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Groupies, John...it's part of the deal...
(Apologies to Liz and Ester) |
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Editorial Comment: |
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This is the first of what I hope will be a regular series of audience contributions to this website. |
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After all, I can't do it all here, can I? |
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And there are few people I know with as broad an interest in music as John. So this is the best place to start. |
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Feel free to send in your contribution (divided into Mood, Song and Reasons Why), to the usual address. |
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Matthew Craig (and it's way too hot to be original, so nyeh), July 29-30, 2001. |
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Tunes. FUCKIN' T-U-N-E-S!!! |
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The first brings out the madman. Just when I get up in "one of those moods". These moods are a little non-desciptive as they can be "AAAAARRRRGGGHHHHH...I HATE THE WORLD!!!!!" or "AAAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHH...I LOVE THE WORLD!!!!!"
You get the picture. It's the same effect. And the one tune that NO-ONE on the planet should be without a copy of is Motorhead - "Ace of Spades". Nuff said. |
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Green Plastic Watering Cans - Radiohead. |
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Just listen to it and it sums itself up really. Just a little indescribable and not really applicable to any particular mood. But the lyrics do it. |
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Fools Gold - Stone Roses. |
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Music of a generation? Oh FUCKING yes!!! Still to this day I have never known a tune that will provoke me and a bunch of mates to appreciate each other in such a way that it is the most comical, uplifting, stupid, daft, wonderful, idiotic, mindless, priceless, memory provoking dancing to type tune EVER!!! You really need to be there... |
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Anything by Bon Jovi, pre-, and including, Keep the Faith album. Anythng after that was shite! Now THAT brings back an 80's moment for all the RIGHT reasons. In a strange and weird way, you could say they shaped my life, even though they, and I for that matter, did not know it! |
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One - U2. Goose pimples every time.......... |
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Melt - Leftfield. |
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In here for two reasons. Stunning tune to get stoned to. Try it, even if you don't like it to say you have. Worth a go. Secondly, the perfect "I have had my Hi-Fi that I have built up over years of toil and sweat to buy the best sounding stuff around for budget nicked and I am now here with my insurance claim money and an open ear to test a new Hi-Fi" Hi-Fi testing track. If I EVER catch the bastards who broke in to our student abode I will...politely ask for my Hi-Fi back... |
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The "Going out and getting bladdered" tune |
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Tricky. No, not the unpredictable ex-Massive Attack member (who is rather good though), but it depends...kind of unpredictable. I would still say anything by Paul Oakenfold really. Just...does it. |
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Perspective |
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There are moments in your life where you think that everything is going against you. The world is caving in and you don't know where to turn or who to. There are people there and they try, they really do and it really appreciated and I love them all for it. But at the end of the day, it's you who has to deal with it.
And there is one way I deal with my problems (and by God, I have had a few). And that is to realise that WHATEVER it is that is happening or has happened, there is always someone worse off than you. And I know, sounds a crap thing cos everone has there own personal dilemmas and so on that seem like the worst things and it really is all relative. But there really IS someone always worse off than you. It's not my best consolation, but it is one that helps me a lot (especially recently over the past couple of years). And there is one song that puts it all into perspective for me every time, not just because of it's lyrical content, but also it is a cracking tune and that is The Boxer by Simon and Garfunkel. I shall say no more... |
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If something spooks me out |
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You know, you just can't work it through your mind where something went right or wrong, or you have done something and you don't remember how it happened? It just HAS to be the Dr Who theme! Doesn't it provoke that kind of "mysteriousness" that surrounds the situation? Well I think it does.
Argue as you may, there has never been another piece of music EVER written that has that weird, yet strangely uplifting feel to it. It's just a magical sounding tune. If you haven't heard it in years and think I am talking out of my proverbial, go and listen to it and remember how you used to sit down with your dad to watch it, thinking it was the height of intellectual TV. It's just the BIZZ! |
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There are 1000's of tunes that could go on this list. I have never been a fan of "I have a favourite tune" or "I have a favourite band.". You listen and think of tunes that you like. Simple as that. Fuck everyone else and their opinions of what is cool and what is not. I did that in my "formative" years, listening only to stuff that I thought was cool, although I did like it. In doing that, I missed out on a myriad of tunes that I only re-discovered years later that were deemed "uncool" back then and I wish I had not been such a cretin! Some of it is fantastic. And loads of it still genuinely gives me goosepimples and makes the hairs stand on the back of my neck. But this list is just a taster of what is in my collection and what springs to mind when certain things happen in my life. Try them out. I'm sure they will have absolutely NO effect on other people... |
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John Woodward, reporting for Written Words, at home. In a Trevor MacDonald styley! |
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