Haha a new topic!!

Remember in High Fidelity they have their 'Top 5 records for...', well I think we should start knocking this one about.

Allow me to start off with 'Top 5 records for going out your front door to go to work'

'Back in Black' - AC/DC
'War' - Edwin Starr
'Local God' - Everclear
'Get What You Need' - Jet
'Harmonic Generator' - The Datsuns

Excellent choices my friend.

Allow me to submit my top five songs for wistful contemplation whilst on a long journey:

1. No Surprises - Radiohead
2. Over The Hill - Polly Paulusma (I'll chat about her later in the Music thread)
3. Sexy Boy - Air
4. Unintended - Muse
5. Girls - Death In Vegas (from Lost In Translation soundtrack)

Top five songs for walking either very late at night or very early in the morning, without another soul around - probably in winter - usually on your way home - to lose yourself completely in:

1. Drama Tour G - Soehngenetic [Second Hand]
2. Big Calm - Morcheeba [Big Calm ] (close call this as Morcheeba are ace but no, it has to be second).
3. Eple - Röyksopp [Melody AM]
4. Aquarius - Boards of Canada [Music has the Right to Children] (TBH this whole album could go here)
5. Dark is Rising - Mercury Rev [All is Dream] (not quite the same as the rest here but deserves a spot for being so fantastically beautiful)

music with which to "beat the bitch of a teenager in your class who wont do anything you say or wont do anything at all anyway and says oh my gawd to everything" to...

1. "I am going to vent my spleen on you" by the sly wenches - a classic rock n roll rough and tumble number

2. "shut your face you ugly cow" by the Ameyebuvveredbuoys - attitudinal rap straight from the south west coast - of the uk

3. " you're thick and you're going nowhere you loser" - an acoustic melody - with a sharp edge to it, by jane doe

4. "I'm standing on your kicker's but I dont care" - a rock/ pop beat by a new band known as "I hate the chav parade".

5. "stop giving me those evils and retract those claws" - raw gothic shit by the mewpussies.

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Top 5 records you lot probably haven't heard yet:

1. Trains to Brazil - Guillemots
2. Nth degree- Morningwood
3. Is this Love? - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
4. Clones - Akira the Don
5. Dirty Mind - The Pipettes

Christ King you're so kind of 'out there' in a John Peel stylee. Rock on. I'm gonna check every single one of these tunes out. Especially 'stop giving me those evils and retract those claws'.

Methinks this thread is going quite well.

Top 5 records for being in a Sunday afternoon meditative chillout kind of mood. Empty your mind of all other thoughts and relax.

Firesuite - Doves
Heavy Soul Part 2 - Paul Weller
Neon Wilderness - The Verve
Even After All - Finlay Quaye
My Weakness - Moby

More! We need more fabulous ideas!

This is all getting a bit serious, so here is the 'top five songs to play table-top piano to' (forget air guitar - this is what the cool kids are doing)

Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
All By Myself - Jamie O'Neal
1 Angry Dwarf and 200 Solemn Faces - Ben Folds Five (difficult to pick one BFF tune, but the solo in the middle of this one gets my left hand going every time, so to speak).
Always - Bon Jovi
Easy - Lionel Richie

I enjoyed that so from now on my posts to this thread are going to be silly.

Always? Keane songs have better piano than Always. Bonovi do guitar man.

Top 5 Bon Jovi songs (that I can think of right now)

1. Wild in the Streets
2. Raise Your Hands
3. Sleep When I'm Dead
4. Blaze of Glory
5. King of the Mountain

Yeah, but you can't play tabletop piano to Keane songs. Anyhow, 'Always' has that piano bit in the chorus that goes 'dada da da da da', yes? Prime tabletop piano material.

Another reason I put it in is I wanted to mention it somewhere and I thought that a top 5 'guilty pleasures' would be too clichéd. (That's no guarantee that future posts by me to this thread will not be horribly clichéd.)

