Greatest Songs of the
Pop-Rock-Alternative-Garage Era


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RIP: Richard Wright, of Sigma 6, aka Pink Floyd, 1943-2008
RIP: Jerry Reed, 1937-2008


"Today, the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but, disguised as a market researcher,
he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort."
-- Marshall McLuhan


Updated: September 2008


New color-coding:
In addition to the songs highlighted with a blue background (which denotes tracks that were not allowed to achieve widespread airplay), some songs on this list are now coded with a light orange (call it salmon, if you will) background. These are the standout tracks of the garage-rock and psychedelic (a.k.a. 'Nugget') era, confined mostly to the 1960s. In the UK they can go by the term 'freakbeat.' You won't see this expression anywhere else, but it's also fair to call them "pre-alternative," because their spirit emanates from a similar space as the great outpouring of left-of-the-dial material that emerged between the late 70s and early 90s (before it was intentionally destroyed by the corporate-created grunge & post-grunge [frat boy] sound of the latter 90s, a sub-genre that can more accurately be termed "juvenalia.")


Featured track of the moment:
  • Loop: "Be Here Now" (1990 / from one of the strongest albums of the decade, 'A Gilded Eternity')


    Most recent additions:
  • The Luv'd Ones: "I'm Leaving You" (~1966 / Michigan)
  • The Knife: "Silent Shout" (Stockholm / 2006)
  • The Mussies: "12 O'Clock July" (1967 / garage / Michigan)
  • Riders of the Mark: "The Electronic Insides and Metal Complexion that Make Up Herr Dr. Krieg" (1967 / garage / New Jersey?)
  • Underworld: "Born Slippy" (1993)
  • The Calico Wall: "Flight Reaction" (1967 / garage / Minneapolis)
  • Roxy Music: "Ladytron" (1972 / amazing coincidence that the next song is by Ladytron)
  • Ladytron: "Ghosts" (2008 / Liverpool)
  • A.C. Marias: "One of Our Girls (Has Gone Missing)" (1989 / masterpiece / just ask your local numbnut rock station to play THIS one)
  • Alien Sex Fiend: "I Walk the Line" (1986)


    Recently added to the 'New Wave / Alternative' list:
  • End of Data: "Sahrah" (French coldwave / 1984)
  • Erase Errata: "Tax Dollar" (San Francisco / 2006)
  • Hilary: "Drop Your Pants" (1983)
  • The Cranes: "Adoration" (1991)
  • Salad: "Diminished Clothes" (1995)
  • Miranda Sex Garden: "Sunshine" (1993)
  • Stereolab: "Low Fi" (1992)
  • The Verve: "A Man Called Sun" (1992)
  • The Telescopes: "Flying" (1992)
  • Public Image Ltd.: "Religion 2" (1978)
  • Dif Juz: "No Motion" (1987 / 4AD label)


    Recently added as "Garage-Psychedelic-Freakbeat" classics (highlighted with a salmon background)
    Current count, not including Beatles material: 88

  • The Cavemen: "It's Trash" (Florida / proto-punk)
  • My Indole Ring: "Orange Float Petals" (Vancouver / 1968)
  • The Squires: "Going All the Way" (1966)
  • The Wheel-a-Ways: "Bad Little Woman" (1967)
  • The Syndicats: "Crawdaddy Simone" (1965)
  • The Eyes: "When the Night Falls" (1965)
  • The Smoke: "My Friend Jack" (Germany via New York / 1967 / banned by BBC)
  • The Bees: "Voices Green & Purple" (1966)


    Recently added to the 'Worst' list:
  • Kevin Federline (K-Fed): "PopoZao"
  • Charlie Daniels Band: "This Ain't No Rag, It's a Flag"
  • Ciccone Youth (Sonic-but-Boring Youth): "Addicted to Love" (1988 / typical of Sonic Youth's vapid output)
  • Tony Orlando & Dawn: "Who's in the Strawberry Patch with Sally?" (1974)
  • Kiss: "Let's Put the X in Sex" (1988)
  • MC Hammer: "Pumps and a Bump" (1994)
  • Kid Rock: "American Bad Ass" (2000)
  • The White Stripes: "Icky Thump" (2007)
  • Plain White T's: "Hey There, Delilah"


