Ike Reilly

This one was tough. It's top heavy with songs from his debut, which is obviously my fave, and then each successive album gets represented at least once.

1. Last Time
2. Angels & Whores
3. Commie Drives A Nova
4. Hip Hop Thighs #17
5. The Boat Song (We're Getting Loaded)
6. Holiday in New York
7. Fish Plant Rebellion (alt.)
8. Valentine's Day in Juarez
9. New Assassination Blues
10. I Will Let You Down



RIYL: tough-ass singer songwriters, punk energy, bad attitudes, watching planes go down in flames

LL Cool J

1. I Can't Live Without My Radio
2. Rock The Bells
3. I'm Bad
4. I Need Love
5. I'm the Type of Guy
6. Going Back to Cali
7. Jack The Ripper
8. Big Ole Butt
9. The Boomin' System
10. Mama Said Knock You Out

Joe Bataan

1. Special Girl (Subway Joe)
2. Gypsy Woman (Gypsy Woman)
3. My Cloud (Riot)
4. Mi Nube (Salsoul)
5. Johnny (Salsoul
6. Ordinary Guy (Afro Filipino)
7. I See Your Hiney (Mestizo)
8. Mestizo II (II)
9. Call My Name (Call My Name)
10. Chick-A-Boom (Call My Name)

The first three songs showcase his doo wop influences. The next three come from the period where he started blending soul with latin rhythms. The next two are from the disco years and especially in the case of "I See Your Hiney" have a high cheese factor. The last two are from his 2005 comeback album.

RIYL: Doo Wop, the Fania style Spanish Harlem sound, slow grooves and great vocals.

The M's

RIYL: fuzzy guitars, vocal harmonies

Tracklist:

01. Mansion in the Valley (Future Women, 2006)
02. Big Sound (Real Close Ones, 2008)
03. There is Work (Self-titled, 2004)
04. Banishment of Love (Self-titled, 2004)
05. Get Your Shit Together (Real Close Ones, 2008)
06. Plan of the Man (Future Women, 2006)
07. Big Baby Bottoms (Self-titled, 2004)
08. Going Over It (Future Women, 2006)
09. Never Do This Again (Future Women, 2006)
10. Break Our Bones (Self-titled, 2004)

Ray Charles

1. You Be My Baby
2. Lonely Avenue
3. Night Time Is The Right Time
4. Busted
5. I'm Movin' On
6. I Want To Know
7. Together Again
8. That's Enough
9. Worried Mind
10. Hard Time (No One Knows Better Than I)

Tried to include some of Ray's rougher, lesser known material not found on myriad hits collections, soundtracks, etc.

Stavesacre

This band was instrumental in my musical development. Probably too simplistic for most people here, I personally find their songs to be pretty ace. Understands atmosphere and how to utilize a voice. The lead singer kind of reminds me of Henry Rollins from an attitude perspective, not sound. Also, when I first came to this board I thought of track 8 for probably-obvious reasons.

01. Minuteman (Speakeasy)
02. Devil (Friction)
03. We'll Sort This Out Right Now (How To Live With A Curse)
04. Acquiesce (Absolutes)
05. Suffocate Me (Friction)
06. Keep Waiting (Speakeasy)
07. Future History of the Broken Hearted (How To Live With A Curse)
08. Shiv (Absolutes)
09. Threshold (Friction)
10. Sundown Motel (Speakeasy)

KRAFTWERK

1. Autobahn
2. Radio Activity
3. Trans Europe Express
4. Metal On Metal
5. The Model
6. Neon Lights
7. Pocket Calculator
8. Computer Love
9. Musique Non-Stop
10. Tour De France

Spade Cooley

1. Troubled Over You
2. You Can't Break My Heart
3. Shame On You
4. You'll Rue The Day
5. You Never Miss The Water
6. Pair of Broken Hearts
7. Cow Bell Polka
8. Hide Your Face
9. I've Taken All I'm Gonna Take From You
10. Three-Way Boogie




And, in case you didn't know, ol' Spade was actually convicted of stomping and strangling his wife to death. He died backstage after his first public performance in over a decade upon his release.

Sufjan Stevens

This guy knows how to write a song. In a very overblown, more-than-you-needed-to-know way. Yet somehow it works... and works well. RIYL orchestrated singer/songwriters.


