Butch's List of Music You Should Hear

“In The Sun” ~ Come to Where I'm From by Joseph Arthur
A gorgeously haunting song about trying to let go of someone you love.

“Chicago” (acoustic version) ~ The Avalanche: Outtakes & Extras from the Illinois Album by Sufjan Stevens
Beautiful, poetic, a song about innocence and coming of age.

“Nobody's Fault But My Own” ~ Mutations by Beck
Take a look in the mirror.

“Sleep” ~ Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia The Dandy Warhols
Windshield wipers in the rain.

“Wonderwall” ~ Love Is Hell by Ryan Adams
More powerful and haunting than the original.

“Satisfaction” ~ The Covers Record by Cat Power
Puts a completely different spin on this classic song and makes you realize how timely the lyrics still are.

“Famous Blue Raincoat” ~ Essential Leonard Cohen by Leonard Cohen
The ultimate bummer song.

“Soul Meets Body” ~ Plans by Death Cab For Cutie
This song would fit on Rumors… I can hear Stevie Nicks singing it.

“Fortress” ~ Summer in Abaddon by Pinback
A momentary ray of sunshine breaks through the clouds. Let’s party.

“Walking with a Ghost” ~ So Jealous by Tegan and Sara
The sun is still out, might as well go for a walk and have a smoke.

“Old Man” ~ Harvest by Neil Young
Self reflection.

“The Drugs Don’t Work” ~ Urban Hymns by The Verve
A song about survival.

“This Perfect World” ~ This Perfect World by Freedy Johnston
Trying to reconcile the mistakes you’ve made in the past.

“Deadweight On Velveteen” ~ Veneer by Jose Gonzalez
Uncover the mystery.

“Into Temptation” ~ Temple of Low Men by Crowded House
A lush Beatle-esque take on facing your demons.

“Hurt” ~ American IV: The Man Comes Around by Johnny Cash
His voice resonates with an incredible amount of pain from life’s experiences.

“Both Sides Now” (from Dreamland) ~ Dreamland by Joni Mitchell
One of the best songs ever written about the passage of life.

“Walking After You” ~ The Colour and the Shape by Foo Fighters
Every Breath You Take Part 2.

“Thirteen” ~ New Moon by Elliot Smith
A beautiful rendering of the Big Star classic.

“Orange Sky” ~ Time Without Consequence by Alexi Murdoch
Positively upbeat, the clouds have finally disappeared!

Shirley Manson's Personal Picks

1. Rip It Up - Razorlight
2. Tears all over town - A Girl Called Eddy
3. Pleasure Is All Mine - Bjork
4. Dirt Off Your Shoulder - Jay-Z
5. I'm Not Okay (I Promise) - My Chemical Romance
6. Because of Toledo - The Blue Nile
7. Club Foot - Kasabian
8. Jesus Walks - Kanye West
9. Work It - Missy Elliott
10. Molly's Chambers - Kings Of Leon
11. The Hunger - The Distillers
12. Somebody Told Me - The Killers
13. Fuck The Pain Away - Peaches
14. Hotel Yorba - White Stripes
15. Pretty (Ugly Before) - Elliott Smith
16. Last Nite - The Strokes
17. Who The Fuck? - P.J. Harvey
18. Lose Yourself (explicit) - Eminem
19. Vertigo - U2
20. Take Me Out - Franz Ferdinand
21. Run - Snow Patrol
22. All The Drugs - Courtney Love
23. American Idiot - Green Day

Shirley Manson's Playlist

01. "My Body Is A Cage" (Arcade Fire): Everything they do moves me in some way or another. You can't ask for more than that from a band you love.

02. "Icky Thump" (The White Stripes): Jack is the closest thing we have to a bona fide rock star. Love him forever because he's a treasure and they don't come around that often.

03. "Knocked Up" (Kings of Leon): They are hot are they not? Red hot.

04. "Going To A Town" (Rufus Wainwright): This song is a masterpiece . . . literally.

05. "Phantom Limbs" (The Shins): It makes a dark girl feel all sunny.

06. "Diamond Sea" (Yeah Yeah Yeahs): Karen O is the queen to all thrones. Simple as that. She's effortlessly great.

07. "Don't Fail Me Now" (Ryan Adams & The Cardinals): I love the atmosphere in this track. It makes me think of old things and how much I miss them.

