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The five most significant songs in your life please. The songs that have changed your life - not necessarily your favourites.
Bobby has answered in the thread below but too quickly. This requires reflection and insight.
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 18:55, 119 replies, latest was 15 years ago)
Right let's have a go.
1. Queen - Who wants to live forever, the lyrics scared me as a child and I have always loved it as a grown up.
2. Billy Idol - Dancing with myself, was "our" song with my favourite ex.
3. Red Hot Chilli Peppers - My Lovely Man, was my first introduction to the Chillis and probably funk. Awesome track
4. Guns N Roses - Coma, first 10 plus minute song I had experienced and actually blew my mind a little bit.
5. Tiffany - I think we're alone now, guilty pleasure and first crush.
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 18:58, Reply)
I've had 43 years on this world and only have two definates so far.
1 - The Smiths - "What difference does it make?" - Johnny Marr's opening 8 bars woke me from a dull life of New Romanticism and made me appreciate music created from love rather than money.
2 - Long Ryders - "Looking for Lewis and Clark" - for doing something very different at a mundane time and waking me up again.
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 19:11, Reply)
Nah we have been having this conversation since we were teens blood!
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 19:15, Reply)
Nine Inch Nails- Closer
Joy Division- Twenty Four Hours
Manic Street Preachers- Yes
DJ Shadow- In/Flux
Onionz & Joeski- Hold on to Your Love
Liquid Liquid- Scraper
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 19:17, Reply)
BGF is fucking enormous. I loved that whole breaks thing at the time.
NIN were my favourite band as a nipper, and that song is just cool.
Sums up depression perfectly, and I love the album is from.
For the lyrics.
Seminal abstract hip hop science. Showed how sampling and digging is an artform of its own.
Made me realise it was ok to like house as well as DnB, hip hop and electronica.
Lastly, it was stuck in my head for ten years.
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 20:00, Reply)
These are just five records that I love, they did not change my life, nor are they my favourites.
That would be uber bent.
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 20:22, Reply)
Faith No More - "Epic" - I'm not remotely into Faith No More or anything of that ilk, but Epic was a song in a place and time for me.
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 19:30, Reply)
that was constantly playing amongst my mates for 3 or 4 years.
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 20:30, Reply)
1. Frank Turner- Photosynthesis. It made me realise life isn't so bad, and that you can go your own way, and the only person you have to answer to is yourself.
2. The Calling- Wherever you will go. Mine and my ex-fiancee's song. Still brings back good memories.
3. The Killers- All These Things That I've Done. Fine memories of my final year of university spent with good friends.
4. Anything by Tupac- I was forced to listen to this shit in my first year of university as the guy in the room next door didn't understand the concept of earphones. He was kicked out for being an idiot. This taught me sometimes people do have to face up to the consequences of their actions.
5. Led Zeppelin- Stairway to Heaven. First album I ever bought.
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 19:25, Reply)
And I'm also full of panic about driving to Heathrow tomorrow morning.
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 19:59, Reply)
When people honk their horns and flash their lights it means they're /talk posters.
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 20:21, Reply)
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 19:58, Reply)
Because we have to take our five most significant tracks to my mate's 50th.
Maybe pivotal moments count. I've only got three so far.
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 20:01, Reply)
Fucking hell, that'd be an interesting variation from my mates and I.
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 20:02, Reply)
1.When you're young - The Jam - A snapshot of my teens.
2.Please please please - The Smiths - A snapshot of my life.
3.No ordinary morning - Chicane - A reminder never to let a guy use me again.
4.Holiday in Cambodia - Dead Kennedys - A reminder that life can be fun.
5.The Low album - David Bowie - The album I played to death when I first suffered with depression at the age of 18.
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 19:58, Reply)
That's my 4th - Holiday in Cambodia - because music can churn your guts up too, and because East Bay Ray's guitar work on that is so scary.
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My cousin Steve saw the Pistols at Lancaster on their last gig before McLaren saw fit to split them up and insert Sid "Simon Ritchie" Viscious.
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 20:12, Reply)
but there are a couple which are very very evocative of a time and a place and/or an emotional state, such as How Soon Is Now and Good Riddance, I'm ashamed to admit.
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 19:52, Reply)
causing a kind of 'epiphany' moment? I had one at Green Man, listening to Iron and Wine, but then I got lost and stressed on the way home and got stopped by the police.
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 19:54, Reply)
I may be away for a week or so, depending on how much time I get to spend on the laptop while I'm in full tour guide mode. so, in advance, here's a gentle nudge:
If you don't ask Playground Boy out for a drink on Monday, I will personally hound you until playground duty next term. Every day.
You have been warned.
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 19:58, Reply)
I'm building up to it. If nothing else I shall ask him to join me for coffee at lunchtime.
So, what are you tourguiding? Is this your friends from America?
