The Best of Tone

A few days back, a discussion was started within the shop. It came down to this:

Name your top five favorite guitar tones, Band & Song title

A curious thing arose. Out of the handful of people around the shop, only one song was a duplicate on any of our lists. A few bands were mentioned more than once, but not the same song. All of us commented on each others choices as being good choices.

The other curious thing is that only a few of us can actually count to five.

Here's our lists. Feel free to add your own:

Tommy

Bauhaus -  In the Flat Fields
Hot Snakes - Auto Midnight
Julie Cruise - Floating Through the Night
Clash - 1977
Shadows - Stingray
Music Machine - Trouble
Ennio Moricone  - Good Bad and Ugly
the Birthday Party - jennifer's veil


Adam

Freddie King -  Boogie Funk
Magic Sam - Looking Good
Mickey & Silvia - Love is Strange
Charlie Christian - Airmail Special
Humble Pie - Black Coffee
Black Flag - Damaged
ZZ Top - Tush


Jimmy

Mick Ronson - With the Circle
Hendrix - Stars with Laughing Sam
Link Wray - Rumble
Clapton - Telephone blues
Santo & Johnny - Sleepwalk



Alex

Metallica - Disposable Heroes
EODM - ?



Andrew

Hendrix - Foxy Lady
Mountain - Never in my life
Jeff Beck Group - I ain't superstitious
SRV - Scuttle Buttin
Free - The Stealer
Magic Sam - Looking Good
Fleetwood Mac w/ Peter - Jumpin At Shadorws
ACDC - High Voltage



Pat

Bloomfield - East/West
Dire Straits - Money For Nothing
ZZ - Need you Tonight
Chilites - Have You Seen Her


Sam

The Smiths - This Charming Man
Black Flag - Thirsty and Miserable
Steve Tibbets - The X-Festival
Sonic Youth - Teenage Riot
Matthew Sweet - Divine Intervention
Jesus & Mary Chain = Never Understand

Ryan

Blake Mills - Shed Your Head
Ry Cooder - Humpty Dumpty
Brokeback - This is Where We Sleep
5ive Style - Freddy Flakeout
Jon Brion - Revolving Door

O

Mick Ronson/David Bowie - Queen Bitch
Neil Young - Ragged Glory
HoundDog Taylor - Gimme back my wig
the Birthday Party - Deep in the Woods
Them Crooked Vultures - Dead End Friends

Doug (gave two lists)

Blues list:
Michael Burks - Empty Promises
Albert King - Killing Floor
SRV - Life Without You
Clapton - Reconsider Baby
Fleetwood Mac - Shrine '69

Rock list:
Rush - Limelight
Lou Reed - Rock and Roll Animal Album
Rival Sons - Jordan
Tony Iommi - Live
Rory Gallagher - Shin Kicker


Josh

Neil Young - Don't Cry
Laaz Rockit - Fire in the Hole
Metallica - The Small Hours
Didjits - Beast Le Brutale
Pestilence - Out Of the Body
Bill Frisell - One of These Days
New Bomb Turks - Tail Crush


AG