MY TASTE IN MUSIC
How I got into liking old bands
When my Mum and I lived at our old house my Dad, who I don’t see nowadays, was playing a video in the living room. He had recorded three episodes of ‘Sounds Of The Seventies’ on it and I took notice of it. I didn’t know up until 2005 that I got into liking old bands because of that. Also in that year they started showing all the episodes of ‘Sounds Of The Seventies’, on television again this time on BBC4 and there were 10 episodes in total.
Episode 1 out of 10
Here are 3 of the songs I remember from this episode
T-Rex – Hot Love = 1971
Mott The Hoople – Roll Away The Stone = 1973
Alvin Stardust – Jealous Mind = 1974
Episode 2 out of 10
Here are 6 of the songs I remember from this episode
The Moody Blues – Question = 1970
The Who – Won’t Get Fooled Again = 1971
The Rolling Stones – Brown Sugar = 1971
The Faces – Stay With Me = 1972
David Bowie – Queen Bitch = 1972
Queen – Killer Queen = 1974
Episode 3 out of 10
Here are 2 of the songs I remember from this episode
Rose Royce – Love Don’t Live Here Anymore = 1978
The Real Thing – Can You Feel The Force? = 1979
Episode 4 out of 10
Here are 4 of the songs I remember from the first of three episodes that my Dad had recorded on video
Free – All Right Now = 1970
Deep Purple – Black Night = 1970
Jethro Tull – The Witch’s Promise = 1970
Focus – Sylvia = 1972
Episode 5 out of 10
Here are 4 of the songs I remember from this episode
The Carpenters – Close To You = 1971
ABBA – Waterloo = 1974
David Essex – Gonna Make You A Star = 1975
Kate Bush – Wuthering Heights = 1978
Episode 6 out of 10
Here are 3 of the songs I remember from this episode
Neil Young – Heart Of Gold = 1971
Randy Newman – Political Science = 1972
Janis Ian – At Seventeen = 1976
Episode 7 out of 10
Here are 5 of the songs I remember from the second of three episodes my Dad had recorded on video
The Eagles – Take It Easy = 1973
Daryl Hall and John Oates – She’s Gone = 1976
Peter Frampton – Show Me The Way = 1976
Eric Clapton – I Shot The Sheriff = 1977
Dire Straits – Sultans Of Swing = 1978
Episode 8 out of 10
Here are 6 of the songs I remember from the third of three episodes my Dad had recorded on video. Apparently he did it for my Mum because the punk era was her teenage era
The Clash – Tommy Gun = 1978
The Buzzcocks – 16 Again = 1978
The Damned – Smash It Up = 1979
The Stranglers – Hanging Around = 1978
The Jam – Eton Rifles = 1979
Joy Division – Transmission = 1979
Episode 9 out of 10
Here are 7 of the songs I remember from this episode
Alice Cooper – Under My Wheels = 1971
The New York Dolls – Jet Boy = 1973
Patti Smith – Horses = 1976
Iggy Pop – I’m Bored = 1979
The Ramones – Don’t Come Close = 1978
Blondie – I’m Always Touched By Your Presence Dear = 1978
Talking Heads – Psycho Killer = 1978
Episode 10 out of 10
Here are 6 of the songs I remember from this episode
Ian Dury – Sex And Drugs And Rock And Roll = 1977
The Police – Message In A Bottle = 1978
The Boomtown Rats – Rat Trap = 1978
Elvis Costello – Oliver’s Army = 1979
The Specials – Too Much Too Young = 1979
Madness – Night Boat To Cairo = 1979
Songs I do and don’t like
I can imagine a lot of people would find the whole of this bit very difficult to take in because I have perfect pitch and only very few people have it. I used to think to myself that everyone would be able to hear notes by ear and now I know that only very few do and that is something I still find quite difficult to take in. Apparently my Mum told me that James May from ‘Top Gear’ has Perfect Pitch in which she was right.
Chords I like in songs throughout
D major
E minor
G flat minor
G major
A major
B minor
Or:
D flat major
E flat minor
F minor
G flat major
A flat major
B flat minor
Or:
G major
A minor
B minor
C major
D major
E minor
G flat minor
Because they make me feel like life is a palace full of food, drinks and comfy sofas.
Chords I don’t like in songs throughout
E major
G flat minor
A flat minor
A major
B major
D flat minor
Or:
E flat major
F minor
G minor
A flat major
B flat major
C minor
Because they make me feel like life is a valley of woe filled with pain, misery, hunger and despair. I read somewhere in a music magazine that the best chord sequence is B, A, E. I don’t want to upset any musicians by saying this but for me it’s not a very good one for me. I think the best for me would be A, G, D.
Neutral chords
F major
G minor
A minor
B flat major
C major
D minor
Or:
G flat major
A flat minor
B flat minor
B major
D flat major
E flat minor
Or:
A flat major
B flat minor
C minor
D flat major
E flat major
F minor
Or:
A major
B flat minor
D flat minor
D major
E major
G flat major
Or:
B flat major
C minor
D minor
E flat major
F minor
G minor
Or:
B major
D flat minor
E flat minor
E major
G flat minor
A flat minor
Or:
C major
D minor
E minor
F major
G major
A minor
Because those chords don’t give me either a negative nor positive feeling for me.
