The List Thread

[Gazoo]

Do you count double CD or CD sets as one or multiple?

Multiple.  So my Citizen Dan box set = 4 CDs, etc.  If that makes a substantive difference in your tally, though, I'm *really* impressed.  

[RGMike]

Curious as to the size of everyone's music collections.  

I always knew you were a size queen. :wink:

[urth]

Fun
·   A Place in the Sun
·   Although the Sun is Shining
·   Black Hole Sun
·   Blame it on the Sun
·   Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me
·   Fat Old Sun
·   Good Day Sunshine
·   Heart of the Sunrise
·   Here Comes the Sun
·   I Wanna Go To The Sun
·   Lucky Old Sun
·   Mr. Sun, Mr. Moon
·   Paper Sun
·   Seasons in the Sun
·   Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun
·   Someday the Sun Won´t Shine For You
·   Sun is Here
·   Sun Is Shining
·   Sunny Afternoon
·   Sunshine (Jonathan Edwards)
·   Sunshine of Your Love
·   Sunshine on My Shoulders
·   Yellow Sun (Raconteurs)

Let's try another

Two more Kinks songs:

Lazy Old Sun (not the same as Lucky Old...)
Waterloo Sunset

And also:
The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore

[urth]

Curious as to the size of everyone's music collections.  My rough estimates:

~1,300 CDs
~350 cassettes
~50 LPs
~25 45s
~20 8-tracks (but they're at my mom's)
~2,000 digital files (MP3s, etc)

CDs: 2,500+ (commercially released product only, does not include boots)
Cassettes: 200  (ditto)
LPs: 500
45s: 100
8-tracks: 1
Digital files: 2,500 (but most were ripped from the above CDs)

[princessofcairo]

Curious as to the size of everyone's music collections.  

almost as big as my feet.

[princessofcairo]

Songs that mention band names:

"All The Young Dudes" (T-rex)

[Gazoo]

The ILM folks recently ran a poll to gauge people's favorite albums and singles of the 1960s.  I didn't take part -- never became a priority in the midst of other stuff going on -- but I'm finding the results fascinating so far.  Here's a glimpse to what the music-crit-elite and other geeks (including many across the pond) think's the toppermost of the poppermost:

http://ilx.wh3rd.net/thread.php?msgid=7169287

[RGMike]

Pitchfork Media's "Top 200 Songs of the '60s" list:

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/

I am THRILLED to see "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" at 174, since Xmas tunes usually get ignored when folks compile lists like this. And hey Gaz, TANC: PP Arnold's "First Cut is the Deepest" is there too.

[ggould]

Pitchfork Media's "Top 200 Songs of the '60s" list:

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/

I am THRILLED to see "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" at 174, since Xmas tunes usually get ignored when folks compile lists like this. And hey Gaz, TANC: PP Arnold's "First Cut is the Deepest" is there too.

Interesting, but hard to get past the revisionist smell. Perhaps my favorite of the list:

Code: [Select]

Lorraine Ellison: "Stay With Me"
(Jerry Ragovoy/George David Weiss)
1969
Chart info: U.S. (N/A), UK (N/A)
Available on Stay With Me: The Best of Lorraine Ellison

"Stay With Me" starts with a slow-rotating piano line and a whisper-coo vocal, before it wells up and explodes into one of the great scenery-chewing choruses of all time. An orchestra drops bombs, and Ellison's voice abandons all restraint, clawing and rasping and howling at the man who's about to leave her. --Tom Breihan

[Gazoo]

Pitchfork Media's "Top 200 Songs of the '60s" list:

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/

I am THRILLED to see "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" at 174, since Xmas tunes usually get ignored when folks compile lists like this. And hey Gaz, TANC: PP Arnold's "First Cut is the Deepest" is there too.

Interesting, but hard to get past the revisionist smell. Perhaps my favorite of the list:

Code: [Select]

Lorraine Ellison: "Stay With Me"
(Jerry Ragovoy/George David Weiss)
1969
Chart info: U.S. (N/A), UK (N/A)
Available on Stay With Me: The Best of Lorraine Ellison

"Stay With Me" starts with a slow-rotating piano line and a whisper-coo vocal, before it wells up and explodes into one of the great scenery-chewing choruses of all time. An orchestra drops bombs, and Ellison's voice abandons all restraint, clawing and rasping and howling at the man who's about to leave her. --Tom Breihan

Wow: Tom Breihan writes the Voice's primary music blog, "Status Ain't Hood."  He's a young kid, early 20s, heavily into the hip-hop scene and all its subgenres (snap, hyphy, etc.).  I had no idea he was this well-versed in Lorraine Ellison and the Flirtations as well!  Kid's done a lot more homework than he gets credit for.

[RGMike]

Pitchfork Media's "Top 200 Songs of the '60s" list:

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/

I am THRILLED to see "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" at 174, since Xmas tunes usually get ignored when folks compile lists like this. And hey Gaz, TANC: PP Arnold's "First Cut is the Deepest" is there too.

Interesting, but hard to get past the revisionist smell.

Does it count as revisionism if you weren't actually born when the record orig came out? :wink:

[ggould]

Pitchfork Media's "Top 200 Songs of the '60s" list:

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/

I am THRILLED to see "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" at 174, since Xmas tunes usually get ignored when folks compile lists like this. And hey Gaz, TANC: PP Arnold's "First Cut is the Deepest" is there too.

Interesting, but hard to get past the revisionist smell.

Does it count as revisionism if you weren't actually born when the record orig came out? :wink:

Sure!  It's much easier to rewrite history if you have no idea of what really happened!

[RGMike]

have you been following KINK's "Most Overlooked LPs of all Time" list? They're counting 'em down (one per day):

http://www.kink.fm/radio.php/special

Today at #12 (they'll hit #1 on labor day) is Macca's Ram -- an intersting selection, as it was slammed by critics upon release but (as we all know from 1971 10@10s) sounds not-bad-at-all 35 years later.

[Alicat]

have you been following KINK's "Most Overlooked LPs of all Time" list? They're counting 'em down (one per day):

http://www.kink.fm/radio.php/special

Today at #12 (they'll hit #1 on labor day) is Macca's Ram -- an intersting selection, as it was slammed by critics upon release but (as we all know from 1971 10@10s) sounds not-bad-at-all 35 years later.

TANC, While in Maui I went into a celebrity art gallery and saw a display of Ram, record, photo, signature etc. I hadn't thought about this album since I last packed it away in a box.
While there, I snapped a pic of a Jerry G painting done by Grace Slick. This was done before gallery owner asked me not to take pictures. I knew it was wrong but had to do it.
http://www.celebrityfineart.com/

[ggould]

have you been following KINK's "Most Overlooked LPs of all Time" list? They're counting 'em down (one per day):

http://www.kink.fm/radio.php/special

Today at #12 (they'll hit #1 on labor day) is Macca's Ram -- an intersting selection, as it was slammed by critics upon release but (as we all know from 1971 10@10s) sounds not-bad-at-all 35 years later.

The don't have any text for Bare Trees!:

http://www.kink.fm/radio.php/special/more/fleetwood_mac_bare_trees/

Great album, perfect grey day!