08. "Did You See The Words" (Animal Collective): I met a boy at a bar and he told me I would love this band and by golly he was right.

09. "Till The Sun Turns Black" (Ray LaMontagne): He's a mystery to me. I love his beard.

10. "Back To Black" (Amy Winehouse): I normally don't like deliberately retro sounding tracks but I love this song. Her lyrical bent and snarly attitude makes me root for her.

11. "B.M.F.A." (Martha Wainwright): The entire album is good but this song is genius. How I wish she was my best friend.

12. "Nan You're A Window Shopper" (Lily Allen): Why the silly record company made her take this off the album is beyond me. This is a true-blue original piece of great punk rock.

13. "Fuck It, I Love You" (Malcolm Middleton): Fuck it, I do.

14. "It Ain't No Crime" (Keren Ann): This song makes me want to go and do something nasty.

15. "It Serves You Right To Suffer" (John Lee Hooker): It's true. It does.

16. "Chicago (Acoustic Version)" (Sufjan Stevens): Butch Vig turned me onto this track. It makes both of us cry.

17. "Lord, Help The Poor And Needy" (Jesse Mae Hemphill): Amen. One day I hope he will.

18. "My First Song" (Jay-Z): I think Jay is going to fall out of love with Beyoncé and come crying to me on his knees. Oh yes he is.

19. "The Greatest" (Cat Power): It aches me to hear her sing and this song is her piece de resistance.

20. "The Gulag Orkestar" (Beirut): I love the mind that set to creating this peculiar piece music. It sounds like Abba on drugs.

Check Out Garbage Guitarist's Playlist

01. See My Friends - The Kinks
One of their more obscure early singles. An Indian-influenced guitar with evocative lyrics and a beautiful bridge.

02. Lightning Strikes - Lou Christie
A perfect pop gem. The lead guitar break had to have inspired Springsteen in his lead guitar on Born to Run.

03. Rain - The Beatles
Some of the best bass and drum playing they ever did. And Lennon’s vocal is wonderful.

04. Car Wheels on a Gravel Road - Lucinda Williams
I picked this because it is the title song from an album on which every song is superb.

05. I Still Miss Someone - Johnny Cash
Breaks your heart the way only Johnny could.

06. Evie’s Garden - Freedy Johnston
I was somewhat involved in the mix on the album ‘Perfect World’. This is only one great song from it.

07. Ella Guru - Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band
This song, from ‘Trout Mask Replica’, is an example of Beefheart at his most bizarre, funny and inventive.

08. Daydream Believer - The Monkees
Great, shallow, wonderful pop.

09. Hurt - Johnny Cash
Cash nails this Nine Inch Nails song with more force than they could muster, and with a much lighter hammer.

10. Here Comes the Rain Again - Eurythmics
Annie Lennox’s vocal on this is beautiful. The arrangement is genius.

11. Rosie Won’t You Please Come Home - The Kinks
This lovely song from ‘Face to Face’ is another of Ray Davies’ great overlooked works.

12. What’s New Pussycat? - Tom Jones
From the movie of the same name. Very weird.

13. Can’t Seem to Make You Mine - The Seeds
Garbage covered this song, and we did a respectable (and respectful) job of it. Doesn’t hold a candle to the original though.

14. Tomorrow Never Knows/Within You Without You - The Beatles (‘Love’ soundtrack album)
The ‘mash-ups’ on this record were interesting…some worked, some didn’t. This is one of the more successful combinings of two Beatles classics.

15. 7 and 7 Is - Love
It’s hard to believe that I first heard this very strange number on Top 40 Radio in the middle of Nebraska. It blew my little mind.

16. Positively 4th Street - Bob Dylan
This was the follow-up single to Like a Rolling Stone…a hard act to follow, but a worthy successor.

17. Respect - Aretha Franklin
It doesn’t get any better than this.

18. Hot Fun in the Summertime - Sly and Family Stone
One of the great ‘summer singles’.

19. Good Vibrations - Beach Boys
Brian Wilson’s self-described ‘mini-opera’. Imaginative, melodious, and, sometimes, it rocks.

