Music Library

From the year of its release, quite simply my favourite piece of music of all-time.

I don't normally go for live videos. I tend to prefer the smoother studio versions, unless I'm actually at the gig. Recorded live songs seem a bit... well, it tends to be a bit diluted and it doesn't always work quite so well. This one, however, is pretty good.

Arcade Fire with David Bowie - Wake Up

black kids "look at me (when i rock witchoo)"

see how many 80s cartoons you can spot in the video!

Nick Barlow wrote:Another blast from my past, with some late 80s sleaze rock:

Dogs D'Amour - How Come It Never Rains

Y'know, I was sure I'd be the only Dogs fan here. They were genuinely awesome, and I'm not one to use the word "awesome" lightly.

Curtis Mayfield - Keep On Keeping On

The film may have been awful, but this song is very, very, ace...

Mos Def & Massive Attack - I Against I

Some days you want to listen to a song that treads heavily on the face of the world with really big boots.
This is not one of those.

Today is a day for cigarettes and whiskey. Wild wild women are optional.

Rock and Roll is not.

- Motorhead

Time for one of those songs from the 'misunderstood by people who don't actually listen to the lyrics' list. Turn your speakers up before playing as it's best played loud:

Neil Young - Rockin' In The Free World

It looks like I'm the only person doing classical. No worries!

Put together a young version of my favourite conductor, Esa-Pekka Salonen, and possibly my favourite composer and you end up with total genius. The glorious final movement of Jean Sibelius - Symphony No. 5

Possibly the best cover version ever put to vinyl-


This Mortal Coil- Song To The Siren

Heartbreaking.

cops can catch criminals...

The Fall- Hit the North

barnaby salton wrote:cops can catch criminals...

For several years, around the Dread EighteenMark, this was, without fail, the last 'going out' song my friends and I would listen to before we headed out on the razz.

Sheer brilliance...

A Love Like Blood
- Killing Joke

Something for the Jet Set...

Jurassic 5 - Improvise

As I'm off to see him tonight, a song from the most famous inmate of Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary:

Otis Lee Crenshaw - Women Call It Stalking

Crack an ex-Pistol, mix in a scotsman pre-Ultravox and Live Aid, season with two other well-known faces from the era, and what have you got? Rich Kids - Ghosts of Princes in Towers.

With all apologies to any who like them, but here is entry number five thousand, seven hundred and forty nine in my reasons to dislike Radiohead: other, superior groups did the same sort of thing far better over a decade before them. As evidence, may I present Linder's boyfriend:


Magazine- Song From Under The Floorboards

The Co=Ordinator wrote:It looks like I'm the only person doing classical. No worries!

Put together a young version of my favourite conductor, Esa-Pekka Salonen, and possibly my favourite composer and you end up with total genius. The glorious final movement of Jean Sibelius - Symphony No. 5

I have posted at least 2 orchestra picks. Although one was c21 and one was baroque.

Spoiler:

Today, as I have declared it officially Xmas (no more traveling till 2009!!!) I am going to propose my favourite Xmas song ever.

This Little Babe - Banjamin Britten

It's not a very good video to be honest, but none of the versions on you tube are much cop sadly. The best way to listen to this is as Britten intended it to be sung - choirboys. Sadly the only choir boy versions I could find on you tube were either too slow or duff in some other way. From a musical standpoint this is the best version I could find on youtube even though it is SATB.

Nick Cave And the Bad Seeds- There She goes, my beautiful world

live on jools.

not doing any xmas songs yet...

Lee Carey wrote:With all apologies to any who like them [apology accepted - ed], but here is entry number five thousand, seven hundred and forty nine in my reasons to dislike Radiohead: other, superior groups did the same sort of thing far better over a decade before them...

In fairness, though, you can say that about pretty much everyone apart from Elvis and The Beatles...

I do like Magazine a lot, mind.

sheringham wrote:

Spoiler:

I'm not even going there Gill!

The Co=Ordinator wrote:

sheringham wrote:

Spoiler:

I'm not even going there Gill!

Well, but just get it right in the future! It's like calling a Baker T a Hartnell. And you should know better so there! Also it means you clearly didn't listen to my Red Priest clip.

sheringham wrote:Also it means you clearly didn't listen to my Red Priest clip.

Would that I had teh time to listen to them all..........

Some Elephant Six style bouncy indie pop now. Smashing. This band normally has Robert Schneider singing - this one, however, is sung by drummer Hilarie Sidney. This song is also second highest played on my iPod, behind Beirut's Postcards from Italy.

The Apples in Stereo - Rainfall

Quark, Strangeness And Charm

- Hawkwind.

With Bob Calvert, no less, and featuring rather more Marc Bolan than I was expecting.