what song(s) do you you find so aesthetically amazing you wish you had written them?

my choices:

how soon is now--the smiths more than this--roxy music what's going on--marvin gaye there she goes--the la's i believe when i fall in love with you (it will be forever)--stevie wonder the killing moon--echo and the bunnymen

Off to one side - Come World Leader Pretend - rem Seeing Red - Killing Joke.

still thinkin

Brighter Than Sunshine,Aqualung.

THERE THERE MY DEAR Dexy's Midnight Runners

Some more:

Modern Love,David Bowie.

Gimme Shelter,The Rolling Stones.

TPK-NO Killing Moon (All Night Version)-Bunnymen You're Not Alone-Olive Setting Sun-Howling Bells Setting Sun (album version)-Chemical Bros. Chime 12"-Orbital Planet Telex-Radiohead

Can probably think of more, but they're just some of the songs i've been listening to a lot recently...

Rattlesnakes - Lloyd Cole Uncertain Smile - The Down in the Tube Station at Midnight - Jam Thieves Like Us - them from here. Walls Come Tumbling Down - Style Council. Yesterdays men - Madness.

Papa Bendi wrote: TPK-NO Killing Moon (All Night Version)-Bunnymen You're Not Alone-Olive Setting Sun-Howling Bells Setting Sun (album version)-Chemical Bros. Chime 12"-Orbital Planet Telex-Radiohead

Can probably think of more, but they're just some of the songs i've been listening to a lot recently...

Olive? slipped that one in for a guffaw hey mate?

J.A.K wrote:

Papa Bendi wrote: TPK-NO Killing Moon (All Night Version)-Bunnymen You're Not Alone-Olive Setting Sun-Howling Bells Setting Sun (album version)-Chemical Bros. Chime 12"-Orbital Planet Telex-Radiohead

Can probably think of more, but they're just some of the songs i've been listening to a lot recently...

Olive? slipped that one in for a guffaw hey mate?

Not slipped in at all It earned its place with them songs Nowt wrong with Olive:D

Papa Bendi wrote:

J.A.K wrote:

Papa Bendi wrote: TPK-NO Killing Moon (All Night Version)-Bunnymen You're Not Alone-Olive Setting Sun-Howling Bells Setting Sun (album version)-Chemical Bros. Chime 12"-Orbital Planet Telex-Radiohead

Can probably think of more, but they're just some of the songs i've been listening to a lot recently...

Olive? slipped that one in for a guffaw hey mate?

Not slipped in at all It earned its place with them songs Nowt wrong with Olive:D

did you buy the Venga bus is comin, too, when you were little? and Boom Boom Boom Boom by 2 Unlimited?

-there is a light that never goes out- the smiths

What's the meaning of the work aesthetically in this context?

I wish I'd written Father to Son by Cat Stevens.

J.A.K wrote:

Papa Bendi wrote:

J.A.K wrote:

Papa Bendi wrote: TPK-NO Killing Moon (All Night Version)-Bunnymen You're Not Alone-Olive Setting Sun-Howling Bells Setting Sun (album version)-Chemical Bros. Chime 12"-Orbital Planet Telex-Radiohead

Can probably think of more, but they're just some of the songs i've been listening to a lot recently...

Olive? slipped that one in for a guffaw hey mate?

Not slipped in at all It earned its place with them songs Nowt wrong with Olive:D

did you buy the Venga bus is comin, too, when you were little? and Boom Boom Boom Boom by 2 Unlimited?

No.

unfortunately

The Wilder They Come wrote: What's the meaning of the work aesthetically in this context?

I wish I'd written Father to Son by Cat Stevens.

......just relax,settle down:p

Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division True Faith - New Order You make me feel like a natural woman - Aretha Franklin The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face - Roberta Flack Masterplan - Oasis

There's so many...

Requiem - Killing Joke You Walk In My Soul - Gary Numan Seven Seas - Echo and the Bunnymen Lies Lies Lies - Ministry BLT - NO Disorder - JD Multinational Corporations - Napalm Death Over The Hills and Far Away - Led Zeppelin Reignition - Bad Brains Stars of CCTV - Hard Fi Through the Dark - KT Tunstall

And more

The Wilder They Come wrote: What's the meaning of the work aesthetically in this context?

extraordinarily beautiful or powerful (makes the hair stand up on the back of your neck); exceptionally pleasing to the ears....

and kershie: there's NOTHING WRONG WITH THE OLIVE SONG! :p

pearl jam - black alice in chains - nutshell

(both musical perfection)

neil young - cortez the killer metallica - fade to black

Gorecki by Lamb

Miles from Nowhere - Cat Stevens Who would Jesus Bomb? - David Rovics Love the one yer with with - Stephen Stills Garden Song - Daevid Allen Wise Man in your Heart - Daevid Allen

Mostly the simpler ones really..........

