Sebadoh ‘Brand New Love’
Brecht/Weill ‘Song of the Insufficiency of Human Endeavor’
Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band ‘Big Eyed Beans from Venus’
Leonard Cohen ‘Famous Blue Raincoat’
The Ramones ‘I Don’t Wanna Go Down to the Basement’
Dwight Twilley Band ‘Looking for the Magic’
Spirit ‘Aren’t You Glad’
Pinback ‘Talby’
Destroyer ‘An Actor Seeks Revenge’
Brian Eno ‘The True Wheel’
Wire ‘Mr. Marx’s Table’
Fugazi ‘Rend It’
The Shangri-Las “Past, Present, Future’
Tobin Sprout ‘The Last Man Well Known to Kingpin’
The Quick ‘Madchen Mania’
The Kinks ‘Wicked Annabella’
Swervedriver ‘Rave Down’
Sonic Youth ‘Schizophrenia’
Moonface ‘Marimba and Shit Drums’
Alexander O’Neal ‘Criticize’
Guided by Voices ‘Best of Jill Hives’
The Replacements ‘Color Me Impressed’
Randy Newman ‘Marie’
Death Grips ‘Get Got’
Velvet Underground ‘White Light/White Heat’
Neil Young ‘Tired Eyes’
David Ackles ‘Montana Song’
Laura Nyro ‘Captain St. Lucifer’
Pink Floyd ‘Lucifer Sam’
Sunn0))) ‘It took the night to believe’
Superchunk ‘The First Part’
Drive Like Jehu ‘Here Come the Rome Plows’
Jefferson Airplane ‘Watch Her Ride’
Broken Social Scene ‘Anthems For A Seventeen-Year Old Girl’
My Bloody Valentine ‘Cigarettes in Your Bed’
Pavement ‘Starlings in the Slipstream’
Bow Wow Wow ‘Chihuahua’
ABBA ‘Knowing Me, Knowing You’
Xiu Xiu ‘Blacks’
Donovan ‘Epistle to Dippy’
Soft Cell ‘Say Hello, Wave Goodbye’
XTC ‘Rocket in a Bottle’
Gram Parsons ‘1000 Wedding’
The Melvins ‘Joan of Arc’
The New Pornographers ‘Use It’
Van Dyke Parks ‘The All Golden’
Ladytron ‘Destroy Everything You Touch’
Var ‘Pictures of Today/Victorial’
Tricky ‘Diss Never (Dig Up We History)’
Super Furry Animals ‘Run! Christian Run!’
Kevin Ayers ‘Oleh Oleh Bandu Bandong’
The Cure ‘Strange Day’
The Move ‘Tonight’
Sparks ‘Mickey Mouse’
The Breeders ‘Doe’
Echo & the Bunnymen ‘Villiers Terrace’
Andy Pratt ‘Inside Me Wants Out’
The Byrds ‘I’ll Feel a Whole Lot Better’
Husker Du ‘Divide and Conquer’
Weezer ‘Holiday’
SOS Band ‘Be Good to Me’
Public Enemy ‘Bring the Noise’
The Supremes ‘You Keep Me Hanging On’
Magazine ‘The Light Pours Out of Me’
Pete Shelley ‘XL1’
Cheap Trick ‘Auf Wiedersen’
Mission of Burma ‘Academy Fight Song’
Bjork ‘Hyperballad’
Nick Drake ‘Black Dog’
Siouxie & the Banshees ‘Skin’
The Dickies ‘Fan Mail’
The Weirdos ’Neutron Bomb’
The Assembly ‘Never Never’
Wall of Voodoo ‘Factory’
Ride ‘Vapour Trail’
New York Dolls ‘Personality Crisis’
Love ‘August’
Serge Lama ‘Je Suis Malade’
Blur ‘This Is a Low’
Silverchair ’Tuna in the Brine’
Nirvana ‘Heart Shaped Box’
Robert Wyatt ‘Alifib’
Lush ‘De-Luxe’
Buffy Sainte-Marie ‘Poppies’
Alice Cooper ‘Halo of Flies’
The Three O’Clock ‘Fall to the Ground’
Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac’ Green Manalishi’
Cat Power ‘Crossbones Style’
Deerhunter ‘Helicopter’
The Bee Gees ‘Holiday’
Gang of Four ‘I Found That Essence Rare’
Morrissey ‘Last of the Famous International Playboys’
The Left Banke ‘Shadows Breaking Over My Head’
Swans ‘Weakling’
Butthole Surfers ‘U.S.S.A’
Roxy Music “Mother of Pearl’
Rob Zombie ’Superbeast’
Loudon Wainwright III ‘Kick in the Head’
The Rolling Stones ‘We Love You’
The Fall ‘Carry Bag Man’
Mad River ‘The War Goes On’
The Jesus and Mary Chain ‘The Hardest Walk’
Tim Buckley ‘Pleasant Street’
Roky Erickson Two Headed Dog’
Drunken Boat ‘Pool’
The Buck Pets ’Song for Louise Post’
10cc ‘Somewhere in Hollywood’
Richard Hell ‘Love Comes in Spurts’
Pixies ‘Gigantic’
Young Marble Giants ‘Wurlitzer Jukebox’
Robert Pollard ‘White Gloves Come Off’
The Who ‘I Can See for Miles’
Peaches ‘Rock Show’
John Cale ‘Engine’
Lou Reed ‘Sad Song’
Codeine ‘jr’
Buffalo Springfield ‘Expecting to Fly’
Tom Waits ‘God’s Away on Business’
Nina Simone ‘Pirate Jenny’
Elvis Costello ‘Riot Act’
Flipper ‘Way of the World’
Elliott Smith ‘Everything Means Nothing to Me’
Om ‘Annapurna’
Sir Mix A Lot ‘Baby’s Got Back’
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p.s. Hey. Don’t think you’re expected to rattle off 80-something favorite songs, or any number of them, if you don’t want to, but if you feel like doing a tit for tat and posting a favorite song or bunch of songs, that would be cool. ** Nicki, Hi. ‘Batshit crazy’ is such a strange phrase. I wonder how that happened. Glad you liked the post and share a position in the ticklish popping thing. Thank you! ** Kier, Hi, K. Popping bubble wrap is even better than chewing your fingernails. Bubble wrap is like a playground for adults or something. Painting, very cool! I felt really bad for those tiny frogs for a minute there. It must be so intense to be so dependent on the weather. How was ‘Marat/Sade’ for you? When I saw it ages ago, I sort of didn’t like it all that much, which surprised me, but I don’t remember why. Maybe I thought it was too much like a filmed play or something? Maybe I wouldn’t mind that now. Maybe the word Sade in the title got me too excited? Maybe that wouldn’t be an issue now. ‘Harvestmen’, wow, that’s their common name? That’s really interesting. They can swallow chunks of food? Wow. I mean, they’re so incredibly delicate and fragile that it seems like they could only eat air or something. That’s so interesting. I think I’m going to spy on the next one that calls my bathroom home. Thank you, pal. My Monday was all right. I ran errands mostly, and, what else, oh, I hung out with Kiddiepunk and Oscar B, who were just back from vacation. The casting call thing on Facebook has been kind of a bust. I’m surprised. I thought it would work, but not really. But we have a couple of possibly really good possibilities from elsewhere that we’ll try out/talk to/audition as soon as Zac gets back. Oh, thank you for the pink/hearts/bubbles! That was beautiful! It still is! How was Tuesday up there where you are? ** Kyler, Hi. I’ve been wrapping birthday presents, so bubble wrap has been at the fore of consciousness for me as well. I’m really glad to hear your book is finding such excellent shelves and getting props from your ‘nearest and dearest’. ** Tosh Berman, Ditto, I mean me too. I don’t