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January 1, 2007

utterly trivial trivia

Posted by dogpossum on January 1, 2007 7:37 PM in the category music

I think the best song of 2006 was the Scissor Sisters' I Don't Feel Like Dancin'.

I've just had a little think and can't come up with any other songs that I know that were released in 2006. No, wait. There's that song by the Killers where they're driving in the car, and it's in black and white. And then there's that I Wish I was a punk rock... something... hm. Not sure that was 2006.

Look, so, ok, from a sample size of about five, garnered from a total of one or two mornings' consumption of pop music via rage*, I Don't Feel Like Dancin' was the best song of 2006.

Well, not counting A Viper's Moan by Willie Bryant. Or C-Jam Blues by the Lincoln Centre Jazz Orchestra, the most popular song I DJed in 2006.

I've had the strangest urge to listen to not-jazz today. I've been at a bit of a loss, as all the pop music I have is kind of 1992.
But here are the non-jazz albums I bought this year:

• Beck's Guero. Which I might have bought last year (well, The Squeeze bought it for me - from a shop, where it was full price! I love Beck - he's one of the very few artists whose albums I always buy, religiously.

• The Eurythmics' Sweet Dreams [are made of this], my favourite Eurythmics album ever. I used to have a greatest hits video with the film clips from this album on it - I loved them. I used to have a casette of this album which I played over and over til the tape stretched. I loved the weirdness of this album, I loved Annie Lennox in her odd, 'drag queen' outfits. I just loved it. My favourite song might have been I Could Give You (a mirror), though I suspect it was the very-teen Jennifer. The Squeeze bought this CD for me too.

...I was going to add:
but it seems I bought that quite a few years ago.

So I guess I'm not really up on the pop music. :(

Nor do I have any indy cred.
I can hear my twenty year old self groaning in shame. That same self would also be disappointed to hear I no longer shave my head. And that I own some proper running shoes. And no longer wear my docs.

But how many CDs have I bought this year?* Weeeelllll, itunes says it's a lot. And I believe itunes, even after accounting for all the multiple-discs-in-each-album thing.

*and really, need I look beyond rage? I think not. One of my favourite albums of all time is the first rage CD. Apparently there's also a second one, but you can't get it any more. Not that I would - I have always loathed Jeff Buckley, and the mere presence of one of his songs on this album is enough to put me off. Truly. Even if it does have that neat Porno for Pyros song on it.
...actually, I tell a lie. I really really wish I had that second album as well. It looks great. Dang. When was it released? Like, ten years ago or something? Shoot. Being out of the loop sucks.

Posted by dogpossum on January 1, 2007 7:37 PM in the category music