It's rather strange but I never heard Joy Division songs on the radio. Maybe they think that this music is too dark and depressive for commercial stations. But on the other hand it's just too great to be played along with all these shitty pop songs.
John Peel used to play them quite often but he's dead.
It seems to me you can hardly find a few radio DJs with good taste in music here in Russia. Some of them can't even properly spell the bands names. I think they've never heard about Joy Division.
The Man Who is something more than just music for me. I heard it first 4 years ago and then it helped me live through hard times, rise from the ashes and start a new life. It feels like these songs are written about me, about my own feelings, dreams, thoughts, fears. I listened to it a million times but never get tired of it.
It's rather strange but I never heard Joy Division songs on the radio. Maybe they think that this music is too dark and depressive for commercial stations. But on the other hand it's just too great to be played along with all these shitty pop songs.
John Peel used to play them quite often but he's dead.
It seems to me you can hardly find a few radio DJs with good taste in music here in Russia. Some of them can't even properly spell the bands names. I think they've never heard about Joy Division.
The Man Who is something more than just music for me. I heard it first 4 years ago and then it helped me live through hard times, rise from the ashes and start a new life. It feels like these songs are written about me, about my own feelings, dreams, thoughts, fears. I listened to it a million times but never get tired of it.
Have you tried interweb radio, Dakota put me onto Woxy.com, Woxy plays loads of modern stuff (Indie I suppose), I used to listen to it until I discovered they have a vintage channel, quite often get Joy Division on it as well as Cocteau Twins, Blind Melon, Lemonheads, Smiths, etc. etc.
I guess I'll go with the Replacements' homage: Alex Chilton from the album Pleased to Meet Me.
I haven't really yet decided on a definitive favorite album as I have with my favorite song. ;) There are a few that I like to listen to all the way through without skipping songs and this is one of them.
I'm still in a rage that I get skips right in the middle of Alex Chilton though when I want to listen to it on my record player. :D
The first time I heard Travis was right after The Man Who came out and I went out and bought the cd after hearing Why Does It Always Rain On Me. It is one of only a few albums I listen to every song. Its affected my life in alot of ways.
Stupid bloody ad thingy at the start totally ruins the intro on this vid. I listen to The Wedding Present quite a bit because the songs and lyrics are quite bitter. It's the antidote to all those boy bands singing about how great love is, these guys sing about the shitty side of it. I could also have gone with pretty much anything by Half Man Half Biscuit, who are brilliantly cynical about just about anything. Breaking News & Upon Westminster Bridge being particular favourites.
I was thinking of what line to quote and couldn't decide so I'll post the whole thing
Someone's got it in for me, they're planting stories in the press
Whoever it is I wish they'd cut it out but when they will I can only guess.
They say I shot a man named Gray and took his wife to Italy,
She inherited a million bucks and when she died it came to me.
I can't help it if I'm lucky.
People see me all the time and they just can't remember how to act
Their minds are filled with big ideas, images and distorted facts.
Even you, yesterday you had to ask me where it was at,
I couldn't believe after all these years, you didn't know me better than that
Sweet lady.
Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your mouth,
Blowing down the backroads headin' south.
Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth,
You're an idiot, babe.
It's a wonder that you still know how to breathe.
I ran into the fortune-teller, who said beware of lightning that might strike
I haven't known peace and quiet for so long I can't remember what it's like.
There's a lone soldier on the cross, smoke pourin' out of a boxcar door,
You didn't know it, you didn't think it could be done, in the final end he won the wars
After losin' every battle.
I woke up on the roadside, daydreamin' 'bout the way things sometimes are
Visions of your chestnut mare shoot through my head and are makin' me see stars.
You hurt the ones that I love best and cover up the truth with lies.
One day you'll be in the ditch, flies buzzin' around your eyes,
Blood on your saddle.
Idiot wind, blowing through the flowers on your tomb,
Blowing through the curtains in your room.
Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth,
You're an idiot, babe.
It's a wonder that you still know how to breathe.
It was gravity which pulled us down and destiny which broke us apart
You tamed the lion in my cage but it just wasn't enough to change my heart.
Now everything's a little upside down, as a matter of fact the wheels have stopped,
What's good is bad, what's bad is good, you'll find out when you reach the top
You're on the bottom.
I noticed at the ceremony, your corrupt ways had finally made you blind
I can't remember your face anymore, your mouth has changed, your eyes
don't look into mine.
The priest wore black on the seventh day and sat stone-faced while the building
burned.
I waited for you on the running boards, near the cypress trees, while the springtime
turned Slowly into autumn.
Idiot wind, blowing like a circle around my skull,
From the Grand Coulee Dam to the Capitol.
Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth,
You're an idiot, babe.
It's a wonder that you still know how to breathe.
I can't feel you anymore, I can't even touch the books you've read
Every time I crawl past your door, I been wishin' I was somebody else instead.
Down the highway, down the tracks, down the road to ecstasy,
I followed you beneath the stars, hounded by your memory
And all your ragin' glory.
I been double-crossed now for the very last time and now I'm finally free,
I kissed goodbye the howling beast on the borderline which separated you from me.
You'll never know the hurt I suffered nor the pain I rise above,
And I'll never know the same about you, your holiness or your kind of love,
And it makes me feel so sorry.
Idiot wind, blowing through the buttons of our coats,
Blowing through the letters that we wrote.
Idiot wind, blowing through the dust upon our shelves,
We're idiots, babe.
It's a wonder we can even feed ourselves.
Day 21 (Friday 15th April) - a song that you listen to when you’re happy
This has to be the Cocteau Twins, I could have gone with pretty much anything from Heaven or Las Vegas & Four Calender Cafe as they really are two uplifting albums but for me the stand out would be...
It's just a happy tune, also whilst drinkin with my dad last night we came to the conclusion that Liz Fraser is probably the best femal vocalist ever, even better than Aretha, Billie & Sinead. Now we could be biased but even if we're not right, it's fucking close.