know about pimples, though. Maybe. Yeah, maybe. Ha ha, no, I don’t think Bowie and Iman were referring to me, but what a lovely idea. He did look in my eyes for a fraction of a second and squint as though something might be familiar in my eyes or something. Bowie/me collab? Uh, I don’t know, Tosh. I’ve just suddenly realized that there’s no Bowie song in my favorite songs list up there. Huh. I suppose if he suggested such an idea, I would consider it very, very seriously. I do think a little outside interference from the right person at this point in his music making trajectory wouldn’t hurt him. Okay, I’d be down for that if were down for a Ferry/Berman collab, and, correct me if I’m wrong, but I know you would be? ** Sypha, Yep. Keyboard of the gods. Thrilled and fascinated to get and see your Suzanne Vega Day. Thank you, James. You rule. Sorry about the publisher’s. I hope the next one bites like Dracula. ** Damien Ark, Hi, Damien. Always excellent to see you! I know, right? About the ASMR. I thought it was weird that a couple of them were made/offered as a New Age stress relief ambient thing. I thought the sound was totally stressful in a really good way. Where are you going to college? Are you excited about that? Will you be studying writing? The kind of subject matter you deal with, and, you know, me too, does make it hard for anyone else to edit. I never get edited or barely. I just learned self-editing from reading books and trying to imitate their tightness or something. Thanks, man. Yeah, I honestly don’t know how I do all the stuff I do. It’s weird. I have weird energy or something. Have an excellent Tuesday! ** Etc etc etc, Hey, Casey. Ooh, bubble wrap in which each bubble is a tiny snow globe. That is a genius idea right there. Hemingway Paris stuff. There must be a bunch of that. But, yeah, it could be that the spots are touristed up since even tourists who don’t read books or care about literature are into seeing Hemingway’s old haunts. Like all the people who don’t really know anything about art or care about art very much flocking to the Picasso museum or something. Yeah, it’ll be nice in any case. I can give you what tips and directives I have on Paris literary locales if you want. I haven’t read Roth in a million years. Love Gaddis top to bottom, though. Of very late, I haven’t been reading as much, but this week I’m going to start some new stuff. I’m currently, slowly reading the forthcoming Blake Butler novel ‘300,000,000’, which is phenomenal. The authors I propped on Dazed are awesome, yeah. I hope all stuff in your head and world is progressing too. What did you do of note or even not of note on this hopefully fine Tuesday? ** Bill, Thank you. I do my best, ha ha. Those tortes look delicious. Wow. The second looks maybe a little dry in the photo, but I like my tortes moist. I’m a moist pastry kind of guy most of the time. There must be a Viennese style patisserie here. Maybe while I’m running around today I’ll find one and eat a torte. I think the first one, if they have it. Yum. ** Keaton, They do seem magical. They seem like they defy the laws of physics or something. And they seem like they’re too fragile to have survived this long in the evolutionary pool. I’ve only been to Petit Palace once. I can’t even remember it. I remember there’s a big central courtyard where you can smoke. It must be hard to be the Petit Palais, its entrance staring forever, day and night, at the so much more impressive entrance of the Grand Palais. You’re rereading the underage classics. That’s an interesting strategy. That might just work. Tot ziens! ** Steevee, No, I haven’t seen ‘Gerontophilia’. It’s hard for me to get it up to see his films, but I always do eventually. Well, it was a hit relative to his other films. It seems like his ‘Mysterious Skin’ move, although I can’t imagine it being anywhere as good as ‘MS’. Tell me what you thought. ** _Black_Acrylic, Hi, Ben! ** Misanthrope, I think I’m like you, But I think I always leave a few prisoners. Karma or something. Yeah, it makes utter and duh sense that a football player’s brain would be a lot more wrecked than a swimmer’s. Another reason to add to my many reasons why I can’t stand American football. They say people break their toes, or the little ones at least, all the time and have no idea they have. I bet you just broke yours, for example. ** MyNeighbourJohnTurtorro, Hey, man! I’ve never met anyone who doesn’t like bubble wrap. I’ve met people who like it ‘too much’. But, while making that post, I did learn that there’s a bubble rap phobia that is not massively uncommon. Polystyrene, eh? *Evil laugh* Nah, I’ll try to avoid a post on said substance if it is humanly possible. Casting call is going but with difficulty, but it’s going, and it’ll be okay, and maybe even okay very soon if we’re very lucky. No, as I told Kier, the Facebook shout out was kind of a total waste of time, or so far at least. The music role is definitely the hardest. Zac and I have to put our heads together and get that figured out somehow really, really soon. I like Lower, yeah. I like the new album. I haven’t listened to it all that much, though. It’s growing on me. The slicker, more overtly pop thing is becoming less problematic for me with every spin. Yeah, new Iceage album is due before the end of the year. New music … nothing too brand new since my last gig post. I think I like the new UltraMantis Black, but, no nothing brand spanking new that I can crow about today. The Shabazz Palaces is kind of ruling my ears at the moment. Bon day to you sir! ** Postitbreakup, Hi, Josh. Do they still make new ‘Silent Hill’ games. I’m so, so out of the loop on video games these days, it’s scary. I’m sorry you’re in that mood. Familiarity does not lessen its impact. You should totally suss a way to write about it. It could be your writing’s calling card, or one of them. It could be, like, your ‘rimming’. Ha ha. Feel better, my pal! ** Okay. The favorite songs thing is the thing of today, and that’s that. See you tomorrow.
