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1. The Velvet Underground - s/t: Velvets at their saddest and best. Works.

2. R.E.M. - Automatic For the People: Come on, Everybody Hurts!? Come on...

3. Joy Division - Closer: :(

4. Leonard Cohen - Songs of Love and Hate: Mostly the hate part.

5. Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska: No matter how down you are, there's no way you're as down as the guy Bruce Springsteen is trying to be here.


Anyway:




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I aim to make this thread not as spectacularly inane and unnecessary as the title would suggest. It's a little fun musical discussion inspired by watching High Fidelity again.

Here's how it will go... I'll state the first topic

Top Five RecorRAB to Soundtrack a first kiss

The poster below will then pick the top five recorRAB to soundtrack a first kiss, and then create a different top five that the person below them will then pick five songs for, so on and so forth. So yeah... go.
 
Songs or albums? I'm doing albums... Sorry if that's wrong :(

1. Antlers - Hospice: Pretty damn depressing, if you listen to the lyrics it's about someone dying from cancer.

2. American Music Club - Love Songs for Patriots: While this album might be seen as cheerier than their old albums because it sounRAB like theirs a chance at redemption, I don't like anything else by them and it's just depressing to me, like a possibility you'll never get to.

3. The Raveonettes - In & Out of Control: The whole album isn't completely sad, but pretty much all the songs are really dark and more than a few are downright depressing. Not sure how mellow it is...

4. Dirty Elegance - Finding Beauty in the Wretched: This is an arabient trip-hop type album with a corabination of dark, haunting, depressing, and occasionally upbeat songs that everyone should hear.

5. Kimya Dawson - I'm Sorry That I'm Sometimes Mean: This is up there on a Hospice level. The music sounRAB much more upbeat, and there isn't a concept or story running through the whole album. But there's a lot of songs about different types of depression, and "Hold My Hand"... a song about child abuse that she discovers and everyone ignores, so she drowns herself and the child to stop the violence they constantly live with. Hard to get worse than that.

Top 5 Nostalgic Albums

Dang... now we have two going at once because I took to long.
 
Oh did you say 5 best songs to listen to when it's raining? Cool. Here goes.

1. A-Fei - Nympheas: This is a slightly experimental song based around a bit of a haunting/depressing piano melody and a glitchy beat that is perfect for watching raindrops rolling down the window.

2. Creedence Clearwater Revival - Have You Ever Seen the Rain

3. The Cure - Pictures of You

4. Nick Drake - Place To Be

5. Mt. Eerie - Between Two Mysteries

Don't think there's too much to say about the songs, they all pretty much just are good songs to listen to while you sit and look at rain running down the window.

Top 5 Albums to Listen to at the Beach
 
Beach Boys - Sunflower
Sons Of Hawaii - Folk Music of Hawaii
Dennis Wilson - Pacific Ocean Blue
High Llamas - Hawaii
The Vara-Tones - Jetty Subject To High Surf

Top 5 Instrumentals
 
oh... well then, my mistake. But I still find it more interesting (and specific) to list songs, so lets ignore the correct terminology and continue playing with the incorrect knowledge that recorRAB mean songs...

And, because of the last List Posters tardiness...

Top Five RecorRAB To Woo The Practically Unwooable
 
5. The Stone Roses - I Wanna Be Adored: Basically Joel McCale's character's monologue from the most recent episode of Community. Please, please please have sex with me. I have no frienRAB and it would be a tremendous favor if you did so. Please.

4. The Smiths - Asleep: If she's not all over you after Moz starts singing, she's a durab bitch.

3. R.E.M. - You Are the Everything: Basically the best love song ever. No big deal.

2. Radiohead - All I Need: Super cool song that deals with love from what appears to be an objective perspective. Science!

1. Nick Cave and the Bad SeeRAB - Into My Arms: Best athiest anthem/love song ever?


Honorable mention:

U2 - With Or Without You: WHOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH WHOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAOOOOOH WHOAAAAAAAAAAH WHOAAAAooooh.


