Seven Songs - a tag
19 June 2008 @ 9:58
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Just headed off after my latest post to read my blogroll and found that I have been tagged! How very exciting! List seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they’re not any good, but they must be songs you’re really enjoying now, shaping your spring. Post these instructions in your blog along with your 7 songs. Then tag 7 other people to see what they’re listening to. 1. Love Is a Losing Game by Amy Winehouse. How such a messed-up human being be responsible for this beautiful song I will never know, but I keep listening to it over and over in my car. It is heartbreak in musical form… 2. The Marriage of Figaro: Overture by Mozart. I love Mozart at all times, but this one is so uplifting it smacks of spring to me. It is my Sunday morning music, when Chicken is in his bath and I am drinking a coffee and reading stuff on the internet or doing some cooking. It reminds me of when I was a child and Mum and Dad read the papers and listened to the great one’s music. 3. Darcy’s Letter - Pride and Prejudice Soundtrack by Jean-Yves Thibaudet. I love this album and this is my favourite track from it. 4. Wonderful World by Sam Cooke. Chicken sang along to this one the other day to me. ‘Cept he does know a lot about the French he took. 5. Feeling Good by Nina Simone. Listened to this album over the weekend, it really feels like a beginning of summer song! 6. We Are All Bourgeois Now by the Manic Street Preachers. I love, love, love this cover by my favourites and I enjoy singing it with a high level of righteous rage and a grin!!! Good driving music, again. 7. 36D by the Beautiful South. Gone but not forgotten, increasingly my favourite South song, a nice feministic rant! And I’ll tag, ohh-err, Chicken, Alex, Thursday, Viv, Kiki, Rhodri, and last but not least Stephen. |
Can’t be tagged (no blog), but here is my list for what it’s worth (oh, and Jim and Caroline were playing the Pride and Prejudice Soundtrack when I was there for Alice’s birthday…). So, in no particular order:
1. Love Will Tear Us Apart, from the Big Session. Joy Division’s most charismatic tune went folk in this magical 2004 version June Tabor and John Boden’s harmonies are stunning.
2. Many Rivers to Cross, by CDM from Café del Mar 9, and why not. Easy listening but stands out from the crowd.
3. Jake Thakray’s Bantam Cock. Well we all need a laugh, and his delivery can’t be beaten. Very sad to hear that Jake died in such miserable circumstances, his mix of folk and chanson driven by his Catholicism is unbeatable (could I add a plea to listen to his wonderful Last will and testament). A great sinner and singer.
4. Jocelyn Pook’s Butterfly Song. A jolly pleasing noise, extraterrestrial and stunning.
5. Soy Loco by Mundo Livre S.A. Not sure what this is all about, but sounds wonderful, and comes from Brazil, do I need to say more…
6. Sabonete Do Mato (Farm-Made Soap) by N’ois (Reduction) from unknown public 08 compilation. Great sound again.
7. And just to upset the applecart, Mutron Angel off of Outcast’s Idlewild. Great voices, amazing lyrics.
But isn’t that the joy of iTunes. There is all this stuff playing away, some 6050 songs and rising at the moment. On a bit of a folk jag at the moment, but perhaps I should have gone to Glastonbury. Ask me tomorrow and the list will be very different.