I Threw It All Away by Bob Dylan

Lost by Meat Puppets

Wet Blanket by The Chills

(Sometimes I Feel Like) Fletcher Christian by The Mekons

Dusty In Here by The Go Betweens

Book Of Rules as done by the Heptones

Stolen Property by The Triffids

Whistle Down The Wind by Tom Waits

Listen/Space by Marty Willson-Piper

Hex by Catherine Irwin/Freakwater

Complicated Game by XTC and (Nothing But )Flowers by Talking Heads as well.

life in a northern town - dream academy the whole of the moon - the waterboys

£50 Note wrote: Gorecki by Lamb

Cheers £50 quid, I was reading down this thread and thinking " I dunno if I wish I'd wrote any song". BUT, you made me see there is one.

Gorecki's 3rd symphony, particularly the 2nd movement, it's possible the most powerful, most clearly communicative peice of music ever written, albeit, it communicates a tragedy brought on by a great evil.

Whey hey, this is difficult.............

Both Sides Now - Joni Mitchell Embarrassment - Madness God Only Knows - Beach Boys Why - Annie Lennox I Scare Myself - Thomas Dolby Watching the Wheels - John Lennon Forbidden City - dunno who sang that......... The doughnut song - Bob Marley

NOOLigan wrote: life in a northern town - dream academy the whole of the moon - the waterboys

Oh, I love that song (Waterboys) .........forgot all about it. There was a song by Split Enz that I loved too........can't remember what it was called. Early 80's ??

Kath wrote:

NOOLigan wrote: life in a northern town - dream academy the whole of the moon - the waterboys

Oh, I love that song (Waterboys) .........forgot all about it. There was a song by Split Enz that I loved too........can't remember what it was called. Early 80's ??

six months in a leaky boat?

NOOLigan wrote:

Kath wrote:

NOOLigan wrote: life in a northern town - dream academy the whole of the moon - the waterboys

Oh, I love that song (Waterboys) .........forgot all about it. There was a song by Split Enz that I loved too........can't remember what it was called. Early 80's ??

six months in a leaky boat?

No. Googled and I still can't find it. I do know I was at school at the time, and my best friend absolutely played it to death..............aaagggh........

Message To My Girl?

i give up.

NOOLigan wrote: Message To My Girl?

i give up.

Nope. This will keep me awake all night now...........

It was a love song/ballad; she kept crying when she heard it anyway,..............aaaaaGGGGHHHH.............

what was it?

Christopher Owens wrote:

Stars of CCTV - Hard Fi Through the Dark - KT Tunstall

Your having a giraffe,no?

Kath wrote:

NOOLigan wrote: Message To My Girl?

i give up.

Nope. This will keep me awake all night now...........

It was a love song/ballad; she kept crying when she heard it anyway,..............aaaaaGGGGHHHH.............

what was it?

give us a clue. i have the best of at home.

NOOLigan wrote:

Kath wrote:

NOOLigan wrote: Message To My Girl?

i give up.

Nope. This will keep me awake all night now...........

It was a love song/ballad; she kept crying when she heard it anyway,..............aaaaaGGGGHHHH.............

what was it?

give us a clue. i have the best of at home.

Bugger it.

Thinking.

was it before they were Split Enz?

Can't ring her now........she's got got 3 kids under 8..........

Kath wrote: Whey hey, this is difficult.............

Both Sides Now - Joni Mitchell Embarrassment - Madness God Only Knows - Beach Boys Why - Annie Lennox I Scare Myself - Thomas Dolby Watching the Wheels - John Lennon Forbidden City - dunno who sang that......... The doughnut song - Bob Marley

I forgot...........

Us and them - Pink Floyd

ROCKET MICK wrote:

The Wilder They Come wrote: What's the meaning of the work aesthetically in this context?

I wish I'd written Father to Son by Cat Stevens.

......just relax,settle down:p

For you will still be here tommorrow,but your dreams may not...sigh

I wish I'd written every song I love,but I'm glad at least someone did..Particularly New Order and Roses choons. How do they do it? I mean lyrics ok,doable...But how do they invent such beautiful music like Ceremony or YSF, for example?

'Hit me Baby One More Time' - Britney Spears

patrick stewart appreciation society wrote:

Christopher Owens wrote:

Stars of CCTV - Hard Fi Through the Dark - KT Tunstall

Your having a giraffe,no?

No way, PSAS.

Kath wrote:

NOOLigan wrote:

Kath wrote:

NOOLigan wrote: Message To My Girl?

i give up.

Nope. This will keep me awake all night now...........

