Willow, look through the chronicles

[helvirago]

Unexpectedly tagged by denonymous with a music meme!

"list five songs that you are currently digging. it doesn't matter what
genre they are from, whether they have words, or even if they're any
good, but they must be songs you're really enjoying right now. post
these instructions, the artist, and the song in your journal, then tag
five other people to see what they're listening to."

Hmm. Excellent question. This is particularly hard because what I've mostly been doing is going through trying to rate all my songs. This sounds dumb, but it actually means I'm getting to hear all of them, particularly the ones I'm not very familiar with (and therefore can't just rate by looking at the title). Thus all the songs on my Most Played list are ones that I don't know very well (or keep not remembering which ones they are) so I have to listen to them several times before I can rate them. Still, I'll give it a shot. Not to be outdone, however, mine goes to six as well:

1. Annie Lennox - Cold
2. Poe - Spanish Doll
3. June Tabor and The Oyster Band - All Tomorrow's Parties
4. S.A.L.T. by the Orb.
5. Lamb - Softly
6. Haysi Fantayzee - Shiny Shiny


1. Come on. Annie Lennox.

2. This whole album ("Haunted") is so great. I actually got it from denonymous 3 years ago, but have only just started listening to it this year. I don't know why. I really like Poe, both her voice, the songwriting ("this ain't no Jedi mind trick"), and the sound.

3. It comes from the land of hecubot! I'd learned recently that Lou Reed wrote this, but I had no idea so many people had performed it. Boy, I really know nothing when it comes to music. Anyway, this version makes it sound really... bluegrass, if you know what I mean, sort of mountain country (okay, maybe Irish mountain country, but you still know what I mean).

4. Got this from someone on my flist (maybe circe_tigana?). The reason I have it, of course (knowing my friendslist) is the sample from the movie "Naked" with David Thewlis ranting about barcodes and the Bible. It's sort of like listening to a paranoid survivalist preacher haranguing his followers from the other end of a huge warehouse with a basketball court in the middle. Or through a game of Pong. And at the same time there's a late-70s sci-fi soundtrack quality to it. Er, I like it a lot. And, yes, David Thewlis's accent is very cool. "Chernobyl. Fact!" (It occurs to me I should have put this on my last lyrics quiz: "What can such a specific prophecy mean?")

5. So one day, I had the digital cable "Electronica" channel on for background music while studying, and something by this band came on. And hey, I'm always looking for tiny excursions from my terribly bourgeois musical rut, so I poked around, thought maybe I'd like them, put the album ("Fear of Fours") on a wishlist, and then got it from another friend. So anyway, they're good. Very Portishead-like.

6. Got this from theodosia. It's weird. Very peppy, and particularly funny if you're a Firefly fan, because -- well, shiny!

I would've added something from my most recent purchase, Sequentia's "Hildegard von Bingen: Canticles of Ecstasy", but, well, it's a recording of Hildegard von Bingen's music. I love it, but I don't think I could be said to be "rocking" it.


Extra-bonus piece: Giles's song from the Buffy episode "Restless". I used this piece to test my homework in a Windows programming class years ago. "Strange, it's not like anything we've faced before..."

I know people are tired of tagging, but hey -- I never got tagged before! So (trying to pick people I think might actually read this), how about vwbug, shayheyred,noradeirdre, the_leewit, and pyrric? Only if you want, obviously.

And now, back to trigonometry.