Categories: music
Date: 24 January 2013 21:21:19
Looking at the BBC 6 Music poll to find the best track since the station began broadcasting in 2002 I realise that to some extent my musical taste was influenced by Third Party. Some of the stuff which I like on the list was defo from what she would play on You Tube.
From the 100 songs things which particularly caught my eye were The Futureheads Hounds of Love which would have come into the same category of music as Scouting for Girls (who were missing) and The Killers Mr Brightside which was on there. Florence and the Machine Kiss With a Fist is somewhere on the list too and is a contender, as was Five Years Time by Noah and the Whale. They're the group I'll eternally regret not going to see at Cambridge Folk Festival when they were on. Not sure if we were seeing anything instead or just didn't get to the stage where they were on - whichever gutted.
The Strokes Juicebox isn't my favourite song of theirs. For me nothing will beat the moment I first heard New York City Cops, which literally made the hairs stand up on the back of my neck in a way I think only Supergrass's Caught By the Fuzz has before. Not sure why when I was talking about key gigs I'd been to in a post the other week that the Strokes at Alexandra Palace in December 2003 wasn't on there.
For me the greatest song though? Well it is a toss up between Vampire Weekend'a A-Punk, Richard Hawley's Tonight the Streets Are Ours and Kaiser Chiefs Oh My God.
Which am I voting for? Well it has to be Kaiser Chiefs because it's a indie pop classic which you can dance around whilst doing the ironing, jump around in a crowd or just generally tap your feet whilst bobbing your head whilst sitting reading a book to. Pure indie pop anthem.
Voting closes tomorrow evening - what would you vote for?
And what would you vote for which is within the period but not on the list? For me it would be The Wombats - Let's Dance to Joy Division.
(Note links started going funny half way through and so if you want to see them you'll just have to follow earlier links to the You Tube playlist.