Let's get the one I don't know out of the way first. Billy Fury. Aware of, never heard anything by.
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My favourite Take That song is "Never Forget". When I was at university, our regular student union Saturday club night used one of two songs to finish the set at about 2am. They played either "Hey Jude" [which predictably led to several hundred pissed-up students spilling onto the streets of Leicester, swaying drunkenly with arms around each other singing "Naaaaaa na-na NANANANAAAAAA, NANANANAAAAAAAA HEEEEEEY JUUUUUUUUDE!" for anything up to an hour afterwards until people either got cold or bored and wandered off] or "Never Forget". The lyrics are just so perfect for a bunch of people who've come together from all parts of the country to start their independent lives and better themselves but still feel loyal to their home towns too. I would quote them, but I'm sure you know them well enough and I can't think of a single line that didn't fit with my and my peers' experience of going away from home to university.
My favourite Gerry and the Pacemakers song is probably "How Do You Do It?" I don't really like "You'll Never Walk Alone" and "Ferry Cross the Mersey" because over here they are so strongly associated with football and they don't move me. "How Do You Do It?" is so chirpy and innocent, it makes me smile.
"Transmission" is my favourite Joy Division track. It's so driving and urgent. The drums are unrelenting and the way Ian Curtis just gets more frenzied in his vocals towards the end never fails to move me. Incidentally, I didn't really listen to a lot of Joy Division until I watched the Ian Curtis biopic Control, which was just stunning.
I love lots of stuff by The Smiths, but not by Morrissey, strangely. I find his solo stuff dull. My stand-out favourite, though, is "How Soon Is Now". That soaring guitar opener is so evocative, and I love the reverberating backing track that just seems to echo inside your head.
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My favourite Take That song is "Never Forget". When I was at university, our regular student union Saturday club night used one of two songs to finish the set at about 2am. They played either "Hey Jude" [which predictably led to several hundred pissed-up students spilling onto the streets of Leicester, swaying drunkenly with arms around each other singing "Naaaaaa na-na NANANANAAAAAA, NANANANAAAAAAAA HEEEEEEY JUUUUUUUUDE!" for anything up to an hour afterwards until people either got cold or bored and wandered off] or "Never Forget". The lyrics are just so perfect for a bunch of people who've come together from all parts of the country to start their independent lives and better themselves but still feel loyal to their home towns too. I would quote them, but I'm sure you know them well enough and I can't think of a single line that didn't fit with my and my peers' experience of going away from home to university.
My favourite Gerry and the Pacemakers song is probably "How Do You Do It?" I don't really like "You'll Never Walk Alone" and "Ferry Cross the Mersey" because over here they are so strongly associated with football and they don't move me. "How Do You Do It?" is so chirpy and innocent, it makes me smile.
"Transmission" is my favourite Joy Division track. It's so driving and urgent. The drums are unrelenting and the way Ian Curtis just gets more frenzied in his vocals towards the end never fails to move me. Incidentally, I didn't really listen to a lot of Joy Division until I watched the Ian Curtis biopic Control, which was just stunning.
I love lots of stuff by The Smiths, but not by Morrissey, strangely. I find his solo stuff dull. My stand-out favourite, though, is "How Soon Is Now". That soaring guitar opener is so evocative, and I love the reverberating backing track that just seems to echo inside your head.