JAGUARDOG's A to Z Music W/O
Jul 06 '05
The Bottom Line I really need to clean out my CD case!
I can't remember a time that music wasn't important to me. It frames the soundtrack of my life and many of my favorite memories have an accompanying score. Along with great literature, music bears me up and carries me to lofty places.
Thank you, Ron, for letting me hitch a ride one more time.
Note: Numbers in parentheses serve as footnote indicators.
And so we begin! This is a rather comprehensive list of all those groups and singer/songwriters who matter to me on one level or another. However, I'm sure I'll be adding to this list for weeks!
A
AC/DC: Back in Black, Thunderstruck, TNT, Let There Be Rock, Hell's Bells
Aerosmith: Back in the Saddle, Kings and Queens, The Train Kept A-Rollin'
Alice in Chains: Would?, Man in the Box
Animals, The: House of the Rising Sun
Amos, Tori
Armstrong, Louis: Christmas in New Orleans, What a Wonderful World, When You're Smiling
Audioslave: I am the Highway
Autopilot Off: Nothing Frequency
B
Badfinger: Love Me Do
Beatles: Dear Prudence, In My Life, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Yesterday, Norwegian Wood, Helter Skelter
Bedard, Manon
Bice, Bo
Bjork
Black Crowes, The: Jealous Again, Remedy, Too Hard to Handle, Signs (Five Man Electrical Band cover)
Black Label Society: Stillborn, House of Doom
Black Sabbath: Heaven and Hell, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, Ironman, NIB, War Pigs, Faries Wear Boots
Blind Boys of Alabama: Give a Man a Home, Jesus Gonna Be Here (Tom Waits cover), Down in the Hole (Tom Waits cover), Amazing Grace (sung to the tune of House of the Rising Sun)
Blind Faith: Can't Find My Way Home
Blind Melon: Galaxie, Mother, Three Is a Magic Number
Blue Oyster Cult: Joan Crawford, Godzilla, Don't Fear the Reaper, Burning for You
Bocelli, Andreas
Bon Jovi: Ugly, Everyday, Misunderstood, Janie, Don't Take Your Love to Town, Bitter Wine, Queen of New Orleans
Bowie, David: China Doll, Major Tom, Ziggy Stardust
Boy Sets Fire: Rookie
Branch, Michelle: Everywhere
Breaking Benjamin: Polyamorous, Sooner or Later
Brickell, Edie: A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall (Dylan Cover), What I Am
Brightman, Sarah
Buffett, Jimmy: A Pirate Looks at Forty, Son of a Son of a Sailor, Why Don't We Get Drunk
Burdon, Eric: San Franciscan Nights, Spill the Wine
Bush, Kate: Wuthering Heights, et cetera, especially her duet "Don't Give Up," with Peter Gabriel
Byrds, The: Mr. Tambourine Man, Ballad of Easy Rider, Eve of Destruction (Barry Macguire cover), Turn, Turn, Turn, Wasn't Born to Follow
C
Case, Neko
Casinos, The: Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye
Cave, Nick and the Bad Seeds: Are You the One That I've Been Waiting For?, Into My Arms, Red Right Hand, Ship Song, Weeping Song, Where the Wild Roses Grow, et cetera, et cetera
Chapin, Harry: 30,000 Pounds of Bananas, A Better Place to Be, Cat's in the Cradle, Circle, Dreams Go By, I Wanna Learn a Love Song, Let Time Go Lightly, Mr. Tanner, Taxi, The Shorteset Story, W.O.L.D., et cetera, et cetera...
