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Post by Rob on Apr 20, 2009 10:21:49 GMT
Your favourite songs of all-time. If you were stuck on a desert island and could only take these songs, etc., etc.
I've got to continue my workshop, so I'll post mine later.
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Post by Tom on Apr 20, 2009 11:34:53 GMT
1. Free Bird ('There and Now' extra-long live-album version, of course)
2. The PokéRap/Original Pokémon theme song (presuming that I couldn't bring my GameBoy to this island)
3. Bat out of Hell (again, long version)
4. Born to Run (aw man... *orgasms*)
5. Sympathy for the Devil (G'N'R version)
6. Gimme Shelter (Grand Funk version)
7. All Along the Watchtower (the longest, most solo-filled Jimi Hendrix version)
8. Stairway to Heaven (obviously)
9. Some unnamed yet masterful piece of Classical music (you'd have to really)
10. Fuck da Police (In case any authority figures need passive contempt thrown in their general direction)
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Post by Rob on Apr 20, 2009 21:14:51 GMT
My list. Expect contradicting hyperbole, caused by excitement and personal opinion.
10. For Reasons Unknown by The Killers
A tentative spot on the list (hence the colour), this song is just such a great tune for when you're in one of those angsty, drama-queen moods. It's The Killers at their 'cry of desperation' best. The lyrics are a bit repetitive, but I have a feeling that that's the point, because the person singing is so lost.
9. Freebird (extended version) by Lynyrd Skynyrd
A song with a guitar solo about sex. That is why it wins.
8. Faithful by The Amateurz
As silly and cheesy as it is, it is one of the best and most perfect pop songs of all time. No movie, or poem, book, game and very few people can make you happy (when you're sad) as fast this sublimely brilliant song does. I shower its creators with praise and respect.
7. All These Things that I've Done by the Killers
It's clearly about Superman. That is why it is the wins.
6. Dice by Finley Quaye
Mostly because it plays during my one of my favourite TV scenes, ever. There'll be a thread about those, coming very soon.
5. We Have All The Time in the World by Louis Armstrong and/or the instrumental version by John Barry
It was a toss-up between this and Unchained Melody by the Righteous Bros. but the fact is that I don't think I could live without this song, anymore. It is the most melancholy and yet the most uplifting and romantic song ever written.
4. The Superman Theme (Superman: The Movie OST) by John Williams
The best scene in the whole of Superman Returns was the opening credits when they played this masterful theme in all of its heroic glory. If the rest of that movie had been as uplifting as that one scene, then it would have been completely flawless. This theme also plays over my favourite scene in motion picture history (from the original 1978 movie). There'll be a thread about those, coming very soon.
3. First Confrontation (Batman 1989 OST) by Danny Elfman
If I could put the whole score from that film here, then I would because it's pretty much my favourite movie score. This music plays over the scene in the Axis Chemical plant where the Joker is 'born' and everything about that scene just screams Batman. I have listened to this piece more than any other no-lyric instrumental from anything.
2. Sweet Child of Mine by Gunz n' Roses
The best love song, ever.
1. Common People by Pulp and/or William Shatner
If you don't like this song and you want to live like common people because you think that poor is cool, then we might as well just not be friends. Stay away from me until you've learned your lesson.
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Post by Shane on Apr 20, 2009 22:51:01 GMT
This isn't a list of the top ten but rather what I would do every day and to what song
10 - Rock and Roll Train AC/DC
Fantastic song made of pure rock mined from the depths of awesomeness. Great song to wake up to.
9 - Big Jack AC/DC
Even more rocktastic than rock and roll train a feat I thought impossible for about five minutes until I heard this one.
8 - Search and destroy The stooges
This song predictably makes me want to search and destroy mainly destroy. When this came on I would probably emerge from my island hut and punch palm trees.
7 - Roadhouse blues The doors
Great chill out song. To this I sit in my hammock made of leaves and drink coconut milk.
6 - Magic spells Crystal castles
Continuing the chill out theme I'd listen this after licking the native toads (which hopefully are hallucinogenic as opposed to poisonous)
5 - We are rockstars Does it offend you yeah?
This song fills me with an inexplicable urge to run. I would charge about the island which is hopefully small enough so that the music can be heard everywhere on it.
4 - Accelerator Primal scream
Come on, come on, Hit the accelerator! The accelerator! This would cause me to run faster obviously.
3 - Purple haze Jimi Hendrix
Ultimate song to be enjoyed with toad licking and as backround for a lively conversation with milky joe (my coconut friend).
2 - Just dance Lady Gaga
I've grown to love this song. I would take it's advice and just dance.
1 - Lend me your face Fight like apes
I would catch fish at this point or perhaps hunt small game. The frustration in the song would mirror my own frustation in trying to catch them and probably failing.
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Post by Rob on Apr 21, 2009 12:59:05 GMT
2 - Just dance Lady Gaga I've grown to love this song. I would take it's advice and just dance. There are days when I think I have Shane figured out and there's nothing new to be learned about him. This isn't one of those days. |
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Post by Rob on Apr 22, 2009 11:19:06 GMT
I just want to re-iterate Shane's brilliance. Someone please agree with me.
