Make an "Introduction to..." CD of your favourite band

Rise Against

• 1) "Collapse (Post-Amerika)" (Appeal to Reason)
• 2) "Prayer of the Refugee" (The Sufferer & the Witness)
• 3) "Six Ways 'Til Sunday" (The Unraveling)
• 4) "Life Less Frightening" (Siren Song of the Counter Culture)
• 5) "Satellite" (Endgame)
• 6) "Chamber the Cartridge" (The Sufferer & the Witness)
• 7) "Like the Angel" (Revolutions per Minute)
• 8) "Help Is On the Way" (Endgame)
• 9) "Elective Amnesia" (Appeal to Reason)
• 10) "Bricks" (The Sufferer & the Witness)

edited 13th Nov '11 7:07:55 PM by USAF713

What the heck, no Swing Life Away?

I don't feel that it's representative of the band. I guess "Hero of War" should be on there, but, bleh...

Barenaked Ladies (Yeah, maybe I am obssessed or something)

1. . Box Set
2. Conventioneers
3. Tonight Is The Night I Fell Asleep At The Wheel
4. War On Drugs
5. Another Spin (Needs one Kevin Hearn Song)
6. Brian Wilson
7. Helicopters
8. If I Had $1000000
9. One Week (obligatory hit)
10. Four Seconds

edited 13th Dec '11 6:32:32 AM by WhoNeedsSleep

Gorillaz

• 1: 19-2000
• 2: Dirty Harry
• 3: People (it's the demo for DARE, look it up sometime :D)
• 4: Superfast Jellyfish
• 5: Stylo
• 6: Broken
• 7: Rhinestone Eyes
• 8: Empire Ants
• 9: On Melancholy Hill

I refuse to put Feel Good Inc on, because who hasn't heard it already? Seriously.

edited 14th Dec '11 9:49:49 AM by MrMallard

The Birthday Massacre

1. Happy Birthday (Nothing and Nowhere)
2. Horror Show (Nothing and Nowhere)
3. Blue (Violet)
4. Video Kid (Violet)
5. I Think We're Alone Now (Looking Glass EP)
6. Red Stars (Walking with Strangers)
7. Looking Glass (Walking with Strangers)
8. In The Dark (Pins and Needles)
9. Always (Pins and Needles)
10. Shallow Grave (Combichrist 'Good for Her' Mix) (Imaginary Monsters)

I just picked my favourite Birthday Massacre songs. Had to include Shallow Grave's Combichrist mix 'cause of how awesome it is.

edited 14th Dec '11 4:40:04 PM by CosmicBushell

Lordi:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVYgK9EvHBo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0he-Nro8P8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98nZnNBm_4I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dXMhBD2_mk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-qWgeMUXHY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7jY1KlLcPo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fu-q-avBgMA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PJLkVev9tc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJWw1m2TtMg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tk_7e57JfO0

edited 25th Dec '11 9:47:27 PM by PhillipWilde

Einsturzende Neubauten

Silence is Sexy

Interim Lovers

Futter Mein Ego

Nagorny Karabach

Nnnaaammm

Halber Mensch

Was Ist Ist

Haus Der Luge

Kollaps

Blume

edited 26th Dec '11 5:59:44 PM by mellochan42

Silence Is Sexy is awesome.

Anyways:

:wumpscut:

1. Golgotha
2. Adonai, My Lord (Yendri Remix)
3. Embryodead
4. The Fall
5. Christfuck
6. The Boo (Percussion Free Mix by :w:)
7. Hate Is Mine
8. Pooch
9. Die In Winter (Haujobb Edit 2)
10. Jiddich Is A Zwillink

edited 27th Dec '11 9:55:00 PM by inane242

Genesis with Peter Gabriel:

1. 1. "The Musical Box" (Nursery Cryme)
2. 2. "Return of the Giant Hogweed" (Nursery Cryme)
3. 3. "Watcher of the Skies" (Foxtrot)
4. 4. "Supper's Ready" (Foxtrot)
5. 5. "Dancing with the Moonlit Knight" (Selling England by the Pound)
6. 6. "Firth of Fifth" (Selling England by the Pound)
7. 7. "Cinema Show/Aisle of Plenty" (Selling England by the Pound)
8. 8. "The Carpet Crawlers" (The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway)
9. 9. "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway" (The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway)
10. 10. "In the Cage" (The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway)

Genesis with Phil Collins:

