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One song that I 'MUST' hear.

  
  

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Saint Keggers
05:02 / 12.07.02
Give me the one song. The one that had such a deep impact on you that you feel you have to share. The one that upon hearing will improve who the listener is. I dont need to know why but if you feel like you want to give an explanation; im axious to hear it.

For me its "Fool on a Hill" by the Beatles.
 
 
Mourne Kransky
10:39 / 12.07.02
When I was just a lad on the cusp of adulthood, couldn't get enough of a song called "Say It Ain't So, Joe" by Murray Head.

Unusual and haunting tune and, frankly, weird singing voice, but still gives me goosebumps. It's all about learning not to fall apart when people let you down. Apparently the Joe in the title was an American baseball star (Shoeless Joe Jackson) who betrayed his fans by throwing a game or something...

My interest had been intitally spiked by Murray Head having played a stroppy young lust object, fought over by Peter Finch and Glenda Jackson, in John Schlesinger's film "Sunday, Bloody Sunday". Coincidentally, his little brother, Anthony Stewart Head, went on to find world fame as Giles in Buffy.
 
 
gridley
12:03 / 12.07.02
Murray Head is the greatest, ZoCher. His Judas Iscariot was unsurpassed and when I'm in certain kinds of moods, I walk down the street singing his various songs from Chess.

God bless the Head.
 
 
gridley
12:04 / 12.07.02
Oh, and on that train of thought, the song you must here, Kegboy, is "Heaven on Their Minds" from the brown album of Jesus Christ Superstar (this would be the actual rock and roll one as opposed to the later movie version).
 
 
suds
12:41 / 12.07.02
"my neck, my back" by khia
 
 
grant
12:49 / 12.07.02
"Late Night" by Syd Barrett.

It's simple, it's haunting, and most of all it's sincere - almost like Jonathan Richman and Lee Ranaldo got together for an evening. There's a war in emotional music between obscurity & noise and sincerity & sappiness. This song goes right down the middle for me. It may be a love song to a particular moment in time, or to an abstract concept, or to an absent person.

And the way you kiss
will always be a
very special
thing
to me....
 
 
tracypanzer
13:19 / 12.07.02
mission of burma's "That's How I Escaped My Certain Fate"
 
 
Abigail Blue
13:49 / 12.07.02
In the Areoplane Over the Sea, Neutral Milk Hotel. Achingly beautiful. I want it played at my wedding and funeral and every major life event in between. To tell the truth, though, the whole album is like that, and still makes me cry with joy when I hear it...
 
 
rizla mission
15:16 / 12.07.02
Judy is a Punk - The Ramones.

All the world's musician's should drop their instruments for 90 seconds and reflect upon it's perfection.
 
 
Spatula Clarke
19:47 / 12.07.02
The one song? That's always been My Bloody Valentine's To Here Knows When. The most gorgeous slab of sound I know of. Like an alien message transmitted from the deepest ocean and broadcast through cotton wool speakers. It swells and fades like waves on a childhood holiday and makes you fall in love with the very next person you see. I could never tire of it.
 
 
Our Lady of The Two Towers
16:51 / 13.07.02
One song? Fuck. I could probably narrow it down to one song per band, but one song in total? There's a song for different moods, occasions etc, just for summer, autumn, winter, songs for a downer, uppy songs... At this precise second the song would be 'Vision Incision' by the Lo-Fidelity Allstars, but only because it's playing on my stereo.
 
 
Murray Hamhandler
17:03 / 13.07.02
Grant, Abigail, Rizla, and Randy. Yes, yes, yes, yes. Too right.

Let me pull another one out of my head real quick: "You Are The Everything", REM.
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
02:53 / 14.07.02
"Everything's Fucked" by The Dirty Three. Of all their songs, it's the one that speaks to me the most. It's the sound of a nervous breakdown, of the world falling apart - being dumped or fired or drunk or dead, dancing around the room with a bottle of whisky in your hand, falling on the floor and weeping. But behind all the sadness, all the black pain, there's the subtle, tremulous sound of hope.

It's fucked-up and perfect. And almost always will make me cry.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
10:49 / 14.07.02
"Since Yesterday" by Strawberry Switchblade.

You can stop laughing any time now.
 
 
Cop Killer
08:48 / 18.07.02
"Boiler Maker" by the Jesus Lizard. It made me give up my preconceived notions on what rock'n'roll was or should be, 'cuz this is what rock'n'roll is.
 
 
Mourne Kransky
10:14 / 18.07.02
gridley: God bless the Head.

God bless gridley too for reminding me of One Night in Bangkok from Chess, which was a surprisingly good tune too.

Great lyrics:
And thank God I'm only watching the game
… controlling it …
I'd let you watch, I would invite you
But the queens we use would not excite you

Do you know if it’s true that Giles/Tony Head sang backing vocals on
“Say it ain’t so, Joe”? Lost my old vinyl copy many years back but I’m sure he’s credited on the album sleeve.