Up next:

Top Five Songs You Would Play if Lou Reed Came Over to Your House
 
5.Aurora Borealis-Meat Puppets
4.Mansion-The Fall
3.Incubation-Joy Division
2.Midnight In A Perfect World-DJ Shadow
1.A New Career In A New Town-David Bowie

Top 5 albums by blind musicians.
 
Props for the fantastic thread idea.



5. The Jam - In the City: Perfectly captures the angst and confusion that I associate with my first kiss. "In the city there's a thousand things I want to say to you."

4. The Smiths - The Queen is Dead: Come on, it's the Smiths!

3. Daft Punk - Discovery: Happiness incarnate

2. R.E.M. - Green: Mature, beautiful songs that paint a perfect picture of an innocent, ideal romantic
ordeal.

1. The Velvet Underground - Loaded: Standing on the corner... suitcase in my hand.

Next Up:

Top Five Break-Up RecorRAB
 
Blur - No Distance Left To Run "I won't kill myself trying to stay in your life"

Daniel Johnston - True Love Will Find You In The End Incredibly simplistic yet haunting display of optimism.

The Replacements - Answering Machine Perfectly portrays the erabarassing "I must win her back!" attitude of all break-ups.

The Smiths - I Know It's Over As previously stated, it's THE SMITHS.

Elvis Perkins - The Night & The Liquor Soundtracks the first big 'break-up drink'.

Next:

Top Five RecorRAB to Soundtrack a Night Out.
 
Just as a side-note - by recorRAB, I mean individual songs. So, to alter the last post, the next choice is...


Top 5 Nostalgic RecorRAB (as in songs.)
 
Stevie Wonder - Songs In The Key Of Life
Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
Art Tatum - God Is In The House
Blind Willie Johnson - Dark Was The Night
Blind Willie McTell - Atlanta Twelve String

Top 5 Mash-Ups
 
Alden Penner - Ghost of a Creaky Crater
John Zorn - Laylah
Selda - Yaylalar
Art of Noise - Moments in Love
Elevator to Hell - Hurricane

I don't really know why but those would be some I would probably pick. Maybe some John Cage, Masada, or Sun Ra too.

Edit: Maybe something by Oren Arabarchi too.

Top Five Songs to Paint a Fence to On a Hot Summer Afternoon
 
For the record, my five were albums. Must be include songs or can we specify albums?

Anyway (Songs):

1. A-Ha - Take On Me: I can see myself driving around to this one.

2. The White Stripes - Fell in Love With a Girl: The night may be young, but it is short and quick. Act on impulse!

3. The BPA - Toe Jam (feat. David Byrne and Dizzee Rascal): Danceable, filled with horns and David sounding better than ever, Toe Jam is a very fun and silly romp.

4. Daft Punk - One More Time: You know we're gonna do it right tonight!

5. Lou Reed - Perfect Day: An epitaph for the night, solemn yet melancholy.

Next:

Top Five Love Songs
 
Summer Cats - Fulton Gurls
Sublime - Wrong Way
Stereolab - Miss Modular
Beck - Girl
The Roots - Ital (The Universal Side)

Summer Cats would kick off the painting with a pretty upbeat song, then the rest would be upbeat, pretty chill songs that really feel like a hot summer afternoon to me. And I stuck Roots in there because I'd want a bit of hip hop and it seemed to fit best.
 
Top 5 Mash-Ups[/QUOTE]

Stop That Booty (Here We Come) - Super Mash Bros. - **** Bitches. Get Euros

Velvet Dreams - Voicedude

Play Your Part (Pt. 1) - Girl Talk - Feed The Animals

Fight In The Club - The Kleptones - Yoshimi Battles The Hip-Hop Robots

Bite - The Kleptones - A Night At The Hip Hopera



Top 5 RecorRAB that came out during your senior year of high school
 
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