...it was my birthday (and I became old).
At the time I posted about my plans to put together a playlist of 150 songs for my 30th birthday, the 150for30.
It's still a work in progress.
I'm 37 songs short of the full 150. I've got 34 songs that I need to download (I'm doing 10 a month on payday) and I'm still missing 3 songs for the 0-10 section.
Below is the list of the 37 songs I've found for that time, can anyone help me think of three more?
I'm after the big songs from between 1978 and 1988, I'm sure there must be a few more key songs from that time that I just haven't thought of. Songs that were played everywhere and that have just slipped my mind.
So here's the list, any more ideas? (Keris...I'm looking at you here...)
All Around My Hat - Steeleye Span
American Pie - Don McLean
Babooshka - Kate Bush (TDL)
Bicycle Race - Queen
Blinded By The Light - Manfred Mann
Both Sides Now - Joni Mitchell
Buffalo Stance - Neneh Cherry
Cathedral - CSNY
Christmas Must Be Tonight - The Band
Dancing in the City - Marshall Hain (TDL)
Eye of the Tiger - Survivor
Gaudete - Steeleye Span
Guess The Lord Must Be In New York City - Harry Nilsson
Guitar Man - Bread
Hotel California - Eagles
House At Pooh Corner - Livingstone Taylor
In The Summertime - Mungo Jerry
Karma Chameleon - Culture Club (TDL)
Layla - Derek and the Dominoes
Love The One You're With - Stephen Stills
Making Your Mind Up - Bucks Fizz (TDL)
Only The Good Die Young - Billy Joel
Orinoco Flow - Enya (TDL)
Our House - CSNY
Photographs and Memories - Jim Crace (TDL)
Shaddap You Face - Joe Dolce (TDL)
Sledgehammer - Peter Gabriel
Spirit in the Sky - Doctor and the Medics (TDL)
Stand and Deliver - Adam Ant (TDL)
Stuck In The Middle With You - Steeler's Wheel
Sunshine On My Shoulders - John Denver
Take On Me - A-Ha
Teach Your Children - CSN
The Chain - Fleetwood Mac
The Weight - The Band
Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go - Wham
We Will Rock You - Queen
(TDL)= To DownLoad.
For bonus points, can you guess any of the 14 songs from that list that have made it onto my work playlist...
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Wednesday, 27 May 2009
Thursday, 15 January 2009
Blue, blue...
...blue.
January has me in its miserable grip.
Every single customer at work is rude and or abusive - the winner being the woman who called me a f**king cow when I asked her to put in her pin number while she was on the phone to a friend.
The blog I go to for happy thoughts and positive thinking, cjane, has had no end of crap being talked about it in various places due to her success (subject to confirmation) in the 2008 Weblog Awards.
This includes criticism of the fact that she has been fundraising for her sister, the fact she has been raising her sister's kids, the picture of herself as an angel in her blog header, and the fact that she has been moderating her comments over the last six months in an attempt to keep things positive and upbeat. Good grief. I worry about the world when people stop understanding jokes and sarcasm and decide that she's an evil person who only gave her nephew gum for his birthday.
Plus I'm feeling broody/empty, a currently unsolvable problem.
So tonight I have come home and dug out a song guaranteed to make me cry my eyes out.
Then I put on the song with the longest intro in the world (lyrics start at 3:24)
Then Anthony walked in the front door, I put on a song from my 150for30 play list and the world got brighter.
(Forgot today was Thursday, that goes a long way towards explaining me ranting!)
January has me in its miserable grip.
Every single customer at work is rude and or abusive - the winner being the woman who called me a f**king cow when I asked her to put in her pin number while she was on the phone to a friend.
The blog I go to for happy thoughts and positive thinking, cjane, has had no end of crap being talked about it in various places due to her success (subject to confirmation) in the 2008 Weblog Awards.
