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It's already that time of the year: For the fourth consecutive time, I'm presenting my All Time Top 100! I'm trying to post a song a day. Just like my previous Top 100's I have one rule: I have to know the song for more than a year, which means that anything released in 2010 is excluded for this Top 100. Feel free to comment. Hope you'll enjoy it!

100. The Buoys - Give Up Your GunsNEW ENTRY
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Timothy (1971)

The Buoys delivered a masterpiece with Give Up Your Guns, which bears that typical great 70’s sound. This song deals about a bankrobber who has to face the consequences of his deed. He is forced to choose between facing the law and (thus) losing his loved one or to not surrender and stay by her side, turning out into certain death. This dilemma is lyrically beautifully given shape: in a way you feel sorry for him, being forced to make such a choice, already knowing you will lose something very dear to you. …

Already the third year! :-)

(100)(-----) Frank Boeijen Groep - Kronenburg Park
(099)(071) Gomez - We Haven't Turned Around
(098)(067) Elbow - Newborn
(097)(048) The National - About Today
(096)(088) Crowded House - Into Temptation
(095)(031) Leonard Cohen - Master Song
(094)(076) Simon & Garfunkel - The Boxer
(093)(039) Crowded House - Four Seasons In One Day
(092)(-----) Elbow - Friend Of Ours
(091)(040) Stone Temple Pilots - Plush

(090)(-----) My Vitriol - Tongue Tied
(089)(-----) Maxïmo Park - Our Velocity
(088)(086) Caspian - Brombie
(087)(099) Guillemots - São Paulo
(086)(-----) Snowden - Sisters
(085)(-----) The Cure - Pornography
(084)(-----) Pale Saints - Hair Shoes
(083)(-----) Bark Psychosis - The Loom
(082)(054) The Smashing Pumpkins - Blank Page
(081)(057) Anna Ternheim - Nights in Goodville

(080)(049) Simon & Garfunkel - The Only Living Boy In New York
(079)(-----) The Dandy Warhols - Mohammed
(078)(077) My Vitriol - Infantile
(077)(064) Placebo - Days Before You Came
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かなり久しぶりに、「あぁーー夢でよかった！」と目が覚めて安堵するほどのいやな夢を見た。

20代の頃やっていた習い事のバンドのライブがテレビ中継されていて、出番が迫っているのになぜかまだ家にいてもう間に合わない！っていう内容。。

大した内容じゃないんだけど、見ている当人はすごく焦ってて。

目が覚めて、あーもう大丈夫なんだと確認しながらもやな夢見たなーという後味の悪さ。


。。。寒い朝だー。。。



なんかこのブログで紹介してる曲って洋楽多いよなぁ。

でも８０年代と９０年代ばっかだけど。

昔はそれほど自分的に洋楽が充実してたってことかな。

まぁ最近の洋楽も聴かないわけではないのでそれはまたの機会に。


I'm Not In Love

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１９７５年かーー。。

子供心にもよい曲だなぁと思っていたのであろうか。

Open iTunes, go to your library, answer. No matter how embarrassing it may be.

How many songs: 6263

Sort by song title:
First Song: À quai - Yann Tiersen
Last Song: 528491 - Hans Zimmer

Sort by time:
Shortest Song: Her Majesty - The Beatles
Longest Song: Carnage Visors - The Cure

Sort by album:
First Song: Mamma Mia
Last Song: One Minute To Midnight

Sort by artist:
First song: Liberation
Last song: I'm Not In Love

Top Five Most Played Songs:
Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts I-V)
The Scientist
Invincible
Fix You
Sunshine (Adagio In D Minor)

First 5 songs that comes up on Shuffle:
United States of Eurasia (+Collateral Damage)
Woman
Panic Switch
Mountains
Brown Sugar

Search:
"heart", how many songs come up? 72
"death", how many songs come up? 52
"love", how many songs come up? 175
"you", how many songs come up? 551

Original band member Graham Gouldman who has put this incarnation of 10cc together wrote many songs for other bands during the 1960's and in the first half hour we were treated to some of his songs that he had written. It was a wonderful acoustic set of glorious 60's music. This was the first time I've ever seen a band act as support for themselves!

