Take Five

Inspired by track 5 from the brand-spanky-hot-new We Are Scientists album, Brain Thrust Mastery. This aptly describes my mood at the moment.

So, to take my mind off the fact that play.com have still not supplied me with the purposely pre-ordered 2-disc special edition of Brain Thrust Mastery*, today children, this post revolves around the number five!

I've put my iTunes on shuffle and these are the first five songs (no skipping!)

1. Michael McDonald - I Keep Forgettin'


2. We Are Scientists - Be My Baby


3. Geoffrey Williams - Drive


4. Plan B - No Good


5. N*E*R*D - Rock Star

How bang up-to-date is that? I'm fresh to death with the new music...ahem.

Good tunes though. I was listening to Michael McDonald waaaay before Warren G came along in '94. One of my Mum's favourites. And Geoffrey Williams...wow. Haven't listened to that for a long, long time. I remember looking everywhere for that track afer I first heard it. Everything was CD's back then. None of this illegal downloading guff. It was the thrill of the chase!

You remember, don't you?

Hearing a song for the first time on the radio, missing what the DJ said just before they played it, trying to find out what the song was, singing bits of it to your friends' blanker-than-blank faces? Finally getting hold of the details, then having a four or five week wait until the release date, eagerly listening to the radio in the meantime in case they played it again? Then finally getting your hands on the pristine compact disc, playing it over and over again until you got sick of it (about a week later in my case), or until the next "choon" came along...yep, those were the days my friend.

My 5th gig was Kanye West at Hammersmith Apollo, 21 February 2006. Keyshia Cole supported. It was such an awesome show. He had the string section there and everything.

Not a huge venue, I went on my own having taken the day off work. I remember sitting in a pub for what seemed like forever, just waiting for 7pm to come round so I could line up with the crowd. When we got in, we were all rammed in like sardines and the whole place was bouncing! Brilliant, just brilliant.

My 5000th song on last.fm: Noel Gallagher - Wonderwall (Ryan Adams' arrangement)

It's Noel Gallagher acoustically performing Wonderwall in the way that Ryan Adams did on his album Love Is Hell. So it's Oasis covering Ryan Adams, covering Oasis. I'd been listening to Ryan Adams' version as a favourite for a long time and didn't realise Noel had done it in this way. I love it. You can get it from the link above.

My 5th most listened to track on iTunes is: Cold War Kids - Hang Me Up To Dry.

That surprised me a little. I was expecting it to be W.A.S. Not to disappoint myself though, the 5th most listened to We Are Scientists track is: Lousy Reputation. Nice :)

5th CD album in my collection is: Air - Moon Safari

5th CD single is: Artful Dodger feat. Romina Johnson - Movin' Too Fast

5th DVD is: The Business (2005)

Yes, I am anally retentive and EVERYTHING lives in alphabetical order. It has to. Them's the rules.

* I caved and bought the standard edition of Brain Thrust Mastery today. I don't really do waiting...I'm impatient that way :)