A vague attempt to create a meme.
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davywavyThe Metro newspaper carries a regular feature called 'My iPod', in which negligible celebrities (like the fourth person voted off Big Brother a few years ago) are asked to choose half a dozen tracks from their MP3 player and give a short description of them. I thought - "Gosh, now there's an idea with livejournal written all over it."
My iPod.
VNV Nation - Perpetual
The only good song from matter and Form, perpetual makes up for the consistent mediocrity of the rest of the album. Real get up & go music, and uplifting to boot!
Utah saints - Reptile's Theme
I've never found a DJ willing to play this as a request, and I've found few enough willing to even admit they own it. This is probably a good thing, as the way I dance It'd probably kill me.
This is the track I play when I'm using the punchbag at the gym and I've never, not once, made it all the way through.
Johnny Cash - Hurt
A song which, when sung by whiney ol' Trent Reznor or some self conscious 19-year old goth trying to be meaningful, is just plain risible but becomes really moving when sung by a man who'd seen and done everything you can imagine and was two months from death.
Van Halen - Jump
The first few notes are enough to make me smile. I always wanted to grow up to be Dave Lee Roth when I was little. I think I probably still do.
AC/DC - Who made who
Adaptations of Stephen King books traditionally suck, and Maximum Overdrive was no exception. Fortunately it had a great soundtrack. I love AC/DC because they're such traditional foot-stomping honky-tonk transferred to lead guitar and given smutty lyrics. What more could anyone ask for?
Angus Young founded the band when he was 14 years old - the reason the school uniform is his schitck is because he started out by going straight from school to play without having time to change.
Icon of Coil - Everlasting
The song I was dancing to when![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
vulgarcriminal coined the word "Davercising" to describe my dancing and suggested I make my own exercise video.
So, kids - why not post your selections?
My iPod.
VNV Nation - Perpetual
The only good song from matter and Form, perpetual makes up for the consistent mediocrity of the rest of the album. Real get up & go music, and uplifting to boot!
Utah saints - Reptile's Theme
I've never found a DJ willing to play this as a request, and I've found few enough willing to even admit they own it. This is probably a good thing, as the way I dance It'd probably kill me.
This is the track I play when I'm using the punchbag at the gym and I've never, not once, made it all the way through.
Johnny Cash - Hurt
A song which, when sung by whiney ol' Trent Reznor or some self conscious 19-year old goth trying to be meaningful, is just plain risible but becomes really moving when sung by a man who'd seen and done everything you can imagine and was two months from death.
Van Halen - Jump
The first few notes are enough to make me smile. I always wanted to grow up to be Dave Lee Roth when I was little. I think I probably still do.
AC/DC - Who made who
Adaptations of Stephen King books traditionally suck, and Maximum Overdrive was no exception. Fortunately it had a great soundtrack. I love AC/DC because they're such traditional foot-stomping honky-tonk transferred to lead guitar and given smutty lyrics. What more could anyone ask for?
Angus Young founded the band when he was 14 years old - the reason the school uniform is his schitck is because he started out by going straight from school to play without having time to change.
Icon of Coil - Everlasting
The song I was dancing to when
vulgarcriminal coined the word "Davercising" to describe my dancing and suggested I make my own exercise video.So, kids - why not post your selections?
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Date: 2006-06-13 10:59 am (UTC)* copy, paste, edit *
"The Gallifreyan Buccaneer" - Colin Baker. I have a huge soft spot for Six. I seriously think if he hadn't been shafted by the BBC he would easily have eclipsed the other Baker in the popular imagination as The Doctor. Plus he's the Sci-fi Geek's Sci-fi Geek. This song is from the semi-musical Doctor Who and The Pirates Big Finish Audio Adventure, and it's hilarious. Gotta love a man who's not afraid to extract his own urine.
"Big Dumb Sex" by Soundgarden - full of obscene language and lewd suggestion. A song for the not-easily-embarrassed to sing very loudly when they feel horny.
