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I am going to form a play list from scratch

Each poster that replies, give me two songs (any genre,any era, any artist) that should be on it and why.

When we hit 40 songs/20 respondents I will collate.

I will then submit my daughter to it on a long journey this weekend.

She'll thank you, and i will be able to explain why these songs....

Over to you.....

Good idea, I should do the same for my daughter.  I do try and make her aware of the great bands from the past.

The Wonder Stuff - Mission Drive.   Used to get played whenever we set off to gigs. It's a great song to start a journey with and one that makes me happy every time I hear the opening guitar riff.

Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven.  One of the greatest rock songs ever and everyone should be aware of it.    I'm hoping someone else posts a GnR song!

Circle - Marques Houston

Shorty Got Her Eyes on Me - Donell Jones

I don't have any special reason except these are my 2 favourite songs of all time. They aren't well known songs or by overly well known artists. Donell Jones's best known hit is "U Know What's Up" that he did with Left Eye from TLC. Marques Houston used to play Rodger in the Nickelodeon series Sister Sister which I used to watch when I was young.

Long after tonight is over - Jimmy Radcliffe.

A Northern Soul classic , one of the 3 before 8 .(The final 3 songs at Wigan Casinos allnighters.


David Bowie - Lady Grinning Soul.

Terrific track about loving a woman that you know is just going to use you but you can't stop loving her.

Madness: Baggy trousers not there best song but easily  the most played one nowadays and no school disco was ever complete without it

Blur: Parklife from the britpop era one of the best out of manachester

Van Morrison - Brown eyed gild

Rolling Stones - Honky tonk woman

Beatles - Octopus's garden (1969). It's been in my head for the last few days.

Sparks - Amateur hour(1974). My fav band, one of their best songs.

Foo Fighters - Everlong (1997)

Best band in the world, one of their greatest songs

East 17 - House of Love (1992)

Mainly because I saw Brian Harvey on When Celebrity Goes Horribly Wrong on telly last night and they told his sad story culminating in this clip (watch till the end, bless him! rotflmfao)

www.youtube.com/0sDEij2eHyA

good god,east 17

sheriff itt, pixies? carter?

Creating as we go

Chumbawamba - The Day The Nazi Died (best version to use is the live version from the 'Showbusiness' album).  A song from the 90s aimed towards the intolerance of far right groups.  Still as relevant (if not more so) now.


The Wedding Present - Don't Laugh.  This is a 'proper' love song.  Not some formulaic crap written by numbers, but a song about dealing with a break-up (and there's no-one better at break-up music than the Weddoes).  Recommended as it's inevitable fact of life that a Wedding Present break-up song will become relevant to everyone!

Carter were a consideration, but couldn't narrow it down to one in particular.

no sign of that chumba song. you have a third choice

James- Tomorrow

Public Enemy- Harder than you think

Geneva - No One Speaks

Almost completely forgotten Scottish band from the tail end of Britpop. Video for this was shot in the old Hoover Building on the A40 in London right beside my house - plenty of faded Art Deco stylings in the background.

Brian Eno - On Some Faraway Beach

I became aware of Brian Eno's solo stuff through watching Adam Curtis documentaries - this is from the first album he did after leaving Roxy Music.

Spotify epic fail!

Carter USM - Shopper's Paradise.  Brilliant tune, even better lyrics with some very clever wordplay.  Recommended as discovering Carter's music will be a life-improving experience in general!

Bloody hell, that's 20 years old?

Levellers - Beautiful Day

Great live song and brilliant in a car. Should make everybody who hears it happy and if it's sunny outside on the drive you'll definitely repeat this one.

Linkin Park - In the End

Had this on in my car since forever.

queen....Dont stop me now......great to singalong to in car  ( prob most Queen songs tbh )
Joan Baez ....Diamonds and Rust......simply stunning voice

Echobelly - Great Things

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blusS4RU8Sw

Kasabian - Underdog

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw09tAcNB0Q

I can see it now. Tighty sees that I've replied in this thread and instantly dies inside a little, fully expecting some snarling heavy metal of the Metallica/Slayer type.

Sorry, not today. However, you are getting Avenged Sevenfold and Motorhead, just not what you expect.

Avenged Sevenfold - Fiction
and
Motorhead - Heroes (I wanted to cheat and get Bowie in there somewhere!)

