- This topic has 75 replies, 41 voices, and was last updated 16 years, 3 months ago by
.
-
Posts
-
Hiya,
As evinced from some of the threads in this ‘ere lounge, it’s clear that there’s a fair number of music fans among you all. Here, then, a wee game.
You have a standard, 80 minute blank CD to fill for a mate. What would you put on it? What are the songs which mean the most to you? The songs which have had the most profound effect on your life? The songs you enjoy the most, dammit?
Let’s see what interesting and diverse lists you TRFfers can come up with. You don’t need to be so anal about it as to time every last song to make sure you don’t go a second over 79 minutes, 59 seconds (unless you really want to, in which case I can recommend a therapist) – a rough idea of what would fill a CD will do. Similarly, some of you may not be able to limit your choices to one CD – a double is fine by me also.
No prizes for originality, no hidden deeper meaning to the exercise; it is, as Peter Snow always says, "just a bit of fun, just a bit of fun………….."
Jeremy<br>(graysonscolumn)<br>
(Edited by graysonscolumn at 11:05 pm on Mar. 22, 2005)
Adoptive father of two. The patron saint of lower-grade fare. A gently critical friend of point-to-pointing. Kindness is a political act.
That’s a tough one Greys … mine would be endless or none at all … I will prepare something tomorrow and post after I have had a sleep.
Hmm I’ll have to make several posts on this and build it up gradually.
<br>As it stands the basics would be:
Rolling Stones – Get Off of My Cloud<br>Ian Brown – F.E.A.R.<br>Queens of the Stone Age – No One Knows<br>Bob Dylan – The Hurricane<br>Pretenders – Brass In Pocket<br>Beatles – Come Together<br>Damien Rice –  Moody Monday<br>Razorlight – Somewhere Else<br>The Bravery – Hey Sunshiney Day<br>Muse – Bliss<br>Delays – Lost In A Melody<br>INXS – Mystify<br>Interpol – Slow Hands<br>Ben Folds – Sports & Wine
This is all subject to change of course! Whenver and whyever I feel like it!
(Edited by Zoz at 9:38 pm on Mar. 23, 2005)
Mine too my extend out a bit Zoz .. first pass ..
In the Movies – Animal Ant Farm<br>Smells like Teen Spirit – Nirvana<br>In Bloom – Nirvana<br>In the Flat Field – Bauhaus<br>Pretty Vacant – The Sex Pistols<br>In Dreams – Roy Orbison<br>Island of Dreams – The Springfields<br>Where I’m not Wanted – Eddie Holman<br>Waiting for the Hammer to Fall – Queen<br>Walking the Line – Brass Construction<br>Walking on Sunshine – Rockers Revenge<br>Wide Open Space (Perfecto Mix) – Mansun<br>Hung up Inside a Groove – King Tut<br>New Day – Celine Dion<br>Good Bye to Jane – Slade<br>Prelude in C minor BWV 546 – J.S.Bach<br>Jammin – Bob Marley
Very difficult to do, but there are some tracks that HAVE to go on there and need no thought.
System of a Down – Chop Suey (The song that brought this type of music to my ears and introduced me to the world of the internet)
REM – Losing my religion (Simply my favourite ever song)
John Denver – Annie’s Song (Best love song ever written)
Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody (Grew up with it)
Green Day – Basket Case (You’ve GOT to have a Green day track!)
Muse – Stockholm Syndrome (Sheer class)
The Killers – Somebody Told Me (My favourite track of the moment)
Savage Garden – Crash and Burn (very emotional song…I always get weepy listening to it)
John Miles – Music (fabulous old track to make the heart soar)
I can’t think of any more for now, but give me time!
Evanescence – My Immortal (because it evokes a bittersweet memory and breaks my heart)
Smashing Pumpkins – Disarm (simply one of my favourites)
ELO – Mr Blue Sky (cheers me up for some reason)
Radiohead – High and Dry (near the knuckle, makes me cry)
Radiohead – Paranoid Android (because I couldn’t choose just one)
Super Furry Animals – Gathering Moss
Barber – Agnus Dei (Adagio for Strings but the choral version)
Skid Row – In A Darkened Room (Amazing lyrics. Michael Jackson should listen to this one)
Mansun – Wide Open Space (Good pick, Dave Jay. I also like She Makes My Nose Bleed but this one reminds me of weird dreams)
Snow Patrol – Run (break up song)
Bizet – The Pearl Fishers
Manic Street Preachers – Faster (oh so young and angry)
Adam and the Ants – Goody Two Shoes (first record I ever owned)
Dodgy – Grassman (album track, no idea why but I just love it)
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Dosed (This is the way I wanted it to be with you… this is the way I knew that it would be with you…)
Keane – Bed Shaped (gorgeous)
I think I filled an album there….!<br>I want that CD!
