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Bojangle

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I'll post my top 10 Joy Division, in no order and leaving the obvious Love Will Tear Us Apart out;

1. Disorder

2. Novelty

3. Shadowplay

4. Insight

5. New Dawn Fades

6. Atmosphere

7. Interzone

8. She's Lost Control

9. Dead Souls

10. Transmission

Thats without delving into their early stuff, which is just as good, but really quite different from the Joy Division we know. Really hard for me to whittle that down to just 10 tracks as I pretty much adore the whole lot. If you listen to any of the above and enjoy it and want more, my advice would be to get the Heart and Soul boxset. A fantastic collection with a mixture of earlier songs and fantastic live versions too.

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The top ten Smiths:

1. The Queen Is Dead (Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty)

2. A Rush and a Push and the Land Is Ours

3. I Know It's Over

4. Girlfriend in a Coma

5. How Soon Is Now?

6. I Started Something I Couldn't Finish

7. Bigmouth Strikes Again

8. Unhappy Birthday

9. Paint A Vulgar Picture

10. Cemetery Gates

The top ten Pink Floyd:

1. Comfortably Numb

2. Shine On You Crazy Diamond

3. Money

4. The Great Gig In The Sky

5. Echoes

6. Wish You Were Here

7. Set The Controls for the Heart of the Sun

8. Careful With That Axe, Eugene

9. The Gunner's Dream

10. Mother

Top ten Hendrix:

1. 1983 (A Mermaid I Should Turn To Be)

2. All Along The Watchtower

3. Crosstown Traffic

4. Little Wing

5. Who Knows

6. If 6 Was 9

7. Voodoo Chile

8. Machine Gun

9. Voodoo Child (Slight Return)

10. Purple Haze

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Bojangle

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The top ten Smiths:

1. The Queen Is Dead (Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty)

2. A Rush and a Push and the Land Is Ours

3. I Know It's Over

4. Girlfriend in a Coma

5. How Soon Is Now?

6. I Started Something I Couldn't Finish

7. Bigmouth Strikes Again

8. Unhappy Birthday

9. Paint A Vulgar Picture

10. Cemetery Gates

A great top 10, but because of how many fantastic songs the Smiths have done, mine would be completely different. :(

1. Reel Around The Fountain

2. This Charming Man

3. There Is A Light That Never Goes Out

4. Handsome Devil

5. Hand In Glove

6. Girl Afraid

7. What Difference Does It Make?

8. The Boy With The Thorn In His Side

9. Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others

10. This Night Has Opened My Eyes

:D

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BlinkyBear

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No Radiohead?

Oh go on then...

Obvious 10:

Creep (Pablo Honey)

Just (Bends)

Street Spirit (Bends)

Paranoid Android (OK Computer)

No Suprises (OK Computer)

The National Anthem (Kid A)

Idioteque (Kid A)

Pyramid Song (Amnesiac)

There There (Hail to the Thief)

Jigsaw Falling into Place (In Rainbows)

That was difficult.

Alternative 10:

My Iron Lung (Bends)

Exit Music (for a film) (OK Computer)

Climbing up the Walls (OK Computer)

Talk Show Host (Romeo & Juliet OST/Street Spirit CDS 1 Track 2)

Optimistic (Kid A)

How to Disappear Completely (Kid A)

Idioteque (Live) (I Might Be Wrong-Live Recordings)

True Love Waits (Live) (I Might Be Wrong-Live Recordings)

Reckoner (In Rainbows)

15 Step (In Rainbows)

Also very difficult. And by no means exhaustive.

Hang on, someone's 'done' a Radiohead one. Mine are better. In the nicest possible way.

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KartoffelKopf

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Stevie Wonder (hardest list ever….)

You Haven’t Done Nothing

Superstitious

Superwoman

As

I Believe (When I fall in love)

Higher Ground

Knocks Me Off My Feet

Signed Sealed Delivered

Big Brother

For Once In My Life

Steely Dan

Do It Again

Rikki Don’t Lose That Number

Peg

Deacon Blues

Green Earrings

Dirty Work

King Of The World

Time Out Of Mind

FM

Kid Charlemagne

Depeche Mode

World in My Eyes

In Your Room (album version)

Stripped

Get The Balance Right

Never Let Me Down Again

Shout

A Question Of Time

Blue Dress

Dangerous

Fly On The Windscreen

Beastie Boys

Pass The Mic

So What’cha Want

Remote Control

Sabotage

Sure Shot

Egg Man

Ch-Check It Out

Root Down

Stand Together

Intergalactic

Foo Fighters (can they be considered classic yet? Yeah, I reckon….)

My Poor Brain

The Pretender

I’ll Stick Around

Weenie Beenie

On The Mend

All My Life

My Hero

Everlong

Low

Best Of You

They were all a lot harder than I thought...

