King Hoarse's current Top 50

[King Hoarse]

50 records I like in no particular order with favourite tracks & a comment here and there:



Fish, Forever Your Love



Manitoba, Horrible Day



God Created Woman, Worried Mind



Uncle Morris, I'm Gonna Watch You Sleep



Get Away, What Am I Spose To Do?



Lonely Woman, Focus On Sanity



The Martin Luther King Suite, 22nd Century (for an original album go for Nina Simone & Piano!)



Madame George, Cyprus Avenue



This Is What She's Like, The Waltz (get the version with this cover: excellent bonus tracks!)



Indian Queens, Has She Got A Friend?



The Picture, Hitting You, Sometimes I Forget (the live Career Moves is a better place to start though)



When The Day Is Short, TV Show



Go Or Go Ahead, Dinner At Eight



What'll I Do, Dig My Grave



There Ain't No Sweet Man That's Worth The Salt Of My Tears, The Birds Will Still Be Singing (her other Richrd Thompson produced CD The Very Thought Of You is a must too)



Time And Again, Northwinds



Just A Little Lovin', I Don't Want To Hear It Anymore



Rednecks, Marie, A Wedding In Cherokee County



Look Here, You Can Count On Me To Do My Part



Visa från Utanmyra, Visa från Rättvik (jazz pianist Jan Johansson and bassist Georg Riedel play old Swedish folk tunes. I'm not including anything with Swedish vocals on this list, but this is essential.)



I Wish I Was A Mole In The Ground, The Butcher's Boy, Sugar Baby, Indian War Whoop, John The Revelator...(I can't imagine life without this, really)



A Public Execution, Psychotic Reaction, Talk Talk, Spazz, Journey To The Center Of The Mind, The Witch...(that other essential box set)



The Luckiest Guy On The Lower East Side, Papa Was A Rodeo (so what if half the songs aren't great; that's still more gems than on Exile On Main Street)



Ice Cream Man, I'm A Little Dinosaur



Rockaway Beach, Glad To See You Go



Whiskey River, Red Headed Stranger Medley (more furious tempo than the above-mentioned Ramones express train)

...and that's only half time.

[El Vez]

Dang, KH.

[King Hoarse]

so here we go again:



Shelter From The Storm, Idiot Wind (the b side is the best LP side ever, only threatened by:)



Caroline Says II, Men Of Good Fortune, The Bed (this does depress me though...I recommend Coney Island Baby for lovers, preferably transgendered. Cope?)



On The Beach, Motion Pictures (please Willie, cover this!)



You Can't Put Your Arms Around A Memory, I Can't Stand The Rain



Goodbye, Watertown (Man, this list is starting to look gloomy! Time to...)



Riot Act, King Horse



Don't Do It, The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down



Revelator, Dear Someone



Storm Windows, Unwed Fathers



Clown In Broad Daylight, So Young (Retriever may be a better album, but this is closest to my heart. Now, more brilliant Canadians:)



A New Name For Everything, Our Retired Explorer



Cuckatoo Quill, Head Smashed In Buffalo Jump



Cut Into The Earth, Die Jugend Marschiert



More Than A Joke, God. Family. Country.



Avalanche, Famous Blue Raincoat



The Ship Song, The Weeping Song



Turkish Song Of The Damned, Thousands Are Sailing



A Bone Through Her Nose, Jennie, Al Bowlly's In Heaven (Not his best, but way too overlooked. The one I listen to the most is the sadly deleted Two Letter Words double live CD)



Forest, Old Europe



Better Git It In Your Soul, Goodbye Porkpie Hat, Fables Of Faubus



Railroad Man, Hey Man (Now You're Really Living), I'm Going To Stop Pretending That I Didn't Break Your Heart



I Don't Want To Grow Up, Who Are You?



I See A Darkness, I'm Leavin' Now



Halo Of Flies, Dead Babies (Johnny Rotten's favourite album apparently)



Alternative Ulster, Johnny Was



The Decline, Clams Have Feelings Too (Actually They Don't)





phew

[BlueChair]

Wow.. that must have taken you a long time. Great list... glad to see someone else has some love for Rock Of Ages

[wardo68]

I'd read up enough on Berlin to be ready for it, but the day I played Watertown at the CD store I used to manage, I found myself more irritable than usual. A powerful, fascinating piece of work, but I don't know if I'll be able to ever hear it again.

Back to Berlin -- that version of "Sad Song" is probably one of my favorites songs by anybody. ("I'm gonna stop wasting my time/Somebody else would have broken both of her arms")

[Jackson Monk]

My kids love Basher's 'Indian Queens'. We're going to Cornwall in August and I intend to play the song as we drive through the Cornish village of Indian Queens .

[bambooneedle]

Saw The Hard-Ons once at a local pub, didn't know their songs but they were great.

[Mike Boom]

Saw The Hard-Ons once at a local pub, didn't know their songs but they were great

This sentence makes me giggle.

Is there a band called the Wet Pussies? If there isnt there should be,
they could play a double bill with the Hard Ons.

[King Hoarse]

Saw The Hard-Ons once at a local pub, didn't know their songs but they were great

This sentence makes me giggle.

Is there a band called the Wet Pussies? If there isnt there should be,
they could play a double bill with the Hard Ons.

I do believe the Hard-Ons have played with the Muffs.

(And of course, Hard-Ons with Venerea.)

[Chrille]

Killer is a great album. My favourite A.C song, Halo Of Flies is on that one.

[bambooneedle]

I picked up Watertown today, a bargain. I'd thought it looked familiar...

I like that his voice doesn't sound very full or very much like what I'm used to from Frank, it suits the songs. I like The Train right away.