01. Out of Egypt, Into the Great Laugh... (Illinois)
02. All Good Naysayers, Speak Up!... (Michigan)
03. Your Land (The Avalanche)
04. Year of the Boar (Enjoy Your Rabbit)
05. All the Trees of the Field... (Seven Swans)
06. Super Computer (The Avalanche)
07. Flint... (Michigan)
08. They Are Night Zombies!!... (Illinois)
09. Year of the Rat (Enjoy Your Rabbit)
10. The Transfiguration (Seven Swans)

Graham Parker

1 Hotel Chambermaid 02:58
2 Soul Shoes 03:13
3 You Can't Be Too Strong 03:21
4 Sounds like Chains 04:40
5 Ok Hieronymus 04:16
6 Soul Corruption 07:00
7 Weeping Statues 03:21
8 Force Of Nature 03:45
9 Ambiguous 04:29
10 Pourin' It All Out 03:15


Gordo- wan't trying to kick in your stall- I had this one going this AM. Post one up- yours will probably have a different look.

RIYL: Happy feet.

EPMD

Never Seen Before (Back In Business, 1997)
I'm Mad (Business As Usual, 1990)
Gold Digger (Business As Usual, 1990)
Head Banger (Business Never Personal, 1992)
Crossover (Business Never Personal, 1992)
Strictly Business (Strictly Business, 1988)
I'm Housin' (Strictly Business, 1988)
You Gots To Chill (Strictly Business, 1988)
So Wat Cha Sayin' (Unfinished Business, 1989)
The Big Payback (Unfinished Business, 1989)

Marshall Crenshaw

RIYL: white guys with guitars, rootsy power pop, buddy holly, elvis costello, graham parker

1. Cynical Girl (Marshall Crenshaw)
2. Whenever You're On My Mind (Field Day)
3. Someday, Someway (Marshall Crenshaw)
4. Mary Anne (Marshall Crenshaw)
5. Whatever Way The Wind Blows (Good Evening)
6. Valerie (Good Evening)
7. Don't Disappear Now (Life's Too Short)
8. Walkin' Around (Life's Too Short)
9. Everything's The Truth (Life's Too Short)
10. My Back Pages (V/A Bleecker Street - Greenwich Village in the 60's)

I'm sure i missed a ton as I don't own Downtown or anything from after 1991 if anyone cares to make a volume two.

Graham Parker

You kidding? You can throw out good GP tunes all day long.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/7ty6jc

1. Protection
2. Here it Comes Again
3. The Rest Is History
4. The Madness of Love
5. Under the Mask of Happiness
6. Local Girls
7. Back to School Days
8. There's Nothing on the Radio
9. Passion is No Ordinary Word
10. Just Like Joe Meek's Blues

Augie March


01 Addle Brains (Strange Bird)
02 Heartbeat And Sails (Sunset Studies)
03 One Crowded Hour (Moo You Bloody Choir)
04 The Vineyard (Strange Bird)
05 Bottle Baby (Moo You Bloody Choir)
06 Asleep In Perfection (Sunset Studies)
07 Sunstroke House (Strange Bird)
08 Thin Captain Crackers (Moo You Bloody Choir)
09 There Is No Such Place (Sunset Studies)
10 Vernoona (Moo You Bloody Choir)



RIYL Sufjan Stevens, Kingsbury Manx, kickin' back

Violent Femmes


Femmes On The Liquor: A Violent Femmes Tenner

1. Special (The Blind Leading The Naked, 1986)
2. Just Like My Father (3, 1989)
3. Black Girls (Hallowed Ground, 1985)
4. Don't Start Me On The Liquor (New Times, 1994)
5. Fool In The Full Moon (3, 1989)
6. Tonight (Rock!!!!!), 1995)
7. Forbidden (Freak Magnet, 2000)
8. Life Is A Scream (Why Do Birds Sing?, 1991)
9. I Held Her In My Arms (The Blind Leading The Naked, 1986)
10. Don't Talk About My Music (Shut Your Mouth) (Viva Wisconsin, 1999)

Run DMC

1. Sucka MC's
2. It's Like That
3. King Of Rock
4. Peter Piper
5. It's Tricky
6. My Adidas
7. Walk This Way
8. Run's House
9. Mary Mary
10. It's Like That (Run DMC vs. Jason Nivens)

Realized too late I forgot to include You Be Illin'...but I'm sure you can find that track around somewhere. Besides, this thing already leans heavily on Raising Hell anyway.