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    This list is now color-coded. Songs that are listed with a blue background are those that, for all practical purposes, have been banned from airplay on your typical American "classic rock" station. Instead, we hear what's essentially an amalgam of isolationist country-rock and soft-rock. (Think of irrelevancies like Billy Joel, Huey Lewis and Bob Seger rolled into one, if you have the stomach for such a thought.) The irony is that what gets played is the weaker material at the expense of the stronger. The coding reveals that some 40% of all the significant pop/rock songs ever recorded have not been allowed to penetrate the American market. For the period from the Sex Pistols onward, this figure approaches approximately 90%, if not more. (If rock stations were rated by fuel efficiency standards, they'd be operating at around 25% firepower. Yet they twiddle their thumbs, play assholes like Steely Dan, then cry the blues when nobody listens -- at least nobody with a functional brain.) The obvious conclusion is that playlists don't emerge freely based on merit and popularity. They are imposed.

    Let's look at a brief passage from the landmark "Perennial Philosophy" by Aldous Huxley, written in 1945: "Nazi education, which was specifically education for war, had two principle aims. One, to encourage the manifestation of somatotonia (a pattern of temperament marked by the predominance of physical over social or intellectual factors, as well as an aggressive tone, or in other words "big and stupid") in those inclined in that direction; and two, to make the rest of the population feel ashamed of its relaxed amiability or its inward-looking sensitiveness and tendency towards self-restraint and even-mindedness. All over the world, young people are being systematically educated to be 'tough' and to value toughness beyond any other moral quality." (Look to our so-called "popular" music to see the aggressive tone that the powers-that-be wish to mold into our youth. The game was alive in Nazi Germany, and it's still alive in America today. Popular music is by and large a method of programming our youth, hence the remarkable de-evolution of musical intelligence from the time of the Beatles toward what we have today, where intelligent music at the commercial level is essentially banned.)


    "If you don't see a sucker at the table, you're it."
    -- Amarillo Slim (professional poker player)



    New Article:
    "Why Creed Sucks," including a brief analysis of that vast wasteland known as "modern rock."


    "One of the purposes of many cultures seems to be that of restricting the perceptual capacity of its members."
    -- Carlos Castaneda


    Number of songs on list: 1,599 (an entire week on radio without repetition)

    Corollary lists:
  • The Worst Songs Ever Recorded
  • Classic tracks of the Alternative / New Wave era


    "The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off."
    -- Gloria Steinem


    The songs listed here comprise the essential music of our culture from the late 50's through the present.

    If you're a rock station and your ratings suck, it's because you deviate too much from this list and you assume your listeners to not quite be the sharpest tools in the shed.

    This list began while I was on the news staff at WFUV 90.7 (Fordham University) in New York City. It expanded in preparation for a radio program that aired on WUSR 99.5 (University of Scranton) from 1997 to 2000. The name of the program was "Blind Vision," and it chronicled the history of alternative music from the late 70s to the present, sometimes dipping back into obscure garage-rock from the 60s. Whether or not this sounds arrogant, "Blind Vision" may have well been the best-received program in the history of college radio in Northeast PA, outside of the hip hop programming. (Most hip-hop is not actually music but performance art -- to put it kindly -- with marketing tactics similar to that of movies and television, so the same rules don't apply.)

    This playlist is built around the concept of synergy: That when all of your parts are in working order, the sum-total you create is greater than the sum of the parts. To create this, you must remove all the weak elements, in this case the worst songs ever recorded. If you prefer, we can use the word gestalt: "A structure, configuration, or pattern so integrated as to constitute a functional unit with properties not derivable by summation of its parts." Think of the songs on the "worst" list as violations of our integrity (which they are). If you put the integrity back into the space -- and nothing but integrity -- you create magic.

    If this list resonates with a ring of authority, it's because it tells it like it is. Rolling Stone and VH1 and so-called "rock" stations tell it with an agenda -- one of molding you into a compliant wanker more desirable to advertisers.

