Presenting TheGovernor's "Time Well Spent"
A brief run down of the tracks and why I picked them.
David Axelrod - The Mental Traveler
I didnt know much about Axelrod, but a friend lent me one of his records, and well its fantastic. Picked for its Haunting guitar, and because I think it opens the CD nicely
The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battle the Pink Robots pt 1
Presently one of my favourite bands at the moment, and this song is just brilliant, full of dark humour and just ace.
Pulp - Bar Italia
Nuff said. Jarvis Cocker is a legend
Supergrass - Grace
Recent one from Supergrass, They are an excellent band, and certainly underated, thier last album life on other planets is fantastic, and I highly recommend it.
King Creosote - Homeboy
A fairly unknown Scottish singer, whom thanks to a friend I managed to see for free (a guest list of one (me) in a small bar in Newcastle) I got the CD from my friend as well. Very talented, and great live.
Muse - Bliss
I love this song. Hence its inclusion
David Bowie - Sound and Vision
This is just pure class, was going to include Space Oddity instead, but this one seemed to fit the mood of the CD better.
Tim Smith - Savour
Off the Lead singer of the Cardiacs solo album, Fantastic record.
Kate Bush - Cloudbusting
I loved the video to this as a youngin, It had Donald Southerland in it, building a weather machine, Great song also.
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - The Game of Eyes
Got this on a compilation tape from my Girlfriend, and well it fell into my favourites straight away, so I decided to share it with you
R.E.M - Man on the Moon
You cant go wrong with REM.
Cherry, Nenah & Trout - 1,2,3,4,5
An interesting find, whilst looking for songs to shortlist, I came across this song on an compilation album called Help, which was a charity record released to raise funds for the children of war-torn Yugoslavia.
The Doors - Break on Through
I love this song, I once had a recurring dream about it where I was on stage playing bass with the doors in a small school assembely hall filled with screaming kids. We opened with this song, it went down a treat.
Electric 6 - Danger (High Voltage)
I dont know why I like this song, I just do.
Feeder - Seven Days in the Sun
Great Feeder track. What they do, they do well.
Manic Street Preachers - Black Holes for the Young
Manics B-Side which I thought was particularly brilliant
Blur - The Universal
Unfathomably Excellent. One of my favourite bands of all time.
Cardiacs - Blind in Safety and Leafy in Love
I was introduced to the Cardiacs almost by accident late last year (I found a cd my friend had borrowed from another friend called Sing to God Pt 1, and well after that I couldnt get enough of them. An Excellent Prog Rock band, often described as the best kept secret in British Music, due to them not pandering to the usual record company crap. I went to see them live last October and they were fantastic.
Howard Shore (ft Emilla Torrini) - Gollums Song
This is perhaps the best of the best of Howard Shores masterful music score for that trilogy of films, I forget the name, something to do with a Ring or something. I love this song, and Ive often commented that if you put a strong bass line on it, you've got a James Bond opening track aswell.
Combustable Edison - Vertigogo
A good ending song, from the Four Rooms Soundtrack, I read once that it wasnt allowed to be nominated for an original song in the oscars because the judges couldnt make out the words. Feh!
Kitty your review is coming soon.