WWF Hottest Songs

[Lignum]

Bored waiting for laquer to dry, i thought it would be good to compile all the best albums that were suggested in the best album of all time thread and some that crept into the best songs of all time.

What it shows is not only is their fantastic woodwork talent here, their is also fantastic tastes in music. Clearly Darkside of the Moon is number one closely followed by the Rouge Traders and Martha Argerich playing J.S. Bach's English Suite, bringing up the rear:)

Apologies if i have missed out on any and its loosely in alphabetical order:)


Number one- Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon

Number two - Rogue Traders - Here Come The Drums and mammalian protrubrences

Number three- Martha Argerich playing J.S. Bach's English Suite (on Deutsche Grammophon),Martha again, with the Rach 3, under Karajan

The rest-

AC/DC - Back in Black, If you want blood
All Green -Greatest hits, Im Still in Love With You.
Allman Bros - Eat a Peach
Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run, Nebraska, Born in the USA
Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique 1989
Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks, Highway 61 Revisited, Time out of Mind
Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica
Cold Chisel - Best of, East, Breakfast at sweethearts
Curtis Mayfield - Superfly Soundtrack 1972
Cream - Wheels of Fire
Creedence - Cosmos Factory
David Bowie - Hunky Dory, Aladi Sane, Station to Station,
Deep purple - machine head
Dire Straits - self titled, Money for Nothing, Sultains of Swing,
Eagles - Greatest Hits album from 1976, Hotel California
Elton John - Madman Across The Water
Foo fighters - The colour and the shape
Frank Zappa - Hot rats, Make a jazz Noise here, Zoot Allures, Apostrophe, YCDTOSA V 1-6, Grand Wazoo
Gratefull Dead - American Beauty
Hunters and Collectors - Human Frailty, Greatest Hits
Jackson Browne - Lives in the Balance, Late for the Sky
Jet - Get Born
Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick, Aqualung.
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Jennifer Warne - Famous Blue Raincoat
Johhny Cash, Greatest Hits, American Recordings
John Mayall - Back To The Roots
James Brown - Live at the Apolo
Johnny Winter - Nothin' but the Blues
Lou Reed - Transformer
Led Zep - Physical graffitti
Led Zep - 4
Meatloaf's - bat out of hell
Metallica - Load.
Michelle Shocked - Short sharp shock
Midnight Oil - 10 to 1 - Head Injuries.
Milles Davis - The Complete Birth of the Cool, Bitches Brew
Neil Diamond - Hot August Night, Greatest Hits
Neil Finn songs - She will have her way - By a bunch of sheilas
Neil Young - Harvest, Rust never sleeps (with crazy horse)
Nirvana - smells like teen spirit
Noiseworks - Noiseworks
Pearl Jam - VS, Ten
Pink Floyd - Animals, The Wall, Wish You Were Here, Meddle, Ummagumma </HTPDIV>
Powder Finger - Vulture Street
Radio Birdman - Living Eyes
Ramons - Rocket to Russia
Red hot chilli peppers's Blood Sugar Sex Magik, californiacation
Rolling Stones - Get your Ya Yas out, Goats Head Soup, Let it Bleed
Roy Orbison and co in Black and White Night, 1987,
Ry Cooder - Get Rythym, Buena Vista Social Club
The Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols
Simon & Gurfunkel - Bridge over trounled water
Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life
Skyhooks...Living in the 70's
Talking Heads - Stop Making Sence
T-Rex - Electric Warrior
The Band - Music from big Pink
The Beatles - Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Abby Road
The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
The Cruel Sea - Three Legged Dog, honeymoon is over.
The Cult - Best of the Cult
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psycho Candy
The Pogues- Rum Sodomy and the Lash
The Waifs - A Brief History
The Who - Quadrophenia
Tom Waits - Heart Attack and Vine, Nighthawks at the Diner, Swordfish Trombone,
U2 - Actung baby, Rattle and Hum
Velvet Underground - loaded.
Van Morrison - Tupelo Honey, Astral Weeks.
Weddings Parties Anything - The Big Dont Argue

[Harry72]

Oh yeah we cant forget JET - Get born

[ss_11000]

ACDC have got better songs than that

[Max Ripper]

Saved myself from a life of crap tunes, I only have one album and it's the winner. Knew that was the reason it fell off the back of a truck 30 odd years ago.


