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October 20, 2004

Music

I started a discussion in the pub the other day. “What is your top ten songs of all time?”. You can argue your corner as much as you want. But at the end of the day it will be completely different to the next person. It’s not just because people like different styles of music, it’s because music is so personal.

If someone says “That’s a really good song” is it because it sounds really good and is catchy, or is it because the lyrics or really good? I feel guilty because I don’t have a clue what the lyrics are to my top ten songs. They could be devil worshiping for all I know or taking the piss out of me for not knowing what I am hearing. Personally, I couldn’t care less about the lyrics. If you have a great sounding song with good words then that’s a bonus.

Another argument always follows. What makes a good live act? Is it where they interact with the audience all night and do original things, or actually sound like they can sing?

Anyway, my top fifty songs are all dominated by the way they sound. Songs that do not get boring after ten plays. But more importantly to me, songs define certain moments in your life. Without songs you would not remember half the things you did, be good or bad. For example:-


Banco de Gaia - Last train to Lhasa

On a Geography field trip to France in 1994 I really fancied a girl called Casey. She was bit of a hippy but I made excuses to sit next to her. So my ploy was to listen to her songs on her walkman. I said I really liked it trying to get in there, but in reality I thought it was a bid weird. I listened to this one song whilst driving through some beautiful mountains. Annoying enough after the trip I realised I really liked the music but Casey had left. I spent the next six years looking for the album. One day whilst walking in country park I sat on a bench, there was a fading sticker with the album on it. I ordered it from America the next day


Pete Murray - so beautiful

Passing a pub in Cairns I heard this song. This was typical Aussie waterhole, filled by a few old drunks at 9am. The song must have been good, I sneaked in despite the glances and noted down the title from the television and scampered out


William Orbit - Barber's Adagio for Strings

The Number One song on New Years Eve 1999. I was drinking a can of Stella when this song came on - can't remember much else about the night apart from being sick in a wheelie bin, trying to kiss a policewoman and passing out on the kitchen floor at 2am. That's normally fine, but in this case the party was in the kitchen and
everyone else went to bed at 6am.


Wamdue Project - King of My Castle [Original Radio Edit]

First heard this song sitting in a bar in Magaluf in 1999 with Baz and Mark drinking double vodkas and Redbull. It's the sort of place that you think is really great at the time, only to realise as you get older how bad it actually was. This song, like many others, first became popular in tacky cheesy English resorts and became known as 'the summer song'. Even more sadly you would go back to work and proudly say to your friends 'you heard it first'.


Sneaker Pimps - Spin Spin Sugar (Armand's Dark Garage Mix) (Unmixed) -

One of those songs that permantely reminds you of what you were. In this case, a sixteen year old youth in Essex driving in your shitty car that you though was great, pumping out tunes on your cassette player. This was perfect at the time, middle nineties in Southend was one of those times you look back and thin 'no, surely not'.


Terrorvision - Some people say

Walking to school with a bright green blazer listening to this on my Walkman in 1994. It was one of those moments that you pretended to like all sorts of music just to broaden your group of friends. As a result I liked everything from dance to Megadeath, wore black and moshed in midweek and raved at the weekends.


Supergrass - Moving

Driving from an office in Bouremouth to Whitiely in 2000 and listening to this CD and in particular this song. Unremarkable I know, more remembered for the damage I caused to the CD player after inserting this CD into it without knowing there was one in there already. Whoops.



Robbie Williams - Feel

Watching a programme about some stupid car dealer. He played his favourite song which was this. Although I wanted to hate it because he was twat, I liked it. As it was on my MP3 player when I went travelling it now reminds me of that


Pearl Jam - Indiffernce

If ever any music reminds me of being a teenager then Nirvina and Pearl Jam do. This was played in a clapped out old Austin Mastero going camping with the youth club. Then played whilst we were camping as the bloke who ran it loved Pearl Jam. As a consequence, so do I to this day.


Pearl Jam - Nothing Man

This was an album that everyone in the sixth form was looking forward to, Pearl Jam's Vitalogy. You see in those days we could not accidentally download music from the internet, we had to go to the shop and buy it. I remember my friend’s queuing at HMV for this only to be utterly disappointed with the new sound. Not a classic but a few gems of songs including this.


