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Friday Five found at thefridayfive

1) What was the first song you remember hearing and enjoying on the radio?
It would probably be either Money's too Tight to Mention by Simply Red, or something by Phil Collins - I don't remember for sure.

2) If you could only listen to five CDs for a year, which five would they be?
I would take one Orbital album (the one with "Belfast" on it), "The Best Album in the World - Ever" compilation from 1997, Little Axe's Hard Grind, REM's Automatic for the People and Film 4's Essential Soundtracks - The Classic Collection.

3) What was your favorite year, music-wise?
Either now (2005) or 1998, when I started uni. Loads of good tunes from that period.

4) If you could witness one historical music event through all time, what would you pick, and why?
The 1st Glastonbury festival - just to be part of this would be incredible.

5) Do you have a song that never fails to cheer you up? What is it and why does it do that for you?
There are many! I don't think I can pick one. I'll pick several - Goldfrapp's Train, Dave Matthews Band's Crash, anything off No Doubt's album "No Doubt", Orbital's "The Box", parts 1 and 2.

Wow, I went to do a GapBurger, and the Asda it's next to - the idiots were queuing for petrol for a good 15minutes. I then went to Morrisons to get my car washed (it was filthy), and had to fight to get past people who were waiting for petrol. Again, waiting a good 10minutes to fill up.

And the news reports claim that there's "no panic buying"? Yeah right.

Mark Bradshaw, head of Garagewatch, which represents 6,500 independent retailers in the UK, said forecourts had been "quite quiet". [Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4236676.stm]

Picked up 4 cool things today. A 2 DVD box set of Andromeda (season 1, part 1) for £2.97! CD single of Gorilla'z "Dare" for £1.97, Kaiser Chiefs' "Unemployment" and Goldfrapp's "Supernature". None of which I have listened to yet, though *loads up CD player*... I love Dare so much :)

Listening to Goldfrapp's album now. Of course, we all know Ooh La La as it's all over the radio (it's on Radio 1's A-list, not always a good thing). I was very concerned when I first heard that song, that this was the commercialisation of Goldfrapp. I found Black Cherry was a very hard album to listen to at first - jarring and unconventional. Felt Mountain was much of the same. Then Ooh La La comes along with it's Doctor and the Medics "Spirit in the Sky" undertones, fairly simple poppy sounds and lyrics. I'm pleased, having listened to at least some of the other tracks, that there's still the underlying sexyness, the implied naughtiness in the sounds and lyrics (or is that just me?), and a complexity to the sound.

Yes, I like this. Will take a while to get used to it I think, as it's very different from previous albums. I'm sure I'll like it just as much :)