It was a love song/ballad; she kept crying when she heard it anyway,..............aaaaaGGGGHHHH.............

what was it?

give us a clue. i have the best of at home.

Bugger it.

Thinking.

was it before they were Split Enz?

Can't ring her now........she's got got 3 kids under 8..........

they became Crowded House later, well most of them.

The Durutti Column - Sketch For Summer

Snorri xxx

...and Brighter - Ocean Sky, which I'm listening to now... Still takes my breath away fifteen years on...

Snorri xxx

Snorrimon wrote: ...and Brighter - Ocean Sky, which I'm listening to now... Still takes my breath away fifteen years on...

Snorri xxx

oi Snorri.. go to bed you big tart.

You're heading into drunken Brit zone at this time. You'll be in the chatroom next

Not likely! I hear it's all nutters in there! I'm having to get my NOOL fix all at once at the moment, computers at work are getting all arsey with the forums... They even seem to have banned the Times Educational Supplement jobs web-site, so even if we want to get out, we can't!

Snorri xxx

Snorrimon wrote: Not likely! I hear it's all nutters in there! I'm having to get my NOOL fix all at once at the moment, computers at work are getting all arsey with the forums... They even seem to have banned the Times Educational Supplement jobs web-site, so even if we want to get out, we can't!

Snorri xxx

okey dokey. You need a bottle of Thunderbird in a brown paper bag to type in here at this time though.

Anyways.. earlier i mentioned 'Britney - Hit me etc'. I've just decided i wanted to direct the video instead. Sod the track.

I'll nip down the 24-hour mini-mart to get some booze forthwith...

Snorri xxx

Snorrimon wrote: I'll nip down the 24-hour mini-mart to get some booze forthwith...

Snorri xxx

Make sure its in a brown paper bag... And act shifty, as if you are casing the joint.

I'll wear a hoodie...

Snorri xxx

New Order - Temptation Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart Derek and the Dominoes - Layla Belle and Sebastian - Lazy Line Painter Jane/The Wrong Girl/I Love My Car/Funny Little Frog Death Cab for Cutie - I Will Follow You Into the Dark Old 97s - Question The Clash - The Magnificant Seven Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees Elvis Costello - Party Girl The Kinks - Waterloo Sunset George Harrison - What Is Life? The Beatles - Hey Jude Marvin Gaye - Let's Get It On XTC - Mayor of Simpleton/Dear God/Earn Enough for Us The Modern Lovers - Roadrunner

I'm sure there will be more...

Okay, a few more:

Lou Reed - Perfect Day Talking Heads - Pulled Up REM - It's The End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) Joy Division - Transmission Sex Pistols - God Save the Queen The Smiths - This Charming Man/There Is a Light That Never Goes Out Beastie Boys - Hey Ladies The Coral - Dreaming of You Simon and Garfunkel - Mrs. Robinson The Ronettes - Be My Baby Beach Boys - God Only Knows (the alltime best pop song ever written, btw...nothing comes close)

That's it...I think

bizarre love triangle-new order

horses-tori amos

Doctor? wrote:

£50 Note wrote: Gorecki by Lamb

Cheers £50 quid, I was reading down this thread and thinking " I dunno if I wish I'd wrote any song". BUT, you made me see there is one.

Gorecki's 3rd symphony, particularly the 2nd movement, it's possible the most powerful, most clearly communicative peice of music ever written, albeit, it communicates a tragedy brought on by a great evil.

They're all sad really, the 3rd one with the mother looking for her lost and dead son especially Got four or five different versions of that and the Dawn Upshaw one is the best.

oh, er...

Wishlist by Pearl Jam Don't Panic by Coldplay Deep Down by Calexico :)

Oh my this is RICH!!!!

"Good Day Sunshine" The Beatles "Streets of Philadelphia" Bruce Springsteen "World Where You Live" Crowded House A decent slice of NO-s back catalog from 83-89 (bout 6 on my mind) What difference Does It makes? The Smiths "Black Metallic" Catherine Wheel" Lots of U2 (Where The Streets Have No name, With or Without You, One) Dead Souls-JD Take 5-Dave Brubeck Rachmaninoff's 3rd Piano Concerto Folsom Prison Blues-Johnny Cash Jeremy-Pearl jam Dirty Water-The Standells A Love supreme-John Coltrane (the whole thing!!" Moonshadow-cat Stevens Many Rivers to Cross" Jimmy Cliff Someone to Watch Over Me-the arrangement sung by Ella Fitzgerald "Fly Me to The Moon-Frank Sinatra "Cat's in The Cradle" Harry Chapin "Closer to Fine" Indigo Girls "Girl Who Lives on Heaven Hill" Husker Du "Hallelujah" Leonard Cohen, tho the cover by Jeff Buckley is an all time fave "Into The Mystic-van Morrison

Yer all mad, let some other sod do the hard part and leave us to enjoying listening and playing.

