Who cares that it is shining…
The game to illustrate either:
How wildly eclectic your taste is… or,
How perfectly streamlined it is.
Rules.
I will post a letter of the alphabet (or two)
all BANDS or ARTISTS must begin with that letter.
Artists letter is determined by the letter at the beginning of their SURNAME (if they use it) – ignore the use of ‘The’ in a bands name.
up to 13 songs are allowed – fewer if you wish.
Up to 13 of each letter this week if you can think of that many.
All can be the same artist if that represents you perfectly or all the same genre.
Just make them great tunes.
Make a youtube playlist (if you like) and link to it – just link to it – don’t overload the thread.
Cut and paste the band names and tracks (in a joyous list style) in the comments.
Then we can chat about the choices – add some waffle if you want (about how narrow or varied those choices are) … but above all, have fun.
THIS WEEK IS: U and V
The 'Spill 
NNOOOOO!
Don’t do it, Shane.
Surely we’ve proved by now that however restrictive a brief, we can fill the pot.
We don’t need two letters. Pull one out again, quick, before anyone notices!
Off to work. Back later.
sorry DsD – got a timescale to kept to… (and the artwork has U and V in it)…
you can use up to 13 bands or artists for each letter still if you wish.
Expect you’ll be able to fill 13 spots with UFO alone 😉
What? You mean like this:
Only UFO Can Rock Me!
1. UFO – Natural Thing (live).
2. UFO – Rock Bottom.
3. UFO – Electric Phase.
4. UFO – Profession Of Violence.
5. UFO – Only You Can Rock Me.
6. UFO – Doing It All For You.
7. UFO – On With The Action.
8. UFO – Hard Being Me.
9. UFO – Mother Mary.
10. UFO – Running On Empty.
11. UFO – Pack It Up (And Go).
12. UFO – Lights Out.
13. UFO – Love To Love (live).
I’m posting from my phone ’cause I’m knackered and I’ve gone to bed.
A YT playlist of this, and my other Us and Vs will follow tomorrow.
G’night all.
Only UFO Can Rock Me playlist here:
UV?
This is going to be tough.
Well, we have to start with the Underground of Velvet!
VDGG will be in here somewhere, and also UK and Uriah Heep.
It is definitely going to be Unusual and Varied this week.
The Velvet Underground – Sweet Jane
U-Roy – Chalice In The Palace
US3 – Cantaloop
Stevie Ray Vaughan – Lenny
UK – In the Dead of the Night
Van Der Graaf Generator – Killer
Uriah Heep – Gypsy
Utopia (feat. Todd Rundgren) – Hiroshima
Violent Femmes – Country Death Song
Underworld – Born Slippy
Utah Saints – Something Good
Veruca Salt – Seether
Ultravox – Quiet Men
Carole’s_Unusual and Varied playlist
Forgot about Underworkd and Utah Saints, great songs, good Ultravox song too 🙂
Doh ! Van Der Graaf ! Forgot them.
Donding that and Velvets and Veruca and U-Roy
UltraViolet donds for SRV and Uriah Heep
dond for UK .. ex-crims trying to keep it going … can’t name a tune .. and todd & utopia with their pyramid stage
Not VU then? I am enjoying the challenge of this game, thanks for keeping us on our toes. My list seems to veer towards goth/alternative and new this week, I’ll be back with a youtube one soon, got to get the kids to school first. Enjoy
1. Ulterior – In Vitro
2. Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats- I’ll Cut You Down
3. Uninvited Guest – Beautiful Orchid
4. Vaniish- Kaleidoscoped
5. Visage – Visage
6. VuvuVultures- Steel Bones
7. Vetiver – Hurry on Sundown
8. Ultravox – We came to dance
9. Velvet Underground – I’ll be your mirror
10. The Vaynes- Baby Cruel
glad you are enjoying it.
Visage! I forgot them completely!
well to be honest I only like about 3 songs by them, but I like those tracks a lot!
HERE
Here is the promised youtube list, minus the Ws and with a different song by the Vaynes because I couldn’t find Baby Cruel, so you get Rock N Roll Crime instead
A big “dond” For the Velvets and Scott Walker.
Thank you, although I got carried away with Scott Walker, I don’t think he begins with U or V, my excuse is that it’s quite hot weather and I’m not used to it.
