Best of the B-Sides: Nominations

[spiritualized]

I want to help you with your goal by selecting James Brown, but I haven't had my sleep yet

[BleuPanda]

To make it easier, eligible songs:

'Live' at the Apollo:
I'll Go Crazy
I Don't Mind

Imagine:
Crippled Inside
It's So Hard
I Don't Want to be a Soldier
Oh My Love
How?

[Brad]

I'll bite:
James Brown - Live' at the Apollo:
I'll Go Crazy

[BleuPanda]

You may say I'm impatient
But I'm not the only one
I hope some day you will choose
Then the voting starts at once

[Romain]

To make it easier, eligible songs:

'Live' at the Apollo:
I'll Go Crazy
I Don't Mind

Imagine:
Crippled Inside
It's So Hard
I Don't Want to be a Soldier
Oh My Love
How?

Annnnnnnnd


Imagine - Oh my love

[BleuPanda]

Well, I don't want to start the topics in the morning before work, but here's our randomized list. The Kanye West group is killer:
Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted: "In the Mouth a Desert"
Radiohead - Kid A: "Morning Bell"
Pink Floyd - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn: "Lucifer Sam"
Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique: "Egg Man"

Jeff Buckley - Grace: "Lover, You Should've Come Over"
Michael Jackson - Off the Wall: "I Can't Help It"
R.E.M. - Murmur: "Shaking Through"
Prince - Sign 'O' the Times: "Hot Thing"

The Who - Who's Next: "Bargain"
Television - Marquee Moon: "Venus"
Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True: "I'm Not Angry"
The Stooges - Raw Power: "Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell"

Arcade Fire - Funeral: "Une Annee Sans Lumiere"
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin: "How Many More Times"
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited: "Queen Jane Approximately"
Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction: "Mr. Brownstone"

Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II: "Thank You"
Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band - Trout Mask Replica: "Veteran's Day Poppy"
Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde: "Absolutely Sweet Marie"
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation: "Candle"

The Clash - The Clash: "Police and Thieves"
Prince - Purple Rain: "Darling Nikki"
David Bowie - Low: "Warszawa"
Michael Jackson - Thriller: "The Lady in My Life"

Sly and the Family Stone - There's a Riot Goin' On: "Thank You for Talking to Me, Africa"
Primal Scream - Screamadelica: "I'm Comin' Down"
Neil Young - Harvest: "There's a World"
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico: "The Black Angel's Death Song"

James Brown - 'Live' At the Apollo: "I'll Go Crazy"
John Lennon - John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band: "Love"
Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure: "Grey Lagoons"
Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks - Here's the Sex Pistols: "Bodies"

The Band - Music From Big Pink: "To Kingdom Come"
U2 - The Joshua Tree: "Running to Stand Still"
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On: "What's Happening Brother?"
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks: "Slim Slow Slider"

Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory?: "Cast No Shadow"
Joni Mitchell - Blue: "Little Green"
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme: "Resolution"
David Bowie - Hunky Dory: "Quicksand"

Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced?: "May This Be Love"
Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti: "Ten Years Gone"
The Band - The Band: "Rockin' Chair"
Derek and The Dominos - Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs: "Why Does Love Got to Be So Sad?"

Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life: "Pastime Paradise"
Paul Simon - Graceland: "Homeless"
Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet: "Anti-Nigger Machine"
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy: "Taste the Floor"

The Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet: "Dear Doctor"
David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars: "Soul Love"
The Beatles - Rubber Soul: "Think for Yourself"
Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks: "Buckets of Rain"

Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers): "Bring da Ruckus"
Pixies - Surfer Rosa: "Broken Face"
The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin: "The Gash"
Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back: "She Watch Channel Zero?!"

