06 June 2008
seven songs: a music meme!
Ah, memes are back. It's like 2004 all over again...This one graciously requested by The End Times.
'List seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they're not any good, but they must be songs you're really enjoying now, shaping your spring. Post these instructions in your blog along with your 7 songs. Then tag 7 other people to see what they’re listening to.'
Blimey. I don't really write about music any more, though I was for a time a staff writer for the Midlands-based music mag Retroactive Baggage. I even got to interview Roddy Woomble and Urusei Yatsura! Oh heady days...But that was in another country. And besides, the wench is dead. So nobody asks me to write about music any more (possibly this is not unjustified), so horrah for this meme-thingy. Video/mp3 links to the titles, just like Owen did, except all his choices are superkool and mine are mostly, erm...well...
1. The Smiths, 'William, It Was Really Nothing'.
Whether this song is really about Billy MacKenzie, or simply telling someone that marriage isn't really worth it, I have probably listened to this song more than any other in the past few weeks. I like to think it is a love song, albeit a slightly strange one. About 90% of the music I listen to is of ambiguous sexuality. I think music itself is of ambiguous sexuality.
2. Dominic Fox, Communications House (mp3)
This is a splendid protest song in the tradition of Phil Ochs. Dominic should release this as a double-A side with The Grey Cock. There's a gentle revolutionary Britishness to Dominic's work that speaks of Wat Tyler, commons and a pig in the back yard. Or perhaps that's just me.
3. Current 93, Falling Back in Fields of Rape.
Current 93, who are not rubbish, despite what Carl says are great: theatrical, creepy, pretentious and heavy on the drugs and religious darkness.
UPDATE: Informed that I'm not allowed to like C93, due to their apparently working with Troy Southgate (I didn't know who he was either). Hmm, ok, I'll swap them for Coil's Tainted Love.
4. Tatu, White Robe (Beliy Plaschik) .
Watch the video! Watch the video! Erm...
5. Marc Almond, Jacky
Oh Marc...aside from all the Soft Cell, I have almost every solo project he ever did, and I love them all. A major part of the rather small British chanteur non-tradition, he never fails to make glamorous the dankness, seedy curtain-twitching and general crapness of England.
6. Hawkwind, Brainstorm
My vinyl copy of this album has little sketches and notes on the inner sleeve by whoever owned in the past that say things like: 'HAWKLORDS!' and 'PSYLOCYBIN' together with pictures of mushrooms and Omkars. It sounds like grease, leather, intoxication and madness. I like to listen to this before I go to work.
7. Avril Lavigne, Complicated
This is the song I sing when we do Karaoke in our local pub. My rendition has been described as 'heartfelt' and 'more or less in tune'. I also look not entirely dissimilar to Ms Lavigne, though hopefully at least six months older.
'List seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they're not any good, but they must be songs you're really enjoying now, shaping your spring. Post these instructions in your blog along with your 7 songs. Then tag 7 other people to see what they’re listening to.'
Blimey. I don't really write about music any more, though I was for a time a staff writer for the Midlands-based music mag Retroactive Baggage. I even got to interview Roddy Woomble and Urusei Yatsura! Oh heady days...But that was in another country. And besides, the wench is dead. So nobody asks me to write about music any more (possibly this is not unjustified), so horrah for this meme-thingy. Video/mp3 links to the titles, just like Owen did, except all his choices are superkool and mine are mostly, erm...well...
1. The Smiths, 'William, It Was Really Nothing'.
Whether this song is really about Billy MacKenzie, or simply telling someone that marriage isn't really worth it, I have probably listened to this song more than any other in the past few weeks. I like to think it is a love song, albeit a slightly strange one. About 90% of the music I listen to is of ambiguous sexuality. I think music itself is of ambiguous sexuality.
2. Dominic Fox, Communications House (mp3)
This is a splendid protest song in the tradition of Phil Ochs. Dominic should release this as a double-A side with The Grey Cock. There's a gentle revolutionary Britishness to Dominic's work that speaks of Wat Tyler, commons and a pig in the back yard. Or perhaps that's just me.
3. Current 93, Falling Back in Fields of Rape.
Current 93, who are not rubbish, despite what Carl says are great: theatrical, creepy, pretentious and heavy on the drugs and religious darkness.
UPDATE: Informed that I'm not allowed to like C93, due to their apparently working with Troy Southgate (I didn't know who he was either). Hmm, ok, I'll swap them for Coil's Tainted Love.
4. Tatu, White Robe (Beliy Plaschik) .
Watch the video! Watch the video! Erm...
5. Marc Almond, Jacky
Oh Marc...aside from all the Soft Cell, I have almost every solo project he ever did, and I love them all. A major part of the rather small British chanteur non-tradition, he never fails to make glamorous the dankness, seedy curtain-twitching and general crapness of England.
6. Hawkwind, Brainstorm
My vinyl copy of this album has little sketches and notes on the inner sleeve by whoever owned in the past that say things like: 'HAWKLORDS!' and 'PSYLOCYBIN' together with pictures of mushrooms and Omkars. It sounds like grease, leather, intoxication and madness. I like to listen to this before I go to work.
7. Avril Lavigne, Complicated
This is the song I sing when we do Karaoke in our local pub. My rendition has been described as 'heartfelt' and 'more or less in tune'. I also look not entirely dissimilar to Ms Lavigne, though hopefully at least six months older.
