So let's put on our classics and we'll have a little dance, shall we?
SAM’S CELEBRITY PLAYLIST (PART 3/3)
01. | 02. | 03.
21. Queen // Don’t Stop Me Now
i am a satellite - i'm out of control, i'm a sex machine ready to reload.
Again with the nostalgia and memory and childhood-radio-music picks (a la ‘Take On Me’, ‘Oliver’s Army’, and couple more in this final section).
If you really love this song, then I’d advise you to buy or rent Shaun of the Dead, where it’s put to excellent use (take that, Garden State, Napoleon Dynamite, the OC, One Tree Hill and all that other indie-song-placement-type-media!).
Ah, seeing it in the cinema with a bunch of mates and singing along to it = AWESOME. Though I feel a tiny bit guilty about pissing off the other people who were watching. But only a tiny bit.
22. Lady & The Tramp // We Are Siamese (Lady & The Tramp)
do you see that thing swimming round and round? maybe we can reach on in and make it drown.
I hated this cats when I was little - back in the days where I really had the whole naïve, good and evil, black and white mentality going on - they were so horrible and I loved Lady so much and, ugh. Creepy little fuckers.
23. Stockard Channing // There Are Worse Things I Could Do (Grease)
i could flirt with all the guys, smile at them and bat my eyes.
In one corner you’ve got the caves-under-pressure sweet-to-‘sexy’ Australian, and in the other - a snark-tastic, self-aware, badass chica with a (secret) soft, gooey centre, who knows even though the neighbourhood thinks i'm trashy and no good; i suppose it could be true, but there are worse things i could do.
RIZZO > SANDY.
24. Natalie Merchant // My Skin
you better shut your mouth, hold your breath; kiss me now you'll catch my death.
It’s gorgeously melancholy and evocative and haunting in the way that so many female singer-songwriters like Sarah McLachlan, Emiliana Torrini, Kate Bush et al do so well.
do you remember the way that you touched me before;
all the trembling sweetness i loved and adored?
It’s such pretty song, yet utterly chilling and somewhat bitter. I’d try and attempt some sort of horrendous descriptive cliché here, like comparing it a beautiful rose with many thorns, or darkdark ninety-five percent cocoa chocolate (which I abhor, by the way - give me sugar, or give me death!), but that would be… lame.
But it is a wonderful song - from the opening, mournful ah-ah-ah’s to the ending piano and low strings solo.
Yeah, that description copied from an entry from a few weeks ago. I’ve pimped it that many times that I’m running out of different ways to describe this song.
25. Men At Work // Land Down Under
i said, "do you speak-a my language?" he just smiled and gave me a vegemite sandwich.
♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
Srsly. Oh, man. This song is so much fun.
Soundtrack of my Childhood: Land Down Under, Livin’ On A Prayer, Wuthering Heights, Take On Me, Oliver’s Army, Red Red Wine, Don’t Stop Me Now, American Pie, More Than Words.
26. Kate Bush // Wuthering Heights
ooh, let me have it, let me grab your soul away.
Right. My love for ‘Land Down Under’? Nothing compared to my love for this song. My love for ‘Land Down Under’ is pure unadulterated you killed my father hate and loathing in Las Vegas compared to my love for ‘Wuthering Heights’.
The beautifully amusing theatricality of it all; the wonderful flailing video performance - aw. T’is brilliant.
27. Go Home Productions // Paperback Believer
dear sir or madam, will you read my book? it took me years to write, will you take a look?
Oh clichés. ‘Daydream Believer’ never fails to make me feel all bright and chirpy. ‘Paperback Writer’ makes me laugh and try very hard not to sing along to it when I’m walking down to uni. The two combined make my head want to explode from sheer joy.
28. Martha Wainwright // Bloody Mother Fucking Asshole
i will not pretend, i will not put on a smile, i will not say i'm alright for you - for you, whoever you are.
oh, i wish-i wish-i wish i was born a man
so I could learn how to stand up for myself
like those guys with guitars
i've been watching in bars
who've been stamping their feet to a different beat
to a different beat.
