So while sitting in the pub this evening as I enjoyed a pint of the black stuff with the lads, I can’t help but see from over the parapet of the snug that on the idiot box is, “Enriques top 50 tunes for the perfect night in!”.Now apart from thinking of such geeky chemistry questions as how come there is such a contrast in colour in a pint of the black stuff, I now begin to think of my top fifty tunes for the perfect night in!
Now I think this is a very loose title, how can you get away with this in the digital age where everything is clearly defined, and interference is harder to see through!
So I then begin to start to think of different scenario’s such as:
a) Those nights after work where you just want to crash on the sofa and be in a quiet ambience with some soothing tunes to revive the soul.
b)A night in where you want to escape from the world and just merely disappear into your own existance.
c) a night where you realise that there is nothing on TV and you want to sit and read.
I am sure it was one of these scenarios that Enrique had in mind!
So as I can’t quite work out what Enrique had in mind I begin to change the question to: Top 50 songs?
This proves too long so I go to: At this point in time what songs would you need on a desert land to stop you going insane?
Then I realise that the boys need me to get another pint, of the black stuff, so they can contemplate the contrast of the head?
So onto top songs in a sort of High Fidelity kind of, NME readers be warned these songs are popular and you might still like them, way!
In no particular order that the conscious mind understands:
1) Stevie Wonder, Superstition
2)Mull of Kintyre, Instrumental version by The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards.
3) Beatles, Dear Prudence
4)Beach Boys, Good Vibrations
5)Cat Stevens, Rubylove
6)John Fogerty, Fortunate Son
Now I am frantically scanning itunes to see what I shouldn’t leave out! And then as I listen to six I decide this isn’t in the final cut.
6)The Killers, All These Things That I’ve Done
7)The Animals, House of The Rising Sun
8)Nena, 99 Red Balloons,
Last time I sang this one was to taunt a few Kiwis at a rugby match!
9) Men at Work, Down Under
10)Belle and Sebastian, Dress Up in You
11) Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Music for a Found Harmonium
12)Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Let The Cool Goddess Rust Away
13)U2, Trash, Trampoline And the Party Girl
14)Pixies, Where is My Mind?
15)Dave Matthews, Crash Into Me
As I scan my music collection it makes it harder to begin to select so I decide that 15 at this point is a CD worth. Hopefully by the time I end up on a desert island CD’s are seen in the same class as the 5.25inch floppy disc!
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Now playing: The Regimental Band, Pipes and Drums of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards – Mull of Kintyre
via FoxyTunes
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