Music Meme
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(1) Turn on your MP3 player or music player on your computer.(2) Go to SHUFFLE songs mode.(3) Write down the first 15 songs that come up--song title and artist--NO editing/cheating, please
Which, of course, I haven't done. Well, I've mostly done (1) and (2)insofar as I went to Spotify, opened my libraries and turned on Shuffle mode. But that doesn't start with a random track, so you're stuck with the first one on the list. Which, thankfully, I love to bits. However, after that I just hit "next" as soon as I'd noted down the track name. I haven't quite obeyed (3) insofar as I cut out any duplicates - if a track came up from a band I already had on the list then I skipped it.
Also, other people just seem to be listing songs, which frankly seems a little pointless - I'm interested in people's connection to their music more than I am in a listing of what they have on their MP3 player. So you're getting a sentence or two from me on each one:
1) '64 aka Go - Lemon Jelly ('64-'95)
Narrated by William Shatner, it's not quite a story, more a series of fragments of narration set to music. I love the way it builds.
2) Harder Better Faster Stronger - Daft Punk (Discovery)
I think I first heard this inspaj's car when I visited him in Belfast. After he was at university in Stirling (where we used to roleplay a _lot_ he went to Belfast for a few years to qualify as an accountant (a fairly unpleasant experience insofar as you get to do all of the shit jobs and are paid complete shit). I visited him for a weekend at one point, and we listened to this album when he drove me out to his parent's home in Donaghadee (out on the coast). It's also pretty awesome to dance to. Oh, and I love this video.
3) Horse Power - The Chemical Brothers (Further)
This is from the new Chemical Brothers album, which I was sceptical about at first. It's really grown on me though. I first got into the Chemical Brothers when Surrender came out, a truly magical album. And you don't get a video for Horse Power, because frankly it's only a mediocre track (and has no music video). Instead you get the amazing video that Michel Gondry made for Let Forever Be:
4) Walk On - U2 (All that you can't leave behind)
Aaah, U2. I started my U2 obsession with the track "Numb", which is as atypical as you can get for U2, constructed as it is largely from Brian Eno samples and "sung" by The Edge. I've owned all of their albums (well, up to the point where I stopped buying albums and just made Spotify playlists instead), and I've seen them live four times. This album isn't up to the level of my favourites (Joshua Tree, Achtung Baby, Zooropa), but it still contains a few awesome tracks, and when I saw them live for this tour they were absolutely electric. It was quite stripped back, without the over the top visuals of the Zoo tour, but in some ways more affecting for that.
5)Heresy - Nine Inch Nails (Further Down The Spiral)
God I love this album. There are very few albums that I think of as utterly perfect, but this is definitely one of them. I listened to it a huge amount, saw them live on this tour, and it was my go-to album for at least a couple of years (probably driving various other people insane over this period). It's horrible depressing (as you'd expect with a name like that), but hey, that was me at that point. No music video for this one, so you can just have the track with a logo on it:
6) Soldier's Poem - Muse (Black Holes And Revelations)
I will forever associate this album with the Isle of Skye. I'd been invited up there by a bunch of friends, principallymarrog and adrenalineanima, who gave me a lift up. We spent a great week in a cottage in the middle of nowhere with no mobile signal or anything like that, going for occasional walks, enjoying the scenery and playing the odd board game. It's where I introduced marrog to Battlestar Galactica, and the album that got played there and back the most was Black Holes and Revelations. Which is absolutely the best way to introduce me to music. Lending it at me does fuck all use - trapping me in a moving vehicle for 6 hours and playing it repeatedly, on the other hand, does the trick very well... I found a lovely live version that's absolutely perfect. And the bastards have embedding turned off. So you can go listen to it here. Or a slightly-less-good live version is here
7) Policy of Truth - Depeche Mode (Violator)
An unusual track, in that it predates my time at university. There's very little music that does, because I didn't really discover music until I was 16-ish, and I don't listen to W.A.S.P. any more. Anyway, this track came out around the time I was learning about musical taste, and I think I borrowed it from one Richard Cooper, although I wouldn't swear to it (one of the few people from school that I have good memories of, and actually have on Facebook). Depeche Mode continued to invadew my brain for a couple of albums after this, and I saw them live once, supported by The Sisters Of Mercy. Sadly, their live performance is pretty much identical to the album version, making it a tad pointless, but this album still gets wheeled out every once in a while.
8) The Gentle Hum of Anxiety - Trent Reznor/Atticus Ross (The Social Network soundtrack)
Not my favourite soundtrack by any means - it works very well in the film, but fades into the background too much when I try to actually listen to it. Still worth listening to occasionally, and works quite well when I'm working. (My favourite soundtrack of all time is probably the one for Requiem For A Dream, which still blows me away.)
