I need 7 tracks.

[dahamsta]

Right, I have 7 free tracks on 7digital but I can't decide what to buy, because I'm just plain crap at music -- I never know what to buy, so I always end up buying something I already had (or have!).

So help me out here, give me some guidance, 7 new bands or artists to love. I'm not even going to tell you what I like, I just want 7 of the best tracks ever, with the sole requirement that they must be available on 7digital (http://ie.7digital.com/).

Please? Pretty please with various drugs and hookers on top?

[DaveyCakes]

Siouxsie and the Banshees "Cities in Dust"

[gustavo]

Arcade Fire - Ready to Start (http://ie.7digital.com/artists/arcade-fire/the-suburbs-2/02-Ready-To-Start/)

[osarusan]

I approached this from the point of view of me having unlimited money for the site and no music at all of my own at the moment - these are probably the first 7 songs I'd buy (no doubt I'll come up with others that should be on the list seconds after posting).



Tom Waits - Ruby's Arms (from the album Heartattack and Vine)
Mercury Rev - Opus 40 (from Deserter's Songs)
Neil Young - After the Goldrush (from After the Goldrush)
Sigur Ros - Hoppipolla (from Takk...)
Creedence Clearwater Revival - As long as I can see the light (from Cosmo's Factory)
Substitution: The Smiths - There is a light that never goes out (from The Queen is Dead)
The Who - Real Good-lookin Boy (from Then and Now)

Withdrawn: John Lennon - Watching the Wheels (from Double Fantasy) (Couldn't find the original album on there).

[SwanVsDalton]

Deerhunter - Helicopter
Caribou - Lord Leopard
Pavement - Grounded
The Dismemberment Plan - Timebomb
Arab Strap - The First Big Weekend
PJ Harvey - Dress
Dodos - Good

Off the top of my head, some of it's fairly new-ish and they all appear to be on there.

[Wolfie]

I'm not really fulfilling the "new" part of the request but what the hell:

Arcade Fire - 'The Suburbs' - from "The Suburbs".
Rolling Stones - 'Gimmer Shelter' - from "Let it Bleed"
The Pixies - 'Hey' - From "Doolittle"
The La's - 'There She Goes' - from "The La's"
The Clash - 'London Calling' - from "London Calling"
Neil Young - 'Cinnamon Girl' - from "Decade" couldn't find EKTIN.
Stone Roses - 'I am the Resurrection' - from "The Stone Roses

[stann]

Christ I could get lost in a site like that. :)

Anyway, after a quick skip through, I'll go a bit more electronic so, for a bit of an option. Here's 7 I'd have to have:

DJ Shadow - Blood On The Motorway (from The Private Press)
Massive Attack - Teardrop (from Mezzanine)
Chemical Brothers - Dissolve (from Further)
Mylo - In My Arms (from Destroy Rock And Roll)
LCD Soundsystem - All I Want (from This Is Happening)
Hot Chip - One Pure Thought (from Made In The Dark)
Phoenix - 1901 (from Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix)

(only a couple of relatively new ones, but "of the best tracks ever"? Oh yes!)

[dahamsta]

I knew ye wouldn't let me down! Keep 'em coming folks, then I can look for commonalities and lay blame on as many people as possible if I dislike something. :)

[Sullivinho]

Very impressive selection on that site. Went straight into the aul bookmarks.

Mark Lanegan - Mockingbirds (http://ie.7digital.com/artists/mark-lanegan/the-winding-sheet-1/#)
Madrugada - What's On Your Mind? (http://ie.7digital.com/artists/madrugada/the-best-of-madrugada/#)
Grant Lee Buffalo - Wish You Well (http://ie.7digital.com/artists/grant-lee-buffalo/fuzzy/#)
The Gutter Twins - Idle Hands (http://ie.7digital.com/artists/the-gutter-twins/saturnalia-1/#)
Jesse Sykes & the Sweet Hereafter - Station Grey (http://ie.7digital.com/artists/jesse-sykes-the-sweet-hereafter/like-love-lust-the-open-halls-of-the-soul/#)
Graveyard - As The Years Pass By, The Hours Bend (http://ie.7digital.com/artists/graveyard/graveyard-2/#)
Witchcraft - If Crimson Was Your Colour (http://ie.7digital.com/artists/witchcraft/the-alchemist-1/#)

Relatively 'off the beaten track' selection there for the roving ear.

[BonnieShels]

Some great choices here lads...

Off the top of my head cos that'[s the best way to do it and if I was to over think it I would end up spending weeks coming up with options

Arcade Fire- Sprawl II (Track of 2010)
Maximum Balloon- Young Love (Track of 2010 runner-up)
Pulp- Babies (Remarkable track that I always forget about until I hear it again and go WOW!)
Future Islands- Walking Through That Door (Stand-out song from my favourite album last year from the band that gave me the gig of last year)
The Horrors- A Sea Within A Sea (One of the greatest driving songs ever; cracking album as well)
Queens of the Stone Age- Avon (Just. One. Of. Those. Songs.)
My Bloody Valentine- Soon (One of the greatest songs I've ever heard from a band that makes the world a better place)

[SkStu]

I came from the perspective of randomness is goodness. I have these so they are simply songs that excite me.