Partly to make up for the fact that my other female artist choices (Ani D, Sarah McLachlan, Dar Williams) weren’t particularly of the overt, ballsy, in your fucking face, bitterly sarcastic type. Er, except from ‘My Skin’ and ‘There Are Worse Things I Could Do’, but they’re not quite this angry and pissed off. And partly that this song is fucking amazing - string and strident and the sharp, pointed vocals and guitar .I mean, I can feel the emotion they - I don’t know it’s Martha playing, but I suspect (hope) it is - put into every strong strum.
i will not pretend, i will not put on a smile, i will not say i'm all right for you, for you - whoever you are.
29. John Mellencamp // Overture
*is instrumental*
One of my favourite album (Mr Happy-Go-Lucky) opening tracks, and reccing this is a bit silly on my part because I think you really need to listen to the whole album to get the point, the context of the instrumental - it being snippets of all the songs on the album, a lovely string arrangement blended into a wonderful whole.
30. The Streets // Lets Push Things Forward
so let's put on our classics and we'll ‘ave a little dance, shall we?
around 'ere we say birds, not bitches / as london bridge burns down, brixton's burning up.
Mike Skinner writes great lyrics - cocky, humorous, serious, mocking, heartfelt. I love colloquialisms, little references, accent and dialect (also, why I like the Arctic Monkeys). It’s… comforting and somewhat familiar.
31. Damien Rice // Childish
i’ll play a stormer - yet in the corner, i'll be grumpy on my own, like i don't care.
Like chibirhm, I was gonna have ‘The Blower’s Daughter’ as my Damien Rice choice, but while it’s a stunning, beautiful song, it’s - like a lot of his stuff - very heavy-hitting, and Intense, and involves Deep Thought. So, I went for something that’s light-hearted, fun and an absolute joy to listen to. It’s a live performance and it’s so full of energy, and its so apparent that both Damien and the audience are having an enormous amount of fun.
32. Natasha Bedingfield // These Words
i try to focus my attention, but I feel so a-d-d - i need some help, some inspiration, but it's not coming easily.
I’m a little shocked that I like this song, as most ‘recent’ pop music tends to disappoint me (the pop music section of my soul belongs to the mid-nineties-to-early-noughties[?!]). But, crap, this is good - both from a subjective viewpoint, and the fact that the juxtaposition of: read some byron, shelley and keats / recited it over a hip-hop beat / i'm having trouble saying what i mean / with dead poets and drum machines. totally grabbed me.
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SAM’S CELEBRITY PLAYLIST (COMPLETE)
01. Al Green // I Want To Hold Your Hand
02. Belle & Sebastian // If She Wants Me
03. Bob Dylan // Desolation Row (Unplugged)
04. Bon Jovi // It’s My Life
05. Ani DiFranco // Both Hands
06. Dar Willams // Iowa (Traveling III)
07. Death Cab For Cutie // Transatlanticism
08. David Gray // Babylon
09. Elvis Costello // Oliver’s Army
10. A-Ha // Take On Me
11. The Shins // Girl Inform Me
12. The Stills // Retour A Vega
13. The Libertines // Can’t Stop Me Now
14. Supergrass / Alright
15. Talking Heads //Burning Down The House
16. Simon & Garfunkel // The Boxer
17. The Coral // Spanish Main
18. Sarah McLachlan / Full Of Grace
19. Ryan Adams // Goodnight Hollywood Blvd.
20. Neil Young // After The Gold Rush
21. Queen // Don’t Stop Me Now
22. Disney // We Are Siamese (Lady & The Tramp)
23. Stockard Channing // There Are Worse Things I Could Do (Grease)
24. Natalie Merchant // My Skin
25. Men At Work // Land Down Under
26. Kate Bush // Wuthering Heights
27. Go Home Productions // Paperback Believer
28. Martha Wainwright //Bloody Mother Fucking Asshole
29. John Mellencamp // Overture
30. The Streets // Let’s Push Things Forwards
31. Damien Rice // Childish
32. Natasha Bedingfield // These Words
And that’s the end of that chapter!
Edit: A distinct lack of Beatles, because really - HOW COULD I CHOOSE?! Also, I feel bad about the absence of any Rufus Wainwright, I really should've had his duet with Ben Folds (covering George Michael's 'Careless Whisper) in there somewhere.
