Five Faves From Faves

[digdad]

We have a thread going about your five favorite bands/artists, but what songs are your favorites by them? They don't have to be absolute favorites, because if you're like me, it's often too hard to choose. Just tell us 5 songs that are up there on your list for some bands you like. Then come back and post more songs for different bands, or post 5 more songs you really like from bands you already mentioned.

I don't mean to limit it to Japanese bands either, but that's where I'll start because it's the commonest of the common ground around these parts.

Since the Puffy love has been flowing freely lately, I'll start with them. Two other of my favorite bands I'll include now are Pizzicato Five and The Brilliant Green. These songs are in no particular order, and I've left some great ones out to keep it to 5, but....

Puffy:
Sorenarini (Solosolo - Yumi disc)
Akai Buranko (Nice)
Nagisa ni Matsuwaru Etc (Jet CD)
Nichiyoubi no Musume (Fever Fever)
Hazumu Rizumu (single - with TSPO)

Pizzicato Five:
Baby Portable Rock (single)
Sleeper (Bossa Nova 2001)
Darlin' of Discotheque (11 min. version) (single)
Let's Be Adult (This Year's Girl)
A New Song (Playboy & Playgirl)

Brilliant Green:
Love Baby (Bye Bye Mr. Mug single)
Mister Moon (Goodbye and Good Luck single)
Moldy Hole!! (Rainy Days Never Stays single)
September Rain (Terra 2001)
Nagai Tameiki no You ni (acoustic demo) (Bye! My Boy! single)

[Tokyo Jihad]

it should be 5 faves from 5 faves (im excluding Shiina cuz digdad did and I dont feel like it =p)

Oasis
Wonderwall
Meaning of Soul
Supersonic
Half the World Way
Solve My Mystery

Puffy
Dare ga Sore wo
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
Call me What You Want (If You Like Rock n' Roll)
Urei
Your Love is a Drug

The Flaming Lips
When You Smile
Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots pt. 1
Race for the Prize
How Will We Know?
Love Yer Brain

eh, 5 bands seems like a little much, since they fly well round these parts I'll throw in

The Cardigans
The Boys are Back in Town
War
Choke
Deuce
I Need Some Fine Wine, and you, you Need to be Nicer

The Beatles
I Feel Fine
And Your Bird Can Sing
I'm So Tired
She Loves You
Nowhere Man

[Cosmo!]

Five favorites (at the moment) of five favorites (at the moment):

the Beatles:
All You Need is Love
Hello Goodbye
Lady Madonna
We Can Work It Out
When I'm Sixty-Four

Madonna:
Deeper & Deeper
Hung Up
Like It or Not
Spanish Lesson
Take a Bow

Michael Jackson:
Bad
Beat It
Billie Jean
Dirty Diana
Don't Stop 'til You Get Enough

No Doubt:
Bathwater
Hey Baby
It's My Life
New
Waiting Room (feat. Prince)

Love Psychedelico:
All Over Love
Days of Days Over You
Everybody Needs Somebody
Everyone, Everyone
Hello

Cool topic, dig. These won't be my five favorites in the morning, so maybe I'll be back.

[Inaudible-Whisper]

It probably changes weekly for each artist, but today...

The Beatles (Top one or two are definite, the rest change almost hourly )

A Day In The Life [Sgt. Peppers]
Strawberry Fields Forever [Double A-Side with Penny Lane]
Norwegian Wood [Rubber Soul]
In My Life [Rubber Soul]
Happiness Is a Warm Gun [White Album]

Radiohead (The top 2 are definite faves):

Paranoid Android [OK Computer]
How To Disappear Completely [Kid A]
Nude [In Rainbows]
All I Need [In Rainbows]
Exit Music (From A Film) [OK Computer]

The Libertines (I love almost all of their songs just as much, but 'Up The Bracket' is the better album so I chose most of my current favourites off it)

Time For Heroes [Up The Bracket]
Horrorshow [Up The Bracket]
Up The Bracket [Up The Bracket]
I Get Along [Up The Bracket]
What Katie Did [The Libertines]

I'll leave it at that. I'll post my next 3 artists later when a few others have contributed.

Edit: I love the fact that all 15 Beatles songs chosen are unique. Not surprising at all, just goes to show... y'know... they're pretty good :p

[Orenji]

Originally Posted by Cosmo!

Madonna:
Deeper & Deeper
Hung Up
Like It or Not
Spanish Lesson
Take a Bow

I love "Deeper & Deeper", "Hung Up" and "Like It Or Not", but I must say that Madonna really NEEDS to take Spanish lessons before doing that kind of song LOL... She says "Yo soy loco" instead of "Yo estoy loco", and "Siiiiñoriiiita"... Well, the song is pretty nice, tho.