Chapman, Tracy: Fast Car
Cheap Trick: I Want You to Want Me, Surrender
CKY: One Last Time, Sweet Pandemonium
Cocker, Joe: She Came in Through the Bathroom Window, With a Little Help from My Friends
Coldplay: In My Place
Collins, Edwin: I Never Met a Girl Like You Before
Colvin, Shawn
Coors, The: Everybody Hurts (REM cover), Little Wing (Jimi Hendrix cover)
Cowboy Junkies: Sweet Jane (Lou Reed cover), et cetera
Crash Test Dummies: Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm, Superman Song
Cream: Badge, Crossroads, Strange Brew, Tales of Brave Ulysses, White Room
Creed: My Own Prison, My Sacrifice, One Last Breath, Weathered
Crow, Sheryl: If It Makes You Happy, Strong Enough, WIld Horses (Stones cover)
Crystal Method: Magic Carpet Ride (Remix)
D
Daltrey, Roger: Under a Raging Moon
Damageplan: Save Me
Damn Yankees: High Enough
Dashboard Confessionals: The Places That You Fear the Most
Dean, Jimmy: Big John
Def Leppard
Default: Deny, Wasting My Time
Denver, John
DeGraw, Gavin: I Don't Want to Be
Dickinson, Bruce: Any of his solo efforts
DiFranco, Ani: 32 Flavors, Most of the Time (Dylan Cover)
Dio, Ronnie James: Don't Talk to Strangers, Holy Diver, I Could've Been a Dreamer, Man on the Silver Mountain, Rainbow in the Dark, The Last in Line
Dirty Vegas: Days Go By
Disturbed: Down with the Sickness, Stupify
Donna the Buffalo
Doors, The
Dylan, Bob: Most of the Time, Positively 4th Street, Ring Them Bells, Girl of the North Country
E
Echo and the Bunnymen: People Are Strange
Electric Light Orchestra: Fire On High, Strange Magic, Telephone Line, Waterfall
Emerson, Lake, and Palmer: Lucky Man
Everything But The Girl: Downtown Train (Tom Waits cover)
F
Fates Warning: Fata Morgana, The Guardian
Firehouse: Love of a Lifetime
Five For Fighting: 100 Years, Easy Tonight, Ocean, Something About You, Superman
Five Man Electrical Band: Signs
Flaw: Recognize
Focus: Hocus Pocus
Foghat: Honey Hush(1), Slow Ride
Foo Fighters: Best of You, Everlong, Learning to Fly, Monkey Wrench, My Hero
Fountains of Wayne: Red Dragon Tattoo(2), Stacy's Mom
Frente!: Bizarre Love Triangle, Ruby's Arms (Tom Waits cover)
Fuel: Million Miles, Shimmer
G
Gabriel, Peter: And Through the Wire, Biko, Come Talk to Me, Digging in the Dirt, Down the Dolce Vita, Games Without Frontiers, Here Comes the Flood, I Grieve, I Don't Remember, In Your Eyes, Intruder, Mercy Street, Not One of Us, Red Rain, San Jacinto, Solisbury Hill, et cetera, et cetera
Geggy Tah: Whoever You Are
Godsmack: Keep Away, Moon Baby, Sweet Leaf (Black Sabbath cover), Whatever
Golden Earring: Radar Love
Gray, Dobie: Drift Away
Green Day: American Idiot, Boulevard of Broken Dreams
Guess Who, The: American Woman, Laughing, These Eyes
Guided By Voices: Back to the Lake, Everywhere with Helicopter, How's My Drinking, Terrible Two
Guthrie, Arlo: City of New Orleans, Coming Into Los Angeles, Alice's Restaurant
H
Havens, Richie: Follow, Freedom, Handsome Johnny, High Flying Bird, Just Like a Woman, Wear Your Love Like Heaven
Hawkins, Sophie B: Damn, I Wish I Was Your Lover
Hendrix, Jimi: Axis: Bold As Love, Hey Joe, Little Wing, Manic Depression, Spanish Castle Magic, The Wind Cries Mary, Voodoo Chile, et cetera, et cetera
Herman's Hermits: Can't You Hear My Heartbeat?, I'm Into Something Good, There's a Kind of Hush
Hives, The: Two-timing Touch and Broken Bones
Hoey, Gary: Beethoven's 5th, Linus and Lucy
Holiday, Billie: Don't Explain, Georgia on My Mind, The Way You Look Tonight, You Better Go Now
Hootie and the Blowfish: Hey Hey What Can I Do? (Led Zeppelin cover), I Hope That I Don't Fall in Love with You (Tom Waits cover), I Go Blind, Time
Howling Wolf: I Asked for Water, I Put a Spell on You
I
Ian, Janis: At Seventeen(3)
Incubus: Nice to Know You, Turning Japanese (Vapors cover), Wish You Were Here
Interpol: Obstacle 1, Say Hello to the Angels, Slow Hand
Iron Butterfly: Flowers and Beads, In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, Most Anything You Want
Iron Maiden: Can I Play With Madness, Killers, Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, Powerslave, Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Seventh Son of a Seventh Son, The Trooper, et cetera, et cetera
J
James Gang: A Life of Illusion, Funk #49, Walk Away
Jars of Clay: Flood
Jay and the Americans: Come a Little Bit Closer
Jefferson Airplane
Jet: Are You Gonna Be My Girl?, Cold Hard Bitch
Jethro Tull: Aqualung, Bungle in the Jungle, Living in the Past, Locomotive Breath, Minstrel in the Gallery, Skating Away on the Thin Ice of a New Day, Songs from the Wood, Thick as a Brick, Too Old to Rock N Roll, Too Young To Die, Witch's Promise, et cetera, et cetera
Joel, Billy
John, Sir Elton
Johnson, Robert (The delta blues phenom from whom Led Zeppelin pilfered a great many of their hits)
Jones, Norah
Journey: Don't Stop Believin', Only the Young, Open Arms, Separate Ways, Wheel in the Sky
K
Kingdom Come: Stargazer
Kinks, The: Destroyer, Lola, et cetera
KISS
L
Led Zeppelin
Live: The Dolphin's Cry
Loeb, Lisa: Stay, You Say
Loggins, Dave: Please Come to Boston
Lostprophets: Last Train Home
Lynyrd Skynyrd: Call Me the Breeze, Freebird, Gimme Three Steps, I Ain't the One, I Know a Little, Junkie, Mississippi Kid, Mr. Banker, Simple Man, Sweet Home Alabama, That Smell, What's Your Name?