01. | 02. | 03.
21. Queen // Don’t Stop Me Now
i am a satellite - i'm out of control, i'm a sex machine ready to reload.
Again with the nostalgia and memory and childhood-radio-music picks (a la ‘Take On Me’, ‘Oliver’s Army’, and couple more in this final section).
If you really love this song, then I’d advise you to buy or rent Shaun of the Dead, where it’s put to excellent use (take that, Garden State, Napoleon Dynamite, the OC, One Tree Hill and all that other indie-song-placement-type-media!).
Ah, seeing it in the cinema with a bunch of mates and singing along to it = AWESOME. Though I feel a tiny bit guilty about pissing off the other people who were watching. But only a tiny bit.
22. Lady & The Tramp // We Are Siamese (Lady & The Tramp)
do you see that thing swimming round and round? maybe we can reach on in and make it drown.
I hated this cats when I was little - back in the days where I really had the whole naïve, good and evil, black and white mentality going on - they were so horrible and I loved Lady so much and, ugh. Creepy little fuckers.
23. Stockard Channing // There Are Worse Things I Could Do (Grease)
i could flirt with all the guys, smile at them and bat my eyes.
In one corner you’ve got the caves-under-pressure sweet-to-‘sexy’ Australian, and in the other - a snark-tastic, self-aware, badass chica with a (secret) soft, gooey centre, who knows even though the neighbourhood thinks i'm trashy and no good; i suppose it could be true, but there are worse things i could do.
RIZZO > SANDY.
24. Natalie Merchant // My Skin
you better shut your mouth, hold your breath; kiss me now you'll catch my death.
It’s gorgeously melancholy and evocative and haunting in the way that so many female singer-songwriters like Sarah McLachlan, Emiliana Torrini, Kate Bush et al do so well.
do you remember the way that you touched me before;
all the trembling sweetness i loved and adored?
It’s such pretty song, yet utterly chilling and somewhat bitter. I’d try and attempt some sort of horrendous descriptive cliché here, like comparing it a beautiful rose with many thorns, or darkdark ninety-five percent cocoa chocolate (which I abhor, by the way - give me sugar, or give me death!), but that would be… lame.
But it is a wonderful song - from the opening, mournful ah-ah-ah’s to the ending piano and low strings solo.
Yeah, that description copied from an entry from a few weeks ago. I’ve pimped it that many times that I’m running out of different ways to describe this song.
25. Men At Work // Land Down Under
i said, "do you speak-a my language?" he just smiled and gave me a vegemite sandwich.
♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
Srsly. Oh, man. This song is so much fun.
Soundtrack of my Childhood: Land Down Under, Livin’ On A Prayer, Wuthering Heights, Take On Me, Oliver’s Army, Red Red Wine, Don’t Stop Me Now, American Pie, More Than Words.
26. Kate Bush // Wuthering Heights
ooh, let me have it, let me grab your soul away.
Right. My love for ‘Land Down Under’? Nothing compared to my love for this song. My love for ‘Land Down Under’ is pure unadulterated you killed my father hate and loathing in Las Vegas compared to my love for ‘Wuthering Heights’.
The beautifully amusing theatricality of it all; the wonderful flailing video performance - aw. T’is brilliant.
27. Go Home Productions // Paperback Believer
dear sir or madam, will you read my book? it took me years to write, will you take a look?
Oh clichés. ‘Daydream Believer’ never fails to make me feel all bright and chirpy. ‘Paperback Writer’ makes me laugh and try very hard not to sing along to it when I’m walking down to uni. The two combined make my head want to explode from sheer joy.
28. Martha Wainwright // Bloody Mother Fucking Asshole
i will not pretend, i will not put on a smile, i will not say i'm alright for you - for you, whoever you are.
oh, i wish-i wish-i wish i was born a man
so I could learn how to stand up for myself
like those guys with guitars
i've been watching in bars
who've been stamping their feet to a different beat
to a different beat.
