Sadchild's top 333 fav songs of all ever

[sadchild]

@IdRatherBeSkiing Yep I'm talking about the album Brothers In Arms. I bought my first CD in 1990. I don't think I owned a CD player until 1991. I don't think anybody I knew had a CD player until 1989? Before then I bought pretty much everything on vinyl, then taped it. So when the cassette player ate my tape, I could just make a new copy. I eventually bought Brothers In Arms on CD in the 90s and that's when I discovered the longer version of "Why Worry".

 

[HecticArt]

@HecticArt I don't blame ya! When I first saw the cover to their debut album I thought "DAMN that's a lot of makeup!!" But I did dig their music (1986 - 1991 anyway).

Those chicks are posers.

#275 Police "Tea In The Sahara"

I liked that one from the start. It was weird and different to make we slow down and pay attention to it.

I remember having to jump up and lunge toward the stylus whenever Mother came on.

It took a few listens to start getting into that one. It was crazy and jarring and kinda a WFT was that? It made me slow down and pay attention to it. I wonder if that's what got me prepared to accept Primus.

Oh, and as for Synchronicity, I didn't hear "Murder By Numbers"

That sucks.

Are you refering to the album "Brothers In Arms" from Dire Straits? That was the quintessential album to have on CD.

That really was built for CD.

 

[sadchild]

@HecticArt

LOL at Poison 'chicks' comment!

With "Mother" I like to hear it once in a blue moon on its own, just to admire its bizarre-ness. But I usually skip it when listening to the full album. That's why I think it should have been a b-side. Even "Someone To Talk To" (the "Finger" b-side) or "Once Upon A Daydream" (the "Sync 2" b-side) would have fit better. Hell, they even could have put "Murder" on the vinyl and made "Mother" the CD-only track, I suppose.

 

[sadchild]

#274 Peter Gabriel "Darkness"

Up is a very underrated album that should have been as big as So and Us. I think he just waited too long to release it (ten years!!). This is my favorite track from it. LOVE the dynamics, the journey it takes you on, the subject matter (overcoming childhood fears is what I get out of it). Dark and savage, yet beautiful and filled with hope. A return to his pre-So sound too!

 

[scotchandcigar]

@IdRatherBeSkiing Yep I'm talking about the album Brothers In Arms. I bought my first CD in 1990. I don't think I owned a CD player until 1991. I don't think anybody I knew had a CD player until 1989? Before then I bought pretty much everything on vinyl, then taped it. So when the cassette player ate my tape, I could just make a new copy. I eventually bought Brothers In Arms on CD in the 90s and that's when I discovered the longer version of "Why Worry".

When I got my job out of college ('84), a coworker in my complex had a CD player. I got one a few months later. They had them in stores in '83. Radio stations had them in '82. I think they were made by Kyocera. My first one was a Sony, it was $700, and it was crap, but heavy.

 

[sadchild]

#273 Suicidal Tendencies "Institutionalized (1993 Version)"

I went to your schools! I went to your churches! I went to your institutional learning facilities! So how can you say I'm crazy?!

 

[HecticArt]

All I wanted was a Pepsi!!!!!

This is a great song. It takes me back to Repo Man.

 

[sadchild]

#272 Janis Ian "At Seventeen"

When I was young, naive, insecure and becoming more and more convinced I may never find someone who wanted to be with me, I was actually kinda surprised to hear that people without a Y chromosome experienced these feelings too.

 

[Aaron]

From Suicidal Tendencies to Janis Ian. Nice! I like "At Seventeen"

 

[scotchandcigar]

From Suicidal Tendencies to Janis Ian. Nice! I like "At Seventeen"

Exactly. Not what I would have expected, but a good song.

However, it creates that slippery slope for me. Because I have a whole cavalcade of favorites from that genre, from James Taylor and Carole King to Sarah McLachlan, Sheryl Crow, Suzanne Vega and Bonnie Raitt. But if I included those, it would be quite the detour, which I probably wouldn't recover from.

 

[Aaron]

You could always do a post with your favorites from the singer/songwriter group.

 

[sadchild]

James Taylor and Carole King to Sarah McLachlan, Sheryl Crow, Suzanne Vega and Bonnie Raitt

You'll see a few of these in the 333. A couple waaaaaaay up near the top as a matter of fact. Behind all the nu-metal and golden-age-of-hip-hop is that 11 year old kid who watched his step-father play Everly Brothers on acoustic guitar with wide-eyes.

 

[sadchild]

#271 Enya "Orinoco Flow"

When people ask what kind of music I like to listen to, my go-to response is "anything from Enya to Carcass". And I"m not kidding! I tend to pick and choose my songs from her (generally the more upbeat ones like this). But she does have one album I can listen to start to finish: A Day Without Rain. The only album I own with less sack than that is Jim Brickman Picture This.

 

[scotchandcigar]

#271 Enya "Orinoco Flow"

When people ask what kind of music I like to listen to, my go-to response is "anything from Enya to Carcass". And I"m not kidding! I tend to pick and choose my songs from her (generally the more upbeat ones like this). But she does have one album I can listen to start to finish: A Day Without Rain. The only album I own with less sack than that is Jim Brickman Picture This.

Watermark is an awesome album. An audiophile benchmark. Try listening to The Longships on a system that goes down to 20 hz (like mine)!

 

[HecticArt]

From Suicidal Tendencies to Janis Ian. Nice! I like "At Seventeen"

He's got range.

 

[sadchild]

#270 Korn "Divine"

Number of songs from Korn's first album in my 333: Seven
Number of songs from Korn's other albums combined: Zero

 

[HecticArt]

Gotta love some crunchy.

 

[sadchild]

#269 Disturbed "Down With The Sickness"

eowWA-AA-AA-AA! When a child reaches boiling point and flips from victim to psycho. Pretty intense.

 

[Aaron]

The first YouTube comment about how even non-metal heads know this one. Yep...

 

[sadchild]

#268 Helmet "Unsung"

One of my earliest introductions to what would become the heavy-rock/alt-metal sound of the 90s - not specifically grunge or nu-metal, but bands like Helmet, Quicksand, Tool, Corrosion Of Conformity, Prong (Cleansing), etc. When I first heard it, I remember thinking "Is this the new Ozzy?"