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With music, I sometimes get a particular fixation on certain subjects. Lately, I was interested in a dancefloor all freaking out to a song that's actually hugely depressing. The best recent example I can give is NGLY – Speechless Tape, as played by I-F during that recent Rotterdam acid house DJ set. "When I saw you last night, I feel a chill.. you're on your own… your own…" like a stalker watching his prey. Other examples would be Destination Venus – Oh, Lucille or James 'Jack Rabbit' Martin – Only Wanted To Be, which are all about unrequited love. But then ABBA are the true masters at this kind of thing, of course.
what i listened to last saturday on youtube:
suicide – cheree
eliott smith – angeles
david bowie – the secret life of arabia
the cure – 10:15 on a saturday night
devo – smart patrol/mr dna
lou reed – street hassle
the kinks – you really got me
jesus and mary chain – sowing seeds
omd – georgia
midnight oil – read about it
cababret voltaire – kneel to the boss
ice cube – the bomb
soundgarden – black hole sun
OK, completely off the top of my head here goes …
Morrissey – Speedway
Bikini Kill – Rebel Girl
The Fall – Feeling Numb
Jim O’Rourke – Happy Days
Xiu Xiu – Chocolate Makes You Happy
Pan-American – Dr Christian
Sleater Kinney – Entertain
Public Enemy – Bring The Noise
The Smiths – Reel Around The Fountain
Courtney Love – Car Crash
Gossip – Jealous Girls
Death Grips – I’ve Seen Footage
Patti Smith & Kevin Shields – The Coral Sea
Kevin Drumm – Imperial Distortion
Lou Reed – Caroline Says II
Weezer – Don’t Let Go
Psychic TV/PTV3 – Higher and Higher
Iceage – Ecstacy
Suicide – Frankie Teardrop
Sunn O))) – It Took The Night To Believe
The Birthday Party – Dead Joe
Bob Mould – Who Was Around
PJ Harvey – Missed
Smashing Pumpkins – Bodies
Le Tigre – FYR
The Stooges – Search and Destroy
The Breeders – Divine Hammer
Dinosaur Jr – Feel The Pain
The Jesus and Mary Chain – Darklands
Nico – No One Is There
Sparks – Reinforcements
The Velvet Underground – Candy Says
Xasthur – Prison of Mirrors
Crystal Castles – Baptism
Melvins – The Talking Horse
Stars of the Lid – Dungtitled (In A Major)
Robyn – Dancing on my Own
Perfume Genius – All Waters
Bonnie Prince Billy – I See a Darkness
New York Dolls – Subway Train
Husker Du – I Apologize
Elastica – Stutter
Fuck stuff like that is hard! Looking forward to reading everyone else's lists!
Great list! I'm just gonna crack on with it, man. Here goes, in no order:
Les Rallizes Dénudés – Night of the Assasins
Xiu Xiu – Hives Hives
The Velvet Underground – Venus in Furs
Captian Beefheart – Abba Zaba
Death Grips – Come up And Get Me
Husker Du – Pink Turns To Blue
Tool – The Grudge
Goblin – Suspiria
The Cure – A Forest
The Big Pink – Frisk
Iggy Pop – Nightclubbing
Sonic Youth – Shadow of a Doubt
Q Lazzarus – Goodbye Horses
Sunn 0))) and Boris – Etna
Iceage – Broken Bone
Throbbing Gristle – Dreamachine
Deerhunter – Twilight at Carbon Lake
The Fall – Hit the North
The Icarus Line – Love is Happiness
Le Tigre – Deceptacon
Grimes – Oblivion
Slint – Nosferatu Man
Fugazi – Exit Only
Neil Young – Dead Man Theme
Broken Social Scene – Anthems for a Seventeen Year Old Girl
Antony and the Johnsons – The Atrocities
The Smiths – The Queen is Dead
Kate Bush – Cloudbusting
Shabazz Palaces – Chuch
Slipknot – (sic)
Babes in Toyland – Handsome and Gretal
My Bloody Valentine – When You Sleep
Nirvana – Milk It
Pixies – Holiday Song
Vår – The World Fell
Siouxsie and the Banshees – Metal Postcard (Wittgenstein)
Ride – Drive Blind
Cocteau Twins – Crushed
Public Enemy – Bring the Noise
Melvins – If I Had An Exorcism
Blur – Girls and Boys
PJ Harvey – Man-Size
Joy Division – Wilderness
Rob Zombie – Living Dead Girl
Bjork – Army Of Me
Aphex Twin – We Are The Music Makers
The Doors – The End
Air – Sexy Boy
Tomahawk – Point and Click
Slowdive – Golden Hair
Portishead – Numb
The Dead Kennedys – Holiday in Cambodia
Swans – Greed
Electric Wizard – Saturnine
Kyuss – Gardenia
The Jesus and Mary Chain – Just Like Honey
Tom Waits – Clap Hands
Slayer – Angel of Death
Echo and the Bunnymen – The Killing Moon
Deftones – Knife Prty
Isis – So Did We
OM – Pilgrimage
My mind has gone blank, there may be more, if not, this will do!
Good day, Dennis!
Thomas Moronic – Very nice list!I forgot about Crystal Castles, Crimewave should be in my list, for sure. Red by Collarbones just popped in as well.
MyNeighbourJohnTurtorro – Thank you! I was admiring yours and JANEY SMITH's and Dennis's as well.
Cool to see the Icarus Line song on your list! I used to play the hell out of that when it first came out. That album, actually – love it. I find myself totally spacing out on these kinds of things. Like, I know for certain if I go and look at my music I've probably missed out on one of my all time favourite bands or something … But I guess that's part of the fun and the forgetfulness can be interesting in and of itself anyway.
Oh and fuck – yeah – Deerhunter, Antony … I'm fighting the urge to start making another list, so I can let the list that did present itself to me when I starting trying to make one stand as the revealing whatever it is … if it reveals anything. I'm pretty sure these things do!
