Life's Rich Pageant

[Duane]

I love Elvis Costello!

Top Elvis songs to download (even better go out and buy, but for anyone looking to get started):

- New Amsterdam
- I Don't Want To Go To Chelsea
- Green Shirt
- Boy With A Problem
- Alison
- High Fidelity
- Night Rally
- Oliver's Army
- Accidents Will Happen
- Clubland

I'll add:

Brilliant Mistake
Sulky Girl
Almost Blue - like the Chet Baker version better though
Indoor Fireworks - has one of the best lines ever:

"And don’t think for a moment, dear
That we’ll ever be through
I’ll build a bonfire of my dreams
And burn a broken effigy of me and you"

 

[SuspectCorner]

Husker Du, The Replacements and The Pixies are three of my favorite 80s alt rock bands. It's also hard to beat The Smiths/Morrissey, Elvis Costello and X.

Awesome stuff. Love Bob Mould, 'Mats before they got sober, and "Surfer Rosa" kills.

 

[Duane]

I'm about half way through "It Crawled from the South: An R.E.M. Companion" by Marcus Gray and highly reccomend it for any fan of R.E.M.'s early work.

 

[Sasquatch]

I didn't see anyone mention Echo and the Bunnymen and the House of Love whose self-titled debut was quite good although difficult to come by these days.

 

[AbeBeta]

I didn't see anyone mention Echo and the Bunnymen and the House of Love whose self-titled debut was quite good although difficult to come by these days.

I like Echo a bunch - saw them play several times.

However, once I heard Jesus and Mary Chain, much of what Echo was doing seemed obsolete -- like someone else was doing is better and stronger.

 

[Sasquatch]

I like Echo a bunch - saw them play several times.

However, once I heard Jesus and Mary Chain, much of what Echo was doing seemed obsolete -- like someone else was doing is better and stronger.

JMC was one of my favorite bands. Psychocandy and Darklands got lots of playtime in my Sony walkman.