I might end up with 7 Walker Brothers and 6 Junior Walker songs, inspired, original, thoughts needed! I like this little game.
It isn’t W, though.
I wasn’t getting very far with Ws anyway so no harm done if you pull out the deep blushes for a public brain walkabout.
sorry, I put in some W bands by mistake only V and U this week, plenty of time for Walker Brothers when that comes up
Well, i’m glad you combined them or i would have been screwed on the U, but might have squeaked the V.
VU – Sweet Jane
Stevie Ray Vaughan – Texas Flood
Van Halen – Unchained
Velvet Revolver – Slither
Virgin Prunes – I Am God
Vines – Ride
Voidoids – Time
Vaselines – Son of A Gun (but i vastly prefer the Nirvana cover.)
Vandellas – Dancing in the Street
Vampire Weekend – Step
Verve – Lucky Man
U2 – With or Without You
UB40 – Here I Am
And donding Velvets ( again) and Vaselines.
and i’ll dond your Vaselines back at you – i could have gone with either. (and unfortunately would take Nirvana’s of both.)
Bit of punk (figure the Varukers and UK Subs will show up on at least one list), bit of rock, some Village, and more. And a U2 pick of the day – probably we’re all relieved that i was saved from doing an all U2 list. No Midge Ure, Ultravox, Unthanks, Uriah Heep, Pere Ubu – because i couldn’t name a song by any of them i don’t think. Utopia could probably be shoehorned in though.
Fluorescent Adolescents
oh yeah, i reckon UFO will show up on at least one list too.
“figure the Varukers and UK Subs will show up on at least one list”
Uncanny precognition
donds to Velvet Revolver and Sweet Jane, such a gentle sound
Auto return donds for SRV, Velvet Revolver, could have several off of Contraband and U2.
Very odd things happening over on Youtube today, no matter what video I try to select it insists that I really mean Katie Perry or a Nutella advert featuring cats !
So no playlist today, folks but I think all these are on Youtbue somewhere.
Vampillia are, probably, more Beth’s kind of thing normally, kind of mettally, kind of Gothy ( and kind of Japanese-y) but this one has the most recent vocal appearance by Jun Togawa , showing the old girl still has it in her.
The Vaccines, an underachieving and not terribly loved band I think. I like a few of their first album tracks and this is as sprightly as any, I first saw them on “Later” and was convinced the bass player was a “fat girl” ( as I said to Ubuette the next day). I was , as so often is the case,wrong.
Violent Arse – Best band name ever. Contest closed. Most ridiculous “Oi” song I have ever heard and, therefore, brilliant.
Undertones – Just a bit of a classic
Velvet Underground. Not the obvious choice, perhaps but it’s a song I really like. When it first emerged ( on a bootleg E.P. in the 1970s) it seemed so “out of character” and yet still so totally them.
Venus and the Razorblades – Kim Fowley at work here. This is here for the tremendous lyric “Let them eat cake….I’ll eat dogfood”. Brill.
Vaselines – Just swoony
Upsetters – SMASHing little piece of late 60s instrumental Reggae from Scratch and co
Uchoten- Highly interesting 80s Japanese electronic band.
United States of America – What you get if you mix hippies and primitive electronica.Always sound very odd when in company of other tracks from the same era
Tammy- Great guitar riffette on this one and Tammy has one of the greatest Country voices ever
Scott Walker – Big orchestration, weird lyrics just sublime
Sid.- Bless. A great way to finish, I think.
Vampillia – Lilac
The Vaccines – Noorgaard
Violent Arse – Oi matters to me
The Undertones – My perfect cousin
Velvet Underground – I’m sticking with you
Venus and the Razorblades – Dog food
The Vaselines – Jesus don’t want me for a sunbeam
The Upsetters – Return of the Django
Uchoten – Vegetable
United States of America – I won’t leave my wooden wife for you.
Tammy Wynette – Your good girl’s gonna go bad
Scott Walker – Big Louise
Sid Vicious – My way.
and as a bonus track, cheese time classic
Village People – Y.M.C.A.