Got to have some hippy/folk stuff

Suzanne, Leonard Cohen

America, Simon and Garfunkel

Can you share the playlist once it's complete?

Link to it is here

https://open.spotify.com/user/tighty4467/playlist/1I17UkEHFqSMYQfflA5j3K

30 currently

10 songs to go

Gil Scott Heron.  Pieces of a man.  Just fantastic lyrics, bit bleak though.  Home is where the hatred is might be better.  Just as bleak, but was sampled (well pretty much stolen) by kanye west.

Jill Scott. Golden.  And after that one, you want something uplifting.

Choosing 2 is ridic hard - I'll pick based on around where my kids excellent musical education probably began

Clash - Train in Vain
Public Image Limited - Poptones

lay lady lay - bob dylan - always reminds me of my college days laying in the park with a few beers and chilling out with mates

Amore - Ryuichi Sakamoto - amazing piano soloist, just a very peaceful album in general and well worth a listen

Sugarhill Gang - Rapper's Delight (1979)

Frankie Knuckles - Your Love (1987)

Two dance music classics.

Teenage Kicks - Undertones
Just brilliant

I don’t like Mondays - Boomtown Rats
First record I ever bought

Very difficult to narrow it down to two tracks.  Could easily have chosen 10 tracks

Johnny B. Goode  - Chuck Berry.  Best guitar riff of all time IMO

James Ingram & Michael McDonald - Yah Mo Be There.     Great voice and takes me back to my teenage years.

Marillion - This Strange Engine

I think they are the best band in the known Universe and this is a post Fish Song which is a kind of part autobiography of Steve Hogarth's childhood and other memories. Contains one of Steve Rotherey's best guitar solo's. There's a lot of solo's and songs to choose from. This one has just won the Marillion Song using a World Cup format i.e. 1st round, through to the Final voted by the biggest Marillion FB group and that's why I chose it, it was tough, could have been any from quite few more.

New Order - True Faith. One of my fav songs from My Hacienda days, well nights really!

Two choice tracks from the last band I saw live and the next band I will see:

The Rhythm Method - Something for the weekend

Proof the you can still make music like they used to, in 2017. This generation's to Squeeze fronted by Ian Dury. Should be massive, won't be; phenomenal live.

Weezer - Buddy Holly

American 90s melodic pop-rock at its absolute finest. An iconic tune named after an iconic individual by a band who have reinvented themselves to stay current in the modern era. Outstanding.

Going underground - The Jam

Since you been gone - Rainbow

Two cracking songs from my younger days.

Ok we're done

Link is https://open.spotify.com/user/tighty4467/playlist/1I17UkEHFqSMYQfflA5j3K

See how we get on

Following looking forward to finding some new bands!

Same, this was a great idea. There are some crackers in that lineup!

I've not gotten to this yet but it's showing as 30 minutes long?

Andrew just squeaks in front of Scrote.

Who doesn't love East17, tighty? Walthamstow a superb pop album. Not like he's chosen PJ and Duncan's When I Fall In Love*



*not my suggestion. Don't worry!

Was it Avenged Sevenfold which notoriously started one of the hardest most obscure RSQs ever?

it was.

We do not forget.

I timed it as just under 18 on the live album! Maybe it's a problem then, in true prog fashion on the album of the same name it could have been padded out a bit but I don't have that one on vinyl. There's a good live version from one of the Holland weekends on Youtube :-)

I'm following too, it looks like a really eclectic mix and I hope to find some new music.

Avoided using spotify for so long for a reason I've long forgotten.

This seems as good a reason as any to sign up.

Many thanks for all the contributors.

My two for what its worth would be :
1. Born Slippy - Underworld. From one of my favourite films and immediately transports me back to my University days and my drinking prime.
2. Don't Look Back in Anger - Oasis. Sing along nonsense!

Well, that went well. I won't be asking for another playlist lads ;shame;

Ha.  No artists that she intends to research then ?

Marillion (NAP)

I had two "hasn't it finished yet?" 's during the 17 minutes of Marillion. Prog rock hasn't reached my teenagers yet.

Not all a disaster though. They liked east 17.

Isn’t subjecting a kid to 17 minutes of Marillion covered by child abuse laws?

C'mon Tighty, detailed update required on likes/dislikes of all songs ;)

That was the one that first came to mind, for me.

Think the 2nd would be 'One' by Metallica.

