The Weller/Gallagher Challenge
A post in The Guardian Music Blog sets up a challenge. It’s based on a late-night pub discussion where Guardian journo Jon Wilde was challenged by Noel Gallagher and Paul Weller to name his ten favourite songs in just one minute. He wondered if he should include his real favourites, or list what he thought those two would like. Not that I would have considered them to the ultimate arbiters of taste in the first place.
This is the list I came up with. I expect that Weller and Gallagher would think as much of this list as I think of the music of Weller and Gallagher.
- Led Zeppelin - Immigrant Song
- Yes - Parallels
- Blue Öyster Cult - Astronomy (1977 live version)
- Rainbow - Stargazer
- Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
- Fish - Plague of Ghosts
- Marillion - This is the 21st Century
- Karnataka - Talk to Me
- Mostly Autumn - Carpe Diem
- Porcupine Tree - Anaethetize
My list seems to be equally divided between the 1970s and the 2000s (well, almost. Plague of Ghosts is from 1999), with nothing from the two decades in-between. Not sure what that says about me.
(Psychochicken has also had a go at this, and let it loose on the Blogosphere)
