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We're holding up the by-pass, Me and my dad having a top laugh. I'm sitting on the toolbox and I'm so glad I'm not in school.... I'm Luke, I'm five and my dad's Bruce Lee and he drives me round in his JCB...
Have you ever fallen in love-it was on the uk music hall of fame last night.all proceeds go to amnesty international.its loads of bands club together, jamie cullum, hookie(joy division) i think the white stripes are doing it too.its really good
Ach! Can't pick one - ever since I got the Geldof set in the mail last week, it's been on constant rotation - and I can't pick one fave per day!! Too many!
I was always a Veg of Love/Happy Club kind of guy, but this set even has me loving DITHON and SAD.
One song? Uh... Like Down on Me. Oh, wait... now it's Thinking Voyager II Type Thoughts. Nope - August Was a Heavy Month. No, no, now it's Mudslide. No, now it's Huge Birdless Silence. Uh-uh, now it's ...
Finally managed to stop listening to the GELDOF ANTHOLOGY (GREATEST CD SET EVER!) and put on one of the only holiday songs I can stand - Fairytale of New York, by the Pogues, which I love love love...
(Funny, I hate the holidays and it's music, but of the few songs I like, most of them are Irish - from Fairytale, to U2's cover of "Chirstmas (Baby Please Come Home)" or even Bob's "Do They Know It's Christmas?" and so on... hunh! Go figgure!)
I dig the song, and what's more, it's the story of me and my ex, who I'll be seeing for the first time in a while this Chirstmas, so... uh... we'll see what comes of that... yikes!
What's your track of the day? For some reason, over the last few months I've gone through a few small obsessive phases with Exile On Main Street, especially the track Loving Cup. I don't know why. I could, and have, listened to it over and over again. I don't know if it's the piano or the steel drums...or what. Finally, in overload, I returned to Sticky Fingers, and (especially the back half of) Can't You Hear Me Knocking will forever be one of my favorite tracks of all time. Wyman is a genius. Sticky Fingers is definitely in the pile that goes to the desert island with me. In my opinion, it's perfect. So, I'll start by cheating - my track(s) of the day: Loving Cup and Can't You Hear Me Knocking. Both by the original World's Greatest Rock 'n Roll Band....(ladies and gentlemen)...The Rolling Stones.
Back when Franna started this thread I thought it would be really insightful (like the first one)with people not only giving their 'track of the day' but some rationale behind it. If nothing else, I thought it would be a good thread to highlight new or obscure tracks.
I hadn't looked at it for a while, but all it is is a list of songs! 90% of which are very familiar, the other 10% being Geldof songs. Some people make a bit of effort, but otherwise is it dull, dull, DULL. This is the sort of thread that really should be deleted
Anyway my tack(sic) of the day is Orville's Song by Keith Harris and Orville. Eider (sic) rather have had it as tomorrow's though
Most of my choices relate to the death of a friend, I didn't really want to say that, but that's my reasoning.
Today is I Cry Too - all about the above. Tango following up one of my choices with Funeral For a Friend was, unknowingly, rather fitting for my theme.
Poor ArrGee, the time difference has screwed you again.
1) You have to understand, every year the anniversay of John's death gets major press coverage in this city. And even after 25 years, every time I walk past the Dakota I freak out a little bit (happened again when I was up there just last week).
2) While I'd love to give your side of the pond some respect, that might keep the thread boring, so: a) Working Class Hero and b) Mother
I hope you have an insomnia attack and post again before the day is through....oh right, it's already tomorrow where you are! Dang it! Let's see what, if anything O'Brien has to say from the left coast....wonder if he's even home from work yet...
Oh, hm! Don't know what to say. Song of the day? Oh, I'm still obsessing on the Geldof anthology, so something from that, I guess...
As for JL - yes, I had the same reaction the few times I've been by the Dakota. And it's so mundane - the actual spot, yet, being busy NYC, it's full of people walking by, and a bored gaurd standing by... kind of fitting, I suppose.
I don't have a Lennon song for today... sadly, somehow, despite me growing up on the teat of Los Beatles, something like 99% of my collection - Beatles and Solo stuff - is all on LP, and a few tapes. Veeeeeery few CD's, and dad-gum it, sign of the times, everywhere I go, it's all cd - my car, my home, my work, etc. I do have a turntable at home, but it's covered in dust from non-use...
Wish I had one... now that I've read you guys, and typed what I did, I suppose it's time to open it up and dust off a record, yeah?
Which one?? I like a lot of Lennon's solo stuff - especially the upbeat tunes... liked just about all his songs from the last record - and about half the songs from the one after he died. Hm... in fact... have been considering getting that new Best of Lennon 2 CD set - I'm not a best-of kind of guy, but I guess it's a good place to start... Beatles stuff, (other than Ringo!) is NEVER on sale...
Well... ok. Song of the day? "John and Elvis Are Dead" by George Michael - about a guy waking up from a decades long coma to discover that he doesn't like the new world he's come back to... where, among other things, John and Elvis are dead. Sad song.