    Every once in awhile I'll get an e-mail from some diddle-head that goes something like this: "Echo & the Bunnymen, who are they?" If a thought like this crosses your mind, it's time to realize: You've been had! Ha ha, the joke is on you. Meanwhile, the music industry -- the same bunch of creeps who put Usher on the podium as "an artist" -- is laughing all the way to the bank, the same way they laughed when they positioned country-rockers like Bob Seger and Little-Johnny-Beadie-Eyed-Redneck-Pathetic-Cougar-Mellenhead as mainstream rock performers (the musical equivalent of an affirmative-action program for numbskulls who couldn't succeed on merit). This bunch of industry weasels has nothing but contempt for you, except in terms of a demographic commodity they can profit from.

    If you have suggestions for this list (something a little more constructive than "Go fuck yourself"), send them to: ppplanet@comcast.net

    If you're curious about the most original, significant music of the last 20 years (that leaves out Nirvana and Pearl Jam, ha ha), refer to classic tracks of the alternative & new wave era


    Songs highlighted in blue have been effectively banned from widespread airplay on your typical American "classic rock" station. Their motto should be "Let's play some more Tawm Petty for Bubba down at the UPS loading dock." And to think that mainstream rock, a generation ago, was actually an intelligent expression of popular culture. So sad.

     

    Artist

    Song

    Comment

    ABBA

    Dancing Queen

    Male/female/female/male: A-B-B-A

    ABC

    When Smokey Sings

    Tribute to Smokey Robinson Jr.

    Abecedarians

    Smiling Monarchs

    '85

    Adam Ant

    Desperate But Not Serious

     

    Adorable

    Sunshine Smile

    ~1990

    Aerosmith

    		 Dream On

    Wildly overrated group

    A-ha

    Take On Me

    An all-time seminal video

    Alien Sex Fiend

    I Walk the Line

    Goth anthem / '86

    Gregg Allman

    Midnight Rider

     

    Allman Brothers

    Jessica

     

     

    Melissa

     

     

    Whipping Post

     

    Marc Almond

    Jacky

    Formerly of Soft Cell

    Alphaville

    Forever Young

     

    Altered Images

    Dead Pop Stars

     

    Amboy Dukes

    Journey to the Center of the Mind

    Ted Nugent's last gasp

    And Also the Trees

    Bullet Head

     

    Angel and the Reruns

    Buffy Come Back

     

    The Animals

    Boom Boom

     

     

    Don't Bring Me Down

     

     

    Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood

     

     

    House of the Rising Sun

    Song dates back to Civil War

     

    It's My Life

     

     

    See See Rider

     

     

    Sky Pilot

     

    Animotion

    Obsession

     

    Argent

    Hold Your Head Up

     

    Art of Noise

    Legs

     

     

    Peter Gunn Theme

    Featuring Duane Eddy

    The Atlantics

    Bombora

    '63 / Sydney / instrumental

    B-52's

    53 Miles West of Venus

     

     

    Channel Z

     

     

    Give Me Back My Man

     

     

    Lava

     

    First two albums

    Party Out of Bounds

     

    are stunning:

    Planet Claire (12" Mix)

     

    total breakthroughs

    Private Idaho

     

    into a new space

    Quiche Lorraine

    Masterpiece

     

    Rock Lobster

    Masterpiece

     

    Strobe Light

     

    Bad Manners

    		 You Fat Bastard

    Vocalist: Buster Bloodvessel

    Joan Baez

    The Night They Drove Ol' Dixie Down

     

    George Baker Selection

    Little Green Bag

     

    Baltimora

    		 Tarzan Boy

     

    Afrika Bambaataa

    		 Planet Rock

    '82

    Bananarama

    Cruel Summer

     

     

    		 I Heard a Rumour

     

     

    		 Robert DeNiro's Waiting

    About sexual trauma

     

    		 Venus

     

    The Band

    The Weight

     

    The Bangles

    		 A Hazy Shade of Winter

    Written by Paul Simon

     

    		 In Your Room

     

     

    		 Manic Monday

     

     

    		 Walk Like an Egyptian

     

    Barenaked Ladies

    		 Lovers in a Dangerous Time

     

    The Bar-Kays

    		 Soul Finger

    Crashed with Otis Redding

    The Bats

    		 North by North

    From New Zealand

    Bauhaus

    Bela Lugosi's Dead

    Goth masterpiece

     

    Dancing

     

     

    In the Flat Field

     

    The Beach Boys

    		 Good Vibrations

    Masterpiece

     

    Sloop John B

     

    The Beau Brummels

    Laugh, Laugh

     

    The (English) Beat

    Can't Get Used to Losing You

    Cover of . . . Andy Williams !?!