I remember that USA song from when somebody lent me their copy of The Rock Machine Turns You On. It didn’t sound like much else on the album.
dond for Sid. Definitely the best version going.
you piqued my interest with Vampillia so I went to find them on Spotify, sadly not the track you mentioned, but I’ve spent a happy half hour in their company so far, thanks for the tip! Megadond for Village People, a great going out song 🙂
Donds for Violent Arse – still not convinced it’s not a wind-up, but genius either way.
I often “cheer the men who make the Oi!”
I think I’ll be doing quite a bit of duplicating. Especially as somebody’s chosen my joint favourite VU song.
You are a person of impeccable taste.
Oh erm – that one’s very good too…………
Sarah Vaughan – I’ll Be Seeing You
(ask me in ten minutes and I’ll choose a different song by her but this live version is great)
Upsetters – Retrurn Of Django
Suzanne Vega – Tom’s Diner
(could be any version with or without music – could be Luka come to think of it)
Violent Femmes – Epp Opp Ork Ah-Ah
(I admit it – this is my favourite track by them)
Undertones – Teenage Kicks
(predictable but I really couldn’t choose another song over this one)
U-Roy – Chalice In The Palace
Ultravox – Young Savage
(this “punk” thing was happening at the time)
Voice Of The Beehive – I Think I Love You
(love this song including the D Cassidy version)
Rachel Unthank and the Winterset – Sea Song
(if you don’t like her voice, you’ll hate her covering a Robert Wyatt song. I love it)
Underworld – Born Slippy
(see Undertones comment!)
Van Der Graaf Generator – Still Life
Velvet Underground – Venus In Furs
(I’m in it)
Velvet Underground – I’ll Be Your Mirror
(sublime – for some reason I’ve been singing this for the past week)
LINKO
dond for Suzanne – forgt all about that one.
of course Venus in Furs is the best Velvets song, heartily donded, but I have listened to it so much I thought I’d go for a different one, donds to Suzanne Vega and I see I shall need to listen to more Ultravox, lots I don’t know coming out in lists.
I could easily have done a complete Velvet Underground list.
that would be a good list
Donds for Undertones, VotB and Suzanne Vega.
Unit 4+2 – Concrete And Clay.
Frankie Valli – Fallen Angel.
Velvelettes – Stop Beating Around The Bush and Twilight Time.
Undertones – My Perfect Cousin.
UB40 – Red, Red, Wine.
Vibrations – ‘Cause You’re Mine.
Velours – I’m Gonna Change.
Bobby Vinton – Mr Lonely and Blue Velvet.
Velvets (N.S. outfit) – I Got To Find Me Somebody.
Velvet Underground – Sweet Jane.
U2 – With Or Without You.
Phew – made it!
dond for UB40. (psst – you still have 2 more to go 🙂 )
Don’t wind me up Amylee, I seem to be having a pretty senile day as it is! Two picks for the Velvelettes and Bobby Vinton gets me to 13, at least I think it does, but I’ll count again to make sure!!
oh, my bad, sorry! i’m senile too, can only handle one per line.
Concrete and Clay – of course!
Duplicate donds for Unit 4 + 2. Stand alone donds for U2, Undertones and the wonderful (but overlooked by me) Bobby Vinton and Blue Velvet.
Nice, Brendan. I still listen to most of those.
I’m sorry to do this to Suzanne Vega and Van Halen, but this week I think I’m going to have to go for 13 songs from the same artist – the first group that I fell for completely, my entry into being a proper obsessive music fan. In no particular order except that the first is in my all-time Top 10…
Ultravox: Vienna
Ultravox: Reap the Wild Wind
Ultravox: The Voice
Ultravox: Hiroshima Mon Amour
Ultravox: Mr X
Ultravox: Lament
Ultravox: Visions in Blue
Ultravox: New Europeans
Ultravox: Dangerous Rhythm
Ultravox: Passing Strangers
Ultravox: The Thin Wall
Ultravox: Slow Motion
Ultravox: Passing Strangers
I suppose I could then have 13 Vs…
Suzanne Vega: Undertow
Visage: Fade to Grey
Van Halen: Panama
Vangelis: Theme from Bladerunner
Voice of the Beehive: I Think I Love You
Sarah Vaughan: They All Laughed
Verve: The Drugs Don’t Work
Village People: YMCA
Frankie Valli: Grease
VU: White Light White Heat
Van Halen: Jump
Miroslav Vitous: Tramp Blues
Sid Vicious: My Way
donds to Visage and Jump, I believe DsD may have been rather disappointed in me for liking it and no other Van Halen once, but I love Diamond Dave in the video
VotB and Van Halen (Jump) donds
dond for both VH.
you have Passing Strangers twice, I shall have to listen to it if you like it that much!