9) Voodoo People - The Prodigy (Music for the Jilted Generation
Aaah, The Prodigy. Another part of my university soundtrack, The Prodigy managed to take the samples of dance muisic and infuse them with an anger and energy that really grabbed me. Sadly the video for this one isn't just rubbish, it digs up all of the cliches about voodoo and happily waves them at you. So we'll skip that and have Breathe instead:
10) Highschool Lover - Air (Virgin Suicides soundtrack)
After Sofia Coppola was torn into pieces for her role in Godfather III, before she hit the big time with Lost In Translation, she made the marvellous Virgin Suicides. The film itself is marvellously acted, directed and shot, but what really ties it all together is a haunting soundtrack from Air, which suffuses the whole endeavour with melancholy and longing. Here's a montage set to the music from the movie:
11) - Vuelvo Al Sur - Gotan Project (La Revancha Del Tango)
I wouldn't have thought that mixing Tango music with electronica would work either. Nevertheless this album was constantly in play the year it came out, I saw them live, and it works triumphantly. If you get the chance to see them live I recommend it, I saw them in a seated venue, but they brought the audience to its feet and had them dancing in the aisles.
12) Something In The Way - Nirvana (Nevermind)
Aaah, Nirvana. I'm not sure I can add anything to the thousands of miles of articles that already exist. But while I was never as mad on them as some people, they did grab me. Not that I've listened to them in a very long time - I don't actually know why I have this album as a Spotify playlist, as I'm fairly sure I've never actually listened to it on there... Have a live version:
13) Black Light Machine - Frost*
Dammit - this one ismarrog's fault again, infecting me with her prog sensibilities. This was only a couple of months back, but I've had this album on loop for days at a time in the office. These guys have amazing skills, and I love them to bits. I bet they cause the majority of people to run screaming, but there's only one way to find out:
14) Dead Stars - Covenant (United States Of Mind)
This one isoctopoid_horror's fault. He gave me a whole bunch of mp3s of Covenant, VNV Nation, and other less melodic bands when I lived with him in Stirling. We also went to see Covenant live in 2003 together (supported by Jesus Loves Amerika and Manuskript, he's just reminded me on IM), and they were awesome. - I was once wandering past his room when we lived together, and heard an _almost_ rhythmic rasping sound. Wondering what awful new music he was inflicting on himself I knocked on his door, and found him sharpening a knife. True story.
15) Green Day - American Idiot (American Idiot)
I'm aware that there are people out there who loathe Green Day with a fiery passion. Frankly, I don't care. I finally got around to this album after hearing peope rave about it for about five years, and then regretted not having got around to it sooner. The sone "Homecoming" is one of my favourite things ever. Andyway, there's an awesome live version of this here, but with embedding off you'll have to live with the original music video:
You can find a Spotify Playlist of all 15 tracks here.
marrog on Facebook, but I don't really have any interest in spreading memes on Facebook, so you lot get stuck with it instead.(1) Turn on your MP3 player or music player on your computer.(2) Go to SHUFFLE songs mode.(3) Write down the first 15 songs that come up--song title and artist--NO editing/cheating, please
Which, of course, I haven't done. Well, I've mostly done (1) and (2)insofar as I went to Spotify, opened my libraries and turned on Shuffle mode. But that doesn't start with a random track, so you're stuck with the first one on the list. Which, thankfully, I love to bits. However, after that I just hit "next" as soon as I'd noted down the track name. I haven't quite obeyed (3) insofar as I cut out any duplicates - if a track came up from a band I already had on the list then I skipped it.
Also, other people just seem to be listing songs, which frankly seems a little pointless - I'm interested in people's connection to their music more than I am in a listing of what they have on their MP3 player. So you're getting a sentence or two from me on each one:
1) '64 aka Go - Lemon Jelly ('64-'95)
Narrated by William Shatner, it's not quite a story, more a series of fragments of narration set to music. I love the way it builds.
2) Harder Better Faster Stronger - Daft Punk (Discovery)
I think I first heard this in
spaj's car when I visited him in Belfast. After he was at university in Stirling (where we used to roleplay a _lot_ he went to Belfast for a few years to qualify as an accountant (a fairly unpleasant experience insofar as you get to do all of the shit jobs and are paid complete shit). I visited him for a weekend at one point, and we listened to this album when he drove me out to his parent's home in Donaghadee (out on the coast). It's also pretty awesome to dance to. Oh, and I love this video.3) Horse Power - The Chemical Brothers (Further)
This is from the new Chemical Brothers album, which I was sceptical about at first. It's really grown on me though. I first got into the Chemical Brothers when Surrender came out, a truly magical album. And you don't get a video for Horse Power, because frankly it's only a mediocre track (and has no music video). Instead you get the amazing video that Michel Gondry made for Let Forever Be:
4) Walk On - U2 (All that you can't leave behind)
Aaah, U2. I started my U2 obsession with the track "Numb", which is as atypical as you can get for U2, constructed as it is largely from Brian Eno samples and "sung" by The Edge. I've owned all of their albums (well, up to the point where I stopped buying albums and just made Spotify playlists instead), and I've seen them live four times. This album isn't up to the level of my favourites (Joshua Tree, Achtung Baby, Zooropa), but it still contains a few awesome tracks, and when I saw them live for this tour they were absolutely electric. It was quite stripped back, without the over the top visuals of the Zoo tour, but in some ways more affecting for that.