- Duke Erikson

Artists:
50 Cent
A.F.I
ABBA
AC/DC
Adam and the Ants
Afghan Wigs
Al Green
Altered Images
AngelFish
Apples in Stereo
Aretha Franklin
Ash
At the Drive In
Atmosphere
Basement Jaxx
Bauhaus
BB King
Beck
Besse Smith
Billie Holiday
Bjork
Black Flag
Black Francis
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Black Sabbath
Blink 182
Blonde Redhead
Blondie
Blur
Bob Dylan
Bob Marley and The Wailers
Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys
Bow Wow Wow
Brian Eno
Bright Eyes
Bugatti Type35
Busta Rhymes
Buzzcocks
Can
Captain Beefheart
Carla Thomas
Cat Power
Charles Aznavour
Charlie Parker
Chemical Brothers
Chingy
Coldplay
Courtney Love
D12
Daft Punk
David Bowie
De la Soul
Deftones
Depeche Mode
Deus
Devo
Diana Ross and the Supremes
Dizzy Rascal
DJ Shadow
DMX
Dolly Parton
Dr.Dre
Dusty Springfield
Eagles of Death Metal
Eartha Kitt
Echo and the Bunneymen
Edith Piaf
Elastica
Ella Fitgerald
Elliot Smith
Elvis
Eminem
Etta James
Eve
FannyPack
Felix da Housecat
Fiona Apple
Fleetwood Mac
Foo Fighters
Foxy Brown
Frank Sintatra
Franz Ferdinand
Gary Numan
Girls Against Boys
GoldFrapp
Good 'n Gone
Gram Parsons
Grandaddy
Guns'n Roses
Hank Williams
Happy Mondays
Hey Elastica
Hole
Howlin' Wolf
Husker Du
Ian Brown
Ian Dury and the Blockheads
Iggy Pop and the Stooges
Ike and Tina Turner
Ima Robot
James Brown
Janes Addiction
Janis Joplin
Jaques Brel
Jay Z
Jefferson Airplane
Jesus and the Mary Chain
Jet
Joan Armatrading
Joan Jett
John Cale
John Lee Hooker
John Lennon
Johnny Cash
Johnny Thunders
Joy Division
Julie London
Jurassic 5
Kanye West
Kate Bush
Keane
Kelis
KillDozer
Kings of Leon
Kiss
Kraftwerk
Kylie
Ladytron
Lauryn Hill
Led Zeppelin
Leonard Cohen
Lil' Kim
Loretta lynn
Lou Reed
LTJ Bukem
Lucinda Williams
Ludacris
Madonna
Magazine
Marc Bolan and T Rex
Margo Guryan
Maria Callas
Marianne Faithful
Marilyn Manson
Mars Volta
Marvin Gaye
Mary J Blige
Mary Margaret O'Hara
Massive Attack
Mazzy Star
Mazzy Star
MC5
Metallica
Metric
Miles Davis
Miss Kittin
Missy Elliot
Moby
Modest Mouse
Mogwai
Moloko
Mos Def
Motorhead
Mott the Hoople
Ms Dynamite
Muddy Waters
Murphy Lee
Muse
My Bloody Valentine
Nectarine #9
Neil Young
Nelly
New Order
New York Dolls
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Nico
Nina Simone
Nine Inch Nails
Nirvana
No Doubt
Noel Coward
NWA
Orange Juice
Outkast
Patsy Cline
Patti Smith
Peaches
Peggy Lee
Penetration
Pete Yorn
Pink Floyd
PJ Harvey
Placebo
Porno for Pyros
Portishead
Primal Scream
Prince
Prodigy
Public Enemy
PuffyAmiYummi
Queens of the Stone Age
Radiohead
Rage Against the MAchine
Rammstein
Ramones
Ray Charles
REM
Richard Hell and the Voidoids
Roxy Music
Run DMC
Salt 'n Pepa
Sarah Vaughan
Serge Gainsbourg
Serge Gainsburg
Sigur Ros
Simon and Garfunkel
Sinead O'Connor
Siouxsie and the Banshees
Sleater Kinney
Smashing Pumpkins
Snoop Doggy Dog
Snow Patrol
Sonic Youth
Sonny Boy Williamson
Soulwax
Sparklehorse
Spiritulized
Spoon
Suede
System of a Down
Talk Talk
Talking Heads
Teenage Fanclub
Television
The Animals
The Associates
The Beach Boys
The Beastie Boys
The Beatles
The Beta Band
The Blue Nile
The Byrds
The Carpenters
The Clash
The Cocteau Twins
The Killers
The Pale Saints
The Shangri-la's
The Slits
The Smiths
The Sounds
The Stone Roses
The Stranglers
The Stray Cats
The Strokes
The Sugarcubes
The Sundays
The Thrills
The Undertones
The Vaselines
The Velvet Underground
The Verve
The Who
The Young Marble Giants
Thin Lizzy
Throwing Muses
TLC
Tom Waits
Tori Amos
Tupac Shakur
Twista
U2
Vic Chesnut
Weezer
White Stripes
Willie Nelson
Wire
Wolfgang Press

