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You can choose any 5 songs, but just those 5.
Which and why?
1- "Sittin' on the Dock of The Bay" Otis Redding.
Because it is one of the most perfect songs ever recorded.
Can be wistful, happy, sad. Doesn't matter what your mood is, Redding's voice is exactly how you are feeling. And nobody can listen to it without whistling the end bit. And getting it out of tune
2 - "7 Jam" Clutch
Because it's everything I love about Clutch.
Heavy, nonsensical lyrics, fantastic rythm to it and ends in a 4-5 minute jam (hence the title). Dirty blues/rock with attitude and style left over to spare. Always, always lifts my spirits however foul my mood.
Fallon hollering with his double-tracked vocals about "That old ship of Zion is taking way way out into outer space and everything's gonna be alright...YEAH!"
3 - "Harvest of Sorrow" Metallica
Because it's Metallica at their best. Slow, menacing rock with a snarl and a middle-finger. And it has Hetfield doing a feral rock growl before the solo. Is everything that they used to be and everything they need to be again.
The one song where their rubbish tubby drummer uses the toms to a decent effect instead of disguising his shoddy time keeping skills.
4 - "Voodoo Chile" Jimi Hendrix
For the intro.
That simple. The wah-wah coming up from a fade, the kick drum punctuating the riff, then the "Thwunk" of everything getting ready before it lurches off into one of the greatest riffs ever written on a guitar. Excessive wah-wah solo and a bass that runs through your gut. And lyrics that make you realise that Jimi is the biggest, baddest and meanest axe-slinger to ever burn his guitar "Well I stand up next to a mountain and I chop it down with the edge of ma hand.."
5 - "Refuse/Resist" Sepultura.
Again, the intro makes this for me. Heartbeat of Max's son in-utero before it thumps in with the drum pattern.
And what sounds like "Godzilla" being screamed way way back in the mix just before the guitars boot in.
Double-kick rolls this monster along right before, at 0:49 that tribal bellow comes in with "Chaos AD, Tanks on the street".
Absolutely raw, shredded barbed-wire guitar sound and Max shouting himself stupid against the atrocities committed in the favelas of Brazil and other 3rd world countries.
Rage distilled into tribal rock.
Perfect.
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So that's my 5.
Which and why?
1- "Sittin' on the Dock of The Bay" Otis Redding.
Because it is one of the most perfect songs ever recorded.
Can be wistful, happy, sad. Doesn't matter what your mood is, Redding's voice is exactly how you are feeling. And nobody can listen to it without whistling the end bit. And getting it out of tune
2 - "7 Jam" Clutch
Because it's everything I love about Clutch.
Heavy, nonsensical lyrics, fantastic rythm to it and ends in a 4-5 minute jam (hence the title). Dirty blues/rock with attitude and style left over to spare. Always, always lifts my spirits however foul my mood.
Fallon hollering with his double-tracked vocals about "That old ship of Zion is taking way way out into outer space and everything's gonna be alright...YEAH!"
3 - "Harvest of Sorrow" Metallica
Because it's Metallica at their best. Slow, menacing rock with a snarl and a middle-finger. And it has Hetfield doing a feral rock growl before the solo. Is everything that they used to be and everything they need to be again.
The one song where their rubbish tubby drummer uses the toms to a decent effect instead of disguising his shoddy time keeping skills.
4 - "Voodoo Chile" Jimi Hendrix
For the intro.
That simple. The wah-wah coming up from a fade, the kick drum punctuating the riff, then the "Thwunk" of everything getting ready before it lurches off into one of the greatest riffs ever written on a guitar. Excessive wah-wah solo and a bass that runs through your gut. And lyrics that make you realise that Jimi is the biggest, baddest and meanest axe-slinger to ever burn his guitar "Well I stand up next to a mountain and I chop it down with the edge of ma hand.."
5 - "Refuse/Resist" Sepultura.
Again, the intro makes this for me. Heartbeat of Max's son in-utero before it thumps in with the drum pattern.
And what sounds like "Godzilla" being screamed way way back in the mix just before the guitars boot in.
Double-kick rolls this monster along right before, at 0:49 that tribal bellow comes in with "Chaos AD, Tanks on the street".
Absolutely raw, shredded barbed-wire guitar sound and Max shouting himself stupid against the atrocities committed in the favelas of Brazil and other 3rd world countries.
Rage distilled into tribal rock.
Perfect.
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So that's my 5.
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Stupid me bought the "Year and half Tape 2" which is the most interesting account of them in the studio.
Cue lots of Lars in a dressing gown getting arsey because he keeps fluffing takes and trying to touch Bob Rock's bumcakes.
