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I was thinking about songs I can never play just once, especially when I'm walking round thinking. In no particular order:
- Imagination - 'Just an Illusion' 12" The gift that goes on giving. First heard it in A Certain Bar age 17 and then went out and bought it. Locating the track you liked in those days was rarely that simple.
- Nona Hendryx - 'Transformation' The rest of the album (Nona) is good too, but you have to play this track dozens of times before you can get past it. Bill Laswell produced.
- The Beat - 'Save It Till Later' 12" Ultimate pick me up.
- Cabaret Voltaire - 'Sensoria' 12" Hypnotic even before the backing vocals kick in.
- Roisin Murphy - 'Parallel Lives' Really just Roisin's remake of 'Sensoria'.
- Porno for Pyros - 'Pets' They only had one song.
- Phoebe Snow - 'Every Night' Paul McCartney song, I think. Never heard his version. Never want to.
- Serge Gainsbourg - 'Je t'aime moi non plus' Does anyone not like it?
- Air - 'Ce Matin La' Modern Serge really.
- PJ Harvey - 'We Float' Walked around LA listening to this over and over. Playing it now always takes me back.
- Sukhwinder Singh - 'Chaiyya Chaiyya' Bollywood hit lifted by Spike Lee for the Inside Man soundtrack.
- Zero 7 - 'Distractions' Sia's best lyrics.
- Dima - 'Baby Mammoth' From the old Chillout Fourever compilation.
- Fila Brazillia - 'July 23' From Black Market Gardening. Pound for pound this band gets played the most when I'm writing.
- The Dandy Warhols - 'There is only this time' If you want to teach kids that drugs are bad, make them sit through The Dandy Warhols live - a mumbling, aimless shambles. The recorded experience of the band - a mumbling, aimless shambles - somehow forms the basis for arguments to the contrary.