"That's My Jam": Songs you suspect no-one else in the world cares about as much as you do

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― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 17 August 2006 09:42 (nineteen years ago)

This is not about your favourite song ever, but the song where you so rarely run into people who love it that it's like a secret known only to yourself.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 17 August 2006 09:43 (nineteen years ago)

Best of all are songs that are not obscure but somehow escape notice.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 17 August 2006 09:43 (nineteen years ago)

The Beta Band's 'The Cow's Wrong'. Utterly, completely perfect. The closing 'Summertime/Running up and down/I fucked it up' progression is bittersweet heaven.

I also suspect I'm the only person in the world whose 'most played' song on Itunes is Suede's 'Daddy's Speeding'.

― Scourage (Haberdager), Thursday, 17 August 2006 09:49 (nineteen years ago)

After listening to the new Basement Jaxx album I pulled out Rooty to remind myself of why I love it so. It's still a great album of course, but as always I was amazed at how strongly emotional my reaction to closer "All I Know" is - it's like this cloud of fierce joy hovering around your shoulders, dewy-eyed synthesisers throwing confetti all around and distant multitracked "eyohhh" sighs taking in all that has been lost and all that has been gained and somehow letting you know in one and a half syllables that, whatever has happened, it was all worth it.

No-one ever talks about this song except me, and occasionally mitch/jermaine. It's my jam.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 17 August 2006 09:50 (nineteen years ago)

I might say the same about 'Stop 4 Love'!

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 17 August 2006 09:52 (nineteen years ago)

the rolling stones - 'little t & a'

she's my little rock n roll uh huh hoooh

what a fun number. infectiously catchy, just try not singing along.

― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Thursday, 17 August 2006 12:14 (nineteen years ago)

Almost every song on "Growing Up In Public" by Lou Reed

― Dadaismus (a rattly old puffin who remembers ILX in the days when...) (Dada), Thursday, 17 August 2006 12:24 (nineteen years ago)

I had more of these pre-Internet than now.

One that still comes to mind is Rufus Thomas' "Memphis Train." Everything about it is just perfect, but it seems to be completely overlooked (though Jim Jarmusch used it in a movie).

― mike a (mike a), Thursday, 17 August 2006 13:11 (nineteen years ago)

If we're talking obscurer song from widely popular album (at least at the time!) then "Porcelina of the Vast Oceans" by Them Pumpkins.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 17 August 2006 13:30 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, that song's got the best (and most memorable) riff on the album, and gets crucial bonus 'epic' points.

― Scourage (Haberdager), Thursday, 17 August 2006 13:33 (nineteen years ago)

(I suppose I should explain why -- long, builds up to a first explosion, rides between more of those and drifting, low-key zoning, then has a conclusion that's at once incredibly murky and heavily swathed in echo and fuzz while also being crystalline just so, especially on the final solo. It was their own "Okay, here's your epic" move without any attempt to aim for pop-as-such, and it still has hooks.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 17 August 2006 13:34 (nineteen years ago)

On Overhead Walkways (The Soup Dragons)
Saturday (The Clientele)
Most songs by the G!st

― Jez (Jez), Thursday, 17 August 2006 13:36 (nineteen years ago)

Adoration--Glen Campbell

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Thursday, 17 August 2006 13:37 (nineteen years ago)

I may have mentioned this on ILX before, but "Porcelina..." (and maybe "Starla") are my absolute favorite Punkins songs. I always wanted a totally Yes-d out ridiculous fantasy epic SP album, alas.

― the doaple gonger (nickalicious), Thursday, 17 August 2006 13:39 (nineteen years ago)

Grammar, you escape me yet again.

― the doaple gonger (nickalicious), Thursday, 17 August 2006 13:39 (nineteen years ago)

I'm pretty sure in some circles people are all over this
but I dont think anyone loves "A Little Bit of Jazz" by Nick Straker quite as much as I do.

― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 17 August 2006 13:40 (nineteen years ago)

Also...

crucial bonus 'epic' points

...is totally my new favorite phrase.

― the doaple gonger (nickalicious), Thursday, 17 August 2006 13:40 (nineteen years ago)

Wu-Tang Clan "Windpipe" - it's just the rawest. I'M THE PUSSY VAMPIRE.

― the doaple gonger (nickalicious), Thursday, 17 August 2006 13:42 (nineteen years ago)

also, i particularly like 'cheapskates' from the clash's give 'em enough rope. it's a much maligned song in critical circles it seems.

― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Thursday, 17 August 2006 13:44 (nineteen years ago)

XTC's oft-maligned 'Complicated Game' is by far the most visceral, destructive thing they ever did. It also rules IMO.

― Scourage (Haberdager), Thursday, 17 August 2006 13:46 (nineteen years ago)

nickalicious, i'm with you on "starla".

i'm sure there are more mainstream examples of this, but the first one that springs to mind is "peacon" by the workhouse. hewn-from-crystal beauty that leaves most instrumental/post-rock standing. which reminds me: alext told me the workhouse have a new album out. hurrah. need to buy that.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 17 August 2006 13:46 (nineteen years ago)

I've got several but I'm not telling 'cos it's a secret.

I wish someone would record a song entitled "That's My Jam," though. Paul Weller, perhaps.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 17 August 2006 13:46 (nineteen years ago)

hang on, i've thought of the obvious mainstream example too. the beach boys' "sloop john B", a song everybody in the whole world seems to hate and i absolutely adore.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 17 August 2006 13:47 (nineteen years ago)

Marcello, it would destroy humanity. (No bad thing, some days.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 17 August 2006 13:47 (nineteen years ago)

"Saturday (The Clientele)"

I love this too!
And Our Love Is Heavenly by Heavenly.

― Nutmeg Akasaka (Nutmeg), Thursday, 17 August 2006 13:49 (nineteen years ago)

also, i particularly like 'cheapskates' from the clash's give 'em enough rope. it's a much maligned song in critical circles it seems.

OTM!

XTC's oft-maligned 'Complicated Game' is by far the most visceral, destructive thing they ever did. It also rules IMO.

OTM!!

― Dadaismus (a rattly old puffin who remembers ILX in the days when...) (Dada), Thursday, 17 August 2006 13:51 (nineteen years ago)

sparkle ft r kelly - be careful

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 17 August 2006 13:56 (nineteen years ago)

I'm pretty sure in some circles people are all over this
but I dont think anyone loves "A Little Bit of Jazz" by Nick Straker quite as much as I do

Yeah Deej, you're right, you were drunk when we met...we used to play that song like 2x a night at Capone's back when we run it

― Sir Dr. Rev. PappaWheelie Jr. II of The Third Kind (PappaWheelie 2), Thursday, 17 August 2006 13:58 (nineteen years ago)

I've always loved that song too, it was HUGE on the radio & clubs ca. 1981/82 in New York.

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Thursday, 17 August 2006 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

is 'the drowning man' by the cure a celebrated song. if it isn't, it should be

― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Thursday, 17 August 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

"Throw your foot awayy...yyyy"

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 17 August 2006 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

is 'the drowning man' by the cure a celebrated song. if it isn't, it should be

And it is.

(I like how so far Tim's thread has proved that in fact all suspicions about being alone on certain songs is false.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 17 August 2006 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

Adem - "Everything You Need"

― Ghost Bear Junior High Attendance Party (Ghost Bear Junior High Attenda), Thursday, 17 August 2006 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

Alden Penner - "The Ghost of Creaky Crater"
Gerling - "High Jacker's Manual"
The Dandy Warhols - "Horse Pills", "Nietzsche", the rest of Thirteen Tales
DB Boulevard - "Point of View"

― less-than three's Christiane F. (drowned in milk), Thursday, 17 August 2006 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

Just wanted to note that I think every single time I've heard someone say "that's my jam" it's been in reference to a top 40 mainstream radio hit. I reject the premise of this thread!

― like murderinging (modestmickey), Thursday, 17 August 2006 18:10 (nineteen years ago)

The Who's "Bell Boy." Dunno why, but I've always been fascinated by that song.

― O'Connor (OConnorScribe), Thursday, 17 August 2006 18:13 (nineteen years ago)

They Might Be Giants "The Day"

― captain reverend gandalf jesus (nickalicious), Thursday, 17 August 2006 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

It's between that and "Dead" for my favorite TMBG song. As if that matters to anyone.

― captain reverend gandalf jesus (nickalicious), Thursday, 17 August 2006 18:18 (nineteen years ago)

R.E.M., "The Flowers of Guatemala". The bells bells bellls...the out of tune vocals. The vaguely political edge (something about a poisonous mushroom). A real Buck solo! And I suppose "epic" in the build-up and release.

― Euler (Euler), Thursday, 17 August 2006 18:26 (nineteen years ago)

Factor 41 by Sleeper.. or Shrinkwrapped. I love the It Girl, but not enough to warrant purchasing the others..

