All Time Classics

Posted almost 4 years ago
I'm notorious for my top ten favourite music tracks.Mainly because there's around a hundred songs that qualify!The entries on this profile probably represent an attempt by my sub-conscious to try and produce the definitive list of music that is most precious to me. Hey world! It's time I took control of this. I'm actually quite interested to find out what that list might be. How can I go to my grave and not know the songs which define me?The problem is how do I find out what they are?Well, one thing I've learned over the years is that a song or artist I rave about when they first appear can quickly go off the boil as I tire of them or they develop their music in a direction I don't like which subsequently takes some of the enjoyment out of their previous work.This means that new tracks can never make it onto the list until there has been some distance between the present and the original release.Also they need to always make me feel like I want to listen to them. It can't be an all-time favourite if the track appears randomly on my mp3 player and I want to skip it because I don't feel like listening to it. It just doesn't sit right with me.The clincher though is that I want to listen to it. If I flick through the playlist looking for a track to kick off with then it has to grab me and make me say 'Yes! I want to listen to you again!'.Even with these criteria there are still more than the requisite ten that I could easily come up with if I sat down and thought about it.So I'm not going to think about it. I'm just going to let the stand out tracks make their presence known. The first track that has been cropping up lately to secure its place in my 'Hall of Fame' is Humanoid by Stakker.If my memory serves me right it started life as the theme in a "Def II":http://www.offthetelly.co.uk/factual/defII1.htm ident around the time Acid House was the underground sound although its quite possible that it had been around before that but gained recognition and minor chart success because of the exposure. The thing that cemented it in my mind was Radio 1 playing the 12” version quite a lot. It lasted for ages and slowly built up to the acid bass hook. Alas I've only ever managed to get hold of the single version and I'm sure the 12” version could never stand up to the memory of it now anyway.I think part of the reason I can never get enough of it was because for so long it was hard to get hold of and it never got any major airplay so it was difficult to get tired of it. In some ways its very much of its time but it epitomises a lot of the tracks that were out at the time and listening to this one track leaves me feeling like I don't have to listen to any other 303 based track ever again.enjoy!

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  1. mollifire says i'll never tire of the 303 or the 808. i may tire of certain artists who use them, but never the music possible with those machines. classics! great post here.
    Permalink posted 04/01/2008

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