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10,000 Maniacs

1. My Mother The War The Wishing Chair, 1985
2. Planned Obsolescence Human Conflict Number Five, 1982
3. Hateful Hate Blind Man's Zoo, 1989
4. Pit Viper Secrets Of The I Ching, 1984
5. Scorpio Rising The Wishing Chair, 1985
6. Few And Far Between Our Time In Eden, 1992
7. Tension Makes A Tangle The Wishing Chair, 1985
8. Don't Talk In My Tribe, 1987
9. I'm Not The Man Our Time In Eden, 1992
10. Verdi Cries In My Tribe, 1987

stayed away from the better known folk pop side of the group and stuck with the darker jangle rock side because it'll work better for most on this board.

Bad Brains

Hardcore rasta punks with a reggae heart. These guys would fly between breakneck hardcore punk and laid back reggae grooves at the flick of a switch. Other times, they'd mash the whole thing together. Here's a sampling that stretches back to their earliest recordings as Black Dots up to their latest release last year.


Banned In DC (as Black Dots)
Pay To Cum
I Love I Jah
How Low Can A Punk Get?
I and I Survive
I Against I
Sacred Love
Rise
How Low Can A Punk Get? (dub)
Build A Nation

nice selection nobody. how fucking stellar is the Black Dots version of Banned In DC? just insanely good.

Yeah, those Black Dots tracks are pretty fucking good. I almost used the Black Dots version of Pay to Cum too...you can actually almost make out lots of the words on that one.

An exercise in ego: PopTodd's PopTodd tenner

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Every Kane - eLeMeNO (1991)
Wasted Time - Cash Cow (1994)
Whiskey - Cash Cow (1994)
Another Day - ChewToy (1995)
Hey - Lo-Fi (2000)
Ashes On the Water - Hop On Pop (2004)
For My Friends - Hop On Pop (2004)
New Year's Eve (live) - Todd live @ Uncommon Ground (2005)
C'mon Angel (demo)- Hop On Pop (2008)
The Yummy Song (live)- Todd live @ Uncommon Ground (2005)

Okay, Hive... have at it!!!
I am asking for it!

EDIT:
And one note... the first time I ever played on-stage, in front of a real audience, I was in a band with Mr. onebrownjeff, and we played that first song -- "Every Kane". Jeff was on bass. But he's not on this recording.

I'll listen to this tonight and hold up a little lighter in the game room until the sprinkler goes off.

Echo & The Bunnymen

1. Rescue
2. The Puppet
3. A Promise
4. Never Stop
5. Silver
6. Seven Seas
7. Ocean Rain
8. The Killing Moon
9. Bring On The Dancing Horses
10. Lips Like Sugar

To me, the most evocative band of '80's yet still holds up remarkably well.

https://www.yousendit.com/download/Q01F ... NUt4dnc9PQ

Good tunes there. I'll do a second one a couple weeks down the road.

Andy White

1. Religious Persuasion Rave On, 1986
2. Punks Outside The Secret Police Destination Beautiful, 1994
3. Letter From T / Don't Choose The Wrong Way Garageband, 2007
4. My Gay Cousin Teenage, 1996
5. Looking For James Joyce's Grave Out There, 1992
6. The Guildford Four Himself, 1989
7. Things Start To Unwind Rave On, 1986
8. Six String Street Himself, 1989
9. Bodybuilder Andy White, 2001
10. Samuel Beckett Garageband, 2007

Sardonic Irish singer-songwriter I'm thinking quite a few people here would like a lot. 80's Dylan filtered through Beck through Billy Bragg and if Lennon thought he were Ringo with Mike Scott in The Mountain Goats.
Never been well-known in North America, but should be.
Don't have several of his albums but these are culled from the ones I do have.

I have no idea what that is supposed to sound like but you probably had me willing to give it a go at "Irish" so thanks.

The Ringo bit is more in his love songs, but I didn't include any of those.

Superdrag



from allmusic:
Though many have dubbed Superdrag a punk-pop or power pop band, their music has shown itself to be atop of the aforementioned genres. Taking as much influence from the British Invasion-style pop of the Beatles and the Zombies as My Bloody Valentine and Hüsker Dü, their songs have always combined melodicism and noise in fully distinct fashion. While many have compared frontman John Davis to Big Star's Alex Chilton in terms of his throaty vocals, often cynical lyrics, and major-minor chord progressions, the history of the two Tennessee-based groups have shared many parallels in terms of being a band's band that has often gone misunderstood.

