Moby: Go

This is his best and most memorable track (I think)... featuring the dreamlike theme from that old tellyshow Twin Peaks...

Orange: Best Mix

There are gerzillions of versions of this out, but I think this is the best. You need to give it nearly a minute to get going, then it doesn't stop (made me feel like I'd been at the disco biscuits again...)

Cygnus X: Orange Theme

This is one of my favourite tunes from olden times:

DJ Tiesto: DJ as god

Barbra Streisand sings "love theme from A Star is Born" Evergreen IN FRENCH ~ haha!!

REM: Everybody Hurts

This is their best tune and vid of all time...

REM: Losing My Religion

Intrusive Query of the Day: Have you ever wept bitterly as this song played out around you...?

Black Eyed Peas: Where is the Love

What's most remarkable about this song (I think) is that it's the only pop song I can think of that makes a direct appeal to God Almighty:

Father, Father help us, send some guidance from above;
people got me questioning ~ WHERE IS THE LOVE?

Coldplay: Fix You

I'm posting this for someone special because they say this song reminds them of me(!) And not a pun from the title, either.

Also I'm pretty SURE I used to go to 24-hour parties called The Warp at that club that's in that rail-tunnel. It's near Waterloo station, just round the corner from the London Dungeon, the capacity crowd is over 3000 and the club is huge!

The second scene shows a road sign mentioning King's Cross. This has long been a place of open despair: well known for easy prostitution and the overt sale and use of hard drugs and a mainline rail station where I actually have seen the proverbial lost-looking teenager with a packed-up bag and seemingly nowhere to go and of course I did nothing (what could I do?) but thought "what on earth are you doing here..??"... and wondered, if they did stay, how long the shadows of the place would take to get at them...

The third scene on the bridge shows a very famous view across the Thames at night...

Duffy: Warwick Avenue ~ official vid

Here's another that's been going round and round in my head...

Leona Lewis: Better in Time

This song has been going round and round my head... I couldn't post it up because some idiot(s) who have posted the proper video to Youtube had "embedding disabled by request"~ duh!?! Why do people do that?? Anybody know..??

Sam Sparro: Black and Gold

This is such a catchy tune; see how you like it...

Madonna, Britney, Christina ~ Like A Virgin

This is from the 2003 American Music awards. I was so badly addicted to heroin at this time that nothing like this could possibly have invaded my consciousnesss... Saw this for the first time today!

Lennie de Ice: We are Ie

Aka "we are E"... we are E... we are eeing together: etc etc. from that oldskool time:~

Metalheadz (Goldie): Terminator

This was one of the earliest cuts by the artist (who even got a part acting supremely badly on EastEnders) subsequently known (after his exotic dentalwork) as GOLDIE.

This tune is one of very, very few that I specifically remember from a specific party at a specific time... "we're talking about things I haven't done yet:~" then those timestretched crackrushing beats: those coincided with a VERY strong adam and eve MDA/MDMA dome/snowball pill coming on and the lights and the sound and the whooshing and rusing~ hahaHAA!!

Urban Shakedown: Some Justice

This is a classic tune from 1991ish. The sample "wooo-eeeeeee-ooo-aah: we live as one family" is actually sung by a man (but speeded up) from the old garage track: "war and drugs are everywhere ~ and it's getting so hard to breathe the air... now-eeee-aaarr-oooaaah-yeah-wooo-eeee-ooo-roooar-oorooar-yeah, we live as one famileee..." I tried Googling the lyric but got no satisfactory answer... it is not M People's Someday, it far predates that... if anybody has an answer, please leave a comment

Gat Decor: Passion

This is a classic tune from the early 90s... not so keen on the overall tune but love the break with those reverberating resonations

Science Lab: Flesh and Blood

Love this. For the Shakespearean quotations. For the tune. For the "memories" :-?...

Boy George: Crying Game

Featured in the Irish film of the same name, this is one of his top tunes... and what a wonderful voice!

Madonna ft Justin Timberlake & Timbaland: Four Minutes

4 Minutes... from Madge's new album from the new record label that agreed to shell out £8 million an album for three new albums over ten years (she'll be an old age pensioner by the time the last one's delivered!)... HARD CANDY!

