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The other fifty: 50 alternative musical memories

Posted on October 19, 2012 by Richard

There are 50 strong and meaningful memories here for me, web but they might just has easily have been replaced by a different 50.  Well, approved that’s not strictly true, of course; these 50 were selected after careful consideration and sifting, but there were another 50 which, when I thought about it, could have made the cut.  And probably another 50 which… Ah, let’s not go down that route.

So, with no preamble, in no particular order, and with no real context: another 50 memories:

Green Bullfrog – Bullfrog   On the road to Portmeirion

Johan Johannsson – How We Left Fordlandia  Back in PG at the end of 2009

Madonna – Ray Of Light  World Cup 98

Eros Ramazzotti – Quanto Amore Sei  A taxi? From Turin?

Mahler – Symphony no. 7   Ilian Volkov, apparently

Haircut 100 – Favourite Shirt  The DHT lecture halls

UFO – Love To Love  Edinburgh Playhouse, all misty green and blue

Gabriel Yared – C’est le vent, Betty  Cardiff

Oasis – Half The World Away  The Royle Family

Billy Connolly – The Welly Boot Song  Walking to the Spar at lunchtime

Renaissance – The Northern Lights  Oh, that bus…

Buggles – Video Killed The Radio Star  Great Western Road, Glasgow

Evelyn Glennie – Veni, Veni, Emmanuel  Mayfest

Thin Lizzy – Jailbreak  Hazlehead Academy tennis courts

Specials – Too Much Too Young   walking home from the No. 4 bus

Human League – Being Boiled  Hamlet? In one act?

Radiohead – Paranoid Android  Penzance

Verdi – Requiem  Coventry airport in an apocalyptic thunderstorm

Kate and Anna McGarrigle – Matapedia Driving through Hemel

U2 – Who’s Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses   wisdom teeth

Black – Wonderful Life  The back roads around Turriff

Tanita Tikaram – Good Tradition  strangely, Edinburgh.

kd lang – Jericho   in the new kitchen

Shawn Colvin – Rugged Road  Meadowhall, Sheffield

Harry Connick, jr – Let’s Call The Whole Thing Off  Ely

Dandy Warhols – Get Off   a new bypass?

Nitin Sawnhey – Prophecy  The Albert Hall and the last tube

Prodigy – Firestarter  some trade show in Birmingham

Ocean Colour Scene – The Day We Caught The Train turn right at the old church…

Gerry Rafferty – North and South  Not sure I want to work for Guinness

Sinead O’Connor – Don’t Cry For Me, Argentina  Rickmansworth High Street

Peter Gabriel – So  Brighton

Metallica – Enter Sandman  New Westminster

Trust – Mesrine (Le Mitard)  Cowan House

AC/DC – Back in Black  UDI, that first summer

Alan Parsons Project – Old and Wise  London Road

Rachmaninov, Piano concerto No.2   Centre Parcs

Bill Nelson’s Red Noise – Art/Empire/Industry  The school gym

Blackfoot – Good Morning  I’m on the record, but I have a migraine

California Guitar Trio – Bohemian Rhapsody  Driving along the Lougheed Highway

Paul Anka – Smells Like Teen Spirit  The last Christmas party

Randy Newman – The Great Nations of Europe  Rugby

Rick Wakeman – Arthur  May 1979

Spacehog – In The Meantime  pub quiz in the CHP

Supertramp – The Logical Song  first night in halls

Toyah – Neon Womb  backstage at 31 King Street

World Party – Is It Like Today? Junction 6 of the M40

Roger Waters – The Tide Is Turning  Culloden

Manchester Orchestra – Simple Math  life in the Great White North

Laurie Anderson – O Superman  GI Records, Cockburn Street.

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