Before I goes to sleep

[quinara]

stultiloquentia did a meme where people comment asking for a letter and then post their five favourite songs that start with it. I hassled her for a letter, so let's go!!

She gave me B, which isn't my most exciting letter, it seems, but still has some very good tracks!

Baptism by Crystal Castles
I can't remember if everyone knows I love Crystal Castles, or whether I just yammer about them in particular threads, but they're awesome. Dance music strained beyond comfort, Alice Glass screaming about things. This is possibly my favourite off their second album.

Been a Son by Nirvana
I've only ever had the 'best of' CD of Nirvana, but I did love it for a couple of years, and this is a very good track off it. I like the way the lyrics escalate in the verses, and that weird note Kurt pulls on 'son'.

Black Sands by Bonobo
This album (of the same name as the song) is a very recent purchase by me, but I'm loving it for being so soothing. Ambient music tends to fall into the droning-crap-where-not-enough-happens for me, but Bonobo and this track in particular has a great amount of drive and variation. Great for lounging around to.

Bombsite Boy by The Adverts
I haven't actively sought to listen to the Adverts in a long time, but Crossing the Red Sea is a great album. A bit samey, but great. 'Well, I don't believe you have to be an idiot to get somewhere these days' is a lyric to live by (and which I pretty much did, listening to this on the way home from school for such a long time).

Brand New Cadillac by The Clash
I feel like this is such an unappreciated song off London Calling... Not much to say about it, really, but it amuses me and is very danceable. :D (Amusement, I should explain, because it's almost like an antidote about all those songs I think shapinglight was once very articulate about, where the bloke singing explains to his becoming-ex-girlfriend that he's just too free a spirit or whatever to stay with her, so has to go off on his big driving adventure around America. I just imagine this woman going 'soz; see ya' and vrooming away, which amuses me.)

Comments

[stultiloquentia]

What a neat list! I was immediately struck by one interesting difference between yours and mine: your tracks all have a really prominent, driving rhythm, whereas mine meander all over the place, chasing after their lyrics. Part of it's fluke, at least on my end -- my iTunes has its share of dancy-trancy techno and Arvo Paert and co (and Nirvana, and The Clash), but I liked the contrast, and the chance to listen to unfamiliar stuff.

Wow, I listen to the first one and I can see the strobe lights. I haven't been out dancing in waaaay to long! :(

Nirvana. Yis.

I love the waltz time in "Black Sands".

Yay "Brand New Cadillac"! I always think of that one as "the song my Medieval Lit prof failed to play". He brought a CD and an ancient boombox to class on my very first day of grad school, all excited about introducing his course by comparing The Clash to French troubadours, and then the boombox crapped out on him. Woe. I dug the song up later -- it's great.

Thank you for sharing!

[quinara]

You know, I've never really thought about it like that, but that's probably a really good point about my musical taste... I have quite a few meandery tracks as well, I think, but I'm definitely drawn to anything that will carry me along. Waltz or pogo, it's all good...

Dancing! I never go enough either (and they never play CC). :(

That's such a sad story, about the boombox! Are the Clash like French troubadours? I think that's a question for the ages.

No probs!!