New York playlist
Some of you will remember this post from last year where I asked you to suggest songs for my iPod during the marathon.
Well we're doing it again. Suggest a song and I guarantee I'll put it on if I can find it. You can have any reason for selecting a tune or indeed no reason, but if you're struggling for a reason to pick a song why not just use one of these tried and tested reasons:
1. You want to torture my ears (Barbie Girl, Hey Mickey, Macarena)
2. You want to inspire me (Rocky, Here I go again, Harder Better Faster Stronger}
3. You want to be cheesily thematic (New York New York, King of New York, Englishman in New York)
4. You love Jim Steinman (Anything for Love, Total Eclipse of the Heart, Holding out for a Hero)
5. To hell with Jim Steinman, you love AC/DC (Back in Black, For those about to Rock, Let there be Rock)
So you can choose the easy/lazy option and pick one of those or you can come up with anything you like. Leave it in the comments section below and we'll include it in the playlist.
posted by emmet @ 10/13/2008 10:03:00 AM
9 Comments
9 Comments:
My personal favourite inspiration at the moment - "Take the City" by Snow Patrol.
"Run" by Pony Club would be all too obviously appropriate - a song particularly impressive because the singer sounds so like Eamon Dunphy (or rather the Apres Match Eamon Dunphy) at one stage.
And Nick Cave's "City of Refuge", or Blind Willie Johnson's "You Better Run To the City of Refuge" (which inspired the Nick Cave song) both feature dramatic injunctions that "You better run, you better run, you better run"
Pink Floyd - Run Like Hell
Bob Dylan - Going, Going, Gone
Frank Zappa - The Torture Never Stops
For when you need to get going, but just don't feel like it:
The Knack - My Sharona
Kaiser Chiefs - Everyday I love you less and less
and, just for fun, Tiffany's I think we're alone now ("Running just as fast as we can, holding on to one another's hands")
hope they help!!!
Hmm... bit of a tricky one. Straightaway, if you don't have it already, Bad for Good by Jim Steinman.
Other than that, Run Runaway by Slade, If You Could Read My Mind by Gordon Lightfoot, The Racing Rats by Editors, Eye in the Sky by the Alan Parsons Project, and for the cheese factor, All you Wanted by Michelle Branch would be my picks of randomness
"Holding out for a Hero" from Footloose, can't remember who by, the original "Maniac" and "Over and Over" by Hot Chip. Oh - and "Run On" by Moby. Gotta have a themed one.
"Kinky Boots" by Honor Blackman and Patrick McNamee HAS to be on there.
Thanks for all the suggestions so far guys, keep them coming.
I Would Walk 500 Miles by The Proclaimers
and
Tonight We Fly by The Divine Comedy
Good Luck Emmet!
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