name a song people should hear

hrd2imgn

your mission if you choose to accept it is:

name an odler song that may be out of our collective memory. Then tell us why we should hear it.


Filter- Hey Man Nice Shot
great guitar riff, screaming vocals, political commentary, NINish buildup to industrial rage. All you didn't get a Vic tickets folks will really love this songs pissed off vibe!

song about a politician who kills himself with a gun, and this guys wishes he could have met him to tell him nice shot. Does pissed of industrial metal get any better than that?

hrd2imgn

no takers....wow I am stunned. not looking for the best song ever here, just something out of our collective memory we should revisit.

AlBorland

311- 8:16 am

daryl jam

locked in the trunk of a car - the tragically hip

Todd76

I suggest this song EVERY single time someone starts one of these threads.......it would REALLY make my day if ONE of the good people on this board checked it out (for the first time) and gave me their feedback

Sarah Harmer - Lodestar

A Canadian singer songwriter......I consider this song to be (almost) songwriting perfection - it completely captures the feeling of a night on the lake, sitting by the fire, in Northern Ontario. The song gives me chills every time I hear it......it is truly beautiful.

Check it out!!!!!!!

South of Seattle

Plainclothes Man by Heatmiser

Elliott Smith's Original band. This was off the album Mic City Sons. I like this album more than any solo album by Elliott, and I love his solo albums.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bI4Now__Qo

direwolf74

Todd76 wrote:

I suggest this song EVERY single time someone starts one of these threads.......it would REALLY make my day if ONE of the good people on this board checked it out (for the first time) and gave me their feedback

Sarah Harmer - Lodestar

A Canadian singer songwriter......I consider this song to be (almost) songwriting perfection - it completely captures the feeling of a night on the lake, sitting by the fire, in Northern Ontario. The song gives me chills every time I hear it......it is truly beautiful.

Check it out!!!!!!!

What he said.

direwolf74

"Nautical Disaster" by The Tragically Hip.

Quite possibly the greatest song ever written. Haunting, disturbing, sad, and beautiful all at the same time. A blank verse poem set to a circular bass line and churning chord progression that cautiously appears and then builds as the narrator recalls a dream about a shipwreck off the coast of France, until the details promptly shift to an unwanted phone call from an ex-lover. Here's how music writer Michael Barclay describes the song in his excellent Canadian rock biography, Have Not Been The Same:

"The song followed in the traditions of Gordon Lightfoot's "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald", and the Rheostatics' "Saskatchewan", but the last loaded image of fingernails scratching on a hull lifted the song even further beyond any standard comparisons. It remains the perfect example of how the band's music and Gord Downie's poetics could be interwoven to create a thoroughly moving experience."

Here's a live version from a 2004 show in Toronto:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=cmIiYGTYDSk

And here's some really cool info on the song's inspiration written by a good friend of mine from Ottawa, Mr. Stephen Dame:
http://www.hipmuseum.com/nautical.html

Lyrics:

I had this dream where I relished the fray
and the screaming filled my head all day.
It was as though I'd been spit here, settled
in, into the pocket of a lighthouse on some
rocky socket, off the coast of France, dear.

One afternoon, four thousand men died in
the water here and five hundred more were
thrashing madly, as parasites might in your
blood. Now I was in a lifeboat designed for
ten and ten only, anything that systematic
would get you hated. It's not a deal nor a
test nor a love of something fated. The
selection was quick, the crew was picked in order
and those left in the water got kicked off our
pantleg and we headed for home.

Then the dream ends when the phone rings,
you doing alright, he said it's out there most
days and nights, but only a fool would
complain. Anyway Susan, if you like, our
conversation is as faint as a sound in my
memory, as those fingernails scratching on my hull.

deadnote

gin blossoms jealousy

well it rocks , the craft of this tune is great

thecrackedjack

direwolf74 wrote:

"Nautical Disaster" by The Tragically Hip.

Quite possibly the greatest song ever written. Haunting, disturbing, sad, and beautiful all at the same time. A blank verse poem set to a circular bass line and churning chord progression that cautiously appears and then builds as the narrator recalls a dream about a shipwreck off the coast of France, until the details promptly shift to an unwanted phone call from an ex-lover. Here's how music writer Michael Barclay describes the song in his excellent Canadian rock biography, Have Not Been The Same:

"The song followed in the traditions of Gordon Lightfoot's "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald", and the Rheostatics' "Saskatchewan", but the last loaded image of fingernails scratching on a hull lifted the song even further beyond any standard comparisons. It remains the perfect example of how the band's music and Gord Downie's poetics could be interwoven to create a thoroughly moving experience."