M
Mach22(4)
Malmsteen, Yngwie: Beethoven's 5th, Rising Force, Spanish Castle Magic (Jimi Hendrix cover)
Marah: Float Away
Marcy's Playground: Sex and Candy
Mason, Dave: We Just Disagree
Megadeth
Metallica
Miller, Glen: Moonlight Serenade
Moody Blues, The: Nights in White Satin, Question
Money, Eddie: I Think I'm in Love
N
Night Ranger: Sister Christian
Nine Inch Nails: Hurt
Nova, Heather
O
Oasis: Cast No Shadow, Champagne Supernova, D'You Know What I Mean?, Don't Look Back In Anger, Hello, Live Forever, Morning Glory, Round Our Way, Some Might Say, Supersonic, Talk Tonight, The Masterplan, Wonderwall
Oingo Boingo: Dead Man's Party(5)
Operation Ivy: Knowledge, The Crowd
Osbourne, Ozzy
P
Papa Roach: Getting Away with Murder, Scars
Paper Lace: The Night Chicago Died
Partridge Family, The: I Think I Love You
Pearl Jam: Black, Daughter, I Am Mine, Jeremy, Last Kiss, Rearview Mirror, State of Love and Trust, Wishlist
Pesch, Doro
Pilot: Magic
Pink Floyd: Comfortably Numb, Goodbye Blue Sky, Learning to Fly, On the Turning Away, San Tropez, The Thin Ice, The Wall, Wish Your Were Here, Young Lust, et cetera, et cetera,
Platters, The: The Great Pretender, This Magic Moment
Pogues, The: Beer, Beer, Beer, Drink and Fight, Fairytale of New York, The Irish Rover, Whiskey in the Jar
Prima, Louie: Angelina Zooma Zooma, Hey Marie
Procol Harum: Conquistador, White Shade of Pale
Q
Q Lazzarus: Goodbye Horses(6)
Queens of the Stone Age: Little Sister
Queensryche: Another Rainy Night, Empire, I Only Dream in Infrared, I Will Remember, Jet City Woman, No Sanctuary, Operation Mindcrime, Roads to Madness, Silent Lucidity, Spreading the Disease, Take Hold of the Flame, The Lady Wore Black, The Needle Lies, Warnings, et cetera, et cetera
R
Ramones, The
Red Hot Chili Peppers, The: BloodSugarSexMagic, Californication, Sir Psycho Sexy, Under the Bridge, et cetera, et cetera
Reed, Lou: Dirty Boulevard, Sweet Jane, Walk on the Wild Side
S
Saga: On the Loose, Wind Him Up
Satriani, Joe
Savatage: Hall of the Mountain King, White Witch
Saxon: Denim and Leather, Jericho Siren, Princess of the Night, Red Alert, Ride Like the Wind (Christopher Cross cover)
Scorpions: Holiday, Still Loving You, Winds of Change
Seether: Broken (featuring Amy Lee)
Semisonic: Closing Time
Simon and Garfunkel: America, Bridge Over Troubled Waters, Cecelia, Feelin' Groovy, Sound of Silence, The Boxer, et cetera
Sinatra, Frank: Summer Wind, et cetera
Smile Empty Soul: Bottom of a Bottle
Smith, Hurricane: Babe, What Would You Say?