Thomas Moronic – Yes, great lists all round. I still love that Icarus Line album, I played the hell out of it too when it came out. It just excited the hell out of me as a teenager, and the singer was intoxicatingly beautiful and charismatic. I remember when I first heard 'New Brigade' it brought IL to mind.
Yeah, definitely, lists like these are always extremely revealing. The most revealing thing is how many list fetishists there are around.
Excellent lists here; you all have superb taste!
Pulp – This Is Hardcore
Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood – Some Velvet Morning
The Weirdos – Life of Crime
Leonard Cohen – The Future
Roky Erickson – I Have Always Been Here Before
Magnetic Fields – Strange Powers
Patti Smith – Rock N Roll Nigger
Billy May & His Orchestra – This Room is My Castle of Quiet
Tuxedomoon – Desire
Beach Boys – I Just Wasn't Made for These Times
Bobby Sherman – Unborn Lullaby
The Normal – Warm Leatherette
Beth Gibbons – Mysteries
Wolf Eyes – Stabbed in the Face
Judee Sill – The Kiss
Tricky – Overcome
The Homophones -Everyone's Dead
Electric Light Orchestra – Telephone Line
Psychic TV – The Orchids
Spacemen 3 – Losing Touch With my Mind
The Seekers – A World of Our Own
David Bowie – Station to Station
Miles Davis – He Loved Him Madly
The Stooges – Down on the Street
COIL – The Anal Staircase
Funkadelic – Hit It and Quit It
Captain Beefheart – Making Love to a Vampire with a Monkey on My Knee
Tiny Tim – The Other Side
Antony & the Johnstons – I Fell in Love With a Dead Boy
Pailhead – Anthem
Godflesh – Like Rats
Swans – You Fucking People Make Me Sick
Elliott Smith – Can't Make a Sound
Icarus Line – Getting Bright at Night
Bee Gees – How Deep is Your Love
Bluebird – Falling Back to Earth
XIU XIU – Walnut House
Sebadoh – Hank Williams
Prince – Do Me Baby
Thrill Kill Kult – Days of Swine and Roses
Devendra Banhart – Little Boys
Bonfire Beach – Highway 57
Afghan Whigs – My Curse
ABBA – Watch Out
Ol' Dirty Bastard – Nigga Please
400 Blows – Premature Burial
Birthday Party – Sonnys Burning
The Breeders – Off You
Cibo Matto – Spoon
Three 6 Mafia – Rainbow Colors
TNGHT – Higher Ground
some songs I like…
aerosmith – no more, no more
black sabbath – loner
led zeppelin – good times, bad times
pink floyd – echoes
deep purple – space truckin'
iron maiden – bring your daughter
dio – heaven & hell
david bowie – space oddity
type o negative – black no. 1
ny dolls – personality crisis
ween – piss up a rope
sex pistols – pretty vacant
judas priest – turbo lover
wasp – wild child
winger – 17
guns n roses – nightrain
skid row – rattlesnake shake
vixen – edge of a broken heart
bullet boys – smooth up in ya
cinderella – gypsy road
motorhead – going to mexico
metallica – four horsemen
king diamond – tea
coverdale/page – stay awhile
bb king – ghetto woman
john lee hooker – boom
dr. hook – freakers ball
thelonious monk – don't mean a thing
robert johnson – malted milk
eric clapton – lay down sally
nirvana – sliver
sound garden – outshined
pearl jam – evenflow
aic – last of my kind
blues implosion – natural one
heat miser – why did i decide to stay
pantera – revolution is my name
prong – snap your fingers
meat puppets – backwater
better than ezra – good
silverchair – the greatest view
danzig – when i'm tired of being alive
misfits – last caress
holocaust – the small hours
slayer – deadskin mask
crowbar – existence is punishment
ween – put your boobs on
death – the philosopher
ministry – just one fix
butthole surfers – chewing chocolate
cloud nothings – stay useless
def leppard – foolin'
poison – nothing but a good time
alice cooper – house of fire
nathalie umbrugula – torn
lisa loeb – stay
anthrax – black lodge
megadeth – tornado of souls
bob dylan – visions of johanna
tori amos – jackie's strength
veruca salt – seether
sleeter-kinney – jumpers
gross magic – waiting for you
stryper – to hell with the devil
motley crue – looks that kill
grateful dead – help on the way
matthew sweet – where do you get love
liz phair – supernova
offspring – come out and play
lemonheads – big gay heart
hole – malibu
marilyn manson – k2
kiss – i just wanna
ace freehly – in the night
ozzy osbourne – shot in the dark
dead kennedys – holiday in cambodia
Quite a list there Dennis.
"Expecting to Fly" has some very personal resonance for me vis-à-vis a long-dead byfrien Arthur Evans 2.
As for my own taste —
My Funny Valentine" tops a list that would include
"Ebben? Ne andro lontano"
and
I Am Lost to This World
Here's Van Dyke's attest recording of "The All Golden"
Hi Dennis! Long time no see. I like when you post days on Facebook cause it reminds me to check out the blog, so just thought I'd mention that. I had fun looking through your list. I don't have a list of my own but one song that really does it for me is "Like a Friend" by Pulp. There's a lot of nostalgia wrapped up in that one for me.
I'm still writing. I'm really trying to work on the business side of things, to put out regular ebooks and learn how to more effectively market myself. Which is sort of disgusting sounding when I write it out but what you gonna do. I wrote two longer novellas last fall/winter, one I'm really excited about called "My Sister's Boyfriend Joey" and another one that's a vampire story, my first real attempt at a different genre, which was such a blast because I didn't take it real seriously. Anyway I have more work to do on both of those before I think about trying to get them out in the world.
"Ebben? Ne andro lontano"
Daydream
Almost in Love with you
Ferry/Berman? I did meet him once a couple of years ago. Funny enough he was with sitting in a table with Mike Kelley. So who knows…
My song list is music that I listen to while writing. I'm one of those writers that like to listen to music while I stare at the empty screen. And this is not my all-time faves, but what I'm listening to at the moment:
Abba – The Day Before You Came
Adam & The Ants – Car Trouble (Parts 1 & 2)
Alex Chilton – Sugar Sugar
Andre Hodeir – Jazz et Jazz
Andrew Loog Oldham Orchestra – All I Want is My Baby
Andy Mackay – Ride of the Valkyries
Andy Williams – Can't Get Used To Losing You
Annie Cordy – Cigerettes and Whisky
Antonin Artaud – Tutuguri
The Astronettes – I'm Divine (Bowie)
B.E.F. -The Day Before You Came
The BeeGees – Turn of the Century
Billy Mackenzie – 14 Mirrors
Billy Nicholls – Girl From New York
Blur – The Puritan
Britney Spears – Womanizer
Bryan Ferry – Heartache by Numbers
Buzzcocks – ESP
Can – Paperhouse
Vienna Phillharmonic Orchestra – Beethoven Symphony #7 In A, Op. 92 (why are these titles so long?
