I've been thinking of tackling this project for some time now...It seems like a huge undertaking. Here are a few:

The Rain Parade "I look around"
Minutemen "Dr. wu" (although it might need to be discounted it since its a remake)
Green on Red "Gravity talks"...
Pixies "Here Comes Your Man"
Replacements "Johnny's Gonna Die"
Camper van Beethoven "Take the Skinheads bowling"
Agent Orange "Bloodstains"
Iggy Pop "Repoman"
Tears For Fears "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" (gay band, but I can't deny this song...)
Psychedelic Furs "All That Money Wants"
Sonic Youth "Teen Age Riot"
Flipper "Ever"


So now where do I go from here?

I just googled 100 best songs of the 1980s and I came to a list by VH1. There were only 3 songs on the entire list that might even have a chance of making my list:
"867-5309/Jenny" by Tommy Tutone,
"Cars" by Gary Numan
"I Ran" by A flock of Seagulls.






I doubt if I put any "metal" on my list...maybe a metallica tune...maiden, priest were both ok and I liked me some ozzy too, but it was all a bit too teenagery for me--even when I was a teenager.
As far aas R&B goes, I like some stuff from the 70s, but it all got a bit too comercial for my taste by the 80s...
Guns and Roses are hard Rock, not metal, I know. Same goes for AC/DC--who probablly deserve to have a song on my list...

Two monsters right here:

"Come On Eileen" easily belongs on any top 80s list.

Maybe my top 1000, not my top100 though...






THose are both pretty mediocre in my opinion--not terrible, but not top 100...

lol. You're insane.

No, they are both fine songs, but they are both a bit like elevator music to me. I hear them, but they really just dont do anything for me...

Toss a few choices down.

human league-don't you want me baby
smiths-how soon is now
depeche-never let me down again
talking heads-once in a lifetime
prince-when doves cry
tears for fears-everybody wants to rule the world
new order-blue monday
simple minds-don't you forget about me
huey lewis-power of love
cyndi lauper-goonies theme
queen/bowie-under pressure
springsteen-glory days
pil-rise
clash-rock the casbah
u2-new years day
rem-orange crush
devo-whip it
jesus mary chain-just like candy
cure-why can't i be you
joy division-love will tear us apart
happy mondays-wrote for luck
stone roses-the album
paul mccartney-coming up
jam-town called malice
police-driven to tears

.....i guess for starters anyway

I once put together a 15-Disc compilation of 80's songs (300 songs). Here's what I came up with:

Disc 1:

The Look Of Love (Part One) - ABC
You Shook Me - AC/DC
Stand And Deliver - Adam & The Ants
Chinese Takeaway - The Adicts
Cast Of Thousands - The Adverts
Bloodstains - Agent Orange
The Stand - The Alarm
Fool - All
Forever Young - Alphaville
Cold Rain (BBC Session) - Alternative TV
Outside This Bar - American Music Club
Second Choice - Any Trouble
Lonelyhearts - Atlantics
Oblivious - Aztec Camera
Private Idaho - The B-52's
Sailin' On - Bad Brains
You Are the Government - Bad Religion
Going Down to Liverpool - Bangles
I Can't Pretend - The Barracudas
Mastery - The Bats


Disc 2:

Telegram Sam - Bauhaus
Foggy Eyes - Beat Happening
Heartbreaker - Pat Benatar
Bad Houses - Big Black
Shes Fetching - Big Dipper
Rise Above - Black Flag
Marie, Marie - Blasters
Call Me - Blondie
Bury Your Love Like Treasure - The Blue Aeroplanes
Fadeaway - The Bodeans
Up All Night - Boomtown Rats
I Want Candy - Bow Wow Wow
Ashes To Ashes - David Bowie
A New England - Billy Bragg
Money Changes Everything - The Brains
Creep in the Cellar - Butthole Surfers
You Say You Don't Love Me - The Buzzcocks
Take the Skinheads. . . - Camper Van Beethoven
It's Too Late - Jim Carrol
Shake it Up - The Cars
Disc 3:

Deanna - Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
She's Tight - Cheap Trick
Rain - The Chills
No Sex - Alex Chilton
Unguarded Moment - The Church
Live Fast Die Young - Circle Jerks
Lost in a Supermarket - The Clash
Tally Ho - The Clean
Perfect Skin – Lloyd Cole
Can't Get Enough of You Baby - The Colour Field
Still In Hollywood - Concrete Blonde
Boylan Heights - The Connells
World Shut Your Mouth - Julian Cope
Brilliant Mistake - Elvis Costello
Johnny, Are You Queer? - Josie Cotton
Rain on the Scarecrow - John Cougar Mellencamp
Someday, Someway - Marshall Crenshall
Lil' Devil - Cult
In Between Days - The Cure
That's What Life Is All About - Paul Collins’ Beat