     

    I Confess

     

    Masterpiece album:

    Mirror in the Bathroom

    Masterpiece

    'I Just Can't Stop It'

    Save It For Later

    Masterpiece

     

    Twist and Crawl

    '80

    The Beatles

    (Too many to list: 125 /
    truly touched by the muses)

    At least 50 masterpieces / Shakespeares of modern era

    Jeff Beck Group

    		 Beck's Bolero

     

    The Bee Gees

    Lonely Days

     

    The Bees

    		 Voices Green & Purple

    '66 / garage-psychedelia

    Beginning of the End

    Funky Nassau

     

    Adrian Belew

    Oh Daddy

    '89

    Archie Bell & the Drells

    Tighten Up

     

    Belle and Sebastian

    Lazy Line Painter Jane

    '97 / From Glasgow

    Belly

    Feed the Tree

    '93

    Pat Benatar

    Le Belle Age

    Overall, a wasted talent

    Brook Benton

    Rainy Night in Georgia

     

    Berlin

    Sex (I'm a Bitch)

    '83

    Chuck Berry

    Maybelline

     

    Plastic Bertrand

    Ca Plane Pour Moi

    ("This Life's For Me")

    The Big Bopper

    		 Chantilly Lace

     

    Big Country

    		 In a Big Country

     

    Big Star

    		 September Gurls

     

    Blancmange

    Blind Vision

    Quintessential new wave single

    Fred Blassie

    		 Pencil Neck Geek

    Novelty

    Bleach

    Trip and Slide (and Live)

    '92 (UK indie)

    Blind Faith

    		 Sea of Joy

     

    Blondie

    Atomic

    Their best single

     

    Dreaming

     

     

    In the Sun

    Overall an overrated group

     

    Pretty Baby

     

     

    Rapture

     

    Blood Sweat and Tears

    Lucretia MacEvil

     

    Blue Cheer

    		 Summertime Blues

    San Francisco / '68

    Blue Oyster Cult

    		 Don't Fear the Reaper

     

    Blues Magoos

    Gotta Get Away

     

     

    (We Ain't Got) Nothin' Yet

     

     

    Tobacco Road

    '66

    Blueshift Signal

    Seven Natural Scenes

    90s UK indie

    Blur

    Advert

     

     

    There's No Other Way

     

    Perhaps the greatest

    Park Life

    Masterpiece single & album

    group of the 90s.

    Pop Scene

     

     

    She's So High

     

     

    Sing

    '91 / on Trainspotting

     

    Trimm Trabb

     

     

    Trouble in the Message Centre

     

    The Bollock Brothers

    		 Harley David (Son of a Bitch)

     

    The Bongos

    Numbers With Wings

    '83 / Hoboken, New Jersey

    Booker T & the MG's

    		 Green Onions

     

     

    		 Time is Tight

    Masterpiece

    Bouquet of Veal

    		 Dwarf Tossin'

    Novelty

    Bryan Bowers

    The Scotsman

    (Dr. Demento)

    David Bowie

    		 Ashes to Ashes

     

     

    		 Heroes

    Masterpiece /
    Desecrated by The Wallflowers

     

    Scary Monsters

    '80

     

    		 Space Oddity

     

    Bow Wow Wow

    Do You Wanna Hold Me?