This includes criticism of the fact that she has been fundraising for her sister, the fact she has been raising her sister's kids, the picture of herself as an angel in her blog header, and the fact that she has been moderating her comments over the last six months in an attempt to keep things positive and upbeat. Good grief. I worry about the world when people stop understanding jokes and sarcasm and decide that she's an evil person who only gave her nephew gum for his birthday.
Plus I'm feeling broody/empty, a currently unsolvable problem.
So tonight I have come home and dug out a song guaranteed to make me cry my eyes out.
Then I put on the song with the longest intro in the world (lyrics start at 3:24)
Then Anthony walked in the front door, I put on a song from my 150for30 play list and the world got brighter.
(Forgot today was Thursday, that goes a long way towards explaining me ranting!)
Sunday, 28 December 2008
150 songs...
...for my 30th Birthday. (Part One)
Once upon a time I wrote a post about music. Then I wrote a small follow-up to it.
I found those 18th Birthday Tapes the other day (they so deserve capitals) and was reading through the track listings and smiling at the memories that appeared.
So I decided to create my own playlist for my 30th. One hundred songs that represented the thirty years that I'd been around. Then I hit a few snags...mainly the fact that I couldn't narrow it down to 100. So I upped it a little. The list is now 150 songs, split up into 0-10, 10-20 and 20-30 sections so that each decade gets a fair shot. Not every song is in the decade it was released in, they fit in where I remember them within my life.
It's been very good fun - although Anthony is a little scared by some of the choices, and is very scared by some of the songs he didn't know that I then played him.
As I suspected in that first post, there are a few songs that have carried across to the 150. There are also a few that haven't due to not conjuring up a moment in my head. The Beatles are a casualty for this very reason, as are The Rolling Stones. I know. Shocking isn't it. They summon up a general time (sixth form and uni respectively) but no specific memories so I've had to be ruthless and chop them out.
While I'm working on the 150for30, here are my 100for18 - the result of three days choosing and locating the songs (as I had to find all the LP's/tapes with them on) and three weeks or so of Dad arranging them, copying them onto the reel-to-reel and then making the cassettes.
Queen - Headlong
Del Amitri - Driving With the Brakes On
CSN - Just a Song Before I Go
Eagles - Take it to the Limit
Livingstone Taylor - House at Pooh Corner (which I want on the 150for30 list, but this version isn't on iTunes so I've had to go for the version by Loggins & Messina - meh)
Neil Young - Pocahontas
Beatles - Revolution 9
CSN - Long Time Gone
CSN - Cowboy of Dreams
Billy Joel - Only the Good Die Young
Chicago - A Hard Habit to Break
Don McLean - American Pie
Jim Croce - Have to Say I Love You in a Song
Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Blinded by the Light
Oasis - Morning Glory/The Swamp Song/Champagne Supernova (since they all just flow into each other on the album)
Four Seasons - December '63
Beatles - The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill
Jim Croce - Photographs and Memories
Eagles - Hotel California
Billy Joel - Piano Man
Elton John - Candle in the Wind
Neil Young - Rockin' in the Free World
Beatles - Yesterday
CSNY - Deja Vu
Jim Croce - New York's not my Home
Queen - Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Ash - Oh Yeah
Boyzone - Key to my Life
Levellers - Hope Street
Commodores - Easy Like Sunday Morning
Jim Croce - Operator
CSN - Suite: Judy Blue-Eyes
Beatles - Hey Jude
Neil Young - Like a Hurricane
Beatles - Ticket to Ride
Doors - Strange Days
Madness - Our House
CSNY - Our House (two very different songs with the same title - I always loved the fact Dad put them together)
Billy Joel - Always a Woman to Me
Stills-Young Band - Long May You Run
Beatles - Strawberry Fields Forever
Queen - Radio Ga-Ga
Chris De Burgh - Lady in Red (on the tape track listing as by Chris Rea for some reason)
Dodgy - Making the Most of
Aerosmith - Cryin'
Ash - Girl From Mars
Who - My Generation
Bonzos - I'm the Urban Spaceman (Produced by Apollo C. Vermouth, otherwise known as Paul McCartney)
Fleetwood Mac - The Chain
Oasis - Wonderwall
Al Stewart - Song on the Radio
Mama's & Papa's - California Dreamin'
Byrds - Mr Tambourine Man
Beatles - Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
CSN - Military Madness
Chicago - If You Leave me Now
CSN - Teach Your Children
CSNY - Ohio (These two songs are forever linked in my mind)
Eagles - Best of My Love
Bluetones - Carnt Be Trusted (When I wrote this on the list Dad asked if I needed spelling lessons, then he said the band needed them!)
