If you pay a visit to Birds On A Wire Towers, you'll probably hear a lot of BBC6 Music. Don't get us wrong, we're big on full album appreciation and usually spend our evenings routing through our strangely categorised CD collection or scrolling up and down the iPod Classic. But when we're mopping the floor, or washing the dishes, or making a wall sized map of the United States of America, you're likely to find us listening to 6. Or a bit of BBC Radio 3, but that's beside the point. Sundays in particular have become sacred. We eat breakfast to Cerys, get our chores done to Huey and have dinner with Jarvis (he's not Jesus, but he has the same initials).
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Anyway, 6's 10th birthday crept up on us out of nowhere and made us feel quite old. To celebrate the fact that they've been on the air for over a decade, they've launched '6 Music's 100 Greatest Singles.' The station have compiled a list of what they believe to be the best songs to have been released during their lifetime, and have asked listeners to visit their website and vote for the best one. The choosing bit is now, but they'll reveal the listeners bestest and most favourite song after a countdown of THE WHOLE LOT on Friday 1st of February. Listening to the selection of 100 tracks, we felt nostalgic for a bit, then we had an argument. So in celebration of that argument, we thought we'd make like the 6 DJ's and let you in on our own top 5s....
Laura
A divisive one, and the centre of our argument it's.....
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When this single came out, it was all over 6. You couldn't put the radio on without hearing Miss Del Rey crooning "Swinging in the backyard, Pull up in your fast car..." over those sublime bells and melancholic piano chords. Then, for a lot of people, two things happened. 1) The song got really old, really fast and 2) They saw a picture of Lana, and she wasn't the slightly unkempt, serious country songstress they'd imagined. She was a slightly depressed looking Barbie with a cosmetically enhanced mouth and foot-long plastic nails. Not for me, however. Maybe it's because I listen to a lot of songs on repeat. And also because I spent my childhood praying that one day I'd evolve into a plastic doll. For me, Video Games sounds as emotive and haunting as it did when I first heard Huey Morgan play it, and I know it's special because I have to stop and listen (no mopping the floor or washing the dishes to this.) I think I'll love it forever. But I'll only be playing it when Liz isn't here. Or I won't be alive to listen to it for much longer.
And the best of the rest?
2.Johnny Cash- Hurt
Love, love, love this. I challenge you not to cry when the piano chords get as intense as his amazing voice. The best musical come back of all time? (Thanks Rick Rubin!) And as an advocate for prison reform, he was a man after my own heart.
3. Richard Hawley- Tonight The Streets are Ours
The Yorkshire Roy Orbison. Singing about why ASBOs are bad. And encouraging us to have a bit of a dance.
4. Fleet Foxes- Mykonos
If they were a fizzy drink, we'd have to market them as 'CSNY Lite.' Haight Ashbury-esque harmonies. Dressing a bit like The Band. Happiness.
5.Kelis- Milkshake
Enough Said.
Couldn't resist. Much love - always.
Liz xXx and Laura X
Love, love, love this. I challenge you not to cry when the piano chords get as intense as his amazing voice. The best musical come back of all time? (Thanks Rick Rubin!) And as an advocate for prison reform, he was a man after my own heart.
3. Richard Hawley- Tonight The Streets are Ours
The Yorkshire Roy Orbison. Singing about why ASBOs are bad. And encouraging us to have a bit of a dance.
4. Fleet Foxes- Mykonos
If they were a fizzy drink, we'd have to market them as 'CSNY Lite.' Haight Ashbury-esque harmonies. Dressing a bit like The Band. Happiness.
5.Kelis- Milkshake
Enough Said.
Liz
Ahhh Peej. I love Peej. She rules. And in this track, she really rocks the autoharp, with a giant feather headress on. Not sure anyone else could do that. What I love about this track, and PJ in general is that the music stands on it's own as brilliantly produced, thoughtful and beautiful - and then - suddenly you realise that she is writing about important shit, and making a lot of sense. I was lucky enough to see PJ at the Royal Albert Hall a little while back and she really blew me away. Welcome back PJ!
2. Johnny Cash - Hurt
Yay, we agree!
2. Johnny Cash - Hurt
Yay, we agree!
3. Gossip - Standing in the Way of Control
Less stopped me in my tracks, more smacked me between the eyes (in a good way).
Less stopped me in my tracks, more smacked me between the eyes (in a good way).
4. Richard Hawley - The Streets are Ours (Live Version- Mixing It Up, Us)
It's really hard not to dance down the road when listening to this on the way home.
It's really hard not to dance down the road when listening to this on the way home.
Couldn't resist. Much love - always.
Liz xXx and Laura X
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