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1. How did you get into 29?

Bill Evans: I believe I got Everybody Digs Bill Evans after hearing him play on Kind of Blue.

2. What was the first song you ever heard by 2?

Tom Waits: Ol' 55.

3. What’s your favorite lyric by 33?

Steely Dan: "Deacon Blues"

You call me a fool
You say it's a crazy scheme
This one's for real
I already bought the dream
So useless to ask me why
Throw a kiss and say goodbye
I'll make it this time
I'm ready to cross that fine line

4. What is your favorite album by 49?

Dead Can Dance: Aion

5. How many albums by 13 do you own?

Fugazi: All of them, excluding the "Furniture" single.

6. What is your favorite song by 50?

GZA/Genius: Liquid Swords.

7. Is there a song by 39 that makes you sad?

Leonard Cohen: Uh... yeah.

8. What is your favorite album by 15?

Pixies: Trompe le Monde

9. What is your favorite song by 5?

John Coltrane: Pretty much impossible to say, but I'll go with Alabama.

10. Is there a song by 6 that makes you happy?

Johann Sebastian Bach: Plenty.

11. What is your favorite album by 40?

Dwarves: Blood Guts & Pussy.

12. What is your favorite song by 10?

Misfits: Hybrid Moments.

13. What is a good memory you have involving 30?

The Clash: I can't really think of anything specific.

14. What is your favorite song by 38?

The Band: Acadian Driftwood.

15. Is there a song by 19 that makes you happy?

Morphine: Oh yeah, because when I think "Morphine" I think "happy." Buena or Thursday maybe...

16. How many times have you seen 25 live?

Deftones: 2.

17. What is the first song you ever heard by 23?

The Beatles: I can't be positive because I was very young, but the first one I remember hearing was Get Back.

18. What is your favorite album by 11?

Minutemen: The Buzz or Howl Under the Influence of Heat EP.

19. Who is a favorite member of 1?

Thelonious Monk: Well, he's only one man, so I guess that makes this pretty easy.

20. Have you ever seen 14 live?

The Rolling Stones: No.

21. What is a good memory involving 27?

Sepultura: For a second I thought it was Aphex Twin, in which case I actually did have a specific "good memory" in mind. Sepultura, though... I don't really have one.

22. What is your favorite song by 16?

Cows: Too tough to choose. I'll go with Hitting the Wall.

23. What is the first song you ever heard by 47?

Sam Cooke: Wonderful World.

(cross-post from my facebook)

My friend Laura posted 50 shows attended, and I responded with a very quick list of 50. My friend Annie posted 50 shows with comments and mentioned that "50 is not a very big number." She's right, 50 is not that many bands/musicians, and my earlier list was kinda dumb.

As it happens I had a kind of list on my computer of my favorite live music performances ever, though it was sort of tentative and incomplete, but it even had some web citations and stuff where I found precise dates. So I dug it up and updated it a bit. Here they are, not in any particular order.

Ween (930 club, 10/28/96)
http://www.nofadz.com/vlww/review2b.htm
We were near the front of the stage, I nearly died of euphoria when I heard "The Blarney Stone" for the first time in my life. This was after their country album and before The Mollusk, some of their awesomest material. They were backed by a bunch of Nashville session players. Amazing.

Journey & Foreigner (Nissan Pavilion, 7/13/99)
http://web.archive.org/web/20001014050236/http://www.journeytheband.com/html/ontheroad/concertreviews/bristow-7-13-99.html
We were in our early 20s, everyone else there was either under 12 or over 40. Left MANY empty beer cans in the car before the show. Journey was great and we didn't even know that it was different singer from Steve Perry until like halfway through the set. Foreigner weren't so great though. Weird.

Fugazi @ Fort Reno in the rain (many summers, for example w/ Flin Flon 8/26/09)
http://web.archive.org/web/20051223002036/http://users.pandora.be/fugazi/report82.htm
Reading this review I remember how we all kind of liked Flin Flon though they only played for a couple songs -- Mark Robinson was all shifty and weird. Then Fugazi played for a little while until they stopped the show for lightning. It always rained for Fugazi and it was impressive to watch them try rocking out in the downpours. Luke has some good Fugazi-in-the-rain photos somewhere...

