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deviHelp! Compilation help, to be precise. I'm putting together several compilation CDs (of which you shall hear more later) with different themes. I want to fill one of them with songs that inspire you to get up and make something, do something creative with your life, overcome the nerves and the stagefright - and it's occurred to me that I should really have it done by November.
The trouble is that I've only thought of four songs so far (Lose Yourself by Eminem, Goethe's Letter to Vic Chesnutt and Lee Remick by Hefner, and the 'this is your life and it's ending one minute at a time' theme from Fight Club). Which is frankly pathetic.
So. Anyone have any suggestions? What's the song that makes you want to make art? The song that kicks you in the arse and tells you to get on with it?
Edit: Oh yeah, "There She Goes My Beautiful World" by Nick Cave as well.)
The trouble is that I've only thought of four songs so far (Lose Yourself by Eminem, Goethe's Letter to Vic Chesnutt and Lee Remick by Hefner, and the 'this is your life and it's ending one minute at a time' theme from Fight Club). Which is frankly pathetic.
So. Anyone have any suggestions? What's the song that makes you want to make art? The song that kicks you in the arse and tells you to get on with it?
Edit: Oh yeah, "There She Goes My Beautiful World" by Nick Cave as well.)
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Date: 2004-10-15 04:30 pm (UTC)It was written for one of the members who was getting married and moving to ireland, moving on and all that.
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Date: 2004-10-15 05:03 pm (UTC)For a more martial aggressive sort of inspiration, Laibach's "Life is Life" or Bathory's "Man of Iron" might be good.
Tenacious D's "Rock Your Socks".
Orff's "O Fortuna".
Yuki Kajiura/See Saw's "The World" from the .hack//sign soundtrack.
Something Russian or Russian-esque, such as Ivan Rebroff's "Katjuscha" or "Cossack Patrol" or Wedding Present's "Davni Chasy".
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Date: 2004-10-15 05:10 pm (UTC)# Usher Lyrics
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Gosh.
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Date: 2004-10-15 05:16 pm (UTC)Re: from some website or other:
Date: 2004-10-15 05:25 pm (UTC)"Man of Iron" is quite cool. Goth as fuck, mind you.
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Date: 2004-10-15 05:44 pm (UTC)All my suggestions lean gothwards a bit, other than Tenacious D. It's the "music that goths will like even though it's quite perky" collection.
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Date: 2004-10-15 10:29 pm (UTC)Stein Auf!
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Date: 2004-10-16 01:46 am (UTC)Or, slightly more seriously, "I've been waitin' for tomorrow (all of my life)" by The The.
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Date: 2004-10-16 02:01 am (UTC)"Don't Stop" - Fleetwood Mac
(People who know me well will now be sniggering to themselves since I'm always enthusing about these two tunes anyway !)
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Date: 2004-10-16 04:02 am (UTC)Jackie (La Chanson de Jacky) - Jacques Brel (cheese - but prime, ripe French cheese) - covered by The Divine Comedy and Scott Walker (not at the same time) but I have versions in French and English sung by Brel.
Anything by Pulp. Absolutely anything (but especially stuff from Different Class and This is Hardcore).
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Date: 2004-10-16 05:31 am (UTC)"Big Yellow Taxi" - Joni Mitchell, or the cover by Counting Crows (or one of a myriad of other covers) and "Round Here" by Counting Crows both give me a "world's in a bad way, get off your arse and do something about it" feeling.
Pink Floyd's "Time" and "Breathe" kinda say the same thing from the opposite end of the spectrum - "Time" tells you off for wasting your life and achieving nothing, "Breathe" tells you off for running around like a headless chicken all your life and achieving nothing.
Smashmouth's "Walking on the Sun", and Soul Asylum's "Runaway Train" spring to mind too.
Damn, if I have so many of these songs, why do I never achieve anything? :)
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Date: 2004-10-16 11:33 am (UTC)(I posted as Matt there and deleted it, if you're confused)
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Date: 2004-10-16 09:23 am (UTC)Mis-shapes, echoing elethe's Pulp suggestion.
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Date: 2004-10-16 10:58 am (UTC)All of them, naturally, are in the key of Rock. (Or blues. Or funk.)
The first few that jumped instantly to mind were:
Frankly, why I don't just recommend the whole album is beyond me, but those are the outstanding tracks for this particular need...
Some listening to MP3's at random found these:
- Play That Funky Music, as covered by Thunder. Maybe you can grab the original by Wild Cherry, but the Thunder version is what I have - funktastic, rocking stuff about finding a new groove.
- Fire by Jimi Hendrix (or the rare, but excellent, cover by Alice Cooper) - this song is used in some hospitals to test for braindeath, and by new Church inquisitions to test for the presence of a soul... The drums, especially, are just nuts - they drive the song like nothing you've ever heard before. You just have to go and do SOMETHING - ANYTHING - when you're heard this. Fantastic stuff.
- Raspberry Jam Delta-V by Joe Satriani. Instrumental, but the title's enough to earn it a place surely? Good music, too.
- Easy On My Soul / Travelling In Style by Free. The former is relaxed, yet surrounds you and supports you wonderfully. The latter is both amusing and uplifting. Neither are what you might expect if all you've heard is their hit, All Right Now.
- Young Gods / Too Much Too Young by the Little Angels. Both are upbeat songs about the folly and arrogance of youth, and how you should enjoy it whilst you have it. How can that fail to get me to do something?
- C'Mon by the Quireboys is certified 100% Bar-Room Rock. Fun, uplifting, and demanding involvement.
- Jailbreak by Thin Lizzy. Tonight there's going to be a jailbreak, somewhere in the town...
- Drop Dead Gorgeous / Ready To Go by Republica. The first makes me think of you... *ahem* Just kidding. Good song, though. Not quite as good as Ready To Go, but a little more off the beaten track - it's not been used to death in adverts, links and suchlike for starters. Ready To Go itself should need no reason, of course.
Hmmm. There's lots more that spring to mind now. I should make my own compilation, perhaps...This might be some sort of heresy
Date: 2004-10-17 06:39 pm (UTC)An entire song exhorting you to avoid thinking about stuff too much and just get on with it because it's rock and roll and all you've got to do is do it; Do It by the Pink Fairies. It's from 1970 and it's punk from before people thought they knew what that was. There's a copy here if you've a useful way of downloading it..
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Date: 2004-10-21 07:18 am (UTC)Powered by a simple but infectious accordian solo, this is one of Stephen Duffy's finest works, neatly exposing the band's European musical influences.
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Date: 2004-11-02 04:56 am (UTC)We Rule The School - Belle & Sebastian: "Do something pretty while you can..."
The Run Lola Run soundtrack.
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