1. 1. "Dance on a Volcano" (A Trick of the Trail)
2. 2. "Ripples" (A Trick of the Trail)
3. 3. "One for the Vine" (Wind and Wuthering)
4. 4. "Snowbound" (And Then There Were Three)
5. 5. "Turn It On Again" (Duke)
6. 6. "Man on the Corner" (Abacab)
7. 7. "Mama" (Genesis)
8. 8. "Land of Confusion" (Invisible Touch)
9. 9. "Tonight, Tonight, Tonight" (Invisible Touch)
10. 10. "No Son of Mine" (We Can't Dance)

edited 1st Jan '12 5:31:56 PM by YonTroper

Blind Guardian

1) Into the Storm | Nightfall in Middle-Earth
2) Bright Eyes | Imaginations from the Other Side
3) Wizard's Crown | Battalions of Fear
4) The Soulforged | A Night at the Opera
5) I'm Alive | Imaginations from the Other Side
6) Time Stands Still (At the Iron Hill) | Nightfall in Middle-Earth
7) Banish from Sanctuary | Follow the Blind
8) Valkyries | At the Edge of Time
9) The New Order | A Twist in the Myth
10) The Bard's Song (Into the Forest) | Somewhere Far Beyond

I have some trouble to get into some of their older albums, but I think I just have to listen them more often. Recently I really started to like Bright Eyes.

The Bard's Song makes a good finisher since it shows that they can also make good "non-Metal" songs and it makes a good end in general. Also, it's the song that got me into Blind Guardian (being the first one I ever heard of them).

edited 19th Jan '12 1:10:47 PM by Nyarly

I think that's the third Blind Guardian one now.

I kind of guessed that they are already represented, but I didn't look through the whole thread.

Maybe, I'll make one of Subway to Sally later.

I know Jonathan Coulton has been done, but I feel like doing my own.

1. re:Your Brains
2. Code Monkey
3. The Future Soon
4. Skullcrusher Mountain
5. I Feel Fantastic
6. Creepy Doll
7. Betty And Me
8. Chiron Beta Prime
9. Artificial Heart
10. Sticking It To Myself

edited 21st Jan '12 1:18:50 PM by PDown

Streetlight Manifesto

1. We Are The Few 2. Just (Do It To Yourself) (Radiohead cover) 3. The Receiving End Of It All 4. Point/Counterpoint 5. We Will Fall Together 6. On & On & On 7. 1234 1234 8. Failing, Flailing 9. Red Rubber Ball (The Cyrkle cover) 10. A Moment of Silence/Violence

@mellochan: Hell, yes.

Now, to another extremely arcane group from the JHM camp...

Ludus

1. "Unveil" (The Visit EP, 1980)
2. "I Can't Swim I Have Nightmares" (The Visit EP, 1980)
3. "Mouthpiece" (Pickpocket cassette, 1981)
4. "Unveiled (A Woman's Travelogue)" (The Seduction double 12", 1982)
5. "The Escape Artist" (The Seduction double 12", 1982)
6. "How High Does the Sky Go?" (Riding the Rag compilation, 1982)
7. "Bloody Chamber" (Danger Came Smiling LP, 1982)
8. "Bitch Party" (Danger Came Smiling LP, 1982)
9. "Let Me Go Where My Pictures Go" (Completement Nue Au Soleil EP, 1984 [rec. 1982])
10. "Breaking the Rules" (single b/w "Little Girls", 1983)

P.S. Were one interested in really messing with the head of the recipient, replace either of the last two (friendly pop Ludus) with another selected track from Danger Came Smiling (evil crazy Ludus) and/or the anthology track "Corpse Candle" (spooky jazzy Ludus).

edited 14th Feb '12 3:22:32 PM by JHM

Well of course I had to make one for the Talking Heads (by far my favorite rock band of all time) :

1 • Once in a Lifetime / Remain in Light
2 • Cities / Fear of Music
3 • Television Man / Little Creatures
4 • Pull Up the Roots / Speaking in Tongues
5 • Psycho Killer / 77
6 • Life During Wartime / Fear of Music
7 • City of Dreams / True Stories
8 • Seen and Not Seen / Remain in Light
9 • Girlfriend is Better / Speaking in Tongues
10 • Bill / Naked

It was hard not to fill the roster with the entire Remain in Light album... But at the same time making this I tried to take tracks from different eras and different albums. As I always love to do I almost never pick the big tracks or the ones that got into singles (with the notable exception being Once in a Lifetime here) not because they aren't good, but most of the time I feel there are other tracks on the albums which are just as interesting and much less known, and well it is a process of discovery after all.

So if you have never heard any of these tracks, I think you know what you have to do.

edited 15th Feb '12 5:23:43 PM by Akalabth

Would it be cheating to tell the person to just buy The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads...? Because that is a fantastic album, live or not.

Well it is a great introduction... But then it wouldn't be 10 tracks anymore. Besides, I really do prefer "Stop Making Sense" (even if it doesn't contain nearly as much tracks from "Remain in Light" as "The Name of this Band is...")

Mastodon

• Dry Bone Valley | The Hunter
• Ísland | Leviathan
• Capillarian Crest | Blood Mountain
• All The Heavy Lifting | The Hunter
• The Czar | Crack The Skye
• Ghost Of Karelia | Crack The Skye
• Crack The Skye | Crack The Skye
• Sleeping Giant | Blood Mountain
• Blood And Thunder | Leviathan
• Colony Of Birchmen | Blood Mountain

• Clone | Terra Incognita
• Space Time | Terra Incognita
• Love | Terra Incognita
• Backbone | From Mars To Sirius
• From The Sky | From Mars To Sirius
• Flying Whales | From Mars To Sirius
• From Mars/To Sirius | From Mars To Sirius
• Toxic Garbage Island | The Way Of All Flesh
• The Art Of Dying | The Way Of All Flesh
• Vacuity | The Way Of All Flesh

• Diamond Eyes | Diamond Eyes
• Needles And Pins | Deftones
• Elite | White Pony
• Engine No. 9 | Adrenaline
• Be Quiet And Drive (Far Away) | Around The Fur
• Beauty School | Diamond Eyes
• Kimdracula | Saturday Night Wrist
• Around The Fur | Around The Fur
• (Like) Linus/A | (Like) Linus
• Teenager | White Pony

edited 16th Feb '12 10:15:42 AM by NULLcHiLD27

Motion City Soundtrack

1. My Favourite Accident|I am the Movie
2. It Had to Be You|Even If It Kills Me
3. Even If It Kills Me|Even If It Kills Me
4. When You're Around|Commit This to Memory
5. The Conversation|Even If It Kills Me
6. Disappear|My Dinosaur Life
7. The Sun Woke The Whole State|Motion City Soundtrack/Limbeck Split
8. Don't Call It a Comeback|I am the Movie
9. Her Words Destroyed My Planet|My Dinosaur Life

Vex'd

1. Heart Space
2. Suite for Piano & Electronics (Remix - Original By John Richards)
3. String Quartet No. 2 (Remix - Original By Gabriel Prokofiev)
4. Thunder
5. Crusher Dub
6. Pop Pop V.I.P
7. Take Time Out
8. Angels
9. Venus
10. Destruction

I made this, but forgot to actually put it in the thread, so here:

Devo:

Mongoloid (Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!, 1978)
Girl U Want (Freedom Of Choice, 1980)
Going Under (New Traditionalists, 1981)
Whip It (Freedom Of Choice, 1980)
Smart Patrol/Mr. DNA (Duty Now For The Future, 1979)
Jocko Homo (Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!, 1978)
Don't Shoot (I'm A Man) (Something For Everybody, 2010)
That's Good (Oh No! It's Devo, 1982)
Gates of Steel (Freedom Of Choice, 1980)
It's A Beautiful World (New Traditionalists, 1981)

There's a bunch of stuff I also would have included ("Satisfaction" "Through Being Cool", "Jerkin' Back And Forth", etc), but I wanted to include something from every album other than the Canon Discontinuity ones.

edited 19th Feb '12 12:01:23 AM by MikeK

Sure I'll bite.

Green Day

• 1. Burn Out: Dookie
• 2. 1,000 Hours: 1,039 / Smoothed Out Slappy Hours
• 3. Basket Case: Dookie
• 4. She: Insomniac
• 5. J.A.R. (Jason Andrew Relva): International Super Hits
• 6. Minority: Warning
• 7. The Grouch: Nimrod
• 8. American Idiot: American Idiot
• 9. Jesus of Subarbia: American Idiot
• 10: American Eulogy: 21st Century Breakdown

I would do Evanescence, but then I would just say listen to Fallen.

edited 29th Apr '12 9:40:39 AM by ithinkabouttrees

The Heartless Bastards. Two tracks from each of their first three albums, four tracks from their most recent album.

1. Swamp Song

2. Pass and Fail

3. All This Time

4. I Swallowed A Dragonfly

5. The Mountain

6. Out At Sea

7. Marathon

8. The Arrow Killed the Beast

9. Got To Have Rock and Roll

10. Down In the Canyon