Widespread Panic

RIYL: slightly jammy southern rock, beer, weeg

RIP Houser

1. Ain't Life Grand
2. Walkin' (For Your Love)
3. Travelin' Light
4. Wondering
5. Aunt Avis (feat. Vic Chesnutt)
6. One Arm Steve
7. Porch Song
8. Blackout Blues
9. All Time Low
10. Postcard

Gomez

Where Ya Going? (Split the Difference, 2004)
Catch Me Up (Split the Difference, 2004)
Girlshapedlovedrug (How We Operate, 2006)
Make No Sound (Bring It On, 1998)
Sweet Virginia (Split the Difference, 2004)
Notice (How We Operate, 2006)
Love is Bettern than a Warm Trombone (Bring It On, 1998)
Silence (Split the Difference, 2004)
Revolutionary Kind (Liquid Skin, 1999)
Tear Your Love Apart (How We Operate, 2006)

Green On Red

1. Brave Generation
2. Black River
3. Hair of the Dog
4. Sixteen Ways
5. Keep On Moving
6. No Free Lunch
7. Time Ain't Nothing
8. We Ain't Free
9. Little Things In Life
10. Shed a Tear for the Lonesome



RIYL: alt.country, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Chuck Prophet, songs in the key of drunk

Johnny Thunders


1. Born To Lose
2. Pirate Love
3. Do You Love Me?
4. Leave Me Alone
5. Great Big Kiss
6. You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory
7. I Was Born To Cry
8. Tie Me Up
9. Little Bit Of Whore
10. I Only Wrote This Song For You



RIYL: everything that's good about being bad

Like the Wildhearts, this one should really be offered by Diggity Dawg. Also like the Wildhearts, there's probably not that many Obners who are gonna like this - it's high energy, extremely melodic rock 'n' roll with a punk energy and a pro-tools sheen. The debut still ranks in my top 10 of this decade.

TSAR

1. Calling All Destroyers
2. I Don't Wanna Break Up
3. Silver Shifter
4. The Teen Wizards
5. Afradio pts. 1 & 2
6. Rebel Rouser
7. Wanna Get Dead
8. Superdeformed
9. Wrong
10. You Can't Always Want What You Get



RIYL: pretty much answered above

Iris Dement

I don't have her last CD, which I think was more spiritual than country, so I included a couple of duets with John Prine:

1. Sweet is the Melody
2. Mama's Opry
3. We Could (with John Prine)
4. Our Town
5. The Shores of Jordan
6. I'll Take My Sorrow Straight
7. Let the Mystery Be
8. The Way I Should
9. (We're Not) The Jet Set (with John Prine)
10. Childhood Memories

http://www.sendspace.com/file/08rz5r

Bo Diddley

1. Bo Diddley
2. I'm A Man
3. Diddley Daddy
4. I'm Bad
5. We're Gonna Get Married
6. Hey Bo Diddley
7. Here 'Tis
8. Pills
9. Willie & Lillie
10. Ride On Josephine

Those Poor Bastards

1. They Don't Make Folks Like They Used To (Songs Of Desperation, 2005)
2. John Henry Gonna (Hellfire Hymns, 2007)
3. Drunk With Fear (Songs Of Desperation), 2005)
4. Sick & Alone (The Plague, 2008)
5. Radio Country/Bullshit (Brightside) (Country Bullshit EP, 2004)
6. Dead Winter Moon (The Plague, 2008)
7. Stay Away From The Forest, Boy (Hellfire Hymns, 2007)
8. Barn Burning (The Plague, 2008)
9. Death Ain't You Got No Shame? (Songs Of Desperation, 2005)
10. Lost On The Way (Hellfire Hymns, 2007)

gothic psychebilly country dire bullshit

riyl: MojoCaveButtholeCashSwansShackShakers, fucking billygoats on moonshine

The Only Ones

1. Lovers of Today
2. The Whole of the Law
3. Another Girl, Another Planet
4. City of Fun
5. It's the Truth
6. From Here To Eternity
7. You've Got To Pay
8. Why Don't You Kill Yourself?
9. Oh Lucinda (Love Becomes A Habit)
10. My Way Out of Here



RIYL: monotone vocals, O3CGR, & "another girl, another planet"