I LOVE THIS TUNE!

Marianne Faithfull with Johnny Marr: As Tears Go By (Albert Hall 1999)

This is a cracking performance of the classic song:

David Bowie, Marianne Faithfull: I've Got You Babe

The 1970s: what a decade! This is a bit of a rarity from way back when...

Michael Jackson: Another Part of Me

From 1988: Wow, the hysteria! Pop stars love all that ~ the worship, the adoration... this is like one long Pepsi commercial (or Michael Jackson commercial) ... it's a good performance though ... see his nose was melting, even back then...

Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson

THIS VERSION PLAYS! This McCartney-written song far far FAR outstrips the dreadful Jackson-written Girl Is Mine (the 2 duets were recorded in vice versa exchange at the same time in 1982; released 1983)... this is a great video... wasn't Linda McCartney lovely?... look closely for Michael Jackson's "lover" cameo played by his SISTER LaToya (see! he was weird even back then!!)

Rolling Stones: Can't Always Get What You Want (from Rock & Roll Circus)

This is a classic song from a classic "underground" (well it wasn't a hit, despite its stars!) 1960s countercultural movie event thing...

YOU CAN'T ALWAYS GET WHAT YOU WANT (but sometimes you get what you need ~ yeah!)

Kamal Addaraarachchi - Unmaada Wu

This is Sinhalese (Sri Lankan) cinema love music... purloined from Keshi's blog...

Marianne Faithfull: The Balad of Lucy Jordan

This is from her acclaimed Broken English album of the very early 80s... including the title song (about the Bader-Meinhoff gang; quote "say it in broken English," ~ Astrid Proll... this number's a bit more whimsical but a nice little song. Have a listen:~

Donna Summer: I Feel Love (techno remix)

I've no idea WHOSE "techno remix" this might be, or what year so my sincere apologies, cannot help you there. What I remember about this song was coming across it at my friend's house and being entranced by the first pop record I'd ever heard without proper words that still sounded good ~ no! Better!! Than most ordinary songs...

Donna Summer: Dinner With Gershwin

This song, with its tunelessly funky spiralling down bit, had wiped clean out of my mind until the radio played it at an unearthily late hour of last night... 1987... Donna Summer

Blancmange: Living on the Ceiling

Purloined from Crushed by Ingsoc's blog...

Alexei Sayle: Ello John Got a New Motor?

The official promovid was nowhere to be found on Youtube so to save you having to watch the "artist" (a comedian) performing on Top of the Pops); have a look at this carcrashing video instead...

Thompson Twins: Doctor Doctor (Micky D 2007 Remix)

I'm pretty sure this was the first single my brother ever purchased for himself. (He bought it in 1984: some EEJUT has disabled embedding on the original mix, but this is the same promovid...) The first record we ever bought was by Alexi Sayle... we got it for Mumzy on Mother's Day... if it's there it'll be hereabove... For the Thompson Twins wikipedia article click here...

Mamas and Papas: Creeque Alley

This is absolutely classic 1960s over-coloured tv... dunno why but American stuff from this era of telly survives far better, is far more watchable than British. American TV at this era had more lines (the current 525/whatever in non-HD) whereas British was the old 425 lines (it's now 625 and HD is 1080. wow you really wanted to know all that yeah I know the numbers are out but I'm not a TV technician am i?... right here goes. Full Technicolor!

Mamas and the Papas: Creeque Alley Matt Mix

This is quite a good renewed version (original vocals). Sorry nothing to watch however...

