Tuesday, November 11, 2014

songs listed on radio paradise

Madrigalia—delicate songs with ponderous mandolin-lute-sitar-acoustic sounding guitar riffs
Nick Drake—Fly—Bryter Layter
Led Zeppelin—That’s the Way— Led Zeppelin III
REM—Perfect Circle—Murmur
The Cure—Just Like Heaven—Kiss me, Kiss me, Kiss me
Echo & the Bunnymen—Bring On the Dancing Horses (single)
Alice in Chains—I Stay Away—Jar of Flies

Troubadour-Minstrel—bold lyrical and choral pieces
Bob Dylan—Like a Rolling Stone—Highway 61 Revisited
Simon & Garfunkel—The Sound of Silence—Sounds of Silence
Radiohead—Fake Plastic Trees—The Bends
Gomez—Rhythm and Blues Alibi—Liquid Skin
Belle & Sebastian—The State I Am In—Tigermilk
Neutral Milk Hotel—The King of Carrot Flowers Pts. One, Two & Three—In an Airplane Over the Sea

Rube Goldberg—convoluted, defying categorization, WTF?, Don’t ask.  Or: Music that comes with warning labels
Beatles—Rain (single)
Radiohead—Airbag—OK Computer
REM—Begin the Begin—Life’s Rich Pageant
Nick Drake—Cello Song—Five Leaves Left
Neutral Milk Hotel—Ghost—In an Airplane Over the Sea
Massive Attack—Teardrop—Mezzanine

Kyrie Eleison—giving meaning to life, from which to draw inspiration
Ray LaMontagne—Be Here Now—Till the Sun Turns Black
Madrugada—The Lost Gospel—The Deep End
Enya—Book of Days (single, English version)
Vienna Teng—Augustine—Inland Territory
The Decembrists—Sons and Daughters—The Crane Wife
Bach—Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring—Cantata Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147

Songs to Disappear In—lush, ambient-strings or synth, meandering melodies, non-choral-centric
Moby—Porcelain—Play
New Order—Ceremony (single)
New Order—Your Silent Face—Power, Corruption & Lies
Brian Eno—Deep Blue Day—Apollo
Wagner—Vorspiel (prelude)—Das Rheingold
Vaughn Williams—Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

Juvenilia—adolescent songs
Rush—Tom Sawyer—Moving Pictures
The Cult—She Sells Sanctuary—Love
Blondie—Heart of Glass—Parallel Lines
The Smiths—How Soon is Now? (single)

Modern English—I Melt With You—After the Snow
Simple Minds—Don’t You Forget About Me (single)

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