Cher – I Go To Sleep
Chicory Tip – Good Grief Christina
Cliff Richard – Blue Turns To Gray
Cliff Richard – Move It
Cowboys International – Thrash
The Creation – How Does It Feel to Feel
Damon Albarn – You & Me
Dave Barry – The Crying Game
David Bowie – The Next Day
Donovan – To Susan On The West Coast Waiting
Duke Ellington – Chloe
Edgard Varese – Intègrales
Elton Motello – Jet Boy Jet Girl
Eno & Hyde – Lilac
The Fairytale – I Guess I was Dreaming
The Family – Sat-D-Y Barfly
Fleetwood Mac – Jewel Eyed Judy
France Gall – Baby Pop
Fred Neil – The Other Side of Life
Fresh – The Boys Lazed On The Verandah
Freur – Doot Doot
George Sanders – September Song
Gérard Manset – Les Loups
Giorgio Moroder – Giorgio's Theme
God Help The Girl – Musicians Please Take Heed
Haddaway – What is Love
Harry Nilsson – 1941
Haruomi Hosono – Laughing Gas
Henry Mancini – Arabesque
The Honeycombs – Have I The Right
Ian Hunter – Once Bitten, Twice Shy
Ian Hunter – Boy
Iggy Pop – Tiny Girls
Jack Nitzsche – Etude In E
Jacques Dutronc – Face à la Merde
Jet Harris – Besame Mucho
Jimmy Page – Lucifer Rising
The Left Bank – Pretty Ballerina
Magazine – Model Worker
Michael Nyman – Bird List Song
Michel Legrand – Advice of the Lilac Fairy
Momus – Where Are We Now (Bowie cover)
Moondog – Caribea (new discovery god he's incredible)
Morrissey – Don't Make Fun of Daddy's Voice
The Music Machine – Come On In
Nina Simone- My Baby Just Cares For Me
Paul Jones – Free Me
Pink Martini – New Amsterdam (Moondog cover)
A Raincoat – It Came in the Night (Kenneth Anger)
Rolling Stones – Walkin Thru the Sleepy City
Rolling Stones – Each and Every Day of the Year
Scott Walker – Epizootics!
Serge Gainsbourg – Sex Shop
The Shadows – Guitar Tango
The Skywalkers – Mrs. Ford's Dream Collection
The Small Faces – Hey Girl
Sparks – Islington N1
Sparks – Arts & Crafts Spectacular
Steve Reich – Clapping Song
Sunn 0))) – Hello-0)))-Ween (new discovery for me)
T-Rex – The Slider
The Teddy Bears – Unchained Melody
Teho Teardo & Blixa Bargeld – Come Up and See Me
Thunderclap Newman – Accidents (Long Version)
Timi Yuro – Interlude
Tom Recchion – The Mesmerized Chair
Tony Conrad – Four Violins
Trans – Rock Steady (new discovery)
Van Dyke Parks – Wedding in Madagascar
Viv Albertine – I Want More
Waylon Jennings – MacArthur Park
The Yardbirds – I'm a Man
Yves Klein – Monotone Symphony
This is the stuff I'm listening to while working on my daily writings and memoir writing.
Multitudes of Amys
Some Other Time
I've Still Got My Health
I Get the Neck of the Chicken
Parlez-moi d'Amour
It Was Written in the Stars
Til the Clouds Roll By
Taking a Chance on Love
Pack Up Your Sins and Go to the Devil
Blame It On My Youth
How Deep is The Ocean?
Not a Care in the World
Take Me To the River
Wouldn't It Be Nice?
These Foolish Things
I Never Has Seen Snow
Don't Forget Me
Me and My Town
If I Didn't Care
Everybody Ought To Have a Maid
O Waly Waly
What Can You Lose?
Lady Marmalade
Dreaming of Paris
THe Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me
@ DavidEhrenstein, or Nico – My Funny Valentine?
So many cool things on your list Dennis. And some that I want to listen to now. I LOVE that Ladytron song you put on there. That's their pinnacle for me. For whatever reason apart from a handful of their songs that I think are genius,I've never been able to properly get into their album. Strange when that happens with a band. I have a similar thing with Queens of the Stoneage who I just can't get into aside from a few great songs.
MyNeighbourJohnTurtoro – yeah I'm with you on how exciting Icarus Line was when they they first appeared. Love their second record as well and I like how they've or rather their singer Joe has stuck to his guns and is still putting out decent records. I had a good listen of their last few albums last year and dug them. Yeah I get you about the list junkies. I love reading other people's lists but find it hard to write my own. My brain gets flustered when it needs to be properly organised which probably says something about how tangential and floaty my thinking tends to be.
Enjoying seeing everyone else's lists!
I'm thinking I should have maybe out a Daisy Chainsaw song on mine.
And Tosh,that T Tex song is awesome.
You know what surprises me about this list? No Metal. I figure there's a lot in certain metal genres that would appeal to your sense of aesthetics. So What I'll give you is my top 10 metal songs, may they inspire you…
Krallice – Dust and Light
Burzum – Glemseles Elv
Neurosis – Purify
Khanate – Pieces of Quiet
The Black Dhalia Murder – What a Horrible Night to Have a Curse
Pallbearer – Foreigner
Isis – Glisten
Sleep – Dopesmoker
Converge – Jane Doe
Burzum – Daudi Balrds
Ps: They Still make silent hill games but they are increasingly not very good, but I still play em.
Hyrule Dungeon – Krallice! Yes!
I could have totally made a list of just XIU XIU songs but had to be strict with myself.
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I've never been able to do one of these favorite songs lists. It's just not possible. I certainly couldn't limit myself to just one song per artist, that's for sure!
