So here it is guys. The 100 albums that we, collectively, have chosen to feature in Capdeville’s jukebox. Well, James, Matt and I collectively chose, as Holly will clearly tell in the video and evidenced by our lack of Lady Gaga. The beauty of all three of us picking the albums is that we can each blame the real whiffs on the other two. The challenge is that we could not even get close to 100 albums unless we cut over half of the albums that we really wanted to put in the jukebox.
This is who we are. This process leaves us as vulnerable as you are when someone else scrolls through your iPod or iTunes list (you know, the old “Danielle put that Mariah Carey on my iPod” line we’ve all used to no avail).
A few of the parameters that we laid out when choosing this list:
- Rock and roll is the theme, but more so as an attitude than as a genre.
- Some artists just require greatest hits albums. There are too many good songs on too many albums for certain artists (Buddy Holly, Neil Diamond) when you have to limit your choices to 100. We wanted you to be able to hear the songs you liked by certain artists no matter what album they were on. That being said, some albums (“Some Girls” by the Stones, for example) stand on their own even though there is a Greatest Hits album by the same band already on the list.
- While we want Capdeville to be authentic and reflective of music history, we also want it to be upbeat and fun at all times, hence no Velvet Underground or Bright Eyes.
- We accidentally forgot the Smiths (thanks John Michael), Arcade Fire (again, thanks JM), Lil Wayne, and The “Animal House” soundtrack. We’re working to remedy that.
- This list, like the bar itself, is intended to be something we create for your enjoyment, not ours. So this list is subject to change based on your suggestions. Join in our chat below and let us know what you want to hear. This jukebox will be ever-evolving.
***We’ll be sending out our reasoning and thoughts behind certain choices from Capdeville’s twitter account so please follow to learn the reason why there are or aren’t certain choices on the jukebox. If you are following me I will feature these ideas as well.
Let us know what you think!
AC/DC Back in Black
Al Green Al Green: Greatest Hits
Alice In Chains Dirt
Allman Brothers A Decade of Hits 1969-1979
Billy Idol Rebel Yell
Billy Idol Billy Idol
Bloc Party Silent Alarm
Bloc Party Intimacy Remixed
Blondie The Best of Blondie
Blur Parklife
Bob Dylan Blood on the Tracks
Bob Marley Legend
Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
Bruce Springsteen Born in the USA
Buddy Holly Greatest Hits (Purple Cover)
Culture Club At Worst…The Best..
David Bowie Best of Bowie
Def Leppard Vault: Def Leppard Greatest..
Dion Run Around Sue
Dire Straits Sultans of Swing:The Very Best of Dire Straits
Duran Duran Duran Duran: Greatest
Elvis Presley 30 #1 Hits Disc 1
Foo Fighters The Colour and The Shape
Frank Black Frank Black
Guns N Roses Live Era Disc 1 & Live Era Disc 2
Hard-Fi Stars of CCTV
Huey Lewis & The News Greatest Hits: Huey Lewis & the News
Iggy Pop Lust for Life
Jay Z MTV Unplugged
Johny Cash 16 Biggest Hits
Journey Journey: Greatest Hits
Led Zepplin Houses of the Holy
Led Zepplin Physical Graffiti
Men at Work The Best of Men at Work: Contraband
MGMT Oracular Spectacular
Michael Jackson Thriller
Michael Jackson Bad
Motley Crue Motley Crue: The Greatest Hits
MyNameisJohnMichael The People that Come and Go
Neil Diamond The Essential Neil Diamond Disc 1 & 2
Nirvana MTV Unplugged
Oasis (What’s the Story) Morning Glory?
Otis Redding Live in Europe
Pearl Jam Ten
Pearl Jam Vs.
Queen Queen: Greatest Hits (Purple Cover)
Radiohead Pablo Honey
Red Hot Chilli Peppers Californication
Run DMC Raising Hell
Skid Row Skid Row
Smashing Pumpkins Greatest Hits
Spoon Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Stone Temple Pilots Thank You
Talking Heads Talking Heads: 77
The Beach Boys Pet Sounds
The Beatles Ones Disc 1 & 2
The Buzzcocks Singles Going Steady
The Cars Complete Greatest Hits
The Clash London Calling
The Clash Combat Rock?
