Put Together an Album

[enisthemenace]

Using the “10 shows” thread started by @dahliaclone as inspiration, build an album of 10-15ish songs with some kind of theme. I’ll start with these I like to listen to when I want to wind down. There are likely a million songs that would be as good or better for this purpose, but my “Sleep” album:

1. Champagne - 311
2. This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody) - The Talking Heads
3. Riders on the Storm - The Doors
4. Santeria - Sublime
5. Althea - Greatful Dead
6. White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane
7. Dirty Work - Steely Dan
8. Ripple - Greatful Dead
9. Officer - Slightly Stoopid
10. Fearless - Pink Floyd
11. Wild Horses - The Rolling Stones
12. Planet Caravan - Black Sabbath
13. West LA Fadeaway - Greatful Dead
14. The End - The Doors

 

[cydnote]

15. In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida - Iron Butterfly

 

[cydsho]

"White Rabbit" as a song to bring you down? Do you incorporate vitamin B and orange slices too?

 

[enisthemenace]

"White Rabbit" as a song to bring you down? Do you incorporate vitamin B and orange slices too?

The rhythm of the music and Grace Slick’s voice do it for me, yeah. For a short song, I kind of just get lost in it.

 

[JP4CY]

I'm gonna create a play list here about "fitting in."

Songs from my library from a quick glance:

1. I wouldn't want to be like you - Alan Parsons
2. Cool Kids - Echosmith
3. You belong to the city - Glen Frey
4. Why didn't I think of that - Doug Stone
5. Got my mind set on you - George Harrison
6. Follow you down - Gin Blossoms
7. I can dream about you - Dan Hartman
8. The way it is - Bruce Hornsby
9. Dance hall days - Wang Chung
10. Right place wrong time - Dr John
11. Why not me - the Judds
12. Because the night - various artists but Natalie Merchant was the best

 

[dahliaclone]

I have a couple playlists. This one is basically a 70s Yacht Rock type. We go boating with friends every year and they are always like 'make sure that same playlist is ready!'

No particular order...just shuffle it up.

1-Biggest Part of Me (Ambrosia)
2-Born to Run (Bruce Springsteen)
3-Love Will Keep Us Together (Captain and Tennile)
4-You Make My Dreams (Hall & Oates)
5-We Just Disagree (Dave Mason)
6-Walk of Life (Dire Straits)
7-What A Fool Believes (Doobie Brothers)
8-Honky Cat (Elton John)
9-Don't Go Breaking My Heart (Elton John and Kiki Dee)
10-Best of My Love (The Emotions)
11-I'd Really Love to See You Tonight (England Dan and John Ford Coley)
12-Sundown (Gordon Lightfoot)
13-Don't Pull Your Love (Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds)
14-Higher and Higher (Jackie Wilson)
15-Dancing in the Moonlight (King Harvest)
16-Reminiscing (Little River Band)
17-Brandy (Looking Glass)
18-Steal Away (Robbie Dupree)
19-Peg (Steely Dan)
20-Goodbye Stranger (Supertramp)
21-Days Like This (Van Morrison)
22-God Only Knows (Beach Boys)
23-Right Back Where We Started From (Maxine Nightengale)
24-Hold On Loosely (.38 Special)
25-Caught Up In You (.38 Special)
26-Train in Vain (The Clash)

 

[dahliaclone]

Another is songs I absolutely crank when I'm on a road trip. Again no particular order...just ruin your speakers.

1-Interstate Love Song (Stone Temple Pilots)
2-Born to Run (Bruce Springsteen)
3-Don't Stop Me Now (Queen)
4-In Bloom (Nirvana)
5-Electric Love (Borns)
6-Lady (Lenny Kravitz)
7-Zero (Smashing Pumpkins)
8-Kiss With A Fist (Florence and the Machine)
9-Supermassive Black Hole (Muse)
10-Kiss This (The Struts)
11-Heart and Soul (T-Pau)
12-No One Knows (Queens of the Stone Age)
13-Over the Hills and Far Away (Led Zeppelin)
14-New Sensation (INXS)
15-Blood in the Cut (K. Flay)
16-Geronimo (Sheppard)
17-Dangerous (Big Data)
18-Crazy in Love (Beyonce)
19-Plush (Stone Temple Pilots)
20-Alive and Kicking (Simple Minds)

 

[JP4CY]

I like the No One Knows @dahliaclone .
Such a good, catchy song and it really is a great video.

 

[Gonzo]

I'm a sap for the holidays and have my Christmas playlist on Spotify that I absolutely wear out between November and January...

