Top tunes
I’ve been tagged by Paul. It’s all quite exciting really—I’ve never been tagged before. Basically, I have to list my top six songs (not an easy task) and then nominate one person for each song to do the same (a harder task).
Anybody that knows me must know pretty well how into my music I am… but equally that I probably couldn’t narrow my favourite songs down past 50, let alone to a top six. I’ll have a go, but if anybody ever asks me again I can guarantee the entries and order will have completely changed!
- Sinnerman—Nina Simone
- Kashmir—Led Zeppelin
- Isis—Bob Dylan
- Somewhere Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World—Thomas Newman
- November Rain—Guns ‘N’ Roses
- Masters of War—Bob Dylan
Well, as you can see, I’ve wimped out after finding myself absolutely unable to put these into any sort of order. So, here you have six of my top tunes. Now, the harder part—I’d like to find out what Crums, DWL, Louise (?), inomine and Xiaoxiao can come up with. Since I don’t think any have blogs, just leaving them as comments is probably easiest.
Tags: Music
June 11th, 2005 at 6:47 pm
Umm, much too lazy to make links but here’s the list.
Drops of Jupiter – Train
Drinking in LA – Bran Van 3000
Mass Destruction – Chemical Brothers
Inner Universe – Oria
Fast Car – Tracy Chapman
Spitfire – The Prodigy
Any of the above are subject to change depending on which way the wind is currently blowing. :P
June 11th, 2005 at 11:11 pm
After a little thought, I have decided this is totally futile…so here are 6 generic ‘desert island’ ones….sorry abt the lack of symphony orchestra/rock stuff. My desert island cannot sustain a full symphony orchestra, and has no electricity, so we are just left with that Eric Clapton ‘unplugged’ stuff….
Orlando Gibbons – Motet ‘Almighty and Everlasting God’ – Sounds good in the shower. (Only the bass part, that is….I don’t actually shower with tenor, alto, and soprano…)
Handel – Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne – mainly for that opening solo
Archangelo Corelli – Slow movement from G minor concerto – For the melody
Antonio Vivaldi – Responsorio: ‘Domine ad adiuvandum me festina’ – For the energy, and the inventive choral stereo effect on multiple repetitions of ‘festina’...(Dolby surround, 1700 style)
William Harris – Faire is the Heaven (8-part choral motet) – To die for
JS Bach – Great fugue ‘Dona nobis pacem’ from B minor Mass – To die to
(pretentious….moi?)
Sorry if these are a bit unfamiliar. Just giving an honest answer to an honest question. Actually, I do have a fair bit of more modern stuff (not just ‘klassikal’ [...abhorrent terminology…lets just call it ‘common mode music of the 13th-20.5th centuries]...but even some faintly modern(!) stuff. But what is the point in even trying to blag? :p.