So I'm sitting here listening to Scheherazade by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (What? I'm a classy dude at times. I like classical music and you should too you tasteless heathen.) and I caught myself wondering what my top five songs were. The whole if I was stranded on a desert island and all that crap scenario. What five songs would I be able to listen too until the day I die if they were the only ones I could listen too? SO pondered as I ate my Doritos and searched my music library. I made a list of 20 or so songs and went to my Thinking Chair to really ponder it. When my decisions were made I washed my hands and came here to inform you of the greatness my brain meats have come up with. Without further ado here are the five songs that I could listen to forever.
#5: Roads by Portishead
The first time I heard this song it was in the movie Tank Girl. Yes. Tank Girl with Lori Petty and Ice T as a humanoid kangaroo. This is probably one of the main reasons I love this movie so much. The song is the reason I'm here though so lets move on. The song is just has this slow, low toned, melancholy beauty that just gets to me. If you listen to the lyrics it's a very lonely song. Kind of fitting for being alone on a desert island.
Roads by Portishead
#4: Missing You by Jem
I grabbed her CD when I saw her live. Never heard her before. Had no clue who she was or what kind of music I was in for but went to the show anyways. I was nowhere near disappointed. The stage presence and pipes on this woman blew me away, this song in particular, sent me straight to the merch table to buy anything of hers that had her music on it. I put this CD in my car and it didn't leave my radio for months.
Missing You by Jem
#3: Elenore by The Turtles
I have never been able to explain my inability to be silent during this song. I have to dance. I HAVE to sing. It's just so awesome. Just a great song about a dude who loves a dame named Elenore. He can't shut up about her and I can't shut up during the song. I love it.
Elenore by The Turtles
#2: En Aranjuez Con Tu Amor by Joaquin Rodrigo or Danny Boy, both performed by the Grimthorpe Colliery Band
You'd have to be the most unfeeling bastard in the world to not be moved by these brass songs. I love them and would go full blown gay for both. Just the emotion and skill pouring out of the instruments and into every cell of my body from these songs is awesome. I will openly weep anytime I hear this rendition of Danny Boy I don't care where I am. This version of En Aranjuez is so beautiful I wanna take it out to a nice dinner, take it home, and just cuddle and watch movies. Just take it slow so our relationship is perfect.
En Aranjuez Con Tu Amor by Joaquin Rodrigo performed by Grimthorpe Colliery
Danny Boy performed by the Grimthorpe Colliery Band
#1: The Departure by Michael Nyman
Yes I know. Another song from a movie. Blah blah blah suck it. I love this song. I can listen to it all the time and still haven't gotten sick of it and I've been listening to it since 1997.
The Departure by Michael Nyman
These are just five songs from the bajillions that I'm feeling are my top five right now. Yes I can count to six but shut your pie hole. It was rough going getting below eight. This will probably change tomorrow but for right now I gotta say I could go to a deserted island with just these songs as my only music and still have a pretty sweet life for my ears. Check them out and enjoy.
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