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Title: Top 3 songs of all time
Post by: bigbadjack on August 08, 2014, 10:22:11 pm
1) Motörhead ace of spades
2) rock n roll star oasis
3) one step beyond madness
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Post by: afro goal machine on August 08, 2014, 10:41:09 pm
Something off bat out of hell would defo be in my top 3
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Post by: gillinghamrover on August 08, 2014, 10:44:42 pm
Underdog: Kasabian
Battle of Evermore: Led Zeppelin
Waterfall: Stoneroses
Title: Re: Top 3 songs of all time
Post by: bigbadjack on August 08, 2014, 11:53:55 pm
Gillyrover that combo has been quite popular
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Post by: StocktonRover on August 08, 2014, 11:58:26 pm
Thatcher f**ked the kids - frank turner
Champagne supernova - oasis
Sound of the suburbs - members
Title: Re: Top 3 songs of all time
Post by: IDM on August 09, 2014, 12:09:49 am
Teenage Kicks - Undertones
This Charming Man - the smiths
Will You - Hazel O'Connor

but ask me tomorrow and you'll get 3 different answers, same again next day and so on...
Title: Re: Top 3 songs of all time
Post by: bigbadjack on August 09, 2014, 12:14:37 am
Yep IDM me too
Title: Re: Top 3 songs of all time
Post by: Muttley on August 09, 2014, 12:38:11 am
I know it's all down to personal taste, but can't believe anyone could put anything by Oasis in the top 3 songs of all time!!!

No Beatles, Motown/Philly, Dylan...?
Title: Re: Top 3 songs of all time
Post by: BillyStubbsTears on August 09, 2014, 01:29:32 am
Columbia by Oasis would make a top 3 of mine one night in 100. Slide Away, one night in 200.

My top 3 tonight:

Everything's Gone Green - New Order
Carolyn's Fingers - Cocteau Twins
Crushed - Front242

Ask me in ten minutes an they'll all be out of the top 100.
Title: Re: Top 3 songs of all time
Post by: IDM on August 09, 2014, 08:16:55 am
I know it's all down to personal taste, but can't believe anyone could put anything by Oasis in the top 3 songs of all time!!!

No Beatles, Motown/Philly, Dylan...?

Plenty of Beatles but, which one?  Depends on mood, they had songs for every occasion..  I don't really have any stand out top songs, for example I could have listed some Cocteau Twins stuff too, particularly "My Love Paramour" alongside Bohemian Rhapsody, or Anarchy in the UK..
Title: Re: Top 3 songs of all time
Post by: andy didcott on August 09, 2014, 09:23:39 am
1. Into the valley. The skids.
2. Duchess. Stranglers.
3. Suspect device. SLF.
Title: Re: Top 3 songs of all time
Post by: The Red Baron on August 09, 2014, 09:44:08 am
1. Bill is Dead- The Fall
2. Pearly Dewdrops Drops- Cocteau Twins
3. Heartbreak Hotel- Elvis Presley

Though as BST says, the list is always changing...
Title: Re: Top 3 songs of all time
Post by: roversdude on August 09, 2014, 09:58:11 am
Motörhead overkill
Ac/dc highway to hell
Led zep - Kashmir

Again these change constantly and often include Foo Fighters, Keane, Deep Purple, Stones or a bit of punk, ska or reggae

Love Beatles songs but would never put them in my (personal) all time favourite songs
Title: Re: Top 3 songs of all time
Post by: roversdude on August 09, 2014, 09:59:05 am
We have between us got an amazing playlist guys
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Post by: coventryrover on August 09, 2014, 10:15:14 am
laid -James
3s and 7s - Queens of the Stone Age
Lights out, words gone - Bombay Bicycle Club


Always changes though
Title: Re: Top 3 songs of all time
Post by: BillyStubbsTears on August 09, 2014, 01:00:07 pm
See. This morning it's:

I Want You - Inspiral Carpets feat. Mark E Smith.
Eye for an Eye - UNKLE
Marianne - Human League
Title: Re: Top 3 songs of all time
Post by: ravenrover on August 09, 2014, 01:35:17 pm
Positively 4th Street
Idiot Wind
Subterranean Homesick Blues
Title: Re: Top 3 songs of all time
Post by: The Red Baron on August 09, 2014, 01:37:38 pm
See. This morning it's:

I Want You - Inspiral Carpets feat. Mark E Smith.


If anyone hasn't seen/ heard this, can I recommend it? Awesome!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPTpBoYVD8Q
Title: Re: Top 3 songs of all time
Post by: BillyStubbsTears on August 09, 2014, 01:49:28 pm
The Dutch East India Company and the U-S-A of A think they can fool with their sincere usury.
Title: Re: Top 3 songs of all time
Post by: bigbadjack on August 09, 2014, 05:26:39 pm
I'm having a few bevvys tonight so mine might change its good to see a good mix of tastes
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Post by: River Don on August 09, 2014, 06:19:30 pm
Tonight in no particular order I'd say

Pat Kelly - I'm Coming Home
Kraftwerk - Man Machine
The Kingsmen - Louie Louie

Title: Re: Top 3 songs of all time
Post by: Harrogate Rover on August 09, 2014, 09:43:55 pm
Struggled to whittle it down to 3. Changes on a daily basis! However I always seem to come back to these;

Razzle Dazzle Rose, by Camera Obscura
Many Rivers To Cross, by Jimmy Cliff
People Used To Dream About The Future, by A Girl Called Eddy
Title: Re: Top 3 songs of all time
Post by: The Red Baron on August 09, 2014, 09:47:30 pm
Heard this for the first time in ages and it now reposes in my top three.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3ZoBshOHcQ

Although it would be perfectly possible to have a "Top 100" which all involve MES/ The Fall in some capacity.
Title: Re: Top 3 songs of all time
Post by: BillyStubbsTears on August 09, 2014, 10:26:17 pm
And if you tire of music, there's always modern poetry.