Watch out for me crowbarring some more of my 'guilty pleasures' into top 5 lists. Some of the tunes I like will make your toes curl.

What if you already have curly toes?

Then you should get them sorted, I shit you not you little freak.

Ok Top 5 Christmas Songs:

5= It's Clichéd to be Cynical at Christmas - Half Man Half Biscuit
5= I'll be Hating you For Christmas - Everclear
4. Christmas Time (Don't Let the Bells End) - The Darkness
3. I Want an Alien for Christmas - Fountains of Wayne
2. I Believe in Father Christmas - Greg Lake
1. Where do Jam Jars go at Christmas? - Misty's Big Adventure

I'd be tempted to add Keeping the Dream Alive by Freiheit simply because it manages to get onto Christmas compilations without actually being about Christmas at all. Quite impressive.

Here is a link to the lyrics

If you can find the reference to Christmas in there, let me know.

Must be a British Christmas with all that rain...

What about Stop the Cavalry?

OK so it mentions Christmas but still...

Come to think of it, Only You by the Flying Pickets is also not about Christmas. What's going on?

I agree with number 2 on you list King, don't agree with number 4 (average at best). The others I don't know and probably never will. My favourite Christmas song is Eartha Kitt's Santa Baby, not sure why. I quite like Proper Chrimbo too.

Ah yes; an ode to the ritual murdering of small animals followed by symbolic placement under fir. I can hear that song about once until I feel the urge to strangle Marilyn Monroe. I don’t quite know what MM has to do with things but there you go.

As for my number 4 choice I’ve been defending my fondness for Justin et al since the backlash and I think I may have to do so for ever more; the song is pure Darkness with added sleighbells, children and childish innuendo; it’s fun and rousing and harks to when a Christmas Song was just that but, most importantly, I haven’t heard it for 2 years. I guess that if you’re not a Darkling or are looking for a little depth and sophistication this won’t be enough but I happen to like the thought of a singing robot for Christmas. So there.

One day I’ll collect these tunes together and make my own album so y’all can hear the genius of Half Man Half Biscuit etc. and thoroughly abuse me for the lack of talent on show.

PS JamJars

Top five 'keychange-tastic' tunes:

Man In The Mirror - Michael Jackson
Come In Out Of The Rain - Wendy Moten
Don't Be A Stranger - Dina Carroll
Baby, I Love Your Way - Big Mountain
Take My Breath Away - Berlin

hello fight fans,

TOP 5 Painting songs (mainly influenced by a cheap motown compilation that I bought from Tescos when doing the weekly shop):

1. Edwin Star - WAR (I know that this has appeared in other lists, but seriously this will have you strutting with brush in hand)

2. Stevie Wonder - Superstition

3. Prodigy - Out in space

4. T - Rex - Get in on (I think it's called, doesn't matter anyway as I was singing 'Paint it on, with a gong paint it on', beware however, trying to paint with a gong is not recommended, leaves an uneven finish, and messes any gong.)

and of course:

5. Rolling Stones - Paint it black

A bit of classical music

Top five classical pieces with bonkers endings:

Sibelius - Symphony No. 5 (really short loud chords punctuating what seems like minutes of silence).

Khatchaturian - Masquerade Suite (the finale is called Gallop, and it isn't half fast).

Tchaikovsky - Capriccio Italien (no Tchaikovsky endings are subtle, but this one is a monumentally and wonderfully unsubtle end to a monumentally and wonderfully unsubtle piece).

Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 4 (had to put him in twice cos he did write mental endings. The last movement of this is fast and incredibly fun to play. Listen to the whole symphony for free on BBC Radio 3's website. God, I love the BBC).

Respighi - Pines Of Rome (Quite possibly the loudest bit of music ever composed - no recording can ever do it justice, you have to be there).


Top five uses of classical music in films (not including Apocalypse Now or 2001: A Space Odyssey):

Sibelius - Finlandia (Die Hard 2 - at the end when the planes start landing).