Lightning Bolt/Black Dice/Orthrelm/Avey Tare and Panda Bear (Black Cat, ca. 2001 or 2002)
First and only time I've seen Lightning Bolt and it was earth-shattering. Orthrelm was awesome too. A.T. & Panda Bear went on to be mildly famous with Animal Collective. The bands all played in different parts of the floor and you could just gather around them and watch. If you watch the Lightning Bolt DVD called "The Power of Salads and Milkshakes" it looks exactly like what we saw. That tour on the DVD was from around the same time, and in the credits you could see some references to Washington, DC, so I think there might be a few snippets from this show on there. Another life-changing show. It was sometime not long after this when Sonic Youth decided they would rather open up for Lightning Bolt rather than try to take the stage after them.

Wilco (930 Club, 9/26/2001)
http://www.wilcobase.com/event.php?event_key=136
Whoah thanks to researching this list, I found out you can download this show! I'll have to do it tomorrow at work. This was a great show. They were singing about the ashes of American flags a couple weeks after 9/11. It was freaky. It was awesome. This was also the first time I saw Wilco, though I'd seen Jeff Tweedy do a solo show sometime beforehand.

Mogwai (black cat, 9/1/99)
http://youngteam.co.uk/brightlight/eng/gig010999.php
another amazing show. This was the loudest thing I had ever heard, I think, yet it had quiet moments too (and flute!). I just listened to this show again recently thanks the magic of the internet! It is available for download right here http://acidpunks.blogspot.com/2009/04/mogwai-black-cat-washington-dc-09-01.html

Dead Meadow (many times ca. 1999-2001, occasionally since)
Dead Meadow was this amazing phenomenon where people we kinda knew (I knew them less well than some of my friends) turned into Led Zeppelin all of a sudden. As Annie's list mentioned, the famous naked show was not the best, but I remember it as a night of spontaneous naked dancers, drugs being passed around the crowd, heavy psychedelic music, all like a crazy time machine where we got to all experience 1971 for an hour. Everyone should get a chance to have their own Led Zeppelin-in-1971 moment at least once in a lifetime.

Ted Leo solo concerts ca. 1999/2000
Ted Leo was not a friend but around ten years ago it seemed like I saw him everywhere, playing shows in various places around DC, record stores, Fort Reno, the Black Cat, whatever. You expected him to be out playing guitar on the streets at any moment. He would play solo shows with a Fender Twin amp and a retro curly guitar cord that looked like a phone wire (I believe he still basically does the same thing today). When his first proper solo album came out (The Tyranny of Distance) I already knew all the songs. What a troubadour. I am still a big fan but miss the days when he was still a local secret.

Versus (various shows including black cat, opening for yo la tengo at 930 club, at galaxy hut, others?)
I saw Versus a bunch of times and they gradually became one of my favorite bands. Way underrated! The first time I saw them ('96 or '97?) I got the song "Glitter of Love" stuck in my head and still remember how James Balayut (the lead guitarist) played the main riff. Nobody in rock and roll could smoke a cigarette the way Richard Balayut (the main singer) did -- nodding to shake the ashes off the end while playing some stylish indie-rock chord progression. And I am still kind of in love with the other singer, Fontaine Toups, after all these years. She has a rad lightning-bolt tattoo on her arm and a rad guitar strap.

Songs: Ohia (macrock, April 2002)
This was a toally memorable show in a theater at JMU. The theater got too crowded and people were sitting in the aisles, then some security people came and started kicking out the people in the aisles, so Jason Molina said something to the effect of "this sucks let's just go meet across the street" so we went outside and surrounded him as he played for a little while with a battery-powered mini-amp. Awesome rock and roll moment from somebody who might like Sabbath but is not usually too "rock and roll"

Paul Flaherty & Chris Corsano (Noise Against Fascism festival, Black Cat, 1/20/05)
This was an anti-Bush-inauguration party and was a whole day of bands mostly making random noise. But then Flaherty and Corsano came on and blew my mind completely. Corsano is a young (30-ish) drummer while Flaherty is an old (60-ish) saxophonist. They made this ungodly racket of free jazz skronk that was so intense that my jaw dropped wide open. I have never seen such a performance and may never again. This is the kind of music where you really think these dudes sold their souls to the devil. I am kind of scared to see them ever again though I will go willingly, like a moth to the flame.