Evidently Chickentown - John Cooper Clark

Genius.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pB3NlOUg-ps
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Post by: DN8ROVER on August 09, 2014, 11:13:29 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GH9ejpavG6I

My fave track by The Fall at the moment.....this will of course change by midnight.
Title: Re: Top 3 songs of all time
Post by: The Red Baron on August 10, 2014, 08:54:01 am
Haven't seen that vid before. The Infotainment Scan is a terrific album though.
Title: Re: Top 3 songs of all time
Post by: SoundbiteBarmyArmy on August 10, 2014, 10:33:40 am
Columbia by Oasis would make a top 3 of mine one night in 100. Slide Away, one night in 200.

My top 3 tonight:

Everything's Gone Green - New Order
Carolyn's Fingers - Cocteau Twins
Crushed - Front242

Ask me in ten minutes an they'll all be out of the top 100.

Rock and Roll anthem.
Title: Re: Top 3 songs of all time
Post by: River Don on August 10, 2014, 10:41:32 am
I always liked Columbia.

I think it's probably the track where they sound the most like Oasis and not The Beatles/Slade/T-Rex/Quo.
Title: Re: Top 3 songs of all time
Post by: nightporter on August 10, 2014, 11:11:19 am
David Bowie - Ashes To Ashes
The Smiths - There is a light that never goes out.
U2 - One.


(again, tomorrow it could be The Cure and Depeche Mode, Japan.)
Title: Re: Top 3 songs of all time
Post by: BillyStubbsTears on August 10, 2014, 11:42:35 am
Montague Terrace in Blue - Scott Walker
By the Time I Get to Phoenix - Glenn Campbell
Theme from Midnight Cowboy - John Barrie

I'm having a 1960s American-easy-listening-with-an-edge morning.
Title: Re: Top 3 songs of all time
Post by: The Red Baron on August 10, 2014, 01:28:47 pm
Montague Terrace in Blue is brilliant and Scott Walker is one of my favourite artists. A fantastic voice. In my student days I once borrowed a copy of "Scott Walker Sings Jacques Brel" from the radio station and played it from end to end countless times.

The Wichita Lineman by Glenn Campbell was always a great favourite of mine too. I have been known to do a passable Karaoke reading of it- a bit better than Jed Steer's cover of "Build me up buttercup" if I say so myself!
Title: Re: Top 3 songs of all time
Post by: jonrover on August 10, 2014, 01:53:07 pm
Psycho killer - Talking Heads
Good to be free - oasis
Know your enemy - RATM

But like others have said, tomorrow I'll have a different three.
Title: Re: Top 3 songs of all time
Post by: River Don on August 10, 2014, 01:58:17 pm
Today, maybe

Pete Rock & CL Smooth - When they reminisce over you
A bit of a classic from the golden era of Hip Hop

The Jam - English Rose
Probably my favourite Weller song.

Old Red Eyes is Back - The Beautiful South
The sorry tale of an alcoholic delivered in the medium of soul music and a Yorkshire accent. What's not to like?

Title: Re: Top 3 songs of all time
Post by: BillyStubbsTears on August 10, 2014, 03:31:09 pm
TRB

Pretty much anything of Scott Walker's between about 1967 and 1970 is sublime. I could listen to Scott 1,2,3 and 4 forever, and bits of Til the Band Comes in.

I'm not sure there's ever been as rapid a maturing of musical talent as his in the mid-60s. He went from being Louis Tomlinson to Jacques Brel in about 6 months.
Title: Re: Top 3 songs of all time
Post by: The Red Baron on August 10, 2014, 09:58:46 pm
TRB

Pretty much anything of Scott Walker's between about 1967 and 1970 is sublime. I could listen to Scott 1,2,3 and 4 forever, and bits of Til the Band Comes in.

I'm not sure there's ever been as rapid a maturing of musical talent as his in the mid-60s. He went from being Louis Tomlinson to Jacques Brel in about 6 months.

I will cling to the thought that Louis Tomlinson could be the next Jacques Brel!
Title: Re: Top 3 songs of all time
Post by: MR A-Z on August 10, 2014, 11:58:19 pm
One Man's England - Paul Heaton
Boots of Spanish Leather - Bob Dylan
Drawn To The Deep End - Gene
Title: Re: Top 3 songs of all time
Post by: Wild Rover on August 11, 2014, 08:12:07 am
All or Nothing ( Small Faces )
Positively 4th Street ( Dylan )
Streets of London ( Ralph McTell ).
Title: Re: Top 3 songs of all time
Post by: idler on August 11, 2014, 08:24:02 am
This morning,

Next.                                 The Sensational Alex Harvey Band.
All along the watchtower.     Jimi Hendrix
Bad to the bone.                  George Thorogood.

