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Guardian Unlimited Observer | Review | 31 songs that changed my life

“31 songs that changed my life
In a new collection of essays writer Nick Hornby reveals the 31 songs that have provided a soundtrack to his life.”

This is bloody hard but here’s a few I’ve thought of just off the top of my head, they will have changed by tonight though :

1. There Is A Light That Never Goes Out - The Smiths
2. Find The River - REM
3. Domino - Van Morrison
4. Lazy Line Painter Jane - Belle and Sebastian
5. Sparky’s Dream - Teenage Fanclub
6. Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division
7. Regret - New Order
8. End Of A Century - Blur
9. Grand Parade - The Reindeer Section
10. Here Today - The Beach Boys
11. Hotel California - The Eagles
12. Aqualung - Jethro Tull
13. Great Gig In The Sky - Pink Floyd
14. My Generation - The Who
15. Fake Plastic Trees - Radiohead
16. Powderfinger - Neil Young
17. Ramble On - Led Zeppellin
18. Going Underground - The Jam
19. Bye Bye Love - Simon and Garfunkle
20. Build Me Up Buttercup - The Foundations
21. What A Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong
22. (heart) I Just Died In Your Arms Tonight - Cutting Crew
23. Carry That Weight - The Beatles
24. Starlight Motel - Ride
25. Seeing Other People - Belle and Sebastian
26. My Girl - Madness
27. Here Comes Your Man - The Pixies
28. Papa’s Got A Brand New Bag - James Brown
29. Good Riddance - Green Day
30. Hang The DJ - The Smiths
31. Ride A White Swan - T-Rex

There’s some in there that haven’t changed my life yet but they’re still great songs (like Grand Parade) and there are some that have shaped my life but I don’t listen to much anymore (like Good Riddance).

It was hard to come up with ones nobody else would, and that was what I tried to do because if I have the same songs as everone else then I’m the same as them (am I?) but then again is having life shaping songs in common with other people a bad thing? It must be good music in that case but then again (again) the cutting crew song isn’t exactly brilliant, it just was one of the songs I always used to listen to when I was wee and it always reminds me of that time. Maybe because it’s not a brilliant song (or is it it still gets played frequently in a lot of places) other people wouldn’t have it as a life shaping song, in which case I’m not the same as them?

Quite a long ramble there, most of which probably makes no sense on first reading or maybe after numerous readings but I’m sure you’ll be thinking through similar thought trains when you try to come up with your own list and I’ll bet you can’t write them down much clearer either.

some people are really stupid aren’t they. my last post a few minutes ago I said I was about to play darts, I’ve been already today at lunch and there were two really stupid people there. maybe not stupid but just totally oblivious to what was going on around them. they just sat down with somepeople who were there already, which is fine, it’s just their choice of florrspace to occupy that was stupid - right on the ockey (sp?) so that we had to ask them to move. stupid people. and it was stupid people as well they came in separately and both did it.

and then when i was walking down to my physics lab there were two other stupid people walking ahead of me, completely oblivious that everyone was having to get out of their way on the pavement, they were walking along talking to each other, looking at each other as well as they weaved their way along the street. maybe they were’t stupid maybe they were just rude. either way i don’t like them much.
anyway i am off to play darts now but with the hope that the bar will be quieter now.

by the by, i was thinking of going to the cinema tomorrow is there anything good on? i was thinking of seeing 8mile or the new leo di crapio one. any thoughts/advice?

Fridays that is, they’re better than Thursdays at least today has been better than yesterday. Actually yesterday wan’t too bad it was just really hard work and never seemed to be going anywhere. But yes, today’s been much better thank you. I’m off to the beer bar to play darts for a while again.

well not all thursdays, just this one.

had a crap day.

stupid maths.

useless physics labs.

bloody crap beers in the union (8 taps of tennent’s pish-water)

everytime it gets bad i see something about to make it worse.

i’m off to get some dinner now, when i get back i want some sympathy comments.

grrr,hmph, other tired/bored or work type noises.

BBC SPORT | Sport chief calls for Olympics fund

where exactly is this money going to come from? there’s no way the olympics would generate that much back. there’s a pretty good chance the bid wouldn’t be successful anyway.

the country’s already commited to huge debts and by the looks of things about to go into an expensive war as well.

I’m taking this opportunity to call for ?1M from the govt for me so that I can apply to host something that won’t make any money and probably will cost about a tenner to arrange.

Just been covering this sort of stuff in physics:

Guardian Unlimited Observer | International | Sun’s rays to roast Earth as poles flip

American Scientist | The Reversal of the Earth’s Magnetic Field

Scientific American | Explaining the Moon’s Ancient Magnetism

Just found this on nu-produkt (which is looking pretty fine sice it’s re-fit) : Shockwave Scalextric

BBC SPORT | Football | Eng Prem | Villa add to Liverpool misery

Ananova - Houllier dismisses O’Neill rumours

Not for a while I think, he’s hoilding out for the Leed’s job and besides they’re still in Europe.

No matter what happens my prediction at the start of the season isn’t going to be right.

BBC NEWS | World | Americas | Governor clears Illinois death row

installed MT 2.51 after all, meaning at last I can add a search facility to Stuart’s Weblog, just look to your right, let me know if there’s any problems.

what do people think about a random image on the right, something like on notsosoft.com. but less professional looking obviously.