The Guthrie/Budd compilations are exactly what you think they should sound like...huge depths of resonating piano...Cocteau-like guitar. Ambient to the core really.

Aretha Franklin - Do Right Woman, Do Right Man
Guided By Voices - Motor Away
My Morning Jacket - XMas Curtain
Bob Dylan - Dirt Road Blues
Beirut - Forks and Knives
Jens Lekman - At the Department of Forgotten Songs
Otis Gayle - I'll Be Around
Liars - We Live NE of Compton
Caetano Veloso - Enquanto Seu Lobo Nao Vem
David Axelrod - London

Outkast - Ms Jackson
Blur - She's So High
Semisonic - Chemistry
Duran Duran - Hungry Like The Wolf
Green Day - Longview
Run DMC - It's Like That
Roots Manuva - Dreamy Days
Ben E. King - I Who Have Nothing
Badly Drawn Boy - Everbody's Stalking
Faithless - She's My Baby

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Gimme Shelter - The Stones
... (that intro! goosebumps!)
Idiot Waltz - Shivaree
Treat Me Like a Lady - PP Arnold
... (a great voice but let down by indifferent material. This was one of her better songs.)
Let's Spend the Night Together - The Stones
... (their best period, that - late 60s)
Singing Cowboy - Love
... (the 6-minute version. The second half is totally dispensable.)
The Bargain Store - Dolly Parton
Sua Estupidez - Gal Costa
Brown Eyed Girl - Van the Man
Throw Some Water In - Lee 'Scratch' Perry
... (dead silly)
They Can't take That Away from Me - Frank Sinatra
... (that intro!)
Rudy with a Flashlight - The Lemonheads


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Bonnie Prince Billy – Madeleine-Mary
No Age – Every Artist Needs A Tragedy
Sparks – Don’t Leave Me Alone With Her
Sly and the Family Stone – Spaced Cowboy
Sunset Rubdown – Us Ones in Between
Iron and Wine – Flightless Bird, American Mouth
Githead – Drop
Beach House – Wedding Bell
Pavement – Frontwards
Headless Chickens – Donca

Seu Jorge - Pequines e Pitbull
The Shins - The Past and Pending
Beck - Lazy Flies
A Tribe Called Quest - Can I Kick It?
Broken Social Scene - Looks Just Like the Sun
Clinic - Monkey On Your Back
Billy Bragg & Wilco - Black Wind Blowing
Raekwon - Rainy Dayz
Bob James - Nautilus
Sebadoh - Perfect Way

The Band with Van Morrison - Caravan
Dooley Wilson - Knock On Wood
The Lemonheads - Ceiling Fan In My Spoon
The Weepies - Just Blue
King - Love & Pride
Emily Loizeau - L'Autre Bout Du Monde
Kathleen Edwards - Asking For Flowers
Lyle Lovett - Step Inside This House
Simone White - You May Be In The Darkness
The Damned - Eloise

13th Floor elevators - Rose and the Thorn <<<< GREAT SONG
The Misunderstood - My Mind <<<<< ditto.
Ladytron - High Rise (Live version)
Krysztof Komeda - Skiing (short bit with bassoon)
Les Breastfeeders - L'existance precede le diesel (great current Montreal garage band with silly name)
Mum - they made frogs sing
Little Denise Stevenson - Soul Shakin' (off the excellent Bay Area funk compilation, V.2)
Thelonious Monk Quarter - unlabeled piece, Live at Philharmonic
Macondo - Almendra (off the What It Is! rhino compilation - wahwah guitar + moog get the latin treatement)
Bango - rock dream (Brazilian pre-prog psych garage)

The Beach Boys - I Just Wasn't Made For These Times
Suede - So Young
Franz Ferdinand - Walk Away
Ian Brown - My Star
The Pogues - Rain Street
Talking Heads - What A Day That Was
Foals - Two Steps, Twice
Oneida - History's Great Navigators
The Morrison Steam Fayre - Six Strings Layabout
Beastie Boys - Brass Monkey

Soft Machine- Virtually, Pt.3

Scott Walker- You're Gonna Hear From Me

Lou Reed & John Cale- Nobody But You

The Black Heart Procession- The Replacement

LCD Soundsystem- I'm Losing My Edge

Tony Conrad- Glissando 4

Charles Mingus- A Foggy Day

Eyeless in Gaza- September Hills

Earth- Land of Some Other Order

Ali Farka Toure w/ Ry Cooder- Keita

Undertones - Jimmy Jimmy
Muse - Super Massive Black Hole
Tatu - Craving (Bollywood Mix)
Art Brut - Rusted Guns of Milan
Slipstream - Computer Love
Mel-O-Tones - Burton Buzz
Jack - White Jazz
The Who - Who Are You
Sisters of Mercy - Temple of love
Ladytron - Silver Screen Shower Scene

Dirtbombs – I Hear the Sirens
Drowning Craze – I Love the Fjords
Yeasayer – 2080
Iggy Pop and the Stooges – Loose
Stephen Malkmus – Hopscotch Willie
Robert Forster – Pandanus
Paul Haig – Something Good
M83 – Run Into Flowers
James Blood Ulmer – Revelation March
Atlas Sound – Winter Vacation

Kimya Dawson - Singing Machine
Paul Simon - Tenderness
Britney Spears - Toxic (Clap Ya Hands remix)
John Prine - Blue Umbrella
The Beatles - Baby's In Black
The Mary Onettes - Explosions
Leon Russell - This Masquerade
It Bites - Calling All The Heroes
Billy Bragg & Wilco - I Guess I Planted
Townes Van Zandt - Racing In The Streets

Can I join in? I know this is an old thread, but I like playing this game, and I don't post outside Football often enough.

1. Jamiroquai - 'Supersonic'
2. Stevie Wonder - 'He's Misstra Know-It-All'
3. Sly & The Family Stone - 'You Can Make It If You Try'
4. Brooklyn Funk Essentials - 'Stickman Crossing Brooklyn Bridge'
5. Azymuth - 'Jazz Carnival'
6. Weather Report - 'Birdland'
7. Galliano - 'Long Time Gone'
8. Pleasure - 'Dust Yourself Off'
9. Bjork - 'I Miss You'
10. Ray Barreto - 'Sola Te Dejaré'

A couple of those tracks are from albums I'd forgotten were still on my mp3 player, and the whole makes it sound like I've got a hell of a lot of funk and just a little bit of salsa. Which is only half true.

Grandaddy-The Warming Sun
Christy Moore-On The Bridge
Calexico-Chach
My Bloody Valentine-Touched
Johnny Cash-The Legend of John Henry's Hammer
James Brown-I'm Real
Ryan Adams-Argument with Dave Rawlings concerning Morrisey
Bruce Springsteen-Loose Ends
Public Enemy-Prophets Of Rage
Blondie-Picture This