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[Powderworks] NMOC - Non-Oils fave music

Geordie McMillan geordie_mcmillan@hotmail.com
Wed, 18 Sep 2002 11:16:55 +1000


As mentioned by others earlier, this is always good fun but always 
impossible to provide a complete list.

Favorite Artist:
Mercury Rev, The New Christs, Flaming Lips, Fugazi

Favorite Album:
'The Soft Bulletin' - Flaming Lips
The Matador Records 10th Anniversary Anthology

Favorite Song:
'The Man in the Long Black Coat' - Bob Dylan
'Gaskrankinstation' - Headless Chickens
'Dry the Rain' - Beta Band

Favorite album by a female artist:
'Moon Pix' - Cat Power
'All Hands on the Bad One' - Sleater Kinney

Favorite song by a female artist:
'She Cries Your Name' - Beth Orton

Favorite Performance by a solo artist:
'Talking to the Taxman About Poetry' - Billy Bragg

Favorite rock song:
'Jesus Christ Pose' - Soundgarden

Favorite rap/hip-hop song:
'Television, Drug of the Nation' - Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy

Favorite country song:
'(Ghost) Riders in the Sky' - Johnny Cash

Favorite metal/industrial/elektronika song:
'Just One Fix' - Ministry

Favorite "not-so serious" artist:
TISM!!!

Best music to celebrate to:
Beasts of Bourbon, Go Betweens, Rolling Stones, At the Drive-In

Best music after a crappy, crappy day:
Spacemen 3/Spiritualized, Dead Can Dance, Husker Du, Silver Ray

Best music to fall in love to:
Dirty Three, Beasts of Bourbon, Marvin Gaye

Best music to pump you up:
Beasts of Bourbon, McCluskey, Rolling Stones, Ministry

Best music to mellow out to:
Bonnie Prince Billy, Red Snapper, Massive Attack, Silver Ray, Dirty Three

Most emotional music:
Dirty Three, Ed Kuepper, Kristin Hersh, Mercury Rev, Go Betweens

Best song/album from the 60s or before:
'Gimme Shelter' & 'Let it Bleed' - Rolling Stones
'Pet Sounds' - Beach Boys

70s:
'Pink Moon' - Nick Drake
'Exile on Main Street' - Rolling Stones
'Fun House' - The Stooges
'Whats Going On' - Marvin Gaye
'The Clash' - The Clash

80s:
'Heyday' - The Church
'The Queen is Dead' - The Smiths
'Technique' - New Order
'Night Time' - Killing Joke
'The Way to Go Out' - Hunters & Collectors
'Where Are All the Single Girls?' - The Eastern Dark

90s and 00s:
'Ritual de lo Habitual' - Jane's Addiction
'Torn & Frayed' - Dirty Three
'Time Out of Mind' - Bob Dylan
'The Sebadoh' - Sebadoh
'Mercury Rev' - Deserters Songs

Best Soundtrack:
O Brother Where Art Thou?
High Fidelity
Empire Strikes Back


Your current "guilty pleasure":
The B52s

Name one more song you like that you haven't mentioned yet:
"Honey Steels Gold" - Ed Kuepper
"Slave Girl" - Lime Spiders
"Stoneage Cinderella" - Died Pretty

Favorite punk song:
"Waiting Room", "Suggestion" - Fugazi

Favorite folk song:
"Horn" - Nick Drake

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