Rock/music faves

In no particular order:

Television -- Marquee Moon
Modern Lovers
Iggy Pop -- New Values
Any first-era Pixies
Pere Ubu -- The Modern Dance
The Vibrators -- Pure Mania
Wire -- Pink Flag
King Crimson -- Lark's Tongues & Red
Traffic -- When the Eagle Flies
Stones -- Any of the big 4 from Beggars Banquet to Exile
Dylan -- Blonde on Blonde
Blondie -- Parallel Lines
Beatles -- White Album & Revolver (UK)
Eddie and the Hot Rods -- Life on the Line
Phil Manzanera -- Diamond Head

Sex Pistols -- Never Mind the Bollocks

PiL -- the first two

Suicide

The Stranglers, first three  
Slowdive --Souvlaki
Lush

My Bloody Valentine

Morrissey -- Your Arsenal
Smiths -- hard to pick
BeBop Deluxe -- Futurama
Lennon -- Plastic Ono Band
McCartney -- Ram
Harrison -- All Things Must Pass


Some great songs:

Lots of Motown
Donna Summer -- "I Feel Love"

Soft Machine -- "Soft Space"
Ultravox -- "I Want to Be a Machine," "ROckWrok." "Saturday Night in the City of the Dead"
Beach Boys -- "Sail on Sailor," "Wendy"

Bowie -- "Heroes"
Bowie -- "Sound and Vision" and others on side one of Low
Beatles -- the first 30 seconds or so to "You Know My Name Look Up the Number"

Jonathan Richman -- "Summer Feeling"
Velvet Underground and Lou Reed version -- "Satellite of Love"
10 000 Maniacs -- "Candy Everybody Wants"
Roxy Music -- "Pyjamarama"

Springsteen -- "Born to Run," "Hungry Heart"

Glen Campbell -- "Galveston," "Wichita Lineman"

Elvis -- "Suspicious Minds," "Kentucky Rain"

ELO -- "Mr Blue Sky," "Living Thing"

Pink Floyd -- "Interstellar Overdrive," "Fearless"

Bob Welch-era Fleetwood Mac; Stevie Nicks' "Gypsy"

ABBA -- "Dancing Queen" except I wish it were a little faster


Gary Lewis and the Playboys -- "This Diamond Ring"
Carpenters -- "Close to You"

Percy Faith or whomever -- "Theme from a Summer Place"
Some great covers:
The Clash -- "Police and Thieves"
The Animals (ca 1977) -- "Many Rivers to Cross"
Devo -- "Satisfaction," "Secret Agent Man," "Working in a Coalmine" (Allen Toussaint liked it)

Sonic Youth -- "Superstar" (Richard Carpenter hated it)

Ministry -- "Lay Lady Lay"


Dead Boys -- "Hey, Little Girl"

801 Live -- has Eno and Manzanera on it.


The Doors -- L.A. Woman

BOC -- "Don't Fear the Reaper" (Seth could have said that!)
B. Boys -- "Wouldn't It Be Nice"
Rolling Stones -- "Beast of Burden"



Brian Ferry has done scads of great covers besides many great originals.


I hope Neil Young will remember to forgive me for overlooking "Powderfinger."

And the Byrds for "8 Miles High," "Chestnut Mare," "Turn, Turn, Turn" and others with McGuinn's golden 12-string sound.

Derek and the Dominoes -- "Bell Bottom Blues"
B52s -- "Love Shack," "Deadbeat Club," "Roam"
Breeders -- "Cannonball," "Divine Hammer"

Weezer -- "Island in the Sun"
Ween -- Chocolate and Cheese
Steely Dan -- "Brooklyn (Owes the Charmer Under Me)"

R.E.M. -- "Shiny Happy People" here's a rehearsal; Kate Pierson is God(dess) even w/o make-up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7QgsixRWNw


EWF -- "September"
The La's -- "There She Goes"
Patti Smith -- "Frederick"