5)Heresy - Nine Inch Nails (Further Down The Spiral)
God I love this album. There are very few albums that I think of as utterly perfect, but this is definitely one of them. I listened to it a huge amount, saw them live on this tour, and it was my go-to album for at least a couple of years (probably driving various other people insane over this period). It's horrible depressing (as you'd expect with a name like that), but hey, that was me at that point. No music video for this one, so you can just have the track with a logo on it:
6) Soldier's Poem - Muse (Black Holes And Revelations)
I will forever associate this album with the Isle of Skye. I'd been invited up there by a bunch of friends, principally
marrog and adrenalineanima, who gave me a lift up. We spent a great week in a cottage in the middle of nowhere with no mobile signal or anything like that, going for occasional walks, enjoying the scenery and playing the odd board game. It's where I introduced marrog to Battlestar Galactica, and the album that got played there and back the most was Black Holes and Revelations. Which is absolutely the best way to introduce me to music. Lending it at me does fuck all use - trapping me in a moving vehicle for 6 hours and playing it repeatedly, on the other hand, does the trick very well... I found a lovely live version that's absolutely perfect. And the bastards have embedding turned off. So you can go listen to it here. Or a slightly-less-good live version is here7) Policy of Truth - Depeche Mode (Violator)
An unusual track, in that it predates my time at university. There's very little music that does, because I didn't really discover music until I was 16-ish, and I don't listen to W.A.S.P. any more. Anyway, this track came out around the time I was learning about musical taste, and I think I borrowed it from one Richard Cooper, although I wouldn't swear to it (one of the few people from school that I have good memories of, and actually have on Facebook). Depeche Mode continued to invadew my brain for a couple of albums after this, and I saw them live once, supported by The Sisters Of Mercy. Sadly, their live performance is pretty much identical to the album version, making it a tad pointless, but this album still gets wheeled out every once in a while.
8) The Gentle Hum of Anxiety - Trent Reznor/Atticus Ross (The Social Network soundtrack)
Not my favourite soundtrack by any means - it works very well in the film, but fades into the background too much when I try to actually listen to it. Still worth listening to occasionally, and works quite well when I'm working. (My favourite soundtrack of all time is probably the one for Requiem For A Dream, which still blows me away.)
9) Voodoo People - The Prodigy (Music for the Jilted Generation
Aaah, The Prodigy. Another part of my university soundtrack, The Prodigy managed to take the samples of dance muisic and infuse them with an anger and energy that really grabbed me. Sadly the video for this one isn't just rubbish, it digs up all of the cliches about voodoo and happily waves them at you. So we'll skip that and have Breathe instead:
10) Highschool Lover - Air (Virgin Suicides soundtrack)
After Sofia Coppola was torn into pieces for her role in Godfather III, before she hit the big time with Lost In Translation, she made the marvellous Virgin Suicides. The film itself is marvellously acted, directed and shot, but what really ties it all together is a haunting soundtrack from Air, which suffuses the whole endeavour with melancholy and longing. Here's a montage set to the music from the movie:
11) - Vuelvo Al Sur - Gotan Project (La Revancha Del Tango)
I wouldn't have thought that mixing Tango music with electronica would work either. Nevertheless this album was constantly in play the year it came out, I saw them live, and it works triumphantly. If you get the chance to see them live I recommend it, I saw them in a seated venue, but they brought the audience to its feet and had them dancing in the aisles.
