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Glenn’s Top 50 favourite songs of the 1960s

1. The Beatles - Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)

2. The Ronettes - Be My Baby

3. Frank Sinatra - The Nearness of You

4. The Beach Boys - Don’t Worry Baby

5. Classics IV - Traces

6. Smokey Robinson & the Miracles - You Really Got a Hold on Me

7. The Critters - Mr Dieingly Sad

8. The Kinks - Waterloo Sunset

9. David Bowie - Space Oddity

10. The Shangri-Las - The Leader of the Pack

11. Dusty Springfield - You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me

12. Roy Orbison - Crying

13. Cliff Richard - The Twelfth of Never

14. Love - Alone Again Or

15. Brian Hyland - Ginny Come Lately

16. The Zombies - Care of Cell 44

17. Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell - If This World Were Mine

18. The Everly Brothers - Devoted to You

19. Darlene Love - Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)

20. Petula Clark - Kiss Me Goodbye

21. ? and the Mysterians - 96 Tears

22. Tommy James & the Shondells - Crimson and Clover

23. The Monkees - Daydream Believer

24. Dion - Runaround Sue

25. The Cascades - Shy Girl

26. The Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter

27. The Doors - Light My Fire

28. Gene Chandler - Duke of Earl

29. The Hollies - Bus Stop

30. Patsy Cline - Crazy

31. The Bee Gees - Don’t Forget to Remember

32. The Mamas & the Papas - California Dreamin’

33. Elvis Presley - Suspicious Minds

34. Gram Parsons - Love Hurts

35. The Byrds - Turn! Turn! Turn!

36. Simon & Garfunkel - El Condor Pasa (If I Could)

37. Led Zeppelin - Dazed and Confused

38. Otis Redding - Try A Little Tenderness

39. The Band - The Weight

40. Brenda Lee - The End of the World

41. The Shirelles - Will You Love Me Tomorrow

42. The Kingsmen - Louie Louie

43. Bob Dylan - Like a Rolling Stone

44. Cilla Black - Anyone Who Had a Heart

45. Nancy Sinatra - You Only Live Twice

46. Procul Harum - A Whiter Shade of Pale

47. Velvet Underground - Heroin

48. Dave Clark 5 - Because

49. The Crystals - He’s a Rebel

50. The Who - I Can’t Explain

#1960s music #60 music #top songs #favourite songs #beatles #ronettes #frank sinatra #beach boys #classics iv #smokey robinson #critters #kinks #David bowie #shangri-las

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Billie Eilish - “Xanny” / “When the Party’s Over” / “Wish You Were Gay”

Dave Grohl, on Billie Eilish: “My daughters are obsessed with Billie Eilish. And what I’m seeing happening with my daughters is the same thing that happened to me at their age. My daughters are listening to Billie Eilish and they’re becoming themselves through her music. She totally connects to them. So we went to go see her play at the Wiltren, and that connection that she has with her audience is the same thing that was happening with Nirvana in 1991. The people in the audience know every word.”

I get it.

-Glenn

#billie eilish #xanny #when the party's over #wish you were gay

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Glenn’s Top 50 favourite songs of the 1980s

1. The Smiths - There is a Light That Never Goes Out

2. New Order - Temptation

3. The Cure - Pictures of You

4. The Pogues - Fairytale of New York

5. Spandau Ballet - Gold

6. China Crisis - Black Man Ray

7. Dexy’s Midnight Runners - Come on Eileen

8. John Waite - Missing You

9. Til Tuesday - Voices Carry

10. Bon Jovi - Livin’ on a Prayer

11. The Sugarcubes - Birthday

12. Prefab Sprout - When Love Breaks Down

13. U2 - Bad

14. The Stone Roses - I Wanna Be Adored

15. The Outfield - Your Love

16. A Flock of Seagulls - Space Age Love Song

17. Prince - Purple Rain

18. Skid Row - I’ll Remember You

19. The Style Council - You’re The Best Thing

20. Pet Shop Boys - Being Boring

21. A-Ha - Take On Me

22. Modern English - I Melt With You

23. Lightning Seeds - Pure

24. Elvis Costello - Shipbuilding

25. Kim Carnes - Bette Davis Eyes

26. Tears for Fears - Head Over Heels

27. The Dawn - Salamat

28. Don Henley - The Boys of Summer

29. Ultravox - Vienna

30. Sonic Youth - Teenage Riot

31. Hall and Oates - She’s Gone

32. Talking Heads - Psycho Killer

33. Roxy Music - More Than This

34. The Cars - Just What I Needed

35. INXS - Never Tear Us Apart

36. Jesus and Mary Chain - Just Like Honey

37. John Lennon - (Just Like) Starting Over

38. Gary Valenciano - ‘Di Na Natuto

39. Whitney Houston - Saving All My Love For You

40. Squeeze - Tempted

41. Culture Club - Mistake Number 3

42. Erasure - A Little Respect

43. R.E.M. - So. Central Rain

44. Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights

45. Pixies - Debaser

46. Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart

47. David Bowie - China Girl

48. Madonna - Like A Prayer

49. The Human League - Don’t You Want Me

50. Cyndi Lauper - When You Were Mine

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The Avalanches - Colours

Remember 2000? Back when the new millennium made everything uncertain? Back when Napster, Audiogalaxy, and Limewire were all the rage? Back when copyright protection could not stymie the explosion of digital downloads?