The Cult Pure Cult
The Cure Galore
The Doors Strange Days
The Band Best of The Band
The Generationals Con Law
The Kooks Inside In/Inside Out
The Gaslight Anthem The ‘59 Sound
The Pixies Doolittle
The Pixies Surfer Rosa
The Police Every Breath You Take: The Singles
The Ramones Rocket To Russia
The Ramones The Ramones
The Rolling Stones Hot Rocks 1964-1971 Disc 1 & 2
The Rolling Stones Some Girls
The Streets A Grand Don’t Come for Free
The Strokes Is This It?
The Verve Urban Hymns
The White Stripes Elephant
Twisted Sister Still Hungry
U2 Rattle and Hum
U2 18 Singles
Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend
Van Halen 1984
Weezer Weezer
Wyclef Jean The Carnival
Phoenix Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Outkast ATLiens
Jay Z Blueprint 3
Passion Pit Manners
Metric Fantasies
Santigold Santigold
The Cold War Kids Loyalty to Loyalty
Tears for Fears Songs from the Big Chair
Better Than Ezra Paper Empire
The Hold Steady Stay Positive
Top Gun Sountrack
Sorry Holly, I’m a chick and I’m in agreement with the boys. Lady Gaga is already everywhere, and as much as I can appreciate her pop/fashion enthusiasm and lord knows she’s catchy (I had Paparazzi stuck in my head for a MONTH after the VMA’s), if I hear any more from her I might claw my face off. Jukebox is lookin’ good.
Thanks so much for having our slack on that one! We have a bit of tightening up to do on this jukebox still, though, so please make some suggestions.
I’m currently fighting off “Rah-Rah-ah-ah-ah, Roma, Roma-mah, GaGa ooh-la-la” and I’m losing terribly…
Maybe going with some Joplin would help raise the “female factor” while still staying rock n roll
Alright so you want some good girl music, not sure if the this qualifies, however I am a girl! Good 80’s girl jam Pat Benatar, Love is a Battlefield,… Come on, you all know you love that song. Good 90’s Girl Jam The Cranberries, So many hits.
Pablo Honey? That album had non-believers thinking Radiohead was a one hit wonder type band. It’s their weakest album by far. OK Computer or The Bends should be what reps that great band. Both of those records are chock full of classics, but aren’t as snobby as more recent records have become.
Spoon’s Gimme Fiction is WAY better than Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
As for Better Than Ezra, I think their Greatest Hits record is in order rather than Paper Empire. How can any jukebox in New Orleans not have King of New Orleans in it?
Yeah, we got smoked pretty badly on that “Pablo Honey” call by a few other friends and the guys in MyNameIsJohnMichael. We’re going to switch that out to “The Bends” for sure. We just whiffed on that one.
We’ll probably roll with “Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga” for the next month or so despite the now glaringly obvious but completely unintentional association with the afore-mentioned Lady Gaga and then switch out to “Gimme Fiction.”
Yeah, on Better Than Ezra we thought the obvious choice was their Greatest Hits record but we know those guys and didn’t know how they would feel about that. We chose “Paper Empire” to help them to promote their latest album. We’ll get to the Greatest Hits album pretty soon, though.
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FULL SERVICE!
One of my best friends Dave McGuinness is a HUGE 311 fan. Without passing judgement on the band, its music, or its fans whatsoever, because of that, 311, unfortunately, will not make it into the jukebox. I just can’t bear the thought of having him come in and playing the record over and over as he did in college. If you had to deal with him in college as I did you would feel the same way.
I don’t know Dave and can’t speak to his jukebox selection habits. However, I too have a friend that would come in here and play them on repeat over and over so we just can’t take the risk. Of course, this gentleman would have to travel from Hermosa Beach a lot in order to play our jukebox so maybe we can chance it.
I used to bartend at a place that everyone called a 311 bar. The only reason is bc a few regulars used to wear out the 4 or 5 3121 CDs in the jukebox…it does happen.