The GO! Team - Milk Crisis
Pavement - Shady Lane
Smashing Pumpkins - Cherub Rock
I am not a Robot - Marina & The Diamonds
Faith No More - From Out of Nowhere
The Breeders - Cannonball
Gin Blossoms - Hey Jealousy

[Lev Yashin]

The Lemonheads - If I could talk I'd tell you
Martha Wainwright - Tower of song
Beirut - Postcards from Italy
Wilco - How to fight Loneliness
I am Kloot - Proof
dEUS - Little arithmetics
Simple Kid - Truck on.

:laugh:

[Eminence Grise]

An odd journey through Brechtian cabaret, soul, alt folk/country, indie pop...

Solomon Burke – Diamond in Your Mind
Scott Walker - The Old Man's Back Again (Dedicated To The Neo-Stalinist Regime)
Suede – Saturday Night
Joe Pernice – Bum Leg
Belle and Sebastian – The State I Am In
The Dresden Dolls – Lonesome Organist Rapes Page-Turner
Camera Obscura – Razzle Dazzle Rose

[CraftyToePoke]

Alice In Chains - Rotten Apple
Nick Cave - Lime Tree Arbour
Tindersticks - She's Gone
Animal Kingdon - Mephistopheles
The Pine Hill Haints - Scar / Not So Lucky And The Invisible Kid (Alabama Ghost Music)
Burial - Arcangel
John Martin - I'd Rather Be The Devil (Live)

[DannyInvincible]

Ulrich Schnauss - 'Stars' (Edit) (http://ie.7digital.com/artists/ulrich-schnauss/stars-ep/#)
Mogwai - 'Mogwai Fear Satan' (Live 'Special Moves' version) (http://ie.7digital.com/artists/mogwai/special-moves/04-Mogwai-Fear-Satan/#)
Orbital - 'Halcyon and On and On' (http://ie.7digital.com/artists/orbital/orbital-2/09-Halcyon-And-On-And-On/)
Sigur Rós - 'Svefn-g-englar' (http://ie.7digital.com/artists/sigur-r%C3%B3s/svefn-g-englar/#)
Jaga Jazzist - 'One-Armed Bandit' (http://ie.7digital.com/artists/jaga-jazzist/one-armed-bandit-3/02-One-Armed-Bandit/#)
Cowboy Junkies - 'Blue Moon Revisisted (Song for Elvis)' (http://ie.7digital.com/artists/cowboy-junkies/best-of-cowboy-junkies/)
Amon Tobin - 'Sordid' (http://ie.7digital.com/artists/amon-tobin/permutation-1/04-Sordid/#)

Would have recommended 'Dirty Boy' by the Cardiacs, but it doesn't appear to be on there. Or 'Mongrel ... Meets His Maker' by DJ Shadow; only problem is it's split into two tracks.

[Sullivinho]

Creedence Clearwater Revival - As long as I can see the light


The Pixies - 'Hey'


My Bloody Valentine- Soon


Smashing Pumpkins - Cherub Rock


Wilco - How to fight Loneliness


Alice In Chains - Rotten Apple


Seconded. Great picks.

[gustavo]

Arcade Fire - Ready to Start (http://ie.7digital.com/artists/arcade-fire/the-suburbs-2/02-Ready-To-Start/)
Well if everyone else is picking 7 then why not me :)

The Strokes - You're So Right
O Emperor - Po
Manchester Orchestra - Virgin
Oddsocks Revival - East of Jacksonville
Elbow - Open Arms
Wings - Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five

[Wolfie]

Wings - Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five

Great tune. Still reminds me of Dom Joly's "Trigger Happy". I can just see the crowd of people in rabbit costumes charging down a side street.......................

[Pauro 76]

Here's 7 randomers.. 7 minute+ epics!

Sea Within A Sea - The Horrors
The Cedar Room - Doves
The Count of Tuscany - Dream Theater
Escape Velocity - Chemical Brothers
Six - Mansun
We're In This Together - Nine Inch Nails
Untitled 8 - Sigur Ros

[dahamsta]

Still haven't gotten around to actually downloading the tracks. I think I'm just going to make a list of everything in the thread, and pick 7 at random. :)

[the 12 th man]

Manic Street Preachers/Motorcycle Emptiness
Richard Hawley/Open Up Your Door
Joy Division/Atmosphere
New Order/Regret

[BonnieShels]

And the other 3?

[the 12 th man]

And the other 3?

Moby/Extreme Ways
Cheb Mami / Parisien Du Nord
The Cure/ All Cats Are Grey

[the 12 th man]

Bonus track :D
It's not just Sting on this,it's Cheb Mami that has some voice..


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmS-FR7fAaY