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 19:59, Reply)
I have to go find them at heathrow.
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 20:10, Reply)
London on saturday, Liverpool on wednesday, Longleat on thursday, Bath on friday.
DEon't tell Jeff, but I'm taking them on the pier this friday, too.
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 20:16, Reply)
useful in Scrabble. I just kicked arse in FB "Words with Friends" aka Scrabble having been repeatedly crushed in several previous games. Think I've got the hang of it now.
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 20:59, Reply)
which may be a tad unhelpful in the context of this thread. Sorry.
Significant periods, though:
1. Chris de Burgh album Sleeping in Light always reminds me of driving with my dad, because he played it constantly in his car when I was twelve.
2. James - Sit Down is the theme for my lower sixth summer term.
3. Meatloaf bat out of Hell 2 album is my first year of uni album.
4. Will Smith - Summertime is summer 1993. I was in Germany and it was bastard hot.
5. Steeleye Span - The Two Magicians will always remind me of mr b3th. He is a total 'folker' and this is my favourite of the songs he keeps trying to get me to like.
But I still don't think any of them have changed my life.
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 19:55, Reply)
Into The Light? Me too! That's in my CD collection for my eternal shame. There are some really good songs it though.
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 21:14, Reply)
1. The Prison Song - System Of A Down - The first heavy track I ever heard and liked.
2. Scars Of The Crucifix - Deicide - Made me realise that music can be heavy as fuck, but still enjoyable.
3. You'll Never Walk Alone - Gerry & The Pacemakers - Speaks for itself really.
4. Killing In The Name Of - RATM - I never liked this track, which was a helpful way of realising that just because all of your mates like a track, doesn't stop it being shit.
5. I Do Believe In Fairies - James Newton Howard - It's only an instrumental from a film, but it's such an uplifting piece of music. I used to listen to it on my way into work when things weren't going well, it would help me to face the day, per se. I still use it for relaxing, even now.
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 19:57, Reply)
Aphex Twin - Digiridoo, electronic music from the future. Made all the insipid rave stuff sound foolish and flaccid.
Faust - Tapes, electronic music from the past. Incredible cut up journey that oscillates between aural angels of mercy and angels of death. Opened the doors of Krautrock.
Captain Beefheart - Moonlight on Vermont, gravelly preacher man psychedelic blues. No one sounds like the Captain.
Crooked Jades - Sandy Boys, heard this by pure chance on Radio 2. Stunning track by a truly unbelievable band. Changed everything I believed about live music.
Nick Drake - Cello Song, left me stunned and dazed. Beautifully timeless
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 20:02, Reply)
Sometimes you vacciliate, and a musical message resonates and pushes you on.
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 20:19, Reply)
Come to Daddy was equally seminal. Windowlicker even more so. Windowlicker still sounds like some future science shit, but it's over ten years old now.
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 20:24, Reply)
Edit - Ah yes I have. I fucking love their videos : )
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 20:35, Reply)
He also did this one for Bjork
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxBO28j3vug
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 20:42, Reply)
JAPANESE ROBOT LESBIANS KISSING!
For the lower of brow among us.
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 20:51, Reply)
LFO's Freak and Squarepusher's Come on my Selector.
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 20:54, Reply)
At a push I'd say maybe Shake the Disease by Depeche Mode as it really hit me at the time it came out and got me properly interested in music, as opposed to "Yeah, that's an alright tune".
A Night Like This by The Cure, as it reminds me of my first love.
I hate the Beatles, but there's a local band does a cover of Eleanor Rigby, utilising a cello, and it sends shivers down my spine every time they play it. The original could come on the radio straight afterwards, and I'd think 'meh'.
Marian by the Sisters of Mercy. Hearing it for the first time in 1987 heralded the start of my goth phase at a significant point in my life anyway.
Struggling for a fifth.
*Edit* Rue des Tempetes by the Young Gods, as it's a phenomenal tune and reminds me when I got to do work experience at the now defunct Riverside venue in Newcastle, which got me onto the guest list for any band I wanted after that. The Young Gods was the first of those.
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 20:27, Reply)
did a very grungy version of Eleanor Rigby at a Christmas gig as a one-off and then had people shouting for it at every gig for the next year...
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 20:38, Reply)
Apollo 440's cover of Don't Fear the Reaper lured me from general prog rock and metal into a much wider world of music.
Since the first album I ever bought was Marillion's "Script for a Jester's Tear" (see above) I'll throw in Forgotten Sons from that album.
I had a deep tongue session with Mandy Welch when I was 15 to Siouxsie and the Banshees' Spellbound
I had several dates with a bird called Kim on the strength of intially lending her the Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime album.
Can't think of any more right now.
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 20:29, Reply)
It's the fucking dog's. Her and Budgie supported by a full orchestra. Utterly superb, even if her voice does start to crack in a few places.
