Yeah, the biggest challenge is to choose only ten songs. It gets especially grating when you choose a band that has more studio albums than that.

I was about to ask about the absence of their version of "How Fortunate the Man with None".

I get actual chills when I listen to it...

Yes, it is one of my favorite song of theirs. But the fact is, thinking about it, if I were to just list my top 10 favorites, it would be overwhelmed by Brendan songs. Like, there would be A Passage in Time, Indoctrination (A Design for Living), Xavier, East of Eden, Ulysses, Black Sun, In the Kingdom of the Blind the One-Eyed are Kings, Mr Lovegrove, The Carnival is Over, How Fortunate the Man with None, All in Good Time... That's it, I pretty much have my list right there.

So yeah I tried to be as varied as possible. That and the fact that the lyrics of How Fortunate the Man with None, however beautiful they may be, weren't actually written by the band, and for such a gifted duet of songwriters I thought it would be too stupid to have one song on a list of 10 that isn't actually written by them (the text I mean).

But yes it gives me chills too, as most of their songs do but this one even more so. The penultimate album closer in my opinion. I still maintain that the tracklists in their records, and Into the Labyrinth in particular, are always flawless.

edited 6th Nov '13 3:09:17 PM by Akalabth

I'm going to assume I can more then one.

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Voltaire Or Aurelio Voltaire after 2010

1. BRAINS! or Brains!

2. Land of the Dead

3. Docking Bay 94 (for any geek/Star Wars fan)

4. Almost Human

4. On the Road (For his country album)

5. Zombie Prostitute

6. Hell in a Handbasket

7. Robber Baron

8. This Ship's Going Down

9. Death Death (Devil, Devil, Evil, Evil, Song)

10. The Headless Waltz

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Jonathan Coulton or sometimes Joco / Jo Co

1. Code Monkey

2. RE: Your Brains

3. Sticking It to Myself

4. Sucker Punch

5. The Satche

6. Skullcrusher Mountain

7. Mandlebrot Set

8. De-Evolving

9. Big Bad World One

10. Pull the String

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Barenaked Ladies

1. Bank Job

2. The King of Bedside Manor

3. If I Had Million Dollars or sometimes If I Had $1,000,000

4. Odds Are

5. Crazy ABC's

6. One Week

7. It's All Been Done

8. Light Up My Room

9. Alcohol

10. Some Fantastic

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I can create a playlist on Spotify for these songs if anyone wants it. Hell, soon I'll make it.

EDIT: Here it is:

spotify:user:1262494776:playlist:2ifNl2yrlzspJTNAZb29Mf

http://open.spotify.com/user/1262494776/playlist/2ifNl2yrlzspJTNAZb29Mf

edited 18th Nov '13 10:07:54 PM by bulletmonkey

All right, I'll have a go, let's try...

Tricky

1. Black Steel | Maxinquaye
2. Council Estate | Knowle West Boy
3. I Like The Girls | Juxtapose
4. Antimatter | Vulnerable
5. Girls | Blowback
6. Time To Dance | Mixed Race
7. Broken Homes | Angels With Dirty Faces
8. Christiansands | Pre-Millennium Tension
9. Poems | Nearly God
10. Somebody's Sins | False Idols

Pretty tough. I so wanted to include 'School Gates' and some of his actual covers, but...

edited 26th Nov '13 9:18:12 PM by Daremo

The Fall

• 1. The Classical (Hex Enduction Hour)
• 2. Leave The Capitol! (Slates)
• 3. Bury Pts 1 + 3 (Your Future Our Clutter)
• 4. English Scheme (Grotesque)
• 5. Garden (Perverted By Language)
• 6. Hit The North (single release)
• 7. Paintwork (This Nation's Saving Grace)
• 8. How I Wrote 'Elastic Man'(single release)
• 9. Spectre VS Rector (Dragnet)
• 10. Frightened (Live At The Witch Trials)

^ Incidentally, your taste in The Fall's work is not too far from mine, although I would be tempted to put both halves of "Winter" on there as one song...

For Elvis Costello:

1. Welcome To The Working Week
2. Mystery Dance
3. Alison
4. (The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes
5. Radio, Radio
6. Watching the Detectives
7. (I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea
8. This Year's Girl
9. Pump It Up
10. Oliver's Army

For Queens Of The Stone Age

1. You Think I Ain't Worth A Dollar But I Feel Like A Millionaire
2. Avon
3. Little Sister
4. In The Fade
5. 3's & 7's
6. My God Is The Sun
7. Mexicola
8. Feel Good Hit of the Summer
9. A Song For The Dead
10. I Appear Missing

edited 26th Feb '14 9:52:30 PM by Rvdz

The Doors:

• Break on Through (To the Other Side)
• The End
• People are Strange
• When the Music's Over
• Roadhouse Blues
• L.A. Woman
• Riders on the Storm

Peter Gabriel:

• Solsbury Hill
• Here Comes the Flood
• Mother of Violence
• No Self Control
• Red Rain
• Sledgehammer
• Come Talk to Me
• Growing Up
• The Barry Williams Show

Emerson Lake And Palmer

1. Brain Salad Surgery
2. The Barbarian
3. Pictures at an Exhibition
4. Karn Evil 9 1st Impression, Pt. 2
5. Knife-edge
6. Tarkus
7. Still... You Turn Me On
8. Nutrocker
9. Bitches Crystal
10. Toccata

I did Judas Priest already, but I think it would be fun to split it by theme/mood: hard metal, catchy radio hits, and epic ballads.

Priest: Heavy

1. The Hellion / Electric Eye
2. Painkiller
3. Dissident Aggressor
4. Rapid Fire
5. Between The Hammer And The Anvil
6. Sinner
7. Ram It Down
8. Exciter
9. The Sentinel
10. Screaming For Vengeance

Priest: Catchy

1. You've Got Another Thing Coming
2. Rock Forever
3. Breaking The Law
4. Devil's Child
5. Love Zone
6. Heading Out To The Highway
7. Turbo Lover
8. Delivering The Goods
9. Heavy Metal
10. Living After Midnight

Priest: Epic

1. Beyond The Realms Of Death
2. Here Come The Tears
3. Desert Plains
4. Dreamer Deceiver
5. A Touch Of Evil
6. Before The Dawn
7. Blood Red Skies
8. Out In The Cold
9. Run Of The Mill
10. Victim Of Changes