You don't want to go there. Second time in my life avenged sevenfold have caused me grief

C'mon, you have done more controversial stuff (posters of the year :D)

I hope so. You've given me a great idea to deal with the 3 next door. 18 Marillion albums at least hear we go....

Thinking back perhaps I expected too much. I should have picked something a little more conventional like Sugar Mice or even Suppers Ready by Genesis when they were really good ;) I also looked back at alot of choices for the New Order Song and the first few that came to mind were Hurt by Johnny Cash, Space Age Love Song by A Flock of Seagulls, It's my Life by Talk Talk and at least 3 by Depeche Mode!

next time,Enjoy the silence (literally)

Late addition to the Marillion love in.

So tonight I noticed a tweet by Marillion supporting the nurses, and I thought I used to listen to Grendel and enjoy it, so I thought I'd look it up and OMFG.

Always thought they were unfairly ridiculed just because of the mullet and the prog rock origins.  I am sure Strict for a Jester's Tear is still an ok listen, but this starts a bit crazy with the long sleeve/no sleeve combo and somehow gets more and more bonkers. 

https://youtu.be/Is-WlIn300A (https://youtu.be/Is-WlIn300A) (dunno why YouTube links have changed, maybe it is my phone?

Can see why comments were turned off.  If you can't stomach it all, skip to the last 5 minutes.

Like yr choices - two I would always listen to all the way if they popped up on me

It's fair to say Marillion are definitely Marmite. Some love them some hate them, some don't like H being the "new" lead singer even though he's been in the band much longer now than when Fish was with them and he's still there. They have both written fierce songs, love songs and everything in between. They are all really nice blokes in RL and do a bit for good causes. FWIW My fav tracks change all the time - there are so many but this week they are from the fish era Warm Wet Circles - Clutching at Straws released in 1987 and The title track from Afraid of Sunlight released in 1995.

For anyone interested the Prog_music Channel on YT has a series of Marillion best moments of The Fish era, the H era, Steve Rothery epic guitar bits and lots more.

Here is the link for Vol 1. https://youtu.be/R70EA6Zvx0g Fill your boots. Tighty can look away now.

I am pretty sure I have every Marillion album from the Fish days.  I did move to Manchester not long after and it is fair to say my taste in music moved on, though I still listen to the old stuff.  Did you watch the video?  It is well and truly bonkers, kind of wish I'd seen him live now.

Back to the original topic.  I just avoid Spotify as they are pretty terrible at paying artists, so I tend to spend a lot of my time on 6 music and listening to CDs/vinyl.  I guess it has been coming a while, but Little Simz released her new album on the 12th, it may have changed by now but you can listen for free or buy Vinyl.  There was no CD option. 
I want to support you ffs.

Seems like 2020s CDs are going to be as rare as 1990s Vinyl?  I can see they could go the way of cassette tapes? 

You asked if I saw the video, where do I start! I'm probably in there somewhere I need to work out which gigs they are. I must have gone to seen them maybe 80/100/150+ times? The first time I saw them play live was on the Grendel tour in 1981 at I think the Band in the Wall in Manchester. The last time I saw them was either in Cardiff just before the Pandemic or at the last Holland Marillion weekend which was a bucket list thing. I have a big box of music memories I need to go through with autographed stuff, not just Marillion but with Yes - my first big love them Gabriel era Genesis my second love then Floyd Rush and Marillion and a few more, Bowie Roxy etc. I was grounded a few times!

Seems like 2020s CDs are going to be as rare as 1990s Vinyl?  I can see they could go the way of cassette tapes?


I have no idea, Newportlad moans at me for hogging a corner of the living room that has a fraction of the Vinyl, Cassette tapes, CD's I used to have along with my Sony sound system with double tape deck and turntable. Everything has it's day and then eventually comes around again. I have a lot of stuff that means nothing to anyone else but the world to me music wise. I can honestly say that I am glad I was born when I was because the music was great and there aren't many bands etc that I missed seeing and regret it. Happy days.
 

100 or so gigs. I appreciate the dedication and sure they do too

I'm small fry compared to a good number of fans who are now retired and relentlessly go all over the world seeing them including the Prog Cruise to the Edge which sails every January around the Caribbean. The band could decide they want to retire too, every tour could be their last. After my 2nd hip went wrong I doubt I'll see them live again, I've always been a get at the front kinda gal and I can't do that so much anymore so it's not the same for me.

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