Ordo Ab Chao

It's good to broaden your musical tastes and one great way to do it is to get others to suggest the songs that have soundtracked their lives. Kinda like making a mix tape for your friends.. We're in high fidelity terrority here!

Rob: "The making of a great compilation tape like breaking up, is hard to do and takes ages longer than it might seem. You gotta kick it off with a killer to grab attention. Then you gotta take it up a notch but you don't want to blow your wad. So then you gotta cool it off a notch. There are a lot of rules. Anyway...I've started to make a tape. In my head, for Laura. Full of stuff she'd like. Full of stuff that'd make her happy. For the first time, I can see how that's done."
(from the movie High Fidelity staring John Cusack)

Recently I was forced to come up with a list of songs to be distributed to friends and colleagues over the next few weeks. Here's what I picked. Not going to comment on them, it's just like a musical snapshot of my life at the moment and whatever truths are here lie in the ear of the interpreter.

• Are You Going With Me - Pat Metheny Group


• Pink Moon - Nick Drake


• Free Falling - Tom Petty


• Samba Pa Ti - Santana


• Belfast (Original Version) - Orbital


• Into The Mystic - Van Morrison


• Natural Beauty - Neil Young


• She Is So Beautiful - The Waterboys


• Wild Flowers - Ryan Adams


• Get Down Make Love - Nine Inch Nails


• Step Outside in The Morning Light - David Kitt


• Lay It All On Me - The Black Crowes


• Electrolite - REM


• Zero - Smashing Pumpkins


• Gorecki - Lamb


• Whipping Boy - We don't need nobody else


• One/Take 5 - Rodrigo Y Gabriela


• Pyramid Song - Radiohead


• Nobody's Fault But My Own - Beck


• Go Down Easy - John Martyn


• The Man in the Station - John Martyn


• When the Stars Go Blue - Ryan Adams


• No More Tears - Ozzy & Zakk Wylde


• Redemption Song - Bob Marley