Good stuff peeps, just a few of my faves
Shiver – Coldplay<br>Plug in Baby – Muse<br>Fire Maple Song – Everclear<br>Get Free – The Vines<br>Im A Cloud – Boy Hits Car<br>Maps – Yeah Yeah Yeahs<br>1979 – Smashing Pumpkins<br>Nancy Boy – Placebo<br>Hotel Yorba – The White Stripes<br>Just – Radiohead<br>Go With The Flow – Queens of the Stone Age<br>Seneca Falls – The Distillers<br>20th Century Boy – T-Rex<br>Subterranean Homesick Blues – Bob Dylan<br>Tourniquet – Marilyn Manson<br>
Hiya,
Well, this has been fascinating stuff so far. Dave, I very nearly had Rocker’s Revenge’s "Walking on Sunshine" on my list, along with similar period piece "Clear" by Cybotron – both landmark early 80s dance tracks, in my estimation.
Zoz – "No One Knows" was another Nearly for me, too. I also like the cheeky version of it the Divine Comedy did on tour last year…. with a string quartet. Worked very well, even if the idea wasn’t entirely Neil Hannon’s own (a French cello quartet reworked ALL of Metallica’s Black Album in that manner a couple of years earlier).
Having started this thread, I quickly found I’d made a rod for my own back, as my "shortlist" totalled nearly 120 songs! I’ve finally managed to get it down to what should, more of less, be able to fill a double CD, viz;
Brian Eno – No One Receiving
Komeit – End of Camp
Stewart / Blunstone – What Becomes…
XTC – The Mayor of Simpleton
China Crisis – Wishful Thinking
Gangway – My Girl and Me
Gnac – Our Distance
Field Mice – Of the Perfect Kind
Duck Hunt – Vacation
My Bloody Valentine – Soon
Gabrielles Wish- Mary Bobbins
Pop Will Eat Itself – Def Con One
Can – I Want More
Susan Fassbender – Twilight Cafe
St Christopher – Young Nun
Montgolfier Brothers – Between Two Points
Manu Chao – me gustas tu
Johnny Clegg & Savuka – Scatterlings of Africa
Culture – LegalizationMysterious Art – Das Omen (12")
Wolfsheim – The Sparrows and the Nightingales (12")
Boards of Canada – Alpha and Omega
Humanoid – Stakker Humanoid
T99 – Anasthasia
Frederik Schikowski – Amerikatze (unkastriert)
Flowchart – Flutter By Butterfly
Cardiacs – A Horse’s Tail
The Freed Unit – The City
Another Sunny Day – You Should All Be Murdered
Belle and Sebastian – Jonathan David
Tennessee Twin – These Thoughts are Occupied
Laura Cantrell – Queen of the Coast
Stereolab – Avant-garde MOR
Aberdeen – Byron
Brian – Understand
John Cooper Clarke – Beasley StreetJeremy
(graysonscolumn)Adoptive father of two. The patron saint of lower-grade fare. A gently critical friend of point-to-pointing. Kindness is a political act.
Girls & Boys-Blur<br>Oh Father-Madonna<br>One More Time-Daft Punk<br>Don’t Dream its Over-Crowded House<br>November Rain-Guns N Roses<br>Don’t Look Back in Anger-Oasis<br>St Swithins Day-Dubstar<br>Everybody Hurts-REM<br>True Faith-New Order<br>The Scientist-Coldplay<br>Everybody Changes-Keane<br>National Express-Divine Comedy<br>Still Haven’t found what I’m looking for-U2<br>Shake me-Mint Royale<br>2 Become 1-Spice Girls<br>Imagine-John Lennon<br>Bitter Sweet Symphony-The Verve<br>Steal my Sunshine-Len<br>Why does it always Rain on Me?-Travis<br>Head over Heels-Tears for Fears<br>Rock DJ-Robbie Williams
Good to see the excellent Mayor of Simpleton from teh under-rated XTC getting onto a list! wd Grays!
Quote: from cormack15 on 11:54 am on Mar. 25, 2005[br]Good to see the excellent Mayor of Simpleton from teh under-rated XTC getting onto a list! wd Grays!
<br>Ta. I limited myself to one song per act, otherwise "Love at First Sight", "The Loving", "The Meeting Place", "No Thugs in Our House" and "Stupidly Happy" might have found their way on as well. Big XTC fan, I is.
Jeremy<br>(graysonscolumn)<br>
Adoptive father of two. The patron saint of lower-grade fare. A gently critical friend of point-to-pointing. Kindness is a political act.