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Post by Tom on Apr 22, 2009 11:27:51 GMT
I agree that he thinks he's brilliant...
... ah no, we all love Shane. His well-timed snipes are often side-splittingly hilarious. His surprisingly vehement rebuttals are also excellent. He's just a joy to be around, quite frankly. I'd go so far as to say that he's the wind beneath my wings.
... actually no, he's not quite that. Almost though. Almost.
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Post by donal on Apr 23, 2009 17:07:10 GMT
How do you annoy Lady Gaga.... Poker Face
and how do you impress her...... Just dance
I'm guessing you've all heard those.
Also Shane, Lady Gaga is my kind of music. You still like her now?
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Post by Shane on Apr 24, 2009 11:24:40 GMT
I agree that he thinks he's brilliant... ... ah no, we all love Shane. His well-timed snipes are often side-splittingly hilarious. His surprisingly vehement rebuttals are also excellent. He's just a joy to be around, quite frankly. I'd go so far as to say that he's the wind beneath my wings. ... actually no, he's not quite that. Almost though. Almost. High praise indeed! Well no actually not quite that, almost though. Almost And Donal I don't hate the music you like because you like it I hate it because it's sh1te. |
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Post by Shane on Apr 24, 2009 12:52:30 GMT
fucck you Rob, I would smite you but you're already on minus 20 (I wonder why) so there's no point. Dickhhead.
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Post by Rob on Apr 24, 2009 20:37:47 GMT
Do you know what? I'm actually content to let you go to that many lengths just to curse, because it looks like you're slurring your words drunkenly.  Just make sure you don't punch any holes or break any tables.   |
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Post by donal on Apr 24, 2009 20:53:33 GMT
He's got you there.
Also if you were stuck with 10 songs on a desert island they would quickly become your bottom 10 songs of all time.
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Post by Tom on Apr 24, 2009 22:31:51 GMT
How the fvck was that a pwn? They've really let the pwning standards slip lately...
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Post by Kweeva Velva on Apr 26, 2009 21:41:36 GMT
In no particular order:
1 Girls of porn, by Mr Bungle.
Although it's (hilariously,) sickeningly sleazy, it is the funkiest thing I have ever heard, and always puts me in a good mood. Not to mention the fantastic vocals by Mike Patton (of Faith No More fame). That man can do anything with his voice...
2 Dance This Mess Around, by the B52s
It's just so irresistible. It makes me want to dance a mad, infantile, angry funky dance!
3 I wanna be adored, by The Stone Roses
I don't even know where to begin with this song. The first time I heard it I was completely overwhelmed, I didn't know what to do with myself. When it opens, you can hardly hear a thing, and then gradually, you can make out the perfect, perfect bass growing louder softly. And there aren't many lyrics in it, but that first line: "I don't need to sell my soul, he's already in me" is absolutely sublime. I think though, that the way it's sung really affects how it affected me. It could have been sung in a bad-ass kind of way but the melancholy in his voice makes it so much more truthful and pure? So yeah.. this song: beautiful, honest and heart-breakingly pathetic.
4 Who Do You Love? - The Jesus and Mary Chain
I have not heard any music more classically cool, more sexy, than some Jesus and Mary Chain songs. This would be one of those. It's just oozing with sexy, throbbing with sexy. Ohh man...
5 Don't let it bring you down - Neil Young
Quite possibly my favorite Neil Young song. Off After The Goldrush anyway. I've always though there was something a little eerie about this song. At the same time, it's very comforting!
6 Country Death Song - The Violent Femmes
Oh Gordon Gano. What a sinister imagination you have. Really, this could have been any Violent Femmes song here. It's impossible to go wrong with these guys, but I really love the way this little story is told.
7 Stoked - The Beach Boys
I've gotten a lot of stick over liking the Beach Boys over the years, but there's really more to them than what people think. And, I don't care; when I listen to this song I feel like the coolest person in the world.
8 You make me like charity- The Knife
It was between this and 'Got 2 let u'. I picked this one in the end because I adore how this kind of a tension builds up in it. It's really a demanding song, you can't help but to listen to every word very carefully, trying to make sense of it.
9 I am Trying To Break Your Heart - Wilco
Suitably, it's a very cryptic, paradoxical song.
10 The Earth Died Screaming - Tom Waits
It broke my heart to pick a favorite Tom Waits song. It really, really did and I don't think I could ever be happy with my choice there no matter what I was to pick. I do love this song though. The music is very involving. It probably wouldn't make you dance not any normal kind of dance anyway) but it does leave you with this rhythm in your bones. It's very tribal or something. I also think it's a rather romantic thought: 'The earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming. Dreaming of you. '
And the way the song closes too, it wonderful. It changes completely, and it sounds like the end of a sad fairy tale, one too sad for children.
