I, and indeed Mrs.TP, do like......
the Cocteau Twins. For the uninitiated they were a trio (with various other regular contibutors) active for about 20 years plus producing beatiful, ethereal, swirly sound sculptures, for want of a better phrase. That's not to say they just churn out an amorphous wall of racket, everything they do is absolutely recognizable as a tune, they just don't fit into any recognizable pigeonhole. Anyway, cleverer people than me have tried to describe them on many occasions, but I suppose they are the Marmite of the music world, you either get it and love them, or you don't. When me and Mrs TP got hitched we had "Those eyes, that mouth" ( it has the line " Now we agree, now we are we" in it, which seemed to be appropriate) as our "back down the aisle once it was all over" tune, and she had a tattoo of the notation done, that's how much we like 'em. Anyhooses, you get the idea.

In 1993 or thereabouts they appeared on Later with Jools Holland, obviously I was looking forward to this all week. Whenever you're due to hear or see a band it's difficult not to hope that they do what you like and basically cobble together a set list tailored round what you want, which I would have done, but bands have obligations, they do what makes good commercial sense, namely stuff from new albums and the like, maybe the occasional oldie but it will often be largely promotional.

Come the time we settle in front of the telly and wait. Just before they come on I say to my flatmates "I hope they play Carolyn's Fingers", a definite oldie by that point, and just as I finish saying it they did. Not a new single, not a new title track, but something over 5 years old, and it felt utterly personal, they did it for me. Those who like the Twins will understand, it is utterly beautiful music anyway, but for me to get the song I asked for at such short notice before the days of interactive telly and the immediacy of the internet - today if you want something you download it, and 1 minute later you've got it - was possibly one of the most perfectly timed things I have ever experienced.

If the Badger of Lurve is reading, yes, I like a band. Yes they played a song I like. And yes the question said recently rather than Donkey's years ago. That is pretty much it. But you had to have been there, and indeed may have even had to have been me.
(tinypod will never learn. Ever., Sat 7 Aug 2010, 9:02, 2 replies)

Blue Bell Knoll
is a masterpiece. The most beautiful thing ever to exist.
(Dr Skagra glorious glargzhem, Mon 9 Aug 2010, 12:11, closed)

Treasure........
first grabbed me, Mrs.TP like pretty much everything but especially Great Spangled Fritillary, and Those Eyes gives me rampant goose pimples, hard to pick really though.

*offers some kind of secret handshake*
(tinypod will never learn. Ever., Mon 9 Aug 2010, 21:47, closed)