OBNER FAVORITES - your Top 10 favorite tracks

billy g · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:41 pm **Posts:** 9020

no guru Wrote:

Chronological Prefab Sprout tenner.
Arguably coolest of the wussy or wussiest of the cool, there's tremendous songwriting within Paddy McAloon's gentilty

Prefab Sprout

Cruel

Swoon

Technique

Swoon

Bonny

Steve McQueen

Desire As

Steve McQueen

The Venus Of The Soup Kitchen

From Langley Park To Memphis

Pearly Gates

Protest Songs

Doo Wop In Harlem

Jordan: The Comeback

One Of The Broken

Jordan: The Comeback

Swans

Andromeda Heights

The Gunman

The Gunman And Other Stories

Code:

http://www.mediafire.com/?yooyzgzumyy

We like a lot of the same bands but it seems like we'd never pick the same songs. I think Jordan the Comeback is a great album but I really hate "Doo Wop in Harlem"

I think they're a really good band though. A little odd to me to see an american refer to the "Two Wheels Good" album as "Steve McQueen" Do you have the import version? I'm assuming its not any different other than the title. I saw today that they supposedly have a new album coming out in Feb.

no guru · **Posted:** Fri Sep 26, 2008 9:23 pm

I used to have Two Wheels Good on vinyl but got Steve McQueen on Amazon a couple years back.

no guru · **Posted:** Fri Sep 26, 2008 9:24 pm

Also, Cher covered "The Gunman" but I haven't dared to track it down and listen.

Ex Lion Tamer · **Posted:** Sat Sep 27, 2008 3:44 am

Here's a Feelies Tenner

allmusic.com Wrote:

Of the countless bands to emerge from the New York City underground during the post-punk era, few if any were as unique and influential as the Feelies; nerdy, nervous, and noisy, even decades later their droning, skittering avant-garde pop remains a key touchstone of the American indie music scene. Named in reference to Aldous Huxley's paranoid classic Brave New World...

Quote:

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?kyyjjomwegv

no guru · **Posted:** Sat Sep 27, 2008 5:47 pm

David Sylvian: Vocal Tenner

Orpheus

Secrets Of The Beehive

The Day The Earth Stole Heaven

Snow Borne Sorrow

Brightness Falls

The First Day

Late Night Shopping

Blemish

Get The Hell Out

Money For All

Red Guitar

Brilliant Trees

The Boy With The Gun

Secrets Of The Beehive

Blackwater

Rain Tree Crow

I Surrender

Dead Bees On A Cake

Let The Happiness In

Secrets Of The Beehive

Code:

http://www.mediafire.com/?y32gkqm2mj0

no guru · **Posted:** Sun Sep 28, 2008 12:49 pm

Rainy Sunday Music.
Innocence Mission is one of the few acts I think consistently make exquisite gentle songs without succumbing to whiny self-absorption.
They're about vignette captured timeless, texture and precise lyrical moment instead of folk yittering.
And Karen Peris has THAT VOICE, the way Harriet Wheeler, Margot Timmins, Hope Sandoval or David Sylvian have THAT VOICE.

Dalen and Polly, if you aren't already familiar, you might like this.

The Innocence Mission

Sweep Down Early

Befriended

Follow Me

Birds Of My Neighborhood

I Hear You Say So

Glow

Every Hour Here

Umbrella

Black Sheep Wall

The Innocence Mission

Small Planes

Small Planes

Into Brooklyn, Early In The Morning

We Walked In Song

Birdless

Birds Of My Neighborhood

I Never Knew You From The Sun

Befriended

You Chase The Light

The Innocence Mission

Code:

http://www.mediafire.com/?vzokmxnjtzv

Kit · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 2:47 pm **Posts:** 3052

That's pretty much the best picture of Karen I've ever seen. Good choice of songs too....though my selections from Birds of My Neighborhood would've likely been different.

It's unfortunate that the height of their commercial exposure seems to be when they were being played as background music in the movie, Empire Records, during that scene when the depressed bald girl is sitting on the shitter.

It's even more unfortunate that I know the movie well enough to remember that happening.

no guru · **Posted:** Sun Sep 28, 2008 7:11 pm

"I Remember Me" and "Black Sheep Wall" got notice early in their career but The Sundays broke the following year and many people started saying Peris was a Wheeler sound alike (instead of a peer whose debut album came out first).

Also, people thought "Bright As Yellow" was a Mazzy Star song.

But it doesn't seem like either Peris was much interested in the promotional dedication it takes to stay celebrities.

I remember watching this Letterman appearance almost 20 years ago:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opUIlpd1dng

Also, the odd but sweet pairing of Mr. Bean and "When Mac Was Swimming":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHyT82cHa_8

toots · **Posted:** Sun Sep 28, 2008 7:17 pm

no guru Wrote:

David Sylvian: Vocal Tenner

Orpheus

Secrets Of The Beehive

The Day The Earth Stole Heaven

Snow Borne Sorrow

Brightness Falls

The First Day

Late Night Shopping

Blemish

Get The Hell Out

Money For All

Red Guitar

Brilliant Trees

The Boy With The Gun

Secrets Of The Beehive

Blackwater

Rain Tree Crow

I Surrender

Dead Bees On A Cake

Let The Happiness In

Secrets Of The Beehive

Code:

http://www.mediafire.com/?y32gkqm2mj0

when you say 'vocal tenner' do you mean it's a Sting-ish vocals-only selection a la the Leaving Las Vegas soundtrack?

i'm asking rather than just DLing because i've already downloaded almost 250 of these and my hard drive hates me...

no guru · **Posted:** Sun Sep 28, 2008 7:22 pm

I mean that it's Sylvian songs and not Sylvian instrumentals.