It turns out I was mistaken about that other publisher, they're actually not open for submissions. Ah well. 2014 is turning out to be my year of rejections: rejection by publishers, rejection by literary agents, rejection by certain friends, and so on. Luckily I'm a stoic about these things. I will say this will be the last short story collection I try to publish for awhile, because trying to find a home for such things is a thankless task. From now on, just novels for me.
hi d, i really like that your list includes baby`s got back. it`s a good song for you. here`s my list-
melvins – boris
guided by voices – mushroom art
prince – purple rain
elliott smith – roman candle
kate bush – houdini
papaya paranoia – straight to heaven
bob dylan – this one particular version of `baby let me follow you down` that i can`t find on youtube
samhain – this live version of `archangel`
husker du – i apologize
melt banana – zero
kylie minogue – better the devil you know
autechre – known(1)
susanna and the magical orchestra – sweet devil
slowdive – morningrise
mamas and the papas – this is dedicated to the one i love
iggy pop – i wanna be your dog
deerhunter – agoraphobia
white stripes – your southern can is mine (blind willie mctell)
angelo badalamenti – moving through time
animal collective – summertime clothes
the smiths – suffer little children
morrissey – why don`t you find out for yourself
pulp – this is hardcore
scott walker – the girls from the streets
my bloody valentine – no more sorry
kent – beskyddaren
sunn O))) – it took the night to believe
hole – miss world
beck – debra
the prettiots – skulls (misfits)
weezer – only in dreams
richard hell and the voidoids – love comes in spurts
patience and prudence – tonight you belong to me
sonic youth – sugar kane
i`m actually not much of a list person, but doing this i do see the appeal. i picked up my framed print today and it was covered in bubblewrap, which i proceeded to pop. marat/sade is very much like a filmed play, but aside from that i did like it. there wasn`t as much sade as i would have liked, just from reading the title. today i watched under the skin which was so, so good. i really loved it. earlier i was out and about so i stopped by work during their coffee break for a half hour of hanging out, which was fun. turns out i wasn`t the only one to get parsnipped, but my wounds were the worst by far. i hope your casting-woes are soon over, hope what you`ve got brewing pans out. how was your day?
Black, I love ANY version of "My Funny Valentine" It's The Perfect Song.
Thanks Nicki. Walter Benjamin was indeed a TOTAL BABE.
oh and i`m gonna work my way through your whole list on youtube one of these days, even if it kills me.
And a genius who haunts the better part of my waking hours.
See what I mean ?
Fuck man! That's a great list. So great, I made a playlist out of it, for those that have Spotify:
http://open.spotify.com/user/skoldpumpkins/playlist/2GcASRALd5BrO3z3fA0XuC
Things are good with you? I saw the casting call, hope you got a lot from that. I'm psyched to see the result.
Here's some tunes reeled off in no order:
GBV – Game of Pricks
Red House Painters – Mistress
Polvo – A Link in the Chain
Talking Heads – This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)
My Bloody Valentine – Soon
Smashing Pumpkins – Ava Adore
Boards of Canada – Roygbiv
Steely Dan – Bodhisatva
Replacements – I Will Dare
Shudder to Think – So Into You
Mercury Rev – Frittering
Ween – Mutilated Lips
Swervedriver – Never Lose That Feeling
Jimi Hendrix Experience – Manic Depression
Unwound – Look a Ghost
…And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead – Will You Smile Again
Roxy Music – Editions of You
The Beat – Mirror In the Bathroom
Big Star – In The Street
Lungfish – Hear the Children Sing
Jane's Addiction – Jane Says
Husker Du – Chartered Trips
The Moody Blues – Nights in White Satin
Grateful Dead – Box of Rain
Rocket From the Crypt – On A Rope
R.E.M – Catapult
Jeff Buckley – Eternal Life
Badly Drawn Boy – Something to Talk About
The 5th Dimension – Up, Up & Away
Super Furry Animals – If You Don't Want Me to Destroy You
Jackson C. Frank – Marcy's Song
Elliott Smith – Coast to Coast
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti- Only In My Dreams
Interpol – Untitled
The Rolling Stones – Tumbling Dice
Magnetic Fields – Yeah Oh Yeah!
Wire – Map Ref. 41°n 93°w
This Heat – Paper Hats
Erykah Badu – Green Eyes
The Lemonheads – Confetti
World Party – Is it Like Today
John Martyn – May You Never
TV On the Radio – Playhouses
Phew.
ASH
Oh and here's on last song of obvious enormous importance to me
Nicki., people on my FB feed are going crazy over the Israel/Gaza war, but unfortunately in a pro-Israel, "all Arabs are savages" direction. I'm surprised by the views of some people I otherwise generally agree with.
Steevee I am sorry to hear that. This is the one war or issue that really separates people. I'm not exactly pro-Israel.
Great to see all these lists – reminders of so many great songs and some new things to check out ASAP.
Hey Dennis – Just back from the Merge shows and Baltimore reading. More to say on that over the next few days. Sleep deprived from the weekend and the nonstop jackhammering that started at 6 am across the street.
This favorite songs list could easily eat the entire day, but here's my spew of a list, not in any order, and liable to change upon sufficient sleep. Probably forgot some more important tunes than these:
Sleater-Kinney “Call the Doctor”
Van Morrison “Madame George”
Pavement “Grounded”
Chris Knox “Meat”
James Brown “I Lost Someone” (live during Cuban Missile Crisis)
Pere Ubu “Final Solution”
Prince “When You Were Mine”
LiLiPUT “Split”
Elvis Costello “New Amsterdam”
Public Enemy “Night of the Living Baseheads”
Imperial Teen “Undone”
Aretha Franklin “Spirit in the Dark”
ABBA “S.O.S.”