Queen - We Will Rock You
Ruth - Fear of Flying
Neil Young - Round and Round (It Won't be Long)
CSN - Simple Man
Billy Joel - Uptown Girl
Huey Lewis - The Power of Love
CSNY - Helpless
Beatles - All You Need is Love
Mungo Jerry - In the Summertime
Bluetones - Putting Out Fires
CSN - Horses Through a Rainstorm
Billy Joel - Christie Lee
Doors - When You're Strange (With the voice of my friend David at the beginning saying "These really are strange days, and they're full of strange people too")
Beatles - Birthday
Bluetones - Bluetonic
Queen - Killer Queen
Dodgy - Grassman
Alanis Morrisette - You Learn
Bryan Adams - Run to You
Doors - Light My Fire
Neil Young - Unknown Legend
CSN - Blackbird
Billy Joel - The Ballad of Billy the Kid
Beatles - Good Day Sunshine
Crosby & Nash - Cathedral
Beatles - Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
Jim Croce - Time in a Bottle
CSN - Chicago/We Can Change The World
Alanis Morrisette - Ironic
Crosby & Nash - Carry Me
Blur - Charmless Man
Queen - Don't Stop Me Now
Al Stewart - Year of the Cat
Billy Joel - Famous Last Words
Anyone still here?
So lets see... at 18 I was in a phase of listening to a whole lot of my Dad's music, with occasional bursts of Billy Joel and Queen (courtesy of Mum), and a few dribs of current tunes.
One of the reasons I split the 150for30 into three sections...
Once upon a time I wrote a post about music. Then I wrote a small follow-up to it.
I found those 18th Birthday Tapes the other day (they so deserve capitals) and was reading through the track listings and smiling at the memories that appeared.
So I decided to create my own playlist for my 30th. One hundred songs that represented the thirty years that I'd been around. Then I hit a few snags...mainly the fact that I couldn't narrow it down to 100. So I upped it a little. The list is now 150 songs, split up into 0-10, 10-20 and 20-30 sections so that each decade gets a fair shot. Not every song is in the decade it was released in, they fit in where I remember them within my life.
It's been very good fun - although Anthony is a little scared by some of the choices, and is very scared by some of the songs he didn't know that I then played him.
As I suspected in that first post, there are a few songs that have carried across to the 150. There are also a few that haven't due to not conjuring up a moment in my head. The Beatles are a casualty for this very reason, as are The Rolling Stones. I know. Shocking isn't it. They summon up a general time (sixth form and uni respectively) but no specific memories so I've had to be ruthless and chop them out.
While I'm working on the 150for30, here are my 100for18 - the result of three days choosing and locating the songs (as I had to find all the LP's/tapes with them on) and three weeks or so of Dad arranging them, copying them onto the reel-to-reel and then making the cassettes.
Anyone still here?
So lets see... at 18 I was in a phase of listening to a whole lot of my Dad's music, with occasional bursts of Billy Joel and Queen (courtesy of Mum), and a few dribs of current tunes.
One of the reasons I split the 150for30 into three sections...
Wednesday, 27 December 1978
150 songs...
...for my 30th birthday.
(and yes, like the book list this post is dated the day I was born.)
