IdRatherBeSkiing's Top 20 (Sunday, June 21st, 2020 version)

I said that it would be pointless to do a top 10 on Pink Floyd. But I decided to try anyways. Here it is. I elected not to allow entries like "The Wall Disk 1 Side 1" but some songs do naturally go together. Album is in brackets. Little doubt what my favourite album of theirs is.

10. Empty Spaces / Young Lust (The Wall)
9. Time (Dark Side Of The Moon)
8. Hey You (The Wall)
7. Mother (The Wall)
6. On the Turning Away (A Momentary Lapse of Reason)
5. Wish You Were Here (Wish You Were Here)
4. Comfortably Numb (The Wall)
3. Run Like Hell (The Wall)
2. Learning to Fly (A Momentary Lapse of Reason)
1. The Happiest Days Of Our Lives / Another Brick In The Wall Part 2 (The Wall)
 
Cassette AM Recorded 1993/12/19
This is the last cassette I recorded that was driven by pop/rock music for a while. About to get into my alternative phase. Still some pop/rock on later cassettes just not the driver.

Side 1
Crystal - Elton John
Kiss the Bride - Elton John
Werewolves of London - Warren Zevon
Religion - Elton John
When Jesus Left Birmingham - John Mellencamp
Sad Songs (Say So Much) - Elton John
Take a Chance - Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
Philadelphia Freedom - Elton John
Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting - Elton John
What If I Came Knocking - John Mellencamp
I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues - Elton John

Side 2
Crumblin' Down - John Mellencamp
I'm Still Standing - Elton John
Human Wheels - John Mellencamp
The Fire Inside - Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
Little Jeannie - Elton John
You and Me - Crash Vegas
Pink Houses - John Mellencamp
Mama Can't Buy You Love - Elton John
The Real Love - Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
I'm the Only One - Melissa Etheridge
Nikita - Elton John

Extras:
Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd
All Summer Long - Kid Rock
 
Since I am out of top 10s, I think I am going to focus on great songs that just didn't make that 5th star. I will take them in alphabetical order. 584 songs all **** in my library. Since DRC puts video limit at 5, that will be the number I will cover per post.

A.M. Radio - Everclear
Cool song. Some simularities to my youth.



AC/DC - Sweet
Cool song from Desolation Boulevard an almost perfect album.



Achy Breaky Song - "Weird Al" Yankovic
Hated the original. This is so funny it's good.



Adam's Song - Blink-182
Good song.



Ain't Even Done With the Night - John Mellencamp
The first John Cougar song I heard.
 
Here is a "live" version of "Ain't Even Done with the Night" from 1981. Sometimes things look good on paper but the performance sticks on youtube forever.

 
My fav of that batch is "Adam's Song".

Not a big Blink fan but that song is great. So are "Dammit", "Bored To Death" and those holiday classics "I Won't Be Home For Christmas" and "Happy Holidays You Bastard".
 
Cassette AN Recorded 1994/04/03
The primary source of music is from a benefit CD for Victoria Williams. She got MS and was struggling. I had never heard of her or her music but I really liked "Crazy Mary" so I bought it. I fell in love with all the songs. 3 will be on my 424. They are all written by her and performed by various alternative artists. Her writing is quite different and no doubt inspired from some medisinal herbs from what I can tell.

This CD was either the cause or happened at the same time I started listening to alternative radio. I listened to 2 alternative stations, a true alternative one and a mainstream one. As the 90s would prorgress I gavitated to the mainstream one. I will mark the songs from this album with a *. Every song from the album is on the playlist. One did not make the cassette due to length restrictions. Still a few rock songs on the cassette.

Side 1
13 Steps Lead Down - Elvis Costello
* Lights - The Jayhawks
* Summer of Drugs - Soul Asylum
* Crazy Mary - Pearl Jam
* Why Look at the Moon - The Waterboys
* Holy Spirit - Michelle Shocked
* Weeds - Michael Penn
* Opelousas (Sweet Releif) - Marie McKee
Driver's Seat - Sniff 'n' The Tears
* This Moment - Matthew Sweet
* Main Road - Lucinda Williams (her daugther)
* Big Fish - Giant Sand

