Favourite song.

[luctor et emergo]

Following hotly in the footsteps of the favourite book thread, what is your favourite song?

 

 

My favourite, of many favourites, is 'Sinking' from the 1986 'The Head on the Door' album from The Cure. A very underrated album I think.

 

 

 

You tube link, The Cure live. This should be played at max volume, in a darkend room...

[Tony Brooks]

Following hotly in the footsteps of the favourite book thread, what is your favourite song?

 

 

My favourite, of many favourites, is 'Sinking' from the 1986 'The Head on the Door' album from The Cure. A very underrated album I think.

 

 

 

You tube link, The Cure live. This should be played at max volume, in a darkend room...

 

 

Until a few years ago this would have been very hard to answer because it would have depended upon my mood etc. However, like most parents, I am immensely proud of my children and at last all those years of "Get into that room and do your practise/homework/etc." seems to have paid off.

 

My favourite is "Food Club" written by my son and performed by the 5 piece he formed - even if some ignorant Guardian bird bird buzzed it off Radio 2 I well remember the bar staff a a Reading bar getting up on the bar and dancing to it because the whole bar was rocking. It also seem to have captured some of the "poor lyric" humour of the time it imitates.

 

What I found most refreshing is that he dismisses it as "just a pastiche".

 

If you want a link and I apologise because it a commercial one you will find it on link to CD site

[Athy]

Of many records which I've come to love during many years' devotion to music, my absolute favourite doesn't even have any lyrics, nor very much of a melody, but the mood which it creates is flawless and timeless: 'Green Onions' by Booker T & The MGs, which hit me like a missile when i first heard it on Tony Hall's Radio Luxemburg programme as a new release, and whose appeal has not diminished one iota.

After almost as many years, 'I Had A Talk With My Man' by Mitty Collier still brings a tear to my eyes through its sheer soul and beauty.

[Rob_rs2000]

It's very hard to choose just one but

 

Nine Inch Nails - Something I can never have has to be one of my all time favourites,

especialy this version:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEW8riKU_tE

[alan_fincher]

I'm surprised we are at post 4, and still nobody has mentioned either Clive Dunn's excellent "Granddad" or Joe Dolche's definitive "Shaddap You Face".

 

My problem is choosing between the two.

[twbm]

Paint it Black.

[Athy]

You forgot the comma which, in best 'Eats, Shoots and Leaves' manner, completely changes the title's meaning frpm "Paint it a dark colour" to "Paint it, emergent national".

Edited October 9, 2010 by Athy

[twbm]

You forgot the comma which, in best 'Eats, Shoots and Leaves' manner, completely changes the title's meaning frpm "Paint it a dark colour" to "Paint it, emergent national".

 

True, and well pointed out. Several smartarse rejoinders spring to mind but at least one of them is probably illegal.

[jake_crew]

Who knows ... by our Sandy. I know it may be a common choice, but the memories it conjures up are my own !

 

Actually my Spotify favourites playlist is now some 50 tracks long. So its going to be a long funeral when my time comes.

[Josher]

It has to be ... This!

[NBMike]

Fairport Convention, 'Who knows where the time goes' written by the late great Sandy Denny always brings a lump to my throat. (Even now while typing this!)

But Casta Diva sung by Callas runs a close second (Can this be called a mere 'song'?)

Edited October 9, 2010 by NBMike

[Athy]

It has to be ... This!

 

More memories of crackly, fady (?) Radio Luxemburg! I remember asking for this for Christmas and my parents refusing to buy it for me because it was in bad taste. Mr. Pickett's ghoulish offering sounds very mild now compared with much which has followed it.

'Who Knows Where the Time Goes' was played by Fairport at this year's Cropredy Festival - sung by Vicky Clayton? Not sure - and it is indeed affecting, perhaps more so than the band's regular finale 'Meet On The Ledge' which, I was amazed to find out, was composed by Richard Thompson when he was about 19.

[NB Alnwick]

Fairport Convention, 'Who knows where the time goes' written by the late great Sandy Denny always brings a lump to my throat. (Even now while typing this!)

But Casta Diva sung by Callas runs a close second (Can this be called a mere 'song'?)