Harvester in Russia eh?
I'm almost tempted to buy the "Cunning Stunts" DVD, old Metallica, 2 1/2hrs of old Metallica.
Mmmmmm...old rock
Cue lots of Lars in a dressing gown getting arsey because he keeps fluffing takes and trying to touch Bob Rock's bumcakes.
Harvester in Russia eh?
I'm almost tempted to buy the "Cunning Stunts" DVD, old Metallica, 2 1/2hrs of old Metallica.
Mmmmmm...old rock
Slightly off topic but GB when you mentioned 'Harvester..' I've just remembered back to 'A Year and a Half in the Life..' and there is an awesome rendition of it live in Moscow's Red Square.
Dunno why but the setting for that song semed perfect...
If you have the video's, go back and check it out...
Dunno why but the setting for that song semed perfect...
If you have the video's, go back and check it out...
Monkey With Attitude told me to get some Far MP3s, so I looked, found a funny looking song and downloaded it. Little did I know at the time it was a cover. And the song was Monkey Gone To Heaven...
:D
What a great name for a song!
:D
What a great name for a song!
1. Pixies - Monkey Gone to Heaven
Apart from the obvious inclusion of monkey in the title, this song is the perfect example of all that was brilliant about the pixies. Random lyrics, the patented quiet-loud dynamics and Black Francis singing in his occasionally nasal whine.
2. Soundgarden - Blackhole Sun
This was the first real rock sound that I liked, being just 12 at the time it was released this was a bit of a revelation. It ruled so much more than Oasis who all my friends liked. Black Hole Sun was an anthem for millions of disenfranchised people, wannabe rebels who older people laugh at, and I was one of them for a while.. but I moved on. Fortunately Soundgarden remained with me and opened all sorts of new musical corridors.
3. Jeff Buckley - Lover, You Should've Come Over
There are so many great Buckley songs that it's difficult to pick a favourite. Overall I would probably go for this one because it's Buckley at his ethereally beautiful best. Radiohead fans should note that "the Bends" was written after the band attended a Buckley gig. Buckley remains the best male vocalist of this century with a staggeringly large range and the ability to soar, glide, scream or roar in the same breath. This song sees Buckley at his lyrical best and showing off his range as well. If you want something rockier try his cover of "Kick out the Jams" or "Eternal Life" (the live version was even rockier with a chugga chugga metal riff added in place of the old riffs). If there was any justice Buckley would still be alive today churning out album after album of fantastic music; however, he died before his time after being dragged under water in the current of a passing riverboat while swimming.
4. The Smiths - There is a Light that Never Goes Out
Morrissey and co were doing depression rock waaaay before Radiohead had even thought about it. Of course the thing that most annoyed and saddened Morrissey was Johnny Marr. Was it because Marr was a guitar genius? Was it because Marr got all the girls? No, it was because to the French Johnny Marr was J'en ai marre - I've had enough of it - and if there was one man who had had enough of life it was Morrissey. This song sees Morrissey at his most depressed:
"and if a double-decker bus
crashes into us
to die to by your side
would be a heavenly way to die"
It's the most morbid love song this side of Leonard Cohen.
5. Better than Ezra - Beautiful Mistake
It's a song that reminds me of someone who I'd want to be reminded of on a desert island. It's a beautiful song that the singer wrote about his father, who had walked out on him as a child,
"'You'd make your father proud'
It echoes through the years
As if I could forget all a mother's tears"
I love this song because it, for me, epitomises beautiful songwriting, where everything comes together to make an amazingly powerful experience. And because I associate with someone I love.
And those are my five songs. Many more could have made it but I have to stick to the rules... hmmm, not enough ROCK but what the hey.
Apart from the obvious inclusion of monkey in the title, this song is the perfect example of all that was brilliant about the pixies. Random lyrics, the patented quiet-loud dynamics and Black Francis singing in his occasionally nasal whine.
2. Soundgarden - Blackhole Sun
This was the first real rock sound that I liked, being just 12 at the time it was released this was a bit of a revelation. It ruled so much more than Oasis who all my friends liked. Black Hole Sun was an anthem for millions of disenfranchised people, wannabe rebels who older people laugh at, and I was one of them for a while.. but I moved on. Fortunately Soundgarden remained with me and opened all sorts of new musical corridors.