This afternoon another three. :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Top 3 songs of all time
Post by: IDM on August 11, 2014, 09:11:43 am
Rave On - Buddy Holly
At 17 - Janis Ian
Mindless Violence - Newtown Neurotics

Again, could be almost anything from later 50's until now.
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Post by: Not Now Kato on August 11, 2014, 10:30:44 am
River Deep Mountain High - Deep Purple.  All 7+ minutes of it.  Their cover version is way way better than the original.

Time in a Bottle - Jim Croce.  Typifies how I feel about my lady.

Streets of London - Ralph McTell.  For whenever I think I've got problems.

Title: Re: Top 3 songs of all time
Post by: IDM on August 11, 2014, 10:48:01 am
I could name many more depending on mood.

Song to the Siren - This Mortal Coil
By the River - Groove Armada
I'm in love with a German filmstar - the Passions
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Post by: BillyStubbsTears on August 11, 2014, 11:27:45 am
Today:

Sunday Morning: Velvet Underground
When You're Sad: AR Kane
Alone Again Or: Love
Title: Re: Top 3 songs of all time
Post by: Sheepskin Stu on August 11, 2014, 01:17:09 pm
Superman by Black Lace
Seven Tears by The Goombay Dance Band
Dance Yourself Dizzy by Liquid Gold
Title: Re: Top 3 songs of all time
Post by: IDM on August 11, 2014, 01:24:03 pm
Superman by Black Lace
Seven Tears by The Goombay Dance Band
Dance Yourself Dizzy by Liquid Gold

What strange mood are you in today Stu???

Do you recall the less well known version of "Superman" that was "Supercock"
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Post by: Sheepskin Stu on August 11, 2014, 01:29:11 pm
I could have added Peg by Steely Dan I suppose.
Title: Re: Top 3 songs of all time
Post by: IDM on August 11, 2014, 01:46:15 pm
Now I have in mind:

Trumpton Riots - Half Man Half Biscuit
No Rest - New Model Army
Paranoid - Black Sabbath

It's impossible to pick an all time top 3.  Every time I have an idea, another one springs to mind.  So much eclectic stuff over the years.  Some remind me directly of moments in life, others of general times.  Growing up with what my parents liked, plus the only realistic radio option was R1, many of my era had a mixed taste of what was played on Kid Jensen and John Peel during the evening.

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Post by: BillyStubbsTears on August 11, 2014, 02:24:28 pm
Crazy - Patsy Cline
This Fear of Gods - Simple Minds
Public Image - PiL
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Post by: ravenrover on August 11, 2014, 07:19:21 pm
Today it's
Born in Time
Series of Dreams
Make you feel my love (the original not that sh*t from Adele and if you didn't know she didn't write it)
Title: Re: Top 3 songs of all time
Post by: jonnydog on August 11, 2014, 09:55:47 pm
Like everyone else has said, it changes daily, so today mine are:-

Brothers in Arms - Dire Straits
Free Bird - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Wish you were here - Pink Floyd

Title: Re: Top 3 songs of all time
Post by: The Red Baron on August 12, 2014, 10:39:56 pm
Today:

Houses in Motion- Talking Heads
Party Fears Two- The Associates
Two Sevens Clash- Culture
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Post by: River Don on August 12, 2014, 11:08:35 pm
Unfinished Sympathy - Massive Attack (including a sample of mahavishnu orchestra, aka Doncasters own John McLaughlin) not sure if this is a song or would be better described as a track though.

My Favourite Dress - The Wedding Present

God Only knows - the Beach Boys
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Post by: IDM on August 13, 2014, 08:53:03 am
Today I have in mind:

Uptown top rankin' - Althea & Donna
Upside Down - the Jesus and Mary Chain
Papa's got a brand new Pig Bag - Pigbag
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Post by: Sheepskin Stu on August 13, 2014, 09:39:53 am
Today's top three, pop pickers.

Glad to know you by Chaz Jankel
Dance and shake your tambourine by The Universal Robot Band
A little bit of jazz by The Nick Straker Band
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Post by: Al4475 on August 13, 2014, 09:42:59 am
As I sit here now, the three in my mind are (in no particular order) these change all the time but these three are always within easy listening distance!

Bad - U2
One To Another - Charlatans
Getting Away With It (all messed up) - James
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Post by: IC1967 on August 13, 2014, 12:24:48 pm
1. 2112 - Rush
2. Fade To Black - Metallica
3. Cemetery Gates - Pantera
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Post by: Filo on August 13, 2014, 12:52:33 pm
Freebird- Lynyrd Skynyrd
Fade To Black- Metallicca
Go Your Own Way- Fleetwood Mac
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Post by: BillyStubbsTears on August 13, 2014, 02:38:59 pm
Sea Song - Doves
Dustbowl III - Other Lives
Just Like Heaven - The Cure
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Post by: Wild Rover on August 13, 2014, 03:20:08 pm
Today.

Paradise by the Dashboard light. Meatloaf.
Cherry Red. Groundhogs.
July Morning. Uriah Heep.
Title: Re: Top 3 songs of all time
Post by: The Red Baron on August 13, 2014, 07:02:20 pm
Today:

The Fall- No Bulbs
Naturalites & The Realistics- Picture on the wall
Stranglers- Straighten Out
Title: Re: Top 3 songs of all time
Post by: River Don on August 13, 2014, 07:29:53 pm
Quite a good thread this, I've been introduced to a few songs I didn't know about.
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Post by: Iberian Red on August 13, 2014, 09:09:20 pm
1. 2112 - Rush
2. Fade To Black - Metallica
3. Cemetery Gates - Pantera
Why aren't you under your bridge?
1 Maggie 's Farm
2 Between The Wars
3 Fuk Dat
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Post by: Wild Rover on August 14, 2014, 10:17:19 am
Don't know what's up with me today.