Probably still love the song so much because I never hear it, except in my head. More than a few favourites been ruined for me by buying the CD and listening to them too many times and losing the mystery vibe.

Sure grips me more than would a
Muddy old river or reclining Buddha
 
 
Ganesh
10:18 / 18.07.02
The Smiths' 'How Soon Is Now'.

All for very predictable 'Morrissey understands what I'm going through' angsty reasons. I've outgrown the angst but the song's stodd the test of time. It's as shining and desperate as ever.
 
 
Sax
10:23 / 18.07.02
"Going For The One" by Yes. Really.
 
 
grant
13:31 / 18.07.02
Can somebody make a mix tape or CD? Huh???
 
 
Sax
14:38 / 18.07.02
"Now That's What I Call Barbelith volume one!"

Actually, although I do love Going For The One most of the time, I couldn't really swear to having just ONE song to get me through life. Ask me again tomorrow and I'll have a different one. I would have gone for a Smiths song, probably "What Difference Does it Make", but elephant boy beat me to the gladioli.
 
 
Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!
14:57 / 18.07.02
Probably "The Real Me" by The 'Oo.
 
 
deja_vroom
15:13 / 18.07.02
"Let Down" by Radiohead.
I can't explain really. It's just this beautiful beautiful thing. Towards the end it gets even better, it's like the whole song's machinery is in high gear, steaming and puffing, and the whole thing begins to float upstream, taking you with it. And it's so sad, too.
 
 
uncle retrospective
16:34 / 18.07.02

"There goes the Fear" by Doves.
I've been going through one of those partying too hard for the last month and the first time I heard this I was feeling that life was trying to destroy my mind.
And as I was lying on the floor in a cloud of smoke feeling the Cold Embrace of the Fear someone put this on.
 
 
The Strobe
19:57 / 19.07.02
Elliot Smith - Waltz #2 (XO).

And on a Doves trip, I'd also mention The Cedar Room. Which didn't quite "change my definition of me", but it's stirring stuff nonetheless.
 
 
Saint Keggers
03:01 / 01.08.02
Hey Uncle Retrospective, your Doves There Goes the Fear is buring my hard drive its being played soo damn much.

trying to find the rest of the suggested songs as MP3s (without having to download any damn program)
 
 
the Fool
04:11 / 01.08.02
Little Fluffy Clouds - the Orb.

When I first heard this, I was into heavy metal - Slayer, Anthrax, Sepultura. It changed everything. It changed what I listened to, what I wore, what drugs I ingested, what I did on weekends, how I think.

Well, maybe not just that song, but it was there at a very pivotal time in my life when everything changed.
 
 
Thjatsi
07:51 / 01.08.02
"So You Want to Write a Fugue" - Glenn Gould

I love attempting to keep track of what all the singers are doing throughout the course of the song. I always fail, since it's pretty much impossible to focus on three to four people singing different things at once. But, it's still fun to try anyway.
 
 
Grey Area
09:01 / 01.08.02
"Being Boring" by the Pet Shop Boys. Pretty much summed up a lot of feelings I had during a very difficult time. Plus it's a beautiful song...
 
 
Eloi Tsabaoth
10:26 / 01.08.02
Tiger In My Tank by eels.
 
 
grant
13:49 / 01.08.02
Kegboy: if you find 'em all, can I get a copy?
 
 
Saint Keggers
14:31 / 01.08.02
Grant: Ok. Ill let you know if I get them all.
 
 
that
14:40 / 01.08.02
'Mojo Pin' by Jeff Buckley

It just gets me everytime I hear it. It is so fragile and beautiful and perfect and sunlit and soulful. The first time I heard it was on Channel 4's coverage of the Glastonbury festival several years ago, and he played it live, and that performance was, and still is, the most beautiful thing I have ever heard. And I just can't do that song justice here. Listen to it...
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
16:12 / 01.08.02
Public Enemy - 'Bring The Noise'

Hearing this for the first time blew me away - and basically opened up a whole new world of music for me in that it introduced me to the potential of hip-hop. The way it can encapsulate ideas and arguments into music in a way that other music struggles to; the way it can sound like an invasion from the future. Probably influenced my political convictions a good deal as well - cementing some, kick-starting others...

"Radio stations I question their blackness
They call themselves black, but we'll see if they'll play this..."

And I think you need to hear it most of all, Kegboy.
 
 
Saint Keggers
20:30 / 01.08.02
Hey Public Enemy is from back when that shite was good. As the kids say "old Skool".
 
 
Old brown-eye is back
20:34 / 01.08.02
Can I have a few? 1) I've found that the majority of the stuff that's messed with my perspective has been penned by David Byrne - This Must be the Place, What a Day that Was and Life During Wartime. I don't know what that says about me. 2)It's Gonna be a Beautiful Night by Prince because it always, always makes me glad to be alive. 3) Memo from Turner from Performance for sheer inspirational sleaze factor. I'll stop now.
 
  

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