― Lex D (finefinemusic), Thursday, 17 August 2006 18:36 (nineteen years ago)

Just to confirm that I've been humming the riff from 'POTVO' all day now, more specifically the second incarnation, where the riff fully ascends in its second half. Nietzche is the best track on 13 Tales, and, yes, The Drowning Man the best on Faith (although All Cats Are Grey pushes it darn close).

More songs which NOBODY will ever love like I love 'em (no, not JT) include Ride's 'Howard Hughes', Mercury Rev's 'Meth Of A Rockette's Kick' (I know many people love this song, but I worship at its altar), CTD's 'Two Knights And Maidens', The Teardrop Explodes' '...And The Fighting Takes Over', Blur's 'Resigned' and Earth's 'Teeth Of Lions Rule The Divine Mogwai Remix'.

Until someone turns up to prove me wrong, of course.

― Scourage (Haberdager), Thursday, 17 August 2006 18:37 (nineteen years ago)

The 2 seemlessly connected JSBX "Greyhound pt 1" remixes from their 1st remix EP (the first by Moby, the 2nd by Gza, featuring the most god-awesome biblical freestyle by Killah Priest).

― captain reverend gandalf jesus (nickalicious), Thursday, 17 August 2006 18:45 (nineteen years ago)

Jackie Wilson - Call Her Up

― Sir Dr. Rev. PappaWheelie Jr. II of The Third Kind (PappaWheelie 2), Thursday, 17 August 2006 18:47 (nineteen years ago)

Mercury Rev - "Empire State", "Trickle Down"
Tindersticks - "A Marriage Made In Heaven"
Burning Airlines - "Scissoring"
Caetano Veloso - "Soy Loco Por Ti America"

― Antti Piirainen (Antti), Thursday, 17 August 2006 20:33 (nineteen years ago)

Hazel, "Quick Jerk"

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 17 August 2006 20:37 (nineteen years ago)

"Trickle Down" is only underrated because the song before it kicks so much megalithic ass. A superb track in its own right, mind.

― Scourage (Haberdager), Thursday, 17 August 2006 20:37 (nineteen years ago)

Three Dog Night - "Black and White"

― Mark (MarkR), Thursday, 17 August 2006 20:48 (nineteen years ago)

"A Place Called Bliss" - Cyclone
"Round & Round" - Hi-tek featuring Jonell
" A Plea From A Cat Named Virtute" - The Weakerthans
"Cypress Grove" - Clutch

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Thursday, 17 August 2006 20:51 (nineteen years ago)

"Round & Round" - Hi-tek featuring Jonell

Absolutely.
Remix w/ Method Man, too. But esp. the original

― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 17 August 2006 20:54 (nineteen years ago)

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Actually I think top 40 tracks can easily fall into this category if no-one you know actually ever considered it remarkable at all.

I think the one I usually point to here is Da Brat's "In Luv Wit Chu" -- the bounce of the song is really forceful, and she's just so charismatic on it, joking around and being playful and doing that sing-song "I'm in love, I'm in love, I'm in love, I'm in love." But I don't remember anyone talking it up when it came out.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 17 August 2006 22:00 (nineteen years ago)

It also made for a GREAT transition into (or out of, I don't remember) Prefuse 73 on my Best of 2003 mix.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 17 August 2006 22:01 (nineteen years ago)

I wish people would write more as to why

re "let's pretend we're bunny rabbits"

it's evocative of an intense, week-long "relationship" i had with someone that ended abruptly/ambiguously. i got the boxed set the week that it all started and I played it the entire time. the lyrics and aura of the song are a perfect description of the relationship itself: carnal, evanescent, bittersweet. it was sort of a doomed thing from the beginning for a number of reasons, and the end (or, at least, the thought of the end) could be postponded only by, well: incessant fucking.

and those synths are killer.

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Thursday, 17 August 2006 22:11 (nineteen years ago)

Stevie Wonder "For Once In My Life" (Has any song ever better captured pure, unadulterated joy?)
112 "Anywhere" (Awesome proto-Whisper Song R&B)
Santa Esmeralda "Another Cha Cha"
Nsync "Pop" (I am a total sucker for the jam everything you can think into a 3 minutes approach to song-making)

I like that Young Gunz song Deej mentioned, although I couldn't say I love it.

― The future of Rodney got a -- (R. J. Greene), Thursday, 17 August 2006 22:29 (nineteen years ago)

and those synths are killer.