Then this may please as well Jeremy!
(Good way to idle away a Good Friday afternoon).
I sold my record collection when I was moving to the USA for good – oh about 20 years ago. I came back within the year! I can’t say I miss them much.
But these are the tracks that were part of my formative years that I would love to have on one CD, for when I’m all nostalgic for being a shoe-staring suburban box-room rebel!!
XTC – Statue of Liberty (!)<br>The Jam – When You’re Young<br>X Ray Spex – Identity<br>The Cure – Play for Today<br>The Clash – Armagedeon Time<br>Penetration – Free Money<br>Patrik Fitgerald – After all the Years of Trying<br>Buzzcocks – What Do I Get<br>Tom Robinson Band – You Gotta Survive<br>Joy Division – Atmosphere
Au Pairs – Diet<br>The Comsat Angels – Waiting for a Miracle<br>Gang of Four – 5:45<br>Dalek i love you – dalek i love you<br>OMD – Messages<br>JosefK – It’s Kinda Funny<br>Human League – Only After Dark<br>Wah Heat – Better Scream<br>Echo and the Bunnymen – Villiers terrace<br>Aztec camera – We Could Send Letters
Woah, this is possibly the hardest thing ever for me to do!  Here is goes though…
1) Bikini Kill – Rebel Girl.<br>2) Elastica – Never Here.<br>3) Kenickie – P U N K A.<br>4) Electrelane – Birds.<br>5) Echobelly – King Of the Curb.<br>6) The Hives – Main Offender.<br>7) Suede – Trash.<br>8) Blur – Stereotypes.<br>9) Sahara Hotnights – Only The Fakes Survive.<br>10) The Distillers – Young Girls.<br>11) Dresden Dolls – Girl Anachronism.<br>12) Pulp – MisShapes.<br>13) Gravy Train!!! – Sippin’ 40z.<br>14) Sleeper – Nice Guy Eddie.<br>15) Blur – Parklife.<br>16) Le Tigre – Deceptacon.<br>I’m off to make this cd to listen to in my car.<br>:cool:
(Edited by zome at 4:28 pm on Mar. 26, 2005)
Hiya,
This is exactly what I suspect would happen – as other peoples’ lists are put up, I find myself thinking "aaargh, that should’ve gone in my list, too"! Anyone else getting the same? I’d quite happily lift "We Could Send Letters" (possibly the best song ever written by a 16 year-old) and "Messages" (which I only had on the other night) from Tooting’s list, and "Deceptacon" from Zome’s. I’m going to have to submit a box set at this rate!
"Nice Guy Eddie" would be my fave Sleeper track as well, and anything off Kenickie’s "Catsuit City" EP (especially "SK8BDN Song" ) would have found a place in a marginally longer list.
Jeremy<br>(graysonscolumn)<br>
(Edited by graysonscolumn at 12:50 pm on Mar. 28, 2005)
Adoptive father of two. The patron saint of lower-grade fare. A gently critical friend of point-to-pointing. Kindness is a political act.
Now this is my kind of thread! The biggest problem is do you have your favourite songs or the ones that mean the most to you?
Anyway bit late but here goes….
My Life Story – 17 Reasons Why I Love Her <br>Spiritualized – Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space<br>The Coral – Dreaming Of You<br>Doves – There Goes The Fear<br>The Waterboys- Don’t Bang The Drum<br>Suede- So Young<br>Stone Roses- Made Of Stone<br>Whipping Boy – We Don’t Need Nobody Else<br>Belle And Sebastian – The Boy With The Arab Strap<br>Clint Boon Experience – White No Sugar<br>The Pogues – A Pair Of Brown Eyes<br>Leonard Cohen – Hallelujah<br>Oasis – Slide Away<br>Mike Scott – She Is So Beautiful<br>The Smiths- You Just Haven’t Earned It Yet Baby<br>The Verve – History
Deliberately didn’t choose anything recent but a 2nd CD madefrom the last 12 months or so would be…
The Killers – All These Things That I’ve Done<br>Ed Harcourt – This One’s For You<br>The Zutons – Long Time Coming<br>Muse – Hysteria<br>Thirteen Senses – The Salt Wound Routine<br>Franz Ferdinand – Take Me Out<br>22-20s – Shoot You Down<br>The Walkmen – The Rat<br>Polyphonic Spree – Two Thousand Places<br>Nick Cave – There She Goes My Beautiful World<br>Nick Cave – Oh Children
KM
Love that My Life Story track, KM, and also like Can’t Uneat The Apple off their album.
Yep, I could happily listen to most of these compilations – good stuff.
- You must be logged in to reply to this topic.