Madonna:

• Vogue
• Papa Don't Preach
• Deeper And Deeper
• Ray Of Light
• Impressive Instant

Amy Winehouse:

• You Know I'm No Good
• Cherry
• Tears Dry On Their Own
• Rehab
• He Can Only Hold Her

Utada Hikaru:

• COLORS
• Passion
• Hikari
• Be My Last
• traveling

Björk:

• Oceania
• Hyper-Ballad
• Jóga
• It's Oh So Quiet
• Triumph Of A Heart

Pizzicato Five:

• the night is still young
• It's a beautiful day
• A Message Song
• mon amour tokyo
• A Perfect World

[justriiingo]

Amy Winehouse
She's a pain to watch but I adore her music! I recently watched her Live in London performance... lol @ her over-enthusiastic back-up singers! (damn I like so many of her songs it's difficult to just pick five!)

1. Stronger
2. Cherry
3. Tears Dry on Their Own
4. Addicted
5. He Can Only Hold Her / Doo Woop That Thing

The Observatory
Progressive rock sprinkled with elements of jazz... Intense, pensive, thought-provoking music. And best of all, they're from Singapore.

1. Time of Rebirth
2. Queen of Fate
3. Oddball
4. Deadheat
5. The last grand fallible plan

Jihad's post reminded me that I really really adored The Cardigans...

1. Your New Cuckoo
2. Heartbreaker
3. Carnival
4. Celia Inside
5. Iron Man

SOIL&"PIMP"SESSIONS
(Their fans are sorely under-represented in our memberbase here... probably because Karisome Otome was such a "blah" song?)

1. Suffocation
2. Avalanche
3. Waltz for Goddess
4. A.I.E
5. Harbour

Special mentions
(since these people only have one album out at the moment and I can't make up a list of 5 tracks)
St. Vincent (thanks Maou!)

1. Marry Me
2. Human Racing

Mayra Andrade
(Lovely Cape Verdean songstress. She's my hot tropical music fix.)

1. Dimonkransa
2. Mana
3. Dispidida

Belleruche (Their debut album is called "Turntable Soul Music". Sexy.)

1. It'll Come
2. Minor Swing
3. 13:6:35 (<-- this title reminds me of the song titles of Hirama's debut album - the one with times of the day as song title.)

[Lena-chan]

ok
let's go

Bonnie pink:
kako to genjitsu
kingyo
coin
addiction
what about me?

Kojima Mayumi
Electra
minagoroshi no blues
gokuraku tokkyu (live)
natsu no mamono
akai boushi

Cardigans:
after all
celia inside
losing a friend
marvel hill
hanging around

L'arc~en~ciel:
ibara no namida
anemone
honey
my dear
natsu no yuutsu ~time to say goodbye~

mainstream jpop-divas that are all togheter in the 5th position:
BoA: MOTO
Ayu: Heartplace
Utada: Drama
koda kumi: Aishou
Ai otsuka: sansu

[Orenji]

Originally Posted by justriiingo

Amy Winehouse
She's a pain to watch but I adore her music! I recently watched her Live in London performance... lol @ her over-enthusiastic back-up singers! (damn I like so many of her songs it's difficult to just pick five!)

Totally true. She is such a talented girl, but she is painful to see...

Originally Posted by justriiingo

SOIL&"PIMP"SESSIONS
(Their fans are sorely under-represented in our memberbase here... probably because Karisome Otome was such a "blah" song?)

Totally UNTRUE. How could you say that!? "Karisome Otome (DEATH JAZZ ver.)" was the best of the "Kono Yo no Kagiri/HF"-era... IMO, of course.

[Maou]

Asobi Seksu:
Thursday
Stay Awake
It's Too Late
Exotic Animal Paradise
Let Them Wait

Luna Sea:
Virgin Mary
Selves
Crazy About You
Mother
Ra-se-n

The Libertines:
Time For Heroes
Death on the Stairs
Up the Bracket
Tell the King

Music When the Lights Go Out

Yeah Yeah Yeahs:
Turn Into
Warrior
The Sweets
Miles Away
Pin

[digdad]

I'll chime in with some more.

Beatles:
I Am The Walrus (Magical Mystery Tour)
Revolution (single)
A Day In The Life (Sgt. Pepper)
Something (Abbey Road)
I Saw Her Standing There (Please Please Me)

(looks like we finally have one repeated Beatles song )

Jimmy Cliff:
Time Will Tell
Sitting In Limbo
Vietnam
The News
You Can't Keep A Good Man Down

Every Little Thing:
Natsuiro Natsuyume (Kirameki Hour single)
Kazamachi Kokoro Moyo (Crispy Park)
Water(s) (Commonplace)
Asu no Kokoro (Crispy Park)
Flavor (Many Pieces)