A trip down memory lane...

Every now and then, I think about my dad (...) and how grateful I am that he introduced me to such fantastic music in such an early age. Really, the crap music I didn't hear until I was old enough to choose for myself. Fair enough, I listened to Norwegian quality children's music like Alf Prøysen, Maybritt Andersen and Knutsen & Ludvigsen, but here's some of the seriously awesome shit I started listening to at the fragile age of 10 years old (mostly cause my dad forced me and, granted, I only partially appreciated it at the time):



I always ALWAYS cried when me dad played this song... Actually, I think I might have been younger than 10 when I first heard this, it was one of the summers when we drove through Germany, I might have been 8 or 9... Anyway, I used to ask my dad to play it, and he'd be like "are you sure, I mean, you only get sad..." And I was like, "no, no I love it, play iiiiit" - and sure enough, it ended in tears. But come on - it's such a SAD song...!! And so beautiful...sigh.



I was a bit older when my dad started forcing Hendrix on me, maybe 11-12... And boy, did I hate it. But it didn't take long before...you guessed it, I loved it. I wrote a paper on Jimi Hendrix for music class in teh 10th grade I think it was, so I'd been listening to him for a good 3-4 years...And today I think it's still the paper I am most proud of throughout my entire education:) Such a fantastic song this, one of many, but this is the one I remember from the car, my dad explaining the lyrics to me...Not that I remember today what he said, but still.. Ah, the memories...
Also, another thing about Hendix... What style, what grace! Any guy should be willing to give his wiener for that wardrobe. Pure class.



Now this one - this is when I became religious. My mum says the same, she saw it with her friend when it came out in 73, and she said that's the day she became religious...! I remember my dad showing me the musical, and I was absolutely gobsmacked... A soundtrack like this hasn't been written either before or after I dare say! This musical is by far the best one I've ever seen, both thanks to the music and the actors (especially Judas, he owns the whole thing!) Also, I remember my dad having the record, such a beautiful record... (Obviously it's no longer in my possession as my hopeless sister charitably gave all of the vinyl our dad left when he moved out, to a friend...) Anywho, I will go to great lengths to get a copy of this record again! (Probably won't have to go any further than Ebay or even Amazong...but still...)



This one's a random one! But it's a cd my dad had called "Cohen in Norwegian" - basically it's Leonard Cohen's best tunes - in Norwegian! How fantastic is that?? This particular song, if you can't hear it, is a beautiful version of Everybody Knows, and I actually prefer this version! (Can I say that?) It's a woman called Kari Bremnes from Lofoten just outside Bodoe (for all you ignorants - where I'm from!) so she sings in my dialect, which makes it that much more beautiful... :)
I think my sister still plays til cd... I need to get my hands on a copy:)



Now this. This was from the first time I heard it, and still is today, the most beautiful song I know. I love Nick Cave with all my heart, and this might be the most fantastic lyrics ever written... I just go all weak in the knees every time I hear it! For many, many years this was the only song I liked, or knew even, by Nick Cave, but thankfully that changed drastically about 8 years ago...and since then I've just loved him more and more:) I went to see him with my flatmate Jakub here in Edinburgh after reading his book The Death of Bunny Munro (hilarious), it was like a reading/concert, so it was very intimate. We sat on the 2nd row, he was SO close, that was a religious experience... And when he played this song, which I hadn't dared to hpåe he would, I nearly started crying:) Cause that's how much I love it:)
Might be the best live experience I've ever had, just cause of the intimacy of the whole thing... :)

Finally - this was my sister who introduced me to. I remember it so well - my bedroom at home is on the first floor, and so was my dad's monstrous record player/amplifier/speakers/the whole lot. And after I went to bed, my sister would play this ON REPEAT, and I found it really scary...! I'd lie in bed and be scared shitless, and wish she'd turn it off... I can't have been more than 10-12 years old. Haha:) And I hates when she played it, cause it meant I couldn't sleep, not even after she finally turned it off, cause I was too scared... Anyway, a few years later I loved it, along with every other song the Cranberries ever did:) The live version of this is the best, so that's the one I'll post. What a voice:)



I get shivers when listening to this!! She's one of the very few female singers I actually enjoy listening to. Also, I find her weirdly sexy... :P

Ok, I couldn't help myself... I had to put this in here!! For one of my birthdays, I can NOT remember which one, my sister forgot to get me a present so she told me - hold on - "you can have my entire Bonnie Tyler collection" ... I was euphorical!! Best present I had ever gotten! (You know when you have an older sibling, and you love everything they love, just cause you think it's cool? I also "supported" Tottenham) So, I played Bonnie over and over and over, and this song in particular... And I learned all the lyrics and I'd sing it to my mum...over and over...poor woman... But here it is, just cause memory lane wouldn't be complete without it:)



Enjoy!;)

Cinema

In remembrance of the beautiful pub I worked in for a short while, Cinema, I thought I'd post here some of the songs that were played there most frequently by yours truly:)

1. Rage Against The Machine - Killing in the Name
2. Pearl Jam - Alive
3. Strokes - Reptilia
4. Red hot Chili Peppers - Otherside
5. The Smiths - This Charming Man
6. Bigbang - Fly Like a Butterfly, Sting Like a Bee
7. Franz Ferdinand - Take me Out
8. Bon Jovi - Living on a Prayer
9. Primal Scream - Rocks
10. Blur - Song 2

GREAT compilation, I know! I'm gonna put the best ones under here, check it OUT: