Zao

01) If These Scars Could Speak (Liberate Te Ex Inferis)
02) Ravage Ritual (Where Blood and Fire Bring Rest)
03) It's Hard Not To Shake With A Gun In Your Mouth (The Fear Is What Keeps Us Here)
04) Dark Cold Sound (Liberate Te Ex Inferis)
05) The Dreams That Don't Come True ((Self-Titled))
06) To Think Of You Is To Treasure An Absent Memory (Where Blood and Fire Bring Rest)
07) Walk On By, Walk On Me (The Pianists Prophecy) (Split EP)
08) Psalm of the City of the Dead (The Funeral of God)
09) The Ghost Psalm (Liberate Te Ex Inferis)
10) A Last Time For Everything (The Fear Is What Keeps Us Here)

Self

Self is mostly Matt Mahaffey, a dude from Tenessee.
RIYL: Frantic, catchy pop music with hiphop influenced drums and occaisionally delicious heavy / crunchy guitars. The lyrics are never deep, but he manages to make disjointed guitars and impossible chords into an often Jellyfish-like finished product.

1. I Am A Little Explosion – Gizmodgery
2. Hellbent – Extras
3. Glued To The Girl – Self Feels Like Breaking Shit
4. Trunk Fulla Amps – Gizmodgery
5. Meg Ryan – Breakfast With Girls
6. Mermaid – Extras
7. Uno Song – Breakfast With Girls
8. Insecure Sober – Extras
9. Dead Man – Gizmodgery
10. What A Fool Believes – Gizmodgery

The Afghan Whigs - Ten
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01 - crime scene part one (black love)
02 - my enemy (black love)
03 - gentlemen (gentlemen)
04 - debonair (gentlemen)
05 - double day (black love)
06 - blame, etc.(black love)
07 - what jail is like (gentlemen)
08 - miles iz ded (congregation)
09 - john the baptist (1965)
10 - uptown again (1965)
11 - crazy (1965)

The Twilight Singers - Ten
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01 - fat city (blackberry belle)
02 - i'm ready (powder burns)
03 - my time (powder burns)
04 - forty dollars (powder burns)
05 - teenage wristband (blackberry belle)
06 - decatur street (blackberry belle)
07 - cigarettes (amber headlights)
08 - esta_noche (blackberry belle)
09 - martin_eden (blackberry belle)
10 - theres been an accident (powder burns)

The Band

I know, I know. Ask 5 people for a tenner of these guys, get 6 answers. I’ve always liked the sound of them from the Last Waltz much better than the studio versions, so I pulled those songs from TLW. I wouldn’t have done this one, but it fits in with my theme, and I’ve also found a few people lately who didn’t know much about them, believe it or not. So on the off chance it does someone some good, here you go.


Across the Great Divide – The Band
Up On Cripple Creek – The Last Waltz
The Shape I’m In – The Last Waltz
Ain’t No More Cane On The Brazos – A Musical History
It Makes No Difference – The Last Waltz
Ophelia – The Last Waltz
The Weight – The Last Waltz
Stagefreight – The Last Waltz
I Shall Be Released – Music From Pig Pink
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down – The Last Waltz

J.J. CALE

Tracklist

1. Guess I Lose
2. I’ll Make Love to You Anytime
3. Hey Baby
4. Lies
5. Thirteen Days
6. Cajun Moon
7. I’m a Gypsy Man
8. Durango
9. Ride Me High
10. I Got the Same Old Blues

Guided By Voices - Ten
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01 - glad girls
02 - teenage fbi
03 - motor away
04 - game of pricks
05 - exit flagger
06 - things i will keep
07 - gold star for robot boy
08 - i am a scientist
09 - heavy metal country
10 - over the neptune-mesh gear fox

Taj Mahal....


1 Taj Mahal Everybody Is Somebody 03:32
2 Taj Mahal The Hoochi Coochi Coo 02:57
3 Taj Mahal Natural Man 04:26
4 Taj Mahal Señor Blues 06:43
5 Taj Mahal You Got It 05:00
6 Taj Mahal Scattered 05:40
7 Taj Mahal & Toumani Diabate Catfish Blues 05:27
8 Taj Mahal She Caught the Katy & Left Me A Mule To Ride 03:26
9 Taj Mahal M'Banjo 03:16
10 Taj Mahal Six Days On The Road 02:58

Art Bears

Sounds Like: The Residents teaming up with Sleepytime Gorilla Museum and Henry Cow, except with a Regina Spektor vocalist (in acquired taste, not actual sound).

01) The Bath of Stars (Winter Songs)
02) Moeris Dancing (Hopes and Fears)
03) Rats and Monkeys (Winter Songs)
04) The Song of Investment Capitol Overseas (The World as it is Today)
05) The Tube (Hopes and Fears)
06) The Song of the Martyrs (The World as it is Today)
07) The Hermit (Winter Songs)
08) The Song of the Dignity of Labour Under Capitol (The World as it is Today)
09) Three Figures (Winter Songs)
10) Riddle (Hopes and Dreams)

Calla



[scratches head]Never sure why I like this band, but I always find myself going back to listen again. Its brooding, low key and sometimes explosive. Sort of dark and mysterious at times not gothic perse. I can't explain it other that.

01 It Dawned on Me
02 Fear of Fireflies
03 Bronson
04 As Quick As It Comes/Carrera
05 Defenses Down
06 Malicious Manner
07 Initiate
08 Promenade (U2)
09 Rise
10 Astral

Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers

No need to sell this one. All songs chosen from their first 5 albums and I picked the bees, 5 rockers and 5 softies. I always loved "Spike" so I head to cancel an earlier song out of the list. A great follow would be a latter career 10, which are albums I don't own.

http://www.mediafire.com/?fayymz2jdjn

01 Anything That's Rock 'n' Roll
02 No Second Thoughts
03 When The Time Comes
04 Letting You Go
05 Kings Road
06 Insider
07 Shadow Of A Doubt (A Complex Kid)
08 Straight Into Darkness
09 The Same Old You
10 Spike

ROBERT POLLARD (SOLO)

01. Frequent Weaver Who Burns
02. Gratification To Concrete
03. Subspace Biographies
04. Death Of The Party
05. Love Is Stronger Than Witchcraft
06. Miles Under The Skin
07. Boxing About
08. Supernatural Car Lover
09. Maggie Turns To Flies
10. Conqueror of The Moon

The Wildhearts

1. Nexus Icon
2. Loveshit
3. I Wanna Go Where The People Go
4. Sky Chaser High
5. Just In Lust
6. One Love, One Life, One Girl
7. Move On
8. Dancin'
9. Bang!
10. My Baby Is A Headfuck (w/ Mick Ronson)

The Wonder Stuff

This has 11 tracks because the first one is basically an intro. I'd compare them to early 90's British pop bands like James.

01. False Start (Never Loved Elvis)
02. Welcome To The Cheap Seats (Never Loved Elvis)
03. It's Yer Money I'm After, Baby (The Eight Legged Groove Machine)
04. Hot Love Now! (Construction For The Modern Idiot)
05. Give, Give, Give Me More, More, More (The Eight Legged Groove Machine)
06. The Size Of A Cow (Never Loved Elvis)
07. Don't Let Me Down Gently (Hup)
08. A Wish Away (The Eight Legged Groove Machine)
09. Inertia (Never Loved Elvis)
10. Circlesquare (If The Beatles Had Read Hunter)
11. Caught In My Shadow (Never Loved Elvis)

Moods for Moderns
RIYL: Bubblegummy Canadian Power Pop, Sloan, New Pornos, maybe a little Big Star, Posies



01 Lust for Luster
02 Whatever She's Doin'
03 Popstar
04 Slacker Ways
05 Two Tracks Left
06 Only On A Saturday Night
07 Runaround
08 Candy Apples
09 So Long Canada
10 Long Distance Dedication

Spirit:

1 I got a Line on You 02:41
2 Morning will come 02:48
3 Mechanical World 05:19
4 Animal Zoo 03:18
5 Fresh-Garbage 03:11
6 Prelude-Nothin' to Hide 03:39
7 Mr. Skin 03:49
8 Uncle Jack 02:44
9 1984 03:34
10 Dark eyed Woman 03:09

Might be one or two here with any interest. Dark-Eyed Woman still kicks my ass cranked up on a good system.

BTW, according to some things I read not long ago, Ed Cassidy was still banging the skins in live performances as recently as last year, at 84 years old. That's rock and roll.


RIYL: Spirit

http://www.sendspace.com/file/htnpzb

BLUE MOUNTAIN

01. Bloody 98
02. Myrna Lee
03. Let's Ride
04. Mountain Girl
05. Black Dog
06. When You're Not Mine
07. It Ain't Easy To Love A Liar
08. Soul Sister
09. Pretty Please
10. Sleepin' In My Shoes

http://www.mediafire.com/?sjwmwoyoyxl

Megadeth

Tracklist:

01. Holy Wars...The Punishment Due (Rust in Peace, 1990)
02. Sweating Bullets (Countdown to Extinction, 1992)
03. Addicted to Chaos (Youthanasia, 1994)
04. Tornado of Souls (Rust in Peace, 1990)
05. Diadems (Hidden Treasures, 1995)
06. Use the Man (Cryptic Writings, 1997)
07. 99 Ways to Die (Hidden Treasures, 1995)
08. Foreclosure of a Dream (Countdown to Extinction, 1992)
09. Peace Sells (Peace Sells, but Who's Buying?, 1986)
10. In My Darkest Hour (So Far So Good...So What, 1988)

