WolfAtTheDoor's potentially infinite list of music that is important to him (lyrics, soundtrack)

WolfAtTheDoor · 02-22-2009, 02:47 PM

I enjoy this whole 'top 25', 'top 50', or, if you're ambitious, 'top 100' business, and on this relatively dull Sunday night I need something to keep me distracted until the inevitable dreary weekday approaches.

However, my music taste isn't developed enough to actually make a compilation of my favourite albums, so I thought just creating a list of songs that have helped me along in life would be equally entertaining to create.

WolfAtTheDoor · 02-22-2009, 03:00 PM

Billy Bragg - A New England

It's a typical teenage angsty story, just splitting up with your girlfriend and then refusing to do anything at all. I just sat in my house for ages, stewing over things, generally making myself look a bit of a twat to everyone around me. A lovelorn embarassment that, in a group of hardfaced lads like my friends, ends up the subject of ridicule... particularly bad times.

So I just sat in, in my room, watching jurassic park 3 and surviving on pasta, when someone sent me this song... to be honest I'm not sure whether they were taking the piss or what because it was a very apt choice of song to send me at that particular time. But, yknow, whether they were being sarcastic bastards or not, they helped to drag me through that ridiculous time looking like a credible human being. 'I love the words you wrote to me, but that was bloody yesterday' yeah, that's right Bill, you tell the bitch. They've gotta be writing to us everyday for us to think they still give a **** about us, otherwise we're just gonna sit in our rooms shovelling carbohydrates down our throats and crying to the sound of an allasaurus tearing someone in half.

Ridiculous thing, this teenage love thing is. Ta for that one, Bill.

Piss Me Off · 02-22-2009, 03:14 PM

I saw two shooting stars last night
I wished on them but they were only satellites..
Is it wrong to wish on space hardware?

What a lyric, absolutely classic song.

WolfAtTheDoor · 02-22-2009, 03:26 PM

I agree, one of my favourite lyrics of all time. I'd say, next to Levi Stubb's tears, it's Braggs best.

WolfAtTheDoor · 02-22-2009, 03:37 PM

Kid Cudi (Crookers Mix) - Day n Nite

Amongst the endless rubbish that seemed to be on repeat in EVERY club in Malia, this tune topped them all - amidst the blurry drunken haze of a memory that accompanied each night, alls I can seem to remember is 'Day n Nite' coming on and everyone getting far too excited for it to ever be considered legal. What needs to be considered is each club would play this song at least 2/3 times per night. You could hear it echoing around the streets constantly. Then you'd go back to your apartment, and some tossers next door to you would be playing it on their balcony, on their cheap ****ty ipod speakers.

It's only just started to hit it's stride over here now. You can hear it whenever you leave your house - basically, it's massive. And I was there when it first annoyed the **** out of everyone.

WolfAtTheDoor · 02-23-2009, 04:40 AM

Velvet Underground - Who Loves The Sun

I went through a pile of my Mom's tapes this one day when I was young, about 10/11 years old or something, and just kept cycling through the tracks on my little tape recorder in my room. Eventually, I got to this song, and was caught up in the melody and just had it on repeat for ages, not bothering to ask who it was by or anything, but just listening.

So then, come a few years later, I'm about 14, and stumble upon it again via the power of the internet. I check out the band name - Velvet Underground. At this period of time all I ever did was buy CD's, absolutely any CD's, so I went out and bought Velvet Underground & Nico, expecting the same sort of happy shiny pop from them.

Well, I was completely wrong, but nevertheless I was blown away. I was completely surprised that a band could make such hard-faced and unforgiving music and coat it with amazing lyrics about things I'd never even thought of before. At 14, the seedy underbelly of life is not completely apparent to you, but ****ing hell Velvet Underground showed me it all.

I now have the complete collection.

Bulldog · 02-23-2009, 06:39 AM

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Originally Posted by WolfAtTheDoor

Velvet Underground - Who Loves The Sun

^ Top song that. I haven't listened to the Velvets for years, I still feel the same way you do about them though. I think I was about 14 when I first discovered them as well.

Good thread this - keep it going

Urban Hat€monger ? · 03-17-2009, 12:14 PM

To The End wouldn't be anywhere near as good as it is if it didn't have Lætitia Sadier's backing vocals on it.

