The "High Fidelity" Thread
 

In the movie "High Fidelity", the guys in the record store pass the time by making top 5 lists. I think we should do the same here.

The way it will work is that someone will propose a Top 5 ______ and people will chime in. Once a week we'll change the topic.

So, I'll start, and I'll steal an idea from the movie.

Top 5 "Track 1's" List your top 5 songs that are the first track on their respective albums. Greatest Hits compilations and soundtracks don't count.

1. Nirvana - "Smells Like Teen Spirit"
2. Pantera - "Mouth for War"
3. nine inch nails - "Mr Self Destruct"
4. Thursday - "For the Workforce, Drowning"
5. Rush - "Dreamline"

Metallica from The Black Album - Enter Sandman
The Doors from "The Doors" - Break On Through
Nirvana from Nevemind - Smells Like Teen Spirit
Pink Floyd from Meddle - One Of These Days
Black Sabbath from Paranoid - War Pigs

If I really think about it, maybe I could come up with something else, but this is pretty good.

BTW, great thread Derwood!

The Clash: London Calling
Sonic Youth: Teenage Riot
David Bowie: Station to Station
R.E.M.: Radio Free Europe
James Brown: Get on the Good Foot, Pts. 1 & 2

Bob Dylan - Like a Rolling Stone
-Tangled Up in Blue
-Hurricane
-Jokerman
-The Times They Are A-Changin'

I could go on and on but it's only a top five list...

Guns 'N Roses - Welcome to the Jungle
Metallica - Enter Sandman
Aerosmith - Back in the Saddle
Bob Dylan - Like a Rolling Stone
U2 - Sunday Bloody Sunday

1.) red hot chili peppers - around the world
2.) the clash - london calling
3.) the doors - roadhouse blues
4.) jane's additcion - stop
5.) led zepellin - the song remains the same

1 Soundgarden - Rusty Cage
2 Metallica - Enter Sandman
3 Rage Against The Machine - People Of The Sun
4 Nirvana - Serve The Servants
5 Jimi Hendrix Experience - Purple Haze

this is a gooood thread/idea but i can't think of anything :(
(of course now i will force myself to think of some)

1. smashing pumpkins from siamese dream - cherub rock
2. tool from aenima - stinkfest
3. beatles from abbey road - come together
4. tori amos from little earthquakes - crucify
5. bryan adams from so far so good - summer of '69

Oh man, only 5? :(

1. The Who from Who's Next - Baba O'Riley
2. Stevie Wonder from Songs In The Key Of Life - Love's In Need Of Love Today
3. Elvis Costello from All This Useless Beauty - The Other End of the Telescope
4. Elton John from Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Funeral For A Friend/Love Lies Bleeding
5. Queen from A Day At The Races - Tie Your Mother Down

Great thread. I look forward to participating next week!

1- Placebo - Come Home (Placebo)
2- Massive Attack - Angel (Mezzanine)
3- The Flaming Lips - Battle 1 (Yoshimi Vs. the Pink Robots)
4- Nick Drake - Pink Moon (his last album, I forget the name)
5- The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army (White Elephant)

1- The Strokes - Is This it? - Is This it?
2- The Strokes - Whatever Happaned - Room on Fire
3- Hot Hot Heat - Le Le Low - Knock Knock Knock (EP)
4- Finch - What It Is To Burn - What It Is To Burn
5- Elefant - Make Up - Sunlight Makes Me Paranoid

wow this is a really good thread, many kudos to you derwood, now on to the thinking.

1) Led Zeppelin - Black Dog (untitled, or IV, whatever)
2) Miles Davis - So What (Kind of Blue)
3) Rx Bandits - What If (Halfway Between Here and There)
4) The Clash - London Calling (London Calling)
5) Metallica - Battery (Master of Puppets)

Hate to be a dick numberfive, but what it is to burn is actually the last track off of that album, first track is new beginnings. ill shut up now :P

Very cool idea, I'll try a few

5) Flaming Lips - Fight Test
4) The Pixies - Debaser
3) Radiohead - Airbag
2) Pearl Jam - Breakerfall
1) Alice in Chains - Them Bones

Ah, I just got the tracklist off their site and assumed it was correct :\

(Thats the only Album I don't own on the list.)

great idea.

