Drinking whiskey clear!
Songs and bands I love!
From the home office in London, here’s the Top 10 song chart for the week ending November 24, 2012:
1) Marsheaux – “Empire State Human”
2) Kate Nash – “Do Wah Doo”
3) Japan – “Cantonese Boy”
4) Virginia Astley – “Some Small Hope”
5) Jessica Bailiff – “Helpless”
6) Ambra Red – “Beauty 606”
7) Asobi Seksu – “Thursday”
8) Ladyhawke – “Magic”
9) Katy Perry – “The One That Got Away”
10) Blouse – “Videotapes”
From the home office in London, here’s the Top 10 song chart for the week ending November 3, 2012:
1) Ambra Red – “Oh Boy”
2) Marsheaux – “Empire State Human”
3) My Mine – “Hypnotic Tango (Radio mix)”
4) Modern English – “Life in the Gladhouse”
5) Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark – “Telegraph”
6) Gary Numan – “Films”
7) Ministry – “Revenge”
8) Book Of Love – “I Touch Roses (Long Stemmed version)”
9) Visage – “Fade To Grey (12″ Version)”
10) Kim Wilde – “Suburbs of Moscow”
From the home office in London, here’s the Top 10 song chart for the week ending October 27, 2012:
1) Roxy Music – “Angel Eyes”
2) Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark – “Enola Gay”
3) Modern English – “Life in the Gladhouse”
4) Katy Perry – “Teenage Dream”
5) Serge Gainsbourg – “Ah! Melody”
6) Serge Gainsbourg – “En Melody”
7) Serge Gainsbourg – “Valse de Melody”
8) Kim Wilde – “Water on Glass”
9) Tears for Fears – “Mad World”
10) Serge Gainsbourg – “Je t’aime…moi non plus”
Sorry I haven’t posted one of these lately… I’ve been listening to a lot of podcasts instead of music!
From the home office in London, here’s the Top 10 song chart for the week ending October 20, 2012:
1) Adele – “Skyfall”
2) Jessica Bailiff – “Helpless”
3) Ladyhawke – “Magic”
4) Class Actress – “Careful What You Say”
5) Foretaste – “Goodbye Horses”
6) Peter Gabriel – “Solsbury Hill”
7) Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark – “Enola Gay”
8) Roxy Music – “Angel Eyes”
9) Roxy Music – “Same Old Scene”
10) Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark – “Telegraph”
According to Last.fm, as of Wednesday of this week I’ve officially listened to my new favorite band, Marsheaux, 1,000 times since December 11, 2011:
That’s an average of 3.22 Marsheaux songs a day over 311 days! Obsessed? Perhaps!
So…. the Internet kind of blew up over the past couple of days since Adele’s “Skyfall”, the theme to the new James Bond film of the same name, leaked on the Internet (hear it for yourself here). Of course, this got me thinking about Bond themes… and I found a bunch of nifty trivia I thought I’d share:
– Duran Duran’s “A View to a Kill” is the only Bond theme to reach #1 in the music charts in either the US or UK.
– Amusingly, Duran Duran became involved with the theme after bassist John Taylor approached Albert Broccoli at a party and drunkenly asked when he was “going to get someone decent to do one of [his] theme songs” (after Dr. No was an international hit, American film producer Albert “Cubby” Broccoli started a company called Danjaq, which owns the copyrights and trademarks to the Bond properties; its subsidiary, Eon Productions, actually produces the Bond films).
– New Wave group Blondie really wanted to do the theme for 1981’s For Your Eyes Only, and sent the producers a tape of a song they’d written for the film. Producers preferred another song written by Bill Conti and Mike Leeson, but offered to let Blondie perform that song on the film. The band refused, and the song ended up on Blondie’s 1982 album The Hunter:
– Carly Simon’s “Nobody Does It Better”, the theme to 1977’s The Spy Who Loved Me, was the first Bond theme to not share a title with the film. Simon does, however, include the title as a line in the song:
I wasn’t lookin’ but somehow you found me,
It tried to hide from your love light;
But like heaven above me,
The spy who loved me,
Is keepin’ all my secrets safe tonight.
– “All Time High”, the theme to 1983’s Octopussy, is the only other theme to not share a title with the film in the pre-Daniel Craig era. In fact, it’s the only Bond theme to not mention the film at all (perhaps not surprising, as it would be kind of hard to work “Octopussy” in normal song lyrics).
– Conversely, Adele’s “Skyfall” is the first Bond theme of the Daniel Craig era to share the title of the film. Casino Royale’s theme was “You Know My Name” by Chris Cornell and Quantum of Solace’s theme was “Another Way to Die”, by Jack White and Alicia Keys.
– Scottish singer Sheena Easton, who sang the theme to For Your Eyes Only, is the only artist to actually appear onscreen singing the theme during the film’s title sequence:
Here’s my top 10 song chart for the week ending September 9, courtesy of the home office in London:
1) The Raveonettes – “She Owns The Streets”
2) Marsheaux – “Inside”
3) The Raveonettes – “You Hit Me (I’m Down)”
4) Paul Young – “Love Of The Common People”
5) Thermostatic – “Close Your Eyes”
6) A Fine Frenzy – “Blow Away”
7) Saint Etienne – “I’ve Got Your Music”
8) The Raveonettes – “Downtown”
9) Madness – “It Must Be Love”
10) Cocteau Twins – “In the Gold Dust Rush”
Here’s my top 10 song chart for the week ending September 2, courtesy of the home office in London:
1) The Raveonettes – “She Owns The Streets”
2) Saint Etienne – “I’ve Got Your Music”
3) Ambra Red – “Beauty 606”
4) Washed Out – “Call It Off”
5) Julia Holter – “Moni Mon Amie”
6) Marsheaux – “Summer”
7) Class Actress – “Careful What You Say”
8) Ramones – “Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment”
9) Pet Shop Boys – “Always On My Mind”
10) Drivin’ N’ Cryin’ – “Saddle on the Side Of The Road”
Here’s my top 10 song chart for the week ending August 26, courtesy of the home office in London:
1) Marsheaux – “Summer”
2) Class Actress – “Careful What You Say”
3) The Jam – “In the Crowd”
4) The Magnetic Fields – “Swinging London”
5) Marsheaux – “Empire State Human”
6) The Watson Twins – “Just Like Heaven”
7) Asobi Seksu – “Perfectly Crystal”
8) Junica – “Living In My House” (featuring Pip Brown)
9) Foretaste – “Alone With People Around”
10) Public Image Ltd. – “Deeper Water”
Here’s my top 10 song chart for the week ending August 19, courtesy of the home office in London:
1) Alpine – “Gasoline”
2) Ambra Red – “Beauty 606”
3) Blackbird Blackbird – “Hawaii”
4) Hefner – “The Hymn For The Cigarettes”
5) Wild Nothing – “Shadow”
6) The Magnetic Fields – “Swinging London”
7) Marsheaux – “Empire State Human”
8) Class Actress – “Careful What You Say”
9) Blackbird Blackbird – “Pure”
10) Alpine – “Seeing Red”