WolfAtTheDoor · 03-17-2009, 12:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Urban Hatemonger

To The End wouldn't be anywhere near as good as it is if it didn't have Lætitia Sadier's backing vocals on it.

that part of the song is so wanky

WolfAtTheDoor · 08-11-2009, 07:50 AM

David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust

In the 1990's, the only music that ever came on the radio seemed to be from another batch of likely lads telling tales of adolescence and the English nightlife. To listen to a song from any one of the Britpop bands was to instantly feel a connection between your own life and theirs, and that was the whole point - Britpop was all about bands you could have a drink in the pub with.

I was quite a big fan of music growing up, but never broadened my horizons as, after all, I was only a child. Then I remember my mom taking her old record player downstairs from the loft and putting on two of her old vinyls - Love Will Tear Us Apart by Joy Division and Life On Mars by David Bowie.

Of course, I was instantly blew away by the latter. The melancholic tones of Ian Curtis weren't enough to grab my childish attention, but David Bowie's piercing falsetto and perfect cinematic imagery had me hooked. A couple of years later, just at the beginning of my teen years, I picked up the David Bowie Collection for around five pound. I fell in love with every single song and I have since gone on to buy almost the entire David Bowie discography (only to have them all stolen later).

Out of all of the Bowie songs I have heard and owned, Ziggy Stardust remains my all time favourite. It encapsulates that euphoric feeling of being on top of the world, being everything you want to be - along with Rebel Rebel, which narrowly missed out here as my favourite Bowie track, it spoke out to me during my teenage years and made me feel like I could be something more than a Parka wearing dunder-headed lad-about-town.

Granted, the song isn't as full of optimism as I am making out. It indicates that Ziggy Stardust (a character for whom I idolised more and more throughout my teen years, almost obsessively) wasn't as perfect a creation as all the girls who he could 'lick by smiling' thought he was. But as I was going through puberty, I wanted to be Ziggy Stardust, regardless of the pitfalls. And for me, that's what good music is all about.

02-22-2009, 02:47 PM	#1 (permalink)
WolfAtTheDoor ironing your socks Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: I'm in a rocknroll band. huh. Posts: 396	WolfAtTheDoor's potentially infinite list of music that is important to him I enjoy this whole 'top 25', 'top 50', or, if you're ambitious, 'top 100' business, and on this relatively dull Sunday night I need something to keep me distracted until the inevitable dreary weekday approaches. However, my music taste isn't developed enough to actually make a compilation of my favourite albums, so I thought just creating a list of songs that have helped me along in life would be equally entertaining to create. Last edited by WolfAtTheDoor; 02-22-2009 at 03:26 PM.

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Piss Me Off Moodswings n' Roundabouts Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: At the corner of Dude and Catastrophe Posts: 4,470	I saw two shooting stars last night I wished on them but they were only satellites.. Is it wrong to wish on space hardware? What a lyric, absolutely classic song. __________________ Last FM Rate Yr Music Muxtape

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Urban Hat€monger ? The Sexual Intellectual Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Somewhere cooler than you Posts: 18,626	To The End wouldn't be anywhere near as good as it is if it didn't have Lætitia Sadier's backing vocals on it. __________________ Urb's RYM Stuff Most people sell their soul to the devil, but the devil sells his soul to Nick Cave.

02-22-2009, 03:00 PM	#2 (permalink)
WolfAtTheDoor ironing your socks Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: I'm in a rocknroll band. huh. Posts: 396	Billy Bragg - A New England It's a typical teenage angsty story, just splitting up with your girlfriend and then refusing to do anything at all. I just sat in my house for ages, stewing over things, generally making myself look a bit of a twat to everyone around me. A lovelorn embarassment that, in a group of hardfaced lads like my friends, ends up the subject of ridicule... particularly bad times. So I just sat in, in my room, watching jurassic park 3 and surviving on pasta, when someone sent me this song... to be honest I'm not sure whether they were taking the piss or what because it was a very apt choice of song to send me at that particular time. But, yknow, whether they were being sarcastic bastards or not, they helped to drag me through that ridiculous time looking like a credible human being. 'I love the words you wrote to me, but that was bloody yesterday' yeah, that's right Bill, you tell the bitch. They've gotta be writing to us everyday for us to think they still give a **** about us, otherwise we're just gonna sit in our rooms shovelling carbohydrates down our throats and crying to the sound of an allasaurus tearing someone in half. Ridiculous thing, this teenage love thing is. Ta for that one, Bill.

