The Forum Soundtracking Your Sunday Afternoon.

KeithJ_gmb

Imagine if we all had the opportunity to do what Alison did today and host a show on BBC6Music where we could play what we wanted. A dream, for sure. But we can pretend we're going to and draw up our playlists and post them on this thread (if you want to, that is).

So the brief is: pick 28 songs/tracks/pieces of music that constitute your favourites and/or which mean the most to you.

To make your choice less (or is it more?) difficult, there can only be one song per artist and you are not restricted to those that are only 3 or 4 minutes long so to fit in to a two hour timeslot. That can wait until you get the call from 6Music :) You can give reasons for your choices if you like, but this is not essential.

I'm going to have to think about this before posting my choices. Something to divert me during this week's team meeting at work :)

Looking forward to seeing what you all choose. I know we'll have at least one artist in common. I suspect we'll have a few more.

ping

^ totally agree, sweet jane was the first track i heard by them and i've been a fan ever since. trinity sessions is an amazing album. i love it :)

Sparky · Post edited by Sparky at 2014-06-12 13:56:25

One of my best playlists ever!

00:00 Radio Vibes - Mark Wallis

00:07 XY Outro - The Found Sound Orchestra

02;23 Good Morning Good Days - Crookram

03;26 The Sound of the Sun Falling - The Found Sound Orchestra

06:50 Made Men - Crookram

09:31 Contact - Brigitte Bardot

11:57 The Child - Alex Gopher

16:27 Get Up…Carmen - Waldeck

20:20 Beautiful - Babble

26:11 I Hope I Don't Get Arrested Tonight - Bei Ru

29:00 Thread - Quantifier

32:25 Ex-GF - Crookram

33:57 Lovely Bum - The Found Sound Orchestra

37:00Through Windows - Crookram

40:30 Beach House - Mark Wallis

44:20 Cloud Head - The Found Sound Orchestra

47:40 Outro - Crookram

This is the sound of summer – watching sail boats from a beach bar after three mojitos. Chill-out to soul, blue note beats and lazy jazz. The crackle of old vinyl: smokey torch songs and saxophones. Drift away to Radio Vibes, broadcasting to you across the ether. (the track called Beach House is me!)

Listen here http://thevibes.me/2012/05/31/radio-vibes/

hunter · Post edited by hunter at 2014-06-09 07:13:15

I'll play! Fun...

Since it is late spring/early summer and the weather is hot and the sun is shining and the kids are all on break from school I am going to do a Sunday afternoon SUMMER playlist. Here goes;

Sebastian Tellier - La Ritournelle
Miike Snow - Paddling Out
Hercules & Love Affair - Hercules Theme
Lindstrøm & Christabelle - Baby Can't Stop
Holy Ghost! - Okay
Feist - Mushaboom (Mocky Mix)
Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks
MGMT - Electric Feel
Animal Collective - Summertime Clothes
Rjd2 - Ghostwriter
Something A La Mode - Little Bit Of Feel Good feat Adam Joseph
Storm Queen - Look Right Through (Vox)
Morgan Geist - Ruthless City feat Jeremy Greenspan
Junior Boys - Banana Ripple
Jem - Crazy
Imogen Heap - Flicks
Fleet Foxes - Ragged Wood
Gotye - Easy Way Out
Hugo - 99 Problems
Lissie - Little Lovin'
Ryan Bingham - Southside Of Heaven
Zac Brown - Where The River Goes
Jamie N Commons - Rumble And Sway
King Britt Presents Sister Gertrude Morgan - Power (Voodoo Version)
Koop - Summer Sun
St. Germaine - Alabama Blues (Todd Edwards Vocal Mix)
Nina Simone - See-Line Woman (Masters At Work Mix)
Goldfrapp - Monster Love

LittleBird

Ooooh I am loving this thread, I've actually got the office to myself for a short while so am just listening to Alisons show again....just perfection. Here's my playlist:

DJ Shadow - Organ Donor

Depeche Mode - Walking in my shoes

Nine Inch Nails - Something I can never have

The Prodigy - Stand up

Kate Bush - The Sensual World

Lamb - Gorecki

Queens of the Stone Age - Hanging Tree

Foo Fighters - Lonely as you

Moulin Rouge OST - Elephant Love Medley

Bran Van 3000 - Everywhere

Len - Steal my sunshine

Scott Walker - Boy Child

Wicker Man OST - Willows Song

The Smiths - How soon is now

The Orb - Little Fluffy Clouds

Tricky - Pumpkin

Massive Attack - Group Four

Portishead - Wandering Star

Blue Foundation - Eyes on fire

Bellowhead - Whiskey is the life of man

Scissor Sisters - Lets have a kiki

Elbow - One Day Like This

alt-J - Tessellate

Muse - Super Massive Black Hole

Orbital - The Box

The Future Sound of London - Papua New Guinea

Pink Martini - Brazil

Goldfrapp - Utopia

Border_Mind

Marilyn Monroe - I wanna be loved by you
Peaches - Fuck The Pain Away
Pink Floyd - Echoes
New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle
Hole - Violet
Siouxsie & The Banshees - Green Fingers
Underworld - Dark & Long
The Stranglers - Hanging Around
Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Kate Bush - Wild Man
Anna Calvi - The Devil
The Smiths - Nowhere Fast
Westworld - Silver Mac
Heaven 17 - We Don't Need This Fascist Groove Thing
Gary Clail - Emotional Hooligan
The Sisters Of Mercy - Emma
Blondie - Rip Her To Shreds
Kraftwerk - Europe Endless
X-Mal Deutschland If Only
Polly Scattergood - Nitrogen Pink
Massive Attack - Dissolved Girl
Bjork - All Neon Like
Madonna - Bordeline
Killing Joke - Follow The Leaders
Cosmic Baby - Tribute to Blade Runner
David Bowie - Heroes
L7- Shitlist
Goldfrapp - Alvar

Jeronimooo · Post edited by Jeronimooo at 2014-06-09 13:18:48

Nice thread, Keith!
I always have a "most favorite" playlist on my phone, but it keeps changing due to the season, my temper, etcetera. For now (hot day with heavy thunderstorms heading for the Netherlands), my playlist would be:

Goldfrapp / Beautiful
Underworld / Born Slippy
Fluke / Absurd
The verve / Bitter sweet symphony
The prodigy / Firestarter
Jamiroquai / Virtual insanity
David Bowie / Jump They Say
Massive attack / Teardrop
SX / Black video
FM Belfast / Synhtia
Baskerville / Ready to blow
Ubiquitous Synergy Seeker / Laces out
Rumplestitchkin / Kissing disease
Echos minor / Superindendent
The subs / The face of the planet
MGMT / Time to pretend
Emir Kusturica & the No Smoking Orchestra / Was Romeo really a jerk
Fatboy Slim / Acid8000
Kula shaker / Hey dude
Leftfield / Space Shanty
Martin Solveig / Touch me
Moby / Ooh yeah
Studio Pagol / Bandhu re
ELO / Here is the news
Roisin Murphy / Movie Star
Air / Sexy boy
U2 / Pride (In the Name of Love)
Spinvis / Astronaut

I might want to change the sequence of the numbers, but will do that only after 6Music has contacted me... ;-)

BTW the previous posts in this thread give me plenty of new ideas for good music that needs to be checked out!

KatRobin

Goldfrapp- Ride A White Horse
Dusty Springfield- I Only Want To Be With You
James- Born Of Frustration
Kate Bush- Suspended In Gaffa

KatRobin

Sorry- I posted prematurely!

Where was I?

David Bowie- Ashes To Ashes
One Dove- White Love
Delirium- Flowers Become Screens
Duel- Propaganda
Soft Cell- Tainted Love
Duran Duran- Secret October
Mock Turtles- Can You Dig It
stone Roses- She's A Waterfall
Buzzcocks- Ever Fallen In Love
killing Joke- Love Like Blood
The Damned- Grimly Fiendish
Abba- Eagle
Billy idol- Eyes Without A Face
Alanis Morrisette- Thanku
The Thompson Twins- The Rowe
Cocteau Twins- Iceblink Luck
Voice Of The Beehive- Monsters And Angels
Tori Amos- Little Earthquakes
Depeche Mode- Precious
Jan Hammer- Crocketts Theme
Animotion- Obsession
Sisters Of Mercy- Lucretia My Reflection
B52s- Love Shack
the Smiths- How Soon Is Now

tattmaylor

Cool! Love a list. The sad man I am I have been thinking for years what I would do with a couple of hours radio and had to pick tracks that mean something to me

Thing is most of may favourite songs are over 5mins! (half the list!) and I have an ambition to get Poplagid in the radio ...all 11mins 45 secs. So i need extra 30 mins.