 

As a song, 'Who knows where the time goes' is very special and although the 'Unhalfbricking' version is my personal favourite, I also enjoy hearing the song performed by Judy Collins and Kate Rusby. Linked to Sandy Denny (who I saw perform the song live in 1968) are my memories of performances by Alex Campbell in the 1960s, a singer/songwriter who should take some of the credit for Sandy's early development and who deserves much greater recognition for his own work. Sadly both are no longer with us but for pure nostalgia, any recording of the raucous Glaswegian's 'So Long (Been on the Road So Long)' brings back some happy memories . . .

[carlt]

 

Stephane Grapelli - You took advantage of me

 

Cabaret Voltaire - Yashar

 

Birthday Party - Mutiny in Heaven

 

John Tavener - Lamb (sung by the Tallis Scholars)

 

Jah Wobble - The Sun Does Rise

 

The Residents - What have my chickens done now.

 

William Byrd - Mass for 4 voices (sung by the Tallis Scholars)

 

Dead Kennedy's - California Uber Alles

 

Though only if I was forced, at gun point, to pick out individual tracks, from my favourite artists.

 

Edited to say: Then again there's also The Cramps - The Crusher, Velvet Underground - The Gift, Tones on Tail - Go, SLF - Alternative Ulster, Colorbind James - Jesus at the Still, X-Ray Spex - Germfree Adolescent...it is an impossible task!

Edited October 9, 2010 by carlt

[Mick_B]

<<Snip - My favourite is "Food Club" written by my son and performed by the 5 piece he formed >>snip

Nice Tony. respect. A really nice sound.

Edited October 9, 2010 by Mick_B

[Chertsey]

Got to be something by Leonard Cohen. Probably 'Sing Another Song Boys', though run close by 'Famous Blue Raincoat' and 'Closing Time'. Without words... the second movement of Tchaikovsky's Fourth; the first piece of music that ever made the hairs stand up on the back of my neck.

 

Golly, this is terribly personal isn't it.

[Guest User]

... yes, it's a very personal choice ... "Song to the Siren" by This Mortal Coil

 

Edited to add : hmmmm, then again, maybe Marilyn Manson's "Disposable Teens" ?

Edited October 9, 2010 by Graham!

[Mick_B]

FFS Carl... Haven't even heard of most of them.....

[MoominPapa]

Difficult, difficult. Possibly "Mrs Potter's Lullaby" by the Counting Crows, but I don't know if that will stand the test of the years. For something that still makes my scalp contract, years later, "Cactus Tree" by Joni Mitchell.

 

MP.

 

Mrs Potter

Cactus Tree clicky

 

... the elephants will get out and forget to remember what you said.

 

Edited to add: both songs about loneliness, I wonder what that says?

Edited October 9, 2010 by MoominPapa

[Guest]

Such a difficult choice but

 

This

 

Remains an enduring favourite of mine -

 

a simple lyric, beautifully sung (Just IMHO you understand).

Edited October 9, 2010 by MJG

[Smelly]

Well... if we're doing lists.

 

High on the list must be the Eurotunnel mix of Lush 3:1 by Orbital

 

Paranoid Android by Radiohead

 

Gorecki by Lamb

 

The Rabbit's Name by A&E Dept

 

Rose Rouge by St Germaine

 

Private Road by Bent

 

American Wedding by Gogol Bordello

 

The W.A.N.D by the Flaming Lips

 

The theme from Ironside, was it Herbie Hancock? I nearly got beaten up outside Manchester Oxford Rd when that big horn break inspired me to wave my arms about a few years ago.

 

Part of the Process by Morcheeba, 10 000 folk singing along in a field at Glasto will live with me forever.

 

Pretty much anything by Robert Johnson

 

Eat Yourself by Goldfrapp

 

and why oh why did Moloko sell out? Their first sampler, released before they got House was inspirational...

[carlt]

FFS Carl... Haven't even heard of most of them.....

List converted to youtube links, for your delectation, or revulsion.

[Smelly]

It has to be ... This!

 

 

 

This

 

 

Some of us haven't the bandwidth for YouTube

[Guest]

Some of us haven't the bandwidth for YouTube

 

Mine was Cara Dillon (with John Smith) - The Redcastle Sessions - If I Prove False

 

A pity you can't hear it -

[Smelly]

When we head back into the smoke I may dig it up...

 

Thank you.