Wednesday, 14 September 2011

Top Tunes

Thank Goodness for Hockney Volunteer and Researcher MR. ADL, without this fab post it would be Vogue all the way today!

An Imaginary Sountrack to an Imaginary film inspired by David Hockney’s ‘Bigger Trees Near Warter’


Band/Artist
Song
Highest
Position
Year
1
Roger O’Donnell
La Sentiere Secrete
-
2011
2
The Cure
A Forest
31
1980
3
Pulp
Trees
23
2001
4
Clint Eastwood
I Talk To The Trees
1
1970
5
Peter Paul & Mary
Leavin’ On A Jet Plane
2
1970
6
Horst J
A Walk In A Dark Forest
3
1965
7
Twiggy
Here We Go Again
17
1976
8
RadioHead
Fake Plastic Trees
20
1995
9
Michelle Branch
Everywhere
18
2001
10
The Warterboys
The Whole Of The Moon
3
1991
11
Ride
Leave Them All Behind
9
1992
12
Screaming Trees
Nearly Lost You
50
1993
13
Ozzy Osbourne
Bark At The Moon
21
1983
14
Roger O’Donnell
SmallBuildings (sic)
-
2011


Notes:-

  1. Roger O’Donnell’s (The Cure) introductory piece from his ‘Quieter Trees’ composition inspired by the painting describing the road to Middleton on the left of the Painting.
  2. Following The Cure connection, the Crawley trios first Top 30 hit in 1980 resulting in their first Top of The Pops appearance.
  3. A double ‘A’ side from the wonderful Jarvis and co. with ‘Sunrise’, this was Pulp’s penultimate Top 30 hit.
  4. Yes THE Clint Eastwood! The flip side of Lee Marvin’s Wand’rin’ Star infamously prevented The Beatles reaching No.1 with their last official single, ‘Let It Be’.
  5. Never a hit for it’s writer, John Denver, although it prompted litigation against New Order when it was claimed that the guitar break on their ‘Run 2’single was a breach of plagiarism.
  6. This instrumental hit written as "Eine Schwarzwaldfahrt" sold over a million copies and earned a gold disc. I still have the original 7”!
  7. Lelsey Lawson nee Hornsby aka Twiggy, a fashion icon of the 1960’s gained a silver disc for her eponymous album and is set to release her first new recordings for 35 years.
  8. The 3rd single to be released from ‘The Bends’ album was the Oxford bands 3rd Top 20 hit.
  9. The American singer-songwriters only Top 20 hit. She won a Grammy Award in 2002 for her collaboration with Santana with ‘The Game of Love’.
  10. The Warterboys (sic) biggest hit after it was re-released following it’s original peak at No. 26 in 1985.
  11. The Oxford ‘shoegazers’ biggest hit following 4 EP’s, 3 of which reached the Top 40. Guitarist Andy Bell subsequently formed Hurricane #1, becoming the bass player for Oasis and guitarist for Beady Eye – Liam Gallagher’s post Oasis band.
  12. Screaming Trees alongside The Melvins, Mudhoney and Sonic Youth, were a precursor of the ‘grunge’ movement popularised by Nirvana.
  13. The ‘Prince of Darkness’ famed for biting the heads of a bat AND a dove gained his highest post Black Sabbath hit – subsequently covered by Frankenstein Drag Queens From Planet 13.
  14. Roger O’Donnell’s concluding piece from his suite describes the buildings located on the right of the picture.

Of course I could have included any thing by: Kate Bush; Bush; Muddy, Crystal or Roger Warters (sic); Dennis Warterman (sic) or even ‘Warterloo’ (sic) by ABBA. But that would just have been silly.

ADL

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