Dayvan Cowboy - Boards Of Canada

Blue Monday - New Order

Friends Electric - Gary Numan

Knowing Me, Knowing You - ABBA

Swollen - Bent

Down From Dover - Nancy Sinatra/Lee HAzlewood

Bluebeard - Cocteau Twins

69 Annee Erotique - Serge Gainsbourg & Jane Birkin

Brittlesticks - FIELDS

Happiness Is Easy - Talk Talk

The beat(en) Generation - The The

I'll Never Fall In Love Again - Dionne Warwick

Roads - Portishead

I Was Never Here - Baby Bird

Sorrow - IAMX

Hero - Neu!

Hayling - FC Kahuna

Lovely Head - Goldfrapp

I only Said - My Bloody Valentine

La Petite Fille De La Mer - Vangelis

What Else Is There? - Röyksopp

Moonbeam - Men Without Hats

Communication - The Cardigans

Fade to grey - Visage

Computer Love - Kraftwerk

Slow Learner - Boo Hewerdine

Dr. Mabuse (first life) - Propaganda

Poplagid - Sigur Rós

Whickwithy · Post edited by Whickwithy at 2014-06-15 19:13:13

I think I've probably posted something very similar somewhere on here before but here goes....

Just to make clear my original faux pas, it would be easy to make the same list with just Goldfrapp. I also have to add, after the fact that I have the same problem with Sade, though I don't feel obligated to add her. I could make a list of 28 songs of just Sade. Funny that I left them both out of this list. Actually, I think my list is 25 songs, now, but I won't add Sade, anyways.

Goldfrapp, Pilots (how embarrassing. I didn't have a Goldfrapp song, originally...)
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydNbuB6PLiU
Chrome, "Newex"
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFqgxk8QZQw
Bent, "Swollen"
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G76SHa5IFnU
Slow train soul, "In the black of night"
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_tZ9ht-4lE&feature=
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31v6-9ka0Bs
Mandalay, "You're beautiful
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6m8eFIs1Jvs&feature=related
Gelka, "Hidding place"
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7Vh5LxPWPU
Thievery Corporation, "The Mirror Conspiracy"
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cboqGkC0hp4
Morcheeba, "Let me see"
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQEP0n3nMeU
Mantra, "Rain"
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H96b47fxLvg
new radicals, "some day we'll know"
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDmA8qQKhMY&ob=av2e
Afterlife, "Breather 2000"
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utiF35pzK2M
FC, "Hayling"
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCsfUXFmBDQ
Duran Duran, "Out of my mind"
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-N6_mFbRow
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble, "Pride and Joy"
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vo23H9J8o8
Deep and Wide, "Easy Rider"
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1osYh8R9Lzg
Joke Society (Jo Manji), "Morphing Morning"
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVDFMbr0-bQ
Mic Max, "Bailanduna"
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmsP_tV_enY
Savage Garden, "To the moon and back"
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zD8KvL1aFNQ
Santana, "Smooth"
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXp413NynFk
Bliss, "Remember my name"
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSS6kru5O9k&feature=related
Remember Remember, "Ocean Potion"
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jS1NI_80zjo
Enya, "How can I keep from singing"
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RBjwQroGNE
Ballistic Brothers, "Uschi's groove"
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FrXBd6yFDs
Jefferson Starship, "Sunrise"
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FrXBd6yFDs
Pink Floyd, "Echoes" (sorry, B_M, had to use the same song. It is just so great during a sunrise).
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJtw7SP0oN4

If I had room, I'm embarrassed to say that I would add "Pocketful of Sunshine". Love that song.

Ponygurl

Tried to keep mine a bit slow and romantic for a Sunday mix...

