DAY TWENTY-FIVE- A SONG YOU COULD LISTEN TO ALL DAY WITHOUT GETTING TIRED OF
So this is it - after 25 days of digging deep in the old brain to find tracks for each of them, I end on my birthday with a song that I could listen to all day. Well, it has to be this from the Art Of Noise. Surely one of the only songs I never tire of listening to... and to prove the fact, here are several different versions - should keep me busy for a while!
DAY TWENTY-THREE- A SONG THAT YOU CANNOT STAND TO LISTEN TO
I love terrible songs, and I have a large sub-collection of some really awful pieces of music. I can normally find something in even the worst of recordings, even if it is only a laugh! But this damn thing went way past 'so bad it's funny' and come out the other side as 'so bad, it really is terrible'!
This was a tricky one, but when I thought about it, there could only be one selection. Although I have loads of songs I love by particular artists, there are very few that I like when they are recorded by ANY artist. 'My Funny Valentine' was written by those classic songwriters Lorenz Hart and Richard Rogers for the 1937 show 'Babes In Arms', and was originally sung by Mitzi Green. I now have hundreds of versions of this song, and most seem to give a unique interpretations. The first time I heard it was on the b-side of 'Oliver's Army' by Elvis Costello, which still remains my favourite.
DAY NINETEEN - THE FIRST SONG ALPHABETICALLY IN YOUR iPOD/TUNES
I don't have an iPod, and I don't believe in iTunes. As previously mentioned, I do have a USB stick that I play in the car, but that gets changed a lot. I have a few hundered tracks on my mobile, but that hardly gets played, so I shall take this to be the first track on my Hard Drive, where I keep most of my music these days. Ignoring numbers, symbols and punctuation marks. The first track of my current 166,762 tracks is A B C (note the spaces)....
As my long-suffering wife and children will testify, I love singing along to loads of songs, especially in the car on long journeys. Picking out just one is really difficult, but I chose this one... All together now... "A little bit of me, and a whole lotta you...."!!
DAY THIRTEEN - A SONG THAT REMINDS YOU OF A FORMER FRIEND
A friend of mine passed away very recently. She was happy, cheerful, and only had good words to say about everyone. This was one of her favourite songs...
I currently have a USB stick in my car with 640 tracks taken randomly from my collection. I have it on random play, so it's like having my own radio station, never knowing what's coming next, but knowing it'll be, at least, listenable. I'm pleased to say that the track playing as I parked my car tonight was this one...(a few minutes earlier, and this would have been quite embarrassing!).
DAY ELEVEN - A SONG ON THE SOUNDTRACK OF YOUR FAVOURITE MOVIE
As my favourite movie is a silent one (Metropolis), I have chosen my second favourite movie 'Brazil'. The title theme is the song, and you can currently watch the whole movie on YouTube, which I suggest you do at some point soon. Your life is poorer without it!
Picking my favourite band is easy. I first heard XTC in 1977, and I've got every song released by them, either as a band, or as one of the many solo projects or collaborations that the individual members have taken part in, right up to their DVD audio surround sound re-issues, currently being issued on a very irregular basis. Their music has led me through punk, pop, folk, rock, psychedelia, reggae, dance, and a whole load of other genres, and their lyrics have covered almost every conceivable subject from famous landmarks to songs about the penis (seek out 'Pink Thing' - pure genius!), from helicopters to ladybirds, from pyromania to atheism. So what one to pick for this list? I chose a simple love song...
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