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It's the small hours of the morning, you're feeling moody and meaningful and you need some music to go with it . You need something that feels special, something that sounds like music used in the trailer for a movie about a woman's journey of meaningful self-discovery that you'd never, ever admit to watching.
You know the ones I mean, the trailers where the music was picked not so much for the actual lyrics but for the sound it makes. The music some scummy movie executive picked out because "This sounds like what chicks will be into" and then slapped onto the kind of trailer that....
Don't lie to me scum, you know it's true.
"Is he ever going to get to the damn songs?"
Listen to the music - Enjoy the music - BE the music
Or not
First you can feel all uplifted by the sexy yet poorly named DJ Rap singing It's Good to be Alive - it is really, when you think about it: you're up late, you're doing something you enjoy, you don't have work in the morning. Ahhhh, isn't life great? Um, you don't have work in the morning do you? You have another 55 minues of music to listen to!
Song For Holly, sung by surname-defficient Esthero and presumably composed by Danny Saber freaks me out. I don't know why but it's just really captivating and I like it immensi imminen LOTS and I promise to one day write a book (or at least a long story) which will have been inspired by this song. You will all like it, or I will destroy the world!
Next up is BT with.... BT? What? How do I pronounce that? B'T? Well actually it's short for Brian Transeau, and the song is Believer, and I do believe I've been spelling that word wrong in about fifteen other places, so I'll have to go fix them after I write about he other songs....
Air French Band is what it says on the album I have, but the band is really just called Air. The song they have for you here is a lovely string peice called Talisman which will move you. The Management would like to advise casual readers that MV does not know jack about music. This could have been played on a kazoo for all he knows.
Okay, time for a new CD. Oh look, Massive Attack. Lets see.... nope, nope, nope.... Ooooh Group Four is lovely. I suspect I'm swayed by Liz Fraser's singing, but hey, I'm not complaining and neither are you. Hey, random thought: do you think the group might have originally been called Massive Wang?
Leftfield are great, and Swords are great, so a song by Leftfield called Swords must be really great, right? Right. I'm sure in an evil alternate universe this song is in fact faster and the lyrics are telling the plot for a Blade movie, but not this one. Thank god.
Well this CD says Aim featuring Kate Rogers - Sail (Rae and Christian Remix) which is a bit bloody long-winded so lets break it down into manageable chunks: Aim and Sail have nodes, Rae and Christian and Kate Rogers do not. If you're really hard up for something to do while listening you can read the first two - but why bother, the song's just too nice.
Madonna is something of a recurring fantasy of mine ever since, well, ever. In fact I blame her for all my deviant fantasies. Well at least all the ones I had until the internet and Meg Ryan gave me a whole heap more. Frozen is a song that stands out in my mind because it has a cool video and I didn't need to be brainwashed by the television and radio to like it.
Malcolm McLaren might be famous (infamous?) to some, but I'd never heard of him until 1996 when someone I was flatting with said that since I like Vanessa Mae so much I should listen to Waltz Darling, which I really liked. One of the other girls had this to say about Call a Wave: "It's a bit rude." I then sat here listening to it for ages trying to figure out why.
Groova Armada sounds like a funky 70's atempt by Spain to claw back some naval power, but they turn out to be a band - A band who gave us women working out as a video, probably one of the high points of the music video genre (for people who like that sort of thing. I'm not a pervert. Much). However they have a lovely song in My Friend, and the video was quite tastful while managing to fulfill one of the four laws of music videos - chicks.
If ever there is an award for shady-sounding band names I nominate the Sneaker Pimps. think about it for a minute. As for the song, Post Modern Sleaze When I came to pick the last few songs for this mix I came across this one and squealed like a little girl - it's perfect. The lyrics and the video fit exactly what the theme is meant to imply. Wow, how dumb am I? No, don't answer that.
Well, we're down to the last few minutes and I need something that will fit the timeslot and slide you easily into the next hour, so I went looking and happily came up with something appropriate by Fluke - Slid. It's a good choice, as after all those moving, lovely and downright soppy songs have probably put you to sleep....
A List of Songs for the Impatient Who Skipped my Cute Descriptions
DJ Rap - It's Good to be Alive
Song For Holly - Esthero & Danny Saber
BT - Beleiver
Air French Band - Talisman
Massive Attack - Group Four
Leftfield - Swords
Aim featuring Kate Rogers - Sail (Rae and Christian Remix) Aim - Sail
Madonna - Frozen
Malcolm McLaren - Call a Wave
Groove Armada - My Friend
Sneaker Pimps - Post Modern Sleaze
Fluke - Slid
"But Mp3's are theTool of the Devil!"
Which Albums to Buy if You're Feeling Guilty
Go: Good to be Alive, Song for Holly, Believer, Talisman, Swords
Mezzanine: Group Four
The Quiet Hours: Sail
Ray of Light: Frozen
Waltz Darling: Call a Wave
Goodbye Country (Hello Nightclub): My Friend
Becoming X: Post Modern Sleaze
Sliver: Slid | 
