My Music Playlist
There now follows by alphabetical track order those songs I've paid for from iTunes. Judge not lest ye be judged ;-)
| Name | Artist |
| Angel Witch | Angel Witch |
| Barber's Adagio for Strings | William Orbit |
| Bohemian Rhapsody | Queen |
| Bomber | Girlschool |
| Carmina Burana: Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi: O Fortuna - Coro (Da Capo) | Berliner Philharmoniker & Sir Simon Rattle |
| Carol of the Bells | Arthur Fiedler |
| Danger! High Voltage | Electric Six |
| Dentist! | Soundtrack |
| (Don't Fear) The Reaper | Blue Öyster Cult |
| Drumming | Florence + The Machine |
| Echoes | The Rapture |
| Epic | Faith No More |
| Face to Face (Soundtrack Version) | Siouxsie & The Banshees |
| Fire | Kasabian |
| Galvanize | The Chemical Brothers |
| Gay Bar | Electric Six |
| Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger | Daft Punk |
| Heart and Soul | T'Pau |
| Hey Boy Hey Girl | The Chemical Brothers |
| I Believe in a Thing Called Love | The Darkness |
| It's My Life | No Doubt |
| L.S.F. | Kasabian |
| A Little Time | The Beautiful South |
| Live and Let Die | Guns N' Roses |
| Mad World | Michael Andrews & Gary Jules |
| Mean Green Mother from Outerspace | Soundtrack |
| No Sleep Tonight | The Faders |
| Over and Over | Hot Chip |
| Paint It Black (Stereo Version) | The Rolling Stones |
| Paradise City | Guns N' Roses |
| Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up) | Florence + The Machine |
| Ride a White Horse (Single Version) | Goldfrapp |
| Right Here, Right Now | Fatboy Slim |
| Smooth Criminal | Alien Ant Farm |
| Something Good | Utah Saints |
| Stay | Shakespears Sister |
| Sunrise | Norah Jones |
| Sweet Child o' Mine | Guns N' Roses |
| Swords & Tequila | Riot |
| Sympathy for the Devil | The Rolling Stones |
| Trouble | Shampoo |
| Until We Bleed | Kleerup |
| Valentine | T'Pau |
| Voodoo Child | Rogue Traders |
| Welcome to the Jungle | Guns N' Roses |
| Where's Your Head At? | Basement Jaxx |
| Wuthering Heights | Kate Bush |
| You're History | Shakespears Sister |
| You've Got the Love | Florence + The Machine |
| Youth Gone Wild | Skid Row |
5 comments:
The first CD I ever owned was 2 Unlimited: The Story So Far.
I'm guessing that disqualifies me from ever criticising anything, ever.
If I were to list all the music I own, first of all it would take a really, really long time. And secondly, it's all over the place. I have Holst: The Planets sitting next to The Prodigy: Fat of the Land. And next to that is Tangerine Dream: Phaedra. And then comes The Beach Boys. It's a mad, mad world in there…
Oh that's nothing the first single of mine and that's vinyl (stop making me feel old) was ABBA's Gimme Gimme Gimmee (A Man After Midnight) and I can easily sing "No Limit"; got played a lot in the clubs and just sticks in the head.
I've never really owned a lot of music. Singles were always too expensive and albums always seemed a waste as half of the songs were rubbish. Then again you would occasionally hit the odd gem unreleased as a single, but the odds were low.
Also it seems like yourself I range around so I couldn't gravitate to the right section of the music store and thus pick up stuff that caught my eye. I'd go in for something specific I'd heard.
The other joy was the rise of the music video, sometimes the video itself was worth the money even if the song wasn't, but at the time (stop making me feel old :-) ) you couldn't buy them unless they got compiled onto VHS and then you were back with the same problem as buying an album.
So the rise of iTunes and its like has really helped me out, but not my wallet.
ABBA did some quality songs. And IMHO, that was definitely one of them. It's not the deepest thing ever, but it really vividly recreates the feel of a long lonely night.
As for No Limit… there are, like, 12 words in the entire song! Of course you can sing it! :-P (I can play it too. In fact, it's one of the first tracker songs I ever put together.)
When I was younger, I used to hear individual songs and like them. I'd get my dad to copy the ones I liked from CD into tape. (Stop making me feel old!)
Of course, back then we still had a few people making good music. (Stop making me feel old!!)
These days I tend to buy whole albums. It's hit and miss, but often you do get some good stuff. Like, if an artist has produced one or more tracks that I like, chances are there's a few more on the disk somewhere.
On the other hand, sometimes something like Sonique happens. I heard the two singles and liked them, so I bought the album. I liked both the singles on there, and absolutely nothing else.
Or, for that matter, Sash. Liked several singles, bought the album, it sounded nothing remotely like what I'd heard. All the tracks were remixes. So I took the CD back and got a refund. HMV is like that. (I bet iTunes doesn't give refunds!)
Now I tend to just buy albums from people I've heard of. Buy any album that says Enya on the front, and it'll probably contain good stuff. Ditto The Prodigy (ignoring Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned for a moment).
Trouble is, today people don't seem to produce great music any more. Mostly they produce music that features a video of a half-naked girl wiggling her arse, and it goes straight to number one because everybody loves the video. *sigh*
Yeah, but you have to be really secure in your heterosexuality to start singing Gimme a man after midnight or to have it discovered in your collection :-P
On albums that's the rub that's been eliminated by places like iTunes, you no longer have to guess you can get a nice preview of what it's like there and then.
Of course you can get something like Spaceman by Babylon Zoo where a snippet was used for an advert, everyone rushed out to buy it and the majority of the song switched from this zippy zaniness to a total dirge. So you can still get caught out that way.
Yeah it's a monotonous beat with something whizzy over the top that you can waggle about to on a dancefloor; with it's popularity being deemed by the bling in the video. That said sometimes the videos truly are excellent might not be to your taste but check YouTube for "Electric Six" videos "Gay Bar" and "Danger" those cheer me up every time just totally OTT Campness oh um not at work obviously.
I've only ever been asked out once in my entire life. And it had to be by a gay bloke, didn't it? *shivers*
Anyway, just because I own a song and I like listening to it doesn't mean I have to sing it. ;-)
I still go to physical shops and buy albums all the time. I quite often buy 'em without even hearing 'em.
And, yes, I own (mercifully the single of) Spaceman. For extra funkiness, try playing it backwards. Sounds trippy. But then, so does Golden Brown…
This Christmas was a bit lame, but the year before I got a huge pile of swag. Pendulum, Smash Mouth, Enya, Enigma, Jem, The Chemical Brothers… all at once! Not only that, but the album from Pendulum was far better than their last, ditto for Enigma, same again for Enya… shame Jem. ;-)
I guess good music is still out there. It's just harder to find because it's not popular any more.
This year, I got 101 Trance Anthems for Christmas. 6 CDs of music. There are some real gems in there — but they aren't easy to find, unfortunately.
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