I will never be on Desert Island Discs

"What are your Desert Island Discs?" people are always asking me, non-stop and all the time, even when I am at the dentist or having a biscuit or trying to have a wee in a public lavatory.  I cannot ever answer the question because I think it is odd. I would never be on a desert island for starters, not even by choice, and I will never be famous enough to be having a chat with Youngy, so there will never be a reason to have to think about it properly.

But I think about musak that never, ever annoys me quite a lot, partly because the decision about whether I like most things is based on how much it does (or doesn't) annoy me.   For example, I am with the person I married and he is with me because, on balance, we don't annoy each other. That may not be enough for  younger people who think love, marriage etc is about hot love in the pants and going on romantic minibreaks and being told you are pretty the whole time, but let me tell you - what you're looking for is someone who doesn't annoy you.

Anyway, back to the sort-of point.  There is some music I love a lot with my bones but cannot listen to without wanting to lie on the floor and weep, like Hurt , or High and Dry, or Wake Up or Asleep in the Back or Chicago or Free To Run, and there is other stuff that I can listen to over and over again and never be annoyed by (which is different to being bored of something).

The list makes literally no sense, and it could probably go on for quite a long time, but I will try and keep it short-ish.  Here we go.  Ignore the videos. I do not watch the videos. I listen to the musak either privately or in public, sometimes with accompanying movements from my fez and/or small clay pipe.

I wish that I could see you soon. Herman Dune. (In this case the video is also ace, with puppet angels and beards)
All of Jill Scott's This is Jill Scott. Here is one song from it.
All of Bryter Later, but this one is always good for the nerves
No Fear of Falling, I Am Kloot
Save Me, Turin Brakes. Odd how I don't find it annoying.
There Is A Light That Never Goes Out, despite having no right to listen to The Smiths
The Best of My Love, cure for all ills, The Emotions
La Femme d'Argent, Air
Douna Ma Yelema, Boubacar Traoré (Everyone should own this record. It is very good for the nerves.)
Keep the Car Running, Arcade Fire
Rhythm and Blues Alibi, Gomez
Once In A Lifetime
Strangely, most of LCD Soundsystem and New Order, e.g. this and this.
Most of anything that came out of Mozart's head, but this bit of this in particular; I think it, too, is good for the nerves.  (I am not sure about this recording of it, but I know fuck-all about classical music so won't even go there.)

** UPDATE** after a prompt from the owner of one of my favourite internet destinations: I include most of what came out of Bach's head, including obv. this, which is astonishingly good for the nerves.

I will stop there, because this list could be 100 things long, and just spurting that bit out of my fingers took about two hours. Still, it is good; it has reminded me to spend more time listening to musak and staring out of the window, and less time thinking about things that there is no point fretting about, or watching Come Dine With Me on 4oD.

What is one (1) song you do not ever find annoying? I would like to hear about it.

Pip "Do Re Mi!" Pip

NWM