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Just went through my iPod and did it for a few bands:

The B-52s

Roam

Rock Lobster

Love Shack

Good Stuff

Channel Z

Mesopotamia

Summer of Love

Planet Claire

Private Idaho

Quiche Lorraine

Dead Kennedys

California Uber Alles

Holiday In Cambodia

Pull My Strings

Viva Las Vegas

I Spy

Take This Job And Shove It

Chemical Warfare

Stealing People's Mail

Cesspools In Eden

Potshot Heard Round The Way

Devo

Whip It

Mongoloid

Jocko Homo

Gates of Steel

Be Stiff

Peek-a-Boo

Gut Feeling

Beautiful World

Satisfaction

Watch Us Work It

Dexy's Midnight Runners (sans Come On Eileen!)

I Love You (Listen To This)

Geno

Jackie Wilson Says

Tell Me When My Light Turns Green

I'll Show You

One Of Those Things

The Waltz

This Is What She's Like

Burn It Down

Celtic Soul Brothers

James (sans Sit Down!)

Laid

Waltzing Along

Johnny Yen

Destiny Calling

She's A Star

Ring The Bells

Come Home

Say Something

Tomorrow

Out To Get You

Kenickie

Punka

Acetone

How I Was Made

Nightlife

PVC

In Your Car

Classy

Come Out 2 Nite

People We Want

Millionaire Sweeper

Kinks (minus some of the really obvious stuff):

Autumn Almanac

Village Green Preservation Society

Plastic Man

Victoria

Come Dancing

Days

David Watts

Stop Your Sobbing

Death Of A Clown

Supersonic Rocket Ship

Mamas and the Papas

California Dreamin'

Trip Stumble and Fall

Monday, Monday

Winken, Blinken and Nod

Dedicated To The One I Love

Once Was A Time I Thought

I Call Your Name

Creeque Alley

Go Where You Wanna Go

Dream A Little Dream Of Me

The Stranglers

Golden Brown

Waltzin Black

Peaches

(Get A) Grip (On Yourself)

Duchess

Toiler On The Sea

No More Heroes

La Folie

Nice 'n' Sleazy

Nuclear Device

Talking Heads

Life During Wartime

Once In A Lifetime

Road To Nowhere

Burning Down The House

Genius Of Love

Psycho Killer

Girlfriend Is Better

And She Was

Heaven

Thank You For Sending Me An Angel

Weezer (everyone knows Buddy Holly, right?)

My Name Is Jonas

No One Else

The World Has Turned And Left Me Here

Undone

The Sweater Song

Surf Wax America

Say It Ain't So

In The Garage

Holiday

Only In Dreams

[Yes, I know, but that album is so perfect it hurts.]

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Had to stop myself as it's getting late! I just spent ages listening to ace music.

Edit: my 'alternative' Beastie Boys would probably be along the lines of:

3 MCs and 1 DJ (live)

Girls

Brass Monkey

An Open Letter To NYC

B-Boy Bouillabaise

Move

Hey Ladies

The New Style

Super Disco Breakin'

Alright Hear This

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Ben

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Fuxache.

I blame rum-induced blindness.

Some one should do a Fall one though. And James Brown.

An attempt at a James Brown ten:

Get it Together

Ain't It Funky Now

There Was A Time

It's A New Day

Super Bad

Get Up, Get Into It, Get Involved

People Get Up and Drive Your Funky Soul

I Don't Want Nobody To Give Me Nothing

Say It Loud (I'm Black and I'm Proud)

I can't stand myself (when you touch me)

The problem with James Brown is that virtually all my favourite tracks of his are the extended/alternative takes, or live versions. The shorter "Greatest Hits" versions aren't a patch on them. If you want to start with James Brown, don't buy a best of from HMV or something - get the Star Time boxset (there seems to be two versions) which is an incredible bargain for £20 and has some of the best soul/funk you'll ever hear.

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Ben

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Or someone here could always sign up and do a slot of their own! :D

I do play a fair few of these artists in my shows and sometimes in 'artist retrospective' sets, and (like most people) if I were to / have had to put an artist set together I'd very likely play a very different 10 tracks than those chosen here in most cases. It's all a bit subjective innit? So come along and do your own set, man...we're a bit short of active DJs these days (and, it has to be said, active listeners. Harrumph).

I heartily co-sign this too, everyone should have a go if they've got the time.

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Some one should do a Fall one though.

I'll give that one a crack, although they're definitely one band where no-one will ever agree with anyone else's choices.. I'm not much of a fan of their 90's stuff so it's not going to cover all the bases.

Dr. Buck's Letter (The Unutterable)

Prole Art Threat (Palace of Swords Reversed)

C.R.E.E.P. (The Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall)

I Am Damo Suzuki (This Nation's Saving Grace)

Blindness (Fall Heads Roll)

The NWRA (Grotesque)

Big New Prinz (I Am Kurious Oranj)

Two Librans (The Unutterable)

The Classical (Hex Enduction Hour)

Cruisers Creek (This Nation's Saving Grace)

No doubt I'd pick another ten tomorrow.