     

    The Box Tops

    Cry Like a Baby

     

     

    The Letter

     

    Billy Bragg

    Sexuality

    '91

     

    Train Train

     

     

    You Woke Up My Neighbourhood

     

    The Breeders

    Cannonball

     

    Bronski Beat

    Small Town Boy

     

    James Brown

    I Got You (I Feel Good)

     

     

    Papa's Got a Brand New Bag

     

     

    Say It Loud - I'm Black and I'm Proud

     

    Bubble Puppy

    		 Hot Smoke & Sasafras

    '69

    Lindsey Buckingham

    		 Trouble

     

    The Buckinghams

    		 Kind of a Drag

     

    Buffalo Springfield

    		 For What It's Worth

     

    The Buggles

    		 Video Killed the Radio Star

     

    Eric Burdon & War

    		 Spill the Wine

     

    Kate Bush

    Running Up That Hill

    Wrote 100 songs by age 15

     

    Wuthering Heights

     

    The Buzzcocks

    		 Boredom

     

    The Byrds

    		 Eight Miles High

     

     

    Have You Seen Her Face

     

     

    Mr. Tambourine Man

     

     

    So You Want to be a Rock 'n Roll Star

     

    Cabaret Voltaire

    		 Nag Nag Nag

    '79

     

    Red Mask

     

    Meryn Cadell

    The Sweater

     

    The Cadets

    		 Stranded in the Jungle

    '56

    The Cadillacs

    		 Speedoo

    '55

    Calico Wall

    		 Flight Reaction

     

     

    		 I'm a Living Sickness

    '67 / Minneapolis

    Glen Campbell

    By the Time I Get to Phoenix

     

     

    		 Wichita Lineman

     

    Can

    Halleluhwah (Hallelujah)

    1971

     

    		 Mother Sky

    From Cologne, Germany

    Canned Heat

    Going Up the Country

     

     

    		 Let's Work Together

     

     

    		 On the Road Again

    '68

    Cannibal & the Headhunters

    Land of 1000 Dances

     

    Clarence Carter

    Patches

    '70

    Johnny Cash

    Folsom Prison Blues

     

     

    		 Ring of Fire

     

    Cashman & West

    American City Suite

     

    The Castaways

    		 Liar, Liar

    '65

    Catherine Wheel

    I Want to Touch You

     

    The Cavemen

    		 It's Trash

    Proto-punk / Florida

    The Chambers Brothers

    Time Has Come Today

    (Long version @ 11:03)

    The Chameleons

    In Shreds

    Masterpiece / ~'83

    The Champs

    		 Tequila

     

    The Chantays

    		 Pipeline

     

    Harry Chapin

    Taxi

     

    Tracy Chapman

    Fast Cars

     

    The Charlatans

    The Only One I Know

     

     

    		 Sproston Green

    '90

    Ray Charles

    Hit the Road, Jack

     

     

    		 I Got a Woman

    ~'54

     

    		 What'd I Say

     

    Cheap Trick

    I Want You to Want Me (Live at Budukan)

     

    Chubby Checker

    The Twist

     

    Cheech & Chong

    Black Lassie

    Novelty

    Chicago

    Beginnings

    Overall a disappointing career

     

    Questions 67 & 68

     

    The Chills

    Pink Frost

    Masterpiece

     

    Satin Doll

    From New Zealand

    Chocolate Watch Band

    		 Sweet Young Thing

    '66 / aka Chocolate Watchband

    The Chords

    		 Sh-Boom

    '54 / Arguably the 'first song' of the rock & roll era

    Chumbawamba

    Tubthumping

     

    The Church

    Under the Milky Way

     

    Dave Clark Five

    Try Too Hard

     

    The Clash

    		 Complete Control

     

     

    The Guns of Brixton

     

     

    I'm So Bored With the USA

     

     

    London Calling

    Masterpiece single & album

     

    Straight to Hell

     

     

    What's My Name

    Stunning album: 'The Clash'

     

    White Man in Hammersmith Palais

     

    The Clean

    At the Bottom

    From New Zealand

    Patsy Cline

    		 Crazy

    Masterpiece

     

    		 I Fall to Pieces

     

     

    Sweet Dreams

     

     

    Walkin' After Midnight

    '58

    The Coasters

    		 Along Came Jones

     

     

    		 Charlie Brown

     

     

    		 Yakety Yak

    '58

    Eddie Cochran

    		 Summertime Blues

     

    Joe Cocker

    Cry Me a River

    By & large a total bore

    The Cocteau Twins

    Carolyn's Fingers

     

     

    Iceblink Luck

     

     

    		 Sugar Hiccup

     

    David Allen Coe

    		 The Rodeo Song

    (Dr. Demento)

    Coldplay

    		 One I Love

    2002

    Dave & Ansel Collins

    		 Double Barrel

    'I am the magnificent W-O-O-O'

    Edwyn Collins

    A Girl Like You

     

    Judy Collins

    		 Both Sides Now

     

     

    Send in the Clowns

     

    Colourbox

    		 Just Give 'em Whiskey

    ~82

     

    Looks Like We're Shy By One Horse

    On the renowned 4AD label

    The Contours

    		 Do You Love Me?

