Gene Hunt fanmix - Tin Star
Well the end of A2A successfully managed to render me unable to forget how much it annoyed me - while leaving me incapable of doing anything constructive about it. Can't write and can't make icons, but being negative about it all the time is starting to really annoy me. Thus I thought "Buggerit" and threw this together so I'd at least get something creative out of it. Proceed at your own risk.
As before, there are better mixes out there. There are more hip and trendy mixes out there. Pretty sure there are more depressing mixes out there too, but I can't resist injecting a bit of humour into the thing here and there. Oh, and there are some vaguely recent chunes! Gasp - shock - horror, etc. The focus is on Gene this time round.
Why "Tin Star" is readily obvious, I hope - the sheriff's badge. Apparently the story goes that the West was so wild, the sheriff didn't get issued a smart badge such as the city lawman would have, so instead they'd make their own by cutting out the bottom of a tin can. DIY sheriffing fits Gene just nicely. There's also that slightly hollow connotation with tin-anything...
Somebody Got Murdered - The Clash
Somebody got murdered
Somebody's dead forever
Can you say irony? Yeah, well... It's interesting how the fact that most of them were actually "murdered" doesn't get said as such. Anyway, that's where Gene's story starts, thus so do we. Besides, it's The Clash - reason enough. From their 1980 album Sandinista!
Saturday Night in the City of The Dead - Ultravox!
Saturday night
Saturday night
Saturday night in the City of the Dead
Can you feel the time bomb ticking in your head?
Too many memories are waiting in your bed
Saturday night in the City of the Dead
Self-explanatory. And yes, Ultravox! again. So shoot me. I do like this track - it particularly suits trailing round the local supermarket, to my mind... From their eponymous 1977 album.
Cortina MkII - The Lambrettas
Had some cash you know what I'd do
Read the ads in the local rag
Buy a little Mark II
Wheel trims
Everything
Four door
Two speed wipers
Goin' in for the kill elbow on the window sill
Flickin' on the cigarette lighter
How to do 70s Gene without having to wallow in the worst of 70s music. Besides the Cortina's iconic, innit? From The Lambrettas' 1980 debut album Beat Boys in the Jet Age. S'good album - but skip their follow-up, Ambience.
Hurt - Johnny Cash
What have I become
My sweetest friend
Everyone I know
Goes away in the end
All originality is at an end with this one, but honestly, I've had this track in mind for Gene since practically episode one of series one of Ashes. Add in the fact that "The Man in Black" has been bandied about in relation to Mr Hunt, and I couldn't not include it. From Cash's 2003 album, American IV: The Man Comes Around.
I'm Not the Man I Used To Be - Fine Young Cannibals
I've lost dreams that won't come back
Memories fading fast
I should save the ones I have
What's the use, most of them are bad
Wonder what I'm thinking
Wonder why I'm drinking
But it's plain to see
I'm not the man I used to be
Another one that's lodged in my mind for Gene since series one of Ashes. I did miss Mars Gene with his pretty carefree attitude; but Ashes Gene had a lot more depth. All largely thrown away in the final minutes, but heigh ho... From the FYC's 1989 album, The Raw and The Cooked.
Crazy - Gnarls Barkley
My heroes had the heart to lose their lives out on a limb
And all I remember is thinking, I want to be like them
Ever since I was little, ever since I was little it looked like fun
And it's no coincidence I've come
And I can die when I'm done
Weevil, have you no imagination? Well, no. This one is a funny one, as it featured on my own Alex Drake playlist for a long time. Which is maybe no surprise, as I subscribe to the view that Gene and Alex had more in common than was probably safe. But this bit in particular totally nails it for Gene in my view. From the 2006 album, St Elsewhere.
Little Lion Man - Mumford & Sons
Weep for yourself, my man,
You'll never be what is in your heart.
Weep Little Lion Man,
You're not as brave as you were at the start.
