... doo doo, doo doo doo doo doo doo (can't really whistle in text...)
Feeling much better today, turns out my last entry was just a blip. Unfortunately there isn't really anything to add to that, today consisted of nothing better than gaming and watching some of the football.
However I want to carry on with the regular entries in this blog and leaving it at that seems a little bit wasteful, so I'm going to give you a smorgasbord of entertainment with a music top 8. Why 8 you ask? Well, 8 is the number of pieces of music you are allowed on Desert Island Discs, and it saved me from having 2 choices that were a little more filler than the rest. So, the following 8 songs are from some my favourite albums of all time, although maybe not in order, with a brief explanation as to why. I'll pick my 8 favourite songs for when I pretend I'm actually on the show.
1.) Everlong - The Colour and The Shape by Foo Fighters - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBG7P-K-r1Y
This was an easy choice for me, ever since I heard the band on the radio, I think for a BBC Radio 1 gig from somewhere, I fell in love with them. Then when I started buying my own music this was the first album I bought. Or to be more specific, the 10th Anniversary extended edition, although I could have survived without those extra 8 tracks. To this day it remains my favourite Foo's album, although Wasting Light did push it close.
2.) Lounge Act - Nevermind by Nirvana - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xeasq05zxc
Let's get this album out of the way, it's on every best of list and it's easy to see why. This is the only example I can think of where each track fits perfectly. Smells Like Teen Spirit is a magnificent opener and then each new song follows exactly as necessary. Before I know it I've reached the end of the album (or rather the long silence in the middle of the last track, Something In The Way. A rather ironic title that) and I'm playing it again.
3.) Dance Of Fate - Consign To Oblivion by Epica - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLeflMWMJ8I
The first of my out-there choices, Epica are a symphonic metal band fronted by the gorgeous Simone Simons. I've picked this album more as a collection of enjoyable songs but each one forms a great mix of operatic vocals, orchestral instruments, heavy guitars, loud drumming and the occasional episode of grunting and growling.
4.) Let It Die - Scream by Ozzy Osbourne - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxPbfvG_gH8
Pre-2010 I was never an Ozzy fan, other than the classic that is Crazy Train, but this album changed that. I listened to it after a friend, who like me didn't like early Ozzy stuff, recommended it to me. And then I listened again. And again. Always a sign of a good album.
5.) I Will Dance (When I Walk Away) - A Kiss Before You Go by Katzenjammer - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KGDT3dXq3E
Another out-there choice, this time an all female pop-folk band. The last band I went to see (other than local band at uni) is a collection of 4 very talented ladies who can all play multiple instruments. When they played this song live one of them was playing 3 instruments. This is also definitely the 'happiest' of my choices and the only one that isn't rock in any way.
6.) No One Knows - Songs For The Deaf by Queens Of The Stone Age - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s88r_q7oufE
This is the 3rd album on my list to feature a certain Mr Dave Grohl, although whereas he was a main member of Foo Fighters and Nirvana, he makes a guest appearance here to give the drums the bit of oomph that turns this from an average album into a great one. I could talk about the great musicality, but the hook for this album is that amongst all that there a running theme of a radio show with a DJ. It's only a small thing, but it gives it a completeness it would otherwise have lacked.
7.) A Kind Of Magic - Return Of The Champions by Queen - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RS0T-YHu1zc
I do love me a live album, and this is a great example as to why. No-one can ever replace Freddie Mercury, but Paul Rodgers takes all the songs and puts a new twist on them. Queen have a catalogue of classics anyway, but throw in some Rodgers originals like All Right Now and Wishing Well and there's a couple of hours of air guitar and hand clapping to be had.
8.) Duality - Vol, 3: The Subliminal Verses by Slipknot - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fVE8kSM43I
I can't say I have a particular reason for loving this more than any other Slipknot album, let alone any other heavy metal album, but when I was in France without my Rocsoc amigos to listen to all sorts of metal with I generally fell back on this if I wanted a full album. If one of these songs comes up on random I now hear the first few bars of it's successor rather than the song that's come on.
So, there we go. 8 of my favourite (if not necessarily my favourites) albums, with a song from each of them. And as always the song that inspired this entry's title, this time from the timeless Monty Python - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHPOzQzk9Qo
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