Jon's Favorite Songs

[scotchandcigar]

Royal Blood's new one has some tunes I'm digging on. Including these two.


Trouble's comin'


Oblivion

I'll have to check out their new release.

 

[sadchild]

I love the first two RB albums but am not digging the new album at all. If history repeats, that means Scotch should love it! LOL

 

[scotchandcigar]

I love the first two RB albums but am not digging the new album at all. If history repeats, that means Scotch should love it! LOL

Haha! We'll see.

I loved the 1st album, I was a big advocate for them (see my thread from way back). The 2nd album was okay.

 

[HecticArt]

I like that they aren't stagnating and repeating the same album each time.
It makes it much more interesting when bands give you something to discover.

 

[Jon]

New discoveries from Apple Music.

First from The Felice Brothers - Jazz on the Autobahn



And the latest from Modest Mouse - We Are Between

 

[HecticArt]

Cool. I like both of those songs.

 

[Jon]

I've been listening to a lot of new music lately, some of it I'm taking a real liking to, some of it is crap!

 

[scotchandcigar]

I've been listening to a lot of new music lately, some of it I'm taking a real liking to, some of it is crap!

I've spoke about this before. There's a study showing that by age 33, many people are throwing in the towel on new music. But for me, it's no different than TV or movies or plays or games etc. I wouldn't stop looking for new stuff in any of those categories, and I don't see why music would be any different.

There are many situations where I'll want to play old music - as background, or with the wife in the car. But on my own, I make a point to feed myself new stuff.

 

[HecticArt]

I'd go crazy without new music in my life.
SXM has been pretty good for that.

 

[sadchild]

Over time I've developed an appetite for new music. In my teens I could probably list 20-30 new songs a year I liked. In my early 20's it was probably 50 or so. In 1995 (when I turned 25) is when I started making a list of the songs I liked from that year - there were 82. Nowadays it's usually around 200.

Here is my original list of songs from 1995 (no artists, odd - don't know why I didn't include that)

Delicious
Wonderful
Better than Nothing
Ironic
High and Dry
The Chaunakah Song
Can’t Stop Lovin’ You
Million Bucks
Last Goodbye
Courderoy
Richest Junkie Still Alive
Meet You There
Supernova
Delusional
Thorn in My Side
Landmine Spring
You Oughta Know
Somebody Else’s Body
Shake Some Action
Awake
Sick of Myself
War
Dead Winter Dead
Discussion, White
Subterranean Homesick Too
French Kiss
Kiss Destroyer
Clean My Wounds
Fueled
Rehab
Stone the Crow
Blind
Clown
Shoots and Ladders
Diadems
My Misery
Beaten
Super-Charger Heaven
Feed the Gods
Lifer
Nothing
Quiet
Isobel
Anywhere Is
Scuba Diving
Ono Soul
Underground
I Will Wait
Friends of P
A Girl Like You
States of Mind
What Do I Have to Do?
10 Seconds Down
Rhyme Stealer
Demagogue
21st Century
Heart’s Filthy Lesson
Dissolved
Telltale Crime
Regressor
Dose
Under
Hey Man Nice Shot
Piggy
Hurt
Winona’s Big Brown Beaver
Beers, Steers and Queers
All I Ask of Myself ...
Verklemnt
Juke Joint Jezebel
Age of Panic
Deviate
Switch
Mean Machine
Regulate
I Wish
Army of Me
You Are Not Alone
Tell Her This
Going South
Fake Plastic Trees
Little Drummer Boy

 

[HecticArt]

17 this countdown.
It night have been more with band names.

 

[sadchild]

Side note: those 1995 songs aren't in order of favorite. Just by genre.

POP
Delicious
Wonderful
Better than Nothing
Ironic
High and Dry
The Chaunakah Song
Can’t Stop Lovin’ You

ROCK
Million Bucks
(etc)

In the 90s, I only did my top 20. Now I do like 100 or more. Because I'm even geekier now than I was then.

1995
1 Nine Inch Nails “Hurt”
2 Circle of Dust “Deviate”
3 Korn “Clown”
4 Sugar Ray “Ten Seconds Down”
5 Radiohead “Fake Plastic Trees”
6 Matthew Sweet “Sick of Myself”
7 Korn “Blind”
8 Our Lady Peace “Starseed”
9 Radiohead “High and Dry”
10 Mother May I “Meet You There”
11 All “Million Bucks”
12 Goo Goo Dolls “Name”
13 Live “White, Discussion”
14 Jeff Buckley “Last Goodbye”
15 Corrosion of Conformity “Clean My Wounds”
16 Skee-Lo “I Wish”
17 Pearl Jam “Courderoy”
18 Down “Stone the Crow”
19 Suicidal Tendencies “Love vs. Loneliness”
20 White Zombie “Super-Charger Heaven”

 

[HecticArt]

I just added 6 more to my likes for that list.

 

[Jon]

Since my normal ride is in the shop getting body work done, they gave me a Jeep Grand Cherokee (Fully! Loaded!) As a rental, which means I have SiriusXM for the time I have it. Listening to the Spectrum on the way to get dinner and heard this fantastic cover of CSN&Y's 'Our House' by the Head and the Heart.

 

[Aaron]

Good cover.

20 years ago I didn't want to hear most cover songs, just wanted to hear the famous version. Now that so many of those classic songs have been played to death, I increasingly enjoy hearing other people's versions.

 

[Jon]

Good cover.

20 years ago I didn't want to hear most cover songs, just wanted to hear the famous version. Now that so many of those classic songs have been played to death, I increasingly enjoy hearing other people's versions.

I’d say some covers are actually better than the original. Jimi’s “All Along The Watchtower” and Johnny Cash‘s “Hurt” come immediately to mind.

 

[Aaron]

There's definitely a few like that.. I agree with those two.

 

[HecticArt]

Check out the Song Exploder on Netflix for Hurt. It's pretty interesting.

 

[sadchild]

Related (I'm seeing it for the first time):

Top 5 Cover Songs That Are Better Than The Original Versions

1. All Along The Watchtower-Jimi Hendrix (orig. Bob Dylan) 2. Superstar-Sonic Youth (orig. The Carpenters) 3. My Way-Sid Vicious/Sex Pistols (orig. Frank Sinatra) 4. With A Little Help From My Friends-Joe Cocker (orig. The Beatles) 5. I Heard It Through The Grapevine-Marvin Gaye (orig...

digitalradiocentral.com

 

[Jon]

Discovered this one on an Apple Music custom radio station based off Rob Zombie.

Another good cover.

Black Veil Brides covering Billy Idol's 'Rebel Yell'