about 2 years ago I was in a dump of a hotel in Shenyang, and heard Yesterdays by GnR. Rightsong at the right time kind of effect.
"And then I realized... like I was shot... like I was shot with a diamond... a diamond bullet right through my forehead. And I thought: My God... the genius of that. The genius. The will to do that. Perfect, genuine, complete, crystalline, pure."
For the record, I tried to do a 'Llamasoftie Christmas Album' made up of a lot of the choices in this thread - but I couldn't whittle it down to a manageable number of tracks without feeling that I'd left people out.
Sickboy wrote:For the record, I tried to do a 'Llamasoftie Christmas Album' made up of a lot of the choices in this thread - but I couldn't whittle it down to a manageable number of tracks without feeling that I'd left people out.
This leaves loads of people out, and it's filtered heavily through my taste, but I think this will work as a single CD. First person to mention the song gets the credit mostly... there's loads of brilliant stuff left out, but I was aiming for some kind of flow. That's not so easy when you go from the Beatles to Boards of Canada via Supertramp and Underworld, but that's the kind of paths my radio show takes!
Here goes!
Beatles - Strawberry Fields Forever (Ads)
Mogwai - Punk Rock (nitebycandlelite)
Johnny Cash - Hurt (substitution for Snakey's suggestion)
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - Into My Arms (Mr. Anderson)
Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge over Troubled Water (bloody everyone)
Glen Campbell - Wichita Lineman (Ahchay)
David Bowie - Life on Mars? (Fuseball)
Peter Gabriel/Kate Bush - Don't Give Up (Ely, Gribbles)
Supertramp - The Logical Song (Sickboy)
Delgados - Pull the Wires From The Wall (flookster)
The Beach Boys - God Only Knows (Acronym)
Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah (Gribbles)
Schneider TM - The Light 3000 (Jon, via Tmuk)
Underworld - Cowgirl (Yak)
The Source feat. Candi Station - You Got The Love (Jon)
Boards of Canada - ROYGBIV (Datasette)
Aztec Camera - 'Somewhere in my heart'
Matthew Wilder - 'Break my stride'
Christopher Cross - 'Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)'
Omar - 'There's nothing like this'
Jeffrey Osbourne - 'On the Wings of Love'
Art Garfunkel - 'Bright Eyes'
Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton - 'Islands in the Stream'
Elaine Paige and Barbara Dickson - 'I know him so well'
Paul McCartney - 'Pipes of Peace'
Bob James - 'Angela' (Theme from Taxi)
Philip Oakey & Giorgio Moroder - 'Together in Electric Dreams'
Mark Knopfler - 'Going Home [Theme from Local Hero]'