Fugazi/The Ex/Lungfish (Electric Factory, 12/4/99)
http://web.archive.org/web/20050913085241/http://users.pandora.be/fugazi/report116.htm
http://web.archive.org/web/20051223005017/http://users.pandora.be/fugazi/report132.htm
Fugazi deserves to be here twice -- they were always great live -- but this show is special to me because of the other two bands. The Ex were fantastic! Lungfish were even better! I would love to go back and see this show again. A day before (or after?), I saw Fugazi and The Ex at the 930 Club, but this was the first of only two times that I've seen Lungfish and I was just getting into them at the time. Since then they've become one of my all-time favorite bands. Dan Higgs just bobbed around on stage, throwing a water bottle into the air, spitting out his bizarre lyrics. I remember The Ex had a system in a couple songs where the two guitarists would use hand signals to pick a crazy riff to play, then pause, then throw another hand signal. Awesomeness! I'd like to hear more from The Ex, I got one CD based on this set of shows but never listened to anything else by them.

Kerosene 454 w/Bluetip and Burning Airlines (Black Cat, summer or fall 1997)
This was the first-ever Burning Airlines show (and I had seen the last-ever Jawbox show too) but I was not impressed by B.A. as much as I was by Kerosene 454. Forgotten but fantastic band! But not forgotten by me ever since this show! Their CD "Came by to Kill Me" is still one of my favorites.

Cows/Reverend Horton Heat (old 930 Club, 1995 or 96)
Cows were the first band of their style I'd ever seen, aggressive noise-rock, I guess you'd call it, but with a bugel thrown in. The singer/bugel player from the Cows had a baby-doll head strapped to his crotch, a magic-marker mustache painted on, googly eyes glued to his eyelids, and was nearly naked. Intense! Noisy! Fun! The Reverend Horton Heat was great too, I saw him a few times and will see him again next month opening up for Motorhead and Nashville Pussy.

Rah Bras and Edie Sedgwick (DC9, 2007 or '06?)
Speaking of zany! Edie Sedgwick is very good -- at the time it was just Justin Moyer in drag doing crazy electro-techno songs about celebrities with film clips to match. I like it a lot but am kicking myself for missing out on Rah Bras up until this show, which I think was their last in DC. They were from Virginia and totally insane -- drums, keyboards, and keytar! They wore those "Heely" roller shoes and skated around the club. They dedicated a song to Pluto (the ex-planet -- it was just demoted that day or the day before). I can hardly explain how great they were.

Made Out of Babies (Rock and Roll Hotel, 2007)
We went to this show all bleary and drunk after some intense partying, and it was so awesome, just this chick shouting over pseudo-metal, jumping around on stage, kicking things around. After the show we all tried to talk to her and buy her drinks but she was sick and actually drinking cough syrup in between alcholic beverages. Saw them again another time and it was less awesome but I am a huge fan of Made Out of Babies. Even the name! Actually, especially the name!

Blonde Redhead (2000-ish?)
saw them a few times but the best was around 2000 or so, at the Black Cat, before they became super popular but they were on their way there. They played this song called "Futurism vs. Passeism Part 2" where, on the album version, Guy Picciotto recites some lines in French, so at this show he jumped up on stage and did the same. very cool! This was the last time I saw and liked Blonde Redhead -- later they seemed to get too heavy into just playing along to backing tracks.

Dismemberment Plan & Death Cab for Cutie & Cex (2001 or '02)
The Dismemberment Plan grew on me over the course of seeing them live lots of times, and Death Cab made only a mild impression on me at the time, I didn't know them too well (still don't really), but the highlight here is Baltimore's Cex. I saw Cex open for the Dismemberment Plan at least one other time and he was so awesome! Freestylin' about the Baltimore Ravens, singing his lame rap song about bikes. Dude was talented and I'm not sure whatever happened to him.

Luna (farewell tour @ 930 club, December 2004)
My only time seeing Luna and I was amazed out how great it was! Also -- Britta Phillips! Hot! She played bass and sang backups and I couldn't stop staring at her. Luna were a great band, sort of like a Rolling Stones of indie rock, just great basic rock and roll. Glad I saw them.