I agree with nola74
Aerosmith – Greatest Hits
Tom Petty – Greatest Hits
Beastie Boys
Just throwing out some band recommendations:
The Black Crowes
Bon Jovi
The Cars
Collective Soul
Cowboy Mouth
Cracker
The Cure
The Doors
Jane’s Addiction
Pink Floyd
The Police
My thoughts next to each in parentheses but, in short, this makes me glad that we threw out the fact that this list was a work in progress. As you point out, we have some serious holes in the list as it is.
Aerosmith – Greatest Hits (We are idiots for including them on the first go-round)
Tom Petty – Greatest Hits (See above)
Beastie Boys (They made the final cut but we didn’t want anyone playing “Girls.” It would kill James I think. Literally)
Just throwing out some band recommendations:
The Black Crowes (Cool band but tough to get these guys in the top 100 on first pass)
Bon Jovi (Saw them at JazzFest. They played “Have a Nice Day” like 40 times and played most of their new stuff. They lost me forever.)
The Cars (Most underrated band of the 80s. These guys are so 80s they don’t even have a website, much less plans for crappy Reunion or Retirement Tours. They are on that list, but in the “T”s)
Collective Soul (This one will be tough to pull off. Kind of like Goo Goo Dolls or Gin Blossoms)
Cowboy Mouth (I’m ballsy, but not ballsy enough)
Cracker (Uncle Cracker ruined this band’s name. I’m working my way through that but its tough. Sort of like seeing Magda’s boobs in “There’s Something About Mary.” Just hard to get over)
The Cure (Great band, they are on the list under the “T”s like The Cars are)
The Doors (They’re good but I think the other bands from that era were much better)
Jane’s Addiction (This one was close to the first 100. Still working my way to this one)
Pink Floyd (Sort of slow and depressing in an upbeat bar setting. It’s the reason we didn’t put Velvet Underground on either)
The Police (These guys are in the “T”s on the top 100 as well. Have you ever seen the interview when Stewart Copeland tackled Sting?)
And now my thoughts on Robert’s thoughts:
Aerosmith – I don’t know this girl. But I want to
Tom Petty – Gotta get him in there
Beastie Boys – This is the type of band that people love to say they listen to, but I bet nobody does. Also, “Girls” and “Brass Monkey” may be two of the worst songs ever released (and I’ve heard a lot of Abba music so I know bad songs when I hear them)
The Black Crowes – I’ll allow it
Bon Jovi – they peaked here: (also a sweet cameo by my contemporary Tommy Edison, only two years younger than me)
The Cars – these guys are awesome, we’ll go so far as to give you the dollar if you play The Cars
Collective Soul – Did Ro just say he kind of likes the Goo Goo Dolls and Gin Blossoms? No way to blame that on Danielle for being in your iPod when you put it out there like this.
Cowboy Mouth – Yall want em bad enough keep pressing us.
Cracker – meh, nothing special there. Personally thought that Dave Lowery’s first band, Camper Van Beethoven, was pretty cool.
The Cure – Free drinks will be given to anyone who can even partially replicate this
The Doors – Strange Days in the on the list. “Love Me Two Times” is a great song
Jane’s Addiction – when trying to listen to some of their music on iTunes today I found that they are a contributor this iMix: “Cougar Pop Volume 1″. We’ll pass
Pink Floyd – Yeah, too slow even though they’re pretty amazing. An all-time favorite
The Police – They’re awesome but I’m curious if the drummer just came from 5th period P.E. before the concert
I think you are forgetting a very influential band who Robert wrote about recently.
R.E.M. – Automatic For the People
I think: “What in the hell were we thinking?” We are morons. I’m raking myself over the coals on this one. This is the worst omission possible. This is a top 10 or 20 album. We’ll rectify this immediately.