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 20:31, Reply)
Hats off - All the wank that Marillion subsequently came up with is eclipsed by that.
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 20:37, Reply)
My favourite from the album. Just *enough* artwank wordplay and a decent tune.
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 20:40, Reply)
for a Music exam pre O level. I think I got a B on the strength of being one of two out of fifteen boys who actually had a sort of alright attempt.
I can still hear it in my head 30 years later, bum notes and overbreathing and all.
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 21:03, Reply)
one of the things I am secretly proud of is that I have grade 2 descant recorder. I was 2% off a distinction, too. Most importantly it was 30% more than I guy who (years later) got 5 As at A level
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 21:07, Reply)
Achingly beautiful in parts, I banged my first supermodel whilst listening to it. Troo story.
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 20:41, Reply)
I like to add my little sausage and pretend it's a fry up
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 20:48, Reply)
Or Goombay Dance Band
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 20:46, Reply)
when I was a kid so we taped if off the radio for her
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 20:51, Reply)
internet shut-in song. Morrisey was just singing something along the lines of "if you're so good looking, why do you sleep alone tonight".
I done a lol
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 20:45, Reply)
(Also has 6 Music on.)
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 20:48, Reply)
Buy it so Mike Joyce can get some more money.
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 20:51, Reply)
I feel like I should go, but also feel he's a one trick pony.
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 20:52, Reply)
Otherwise I think I'll stay at home. I'm amazed they've got him, the place is a dive. Although they got Miles Hunt to do a solo gig there a few years back.
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 21:00, Reply)
My local got Scott Morris (ex-Bluetones bassist) for a solo gig a year or so ago.
Scott lives up here now I believe, because one of the last Bluetones gigs is Leeds O2 next weekend.
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 21:08, Reply)
Which is great. They've had a very highly regarded band called the Brew there a few times. They've garnered some very good reviews in the UK, but are absolutely massive in Europe, regularly playing big rock festivals and such like. The drummer is just a kid (probably about 23 now, but was about 18 when I first saw them), but is, hand on heart, THE best drummer I have ever witnessed. Absolutely phenomenal.
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 21:17, Reply)
I'm too old to remember songs
So albums will have to do
1) Pink Floyd - Wish you were here
2) KLF - The White Room
3) The Cult - Love
4) Black Sabbath - Paranoid
5) Alice Cooper - Trash
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 21:14, Reply)
"one last one"
Wild Willi Beckett's last outing with the Psycho Surgeons
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 21:18, Reply)
Smiths - What difference does it make
Long Ryders - Looking for Lewis and Clark
Faith no More - Epic
Dead Kennedys - Holiday in Cambodia
Elliot Smith - Son of Sam
Night. x
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 21:21, Reply)
Dylan: Like a rolling stone.
Don't fall into the trap of living a vicarious life.
Polly Jean Harvey: Shame.
It's the shadow of love, doncha know?
Captain Beefheart: My head is my only house unless it rains.
My arms are just 2 things in the way until I can wrap them around you again. Also it was my door into the cap'n, which obviously changed things.
Nick Cave: Do you love me?
Like a brutal version of a John Irving novel set to music?
Nick Harper: Love is music (from Double Life)
The inter-connectedness of things.
And Seasons in the sun too, I can remember he melancholy from my early childhood..
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 22:11, Reply)
Was how it went in the playground. Alright B?
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 22:20, Reply)
Not bad dude, been a heavy 6 months but taking a wee sabbatical these next few weeks ;) hoping to re-align my chakras and ting.
You guys ok?
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 22:26, Reply)
About to have dinner; the fucking oven conked out again. We must get a new one...
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 22:39, Reply)
Chuffing Norah, mate! That's slack, that is ;)
Ja would have resorted to a kerry-oot yonks ago, bonny lad ;)
Achly I would've just got lashed into some peeve...
And then roasted a badger over an open fire or summink.
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 23:01, Reply)
but the sun was too hot
and it melted all the snot
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 23:03, Reply)
;)
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 23:11, Reply)
I'm tired and emotional.
I was musing for future times...
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 23:30, Reply)
Bob Dylan - Idiot wind: Reminds me of my divorce
Mr Rogers theme - Mr Rogers: reminds me of being very jet-lagged and down in LA and finding simple pleasure in a nice man being nice
Johnny Cash - Hurt: The theme tune to my life on my less good days
Abba - Does you mother know: My son's favourite song
The Auteurs - Upper classes - one of the most beautify=ul songs I have ever heard, included for purely aesthetic reasons.
(, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 23:15, Reply)
Faith No More - From Out Of Nowhere
Pearl Jam - Black
Soundgarden - JesusChristPose
Metallica - Nothing Else Matters
Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
(, Thu 8 Sep 2011, 0:07, Reply)
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