You may not realise what great songs Graham wrote back then so here's what they played and who had hits with them!

Pamela, Pamela : Wayne Fontana Pamela Pamela

Heartfull of Soul : The Yardbirds Heartfull of Soul

Bus Stop : The Hollies Bus Stop

No Milk Today : Herman's Hermits No Milk Today

For Your Love : The Yardbirds For Your Love

Look Through Any Window : The Hollies Look Through Any Window

There then followed a 20 minute break before the band returned this time with electric guitars, two keyboards and full drum set! (plus bongos, saxophone, etc!)

The 10cc set was the same as the last time I saw them in 2007 :
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Second year, same rule apllies: I have to know the song 1 year. Hope you'll enjoy this list as much as I do!

(100) (-----) Year Of The Cat - Al Stewart
(099) (-----) São Paulo - Guillemots
(098) (-----) Low - R.E.M.
(097) (-----) Twenty One- The Cranberries
(096) (090) Caring Is Creepy - The Shins
(095) (-----) On Every Street - Dire Straits
(094) (076) Bliss - Muse
(093) (073) Sabotage - Beastie Boys
(092) (077) Bullets - Editors
(091) (-----) Everlong - Foo Fighters

(090) (-----) Limassol - Maxïmo Park
(089) (017) Homeland - Stellastarr*
(088) (040) Into Temptation - Crowded House
(087) (056) Linger - The Cranberries
(086) (-----) Brombie - Caspian
(085) (019) Paper Boats - Nada Surf
(084) (039) Name - Goo Goo Dolls
(083) (049) Transatlanticism - Death Cab For Cutie
(082) (051) A Moment Of Clarity - Therapy?
(081) (048) Acrobat - U2

(080) (068) Climbing - Lionel Richie
(079) (064) The Sky Is Broken - Moby
(078) (016) Lump In My Throat - The Departure
(077) (082) Infantile - My Vitriol
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Sat 28 Feb – 10cc

10cc doing a theatre tour through the Netherlands. it sounds strange but it turned out to be a great succes. 10cc nowadays is mainly Graham Gouldman, the only founder member left of the four who started 10cc in 1972. Besides Graham Gouldman Rick Fenn and Paul Burgess are involved with the band since 1977. Mick Wilson joined in 2000 and Keith Hayman is the musical director of Cliff Richard and working with 10cc since 2006.

Still the subtitle for the tour is "Featuring Graham Gouldman and Friends". But it's nice to see such respected artists perform in a theatre creating an intimate atmosphere. Although I've never seen the legendary line-up or the two plus line-up in later years, this re-incarnation of 10cc delivers a good evening of great songs performed with a lot of fun and enthusiasm. It was just a walk along memory lane with a pack of great seventies hit singles, some sixties tracks written by Graham Gouldman for various artists during those days like The Hollies and Herman's Hermits…

Listen to music because you enjoy it.
Not because it's cool to be seen listening to.
I found this statement some days ago on this blog: Mainstream Isn't So Bad...Is It? and it is a wise device as I think. "A guilty pleasure is known as a something one considers pleasurable despite it being mainly received negatively or looked down on by a majority of society." A guilty pleasure is something you like, but you hide this affection, worrying about being uncool in the eyes of your environment. I looked at the guilty pleasure tag on Last.fm and found 87 of the top 100 songs in my iTunes. That makes me to the most uncool person here, doesn't it? Our friends, acquaintances, community, social life, whatsoever defines what a guilty pleasure is. Without doubt, everyone has some favorite songs that he/she listens, feeling inadequate, defining this to be a guilty pleasure makes it a bit more acceptable, doesn't it?
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