Mini-Best-Ofs

[Fatso the wombat]

Here's some...

Pixies;

Monkey Gone to Heaven
Levitate Me
Tame
Winterlong
Bone Machine

Manics;

Motorcycle Emptiness
The Masses Against the Classes
Faster
Motown Junk
Little Baby Nothing

Heavenly;

Atta Girl
Different Day
Shallow
She and Me
Me and My Madness

[Stuart Wallis]

ELO

10538 Overture
Concerto For A Rainy Day
Waterfall
El Dorado
Yours Truly 2095

The Beatles

A Day in The Life
I Am The Walrus
Love You To
Rain
Paperback Writer

Mike Oldfield

Orchestral Tubular Bells Part 2
Moonlight Shadow
To France
In Dulce Dubilo
Taurus 2

The Travelling Wilburys

Handle With Care
End Of the Line
Tweeter And The Monkey Man
Not Afraid Any More
Cool Dark Place

[MacNimon]

Queen

The Prophets Song
You And I
Somebody To Love
A Winters Tale
Save Me


Journey

Of A Lifetime
Winds Of March
Escape
Edge Of The Blade
Faith In The Heartland (Augerri version)


Genesis

The Knife
The Musical Box
Burning Rope
Turn It On Again
Home By The Sea


Marillion

Grendel
Assassing
Freaks
Heart Of Lothian
Sugar Mice

Rainbow

Long Live Rock & Roll
All Night Long
Since You Been Gone
I Surrender
Wolf To The Moon

ELO

Telephone Line
Wild West Hero
Livin' Thing
Confusion
Evil Woman

[Si Hunt]

I'm not sure of the concept of this thread. Is it just your 5 favourite songs? Or the songs you'd put on a 5 track best of? You'd obviously have to use a commercial sensitivity if the latter. For example my favourite Kirsty MacColl song is "He Never Mentioned Love", but I'd not put it on a Best Of as no-one else would have ever heard of it.

Si.

[MacNimon]

I'm not sure of the concept of this thread. Is it just your 5 favourite songs? Or the songs you'd put on a 5 track best of? You'd obviously have to use a commercial sensitivity if the latter. For example my favourite Kirsty MacColl song is "He Never Mentioned Love", but I'd not put it on a Best Of as no-one else would have ever heard of it.

Si.

But wouldn't that be the ideal way to introduce others to your favourite song, Si? Surround it with a few others that that they did know already and would listen to anyway? It's a tactic that the music companies have been using for a number of years when issuing 'Best Of..." or "Greatest Hits" compilations.

And anyway, if it's your favourite song surely it would deserve a place on any "Best Of" playlist you'd make up, whether anyone else knew the song or not.

[Si Hunt]

Well if I'm considering including it as a "tactic" that leads me back to my question - am I designing this as a "Best Of" or is it just my favourite songs? Alternatively, to take my argument to the extreme, if my five favourite songs happen to be b-sides, do I include them all?

Si.

[Richard Brinck-Johnsen]

It's meant to be your 5 favourite songs by a particular artist you like. I'd love to see your Mini Best of for Lorraine Si.

[Rob McCow]

B-sides are all fine - take an artists' entire back catalogue and cut it down to their five best tracks!

[Si Hunt]

Ok, as requested, my Top 5 Lorraine Songs!

1. LA Stars

It's a "serious" song. But it's dreamy and lovely. "Everybody in LA/Wants to be a star. But it's not who you know..."

2. Would You Like To Be Buried Or Cremated?

"Do let me know... before you go!". Jolly sing-along tune about death. Particuarly like rhyming of "Coffin" with "Any old thing to go off in"

3. Nothing Beats The Sound of the Bossa Nova

Love the different musical style sections. "Pop? No, stop!"

4. Fish Fingers

Simple ode to having nothing in the freezer, and very saucy too. "My wish lingers... with your fish fingers!"

5. Fun To Be A Fish

Quite throaway but I love this, especially the bubble noises. "If I had a wish, it would be fun to be a fish!"

Si.

[SiHart]

Blur
Beetlebum
For Tomorrow
Bad Head
Girls and Boys
Good Song

[Perry Vale]

The Smiths

Accept Yourself
These Things Take Time
The Headmaster Ritual
Shoplifters Of The World
Sheila Take A Bow

[Fatso the wombat]

Blur
Beetlebum
For Tomorrow
Bad Head
Girls and Boys
Good Song

Very much liking the inclusion of For Tomorrow in that list...

[SiHart]

Well it is their second best song after all (after Beetlebum, of course)

[Rob McCow]

Suede
The Wild Ones
The Drowners
Trash
Stay Together
The Asphalt World

This could reflect the fact that I love Bernard Butler's extending guitar noodling... Trash opened their Royal Albert Hall gig and it was like having a bomb go off, such a great track.

[Si Hunt]

Queen


Too Much Love Will Kill You
Don't Stop Me Now
I Was Born To Love You
These Are The Days Of Our Lives
Breakthru

Si.

[MacNimon]

Queen


Too Much Love Will Kill You
Don't Stop Me Now
I Was Born To Love You
These Are The Days Of Our Lives
Breakthru

Si.

Excellent choices there, Si. Too Much Love...is possibly the weakest of that bunch imo but I love all of those.

[Si Hunt]

I have a soft spot for that song I'm afraid, having seen it through two versions. Freddie's vocal is somehow less genuine but more powerful, and resonates very much with his death.

Si.

[Si Hunt]

Beautiful South

5. Song For Whoever
4. This Old Skin
3. Just Checkin
2. Let Go With The Flow
1. Have Fun

Si.

[Rob McCow]

Genesis

The Knife
The Musical Box
Burning Rope
Turn It On Again
Home By The Sea

Or alternatively:

Genesis
Firth of Fifth
The Cage
Supper's Ready
Afterglow
No Son Of Mine

[Stuart Wallis]

The Cage, eh? Just to show that the Lamb has some saving graces!

[Simon R]

I've stuck to hits and crowd pleasers and representative of eras rather than personal favourites because it's easier....

Girls Aloud:

1. Sound of the Underground
2. Biology
3. Something Kinda Ooh
4. Call The Shots
5. The Promise

Spice Girls

1. Wannabe
2. Spice Up Your life
3. Viva Forever
4. 2 Become 1
5. Stop

Kylie

1. Hand On Your Heart
2. Better The Devil You Know
3. Confide In Me
4. Can't Get You Out Of My Head
5. I Believe In You

Madonna:

1. Like A Prayer
2. Vogue
3. Music
4. Into The Groove
5. Hung Up

If I was going for personal favourites then it might be different in some case.

[Jon Masters]

Or alternatively:

Genesis
Firth of Fifth
The Cage
Supper's Ready
Afterglow
No Son Of Mine

Or on the other hand

Genesis
Home by the Sea
Driving the Last Spike
Duke' Travel and End
Not about Us
Dance on a Volcano

(I suspect we'll never get agreement on this band... )

[SiHart]

Or indeed...

Genesis
Firth of Fifth
One for the Vine
Cul De Sac
Follow Me, Follow You
That's All
Of the Daleks

[Jon Masters]

I've started using some of these lists and Spotify to explore some of the artists I don't really know, so any more additions would be gratefully received.

[Rob McCow]

The Beta Band
Dry The Rain
Squares
Assessment
To You Alone
Eclipse

The Feeling
Fill My Little World
Sewn
Rosė
Say No
I Thought It Was Over

That'll do for this morning!