Scott McKenzie: San Fransisco

I really used to believe all this crap with all my heart. Peace and love and chemical dreams. If you've ever tripped out high upon higher and sublime upon sublime there is no way of bringing the beauty of the experience back with you... I once had a friend down who brought some cocaine. I did some lines and was soon stuck to the ceiling. I had tickets for a rave in south London. He was too wasted to go. So I had to negotiate an hour and a half nightbus ride all the way down. By Trafalgar Square I was eeing out on 2 pills as well and my eyes such massive discs I couldn't read the bus time tables and had to tell passers-by I'd "forgotten my reading glasses" (how embarrassing)... then I arrived around 3pm. Security let me straight in I'd obviously taken all my drugs (indeed I had: felt like I was flying by this point)... first person I encountered was a middle-aged woman in a ball gown swaying back and forth in the foyer (Brixton Academy: a venue for 5000) I told her: "you are so cool". We subsequently made friends. Watching this video and seeing how stuck in the neverending moment of bliss some "flower kids" are I remember this lady having to tell me: "there's the party. Then the party's over. You have to accept that." But I never could. I wanted happiness to last for ever...

Mamas and the Papas: California Dreaming

Not sure who first released the tune but this is the best version in my opinion. Also massive Mama Cass is well funky

Taffy: I Love My Radio...

She wasn't Welsh, as far as I know, but an Italian model who'd always wanted to put out a record. And this was her first and only attempt and a top five hit. Radio Luxembourg played it regularly, but the BBC's Radio 1, which, in the 1980s was the single most powerful force in British pop, refused to playlist it unless she rerecorded, altering the line "my midnight radio" to "my DJ's radio". Why? Because Radio One switched off at midnight! Those were the days! When people listened on AM (Radio Luxembourg had the most powerful transmitter in the world: a million kilowatts of power blasting music all over Europe, but most specifically to the United Kingdom)... yes and Radio One used to shut down at 00:00 hrs!

The Specials: Ghost Town...

This is another absolute classic of the 1980s... utterly no idea what chart position it got to, but this was around for ages and ages...

Robbie Neville: C'est La Vie

Anyone else remember this from the late 80s? Robbie Neville was a record producer; this was the one single he released (just for the heck of it, so the story goes...) it got to number 2 in the UK...

Madonna: White Heat

Best unreleased track by far from 1986's True Blue album...

Madonna: Who's That Girl?

There's a saying, that most people have forgotten more about Madonna's life than is worth remembering of their own ("yeah: speak for yourself, mate," I can hear you retort)... well who remembers this? From 1987... soundtrack from her flop movie of the same title... (I always thought when she writes her autobiography (I'll ghostwrite for her! For a 60% cut...) she should call it I'M THAT GIRL ...

Dolly Parton: Jolene

This is absolute classic. Not only the song but the "patter" before it... most amusing... if this was part of a TV special she did over here in the 1980s I'm sure I saw it all 1st time round...

Gabriella Cilmi: Sweet About Me

EXCELLENT STUFF! This has been wafting out everywhere... from kebab shops, sandwich stalls, grocers, laundrettes etc etc... Sweet About Me... if you're reading this on foreign shores and it's not come your way yet, take my word: it will!

Captain Sensible: Glad It's All Over

This one I remember from the time I used to see my Mum every other weekend and go driving back on Sunday night with the Bruno Brookes Top 40 (surely the top-rated radio show in British history... you could wander about and everybody'd have it on, late Sunday afternoons)... I presumed this song was about the aftermath of nuclear war. Seems to have been filmed in Camden Town (or does anyone know any better..?) It's a really good tune ...

Hedwig and the Angry Inch: Origin of Love

Purloined from Wat's blog...

Amy Winehouse: Back to Black

This is one of her best tunes...

Madonna: Hung Up

I think this exceeds Like a Prayer and Vogue as Madonna's best track ever...

Staxx: Joy

A chart "miss" this is hailed nowadays as a "1994 UK club classic" (in other words, an "underground" hit ~ haha)... Audrey's latest post reminded me of this as "Carol" (the singer) was a friend of a friend (never even met her she came from Leicester)... all we all wanted this to go zooming up the charts but it never happened... As I was saying to Audrey only today I have known so many singers, actors and other creatives in my time... some really did have "something"... but that "something" the talent is only the 1% of success... the other 99% is what hard work, a good management team and a clued-up record company do for you!

Liza Minelli: Losing My Mind

This is the only Liza Minelli track I know... but it is quite good: (been going round my head for several days...)

Animal Crackers - The Tongue feat. Dudley Perkins

Animal Crackers - The Tongue feat. Dudley Perkins

Purloined from Bimbimbie's blog!...

