Listening to...

Nicky Wire’s musical inspiration for I Killed The Zeitgeist

Gene Clark - White Light
Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom
Ronnie Lane (The Faces) - Debris
Lou Reed - Transformer
Neu - Neu 1975
Neu – Neu
Neu – Neu 2
Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombone Adam Green - Gemstones
John Lennon Plastic Ono Band
Giant Drag - Hearts and Unicorns
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Gold Lion
The Modern Lovers - Roadrunner
Husker Du - Warehouse Songs
Johnny Thunders – You Can’t Put Your Arms Around a Memory
Leonard Cohen - Greatest Hits
Jesus and Mary Chain - Some Candy Talking
That Petrol Emotion - V2
Explosions In The Sky – The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place
Wire - Out Door Miner
The Loft – Up The Hill and Down The Slope
John Cale - The Island Years
Einsturzende Neubaten – Perpetuum Mobile
Sway – This Is My Demo
Lou Reed - Metal Machine Music
The Cardigans – Holy Love
Green on Red – Time ain’t nothing
Dusseledorf – Viva
Felt – Primitive Painters
Richard Thompson – Wall of Death
H Block – Compilation
Top ten things...

THE CARDIGANS TOP 10 SONGS

1. For What It's Worth
2. Holy Love
3. Sick and Tired
4. Junk Of The Hearts
5. The Road
6. Don't Blame Your Daughter/Diamonds
7. Live and Learn
8. Losers
9. Hanging Around
10. You're the Storm


Ten Randomly Brilliant Women
(Excluding My Mother, Wife and Daughter)
1. Dora Maar
2. Gwen John
3. Nina Persson
4. Victoria Wood
5. Vivienne Westwood
6. Shirley Maclaine
7. Karen O
8. Paula Radcliffe
9. Susan Sontag
10. Diane Arbus


Top 10 sports Commentators
(Not Expert Pu ndits)

1. Peter Aliss
2. Ron pickering
3. Cliff Morgan
4. Richie Benaud
5. John Rawling
6. Jim Laker
7. Sid Waddell
8. Steve Cram
9. Dan Maskal
10. Bill McLaren


10 Favourite Music Books
1.England’s Dreaming – Jon Savage
2.Lipstick Traces – Greil Marcus
3.The Creation Records Story – David Cavanagh
4.Everything – Simon Price
5.This Is uncool – Garry Mulholland
6.Revolution In The Head – Ian Macdonald
7.Something Beginning With O – Kevin Pearce
8.Appetite For destruction the days of Guns & Roses – Danny Sugarman
9.The Sex revolts – Simon Reynolds and Joy Press
10.Dance with the Devil – Stanley Boothe


Top Ten Blur Songs

1. Beetlebum
2. Caramel
3. Your So Great
4. For tomorrow
5. Trim-Trabb
6. Death Of A Party
7. Battery In My Leg
8. Out of Time
9. Strange News From Another Star
10. The Universal

Top Ten Super Furry Animals Songs

1. Mountain People
2. Some Things Come From Nothing
3. If You Don’t Wan’t Me To Destroy You
4. Its Not The End f The World
5. Demons
6. Torra Fy Ngwaih Ynhir
7. Man Don’t Give A Fuck
8. Fire In My Heart
9. Down A Different
River
10. Howtown Unicorn

TOP TEN NUMBER 10’S – FOOTBALL

1. Michel Platini
2. Diego Maraddona
3. Johan Cruyff
4. Mark Hughes
5. Glenn Hoddle
6. Dennis Bergkamp
7. Mario Kempes
8. Paul Gascoigne
9. Tony Currie
10. Denis Law


TOP TEN NUMBER 10’S – RUGBY

1. Jonathan Davies
2. MG Ella
3. Barry John
4. Tony Ward
5. Hugo Porta
6. Cliff Morgan
7. Michael Lynagh
8. Daniel Carter
9. Stuart Barnes
10. Phil Bennett


NICKY’S TEN FAVOURITE POEMS

1. Aqua-Mortis – Tony Harrisson
2. A Fear – Elizabeth Jennings
3. The Lost – RS Thomas
4. The Machine – Ted Hughes
5. High Windows – Philip Larkin
6. An End – Christina Rossetti
7. The Love Song of Alfred. J. Prufrock – T.S. Eliot
8. Not Waving But Drowning – Stevie Smith
9. In With The Stasi – Barry MacSweeney
10. A Supermarket In California – Allen Ginsberg


I Killed The Zeitgeist
 

"A punk pop bulletin full of more ideas than most manage in a lifetime" Paul Moody, NME
"The songs were great, fragile, splintered, majestic and odd... more character than most other guitar bands at the moment put together..." Hugh Stevens, Radio 1
"Impressively unpolished, this collection possesses quirky charm." Steve Jelbert, The Times