Bullfrog Blues......Canned Heat.
Abacab........Genesis.
Leyla ..........D&D ( well Clapton ).
Title: Re: Top 3 songs of all time
Post by: IDM on August 14, 2014, 10:38:41 am
More gems for today:

Parisienne Walkways - Gary Moore featuring Phil Lynott
My Sweet Lord - George Harrison
Private Investigations - Dire Straits
Title: Re: Top 3 songs of all time
Post by: Wild Rover on August 14, 2014, 11:03:02 am
IDM.

Wish you hadn't mentioned Lynott, now I have on.

Emerald
Rosalie
Whiskey in the Jar.

Thin Lizzy quarter hour.

2 of which go down well in this office ( for obvious reasons )
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Post by: BillyStubbsTears on August 14, 2014, 08:19:21 pm
Today

Planet of Sound - Pixies (should be the entrance music at the KMS. Imagine them coming out to Frank Black screaming "This ain't no f**king around!"

Wrote for Luck - Happy Mondays
Nervous Heartbeat - Momus
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Post by: swintonrover on August 14, 2014, 08:31:54 pm
Dry County - Bon Jovi
Only You Can Rock Me - UFO
What Good's A Rock Without A Roll - Black Spiders
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Post by: i_ateallthepies on August 14, 2014, 09:21:03 pm
Running Scared - Roy Orbison or just about anything by The Big 'O'

Crazy - Patsy Cline, her delivery and diction in this is just exquisite

A Little Time - Beautiful South,  surely the only duet ever about falling out instead of falling in.
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Post by: ravenrover on August 15, 2014, 12:37:06 am
Tonight I'll be mainly listening to Rod Stewart
Tomorrow is a long time
Maggie May
Every Picture Tells a Story
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Post by: Sandy Lane on August 15, 2014, 04:35:01 am
Today:

The Kinks
Southside Johnny
Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings
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Post by: Sheepskin Stu on August 15, 2014, 07:58:18 am
When You Wake Up Tomorrow by Candi Staton
Atomic Dog by George Clinton
Let's Go Together by Change
Title: Re: Top 3 songs of all time
Post by: The Red Baron on August 15, 2014, 08:27:00 am
Today's selection:

The Sweetest Girl- Scritti Politti
Genius of Love- Tom Tom Club
The Nightfly- Donald Fagen
Title: Re: Top 3 songs of all time
Post by: IDM on August 15, 2014, 09:01:50 am
Ah Baron, that reminded me, if we're talking "Green" then I'd go for:

Absolute - Scritti Politti
Light my Fire - Doors
Afterhours - Sisters of Mercy
Title: Re: Top 3 songs of all time
Post by: ravenrover on August 15, 2014, 11:31:35 am
This morning I'll be mainly listening to 60's American Folk
Violets of Dawn - Eric Anderson
Talking Vietnam Pot-Luck Blues - Tom Paxton
Drums - Peter La Farge
Title: Re: Top 3 songs of all time
Post by: Wild Rover on August 15, 2014, 11:49:07 am
Feeling very nostalgic,
So, todays snippet is "B" side "Ogdens Nut Gone Flake",( Small Faces for those who don't know ). Folk here think I have gone mad, and keep asking what the feck Stanley Unwin is on.
Title: Re: Top 3 songs of all time
Post by: coventryrover on August 16, 2014, 01:21:18 am
today's offerings
Mazzy star fade into you
ratm bombtrack
Beastie boys. Sureshot
Title: Re: Top 3 songs of all time
Post by: ravenrover on August 17, 2014, 03:20:53 pm
After yesterdays performance, today I'll mainly be listening to Leonard Cohen aka music to commit suicide by
Sisters of Mercy
Bird on a Wire
The Partisan
Title: Re: Top 3 songs of all time
Post by: Bentley Bullet on August 17, 2014, 08:37:23 pm
Bowie - Life on Mars
Bowie - Changes
Bowie - Man who sold the world
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Post by: Rios on August 19, 2014, 03:16:26 pm
One Day Like This - Elbow
Halcyon - Orbital
And God Created Brixton - CarterUSM
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Post by: BillyStubbsTears on August 19, 2014, 04:00:23 pm
I'm in a 1980s indie-pop kinda mood

Therese - The Bodines
Jean's Not Happening - The Pale Fountains
Flesh of my Flesh - Orange Juice

Oh aye. And
We Could Send Letters - Aztec Camera

And best of the lot
What The Moon Saw - Band of Holy Joy. Think folk music meets Ennio Morricone.
Title: Re: Top 3 songs of all time
Post by: Wild Rover on August 19, 2014, 05:31:09 pm
Today.

Alright Now . Free.
Black Velvet . Alana Miles.
5.15 . The Who.
Title: Re: Top 3 songs of all time
Post by: Al4475 on August 20, 2014, 08:37:29 am
Thought I'd have a look at this again as acouple of weeks ago these were the thoughts of that day:

As I sit here now, the three in my mind are (in no particular order) these change all the time but these three are always within easy listening distance!

Bad - U2
One To Another - Charlatans
Getting Away With It (all messed up) - James


Yet this morning the playlist appears to be:

Common People - Pulp
All the Pretty Faces - Killers
but still
Bad by U2 ain't far away!

