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Tranche 1 of 3:
OK, this is phase one, where I tell you which songs made my initial new-to-me favorites cut.
The idea here is to let people know that their work was appreciated! Phase two will be when I listen to all the playlists a couple of times and choose 1-3 top favorites from each artist.
To be clear, having more or fewer songs that made my list doesn't mean a ton, because these are only songs that were either new to me, not new but forgotten, or those I'd heard in a draft or countdown here but hadn't paid close attention to. So an artist like Elliott Smith, whose near-entire catalog is familiar to me, won't have a lot of selections. On each artist, I'll indicate on a 1-10 scale how familiar I was with their work prior to this exercise.
In order of the list in post #1:
Stevie Wonder (selected by @Uruk-Hai )
Prior familiarity: 9 of 10, one of my favorite artists
Number of new favorites: 2 - Someday at Christmas; Where Is Our Love Song
Foo Fighters (selected by @Just Win Baby )
Prior familiarity: 3 of 10, knew some hits and a few others from countdowns/drafts here
Number of new favorites: 13 - Aurora; Stranger Things Have Happened; What If I Do?; Walk; Skin and Bones; This is a Call; Stacked Actors; Another Round; My Hero; Outside; Friend of a Friend; Halo; Breakout
Todd Rundgren (selected by @New Binky the Doormat )
Prior familiarity: 3 of 10, had heard a few in the wild and a few more in countdowns/drafts here
Number of new favorites: 10 - Be Nice to Me; Hideaway; Black Maria; Dust in the Wind; A Dream Goes on Forever; Couldn't I just Tell You; Sometimes I Don't Know What To Feel; Izzat Love?; Bread; It Wouldn't Have Made Any Difference
Big Thief (selected by @Ilov80s )
Prior familiarity: 2 of 10, had heard some in countdowns/drafts here
Number of new favorites: 9 - Blurred View; Paul; Forgotten Eyes; Vegas; Change; Mary; Certainty; Mythological Beauty; Black Diamonds
Modest Mouse (selected by @The Dreaded Marco )
Prior familiarity: 5 of 10, owned a couple of their records years ago, saw them in concert once, but haven't kept up much
Number of new favorites: 9 - Never Ending Math Equation; Gravity Rides Everything; Whenever You Breathe Out, I Breathe In; Polar Opposites; Bankrupt on Selliing; Blame It on the Tetons; The Stars Are Projectors; Lives; Night on the Sun
Jorge Ben Jor (selected by @Don Quixote )
Prior familiarity: 2 of 10, had heard some in countdowns/drafts here
Number of new favorites: 13 - Meus Filhos, Meu Tesouro; O Telefone Tocou Novamente; Eu Vou Torcer; Rita Jeep; Carolina, Carol Bela; Oba, La Vem Ela; Xica Da Silva; Minha Teimosia, Uma Arma Pra Te Conquistar; A Band do Ze Pretinho; Zumbi; Os Alquimistas Estao Chegando Os Alquimistas; Ponta De Lanca Africano; Errare Humanum Est
Warren Zevon (selected by @worrierking )
Prior familiarity: 4 of 10, knew a few hits and had heard a lot in countdowns/drafts here - ALERT!!! Zevon was an artist I thought could be shut out on new favorites
Number of new favorites: 7 - Carmelita; Reconsider Me; Don't Let Us Get Sick; The French Insider; Play It All Night Long; Ain't That Pretty At All; Poor Poor Pitiful Me
Rush (selected by @higgins )
Prior familiarity: 6 of 10, knew the hits and some deeper ones from their popularity when I was growing up, had heard more in countdowns/drafts here
Number of new favorites: 2 - The Analog Kid; Cold Fire
Slade (selected by @Mrs. Rannous )
Prior familiarity: 3 of 10, knew a couple hits and a few from countdowns/drafts here - ALERT!!! Slade was an artist I thought could be shut out on new favorites
Number of new favorites: 6 - High and Dry; Keep Your Hands off my Power Supply; Don't Tame a Hurricane; (And Now the Waltz) C'est la Vie; Ready to Explode; Mad Dog Cole
AC/DC (selected by @falguy )
Prior familiarity: 7 of 10, a top band growing up but I didn't keep up entirely with them later, still knew almost all of these songs
Number of new favorites: 2 - That's the Way I Wanna Rock 'N' Roll; Shot Down in Flames
Ryan Adams (selected by @Dr. Octopus )
Prior familiarity: 5 of 10, similar to Modest Mouse I was an early fan for a while and saw him in concert, but I lost track of his squillion albums along the way. Hey look, while I was typing that sentence he released another one! I also stopped listening a little due to the creep factor.
