Jrmy’s tagged me with a meme. 5ongs. See what they did there? Five songs that one is digging of this moment.
I’m so glad it’s not “five songs that mean something important to you lyrically, that touch your soul and make you want to write poetry” cos I’d be shit at that. Music for me is a massive ocean of tunage, mixing and churning around on random play. A song that I love to pieces one week will quickly slip in the undertow as another wave of aural pleasure cascades in. Or some shit.
Anyway, without thinking about it too much…
Mogwai have popped up recently, especially early stuff when they were a bunch of cheeky kids in hoodies. I’ll plump for “Xmas Steps” from the Matador 10th Anniversary compilation because it’s the last one of theirs I listened to. Post-rock intensity with a knowing smirk.
If you check my Audioscrobbler Last FM stats you’ll notice a stunning amount of Magnetic Fields has been played, mostly from having 69 Love Songs on repeat. Recently I’ve been exploring outside that album and the much older track “100,000 Fireflies” is very nice indeed.
I got into Freezepop last year thanks to BeacoupKevin sticking one of their tracks on his site. I’ve had them on repeat a fair bit this last week and if I had to pick one track it’d be “I Am Not Your Gameboy”. Hyper-blippy pop that makes you happy. Me like.
Andy KK burned me a bunch of stuff including Stereo Total’s Musique Automatique. If I had to pick one track then I’d stick a pin on the screen and say “Wir tanzen im 4eck”
Okay, finally, from the last 20 tracks that came up on shuffle I’d have to go for “The Soldering Life” by The Decemberists because it made me bring up their other tracks and play through them for a bit.
Right. There you go.
Oh shit. I’ve got to pass it on. Um…
Okay, anyone who wants it can take it. Leave a link to your post in the comments. Actually, it’d be nice if people who don’t usually comment took it - people I don’t know.
In related news, the Misty’s Big Adventure page on Wikipedia is suddenly full of information. Well, I couldn’t leave it looking like this, now, could I?
I’ve taken it and slapped it on my site.
Cheers.
Hey. I’ll take 1/5 of that baton. I was just listening to sommat on the webradio that epitomises the female jazz singer AFAIK. I thought it would be my most favorite jazz singer, but it turns out to be some lady I nevah hoid of: Chris Connor. All this (and Heaven Too). Listen to a thirty second clip at http://tinyurl.com/d6hjr
Precognitive taggage indeed. Ah well, I’ll get you next time.
I’ve been meme’d! (’memed’ just didn’t look right…)
I saw Misty’s back in February and have been raving about them since. I know that probably makes me a latecomer, but I’m really chuffed they have a Wiki page! I wouldn’t haev found out if it wasn’t for you!
Yes, finally got round to doing mine:
http://www.planet-cutie.co.uk/2005/08/im-bit-behind-on-these-things.htm