10 Day Music Challenge

[Lisey Landon]

Spreading the forum game lurve across the board!

Each day, for 10 days funnily enough, I'll post a questionnaire. Just fill it in. You can be brief or go into your reasons for your choices, it's up to you.

Have fun

Day 1 - List Your 10 Favourite Albums
Day 2 - Your 9 Favourite Songs
Day 3 - First 8 Songs To Come On Shuffle
Day 4 - Your 7 Favourite Bands
Day 5 - Your 6 Favourite Covers
Day 6 - 5 Bands For Your Dream Gig Line Up
Day 7 - Your 4 Guilty Pleasures (Artists or Songs)
Day 8 - Your Favourite Vocalists
Day 9 - Your 2 Favourite Music Videos
Day 10 - Your All Time Favourite Gig

[flaggwalkstheline]

huh

ok

10 favorite albums, 1 being the most favoritest

10 There and Now, live in vancouver 1968- Phil Ochs
It's phil ochs at the crossroads, powerful
9 Good For Your Soul- Oingo Boingo
Oingo boingos' third album is a totally unique mix of new wave, punk, polka, goth and jazz
8 The monitor- Titus Andronicus
A punk rock album about the civil war? yes please, this thing's awesome, if rock and roll had been invented a hundred years early it would sound like this
7 Witchcraft Rebellion- Old time Relijun
Mmmm beefheart influenced swampy death-polka
6 Diamond Dogs- David Bowie
Bowie using glam to create one nasty incredible monster of an album
5 White Chalk- PJ Harvey
Creepy, cold and stuck in my brain, where trip-hop meets cabaret
4 The Black Rider- Tom Waits
Waits cowrote it with william burroughs, it's indescribable
3 The Soft Bulletin- The Flaming Lips
The start of the flamings lips decade long mutating of pop music
2 The Queen is dead- The Smiths
Equally funny and heartbreaking, the first time i heard it it was a religious experience
1 The Lonesome Crowded West- Modest Mouse
Modest mouse mashed together postrock with country and punk to create this 70 minute atmospheric, sparse yet sprawling wild west philosophers' nightmare

[Jean]

In no particular order (except #1 which is #1)

1. Blood on the Tracks - Bob Dylan
2. Bringing It All Back Home - Bob Dylan
3. Sgt.Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles
4. The Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
5. White Album - The Beatles
6. Led Zeppelin IV - Led Zeppelin
7. The Doors - The Doors
8. Desire - Bob Dylan
9. Another Side of Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan
10. The Book of Taliesyn - Deep Purple

[deadohsky]

These are in no particular order, just a total of 10:

1. Mirage - Camel
2. First Utterance - Comus
3. The Record - Fear
4. At Folsom Prison - Johnny Cash
5. Doolittle - The Pixies
6. Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine
7. The Stooges - The Stooges
8. Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures
9. The Roundhouse Tapes - Opeth
10. Brave Murder Day - Katatonia

[alkanto]

Like others, these are in no particular order:

1. Within A Mile of Home - Flogging Molly
2. A Beautiful Lie - 30 Seconds to Mars
3. Dizzy Up the Girl - Goo Goo Dolls
4. How to Train Your Dragon Soundtrack - John Powell
5. Slow Riot for New Zero Kanada - Godspeed You Black Emperor!
6. Judging a Bullet - MWK
7. A Decade - Our Lady Peace
8. A Distant History - Idlewild
9. David Cook - David Cook
10. Seventeen Days - 3 Doors Down

[Walkingman79]

In no particular order except #1

1.Any live show from the Grateful Dead or JGB

2.Dark Side Of the Moon-Pink Floyd

3.Before these Crowded Streets-Dave Matthews Band

4.Nirvana Unplugged-Nirvana

5.Rage-Lettuce

6.The Last Waltz-The Band

7.Doggystyle-Snoop Dogg

8.Relayer-YES

9.Amused to Death-Roger Waters

10.Wildflowers-Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers


Great threadbut I could list a million more!

[Brice]

In no particular order and subject to some change from day to day...


Pink Floyd-Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
The Doors-The Doors
The Beatles-White Album
The Grateful Dead-Live Dead
Led Zeppelin-IV
Metallica-Kill 'Em All
Sublime-Sublime
The Beatles-Yellow Submarine
Violent Femmes-Violent Femmes
Pink Floyd-Dark Side Of The Moon

Jean, nice list.