Brilliant.

― Gerard (Gerard), Thursday, 17 August 2006 22:35 (nineteen years ago)

I wish people would write more as to why.

I want to write about why but I have to think about why re: the Young Gunz track...something to do with sincerity, philly soul reference points, something refreshingly NICE about it.

― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 17 August 2006 22:54 (nineteen years ago)

Quiet Storm rap always wins!

― The future of Rodney got a -- (R. J. Greene), Thursday, 17 August 2006 22:55 (nineteen years ago)

"Ordinary World" by Duran Duran. Sure, I know of others who like it, but not to the extent that I do. And if I DID find someone whom that song means as much to as it does to me, I will be very, very surprised.

― Phoenix Dancing (krushsister), Friday, 18 August 2006 00:02 (nineteen years ago)

My hidden (sic) faves by Three Dog Night: "Out in the Country," "An Old Fashioned Love Song."

Others: I was flabbergasted to hear a DJ spin "Sleep Late My Lady Friend" by Nilsson a couple of years ago.

And I love "Same Way of Saying" by Pavement. Undercelebrated, it seems. But funny, soulful, loosey goosey. "Smoke some butts, Steve."

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Friday, 18 August 2006 00:05 (nineteen years ago)

re: Jackie Wilson - Call Her Up

1.) the context of when this song was released. Full horns in a 'nelson riddle in the back of the mind while appraoching memphis horns' way.

2.) Jackie mixes rhythmic flexibility with gut busting belting into one thing

3.) A sad situation never sounding so exciting, refreshing, and inspirational

― Sir Dr. Rev. PappaWheelie Jr. II of The Third Kind (PappaWheelie 2), Friday, 18 August 2006 00:18 (nineteen years ago)

Pappa, what's that on?

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Friday, 18 August 2006 00:20 (nineteen years ago)

is Eno - "The Big Ship" a jam?

― rodox.video (rodox.video), Friday, 18 August 2006 01:16 (nineteen years ago)

The Move - "Curly"

― Matt Golden (goldmatt), Friday, 18 August 2006 01:26 (nineteen years ago)

"Lost in the K-Hole" is a pretty weird song to have as your favorite Chemical Brothers track, but it's got this perfect Chic-in-the-year-2100 thing happening. It also segues amazingly into OutKast's "Da Art of Storytellin'".

"I Don't Know Why" from Metamorphosis is among my top 5 Rolling Stones songs. Not sure if it's the ghostliness around it (Brian Jones died a day after this was recorded) or if it's the horn section or what. Easily would've been the best song on Let it Bleed save "Gimme Shelter" if it'd made it onto the record.

I'll also go to bat for Funkadelic's "That Was My Girl," Alice Cooper's "It's Hot Tonight," Nas' "Find Ya Wealth" and Clinic's "Golden Rectangle".

― nate p. (natepatrin), Friday, 18 August 2006 01:29 (nineteen years ago)

1. slow jam by four tet
2. when we begin to steal... by trail of dead
3. all our base are belong to them by the books
4. ever by flipper

― robert anderson (venimdenim), Friday, 18 August 2006 01:41 (nineteen years ago)

the rolling stones - 'little t & a'

hello

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Friday, 18 August 2006 01:42 (nineteen years ago)

oh yeah...and zurich is stained by pavement...and crayon by manitoba

done

― robert anderson (venimdenim), Friday, 18 August 2006 01:45 (nineteen years ago)

The Old 97's - "Dressing Room Walls"
The Bellrays - "Blue Cirque"
Cat Power - "Rockets"

― milo z (mlp), Friday, 18 August 2006 02:15 (nineteen years ago)

Scourage: "The Cow's Wrong"-- I honestly thought I was alone. Actually get my feelings hurt when Steve Mason disowns that album.

― Ryan Pitchfork (Ryan Pitchfork), Friday, 18 August 2006 02:38 (nineteen years ago)

i want to know that somebody loves "jam" by a tribe called quest as much as i do... haven't listened to it in years but fuckit that's my jam.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 18 August 2006 02:41 (nineteen years ago)

oh jesus and it's called jam too. i didn't even realize that and now i feel a little idiotic.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 18 August 2006 02:42 (nineteen years ago)

haha, i was about to concur with your tribe call but then realised i was getting the track jam confused with jazz. now i don't have as much licence to comment.

in any case, i can't see your face in my mind by the doors

― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Friday, 18 August 2006 03:14 (nineteen years ago)

'drop by drop' by tinytown. the best song the go-betweens never wrote

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Friday, 18 August 2006 03:23 (nineteen years ago)

"Alone in the Country Heart" by George (UK duo). Gorgeous. Suzie's voice sounds like an Ondes-Martenot. The strings at the end should go on forever.

