Which song do you listen to when...
you feel like 1982?
Bill Summers & Summers Heat - Call It What You Want
Bill Summers & Summers Heat - Jam The Box
The epitome of that black era. Apart from Michael Jackson's stuff.
you try to stay up for more than 24 hours?
Funkadelic
Anything from 1970 til 1978. The natural melodic coke.
you come home from the club?
The hum and buzz inside my head after a show.
you take a bubble bath?
The Fatback Band - Feel My Soul
Poetic, soothing, disturbing. Something underneath the bubbles would most likely snatch me from underneath.
you camp in the desert?
The Doors
That entire vibe feels like traveling alone through vast spaces to me.
you go to a club?
I don’t go to clubs other than my own shows.
you cook?
Can
Anything from the period 1969 - 1973. You’ll end up with the most psychedelic dishes.
you run from the cops?
Isaac Hayes - Theme From Shaft
It would make me laugh, trip over and get caught. I would then bribe the cop with a free vinyl of The Smiths’ «Hatful Of Hallow», and then go home to a cold bed.
you run naked through a cornfield?
Royalle Delite - I'll Be A Freak For You
you prepare for an important date?
The Fatback Band - Makin' Love
Brilliant! Forget the date! Just play this on repeat!
you are in a depressive mood?
Joni Mitchell - Blue
Joni Mitchell - Ladies Of The Canyon
These records were and will remain the soundtrack to my life.
you drive a car late at night?
The Smiths - Still Ill
I can’t drive, but with a driver and this soundtrack; I could see all the bridges I must desperately cross.
you fall asleep?
The Smiths - Asleep
you are on a football field?
The Temptations - I Wish It Would Rain
you watch girls go by?
Isaac Hayes - Your Love Is So Doggone Good
you jog?
The Velvet Underground - Run Run Run
It sounds like running to me.
you are love sick?
Joni Mitchell - Blue
Joni Mitchell - Ladies Of The Canyon
you make breakfast?
Sugar Minott
Soothing voice, vibe, messages.
you make love?
Nobody loves me at the moment. And I shan’t confess to a masturbation track!
you jump out of a plane with a parachute?
Chelonis R. Jones - The Cockpit
It’s that plane theme again.
you meet your parents?
Curtis Hairston - The Morning After
I have no family anymore. But if I still did: The Morning After.
you play ping-pong?
Sade
I just love her. My concentration could be rescued.
you sit in a plane?
Chelonis R. Jones - The Cockpit
That’s how I got the inspiration.
you have to answer an elusive questionnaire?
The Cure - Faith
you smuggle diamonds?
Shirley Bassey - Diamonds Are Forever
you solve difficult mathematical tasks?
Radiohead - Everything In Its Right Place
Lubricates the braincells.
you have to spend a night in a spooky hotel?
The Specials - Ghost Town
Another brilliant showcase for haunting emptiness.
you sit in the subway?
Thom Yorke - The Eraser
Thom Yorke composes traffic in my opinion.
you wake up?
Fleetwood Mac - Rhiannon
It is the most haunting song I’ve ever heard. What a way to get those batteries re-charged for the banal chores of an all-too-human day.
you wash your hair?
Lee Scratch Perry - Super Ape in A Jungle
My hair looks better afterwards.
you need to get work done?
The Isley Brothers - Work To Do
a song that reminds you of school
Royalle Delite - I'll Be A Freak For You
Hot On The core. Nothing nowadays can touch this kind of grooveblackness. I can’t even explain it without turning into Spike Lee! Must check my blood pressure!
perfect anthem for Berlin
David Bowie - Low
your boozed up anthem
Vera - Take Me To The Bridge
A blast even without the booze. The production! The voice!
a song guaranteed to make you feel depressed
Antony & The Johnsons - Her Eyes Are Underneath The Ground
record you were looking for the longest
Sylvia Striplin - Give Me Your Love
a record you fell in love to
Machine - There But For The Grace Of God
Oozing in memories, sights, scents and imaginary kisses.
first record you remember
The Cure - 10:15 Saturday Night
the song to be played at your funeral
Fleetwood Mac - Sisters Of The Moon
Dawn McCarthy & Bonnie Prince Billy - Then The Letting Go
a song that evokes the greatest summer of your life
America - A Horse With No Name
I was purely in love with rejection in my teens.
your guilty pleasure song
Quarterflash - Harden My Heart
your ultimate heartbreak song
Joni Mitchell - The Last Time I Saw Richard
best Kraftwerk song
Kraftwerk - Das Model
your liberation anthem
The Fall - Smile
I love them/him (Mark E. Smith).
perfect anthem for New York
First Choice - Let No Man Put Asunder
Nothing on earth is more anthem-NYC than this! Entirely genius!
your party anthem
Bell & James - Livin' It Up
Siouxsie & The Banshees - Trophy
first record you bought
I don’t remeber it at the moment. At this moment I’m still checking my blood pressure.
a song that reminds your friends of you
The Smiths
your sunday morning song
Only Roots Reggae, circa 1970-1980.
best video clip you ever saw
David Bowie - Space Oddity
a song you wish you'd written yourself
The Smiths - Still Ill