[turtlex]

Like Brice, these could change daily, but here's a list as I can put it right now :

In NO PARTICULAR ORDER :

• 1. Once More With Feeling / Buffy The Vampire Slayer TV Episode Soundtrack
• 2. Nebraska / Bruce Springsteen
• 3. Ten / Pearl Jam
• 4. Velvet Goldmine / Soundtrack
• 5. The Concert / Barbra Streisand
• 6. Born To Run / Bruce Springsteen
• 7. Long Road Home / The Dixie Chicks
• 8. Into The Wild / Soundtrack ( Eddie Vedder )
• 9. Funhouse / P!NK
• 10. RENT / Original Broadway Soundtrack Recording

As odd as it sounds, I couldn't pick just one Beatles album, so my final list has none!

[alkanto]

Buffy? Buffy?



That would have made my list, had it been two albums longer...

[Girlystevedave]

This is awesome...
and difficult.
In no order, except #1 cause it catapulted me into my love of music.

1. Dookie - Green Day
2. White Album - The Beatles
3. Live At Stubbs - Matisyahu
4. The '59 Sound - The Gaslight Anthem
5. The Masterplan - Oasis
6. The Ultimate Otis Redding - Otis Redding
7. A Hard Day's Night - The Beatles
8. American Graffiti Soundtrack - Various
9. American Idiot - Green Day
10. Use Your Illusion - Guns N Roses

Turtlex: It was hard to narrow my Beatles down to 2 choices.

[BROWNINGS CHILDE]

Some good lists already, I will try but my tastes change dramatically with my mood, so this list could look differently tomorrow.

1. Aenima - Tool
2. Live at Luther College - Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds
3. Unplugged - Nirvana
4. Unplugged - Eric Clapton
5. 40 oz to Freedom - Sublime
6. Ride the Lightning - Metallica
7. Skeletons from the Closet - Greatful Dead
8. Greatest hits of the 20th Century - Bela Fleck and the Flecktones
9. Seasons in the Abyss - Slayer
10. Live and Acoustic - Jason Mraz

P.S not enough spots

Edit: I cant do it. Must have one more
Replace any of the above with "The Subliminal Verses" by Slipknot.

[Jean]

Jean, nice list.

wow, we have four albums in common!

[Darkthoughts]

It is a bugger isn't it...only 10 albums...it makes me nervous to have to put it down in writing

This is what I put on my list on Tumblr:

1. Houses Of The Holy ~ Led Zeppelin

Not just because Led Zep are probably my all time favourite band, but more importantly because this was the first Zep album I ever heard. Sat on the school field one lunchtime, 13 years old, listening to Guns ‘N’ Roses - Appetite For Destruction on someones Walkman. It was a cassette they’d recorded themselves, so there was a completely different album on the B side, which, from the minute it flipped over and I heard the first few bars of The Song Remains The Same I was hooked.

I think it’s a great album in that it shows a real range of Zep, from the dreamy Rain Song to Dancing Days that defys you not to prance around infront of your mirror with a hairbrush, to the almost reggae like beat of D’yer Maker and the mythical tones of No Quarter. Utterly classic album.

2. Wish You Were Here ~ Pink Floyd

I have to be honest and admit that I usually just listen to Shine On You Crazy Diamond I - V and Wish You Were Here. As with Zep, there are Floyd songs I love that aren’t on this album, but if forced I think (which I’m unable to do with a lot of bands) that if I could only pick one favourite Floyd song it would be Shine On You Crazy Diamond.



3. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club ~ The Beatles

Arguably not the best Beatles album, but the most nostalgic for me. My dad had the original gatefold album and I used to listen to this all the time when I was younger. A Day In The Life is pure genius, but secretly Lovely Rita Meter Maid is my favourite.

4. Strange Brew (The Very Best Of Cream) ~ Cream

What an album! I wouldn’t bother with any of the later compilations or Best of’s, this has everything. Just 12 tracks, but within the 12 are Badge, Sunshine Of Your Love, Crossroads (amazing live version, Clapton is insanely good), White Room, Strange Brew, I Feel Free, Tales Of Brave Ulyssess… Check it out.

5. Black Sea ~ XTC

Easily my favourite XTC album and just a great album in itself. It’s got well known tracks like Sgt. Rock and Love At First Sight, but some of the lesser known tracks like No Language In Our Lungs - which is amazing! - really make the album.



