Red Mosquito

I was shocked that there were no songs from On The Beach on my list; I could listen to that album all day/all night. I think everybody's lists of Neil songs gives us a window into the type of his tunes you appreciate most (because there's no "wrong" answer).

Birds
Cortez
Ambulance blues
Needle and the damage done
Only love can break your heart
Don't be denied
Ohio
Union man
Revolution blues
For the turnstiles

Man that was hard. On the beach really is his best album

Led zep
Ten years gone
Stairway to heaven
Achilles last stand
Your time is gonna come
Hey hey what can I do
Immigrant song
Out on the tiles
No quarter
The rain song
The wanton song

Dead
Help on the way
Franklins tower
Bird song
US blues
Loser
Lost sailor
Dark star
Black muddy river
Fire on the mountain
Shakedown street

Floyd
Us and them
Pigs (three different ones)
Time
Breathe
Fearless
Dogs
Wish you were here
Hey you
Childhoods end
Shine on you crazy diamond 1-7

Higgs Boson Blues
Red Right Hand
The Mercy Seat
God Is In The House
Stagger Lee
There She Goes, My Beautiful World
The Ship Song
The Weeping Song
And No More Shall We Part
People Ain't No Good

Nick cave

Straight to you
Breathless
The hammer song
Stagger Lee
Are you the one I've been waiting for
Henry Lee
Mercy seat
Love letter
Stranger than kindness
Bromptom oratory

PJ aside, these are my favourite artists:

Bruce Springsteen

Thunder Road
Dancing in the Dark
Something in the night
Drive All Night
Walk like a man
One Step Up
No Surrender (live 75-85)
Born to run
Meeting across the river
Streets of Philadelphia

Ani Difranco

Dilate
Superhero
Company
Shy (living in clip version)
32 flavors (living in clip version)
This Bouquet
Marrow
Reckoning
Soft shoulder
Jukebox

Ryan Adams

Jacksonville Skyline
English girls approx
Come pick me up
Dear Chicago
The bar is a beautiful place
Ghost
Miss sunflower
Avenues
Like the twilight
Karina

The National

Available
Racing like a pro
Fake empire
All the wine
I need my girl
Geese of beverly road
Slow show
Afraid of everyone
About today
Lit up (remix)

Jimmy Eat World

Bleed American
Carry You
For me this is heaven
Blister
Kill
Invented
23
Clarity
Sweetness
Episode IV

Brand New

Quiet things
Soco Amaretto
Sowing Season
Jesus
Tommy Gun
Boy who blocked
You Stole
Sic Transit
Handcuffs
Limousine

The Frames

Happy
Finally
Revelate (setlist)
Your face
What happens when the heart just stops
Friends and foe
Angel at my table
Plateau
Fake
Santa Maria


Radiohead

Let Down
Life in a glasshouse (extended)
Last flowers
My Iron Lung
High and Dry
A Wolf at the door
All I need
How to disappear
Stop whispering
Paranoid Android

LoathedVermin72 wrote: Interpol
Evil
Leif Erikson
The New
NYC
Obstacle 1
Roland
Say Hello to the Angels
Specialist
Stella was a Diver and She was Always Down
Untitled

Obstacle 1
Stella was a Diver and She was Always Down
The New
Leif Erikson
Pioneer To The Falls
No I In Threesome
Rest My Chemistry
Evil
Slow Hands
C'mere

Joanna Newsom

Emily
Go Long
Waltz of the 101st Lightborne
Only Skin
Time, As a Symptom
'81
Good Intentions Paving Company
Does Not Suffice
Sapokanikan
Bridges and Balloons

ABNorman wrote:Joanna Newsom

Emily
Go Long
Waltz of the 101st Lightborne
Only Skin
Time, As a Symptom
'81
Good Intentions Paving Company
Does Not Suffice
Sapokanikan
Bridges and Balloons

Nice choices, that might as well be my list. I love every song on it.

Kaius wrote:I have a lot of trouble when ranking individual songs by a particular artist. I've become almost exclusively a full-album consumer when absorbing new music, so separating songs from the ones that surround them becomes exhausting.

That's understandable, and album listening is often how I consume music as well. I think my main inspiration for this thread came from just listening at various points and realizing how much I like certain songs in a given catalog, or back when reading the March Madness threads how I noticed that so many Binaural songs sit among my favorites in the Pearl Jam discography.

One thing I found interesting about my lists in the starting post is that my Oceansize one is half-composed of songs that are either b-sides or on an EP despite the fact that I consider their run of four albums as one of the strongest I've heard.

Haha, that avatar. Still playing Spelunky?

tragabigzanda wrote:T,D's list reads like a best-of, which is just fine -- those are all amazing songs.

Y'all are gonna hate me for saying this... but Neil's one of those guys who just knows what he does best. His hits tend to be his best songs. He's an amazing artist with a rich well of deep cuts. But I tend to find his mainstream stuff is his best. He's an immediately accessible artist who understands his strengths. He's artistic and commercial at the same time, when he's at his best.

I think I've heard two Neil Young songs

One of them clearly wasn't Cinnamon Girl otherwise you would've kept right on listening.

I've been meaning to dig through his discography for a while. Just haven't gotten to it yet.

It's certainly heavy lifting. And there virtually a million starting points.

When I do finally dig in, I'm gonna do what I did with Springsteen and listen chronologically, beginning with his debut.