Max Ripper Older i get the slower pink floyd sounds

[Lignum]

ACDC have got better songs than that

Stirlo, these are Albums not songs:) and apart from Jet, The Waifs, Red hot chillie and Midnight oil, i dont think you would have been born when the others came out... Showing our age here;)

[ss_11000]

Stirlo, these are Albums not songs:) and apart from Jet, The Waifs, Red hot chillie and Midnight oil, i dont think you would have been born when the others came out... Showing our age here;)

oh, i thought he was talking about songs

[Zed]

sorry but listing rogue traders as number 2 just takes away all your cred dude....

unless of course we are talking about mammalian protrubrences of course...

[Auld Bassoon]

Hi Lignum,

I'm not sure how, exactly, you arrived at the ratings, but I'm happy with them ;)

Cheers!

PS I also like Pink Floyd and have most of their stuff, ditto Dire Straits, and a whole Shi*-pot of others :D

As a teenager I was heavily into Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, etc - I guess that I may have "matured" since then :o

[Auld Bassoon]

unless of course we are talking about mammalian protrubrences of course...

Hey mate!

Have you read Neil's book - if you have it, see page 60 on the joke...:D

[Rusty]

As a teenager I was heavily into Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, etc - I guess that I may have "matured" since then :o

No, Steve, you've merely strayed from the path of rock righteousness...:cool::D

Anyway, what about Knock On Wood? Or Norwegian Wood, for that matter?
Or anything by Woody Guthrie? Or...

[Bodgy]

Whilst I have no issue with 95% of your survey, I do think that the sample was too small and limited to a single slice of a skewed demographic.

Notable blips on the curve include (but are not limited to):

Jennifer Warne - wasn't it only Joe Cacker and a movie that got her her single 4 minutes of fame?
Johnny Cash - Oh God.
Meatloaf, the epitomy of one hit wonders - subtract Bat out of Hell and what u got?
Niel Diamond, Christ! where's my carpet slippers and cocoa?
Jet,test of time has not yet applied
Midnight Oil??? Posturing bunch of PC wankers. Are they known outside of Oz or their own lunchtime, or the DREAMING??
Roy Orbison, I thought you had to be dead or in a Nursing Home to have even heard of him.
Who the f*** are the Jesus and Mary Chain?

[Lignum]

[quote=Bodgy]

Whilst I have no issue with 95% of your survey, I do think that the sample was too small and limited to a single slice of a skewed demographic.

[quote]


Bodgy, it wasnt ment to be the definitive list, just a list of all the albums mentioned in the recent threads by the members. I done it because i was flicking through all the songs and thought it would be good to see what was included with out being doubled or trippled up. You mentioned "Let it Bleed, closely followed by Dark Side of the Moon." both are included.

And because i done it:) i added a couple of extra ones i love. And may i suggest that one day if you have or can get access to a high quality turntable/amp set up, put Jennifer Warnes - Famous Blue Raincoat on and be blown away by a total sonic experience. The Joe Cocker song was a shocker and had her categorised unfairly. Famous Blue Raincoat is a compilation by her, of Leonard Cohen songs:)

[scooter]

Can't agree on Midnight Oil, Bodg old son, they were a great band and did OK internationally I'd reckon.

Nothing wrong with taking (& making music about) a stand on issues, PC or not, didn't necessarily agree with all of their points of view (eg. "sorry" pajamas at the Sydney Olympic opening for one) but respect someone taking a stand on something.

Love their music, though, that's the main thing.