     

    The Cords

    		 Ghost Power

    ~'68

    Dave 'Baby' Cortez

    		 The Happy Organ

    '59

    The Count Five

    		 Psychotic Reaction

    Masterpiece

    The Cowboy Junkies

    Misguided Angel

     

     

    Sweet Jane

     

    Country Joe & the Fish

    		 I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin-to-Die Rag

    '67

    The Cowsills

    		 Hair

     

     

    		 The Rain, the Park, & Other Things

     

    The Cramps

    Goo Goo Muck

     

    The Cranberries

    Dreams

     

    The Cranes

    Brighter

     

     

    Shining Road

    '94

     

    		 Sixth of May

     

    Crazy World of Arthur Brown

    		 Fire

    '68

    Cream

    		 Badge

     

     

    		 Crossroads

     

     

    Strange Brew

     

     

    		 Sunshine of Your Love

     

     

    Tales of Brave Ulysses

     

     

    		 White Room

     

    The Creation

    		 Making Time

    '66

    Creedence Clearwater Revival

    		 I Put a Spell on You

     

     

    		 Suzie Q

     

    Crosby, Stills & Nash

    Marrakesh Express

     

     

    		 Suite: Judy Blue Eyes

     

    Crosby & Nash

    Immigration Man

     

    Crowded House

    Silent House

    Co-written w/ Dixie Chicks

    The Crystals

    Da Doo Ron Ron

    '62

     

    		 He's a Rebel

     

     

    		 Then He Kissed Me

     

    The Cult

    She Sells Sanctuary

     

    The Culture Club

    		 Church of the Poison Mind

    '83

    The Cure

    Apart

    1 of the 10 greatest groups ever

     

    At Night

     

     

    Caterpillar

     

     

    Charlotte Sometimes

     

     

    Cold

     

     

    Cut

     

    In effect, banned

    Descent

     

    from American rock radio,

    Disintegration

    Masterpiece

    to make way for

    End

    Masterpiece

    numbnuts like

    Fascination Street (Extended Mix)

     

    Tawm Peddy

    The Figurehead

     

    and Bawb Sager.

    A Forest (Tree Mix)

     

     

    From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea

    Masterpiece

     

    In Your House

     

     

    Just Like Heaven

     

     

    Killing an Arab

    Reflection on Camus' The Stranger

     

    Let's Go to Bed

     

     

    The Love Cats

     

     

    Lovesong

    Desecrated by 311

     

    One Hundred Years

     

     

    Open

     

    Belittled by Rolling Stone

    Pictures of You

     

    ('Disinformation Digest')
    as a band for

    Play for Today
    (Especially the 'Paris' version)

     

    'those with high IQs

    Pornography

     

    and low self-esteem'

    Prayers for Rain

     

     

    Primary

     

     

    A Short Term Effect

     

     

    The Snakepit

     

     

    Splintered in Her Head

     

     

    A Strange Day

     

     

    Wailing Wall

     

     

    The Walk

     

     

    Why Can't I Be You? (Extended)

     

    Tim Curry

    I Do the Rock

     

    Dick Dale & the Del-Tones

    Let's Go Trippin'

     

     

    Misirlou

    ~62

    The Damned

    Alone Again Or

    'Love' cover

     

    The Girl Goes Down

     

    Terrence Trent D'Arby

    		 Sign Your Name

     

     

    		 Wishing Well

     

    Bobby Darin

    		 Mack the Knife

    Masterpiece

    David & David

    Welcome to the Boomtown

     

    Spencer Davis Group

    		 Gimme Some Lovin'

     

     

    I'm a Man

     

    Dead Can Dance

    Avatar

     