1. Evanescence - Going Under (Fallen)
2. AC/DC - Back In Black (Back in Black)
3. Tool - stinkfist (Aenima)
4. Metallica - Enter Sandman (Black Album)
5. What Up Ganksta - 50 Cent (Get Rich Or Die Tryin')

Killswitch Engage - Numbered Days
Gun n' Roses - Civil War
Stone Temple Pilots - Dead and Bloated
Soundgarden - Rusty Cage
Alice in Chains - Them Bones

Frank Zappa- Willie the Pimp
White Zombie- Welcome to Planet MotherFucker
Johnny Taylor-Disco Lady
Primus-To Defy the Laws of Tradition
Led Zeppelin-The Song Remains the Same

Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit (Nevermind)
Metallica - Enter Sandman (Black)
NIN - Mr Self Destruct
Rage Against The Machine - People Of The Sun (Evil Empire)
Sublime - Waiting for my Ruca (40oz. To Freedom)

1. Led Zeppelin - Whole Lotta Love (LZ 2)
2. Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band (SPLHCB)
3. Over the Rhine - Latter Days (Good Dog Bad Dog)
4. Bob Dylan - Maggie's Farm (Hard Rain)
5.David Gray - Please Forgive Me (White Ladder)

great flic, great thread!

Well, it's my thread, so I might as well try to make my own list:

In on particular order:

- Pink Floyd - Shine on You Crazy Diamond (Parts I-V) -technically one track on the CD
- Metallica - Battery
- Reverend Horton Heat - Big Sky
- Smashing Pumpkins - Cherub Rock
- Johnny Cash - When the Man Comes Around

ok umm here is the list at the moment

if i could make it a top 10 i would put some other beauties on here... or i can make anohter post....

but here they are in no particular order


the used - self titled : maybe memories

guns and roses - use your illusion 2 : civil war

silverchair - neon ballroom : emotion sickness

the doors - self titled : break on through (to the other side)

alice in chains - face lift : we die young

Great thread idea.... no particular order on my list.

Band - Song (Album)

Glassjaw - Tip Your Bartender (Worship and Tribute)
Glassjaw - Pretty Lush (Everything you Ever Wanted to Know About Silence)
Lostprophets - Shinobi Vs. Dragon Ninja (The Fake Sound of Progress)
At the Drive-In - Arcarsenal (Relationship of Command)
Bad Brains - Sailin' On (Bad Brains)

1. Tool - Stinkfist from Aenema
2. Pantera - Stronger than All from Far Beyond Driven
3. Godsmack - Moonbaby from self titled
4. 311 - Homebrew from Grassroots
5. (sic) - Slipknot from self titled

OK, new week, new category:

Top 5 Cover Songs

ooo good one....ummm here is the best 5 covers that i can think of at the moment anyway, in no particular order


guns and roses - knocking on heavens door (original by bob dylan)

grinspoon - dont change (original by inxs)

jimi hendrix - all along the watch tower (original by bob dylan)

the ataris - boys of summer (original by don henley {i know some people will shoot me for that one, but i think the cover is a good song too})

ok this one is a bit weird
i was pretty sure that bob dylan sang the original (i have since found out that he has covered it too) but i couldnt remember if pink floyd covered it or they just played it live (i got the mp3 on the computer)... but anyway

pink floyd - house of the rising sun (not sure who did the original but here is the web site anyway http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ho...the_Rising_Sun) i have also heard versions by the animals and bob dylan and they both kick ass aswell

I like this category

The Tea Party - Paint It Black (Rolling Stones)
The Ramones - Street Fighting Man (Stones) Can't remember if it's live or a cover
Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower (Bob Dylan)
Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen)
Blind Melon - Out On The Tiles (Led Zepplin)

I'll chime in early here:

Cake - I Will Survive (orig. Gloria Gaynor)
Foo Fighters - Baker Street (orig. Jerry Rafferty)
Metallica - Turn the Page (orig. Bob Seger)
Fountains of Wayne - Baby...One More Time (orig. Britney Spears)
Smashing Pumpkins - Landslide (orig. Fleetwood Mac)