12) Something In The Way - Nirvana (Nevermind)
Aaah, Nirvana. I'm not sure I can add anything to the thousands of miles of articles that already exist. But while I was never as mad on them as some people, they did grab me. Not that I've listened to them in a very long time - I don't actually know why I have this album as a Spotify playlist, as I'm fairly sure I've never actually listened to it on there... Have a live version:
13) Black Light Machine - Frost*
Dammit - this one is
marrog's fault again, infecting me with her prog sensibilities. This was only a couple of months back, but I've had this album on loop for days at a time in the office. These guys have amazing skills, and I love them to bits. I bet they cause the majority of people to run screaming, but there's only one way to find out:14) Dead Stars - Covenant (United States Of Mind)
This one is
octopoid_horror's fault. He gave me a whole bunch of mp3s of Covenant, VNV Nation, and other less melodic bands when I lived with him in Stirling. We also went to see Covenant live in 2003 together (supported by Jesus Loves Amerika and Manuskript, he's just reminded me on IM), and they were awesome. - I was once wandering past his room when we lived together, and heard an _almost_ rhythmic rasping sound. Wondering what awful new music he was inflicting on himself I knocked on his door, and found him sharpening a knife. True story.15) Green Day - American Idiot (American Idiot)
I'm aware that there are people out there who loathe Green Day with a fiery passion. Frankly, I don't care. I finally got around to this album after hearing peope rave about it for about five years, and then regretted not having got around to it sooner. The sone "Homecoming" is one of my favourite things ever. Andyway, there's an awesome live version of this here, but with embedding off you'll have to live with the original music video:
You can find a Spotify Playlist of all 15 tracks here.
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Date: 2010-12-19 04:57 pm (UTC)Covenant - Call The Ships To Port
Memmaker - Energon3
Justice - Waters of Nazareth
Erasure - Breath of Life
Girls Aloud - Love Is Pain
Patenbrigade: Wolff - Fiend Hort Mit
Katy Perry Vs The Pet Shop Boys - Hot & Cold
Max Raabe - Lady Marmalade
Basshunter - Now You're Gone
Phil Collins - In The Air Tonight
Groove Coverage - Poison
Kim Wilde - Kids In America
Fatal Bazooka - Fous Ta Cagoule
Seabound - Contact
Welle: Erdball - Nur Tote Frauen Sind Schon
Okay yeah, guilty as charged
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Date: 2010-12-19 05:21 pm (UTC)For example; Jethro Tull's "Aqualung" got me through my (hellish) senior year of high school.
Or "Tommy" by The Who. That album turned me from a disco loving child into a rock loving young man.
Other than that, I like performers that resonate with me; Pink Floyd, Genesis, Peter Gabriel, Rush, Roger Waters, and Marillion.
I don't really care that most of the music I love is 20-40 years old. I can live with being a rock dinosaur.
However, I'm always open to GOOD new music. I love the "Broken Bells."
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Date: 2010-12-19 05:40 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2010-12-19 05:51 pm (UTC)...And now that I think about it, wasn't there Frost* in the meme I posted?
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Date: 2010-12-19 06:24 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2010-12-19 06:36 pm (UTC)U2 - Two Hearts Beat as One
Janis Joplin - Raise your Hand (live)
Elvis Costello - Green Shirt
The Beagles (a band I used to be in) - Hotel California
Gipsy Kings - A Mi Manera
The Black Keys - Unknown Brother
Bente Elsworth - Teach Yourself Danish Lessons track 59
Foo Fighters - Cold Day in the Sun
Paul Weller - With Time and Temperance
StarThieves (yes, that's me again!) - 0004VoxCand-1 [very first take of the first verse of 'Stronger', one of my own songs]
The Doors - Tell all the people
Metallica - The Struggle within
Sploginess Abounds - TwoPints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps please
Roxette - Spending my Time
Despite the fact that I come up three times, I am not that over-represented on my music drive. It has 115 Gb and about 23,000 tracks and only about 3000 tracks are my own stuff or recordings.
Make of it all what you will. "varied taste" I think might sum things up....
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Date: 2010-12-19 10:10 pm (UTC)1. Dio w/ Yngwee Malmsteen, "Dream On" (a cover of the Aerosmith song)
2. Def Leppard, "Armageddon it". Shut up.
3. Pink Floyd, "Hey You"
4. Les Miserables Original Broadway Cast: "Javert's Suicide" (Spoiler alert!)
5. Adema, "Nutshell" (cover of the Alice In Chains song)
6. Yello, "Oh, Yeah" (Who DOESN'T love this song?)
7. Firewind, "Maniac" (Michael Sembello cover! Holy crap, covers on this list. Also, today's Friday Tradition because I feel like it!)
8. Van Halen, "Girl Gone Bad"
9. Bruce Dickinson, "Broken". One of those songs that everyone who ever loved any hard rock song ever needs to hear.
10. Queen, "We Will Rock You"
11. Rammstein, "Benzin". Did you know that during the live show for this they set fire to their roadies? It's true! I'm not a huge fan of their music, but I don't dislike it - and their live show is worth seeing every single time.
12. Alice Cooper, "Cold Machines". Speaking of people whose live shows are awesome and you should see them every time....
13. Scorpions und die Berliner Philharmoniker, "Hurricane". Oh come on, how can you not love 80s rock bands performing with THE BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA backing them?
14. VNV Nation, "Genesis (Icon Of Coil remix)"
15. KMFDM, "WWIII"
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Date: 2010-12-19 10:39 pm (UTC)