No, that was a mistake – if I was to duplicate any of them, it would be New Europeans – or maybe include the German version of Mr X, Herr X.
oh good, it didn’t light my fire, so I’ll explore the others you mentioned
Duplicate dond for Vienna, the scene running down the staircase is deeply set in my memory.
Dond for Hiroshima, the best Ultravox song imho
The seventeen-or-so minutes of marvellous mayhem that is Sister Ray tops my list (I used to be able to play it in my head pretty accurately). It’s followed by the rest of White Light/White Heat, the sweet paindrops of the third album and the classic smack-pop songs from the first.
U don’t need any uvvers.
Heep heavy & umble .. circle of hands
Van der Graaf plague of lighthouse keepers
Stevie Ray Vaughan’s version of little wing
Vangelis chariots or blade runner stuff or anything with jon singing (pulsar?)
UFO can’t think of a tune .. rockrolla ?
dond for Stevie Ray.
excellent modern act doing old style R’n’B with a touch of soul .. Vintage Trouble .. nancy lee
UFO doctor-doctor maybe ?
Suzanne Vega marlene on my wall
vintage trouble .blues hand me down … is a bit more bluesy than nancy …
Thought I’d be able to claim 13 a piece but the “U’s” let me down. So that left me with a mix and match set combining love their work and some one offs:
Unit 4 + 2 – Concrete and Clay
U2 – Running to Stand Still
UB40 – One in Ten
Ultravox – Vienna
UFO – Doctor, Doctor
Van Halen – Runnin’ With The Devil
Visage – Fade to Grey
Vapors – Turning Japanese
Voice of the Beehive – Monsters and Angels
Velvet Revolver – Fall to Pieces
Stevie Ray Vaughan – Pride and Joy
Ritchie Valens – La Bambara
Suzanne Vega – Tom’s Diner
Van Morrison – Brown-Eyed Girl
I know that’s fourteen but it is two letters.
If i could squeeze in one bit of pop then what about Holly Valence and Kiss Kiss.
Yeah, La Bambara that lesser known tune that when re-worked became the instantly recognisable La Bamba 🙂
dond for that one. Also for Stevie Ray. (and Van)
I went off Brown Eyed girl when someone dedicated it to me – he meant well (I think), but my eyes are green!!
Dammit, forgot Richie Valens – did you mean La Bamba? One of my all time favourites
Yep that’s the one 😉
Ultimate Vocals
Mmmmmwwwwwaaaah – Holly Valence – Kiss Kiss
WTF is “La Bambara” ! ! ? ?
Here it is – haven’t checked but very probably some duplications! I thought when we got to V it would probably be a kind of duet between Velvet Underground and Suzanne Vega, but I got it down to just 2 of each and 2 from the Unthanks. Just picked things I liked, lots more possibles from Velvets, Vega and Unthanks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrRVaYF-O4U&list=PL7kF5w3-HpW_t4F9JxGoFYkNWQKBeDGz0
Velvet Underground – All Tomorrow’s Parties
Suzanne Vega – The Queen and the Soldier
Bobby Vinton – Blue Velvet
The Verve – Bittersweet Symphony
The Unthanks – Annachie Gordon
The Velvet Underground – Pale Blue Eyes
Suzanne Vega – Marlene on the Wall
The Undertones – My Perfect Cousin
The Unthanks – Here’s the Tender Coming
The Village People – In The Navy
The Unusual Suspects – Donald MacGillivray
Martha and the Vandellas – Dancing In the Street
Guiseppe Verdi – Nessun Dorma (Pavarotti)
Donds for Vega and Vinton and Undertones
Thumbs Up, on all your picks, Suzi.
Bobby Vinton and
Matha and Vandellas (Heat Wave!)
Bring back nice memories
I recall when the songs came out -friends and I bought the 45 rpms (still have ’em – yeah, I’m old)
Una – Angels at my Door … (Thanks shoey)
Van der Graaf Generator – Earlybird … (Thanks tatanka yotanka)
Van Halen – Ice Cream Man … (Thanks tinny)
Vanilla Fudge – You Keep me Hanging on … oldie
The Vaynes – Mr Fixit … (Thanks beth)
Jon & Vangelis – State of Independence … V for Vangelis, innit?