1. The Who - Young Man Blues (originally by Mose Allison)
2. Indigo Girls - Romeo and Juliet (Dire Straits)
3. Johnny Cash - Hurt (Nine Inch Nails)
4. Moxy Fruvous - Jockey Full Of Bourbon (Tom Waits)
5. Stevie Ray Vaughan - Little Wing (Jimi Hendrix)

1- The Ramones, "The Bird Is The Word" (The Trashmen)
2- Cat Power, "Satisfaction (I Can't Get No)" (The Rolling Stones)
3- Low, "Blue Eyed Devil" (Soul Coughing)
4- Johnny Cash, "Hurt" (Nine Inch Nails)
5- Chuck Jones as Porky Pig, "Blue Christmas" (Elvis Presley)

Oh, and high_way, consider yourself shot.

Joe Cocker "With a Little Help from my Friends" (The Beatles)

Sinead O'Connor "Nothing Compares 2 U" (Prince)

Santana "Oye Como Va" (Tito Puente)

David Bowie "Let's Spend the Night Together (Rolling Stones)

The Gourds "Gin and Juice" (Snoop Dogg)

Also anything by William Shatner ("Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds," "Rocketman," "Mr. Tambourine Man," etc.)

Snapcase - I (Bad Brains)
Snapcase - Freedom of Choice (Devo)
Deftones - Say it Ain't So (Weezer)
Gary Jules - Mad World (Tears for Fears)
The Independents - 'C' is for Cookie (Cookie Monster)

Guns n' Roses - Live and Let Die
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Little Wing
Stone Temple Pilots - Dancin' Days
System of a Down - Metro
Dream Theater - Zep Medley(The Rover, Achilles Last Stand, The Song Remains the Same)

top five covers. . .

Led Zeppelin - In My Time of Dying
Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower
Stone Temple Pilots - Dancin' Days
Rolling Stones - Like a Rolling Stone
Aerosmith - Come Together

Here's a redneck list for ya...

Eric Heatherly - Flowers on the Wall
Alan Jackson - Summertime Blues
Brad Paisley - Sharp Dressed Man
Willie Nelson - Blue Skies
Alan Jackson - Pop a Top

isnt "what it is to burn" track 13

dont really listen to cover songs but let me think of five i have heard :)

1) Suicide Machines - I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
2) Stevie Ray Vaughn - Little Wing
3) Led Zeppelin - In My Time Of Dying
4) Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower
5) Metallica - Turn The Page

1.) red hot chili peppers - what is soul? (parliament funkadelic)
2.) blink 182 - the girl next door (screachinhg weasel)
3.) johnny cash - hurt (NIN)
4.) finch - stars (hum)
5.) nofx - olympia wa. (rancid)

i already brought it up ... no need to patronize the guy :P

Top Five Covers:

Led Zeppelin - When The Levee Breaks (Memphis Minnie)
The Amboy Dukes - Baby Please Don't Go (Big Bill Broonzy)
Eric Clapton - Crossroads (Robert Johnson)
Nirvana - Black Girl (Ledbelly)
The Doors - I'm A King Bee (Muddy Waters)

House of the Rising Sun is a traditional folksong, that as far as I know dates too far back to know who wrote it. One of the earliest recordings I've found is by Ledbelly (avatar). The lyrics have changed a bit. My favorite is the Animals version, the organ is incredible.

Found a link apparently it may be as old as 17th century.

http://www.geocities.com/Nashville/3448/house.html

Seems like this one is dying out. New topic?

Top 5 Ballads

Let me define "ballad". I don't mean this in the contemporary pop music sense. I mean this in the traditional music sense. A Ballad (for the purposes of this thread) is a song that tells a story of a specific story or event. Ballads are very common in traditional Irish music as well as Country.

I'll wait to post mine, but if there is any confusion on this one, I'll jump right in.