(and yes, this post is a work in progress...)
0 - 10
All Around My Hat - Steeleye Span
American Pie - Don McLean
Babooshka - Kate Bush
Bicycle Race - Queen
Blinded By The Light - Manfred Mann
Both Sides Now - Joni Mitchell
Buffalo Stance - Neneh Cherry
Cathedral - CSNY
Christmas Must Be Tonight - The Band
Dancing in the City - Marshall Hain
Dancing Queen - ABBA
Eye of the Tiger - Survivor
Gaudete - Steeleye Span
Guess The Lord Must Be In New York City - Harry Nilsson
Guitar Man - Bread
Hotel California - Eagles
House At Pooh Corner - Livingstone Taylor
I Don't Like Mondays - Boomtown Rats
In The Summertime - Mungo Jerry
Karma Chameleon - Culture Club
Layla - Derek and the Dominoes
Love The One You're With - Stephen Stills
Making Your Mind Up - Bucks Fizz
Only The Good Die Young - Billy Joel
Orinoco Flow - Enya
Our House - CSNY
Romeo and Juliet - Dire Straits
Shaddap You Face - Joe Dolce
Sledgehammer - Peter Gabriel
Spirit in the Sky - Doctor and the Medics
Stand and Deliver - Adam Ant
Stuck In The Middle With You - Steeler's Wheel
Sunshine On My Shoulders - John Denver
Take On Me - A-Ha
Teach Your Children - CSN
The Chain - Fleetwood Mac
The Weight - The Band
Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go - Wham
We Will Rock You - Queen
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10 - 20
Alisha Rules the World - Alisha's Attic
All I Wanna Do - Sheryl Crow
All That She Wants - Ace of Base
Alright - Supergrass
Animal Nitrate - Suede
Bartender and The Thief - Stereophonics
Basket Case - Green Day
Birdhouse in Your Soul - They Might be Giants
Boys are Back in Town - Thin Lizzy
Carnt Be Trusted - Bluetones
Country House - Blur
Crazy for You - Let Loose
Creep - Radiohead
Day We Caught The Train - Ocean Colour Scene
Disco 2000 - Pulp
Do The Bartman - The Simpsons
Doin' The Do - Betty Boo
Drugs Don't Work - The Verve
Everything Changes - Take That
Fields of Gold - Sting
For What It's Worth - Buffalo Springfield
Girl From Mars - Ash
Girl In The Dirty Shirt - Oasis
Goodnight Girl - Wet Wet Wet
Hand in my Pocket - Alanis Morissette
Hey Dude - Kula Shaker
How Bizarre - OMC
Ice Ice Baby - Vanilla Ice
I'll Be There For You - The Rembrandts
Ironic - Alanis Morrisette
Just A Girl - No Doubt
Lady In Red - Chris De Burgh
Lemon - U2
Love Me For A Reason - Boyzone
Love Shack - The B52's
Man! I Feel Like A Woman! - Shania Twain
Million Love Songs - Take That
Nothing Compares 2 U - Sinead O'Connor
Oliver's Army - Elvis Costello
One and Only - Chesney Hawkes
Parklife - Blur
Pure Morning - Placebo
Raspberry Beret - Prince
Secret Smile - Semisonic
Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
Staying Out For The Summer - Dodgy
Steal My Sunshine - len
Stupid Girl - Garbage
Things Can Only Get Better - D:Ream
Three Lions - Baddiel & Skinner
Town Called Malice - The Jam
Two Princes - Spin Doctors
Unbelievable - EMF
Unknown Legend - Neil Young
Urban Spaceman - Bonzos
Wake Up Boo! - The Boo Radleys
Why Does It Always Rain on Me - Travis
Wonderwall - Oasis
World in Motion - England New Order
Young at Heart - The Bluebells
******************************
20 - 30
Addicted to Bass - Puretone
After Hours- Bluetones
All The Small Things - Blink 182
