The Rainmakers Live at Knuckleheads: May 15, 2011

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14 years after their last album, The Rainmakers returned with 25 On. In support of the reunion, they toured, including a hometown stint at Kansas City's Knuckleheads saloon on May 14 and 15, 2011. As part of the show, the group performed their 1986 eponymous debut in full. Here's the set list for the entire show:

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THE SET LIST

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1. Rockin’ at the T-Dance ¹
2. Downstream ¹
3. Let My People Go Go ¹

4. Doomsville ¹
5. Big Fat Blonde ¹
6. Long Gone Long ¹
7. The One That Got Away ¹
8. Government Cheese ¹
9. Drinkin’ on the Job ¹
10. Nobody Knows ¹
11. Information ¹
12. Given Time ⁶
13. Half a Horse a Piece ⁶
14. Like Dogs ⁶

15. The Wages of Sin ²
16. Small Circles ²
17. Spend It on Love ³
18. The Lakeview Man ²
19. Missouri Girl ⁶
20. Another Guitar ⁴

21. You Remind Me of Someone ⁴
22. Reckoning Day ³
23. Shiny Shiny ³
24. Width of a Line ⁴
25. Hoo Dee Hoo ³
26. Go Down Swinging ⁶

ENCORE:
27. Turpentine ⁶
28. Burning Love *
29. The Last Song of the Evening ⁶
30. One More Summer ²

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THE ALBUMS

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¹ The Rainmakers (1986)
² Tornado (1987)
³ The Good News and the Bad News (1989)
⁴ Flirting with the Universe (1994)
⁵ Skin (1997)
⁶ 25 On (2011)
* Elvis Presley cover

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The Top 100 Albums of the 1970s

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These are the top 100 albums of the 1970s according to Dave’s Music Database. Is there any doubt that the best albums of all time were dominated by ‘70s output? All 100 of these albums make the DMDB’s list of the top 1000 albums of all time (see here). 41 of them make the DMDB’s top 100 list (see here). This list was originally posted on the DMDB Facebook page.

1. Pink Floyd...Dark Side of the Moon (1973)
2. Led Zeppelin...Led Zeppelin IV (1971)
3. Fleetwood Mac...Rumours (1977)
4. David Bowie...The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972)
5. The Rolling Stones...Exile on Main Street (1972)
6. The Clash...London Calling (1979)
7. The Sex Pistols...Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols (1977)
8. Bruce Springsteen...Born to Run (1975)
9. Marvin Gaye...What's Going On (1971)
10. Pink Floyd...The Wall (1979)

11. Eagles...Hotel California (1976)
12. The Who...Who’s Next (1971)
13. Bee Gees/various artists...Saturday Night Fever (soundtrack, 1977)
14. Simon & Garfunkel...Bridge Over Troubled Water (1970)
15. Bob Dylan...Blood on the Tracks (1975)
16. Carole King...Tapestry (1971)
17. Stevie Wonder...Songs in the Key of Life (1976)
18. Pink Floyd...Wish You Were Here (1975)
19. The Rolling Stones...Sticky Fingers (1971)
20. Elton John...Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (1973)

21. Led Zeppelin...Physical Graffiti (1975)
22. Neil Young...After the Gold Rush (1970)
23. Patti Smith...Horses (1975)
24. Joni Mitchell...Blue (1971)
25. Stevie Wonder...Innervisions (1973)
26. Television...Marquee Moon (1977)
27. Ramones...Ramones (1976)
28. Derek and the Dominos...Layla & Other Assorted Love Songs (1970)
29. Neil Young...Harvest (1972)
30. Meat Loaf...Bat Out of Hell (1977)

31. Van Morrison...Moondance (1970)
32. David Bowie...Hunky Dory (1971)
33. Queen...A Night at the Opera (1975)
34. Black Sabbath...Paranoid (1970)
35. Van Halen...Van Halen (1978)
36. Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young...Déjà Vu (1970)
37. Blondie...Parallel Lines (1978)
38. The Clash...The Clash (1977)
39. John Lennon...Plastic Ono Band (1970)
40. Olivia Newton-John/John Travolta/various artists…Grease (soundtrack, 1978)

41. The Allman Brothers Band...At Fillmore East (1971)
42. John Lennon...Imagine (1971)
43. Boston...Boston (1976)
44. Lou Reed...Transformer (1972)
45. Joy Division...Unknown Pleasures (1979)
46. Elvis Costello...This Year’s Model (1978)
47. Santana...Abraxas (1970)
48. Elvis Costello...My Aim Is True (1977)
49. Miles Davis...Bitches Brew (1970)
50. Bruce Springsteen...Darkness on the Edge of Town (1978)

51. Michael Jackson...Off the Wall (1979)
52. Sly & the Family Stone...There’s a Riot Goin’ On (1971)
53. Eagles...Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975 (1976)
54. Joni Mitchell...Court and Spark (1974)
55. Gram Parsons...Grievous Angel (1974)
56. Led Zeppelin...Houses of the Holy (1973)
57. Roxy Music...For Your Pleasure (1973)
58. Stevie Wonder...Talking Book (1972)
59. Aerosmith...Toys in the Attic (1975)
60. David Bowie...Low (1977)

61. Peter Frampton...Frampton Comes Alive! (1976)
62. Supertramp...Breakfast in America (1979)
63. Jethro Tull...Aqualung (1971)
64. AC/DC...Highway to Hell (1979)
65. The Doors...L.A. Woman (1971)
66. Elton John...Greatest Hits (1974)
67. Janis Joplin...Pearl (1971)
68. Grateful Dead...American Beauty (1970)
69. Mike Oldfield...Tubular Bells (1973)
70. Deep Purple...Machine Head (1972)