Smokey Robinson and the Miracles: Tracks of My Tears, et cetera
Soraia(7)
Soundgarden: Birth Ritual, Jesus Christ Pose, Outshined, Rusty Cage, Spoonman, The Day I Tried to Live
Spin Doctors: How Do You Talk to an Angel, Two Princes, Spanish Castle Magic (Jimi Hendrix cover)
Steelheart: I'll Never Let You Go
Steppenwolf: Born to Be Wild, Magic Carpet Ride, The Pusher
Stone Sour: Bother
Stone Temple Pilots: Dead and Bloated, Plush, Pour Some Sugar On Me (Def Leppard cover), Sex Type Thing
T
T-Bone Walker
Taj Mahal
Temptations, The: Baby, I Need Your Loving, Just My Imagination
Tesla: Caught in a Dream, Signs (Five Man Electrical Band cover), Wild World (Cat Stevens cover)
Thornley: So Far, So Good
Three Days Grace: I Hate Everything About You
Thursday: This Side of Brightness, Understanding in a Car Crash
Train: Drops of Jupiter
U
U2: Beautiful Day, Electrical Storm, Helter Skelter (Beatles cover), Sunday Bloody Sunday, et cetera
V
Vallie, Frankie and the Four Seasons: Oh What a Night
Van Morrison: And it Stoned Me, Brown Eyed Girl, Crazy Love, If You Love Me, Into the Mystic, Tupelo Honey, et cetera
Vapors, The: Turning Japanese
Vista(8)
W
Waits, Tom: Alice, Bad Liver and a Broken Heart, Better Off Without a Wife, Big in Japan, Black Rider, Blue Skies, Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis, Circus, Closing Time, Cold Cold Ground, Cold Water, Come on Up to the House, Diamonds on my Windshield, Don't Go into that Barn, Downtown Train, Drunk on the Moon, Earth Died Screaming, Filipino Box Spring Hog, Fish and Bird, Frank's Wild Years, Grapefruit Moon, Hang on St. Christopher, Hoist that Rag, Hold On, I Don't Want to Grow Up, I Hope I Don't Fall in Love with You, I Want You, In Between Love, Innocent When You Dream, Jersey Girl, Jesus Gonna Be Here, Martha, Misery is the River of the World, Mocking Bird, Mr. Seigal, Ol' 55, On a Foggy Night, Please Call Me Baby, Putnam County, Rosie, Shiver Me Timbers, Step Right Up, Straight to the Top, Strange Weather, Temptation, The Ghosts of Saturday Night, The Heart of Saturday Night, The Piano Has Been Drinking, Top of the Hill, Warm Beer and Cold Women, What's He Building in There?, et cetera, et cetera
Walsh, Joe: At the Station, Indian Summer, Inner Tube, Life's Been Good, Meadows, Over and Over, Second Hand Store, Theme from Boat Weirdos, Tomorrow
Waters, Muddy: Baby, Please Don't Go, You Shook Me
White Stripes, The: Fell In Love with a Girl, Hardest Button to Button, Seven Nation Army
Who, The: Happy Jack, I Can See for Miles, I Can't Explain, et cetera, et cetera
Wright, Gary: Dream Weaver
X
Y
Young Rascals, The: Groovin'
Youngbloods, The: Get Together
Z
Zappa, Frank; Dead Girls of London, et cetera
Zebra: Tell Me What You Want
I am also a huge zydeco fan, as well as a delta blues fan, and, while many of the tunes on my hard drive are anonymous, I didn't want to neglect these two personally-important genres of music!
Thanks for spending some time with your Mother!
~ Mothermeatloaf
See where it all began by reading JAGUARDOG's original post here!
NOTES:
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(1) This song seems to be insanely similar to Aerosmith's "Train Kept A-Rollin'". Take a listen and you be the judge.
(2) Made famous as the theme song in Stephen King's television miniseries "Kingdom Hospital."
(3) Featured in The Simpson's "Chili Cook Off" episode
(4) Local band! Go to this site: http://www.mach22music.com/ to learn more. Hey! Who wrote the outstanding bio for that band?! ;)
(5) Most notably featured in Rodney Dangerfield's classic, "Back to School."
(6) Most widely known for its play in the movie "Silence of the Lambs."
(7) Local band! Go to this site: http://www.soraia.com/ to learn more!
(8) Local band! Go to this site: http://www.vistaband.com/ to learn more!
Support your local music scene!
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