Here’s the deal – you’re the boss of your favorite record company and you are releasing a greatest hits compilation of your favorite band/artist – you therefore have the power to select all your favorite songs from that band/artist on the CD – what would you chose? (20 tracks max)
For example – my Doves Greatest Hits would look like this:
* There goes the Fear
* Jetstream
* M62 Song
* Kingdom of Rust
* The Cedar Room
* Black and White Town
* Words
* Rise
* Compulsion
* Satellites
* Snowden
* Pounding
* Firesuite
* Caught by the River
* Sea Song
* Some Cities
* Here it comes
* The Outsiders
* Break me Gently
* Winter Hill
Great way for creating new playlists too
[to be added]
Doves are a good band – I missed this discussion til now – do you have this CD? Would like to have copy if possible
My greatest hits would be Oasis, but I dont think you or Mr. Spacepig would like
Know something Sin Again? i think you may be correct.
OK, I am going to have a go at this, in the hope that one of you at least will look up the band. This won’t come as a surprise to the Junior Spacepig, but I’m going to kick off with Guru Guru:
1. Space Baby
2. Living In The Woods
3.Rastafari In Bayuvari
4. Chicken Rock
5. Sunrise Is Everywhere
5. Kleines Pyjama
6. Jet Lag
7. Moshi Moshi
8. Next Time See You At The Dalai Lhama
9. Lelonggoranklung
10. Der Euro Kommt
11. Ooga Booga
12. Andrea
13. Komm Lutsch Mal
14. 2000 Gurus (All Later)
15. Transylvania Express
16. Dagobert Duck’s 100th Birthday
17. Idli Killer
18. Incarnation Stomp
19. Stone In
20. Elektrolurch
Only problem here is, that’s not going to fit on to one CD!
You do have a strange taste in music could not even find much about these guys or are they girls (long hair) on the internet. But Chicken Rock and Dagobert Duck’s 100th Birthday sound like good songs – where did you first hear them?
Hi Mr Sin, I’ve been away on holiday for a while and haven’t managed to keep up to date. Guru Guru are a bunch of German lunatics. Although they may not look like it, they are almost exclusively male but with the occasional female guest.
I first came across them at a festival in Germany. I had taken the Junior Piglet there to see Hawkwind because when they played the UK that year, there wasn’t a venue I could take him to as he was severely under age. Guru Guru play that particular festival regularly and that was me hooked.
Chicken Rock was a real favourite of the Piglet’s, mainly because it so bloody silly. I will attempt to send it to the Laughing Dog and ask if he can put it on a future playlist. My own favourite of theirs is Der Elektrolurch. You can find it here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YMp9kOsb2k
Just to help you out, Der Elektrolurch is the gremlin that lives inside anything electronic and plays havoc with the workings just when you need it to work to full capacity. And don’t worry too much about the lyrics being in German, I’m told that they don’t make much sense even to native German speakers.
Oh, and I take the remark about me having a strange taste in music as a compliment – believe me, it gets a lot stranger than what I’ve suggested up to now.
I’m way behind on this, but followed the thread following the discussion on Doves more recently…
I choose Pink Floyd – and the CD would have the following running order:
1) Shine On You Crazy Diamond (parts I-V)
Wish You Were Here
2) The Great Gig In The Sky
3) Young Lust
4) Sheep
5) On The Turning Away
6) Not Now John
7) Us & Them
9) Arnold Layne
10) Run Like Hell
11) Brain Damage
13) High Hopes
14) Mother
15) Pillow Of Winds
16) Fat Old Sun
17) Echoes
18) Welcome To The Machine
19) Wearing The Inside Out
20) Comfortably Numb
No wonder Echoes was a double CD – I could easily have gone on and on, so just picked twenty of my favourites. Some of you maybe horrified that I’ve left the likes of Money & Time off the list but I think DSOTM gets a fair representation. You may also think that I haven’t given the Syd Barrett era a fair representation, but I prefer the band from Meddle onwards (1971) since when he had long departed. That’s just my taste….
Hi Techy – good songs here and I do like the order of songs – Spacey you approve – what would you add? Maybe I’ll post this as a play list
Oh I sure do approve of Techy’s Floyd playlist. But as always, when it comes to the Floyd we all have our own favourites.
Personally, I would have included Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun, Southampton Dock, The Dogs of War, Post War Dream. The list could go on and on. That’s not to say that there is anything wrong with Techy’s list, far from it. Just that with the Floyd having a relatively huge catalogue to pick from, no matter what was included, we will all have ones that we wanted on there.
While we are on the subject, what did you guys make of the Gilmour Live in Gdansk thingy? I have to admit that I much preferred the Waters Floyd era, and also some of Waters’ solo offerings. But I was pleasantly surprised by Gdansk. I delayed buying it for quite a long time thinking that it wouldn’t be much cop. Eventually picked it up just a few weeks ago and wished I had got it much sooner.