"History Repeating" by Shirley Bassey and the Propellerheads - remixed as the theme tune for Graham Norton's channel four show, and also used in a Jaguar advert, this is a nice little danceable track.
"In The Hands of Death (Burn, Baby, Burn)" by Rob Zombie and Alice Cooper - showcasing the usual Cooper dark humour with the beats of Zombie, this collaboration was fangirl heaven the first time I heard it.
"She's Got Issues" by the Offspring - Another hilarious one. "You've told me a thousand times how your father left and he's gone, but I wish you wouldn't call me "daddy" when we're gettin' it on..."
"It's Yer Money I'm After, Baby" by the Wonderstuff - Yeah, so the playlist is set to comedy today - "Don't give me love, oh no none of that stuff, cos it's yer money I'm after baby"
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Date: 2006-06-13 11:05 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-06-13 11:08 am (UTC)Just because yours is right wing and mine's left wing doesn't mean we haven't both got giant pulsating brains. Maybe they're pulsating along similar wavelengths today.
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Date: 2006-06-13 11:25 am (UTC)The Sweet!
The Sweet!
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Date: 2006-06-13 11:30 am (UTC)"I lost my love on a 747" Tom Paxton
This sixties protester mixed in a lot of nonsense with his Guthriesque ban the bomb ballads, and this is one of the best.
"A case of you" Joni Mitchell
Joni is very rarely off any one of my musical devices and this one encapsulates her disillusionment with everlasting love perfectly.
"Living dead girl" Rob Zombie
I like this one because it reminds me of the time my friend and I turned a shower of chav shit into an amazing CyberPunk show routine.
"Aisha" Death in Vegas
Just love the pounding background and trance inducing riffs..or was that due to something else.
"At seventeen" Janice Ian
Life growing up in Fishguard.All the lyric is relevant. BTW went to class reunion on Saturday. Drank way too much and threw up on my new red stillettoes. Everyone else was being a grown up.
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Date: 2006-06-13 11:51 am (UTC)It will kill you.
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Date: 2006-06-13 04:56 pm (UTC)Introduced to me by an ex whom I miss hanging about with partly because of music like this. Sounds like Bon Jovi meets Aerosmith with a little Chick Corea. The guitarist is known as the "Japanese Eddie VanHalen", and was the 11th person ever to recieve a Gibson signature model guitar.
"Take Away My Pain" - Dream Theater (Falling Into Infinity)
For some reason it reminds me of the movie "Big Fish". The guitarist (John Petrucci) wrote the song about his father's passing.
"Gettysburg 1863" - Iced Earth ("The Glorious Burden" Disc 2)
Having been to Gettysburg and studied it while in High School, this is a really powerful interpretation. The fact that Dixie works as a counter-melody to the Star Spangled Banner makes it even more interesting.
"Moonlight Shadow" - Mike Oldfield (Single Version)
Heard the remix first (by Sacred Heart? I can't remember,) and then had the original introduced to me by a friend. Really fascinating solo in the middle, reminiscent of two guitarists I know personally. And if you've played Final Fantasy X, you can't help but sing along "Carried Away like a Farplane Shadow" with the chorus.
"Rock and Roll Creation" - Spinal Tap (Spinal Tap)
"I know, for I told me so, and I'm sure each of you quite agree... The more it stays the same, the less it changes." 'nuff said.
"I Love You, Goodbye" - Thomas Dolby ("Retrospectacle" (Best Of))
An absolutely beautiful song. I'd like to know if it was one of those that he recorded on synths just to prove how useful they actually were, or if the violins were real. Rather different from some of his more synth-pop stylings (See "Blinded Me with Science" or "Hyperactive!") and took him from an artist I "appreciated" to one I admire.
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Date: 2006-06-13 04:59 pm (UTC)Of course, I don't have the money because I bought an Apple shiny of a different sort...