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One song that I 'MUST' hear.

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Saint Keggers

02:34 / 02.08.02

Nope, pick ONE. (I had to choose between Fool On THe Hill, by the Beatles and Wave of Mutilation by The Pixies.)

Saveloy

10:02 / 02.08.02

grant:

"Can somebody make a mix tape or CD? Huh???"

A while back I thought of suggesting a chain-mix - Bob records track 1, sends it to Ermintrude who adds track 2 and sends it to Valerie... etc. This would be a good one to do it with, dontcha think?

Old brown-eye is back

11:05 / 02.08.02

ONE you say? Ok, hang on.

Old brown-eye is back

11:07 / 02.08.02

Probably, It's Gonna be a Beautiful Night.

Yes.

grant

13:09 / 02.08.02

Saveloy, you rock!

wembley can change in 28 days

14:31 / 02.08.02

Nina Simone's version of Kurt Weill's "Pirate Jenny." It's impossible for me to try to pick a song that makes me who I am, because those songs have made me who I used to be and their relevance really depends on the time of day. This one I'll evangelize, because This Is Performance. Nina Simone sings it like she's rewriting it and making it better.

Regrettable Juvenilia

22:29 / 04.08.02

Hey Public Enemy is from back when that shite was good.

Riiiight. Because Public Enemy *never* sampled other ("creative")people's records, and Chuck D certainly *never* said anything like "UH!" and then "tried to pass it off as lyrics" - unlike the silly negroes of today, eh kegboy?

Fengs for the Memory

08:24 / 05.08.02

The girl who lives on heaven hill - Husker Du. Just one of many great tracks from New Day Rising.

Saint Keggers

03:49 / 20.04.03

Well, new members, new experiences all around...
Right pour moi its Johnny Cash's remake of Hurt...
And yous?

John Adlin

09:13 / 20.04.03

A song that channged the way I look at myself and the world around me....

Marillion-Fugazi. I played that song to death from about the ages of 12 - 18

PatrickMM

14:09 / 20.04.03

Doves' Pounding is a song that's incredibly exuberant, and just full of life, without being sappy at all. The entire song's great, but the guitar solo part toward the end is simple, yet perfect. And I'd echo those who said There Goes the Fear, which is another incredible Doves' song.

Shrug

14:13 / 20.04.03

Skunk Anansee "Weak"

that

14:54 / 20.04.03

Actually, it might be The Cure's 'Doing the Unstuck' (live version), if we're talking life-changing. The entire 'Show' album opened me up to a whole world of music. If I had to pick, that song is probably still my favourite of theirs.

Eloi Tsabaoth

15:08 / 20.04.03

I was scanning down this thread not noticing the dates and thinking it was new. Then I saw 'Tiger in my tank' up there and thought 'good choice', then for a second had a weird metaphysical chill when I saw that I had posted it. I am a fool.

Foust is SO authentic

12:11 / 21.04.03

Abigail Blue, I just listened to Aeroplane for the first time. Yes. I believe you when you say it moves you to tears.

Secularius

14:01 / 21.04.03

Death Announcements and Funerals by Sigur Rós, at the end of the film The Angels Of The Universe. I can't really explain the emotional impact of this song to someone who hasn't lived in Iceland his whole life. It's based on a song that's finely interwoven with the national psyche of Icelanders. Everybody has heard the song followed by the announcment of a relative's or a friend's death. It moved me to tears in the cinema, and afterwards I just wanted to go out and drive around in the dark rainy night for a while.

But I can't really name just one song. More songs that blew my mind at some point in my life:

Brian Eno - Music For Airports, Becalmed
The Future Sound Of London - Cascade, Eggshell
Sigur Rós - Myrkur, Nýja Lagið, Flugufrelsarinn
Godspeed You Black Emperor - Moya

pomegranate

18:59 / 21.04.03

"Now That's What I Call Barbelith volume one!"
LO sooo fucking L that my co-workers are not going to believe that i'm working on a powerpoint presentation...

i think, however, that the 'volume' aspect is a good point. i think i could come up w/one of these per month, or at least per season. some that come to mind: "raspberry fields" by cannibal ox, "small children in the background" by mogwai, and currently, "solitaire" by the notwist. prob'ly "she's lost control" by joy division too.

pomegranate

19:00 / 21.04.03

oh, and i really can't forget portishead's "biscuit." i made everyone i know (who wasn't already into portishead) listen to that.

Cop Killer

05:35 / 22.04.03

I wanna change my song, no longer Jesus Lizard, cuz the real song I 'MUST' hear is really "Hot For Teacher" by Van Halen. It's just so fucking good. No matter how bad of a mood I'm in, if I hear that song I'm in a great mood. Not to mention the sheer brilliance of a line like: "I don't feel tardy."

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