― Turangalila (Salvador), Friday, 18 August 2006 04:13 (nineteen years ago)

Darling Buds, "Sure Thing." Dizzying female vocals and buzzy/jangly guitars. Perfect shoegazer-pop. The exact aural equivalent of having a really intense crush.

― xero (xero), Friday, 18 August 2006 04:26 (nineteen years ago)

Nick Cave's version of "Long Time Man." It crushes me, more than any other kill-my-woman song, and way more than any of *his* other kill-my-woman songs. The way his voice cracks and strains somehow brings me into the mind of the narrator, makes the whole senseless death somehow make sense. Yet horrible at the same time. The regret is genuine, almost documentary. One of the few performances that's actually affected my view of humanity. It really explained something about violence to me.

― bendy (bendy), Friday, 18 August 2006 04:46 (nineteen years ago)

That's easy - Black Box Recorder's "Factory Radio," a tiny, underwritten, tossed-off b-side that somehow wrenches more emotion out of me than the Beatles' entire oeuvre. I suspect it's a strictly personal thing. The song's really - objectively - not all that great!

― Erroneous Botch (joseph cotten), Friday, 18 August 2006 04:51 (nineteen years ago)

The Blood Brothers' "I Know Where The Canaries and Crows Go".

A thrashing, grinding piece of punk insanity that goes nonstop for three and a half minutes with both vocalists just completely off the rail, probably the most intense track on a ridiculously frantic album - their graphic lyrical style hides a sentimental streak: "ate the white from the wedding, ate the smiles off our children, ate the leather off our birth skin [...] our mouths are limp mouths." Easy not to notice as it arrives late on an exhausting album.

― Simon H. (Simon H.), Friday, 18 August 2006 04:56 (nineteen years ago)

Prince's "Life Can Be So Nice" - because it's an accurate title, I'm allergic to eggs, and sometimes I think it explains my love of Herbert's production/co-production of "Likes...", "Ruby Blue", "Scale", & "Slappers".

― Jedmond (Jedmond), Friday, 18 August 2006 06:34 (nineteen years ago)

my jam is "new message" by lucy show. a band that will never get their due, in my opinion!
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/79/LucyShowMania.jpg/200px-LucyShowMania.jpg

― shock of daylight (shock of daylight), Friday, 18 August 2006 06:55 (nineteen years ago)

things you keep - apartments

no one talks abt the aprtments. i dnt own any lps by them. this track though. this track. *sigh* i don't even generally like soppy fey singer songwriter alterna pop.

― wrist of oak (bulbs), Friday, 18 August 2006 07:10 (nineteen years ago)

Hello This Is Joanie - Paul Evans, despite the sombre subject matter, this song always cheers me up no end. I listen to it at least 20 times in a week.

― JohnFoxxsJuno (JohnFoxxsJuno), Friday, 18 August 2006 07:46 (nineteen years ago)

I have lots, but I guess I'll go with either "Long Gone Dead" or "Sound of the Rain" by Rank & File.

― Jim M (jmcgaw), Friday, 18 August 2006 11:27 (nineteen years ago)

"That Girl" -- Stevie Wonder

"She's Got A Single Thing In Mind" -- Conway Twitty

"Take A Giant Step" -- Taj Mahal

"Rich Kid Blues" -- Terry Reid

"Brother Rapp" -- James Brown

"Potential" -- Jimmy Castor Bunch

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Friday, 18 August 2006 13:41 (nineteen years ago)

"Take A Giant Step" -- Taj Mahal

Definitely my shit.

― deej.. (deej..), Friday, 18 August 2006 13:46 (nineteen years ago)

There's a game show coming on BBC1 in the autumn called That's My Jam. Graham Norton invites contestants to identify celebrity preserves, or some suchlike.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 18 August 2006 13:50 (nineteen years ago)

"That Girl" is a good choice. Just as good as anything in the Stevie canon, but somehow overlooked.

I'm going with "Dust" by Van Hunt. I guess since it's been two years and he's put out another whole album and all, it never really is going to be that #1-for-10-weeks hit that it should be. Sigh.