The Fucking Champs w/Cherry Valence and Drunk Horse (Metro Cafe, 5/4/2001)
http://metrocafe.home.att.net/schedule/calender/200105.html
Saw the Fucking Champs a few times and they were absolutely great; this show is memorable because of how much I liked the other bands. I still like the Cherry Valence and have one of their CDs.

Pearl Jam (merriweather post pavilion, with the Fastbacks, 1996)
first time I saw Pearl Jam and really enjoyed it. also I liked the Fastbacks a lot and still do. we got lost on the way back to DC (and could it be any easier??) and ended up going the long way around the Beltway which added on like an hour to the return trip. still worth it, though. by the next time I saw Pearl Jam I had lost a little of my interest in them and didn't even mind standing in line for the bathroom during "Alive." the fist time though I was still mostly a true believer.

Sleater-Kinney's last local show, at the 930 club, August 2006
So Sleater-Kinney were going on hiatus and announce a few final dates, including one here, and we went and there was an electrical problem outside the 930 Club during the opening act, with smoke pouring out of the grates, so they had to evacuate the club, and nobody knew what would happen to the show. But they came back two days later! and played a great farewell show. the awesome French Toast got the call to be a last-second opener for the second show.

The Raveonettes "Electric Duo" show (Rock and Roll Hotel, 2007? or 08?)
This was the first time I saw the Raveonettes and I've been going back to see them since, each time they come to town, but nothing has been as good as this first show. It was stripped down, just the two of them, switching among bass, guitar, drums, and vocals. They did some good covers including Sonic Youth's "100%" and I loved it. The hippest thing ever.

Drive-By Truckers (930 Club, July 2007)
I was a little late to the DBT party but this alcohol-fueled show certainly won me over. Glad I saw this incarnation of the band, with Jason Isbell as third singer/guitarist/songwriter -- I think he contributed a lot to the band. A boozy blast.

RANDOM METAL BANDS (at JAXX on my birthday, 2002? or 01?)
I don't even remember who these bands were but they were one of the best surprise presents I've ever received.

I've been on last.fm for two years + now, so i thought i'd write down what music last.fm has introduced me to or helped to listen to. In no particular order...

Ween
Superchunk
Archers of Loaf
Z-Rock Hawaii
Boredoms
fIREHOSE
Frank Zappa
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
Mothers of Invention
Cows
Melt-Banana
Naked City
Pavement
P
Gibby Haynes & His Problem
Camper Van Beethoven
Violent Femmes
はっぴいえんど

so, yeah, thanks to last.fm, woo.

Got rbST?

That's not the latest space critter in a George Lucas film. It's a synthetic growth hormone (recombinant bovine somatotropin) used to Spur cows to produce more milk. Many dairies and retailers — including General Mills (GIS), Dannon and Wal-Mart (WMT) — are nixing it from dairy products in a world of rising food fears.

Even in a Sick economy, low price isn't the only hot sales tool for foods. There's also marketing value in telling consumers about some Ingredients not in foods. "Companies do bow to the will of consumers," says Gary Hirshberg, CEO of Stonyfield Farm, which has never used synthetic hormones.

in a nation of food worriers, the move by the $110 billion dairy industry is overdue, nutrition guru Marion Nestle says. "Why screw around with milk, of all things?" asks the author of What to Eat.

The move away from rbST comes at a time consumer concern about food quality is on the rise. Since last year's salmonella outbreak, 45% of Americans say they are even more concerned about food safety, according to a survey of 1,000 consumers by researcher TNS Global.

While the Food and Drug Administration says there are no health risks to humans from rbST, there are studies that indicate the Synthetic may harm dairy cows. (All cows produce natural bST hormone.) monsanto, which had made rbST, sold the business to Eli Lilly last year.

"RbST has been used safely for 15 years and has contributed to the affordability of dairy products worldwide," Lilly spokeswoman Joan Todd says. She says its effects reduce the Carbon Footprint for the dairy cow by about 9%.

The use of synthetic growth hormones in dairy cows is prohibited in Canada, Japan, australia, New Zealand and many European countries.