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OK everyone else has done this but this is the real list :D

Radiohead

(nice dream) (The Bends) - if you think that you're strong enough

Fake Plastic Trees (The Bends) - if I could be who you wanted

Talk Show Host (but NOT the Romeo & Juliet version) - I want to be someone else or I'll explode

Let Down (OK Computer) - one day I am gonna grow wings

Exit Music (for a film) (OK Computer) - we hope your rules and wisdom choke you

How to Disappear Completely (Kid A) - in a little while I'll be gone

Motion Picture Soundtrack (Kid A) - red wine and sleeping pills help me get back in your arms

Like Spinning Plates (I Might Be Wrong live recordings) - while you make pretty speeches, I'm being cut to shreds

True Love Waits (I Might Be Wrong live recordings) - I'm not living, I'm just killing time

Bodysnatchers (In Rainbows) - has the light gone out for you? 'cos the light's gone out for me

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Fall alternative

Industrial Estate

Rebellious Jukebox

Eat Yourself Fitter

I Am Damo Suzuki

Dr. Buck's Letter (The bit about Pete Tong at the end is hilarious)

What About Us?

Theme From Sparta F.C.

Hip Priest

New Face In Hell

Touch Sensitive (Ignore the car ad memories)

Butthole Surfers

Dum Dum

Human Cannonball

Pepper

Negro Observer

Mexican Caravan

Goofy's Concern

Sweat Loaf

Jimi

I Saw An X-Ray of a Girl Passing Gas

Jingle of a Dog's Collar

Beck

Beercan

Atmospheric Conditions

Loser

Soul Suckin' Jerk

Bottle of Blues

Sissyneck

Jack-Ass

Sexx Laws

Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime

Deadweight

Super Furry Animals

Rings Around The World

Northern Lites

Slow Life

Hermann Loves Pauline

Juxtaposed With You

The Man Don't Give a Fuck

Ysbeidiau Heulog

Into The Night

Hello Sunshine

The International Language of Screaming

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It's dissapointing that most of the artists I like don't have a substantial back catalog for me to plunder. Here is a Jamiroquai top 10 that avoids the more obvious stuff (apart from Space Cowboy, which I just couldn't leave out).

Just Another Story (Return of the Space Cowboy)

You Are My Love (Travelling Without Moving)

If I Like It, I Just Do It (Emergency On Planet Earth)

Music Of The Mind (Emergency On Planet Earth)

Blow Your Mind (Emergency On Planet Earth)

Falling (Synkronized)

Journey To Arnhemland (Return of the Space Cowboy)

Space Cowboy (Return of the Space Cowboy)

Feel So Good (Synkronized)

Don't Give Hate A Chance (Dynamite)

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The Chemical Brothers

Life is Sweet (Exit Planet Dust)

In Dust We Trust (Exit Planet Dust)

Leave Home (Exit Planet Dust)

Elektrobank (Dig Your Own Hole)

Where Do I Begin? (Dig Your Own Hole)

The Private Psychedelic Reel (Dig Your Own Hole)

Galvanise (Push The Button)

Hold Tight London (Push the Button)

Surface to Air (Push the Button)

Burst Generator (We are the Night)

(I've not included Hey Boy Hey Girl and Star Guitar simply because they're pretty much the most famous tracks)

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DJ Premier Productions:

Freddie Foxxx - R.N.S.

Royce Da 5'9 - Boom

KRS One - Outta Here

Nas - NY State of Mind

Group Home - Livin' Proof

Notorious B.I.G. - Kick In The Door

Gang Starr - Code of the Streets

Non-Phixion - Rock Stars

Jeru the Damaja - Come Clean

Gang Starr - DWYCK

I fully expect some of the heads to come in and here and rip this 10 to shreds though, an impossible task.

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Prince

Controversy

Kiss

I Would Die 4 U

Let's Go Crazy

Purple Rain

7

Dirty Mind

Erotic City

Sign O'The Times

Raspberry Beret

Sometimes It Snows In April

Starfish & Coffee (Just a perfect little pop song that never gets any credit)

A mix of the well known and ones that don't get airplay

I tried doing one, but I would have to have all those tracks and about 30 others. Where would my life be without 'Pussy Control' or 'Gett Off' for instance? Nowhere, that's where.

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DJ Premier Productions:

*list*

I fully expect some of the heads to come in and here and rip this 10 to shreds though, an impossible task.

I'm gonna have a proper look at my Preemo collection and come back and attempt an alternative list here, aye! Though I think you're spot on with these:

Nas - NY State of Mind

Group Home - Livin' Proof

Non-Phixion - Rock Stars

Jeru the Damaja - Come Clean

Gang Starr - DWYCK

I've also been thinking about a definitive Wu-Tang/RZA productions list, dipping into all of the essential solo tracks and posse cuts. Now that will be hard.

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