All The Things She Said - Tatu
American Idiot - Green Day
Bad Day - Daniel Powter
Beautiful - Christina Aguilera
Beautiful Day - U2
Buck Rogers - Feeder
Call My Name - Charlotte Church
Chasing Cars - Snow Patrol
Come Away With Me - Norah Jones
Complicated - Avril Lavigne
Dancing In The Moonlight - Toploader
Dark is Rising - Mercury Rev
Dirrty - Christina Aguilera
Drops of Jupiter - Train
Du Hast - Rammstein
Feeling Good - Muse
Follow Me - Uncle Kracker
Girl All The Bad Guys Want - Bowling for Soup
Kiss The Bride - Elton John
Kokomo - Beach Boys
Leave Right Now - Will Young
Little Less Conversation - Elvis & JXL
Livin' on the Edge - Aerosmith
Long May You Run - Stills Young Band
Mambo No. 5 - Lou Bega
Memphis Soul Song - Uncle Kracker
My Way - Limp Bizkit
No Tomorrow - Orson
Northern Sky - Nick Drake
Plug In Baby - Muse
Put Your Records On - Corinne Bailey Rae
Ready To Go - Republica
Rock Star - Nickleback
Rushes - Darius
Sex on Fire - Kings of Leon
She Hates Me - Puddle of Mudd
She Will Be Loved - Maroon 5
She's So Lovely - Scouting For Girls
Sitting Down Here - Lene Marlin
Smooth - Santana
So What - Pink
Something Kinda Oooh - Girls Aloud
Teenage Dirtbag -Wheatus
The Middle - Jimmy Eat World
Thousand Miles - Vanessa Carlton
Truly Madly Deeply - Savage Garden
What I Go To School For - Busted
Wish I Was A Punk Rocker - Sandi Thom
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I shall be gradually working on links for all of these, and a couple of songs may change if I suddenly find something that I really should have included.
(and yes, like the book list this post is dated the day I was born.)
(and yes, this post is a work in progress...)
0 - 10
All Around My Hat - Steeleye Span
American Pie - Don McLean
Babooshka - Kate Bush
Bicycle Race - Queen
Blinded By The Light - Manfred Mann
Both Sides Now - Joni Mitchell
Buffalo Stance - Neneh Cherry
Cathedral - CSNY
Christmas Must Be Tonight - The Band
Dancing in the City - Marshall Hain
Dancing Queen - ABBA
Eye of the Tiger - Survivor
Gaudete - Steeleye Span
Guess The Lord Must Be In New York City - Harry Nilsson
Guitar Man - Bread
Hotel California - Eagles
House At Pooh Corner - Livingstone Taylor
I Don't Like Mondays - Boomtown Rats
In The Summertime - Mungo Jerry
Karma Chameleon - Culture Club
Layla - Derek and the Dominoes
Love The One You're With - Stephen Stills
Making Your Mind Up - Bucks Fizz
Only The Good Die Young - Billy Joel
Orinoco Flow - Enya
Our House - CSNY
Romeo and Juliet - Dire Straits
Shaddap You Face - Joe Dolce
Sledgehammer - Peter Gabriel
Spirit in the Sky - Doctor and the Medics
Stand and Deliver - Adam Ant
Stuck In The Middle With You - Steeler's Wheel
Sunshine On My Shoulders - John Denver
Take On Me - A-Ha
Teach Your Children - CSN
The Chain - Fleetwood Mac
The Weight - The Band
Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go - Wham
We Will Rock You - Queen
******************************
10 - 20
Alisha Rules the World - Alisha's Attic
All I Wanna Do - Sheryl Crow
All That She Wants - Ace of Base
Alright - Supergrass
Animal Nitrate - Suede
Bartender and The Thief - Stereophonics
Basket Case - Green Day
Birdhouse in Your Soul - They Might be Giants
