Monday, 22 November 2010
Cream-Sunshine of your love
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The only thing I can really comment about is the awesome guitar solo improv of 'BlueMoon'. There's not alot I can add about h...
The Monkees-Listen To The Band
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Part Country, part Brass Band, part Pop but honestly nothing like a Monkees track. Mike Nesmith recorded and produced this using Monkees ...
Wednesday, 10 November 2010
The Doors-L.A Woman
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After such a sad song, what better than a pick me up. I think this should have been on TopGear's list of great driving songs. Jim Mo...
Ricky Nelson-Lonesome Town
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With just a guitar, him and a chorus behind him, Nelson truly creates a lamentable song. You really picture a place where people (who hav...
The Kinks-Harry Rag
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Well, I did say I love this song. Live at The BBC.
The Kinks-Autumn Almanac
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I love The Kinks or should I say Ray Davies songwriting. To take something such as Autumn and write a simple, fun and memorable song is f...
David Bowie-Andy Warhol
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True Story: I used to play guitar when I was younger but gave up because...wait for it...it hurt my thumb. I now realise that that was st...
Thursday, 7 October 2010
Screamin' Jay Hawkins-I put a spell on you
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The original and goose bumping best. Hawkins voice is absolutely mind blowing and that sax solo!
The Who-Baba O'Riley
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Another great Who song-I think this is possibly THE tune to wake up to. If I could get this as an alarm, I bloody well would! Taken from t...
The Who-Magic Bus
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It's been a while since I last added some music to this so here's a great tune by The Who. From beginning to end, a classic and a...
Thursday, 16 September 2010
Led Zeppelin-Black Dog
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This song is a great pick me up and gets I find gets me going at the start of an early morning. Performed live, there's a great littl...
Wednesday, 1 September 2010
Tchaikovsky-1812 Overture
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I first heard this in music class when I was 10. It made me realise that Classical Music is not at all boring. It can evoke different e...
Thursday, 26 August 2010
The Streets- Everything Is Borrowed
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From the album of the same name, what I like about this album is that most of the tracks make you think. I know, I know, that sounds real...
Fatboy Slim- Right Here, Right Now
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The tune made me notice Norman Cook and I'm probably not alone in that. I think what really helps is the fantastic video!
Basia Bulat- Snakes & Ladders
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From the album "Oh My Darling" (2007). I was first introduced to Basia Bulat's music when I was working at Ogilvy. A good f...
Procal Harum- A Whiter Shade Of Pale
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The drumming isn't in time with the organ and the lyrics don't make sense but my god, what a song! This just about fits nearly ev...
Wednesday, 25 August 2010
Gary Puckett And The Union Gap- Young Girl
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About 7 years ago, on a rainy drive back to my student digs after a break at my parents, Terry Wogan played this. It's one of those so...
Chuck Berry- Johnny B. Goode
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Again, another inspiration to The Beatles (They covered it on "With The Beatles"), but to be honest, you can't not like Lit...
Little Richard- Long Tall Sally
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As I've mentioned, I love The Beatles and anything that can be linked them. Tenuously or not. A music mag a few months back issued a ...
Scorpions- Wind of Change
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. There are songs that you know you shouldn't like but they stick to you bluetac (whitetac in the USA) superglued to your brain. This ...
Stevie Wonder- Past Time Paradise
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My Dad introduced me to Stevie Wonder around the same time he introduced me to Ramsey Lewis. I mean, yes, I knew who Stevie Wonder was- w...
Outkast-Bombs Over Baghdad
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Otherwise known as B.O.B, I was watching MTV one Christmas when this song came on (it had just been released). Andre 3000s mc-ing, to me,...
Human League- Being Boiled
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I liked the Human League anyway (it helps when you were born in the early 80s and just listened to whatever music you could get you grubby...
Heaven 17- Temptation
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The first time I heard this tune was on TV in the late 80s/early 90s. I fell in love with it then and still love it now. It gets everyone ...
Tuesday, 24 August 2010
Ramesy Lewis-Les Fluers
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I discovered Ramsey Lewis a couple of years back when rifling through my parents vinyls, looking to put new music on to tapes to take to U...
Blind Lemon Jefferson-Hot Dogs
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Born blind in 1893, Blind Lemon is now considered by some to be the first star of the Blues (or the Father of Texas Blues). Rumour has it...
Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons-Beggin'
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When I heard the Madcon version, I couldn't get the song out of my head...AND THEN I HEARD THE ORIGINAL! 1000 times better, if not mor...
Tinie Tempah-Passout
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Now, I love old school stuff. You know, The Beatles, The Who, Led Zeppelin... But every once in a while, I like to listen to hip hop or g...
The Beatles-Across the universe
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The first song that me got in to The Beatles was "Magical Mystery Tour". Not their finest but at 7 or 8 years old, it was repet...
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