Every Friday, we give away a gift voucher – currently trading at TWENTY FIVE EUROS – to spend at any of the many Golden Discs branches nationwide.
All we ask from you is a tune we can play at an unspecified time next week.
This week’s theme: Song of the year.
What original choon [Irish or international release in the past 12 months] burrowed its way earworm-stylee in to your consciousness and took up tenancy during 2017?
To enter, just complete this sentence.
‘The best thing I’ve heard all year is_________________________________’
Two weeks ago, with a Golden Discs voucher worth 25 euros on offer, we asked you to name a song that gives you the chills.
You answered in your spooked out dozens.
But there could be only one scary winner.
In reverse order then…
Pink Floyd – Echoes
Boj writes:
While not exactly scary, I am always creeped out in a good way by Pink Floyd – Echoes because the sections of the song have a building level of menace. Earphones, dark room, *optional* mind-altering substance of choice and Echoes….ah thank you! My hipster buds tell me it would completely blow my mind on vinyl but I think I’ll be grand with me Discman (if I stay very still).
Ludo – ‘Love Me Dead
Elizabeth writes:
Starts out sounding like a kid’s nursery rhyme sung by a fresh faced nice looking young man and goes via screaming guitars to a very dark place lyrically. Who could not failed to be charmed with these lines?
You suck so passionately
You’re a parasitic, psycho, filthy creature
Finger-bangin’ my heart
You call me up drunk
Does the fun ever start?
You’re hideous and sexy!
The video is probably NSFW (enjoy!)
Bauhaus – Bela Lugosi’s Dead
Otis Blue writes:
While not exactly scary, I’m always creeped out in a good way by the Bela Lugosi’s Dead by Bauhaus because a ludicrously overblown goth standard never gets old. Even if I have.
Dead Can Dance – The Host of Seraphim
Walter Ego writes:
While not exactly scary, I am always creeped out in a good way by The Host Of Seraphim, From Dead Can Dance because Lisa Gerrard’s ethereal voice just haunts and sends shivers down the very pit of your soul. ’
Winner
Black Sabbath – Black Sabbath
Gorugeen writes:
While not exactly scary,I am always creeped out in a good way by Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath because the storm and tolling bell intro followed by [Tony] Iommi’s pure metal riff pull the listener into the dark gloom. Ozzy then lays on a thick layer of dread with his almost dreamy lyrics. The figure in black is now pointing at the listener.
Ozzy beseeches “Oh God no” and we’re right there with him in the dread. Now we start to run, Butler, Ward and Iommi erupt a rollicking dirge. We truly get our mosh on. It’s got it all. Horror, tension, dread, gloom and volcanic riffs. Creepy but sort of scary and loads of fun…
Every week, we give away a Golden Discs voucher currently trading at 25 Euros on the open market.
All we ask from you is to select a tune we can play next week
This week’s theme: Spooked
To celebrate the Halloween season what song haunts your dreams and sends shivers down your spine in a markedly spooky, but not altogether unpleasant, manner?
To enter, please complete this sentence.
‘While not exactly scary, I am always creeped out in a good way by__________________because___________’
Lines MUST close at 6.15pmextended until MIDNIGHT Saturday!
Late last month, with a TWENTY FIVE EURO voucher for Golden Discs on offer we asked you to choose a favourite Autumnal track.
You answered in your dozens.
But there could be only one winner.
in reverse order then…
Justin Hayward – Forever Autumn
David T writes:
I find my my autumn mood usually lifts on hearing Justin Hayward’s “Forever Autumn” because I love its eerie, crepescular quality.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sb-SVPJM4L4
Lee Hazelwood and Nancy Sinatra – Some Velvet Morning
Otis Blue writes:
I find my autumn mood lifts on hearing Lee Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra singing Some Velvet Morning…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jGdJw5SbWE
Aphrodite’s Child – Spring Summer Winter and Fall
Gorev Mahagut writes:
I find my autumn mood lifts on hearing Aphrodite’s Child singing “Spring Summer Winter and Fall”, whose lyrics demonstrate some confusion about what order the seasons go in.
The Band – King Harvest
Yep writes:
I find my My Autumn mood usually lifts on hearing King Harvest by the band.
I can clearly remember being handed that album going back to school, staring at the cover of ’em all wrapped up looking soaked and cold, then spending the next few months buying and listening to everything I could.
Trying to explain how cool the song structure of King Harvest was at a Halloween party was a downside. Especially considering my analysis was ” but it’s kinda backwards kinda in a way”.
Van Morrison – Evening Meditation
Specific Gravity writes:
I find my autumn mood usually lifts on hearing Van Morrison’s Evening Meditation, from his Sense of Wonder album.
Something in it always brings to mind relaxing by a turf fire with a tipple after a day traipsing over crackling leaves with a refreshing bite in the air.
Of course, Van was no doubt meditating over far more exotic escapades when he wrote it…but it’s Autumn to me.
Winner
Van Morrison – Purple Heather
Nevan writes:
Van’s Purple Heather is so autumnal it’s like “a horn-shaped basket jammed it with an insanely ornate assortment of shellacked vegetables”. And it comes right after a song called “Autumn Song”. And it starts with the line “Well the summertime has gone and the leaves are gently turning”. It’s decorative gourd season!
Last Friday, with a Golden Discs voucher worth Twenty Five Euros on offer, we asked you to choose one track from any of the artists playing at Electric Picnic 2017 that might tempt you to actually go to Stradbally.