Ok I realize space is limited but I have some siggestions of course:
Stone Temple Pilots: Core
The Black Crowes: Shake Your Money Maker
The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
Bob Dylan: Highway 61 Revisited or Blonde on Blonde
The Clash: London Callin
Marvin Gaye: What’s Going On
Jimi Hendrix: Are you Experienced
Nirvana: Nevermind, Incesticide, or In Utero
Stevie Wonder: Innervisions or Best of
Gun’s and Roses: Best of
Led Zeppelin: Led Zeppelin IV but no Stairway or just Led Zeppelin
Billy Joel: The Stranger
Prince: Purple Rain
Who: Tommy
Pink Floyd: Any Album or best of
Creedence Clearwater Revival: Green River
Otis Redding: Otis Blue
Fleetwood Mac: Rumors
Portishead: Dummy
Smokey Robinson: The Definitive Collection
Sinatra and Deano any (although I understand the trepidation as they are on every jukebox known to man)
Not sure how any collection would be without some of these but I like y’alls list for the most part (does Bloc really deserve two spots? Just sayin) and thanks for putting Talking Heads on there Jonesy. Nice pull
Jigsaw
It appears that 311 is a no brainer. May I recommend Grassroots or the Blue album.
Nice work Mr. Kenny, I like the list of your suggestions!
oooooh, I LOVEEEE that we have The Strokes “Is This It?” on there… PLEASE PLEASE PLEASEEEE add some Hole “Celebrity Skin” I don’t care how crazy Courtney Love is, that is a great album! And do we seriously have two Billy Idol albums on here and no George Michael?! Blasphemy! Kudos to two Stones albums, though. and may I point out NO Billy Joel and NO Elton John… What’s a bar with no “Tiny Dancer” or “Benny and the Jets” amongst drunken friends?
What about:
En Vogue: Funky Divas
Eurythmics: Greatest Hits
Joan Jett: Album or Bad Reputation or I Love Rock & Roll
INXS: Greatest Hits
Lords of Acid: Greatest Tits
Moby: Play
Venga Boys: We Like to Party
-CCR
-Soundgarden
-Lynyrd Skynyrd (overlooking the inevitable event in which “Free Bird” and “Sweet Home Alabama” are overplayed.)
The rest are personal favorites that are unlikely to make the cut, but I think are worth mentioning (don’t bash me too hard, Ro):
-Sublime (I know, I know….but I had to say it.)
-Tool (Lateralus might fly???)
-RATM…Renegades has some good covers (Ghost of Tom Joad-Springsteen, Maggie’s Farm-Dylan) as well as some old school west coast…just a thought.
Cream or really anything Clapton (Must Add)
BTE
Blind Melon – Best of
Billy Joel
Candlebox – Best of
Clint Black – No Time to Kill
Brooks and Dunn – Greatest
Chevelle – Wonder What’s Next
G. Love – Lemonade
Jimi Hendrix – Best of (Must Add)
Led Zeppelin I & II (Must Add)
O.A.R. – Stories of a Stranger
Pat Green – Wave on Wave
Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble – Greatest Hits (Must Add)
Soundgarden – A-Sides
Outlaws Super Hits (Must Add)
Ro – The place and the Jukebox look awesome! Here are a few more you might consider adding to the rotation…
Beck – Midnight Vultures
Broken Social Scene – You Forgot It In People
Dismemberment Plan – Emergency and I
Electric Light Orchestra – Greatest Hits or A New World Record
Garbage – Garbage or Version 2.0
Handsome Furs – Face Control ( I listen to this album on repeat)
Interpol – Turn on the Bright Lights
Marie Antoinette Motion Picture Soundtrack
Morrisey – Your Arsenal
The Darkness – Permission to Land
The Jesus and Mary Chain – 21 Singles
The Sounds – Dying to Say this to You
Yeah Yeah Yeah’s – It’s Blitz!
-Houston Mer
Two words: Fame Monster
aretha franklin (greatest hits)
the pretenders (greatest hits)
the replacements (tim, pleased to meet me)
b-52’s
sugar (copper blue)
van morrison (moondance)
matthew sweet (girlfriend)
squeeze (singles)
the blasters (testament)
elvis costello (this year’s model, my aim is true)
green day (dookie, american idiot)
peter gabriel (so)
the smithereens (11)
steve miller (greatest hits)
and where’s the local representation? fats domino, snooks eaglin, professor longhair, jerry lee lewis, huey ‘piano’ smith?
huey lewis? culture club? please.