Claude Vasori – Drugpop … (Thanks beltway)
Dana Valery – You Don’t Know Where Your Interest Lies … (Thanks bish)
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble – Pride and Joy … classic
Philip Glass Violin Concerto movements 1 & 2 and “Company” movements 1,2,3 & 4 – Takuo Yuasa conducting the ULSTER Orchestra … (shoe-in but hey)
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/8u9ofn1rciiduya/AAA-93XmfzIUMwg0SKyGoC04a
Surprised I don’t have any Suzanne Vega or UFO, but donds to those who do.
Duplicate and auto return dond for SRV and VH.
Vanilla Fudge donds!
Vanilla Fudge double-donds with cream on!
Shoulda remembered that, and UB40’s One In Ten.
glad you took the Vaynes to heart, Ali 😉 donds to the Philip Glass
V…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPCP6GN-
U is done and will follow later
I clicked on your link, but it said the video did not exist 😦
Trying again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojqKya_zyn4&index=5&list=PL8YVYhkMpBKGMu13KynWKJwKWI9i6qfcd
that’s better, thanks!
problems – 1. choosing one VU song, helped by others choices 2. choosing one unwound song – gave up on that (only chose 4 mind so missing a few favourites there)
unwound – december
unkle – follow me down
voxtrot – mothers, sisters, daughters & wives
ultra vivid scene – the mercy seat
unwound – valentine card
the veils – sit down by the fire
violent femmes – add it up
virgin prunes – pagan lovesong
undertones – family entertainment
unwound – antifreeze
velvet underground – beginning to see the light
untitled musical project – why isn’t paul mccartney dead already?
unknown mortal orchestra – swim and sleep (like a shark)
uncle acid and the deadbeats – mind crawler
unwound – demons sing love songs
uv vu
I don’t know unwound, I shall acquaint myself, dond for Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats, I chose them too, quite like that version of the Mercy Seat too.
i’ve tried quite a few times to get an unwound track in the RR list, mainly scarlette. surprisingly no takers yet 😀 they are dark matter in the musical universe.
we’ll run out of songs by people everyone knows eventually and have to branch out!
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Ventures – Walk Don’t Rumn
Van Morrison – Tupelo Honey
Van Halen – Honeybabysweetiedoll
Velvets – Tonight Could Be The Night
Valli, Frankie – Oh What A Night
Velvet Revolver – Set Me Free
Vogues – Turn Around, Look At Me
Vanity Fair – Hitchin’ A Ride
Union Gap, Gary Puckett – Young Girl
I forgot to list these:
Ugly Ducklings – Nothin’
Ugly Ducklings – Gaslight
Hope this UV playlist isn’t too polarizing:
http://goo.gl/ZyrlS6
Caetano Veloso – Cucurrucucú Paloma: In honour of the World Cup England and Canada are both now not at, a Brazilian singer-activist
Dave Van Ronk – Gambler’s Blues: Bastion of pre-hippy New York folk
Frankie Valli – Big Girls Don’t Cry: 39 Top-40 hits for Francesco Stephen Castelluccio. 39, ffs
Gene Vincent – Hot Dollar: For Rocking Mitch, wherever he be
Laura Veirs – I Can See Your Tracks: Dreamy (in a good way) Portland folk
Randy Vanwarmer – Just When I Needed You Most: Almost a one-hit wonder.
Sarah Vaughan – All Of Me: Vocal jazz perfection
Stevie Ray Vaughan – Tin Pan Alley (aka Roughest Place In Town): Could play anything he wanted on that guitar, soft or hard (like Jeff Beck).
Suzanne Vega – (I’ll Never Be) Your Maggie May: La Bamba-ed (i.e. wrongly pidgeonholed) by Luka
Townes Van Zandt – Snowin’ On Raton: Here’s one his record company didn’t screw up with sappy orchestration
Uncle Tupelo – Still Be Around: Huge raw talent (Farrar, Tweedy), healthy egos, kegs of whiskey…An alt-country accident that happened
Unknown Mortal Orchestra – From The Sun: George Harrison’s spirit lives on..in New Zealand
Vinegar Joe – Never Met A Dog: Under-rated 70s British band; launching pad for Elkie Brooks, Robert Palmer, Keef Hartley, Jim Mullen…
VNV Nation – Beloved: Beguiling tour de force about missing someone. (Which I don’t. None of you)
love that VNV Nation song, head and shoulders above everything else I’ve heard by them, sadly, brilliant song!