Top 5 Covers
1. Nirvana - Where Did You Sleep Last Night?
2. Audioslave - Seven Nation Army
3. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Fire
4. Cake - I Will Survive
5. Pearl Jam - Last Kiss

Top 5 Ballads
1. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Tearjerker
2. Everclear - Heroin Girl
3. Hoobastank - Running Away
4. Red Hot Chili Peppers - I Could Have Lied
5. Bob Dylan - Hurricane

Top 5 Ballads:

1 - "A Boy Named Sue", Johnny Cash
2 - "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald", Gordon Lightfoot (been thinking of doing a speed metal version of this, as suggested by Mimi of the "Drew Carey Show")
3 - "One Piece At A Time", Johnny Cash
4 - "Last Kiss", Pearl Jam version (forgot who did the original)
5 - "Mary Jane's Last Dance", Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

did not see that... my bad

1.) Red hot chili peppers - under the bridge

2.) Jane's addiction - jane says

3.) the doors - riders on the storm

4.) Red hot chili peppers - tearjerker

5.) bone thugs ~n~ harmony - da crossroads

1.) Five Iron Frenzy - Blue Comb '78
2.) Rancid - Olympia
3.) Sublime - Wrong Way
4.) Catch 22 - Kristina
5.) The Slackers - Married Girl

Bob Biter has the closest idea to what I was talking about.

Here is mine:

- The Wind that Shakes the Barley (traditional, performed by Dead Can Dance)
- Whiskey in the Jar (traditional, peformed by Metallica/Thin Lizzy)
- Highway Patrolmen (by Bruce Springsteen, performed by Johnny Cash)
- Streets of Laredo (traditional, peformed by Johnny Cash)
- Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner (by Warren Zevon)

See, songs about a specific person and their story. Some of the songs you guys listed are more ballad in the sense that they are slower and more contemplative than that bands normal stuff.

just looked up the lyrics to all of the songs that i posted. they all fit your definition of "ballad". just dont want to be thought wrong because i listen to some music that you may not have heard. check those songs out though, and those bands! good stuff.

Warren Zevon - Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner
Bruce Springsteen - Highway Patrolman
Glassjaw - Ry Ry's Song
Bright Eyes - Lover I Don't Have to Love
Vicki Lawrence - The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia

Right, I don't doubt you. I'm didn't mean to imply that everyone else was wrong. Just pointed out that Bob was looking to the more traditional music that I was expecting to see.

well im glad i could bring somethin different to the thread :)

5 Ballads

Led Zeppelin - Poor Tom
Johnny Cash - John Henry
A Tribe Called Quest - I Left My Wallet In El Segundo
Bobbie Gentry - Ode to Billie Joe
John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers - Death of J. B. Lenoir

Here are mine.

1. Love Bites - Def Leppard
2. More Than Words - Extreme
3. Is This Love - Whitesnake
4. Heaven - Warrant
5. Every Rose Has Its Thorn - Poison









:D



Here are my top five ballads, and thanks Derwood for being so specific about the true definition of a ballad. This was a tough one. I went more with ones I knew off the top of my head as it was so hard to think of them.

1. Scenes From An Italian Restaurant - Billy Joel
2. Ticking - Elton John
3. Ballad In Plain D - Bob Dylan (but I prefer the version by Emily Saliers of the Indigo Girls)
4. The Drinking Song - Moxy Fruvous
5. Romeo and Juliet - Dire Straits (again, I prefer the IG version)

Hmmm....i wonder if I should pull the plug on this list and go for another one before the week is up....

go for it. This one was a toughie. :) How about top five favorite specific holiday songs?

Nah, here's one:

Top 5 Songs with a color in the title

Now these have to be real colors. I don't want to see someone say "Lemon by U2" and try to argue that "lemon" is a color. I'm talking Crayola's basic 8, plus white, grey and black.