Songs I do like
I doubt everyone who would read this bit would know all these songs. I could have included ‘Pretend That You’re Alone’ by Keane in this list but unfortunately I can’t because even though it’s in a good key for me and apologies to the band if this upsets them, it features the lines “She’s not waiting for tomorrow and she has no love in her eyes” and it’s spoilt the song for me.
Because they’re all songs in the keys I do like
Songs I can’t bear to hear
I hope this won’t upset anyone who does like these songs because I have nothing against other people liking them and I hope none of these musicians will be put off by this if they see it.
1. Free – My Brother Jake
2. Paul McCartney & Wings – With a Little Luck
3. The Korgis – Everybody’s Got to Learn Sometime
4. The Rolling Stones – Get off My Cloud
5. Queen – I Want to Break Free
6. Joan Armatrading – Love & Affection
7. U2 – Pride (In the Name of Love)
8. U2 – Stuck in a Moment You Can’t Get Out of
9. Madness – My Girl
10. Razorlight – Golden Touch
11. Elton John – Candle in the Wind
12. Robbie Williams – Angels
13. Elvis Costello – Radio, Radio
14. Keane – Bend and Break
15. Billy Joel – Uptown Girl
16. One Night Only – It’s About Time
17. Travis – Why Does It Always Rain on Me?
18. The Smiths – Big Mouth Strikes Again
19. White Lies – Unfinished Business
20. Blondie – Heart of Glass
21. Green Day – Stuck With Me
22. The Mavericks – Dance the Night Away
23. Nena – 99 Red Balloons
24. Renaissance – Northern Lights
25. Mock Turtles – Can You Dig It?
26. Bob The Builder – Can We Fix It?
27. The Buzzcocks – Ever Fallen in Love
28. Amen Corner – Bend Me Shape Me
29. The Proclaimers – I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)
30. Nilsson – Without You
31. Godley & Creme – Cry
32. George McCrae – Rock Your Baby
33. John Lennon – Woman
34. Sweet – Fox on the Run
35. Giorgio Moroder with Philip Oakey – Together in Electric Dreams
36. Billy Ocean – When The Going Get’s Tough, the Tough Get Going
37. Marillion – Lavender
38. Bruce Springsteen – Born to Run
39. Nick Gilder – Hot Child in the City
40. Nick Kamen – Each Time You Break My Heart
41. Matchbox – When You Ask About Love
42. Mungo Jerry – In the Summertime
43. Keane – Perfect Symmetry
44. Embrace – Gravity
45. Annie Lennox – No More I Love You’s
46. Elton John – Your Song
47. The Beatles – The Long and Winding Road
48. The Bee Gees – How Deep Is Your Love
49. Delphic – Doubt
Because they’re all songs in the keys I don’t like
Songs I would have liked if they stayed in the same key throughout
1. Kaiser Chiefs – Everything Is Average Nowadays
2. The Lambrettas – Da-a-a-ance
3. Bucks Fizz – My Camera Never Lies
4. Phil Collins – A Groovy Kind of Love
5. Bon Jovi – Living on a Prayer
6. Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes – Up Where We Belong
7. The Bee Gees – You Win Again
8. Alvin Stardust – I Feel Like Buddy Holly
9. Michael Buble – Haven’t Met You Yet
1. Razorlight – America
2. Cutting Crew – I’ve Been in Love Before
3. Men at Work – Down Under
4. The Beat – Tears of a clown
5. One Night Only – Just for Tonight
6. Feeder – Just the Way I’m Feeling
7. America – A Horse With No Name
8. Vampire Weekend – A-Punk
9. Vampire Weekend – Cape Cod Kwassa, Kwassa
10. Take That – Rule the World
11. The Editors – Push Your Head Towards the Air
12. U2 – Where the Streets Have No Name
13. U2 – Beautiful Day
14. Snow Patrol – Chocolate
15. The Hold Steady – Stuck Between Stations
16. Take That – Greatest Day
17. The Maccabees – Love You Better
18. Elton John – Sacrifice
19. R.E.M. – Supernatural Superserious
20. Razorlight – Before I Fall to Pieces
21. Prefab Sprout – When Love Breaks Down
22. R.E.M. – Near Wild Heaven
23. The Twang – Either Way
24. Tom Robinson – War Baby
25. Voice Of The Beehive – Don’t Call Me Baby
26. Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark – Souvenir
27. Smokie – Lay Back in the Arms of Someone
28. Narina Pallot – Everybody’s Gone to War
29. MGMT – Time to Pretend
30. The New Radicals – You Get What You Give
31. George Harrison – This Is Love
32. A Flock Of Seagulls – Space Age Love Song
33. A Flock Of Seagulls – The More You Live, the More You Love
34. The Doves – Black And White Town
35. Take That – Said It All
36. Oasis – Little By Little
37. Coldplay – Speed of Sound
38. The Killers – Read My Mind
39. Maximo Park – Questing, Not Coasting
40. Coldplay – Lovers in Japan
41. The Headboys – The Shape of Things to Come
42. Delphic – This Momentary
43. The Troggs – Love Is All Around