Poi Dog Pondering

1. Living With The Dreaming Body Poi Dog Pondering, 1989
2. Daytrippin' In Seed Comes Fruit, 2003
3. Thanksgiving Wishing Like A Mountain And Thinking Like The Sea, 1990
4. Berry Natural Thing, 1999
5. The Me That Was Your Son Wishing Like A Mountain And Thinking Like The Sea, 1990
6. Jack Ass Ginger Volo Volo, 1992
7. Praise The Lord Wishing Like A Mountain And Thinking Like The Sea, 1990
8. Baby I'm Scared Of You (If You Got Real Love For Me) Soul Sonic Orchestra, 2000
9. Pulling Touch Poi Dog Pondering, 1989
10. Shu Zulu Za Pomegranate, 1995

A collective headed up by Frank Orall that started in Hawaii, went to Texas, settled in Chicago and has tried out folk, worldbeat, indiepop, electronic, soul, house, funk, jazz and several other dance styles over the years.
A mix truly sounds like a mix in this case.

Originals.
Covers.

Daniel Amos

1. Shedding The Mortal Coil Alarma!, 1981
2. I Love You #19 Horrendous Disc, 1980
3. Little Crosses Doppelgänger, 1982
4. (It's The Eighties, So Where's Our) Rocket Packs Vox Humana, 1984
5. Get On The Bus, Aloha Songs Of The Heart, 1995
6. Big, Warm, Sweet, Interior Glowing Kalhoun, 1991
7. Guilty Motor Cycle, 1993
8. Theo's Logic Bibleland, 1994
9. The Organ Bar When Everyone Wore Hats, 2002
10. Pretty Little Lies Mr. Buechner's Dream 2001

One of the few bands to come out of christian music that can genuinely be called consistently intriguing, and over a long span of time.

DA have been a sort of parallel-universe chronicle of music styles for almost 35 years, never getting famous, always too ornery for conservatives and mostly unknown to the greater musical world.

They've morphed from Jesus country rock origins in 1974 to classic rock, postpunk, new wave, modern rock, alternative rock, indie, and finally elder eccentrics referenced by younger acts.

Through it all DA have scoffed, poked at and lampooned self-righteousness and right wing charlatans while somehow managing to put albums out.

Worth looking into for people who have no interest in anything god-related because they've always been funny and have never put out formulaic CCM.

A band I still like even though I've had no dealings with the christian music industry in over a decade.

DA affiliated folks also have a slew of long-running side projects like Swirling Eddies and Lost Dogs and Terry Taylor has some rather good solo albums.

Hüsker Dü

Most of you surely know the deal with Hüsker Dü, where Bob Mould got his start. They progressed from a noisy thrashy wall of noise chaos to something still edgy and energetic but somewhere along the line learned to write great poppy hooks and melodies to bury in the squall. Here's a sampler of some of my favorites of theirs:

Sunshine Superman
Never Talking To You Again
Pink Turn To Blue
Terms of Psychic Warfare
Books About UFOs
Makes No Sense At All
Flexible Flyer
Sorry Somehow
Could You Be The One?
She Floated Away

Goddamnit i fucking hate power pop

where i come from, this doesn't need to be articulated.

My point being Daniel Amos are nothing like that and haven't been since their third album. But, yeah.

damn, i need to catch up

Power pop hates you...have a beer and get over it.

Great song. And probably my fav by them.

I just downloaded a nearly 5GB Sparks torrent. That's a lotta songs to make a tenner out of, but some of my Sparks is on worn out cassettes still.

Are we done yet?


Jo Jo Zep & the Falcons



This is basically what Aussie pub rock sounded like circa '79 - pretty much a road-worn band grafting the Stones to Elvis Costello's My Aim Is True (in fact, Costello covered their "So Young" as a b-side to an early single). They're really not worthy of more than a footnote in the rock history books, but they did manage to put out a string of fine albums. This tenner draws mostly from my personal favorite (Screaming Targets).

1. Hit And Run
2. Don't Wanna Come Down
3. Only The Lonely Heart
4. So Young
5. Trials and Tribulations
6. Thin Line
7. Open Hearted
8. Sweet Honey Sweet
9. Too Hot
10. Rub Up, Push Up



RIYL: dancing, ska, rock and R&B, the idea of My Aim Is True mated with Between the Buttons