h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I dunno, maybe my favourite's Caribou. Yeah, and the introduction to Gigantic where the bassist sings those unnerving lyrics.

1. Pink Floyd: The Wall (Nobody Home)
2. Dire Straits: Money for Nothing (Twisting by the Pool)
3. Pink Floyd: Atom Heart Mother (Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast)
4. Pink Floyd: Piper at the gates of Dawn (Lucifer Sam)
5. Simon & Garfunkel: Bridge over troubled water (Keep the Customer Satisfied)
6. Simon & Garfunkel: 20 Greatest Hits (the 69th Street Bridge Song)
7. Dire Straits: Money for Nothing (Brothers in Arms)
8. The Beatles: 1 (Lady Madonna)
9. U2: All that you can't leave behind (Stuck in a moment)
10. Wierd Al Yankovic: Greatest Hits Volume 2 (This is the Life)

thanks Justin, good little mix there

Mix?!
I thought people might think that it's a bit one sided (pink floyd, Dire straits, etc...)
How do you mean 'mix'?

J.J

I did say "little" mix Just the fact that there's pink floyd, the beatles, etc, I just thought it was a good *little* mixture of songs

Oh... whoops, I missed the word 'little'...

J.J

never mind easy mistake to make.

Here's my toppermost 10 CDs:
1. KLF - The White Room (3AM Eternal)
2. Kraftwerk - Autobahn (Autobahn)
3. The Stranglers - Hits and Heroes (Get a grip [on yourself], Golden Brown)
4. 10cc - Sheet Music (The Dean and I)
5. New Order - Substance 1987 (Blue Monday)
6. Holst - The Planets Suite (Jupiter)
7. The Best of Julian Cope and The Teardrop Explodes (Treason, Reward)
8. Pink Floyd - Echoes (Comfortably Numb, Learning To Fly)
9. The Beatles - Revolver (Tomorrow Never Knows)
10.Air - Moon Safari

1. The Pixies Doolittle (I Bleed)
2. Tom Waits Raindogs (Downtown Train)
3. The Beatles Abbey Road (the end cycle)
4. Counting Crows August & .. (Anna Begins)
5. James Taylor Mud Slide Slim (long ago & far away)
6. Jeff Buckley Grace (Hallelujah)
7. Nick Cave No More Shall We Part (Love Letter or God is in the House)
8. John Cooper Clarke Disguise in Love (Valley of the Lost Women)
9. Bob Dylan Blood on the Tracks (Tangled up in Blue)
10. Van Morrison Veedon Fleece (Linden Arden Stole the Highlights)

Have you heard James Taylors song Like Everyone She Knows? I love that song

No I've never heard it. I just remember my dad getting this album when I was about 7, I heard it then and rediscovered when I did the raid the collection bit when I was about 15. I've got the CD now because he got it for me so it's sort of a 'family classic' thing. I'll look out for it though.

that's the same deal with New Moon Shine and Gorrilas (two other James Taylor Albums) my dad used to play them all the time when we were kids and I rediscovered them a few years back, but that song on NMS that I was on abouty just makes me tingle, just in intro it's all guitar and pretty...god if I sound the man of my dreams who could play that I'd probably just about die.

1. Queen: A Day At The Races (Tie Your Mother Down)
2. Jeff Buckley: Grace (Lover, You Should've Come Over)
3. Beatles: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band)
4. Jimi Hendrix: Axis: Bold As Love (Bold As Love)
5. Eric Clapton: Unplugged (Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out)
6. Brian May: Another World (All The Way From Memphis)
7. Mott The Hoople: The Ballad Of Mott: A Retrospective (Marionette)
8. David Bowie: The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars (Ziggy Stardust)
9. Roger Taylor: Electric Fire (No More Fun)
10. Dire Straits: Sultans Of Swing - The Very Best Of Dire Straits (Money For Nothin)

oooooooh good list

Cheers

TK

What's Mott a Hoople like?

Mott The Hoople were massive for a few years in the late sixties/ early seventies, then they disappeared and no- one knows anything about them now.
Queen were their support band for a while, when Queen where just starting out- that's how I discovered Mott: I'm a big Queen fan and I heard they supported Mott, os I looked them up...
They're in the same sort of category as Queen- part glam, part rock and roll. I'd say the best decription would probably be 'Heavy Glam'. You'll probably even recognise a few of their songs if you heard them- All The Young Dudes is probably the most famous, written for them by David Bowie. You may also recognise Once Bitten Twice Shy, a solo venture in the 80's (I think) by Ian Hunter, Mott's lead singer.
I'd say that if you're into the likes of Queen, Bowie, T.Rex and some Slade, then Mott The Hoople are well worth a listen.
They are quite raw (very 60's), and have a very distinctive sound- the comparisons above are very lose comparisons.

TK

I'll have to keep an eye out for them then