Rachmaninov - Piano Concerto No. 2 (Brief Encounter - all the way through).

Bach - Goldberg Variations (Silence Of The Lambs - this is playing when Lecter memorably escapes from his cell).

Mozart - Dies Irae from Requiem (X-Men 2 - at the beginning during Nightcrawler's atack on the White House).

Faure - In Paradisum from Requiem (The Thin Red Line - at the beginning when Jim Caviezel is swimming in the sea).

Also have to add to this '9 to 5' by Dolly Parton.

Top 5 tunes to drive to:

1. Fire It Up - Busta Rhymes
2. Crash - The Primitives
3. Bad Habit - Offspring
4. The Power Of Love - Huey Lewis And The News
5. Danger Zone - Kenny Loggins

Bad Habit - absolutely genius choice.
Damn, I've lost that album.

I think this is just going to become the reason for my existence, just constantly striving to find THE Top 5 Records to head out your front door and go to work.

I now want to include 'In the Morning' by The Coral. Top top song.

Revised list is as follows:

Back in Black
War
9 to 5
In the Morning
Local God

Sweet Mary thats on my playlist for tomorrow. Any 'trump cards' on this Top 5 are welcome.

I find that if I want to motivate myself in the morning, then there's nothing better than a healthy dose of the KPMG corporate song on the way to work. After all, KPMG is officially the best big company to work for according to The Sunday Times.

However, in keeping with the traditions of this thread I shall make 5 choices:

1. KPMG song (original version)
2. Smash Sumthin - Redman
3. Yes - McAlmont & Butler
4. Galvanise - Chemical Brothers
5. Footloose - Kenny Loggins

(okay some of those are not serious choices, but hey).

Ooh nice one, I like it. Seriously this is turning into an obsession.

What do you reckon to 'Dont Stop Me Now' - Queen. Too cliched?

Like it.

I also enjoy a bit of the Theme to Supeman of a morning.

I tend to prefer something more in keeping with my somulence of a morning, but also something that still has a beat to ride to:

1. Pounding - Doves
2. Oceans - Six by Seven
3. Welcome Home - Coheed & Cambria
4. Funki Tangerine - Campag Velocet
5. Such Great Heights - The Postal Service

Right as I was saying;

Top 5 Songs with an intro better than the rest of the song:

5. You are the light - Jens Lekmann (great song but the intro promises something different)
4. I don't Like Mondays - Boomtown Rats
3. Mardy Bum - Artic Monkeys (really upbeat and changy intro to a slow, bobbly Monkeys track. Should stick with the pace.)
2. Wake Up - Rage Against the Machine
1. Sweet Child O' Mine - Guns 'n Roses (Should have been an instrumental)

Agree?

^^ You forgot to include

Anything by Muse.

Agree with Mardy Bum (although the Arctic Monkeys just generally get on my tits, so not sure I even like the intro to be honest).

Sweet Child - agree that the intro is the best bit, not sure about the instrumental idea though (it's almost an instrumental already isn't it?).

Boomtown Rats - wrong, worng, wrong. Great song, start to finish.

Wake Up - yeah, maybe. Though I'd probably argue that the first 2 and a bit minutes are good, then it takes a bit of a dive towards the end.

Don't know the other one, so I won't comment.

Disagree with monsieur le Tart on Muse though. I think the best bit in most Muse songs is somewhere in the middle where it goes completely mental or stops for some sort of Rachmaninov-esque piano interlude.

Mine would be:

Stay With Me - The Faces (Starts amazingly, ends amazingly, middle is just very good)
Girls And Boys - Blur
Jenny Was A Friend Of Mine - The Killers
Without Love (Where Would You Be Now?) - Doobie Brothers
The Way You Make Me Feel - Michael Jackson

Yay; another island of sense in a sea of obsessive fandom; it's not that they're bad, it's that they're not that good. I still think the intro is class though.

I don't think I'm Worng about Mondays though; great song, I just think the intro is the best bit.