Books:
1984 by George Orwell
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
American Pastoral by Philip Roth
American Tabloid by James Ellroy
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Any Human Heart by William Boyd
Being There by Jerzy N. Kosinski
Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
Bucket of Tongues by Duncan Maclean
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger
Cherry by Mary Karr
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler
Essential Rumi by Coleman Barks
Generation X by Douglas Coupland
Greyhound for Breakfast by James Kelman
Gulag by Anne Applebaum
Harry Potter by J.K Rowling
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
Lanark by Alistair Gray
Lolita by Nabokov
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Madam Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Miss Smilla's feeling for Snow by Peter Hoeg
Movern Callar by Alan Warner
My Dark Places by James Ellroy
One Flew over the Cuckoo's nest by Ken Kesey
Perfume by Patrick Suskind
Purple America by Ron Moody
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
Sarah by JT LeRoy
She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy
The Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe
The Collected Poems by Stanley Kunitz
The Collected Works of Billy the Kid by Michael Ondatje
The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton
The Conversations,The Art of Editing Film by Michael Ondatje and Walter Murch
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
The Devil that danced on the Water by Aminatta Forna
The Earth by Emile Zola
The English Patient by Michael Ondatje
The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald
The Handmaids Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Heart is a lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
The Heart is Deceitful above all things by JT LeRoy
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
The Known World by Edward P.Jones
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
The New Confessions by William Boyd
The Secret History by Donna Tart
The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass
The Trick is to keep breathing by Janice Galloway
The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
Therese Raquin by Emile Zola
These Demented Lands by Alan Warner
This is Spinal Tap by Karl French
Venus Envy by Elizabeth Haiken
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Movies and DVD's:
1984
4th of July
A Few Good Men
A Room With A View
A Star is Born
Adaptations
All about Eve
All About my Mother
All the Presidents Men
Along came Polly
Almost Famous
Amadeus
American Beauty
American History X
American Movie
American Splendour
Amores Perros
Angelheart
Angels with Dirty Faces
Animal House
Annie Hall
Apocalypse Now
As Good as it Gets
Babe
Bambi
Band of Brothers (Set)
Barbarella
Basic Instinct
Batman
BBC Beatles Anthology
Beetlejuice
Before Night Falls
Being John Malkovich
Bend it like Beckham
Betty Blue (France)
Big Fish
Black Narcissus
Blade Runner
Blue Velvet
Bonnie and Clyde
Boogie Nights
Bound
Brazil
Breakfast a Tiffany's
Breaking the Waves
Bridget Jones Diary
Buffalo Soldiers
Bugsy Malone
Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid
Cabaret
Calamity Jane
Capturing the Friedmans
Carrie
Casablanca
Casino
Cat in a Hot Tin Roof
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Chinatown
Chopper
Citizen Kane
City of God
Cleopatra
Coal Miners Daughter
Cold Mountain
Cool Hand Luke
Coven
Crouching Tiger,Hidden Dragon
Dangerous Liasons
Das Boot
Death in Venice
Deliverance
Dirty Harry
Dirty Pretty Things
Diva (France)
Donnie Brasco
Donnie Darko
Don't Look Back
Don't look back (Bob Dylan)
Dr Zhivago
East West
Easy Rider
Edward Sissorhands
Elephant
Elizabeth
Eraserhead
