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Oh, JimmyOh, Jimmy Posts: 957
edited January 2006 in Other Music
Name a song from a band that you think encapsulates everything about them and can usually convince a person of a bands greatness. A couple examples from me.

Steam Engine from My Morning Jacket
Babe I'm Gonna Leave You by Zeppelin
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  • Man_Of_The_HourMan_Of_The_Hour Posts: 330
    No One Knows - Screaming Trees
    3rd Planet - Modest Mouse
    King Of The Rodeo - King Of Leon
    Well, do you need a lot of what you've got to survive?
  • yosi1yosi1 Posts: 3,272
    Wonderful - Stone Temple Pilots
    Ten Years Gone - Led Zeppelin
    Baba O'Reilly - The Who
    you couldn't swing if you were hangin' from a palm tree in a hurricane.
  • intodeepintodeep Posts: 7,228
    Oh, Jimmy wrote:
    Name a song from a band that you think encapsulates everything about them and can usually convince a person of a bands greatness. A couple examples from me.

    Steam Engine from My Morning Jacket
    Babe I'm Gonna Leave You by Zeppelin

    I would have picked one big holiday for my morning jacket, but to each their own.

    how about Broken Chairs by Built to Spill
    cortez the killer by neil young
    Alone-Dinosaur Jr
    Charlotte 00
    Charlotte 03
    Asheville 04
    Atlanta 12
    Greenville 16, Columbia 16
    Seattle 18 
    Nashville 22
  • barcoachbarcoach Posts: 413
    NYC Serenade - Bruce Springsteen & the E St. Band
    This Is A Firedoor Never Leave Open - The Weakerthans
    Personality Crisis - New York Dolls
    Heroin - The Velvet Underground
    Blank Generation - Richard Hell
    There She Goes My Beautiful World - Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
    Deliverance - The Mission UK
    100 Years - The Cure
    Mala Vida - Mano Negra
    Super Sex - Morphine
    London Calling - The Clash
    Stormy Weather - The Pixies
    Stone: Thanks for the pick and the night of complicity, you rock!
    -The crazy guy with the Ramones t-shirt.
    Mexico C. 12/10/05.

    "There is a rose that I want to live for
    although, God knows, I may not have met her"
    -J. Strummer

    "And you'll never know just how dark this screen could be"
  • angryyoungmanangryyoungman Posts: 1,028
    in hiding-pearl jam
    i have wished for so long, how i wish for you today
    JEFFREY ROSS ROGERS 1975-2002

    9.10.98 NYC / 8.23.00 JONES BEACH /4.30.03 UNIONDALE / 7.9.03 NYC /5.12.06 ALBANY/ 6.1.06 E.RUTHEFORD/ 6.3.06 E. RUTHEFORD/ CAMDEN 6.19.08/ NYC 6.24.08/ NYC 6.25.08/ HARTFORD 6.27.08/ CHICAGO 8.24.09/ PHILLY 10.31.09/ HARTFORD 5.15.10/ NEWARK 5.18.10/ NYC 5.20.10/ CHICAGO 7.19.13/ BROOKLYN 10.18.13/ BROOKLYN 10.19.13/ HARTFORD 10.25.13/ NYC 9.26.15/ 4.8.16 FT. LAUDERDALE/ 4.9.16 MIAMI / 5.1.16 NYC/ 5.2.16 NYC / 8.5.16 BOSTON / 8.7.16 BOSTON/ 8.20.18 CHICAGO/ 9.2.18 BOSTON/ 9.4.18 BOSTON/ 9.18.21 ASBURY PARK

    finally, FUCK TICKETMASTER
  • transplanttransplant Posts: 1,088
    Queensryche - Suite Sister Mary
    Bad Religion - Generator
    Husker Du - Divide and Conquer
    Social Distortion - Don't Bring Me Down
    Mountain Goats - No Children
  • eedheadeedhead Posts: 68
    My Morning Song - The Black Crowes
    " I demand to have more booze "
  • Man_Of_The_HourMan_Of_The_Hour Posts: 330
    angryyoungman wrote:
    in hiding-pearl jam

    Good call, it's not my fave but pretty close and it really showcases what this band is about.
    Well, do you need a lot of what you've got to survive?
  • rexdoggarexdogga Posts: 49
    46+2 - Tool
    Let Down - Radiohead
    Country Feedback - REM
    Truth doesn't make a noise - White Stripes
    Chop Suey - System of a Down
    Down in a hole - Alice in Chains
    Sour Times - Portishead
    Opportune Moment - The Sheila Divine
    Two Step - Dave Matthews Band
    Shine on you Crazy Diamond -Pink Floyd
    I've done the math enough to know the dangers of our second guessing.