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Post by Donncha on Apr 27, 2009 22:35:46 GMT
10. For Reasons Unknown by The Killers
this song is just such a great tune for when you're in one of those angsty, drama-queen moods. ehh...Your in touch with your emotions, you must be a girl. No order, and very liable to change: Love Her Madly-The Doors Blue Monday-New Order(or the orgy cover Chelsea Hotel-Lenord Cohen Good Morning-The Dandy Warhols Somebody To Love- Jefferson Airplane Love Spreads-The Stone Roses The Ballad of The Easy Rider-The Sandy Denny version Bloody Sunday-U2 What I'd say-Ray Charles Love Will Tear us Apart-Joy Division |
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Post by Rob on Apr 27, 2009 22:47:00 GMT
ehh...Your in touch with your emotions, you must be a girl. What's an 'in touch'. I know you must be referring to a possession of mine that is called an 'in touch' because otherwise, your sentence makes no sense. Unless of course you meant "you're" meaning 'you are', but I doubt an individual of such wisdom could allow himself such a folly. |
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Post by Aonghus on Apr 28, 2009 9:11:14 GMT
Woohoo! Rob now has a deadly sig! |
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Post by Diarmuid on Apr 28, 2009 14:27:47 GMT
And a deadly attitude too, by the looks of it  We all know that Donncha is essentially dyslexic. |
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Post by Aonghus on Apr 28, 2009 18:29:39 GMT
Aaaannnd we all know that Rob likes to mock people's flaws In order to justify this post: Ten random songs that I love, in no order La Femme d'Argent- Air Brandenburg Concerto no. 3- J.S. Bach Planet Caravan- Black Sabbath Not Fade Away- Buddy Holly and the Crickets She's in Parties- Bauhaus Venus in Furs- Velvet Underground Rhinocerous- Smashing Pumpkins Perfect Day- Lou Reed Song For Athene- John Taverner Veteran of the Psychic Wars- Blue Oyster Cult |
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Post by Kweeva Velva on Apr 29, 2009 21:19:50 GMT
I am liking Donnacha's choices a lot
Donnacha do you ever listen to BJM?
Aonghus' too. But I already knew that Aonghus really liked The Velvet Underground, Smashing Pumpkins, Bauhuas and Air.
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Post by Donncha on Apr 29, 2009 21:23:14 GMT
never heard of tongue in cheek then rob?
And grammar and wisdom aren't the same thing, but I'm sure a person of your mental caliber would never make such an assumption......no wait you did.
Well done on the air there Aonghus, would have thrown in a lou reed song but it's really just the whole album with him.
Edit: just saw that last post after mine went up. As far as BJM go I have listened to some of there stuff but, but I never got into them cause they made fun of the dandy warhols...that being a very silly reason I can see now.
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Post by Aonghus on Apr 30, 2009 8:55:32 GMT
@donncha: I did have Loud Reed! Look again! Perfect Day is there! Friggin' love Lou Reed... @kweev: |
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Post by Donncha on Apr 30, 2009 14:40:05 GMT
Sorry I meant to say that, I would have added a Lou Reed song to my list but I couldn't pick one.
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Post by Shane on Apr 30, 2009 21:10:43 GMT
Sorry for that outburst Rob looking back it was lot harsher than I meant it. But especially after all the edits it looks like I just insulted you for no reason. To anyone wondering Rob edited me and Tom's posts and changed my sig. That also explains why my sig is the way it is now; I can't remember what it was before Rob changed it so I'm just going to leave it like that for a while.
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Post by Aonghus on May 1, 2009 8:40:38 GMT
@donncha: Ah, I see. Sorry. Shane: SOmething about penguins? |
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Post by Diarmuid on May 1, 2009 15:04:54 GMT
Yeah, it was something about how people sometimes accuse penguins of being ungainly, but that they wouldn't say that if they saw a penguin coming towards them at 100 miles/hour
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Post by Kweeva Velva on May 1, 2009 20:08:14 GMT
Well, I'm more of a BJM fan than a Dandy Warhols, though I adore them both. I think the Dandy Warhols were too changed for success.
I can see why BJM would have made fun of them in the first place, but after that they deserved it more so for being so butthurt about it..
Lou Reed is fantastic. I couldn't fit him in though. >=U I think I might have chosen 'Make up' or 'Take a walk on the wild side'.
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Post by Donncha on May 2, 2009 22:47:55 GMT
@kweeva
I have to say I have re-visited my collection of BJM since you said that and I am finding it quite enjoyable, currently listening to Tepid Peppermint Wonderland.
However the Dandys are still number one imo, there new album is amazing, they are deadly live also, saw them just before Christmas(27quid and all). And I do hope you aren't one of those people who say "the sold out man", they didn't even release there new album on CD and it's one of the best things they've done in ages, they don't care if anyone listens to them they do there own thing and don't give a shit.
As far as lou reed goes, I'd have to agree, both those songs are much better then Perfect Day, but maybe that's just because it's overplayed.
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Post by donal on May 3, 2009 17:57:46 GMT
To anyone wondering Rob edited me and Tom's posts and changed my sig. Brilliant |
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