Number of new favorites: 12 - Lucky Now; Oh My God, Whatever, Etc.; Bad Blood; When Will You Come Back Home; Follow the Lights; Hotel Chelsea Nights; English Girls Approximately; My Love for You Is Real; Everybody Knows; Anybody Wanna Take Me Home; 1974; I See Monsters
Clutch (selected by @Raging weasel )
Prior familiarity: 1 of 10, had heard of them and nothing more
SPECIAL SHOUT-OUT to Clutch for having the best song titles
Number of new favorites: 6 - Rising Sun; The Regulator; Ghost; Emily Dickinson; What Would a Wookie Do?; Promoter (of Earthbound Causes)
Genesis (selected by @Yo Mama )
Prior familiarity: 5 of 10, knew the hits and many of the minor songs, and knew some from countdowns/drafts here, but didn't know a lot of the Gabriel or proggy stuff
Number of new favorites: 9 - Behind the Lines; More Fool Me; Mad Man Moon; The Battle of Epping Forest; I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe); Entangled; Dancing with the Moonlit Knight; Dane on a Volcano; Watcher of the Skies
Stevie Ray Vaughan (selected by @Sullie )
Prior familiarity: 2 of 10, knew a few popular songs
Number of new favorites: 9 - The Things (That) I Used To Do; Stang's Swang; Long Way from Home; Life without You; Lenny; All Too Well; Texas Flood; Love Struck Baby; Mary Had a Little Lamb
Daft Punk (selected by @rockaction )
Prior familiarity: 2 of 10, knew a little from countdowns/drafts here
Number of new favorites: 7 - Veridis Quo; Face to Face; Aerodynamic; High Life; Too Long; Digital Love; Starboy
OK, this is phase one, where I tell you which songs made my initial new-to-me favorites cut.
The idea here is to let people know that their work was appreciated! Phase two will be when I listen to all the playlists a couple of times and choose 1-3 top favorites from each artist.To be clear, having more or fewer songs that made my list doesn't mean a ton, because these are only songs that were either new to me, not new but forgotten, or those I'd heard in a draft or countdown here but hadn't paid close attention to. So an artist like Elliott Smith, whose near-entire catalog is familiar to me, won't have a lot of selections. On each artist, I'll indicate on a 1-10 scale how familiar I was with their work prior to this exercise.
In order of the list in post #1:
Stevie Wonder (selected by @Uruk-Hai )
Prior familiarity: 9 of 10, one of my favorite artists
Number of new favorites: 2 - Someday at Christmas; Where Is Our Love Song
Foo Fighters (selected by @Just Win Baby )
Prior familiarity: 3 of 10, knew some hits and a few others from countdowns/drafts here
Number of new favorites: 13 - Aurora; Stranger Things Have Happened; What If I Do?; Walk; Skin and Bones; This is a Call; Stacked Actors; Another Round; My Hero; Outside; Friend of a Friend; Halo; Breakout
Todd Rundgren (selected by @New Binky the Doormat )
Prior familiarity: 3 of 10, had heard a few in the wild and a few more in countdowns/drafts here
Number of new favorites: 10 - Be Nice to Me; Hideaway; Black Maria; Dust in the Wind; A Dream Goes on Forever; Couldn't I just Tell You; Sometimes I Don't Know What To Feel; Izzat Love?; Bread; It Wouldn't Have Made Any Difference
Big Thief (selected by @Ilov80s )
Prior familiarity: 2 of 10, had heard some in countdowns/drafts here
Number of new favorites: 9 - Blurred View; Paul; Forgotten Eyes; Vegas; Change; Mary; Certainty; Mythological Beauty; Black Diamonds
Modest Mouse (selected by @The Dreaded Marco )
Prior familiarity: 5 of 10, owned a couple of their records years ago, saw them in concert once, but haven't kept up much
Number of new favorites: 9 - Never Ending Math Equation; Gravity Rides Everything; Whenever You Breathe Out, I Breathe In; Polar Opposites; Bankrupt on Selliing; Blame It on the Tetons; The Stars Are Projectors; Lives; Night on the Sun
Jorge Ben Jor (selected by @Don Quixote )
Prior familiarity: 2 of 10, had heard some in countdowns/drafts here
