Music Meme

[filthgoblin]

I pinched this from karaokegal

Because I am so confident in my knowledge of music, ask me about 5 of your favorite bands [or artists], and I will list my favorite songs by each of them and why, but the catch is you must post this in your journal too! You know you want to! Make it so!

The meme says you should post to your journal, but I'm not one for meme fascism. If you just wanna test me and don't fancy it yourself, I won't be checking up on you ;)

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[sweetsyren.livejournal.com]

Muse
Breaking Benjamin
Flyleaf
Kidney Thieves
Seether

[filthgoblin.livejournal.com]

Oh dear. I fall at the first hurdle. I've heard of Breaking Benjamin but not heard anything by them. I've never even heard of Flyleaf, Kidney Thieves or Seether. Feel free to provide links, though. I'm always happy to broaden my musical horizons :)

For Muse, I can't narrow it down to one song. I love Showbiz - it's so dark and brooding, something Matt does so well. Listening to that whole album you can just tell how angry he was and how much he was hurting when he wrote it. I'm a huge fan of Blackout, and I took a stunning video of them doing it at Wembley two years ago:



Probably the favourite of my favourites, though, is Butterflies and Hurricanes. It's helped me through some really tough times. The lyrics are so inspirational to me. I'm as big on the words as I am on the music, and in this case it just knocks the breath from me every time.

[sweetsyren.livejournal.com]

I love Darkshines myself. I cannot wait for the new Muse album. The songs i've heard have been AWESOME!

I did provide pretty hard bands didn't I?? Bad me. Here, have some linkies. Be warned...All metal and punk lies below.

Breaking Benjamin: Excellent band...brilliant lyrics and tunes. This video as well is pretty impressive - uses Half Life 2 footage and is synched up pretty well.



Flyleaf: Found these in America last year. Lead singer has an amazing voice. Wonderful punky sound.

Linky because they want traffic to their channel...*rolleyes* (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rHTY03_Mco)

Seether: Found these guys through Evanessence. This video features Amy Lee and a lot of their music is like this. They're one of those albums you listen to when you're in a bit of a mood.



Kidney Theives: This is from my more...interesting time at Uni. They features this song in Queen of the Damned...a film I really liked but everyone else seems to hate with a passion. The songs good though. Sorry about the video - couldn't find an official one.

[filthgoblin.livejournal.com]

Wasn't too fussed on the first two. I'm really not a fan of Evanescence and that kind of rock music doesn't particularly appeal to me. I really liked Kidney Thieves, though. I'll be looking up more of their stuff.

[karaokegal.livejournal.com]

Take That
Billy Fury
Gerry & the Pacemakers
Joy Division
The Smiths

[filthgoblin.livejournal.com]

Let's get the one I don't know out of the way first. Billy Fury. Aware of, never heard anything by.

Okay, moving on to the business part.

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.

[karaokegal.livejournal.com]

Awwwww. I'd love to have been in the UK during the height of TT-mania. The only reason I heard of them in the first place was when they did a cover of "Could It Be Magic" and Barry Manilow did THEIR version in his concerts and mentioned them. When I got into Robbie a little later, I somehow had to go back and make the connection.

I know that You'll Never Walk Alone is Liverpool FC, is Ferry Cross the Mersey Liverpool as well? (I once a bunch of boys singing You'll Never Walk Alone on a street in Cork in the middle of the night. It was amazing.)

I assume you've also seen 24 Hour Party People with our own luscious John Simm as Bernard Sumner.

[filthgoblin.livejournal.com]

TT mania left me relatively unscathed, but I did like them as a band. On the whole I am not really a pop music kinda gal, but there are a couple of exceptions and I would count them as one.

Ferry Cross the Mersey does indeed tend to get used quite a lot around Liverpool FC too. I think that the meaning you attach to songs is very much to do with the context too. I've only ever really associated them with football, so they tend not to move me. If I heard someone else singing them in a different context, I may feel differently.

I've not gotten around to seeing 24 Hour Party People yet. licklepickle got me Canterbury Tales and Crime and Punishment for my birthday and I didn't get see those yet either. I also need a copy of Miranda and Boston Kickout and I think my Simm collection is complete :)

[licklepickle.livejournal.com]

Grrrr.
1. As previously discussed I am allowed to grill you on your fave song by Muse but from The Resistance only as you didnt have that when answering the earlier question. It is a bit unfair with you having only had the album for 24hrs but there you are. Life isnt fair. Deal with it. >:)

2. Does It Offend You, Yeah?
3. Goldfrapp.
4. Friendly Fires.
5. Gnarls Barkley.

Go about your evil business.

[filthgoblin.livejournal.com]

1) I've listened to the album through in full twice now and whilst there are other songs I enjoyed, I'm loving "Exogenesis pt. 3". I might've listened to all the songs twice, but I've listened to that about six times. It feels like the piano is just washing over me and I can feel the tension ebbing out of me as I listen to it. Gorgeous.

2) My favourite DIOYY? track is Se7en, which was on their original demo. I know they chopped bits out of it and used it elsewhere and they'll probably never play it live as it was, but I love it. The deep, dirty bassline is perfect. I am, as Puretone once warbled in a one-hit wonder stylee, addicted to bass. The use of constant noise interspersed with silence makes my brain relax. I can feel it turn to jelly inside my skull. The bass-static at the end when I play it on my iPod drowns out all the noise in my brain and sends me to my happy place.

3) Not a massive fan of Goldfrapp to be honest, but I do really like "Black Cherry". Not least because of happy memories of sitting outside the Big Chill Bar on a sunny summer's afternoon in Whoreditch singing "Whoa-oh! Matt Berry! Ma-att Berry!" =D

4) Gah! How to choose a favourite FF song?! I think probably "Photo Booth" is my fave. I love the funk. They have the funk. I need to find out when they're going on tour because Mr G loves their funk too :D

5) Gnarls Barkley. Hmmm. I think probably "Smiley Faces". It's so cheerful and in some weird way sort of appeals to my love of choral music. It has that gospel-type feel to it.

[coneyislandbaby]

Oh why not?

David Bowie
The Eagles
The Rolling Stones
Savage Garden
Elvis Presley

[filthgoblin.livejournal.com]

You officially came up with the most difficult set of suggestions and I've come to answer this about five times then run out of time trying to decide!

First off, Savage Garden? Not a clue. I'm vaguely aware of them but I don't know any of their songs. I'd probably know if I heard them, but couldn't pick a favourite.

David Bowie's a difficult one. I was probably one of the few people that enjoyed his Earthling electronica phase, but I love his older stuff too. I also love Philip Glass's Low Symphony based on Bowie's album of the same name, but I guess that's not really Bowie. I think my favourite track of his is probably Space Oddity. I find it really moving in some way, quite haunting.

My favourite Eagles song is probably Take It Easy. It really does feel easy going. It makes me smile.

Rolling Stones was another really difficult one, but the song I keep coming back to is Sympathy For The Devil. Musically it's really infectious. The "woo wooo" in the backing track just gets inside your head, and I love the lyrics too.

And finally, Elvis. There's a LOT of material there to choose from! But I eventually settled on Heartbreak Hotel. That song, given it's really a Blues song, I find incredibly sexy. I know that and a lot of his other music in those early days of his career caused a lot of controversy for being so suggestive and I can see why. The rhythm of it and his tone of voice are very provocative.

So there you have it. Better late than never, I hope!