1. Do They Know It's Christmas? - Band Aid
2. River - Travis (covering Joni Mitchell)
3. Fairytale of New York - The Pogues w/ Kirsty MacColl
4. Merry Christmas - Ed Sheeran w/ Elton John
5. Both Sides Now - Joni Mitchell
6. Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy - Bing Crosby w/ David Bowie
7. Christmas in Hollis - Run-DMC
8. All I Want for Christmas is You - Mariah Carey
9. The Christmas Song - Nat King Cole
10. O Holy Night - Josh Groban
11. Mr. Brightside - The Killers
12. Silent Night - Nat King Cole
13. White Christmas - Otis Redding
14. O Come, All Ye Faithful - Christ Church Cathedral Choir of Men
15. Christmas Time is Here - Vince Guaraldi Trio (from Peanuts Christmas)
16. Christmas Time - Bryan Adams
17. Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley

Some of the nonconventional ones like Mr. Brightside, Both Sides Now, etc., are on the playlist because they're on the soundtrack of some of our favorite Christmas movies.

 

[cyclonespiker33]

I call this R&B playtime

1. Jeans - Jessie Reyez feat Miguel
2. Bed - J. Holiday
3. Birthday Sex - Jeremih
4. Needed Me - Rihanna
5. I Wanna Know - Joe
6. Grind With Me - Pretty Ricky
7. Rock Wit U - Ashanti
8. Unpredictable - Jamie Foxx feat Ludacris
9. Do It To It - Cherish feat Sean Paul
10. Go Crazy - Chris Brown feat Young Thug


Let's see if you can last all 10 songs

 

[JP4CY]

I call this R&B playtime

1. Jeans - Jessie Reyez feat Miguel
2. Bed - J. Holiday
3. Birthday Sex - Jeremih
4. Needed Me - Rihanna
5. I Wanna Know - Joe
6. Grind With Me - Pretty Ricky
7. Rock Wit U - Ashanti
8. Unpredictable - Jamie Foxx feat Ludacris
9. Do It To It - Cherish feat Sean Paul
10. Go Crazy - Chris Brown feat Young Thug


Let's see if you can last all 10 songs

No D'Angelo How Does it Feel?!

 

[AuH2O]

Using the “10 shows” thread started by @dahliaclone as inspiration, build an album of 10-15ish songs with some kind of theme. I’ll start with these I like to listen to when I want to wind down. There are likely a million songs that would be as good or better for this purpose, but my “Sleep” album:

1. Champagne - 311
2. This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody) - The Talking Heads
3. Riders on the Storm - The Doors
4. Santeria - Sublime
5. Althea - Greatful Dead
6. White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane
7. Dirty Work - Steely Dan
8. Ripple - Greatful Dead
9. Officer - Slightly Stoopid
10. Fearless - Pink Floyd
11. Wild Horses - The Rolling Stones
12. Planet Caravan - Black Sabbath
13. West LA Fadeaway - Greatful Dead
14. The End - The Doors

As OP you need to set some ground rules. Based on your list I’d say it should be somewhat feasible that a single band would put together this album. I don’t think a list of fave songs that has something like Wu Tang and Colter Wall would make sense.

 

[dahliaclone]

I'm a sap for the holidays and have my Christmas playlist on Spotify that I absolutely wear out between November and January...

1. Do They Know It's Christmas? - Band Aid
2. River - Travis (covering Joni Mitchell)
3. Fairytale of New York - The Pogues w/ Kirsty MacColl
4. Merry Christmas - Ed Sheeran w/ Elton John
5. Both Sides Now - Joni Mitchell
6. Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy - Bing Crosby w/ David Bowie
7. Christmas in Hollis - Run-DMC
8. All I Want for Christmas is You - Mariah Carey
9. The Christmas Song - Nat King Cole
10. O Holy Night - Josh Groban
11. Mr. Brightside - The Killers
12. Silent Night - Nat King Cole
13. White Christmas - Otis Redding
14. O Come, All Ye Faithful - Christ Church Cathedral Choir of Men
15. Christmas Time is Here - Vince Guaraldi Trio (from Peanuts Christmas)
16. Christmas Time - Bryan Adams
17. Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley

Some of the nonconventional ones like Mr. Brightside, Both Sides Now, etc., are on the playlist because they're on the soundtrack of some of our favorite Christmas movies.

i have a LOT of kind of not-well-known-but-by-big-artists holiday songs if you ever need more

 

[cyclonespiker33]

No D'Angelo How Does it Feel?!

Not necessarily a bad song, but it doesn't quite fit the era I'm going for

 

[enisthemenace]

As OP you need to set some ground rules. Based on your list I’d say it should be somewhat feasible that a single band would put together this album. I don’t think a list of fave songs that has something like Wu Tang and Colter Wall would make sense.

Good call out. I was going for a “themed” album and I kind of put mine in somewhat of an order. Tried to set them in a way that songs from different bands flow together.

