Define your taste in music

[Muttley]

It's a bit



isn't it?

ooooo yeah
good ole nigel tuffnel
i dunno its worse than that
for me spinal tap
is just a run of the mill tour diary
nothing untoward there
all seems perfectly normal..
yngwie or mongy malmsteen
or manky malmsteen as i like to call him
hes just another level above you know?

aunty

What? Whinging J. Marmite and his Risible Farce?

I have to admit I have at least 3 of his albums!

/me *widdle* *widdle* *widdle's* off into the distance.

Muttley

[Ahchay]

Five? Okay then

Pixies - Cactus. Because, for years, I misheard the lyrics as "Sitting here wishing on a semen floor". In truth, I could substitute almost any Pixies track (certainly from Surfer Rosa) here. I love this band more than I can adequately explain.

Sun Ra and The Arkestra -Pink Elephants on Parade. The weirdest sequence in any Disney film by a country mile, performed by one of the mightiest men to ever walk this earth. It's the reason why I still keep my turntable operational.

Doris Day - Secret Love. I'm tempted to leave this out in place of something more "worthy", but to do so would be to deny myself. We've discussed this before, but there is something about her voice which just works, and there's one note in this song which I could swear isn't produced by a human voice. I'm a bit of a sucker for songs from musicals too, so this covers two bases...

The Beach Boys - I Just Wasn't Made For These Times. Because it makes me cry. Every single time I listen to it. The sound of a heart breaking.

That'll do for now, brains all full up. I'll think about number five for a bit...

Cheers
Chris

[srs ghost]

In no particular order:

3. Kyu Sakamoto - Sukiyaki
The first record I remember hearing played on our old grammarphone(sp?) that my Dad had bought.

I just found it online and had to play it three times in a row! I've never heard it before.

6. Terry Jacks - Seasons In The Sun.
Another one that got me through some hellish hospital stays, still makes me *sniff*.

"Seasons in the Sun" is the soundtrack to my fourth grade summer:
"We had joy we had fun we had seasons in the sun but the hills that
we climbed were just seasons? out of time..." That
and "Biiilly don't be a hee-ro don't be a fool with your li-ife.."
Sends me right back to the refinished basement rec room with
the Monopoly board.

"Shine On You Crazy Diamond" is the soundtrack to a summer
trip up the Pacific Coast Highway to San Francisco when I was
about 19.

[beardfreak]

Love these threads

1. Bob Marley & The Wailers - Kinky Reggae

2. Ozric Tentacles - Stretchy

3. Tom Waits - SwordFishTrombones

4. Black Sabbath - After Forever

5. Dreadlocks In Moonlight - Upsetters


... scratching the surface - all come straight to mind

[Rod_S]

Love these threads

1. Bob Marley & The Wailers - Kinky Reggae

I think I've got all of Bob's albums and this is my favourite track of his too. The entire album is a blinder, probably his best, but I just love the tempo and feel of Kinky Reggae, even the intro is just timed perfectly. Good call mate.

1. Tom Waits - SwordFishTrombones

Another total classic, I was listening to Soldiers Things last night, still love that song.

[sty]

OK this is really hard to do, but five songs to give a cross section of my taste:

Jimi Hendrix : All along the watchtower
My fave song of all time can represent all the rock in the world from the most mellow of pop rock to the hardest heavy metal around.

Eric Serra : The Big Blue soundtrack
For all the wonderful classical music out there.

Katrina and the Waces : Walking on Sunshine
Representing all the fluffy pop music and the 80's in ine go.

Groove Armada : The River
For the more chilled side on dance music.

Jose Neto : The Seventh Wave
For all the Jazz in the world, old school or new.

Obviously I'm missing some Maiden (Sanctuary live), Magnum (Les Mort Dansant), NiN (all of Pretty Hate Machine), Miles Davis, Robert Johnson ... but they cam be represented by the five choices above.

Now we should (in true Nick Horby stylee) start a top ten songs thread

[Muttley]

OK this is really hard to do, but five songs to give a cross section of my taste:

Katrina and the Waces : Walking on Sunshine
Representing all the fluffy pop music and the 80's in ine go.

ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRG, the idiots from the Backside bar blast that VERY LOUD about 5 times an evening, I came to hate the song with a passion.

[koworld]

Here's a go finally:

Aimee Mann - Wise Up
Because it acted like a slap in the face for me. I did, mostly, wise up. I got out of the pointless relationship I was in (then took a full two years to truely get over it - life can take the piss sometimes). Whenever I listen to it it makes me feel, sorted but sad.

Queen - Another One Bites the Dust
They had songs for all the stuff I was feeling as a teenager. Yes including Fat Bottomed Girls. I'm almost a bit embaressed by the fact that I have almost everything ever released by Queen and all the Side Projects (I drew the line at all Brian May's post Starfleet though).

Charlatans - How High
How high indeed. Man that song makes the spirit soar.

Marco Bailey v Redhead - Watch Out
Quite simply the most effecting piece of music I have ever heard. Deep meloncholic electronica. I first heard it at the same time as reading Mikail Bulgakov's 'Master & Margarita'. When this music plays I can see Pontius Pilate washing his hands on a hot Israeli day. Utterly stunning and overwhelmingly sad.

