Sam Norton has tagged me with this meme. I’ll be up front about saying I’d thought find this really difficult. I’m not that musical a person – I’m best described as “eclectic, but I know what I like”. It turned out to be easier than I expected.
These are the rules:
Think of eight memorable musical moments, not necessarily all time favourites, but those when, for example, you felt compelled to wait in the car when listening to this amazing song on the radio because you just had to know who it was by. Or the piece you heard on the tv in a drama that drove you straight onto iTunes to download… (remember once we spent the princely sum of 6s 8d on a vinyl single?!). Optional details for each song give where, why and Spotify or youtube links …
I’m going to take up the idea that these are all songs I heard in the car (mine or anyone’s) and just had to find out who they were by – with two exceptions. These are in alphabetical order to avoid any suggestion of ranking. All the links go to YouTube videos.
Blur Girls and Boys I’d already heard some Blur and quite liked it, but this was the one that made me sit up and take note.
Boomtown Rats I Don’t Like Mondays. One of those songs that once I’d discovered it was great at winding my mother up, so I played it a lot.
Crash Test Dummies Mmmm, mmmm, mmmm, mmmm. I’m not sure if it was the alliterating “m” in this post’s title that brought this one straight to mind. Just fascinatingly and wonderfully weird.
Echo and the Bunnymen People are Strange I was too young to notice the Doors, and I’ve always thought this cover well superior.
The Killers When You Were Young. I’d missed out on their first album, and this caught me like a blast.
Patrick Wolf The Magic Position This is the only one that isn’t a radio moment. A short clip was played as his intro as a panellist on Buzzcocks, and I went straight to YouTube to hear the whole song and then bought the eponymous album.
The Stranglers No More Heroes. From the heady days when punk was maturing into new wave.
U2 Gloria From the days before they got all overwrought and messianic.
And that’s my eight. I tag David Keen, Mark Goodacre, Sarah Brush and Gareth Hughes
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The two that I resonate with on this list are Mmmm mmmm mmmm mmmm (in fact, I like that whole album) and People Are Strange, which I discovered watching The Lost Boys. Just a note–your link to I Don’t Like Mondays is the same link to the Crast Test Dummies video. Just thought I’d let you know!
Thanks – I’ve fixed that (I hope)
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