Rate yourself and rake yourself,
Take all the courage you have left
Wasted on fixing all the problems
That you made in your own head
So approximately 3/4 of this 2009 album, Sigh No More, could have gone in this mix - 'cos it dwells a lot on things past, death and other joyful subjects. But hey, lion man? Easy choice. And I like to imagine Matthew Graham singing the chorus... We're in episode 3x08 and beyond territory now.
Eat That Up, It's Good For You - Two Door Cinema Club
And so you're drinking in your room
To make it all go
It didn't end too soon
You've got the next one
You're holding on too long
You've got to let go
Your other love is gone
And you know
It's too late
It's too late
You've got another one coming
And it's going to be the same
This popped up in a general shuffle of my chunes, and my first thought was "Where the hell did this come from?" But on reflection I think it might have been a Single of The Week from a well-known fruit-associated purveyor of music tracks. And it just clicked in so nicely, well I might as well have quoted 80% of the lyric. From their 2010 debut album, Tourist History. Yes, 2010. This year! This can't go on. And, indeed, it doesn't...
From Now On - Supertramp
Guess I'll always have to be
Living in a fantasy
That's the way it's got to be
From now on
Another one that lived in my Alex playlist for a while. Any Ashes fan who doesn't have a fondness for Supertramp, simply on the basis of the use of Take The Long Way Home in the superb ending to series one is... well, probably not really an Ashes fan. From the 1977 album, Even in the Quietest Moments...
Wonderful Life - Black
I need a friend
Oh, I need friend
To make me happy
Not so alone
Look at me here
Here on my own again
Up straight in the sunshine
You want noble self-sacrifice to bring a tear to the eye? Imagine Gene and listen to this. Worked for me anyway. From their 1987 album of the same name.
Don't Let The Stars Get In Your Eyes - Perry Como
Don’t let the stars get in your eyes,
Don’t keep your heart from me,
For some day I’ll return,
And you know you’re the only one I’ll ever love
Leave 'em with a smile... This is my sense of humour kicking in, I'm afraid. A UK number one from, yes, 1953 - and we come full circle. Bet no-one else has any Perry Como in their fan mix.
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Comments are welcome, even if they're of the "You're nuts" variety ;)
As before, there are better mixes out there. There are more hip and trendy mixes out there. Pretty sure there are more depressing mixes out there too, but I can't resist injecting a bit of humour into the thing here and there. Oh, and there are some vaguely recent chunes! Gasp - shock - horror, etc. The focus is on Gene this time round.
Why "Tin Star" is readily obvious, I hope - the sheriff's badge. Apparently the story goes that the West was so wild, the sheriff didn't get issued a smart badge such as the city lawman would have, so instead they'd make their own by cutting out the bottom of a tin can. DIY sheriffing fits Gene just nicely. There's also that slightly hollow connotation with tin-anything...
Somebody Got Murdered - The Clash
Somebody got murdered
Somebody's dead forever
Can you say irony? Yeah, well... It's interesting how the fact that most of them were actually "murdered" doesn't get said as such. Anyway, that's where Gene's story starts, thus so do we. Besides, it's The Clash - reason enough. From their 1980 album Sandinista!
Saturday Night in the City of The Dead - Ultravox!
Saturday night
Saturday night
Saturday night in the City of the Dead
Can you feel the time bomb ticking in your head?
Too many memories are waiting in your bed
Saturday night in the City of the Dead
Self-explanatory. And yes, Ultravox! again. So shoot me. I do like this track - it particularly suits trailing round the local supermarket, to my mind... From their eponymous 1977 album.
Cortina MkII - The Lambrettas
Had some cash you know what I'd do
Read the ads in the local rag
Buy a little Mark II
Wheel trims
Everything
Four door
Two speed wipers
Goin' in for the kill elbow on the window sill
Flickin' on the cigarette lighter
How to do 70s Gene without having to wallow in the worst of 70s music. Besides the Cortina's iconic, innit? From The Lambrettas' 1980 debut album Beat Boys in the Jet Age. S'good album - but skip their follow-up, Ambience.
