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JT

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Re: The songs you could never tire of thread
« Reply #25 on: 27 May, 2010, 04:29:34 pm »
I'll treat this thread as songs I never skip on/in the ipod/car...

The Rip - Portishead
Dayvan Cowboy - Boards of Canada
Anything off Moving Pictures - Rush
Toxicity, Chop Suey - System of a Down
Black Hole Sun - Soundgarden
Windowlicker - Aphex Twin
The Girl With the Sun In Her Head - Orbital
Geno - Dexys Midnight Runners
Dog Eat Dog - Adam and the Ants

and many, many more...
a great mind thinks alike

Flying_Monkey

Re: The songs you could never tire of thread
« Reply #26 on: 27 May, 2010, 05:53:25 pm »
There's plenty. Too many. Not many mentioned here so far though - although 'Heatwave' and 'The Girl with the Sun in Her Head' are up there.

I think songs that you never tire of hearing have to have some resonance in my life as well as just being great songs. Sometimes this makes them painful but still essential. A few of those for me:

Curtis Mayfield - 'Move on Up' (well anything by the great man, really) - another one that gets you right from the first drum beat
Gil Scott-Heron - 'Lady Day and John Coltrane' (makes you feel as alive as the music he's talking about)
The Beatles - 'It's All Too Much' (not a well-known track, but just simple chords, gorgeous waves of summery feedback, trumpets, hand-claps)
Bjork - 'Isobel' (crazy, life-affirming, and a huge break in the middle that opens up with big and romantic strings and beats all at once)
The Waterboys - 'Fisherman's Blues' (ridiculous oirish romanticism, but does it work? Absolutely!)
Sufjan Stevens - the whole of Illinoise (it really is a proper album)
Can - 'Mother Sky' (it's Can, what more do you want to know?)
Blur - 'Coffee and TV' (at their most beautiful)
and one by a band I am guessing most people here will not know, The Egg, called 'The Fat Boy Goes to the Cinema' - the essence of laid-back, summers in Oxford in the mid-90s.

There are a lot more.

Deborah

Re: The songs you could never tire of thread
« Reply #27 on: 27 May, 2010, 06:27:46 pm »
The Flower Duet from Lakme.

Re: The songs you could never tire of thread
« Reply #28 on: 27 May, 2010, 06:50:13 pm »
Macarena - Los del Rios

I'll hold him, you hit him...

Be gentle with me, it just takes me back to Seville in the summer of '96 and a wonderful few months I had with a girl from Cadiz. We once changed trains at Dos Hermanas just outside Seville and it was 42C and that's where the two blokes who originally sang it are from. I still have my love of Manzanilla and olives to thank her for. Ahhh.

Having said that, beating Spain 3:2 on penalties in Euro 96 did strain things...
Haggerty F, Haggerty R, Tomkins, Noble, Carrick, Robson, Crapper, Dewhurst, Macintyre, Treadmore, Davitt.


Re: The songs you could never tire of thread
« Reply #30 on: 27 May, 2010, 07:03:28 pm »
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/Tf4KM1GLuZQ&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/Tf4KM1GLuZQ&rel=1</a>
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/qpZ7BOSmO64&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/qpZ7BOSmO64&rel=1</a>
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/9YCZVeIJ8xk&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/9YCZVeIJ8xk&rel=1</a>
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/78WSj5T5gn8&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/78WSj5T5gn8&rel=1</a>
Farewell to the Gold - Nic Jones
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/n2xODjbfYw8&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/n2xODjbfYw8&rel=1</a>


Ask me in a week and I might give you a different answer or have remembered others.
I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.

jogler

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Re: The songs you could never tire of thread
« Reply #31 on: 27 May, 2010, 07:14:00 pm »
This could be a long list if I gave it carefull consideration but those that spring to mind...
A lot of Dianna Ross & The Supremes
My Guy:Mary Wells
If Not For You:Olivia Newton John
A lot of the Shadows
Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress:The Hollies
Who Do You Love:George Thoroughgood & The Destroyers
Bad to the Bone:             ditto
Stand By Me : John Lennon
My Sweet Lord:George Harrison
Telegraph Road:Dire Straits
Stay With Me:Shakespeare Sister
Get Back:The Beatles
Baby You're A Rich Man:The Beatles
And I Love Her:              ditto
a lot of Fleetwood Mac

Re: The songs you could never tire of thread
« Reply #32 on: 27 May, 2010, 08:12:16 pm »
"Your Silent Face"- New Order.


