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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[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 :)