PJ Harvey - We Float
What happens when you just let yourself go.

Gosh this was hard.

[Rod_S]

OK this is really hard to do, but five songs to give a cross section of my taste:

Katrina and the Waces : Walking on Sunshine
Representing all the fluffy pop music and the 80's in ine go.

ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRG, the idiots from the Backside bar blast that VERY LOUD about 5 times an evening, I came to hate the song with a passion.

It's the kind of song that makes me seriously consider either suicide or full blown heroin addiction.

[Muttley]

It makes me think of cocktails, preferably the ones General Molotov prefered

[ChesterHooper]

Genesis - Cinema Show
A tough choice - could have been almost any track from Nursery Cryme to The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway. This is just a beautiful song with a big, fantastically moody instrumental section on the end - the best of both sides of early Genesis. It's hard not to have chosen The Battle of Epping Forest, Supper's Ready, Twilight Alehouse or Broadway Melody of '74, though.

Beatles - Being For The Benefit Of Mr Kite
It's perhaps a little ridiculous to describe any track from Sergeant Pepper as 'underrated' but that's what I'm doing here. Everyone knows Day In The Life, Strawberry Fields, Helter Skelter, All You Need Is Love, etc, etc, are wonderful songs but this one is so rarely mentioned as the absolute classic that it is. What an amazing arrangement!

Ravel - String Quartet in F Major
Even harder than choosing ONE Genesis track or ONE Beatles track is choosing ONE piece of classical music. Today, this is my choice. Actually it's four pieces of music. The first movement is my favourite though if I have to be really specific. Or maybe the second....

Jane's Addiction - Then She Did
It just occurred to me recently that I'm not into much American music. But Jane's Addiction's Ritual album is fabulous. This, for me, is by far the best track. Wonderful lyrics - very moving. A gradual build up from gentle to heavy. Some of Dave Navarro's best guitar work. Amazing string orchestration and piano. As a keyboard player myself, I was more influenced by this song than almost any other - and from a usually totally guitar dominated band too.

Adam and the Ants - Cartrouble
Forget the Kings of the Wild Frontier and Prince Charming albums. They were huge and feature a few great tracks. But the first album, Dirk Wears White Sox, is the real classic. A different band (stolen by manager Malcolm McLaren for his other project, BowWowWow), just Adam who made it to the next album. This album is utterly unique. It was so original and sounds just as fresh today, 24 years on.

Well that's five. But I can't end this post without mentioning Frank Zappa, Yes, King Crimson, Tchaikowsky, Debussy, Ween, early Queen,...oh too many others.....thus endeth.

[Rod_S]

I'm suprised there hasn't been any love for Shane MacGowan so far, so here's a mention for Fairytale Of New York, the finest Christmas song ever written.

I love the opening line:

"It was Christmas Eve, babe, in the drunk tank..."

[Rod_S]

Charlatans - How High
How high indeed. Man that song makes the spirit soar.

Good call on the Charlies, I think their recent albums have been brilliant, and apparently Tim Burgess' solo disc is well worth hearing, obviously influenced by his country rock heros like The Flying Burrito Bros and later Byrds.

[Muttley]

I'm suprised there hasn't been any love for Shane MacGowan so far, so here's a mention for Fairytale Of New York, the finest Christmas song ever written.

I love the opening line:

"It was Christmas Eve, babe, in the drunk tank..."

I found this on the web, Osama and George W singing Fairytale of New York:

Osama (evil physco in real need of a shave and a slappin') : It was Christmas Eve babe In the drunk tank
An old man said to me, won't see another one And then he sang a song
The Rare Old Mountain Dew And I turned my face away
And dreamed about you

Got on a lucky one Came in eighteen to one
I've got a feeling This year's for me and you
So happy Christmas I love you baby
I can see a better time When all our dreams come true

George W (former drunk daddy's boy who cheated his way to be most powerful man in the world, in real need of English / Geography / humility lessons) : They've got cars
Big as bars
They've got rivers of gold
But the wind goes right through you
It's no place for the old
When you first took my hand
On a cold Christmas Eve
You promised me
Broadway was waiting for me
You were handsome

Osama : You were pretty
Queen of New York City


Both: When the band finished playing
They howled out for more
Sinatra was swinging
All the drunks they were singing
We kissed on the corner
Then danced through the night
The boys of the NYPD choir
Were singing 'Galway Bay'
And the bells were ringing
Out for Christmas day

George W: You're a bum

Osama : You're a punk
You're an old slut on junk
Living there almost dead on a drip
In that bed


George:You scum bag
You maggot
You cheap lousy faggot
Happy Christmas your arse
I pray God
It's our last

Osama: I could have been someone

George: So could anyone
You took my dreams
From me when I first found you

Osama: I kept them with me babe
I put them with my own
Can't make it all alone
I've built my dreams around you

[Ahchay]

Okay, thought of my fifth choice...

Marvin Gaye - I heard it through the Grapevine, not because it's a great song (which it is) but because it represents all the great R&B that I've listened to and loved over the years.

Cheers
Chris