Mekons “Big Zombie”
Peter Laughner “Ain’t It Fun”
New York Dolls “Human Being”
Sonic Youth “Schizophrenia”
Raincoats “No Side to Fall In”
Stooges “Funhouse”
Marvin Gaye “Got To Give It Up”
Go-Betweens “Cattle and Cane”
Huggy Bear “Her Jazz”
Fugazi “Bed for the Scraping”
Bob Dylan “Visions of Johanna”
PJ Harvey “To Bring You My Love”
The Chills “Pink Frost”
Bruce Springsteen “Atlantic City”
Gang of Four “Ether”
Young Marble Giants “Final Day”
The Clash “Complete Control”
Elvis Presley “Trying to Get to You” (live 1968 Comeback Special)
Velvet Underground “Heroin”
Rolling Stones “The Last Time”
Can “Yoo Doo Right”
Richard & Linda Thompson “A Heart Needs A Home”
Roxy Music “Editions of You”
Tom Waits “Tango Til They’re Sore”
The Clean “Point that Thing Somewhere Else” (live)
Fela Kuti “Gentleman”
Gram Parsons “In My Hour of Darkness”
The Kinks “She’s Got Everything”
Neu! “Fur Immer”
New Order "Temptation"
Dog Faced Hermans “Human Spark”
Destroyer “Bay of Pigs”
Television “Marquee Moon”
Tim Buckley “Pleasant Street/You Keep Me Hanging On” (live)
The Supremes “Love Is an Itching in My Heart”
Le Tigre “Deceptacon”
Holy Modal Rounders “Hoodoo Bash”
dBs “Bad Reputation”
LCD Soundsystem “Someone Great”
Nearly God “Poems”
Brian Eno “Through Dark Trees”
Family Fodder “The Big Dig”
Sonics “The Witch”
Sam Cooke “Bring It On Home to Me”
Nirvana “Where Did You Sleep Last Night?”
Johnny Thunders “You Can’t Put Your Arms Around a Memory”
Wire “I Am the Fly”
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Dennis, sorry for not responding yesterday, but thank you for all that you said. I didn't actually expect you to have any secret for dealing with unrequited love. But your sympathy does mean the world. I wish I had the writing ability or the musical ability to express my feelings, they feel like much more immediate mediums than filmmaking. But I think this movie will help.
I've talked with Julian Richings and he's into me doing a little interview with him soon for this, so that'll be exciting.
Love your list of songs, here are some of my favourites, I limited it to actual songs, rather than classical, jazz, or experimental pieces as picking 1 movement from Music for 18 Musicians or The Rites of Spring seems impossible and inadequate. I also limited it to 1 song per band. So, in no order:
Nina Simone – Sinnerman
Xiu Xiu – I Luv The Valley, Oh!
Soft Cell – Sex Dwarf
Depeche Mode – Enjoy The Silence
Tori Amos – Crucify
Antony & The Johnsons – Cripple and the Starfish
Coil – Going Up
Current 93 – Sleep Has His House (Live Version)
Swans – Blood Promise (Swans Are Dead Version)
Wolves In The Throne Room – The Cleansing
Liturgy – Harmonia
Slayer – Dead Skin Mask
Weakling – Dead As Dreams
Sunn O))) – It Took The Night To Believe
Earth – Engine of Ruin
Boris – You Put Up Your Umbrella
Godflesh – Flowers
The Angelic Process – We All Die Laughing
Nirvana – Something in the Way (BBC Live version)
The Cure – Disintegration
Kate Bush – Running Up That Hill
Joan Baez – Diamonds and Rust
Clara Engel – My Love Is a Chorus of Murderous Bells
Sage Francis – Sea Lion
Public Enemy – Welcome to the Terrordome
Can – Paperhouse
Shellac – Prayer To God
Big Black – Kerosene
Bjork – Hyperballad
Velvet Underground – Venus in Furs
Rolling Stones – Give Me Shelter
Wovenhand – Animalitos (Ain't No Sunshine)
Of Montreal – The Past Is A Grotesque Animal
Oneohtrix Point Never – Returnal
John Jacob Niles – The Hangman
Screamin' Jay Hawkins – I Put A Spell On You
Karen Dalton – Katie Cruel
Songs: Ohia – Farewell Transmission
Einsturzende Neubauten – Sabrina
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – I Let Love In
PJ Harvey – Rid of Me
Diamanda Galas – Gloomy Sunday
David Bowie – Warszawa
Nine Inch Nails – Eraser
Tool – Lateralus
Low – Embrace
Pixies – Cactus
I get the point that silence is consent, but is arguing with people on Facebook the most effective form of political activism? I've never seen it change anyone's mind and it often just leads discourse to the sewer. For many Jews (not all, obviously), the issue of Israel is so emotional that no nuance is possible, no attempt to see why Hamas, who I'm certainly not defending, would find it rational to fire rockets into the country as a response to occupation. There don't seem to be many Arabs in my FB feed, but some people have seized on ugly FB posts from Palestinians as proof that "they all hate Jews."
Here's my short review of the Tagore doc I mentioned recently.
::DC's Music List::
Me: Huh.
Haha it's funny, I don't like animals anymore. I used to be a cat lover. I like insects though. I think I'm gonna become a Creationist. Start like a creepy Creationist museum or something, haha. I've walked by Petit Palace a few times. Planning a trip to Paris this fall. This time I'm going by myself. Oh my G, Wild Things is like the best book ever. If I remember right, the kid's just like "Oh, crazy journey. Home for dinner! ::air guitar::" Cool fav songs. xoxo
Ah, we haven't had one of these list days in awhile! Look forward to spending some time with all the favorites.
Just got to London and am pretty tired, so I'll have to be lame and just contribute an eclectic handful for now:
Brian Eno, The fat lady of Limburg
Califone, Vampiring again
Annette Peacock, Don't tell me that you love me
Kurt Weill/Dagmar Krause, Matrosen Tango
The Beat, Mirror in the bathroom
Sonic Youth, Tom Violence
Velvet Underground, Sunday morning
Beefeater, Fred's song
Let me know how your Esterhazy quest goes, Dennis. The Dobos can also be quite moist, if done right. Those Viennese are so good with the light, moist and flavorful desserts, hmmm.
Bill
Wow, these lists are great, further proof that this blog is one of the coolest corners of the internet.
Dennis – An Icarus Line day???
steevee, objecting to what the Israeli government has been doing in Gaza does not mean one "supports Hamas."
@David Ehrenstein–I agree. I think you misunderstood what I wrote.