No Doubt - Its My Life


Originally I liked this song because I loved the original by Talk Talk. It was one of those songs that I used to get on my crappy radio when I was ten.


No Doubt - Don't Speak

First year of University. We were playing darts in out local pub and wanted to impress everyone with my music knowledge. I said I had heard a song four weeks ago that I though would get to number one, they said "yeah, yeah". An hour later this song came on in the pub, it said it was number one straight from a new entry. Back of the net.


Monaco - What Do You Want From Me

Every time I play it reminders of Trigger Happpy TV so that just makes me laugh.


Nuyorican Soul - I Am the Black Gold of the Sun [4 Hero Remix]

Sitting on a balcony of a million pound apartment, the sun rising across the water. I had been to a house party and my brother had been on the decks and put this on. Also the first night I had ever indulged in illegal substances (which I thought was an aspirin of course). Great night, if a bit trippy.


Pulp - This is hardcore

One of those moments you just get a buzz from being alive, a 10 out of 10 moment that rarely happens, and for no particular reason. Walking down the stairs from our hotel room in Magaluf, there was a DJ playing and this song was on. Took me two months to find out what it was but reminds me of that time to this day.


Mansun - Wide Open Space

Second year of university. Reminds me of living in a shit house and having no money. Still a great song though.


Level 42 - Something About You

Not a classic by any means. Mostly everynight, Barry, Mark and myself would go down to this incredibly dodgy nightclub on Portsmouth seafront freqented by sailors and other dodgy people. There would always be fights but we would always request this song out of tradition.


Republica - I'm ready to go

1997, the student bar. England verses Italy away to qualify for the World Cup Finals. Sky Sports played this song in the advert breaks. We got the result and therefore reminds me of happy times.


Evenenscence - Field Of Innocence

I was sitting on my bed with my fake new cd and cd player, purchased from a market in Ko Sumai in Thailand. It was pouring with rain outside and it was coming to the end of my trip this year. Played it over and over again.


Evenenscence - Everybody’s fool

Sitting in swanky hostel in Cairns watching videos on the tv - this one had an excellent video and even better sound.


Bluetones - Sleazy Bed Track

Going round my mate's Andrew Walker's house in midweek. Smoking lots of weed and listening to his CD collection and watching Seinfield.


Other Key songs

Nine Inch Nails - Something I Can Never Have
Very dark, but if I ever make a suspense film this will be on it

Neneh Cherry - Seven Seconds
Timless and never get tired of listening to it

Songs in my top 50

Chicane - Offshore
thrill seekers - Synaesthesia [Alaska's Sunset Mix]
Thomas Newman - Meet Joe Black
Stereophonics - Tommorow
Orion - Eternity [Acoustic Mix]
Embrace - All You Good Good People
Mother Love Bone - Chloe Dancer/Crown of Thorns
Massive Attack - Weather Storm
Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy
Mary J Blige - No More Drama (P. Diddy/Mario Winans remix a cappella)
Maroon 5 - She will be loved
Maroon 5 - This love
Kinobe - Slip into Something More Comfortable
Jakatta - American Dream [Radio Edit]
Jakatta - My Vision
Jakatta - It will be
Guns N'Roses - November rain
Grandmaster Flash - White Lines (Don't Don't Do It)
Garbage - You look so fine
Garbage - The trick is to keep breathing
Garbage - Milk
Faith No More - Midlife Crisis
Evenenscence - Missing
Café del Mar - [Michael Woods Remix]
Dido - Here with me
Delta Goodrem - Born to Try
Daniel Beddingfield - I can't read you
Craig David - Walking Away
The Corrs - Radio
Coldplay - Clocks
Coldplay - Politik
Coldpkay - Trouble
Colplay - Don't Panic
Blue States - Doublespeak
John Digweed - Beautiful Stranger [Ambient Mix]
Art of noise - Moments in love
All Saints - Surrender
DJ Sammy - DJ Sammy & Yanou feat. Do - Heaven



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