Dancing Queen - ABBA From Arrival.  I can honestly tell you that I really don't know very many people who don't like ABBA.  I do and oddly enough, Dancing Queen is a great drinking song.  It seems that I'm always with a big group of people when we drink, and this song lightens up the news some..

A Little Less Conversation - Elvis Presley In the late 60's, Elvis had some important choices to make.  Either to keep coming out with great "rockibilly" stuff, or just give up and go to Vegas.  Aside from that, A Little Less Conversation is one of the kings best.

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Mindless Child Of Motherhood - The Kinks From The Kinks Kronikles.  One of the best groups of all time you ask me, and i almost forgot to add themto this list.  Anyhow, one of my favorite songs from The Kinks is actually a Dave Davies song.  "Mindless Child.." shows off Dave's his vocal range while Ray's vocals are great as a back up.  Great song.

I Don't Know What I Can Save You From - Kings Of Convenience From Quiet Is The New Loud.  The title sounds like a threat, that really didn't follow through overall, but KoC did pretty well for themselves otherwise.  The album is low key, though it does have some shining moments.  "I Don't Know What..." is the obvious favorite.  A song about a reunion which was more lackluster than anything else.

A couple more later...

Ween http://www.chocodog.com/chocodog/ween/ween_new/index2.html

Bob Dylan http://www.bobdylan.com/index.html

The Blood Brothers http://www.thebloodbrothers.com/

The White Stripes http://www.whitestripes.com/

The Flaming Lips http://www.flaminglips.com/main.php

Wilco http://www.wilcoweb.com/

The Supersuckers http://www.supersuckers.com/

XTC (I Think) http://www.xtcidearecords.co.uk/

The Replacements http://www.twintone.com/mats.html

The Pogues http://www.pogues.com/

Back In Baby's Arms - Patsy Cline Everyone, most eveyone, knows the song Crazy (which by the way was written by Willie Nelson) Truely one of America's finest "torch singers", and pratically the only one with any exposure, Patsy Cline came out a constantly great string of hits before her life was cut short by a plane crash (the crash scene is played out in horrfic detail in the movie "Sweet Dreams"... I kept rewinding it over and over.  (It doesn't show her body or anything, just a plane slamming into a mountian side) Back In Baby's Arms opens with a carnival sounding organ, and then keeps with a back beat with strings through out.  The song is just over two minutes long, but it's a nice little number

Show Me - The Pretenders From Learning To Crawl.  Some of the best guitar work from any band in the eighties (not so much off the wall stuff, but straight playing) could be found on this album.  "Back In The Chain Gang" was the big hit from this album, even that drug addict Rush uses "Middle Of The Road" as his theme song.  Show Me however is the stongest song on this album, and also the most hoping sounding song, though it is pretty pesamistic through out... the album in a whole is darkish (Formal guitarist James Honeyman-Scott OD'ed a year before. "Wecome to a speical place, with a heart of stone that's cold and gray" is a line that comes up.  The song does have a message though out however, that is aside from what life throws at you, it's all worth it for love.

Bring It On Home - Sam Cooke Recently, there was a well known guitarist who was shot on stage as he played, Dimebag Darrell originally of Pantera and as of recently, Damageplan.  Admittedly, I'm not a fan, though plenty of people were; so it was certain a tragedy for the world of music.  24 years to the day, John Lennon was shot... on my nineth birthday.  Now my birthday will be known for two famous deaths... also the same birthday as Kim Basinger, so there you go.  I bring this up due to another famous shooting, that of Sam Cooke.  Aside from Otis Redding, Sam Cooke was a man who was taking R&B to new heights (Marvin Gaye didn't really get going until the seventies) His Live In Harlem disc is one of the best live albums out there.  Bring It On Home is another one of those great little "begging" songs.  When I say Begging, I mean those songs, where singers get down on their knees sign their hearts out for "their baby to come back"... that type of stuff.

Everybody Here Wants You - Jeff Buckly From Sketches For My Sweetheart The Drunk.  So called "Sketches", because he died during that making of this album (he decided to "wade" into the Mississippi River... not to sound disrespectful, but...) Anyhow, he had finshed recording most of his contributions to the album, while some of the stuff used were demos.  It was the arrangements that weren't thought out prior to his death, so with the help of his mother (who was one time married to Tim Buckly (slightly famous folk singer, Jeff's father who too died at a young age "OD'ed") "Sweetheart was released in the summer of 1998.  It's hard to say what it would have sounded like if it was finshed by Jeff himself.  Everybody Here Wants You, proves that you don't need to be Prince to come out with great Prince songs.  Seeing that Prince took a break from being talented for most of the ninties, this song does a good job of expressing emotion and makes me sad, thinking what if...

Friday Night, Saturday Morning - The Specials I had just realized that this portion of the list had all people who died young (The Pretenders guitarist), so to move forward from that, I'll just discuss the next band The Specials.  A little know fact, if you haven't figured it out, I'm big on the early eighties mod movement.  The Specials are another band from the early eighties who were an influence on Ska (in case anyone bitches, I am aware of Madness and find them great... so there you go) However, The Specials were the one group who seemed to miss the pop radar here in America slightly.  Friday Night, Saturday Morning is a down beat number produced by Elvis Costello.  A nice little drinking number about seeing the next day in from the night before. (I go out on Friday night, and I come home on Saturday morning)

Pair Of Brown Eyes - The Pogues From Rum, Sodamy & The Lash.  I've seen Shane McGowen live.  I'm surpirsed he's still alive.  He still drinks like he doesn't give a shit, and I do recall not too long ago, he had a drug problem.  But he's still alive, so there you are.  Before releasing albums for Island, and becoming slightly watered down, The Pogues released great Irish songs with lack of production (Elvis Costello saw to that, wanting to capture The Pogues in their raw state... He soon married the bass player "yes a woman" and quit producing altogether) Pair Of Brown Eyes.  "One summer evening drunk to hell, I sat there nearly lifeless..." opens the song and made Shane McGowen pratically immortal... The Pogues did kick him out eventully, though what they didn't realize is Shane was the reason we went to the shows and paid for the music.  Oh well...