3. Jeff Buckley - Lover, You Should've Come Over
There are so many great Buckley songs that it's difficult to pick a favourite. Overall I would probably go for this one because it's Buckley at his ethereally beautiful best. Radiohead fans should note that "the Bends" was written after the band attended a Buckley gig. Buckley remains the best male vocalist of this century with a staggeringly large range and the ability to soar, glide, scream or roar in the same breath. This song sees Buckley at his lyrical best and showing off his range as well. If you want something rockier try his cover of "Kick out the Jams" or "Eternal Life" (the live version was even rockier with a chugga chugga metal riff added in place of the old riffs). If there was any justice Buckley would still be alive today churning out album after album of fantastic music; however, he died before his time after being dragged under water in the current of a passing riverboat while swimming.
4. The Smiths - There is a Light that Never Goes Out
Morrissey and co were doing depression rock waaaay before Radiohead had even thought about it. Of course the thing that most annoyed and saddened Morrissey was Johnny Marr. Was it because Marr was a guitar genius? Was it because Marr got all the girls? No, it was because to the French Johnny Marr was J'en ai marre - I've had enough of it - and if there was one man who had had enough of life it was Morrissey. This song sees Morrissey at his most depressed:
"and if a double-decker bus
crashes into us
to die to by your side
would be a heavenly way to die"
It's the most morbid love song this side of Leonard Cohen.
5. Better than Ezra - Beautiful Mistake
It's a song that reminds me of someone who I'd want to be reminded of on a desert island. It's a beautiful song that the singer wrote about his father, who had walked out on him as a child,
"'You'd make your father proud'
It echoes through the years
As if I could forget all a mother's tears"
I love this song because it, for me, epitomises beautiful songwriting, where everything comes together to make an amazingly powerful experience. And because I associate with someone I love.
And those are my five songs. Many more could have made it but I have to stick to the rules... hmmm, not enough ROCK but what the hey.
what...?
Only 5 songs...???
hmm. It'll be different tomorrow I'm sure but what the hey.
Anti-Flag: 'The Panama Deception'
Because it has damn amazing *political* lyrics, has shifts in tempo, a fantastic build up at the end, and the final lyrics I can never get quite right... This song narrowly gets it, but there are probably five songs off their 'Underground Network' CD that are contendors...
Refused: 'Liberation Frequency'
Because it is THE ULTIMATE song for that build up/ release hardcore style. Well, maybe on equals with 'New Noise'. But this track just gets it because the huge shouty heavy bit is so unexpected, and because the vocalist sounds like a woman at the start of the song :D
AKO: 'So Decieved'
Heard this on the radio, and couldn't stop listening to it. (it was a radio show I recorded) It's damn good, from a UK band that describe themselves as 'Brutal Melodic Hardcore'. And that it is. They easily shift between dischordant crunching guitars and barking vocals to melodic guitar work with beautifully sung vocals. And the lyrics are pretty cool too.
NOFX: 'The Decline'
Maybe this is cheating- I've never heard this track. But NOFX are a good band, and I have always wondered how the hell they managed to create an 18 minute (no, that's not a typo) song. I saw the lyrics posted up somewhere, they took me about ten minutes to read! Anyway, with only 5 tracks, listeing to them all the time could get boring if they were all shortish tracks, so this one is to add some longievity to my choices!
Offspring: 'All I Want'
hmm. It was hard deciding between this and 'Smash' but this just pulls it. A near perfect anthemn for almost anybody who is sick of living to societies rules. Fast, buzzing guitars, emotional vocals, and the Offspring at their best. Bliss.
So there's mine... come tomorrow I will have no doubt changed my mind but hey... such is the way of the world.
Only 5 songs...???
hmm. It'll be different tomorrow I'm sure but what the hey.
Anti-Flag: 'The Panama Deception'
Because it has damn amazing *political* lyrics, has shifts in tempo, a fantastic build up at the end, and the final lyrics I can never get quite right... This song narrowly gets it, but there are probably five songs off their 'Underground Network' CD that are contendors...
Refused: 'Liberation Frequency'
Because it is THE ULTIMATE song for that build up/ release hardcore style. Well, maybe on equals with 'New Noise'. But this track just gets it because the huge shouty heavy bit is so unexpected, and because the vocalist sounds like a woman at the start of the song :D
AKO: 'So Decieved'
Heard this on the radio, and couldn't stop listening to it. (it was a radio show I recorded) It's damn good, from a UK band that describe themselves as 'Brutal Melodic Hardcore'. And that it is. They easily shift between dischordant crunching guitars and barking vocals to melodic guitar work with beautifully sung vocals. And the lyrics are pretty cool too.