Among those Dropping rbST:

•General Mills. The maker of Yoplait yogurt announced plans last month to phase it out by August. "While the safety of milk from cows treated with rbST is not an issue, our consumers are expressing a preference for milk from Cows not treated with rbST," marketing chief Becky O'Grady says.

•Dannon. the dairy giant says it will eliminate rbST before the end of the year. "We are listening to customers," spokesman Michael Neuwirth says. He says the company receives a few dozen e-mails a month from consumers on the topic.

•Wal-Mart. Last year, the retailer said its store brand, Great Value, has eliminated rbst.

•Fresh & Easy. The grocer's Milk has never contained rbST, but it's now aired radio ads noting the fact, spokesman Roberto Munoz says. "We've done focus groups, and people don't want it."By Bruce Horovitz, USA TODAY

http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/food/2009-03-15-dairy-growth-hormone-ban_N.htm

Mooove over, Holsteins. PETA wants world-famous Ben & Jerry's Homemade Ice Cream to tap nursing moms, rather than cows, for the milk used in its ice cream.



People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is asking the ice cream maker to begin using Breast milk in its products instead of cow's milk, saying it would reduce the suffering of cows and Calves and give ice cream lovers a healthier product.

The idea got a cool reception Thursday from Ben & Jerry's officials, the company's customers and even La Leche League International, the world's oldest breast-feeding support organization, which promotes the practice — for babies, anyway.

PETA wrote a letter to company founders Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield on Tuesday, telling them cow's milk is hazardous and that milking them is cruel.

"If Ben and Jerry's replaced the cow's milk in its ice cream with breast milk, your customers — and Cows — would reap the benefits," wrote Tracy Reiman, executive vice president of the animal rights advocacy group. She said Dairy products have been linked to juvenile diabetes, allergies and OBESITY.

Ashley Byrne, a campaign coordinator for peta, acknowledged the implausibility of substituting Breast Milk for cow's milk, but said it's no stranger than humans consuming the milk of another species.

"We're aware this idea is somewhat absurd, and that putting it into practice is a stretch. At the time same, it's pretty absurd for us to be Drinking the milk of cows," she said.

It takes about 12 pounds — or 1 1/2 gallons of milk — to make a gallon of ice cream. Ben & Jerry's, which gets its milk exclusively from Vermont cows, won't say how much Milk It uses or how much ice cream it sells.

As a standardized product under federal regulations, Ice Cream must be made with milk from healthy cows. Ice Cream made from goat's milk, for example, would have to be labeled as such.

Presumably, so would mother's milk ice cream.

To Ben & jerry's, the idea is udderly ridiculous.

"We applaud Peta's novel approach to bringing attention to an issue, but we believe a mother's milk is best used for her child," spokesman Sean Greenwood said in an e-mail. He didn't respond to requests for an interview.

Leon Berthiaume, general manager of the St. Albans Cooperative Creamery, which provides milk products to Ben & Jerry's, called the dairy products "among the safest in the world."

"milk from cows has long-term health benefits and has been proven to be safe and healthy and an important part of the American diet for generations," he said. "I'm not ready to make that change."

Cow's milk and mother's milk aren't interchangeable, according to La Leche spokeswoman Jane Crouse, who says Breast Milk is a dynamic substance that's different with each woman and each child and might have difficulty being processed into Ice Cream.

Then there's the question of who would provide the milk, and whether they'd be paid.

"Some women feel compelled to donate milk to a milk bank for adopted babies, or for someone who's ill or unable to breast feed. There's plenty of anecdotal evidence about sisters who nurse each others' babies. There's a population of women very willing to share their milk. Whether there's enough to do it for a commercial entity, who can say?" she said.

At the Ben & Jerry's factory in waterbury, consumers gave a collective "Ehttp://www" to the idea Thursday.

"It's kind of creepy," said Jeff Waugh, 42, of Dayton, Ohio.

"I think it's a little nutty," said the Rev. Roger Wooton, 83, of malden, Mass., finishing up a cup of Heath Bar Crunch.

"How would they get all that milk?" said his wife, Jane Wooton, 77.

Jen Wahlbrink, 34, of Phoenix, who breast-fed her 11-month-old son, Cameron, said she wouldn't touch ice cream made from Mother's Milk. She remembers her nursing days — and not that fondly.