Disc 4:

Wait For The Black Out - The Damned
Mother - Danzig
Like This - The dB’s
California Uber Alles - Dead Kennedys
Punk Rock Girl - Dead Milkmen
I Should Be the One - The Del Fuegos
Anticipation - Delta 5
I Just Can't Get Enough - Depeche Mode
Silly Girl - The Descendents
Girl U Want - Devo
Rosemary - Dickies
Dicks Hate the Police - Dicks
Freak Scene - Dinosaur Jr
Let Go - Dirty Looks
Anything, Anything - Dramarama
Tell Me When it's Over - Dream Syndicate
Scarred but Smarter - Drivin'n'Cryin'
Alone - Dumptruck
Girls on Film - Duran Duran
Andy Warhol's Dead But I’m Not - E*I*E*I*O
Disc 5:

Guitar Town - Steve Earle
Do it Clean - Echo & the Bunnymen
Bagdad's Last Ride - Eleventh Dream Day
Wellsville - The Embarrassment
Mirror in the Bathroom - The English Beat
Don't Shake Me Lucifer - Roky Erickson
Fanfare In The Garden - Essential Logic
Human Car - The Ex
We Care A Lot - Faith No More
Totally Wired - The Fall
Here I Come - The Fall-Outs
Original Love - The Feelies
Penelope Tree - Felt
Chemical Wire - Firehose
When Problems Arise 4:00 Fishbone
One Thing Leads to Another - The Fixx
Everything's Explodin' - The Flaming Lips
See You In The Boneyard - Flesh Eaters
I Go Crazy - Flesh For Lulu
The Girl From Baltimore - Fleshtones


Disc 6:

Sex Bomb - Flipper
Waiting Room - Fugazi
In Heat - The Fuzztones
Games Without Frontiers - Peter Gabriel
Erica's Word - Game Theory
Paralysed - Gang Of Four
Metal - Gary Numan
Tenderness - General Public
Dancing with Myself - Generation X
Cattle & Cane - The Go-Betweens
We Got the Beat - The Go-Go's
I Want You - The Godfathers
Black Night - Green on Red
Watusi Rodeo - Guadalcanal Diary
Liar's Tale - Guided By Voices
She's Like Heroin to Me - Gun Club
It's So Easy - Guns N' Roses
Favourite Shirts (Boy Meets Girl) - Haircut 100
Escalator of Life - Robert Hazard
(We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang - Heaven 17
Disc 7:

Replaceable Head - Richard Hell
I Wanna Go Home - Holly & The Italians
I Want You Back - The Hoodoo Gurus
Crack in the Sidewalk - House of Freaks
Nothing to Me (Peel Session) - The House Of Love
Happy Hour - The Housemartins
Don't You Want Me - The Human League
I Live In The City - Humans
It’s Not Funny Anymore - Hüsker Dü (Hart, Grant)
Celebrated Summer - Hüsker Dü (Mould, Bob)
Can't Help Myself - Icehouse
Birds Fly (Whisper to a Scream) - Icicle Works
Wrathchild - Iron Maiden
Be With You - The Jack Rubies
Going Underground - The Jam
Mountain Song - Jane's Addiction
Absolutely Sweet Marie - Jason & The Scorchers
Just Like Honey - Jesus & Mary Chain
(I'm Gonna) Run Away - Joan Jett
On Your Radio - Joe Jackson


Disc 8:

Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division
Living After Midnight - Judas Priest
All The Pretty Girls - The Judys
Walking On Sunshine - Katrina & the Waves
Places That Are Gone - Tommy Keene
The Break-Up Song - Greg Kihn
Teenage Enema Nurses In Bondage - Killer Pussy
Eighties - Killing Joke
The 3rd Time We Opened The Capsule - Kitchens Of Distinction
I Want Ya - The Knack
Dumb Waiters - The Korgis
Two Weeks in Another Town - The Lemonheads
Every Word Means No - Let's Active
Lisa Anne - Bill Lloyd
10-5-60 - Long Ryders
Open Your Eyes - Lords of the New Church
Will The Wolf Survive? - Los Lobos
Rainbird - Love & Rockets
Beatle Boots - Love Tractor
New Toy - Lena Lovich
Disc 9:

Not Looking Back - Lyres
Because You're Frightened - Magazine
Plateau - Meat Puppets
Ghosts Of American Astronauts - The Mekons
Working Girl - The Members
Motorbreath - Metallica
Downtown - The Mice
Best Of Both Worlds - Midnight Oil
Inside Out - The Mighty Lemondrops
I Don't Wanna Hear It - Minor Threat
This Ain't No Picnic - Minutemen
The Backyard - Miracle Legion
I Turned into a Martian - The Misfits
Walking In L.A. - Missing Persons
Academy Fight Song - Mission Of Burma
I Melt With You - Modern English
What Do All the People Know - The Monroes
Ace of Spades - Motörhead
Touch Me I'm Sick - Mudhoney
Swingo2 - Naked Raygun


Disc 10:

Stupid Questions - New Model Army
Age of Consent - New Order
You're the One - Nikki & the Corvettes
About a Girl - Nirvana
Automatic - Off Broadway
Lilting - Oh-OK
Only A Lad - Oingo Boingo
Blue Boy - Orange Juice
Electricity - Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
It's About Time - The Pandoras
No Holding Back - Graham Parker
Crawl Babies - Pastels
Box Elder - Pavement
Change of Heart - Tom Petty
Here Comes Your Man - Pixies
Posing for Pictures - Plasticland
How Long Will it Take - The Plimsouls
Man In A Suitcase - The Police
Bang Bang - Iggy Pop
I May Hate You Sometimes - The Posies
Disc 11:

Stop This Car - Jonathan Richman
Faron - Prefab Sprout
Stop Your Sobbing - The Pretenders
When You Were Mine - Prince
Pretty in Pink - Psychedelic Furs
Seattle - Public Image Ltd.
She's So Young - The Pursuit Of Happiness
Crazy - Pylon
Under Pressure - Queen/David Bowie
Pretty Persuasion - R.E.M.
Fairytale In the Supermarket - The Raincoats
The KKK Took My Baby Away - The Ramones
(Glad I'm) Not In Love - Rank & File
Hearts in Her Eyes - The Records
I'm Alright - Redd Kross
Dirty Blvd - Lou Reed
Left of the Dial - The Replacements
Motorbike Beat - The Revillos
When I Write The Book - Rockpile (Edmunds,Dave)
Teacher Teacher - Rockpile (Lowe, Nick)


Disc 12:

Start Me Up - The Rolling Stones
Never Say Never - Romeo Void
Grains Of Sand - The Saints
Girl Behind the Mask - Screaming Trees
Teenage Girls - The Scruffs
Tiny Days - Scruffy the Cat
Baby It's You - PhilSeymour
Homosapien - Pete Shelley
Promised You A Miracle - Simple Minds
Cities in Dust - Siouxsie & the Banshees
Walk Away - The Sisters Of Mercy
Behind the Wall of Sleep - The Smithereens
Hand in Glove - The Smiths
Every Summer - Smokin' Dave & the Premo Dopes
Mommy's Little Monster - Social Distortion
I Wanna Destroy You - The Soft Boys
Teenage Riot - Sonic Youth
Tied To The Tracks - Soul Asylum
I Predict - Sparks
Too Much Too Young - The Specials
Disc 13:

I Got You - Split Enz
She Goes Out With Everybody - The Spongetones
Atlantic City - Bruce Springsteen
Another Nail in My Heart - Squeeze
Gotta Gettaway - Stiff Little Fingers
Sally Cinnamon - The Stone Roses
Who Wants the World - The Stranglers
Shout to the Top - The Style Council
Tiny People - The Suburbs
Birthday - The Sugarcubes
Real Shocks - Swell Maps
Talk Talk - Talk Talk
Once in a Lifetime - The Talking Heads
Treason - The Teardrop Explodes
Everybody Wants to Rule the World - Tears For Fears
Silly Girl - Television Personalities
It's A Good Thing - That Petrol Emotion
This is the Day - The The
Ana Ang - They Might Be Giants
Fall to the Ground - The Three O'Clock


Disc 14:

Genius Of Love - Tom Tom Club
Go - Tones on Tail
Everywhere That I'm Not - Translator
Handle With Care - The Traveling Wilburys
Tell Her - True Believers
867-5309 / Jenny - Tommy Tutone
Nuclear Boy - 20/20
Girls - Dwight Twilley
I Will Follow - U2
Warhead - U.K. Subs
They Don't Know - Tracey Ullman
Dancing With Tears In My Eyes - Ultravox
Wednesday Week - Undertones
Can't Sit Still - Unrest
Crybaby - Utopia
I'll Wait - Van Halen
Turning Japanese - The Vapors
Son of a Gun - The Vaselines
Gone Daddy Gone - Violent Femmes
Cheated And Lied - Vipers
Disc 15:

Don't Call Me Baby - Voice of the Beehive
Decision by the Airport - Vulgar Boatmen
Jockey Full Of Bourbon - Tom Waits
Tomorrow - Wall of Voodoo
Brassneck - The Wedding Present
Message From The Underworld - The Weirdos
Bus Stop - Will And The Bushmen
Passionate Kisses - Lucinda Williams
I Never Thought - The Windbreakers
Mystery - Wipers
Kidney Bingos - Wire
Get It On - The Woodentops
Broken Doll - Wreckless Eric
Your Phone's Off the Hook But You're Not - X
Senses Working Overtime - XTC
Don't Go - Yaz
The Cone of Silence - Yo La Tengo
Don't Look at My Face You Might See What I Mean - Young Fresh Fellows
Turn Me On Again - Peter Zaremba
Love Ya - Zoomers

Think my top 100 of the 80's would have about 40 Smiths songs in. Not my favourite decade to be fair.

Boys of Summer is superb, actually, it takes a special song to have pop-punk and eurotrance covers not embarass it.

to name a few.

great list Jack - as far as the pop/rock-related stuff goes you have some great choices in there

Yeah, damn. Expectations for thread greatly surpased. Probably going to spend some time digging through that excellent list.

It's all about "One Thing Leads to Another." Right on Maximum Jack.

(And yes, I appreciate this song more because of that scene from House of the Devil.)

Yeah, in order to keep it under control I consciously avoided R&B and Hip-Hop and country.

THat's a smart move...was there any R&B or country from the 80s even worth listening to? Maybe some in the early 80s I imagine. I dont know though...not really in my wheelhouse...

For anyone interested, I put together a 25-song compilation for 1984 (I never did zip those 15 80s discs, drat!). I think there is a little overlap. You can find it here:



1984: We're Behind Schedule

Tracklisting:

01. Guadalcanal Diary, "Watusi Rodeo" [2:45]
02. The dB's, "Amplifier" [3:11]
03. The Bangles, "Live" [2:36]
04. The Go-Betweens, "Unkind & Unwise" [3:06]
05. The Replacements, "Favorite Thing" [2:20]
06. Lloyd Cole, "Perfect Skin" [3:19]
07. Nick Lowe & His Cowboy Outfit, ""Half a Boy and Half a Man" [2:57]
08. Meat Puppets, "Plateau" [2:22]
09. The Pandoras, "It's About Time" [2:22]
10. The Smiths, "Hand in Glove" [3:23]
11. Talk Talk, "It's My Life" [3:54]
12. Let's Active, "Easy Does" [3:25]
13. The Waterboys, "Somebody Might Wave Back" [2:43]
14. The Cure, "The Empty World" [2:37]
15. Minutemen, "History Lesson Part II" [2:12]
16. Echo & the Bunnymen, "Crystal Days" [2:25]
17. Depeche Mode, "People Are People" [3:46]
18. Hüsker Dü, "Something I Learned Today" [2:03]
19. The Fall, "2 X 4" [3:38]
20. The Church, "Constant in Opal" [3:31]
21. Los Lobos, "Will the Wolf Survive" [3:44]
22. Dumptruck, "How Come?" [4:08]
23. Game Theory, "Nine Lives To Rigel Five" [2:49]
24. The Psychedelic Furs, "Heaven" [3:27]
25. R.E.M., "Letter Never Sent" [3:03]

Constant In Opal.

Well played, sir. Well played, indeed.

Maiden, Priest and Metallica made my list.

Oh, and G'n'R, but I don't really think of them as Metal.

I'm thinking of replacing 'Dr Wu" with "political song for michael jackson"...Ideally I would rather not have two songs or more by any one band/artist...but if I cant get 100 songs by various artists, then I might start double dippin...

I'm having a hard time finding any worthy songs from '86 to '89...
Any suggestions??

I have to agree that Maximum Jack has a smart groove going with that 15-discer there...