NOFX: 'The Decline'
Maybe this is cheating- I've never heard this track. But NOFX are a good band, and I have always wondered how the hell they managed to create an 18 minute (no, that's not a typo) song. I saw the lyrics posted up somewhere, they took me about ten minutes to read! Anyway, with only 5 tracks, listeing to them all the time could get boring if they were all shortish tracks, so this one is to add some longievity to my choices!
Offspring: 'All I Want'
hmm. It was hard deciding between this and 'Smash' but this just pulls it. A near perfect anthemn for almost anybody who is sick of living to societies rules. Fast, buzzing guitars, emotional vocals, and the Offspring at their best. Bliss.
So there's mine... come tomorrow I will have no doubt changed my mind but hey... such is the way of the world.
Manic Street Preachers - Motorcycle Emptiness
It is one of the most beautiful songs ever written. The sounds and lyrics are moving and is the ultimate song about being a teenager growing up in a world that doesn't accept to what you are. One of the best from the Manics and is a classic and just rules.
Radiohead - Paranoid Android
No doubt their best song. A song that takes you a trip going from high to low, harmonic to crunching guitar and just about makes up for their recent drivel and I will never get tired of it.
U2 - One
A fantastic song that touches you and sounds amazing and fresh everytime I hear it. Best song on 'Achtung Baby' and is amazing, simple tune with great lyrics and vocals by the coolest frontman in rock Bono.
Queen - Bohemian Rhapsodey
Probably spelt it wrong but one of my favourite songs. Grew up with it playing as a child and it is just amazing, Queen not being one of my favourite bands but this song rocks and is perfect for jumping around an island.
Sigur Ros - Staraflur
A beautiful song, sung in high vocals by that Icelandic bloke. Perfect to sit back and relax to, perfect sounds which touch you and gives a bit of originality to music and puts Radiohead's dull attempts to shame.
Dada
It is one of the most beautiful songs ever written. The sounds and lyrics are moving and is the ultimate song about being a teenager growing up in a world that doesn't accept to what you are. One of the best from the Manics and is a classic and just rules.
Radiohead - Paranoid Android
No doubt their best song. A song that takes you a trip going from high to low, harmonic to crunching guitar and just about makes up for their recent drivel and I will never get tired of it.
U2 - One
A fantastic song that touches you and sounds amazing and fresh everytime I hear it. Best song on 'Achtung Baby' and is amazing, simple tune with great lyrics and vocals by the coolest frontman in rock Bono.
Queen - Bohemian Rhapsodey
Probably spelt it wrong but one of my favourite songs. Grew up with it playing as a child and it is just amazing, Queen not being one of my favourite bands but this song rocks and is perfect for jumping around an island.
Sigur Ros - Staraflur
A beautiful song, sung in high vocals by that Icelandic bloke. Perfect to sit back and relax to, perfect sounds which touch you and gives a bit of originality to music and puts Radiohead's dull attempts to shame.
Dada
Should have been "HarvestER of Sorrow"
Damn I'm tired.
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Harvester Of Sorrow
My Life Suffocates
Planting Seeds of Hate
I've Loved, Turned to Hate
Trapped Far Beyond My Fate
I Give
You Take
This Life That I Forsake
Been Cheated of My Youth
You Turned this Lie to Truth
Anger
Misery
You'll Suffer unto Me
Harvester of Sorrow
Language of the Mad
Harvester of Sorrow
Pure Black Looking Clear
My Work Is Done Soon Here
Try Getting Back to Me
Get Back Which Used to Be
Drink up
Shoot in
Let the Beatings Begin
Distributor of Pain
Your Loss Becomes My Gain
Anger
Misery
You'll Suffer unto Me
Harvester of Sorrow
Language of the Mad
Harvester of Sorrow
All Have Said Their Prayers
Invade Their Nightmares
See into My Eyes
You'll Find Where Murder Lies
Infanticide
Harvester of Sorrow
Language of the Mad
Damn I'm tired.
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Harvester Of Sorrow
My Life Suffocates
Planting Seeds of Hate
I've Loved, Turned to Hate
Trapped Far Beyond My Fate
I Give
You Take
This Life That I Forsake
Been Cheated of My Youth
You Turned this Lie to Truth
Anger
Misery
You'll Suffer unto Me
Harvester of Sorrow
Language of the Mad
Harvester of Sorrow
Pure Black Looking Clear
My Work Is Done Soon Here
Try Getting Back to Me
Get Back Which Used to Be
Drink up
Shoot in
Let the Beatings Begin
Distributor of Pain
Your Loss Becomes My Gain
Anger
Misery
You'll Suffer unto Me
Harvester of Sorrow
Language of the Mad
Harvester of Sorrow
All Have Said Their Prayers
Invade Their Nightmares
See into My Eyes
You'll Find Where Murder Lies
Infanticide
Harvester of Sorrow
Language of the Mad
You can choose any 5 songs, but just those 5.
