Help me make the ultimate iPod playlist!

[TwilightOdyssey]

Just what the title says -- help me list the ultimate iPod playlist!

Tell me your essential songs that no iPod will be complete without!
I will need artist and song title. Album title would help, too.

Thanx!

[horsehead]

The Black Crowes - Descending - Amorica
The Beatles - Something - the white album
Bon Jovi - Living on a prayer - Slippery when wet
AC/DC - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
Medusa Stone - Medusa's Ballad - Medusa Stone
Muse - New Born - (can't remember the album)
Pink Floyd - Dogs - animals
Quireboys - Sweet Mary Ann - A bit of what you fancy
Faces - Stay with me - (again no memory of the album)
Rolling Stones - Can't you hear me knocking - Sticky fingers
Rory Gallagher - All of the irish tour album
Roxette - It must have been love - Tourism (a country version of the song that's just the best)
Ryan Adams - Rescue blues - Gold
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Lenny - Texas Flood


loads more, but some there to start off with

[dave_mc]

i'd say srv- texas flood, pride and joy (not too sure about the album, I have the best of  :oops:  )

eric johnson- cliffs of dover, trademark, manhattan

gary moore- parisienne walkways, still got the blues.

and then with the tasteful choices out of the way, I'd go straight into 80's metal- which you know a lot better than me, ben!

:lol:

I'd probably throw some classic rock in there too, again you probably know that better than me.

EDIT: I don't actually have an ipod. :lol:

[TwilightOdyssey]

I run my iPod with a single playlist, and totally random.

This is the soundtrack for my hellish NYC commute, so I want whatever oddball stuff you can think of: Celtic, English folk, melodic death, whatever.

I didn't think of SRV; good call!

[noodleplugerine]

Flogging Molly - Seven Deadly Sins
Sikth - When will the Forest Speak
The Dresden Dolls - Half Jack
In Flames - Cloud Connected
Iron Maiden - The Wicker Man

[dave_mc]

^ hellish commute... grrr. Something like living after midnight by priest would be good for that. heavy, but kinda happy too. stuff along those lines...

I guess it depends what you're like... sadder or heavier stuff when you're annoyed can help you get it out too, I guess.

[maverickf1jockey]

Dream theater Metropolis 1 AND 2
Dream theater 6DOIT - 6DOIT
Dream theater Erotomania - Awake
Dream theater Hell's kitchen - FII
Dream theater Puppies on Acid (The Mirror) - Live in Tokyo (Awake)
A few more DT tracks
LTE 1+2
A bit of Opeth
Some Yes
Black Sabbath (Possibly SBS)
Strawbs - Witchwood
Bowie - Hunky Dory
G'n'R - AFD
Bumblefoot - Normal
Mattias IA Eklundh - Freak guitar 1+2
Freak Kitchen
Steve Vai
Joe Satriani
Paul Gilbert
Buckethead (in moderation)
Frank Zappa (if you are not familiar with his work start with Hot Rats)

And ABBA :lol:

[TwilightOdyssey]

All great suggestions so far.

dave_mc: Doesn't matter. I hit shuffle, so if I don't feel like I'm in the mood I'll skip a track. I'm all for totally random as I know my albums much too well. (I listen to music 8hrs/day minimum) And I have an INSANE amount of CDs. Like 3,000 last time I counted.

[TwilightOdyssey]

This is my current at-work playlist:

[38thBeatle]

Little Feat-album: Waiting For Columbus-tracks: All
B B King -album :Live At The Regal -track: -Every Day I Have The Blues
The Beatles-Album Revolver -track; And Your Bird Can Sing
ditto -album The Beatles(White Album) track While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Steely Dan -album Countdown To Ecstasy-track:Bodhisattva
ditto album Royal Scam-track; Don't Take Me Alive
SRV-album In Step-track: Riviera Paradise
Sting-album Mercury Falling-track :I Hung My Head
Tears For Fears-album Everybody Loves a Happy Ending track: Ladybird
Roy Buchanan - album-any of them but certainly Sweet Dreams
Robben Ford-album Handful of Blues-track Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood

I could go on and on
btw , regarding Horsehead's great ideas, The Beatles "Something" is actually on Abbey Road and "Stay With Me" was on The Faces "A Nods as Good as A Wink ..to a blind Horse"-get Ronnie Lane's "Debris" from the same album.

[dave_mc]

All great suggestions so far.

dave_mc: Doesn't matter. I hit shuffle, so if I don't feel like I'm in the mood I'll skip a track. I'm all for totally random as I know my albums much too well. (I listen to music 8hrs/day minimum) And I have an INSANE amount of CDs. Like 3,000 last time I counted.

heh, you know a lot more albums than I do, lol (as I pretty much already figured). How long will it take you to ipod-ise all those? :o

Cool pirates background on your pc, by the way.  :lol:

[shaman]

ok gonna try to hit you with some new stuff..MAYBE you havent heard...
Alabama Thunderpussy(sounds like the title..sort of stoner stuff..)
Sass Jordan-cool chick...big 80's geetar
North Mississippi All Stars  jammy blues/killa slide..Luther D. has coool hair and plexi's
Drive By Truckers-my homeboys..
Coney Hatch...FAstway-betcha remember these...
Black Keys-unique band...big reverb...big drums..no bass
...I was digging some Badlands myself today, so here's to some Jake E Lee
cheers!

[_tom_]

UFO - Strangers in the Night! I have this in my car all the time, I never get bored of it. Most other cd's I get bored of after a few drives, but SITN is a keeper for the car.

I dont have much of it, but Marty Friedmans solo albums seem pretty good, I've only heard the 2 songs 'Fuel Injection Stingray' and 'Gimme a Dose' though.

Also, some Thin Lizzy is required, though I dont know which albums to suggest.

[99_not_out]

I used to listen to punk on my commute, but it made me want to punch everyone.
So I tried Sisters of mercy and Fields of the Nephilim, which made was nice but ultimately made me depressed in the morning.

What I have discovered recently - and is certainly different - is that listening to Mozart turns a crowded commuter train into the beautiful world that advertising would have us believe it is. Plus he was a musical genius, so you get all sorts of ideas for tunes whilst listening :)

So for starters I'd add:

Mozart - Piano concerto no9 in E flat major.

But every so often, its back to the punching:

I Am a Revanant - Distillers - Sing Sing Death House
Anything from ... And out come the Wolves - Rancid
Sound System - Operation Ivy
Kained but Able - Civil Disobediants - Capdown

And the depression:

Lucretia - Floodland -  Sisters of Mercy
Dr Jeep / Vision Thing - Vision Thing - Sisters of Mercy

and on a kind of English Folk theme:

Liberty Song - Levelling the Land - The Levellers.

[DeanS]

Apart from the more obvious I'd have to have some ;

King Crimson, something from the Bruford era like Discipline, Beat or Three of a perfect pair

Steve Hillage, oh yes ready for some glisssando guitar listen to Green or Motivation radio for some of the best fuzz tones ever