 

[demoncore1031]

Using the “10 shows” thread started by @dahliaclone as inspiration, build an album of 10-15ish songs with some kind of theme. I’ll start with these I like to listen to when I want to wind down. There are likely a million songs that would be as good or better for this purpose, but my “Sleep” album:

1. Champagne - 311
2. This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody) - The Talking Heads
3. Riders on the Storm - The Doors
4. Santeria - Sublime
5. Althea - Greatful Dead
6. White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane
7. Dirty Work - Steely Dan
8. Ripple - Greatful Dead
9. Officer - Slightly Stoopid
10. Fearless - Pink Floyd
11. Wild Horses - The Rolling Stones
12. Planet Caravan - Black Sabbath
13. West LA Fadeaway - Greatful Dead
14. The End - The Doors

Riders on the Storm, The End and Planet Caravan are on my "mellow" playlist, along with a lot of Dax Riggs tunes, Us and Them by Pink Floyd, and I'll jam my father-in-law (Lee Soledad) although he sings in Tagalog so I don't understand the words, but his music chills me out. Same with my brother-in-law (Coy Soledad). If you like "oldies," here is one of my father-in-law's albums...

 

[pourcyne]

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Favorite Foreign Thunes Discovered on My Travels
(ha ha joke in French "thunes" is slang for money, but pronounced "toon" - outta luck if you all pronounce it "tewnze")

1. Saudade - Etienne Daho France

2. Estrellitas y Duendes - Juan Luis Guerra Dominican Republic

3. Pase em Casa - Las Tribalistas Brazil

4. Lemon - Kenzi Yoneshu Japan

5. Je frappe aux portes du matin - Richard Séguin Québec

6. Rester femme - Axelle Red Belgium

7. Wow Flash - Elvis Crespo Puerto Rican born in NYC - heard this one in Mexico

8. Beijing, Beijing - Feng Wang People's Republic of China

9. Magnolia - Negrita Italy

10. Me gustas tú - Manu Chao Spain.

 

[Gunnerclone]

Instrumental Madness:

Ignite - Polyphia
Red Bird - Outrun the Sunlight
Dreamless - Fallujah
Gestaltzerfall - Animals as Leaders
Lavender Haze - Vildhjarta
Neve - Chronologist
Surfers - Plini
Procussive - Manuel Gardner Fernandea
Infinite Genesis - Olympus lenticular
Teeth of the Hydra - Steve Vai
Tendinitis - Jason Richardson & Luke Holland
Eschatology - Walking Across Jupiter
Epiphany - Intervals
Low Life - Their Dogs Were Astronauts
Dreamscape - Surroundings
Farewell - Syncatto

 

[pourcyne]

I'm a sap for the holidays and have my Christmas playlist on Spotify that I absolutely wear out between November and January...

1. Do They Know It's Christmas? - Band Aid
2. River - Travis (covering Joni Mitchell)
3. Fairytale of New York - The Pogues w/ Kirsty MacColl
4. Merry Christmas - Ed Sheeran w/ Elton John
5. Both Sides Now - Joni Mitchell
6. Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy - Bing Crosby w/ David Bowie
7. Christmas in Hollis - Run-DMC
8. All I Want for Christmas is You - Mariah Carey
9. The Christmas Song - Nat King Cole
10. O Holy Night - Josh Groban
11. Mr. Brightside - The Killers
12. Silent Night - Nat King Cole
13. White Christmas - Otis Redding
14. O Come, All Ye Faithful - Christ Church Cathedral Choir of Men
15. Christmas Time is Here - Vince Guaraldi Trio (from Peanuts Christmas)
16. Christmas Time - Bryan Adams
17. Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley

Some of the nonconventional ones like Mr. Brightside, Both Sides Now, etc., are on the playlist because they're on the soundtrack of some of our favorite Christmas movies.

I don't celebrate Christmas, but I'm a sucker for this song from western France sung in Breton.

 

[enisthemenace]

Instrumental Madness:

Ignite - Polyphia
Red Bird - Outrun the Sunlight
Dreamless - Fallujah
Gestaltzerfall - Animals as Leaders
Lavender Haze - Vildhjarta
Neve - Chronologist
Surfers - Plini
Procussive - Manuel Gardner Fernandea
Infinite Genesis - Olympus lenticular
Teeth of the Hydra - Steve Vai
Tendinitis - Jason Richardson & Luke Holland
Eschatology - Walking Across Jupiter
Epiphany - Intervals
Low Life - Their Dogs Were Astronauts
Dreamscape - Surroundings
Farewell - Syncatto

Interesting. I’m not sure I’ve heard a single one of these, but I did just sample “Low Life” and am now intrigued by the rest of the list.

Thanks!