20 Favourite Songs
Who am I kidding? If tone deafness was an art then I'd be Picasso - a bit messy and a bit all over the place but I know what I like and in 50 years people may begin to appreciate my brilliance.
This blog article (is there a jargon word for that? - a blarticle perhaps) has been inspired by a regular contributor (there are two of them believe it or not) looking for a forum to list his 20 favourite songs. Being the blog slut that I am I'll host anything anytime and if I get a virus well then what a way to go. The fame-o-meter has nearly hit 100 and by my calculations that's gotta be worth at least 10 seconds of my 15 minutes (I'm still owed over 13 minutes).
So of course, despite only knowing about 11 songs, and three of them off the same Midnight Oil album, I have no choice but to start the listings with my own 20 favourite songs (or at least 20 that spring to mind because I was doing something memorable at the time). In no particular order, and I make no apology for getting the names wrong, here they are:
Power and the Passion - Midnight Oil
London Calling - The Clash
Highway to Hell - AC/DC
End Of The World As We Know It - REM (and a song I'd like played at my cremation)
Here We Go Again - OK Go (the other song I'd like played at my cremation)
Breakaway - Big Pig (my first gig, my first album).
Have You Ever Seen Sydney From a 767 (727? 737?747?) At Night? - Paul Kelly (I listened to this once while flying into Sydney at night - you don't forget moments like that)
LA Woman - The Doors
Seven Nation Army - The White Stripes
Beds are Burning - Midnight Oil
And your pick of any number of songs from: TISM, Nick Cave, Rocket Science, The Strokes, Machine Gun Fellatio etc etc
Told you I couldn't name 20 songs.