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Evil Dead
Far From Heaven
Fargo
Finding Nemo
Freaks
Friday the 13th
Fried Green Tomatoes
From Here to Eternity
Full Metal Jacket
Gangs of New York
Gaslight
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Ghandi
Ghost World
Giant
Gilda
Girl Interrupted
Gladiator
Glengarry,Glen Ross
Gold Finger
Gone with the Wind
Goodfellas
Goodwill Hunting
Grease
Guess Who's coming to dinner
Hands on a Hard Body
Happy Gilmour
Hard Days Night
Harvey
Heathers
Heavenly Creatures
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Help
High Anxiety
Hilary and Jackie
Husbands and Wives
I Claudius
In the Bedroom
In the Name of the Father
Indiana Jones
It's a Wonderful Life
Jacobs Ladder
Jerry McGuire
Jezebel
JFK
Kill Bill (Parts 1 and 2)
Klute
Kolya
LA Confidential
Laurel Canyon
Let it Be
Lost in Translation
Lovely and Amazing
Magical Mystery Tour
Magnolia
Malcolm X
Man of a Thousand faces
Marnie
Meet The Parents
Mephisto
Metropolis
Midnight Cowboy
Midred Pierce
Missing
Monsoon Wedding
Moulin Rouge
Mullholland Drive
My Fair Lady
My Left Foot
My Life as a Dog (Swedish)
My name is Joe
National Velvet
Natural Born Killers
North by Northwest
Northfork
O Brother where art thou
On Golden Pond
On the Waterfront
One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest
One From the Heart
Osama
PaperMoon
Papillon
Performance
Peyton Place
Pillowtalk
Platoon
Pollock
PunchDrunk Love
Quadraphenia
Queer as Folk (Set)
Quiz Show
Raging Bull
Reality Bites
Rear Window
Rebecca
Rebel Without a Cause
Remains of the Day
Requiem for a dream
Resevoir Dogs
Rocky (Set)
Roman Holiday
Romeo and Juliet
Rumble Fish
Santa Sangre
Saturday Night Fever
Saving Private Ryan
Scarface
School of Rock
Seven
Sex in the City (Set)
Sex, Lies and Videotape
Shadowlands
Shaft
Silence of the Lambs
Slingblade
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Something About Mary
Something's gotta Give
Sophie's Choice
Spartacus
SpellBound
Stalingrad
Standing in the Shadows of Motown
Star Wars
Stop Making Sense
Suburbia
Summer of Sam
Sunset Boulevard
Sweet Sixteen
Sweet Smell of Success
Swimming Pool
Swingers
Talk to Her
Taxi Driver
Terminator
The Bad and the Beautiful
The Barefoot Contessa
The Believer
The Big Easy
The Big Lebowski
The Big Sleep
The Birds
The Cable Guy
The Colour of Paradise (Iranian)
The Conversation
The Cook, the thief, his wife and her Lover
The Crossing
The Deer Hunter
The Doors
The Elephant Man
The Fabulous Baker Boys
The Fog of War
The French Connection
The Full Monty
The Girl On a Motorcycle
The Godfather (Set)
The Good the bad and the Ugly
The Graduate
The grapes of Wrath
The Great Gatsby
The Hitchhiker
The Hours
The Indsider
The Kings of New York
The Last Waltz
The Letter
The Little Foxes
The Maltese Falcon
The Manchurian Candidate
The Misfits
The Mission
The Name of the Rose
The Nanny
The Night of the Hunter
The Nightmare Before Christmas
The Philadelphia Story
The Piano
The Picnic
The Player
The Pledge
The Postman Always Rings Twice
The Red Shoes
The Rose
The Sheltering Sky
The Sixth Sense
The Sopranos (Set)
The Sound of Music
The Sting
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
The Third Man
The Virgin Suicides
The Wizard of Oz
Thelma and Louise
Thin Red Line
Thirteen
Tigerland
Tin Drum
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Set)
To Catch a Thief
To Die For
To Kill a Mockingbird
Togther (Sweden)
Top Gun
Touch of Evil
Traffic
Trainspotting
Supersize Me
Unfaithful
Unforgiven
Usual Suspects
Vertigo
Walkabout
Welcome to the Dollshouse
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane
What's eating Gilbert Grape
White Christmas
White Heat
Who's afraid of Virginia Woolfe
Wings of Desire
Wonder Boys
Year of Living Dangerously
Yellow Submarine
Young Adam
Young at Heart
Zelig