Here's a live version from a 2004 show in Toronto:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=cmIiYGTYDSk

And here's some really cool info on the song's inspiration written by a good friend of mine from Ottawa, Mr. Stephen Dame:
http://www.hipmuseum.com/nautical.html

Lyrics:

I had this dream where I relished the fray
and the screaming filled my head all day.
It was as though I'd been spit here, settled
in, into the pocket of a lighthouse on some
rocky socket, off the coast of France, dear.

One afternoon, four thousand men died in
the water here and five hundred more were
thrashing madly, as parasites might in your
blood. Now I was in a lifeboat designed for
ten and ten only, anything that systematic
would get you hated. It's not a deal nor a
test nor a love of something fated. The
selection was quick, the crew was picked in order
and those left in the water got kicked off our
pantleg and we headed for home.

Then the dream ends when the phone rings,
you doing alright, he said it's out there most
days and nights, but only a fool would
complain. Anyway Susan, if you like, our
conversation is as faint as a sound in my
memory, as those fingernails scratching on my hull.

Not a big fan of the singers voice, but it's a really well written song.

hrd2imgn

Todd76 wrote:

I suggest this song EVERY single time someone starts one of these threads.......it would REALLY make my day if ONE of the good people on this board checked it out (for the first time) and gave me their feedback

Sarah Harmer - Lodestar

A Canadian singer songwriter......I consider this song to be (almost) songwriting perfection - it completely captures the feeling of a night on the lake, sitting by the fire, in Northern Ontario. The song gives me chills every time I hear it......it is truly beautiful.

Check it out!!!!!!!

sounded okay- all I could get was a soundclip. Anywhere where I can hear the whole thing online?

the tragically hip dude sounds like Neil Young and Michael Stipe had a son!

red mos

Tyler - by the Toadies. This song still rocks my ass off. really catchy simple bass riff that is just kick ass too.

I'm trying to think of a song by a band called RUST. I think the album was called Bahr chord ritual, but can't find any info on this band on the net. Thus, I have no idea what the song is called without that info, but I'd love to hear it again. The song came out back in 98-99 I think. Anyone know the song or any info on the band? I'm pretty sure it was a one hit wonder.

Todd76

hrd2imgn wrote:

sounded okay- all I could get was a soundclip. Anywhere where I can hear the whole thing online?

Sorry - other than buying it from iTunes or trying to find it on Limewire (or something of the sort) I couldn't find the whole thing online anywhere......there are some live versions on YouTube (but they really don't do the song justice - you must hear the studio version)

......it will be worth the effort if you do track it down - trust me

Brisk.

hahaha

i love that filter song... and that one about pictures

Gardenparty

I BrisK I wrote:

hahaha

... and that one about pictures

worst song ever:)

I'll suggest the following. Don't think it ever really got any respect.

Urge Overkill - Take A Walk

pjoasisrule

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Promise

London Calling

Victor Krummenacher - Tear Stained Road

http://uk.video.yahoo.com/video/play?ei=UTF-8&b=0&vid=49142&gid=113125


Trust me, this is the greatest singer/songwriter you have never heard.

Brisk.

nailbomb - world of shit

You'veGotRedOnYou

The Shins - Pink Bullets
Blind Melon - Mouthful of Cavaties
Fleetwood Mac - Big Love (From The Dance)
The Melvins - Revolve

Those are just a few.

clayton12

strangulation- My Morning Jacket
Grown=Jason Isbell

Matt Lukin

Mission of Burma - That's When I Reach For My Revolver
http://youtube.com/watch?v=gzMu6ugTNfA&mode=related&search=

Austicman

Short Memory- Midnight Oil

deadnote

sleeping at last - brightly

glasshouse

river in the road - queens of the stone age

glasshouse

hats off to (roy) harper - led zeppelin

glasshouse

coconut skins - damien rice

glasshouse

hearts alive - mastodon

glasshouse

here's to you - joan baez

glasshouse

well well well - ben harper

glasshouse

dopo la vittoria - arvo part

glasshouse

sloop john b - the beach boys