30 Songs.2 - tsss tsss tsss tsss

My least favourite song? Easier than you'd think really. I mean, there are plenty of songs which don't do a lot for me or would rather not listen to... but only one which makes my ears bleed. Only one which makes me actually change the radio station or music channel (actually that's not true, I am a serial music channel hopper...but the radio station bit is true.) Just talking about this song makes me a little uncomfortable to be honest. It has that unfortunate dance beat which seems to hit a part of my eardrum untouched by any other genre.

Tsss Tsss Tsss Tsss.

Like that, see? And it's not that I don't like a good bit of dance music these days... my teenage indie self would be horrified at some of the stuff I listen to these days, since now I tend not to comform to what I think I ought to listen to and actually listen to what I like, and that covers a wide spectrum. In terms of dance music, what I like is clever dance music. I like interesting samples, catchy lyrics and something you can actually dance to (if you want). I like Chase and Status and the Prodigy. The only thing this song has going for it (and I'm clutching at straws here) is the video, which got people talking because it consists of nothing more than some leotarded up chicks stretching  (sorry, "doing aerobics").

I'd be perfectly happy to never hear this song again. Ever. I rather suspect I am on my own, or at least in a minority. Sadly, (for me anyway) radio DJs the country over seem to like it. It was number 1 in the UK for 6 weeks in 2004, and hit the number 1 spot in various other countries too. Either way, I have a feeling I'm destined to be sitting at some wedding or party in 20 years or so explaining to my kids why I don't like Call On Me by Eric Prydz.

30 Songs.1 - I'm Spinning

So it's been  a while. I've been thinking about this blogging business for a while, how to start, what to talk about. Having the two little Bees I mentioned before and trying to keep afloat has left me with little time, so I decided to take a leaf out of Lunch Hour Waffle's book and do this 30 days business that's doing the rounds to get me started. 

The first song is Your Favourite Song. As someone with a pretty large collection of CDs and a great lover of music this one was a hard one to pick. It would be all too easy to go with a song I could listen to endlessly at the moment, only to be replaced with something else in a few weeks (Ceelo Green) or one of those classics which you kind of forget about until you hear it again (Sinead O'Connor, The Kinks). I could choose an old favourite which comes in and out of favour, one of those songs I love but could easily flick past on my iPod (Terrorvision) but instead I've decided to go with a track which swallows me up every time I hear it. 

I was aware of this band before I met my husband but would never have called myself a fan. I still wouldn't I don't think, even though on paper everything works. Big guitars? Check. Clever lyrics? Check. Good Live? Check. In fact, I would go as far as to say they are one of the best bands I have seen live. Somehow I've never made it into fan territory though. Bizarre, I know. The first time I saw them I was told I was unlikely to hear this track since they don't play it often - luckily for me they have played it each time I have seen them. I can't help but listen to this song intently whenever it is on and I would never skip past it. It reaches in to your soul somehow and fills you from the toes up. If you don't know this song, I urge you to listen to it. Even if it doesn't offer you what it offers me, at least I know I've shared it with you.

I give you Black, by Pearl Jam.