Heston and Marky's Friday Top 5

[muppet hi fi]

1. New Years Eve - Tom Waits
2. No Guilt - The Waitresses
3. Spectacular Views - Rilo Kiley
4. In a Big Country - Big Country
5. We Sing Hallelujah - Richard & Linda Thompson (actually a great anti- new years/renewal anthem, but the music and instrumentation are so bloody cheery, as is the "exaltation of despair").

And here's my no. 1 pick. Such an honest, funny, sad and sweet song. "...Calvin's right - I should go back to driving truck."
Happy 2018 to all you brilliant IMCT folk!

[Marky Dread]

1. Start! - The Jam
2. One Better Day - Madness
3. Burning with Optimism's Flame - XTC
4. Things Are Going to Get Better - Small Faces
5. New Life - Depeche Mode

[Flex]

These are great, great picks everyone.

1. New Morning - Bob Dylan
2. Feeling Good - Nina Simone
3. 1977 - The Clash
4. Acknowledgement - John Coltrane
5. I Saw The Light - Hank Williams

[Dr. Medulla]

I'm blanking on this one—as I tend to do when the category is thematic rather than one artist—but I will offer up Talk Talk's "New Grass," which captures the sound of hope and rebirth.

[revbob]

I had a list but the dog ate it. Can I get a few extra days?

[Flex]

I had a list but the dog ate it. Can I get a few extra days?

If the world doesn't end at the stroke of midnight, have at it.

[101Walterton]

How far is the past are you??????

[Flex]

I think I was arranged to go through the end of the year. New year, I think I'm out.

[Flex]

Ah, what the heck. Top 5 Gang of Four. Have at it, cool cats.

[Wolter]

Damaged Goods
Not Great Men
To Hell With Poverty
I Love a Man In Uniform
Anthrax

I realized how tough this would be and decided to go with my gut and take the first five that got stuck in my head.

Literally just yesterday I said to myself, “I need to listen to more Gang Of Four.

EDIT: THEN I BROKE MY OWN RULE AND SWAPPED ONE OUT.

[Inder]

What We All Want
Natural's Not in It
I Parade Myself
Damaged Goods
At Home He's a Tourist

[Wolter]

Y’all, Gang of Four made a lot of good songs.

[Dr. Medulla]

That's easy: Side 1 of Hard. Done.

Alternate picks:
To Hell With Poverty
I Found That Essence Rare (Peel Sessions version)
What We All Want
At Home He's a Tourist
and for an odd final pick, Life! It's a Shame

[Silent Majority]

Y’all, Gang of Four made a lot of good songs.

What a great band.

[Dr. Medulla]

Oh, also this coinkydink happened today: http://newalbumreleases.net/103771/gang ... ston-2018/