Halloween.. well close enough...

1. The Ghastly Ones - "A-Haunting We Will Go-Go"
2. Darwin Chamber - "3D Halloween Sound FX 2006"
3. Various - "The X-Files: Songs In The Key Of X"
4. Mannheim Steamroller - "Mannheim Steamroller Halloween"
5. Various - "The Nightmare Before Christmas"

Well I'll be the boring one and just post top 5 song lists from some of my favourite bands.

Please note that what with me being italian, lyrics are not all that important to me...

Top 5 songs by R.E.M. (excluding the album Accelerate):

1. Driver 8 (unbelievable that with so many top 5s about trains this didn't come up)
2. Fall on me
3. I Believe
4. World Leader Pretend
5. So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry)

Top 5 songs by Belle and Sebastian:

1. Get me away from here, I'm dying
2. The Fox in the Snow
3. The Model
4. Waiting for the moon to rise
5. She's losing it

Top 5 songs by Interpol:

1. Pioneer to the falls
2. Slow hands
3. Obstacle 1
4. Evil
5. C'mere

Top 5 songs by Muse:

1. Plug in baby
2. Hysteria
3. Soldier's Poem
4. Blackout
5. Thoughts of a dying atheist

(not really sure about this list)

Top 5 songs by The Strokes:

1. Trying your luck
2. Someday
3. Heart in a cage
4. Juicebox
5. Reptilia

Top 5 songs by Arctic Monkeys

1. A certain romance
2. I bet you look good on the dancefloor
3. Do me a favour
4. D is for Dangerous
5. The bad thing

Top 5 songs by Pearl Jam

1. Corduroy
2. Elderly Woman etc.
3. Betterman
4. Rearviewmirror
5. Alive

(still have to catch up on a lot of things by them though, such as Singles OST, Big Fish OST, I got ID and the Avocado album)

Top 5 songs by Radiohead

1. Exit music
2. Let down
3. Paranoid android
4. Where I end and you begin
5. Creep

(that was really tough).

That's all for now.

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