Good thread this!
Title: Re: Top 3 songs of all time
Post by: Iberian Red on August 20, 2014, 09:40:05 pm
I'm in a 1980s indie-pop kinda mood

Therese - The Bodines
Jean's Not Happening - The Pale Fountains
Flesh of my Flesh - Orange Juice

Oh aye. And
We Could Send Letters - Aztec Camera

And best of the lot
What The Moon Saw - Band of Holy Joy. Think folk music meets Ennio Morricone.

The Bodies!
I'm sure I had an album by them. We're they from glamorous Rochdale or somewhere similar?
If it's who I'm thinking of their first album had them dressed in Brecon tops on a beach and the opening line of the first track was about throwing stones into the sea.
Or is that a totally different group?
Title: Re: Top 3 songs of all time
Post by: Iberian Red on August 20, 2014, 10:17:00 pm
Predictive text!
Should have read Bodeans and Breton!
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Post by: BillyStubbsTears on August 20, 2014, 11:46:46 pm
Bodines. It was Bodines.

They were from Glossop. Someone had to be.
Title: Re: Top 3 songs of all time
Post by: Sheepskin Stu on August 21, 2014, 08:02:29 am
And now...

Fonzi Thornton - I'll Change My Game
Slave - Watching You
Sharon Redd - Love How You Feel
Title: Re: Top 3 songs of all time
Post by: River Don on August 21, 2014, 10:13:27 am
Fonzi Thornton?

lol, i've got to look that one up.
Title: Re: Top 3 songs of all time
Post by: BillyStubbsTears on August 21, 2014, 10:44:05 am
Fonzi Thornton?

lol, i've got to look that one up.

I dig it man. I really dig it.

Apparently Dickov had locked himself in a darkened room on Tuesday afternoon. Rumour has it that he was manically and repeatedly singing this song before emerging with a 4-2-3-1 team sheet.
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Post by: ravenrover on August 21, 2014, 11:37:16 am
Today I'll be mainly listening to
Not Dark Yet
She's your lover now
and on a lighter note If not for You - the original not the Oliver Neutron Bomb effort!
Title: Re: Top 3 songs of all time
Post by: Wild Rover on August 21, 2014, 11:45:10 am
Bit of Rolling Stones is on todays menu, 40 licks.
Title: Re: Top 3 songs of all time
Post by: Dutch Uncle on August 21, 2014, 06:26:38 pm
Love this thread  :thumbsup:

A few months ago a friend of my wife's wrote to all her friends and requested Desert island Disc input from everyone with anecdotes and reasons for choice. She then collated the lot,  added links for all the songs, and produced stats of most popular etc. It was a great initiative. Here is my input:

1.   Light Flight - Pentangle:
The 2nd ever LP I bought was The Bert Jansch Sampler and I listened to a lot of Pentangle while at University. During a vacation I was babysitting for friends of my parents and I turned the TV on. In the delay between the sound starting and the TV picture finally arriving I heard this Pentangle song and innocently thought ‘ great – a Pentangle concert on TV’   - I was crushed when an episode of the previously unknown to me ‘Take 3 Girls’  followed

2.   Streets of London – Ralph McTell:
First heard the song live in a student’s room in Front Quad Merton College with about 12 other people – the then almost unknown Ralph McTell had been invited to the College’s Folk Club. Two years later I and ca 1500 others listened to him in concert in the New Oxford Theatre.

3.   Lyin Eyes – Eagles:
The Eagles are my favourite band, and music which I know my wife loves (we have both been to live performances) and so I think of her each time I hear them. But I also remember the moment I first heard any Eagles song – I was walking into the Squash Club in Maastricht – a second home for me for 7 years so I also associate Lyin Eyes with SRC Maastricht.

4.   Riders on the Storm:
Brilliant song with strong memories for me as a passenger in a crazy German friend’s sports car volume high during a violent thunderstorm

5.   The Elements – Tom Lehrer: Live performance version,
Very clever and just to keep the mind sharp; also a reminder of Gilbert & Sullivan

6.   Bohemian Rhapsody – Queen:
My favourite song, and of course video, and it reminds me of going to the brilliant show ‘We Will Rock You’ in London with my wife. But it also has great lyrics for adaptation – I have created versions to suit everything from my daughters to Doncaster Rovers Football Club via eccentric time ceremonies at Merton College 

7.   Lord of The Dance:
Reminders of all the Irish Dancing experiences through my younger daughter.

8.   Life in a Northern Town – Dream Academy
Always loved the song and the video reminds me of some of my upbringing in Yorkshire. However also memorable for an incident with elder daughter who once played me Sunchyme by Dario G – and I said it had been ripped off from Life in a Northern Town. I had to play the song for the unbelieving teenager, and during the slow intro she thought her Dad had completely lost his marbles. The instantaneous change in her face when the chorus came was a picture never to be forgotten.

Book: William Feller –An Introduction to Probability Theory and its Applications: Serious Mathematics but fun, again to stretch the mind

Luxury: Laptop with MS Office (no internet but infinite battery) so I can record thoughts, write, play with probability calculations…..
   
