March, 29th 2007 05:02 AM
cf's Top 100
In no particular order or credence these tunes have given me reasons to be cheerful (Part 3)
1 Brass in Pocket - The Pretenders. With her pock face and legs all the way up to her hind, Chrissie Hind is a doll and the tune taboot.
2. Wrappers Delight - Sugar Hill Gang. I said a hip hop a hippiedie hop, you don't stop the rockin till the band don't stop - or something like that. Really digged my funkie that one man.
3. Voodoo Chile - Jimi Hendrix. Probably one of the best pieces of music ever. ‘I chop it down with the edge of my hand.'
4. Too Hot - The Specials. Boozing and smoking exotic cigarettes in some kraut dudes dads basement in Hamburg having a ‘Specials' moment will always be tattooed on my brain.
5. Word Up - Cameo. Good tune, but the fuck was that codpiece?
6. On My Radio - Selector. Brixton rocked when this was going, which reminds me...
7. Electric Avenue - Eddie Grant. Brixton riots, Toxteth riots. White versus Black. NF. Eddie kicked arse.
8. White Room - Cream. ‘With black curtains.'
9. On The Road Again - Canned Heat. Another road trip, this time Denmark - picking de berry. The best proverb ever, came from that grueling trip where strawberry picking for a living was tough, and the one line that kept us comrades together was, ‘If you can't pick the berry - don't catch the ferry.'
10. Five to One - The Doors. ‘No one here gets out alive.'
11. Grey Mare - Fleetwood Mac. The real Fleetwood Mac, 1969 Fleetwood Mac, not the paltry Stevie Nicks shite-bag era, although this tune could've been ‘67' or ‘68'. However, it real got me into blues dudes - and Brit blues too - ‘I got a long grey mare, and she won't let me ride.'
12. I'm Still Alive - Pearl Jam. Arriving at Addington Hospital, Durban with a slit throat after a murder attempt, and my mate just leaving after his girlfriend had her stomach pumped - this tune was ironically playing over the radio!
13. Rock ‘n' Roll - Led Zeppelin. Quite simply a tune and a half mate. Going fuck-ape-shit-crazy at a mate's gig in Elche, Spain, as he on drums blew the fucking house apart - pure magic Clive.
14. Ramble On - Led Zeppelin. Always.
15. One Step Beyond - Madness. School discos changed when this came on.
16. Effervescent Elephant - Syd Barrett. A genius tune by a genius.
17. Convoy - ? ‘We're gonna join a convoy, trucking through the night...' - Always reminds me of a Burt Reynolds film.
18. Pump It Up - Elvis Costello. One of the first tunes that really got the fool pumping.
19. I'm Going Home - Rod Stewart. Pure pride Rod - hats off.
20. Niteclub - The Specials. I could go on all day with the Specials, but this is a beaut.
21. Bitch - The Specials, ‘I know what you are, you're just a little bitch...'
22. Family Affair - Sly and the Family Stone. Let's calm things down eh.
23. Rhinestone Cowboy -? I remember singing this a school and making up all the words trying to impress my mates that I knew all the words to a song...ah dear.
To be continued...
As agreed...
24. Weekender - Flowered Up. The early 90's indie scene was here dude.
25. The Good, The Bad And The Ugly - ? Hoo ha, hoo ha.
26. Primadonna - UB40. A calming band. A calming number in times of racial riots.
27. Rubber Bullets - now, who the fuck sang that...can't think. But ‘be do de boop, at your local county jail - what yer gonna do baby, what yer gonna do?' 10cc!
28. Devil in Disguise - Elvis. He new a trickster when he saw one.
29. Boys Are Back In Town - Thin Lizzy. Bar from being a classic, it also reminds me of Auf Wiedersehen Pet - ‘The Classic'.
30. Life On Mars - David Bowie. Always posing those hum-dingers.
31. I Don't Like Cricket - 10cc. Video scared the shit out of me as a young lad - ‘...I want it, I'll take it off your hands and you'll be sorry you met me, remember you're a long way from home...'
32. Cars - Gary Newman. Revolutionary - bit like Bowie. Shagging, and indeed married to my old school chum now with two kids is Gary - watchya Gemma, if yer reading!
33. Going Underground - The Jam - lyrictastic. ‘I first felt a punch...dum, dum, dum, dum...and then a kick, I could now smell their breath, dum, dum....dum, dum...'
34. Road To Nowhere - Talking heads. Yanks became popular in fool's head with this number.
35. Fade To Grey - ? Not sure on this. One of those gay New Romantic number's, but a goodun.
36. Whispering Grass - Sgt. Major & Lofty. That's more like it. They don't make em like they used to. ‘don't tell the trees, cos the trees don't need to know.'
37. Rats - Syd Barrett. One of, if not my favourite of this genius.
38. Suffragette City - David Bowie. ‘Wham bam thank you maam.'
39. Way On Down - Elvis. Was this the last track he had a hit with? An absolute lip curling belter from the King.
40. Lazy - Deep Purple. ‘...if you're drowning, you don't clutch no straws...' - Pure summarized ecstasy in rock n freakin electric Brit public schoolboy non-conformist roll.
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