That era of music ,Conceirge, is pretty dismal...I think the 90s started in 1988...

both this and your much longer list are incredible
wish I had someone like you around to show me the way when I was 13 and listening to linkin park and limp bizkit
Someone should start one of these threads for the 90's..it might be nostalgia talking but there were some killer rap and pop singles in that decade

not so much with the rock though...blergh at korn and associated acts



p.s i went to the same highschool as the church like twenty years later i doubt i would have ever found out if not for a awesome teacher we had with hip taste in music who told us all we should follow in there footsteps and become great artists

...sigh...

Consistently saddened to read what people think is worthwhile, musically, from the '80s. Around here, anyway. Some of that '80s production is hard to bear now, but good songs are good songs - the recording's just one document; not really the same as the song, itself. I guess people like what they like and what was true then isn't relevant now, but I have to believe had most of you been there, you'd understand why Jane's Addiction, REM, U2, Peter Gabriel and Nirvana, to say nothing of hip hop, crossing over from the college/urban charts to mainstream radio was such a breath of fresh air. It amazes me the number of people nostalgic for fucking Whitesnake and Bon Jovi and Poison. That stuff was inescapable and false and boring as hell. What a kick in the teeth to read people on the SOMB hating on Nirvana b/c of what major labels did with the alt-rock "revolution." Not at all sure how Cobain's responsible for Linkin Park, but that seems to be the thinking in these parts.

Feel the same way about that comment on '90s rock above: Most of what I liked in the '90s was either "alt" or rock, yet I managed to hear plenty of great music w/o ever making concessions to Nu-metal or corporate alt crap.

Doubtless there was the odd good rock album during the 90's ... but most of the ones i can think of borrowed too heavily from past decades styles pavement = the fall for example

(that being said i LOVE pavement )

I agree that all those bands you mention are fantastic and deserving of far more praise than they get around these parts

And yeah nirvana gets way too much blame for the creeds,nickelbacks of the world
I'd lay the blame more at the feet of Pearl Jam and shitty nameless bands whose infulences began and ended with those bands described in " our band could be your life "

( those bands are awesome , but not as the totality of ones infulences)

Man I hope you don't like the Decemberists, Vampire Weekend et al after this statement. Can't imagine a worse time for recycled music than in indie of the last decade. Even those bands I love from these last ten years - The Hold Steady - are fairly shameless about being derivative.

Anyway, rock/pop has always been cannibalism. Borrowing from the past is what it does. Faulting Pavement for aping The Fall (a fascinating comparison for a band who self identified as REM fans, BTW) is to pretty much not understand what you're listening to or why, imo.

Nah trust me i'm no fan of the two bands you just mentioned or all the post-punk ripoff bands that have plagued this decade. (interpol are particulary guilty of this )

Yeah undoubtely rock has a inherent theft aspect to all of it's greatest works ... its when that theft becomes so blatant as to rob the listener of any enjoyment besides " spotting the reference " that it gets stale
(the horrors are a recent example)
I think you'll find no less a authority than mark e smith has called out pavement for " ripping off " fall so i'm obviously not the only one who thinks that'
pavement was probs a bit of a bad example though , i was more thinking along the lines of oasis and blur than anything else ( though again i enjoy those bands somewhat as well)
And i'm not sure where the " not understanding " what i'm listening to comment comes into things .. is that because you feel i am incorrect in connecting the fall and pavement ? or that im failing to appreciate that theft is a integral part of what makes pavement great?

No, it's more that I tend to be a knee jerk reactionary asshole where dissent's concerned. It isn't that I want to "win" arguments so much as utterly annihilate my opponent.

Sorry.

Ha fair enough.
That's what message boards are for isn't it ?

Seriously?

1986:



1987:



1988:



1989:

I like to think 89 was a bettr year musically then it probably was in reality ... mostly because that was the year i was born

these songs came out in 1989, so yeah, it was a good year.

If any cure song makes it, it will probablly be between days or the forest...
Stone roses might have any outside shot of making the list...
Prince, I highly doubt it. Never been a fan, although I can stomach rasberry berret and little red corvette...
I've already put a Pixies song on my list...
the smiths= meh...morrisey's voice really makes me want to punch a goth
"under th milky way" is a good song, I'm not sure if it will make the list though, that bagpipe solo toward the end sorta ruins it for me...

I just want to reiterate what a great comp this is. I'm slowly finding more and more great 80's stuff all the time thanks to stuff like this. I also wanted to let you know I'll be using a few of the tracks from your Kiss Me I'm Irish comps for my St. Paddy's Day radio show, so cheers for that.