£50 Note wrote: Gorecki by Lamb

Amen!

Returning slightly drunk from the boozer just now, TPK came on the iPod, to the usual nodding of the head and thinking 'Choon'... But what blew me away, and hence is worthy of a mention here, is the fact that it was followed by the Substance version of BLT... I have seriously underrated that one...

Still wish I'd written Temptation more though...

Snorri xxx

EDIT: And a second Amen to Gorecki by Lamb... Still liable to reduce me to tears...

I think I may have missed a few the first two times around , so here goes:

Death Cab for Cutie - Your Heart Is an Empty Room Iggy Pop - Fall In Love With Me/The Passenger/1969 Velvet Underground - Heroin/Sister Ray Weezer - Say It Ain't So/The Good Life/El Scorcho/Island In the Sun/This is Such a Pity The Clash - London Calling Bob Dylan - Just Like a Woman/Highway 61 Revisited

DiscoShed wrote:

"Closer to Fine" Indigo Girls

reminds me. i'd have to add galileo by indigo girls to my list.

Ceremony - New Order Train In Vain - The Clash Whitman in Hammersmith Palais - The Clash Gimme Shelter - The Rolling Stones

In no particular order

Ceremony- New Order/Joy Division Dreams Never End- New Order Nowhere Girl- B-Movie Killing Moon- Echo & the Bunnymen Mad World- Gary Jules Stroke of Luck- Garbage Medication-Garbage Polly-Nirvana Luka- Suzanne Vega Just- Radiohead Creep- Radiohead Run- New Order Perfect Kiss- New Order Atmosphere-Joy Division Decades-Joy Division Dream Attack- New Order Vanishing Point-New Order Waiting for the Sirens Call- New Order Who's Joe- New Order Hey, Now What You're Doing?-New Order Regret-New Order World-New Order 1963- New Order Blue Monday- New Order Heart of Stone- Stone Roses I Wanna Be Adored-Stone Roses Cities in Dust- Siouxsie and the Banshees Arabian Nights- Siouxsie and the Banshees Last Night-Lush Soul Meets Body- Death Cab for Cutie Crooked Teeth- Death Cab for Cutie

Please by Mandalay Rid of Me by PJ Harvey I Feel Free by Cream Here Comes the Sun by the Beatles Malibu Love Nest by Luna

There are a lot more, but that's all I can think of at this particular moment.

Rolling Stones - Ruby Tuesday/You Can't Always Get What You Want Talking Heads - And She Was Kaiser Chiefs - Everyday I Love You Less and Less Arctic Monkeys - A Certain Romance Husker Du - It's Not Funny Anymore Squeeze - Tempted/Another Nail for My Heart/Goodbye Girl/Black Coffee in Bed/Vanity Fair/Cool for Cats/In Quintessence/Heaven/Up the Junction (really, is there such a thing as a "bad Squeeze song", at least from the 78-82 incarnation?) Grateful Dead - Casey Jones Bobby Darin - Mack the Knife/Beyond the Sea

I think that's about it

Snorrimon wrote:

EDIT: And a second Amen to Gorecki by Lamb... Still liable to reduce me to tears...

Same here too. I love the black and white music video.

I also love Lullaby by Lamb. Lou Rhodes has an amazing voice.

"Always and forever..."

Kath wrote:

NOOLigan wrote: life in a northern town - dream academy the whole of the moon - the waterboys

Oh, I love that song (Waterboys) .........forgot all about it. There was a song by Split Enz that I loved too........can't remember what it was called. Early 80's ??

KATH,is it I GOT YOU? Or ONE STEP AHEAD? I used to love both of them,and finally got them on 7" vinyl a few years ago.

[magenta]shedmonite61[/magenta] wrote:

Mad World- Gary Jules

That was Tears For Fears, not Gary Jules.

Stripped - Depeche Mode The Blood - The Cure Sweet Leaf - Black Sabbath Love Hungry Man - AC/DC Nebraska - Springsteen Running To Stand Still - U2 Shot In The Dark - Ozzy I Wanna Be Sedated - The Ramones Too Drunk To Fuck - Dead Kennedys Jigsaw Feeling - Siouxsie and the Banshees Paradise City - Guns N Roses Pssyche - Killing Joke Protest and Survive - Discharge UK 82 - The Exploited Archives of Pain - Manic Street Preachers

Kath wrote: Whey hey, this is difficult.............

I Scare Myself - Thomas Dolby

What a class album The Flat Earth is! Being a cassette snob,I've not played it in ages.So I've just this minute ordered it on Amazon.Solely for that song and SCREEN KISS.