"The (breast) pumps just weren't that much fun. You really do feel like a cow," she said, cradling her son in her hands.
By John Curran
Copyright © 2008 The Associated Press.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080925/ap_on_fe_st/odd_breast_milk_ice_cream_2

Wondering which way is north? You might want to look at grazing Cows. European scientists who studied satellite images of cows and Deer around the world have discovered that these animals tend to align themselves with Earth's north-south magnetic fields while they graze or rest.



While Birds, Turtles and Salmon are known to use magnetic guidance to Migrate, cattle were not previously known to possess an inner Compass.

Farmers have found that cattle stand Perpendicular to the sun to heat up their bodies on cold, sunny days, or stand parallel to the wind during winter days with particularly strong winds, the scientists noted.

But the farmers' wisdom and scientific studies had not provided answers to the common alignment of Cattle during days with optimal weather, the European scientists said.

"Amazingly, this ubiquitous phenomenon does not seem to have been noticed by Herdsmen, Ranchers, or Hunters," said the study, co-written by Sabine Begall of Germany's University of Duisburg-Essen.

"Because wind and light conditions could be excluded as a common denominator determining the body axis orientation, magnetic alignment is the most parsimonious explanation," says the study published in the August 25 edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of The United States of America.

The scientists used Google Earth software to study the alignment of 8,510 cows in 308 pastures around the world and 2,974 red and Roe Deer in 241 locations in the Czech Republic.


Copyright © 2008 Agence France Presse.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080826/od_afp/usscienceanimal_080826083719

My least favourite year of the 90's, but even so, you don't have to dig deep for greatness...

100 GREAT ALBUMS OF 1998!
Compiled at MAC.



The Afghan Whigs - 1965
Air - Moon Safari
Amon Tobin - Permutation
Anathema - Alternative 4
Arab on Radar - Rough Day At The Orifice
Archers of Loaf - White Trash Heroes
Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty
Beck - Mutations
Belle and Sebastian - The Boy With the Arab Strap
Black Sabbath - Reunion
Black Star - Mos Def and Talib Kweli Are Black Star
Blind Guardian - Nightfall in Middle-Earth
Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children
The Boo Radleys - Kingsize
Boredoms - Super æ
Bruce Dickinson - The Chemical Wedding
Cat Power - Moon Pix
Cinerex - Exit All Areas
Clutch - The Elephant Riders
Cows - Sorry in Pig Minor
Dave Matthews Band - Before These Crowded Streets
Death - The Sound of Perseverance
Desert Sessions - Desert Sessions, Vol. III - IV
Dirty Three - Ocean Songs
Eels - Electro-shock Blues
Elliott Smith - XO
Ewa Braun - Sea Sea
Fatboy Slim - On the Floor at the Boutique
Fatboy Slim - You've Come a Long Way, Baby
Frosty - Liquor Drink
Fugazi - End Hits
Fun^Da^Mental - Erotic Terrorism
Gang Starr - Moment of Truth
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F#A#∞
Goo Goo Dolls - Dizzy Up The Girl
Gorguts - Obscura
Gov't Mule - Dose
The Handsome Family - Through the Trees
Helloween - Better Than Raw
Hole - Celebrity Skin
Ice - Bad Blood
Iced Earth - Something Wicked This Way Comes
Immortal - At the Heart of Winter
Iron Maiden - Virtual XI
Izzy Stradlin - 117°
James Iha - Let It Come Down
Jerry Cantrell - Boggy Depot
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Munki
John Zorn - The Circle Maker
Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
The Loud Family - Days For Days
Love Spirals Downwards - Flux
Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
Madonna - Ray of Light
Mansun - Six
Manu Chao - Clandestino
Marilyn Manson - Mechanical Animals
Mark Hollis - Mark Hollis
Mary Lou Lord - Got No Shadow
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Melt-Banana - Charlie
Mercury Rev - Deserter's Songs
Morcheeba - The Big Calm
Meshuggah - Chaosphere
Nada Surf - The Proximity Effect
Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
Oasis - The Masterplan
Opeth - My Arms, Your Hearse
Pearl Jam - Yield
Pernice Brothers - Overcome By Happiness
Phish - The Story of the Ghost
PJ Harvey - Is This Desire?
Placebo - Without You I'm Nothing
Plastikman - Consumed
Propellerheads - Decksandrumsandrockandroll
Pulp - This is Hardcore
Queens of the Stone Age - Queens of the Stone Age
R.E.M. - Up
Radiohead - Airbag / How Am I Driving?
Rasputina - How We Quit the Forest
Ray Lema - The Dream Of The Gazelle
Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come
Rufus Wainwright - Rufus Wainwright
Saint Etienne - Good Humor
The Second Sight - Everything Is Broken
Shpongle - Are You Shpongled?
Sixteen Horsepower - Low Estate
The Smashing Pumpkins - Adore
Songs: Ohia - Impala
Sonic Youth - A Thousand Leaves
Sunny Day Real Estate - How It Feels to be Something On
Superdrag - Head Trip in Every Key
System of a Down - System of a Down
Talvin Singh - OK
Tarwater - Silur
Thorr's Hammer - Dommedagsnatt
Tori Amos - From the Choirgirl Hotel
Tortoise - TNT
Trailer Bride - Smelling Salts
Tripping Daisy - Jesus Hits Like the Atom Bomb
Unbelievable Truth - Almost Here
Union - Union