02-22-2009, 03:26 PM	#4 (permalink)
WolfAtTheDoor ironing your socks Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: I'm in a rocknroll band. huh. Posts: 396	I agree, one of my favourite lyrics of all time. I'd say, next to Levi Stubb's tears, it's Braggs best.

02-22-2009, 03:37 PM	#5 (permalink)
WolfAtTheDoor ironing your socks Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: I'm in a rocknroll band. huh. Posts: 396	Kid Cudi (Crookers Mix) - Day n Nite Amongst the endless rubbish that seemed to be on repeat in EVERY club in Malia, this tune topped them all - amidst the blurry drunken haze of a memory that accompanied each night, alls I can seem to remember is 'Day n Nite' coming on and everyone getting far too excited for it to ever be considered legal. What needs to be considered is each club would play this song at least 2/3 times per night. You could hear it echoing around the streets constantly. Then you'd go back to your apartment, and some tossers next door to you would be playing it on their balcony, on their cheap **ty ipod speakers. It's only just started to hit it's stride over here now. You can hear it whenever you leave your house - basically, it's massive. And I was there when it first annoyed the ** out of everyone.

02-23-2009, 04:40 AM	#6 (permalink)
WolfAtTheDoor ironing your socks Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: I'm in a rocknroll band. huh. Posts: 396	Velvet Underground - Who Loves The Sun I went through a pile of my Mom's tapes this one day when I was young, about 10/11 years old or something, and just kept cycling through the tracks on my little tape recorder in my room. Eventually, I got to this song, and was caught up in the melody and just had it on repeat for ages, not bothering to ask who it was by or anything, but just listening. So then, come a few years later, I'm about 14, and stumble upon it again via the power of the internet. I check out the band name - Velvet Underground. At this period of time all I ever did was buy CD's, absolutely any CD's, so I went out and bought Velvet Underground & Nico, expecting the same sort of happy shiny pop from them. Well, I was completely wrong, but nevertheless I was blown away. I was completely surprised that a band could make such hard-faced and unforgiving music and coat it with amazing lyrics about things I'd never even thought of before. At 14, the seedy underbelly of life is not completely apparent to you, but ****ing hell Velvet Underground showed me it all. I now have the complete collection.

08-11-2009, 07:50 AM	#10 (permalink)
WolfAtTheDoor ironing your socks Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: I'm in a rocknroll band. huh. Posts: 396	David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust In the 1990's, the only music that ever came on the radio seemed to be from another batch of likely lads telling tales of adolescence and the English nightlife. To listen to a song from any one of the Britpop bands was to instantly feel a connection between your own life and theirs, and that was the whole point - Britpop was all about bands you could have a drink in the pub with. I was quite a big fan of music growing up, but never broadened my horizons as, after all, I was only a child. Then I remember my mom taking her old record player downstairs from the loft and putting on two of her old vinyls - Love Will Tear Us Apart by Joy Division and Life On Mars by David Bowie. Of course, I was instantly blew away by the latter. The melancholic tones of Ian Curtis weren't enough to grab my childish attention, but David Bowie's piercing falsetto and perfect cinematic imagery had me hooked. A couple of years later, just at the beginning of my teen years, I picked up the David Bowie Collection for around five pound. I fell in love with every single song and I have since gone on to buy almost the entire David Bowie discography (only to have them all stolen later). Out of all of the Bowie songs I have heard and owned, Ziggy Stardust remains my all time favourite. It encapsulates that euphoric feeling of being on top of the world, being everything you want to be - along with Rebel Rebel, which narrowly missed out here as my favourite Bowie track, it spoke out to me during my teenage years and made me feel like I could be something more than a Parka wearing dunder-headed lad-about-town. Granted, the song isn't as full of optimism as I am making out. It indicates that Ziggy Stardust (a character for whom I idolised more and more throughout my teen years, almost obsessively) wasn't as perfect a creation as all the girls who he could 'lick by smiling' thought he was. But as I was going through puberty, I wanted to be Ziggy Stardust, regardless of the pitfalls. And for me, that's what good music is all about.