Lovefoxx said it best: Music is my boyfriend. A great song can make you grin or cry, bring a memory flooding back home or make you want to dish out hugs to friends and random strangers – the Beach House gig at the ‘tute earlier this year left me so speechless all I could do was embrace a friend and shake my head at what I just witnessed.
And the best thing is, for me those songs don’t have to adhere to a respected consensus of ‘greatness’. I’ll sit awestruck everytime I hear John Coltrane’s passionate interpretation of My Favourite Things, Debussy’s Arabesque and pretty much anything attributed to Tom Waits but I’ll equally grin the stupidest massive grin everytime I hear Napalm Death’s You Suffer – 1.316 seconds of astonishing grindcore genius, including Lee Dorian full lyrics (“You Suffer, but Why?”) . Similarly for Hold On by Wilson Phillips, a piece of pop perfection and a sunsine arrangement to make you all giddy inside. I always thought it was just me that held Wilson Phillips – never the most critically acclaimed late 80s pop group – in high esteem, until I read a Juliana Hatfield interview where she admitted splitting up the Blake Babies (Boston indie band and contempories of the Lemonheads) because they teased her for playing them on the tour bus.
My Top 100 will probably change within days but for 4 hours at CAI it’ll include underrated Scottish indiepop (Life Without Buildings), salacious Afrobeat (Fela Kuti), Kathleen Hanna (Bikini KiIl and Le Tigre), the filthiest of filthy electro (Proxy, SuperMayer, Tiga) and Def Leppard. I’m going to kick-off with Gorecki’s third symphony, a haunting minimal classical piece about the Holocaust – perfect for your Sunday hangover…
Seriously, it’ll be fun!
xx Kai
Top 3 from my Top 100
Gorecki – Symphony No. 3 “Sorrowful Songs”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miLV0o4AhE4
Senseless Things – Too Much Kissing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLEYzPBvsoQ
My Little Airport – 和陳五msn
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9uGIbn5HHM