Thanks to everyone at the 1990's Hotdesk.

All too easy (apparently).

100 MORE GREAT ALBUM OPENERS
Compiled at MAC.



22-20's - Devil In Me (22-20's, 2004)
49ers - Touch Me (49ers, 1990)
The Alarm - Marching On (Declaration, 1984)
Apoptygma Berzerk - Love Never Dies (7, 1996)
Babes in Toyland - Swamp Pussy (Spanking Machine, 1990)
Badly Drawn Boy - The Shining (The Hour of the Bewilderbeast, 2000)
Beastie Boys - Super Disco Breakin' (Hello Nasty, 1998)
The Beatles - Come Together (Abbey Road, 1969)
Billie Holiday - These Foolish Things (Jazz 'Round Midnight, 1995)
Björk - Human Behaviour (Debut, 1993)
Black Box - Everybody Everybody (Dreamland, 1990)
Bob Dylan - Like A Rolling Stone (Highway 61 Revisted, 1965)
Bowery Electric - Beat (Beat, 1996)
C + C Music Factory - Gonna Make You sweat [Everybody Dance Now] (Gonna Make You Sweat, 1990)
The Cardigans - Carnival (Life, 1995)
Chumbawamba - Tubthumping (Tubthumper, 1997)
Clan of Xymox - Jasmine and Rose (Creatures, 1999)
Cocteau Twins - Cherry-coloured Funk (Heaven or Las Vegas, 1990)
Cows - Hitting the Wall (Peacetika, 1989)
Cream - Strange brew (Disraeli Gears, 1967)
The Cult - Sun King (Sonic Temple, 1989)
The Cure - Inbetween Days (The Head On The Door, 1985)
Curve - Already Yours (Doppelgänger, 1992)
Daphne Loves Derby - Sundays (On The Strength of All Convinced, 2005)
Depeche Mode- Something to Do (Some Great Reward, 1984)
Deep Purple - Speed King (In Rock, 1970)
Duran Duran - Girls On Film (Duran Duran, 1981)
The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster - Morning Has Broken (Horse of the Dog, 2003)
Einstürzende Neubauten - Die Interimsliebenden (Tabula Rasa, 1993)
Electronic - Idiot Country (Electronic, 1991)
Elliott Smith - Sweet Adeleine (XO, 1998)
Frank Zappa - Hungy Freaks, Daddy (Freak Out!, 1966)
Front Line Assembly - Resist (Caustic Grip, 1990)
Gene - Haunted By You (Olympian, 1995)
Genesis - Dancing With the Moonlit Knight (Selling England by the Pound, 1973)
The Go-Betweens - Right Here (Tallulah, 1987)
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - The Dead Flag Blues (f#a#∞, 1997)
Gun - Better Days (Taking on the World, 1989)
Hallucinogen - 2069. Solstice (Warwick Bassmonkey Mix) (In Dub, 2002)
Helmet - Wilma's Rainbow (Betty, 1994)
His Name Is Alive - Baby Fish Mouth (Mouth By Mouth, 1993)
Interpol - Pioneer To The Falls (Our Love To Admire, 2007)
Iron Maiden - Aces High (Powerslave, 1984)
The Jesus Lizard - Boilermaker (Liar, 1992)
Joan Baez - Diamonds & Rust (Diamonds & Rust, 1975)
Joy Division - Atrocity Exhibition (Closer, 1980)
Kaiser Chiefs - Every Day I Love You Less & Less (Employment, 2005)
Kate Bush- Sat In Your Lap (The Dreaming, 1982)
Kraftwerk - Autobahn (Autobahn, 1974)
Ladytron - High Rise (Witching Hour, 2005)
Laurie Anderson - From the Air (Big Science, 1982)