Bootsy Collins

1. Bootsy Get Live
2. The Pinocchio Theory
3. Bootzilla
4. F-encounter
5. Chug-A-Lug (The Bun Patrol)
6. Another Point of View
7. Bootsy (What's the Name of This Town?)
8. Fat Cat
9. Rubber Duckie
10. Psychoticbumpschool

Gordon Lightfoot: A Tenner From Gordo

1. Magnificent Outpouring (Did She Mention My Name, 1968)
2. Approaching Lavender (Sit Down Young Stranger, 1970)
3. Drink Yer Glasses Empty (Waiting For You, 1993)
4. On Susan's Floor (Don Quixote, 1972)
5. The List (Sundown, 1974)
6. Heaven Help The Devil (Shadows, 1982)
7. Too Many Clues In This Room (Summertime Dream, 1976)
8. Worth Believing (Old Dan's Records, 1972)
9. Talking In Your Sleep (Summer Side of Life, 1971)
10. A Tree Too Weak to Stand (Cold on the Shoulder, 1975)

J LOU MURPH: DINOSAUR JR, THE EARLY YEARS

01 The Lung
02 Repulsion
03 Tarpit
04 The Post
05 Keep the Glove
06 Quest
07 Pond Song
08 Raisans
09 Cats in a Bowl
10 Freak Scene

TEENAGE FANCLUB

Sparky's Dream - Grand Prix
Ain't That Enough - Songs From Northern Britain
I Need Direction - Howdy
Mellow Doubt - Grand Prix
I Don't Want Control Of You - Songs From Northern Britain
The Concept - Bandwagonesque
What You Do To Me - Bandwagonesque
Neil Jung - Grand Prix
Start Again - Songs From Northern Britain
It's All In My Mind - Man-Made

THE WAXWINGS

This now defunct Detroit quartet weren't exactly straight outta the garage. Imagine what sort of records Brian Wilson would have made if he had been chasing the Stones and Syd Barrett instead of McCartney and The Beatles.

Keeping The Sparks
While You Spiral
Fragile Girl
Firewood
Into The Scenery
Wired That Way
Look Down Darkly
Steady As Starlight
Fractured
It Comes In Waves

PETER BRUNTNELL

Normal For Bridgwater' was the record that really made people start taking notice of Peter Bruntnell. The album was produced by Slow River founder and Rykodisc President George Howard. It soon became something of a classic - from Lay Down This Curse and By The Time My Head Gets To Phoenix to the heart-breaking Handful Of Stars. With Normal For Bridgwater, Bruntnell's beautifully detailed songs of longing and lonesome regrets established him as one of Britain's premier songwriters. When asked the meaning of the title track Bruntnell offered "a couple who are friends of mine ran a particularly rough pub in Bridgwater (a small town in the UK West Country), and the landlady was telling me one day that the doctors in Bridgwater use the abbreviation NFB (= Normal For Bridgwater) when describing their test results for slightly disturbed local patients." His second record, 'Ends of the Earth' is a stunning album, and without a doubt the best thing Bruntnell has ever come up with in his relatively unprolific career to date. Didn’t imagine he could follow up “Normal for Bridgwater” without compromising? Think again. “Ends of the Earth” barely treads any new ground at all, but at the same time still manages to throw up some of the best tracks you’ll have heard in a long time. “Here Comes the Swells,” the album opener is a good introduction to what lies ahead - Bruntnell’s voice is his second finest asset, second only to his songwriting.


Handful Of Stars - NFB
N.F.B. - NFB
Tabloid Reporter - EOTE
Here Comes The Swells - EOTE
By The Time My Head Gets To Phoenix - NFB
Cosmea - NFB
Ends Of The Earth - EOTE
One Drink Away - EOTE
Lay Down This Curse - NFB
Played Out - NFB

Hefner

Louise (Catfight, 2006)
Christian Girls (Boxing Hefner, 2000)
Don't Go (We Love The City, 2000)
I Stole A Bride (The Fidelity Wars, 1999)
I Took Her Love For Granted (The Fidelity Wars, 1999)
May God Protect Your Home (The Fidelity Wars, 1999)
The Day That Thatcher Dies (We Love The City, 2000)
The Hymn For The Alcohol (The Fidelity Wars, 1999)
Trouble Kid (Dead Media, 2001)
When The Angels Play Their Drum Machines (Mothership Mix) (The Hefner Brain, 2002)