Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - Reunions (May 15, 2020) Album • Page 4

Hyden's favorite Isbell songs

The Best Jason Isbell Songs, Ranked

 

Nice to see "Songs That She Sang In The Shower" get some love. Definitely in my top 5.

 

Dreamsicle is quite nice!

my local record store already pre- sold out of the orange vinyl, they are trying to get more though, wish me luck

 

Now I need to make a top 30 Isbell songs playlist.

 

Dreamsicle is another great one. And “Only Children” is already a top-tier, classic haunting Isbell song. First two singles didn’t do much for me but the verses of both still have some great lines.

At risk of making a pretentious comparison, listening to Isbell has become something like reading a Faulkner book or watching a PTA movie — even when there are songs or artists I connect to more, his lyrics just make me go “oh yeah, this is a master of the craft right here.” No one today is on his level.

 

Also it’s cool that Hyden gave some love to the “JI&the 400 Unit” album — I agree that it’s super under-rated. “Streetlights”, “Cigarettes & Wine”, “The Blue”, “Sunstroke”, “Seven-Mile Island”, “The Last Song I Will Write” all get a lot of plays from me.

 

Cool list. Might do a playlist or something as well, but until we get the studio version of "Overseas" it might be incomplete

 

I’m sure it will need an update after the record comes out. I’m not sure I’ve done a favorites list for him since before Something More Than Free, though.

 

I think of the 4 songs already released, “Only Children” is still my favorite, but “Dreamsicle” is also great. I don’t love the other two, but I still think the album will be great on the whole.

I’d have a hard time ranking Jason’s songs but it’d be fun to just put together a playlist of some favorites.

 

I love Only Children and Dreamsicle

 

Spent a couple minutes just now putting this together. Not in any particular order or ranking. I found it very difficult to narrow Southeastern down to just a few songs, so there’s 8, but then again, it is my favorite Jason album and one of my favorites of all time. I haven’t spent as much time with his pre-Southeastern music, which I intend to rectify. But I’ve given them enough listens to hone in on a couple favorites from each.

Favorite Jason songs, a playlist by Jeff Wilde on Spotify

 

Idk if I can think of a recent artist who has as strong of a top 10 to 15 songs as Isbell. I’d put his 10 best up against just about anybody.

 

I'm relatively happy with this.

1. Cover Me Up
2. If We Were Vampires
3. Elephant
4. Speed Trap Town
5. Dress Blues
6. Relatively Easy
7. Tupelo
8. Only Children
9. Flagship
10. Go It Alone
11. Something to Love
12. Traveling Alone
13. The Last Song I Will Write
14. Stopping By
15. Children of Children
16. Songs That She Sang in the Shower
17. Dreamsicle
18. Alabama Pines
19. 24 Frames
20. Goddamn Lonely Love
21. Palmetto Rose
22. Cigarettes and Wine
23. In a Razor Town
24. Streetlights
25. Hope the High Road
26. The Life You Chose
27. Yvette
28. Hurricanes and Hand Grenades
29. Last of My Kind
30. Brand New Kind of Actress

 

Okay here goes. Didn't include "Dreamsicle" yet but I think it's top-30 material for sure. Honorable mentions include "Seven Mile Island," "In a Razor Town," "Yvette," "Life You Chose" as well as "Vampires," and yes I fully realize I will get roasted for leaving that one off.

1. Relatively Easy
2. Outfit
3. 24 Frames
4. Cover Me Up
5. Dress Blues
6. Goddamn Lonely Love
7. Decoration Day
8. Palmetto Rose
9. Children of Children
10. Last of My Kind
11. Alabama Pines
12. Speed Trap Town
13. Only Children
14. TVA
15. Codeine
16. Stopping By
17. Streetlights
18. Elephant
19. Danko/Manuel
20. Flagship
21. Something to Love
22. If It Takes a Lifetime
23. Different Days
24. The Day John Henry Died
25. Stockholm
26. Never Gonna Change
27. Cigarettes and Wine
28. Tupelo
29. The Last Song I Will Write
30. Chicago Promenade

 

no Flying Over Water love makes me sad

 

The man has too many good songs

 

Probably top 10-15 for me!

 

1. Cover Me Up
2. Elephant
3. If We Were Vampires
4. Stopping By
5. Songs That She Sang In The Shower
6. Dress Blues
7. In A Razor Town
8. Cigarettes and Wine
9. Children of Children
10. Chicago Promenade
11. Flying Over Water
12. Sunstroke
13. Alabama Pines
14. Relatively Easy
15. We've Met
16. Different Days
17. 24 Frames
18. Molotov
19. Tupelo
20. Something To Love
21. How To Forget
22. The Blue
23. Go It Alone
24. The Life You Chose
25. Daisy Mae
26. Yvette
27. Speed Trap Town
28. Something More Than Free
29. Hope The High Road
30. Whisper


Nothing from the brand new album until I actually get to listen to the whole thing a bunch of times. I'm attempting to not listen to the songs that have been released so far more than once or twice, so I don't think I can rank them yet.

 

Not surprised to learn I rank his DBT songs higher than most folks

 

See, I didn't even think to include any of his DBT songs. This guy is incredible.

 

Maybe “Songs That She Sang....” isn’t as underrated as I thought haha

 

The most underrated Isbell songs are The Magician and Tour of Duty, that’s my 2 cents on the subject.

 

Some people on Twitter got mad at me for not having “Outfit” on my list, haha

 

I mean...it's a fuckup in my book for sure but it's hard to stress too much when his catalog is as deep as it is

 

Tour of Duty is excellent