71. The Stooges...Fun House (1970)
72. Paul McCartney & Wings...Band on the Run (1973)
73. George Harrison...All Things Must Pass (1970)
74. Curtis Mayfield...Superfly (1972)
75. The Stooges...Raw Power (1973)
76. The Rolling Stones...Some Girls (1978)
77. Neil Young...Rust Never Sleeps (1979)
78. Steely Dan...Aja (1977)
79. Billy Joel...The Stranger (1977)
80. Kraftwerk...Trans-Europa Express (1977)

81. Rod Stewart...Every Picture Tells a Story (1971)
82. Bob Marley & the Wailers...Exodus (1977)
83. T-Rex...Electric Warrior (1971)
84. Genesis...The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (1974)
85. Bob Marley & the Wailers...Natty Dread (1974)
86. Bob Marley & the Wailers...Catch a Fire (1973)
87. The Who...Quadrophenia (1973)
88. Marvin Gaye...Let’s Get It On (1973)
89. Neil Young...Tonight’s the Night (1975)
90. James Taylor...Sweet Baby James (1970)

91. The Modern Lovers...The Modern Lovers (1976)
92. Creedence Clearwater Revival...Cosmo’s Factory (1970)
93. Yes...Fragile (1970)
94. David Bowie...Heroes (1977)
95. Led Zeppelin...Led Zeppelin III (1970)
96. The Beatles...Let It Be (1970)
97. Nick Drake...Bryter Layter (1970)
98. Lou Reed...Berlin (1973)
99. David Bowie...Station to Station (1976)
100. Public Image Ltd....Metal Box (aka “Second Edition”) (1979)

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Classical Works – Top 50

Originally posted as a top 10 on the DMDB Facebook page on 2/21/10. Expanded to a top 50 on 5/2/11. List is an aggregate of 14 other best-of lists whose focus is on classical music. Here’s the top classical works (which includes operas, symphonies, concertos, etc.) according to the DMDB:

1. Johann Sebastian Bach...Goldberg Variations (1741)
2. Igor Stravinsky...The Rite of Spring (1913)
3. Antonio Vivaldi...The Four Seasons (1725)
4. George Friedrich Handel...Messiah (1741)
5. Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky...Piano Concerto No. 1 (1874)
6. Ludwig van Beethoven...Violin Concerto in D Major (1806)
7. Johann Sebastian Bach...6 Cello Suites (1723)
8. Ludwig van Beethoven...Symphony No. 5 (1808)
9. Johann Sebastian Bach...Brandenburg Concertos (1721)
10. Ludwig van Beethoven...Symphony No. 9 (1824)

11. Ludwig van Beethoven...Piano Concerto No. 5 (1809)
12. Mario Lanza...The Student Prince (1954)
13. George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, and Dubose Heyward...Porgy and Bess (1935)
14. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart...Piano Concerto No. 20 (1785)
15. Bela Bartok...Concerto for Orchestra (1944)
16. Ludwig van Beethoven...Symphony No. 7 (1812)
17. Modest Mussorgsky...Pictures at an Exhibition (1874)
18. Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky...Symphony No. 6 (1893)
19. Richard Wagner...Der Ring Des Nibelungen (The Ring Cycle) (1874)
20. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart...Requiem (1791)

21. Richard Wagner...Tristan Und Isolde (1859)
22. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart...Don Giovani (1787)
23. Antonin Dvorak...Symphony No. 9 (“From the New World”) (1893)
24. Georges Bizet...Carmen (1875)
25. Antonin Dvorak...Cello Concerto in B Minor (1895)
26. Johann Sebastian Bach...Mass in B Minor (1749)
27. Aaron Copland...Appalachian Spring (1944)
28. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart...Symphony No. 40 (1788)
29. Giuseppe Verdi...Requiem Mass (1874)
30. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart...Symphony No. 41 (“Jupiter”) (1788)

31. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart...Piano Concerto No. 21 (1785)
32. Ludwig van Beethoven...Piano Sonata No. 14 (“Moonlight”) (1798)
33. Franz Schubert...Symphony No. 8 (“Unfinished”) (1865)
34. Sergei Rachmaninov...Piano Concerto No. 3 (1909)
35. Andrea Bocelli...Romanza (1997)
36. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart...Le Nozze di Figaro (“The Marriage of Figaro”) (1786)
37. George Gershwin...An American in Paris (1951)
38. Ludwig van Beethoven...Symphony No. 6 (“Pastorale”) (1808)
39. Giacomo Puccini...La Boheme (1896)
40. Hector Berlioz...Symphonie Fantastique (1830)

41. George Friedrich Handel...Water Music (1717)
42. Claudio Monteverdi...Vespers of the Blessed Virgin (1610)
43. Ludwig van Beethoven...Piano Concerto No. 3 (1800)
44. Dmitri Shostakovich...Symphony No. 5 (1937)
45. Igor Stravinsky...L’Oiseau de Feu (“The Firebird”) (1910)
46. Bela Bartok...The String Quartets (1939)
47. John Williams…Star Wars (1977)
48. Gioacchino Rossini...Il Barbiere di Siviglia (“The Barber of Seville”) (1816)
49. Ludwig van Beethoven...Piano Sonata No. 23 (“Appassionata”) (1805)
50. Franz Liszt...Piano Sonata in B Minor (1853)

Note: names are those of the composers. Years are when the work premiered.

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