Random Artist Top Tens

[Brett]

Simple concept: pick any artists that you feel familiar enough with and assemble a list of your ten favorite songs from those artists' catalogs.

A few to get the ball rolling, though probably not in any real order:

Explosions in the Sky
1. Welcome, Ghosts
2. Magic Hours
3. The Long Spring
4. The Only Moment We Were Alone
5. Be Comfortable, Creature
6. Six Days at the Bottom of the Ocean
7. It's Natural to Be Afraid
8. Yasmin the Light
9. Snow and Lights
10. The Moon is Down

Thee Silver Mt. Zion
1. There is a Light
2. Microphones in the Trees
3. What We Loved Was Not Enough
4. The Triumph of Our Tired Eyes
5. All the Kings Are Dead
6. 13 Blues for Thirteen Moons
7. God Bless Our Dead Marines
8. Austerity Blues
9. Could've Moved Mountains
10. Black Waters Blowed/Engine Broke Blues

Oceansize
1. Trail of Fire
2. Breed Siamese
3. New Pin
4. Silent/Transparent
5. Long Forgotten
6. One Out of n0ne
7. Legal Teens
8. Red Rag to a Bear
9. Superfluous to Requirements
10. I Haven't Been...The Claw for Ages

Tortoise
1. I Set My Face to the Hillside
2. Monica
3. Djed
4. Tin Cans and Twine
5. Gigantes
6. Stretch (You Are All Right)
7. Along the Banks of Rivers
8. Jetty
9. Eros
10. Gamera

[tragabigzanda]

[LoathedVermin72]

KANYE (not ranked)

Blood on the Leaves
Father Stretch My Hands Pt. 1
Hold My Liquor
I am a God
I'm in It
On Sight
Pinocchio Story
Power
Runaway
Ultralight Beam

[Mike]

Also no specific order:

Animal Collective
In The Flowers
Fireworks
In The Flowers
Summertime Clothes
Bluish
Brother Sport
Applesauce
Amanita
Grass
The Purple Bottle

Joanna Newsom
Peach, Plum, Pear
Sadie
Emily
Sawdust & Diamonds
Good Intentions Paving Company
Baby Birch
Sapokanikan
Only Skin
Does Not Suffice
Clam, Crab, Cockle, Cowrie

[LoathedVermin72]

All unranked...

Acid Bath
Bleed Me an Ocean
The Blue
Cassie Eats Cockroaches
Dead Girl
Graveflower
Jezebel
Paegan Love Song
Scream of the Butterfly
Tranquilized
Venus Blue

Crowbar (This was really difficult.)
Command of Myself
Conquering
Down into the Rotting Earth
Empty Room
High Rate Extinction
Planets Collide
Self-Inflicted
Slave No More
Wrath of Time Be Judgement
You Know (I'll Live Again)

The Dillinger Escape Plan
Abe the Cop
Black Bubblegum
Farewell, Mona Lisa
Milk Lizard
The Mullet Burden
One of Us is the Killer
Prancer
Sandbox Magician
When Good Dogs Do Bad Things
When I Lost My Bet

[LoathedVermin72]

I could do this all day.

Die Antwoord
Baby's on Fire
Cookie Thumper!
DJ Hi-Tek Rulez
Enter the Ninja
Fatty Boom Boom
Girl I Want 2 Eat U
Hey Sexy
I Fink U Freeky
So What?
Ugly Boy

Ke$ha
Blow
Cannibal
Crazy Kids
Die Young
Frenzy
Sleazy
Take It Off
TiK ToK
Warrior
We R Who We R

Kitty
285
Ay Shawty: THE SHREKONING
barbie j33p
Drink Tickets
Hoaxxx
Last Minute
Miss U
R.R.E.A.M.
Second Life
UNfollowed.