Can’t believe I forgot Gene Vincent. “Say Mama” would be my pick.
“Can’t believe I forgot Gene Vincent.”
Likewise and similarly, especially as I bought the Capitol Years box set ( for a tenner) only two weeks ago !
DOH !
I’d choose either Five feet of loving or Bop Street ( greatest guitar solos ever ?).
Laura Veirs is ace… good call.
Big donds for Vinegar Joe a great, great band and Laura Veirs, my brain is more hole than anything else these days, had thoughts about neither!!
great selection of songs
Sarah Vaughan
and Stevie Ray Vaughan, also.
yes!
U…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynewdsC_VyM&list=PL8YVYhkMpBKHflZ2oiOM__0ZiOmjQY9Fa
Vaa Vaa Vooom chronicles
Mixtape=Love Viva Voce
stephanie says Velvet Underground
Sex with an X Vaselines
Stupid As Wood The Victorian English Gentlemens Club
Add It Up Violent Femmes
You Should Know Vision
Twenty Seven Strangers Villagers
The Cloud Room Laura Veirs
Marlene on the Wall Suzanne Vega
Found Love in a Graveyard Veronica Falls
Farewell Transmission John Vanderslice
Ugly Violent Femmes
The Love Cats Vitamin String Quartet
The Lion and the Cucumber Vampiros Lesbos*** this might not strictly be the band name (but it’s a perfect example of something I’d never have known about except for the genius that was RR.
UUUUUUMMMMM skyscraper I love U
Not in love (hit by a truck) Ultra Vivid Scene
Make Out Club Unrest
Money And Run (feat. Nick Cave) UNKLE
My Perfect Cousin The Undertones
No Tech! Unwound
808 Beats The Unknown DJ
Dance your troubles away Up, Bustle & Out
Night Doctor The Upsetters
Lie Cheat and steal Us3
Rez Underworld
Special One Ultra Vivid Scene
GDMFSOB UNKLE (Uncensored) DJ Shadow Feat. Roots Manuva
Stick Together U-Roy
not found so had to double up on the you tubes:
N’Vula Urbano De Castro
Crossing off Titles in Books Uhersky Brod
Body Shine Ultimate Thrush vs Blue Sabbath Black Fiji
Varukers – Led To The Slaughter
The Very Things – This Is Motortown
Virgin Prunes – Baby Turns Blue
Violators – Gangland
Vibrators – Pure Mania
Vanilla Muffins – Ladies Choice
Vicious Rumours – Vicious Rumours
Violent Affray – Smash The State
The Virus – Benefits Of War
Vice Squad – Stand Strong Stand Proud
The Vile – Provocation
The Valves – For Adolfs Only
UK Subs – Warhead
Underdogs – Johnny Go Home
Uproar – Soldier Boy
The Undead – Sanctuary
The Unwanted – Withdrawal
Urban Dogs – Limo Life
UK Decay – Werewolf
damn i’m good.
Not surprised to see SRV, U2 and the Velvets feature prominently but there’s a ton of other stuff I don’t really know, so that’ll keep me busy and out of trouble for awhile 🙂
Really late this week due to circumstances etcetc but as this year is the 40th anniversary of the purchase of my first VU album and the fact that they are my favourite band there may be some bias in that direction !
VU – Sister Ray ( my fav song ever)
The Undertones – Here Comes The Summer
Underworld – Born Slippy
Luther Vandross – A House is not a Home
Ultravox – Young Savage
Gene Vincent – Blue Jean Bop
Vibrators – Whips and Furs
UK Subs – Stranglehold
VU – Heroin
VU – I’m Waiting for my Man
VU – Candy Says
VU – New Age (live)
VU – Rock n Roll (live)
Here’s the DsD U-list that isn’t all UFO:
All U’s, no lambs
The Union – Black Monday
Bluesy Classic Rock from singer Pete Shoulder and ex-Thunder guitarist Luke Morley.