Doobie Brothers: Black Water
Rolling Stones: Paint it Black
Johnny Cash: Man it Black
Kenny Wayne Sheppard: Blue on Black
Metallica: Fade to Black

(good thing I was allowed to use black)

doobie brothers: black water
jimi hendrix: purple haze
metallica: fade to black
ani difranco: grey
live: the beauty of gray



:lol:

1) Five Iron Frenzy - Blue Comb '78 (yay i got to use this twice :P)
2) Led Zeppelin - Black Dog (yay this one too)
3) The Slackers - Redlight
4) Jimi Hendrix - Purple Haze
5) Rancid - Red Hot Moon

1. Barenaked Ladies - Powder Blue
2. George Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue
3. The Who - Blue, Red and Grey
4. Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
5. The Beatles - Blackbird

1) Red Hot Chili Peppers - Green Heaven
2) Pearl Jam - Green Diesease
3) The Who - Behind Blue Eyes
4) Pearl Jam - Black
5) Soundgarden - Fell On Black Days

Great top five idea by the way

1) Pearl Jam - Black
2) David Gray - Red Moon (do I get extra points for a colour in the title AND the guy's name AND the album - White Ladder?)
3) Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun
4) Elvis Presley - Blue Christmas
5) Prince - Purple Rain

this one is a little different, but i like it

again no order but here they are

the used - blue and yellow
the rollingstones - paint it black
ac/dc - back in black
the screaming jets - october grey
silverchair - black tangled heart

1. Bob Dylan - Tangled Up in Blue
2. Joni Mitchell - Big Yellow Taxi
3. Richard Manuel - Oragne Juice Blues (Blues for Breakfast)
4. Bob Dylan - Under the Red Sky
5. Traveling Wilburys - New Blue Moon

- Grey Street - Dave Matthews Band
- Reverend Horton Heat's Big Blue Car - Reverend Horton Heat
- Purple Rain - Prince
- Fade to Black - Metallica
- Salamander Green - Ralph Covert

if this is your bag, you need to check out townes van zandt (rip). his "pancho & lefty," among others, is some of the best you'll ever hear.

- Big Yellow Taxi, Counting Crows (nod to Joni Mitchell)
- Burgundy Heart Shaped Medallion, David Wilcox
- Doublewide Blues, Todd Snider (Hey, blue is a color)
- Blue on Black, Kenny Wayne Shepard
- Paint it Black, Rolling Stones

snapcase - bleeding orange
black dahlia murder - the blackest incarnation
glassjaw - pink roses
los bravos - black is black (i want my baby back)
hole - violet

(btw, jimk, i'm kicking myself for not remembering townes van zandt on my choices for ballads. one of my favorite artists, EVER.)

Bravo!

I love Black Dahlia as much as I like songs about werewolves, so it's a win-win in my book.

Pearl Jam - Black
Led Zeppelin - Black Dog
Hard Core Logo - Blue Tattoo
Pavement - Gold Soundz
Rolling Stones - Brown Sugar

hmmm. . .in no particular order

little blue river - over the rhine
silver lining - david gray (I am cheating and using silver)
blackbird - the beatles
black dog - led zeppelin
purple haze - jimi hendrix

actually the list goes from bottom to top.

EDIT: bonnie raitt's version of silver lining is also very good.

Time for a new Top 5 category yet?

No.

New Order - Blue Monday
Nick Drake - Pink Moon
Pearl Jam - Black (good call rockzilla)
The Who - Behind Blue Eyes
Billy Idol - White Wedding

Sure!

Top 5 Live Albums

This thread has been kicking ass Derwood, great idea.

Top 5 Live Albums

Rush - Exit Stage Left
Neil Young - Live Rust
The Who - Live at Leeds (the newer one with more material)
Pearl Jam - Live On Two Legs
Nirvana - MTV Unplugged in NY

Pink Floyd - Pulse
Nirvana - MTV Unplugged in NY
Bad Examples - Cheap Beer Night
Dead Can Dance - Toward the Within
Dave Matthews Band - The Central Park Concert

Metallica - S&M
Rush - Different Stages
Cheap Trick - Live at Budokan
Ted Nugent - Double Live Gonzo
nine inch nails - all that could have been

Pearl Jam - A large number of the bootlegs are incredible
Nirvana - Unplugged in NY
BB King - Live at the Regal/Live in Cook County
Johnny Cash - Live at San Quentin
The Band - The Last Waltz (just amazing)