    Dead Kennedys

    Holiday in Cambodia

    Masterpiece

     

    Police Truck

     

    Dead or Alive

    You Spin Me Around (Like a Record)

     

    Death in June

    Heaven Street (Mk II)

     

    Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich

    Zabadak

     

    Deee-Lite

    Groove Is in the Heart

     

    Deep Purple

    		 Hush

     

     

    Smoke on the Water

     

     

    Woman from Tokyo

     

    The Del-Vetts

    Last Time Around

    Chicago garage / '66

    Desmond Dekker & the Aces

    The Israelites

     

    The Delfonics

    La-La Means I Love You

     

    John Denver

    		 Rocky Mountain High

     

    Depeche Mode

    Behind the Wheel / Route 66

    Masterpiece

     

    Blasphemous Rumours

     

    1 of the top 10 groups ever

    Enjoy the Silence

    Masterpiece

     

    Everything Counts (7:23 Version)

     

    Primarily a singles band

    Get the Balance Right

     

    with two albums

    Happiest Girl

     

    far beyond the pale:

    If You Want

     

    'Music for the Masses'

    I Just Can't Get Enough

     

    and 'Violator'

    It's Called a Heart

     

     

    I Want You Now

     

     

    Leave in Silence

     

    Trashed on the cover

    Lie to Me

     

    of Rolling Stone

    Little 15

     

    ('Tractor-Pull Press')

    Master and Servant

    Masterpiece (S&M style)

    as a bunch of 'weanies'.

    More than a Party

     

     

    Never Let Me Down Again

    Masterpiece

     

    People are People

     

     

    Personal Jesus

    Covered by Johnny Cash

    Beatles-level originality,

    Policy of Truth

    Masterpiece

    but virtually banned

    A Question of Time

    Masterpiece

    from American rock radio.

    Sea of Sin

     

     

    Shake the Disease

    Masterpiece

     

    Shout (Rio Mix)

     

     

    Somebody

     

     

    Something to Do

     

     

    Strangelove
    (Try the Simenon/Saunders remix)

    Masterpiece

     

    Walking in My Shoes

     

     

    World in My Eyes

     

    Derek & the Dominos

    		 Layla

     

    The Deviants

    		 I'm Coming Home

    '67

    Neil Diamond

    		 Brother Love's Travelling Salvation Show

     

     

    		 Holly Holy

     

     

    		 Solitary Man

     

    The Diamonds

    		 Little Darlin'

    '57

    Manu Dibango

    		 Soul Makossa

    '72 / Cameroon

    Bo Diddley

    		 Bo Diddley

     

     

    		 Road Runner

     

    Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy

    		 Television, the Drug of a Nation

    Considered too intelligent for
    mass hip-hop consumption

    Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band

    		 Whispering/Cherche La Femme/Se Si Bone

    '77

    Bill Doggett

    		 Honky Tonk (Parts 1 & 2)

     

    Thomas Dolby

    She Blinded Me With Silence

     

    Fats Domino

    I'm Walkin'

     

    Donovan

    		 Atlantis

     

     

    Hurdy Gurdy Man

     

     

    Season of the Witch

     

     

    Sunshine Superman

    '66

    The Doors

    Back Door Man

     

     

    Break On Through

    Masterpiece

     

    The Crystal Ship

     

     

    The End

     

     

    Gloria

     

     

    Hello, I Love You

     

     

    L.A. Woman

    Masterpiece

     

    Light My Fire

    Masterpiece

     

    Love Her Madly

     

     

    Love Me Two Times

     

     

    Moonlight Drive

     

     

    Moving Much Too Fast

     

     

    People Are Strange

     

     

    Riders on the Storm

     

     

    Roadhouse Blues

     

     

    Soul Kitchen

     

     

    Strange Days

     

     

    Touch Me

     

     

    Waiting for the Sun

     

     

    The Wasp (Texas Radio
    and the Big Beat)

     

     

    When the Music's Over

     

     

    Wishful, Sinful

     

    The Dream Warriors

    My Definition (Of a Bombastic Jazz Style)

    '90

    The Drifters

    On Broadway

    Masterpiece

     

    Up On the Roof

     

    Drowning Pool

    Italian Pop Song