RJ

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Re: The songs you could never tire of thread
« Reply #33 on: 27 May, 2010, 09:30:13 pm »
Over the Hill - John Martyn

... and loads, really.  Though "never" is a very long time.

Re: The songs you could never tire of thread
« Reply #34 on: 27 May, 2010, 09:58:21 pm »
If we're talking popular beat combos m'lud then these fellas are hard to beat:


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            - AC/DC Highway to Hell Live!!
   


But the one "song" I could never tire of of is Das Lied


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            - Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde - part VI-2 (5/6)
   

citoyen

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Re: The songs you could never tire of thread
« Reply #35 on: 27 May, 2010, 10:05:17 pm »
Though "never" is a very long time.

There's the nub. See, it's all very well people coming up with long lists of great songs, and I'm not denying they're great songs, but to be able to say truthfully that you could never tire of a song is something quite different.

For a song to qualify for this list, you have to be convinced that you could happily listen to it at least once or twice a day, every day, for the rest of your life and not be tempted to skip it.

Of course, it's a deeply personal thing so the list will be different for every individual, but in every case, it should be a pretty short list.

d.
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Pingu

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Re: The songs you could never tire of thread
« Reply #36 on: 28 May, 2010, 12:10:31 am »
This is an ironic thread, right  ???

simonp

Re: The songs you could never tire of thread
« Reply #37 on: 28 May, 2010, 12:39:35 am »
This:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/MYiahoYfPGk&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/MYiahoYfPGk&rel=1</a>

tiermat

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Re: The songs you could never tire of thread
« Reply #38 on: 28 May, 2010, 08:09:21 am »
For me, they are a mixed bunch but go something like:

Disarm - Smashing Pumpkins
Too drunk to dance - terrorvision
Hard to Feel - ditto
Stay Forever - Ween
Chop Suey / The Prison Song/Toxicity - SOAD
Nobody Knows - QOTSA
Leave! - VV Brown
Back in Black - AC/DC
Teethgrinder - Therapy?
Defcon 1/Very Metal Noise Pollution - PWEI
Wake Me Up When September Ends/Time Of Your Life - Green Day
Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town - Pearl Jam
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LindaG

Re: The songs you could never tire of thread
« Reply #39 on: 28 May, 2010, 11:41:27 am »
In Your Eyes - Peter Gabriel

Flying_Monkey

Re: The songs you could never tire of thread
« Reply #40 on: 28 May, 2010, 05:14:18 pm »
This could be a long list if I gave it carefull consideration but those that spring to mind...
A lot of Dianna Ross & The Supremes
My Guy:Mary Wells
If Not For You:Olivia Newton John
A lot of the Shadows
Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress:The Hollies
Who Do You Love:George Thoroughgood & The Destroyers
Bad to the Bone:             ditto
Stand By Me : John Lennon
My Sweet Lord:George Harrison
Telegraph Road:Dire Straits
Stay With Me:Shakespeare Sister
Get Back:The Beatles
Baby You're A Rich Man:The Beatles
And I Love Her:              ditto
a lot of Fleetwood Mac

Remind me not to come round to your place! And same for whoever suggested Lakme...  ;)
Mind you my wife doesn't like a lot of what I do either!

jogler

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Re: The songs you could never tire of thread
« Reply #41 on: 28 May, 2010, 05:57:42 pm »
^^^^
so there's no point in futher saving the "Telegraph" that you left in my car after the C+ Banbury ride 'cause my music will prevent you from coming round to my place  ;)

microphonie

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Re: The songs you could never tire of thread
« Reply #42 on: 28 May, 2010, 06:29:11 pm »
This Mortal Coil - <a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/4mUmdR69nbM&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/4mUmdR69nbM&rel=1</a> (bit of an obvious one)

Lowlife - <a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/mj1LAI6zsiA&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/mj1LAI6zsiA&rel=1</a>

Kraftwerk - Autobahn

Shriekback - <a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/RCNx47xaKv4&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/RCNx47xaKv4&rel=1</a> & pretty much all the Care & Jam Science album tracks

Plaid (feat. Nicolette) - <a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/PaNP1YoWjB4&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/PaNP1YoWjB4&rel=1</a>
Plaid - <a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/fTBFeHdPO1k&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/fTBFeHdPO1k&rel=1</a>

Seeing Plaid later tonight - hopefully one of these will feature  8)
Bingo! That's what I am, a saviour.
A sort of cocky version of Jesus.