Awesome! Does your radio station broadcast via the web? If so, let me know, and I'll try to tune in.

thread needs some 80s ozzy. idk, something offa blizzard of ozz, diary of a madman or ultimate sin would suffice.
you can't kill rock and roll
revelation
crazy train
lightning strikes
shot in the dark

seriously, who needs ratt?

wdiy.org/listen

The stream is kinda low quality, but give it a listen if you like. The show's at 11 Eastern tonight.

80s Ozzy doesnt really resonate with me other than some vague memories I have of riding the bus in hgh school listening to some pimply faced bandana wearing Def Lepard wannabe's blasting "crazy train" from their ghetto blaster that was pasted with motely crue stickers...

3 pages and no mention of Giorgio Moroder & Phil Oakley 'Together in Electric Dreams'.......tsk

zzz...

For any of you who dug the above compilation, I've finally gotten around to tackling 1985 (m4a format).

1985:

01. The Cult, "She Sells Sanctuary" [4:17]
02. Dramarama, "Anything, Anything" [3:19]
03. Robyn Hitchcok, "Egyptian Cream" [3:32]
04. Plasticland, "Posing For Pictures" [2:06]
05. a-ha, "Love is Reason" [3:07]
06. The Three O'Clock, "Her Head's Revolving" [3:11]
07. The Style Council, "Walls Come Tumbling Down" [3:22]
08. The Sisters of Mercy, "Walk Away" [3:26]
09. Butthole Surfers, "Mexican Caravan" [2:41]
10. The Lyres, "Someone Who'll Treat You Right Now" [3:06]
11. Martin Newell, "Golden Lane" [3:30]
12. The Chameleons, "Perfume Garden" [4:28]
13. Prefab Sprout, "Faron" [3:41]
14. Dinosaur Jr (Barlow), "Gargoyle" [2:11]
15. The Screaming Blue Messiahs, "Someone To Talk To" [3:36]
16. Tall Dwarfs, "Sleet" [2:09]
17. Hüsker Dü (Hart), "Green Eyes" [2:55]
18. Dukes of Stratosphere, "My Love Explodes" [3:31]
19. New Order, "Sub-Culture" [3:27]
20. Squeeze, "King George Street" [3:48]
21. Sonic Youth & Lydia Lunch, "Death Valley '69" [5:11]
22. Beat Happening, "Foggy Eyes" [2:45]
23. Jonathan Richman, "Now is Better Than Before" [2:08]

Total Time: 1:15:16

Download it here: http://www.mediafire.com/?1boom46bg88un75

Bonus Disc!

1985: The Birth of Alt-Country?

01. The Mekons, "Hard To Be Human Again" [3:53]
02. Beat Farmers, "Bigger Stones" [2:22]
03. The Three Johns, "Brainbox (He's a Brainbox)" [4:03]
04. The Long Ryders, "Looking for Lewis and Clark" [3:58]
05. Danny & Dusty, "Send Me a Postcard" [2:58]
06. Camper Van Beethoven, "Where the Hell is Bill?" [2:06]
07. The Del Fuegos, "Don't Run Wild" [3:30]
08. Jason & the Scorchers, "White Lies" [3:21]
09. The Blasters, "Dark Night" [3:44]
10. Lone Justice, "Ways to Be Wicked" [3:25]
11. The Connells, "Seven" [3:08]
12. Tom Waits, "Jockey Full of Bourbon" [2:42]
13. Green on Red, "Sixteen Ways" [3:38]
14. The Knitters, "The New World" [2:51]
15. Thin White Rope, "Dead Grammas on a Train" [2:53]

Total Time: 48:29

Download it here: http://www.mediafire.com/?7j1t8wy0ilm71r6

Grabbing the bonus disk - props on Danny&Dusty, that's a great record. Not sure "Jockey Full of Bourbon" qualifies even as proto-alt. country, but I'll listen in context before I pounce.

Yeah, it's a stretch, but it fit better on the bonus disc, to be sure.

It flowed, and the guitar is in the ballpark. It's just those maracas or whatever they are. It didn't throw me as much as The Connells' Morrisey-isms. But hey, Ryan Adams & David Rawlings are both Smiths fans.

note to self - listen to these upon having chance at home...look nice - and kinda timely as they consist of a lot of albums I bought but didn't necessarily replace ever during the cd or digital era.

Appreciate the feedback, and yeah, the Connells were another stretch-- I don't think they had quite found their voice yet on the first album. I still really like that song, but I'm a huge Smiths fan.

i missed the disc with kurtis blow, doug e fresh, art of noise, newcleus, and the furious five