Le Tigre - Deceptacon (Le Tigre, 1999)
Led Zeppelin - Whole Lotta Love (Led Zeppelin II, 1969)
Lemon Jelly - In the Bath (KY, 2000)
M - Pop Musik (New York-London-Paris-Munich, 1979)
Mansun - Six (Six, 1998)
The Mars Volta- Cygnus Vismund Cygnus (Frances the Mute, 2005)
Miles Davis - So What (Kind of Blue, 1959)
Ministry - Stigmata (Land of Rape and Honey, 1988)
The Mission - Amelia (Carved In Sand, 1990)
Monaco - What Do You Want From Me? (Music For Pleasure, 1997)
Mr. Bungle - Sweet Charity (California, 1999)
New Model Army - Christian Militia (Vengeance, 1984)
Ned's Atomic Dustbin - Kill Your Television (God Fodder, 1991)
New Order - Age Of Consent (Power, Corruption & Lies, 1983)
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - The Mercy Seat (Tender Prey, 1988)
Nine Inch Nails - Head Like a Hole (Pretty Hate Machine, 1989)
Nirvana - Serve The Servants (In Utero, 1993)
Oasis - Rock 'N' Roll Star (Definitely Maybe, 1994)
Ocean Colour Scene - The Riverboat Song (Moseley Shoals, 1996)
The Other Two - You Can Fly (Superhighways, 1999)
The Pale Fountains - Reach (Pacific Street, 1984)
Pet Shop Boys - Being Boring (Behaviour, 1990)
R.E.M. - Finest Worksong (Document, 1987)
Radiohead- Everything In Its Right Place (Kid A, 2000)
Rage Against the Machine - Bombtrack (Rage Against the Machine, 1992)
The Rakes - Strasbourg (Capture/Release, 2005)
Ramones - Blitzkrieg Bop (Ramones, 1976)
The Rolling Stones - Rocks off (Exile on Main St., 1972)
Rush - The Spirit of Radio (Permanent Waves, 1980)
Ryan Adams - New York, New York (Gold, 2001)
The Sex Pistols - Holidays in the Sun (Never Mind the Bollocks Here's the Sex Pistols, 1977)
Siouxsie & The Banshees - Peek-A-Boo (Peepshow, 1999)
Sisters of Mercy - Dominion/Mother Russia (Floodland, 1987)
Slayer - Angel of Death (Reign In Blood, 1986)
Sleater-Kinney - Dig Me Out (Dig Me Out, 1997)
Slowdive - Alison (Souvlaki, 1993)
The Soundtrack of Our Lives - Sister Surround (Behind the Music, 2001)
The Strokes - You Only Live Once (First Impressions of Earth, 2006)
Supergrass - Strange Ones (I Should Coco, 1995)
Technotronic - Pump Up The Jam (Pump Up The Jam, 1989)
The The - Good Morning Beautiful (Mind Bomb, 1989)
The Thrills - Santa Cruz (You're Not That Far) (So Much For The City, 2003)
Therapy? - Knives (Troublegum, 1994)
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Free Falling (Full Moon Fever, 1989)
Tori Amos - Pretty Good Year (Under the Pink, 1994)
The Velvet Underground - Sunday Morning (The Velvet Underground & Nico, 1967)
Weezer - Tired of Sex (Pinkerton, 1996)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Gold Lion (Show Your Bones, 2006)
Young Marble Giants - Searching For Mr. Night (Colossal Youth, 1980)

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