Title: Re: Top 3 songs of all time
Post by: coventryrover on August 21, 2014, 07:06:52 pm
Today mainly revisiting my student days, so


French Disko-  Stereolab
Feel the pain -Dinosaur Jr
Teethgrinder - Therapy?
Title: Re: Top 3 songs of all time
Post by: BillyStubbsTears on August 22, 2014, 12:08:30 am
Excellent thread. Watch some t**t ruin it by mentioning Coldplay.

Tonight I'm in a stripped down Sheffield state of  mind.

Being Boiled - Human League (the original version, not the disco one with the farty horns and clapping and shit. The one with the percussion that sounds like a black hole)
Sensoria - Cabaret Voltaire.
Nag Nag Nag - Cabaret Voltaire
Title: Re: Top 3 songs of all time
Post by: River Don on August 22, 2014, 07:23:45 am
I woke up in a stripped down, Sheffield state of mind

Tuff little Unit - Come and Join the Future
Coco Steel and Lovebomb - Feel It
Tomas - MindSong
Title: Re: Top 3 songs of all time
Post by: SoundbiteBarmyArmy on August 22, 2014, 10:42:39 am
I'm a Courteeners fan and on Monday I downloaded their new album 'Concrete Love', there's a couple of beauties on there and I can't get enough of 'Has he told you that he loves you yet', 'Next time you call' & 'Summer'.

As many people above have mentioned - my preference for my three favourite songs change on a weekly if not daily basis.

Title: Re: Top 3 songs of all time
Post by: Wild Rover on August 22, 2014, 11:11:00 am
Today is "Red Album" day.
Tomorrow ( Whilst travelling to Uk ) Blue Album.
Title: Re: Top 3 songs of all time
Post by: Dutch Uncle on August 22, 2014, 06:51:09 pm
Tomorrow could go one of two ways......

If we win all upbeat:
Don't Stop me Now - Queen
Take it Easy - Eagles
500 miles - Proclaimers

But if we lose it's slit your wrist time.......
Desperado - Eagles
After the Goldrush - Neil Young
Anything by Leonard Cohen, but probably Suzanne
Title: Re: Top 3 songs of all time
Post by: The Mighty Brian Rowe on August 22, 2014, 08:51:47 pm
Mine changes by the hour but at this exact moment in time:

The Ballad of Dorothy Parker - Prince
Kingsize - Boo Radleys
Cornerstone - Arctic Monkeys

...although I have had Elvis Costello's Green Shirt going round my head for the last week or so as well.
Title: Re: Top 3 songs of all time
Post by: wilts rover on August 22, 2014, 11:44:23 pm
No one watching BBC 4 this evening?

Wuthering Heights - Kate Bush
Cloudbusting - Kate Bush
Oh England, My Lionheart - Kate Bush

for gentlemen of a certain age....
Title: Re: Top 3 songs of all time
Post by: BillyStubbsTears on August 23, 2014, 01:52:32 pm
Mad Euro-fascist pop. You can't beat Laibach, a bunch from Slovenia. No one knows if they really ARE fascists or if they have spent 35 years living an artistic image to take the piss out of fascist tendencies in their homeland - the sort that ripper Yugoslavia apart a few years after they started.

Sympathy for the Devil. This MUST be on everyone's bucket list of music vids, just to see how bizarre pop music can be.  And if that one isn;t bizarre enough, have a look at their cover of the 80s Euro-pop pap "Life is Life".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7muCRio2nQ

Tanz Mit  - If the last one is ridiculous, this one is chilling. The Wagnerian dance music of the fascist revolution when European democracy finally collapses. And one of the best techno tracks ever laid down
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zSRcFxZVAA

The Whistleblowers - They've mellowed a tad with age, but in many ways, this is the most chilling one of the lot. A maddeningly catchy theme tune for the next generation's Hitlerjungend.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6Mx2mxpaCY

Title: Re: Top 3 songs of all time
Post by: RobTheRover on August 23, 2014, 03:59:37 pm
Seeing as I've just got back from my hols so my listening choices have been rather limited for the past couple of weeks...

Make Way - Mongol Horde https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FOoo6D0Wes
I am Disappeared - Frank Turner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5RbEhnRhEs
Temptation - New Order https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxDv_RTdLQo
Title: Re: Top 3 songs of all time
Post by: Highland Rover on August 24, 2014, 02:31:54 pm
Fairly mixed bag from me :

Don't let me be misunderstood.....The Animals
Horse with no name..........America
Ruthless Queen..................Kayak ( Dutch group )

conversely hate the following...
7 drunken nights...Dubliners
Dont worry , be happy....Bobby somebody
Title: Re: Top 3 songs of all time
Post by: BillyStubbsTears on August 24, 2014, 03:25:15 pm
Everything Breaks - The Woodentops
Indiana Wants Me - R Dean Taylor
(You Make Me Feel) Mighty Real - Sylvester.
(No fascist revolutionary music today)
Title: Re: Top 3 songs of all time
Post by: The Red Baron on August 24, 2014, 03:44:29 pm
Highlights of the last two days while listening to cds driving to Leamington and back:

The Fall- Paranoia Man in cheap s**t room
Public Image Ltd- Poptones
Chic- My Forbidden Lover
Title: Re: Top 3 songs of all time
Post by: moses on August 25, 2014, 09:50:53 am
Also having been away my choices are limited was tempted to go:
Chocolate-Hey
Or
Let it go

Now back in the adult world prefer something darker.
Hyperballad by Bjork (love the imagery of standing at the top of a cliff every morning and deciding whether you want to carry on each day)
Under my Thumb by the Rolling Stones. (The lyrics are dubious at best but the delivery is sublime)
Luca by Suzanne Vega (Her pain runs through me).
Will do a slightly more upbeat one later.
Title: Re: Top 3 songs of all time
Post by: Iberian Red on August 26, 2014, 12:04:05 am
Seeing as I've just got back from my hols so my listening choices have been rather limited for the past couple of weeks...