He has more ambient pieces than songs. These are all songs.

no guru · **Posted:** Mon Sep 29, 2008 10:23 am

Talk Talk

Talk Talk

Talking Colours: Hammersmith Odeon

Life's What You Make It

The Colour Of Spring

Inheritance

Spirit Of Eden

It's My Life

It's My Life

Happiness Is Easy

The Colour Of Spring

Eden

Spirit Of Eden

New Grass

Laughing Stock

Call In The Night Boy

It's My Life

A New Jerusalem

Mark Hollis

Why Is It So Hard?

It's My Mix EP

Code:

http://www.mediafire.com/?itjeclhwdvl

Cap'n Squirrgle · **Posted:** Tue Sep 30, 2008 10:46 am

BUSTY. DOWNLOAD THIS IMMEDIATELY.

Radcliffe Wrote:

Silver Sun

I've knew a guy that was trying to get me to listen to Silver Sun ten years ago, but for whatever reason they never stuck until this week. But, man, they done stuck good. This is what I always hoped Jellyfish would sound like back when I hadn't heard them yet - ultra melodic, kinda Queen/Beach Boys harmonies-upon-harmonies, and the fuzz, buzz, and momentum of punk. Oh yeah, this is power pop, but the type that doesn't shirk from the word "power" and just puts the pedal to the metal and rocks. Plain awesome, in other words.

1. Golden Skin
2. Dumb
3. Last Day
4. This 'n' That
5. I'll See You Around
6. Scared
7. Hey Girlfriend
8. Only A Girl
9. Jody
10. She Wants A Puppy, She'll Have A Puppy

Code:

http://www.mediafire.com/?vcls7fczl5f

RIYL: Tsar, the pop side of the Wildhearts, Weezer, guitar fuzz and harmonies, FUN

neuroboy · **Posted:** Tue Sep 30, 2008 12:17 pm

thanks for the bump. . . missed that one

Cap'n Squirrgle · **Posted:** Tue Sep 30, 2008 12:20 pm

That Jody song = pure delicious crack.

no guru · **Posted:** Wed Oct 01, 2008 12:10 am

New Order

Love Vigilantes

Low-Life

Weirdo

Brotherhood

Senses

Movement

Primitive Notion

Get Ready

Blue Monday

Power, Corruption & Lies

Love Less

Technique

Bizarre Love Triangle

Brotherhood

1963

Substance

The Perfect Kiss

Low-Life

Morning Night & Day

Waiting For The Sirens Call

Code:

http://www.mediafire.com/?u0jinvmjwjz

Cap'n Squirrgle · **Posted:** Wed Oct 01, 2008 4:45 pm

Radcliffe Wrote:

Silver Sun

"Jody"

3x on repeat now, and no signs of slowing.

oh my CRACK.

Busty Rhodes · **Posted:** Wed Oct 01, 2008 5:26 pm

Cap'n Squirrgle Wrote:

BUSTY. DOWNLOAD THIS IMMEDIATELY!

*salutes*

Doing so now Captain!

Only thing tht's bugging me already is the drum sound. Not good.

But yeah, I could get into this FO REAL!

no guru · **Posted:** Sat Oct 04, 2008 12:38 am

Chronological Matt Johnson tenner.
Had to leave off a lot of other favorites, but had to be done
[img][397:500]http://www.emediawire.com/prfiles/2007/05/26/529230/Johnson.jpg[/img]
The The

Like A Sun Risin Thru My Garden

Burning Blue Soul

This Is The Day

Soul Mining

The Sinking Feeling

Soul Mining

Sweet Bird Of Truth

Infected

Armageddon Days Are Here (Again)

Mind Bomb

The Violence Of Truth

Mind Bomb

Love Is Stronger Than Death

Dusk

Honky Tonkin'

Hanky Panky

I'm A Long Gone Daddy

Hanky Panky

Salt Water

NakedSelf

Code:

http://www.mediafire.com/?ydnjzfziwmn

Black Magic Putin · **Posted:** Sat Oct 04, 2008 1:02 am

how the hell is this thread still going on? For christ's sake Spoon, some of these bands are GONE on PURPOSE. Let Talk Talk and The The lapse into the same pile of terrible and drift away into the void.

no guru · **Posted:** Sat Oct 04, 2008 1:12 am

Obviously I think they're good groups, good songs and someone here might like them.

Black Magic Putin · **Posted:** Sat Oct 04, 2008 1:15 am

no guru Wrote:

Obviously I think they're good groups, good songs and someone here might like them.

come on I was with you through the dumb shit but don't bullshit a bullshitter.

no guru · **Posted:** Sat Oct 04, 2008 1:17 am

So you think The The suck then?

Black Magic Putin · **Posted:** Sat Oct 04, 2008 1:35 am

no guru Wrote:

So you think The The suck then?

it's not The The's choices that I have a problem with.

no guru · **Posted:** Sat Oct 04, 2008 6:43 am

PopTodd · **Posted:** Sat Oct 04, 2008 11:40 pm

"Gravitate to Me"
is an amazing song.
Love some stuff by the The.

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