Terrible memories of this day 25 years ago. My mother, who was quite the fan, woke me for kindergarden, crying, and told me what happened. Being 5 I didn't really grasp the seriousness of it, till, later, at school, all the teachers were beside themself, faces wet with tears, and the SF Chronicle, with the huge banner headline announcing the news was everywhere. I read at an early age, and wanted to read the story, and much to my dismay, the teachers kept offering me the comics section, and their condesending attitute bothered me, but out of respect for that oddest of things - seeing adults crying openly, I said nothing. Ended up fishing a paper out of the trash... damndest memory... seeing grown men and women, complete strangers, dressed in suits, blouses and skirts, on their way to work, heads hung low, crying. Terrible terrible day.
our head of year in school was playing the 2nd beatles album in assembly and one of my m8s, Tom,shouted out a request to put number 3 on.so when 'all my loving' came on all the girls started to chat continuously, and the way they were silenced was 'shh, the lyrics are important if you fancy Tom' which most of them do.he was so embarrassed.anyway back on topic.Billy Bragg-new England or power in the union, just cos theyv been going through my head all day
Well seeing as I'm having vision problems at the moment Sound and Vision = David Bowie might be an appropriate track for today. that's a one eyed me that wink.
Barbara Ann - The Beach Boys (well, actually a BB Greatest Hits CD, but that's the track it's on at the mo). My personal quixotic crusade against all things WINTRY. Surf's UP, Baby!
My track of the day is This is the world calling - because I heard it on the radio for the first time in years! Long live radio NDR 2 (who've played another two songs two day ago I never hear on the radio elsewhere, but which I can't name here now, because I'm only allowed to name ONE track... )
ArrGee, disappointed again? "Only" a Geldof track, but with an explanation.
Gregorian Chant - First, Second, and Third Masses for Christmas - Chant School of Munsterschwarzach Benedictine Abbey.
I love choral music, especially religious choral music, always have. Plus, there's something incredibly satisfying about burning a CD which might possibly deprive the Catholic Church of royalties.
Update: My new favorite Christmas song - "Give The Jew Girl Toys" - Sarah Silverman
"I hate to say it Santa, but you're acting like a dick....Don't be a douche, what would Jesus do? He'd say 'give the Jew girl toys!'...Claus...is that German?"
My track of the day is This is the world calling - because I heard it on the radio for the first time in years! Long live radio NDR 2 (who've played another two songs two day ago I never hear on the radio elsewhere, but which I can't name here now, because I'm only allowed to name ONE track... ) ArrGee, disappointed again? "Only" a Geldof track, but with an explanation.
Ah, you can have more than one track! It was Tango listing the contents of her iPod that was the problem.
Anyway, I'll break with tradition and have a Geldof, well Rats, track.
I don't like Mondays
Reason - It's Monday, and Geldof ain't in Shepherd's Bush tonight!
i would like to make this point clear I DO NOT HAVE AN IPOD.my apologies to anyone who owns one but here so overrated and you look like a chav!you can get a normal mp3 with same storage for much less and you dont look like a jerk.
anyway track of the day...fairytale of new york-the pogues.its getting so much airplay at the minute and was announced as the best christmas song ever (band aid was second) and millenium prayer (cliff richard 'LOSER') was worst (band aid 2 was second-not band aid 20, band aid 2)
i would like to make this point clear I DO NOT HAVE AN IPOD.my apologies to anyone who owns one but here so overrated and you look like a chav!you can get a normal mp3 with same storage for much less and you dont look like a jerk.
iPod/Mp3 player/wma player - it's all the same. Bit like a Hoover, just a generic term for a player with lots of tracks. I'd love to have one and look like a chav; couldn't be worse than my Palm, with only 128MB, that puts tracks in any old order.
If you're wondering what to get me for crimbo, besides the iPod, I'd like a nice new turntable (Project DEBUT MK3), a ARCHOS AV700 100GB, a PSP, an MP3 player for the car, DVD recorder with 160GB hard disk, Motorola A1000 .......
Hope Santa has a decent sleigh now, last year he only gave me a pair of socks
Ah, you can have more than one track! It was Tango listing the contents of her iPod that was the problem.
ArrGee, I know. And it was me who told Tango to stick to one song. So now I can't do three...
The one for today:
Spandau Ballet "Through the barricades"
You can now spit at me - but I LOVE this song! You'd hate it Fran, but I think it's just wonderful. Heard it on virgin radio today, which we listen to online a lot in the office.
my apologies to anyone who owns one but here so overrated and you look like a chav! you can get a normal mp3 with same storage for much less and you dont look like a jerk.
Tango, I don't know what either chav or jerk means (nothing too friendly I guess), but I love my IPod!
[ Is chav usually connected with burberry pattern? And now the IPod... Sometimes you Brits are just hilarious... some of you anyways! ]
i got sat next to this lad in maths and he wouldnt stop singin it and nowits stuck in my head.plus i'm angry because i'v got a re-test in 'religious education', or the indoctrination lesson, after school tommorrow because apparently my opinion is wrong
i've had the crummiest day.meeting at lunch time about national political journalism, biology courseworking after that, then an english speaking assesment for gcse and then i had to stay after school to re sit my R.E. exam