Which and why?
1- "Sittin' on the Dock of The Bay" Otis Redding.
Because it is one of the most perfect songs ever recorded.
Can be wistful, happy, sad. Doesn't matter what your mood is, Redding's voice is exactly how you are feeling. And nobody can listen to it without whistling the end bit. And getting it out of tune
2 - "7 Jam" Clutch
Because it's everything I love about Clutch.
Heavy, nonsensical lyrics, fantastic rythm to it and ends in a 4-5 minute jam (hence the title). Dirty blues/rock with attitude and style left over to spare. Always, always lifts my spirits however foul my mood.
Fallon hollering with his double-tracked vocals about "That old ship of Zion is taking way way out into outer space and everything's gonna be alright...YEAH!"
3 - "Harvest of Sorrow" Metallica
Because it's Metallica at their best. Slow, menacing rock with a snarl and a middle-finger. And it has Hetfield doing a feral rock growl before the solo. Is everything that they used to be and everything they need to be again.
The one song where their rubbish tubby drummer uses the toms to a decent effect instead of disguising his shoddy time keeping skills.
4 - "Voodoo Chile" Jimi Hendrix
For the intro.
That simple. The wah-wah coming up from a fade, the kick drum punctuating the riff, then the "Thwunk" of everything getting ready before it lurches off into one of the greatest riffs ever written on a guitar. Excessive wah-wah solo and a bass that runs through your gut. And lyrics that make you realise that Jimi is the biggest, baddest and meanest axe-slinger to ever burn his guitar "Well I stand up next to a mountain and I chop it down with the edge of ma hand.."
5 - "Refuse/Resist" Sepultura.
Again, the intro makes this for me. Heartbeat of Max's son in-utero before it thumps in with the drum pattern.
And what sounds like "Godzilla" being screamed way way back in the mix just before the guitars boot in.
Double-kick rolls this monster along right before, at 0:49 that tribal bellow comes in with "Chaos AD, Tanks on the street".
Absolutely raw, shredded barbed-wire guitar sound and Max shouting himself stupid against the atrocities committed in the favelas of Brazil and other 3rd world countries.
Rage distilled into tribal rock.
Perfect.
---
So that's my 5.
Which and why?
1- "Sittin' on the Dock of The Bay" Otis Redding.
Because it is one of the most perfect songs ever recorded.
Can be wistful, happy, sad. Doesn't matter what your mood is, Redding's voice is exactly how you are feeling. And nobody can listen to it without whistling the end bit. And getting it out of tune
2 - "7 Jam" Clutch
Because it's everything I love about Clutch.
Heavy, nonsensical lyrics, fantastic rythm to it and ends in a 4-5 minute jam (hence the title). Dirty blues/rock with attitude and style left over to spare. Always, always lifts my spirits however foul my mood.
Fallon hollering with his double-tracked vocals about "That old ship of Zion is taking way way out into outer space and everything's gonna be alright...YEAH!"
3 - "Harvest of Sorrow" Metallica
Because it's Metallica at their best. Slow, menacing rock with a snarl and a middle-finger. And it has Hetfield doing a feral rock growl before the solo. Is everything that they used to be and everything they need to be again.
The one song where their rubbish tubby drummer uses the toms to a decent effect instead of disguising his shoddy time keeping skills.
4 - "Voodoo Chile" Jimi Hendrix
For the intro.
That simple. The wah-wah coming up from a fade, the kick drum punctuating the riff, then the "Thwunk" of everything getting ready before it lurches off into one of the greatest riffs ever written on a guitar. Excessive wah-wah solo and a bass that runs through your gut. And lyrics that make you realise that Jimi is the biggest, baddest and meanest axe-slinger to ever burn his guitar "Well I stand up next to a mountain and I chop it down with the edge of ma hand.."
5 - "Refuse/Resist" Sepultura.
Again, the intro makes this for me. Heartbeat of Max's son in-utero before it thumps in with the drum pattern.
And what sounds like "Godzilla" being screamed way way back in the mix just before the guitars boot in.
Double-kick rolls this monster along right before, at 0:49 that tribal bellow comes in with "Chaos AD, Tanks on the street".
Absolutely raw, shredded barbed-wire guitar sound and Max shouting himself stupid against the atrocities committed in the favelas of Brazil and other 3rd world countries.
Rage distilled into tribal rock.
Perfect.
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So that's my 5.
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