Joy of Joy - List of Lists - What are Your Favourites?

[BONES]

Here at KVR we all like making lists, don't we? Trouble is, we've pretty much exhausted the supply of things to make lists about... until now. I thought it was way past time we made lists of our favourite things to make lists of. I'll start.

My favourite lists are lists of my favourite albums and artists. Perhaps strangely, though, I've never even thought about making a list of my favourite songs (until now). I think that's because songs always exist for me in a context of those around them. It's probably why I don't do streaming and I never, ever use random play, I always listen to full releases. I could definitely list my favourite singles and EPs, but not my favourite songs.

That said, I probably spend more time on song lists for live shows than on any other kind of list. I obsess over song orders and how many songs we have in the set from each album and which songs we've played too often and which have we not played enough. I can fill a week's worth of evenings doing a single song list. Then we get to the gig and everyone's running late so we have to cull 4 songs from our set and I get angry.

Instrument/effect/plug-in lists aren't really that important to me, except to remind me of things I have that I should use more. But they never have that effect.

To summarise in list form, my favourite lists are, in order -

- set lists,
- favourite artist lists, and
- favourite album lists.

What about you?

[Benedict]

I am just shocked to hear that Bones gets angry!!! lol

I look at lists from time to time to see what is out there, but honestly, they tend to be lists of the incompetence of others far more than any sort of useful revelation. I absolutely do not need to read for the 567th time that Skplugifuk 12 Pro XIIV the Always On Sale Edition is da bestest eva for people who do not know how to do the thing they pretend they know how to do.

I wrote an article on this some years ago. It was studiously ignored by VST list-makers everywhere: https://benedictroffmarsh.com/2019/03/1 ... -the-best/

And this one for good measure: https://benedictroffmarsh.com/2020/10/0 ... omes-good/

[Michael L]

- things I want to do
- things I need to do
- things I did not do

[BONES]

I assume the third list is a combination of every item on the first two? That's definitely how those lists would work for me.

[harryupbabble]

if i didn't misunderstood the thread title,,,
here are two lists that give me joy
i'm probably forgetting a whole bunch of guys and gals...


my top 17 favourite songwriters

01. david bowie
02. paul mccartney and john lennon of the beatles
03. jimmy page and robert plant of led zeppelin
04. mick jagger and keith richards of the rolling stones
05. robert smith of the cure
06. black francis of the pixies
07. david sylvian and mick karn of japan
08. geddy lee and alex lifeson and neil peart of rush
09. freddie mercury and brian may of queen
10. steven tyler and joe perry of aerosmith
11. elton john and bernie taupin
12. kurt cobain of nirvana
13. stevie nicks
14. christine mcvie and lindsey buckingham of fleetwood mack
15. bernard sumner and peter hook of new order
16. ian curtis of joy division
17. jim reid and william reid of jesus and mary chain


my top 7 favourite guitarists

01. jimmy page
02. robert fripp
03. steve howe
04. alex lifeson
05. jimmi hendrix
06. wes montgomery
07. carlos santana

[BONES]

We only want to see a list of your favourite lists, not their contents.

[funky lime]

i kind of dread set lists, personally. to me it's like scheduling sex positions in advance. by the time we finish the first song, i'm already second-guessing the plan. having a list of songs to play is nice, but i've pissed off bandmates plenty by calling audibles throughout a show

[harryupbabble]

We only want to see a list of your favourite lists, not their contents.

oops, sorry
okay favourite lists, asde from the two already provided...
if i ever see a hit man's list,
well, that might become a favourite
it depends on the content
if bad people are on the list, then it would become a favourite

most other favourite lists of mine are word lists like...
"top thousand 7-letter words according to probability and playability"
"Q words without the letter U"
"words without vowels"

[PatchAdamz]

"Here at KVR we all like making lists, don't we? Trouble is, we've pretty much exhausted the supply of things to make lists about... until now."

A list about list....???? Oh, lord.....

How about a list about favorite lisps.

1. Mike Tyson
2. Daffy Duck
3. Humphrey Bogart
4. Anthony Kiedis
5. Truman Capote
6. Drew Barrymore
7. Most importantly, who the planet earth really cares....(He says with a lisp)

[donkey tugger]

Cricket averages.

[vurt]

list of everyone's birthdays. (bloody hard to keep up to be honest, new people born all day, every day)

[raiderpdog]

I've always enjoyed reading lists where artists I like/respect list the top whatever albums that they still love, that have influenced them strongly, that they never get sick of, etc. Especially if they get in depth and talk about the details of it, and then the list can become a great learning tool for learning about them. A lot of times, when you are reading interviews, if the interview is maybe not going well, or the questions aren't clicking, or they are tired, whatever, sometimes artists don't talk about their own stuff very well, but most of the time they seem to really open up to questions about music they love, and then explain a lot about exactly why. It brings the fan back out of them.

Also, too many times to mention, it has made me aware of other groups to check out that I may have slept on, or to dig a little deeper on some others I may have not given a chance to. Sometimes you read something, then go investigate it, and you are like "how did I miss this, it is great!"

[BONES]

I pretty much never find that with those kinds of lists. Quite the opposite, in fact. Some of my favourite artists have the most boring, predictable and just plain awful lists of influences and favourite albums. Sometimes it's almost enough to put me off them.

[cryophonik]

Aside from my reliance on to-do lists for work, I’m not really a list addict, except for my wish list of hardware synths, which is basically just every synth ever made.

[? ? ?]

i kind of dread set lists, personally. to me it's like scheduling sex positions in advance. by the time we finish the first song, i'm already second-guessing the plan. having a list of songs to play is nice, but i've pissed off bandmates plenty by calling audibles throughout a show

Set lists are shit. It's work, hence boring, to do the same set every night. To do a whole tour where every night is the same shit, no thanks; leave that for those that perform to tape.
It makes it fun for the band and fans when you change up the song order.
Frank Zappa mentioned in an interview he never plays the same solo twice.
So what you hear on record you won't hear live. Amen to that.