Basically, pick 5 records that sum up you or your music tastes. Mine are:
- Everybody loves the Sunshine - Roy Ayres
- Voodoo Ray - A Guy Called Gerald
- WFL - Happy Mondays
- Concrete Schoolyard - Jurrasic Five
- The Immigrant Song - Led Zeppelin
You?
Popularity: 8% [?]
Lovely Day - Bill Withers
Heart Shaped Box - Nirvana
Havalina - Pixies
Combine Harvester - The Wurzels
Love will tear us apart - Joy Division
& something by Scritti Politti
Only 5? jeez.
Welcome to the Terradome - Public Enemy
Root Down - Beastie Boys
I9 - Jeff Mills
Just a lil Erb - MI:ST:CAL
Tubby’s at the Controls - King Tubby
Pacific State - 808 State
I can’t count.
Really hard.
At the moment:
Teardrop - Massive Attack
All I need - Air
Windowlicker - Aphex Twin
Can U feel it - Mr Fingers
Apache - Michael Viners incredible bongo band
Obviously I am leaving out 20 tonnes of hip hop. But, according to my itunes, these are the songs I listen to most. After that comes Dry the Rain - Beta Band and Waterloo Sunset - Kinks. Funny cos I would have thought Run DMC, Jungle Bros, PE, etc would be in there but they are a bit down the chart. Wu Tang is higher than them all.
WHAT DOES THIS ALL MEAN?
Five is definitely not enough, but:
Afterglow - the Small Faces
That’s Entertainment - the Jam
Late Night Maudlin Street - Morrissey
Indoor Fireworks - Elvis Costello
Mr Pitiful - Otis Redding
this is tough (wouldn’t be interesting if it wasn’t) - my thinking is - a bit of country, a bit of 70s rock, my fave band of the last 5 years, a current fave indie-song that I’ll probably never listen to again once the current obsession with it runs it’s course,and an all-time favourite song that I’ll never tire of
She - Gram Parsons
Stay With Me - The Faces
Molly’s Chamber - Kings of Leon
The Infanta - The Decembrists
I Say A Little Prayer - Dionne Warwick
My five:
Yes - Owner Of A Lonely Heart
Pendulum - Still Grey
Oasis - Champagne Supernova
808 State - Pacific State
The Verve - History