6. Eight-Legged Groove Machine ~ The Wonderstuff

I love the Stuffies, saw them about 5 times in my younger gig going days, and thought I love many tracks off HUP and Never Loved Elvis, this album will always invoke memories of being 16, getting drunk on cheap cider and singing in the park, hitching to random gigs and generally being carefree and reckless

7. Unplugged In New York ~ Nirvana

I think I have probably overplayed this album, so I don’t listen to it that much anymore - but the impact of it at the time was immense, I remember watching the gig on MTV and also having seen Nirvana live previously at Reading Festival (1991) and the unplugged album was just…I dunno, it proved alot of their detractors wrong. Kurt Cobain was alot more than an angry young man who screeched into the microphone. I was undecided whether to put this or In Utero but again, as with my other album choices - it’s not always about technical merit for me, it’s about nostalgia and what music invokes in you. This album was always in one of my friend’s cars at the time it came out, we sang to it on journeys, screamed Lake Of Fire and Where Did You Sleep Last Night at each other on the way home from the pub - it’s about the era as much as the album to me.

8. Nothing’s Shocking ~ Jane’s Addiction

Love, love, love this album. Summertime Rolls is one of my all time favourite songs. I recommend listening to the live steel drums version of Jane Says on the album Kettle Whistle (Flea from RHCP is on bass).


9. Blood Sugar Sex Magik ~ Red Hot Chili Peppers

I’m just too sentimental for my own good! This was another soundtrack to my misspent youth. I love the progression of the RHCP as a band, I think it’s a great thing when a band is able to make often quite radically different albums, all of high quality. It’s like a musical photo album, from childhood to adulthood.

Yes, there are amazingly good tracks on their later albums and some real classics on the earlier stuff ( True Men Don’t Kill Coyotes for me) but this album is all killer and no filler

10. Greatest Hits Vol. 1 ~ Queen

I get teased for my love of Queen by some of my snobbier music friends, but I care not! They rock. It’s just a fact. Freddie Mercury was one of the greatest showmen that ever lived. I remember watching him on LiveAid and just being sucked in by his energy. I love this album in particular because it has all my favourite sing along tracks on it.

[Jean]

I get teased for my love of Queen by some of my snobbier music friends

who doesn't?

but I care not!

who does?

[Darkthoughts]

[Brice]

I don't even get that. Queen was (and is) great. And I am a proud music snob. I'd say their judgement is just lacking and I'm hereby revoking their claim to being music snobs.

[Lisey Landon]

Ok, if you thought that was bad...

...Day 2 - List your 9 favourite songs:

[Jean]

I understand it's only for English language songs, or else it would have been all Piaf/Adamo/Brel/Brassens etc for bears

1. A Simple Twist of Fate - Dylan
2. Love Minus Zero/No Limit - Dylan
3. Wintertime Love - The Doors
4. Rain Song - Led Zeppelin
5. Hey Jude - The Beatles
6. I'll Meet You at Midnight - Smokey
7. How Does It Feel - Slade
8. While My Guitar Gently Weeps - The Beatles (Harrison)
9. Crippled Inside - Lennon

[Brice]

1. The Beatles-I Will
2. The Beatles-Rocky Racoon
3. The Greatful Dead-He's Gone
4. Sublime-Date Rape
4. Metallica-For Whom The Bell Tolls
5. Jane's Addiction-Ocean Size
6. The Beatles-Maxwell's Silver Hammer
7. Violent Femmes-Add It Up
8. The Beatles-While My Guitar Gently Weeps
9. Pink Floyd-One Of My Turns

Jean, I almost said Brain Damage too.

[Jean]

Jean, I almost said Brain Damage too.

I almost said For Whom the Bell Tolls.

OH SHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'll go edit my list, I'll have to throw Brain Damage out... I forgot Wintertime Love!!!!!!!!

[Brice]

For real? I had no idea you liked Metallica.

[Jean]

I do! it never fits into any of my top tens because Dylan takes up all the room

[Brice]

Dylan has become listenable to me recently. I've always loved his songs, just not his singing. I'm starting to appreciate him a bit more though.

I've been a Metallica fan since Kill 'Em All came out.

[Jean]

bears adore Dylan's vocal, can listen to him non-stop... it's like smoking, the first cigarette in life might put you off for a while, and then you just can't quit... neither want to

the first Metallica I heard was Master of Puppets, re-recorded manually - that is, you have two tape recorders - not cassette recorders, tape recorders, and a tape that miraculously never fits in either recorder, so you have to hold it on a pencil during the whole recording time. We did it all the time then; people pooled, bought a disk on the black market, and everybody re-recorded it.

[Brice]

Heh, we did that sort of thing too. Now I have most of the albums on vinyl...plus some rare or at least uncommon stuff.