Up-C Down-C Left-C Right-C ABC + Start – Get To The Chopper
Post-rock belter from the most-annoyingly-named band I know.
The Used – A Song To Stifle Imperial Progression
WTF moment from scream-punks with lots of friends in UK music mag editorial circles.
Uriah Heep – Too Scared To Burn
Sorry, Carole, but Abominog is just my UH era, though I was sorry they hadn’t retained John Sloman at that point.
UFO – Hot ‘N’ Ready
Couldn’t leave them off this list completely, could I?
Ugly Kid Joe – Everything About You
Puerile, but insanely catchy (cf Puddle Of Mudd’s She Hates Me)
The Undertones – Teenage Kicks
Who said upthread it was impossible to pick anything else over this? Agreed.
UNKLE – Burn My Shadow
Hey Beth, you do know this, don’t you? Spot that singer!
U2 – When Love Comes To Town
With BB King. I like [parts of] Rattle And Hum even if no one else does!
Uncle Tupelo – Chickamauga
Had a hard time finding which UT song to fit well into this playlist. Ended up back at the tune I first thought of. D’OH!
U Can Unlearn Guitar – 58 Days
Sadly not in the YT playlist; I can’t find it on there. Like Nick Cave fronting Kyuss.
And finishing off with the ill-fitting reggae-based pair:
U-Roy – Tide Is High
I do love a Trojan boxset or three!
UB40 – Many Rivers To Cross
Love ’em or hate ’em, they were a very good gateway to reggae for us middle(-ish)-class white kids who would never have got there ourselves.
Ultra Violet:
Underworld (8)
Ultravox! (4)
Undertones (4)
Suzanne Vega (4)
Velvet Underground (4)
Una (3)
Us3 (3)
John Vanderslice (3)
Veils (3)
Laura Veirs (3)
Veronica Falls (3)
Veruca Salt (3)
Verve (3)
Virgin Prunes (3)
Viva Voce (3)
VELVET UNDERGROUND – Sunday Morning
“Katariina” – Värttinä
voice box – i want it back (your love)
Veronica Falls – “Teenage”
Luke Vibert – I Love Acid
Venetian Snares – Hajnal
Volta Cab – Take Me To The Next Level
AINO VENNA – KESÄYÖ
The Valkyrians – Hooligans
Valravn – Krummi
The Verve – History
Violent Femmes – “Gone, Daddy, Gone”
Kurt Vile – “Freak Train”
Vampire Weekend – Step
Vybz Kartel – Go Go Wine
Sweet Sweetback’s Theme by Earth, Wind & Fire with Melvin Van Peebles
VETO – Four To The Floor
Van She – Idea of Happiness
Van Hunt – Down Here In Hell (With You)
Villagers – Nothing Arrived
VEILS – PEGASUS
Maija Vilkkumaa – Ei
U, verily.
UB40 “The Earth Dies Screaming” 12 inch version
united 8 – getting uptown
Funky Thing, Pt 1 – Unemployed
u-roy – wear you to the ball
The Undertones – Teenage Kicks
U2 – Out of Control
Underworld – Born Slippy
Uusi Fantasia – Takaisin
ULTRAVOX – YOUNG SAVAGE
Ubangi – The little cat and the dirty dog.
Olavi Uusivirta – Elvis Istuu Oikealla
Underwater Sleeping Society: Madwheels
Ultra Bra – kaunis ja ylpee
UNKLE – Lonely Soul
Lee Perry Upsetters – Super Ape
Ultramagnetic MC’s – Poppa Large
US3 – Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)
The Undisputed Truth – Smiling Faces Sometimes
Tuomo x UMO: Warzone
Brace Yourself Jason – µ-Ziq
U.S. Girls – The Island Song
Ultramariini – Sydämet
Unknown Mortal Orchestra – Ffunny Ffrends
Union Carbide Productions – Golden Age
I’ll Cut You Down- Uncle Acid and the deadbeats
Uhrijuhla – Liian kaukana
ida Umpikuja – Erakko
Ultra Vivid Scene – Staring At The Sun
BTW. That’s Cia Soro from Whale in the Ubangi video. Babe.
An all time favorite of mine:
The Viscounts – Harlem Nocturne