The Observation Deck

I just read an article about celebrity play list, but I'm curious - what is on yours? What your top 10 songs that you like to play?

I'm thinking about mine.

1. Marvin Gaye and Kim Weston: It Takes Two
2. Joni Mitchell: Big Yellow Taxi
3. Carlye Simon: Your So Vain
4. Doobie Brothers: South City Midnight Lady
5. Dean martin: Ain't That a Kick in the Head
6. Will Bradley and His Orchesta: Celery Stalks at Midnight
7. The Foundations: Build me up Buttercup
8. Beach Boys: Fun, Fun, Fun
9. Hollies: Bus Stop
10. John Mellencamp: It Hurts So Good

The it is! Boy I'm product of the 60's it's evident!

Rhonda

Very hard, but this would be close.

Power In The Blood - Acoustic Version - A3 (Alabama 3)
Now That I Found You - Alison Krauss and Union Station
The House On The Hill - Audience
You And Me And The Bottle Makes Three- Big Bad Voodoo Daddies
The Roof Is On Fire - Bloodhouse Gang
I'll Come Running To Tie Your Shoe - Brian Eno
Red House - Buddy Guy
Sweet Jane - Cowboy Junkies
Maggot Brain - Funkadelics
A Face In The Crowd - The Kinks
Afterhours - Velvet Underground

Heavy play on the ipod
Lucinda Williams - West - ALL
The Meat Purveyors - ALL
Alabama 3 - ALL



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Lately I’ve been playing albums by the following:

The Nightingales
The Smiths
Fountains of Wayne
The Holy Modal Rounders
Dave Van Ronk
Phil Ochs
Townes Van Zandt
Michael Hurley
Tim Buckley
Van Morrison
Mariza

Kenneth Warren

This is giving me great ideas for stuff to download.

Very hard to limit to ten but here goes:

Elvis Costello & the Attractions – (What’s so Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding
Creedence Clearwater Revival – Lookin’ Out My Backdoor
Bobby Darin - More
Joan Jett – Change the World
John Lennon – Imagine
Van Morrison – Bright Side of the Road
Pink Floyd – Shine on You Crazy Diamond
Various – Boulavogne
Elvis Costello – Veronica
Louis Armstrong – Georgia

I don't drive much anymore, but the CD's in my car are...

DC Talk
Switchfoot
Gorilaz
Vivaldi

And some of the most played on the I-Pod were...

Pink Floyd - Fearless
Booker T. & the M.G.'s - Hip Hug Her
the Fixx - Red Skies
Johnny Cash - Boy named Sue
Rush - La Villa Strangiato

I listen to my iPod all the time, so here's what's been in heavy rotation:

Bloc Party: A Weekend In The City
Brandtson: Hello, Control. (Lakewood Band!)
Chimaira: Resurrection
Mushroomhead: Savior Sorrow
Hurl: We Are Quiet In This Room
Shellac: 1000 Hurts
Ken Burns Jazz
Johnny Cash: All
Lovedrug: Pretend You're Alive
Killswitch Engage: The End of Heartache

Podcasts: This American Life, Jawbone Radio (made in Lakewood!), Coast to Coast AM.

Albums I've been listening to most recently.

Radiohead - OK Computer
The Smiths - Hatful of Hollow
The Proclaimers - Sunshine on Leith
Green Day - Dookie
The Cure - Kiss Me, Kiss, Kiss Me
The Beatles - various albums
Draco and the Malfoys (my kids love it and make me play in the car. I will admit I do like it)
Madness - The Rise & Fall
Coldplay - X&Y
Pet Shop Boys - Discography

Wow - lesse... the latest things on the clix

The Silk Road Ensemble
Al DiMeloa
Dvorak
Vivaldi
YoYoMa
Three Doors Down
Alicia Keys
Eryka Badu
Floyd
Genesis