The other one starts off like a Divine Comedy track; brass section going baaaa baa baba b-ba ba b-BAAAA and then stops and he sings "Yeah I got busted..." like it's a different song. Good though. Looky

I'll have to listen to yours and get back. Don't remember G&B having a great beginning...

Not sure that G&B does have that great a beginning, it's just that sometimes I wish that Damon could have just not bothered singing in it. Dunno why really - I just like the backing more than the vocals I guess.

It do have a good beat...but that's a whole other Top 5 baby.

Muse...plug in baby does start good but then it carries on good with the deneneneneneneneneenenenenenene and the danananaananananananananananana. [Spink]Glavin![/Spink]

You guys take music as seriously as I take porn. El Jesu!!!

We must have some sort of compromise goddamnit...I havent heard of half this stuff...!

So here goes:

Music to set scenes of sex to (and that's the sweet kind) - none of that leiderhosen Marilyn Manson spanking stuff here awright!

1) A lot by Air
2) Norah Jones - Come Away With Me
3) Depeche Mode - Sounds of Silence
4) Natalie Merchant - Kind and Generous
5) Counting Crows - Anna Begins
6) Donnel Jones - for the cheesy-sleazy lovefest

Oh yeah...

If we are going for the sleazy cheesy love fest then it has to be:

Let's Get It On - Marvin Gaye
Love T.K.O - Teddy Pendergrass
Something He Can Really Feel - Aretha Franklin
Let's Stay Together - Al Green
Fuck Her Softly - Tenacious D

Mmmm....nice.
Probably should have put some Barry White in there, but no matter.

Oh, and...

Hang On In There Baby - Johnny Bristol
If Loving You Is Wrong - Faithless
Inside My Love - Minnie Riperton
You Knows I Love You - Goldie Lookin' Chain
Debra - Beck
These Foolish Things - Ella Fitzgerald


Wow, that was a pretty cheesy list, and more than 5 too...sorry.

You want cheesy howsabout

Baby It aint Over Till Its Over - Lenny Kravitz

For driving you have to have:

Lenny Kravitz - Fields of Joy (oh yes...)

And that Charlatans Song from the Tellin Stories album (which is fecking unbelievable still) which is all about something abt a mutha, sister and a brutha ...

DADA Dan Dadada dadada DADADA dadadadada

Turn that up and see if you dont cause some accidents! Yeah baby ROCK AND ROLLLLLL!!!!!

GD

Ok Top Five 'Simple' Songs. By simple I mean that they involve a guitar/piano and one or two singers and that's it:

Bleeding on the Inside - Serum
Ukiah - Seafood
Better Man (Live) - Thunder
Such Great Heights - Iron and Wine
Oxygen - Willy Mason

Honourable mentions to Wise Up by Aimee Mann (rejected for the presence of one too many string sections), Freelove Freeway by Ricky Gervais (Drums), In Remote Part by Idlewild (starts simple, gets complicated).
I could well be convinced to the merits of others...

iPod fondu

I explained this idea to Jonnyboy at the weekend and it kept him quiet for a while so God only knows what King's going to make of it.

My favourite pub down the road once a week does an 'iPod fondu'. No this doesn't mean dipping your iPod in chocolate and cheese. Each person has to come armed with 15 MINS of playlist and then take turns in playing it to assembled masses of groovy people.

So the question is, if you were DJ for 15 minutes only...

... what would you play?

And 4 days later it's still driving me slowly insane.

I will produce an answer...I must!

AhhHHHHHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhHHHHHHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

Must be done: Excuse me I'm just going to compile several thousand 15 minute compilations guaranteed to blow tiny little minds.

When's it next on?

Ok had this one kicking around in my massive napper for ages:

Nice Weather For Ducks - LemonJelly (6.08)
Fairweather Friend - Symposium (4.36)
The Return of the Weather Episode - Snoop Dog Vs Crowded House (GHP) (3.35)

14 minutes and 16 seconds of Weather-related classic tunage.