[nyquillyn]

Old Man Gloom

A Hideous Nightmare Lies Upon the World
Simia Dei
Jaws of the Lion
Zozobra
Common Species
The Volcano
Clenched Tight in the Fist of God
Deserts in Your Eyes
'Tis Better To Receive
Gift

[LikeLukin]

The Tragically Hip

Sherpa
Inevitability of Death
Cordelia
Fiddler's Green
Titanic Terrarium
Thugs
Grace, Too
It's a Good Life if You Don't Weaken
Apartment Song
The Dire Wolf

[MattA75]

Mighty Mighty Bosstones

1.Someday I Suppose
2.Storm Hit
3.They Came to Boston
4.Devil's Night Out
5.I Want My City Back
6.Sister Mary
7.Toxic Toast
8.A Sad Silence
9.Open and Honest
10.The One with the Woes

Gaslight Anthem

1.Meet Me By the River's Edge
2.The Diamond Street Church Choir
3.Biloxi Parish
4.The Patient Ferris Wheel
5.We're Getting a Divorce, You Keep the Diner
6.Helter Skeleton
7.1,000 Years
8.Orphans
9.We Came to Dance
10.Old White Lincoln

[chewm]

Built To Spill
Carry the Zero
Car
Conventional Wisdom
Liar
Center of the Universe
Reasons
I Would Hurt A Fly
Strange
You Were Right
Untustable / Part 2

Sleater-Kinney
The Swimmer
Entertain
One More Hour
Wilderness
Jumpers
Oh!
Was It A Lie
I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone
Not What You Want
A New Wave

Courtney Barnett
Dead Fox
Depreston
Don't Apply Compresion Gently
Avant Gardener
Elevator Operator
Pedestrian At Best
Anonymous Club
Out of the Woodwork
History Eraser
Kim's Caravan

R.E.M.
Nightswimming
Country Feedback
Harborcoat
The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite
Find the River
Falls to Climb
Electrolite
Let Me In
Wendell Gee
Turn You Inside Out

[Mike]

Radiohead

Let Down
How To Disappear Completely
Motion Picture Soundtrack
There There
Bloom
Pyramid Song
Life In A Glass House
Everything In It's Right Place
Exit Music (For A Film)
Airbag

That was hard. There are a LOT of songs that could get in there if I did it another day.

[Mike]

R.E.M.
Nightswimming
Country Feedback
Harborcoat
The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite
Find the River
Falls to Climb
Electrolite
Let Me In
Wendell Gee
Turn You Inside Out

Good choices. This is gonna be tough...

Nightswimming
Harborcoat
Find The River
Fall One Me
I Believe
It's The End Of The World
You Are The Everything
Half A World Away
Try Not To Breathe
Daysleeper

Damn, there's so much other stuff I want to put on there.

[chewm]

R.E.M.
Nightswimming
Country Feedback
Harborcoat
The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite
Find the River
Falls to Climb
Electrolite
Let Me In
Wendell Gee
Turn You Inside Out

Good choices. This is gonna be tough...

Nightswimming
Harborcoat
Find The River
Fall One Me
I Believe
It's The End Of The World
You Are The Everything
Half A World Away
Try Not To Breathe
Daysleeper

Damn, there's so much other stuff I want to put on there.

Yeah, this was the hardest one for me

[E.H. Ruddock]

oh good more ranking

[tragabigzanda]

Top 10 maybe?
Hello Morning
Close Captioned
The Kill
Place/Position
Do You Like Me?
Latest Disgrace
Recap Modotti
Nightshop
Break
Life & Limb

I'd maybe bump Life & Limb for Epic Problem

[Kalevi]

REM

Supernatural superserious
Carnival of sorts
What's the frequency Kenneth
Letter never sent
Begin the begin
Walk unafraid
So fast so numb
World leader pretend
The great beyond
How the west was won and where it got us

[chewm]

Those are great choices.

[LetMeSleep]

oh good more ranking

Iron Maiden

22 Acacia Avenue
Hallowed Be Thy Name
Flight Of Icarus
Rime Of The Ancient Mariner
Number Of The Beast
The Clairvoyant
Wasted Years
Prowler
Still Life
Children Of The Damned

[Simple Torture]

Bill Callahan/Smog
Permanent Smile
Palimpset
Our Anniversary
Feather By Feather
Song
Let Me See the Colts
Truth Serum
Bloodflow
Eid Ma Clack Shaw
I Feel Like the Mother of the World

That's a good list....hmmm.....(unranked)

Palimpset
Dress Sexy at My Funeral
Rock Bottom Riser
Cold Blooded Old Times
Drover
Say Valley Maker
The Sing
Taken
Summer Painter
Diamond Dancer
Jim Cain

[Simple Torture]

Jason Molina stuff:

Farewell Transmission
John Henry Split My Heart
North Star
The Gray Tower
Lioness
Didn't It Rain
Whip-Poor-Will
31 Seasons in the Minor Leagues
Long Desert Train
Everything Should Try Again