Make Way - Mongol Horde https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FOoo6D0Wes
I am Disappeared - Frank Turner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5RbEhnRhEs
Temptation - New Order https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxDv_RTdLQo

Similar thing Rob, just back from the jols, free festival, music everywhere.
My choice;
Show of Strength.
Seven Minutes to Midnight.
Piggie In The Middle 8.

Not as glamorous as your holiday.
Title: Re: Top 3 songs of all time
Post by: BillyStubbsTears on August 28, 2014, 03:11:25 pm
Tracks for travelling across Europe by train

Trans Europ Express - Kraftwerk. Of course. Berlin Hauptbahnhof late at night.

Theme for Great Cities - Simple Minds. Milano Centrale at dawn

Star Guitar - Chemical Brothers. Amsterdam to Zurich through the Ruhr.
Title: Re: Top 3 songs of all time
Post by: Mr Brightside on August 29, 2014, 02:02:35 pm
Love will tear us apart - Joy Division

Every day is like Sunday - Morrissey

Kennedy - The Wedding Present

Coventryrover - Stereolab and Mazzy Star  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Top 3 songs of all time
Post by: roversdude on August 29, 2014, 05:50:39 pm
All of my life - foo fighters
Banana splits - dickies
Ride on - Ac/dc
Title: Re: Top 3 songs of all time
Post by: The Mighty Brian Rowe on August 29, 2014, 07:20:44 pm
Love will tear us apart - Joy Division

Every day is like Sunday - Morrissey

Kennedy - The Wedding Present

Coventryrover - Stereolab and Mazzy Star  :thumbsup:

Kennedy is fantastic. Got it somewhere on CD Single.
Title: Re: Top 3 songs of all time
Post by: Sheepskin Stu on August 29, 2014, 08:46:51 pm
Flashlight by Parliament
I'll House You by The Jungle Brothers
I Specialise In Love by Sharon Brown
Title: Re: Top 3 songs of all time
Post by: RobTheRover on August 29, 2014, 11:49:33 pm
Tonight it's....

Taste - Ride
Playing with Knives - Bizarre Inc
Tracks of my tears - Smokey Robinson.
Title: Re: Top 3 songs of all time
Post by: andy didcott on August 31, 2014, 09:13:22 pm
1. I fought the law, The Clash.
2. Complete control, The Clash.
3. Tommy gun, The Clash.
Title: Re: Top 3 songs of all time
Post by: Donnywolf on September 03, 2014, 09:05:12 pm
Sorry that I came back (posting) but

1) Bohemian Rhapsody

I have hundreds of candidates for spots 2 and 3 but they are SO FAR away from the number 1 spot that I don't want to put them in the same "post" as Queen and Bohemian Rhapsody !

Its an age thing again and in 50 years time "it" will not win a similar poll  - and that Merry Christmas everybody by Slade may not be the "go to" song at Christmaaaaaas but till thensorry there is no competition.

TraxFM and others have been desperate to depose BH by "introducing conditions" in their annual polls but there are still too many who remember "it" and what it meant to them to defeat it by fair means . It will happen soon and I will just have to live with it when it does although to ME it is THE Song of my lifetime!
Title: Re: Top 3 songs of all time
Post by: BillyStubbsTears on October 31, 2014, 12:52:06 am
This thread seems to have died a death. Here's to resurrecting it.

I'm reckoning that Chvrches' By The Throat from last year might just have knocked New Order's Perfect Kiss off the top of the Best Synth Pop Song In History chart. And Lauren Mayberry is easier on the eye than Barney and Hooky an all.

In fact their entire Bones of What You Believe album is as near as you'll ever get to perfect synth pop. It takes New Order's chord structures and 1980s Roland synths and marries them to sharp-as-a-knife modern production. Give it a go pop pickers.
Title: Re: Top 3 songs of all time
Post by: IDM on October 31, 2014, 08:14:38 am
Ta BST.

The other day I was watching/listening to you tube clips of old records.  Here's another top 3 I found:

New Model Army - No Rest - this was once performed on TOTP where the band wore T shirts with the slogan "only stupid bas**rds take heroin" and the BBC (bless her) made them tape over "bas**rds"!!

Toy Dolls - Fisticuffs in Frederick Street - the B side (and better IMHO) to their "punk" version of Nellie the Elephant.

Sisters of Mercy - Afterhours - only available on the B side of the Body and Soul 12" single.  Long, dark, quite atmospheric.  Notable for being played in the background for my first time ;)
Title: Re: Top 3 songs of all time
Post by: not on facebook on October 31, 2014, 12:56:11 pm
My music likes move around from month to month ,few weeks back
I was on  Northern Soul .

But for last Of  couple Of weeks likes Of

Frankie knuckles witch 'Your love '  or ' whistle song' have me gob smacked .