Marvelous.

Here's my first one (I'm going for the 'tunes I love with no thematic connection, but which add up to exactly 15 mins' approach).

Guantanamo – Outlandish (3:37)

La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh) – Manic Street Preachers (4:07)

More Than This – Roxy Music (4:30)

Let There Be Love – Nat King Cole (2:46)

Total time: 15 mins exactly. Bosh.

Ok. First draft of many - I think my only link is that the first time I heard all of
these songs I just sat back and said 'Holy sweet mother of God' Thats the theme I'm going for.
Shortish songs, loud, ones you can bang your head to, and ones that just make you go 'hoohoo Tune!!!'

Also sprach Zarathustra - Richard Strauss (theme from 2001: A Space Odyssey) 1:50
Back in Black - AC/DC 4:15
Naked - Reef 3:10
Hate to Say I Told You So - The Hives 3:23
Peaches - The Presidents of the United States of America 2:49

15:27 (Ok its slightly over but hey)

I think the first 2 are definites on the team sheet for me, remaining 3 open to debate.

Other things I am considering:

Maximo Park
Kaiser Chiefs
Symposium
Lenny K

You catchin my drift? Bish Bash Bosh. Lets crank it up a notch with the spice weasel. BAM!

Monty Python Sings - I've Got 2 Legs (0:35)
Echo & the Bunnymen - People are Strange (3:39)
The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (4:45)
Morcheeba - Big Calm (6:00)

14:59

I think that went rather well...

Nice all round.

Staying with the hitting 15 mins bang on theme:

Me And Julio Down By The Schoolyard - Simon And Garfunkel (2:43)
Too Young - Phoenix (3:18)
Stay With Me - Rod Stewart And The Faces (4:38)
Only You Babe - Curtis Mayfield (4:21)

Every single one is a tune.

This'll be my last one that adds up to exactly 15 mins. I won't be able to do any more without compromising on quality.

Friday I'm In Love - The Cure (3:38)
You're All I Need To Get By - Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell (2:44)
Over The Hill - Polly Paulusma (2:37)
How Am I Different - Bettye Lavette (4:28)
All-Nighter - Elastica (1:33)

I'm thinking themed lists might be the way forward from now on.

Couple of points on this thread just to give it a kick.

1.) The iPod fondu is on the first Thursday of every month (next one will be on the 6th July) at the Jay Cubed public house near Angel tube. Any of you punks can be bothered to make it get those playlists ready. Re-re wind.

2.) What are the first albums you can remember hearing (and furthermore enjoying) that your parents played when you were still very young (i.e. 5 or 6 years old). Dancing around the lounge like a loon. Every time I hear a song from one of these I go all nostalgic. They may not be the Beatles or Stones, but then we did grow up in the 1980's and my parents have poor taste anyway.

For me the Top 5 are as follows:

Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This - Eurythmics
Legend (Best of) - Bob Marley
Two Low For Zero - Elton John
No Jacket Required - Phil Collins
All The Best! - Paul McCartney

In response to Sammyboy's ponies:
(by the way I know it says ponies instead of points, I mis-typed, and sort of liked the word there, although I disavow any liking for sammyboy's ponies, if there is a vague prison lingo connotation)

1) I don't have an I-pod, hence cannot make it, I would probably be named a pariah, and asked never to return.

2) Growing up, I had no control over the radio in the car or house, so it was always on Capital Gold 1548AM, I only knew there were other radio stations when I got to 10 years old!

Consequently, my first albums/single that I remember are all from the old, old, old school:

1) Stevie wonder - I just called to say I love you(single with two other songs on the other side)
2) Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton (my dads favourite, can't remember it now)
3) Smokey Robinson - Tears of a clown (from a Best of compilation thing)
4) Phil collins - I can feel it calling in the air tonight (as from Miami Vice)
5) Boney M - From the rivers of babylon (this is a family favourite, along with when the lion sleeps tonight, honestly, awesome)