Hurt - Johnny Cash
What have I become
My sweetest friend
Everyone I know
Goes away in the end
All originality is at an end with this one, but honestly, I've had this track in mind for Gene since practically episode one of series one of Ashes. Add in the fact that "The Man in Black" has been bandied about in relation to Mr Hunt, and I couldn't not include it. From Cash's 2003 album, American IV: The Man Comes Around.
I'm Not the Man I Used To Be - Fine Young Cannibals
I've lost dreams that won't come back
Memories fading fast
I should save the ones I have
What's the use, most of them are bad
Wonder what I'm thinking
Wonder why I'm drinking
But it's plain to see
I'm not the man I used to be
Another one that's lodged in my mind for Gene since series one of Ashes. I did miss Mars Gene with his pretty carefree attitude; but Ashes Gene had a lot more depth. All largely thrown away in the final minutes, but heigh ho... From the FYC's 1989 album, The Raw and The Cooked.
Crazy - Gnarls Barkley
My heroes had the heart to lose their lives out on a limb
And all I remember is thinking, I want to be like them
Ever since I was little, ever since I was little it looked like fun
And it's no coincidence I've come
And I can die when I'm done
Weevil, have you no imagination? Well, no. This one is a funny one, as it featured on my own Alex Drake playlist for a long time. Which is maybe no surprise, as I subscribe to the view that Gene and Alex had more in common than was probably safe. But this bit in particular totally nails it for Gene in my view. From the 2006 album, St Elsewhere.
Little Lion Man - Mumford & Sons
Weep for yourself, my man,
You'll never be what is in your heart.
Weep Little Lion Man,
You're not as brave as you were at the start.
Rate yourself and rake yourself,
Take all the courage you have left
Wasted on fixing all the problems
That you made in your own head
So approximately 3/4 of this 2009 album, Sigh No More, could have gone in this mix - 'cos it dwells a lot on things past, death and other joyful subjects. But hey, lion man? Easy choice. And I like to imagine Matthew Graham singing the chorus... We're in episode 3x08 and beyond territory now.
Eat That Up, It's Good For You - Two Door Cinema Club
And so you're drinking in your room
To make it all go
It didn't end too soon
You've got the next one
You're holding on too long
You've got to let go
Your other love is gone
And you know
It's too late
It's too late
You've got another one coming
And it's going to be the same
This popped up in a general shuffle of my chunes, and my first thought was "Where the hell did this come from?" But on reflection I think it might have been a Single of The Week from a well-known fruit-associated purveyor of music tracks. And it just clicked in so nicely, well I might as well have quoted 80% of the lyric. From their 2010 debut album, Tourist History. Yes, 2010. This year! This can't go on. And, indeed, it doesn't...
From Now On - Supertramp
Guess I'll always have to be
Living in a fantasy
That's the way it's got to be
From now on
Another one that lived in my Alex playlist for a while. Any Ashes fan who doesn't have a fondness for Supertramp, simply on the basis of the use of Take The Long Way Home in the superb ending to series one is... well, probably not really an Ashes fan. From the 1977 album, Even in the Quietest Moments...
Wonderful Life - Black
I need a friend
Oh, I need friend
To make me happy
Not so alone
Look at me here
Here on my own again
Up straight in the sunshine
You want noble self-sacrifice to bring a tear to the eye? Imagine Gene and listen to this. Worked for me anyway. From their 1987 album of the same name.
Don't Let The Stars Get In Your Eyes - Perry Como
Don’t let the stars get in your eyes,
Don’t keep your heart from me,
For some day I’ll return,
And you know you’re the only one I’ll ever love
Leave 'em with a smile... This is my sense of humour kicking in, I'm afraid. A UK number one from, yes, 1953 - and we come full circle. Bet no-one else has any Perry Como in their fan mix.
*** Download Here ***
Comments are welcome, even if they're of the "You're nuts" variety ;)