― Rick Massimo (Rick Massimo), Friday, 18 August 2006 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

rod stewart - hot legs

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 18 August 2006 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

"Mathematics," George Clinton & the P.Funk All-Stars:
Because I think it stands up just as well as any of the "classic" Parliament Funkadelic tracks, in terms of polyrhythmatics and polyphonic melody, which I'm not sure even George would agree with; because I think there is something sweet about the song's whole concept; because it keeps modulating to extend the basic groove; because they keep up the metaphor heroically and a little dementedly; because it has a pretty strong tough female presence for a song in which Clinton leers "I will go into you...TWO TIMES".

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Friday, 18 August 2006 17:01 (nineteen years ago)

Out In The Country by 3DN seconded.

I'd also mention Hurricane Smith's Oh Babe, What Would You Say? which invokes the sound of the 1930s, sold a million records and always brings a smile to my face in a Winchester Cathederal sorta way. There's another!

― jim wentworth (wench), Friday, 18 August 2006 17:19 (nineteen years ago)

Taj Mahal closed his set with "Take A Giant Step" the only time I ever saw him play live, what a fucking treat!

― captain reverend gandalf jesus (nickalicious), Friday, 18 August 2006 17:47 (nineteen years ago)

Outkast's "Ms. Jackson" came out right about the same time me & my son's mom broke up, I couldn't listen to it for a couple years before I could hear it and not be like "wtf Outkast, everyone's dancing and yelling 'woo', don't make me cry at the party!".

― captain reverend gandalf jesus (nickalicious), Friday, 18 August 2006 18:06 (nineteen years ago)

Radiohead's 'A Reminder' is by far my favourite song of theirs (the Airbag EP my favourite release), because its contrasting use of high, shimmering, psychedelic keyboard riffs and low-level distortion guitar, allied to a quite unbeatable melody and an interestingly abrupt song structure (two verses, one chorus) alters my mood, chills me out, and just works flawlessly. It also has the best Czech railway-station tannoy sample in rock history.

― Scourage (Haberdager), Friday, 18 August 2006 18:11 (nineteen years ago)

I really can just list about 25 brazilian classics. They're known by brazilian music fans, but unknown to most. Regardless, they make me lose my shit everytime they come on in a mix or something.

Currently playing and making me feel like this: Os Novos Baianos - "Besta Et Tu" (followed closley by their "Brasil Pandeiro" and "Swing de Campo Grande"). A handful of 70's Joao Donato songs fit this bill too.

Rickey, Jackie Wilson's Call Her Up is on Jackie's comp History Vol 1 Coast to Coast:

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:57jlear84xf7

― Sir Dr. Rev. PappaWheelie Jr. II of The Third Kind (PappaWheelie 2), Friday, 18 August 2006 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

i love "take a giant step" too!

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 18 August 2006 19:16 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks, Pappa.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Friday, 18 August 2006 22:52 (nineteen years ago)

Kimya Dawson - "Loose Lips"

I've loved the early version for so long but now the album one has a choir of people shouting along when she sings "Remember that I love you". I could just explode.

― from The ends of your fingers (prosper.strummer.), Friday, 18 August 2006 22:56 (nineteen years ago)

Boo Radleys - "Catweazle"

I like to listen to it in my car and pump my fist in the air in an austin ambassador y reg fashion whilst listening to it.

― Paul Braithwaite (paulyb), Saturday, 19 August 2006 00:11 (nineteen years ago)

Inner City - "Good Life"

Pete Heller - "Big Love"

Dr. Kucho & Wally Lopez - "Patricia Never Leaves the House"

Quicksand - "Fazer"

Supercar - "Yumegiwa Last Boy"

― J-rock (Julien Sandiford), Saturday, 19 August 2006 10:23 (nineteen years ago)

I love 'Protected By The Rain' by Grandaddy. It was a fan-club 7", I think but it was on a free cd given away with Select magazine once. It's just such a gorgeous, naive-sounding, gentle song and it also reminds me of an ex-girlfriend who I still have very fond memories of.

Also, I don't have any personal connection with it, but Jagz Kooner's remix of 'Dirty Headlines' by Royal Trux is one of my favourite songs of all-time and I'm pretty sure I'm the only person in the world (besides maybe Kooner himself) who fucking adores it. I used to play it all the time when I was on student radio back in the day, so I guess it does remind me of happy times. I wish that a DJ would play this in a club I'm at. I would so be the only person jumping around the dancefloor when the drums kick in.

― yer mam! (yer mam!), Saturday, 19 August 2006 10:53 (nineteen years ago)

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