Vangelis and Stina Nordenstam- ask the mountains
Cipriani/Dell' Orso- Mary's theme
Thomas Newman- the Baudelaire orphans
Tori Amos- a sorta fairytale
Prince- the ballad of Dorothy Parker
Julie London- cry me a river
Florence and the Machine- over the love
Lykke Li- I follow rivers
Sia- I go to sleep
Sufjan Stevens - to be alone with you
Joni Mitchell - blue
Bjork- come to me
Elliot Smith- big decision
John Lennon- Julia
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros- home
Patsy Cline - crazy
Death Cab for Cutie - I will posses your heart
Heart- mistral wind
Radiohead- go slowly
Led Zeppelin- no quarter
Fink- perfect darkness
John Barry- the girl with the sun in her hair
Goldfrapp~ pilots
Jimmy Hendrix- the wind cries Mary
Ella Fitzgerald- embraceable you
David Bowie- wild is the wind
T. Rex- the slider
Air- alone in Kyoto

A_is_A

Oh wow, these are really great. What a nice idea Keith! I'm gonna check out some of these playlists right now.

ping

some great choices already, this is very difficult.

bikini kill - rebel girl

x-ray specs - i am a cliche

niki & the dove - the fox

ennio morricone - l'estasi dell'oro

soft cell - say hello wave goodbye

babes in toyland - he's my thing

lou reed - vicious

nick cave - tupelo

PJ harvey - victory

tricky - black steel

kate bush - hounds of love

laurie anderson - o superman

leonard cohen - hey thats no way to say goodbye

massive attack - safe from harm

beach boys - god only knows

blondie - heart of glass

saint etienne - like the swallow

nina simone - i loves you porgy

kirsty mccoll - there's a guy works down the chip shop swears he's elvis

cowboy junkies - powderfinger

bonnie 'prince' billy - i see a darkness

john parish - absolute beauty is an absolute curse

yumenji's theme - umebayashi shingeru

bjork - hyperballad

sa ding ding - alive

metallica - for whom the bell tolls

the motels - total control

goldfrapp - lovely head

KeithJ_gmb · Post edited by KeithJ_gmb at 2014-06-11 16:20:26

Fantastic selections. You'd all do a great job programming a show. I suspect you may have had the same problem as me - only 28 tracks. I was able to scribble down well over 100 in a few minutes.
One issue I had was reconciling long term favourites with recent favourites and music that represents various moments throughout my life. So my selection here is a mixture of all of these.

'Danse Macabre' - Saint Saens
'Kashmir' - Led Zeppelin
'Pieces of a Man' - Gil Scott Heron
'Next' - The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
'Willow's Song' - from The Wicker Man OST
'Knowing Me, Knowing You' - Abba
'Wuthering Heights' - Kate Bush
'Europe Endless' - Kraftwerk
'Life During Wartime' - Talking Heads
'If You Go Away' - Scott Walker
'Party Fears Two' - The Associates
'Walking In The Rain' - Grace Jones
'Kiss' - Prince
'Betty et Zorg' - from Betty Blue OST
'Dream Within A Dream' - Propaganda
'Blacker Than Black' - Goodbye Mr MacKenzie
'Cups' - Underworld
'Roads' - Portishead
'Squares' - The Beta Band
'Von' - Sigur Ros
'Nothing Brings Me Down' - Emiliana Torrini
'Trophy' - Bat for Lashes
'Sadness Is A Blessing' - Lykke Li
'The Copper Top' - Aidan Moffat & Bill Wells
'Hey Now' - London Grammar
'Virginia Clemm' - Katzenjammer
'Pilots' - Goldfrapp
'Fingal's Cave' - Mendelssohn

Much of my parents' record collection didn't do much for me but some of classical pieces did, as you'll see. We played the Mendelssohn piece at the end of my mother's funeral & as she passed away a year ago today, it's uppermost in my mind.
I've just noticed that most of my choices from the past 10/15 years are rather melancholy and that would have been the case if I'd made this list 18 months ago. In case you're worried, there are some very upbeat ones on my long list! Which also includes songs and artists that each and every one of you have on your list. Not surprising, perhaps, but rather heartwarming I think :)

Halloween_Jack · Post edited by Halloween_Jack at 2014-06-11 20:04:18

1. Great thread idea, Keith :-)
2. Wonderful selections from everyone who's contributed
3. Nice idea WW to include YouTube links
4. I will put together mine soon!
5. Keith: a sad anniversary... wishing you emotional strength today

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