Madonna: The Power of Goodbye

This is a good track: specially for Audrey...

Michael Jackson: Stranger in Moscow

This is a pretty good performance of one of Jackson's very best new (as in post Bad/Thriller/etc) songs.... have a good watch... and boy can he move...!

JoBoxers: Just Got Lucky

This purloined from Salty Miss Jill... great stuff...! ;->...

Sigur Ros: Hoppipola

This purloined from Anna's Stories...

David Usher: Crazy

From Montreal summer 2007... this tune I like... v compelling. Purloined from Deb's blog... Actually: either it's one of those tunes that's so superior... you think you've known it for decades... or it's been subliminally spinning round my head for the past year-and-a-half...

Kraftwerk: The Model

This is a classic... but the singing!

Madonna: Hung Up

Age of Love: Age of Love

This is probably THEE alltime trance classic... this is a version of the Jam and Spoon mix but not as good as below... the video's great though... and I know it cuts off in the end... sorry... nothing I could do 'bout that...

Age of Love: Age of Love - Jam and Spoon classic mix

THIS is the alltime classic mix... sorry no visuals:... Play this one's sound and the top one's video:~ best of both worlds... Did anyone ever go to a party called Return to the Source? This reminds me of there...

Goldie - Inner City Life

This is a classic "drum & bass" tune... watch it for lots of London-tastic imagery...

Fridge - Paradise

This one's a classic. Young or old, open the curtains, crank cup the volume: clear out the cobwebs... If you listen to BBC World Service radio you'll note the waa-aaaah vocal being used on a trail for a documentary about "sex and the Islamic girl"... but I know this tune from 1999. Very "celestial"... TOP VOLUME PLEASE:

TechnoStarWars

This is good... esp. when, at about 3:31~ into that phunky-discordant Hardcore Choir "thang"... This is fantastic... a home-made Starwars (new films) moving clipsathon in time to techno "Old Spice" music soundtrack... don't be put off by initial stills; this is nearly all motion picture...

Beethoven: Fuer Elise ~ Techno Remix

Mozart: Requiem I

Doesn't the conductor look like a cross between mad professor - head torturer and horror film butler..?!? This is one of my favourite bits of classical music...

Labi Siffre: Something Inside So Strong

I know this one's been up before; but this is the original video...

Bodysnatch: Euphony (Just 4U London)

NO video and this isn't the mix I like but ... wow I remember it from that time 1992...haha!

The Prodigy: Everybody in the Place

I remember this coming on at a "rave" in 1992... but by that time no selfrespecting "rave" DJ would play the Prodigy unless it was disguised on white label (which it surely was)...

Такого как Путин Takogo kak Putin "You Must Be Like Putin"

This came out as a single, by a mysterious Russian girl group, just before Russia's last elections. The words tell how Putin is the ideal husband, lover and military leader... Vladmir Putin the Ideal Man! It has to be said: Putin is the highest-octane leader we have in the world today. Or to put it another way; the world's most charismatic dictator!

Chinese TV Commercial "Automatic Doctor"

If this is typical of Chinese television then it must be a 24-7 scream...

Dame Kiri Te-Kanawa: Gesu Bambino by Pietro A. Yon

From Granny's blog yet again. She said she pointed this one out and said she didn't mind my nicking things as she'd nicked 'em from Youtube to begin with.

Dame Kiri Te-Kanawa is New Zealand's most famous soprano (though Hayley Westonra is the young rising star) who hit fame after singing in the church at Prince Charles and (the then) Lady Diana Spencer's wedding in 1982. She is widely credited to have one of the finest soprano voices in the world ...

For Unto Us a Child Is Given: Mormon Tabernacle Choir

Purloined from Granny's blog (again):

Handel's Messiah: Mormon Tabernacle Choir 2007

Quite openly purloined from Granny's blog:

Morrisey: Suedehead Video

This purloined from Butterfly's blog:

The Kylie Show: The One

This purloined from Mark's Planet (blog):

Visually it's amazing... just a shame it has to feature Kylie's averager-than-average vocals... Madonna is hardly the planet's strongest singer but her voice is ten times creamier and a hundred times more distinctive.

