Name a band, then list 3 songs you think are essential to their catalog of music

[dank69]

Primus - Jerry was a Race Car Driver, My Name is Mud, Wynona's Big Brown Beaver (Tommy the Cat close 4th)
Speaking of Jane's Addiction - Three Days, Summertime Rolls, Ted, Just Admit It (Though Been Caught Stealing and Jane Says are far more popular)

 

[ElFenix]

pantera: good friends and a bottle of pills, cemetary gates, cowboys from hell
guns n' fuckin' roses: appetite for destruction, sweet child o' mine, use your illusion ()
metallica - master of puppets, welcome home (sanitarium), one
zep - stairway to heaven, kashmir, rock and roll
floyd :hmm:

 

[ProfJohn]

Valid opinion, at the very least I would argue that almost all of my picks did help make the bands I picked popular though, I tend to be mainstream and can admit to that.

I agree U2 is pretty great and is hard to pick just 3, though I would make room for Mysterious Ways. I also love Bad Love from Clapton and would put Layla (not unplugged) in there as well. I'd run out of room naming all the Van Halen songs I consider essential, so for the most part the 6 I picked were just off the top of my head based on lead singer. And for Seal, no Kiss From a Rose?

Seal, I am not a big Kiss from a Rose fan, but it could replace anything but Crazy which is his essential song.

Clapton, Layla wasn't solo. You would have to do another list of all his group songs.

Popular v essential is tough. i.e. The Cars: You Might Think, Drive and Tonight She Comes are their biggest hits, but you don't get there without Just What I Needed, My Best Friends Girl, Shake It Up etc.

So if I want to introduce my 19 year old nephew who has never heard them do I play the popular songs or the early stuff?

 

[Krynj]

I don't understand why some people are so enamored by groups most people have never heard of. I am sure they are good and they have their fans. But how do you compare one of the biggest selling groups of all time with Tool or Janes Addiction?

Sure popularity doesn't always equate to good (see any Michael Bay movie) But when you have sold 150 million albums, have 22 Grammys (more than any other band) and have three of the greatest albums of all times you must be doing something right.

Is a difference in taste really that hard to comprehend? As much as you love U2, many people dislike them. You can argue album sales and achievements all you want. U2 is for people that don't have any taste in music beyond radio bands/hits. Some people like a little more than generic top 100 radio rock.

 

[Drako]

Steely Dan - "Reeling in the Years", "Rikki Don't Lose That Number", "Aja"

 

[Juddog]

I don't understand why some people are so enamored by groups most people have never heard of. I am sure they are good and they have their fans. But how do you compare one of the biggest selling groups of all time with Tool or Janes Addiction?

Sure popularity doesn't always equate to good (see any Michael Bay movie) But when you have sold 150 million albums, have 22 Grammys (more than any other band) and have three of the greatest albums of all times you must be doing something right.

So to you the only thing that determines if a band is good or not is how many albums it sells? That's basically saying that Nsync's album *Nsync, since it went 10x platinum, is better than the Joshua Tree U2 album, since it sold more records.

Not everybody likes the force-fed commercial top 40 crap that's on the airwaves constantly. Plenty of crap artists sell lots of records just because they are well produced and know the right people.

 

[ProfJohn]

Well when you look at the financial results of most Michael Bay movies...

His movies make a TON of money. $1.5 billion for 8 films, pretty good.

But are they good in the critical sense? Would anyone compare him to Speilberg?

 

[Ns1]

His movies make a TON of money. $1.5 billion for 8 films, pretty good.

But are they good in the critical sense? Would anyone compare him to Speilberg?

Aren't you doing the same thing with U2?

 

[Away]

Lynyrd Skynyrd:
Free Bird
Simple Man
Tuesday's Gone

 

[Juddog]

Aren't you doing the same thing with U2?

Exactly - it's good to see that someone gets it.

 

[Linflas]

Lynyrd Skynyrd:
Free Bird
Simple Man
Tuesday's Gone

I was having a tough time with them, way too many songs I love but 2 of your 3 were on the list in my head.

 

[Ns1]

Exactly - it's good to see that someone gets it.

case in point: Tree of Life, winner of Cannes Film Festival

Per Rotten Tomatoes:

Critics:
tomatometer: 85%
Audience: 66%

and LOL

 

[Anubis]

im missing something about that Tree of Life thing NS1

 

[Linflas]

Steely Dan - "Reeling in the Years", "Rikki Don't Lose That Number", "Aja"

WTF Steely Dan and no "My Old School"?

 

[Drako]

WTF Steely Dan and no "My Old School"?

LOL, at least none of my songs were cover songs

 

[Anubis]

In Flames: Pick 3 songs from Clayman or earlier, any of them

Gyroscope, Embody the Invisible, Lord Hypnos

 

[Joseph F]

floyd :hmm:

You can't condense the awesomeness of Pink Floyd down to three songs. 'tis physically impossible.

 

[ProfJohn]

So to you the only thing that determines if a band is good or not is how many albums it sells? That's basically saying that Nsync's album *Nsync, since it went 10x platinum, is better than the Joshua Tree U2 album, since it sold more records.

Not everybody likes the force-fed commercial top 40 crap that's on the airwaves constantly. Plenty of crap artists sell lots of records just because they are well produced and know the right people.

Talk about reading fail... You skipped over everything I said after sales...

NSYNC = 10 million sold

Joshua Tree = 25 million (which is more than NSYNC)
Album of the year
Universally acclaimed as one of the greatest albums in history
I could go on for quite while with all the awards and lists the album or its songs appear on.

Seriously, the comparison is a joke.

BTW why do you feel the need to insult my taste? Did I insult yours?

 

[Ns1]

im missing something about that Tree of Life thing NS1

???

Cliffs:

- Movie is critically acclaimed by critics
- Audiences claim movie is polarizing
- LOL moment when audience members ask for refund when they don't understand art-house movie

 

[Juddog]

im missing something about that Tree of Life thing NS1

Example IMDB quote:

*** This review may contain spoilers ***

One of the most pretentious pieces of pseudo-intellectual garbage I have ever seen. The photography is great, however that is not what a film is about. The whole film turns around a guy and his relation with is father and the burden of his brother's death. really simple story, with no need for mental masturbation over two and one half hours. I'm willing to bet that in the near future no one will ever remember this film. This film gathered another award: my life's greatest cinematic disappointment. Cannes' boys are lowering their standards, I think. Instead of this i suggest you guys rent "the fountain" because it has far better photography and a much, much nicer story.

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

Tom Waits: Step Right Up, Just the Right Bullets, Misery is the River of the World
Bôa: Deeply, Fool, Little Miss

 

[Ns1]

Example IMDB quote:

exactly, compared to a critic's review:

"Cannes 2011 review: The Tree of Life

Prehistoric and cosmic visions aside, Terrence Malick's film is an unashamedly epic reflection on love and loss
5 out of 5"

 

[Anubis]

if i would have read that first it would have gotten it. thanks Juddog

 

[BrokenVisage]

Exactly - it's good to see that someone gets it.

Yeah, but..

Five of the group's twelve studio albums were ranked on Rolling Stone's 2003 list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time"—The Joshua Tree placed the highest at number 26

But besides that, how many concerts do they sell out? How many people follow them from city to city when they tour? They aren't exactly without critical acclaim, their songs get played on radio stations almost ad nauseam, you can't tell me their popularity and the money they make are mutually exclusive.

 

[Krynj]

In Flames: Pick 3 songs from Clayman or earlier, any of them

Gyroscope, Embody the Invisible, Lord Hypnos

When a buddy of mine saw them a few years back, he got to go up on stage and sing Bullet Ride.