You answered in your tens.
But there could be only one winner.
In reverse order so…
Michael Moore writes:
‘I might consider standing in a field wearing a waterproof poncho if I could hea Pete Tong Presents Ibiza Classics performed by the Heritage orchestra conducted by Jules Buckler playing Right Here, Right Now….
Dylad writes:
I might consider standing in a field wearing a waterproof poncho if I could hear Michael Kiwanuka playing Cold Little Heart.
Hicksonian writes::
“I might consider standing in a field wearing a waterproof poncho if I could hear Perfume Genius playing Queen. Wah ooo wah ooo wah ooo wah ooo wah ooo wah ooo wohhhhhh. Repeat x 8 and good night.”
Fairy Queen writes:
“I might consider standing in a field wearing a waterproof poncho if I could hear Duran Duran play Rio – that sax solo, that baseline. Totally reminds me of the hot summer of ’83 and the pfst pfst of our new Sodastream…”
Pooter writes:
‘I might consider standing in a field wearing a waterproof poncho if I could hear The Pretenders playing Brass in Pocket because i’m old school and I’m also old enough to remember when I used to work in a factory called Walthams in Sallynoggin [County Dublin] they made stereo systems, and I used to tune in the radios on the production line, whenever Brass in Pocket came on the radio, the line would slow down for a few minutes….
Winner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJYfUS96f6w
Jibjob writes:
“I might consider standing in a field wearing a waterproof poncho if I could hear Chaka Khan playing ‘Ain’t Nobody’, as my wife and I started dating to that song on the radio and we have now been married for over 25 years. I am an old softy (as well as simply old).”
Last month, we offered a Golden Discs voucher for the best U2 moment you considered their most underrated.
And promptly forgot to choose a winner.
Sorry.
You had entered in your dozens.
But there could be only one winner.
In reverse order so…
U2 – October (Live)
Toni the Exotic Dancer writes::
Begrudgery aside, the most sublime yet underrated moment from U2 came during the opening piano to “October” live at Red Rocks.
Ivan writes:
‘Begrudgery aside, the most sublime yet underrated moment from U2 came during that bit in Who’s Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses – it’s at 2:06. “Baby can we still be friends?”‘
Sometimes it’s about the bits where there’s nothing.
In other news, weren’t ‘Single versions’ that differed completely from the album version utterly fab sometimes?
Bono – boozing
Scottser writes:
Begrudgery aside, the most sublime yet underrated moment from U2 came during Self Aid…. The unforgettable cider…
Winner!
U2 – Numb
Odockatee writes:
Begrudgery aside, the most sublime yet underrated moment from U2 came during Numb. The moment I heard that ripping guitar sound from one of the masters of guitar tech, The Edge, I was hooked.
Edge’s talkey whispery vocal, the random lyrics, the iconic video, Bono’s falsetto – it had it all.
Made me buy the album as an 11 year old which was a big outlay back then. Led me to Stay (faraway,so close) – my favourite U2 song.
And to top it all when they put it on the greatest hits they updated it to, in my opinion, an awful butchered version of it. Typical of them being perfectionists they felt rushed to release it when it was already brilliant.
The Edge – stage fall
Gorev Mahagut writes:
Begrudgery aside, the most sublime yet underrated moment from U2 came when the guitary fella fell off the stage in Canada.
U2 – Please (Live)
Liam Deliverance writes:
Begrudgery aside, the most sublime yet underrated moment from U2 came during the Popmart Tour in Helsinki in 1997 and the song Please. This song is hardly one of their finest tracks but performed here, live, it is imbued with a power and resonance that is characteristic of the bands live performances.
Never understood the begrudgery myself, here is a wholly Irish band that is one of the world’s biggest acts, they have been going strong for 40 years, a rarity these days, producing an impressive back catalogue as they go and nearly all Irish people have a U2 moment of some kind, be it witnessing a live show or hearing “One” in the car just after you have broken up with your significant other.
Same with Bono, solid performer and song writer who uses his wealth and influence to try and bring about social change here and abroad for those that need help when he could have quite easily sat back and enjoyed and flaunted his great wealth, instead going against the grain of your average pop star. We should be nothing but proud. I am anyway.
Last week, to celebrate Broadsheet’s seventh birthday, we asked you to dedicate a song to a person involved with the site in any capacity.
A winning prize of a Golden Discs voucher worth TWENTY FIVE euros acted as an incentive.
You answered in you tens .
But there could be only one winner.
In no particular order then…
Sister Sledge – We Are Family
Bertie Blenkinsop writes:
For the birthday that’s in it, please play this for everyone because let’s face it, we’re a dysfunctional family…
Patti Labelle – Lady Marmalade
Mildred St Meadowlark writes:
For the birthday that’s in it, please play this for Bertie, my longtime broadsheet husband.
James Brown; The Payback
Joe writes:
‘For the birthday that’s in it, please play Mind Power for Broadsheet’s Board of Directors and the many shareholders on the internet because every minute spent swirling down this giant web of rabbit holes gives you ten times more as a payback for your time invested in the best media and open forum discussion platform and source of news in Ireland’
REM – It’s The End Of The World
Odaockatee writes:
I’d like to dedicate this to everyone, Broadsheety, trolly, humany, internetty, really…
Winner
The Fall – Hip Preist
Badatmemes writes:
For the birthday that’s in it, please playHip Priest by The Fall for sǝɯǝɯʇɐpɐq because he is not feeling appreciated.