In her earliest days the nasty Stock-Aitken-&-Waterman put Kylie through a Kylie-multiplication machine so never less than three Kylies were warbling at any one time on any of her records. Even when she did a part on a multi-singer charity record at the time (I really cannot remember which one). Someone once said she sounded like a thin-voiced budgie: to me she is more like a singing wasp captured in a jamjar. Nasty business!

Madonna: Santa Baby (Duplex & Scrubbs mix!)

... aye! Or summut like...!

Great stuff!

Purloined from M-filer's blog!

U2: With or Without You (Rattle & Hum)

Purloined from http://tchaney.blogspot.com:~~

Jethro Tull: Rare promo for Solstice Bells - 1976

This video was STOLEN from Bimbibie's site quite shamelessly. I'm not sure about the tune (it's very Mull of Kintyrish, if you know what I mean...) but the video is quite wonderful

Paul McCartney & "Wings" (why on earth did he name a band after a famous sanitary towel feature?) Mull of Kintyre

Leona Lewis: Homeless

Leona Lewis: Footprints in the Sand

Zucchero: Senza Una Donna

In the UK this was released as a duette with Paul Young; this version is senza Paul Young, senza jarring English lyrics and much better!

Sonique: New World

Not sure about the tune; but the opening of this vid is tremendous!

Madonna: Oh Father

Madonna makes excellent videos and this is one of her best. Today's choice was inspired by photos on Jim's blog...

Sonique: I Put A Spell On You

This is her most famous song, a cover version of the 1957 track by Screamin' Jay Hawkins, also covered memorably by Nina Simone...

Sonique: Feels So Good

"Sonique" was a pretty good athelete on the British Olympic Team... Then a club DJ... This is her best tune (I think)... let it go through the first few bars to the hook, to "and that's what takes me higher!" then it's really catchy.

Engelbert Humperdinck: Release Me

This (seemingly the original promotional video from 1967) is absolutely hilarious!

Tina Turner: Simply the Best

This is one of those classic records that peaked at #2 in this country (actually Wikipedia says #5 but whatever; point is):-... what was at #1 nobody remembers!

Gareth (Gates) and the Kumars: Spirit in the Sky

Even the guy who wrote the tune said he reckoned this was the best popped-up version:

Jeanette: Soy Rebelde

This was Jeanette's first hit - way back in 1971 when Spanish TV was still broadcasting in black and white ... but this is a more recent broadcast...

Jeanette (Cria Cuervos): Porque Te Vas

Jeanette is Spain's easy listening star of the 1970s and 1980s. Porque te vas ("because you're gone") was a big Euro-hit in the mid-1970s when it featured in the Spanish film about "the lost innocence of childhood" Cria Cuervos ("Cry of the Crows") dir. Carlos Saura, 1976... Click here if you'd rather hear it in French:

Jeanette: Porque Te Vas (French Language Version)

Garland - Merman - Streisand: No Business Like Showbusiness (Judy Garland Show)

No it's not all a bit tu-ette (whatever you call a 3-person duette)... this is actually a fascinating clip of weekend-night American television from the 1960s...

Judy Garland, Barbra Streisand: You'll Never Know

Barbra Streisand - Moonfall

This is a top vocal:

Boney M: Rivers of Babylon

This 1970s pop song is a reworking of a Biblical Psalm (number 137) stemming back to the Jewish exile in Babylon around 2500 years ago!

Maria Callas: Tosca. Covent Garden 1964...

Florence Foster Jenkins: Queen of the Night Aria

A tribute performance including her original ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-haargh high F bit!

"Amazing Pipes": Queen of the Night Aria

This is the famous aria with the high F (over top C). Sung by a little boy (it was always intended for a grown woman; but this shows how the "treble" voice has... well, more treble than any grown soprano's...

Elena Mosuc: Queen of the Night Aria

from Mozart's Magic Flute opera...

I'd say this is the best version (of about 7 or 8 I personally "auditioned")...

Queen of the Night Aria: Met's Noh Drama Version

From Mozart's Magic Flute.