Seven Songs

Damn you, Tom, just as I was doing some work, you land me with a meme that’s actually quite cool…

“List seven songs you’re into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they’re not any good, but they must be songs you’re really enjoying now, shaping your spring.”

I’m neck-deep in other stuff at the moment, and wasn’t going to add links to them, but it turned out to be pretty easy to find stuff on so most likely won’t attach links to the songs/videos (unless I can find them easily) but here goes, in no particular order, seven songs currently infecting my head…

1. Nick Cave’s “Song of Joy” from the “Murder Ballads” album. A long-time favourite, and now a small part of the inspiration for a short screenplay I’m writing when I get time/chance/opportunity
2. Pendulum’s “Propane Nightmares” from “In Silico” (and the most recent single) – there’s just something unidentifiably fantastic about this for me, and I’m a definite fan of the video as well, creepy preacher and all.
3. Nine Inch Nail’s “Something I Can Never Have“, a long-time favourite that still just plays into my head at various points.
4. Bobbie Gentry’s “Ode to Billy Jo” – I first heard this way back on a David Holmes Essential Mix for Radio One, and it’s always been a favourite. I downloaded a Bobbie Gentry album recently, and this was on it
5. Dead Can Dance’s “Ubiquitous Mr Lovegrove” – another favourite that is currently being part of the soundtrack for the short screenplay. It won’t be in the finished product, but it’s in my head now, so there we go.
6. Duffy’s “Stepping Stone” – I like a lot of Duffy’s album, but for me this is the one that keeps coming back
   and finally
7. back to Nick Cave for “The Curse of Millhaven“, again from “Murder Ballads”. I’ve been revisiting this album recently, and the chorus (small as it is) is just too catchy by far. And the lyrics, well, they’re just genius.

Who will I tag with this pain-in-the-ass? Hmm, I think it’ll be

• Gordon
• Woman
• Blue Witch (Who I bet won’t do it)
  and
• Skytower