10/12/2012

SAM FORREST - TOP TEN SONGS


List time again. This time it's the turn of Sam Forrest to name and shame his current favourite ten songs.

Sam is half of The Sorry Kisses, a quarter of Nine Black Alps and one hundred percent of himself, most of the time...

This interview is reproduced from Northern Noise, and can be witnessed in it's original context here.



1. Jay Reatard - My Shadow 

The energy, the drumming, the guitars and the melody on this song are so good, it's almost like comic book music. And this live footage is so good it hurts…


2. Nico - Evening of Light

Bought her solo albums 'The Marble Index' and 'Desertshore' from the early 70's at the start of the year and they've been my accompaniment to driving down endless dreary roads in dismal towns.



3. Serge Gainsbourg - Melody Nelson

It's a whole 30 minute album this, but each track kind of bleeds into the next. Love the dry minimal productions versus the amazing wash of strings…



4. Francoise Hardy - Je N'attends Plus Personne

More French music, no idea what she's singing about but love the scuzzy guitar and melody, have been trying to get all the Francoise Hardy stuff i can get my hands on this year. tasty guitar solo too...



5. Faust - It's A Rainy Day (Sunshine Girl)

To Germany, been listening to lots of German weirdness of the seventies this year. so jealous of the words to this song, only two lines, i think… and the scratchy guitar is cool, uh yeah...




6. Ty Segall - Finger

Went to see him in Leeds this year, best gig i've been to in years. And this song was pure filth.



7. Beethoven - Symphony Number Seven

There's a record shop near me selling classical albums on vinyl for 20p. Couldn't resist. And then went to vienna in October and gawped at Beethoven's grave.



8. John Prine - That's The Way That The World Goes Round

Am obsessed with John Prine too, but am only allowing myself to buy one of his albums per year, so that I don't use up all the goodness. Anyway, this is from his album called 'Bruised Orange', lyrics are weird combination of throwaway and effortless...



9. Thee Oh Sees - Putrifiers II

Only just getting into this band, more american garage filth, but this is cool and that's all i know...



10. I Was A King - Norman Bleik 

Another new band i know little about, but i think they're Norweigan and have an infatuation with Norman Blake out of Teenage Fanclub which is cool by me…