Cant copy and  paste ,but if you spend the time to type in Frankie knuckles
Abd click on '. Your love' you will be taken BACK .think  Frankie knuckles
Will only be know by a select few on Here .
Title: Re: Top 3 songs of all time
Post by: Sheepskin Stu on October 31, 2014, 01:15:43 pm
Your Love was actually a track by Jamie Principle first that Knuckles then put his name to. Great tunes.
Title: Re: Top 3 songs of all time
Post by: not on facebook on October 31, 2014, 01:43:10 pm
Your Love was actually a track by Jamie Principle first that Knuckles then put his name to. Great tunes.

And the original was done by a Black lady whos name escapes me ,i will
Be kicking me sen if i have to google it

Like you said great tracks
Title: Re: Top 3 songs of all time
Post by: not on facebook on October 31, 2014, 01:55:03 pm
Your Love was actually a track by Jamie Principle first that Knuckles then put his name to. Great tunes.

And the original was done by a Black lady whos name escapes me ,i will
Be kicking me sen if i have to google it

Like you said great tracks

Candi staton with  'you got the  love' is the track and Black lady  iam
getting mixed up with,1987 it was released i think .
Title: Re: Top 3 songs of all time
Post by: Mr Brightside on October 31, 2014, 05:02:02 pm
Love will tear us apart - Joy Division

Every day is like Sunday - Morrissey

Kennedy - The Wedding Present

I'm getting rid of Morrissey and swapping him for The Associates - Party Fears Two
Title: Re: Top 3 songs of all time
Post by: BillyStubbsTears on October 31, 2014, 05:09:42 pm
Nice one Brightside. Although Love Hangover is a better one.

And if you have to have a Morrissey/Smiths song, I'd go for Cemetey Gates myself. If only because I used that one to woo a very fit lass at University 25 years back.
Title: Re: Top 3 songs of all time
Post by: The Red Baron on October 31, 2014, 06:18:30 pm
Love will tear us apart - Joy Division

Every day is like Sunday - Morrissey

Kennedy - The Wedding Present

I'm getting rid of Morrissey and swapping him for The Associates - Party Fears Two

Good choice.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZSMDaewz2A

Did you know that Morrissey wrote a song about the late, great Billy McKenzie? "William, it was really nothing."
Title: Re: Top 3 songs of all time
Post by: The Red Baron on October 31, 2014, 06:40:33 pm
This thread seems to have died a death. Here's to resurrecting it.

I'm reckoning that Chvrches' By The Throat from last year might just have knocked New Order's Perfect Kiss off the top of the Best Synth Pop Song In History chart. And Lauren Mayberry is easier on the eye than Barney and Hooky an all.

In fact their entire Bones of What You Believe album is as near as you'll ever get to perfect synth pop. It takes New Order's chord structures and 1980s Roland synths and marries them to sharp-as-a-knife modern production. Give it a go pop pickers.

Just listened to them. She reminds me a lot of Harriet Wheeler.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H5qNe2MFzk
Title: Re: Top 3 songs of all time
Post by: Orlandokarla on October 31, 2014, 07:30:32 pm
What, no love for Bob the Builder, Teletubbies, or Gummie bears?
Not even a mention of Star Trekkin, or one of Timmy Mallet's masterpieces?

I despair, I really do.
Title: Re: Top 3 songs of all time
Post by: BillyStubbsTears on November 01, 2014, 12:59:28 am
Never thought of that comparison TRB but I guess you're right. They both have a crystal-sharp but fragile voice. Harriet Wheeler's voice worked well in The Sundays because the fragility matched the music. I reckon Lauren Mayberry's works even better with the razor-sharp perfection of Chvrches synth music because it gives a fallible human counterpoint to the brutally perfect music.
Title: Re: Top 3 songs of all time
Post by: IDM on November 11, 2014, 01:02:59 pm
Just been listening to some old stuff on youtube on my lunch break, keeping following the links to other stuff.

Ended with a recording of the Sisters of Mercy John Peel session from 1982. 

Peel Sessions, now there's a playlist!!
Title: Re: Top 3 songs of all time
Post by: SoundbiteBarmyArmy on November 13, 2014, 08:25:33 am
Like Oasis? Give a band called DMA's a listen.
Title: Re: Top 3 songs of all time
Post by: mushRTID on November 13, 2014, 11:44:56 am
Like Oasis? Give a band called DMA's a listen.

Saw them on Monday supporting Courteeners. They were brilliant!!
Title: Re: Top 3 songs of all time
Post by: SoundbiteBarmyArmy on November 13, 2014, 04:15:31 pm
Like Oasis? Give a band called DMA's a listen.

Saw them on Monday supporting Courteeners. They were brilliant!!

Yep I saw them Tuesday in L**ds - thoroughly enjoyed them.
Title: Re: Top 3 songs of all time
Post by: River Don on November 14, 2014, 07:43:29 am
Not bad the Churches piece BST. I do like a good bit of synth pop.

Christ & Cosey are out of retirement, releasing new material and performing again. They play Sheffield on Oct 4, I might be tempted to go along.

https://soundcloud.com/thequietus/carter-tutti-remix-chris-cosey

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0XVP_zzjqM&sns=em

http://www.chrisandcosey.com
Title: Re: Top 3 songs of all time
Post by: Donnywolf on November 14, 2014, 07:00:54 pm
Sorry if this has been listed above because I have not read it all but MY personal top 3 songs of all time are (in no particular order)

1) Bohemian Rhapsody

2) Bohemian Rhapsody

3) Bohemian Rhapsody

Will never be eclipsed in my world ever !!! It wont be everyones choice and I can fully understand that but for me it was in the right place at the right time and was / is great