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[venta]

As stolen from satyrica, it's a musical sheep.

ONE: Pick 10 fave musicians/ bands.
TWO: Post them and see who can guess which song of each musician's is your favorite
THREE: Once someone guesses right, bold that row and include your favorite song (it may be a 'tune' as it has no words in some cases, at least not originally)


1) Leonard Cohen - Everybody Knows
2) Radiohead - Anyone Can Play Guitar
3) The Jam - Down In The Tube Station At Midnight
4) Idlewild - When I Argue I See Shapes
5) Belle & Sebastian
6) Mercury Rev - Goddess On A Hiway
7) Muse - Plug-In Baby
8) Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah
9) Death in Vegas - Aisha
10) Joe Jackson

(That was actually surprisingly difficult - there are remarkably few bands for whom I can define an absolute "favourite" track. Apologies if you're not familiar with any of the chosen artists - and I think there's only one where my favourite is "the obvious one". I may yet be shown to be wrong there, though.)

Comments:

1) Guessed by secutatrix. This is only just a favourite, it has to fight off stiff competition from the rest of the album (I'm Your Man).
2) Guessed by smiorgan. So, sue, me, I'm a cretin and I liked Radiohead in the days when they were a jangly-guitarred rock band.
3) Guessed by lnr.
4) Guessed by metame. But only, only just my favourite by a gnat's nadger. For further details, come back later this afternoon, when I think we might be boogying to zotz's incorrect guess.
6) Guessed by mejoff.
7) Guessed by satyrica.
8) Guessed by olethros. This was the one I considered "the obvious ones" :)
9) Guessed by lnr.

Update: The missing two were:

5) Belle & Sebastian - The Boy With The Arab Strap, which actually, I might have thought would be "the obvious one". Though quite how a band who appear to be so nice and polite that you could take them home for Sunday tea came to know what an Arab strap was, never mind being willing to sing about it in public, is a bit of a mystery.

10) Joe Jackson - I'm The Man. I've no idea how well known this song is, even among people who know a bit of Joe Jackson, but it's great. Any song which contains the line "Skateboards - I almost made them respectable" is fine with me.

Comments

[metame.livejournal.com]

4. When I Argue I See Shapes

And you're *so* right about Radiohead. Adam H and I have this fight with Kauket at least once a month...

There was a Belle and Sebastien track I really liked, but seem to have forgotten entirely except about half a line of lyric. Dagnamit. But I reckon it's that one...

[venta.livejournal.com]

Yes :)

Go one, give us the half the lyric and we'll see if we can work it out :)

if I can't be a star I won't get out of bed

[metame.livejournal.com]

Hmmm - it was a line about smoking I believe, with a whole hunk of subtext about wasting time/life on pointless displacement activities. It may have mentioned the brand B & H.

It's near (in my idea space) to 'smoke some fags and play some pool' and 'make a cup of tea, put a record on'.

And I may be misremembering/conflating/imagining the whole thing, of course.

Re: if I can't be a star I won't get out of bed

[venta.livejournal.com]

Er... er... I must admit that I can't place the lyric you mean.
As such, I'm abritrarily, and potentially incorrectly, going to claim you're thinking of the wrong song :)

Re: if I can't be a star I won't get out of bed

[metame.livejournal.com]

It is a pretty vague memory. Ho hum...

Re: if I can't be a star I won't get out of bed

[broadmeadow.livejournal.com]

Thought I instantly recognised this, which would be odd because I don't really know Belle and Sebastian. But a combination of brain and google searching reveals my references:

"smoke some fags and play some pool"

From Common People by Pulp

"make a cup of tea, put a record on"

From Waking Up by Elastica

[kauket.livejournal.com]

You are very much wrong. The Bends was clearly their best album, and whilst there was some good stuff on Pablo Honey, the good stuff on The Bends is better and as an album overall it's much better. Fake Plastic Trees? Black Star? Just? The Bends?

'When I argue' is possibly the best Idlewild track although I'm very fond of 'Everyone says that you're so fragile' and 'you held the world in your arms'

[smiorgan.livejournal.com]

Now now. You're both wrong.