Tag: A-Z

I just thought I’d end it here. There’s not really enough artists in the X section to warrant a devoted post to. Anyway, here goes.

X – XTC
[youtube=http://youtu.be/S9gq-ANfjc0]

Senses Working Overtime

Y – You Am I
[youtube=http://youtu.be/kAdB-zRQdv8]

Forget It Sister (hidden bonus track on their album Hourly, Daily released in 1996)

Neil Young
[youtube=http://youtu.be/qVi0UvFu8Yo]

Harvest Moon

Weird Al Yankovic
[youtube=http://youtu.be/t2mU6USTBRE]

Fat

Z – Warren Zevon (only for this one song)
[youtube=http://youtu.be/MZa3EYWCY3w]

Werewolves Of London

Three here:

Wings (I’ve chosen Silly Love Songs as a sample)
[youtube=http://youtu.be/AK9QVN0bpa4]

Stevie Wonder (I chose George Michael’s version of “As” with Mary J Blige as…it’s an excellent cover)
[youtube=http://youtu.be/kriL8CuxQV4]

(The) Who – early Who stuff though and I wouldn’t watch them live now, they’re too past it.
[youtube=http://youtu.be/7BmkBroiw1s]

Two choices:

(The) Velvet Underground
[youtube=http://youtu.be/CrRVaYF-O4U]

(The) Verve
[youtube=http://youtu.be/ToQ0n3itoII]

I’m sure all of those who know me will know that there was only one choice (of the limited choices you can make under “U”) I could make here…

U2.

I wanted to choose all my favourite U2 songs through the years, so instead of clogging up my blog with a load of U2 YouTube videos in posts, I’ve been working on a pages system to add my faves.

To view, just point the mouse to the menu link “U2” just below the blog picture banner. A drop down menu will show favourite pages listed for the 80s, 90s and 00s. Just click to view them.

If not, click the links here…

http://larelle.wordpress.com/u2-favourites-80s/

http://larelle.wordpress.com/u2-favourites-90s/

http://larelle.wordpress.com/u2-favourites-00s/

(page updated September 18th, 2011 at 20.47)

Just the two here…and I’m into both of them on and off, but of all the “T’s”, I like them most.

Travis
[youtube=http://youtu.be/zzUdJ-5fscA]

K T Tunstall
[youtube=http://youtu.be/pdu_IWxSSk4]

Bit of a Scottish theme going on with this one.

You know what’s coming next…
(visual clue below)

This is such a HUGE category. This is my absolute slim down version. These are the ones I had to mention. Why are there so many “S’ groups/artists?!

Anyway, in no particular order…

Simple Minds
[youtube=http://youtu.be/TmmdCRGLoD8]

The Smiths
[youtube=http://youtu.be/INgXzChwipY]

Split Enz
[youtube=http://youtu.be/NduGJ0F5sdI]

Just the two here.

Radiohead
[youtube=http://youtu.be/IrTB-iiecqk]

Street Spirit

(The) Rolling Stones
[youtube=http://youtu.be/RVEdYYMlOJ4]

Far Away Eyes

This one is a no-brainer. There wasn’t really much choice for Q, so it HAD to be…

Queen! My fave Queen song – Radio Ga Ga

[youtube=http://youtu.be/rBUr1pSWTVI]

This is a little bit more drawn out than I hoped, but it’s probably better that it IS like this anyway (the whole fave music acts thing, I mean). I realised some time back that I made a mistake with “I”, adding Iggy Pop to my I list, when rightfully, he should be here. But anyway…

My first P is…Pulp. They were the epitome of Brit Pop on the mid 90’s (even though they’d been around for YEARS already). Loved them. Love “Common People” and bought “Disco 2000” as a single back then. Love Jarvis Cocker as well, continuing the whole “tall-streak-of-piss-cool-geek” thing I’m on atm. He recently wrote a song called “Running The World” with the chorus line “c*nts are still running the world”.

Pulp – Trees
[youtube=http://youtu.be/zvkiAw0ZIw4]

My second choice is Pet Shop Boys. I’ve never really bought any of their stuff, but I love a lot of it.

Pet Shop Boys – Love Comes Quickly
[youtube=http://youtu.be/QHaA1beOwrY]

Finally, a mention to… Power Station. A short-lived supergroup with John and Andy Taylor from Duran Duran, Tony Thompson on drums, and Robert Palmer as singer. I thought their sound was f*cking awesome! I bought the album at the time (circa 1985) and played it to death. Tony Thompson’s drumming was just killer! He did a lot of work for Bowie as well.

Power Station – Get It On
[youtube=http://youtu.be/tR7z2YzwpcU]

Obviously a YouTube clip can not reveal the powerhouse of sound, but it was ROCKIN’, trust me!!!

It was a tough choice. Not much was screaming out to me under “O” and then I saw William Orbit and thought “Yeah, why not”.

He’s done a lot of production stuff, but he has done his own stuff too. I love his version of Barber’s Adagio for Strings, but I chose this piece for the video.

[youtube=http://youtu.be/ha-cf0M9NBE]
William Orbit’s reinterpretation of John Cage’s In A Landscape.