Re: The songs you could never tire of thread
« Reply #43 on: 30 May, 2010, 10:34:41 am »
This could be a long list if I gave it carefull consideration but those that spring to mind...
A lot of Dianna Ross & The Supremes
My Guy:Mary Wells
If Not For You:Olivia Newton John
A lot of the Shadows
Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress:The Hollies
Who Do You Love:George Thoroughgood & The Destroyers
Bad to the Bone:             ditto
Stand By Me : John Lennon
My Sweet Lord:George Harrison
Telegraph Road:Dire Straits
Stay With Me:Shakespeare Sister
Get Back:The Beatles
Baby You're A Rich Man:The Beatles
And I Love Her:              ditto
a lot of Fleetwood Mac

I've amended the Snow Roads travellin' playlist.  Otherwise I'm bringing CDs.

;)

jogler

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Re: The songs you could never tire of thread
« Reply #44 on: 30 May, 2010, 10:47:23 am »
None of the songs on the above list are on the CD's in the Mondeo which we will be using for the excursion North.
IIRC ,in the Mondeo are recordings by Eva Cassidy,David Gray,Van Morrison,Bob Dylan,Tracy Chapman & others.
Bring whatever you wish to.I reckon we will be travelling for at least 12 hours so time enouigh to play a variety of stuff

border-rider

Re: The songs you could never tire of thread
« Reply #45 on: 30 May, 2010, 10:50:37 am »
IIRC ,in the Mondeo are recordings by Eva Cassidy,David Gray,Van Morrison,Bob Dylan,Tracy Chapman & others.
Bring whatever you wish to.I reckon we will be travelling for at least 12 hours

Earplugs ?

;)

jogler

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Re: The songs you could never tire of thread
« Reply #46 on: 30 May, 2010, 10:53:52 am »
 ;D


I really am glad you said that MV. Might need 'em for the communal kipping on Friday & Saturday night

Re: The songs you could never tire of thread
« Reply #47 on: 30 May, 2010, 11:00:16 am »
Actually, maybe Mr Nesbitt will bring some Kraftwerk for those long motorway distances.

I'll bring some Tom Robinson ;D

Tourist Tony

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Re: The songs you could never tire of thread
« Reply #48 on: 30 May, 2010, 12:09:58 pm »
Ooooooh....where to start?

Sibelius 3, 4, 5 and violin concerto
Sigur Ros "Von"
Oysterband "Coal not Dole/Bells of Rhymney"
Jethro Tull "My God"
Capercaillie "Bonaparte"
Fleetwood Mac "Man of the World"
Floyd "Careful with that Axe/One of these Days"  and "Echoes"
Mahler 6, 7 and 10
Brel "Ne Me Quitte Pas"
Meic Stevens "Mor o Gariad"
Ar Log "Ffarwel i ti Gymru"
Ed Pickford "Ee Aye Ah Cud Hew"
Eric Bogle---too many to list

Re: The songs you could never tire of thread
« Reply #49 on: 30 May, 2010, 01:44:53 pm »
white man in hammersmith palais  - the clash
Blemish - David Sylvian
Orpheus - David Sylvian
Sultans of Swing - Dire straits
Albatross - Fleetwood Mac
Way Back When - Ernest Ranglin
Sweet Child of mine  - Guns n Roses
Life in Tokyo - Japan
Man in Black - Johnny Cash
Smash it up - the Damned
Firestarter - Prodigy
The Emperors new clothes - Sinnead Oconnor
Hong Kong Garden - Souxsie and the Banshees
Maid in Heaven - Bebop deluxe
Hyperballad - Bjork
Denis Denis - Blondie
More than a feeling - Boston
The Golden Path - chemical brothers
City of the dead - the Clash
Spanish Bombs  - the Clash
She sells sanctuary - The cult
Lovecats - the Cure
Sound and Vision - Bowie
Alison - Elvis Costello
Blue Savannah - Erasure
Hey! Luciani - the FAll
Hit me with your rythmn stick - Ian Dury
Taking Island in Africa - Japan
The song remains the same - Led Zep
Stairway - Led Zep
losing my religion - REM
Sympathy for the Devil - the Rolling Stones
Changing of the guards - Bob Dylan


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