A release like The Avalanches’ seminal Since I Left You made so much sense then. Since I Left You was an absolute sonic collage and was rightfully heralded as an instant classic. The Avalanches could take what seemed like a thousand samples and turn these into gorgeous, if not restless, farragos of sound. And underneath this quilt was naked emotion: “Since I left you / I found the world so blue.”

Fast forward to 2016: The Avs are finally set to release record number two in less than a month. Our first sampling, “Colours,” is less a collage and more an organic, swirling, magical ride. This may be the sound of maturity, or progress. Or the brick wall of copyright. But they have not lost the power to tap into sentiment and transport you back to a different time. Perhaps, back to 2000.

- Glenn

#the avalanches #colours #wilflower #new music #electronic pop #2016 music

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The Coral - “Miss Fortune”

By all accounts, The Coral = “Dreaming of You,��� at least to me. One great little pop song and nothing more. But then it appears I missed a minor masterpiece in 2010′s Butterfly House. So I have to check that out, too.

But wow, when did these guys turn in Echo and the Bunnymen 2.0? This is fantastic stuff. One of my favorites of 2016 so far.

-Glenn

#the coral #miss fortune #distance inbetween #new music #indie pop #indie rock #butterfly house #2016 music

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K’s Choice - “Cannonball” (Damien Rice Cover)

You know those times when an artist completely owns a cover? Think Ryan Adams’ “Wonderwall” or Sinead O’Connor’s “Nothing Compares 2 U.” That’s what this cover is all about.

K’s Choice lend their brand of fragility which made “Not an Addict” such a tasty 90s hit to this Damien Rice cover. And they need nothing more than a guitar and a glockenspiel. Absolutely beautiful.

#k's choice #cannonball #damien rice #cover #throwbackthursday #indie rock #indie covers #music for life

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The Go! Team - “The Scene Between”

I’ve always liked The Go! Team. In a scene of cynics, they burst with unbridled joy. “The Scene Between” captures the rapture of a gospel choir and the controlled chaos of careering drums and harpsichord.

It’s the thrill of waiting for a car crash to happen — and the exhilaration of escaping unscathed.

And man, that crazy VHS-quality music video.

-Glenn

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Blur - The Universal

Still my favorite band of all time and this, their greatest song.

The whole crowd singing at the end of this performance literally gave me goosebumps. And was Damon Albarn crying?

But even if this was released 19(!) years ago, the sentiment remains relevant. We are a generation overcome by inertia, and the best most of us can do is hope that tomorrow will be luckier and that it really, really, really could happen.

-Glenn

#blur #the universal #live in hyde park #the great escape #favorite song #1995 #britpop

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Tears for Fears - "My Girls" (Animal Collective cover)

Finally, the song that answers the (not so) age-old question: what happens when Animal Collective and Tears for Fears sire a child?

#tears for fears #animal collective #my girls #cover #2014 #indie music

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Cattski - Drunk

Time for some local flavour. Here's a catchy tune my and Jill's friend introduced to us. Cattski laments, "you only love me when you're drunk." This is an edgy, but melodic take on a sentiment quite a few people have felt in their lives.

#cattski #drunk #filipino #music

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The Kinks - Waterloo Sunset

I keep on saying that Waterloo Sunset is the best pop song ever written. There’s no easy way to tell why we like certain songs. To my mind though, one recurring factor is the songwriter’s attention to detail. And that exactly is what makes Waterloo Sunset special. It is about the mundane: lovers meet in Waterloo station, two people among many. It is about that moment we gaze outside our windows and notice beauty in simple serenity. This song is about the way we construct paradise and project it to the environment surrounding us. I realized how much I love this song after I revisited my favorite city in the world, New York. And many of us know that feeling that crashes as soon as we touch down back home. Then it hits us: our favorite cities are such because our relationships with them are fleeting and ephemeral. Then three days, four days pass. Soon, we fathom that traffic-laden Manila is our charming little Waterloo Sunset after all, offering a paradise we barely see in the rush of banality.

-Glenn

#music #musicblog

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Orange Peels - You’re so Clever

What’s the catchiest song you’ve ever heard? This is mine.

The funny thing is, I don’t know anything about the Orange Peels. And there’s nothing much about them online. This is pop in a vacuum — a sprightly slice of indie sunshine that has no other purpose but to make an unassuming listener smile.

Of course, this is unless “you’re so clever / I just have to let you know” is secretly sarcastic. And this has been bugging me for years. No use trying to figure out what as-of-now-nameless singer intended, though. This is pop in a vacuum. - Glenn

#musicblog #inappropriate #orangepeels #indie #rock #youresoclever

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whenthewhat:

The Creatures Capturing America’s Hearts

I'm fairly sure the years of "mutant turtles" and "ghosts of swayze" won't ever be replicated.

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zombiesmaketheheartgrowfonder:

maritsa:

Muppet centipede, courtesy of my husband.

I’m torn between laughing and wanting to vomit.

This. Is. Amazing.  I am dying laughing. 

ONE DIGESTIVE TRACK!

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This is my official 2011 Summer Song:

Please Stay by Summer Heart

"Summer love, your heart is warm / And I believe that we have found the perfect match"

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thedailywhat:

Macro of the Day: This should have been his official statement.

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