Cheers...............Sean

[Andy Mac]

Scooter, I have to agree with you about the Oils, although I think they did lean too much towards social conscience in later albums. Records like Head Injuries, Bird Noises and Armistice Day were ripping good rock. They were a really good pub band early on... I saw them at the Old Melbourne hotel in Perth in 1981 and the whole place was one packed sweating and heaving mess...mosh pit before there was such a thing! They went off, and I don't think anyone really cared what the message was about!:D
Ditto some place near Tallebudgera on the Gold Coast a few years later.

Cheers,

[Lignum]

Ditto some place near Tallebudgera on the Gold Coast a few years later.

Cheers,

Andy i was their at that concert :D I remember the que to get in was so huge and the poor old support band had to put up with "we want the oils, we want the oils" and when they played they were just sensational. I remember the masive amounts of steam comming of Garretts head. Its still a memorable concert even after all these years :D

[Dean]

I'll put my vote in for the oils... well, their earlier stuff at least.

You can't judge their songs based on the lead singer's dancing skills however :p :p

Who's the velvet underground fan? I didn't think anyone else on the planet knew of them :cool:

[Shedhand]

I remember the masive amounts of steam comming of Garretts head. :DThat's because the fool's head is full of sh*t...:rolleyes:

How did Midnoight Soils and the talentless Cold Chisel and the raving, screaming loser Jim Barnes get in the list. And Jennifer Warne:confused: I thought her name was Simone:confused: and she can't dance.
If we weren't such a Seppocentric country we would have seen Harry Manx, k.d. lang, Genesis and a swag of other equally great musicians represented.

Having said all that and ignoring the bald twit with the head of steaming sh*t and the screaming twit who can't sing for nuts the list looks pretty good to me and I have a lot of them come to think of it.

[Andy Mac]

And I'm surprised no one brought up the Doors!?
Shedhand, I did mention kd and Harry in ss's thread, but only as an afterthought! It is a good list though:D

Cheers,

[Felder]

Ahhhh the Oils......love 'em!

Yes - I agree that sometimes they were a little too political. I think they did a good thing by using their influence to highlight some issues. There are too many bands these days who would prefer to just take the money and run. The Oils were a band with a conscience, but on occasions possibly overstepped the mark.

Peter Garrett's dancing was 'unique'. It never really transferred well on to video clips, it just seemed to lack some intensity. But if you were lucky enough to have attended an Oils gig for some reason he never looked out of place. When one thinks about it, one would struggle to think of a better way to dance to Midnight Oil's music. Or at least I would.:o

The Oils were huge in USA and Europe in the late '80s and even into the early '90s circa Diesel & Dust and Blue Sky Mining. But they shot themselves in the foot by releasing a song called Truganini which people of other nationalities decided was too hard to pronounce and the Oils wouldn't change it. On the Oils last US tour they were promoting a song called Luritja Way. That didn't go down too well.....

They seemed to go off the boil a bit in the '90s, with a few good songs but also a fair few album 'fillers'. Some great ballads on those albums though - I think they were showing their age.

Disappointing when they split and I was surprised that Garrett joined the Labour Party. I wouldn't have batted an eyelid if he joined The Greens, but a major political party???:confused: Not his style.

I was unfortunate to have been too young to see the Oils in their pub-band hey-day of the early '80s, but I was fortunate enough to see their last gig at Wave Aid last year, but even more priveleged to have been in the front row of their 'secret' gig the previous night at Manly Leagues Club. Very intense concert which saw me walk away with one of Rob Hirst's drumsticks as a special piece of memorabilia for myself.

(sigh)

[Lignum]

Andy:) Yes you did mention KD, Harry and others mentioned different bands and singers, but no album title was mentioned so i didnt put them on the list. And Felder, the Oils live equaled any overseas act i have seen. Rolling Stone mag said they would be the new Stones, but Pine Gap Head was reluctant to take that path as he wanted to stay smaller and have more of a political message, and from what i gather that was a great source of tension with Rob Hurst. They lost their way in the 90`s and i lost interest in them. The only other Aussie band to rival the Oils live was the Divinyls, seen them a few times and boy did they rock, Chrissy Amphlet was sensational live, not to mention rather horny in that little school girl uniform:D