Boys are Back in Town - Thin Lizzy
Carnt Be Trusted - Bluetones
Country House - Blur
Crazy for You - Let Loose
Creep - Radiohead
Day We Caught The Train - Ocean Colour Scene
Disco 2000 - Pulp
Do The Bartman - The Simpsons
Doin' The Do - Betty Boo
Drugs Don't Work - The Verve
Everything Changes - Take That
Fields of Gold - Sting
For What It's Worth - Buffalo Springfield
Girl From Mars - Ash
Girl In The Dirty Shirt - Oasis
Goodnight Girl - Wet Wet Wet
Hand in my Pocket - Alanis Morissette
Hey Dude - Kula Shaker
How Bizarre - OMC
Ice Ice Baby - Vanilla Ice
I'll Be There For You - The Rembrandts
Ironic - Alanis Morrisette
Just A Girl - No Doubt
Lady In Red - Chris De Burgh
Lemon - U2
Love Me For A Reason - Boyzone
Love Shack - The B52's
Man! I Feel Like A Woman! - Shania Twain
Million Love Songs - Take That
Nothing Compares 2 U - Sinead O'Connor
Oliver's Army - Elvis Costello
One and Only - Chesney Hawkes
Parklife - Blur
Pure Morning - Placebo
Raspberry Beret - Prince
Secret Smile - Semisonic
Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
Staying Out For The Summer - Dodgy
Steal My Sunshine - len
Stupid Girl - Garbage
Things Can Only Get Better - D:Ream
Three Lions - Baddiel & Skinner
Town Called Malice - The Jam
Two Princes - Spin Doctors
Unbelievable - EMF
Unknown Legend - Neil Young
Urban Spaceman - Bonzos
Wake Up Boo! - The Boo Radleys
Why Does It Always Rain on Me - Travis
Wonderwall - Oasis
World in Motion - England New Order
Young at Heart - The Bluebells
******************************
20 - 30
Addicted to Bass - Puretone
After Hours- Bluetones
All The Small Things - Blink 182
All The Things She Said - Tatu
American Idiot - Green Day
Bad Day - Daniel Powter
Beautiful - Christina Aguilera
Beautiful Day - U2
Buck Rogers - Feeder
Call My Name - Charlotte Church
Chasing Cars - Snow Patrol
Come Away With Me - Norah Jones
Complicated - Avril Lavigne
Dancing In The Moonlight - Toploader
Dark is Rising - Mercury Rev
Dirrty - Christina Aguilera
Drops of Jupiter - Train
Du Hast - Rammstein
Feeling Good - Muse
Follow Me - Uncle Kracker
Girl All The Bad Guys Want - Bowling for Soup
Kiss The Bride - Elton John
Kokomo - Beach Boys
Leave Right Now - Will Young
Little Less Conversation - Elvis & JXL
Livin' on the Edge - Aerosmith
Long May You Run - Stills Young Band
Mambo No. 5 - Lou Bega
Memphis Soul Song - Uncle Kracker
My Way - Limp Bizkit
No Tomorrow - Orson
Northern Sky - Nick Drake
Plug In Baby - Muse
Put Your Records On - Corinne Bailey Rae
Ready To Go - Republica
Rock Star - Nickleback
Rushes - Darius
Sex on Fire - Kings of Leon
She Hates Me - Puddle of Mudd
She Will Be Loved - Maroon 5
She's So Lovely - Scouting For Girls
Sitting Down Here - Lene Marlin
Smooth - Santana
So What - Pink
Something Kinda Oooh - Girls Aloud
Teenage Dirtbag -Wheatus
The Middle - Jimmy Eat World
Thousand Miles - Vanessa Carlton
Truly Madly Deeply - Savage Garden
What I Go To School For - Busted
Wish I Was A Punk Rocker - Sandi Thom
******************************
I shall be gradually working on links for all of these, and a couple of songs may change if I suddenly find something that I really should have included.
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