On to GERONTOPHILIA. Well, it's no MYSTERIOUS SKIN. The increasing slickness of LaBruce's direction and the film's cinematography bump up against mediocre screenwriting and an amateurish performance from the lead actor, although the elderly guy playing his lover is quite good. (He made me think of an 80-something Jason from PORTRAIT OF JASON.) The story does have a certain emotional pull, but as a whole, the film doesn't really work.
everyone-
great lists. lots of overlap with mine, especially kier and jeff. you guys like some great stuff!
d-
let's see…
the beatles – strawberry fields forever.
miles davis – pharoah's dance.
wu-tang clan – CREAM.
sonic youth – the diamond sea.
my bloody valentine – sometimes.
stooges – 1970.
pavement – conduit for sale!
nirvana – very ape.
capt beefheart – i love you, you big dummy.
dr dre – fuck with dre day (and everybody's celebratin').
yo la tengo – cherry chapstick.
the anniversary – the siren sings.
elliott smith – the enemy is you.
deerhunter – strange lights.
jesus lizard – nub.
jawbox – whitney walks.
jawbreaker – do you still hate me?
fugazi – last chance for a slow dance.
q and not u – busy lights, busy carpet.
stereolab – les yper-sound.
le tigre – phanta.
gbv – underwater explosions.
the good life – the competition.
drive like jehu – here come the rome plows.
boris – akuma no uta.
tortoise – i set my face to the hillside.
lee perry – soul fire.
the beastie boys – shake yr rump.
the rolling stones – dead flowers.
hank williams – lost highway.
the breeders – divine hammer.
george harrison – what is life?
david bowie – life on mars?
talking heads – this must be the place (naive melody).
the replacements – answering machine.
hüsker dü – whatever.
ted leo and the pharmacists – hearts of oak.
sleater-kinney – the swimmer.
spiritualized – soul on fire.
the promise ring – why did we ever meet?
akimbo – rockness monster.
mastodon – hearts alive.
mirah – sweepstakes prize.
mclusky – 1956 and all that.
high on fire – waste of tiamat.
hole – gutless.
the clash – lost in the supermarket.
afghan whigs – 66.
that's good for now.
of course, that's missing stuff like prince, ELO, and converge. but that's all i feel like thinking up for now.
how's things? i'm ok. boring and broke, but not bad. is paris lovely right now? or is it hot? did michael and bene have loads of fun in italy? i'm sure they did.
oh. what follows can be used as an introductory blurb for this weekend:
hey everyone. thanks for reading this introductory sample of my as-yet-untitled novel-in-progress. if you wish to offer notes, i would love to read them. you can comment here or, should you so desire, email me at rewritedept @yahoo.X. make sure you remove the spaces and replace the X with com. be brutally honest, unflinching and unforgiving. tell me all the shit you hated. you can tell me the stuff you liked too. as noted, this is still untitled, so if you want to offer suggestions for titles, i'll check 'em out. thanks again, and i hope you love it!
so yeah, you can put that at the beginning. hope everything is lovely on yr end. talk soon.
-c.
Dennis, Jebus, I woke up this morning and…all my toes were broken! Luckily, I had some gauze and plaster of Paris lying around, so I was able to cast each toe individually and get to work on time anyway. Phew.
The funny thing about American football, which I love, is how their efforts to improve safety for the players has resulted into making it a much more dangerous game. They've got all this high tech padding and helmets, but they give the players a false sense of security, and the dudes just fucking end up battering each other worse than if they were padless and helmetless. They essentially use these things as weapons too. What they fail to realize is that a traumatic hit on the head is just that, no matter what's wrapped around it.
They've made head to head hits illegal now…however, the guys now have to hit each other lower and wouldn't you know it: bad hits to the knees and lower legs. It's almost like they can't win. Or at least don't try to.
But yeah, I know you hate football, but like I said, I just fucking love it.
So man, the lists have it, it seems. I just say…all of the above. Because I'm a lazy sod. (There's a kind of song title right there. 😀 ) But yeah, you know what I like, as I'm sure most here already know.
"Chihuahua" by Bow Wow Wow: good lord, yes!
Brian Jonestown Massacre – Anenome
Brian Jonestown Massacre – Malela
Jesus Lizard – Destroy Before Reading
Nico – These Days
Nico – Ghengis Khan (solo/harmonium version)
Velvet Underground – Candy Says
Velvet Underground – I Heard Her Call My Name
The Warlocks – Angels In Heaven, Angels In Hell
The Warlocks – Isolation
Late Of The Pier – Space and The Woods
My Bloody Valentine – Feed Me With Your Kiss
My Bloody Valentine – Several Girls Galore
Ladytron – High Rise
Primal Scream – Shoot Speed/Kill Light
Spacemen 3 – Lord Can You Hear Me
Spiritualized – Stay With Me
Sparklehorse – Pig
Tame Impala – Half Full Glass Of Wine
White Fence – Live On Genevieve
White Fence – Chairs In The Dark
Shannon And The Clams – Hey Willy
Throwing Muses – Teller
Throwing Muses – Soul Soldier
Kristin Hersh – Gazebo Tree
Autolux – Sugarless
Bass Drum Of Death – Velvet Itch
Jesus And Mary Chain – Moe Tucker
Ty Segall – Girlfriend
Eric's Trip – Girlfriend
Nirvana – Scentless Apprentice
Smashing Pumpkins – Geek USA
Sonic Youth – Brother James
Slowdive – Machine Gun
CSNY – Helplessly Hoping
Blue Angel Lounge – LSD And The Search For God
PJ Harvey – The Words That Maketh Murder
Guided By Voices – Chasing Heather Crazy
Dandy Warhols – Good Morning
Dandy Warhols – Best Friend
Janis Joplin – Ball And Chain
Beatles – Paperback Writer
The Raveonettes – Young And Cold
Rolling Stones – Paint It Black
Gossip – Jealous Girls
Gossip – Lily White Hands
Gossip – Fire Sign
Patti Smith – Rock N Roll Nigger
Patti Smith – Waiting Underground
Belly – Angel
The Breeders – I Just Wanna Get Along
The Amps – Pacer
The Amps – Bragging Party
Syd Barrett – She Took A Long Cold Look
Nine Inch Nails – The Becoming
Sleather-Kinney – One More Hour
Parenthetical Girls – The Pornographer
L7 – Fast and Frightening
Hole – Plump
Babes In Toyland – Dust Cake Boy
Huggy Bear – T-Shirt Tucked In
@Dennis – Leonard Cohen, VU, Pink Floyd, Ladytron, Breeders, Nirvana, Pixies, yes! I remember you talking about Lucifer Sam sometime in the past and whenever I heard that song it reminds me of you. Syd Barrett was such a genius… forgot him on my list but "Dark Globe" and "She Took A Long Cold Look" are great. Also forgot John Frusciante, his first record is brilliant and there are a lot of connections for me between that record and Syd Barrett. The first Breeders record is near and dear to me, Doe is brilliant. And I like where Ladytron took their stuff, 604 was great but Witching Hour is my favorite of theirs, I really like the darker/harder direction they went in with it, that record in particular influences my own electronic-leaning music a lot.