Nirvana - Unplugged in NY
Phish - A Live One
Simon and Garfunkel - The Concert in the Park
Knee Deep Shag - Live Volume 1
Todd Snider - Near Truths and Hotel Rooms

Nirvana - Unplugged in NY
Led Zepplin - How The West Was Won
Pink Floyd - Pulse
Sublime - Stand By Your Van
Jimi Hendrix - Live At The Fillmore East

1. The Who - Live At Leeds
2. Elton John - Here And There
3. Moxy Fruvous - Live Noise
4. Indigo Girls - 1200 Curfews
5. Eric Clapton - Unplugged

This will work, although Live At Leeds should prolly replace one of them

jane's addiction - s/t
Dave matthews band - chicago
nirvana - unplugged
phish - a live one
nofx - i heard they suck live

Johnny Cash - Live At San Quentin
The Who - Live At Leeds
Radiohead - I Might Be Wrong
Ben Harper - Live From Mars
Jeff Buckley - Mystery White Boy

Nirvana - unplugged in NY
Led Zeppelin - The Song Remains the Same
Bela Fleck and the Flecktones - Live at the Quick
Frank Sinatra - Sinatra and the Sands w/ Count Basie Orchestra
AC/DC - LIVE

Pink Floyd - Ummagumma
Metallica - Master of Puppets
The Beatles - Revolver
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
Joy Division - Substance

Uhhhhhh.......what?

Since I don't have many live albums I'm going to do last weeks top 5 with color in the name.

In no particular order

Machine head - Burning Red
Machine Head - White knuckle Blackout
White Zombie - Black Sunshine
Ac/Dc - Back in Black (number 1 if there was one :))
Offspring - Pretty Fly (for a white guy)

Pink Floyd:The Delicate sound of Thunder
Journey:Captured
Steve Vai:Live at the Astoria(Yes, it's a dvd. but it's live.)
Ghoti Hook:RIP
Five Iron Frenzy:Proof that the Youth are Revolting

I'm new here but this looks like a great thread so here are my top 5 live albums in no particular order:

Pearl Jam - Live on Two Legs
Ben Harper - Live From Mars
Nirvana - Unplugged In New York
Led Zeppelin - How The West Was Won
The Tragically Hip - Live Between Us

and I missed out on the covers part of the thread but I wanted to throw this one out cause it's great:

Phish - Gin and Juice (original by Snoop Dogg)

Bob Dylan - Live 1966
The Band - The Last Waltz
Bob Dylan - Live 1975
Noir Desir - Dies Irae
Nirvana - Unplugged at NY

Wow, this thread is dying. Time for a new topic!

Top 5 songs with a beverage in the title

This should be fun!

Now this is rough...

1) Rupert Holmes - Escape (The Pina Colada Song)
2) John Lee Hooker - One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer (that's 3 different beverages, I get bonus points!!!)
3) Snoop - Gin and Juice
4) Shonen Knife - Hot Chocolate
5) The Tea Party - White Water Siren

Tough one...

Jimmy Buffet's got to be in there with Margaritaville
Beck - Milk & Honey
The Doors - Whisky, Mystics and Men
Nirvana - Pennyroyal Tea
The Minus 5 - The Days of Wine and Booze
Sublime - 40 oz. to freedom


Ya I know that's 6 but I can't decide what should go.

good ones guys. I almost have mine put together

1)Deep Purple - Smoke on the Water
2)NOFX - Beer Bong
3)Frank Zappa - Titties and Beer
4)Sublime - 40 oz. To Freedom
5)Red Hot Chili Peppers - Body of Water

Mine:

- Don't Drink the Water - Dave Matthews Band
- Liquor, Beer and Wine - Reverend Horton Heat
- It's Martini Time - Reverend Horton Heat
- Coffee and TV - Blur
- Gin and Juice - Snoop Doggy Dogg and Dr. Dre

1. Black Coffee - Ella Fitzgerald
2. Malted Milk - Eric Clapton
3. Red, Red Wine - UB40/Neil Diamond
4. Orange Crush - R.E.M.
5. Root Beer Rag - Billy Joel

Good one!

Orange Crush is about Agent Orange in Vietnam, but we'll still give it to you