Hi Spacey – I too have looked at this CD at thought the same, and to be honest looking at it on Amazon I still feel why should I buy when I have all the songs and it appears that with the exception of a couple, all the songs are reproduced as they appear on album.
Is it worth 20 quid (with delivery)?
I wonder if I can sway you? I think Live In Gdansk is a brilliant album. He plays the whole of ‘On An Island’ live (which is a perfectly respectable album), but the real highlights are the Floyd numbers. His version of High Hopes is wonderful – with a simply stunning accoustic guitar solo at the end of it. Tell you what – I’ll play it on my next show so you can see what I mean.
To cap it all, he plays an epic rendition of Comfortably Numb. The only version that is better is that on ‘Pulse’ (which I’ve subsequently found out had the guitar solo edited by over 2 minutes – criminal!)
Anyway – I digress. It’s a brilliant album and well worth having. Also, if you can find it, buy ‘David Gilmour in Concert’ – again brilliant and stripped down so that it’s almost Floyd Unplugged…..
Spacey – You’ll probably be aware that Roger Waters is taking The Wall on tour for a 30th anniversary celebration. Give me your honest opinion – do you think it would be £80 well spent? I just don’t think that it would be the same as seeing Floyd….
However….. Gilmour is making a surprise appearance at one of the shows to do ‘Comfortably Numb’ with Waters, but they’re not announcing which date. It does give me a glimmer of hope that maybe there could be a reforming of some description. I would certainly pay good money to go and watch Gimour, Waters and Mason performing together…. such a tragedy that Richard Wright wouldn’t be there though – who would be an honourable stand in?
Hi Techy – mmm you almost have me reaching for the buy button on Amazon – the only thing is I haven’t played ‘On An Island’ for ages so will I play this much after I’ve bought. Sorry to sound less than enthusiastic.
Yep Techy, I am well aware of the Waters tour. It looks like I might be going to see it twice. I have a workmate who has never been to a concert before and he wants me to go to Dublin with him to see it (we live in Cork).
But much more fun is the plan to go to Mannheim in Germany to see it again. Mannheim is only a few miles from Mrs SP’s home town and the plan is to take a weekend break there to give her a chance to catch up with some old mates. Also, she has told me that Mannheim is full of nutty people, which makes it all the more appealing to me.
I suppose that doubles my chance of seeing Gilmour. As for a suitable replacement for Richard Wright, now that will take some thinking about.
Mr D, the 2 CD version of Live in Gdansk is on Amazon marketplace for a matter of pennies. I don’t think Qatar is a marketplace payment country so you might not be able to get it sent there. But, if you want I can grab it for you and send it over but as Techy is so determined, you have to hear it at least before making judgements.
And I just wish she would stop leaving herself logged into my shed! That last post was mine obviously.
LD – honestly – buy it for the Floyd tracks. They’re immense…..
I’ll see if I can find a link for you…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1KJKRG4ZoY
Listen to this and try and fight the tears at the end of the song…… you’ll see what I mean….
SP – that sounds like a great holiday to me…I love a nutter! You’ll have to tell us what the gigs were like of course.
I am seriously tempted to try and get a ticket. I’m seeing Jeff Beck at The Royal Albert Hall in November which should be a bit of a treat.
SHUT UP with your concerts, all of you ! The best I’ve managed in the last 2 years is Placido Domingo – and only because I was given free tickets for me and the missus (AuntyRaveDave ? – nah, doesn’t sound right).
Anyhow, Floyd. I’m afraid (being more “mainstream” than all you metalproggers) that my preferences lie more with DSOFTM onward, and include Roger Waters up to TPACOHH, with a LITTLE bit of Radio Kaos thrown in for good measure. After that, he became a bit blah for my liking. And I’m afraid anything else, by the other Floyd members, sans Waters, has failed to ignite me.
Right, that’s my ha’pence worth.
No, wait, I just want to add, I think my all-time favourite lyrics – EVER – would be
“… but now
she stands upon Southampton dock
with her handkerchief
and her summer frock clings
to her wet body in the rain …”
Any political and contextual allusions aside, I find the imagery incredibly poignant, romantic (as in emotional and sentimental), melancholic, yada yada yada. Maybe it has something to do with being able to relate to the many, MANY, times that the Aunty had to watch me sail off into the sunset, or wait for my ship to come alongside (often, yes, in the cold and wet).
So, LD, here’s a thought for a new Discussion: your favourite lyrics, and why ? I’m sure that, like me, everyone has some lyrics that mean something special to them, or that just somehow keep cropping up on their own mental Soundtrack To Life … ?
Just a thought. Use it, don’t use it.
PS: the Aunty has just told me that one of HER favourite lyrics is:
“… I want your leather-studded kiss in the sand …”.
Who knew ?
I have to go now – it could be an interesting night ….
Hi URD – favourite lyrics nice idea – why don’t you start the discussion? That is if you’ve done doing your stuff in the sand!!!!
I thought I just did (start the discussion, that is)
brand new post
Hi Techy – you’ve swayed me – got the album the other day and you and Spacey are right it is brilliant.
Thanks both