Queen - A Night at the Opera: "Love of My Life"
Carole King - Tapestry: "Beautiful"
OutKast - Stankonia: "Gasoline Dreams"
Elvis Presley - Elvis Presley: "One-Sided Love Affair"

The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed: "Monkey Man"
John Lennon - Imagine: "Oh My Love"
N.W.A - Straight Outta Compton: "If It Ain't Ruff"
LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver: "New York I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down"

Dr. Dre - The Chronic: "Stranded on Death Row"
Neil Young - After the Gold Rush: "Birds"
Love - Forever Changes: "A House is Not a Motel"
Bruce Springsteen - Darkness on the Edge of Town: "Candy's Room"

Patti Smith - Horses: "Kimberly"
Dusty Springfield - Dusty in Memphis: "Just a Little Lovin'"
Beck - Odelay: "Lord Only Knows"
Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water: "Keep the Customer Satisfied"

The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main St.: "Shake Your Hips"
Eagles - Hotel California: "The Last Resort"
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures: "Day of the Lords"
The Strokes - Is This It: "Barely Legal"

Oasis - Definitely Maybe: "Columbia"
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless: "Sometimes"
The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead: "Never Had No One Ever"
The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band: "Fixing a Hole"

Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home: "Bob Dylan's 115th Dream"
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew: "Sanctuary"
Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run: "She's the One"
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue: "Freddie Freeloader"

Blondie - Parallel Lines: "Pretty Baby"
Radiohead - In Rainbows: "Videotape"
Otis Redding - Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul: "Satisfaction"
Radiohead - The Bends: "Planet Telex"

R.E.M. - Automatic for the People: "Ignoreland"
Radiohead - OK Computer: "Climbing Up the Walls"
Talking Heads - Remain in Light: "The Great Curve"
Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy: "Lost in the World"

Nirvana - Nevermind: "Lounge Act"
The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers: "You Gotta Move"
Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon: "Brain Damage"
The Beatles - Revolver: "Love You To"

Nirvana - In Utero: "Serve the Servants"
Ramones - Ramones: "Judy is a Punk"
Lou Reed - Transformer: "Wagon Wheel"
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot: "Radio Cure"

Aretha Franklin - I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You: "Drown in My Own Tears"
Portishead - Dummy: "Mysterons"
Kraftwerk - Trans-Europa Express/Trans Europe Express: "Europa Endlos/Europe Endless"
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs: "Singapore"

Joy Division - Closer: "Decades"
Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland: "Little Miss Strange"
Stevie Wonder - Innervisions: "Visions"
The Clash - London Calling: "Spanish Bombs"

The Beatles - The Beatles ("White Album"): "Cry Baby Cry"
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours: "Songbird"
The Who - Tommy: "Overture"
De la Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising: "Tread Water"

DJ Shadow - Endtroducing.....: "Mutual Slump"
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV: "Misty Mountain Hop"
AC/DC - Back in Black: "Givin' the Dog a Bone"
Van Morrison - Moondance: "Glad Tidings"

The Beatles - Abbey Road: "You Never Give Me Your Money"
Elvis Costello - This Year's Model: "The Beat"
The White Stripes - Elephant: "Ball and Biscuit"
Pixies - Doolittle: "No. 13 Baby"

The Stooges - Fun House: "Down on the Street"
The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses: "This is the One"
Massive Attack - Blue Lines: "One Love"
U2 - Achtung Baby: "Ultra Violet (Light My Way)"

Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones: "Shore Leave"
The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds: "I'm Waiting for the Day"
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois: "The Man of Metropolis Steals Our Hearts"
The Doors - The Doors: "Back Door Man"

[Jackson]

Climbing Up the Walls and The Great Curve being in the same bracket is unfair! The Great Curve could have gone a long way but I don't see it beating out one of the best songs from OK Computer.

How in the world is Sometimes by MBV not on the AM6000? I've always had the impression that it was an indie staple and widely known as a standout from the album along with Soon and Only Shallow. Spanish Bombs is another head scratcher.

[DaveC]

When I saw "Sometimes" come up, I though someone had made a mistake.

Decades, Spanish Bombs, and Visions are all strange omissions from the AM6000, and all drawn together should make for an interesting competition. Good grief, I have two of them ranked in my AT top 100.

[Nick]

A lot of great songs here, but "New York I Love You..." and "Spanish Bombs" are true masterpieces. It's criminal that theyre not even bubbling under.