Partly to make up for the fact that my other female artist choices (Ani D, Sarah McLachlan, Dar Williams) weren’t particularly of the overt, ballsy, in your fucking face, bitterly sarcastic type. Er, except from ‘My Skin’ and ‘There Are Worse Things I Could Do’, but they’re not quite this angry and pissed off. And partly that this song is fucking amazing - string and strident and the sharp, pointed vocals and guitar .I mean, I can feel the emotion they - I don’t know it’s Martha playing, but I suspect (hope) it is - put into every strong strum.
i will not pretend, i will not put on a smile, i will not say i'm all right for you, for you - whoever you are.
29. John Mellencamp // Overture
*is instrumental*
One of my favourite album (Mr Happy-Go-Lucky) opening tracks, and reccing this is a bit silly on my part because I think you really need to listen to the whole album to get the point, the context of the instrumental - it being snippets of all the songs on the album, a lovely string arrangement blended into a wonderful whole.
30. The Streets // Lets Push Things Forward
so let's put on our classics and we'll ‘ave a little dance, shall we?
around 'ere we say birds, not bitches / as london bridge burns down, brixton's burning up.
Mike Skinner writes great lyrics - cocky, humorous, serious, mocking, heartfelt. I love colloquialisms, little references, accent and dialect (also, why I like the Arctic Monkeys). It’s… comforting and somewhat familiar.
31. Damien Rice // Childish
i’ll play a stormer - yet in the corner, i'll be grumpy on my own, like i don't care.
Like chibirhm, I was gonna have ‘The Blower’s Daughter’ as my Damien Rice choice, but while it’s a stunning, beautiful song, it’s - like a lot of his stuff - very heavy-hitting, and Intense, and involves Deep Thought. So, I went for something that’s light-hearted, fun and an absolute joy to listen to. It’s a live performance and it’s so full of energy, and its so apparent that both Damien and the audience are having an enormous amount of fun.
32. Natasha Bedingfield // These Words
i try to focus my attention, but I feel so a-d-d - i need some help, some inspiration, but it's not coming easily.
I’m a little shocked that I like this song, as most ‘recent’ pop music tends to disappoint me (the pop music section of my soul belongs to the mid-nineties-to-early-noughties[?!]). But, crap, this is good - both from a subjective viewpoint, and the fact that the juxtaposition of: read some byron, shelley and keats / recited it over a hip-hop beat / i'm having trouble saying what i mean / with dead poets and drum machines. totally grabbed me.
_____
SAM’S CELEBRITY PLAYLIST (COMPLETE)
01. Al Green // I Want To Hold Your Hand
02. Belle & Sebastian // If She Wants Me
03. Bob Dylan // Desolation Row (Unplugged)
04. Bon Jovi // It’s My Life
05. Ani DiFranco // Both Hands
06. Dar Willams // Iowa (Traveling III)
07. Death Cab For Cutie // Transatlanticism
08. David Gray // Babylon
09. Elvis Costello // Oliver’s Army
10. A-Ha // Take On Me
11. The Shins // Girl Inform Me
12. The Stills // Retour A Vega
13. The Libertines // Can’t Stop Me Now
14. Supergrass / Alright
15. Talking Heads //Burning Down The House
16. Simon & Garfunkel // The Boxer
17. The Coral // Spanish Main
18. Sarah McLachlan / Full Of Grace
19. Ryan Adams // Goodnight Hollywood Blvd.
20. Neil Young // After The Gold Rush
21. Queen // Don’t Stop Me Now
22. Disney // We Are Siamese (Lady & The Tramp)
23. Stockard Channing // There Are Worse Things I Could Do (Grease)
24. Natalie Merchant // My Skin
25. Men At Work // Land Down Under
26. Kate Bush // Wuthering Heights
27. Go Home Productions // Paperback Believer
28. Martha Wainwright //Bloody Mother Fucking Asshole
29. John Mellencamp // Overture
30. The Streets // Let’s Push Things Forwards
31. Damien Rice // Childish
32. Natasha Bedingfield // These Words
And that’s the end of that chapter!
Edit: A distinct lack of Beatles, because really - HOW COULD I CHOOSE?! Also, I feel bad about the absence of any Rufus Wainwright, I really should've had his duet with Ben Folds (covering George Michael's 'Careless Whisper) in there somewhere.