Number of new favorites: 13 - Meus Filhos, Meu Tesouro; O Telefone Tocou Novamente; Eu Vou Torcer; Rita Jeep; Carolina, Carol Bela; Oba, La Vem Ela; Xica Da Silva; Minha Teimosia, Uma Arma Pra Te Conquistar; A Band do Ze Pretinho; Zumbi; Os Alquimistas Estao Chegando Os Alquimistas; Ponta De Lanca Africano; Errare Humanum Est
Warren Zevon (selected by @worrierking )
Prior familiarity: 4 of 10, knew a few hits and had heard a lot in countdowns/drafts here - ALERT!!! Zevon was an artist I thought could be shut out on new favorites
Number of new favorites: 7 - Carmelita; Reconsider Me; Don't Let Us Get Sick; The French Insider; Play It All Night Long; Ain't That Pretty At All; Poor Poor Pitiful Me
Rush (selected by @higgins )
Prior familiarity: 6 of 10, knew the hits and some deeper ones from their popularity when I was growing up, had heard more in countdowns/drafts here
Number of new favorites: 2 - The Analog Kid; Cold Fire
Slade (selected by @Mrs. Rannous )
Prior familiarity: 3 of 10, knew a couple hits and a few from countdowns/drafts here - ALERT!!! Slade was an artist I thought could be shut out on new favorites
Number of new favorites: 6 - High and Dry; Keep Your Hands off my Power Supply; Don't Tame a Hurricane; (And Now the Waltz) C'est la Vie; Ready to Explode; Mad Dog Cole
AC/DC (selected by @falguy )
Prior familiarity: 7 of 10, a top band growing up but I didn't keep up entirely with them later, still knew almost all of these songs
Number of new favorites: 2 - That's the Way I Wanna Rock 'N' Roll; Shot Down in Flames
Ryan Adams (selected by @Dr. Octopus )
Prior familiarity: 5 of 10, similar to Modest Mouse I was an early fan for a while and saw him in concert, but I lost track of his squillion albums along the way. Hey look, while I was typing that sentence he released another one! I also stopped listening a little due to the creep factor.
Number of new favorites: 12 - Lucky Now; Oh My God, Whatever, Etc.; Bad Blood; When Will You Come Back Home; Follow the Lights; Hotel Chelsea Nights; English Girls Approximately; My Love for You Is Real; Everybody Knows; Anybody Wanna Take Me Home; 1974; I See Monsters
Clutch (selected by @Raging weasel )
Prior familiarity: 1 of 10, had heard of them and nothing more
SPECIAL SHOUT-OUT to Clutch for having the best song titles
Number of new favorites: 6 - Rising Sun; The Regulator; Ghost; Emily Dickinson; What Would a Wookie Do?; Promoter (of Earthbound Causes)
Genesis (selected by @Yo Mama )
Prior familiarity: 5 of 10, knew the hits and many of the minor songs, and knew some from countdowns/drafts here, but didn't know a lot of the Gabriel or proggy stuff
Number of new favorites: 9 - Behind the Lines; More Fool Me; Mad Man Moon; The Battle of Epping Forest; I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe); Entangled; Dancing with the Moonlit Knight; Dane on a Volcano; Watcher of the Skies
Stevie Ray Vaughan (selected by @Sullie )
Prior familiarity: 2 of 10, knew a few popular songs
Number of new favorites: 9 - The Things (That) I Used To Do; Stang's Swang; Long Way from Home; Life without You; Lenny; All Too Well; Texas Flood; Love Struck Baby; Mary Had a Little Lamb
Daft Punk (selected by @rockaction )
Prior familiarity: 2 of 10, knew a little from countdowns/drafts here
Number of new favorites: 7 - Veridis Quo; Face to Face; Aerodynamic; High Life; Too Long; Digital Love; Starboy
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All the songs didn't hit with me, but these playlists that push me are some of my favorites to tackle as well. I loved A Beautiful Noise, and that instantly snapped me back into keeping that open mind. The Things I Regret turned into one of my favorite songs of the whole adventure. I actually liked all the songs from The Firewatcher's Daughter, so I wrote that down for my further listening. I might follow that with listening to The Story, because I really dug The Story and My Song as well. Great talent and voice - thanks for the introduction to her.
