Continuing the meme from here and here, my current top 7 songs (in no particular order):
1) “Body Electric” – The Sisters Of Mercy. I’ve been going through a strong SoM renaissance recently and this is as good as they ever did. Bonus points for me not having it on CD, and listening to it in my car via taping from vinyl onto a minidisc 🙂
2) “????We’re ALIVE” – Morning Musume. Perhaps my favourite MM song. I love the frequent tempo and vocalist changes. Yes this is manufactured Japanese idol-pop, but when it’s done this well who cares!
3) “Only You” – Yazoo. I got back into this song after seeing the incredible video recently (CG of two mannequins embracing). This is a song for the ages, a veritable masterpiece from Vince Clarke, with perfect melodies and lyrics. The man is very self-deprecating, claiming his desire is to write the ultimate pop song. And yet he’s already done it, many many times.
4) “Oh My Lord” – Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds. There was a time when I may have suggested Cave had reached his lyrical peak in “New Morning”. And then he wrote this (and then, years later, “Nature Boy”). Cave’s genius is unfettered here, and the power of the song is not easily forgotten.
5) “Prime Mover” – Zodiac Mindwarp And The Love Reaction. When time is short (such as when I’m getting ready for work) and I’m very hyper and just need music, this song is often queued on the iPod. Insane when it was released, it could be even more insane now. (Fun Fact: This song reminds me of playing the C64 game Entombed)
6) “Say Goodbye” – Hunters And Collectors. The best song ever released by an Australian band, IMHO (I exclude Nick Cave, a ‘man of the world’). I can remember my oh-so-cool self scoffing at this one as it played at school dances. Now I wonder just how such an insidious lyric became such a crowd favourite. If you’re after a song that painfully chronologues a failing relationship, this one’s for you.
7) “Making Love Out Of Nothing At All” – Air Supply. The most played song on my iPod and quite probably my favourite song of all. For sure, was this list only one entry, it would be this. Yes it’s pompous and absurd and insanely OTT, but we all know how things can worm their ways into our minds inexplicably. And this song has done just that. This song is amazingly fun to sing along to, BTW, and for bonus points the video is incredible 🙂
I hereby tag SFL to continue on her blog!