    EF-PSYCHO-03!!!
  • Edved82Edved82 Posts: 1,279
    i stay away - AIC
    present tense - pearl jam
    dazed and confused - led zeppelin
    "...though my problems are meaningless....that don't make them go away...."
  • EchoesEchoes Posts: 1,279
    transplant wrote:
    Mountain Goats - No Children


    I would argue a case for "Alpha Rat's Nest" off of Tallahassee.
    printf("shiver in eternal darkness\n");
  • reeferchiefreeferchief Posts: 3,569
    every time i think The Pixies, Alec Eifel pops in my head.
    got to agree with Down In A Hole for AIC.
    Present Tense - Pearl Jam, althogh its a cover Man Who Sold The World sums Nirvana up pretty well.
    Killing in the Name - RATM
    Like a Hurricane - Neil Young
    Go With The Flow - QOTSA
    I Fought the Law - The Clash
    For Whom The Bell Tolls - Metallica
    The Idiots Are Taking Over - NoFx
    Down on the Farm - Uk Subs
    The End - The Doors
    Voodoo Chile - Jimi Hendrix
    Bleed Together - Soundgarden
    Can not be arsed with life no more.
  • lezcufflezcuff Posts: 46
    plane crash -- moe

    Dance and Sing along with Shed Devils at http://www.sheddevils.com/
  • niallniall Posts: 244
    4th july - soundgarden
    Taylor - jack johnson
    estranged - guns n roses
    forever - ben harper
  • BinFrogBinFrog Posts: 7,309
    Zeppelin: Achilles Last Stand, Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
    Floyd: Echoes
    PJ: Rearview Mirror, Porch
    Jane's Addiction: Three Days
    Rush: La Villa Strangiato
    Phish: Any 94 live version of Run Like An Antelope
    The Beatles: A Day In The Life
    The Kinks: You Really Got Me
    The Pixies: Hey, Planet Of Sound, Where Is My Mind?
    Metallica: Creeping Death, One
    Smashing Pumpins: Starla, Obscured
    The Clash: The Guns Of Brixton
    The Police: Synchronicity II
    Bright eyed kid: "Wow Typo Man, you're the best!"
    Typo Man: "Thanks kidz, but remembir, stay in skool!"
  • angryyoungmanangryyoungman Posts: 1,028
    this is a cool thread, so let me bump it with some additional ones besides aforementioned (pj-in hiding)
    aerosmith-back in the saddle
    nirvana-floyd the barber
    audioslave-set it off
    aic- down in a hole
    beatles-we can work it out
    soundgarden- rusty cage
    counting crows-daylight fading
    collective soul- smashing young man
    foo fighters- everlong
    metallica- for whom the bell tolls
    green day-jesus of suburbia
    coldplay- clocks ---- pink floyd- another brick in the wall
    stp- vasoline ---- soad- sad statue
    rolling stones- get off my cloud ---- rhcp- suck my kiss

    just some of my favorites. . .
    i have wished for so long, how i wish for you today
    JEFFREY ROSS ROGERS 1975-2002

    9.10.98 NYC / 8.23.00 JONES BEACH /4.30.03 UNIONDALE / 7.9.03 NYC /5.12.06 ALBANY/ 6.1.06 E.RUTHEFORD/ 6.3.06 E. RUTHEFORD/ CAMDEN 6.19.08/ NYC 6.24.08/ NYC 6.25.08/ HARTFORD 6.27.08/ CHICAGO 8.24.09/ PHILLY 10.31.09/ HARTFORD 5.15.10/ NEWARK 5.18.10/ NYC 5.20.10/ CHICAGO 7.19.13/ BROOKLYN 10.18.13/ BROOKLYN 10.19.13/ HARTFORD 10.25.13/ NYC 9.26.15/ 4.8.16 FT. LAUDERDALE/ 4.9.16 MIAMI / 5.1.16 NYC/ 5.2.16 NYC / 8.5.16 BOSTON / 8.7.16 BOSTON/ 8.20.18 CHICAGO/ 9.2.18 BOSTON/ 9.4.18 BOSTON/ 9.18.21 ASBURY PARK

    finally, FUCK TICKETMASTER
  • BinFrogBinFrog Posts: 7,309
    MookieJam wrote:
    metallica- hero of the day



    Oh cmon now...
    Bright eyed kid: "Wow Typo Man, you're the best!"
    Typo Man: "Thanks kidz, but remembir, stay in skool!"
  • jumpin cat rivaljumpin cat rival Posts: 254
    Pearl Jam in my tree(specially the outro)

    Pink floyd---echoes
    Rush---Subdivisions
    joe satriani/fying in a blue dream
    smashing pumpkins....tonight tonight
    toad the wet sprocket....all i want
    u2 bullet the blue sky
    r.e.m....try not to breath(as well as country feeback as someone mention before)
    nirvana....polly
    foo fighters....everlong
    early police-....roxxane
    late police....synchronicity II (as someone mentioned too)
    early Cure....a forest
    depre Cure.....love song
    happy Cure.......In between days
    weird Cure......the 13th
    live Cure.........Cut(from the Show album)

    thats enough for the moment,,,,,,,
    *Proud member of the forged kings nebulae; those of us who love Binaural and Riot Act, and also think that Matt Cameron is the f*ckin greatest!



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  • Thumbing My WayThumbing My Way Posts: 1,073
    BinFrog wrote:
    Oh cmon now...


    Hahaha......

    Agree with In Hiding totally

    Forgiven - Ben Harper
    Interstate Love Song - Stone Temple Pilots
    "I Miss You Already!!!!!"

    "Sorry is the fool who trades his love for high-rise rent, Seems the more you make equals the loneliness you get"

    .NJD.
  • likepilateihaveadoglikepilateihaveadog Posts: 1,083
    the living bubba - drive-by truckers
    Teamwork. Rawk. Pwnage. Infinite Possibilities. YIELD. Hells yeah.
  • Treyert14Treyert14 Posts: 924
    The Beatles- Two of Us
    Pantera- Revolution is my name
    David Bowie- Moonage Daydream
    PJ- Black
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