Side 2
Blinded by the Light - Manfred Mann's Earth Band
Radar Love - Golden Earring
Keep Your Hands to Yourself - The Georgia Satellites
My Sharona - The Knack
Spirit in the Sky - Norman Greenbaum
Don't Look Back - Boston
No Excuses - Alice in Chains
Daughter - Pearl Jam
Mary Jane's Last Dance - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
* Merry-Go-Round - Buffalo Tom
* Tarbelly and Featherfoot - Lou Reed
* Animal Wild - Shudder to Think

Extras:
* Frying Pan - Evan Dando
Good Girls Don't - The Knack
East Bound and Down - Jerry Reed
 
Never listened to that benefit CD. The only one I can hear in my head is Pearl Jam. "Take a bottle drink it down pass it around". But the other stuff is cool fo sho
 
sadchild said:
Never listened to that benefit CD. The only one I can hear in my head is Pearl Jam. "Take a bottle drink it down pass it around". But the other stuff is cool fo sho
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Favourite lyrics from Crazy Mary:

Down a long dirt road, past the Parson's place
That old blue car we used to race
Little country store
With a sign tacked to the side
Said 'No L-O-I-T-E-A-R-R-I-N-G Allowed'
Underneath that sign
Always congregated quite a crowd
 
Cassette AO was a Neil Diamond cassette

Cassette AP Recorded 1994/11/12
Side 1
What's the Frequency, Kenneth? - R.E.M.
We Are the Pigs - Suede
Creep - Radiohead
Roam - The B-52's
Is This Where I Come In - Spirit of the West
Cherub Rock - The Smashing Pumpkins
Rain King - Counting Crows
Sixth Floor - Spirit of the West
Quiet - The Smashing Pumpkins
I Hate My Generation - Sloan
Sincerely Yours - Spirit of the West
My Wave - Soundgarden
Environ-Girl - Corky and the Juice Pigs
CIrcus Freaks - Corky and the Juice Pigs

Side 2
Chopsticks - Liz Phair
Sweet Sweet - The Smashing Pumpkins
MMM, MMM, MMM. MMM - Crash Test Dummies
Mr. Jones - Counting Crows
Comin' Down - Meat Puppets
Night in My Veins - The Pretenders
Mayonaise - The Smashing Pumpkins
Pretty Penny - Stone Temple Pilots
She - The Jesus and Mary Chain
Rocket - The Smashing Pumpkins
Omaha - Counting Crows
People of the Sky - Sloan
Hummer - The Smashing Pumpkins
Tequila - The Pretenders
 
IdRatherBeSkiing said:
Cassette AO was a Neil Diamond cassette

Cassette AP Recorded 1994/11/12
Side 1
What's the Frequency, Kenneth? - R.E.M.
We Are the Pigs - Suede
Creep - Radiohead
Roam - The B-52's
Is This Where I Come In - Spirit of the West
Cherub Rock - The Smashing Pumpkins
Rain King - Counting Crows
Sixth Floor - Spirit of the West
Quiet - The Smashing Pumpkins
I Hate My Generation - Sloan
Sincerely Yours - Spirit of the West
My Wave - Soundgarden
Environ-Girl - Corky and the Juice Pigs
CIrcus Freaks - Corky and the Juice Pigs

Side 2
Chopsticks - Liz Phair
Sweet Sweet - The Smashing Pumpkins
MMM, MMM, MMM. MMM - Crash Test Dummies
Mr. Jones - Counting Crows
Comin' Down - Meat Puppets
Night in My Veins - The Pretenders
Mayonaise - The Smashing Pumpkins
Pretty Penny - Stone Temple Pilots
She - The Jesus and Mary Chain
Rocket - The Smashing Pumpkins
Omaha - Counting Crows
People of the Sky - Sloan
Hummer - The Smashing Pumpkins
Tequila - The Pretenders
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I thought you weren't a fan of 90's grunge.
 
sadchild said:
I skipped Whipsmart because, aside from "Supernova", the rest I'd heard didn't grab me like *Exile In Guyville*. But hearing this now, I wish I had dug deeper because this has *Exile* all over it.



One of their best IMO!
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I think Whipsmart is the only album of hers I own. I like it. Although I think this song may have been selected due to it's length. Needed to fill 50 minutes a side. That's what Corky is doing there.

I like the pumpkins. I should do a top 10 of them.
 
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