1) Where is the Love - Black Eyed Peas
2) Looking for a Leader - Neil Young
3) Have you Ever Really Loved a Woman - Bryan Adams
4) Downeaster Alexis - Billy Joel
5) It Wasn't Me - Shaggy
6) The Stuff that Dreams are Made of - Carly Simon
7) Not Ready to Make Nice - Dixie Chicks
Lessons Learned - Carrie Underwood
9) Tapestry - Carole King
10) Diamonds on the Soles of her Shoes - Paul Simon

Runners up:
Run for the Roses - Dan Folgeberg
Anything by Bread
Anything by Cat Stevens
Anything by Jimmy Buffett
Most Rolling Stones Songs

Rhonda loje wrote: 2. Joni Mitchell: Big Yellow Taxi

The Joni Mitchell Blue album is very good - it's on my iPod.

10?! Just 10? I can't do just 10. I listen to my iPod pretty much non stop at work. I listen to everything from Bob Dylan to Woody Guthrie to Led Zeppelin to Pink Floyd to Bloc Part to Green Day, Neil Young, Fleetwood Mac, Franz Ferdinand, James Taylor, John Denver, John Mellencamp, The Killers, The Ramones, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Todd Rundgren, U2.... Get the idea? It goes on from there. I listen to all sorts of music.

Anybody ever hear of Teitur Lassen? Very good.

I would say the lists posted so far are all pretty good. A good mix. Everybody here seems to have a pretty good taste of music.

All that said, I would say I pick a Bob Dylan top 10 play list most frequently. Dylan's songs I seem to listen to the most are:
1- Tangled Up In Blue
2- One More Cup Of Coffee
3- Mozambique
4- Maggie's Farm
5- It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)
6- Isis
6- Guess I'm Doing Fine
6- Corrina, Corrina
7- Boots Of Spanish Leather
7- Blood in my eyes
7- Talking World War III Blues
7- Talkin' Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues
7- Subterranean Homesick Blues
7- Stuck Inside of Mobile With the Memphis Blues Again
5- Only A Pawn In Their Game
5- Man On The Street
8- Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat
8- Hard Times In New York Town
8- Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
9- Boots Of Spanish Leather
10-A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall

That's 10 isn't it?

Sometimes I listen to all officially released stuff, sometimes live, sometimes bootlegs. Early Dylan. Late Dylan. It's all good.

Joe

Hey... I forgot one of my 7s....

Tierney Sutton

oh and Bill Evans

... umm...

I better stop again...

...I just gave up on picking individual songs... just not possible to confine....

now I am discovering confining just composer/performer is impossible as well...



Charyn

I tend to have multiple cds per artist or group in my playlist, so everything is a huge collection (and in no particular order - and I can't do 10)

Ella Fitzgerald
Louis Armstrong
Devo
Talking Heads
Aretha Franklin
Allman Brothers/Greg Allman
Elvis Costello
Leon Russell
Joni Mitchell
Lyle Lovett
Leon Redbone
Tom Waits
Perez Prado
Steely Dan
Stars of the Apollo

0) When the Sun Goes Down by Kenny Chesney with Uncle Kracker
1) Ride of the Valkyries by Richard Wagner
2) Sinkin' Soon - Nora Jones
3) Let's Impeach the President - Neil Young
4) Come Monday - Jimmy Buffett
5) Just Like a Woman - Bob Dylan
6) Lives in the Balance - Jackson Browne
7) The Great Gig in the Sky - Pink Floyd
Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
9) Purple Rain - Prince
10) Babies on Fire - 801

Can't do songs, because I load up my iPod with artists I like, or genres I like ... so I'll go with my top ten favorite artists on my 'pod:

(in no particular order)

Dean Martin
Benny Goodman
Django Reinhart
Harmonia (Cleveland's own!)
The Glinka Choir of Leningrad
The Chieftains
Sam Cooke
Will Kimbrough
Madelaine Peyroux
Van Halen


Makes for interesting listening when I'm on the ellipticals at the Y, though lately I've been listening to steel drum music from Trinidad-Tobago, which REALLY has the right beat for working out!