9.29°C Keep Colchester Cool is inviting guests to share their top ten tracks of all time. There are no rules – some will explain why they’ve chosen particular tracks; others won’t. Either way, it offers an insight into the music that has influenced some of our local heroes over the years.
This week, it’s the turn of Kieron Chatten (So-Called Humans, Penny Arcade) to provide his top ten tracks of all time. Enjoy…
1. The Beatles – Strawberry Fields Forever
The greatest ever… if you don’t like them – and some people don’t – I feel sorry for them. Melody and oddness… a winning combination. Unnatural talent… great video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nehRB1FTeTo
2. Joy Division – Transmission
Timeless brilliance and simplicity… still the most exciting thing you might hear on a night out… or a night in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rdf9gxp-_4A
3. Pink Floyd – Arnold Layne
Cross-dressing… Syd… dark nursery rhymes… Britishness at its best… and we won’t clear up in the morning.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpKhSiohFrc
4. Spacemen 3 – Revolution
Posh-boy English menace… repetition and sunglasses and purity and hair and bravery.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXClxayu22A
5. The Jesus and Mary Chain – In A Hole (Live on Old Grey Whistle Test)
The personification of youthful energy, danger, parent-baiting… indifference… the Warhol dream made real and Scottish.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dal8_QylUMg
6. Neu! – ISI
Suicidal tendencies averted.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRzW7PVwz-M
7. Public Image Ltd – Public Image
The greatest debut single ever written and played by men… forever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cifo77azntk
8. Wire – Outdoor Miner
Better than stamp collecting and/or the remnants of the so-called Roman wall.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMP2vrueTpU
9. Deerhunter – Nothing Ever Happened
Bradley and his gang… forgetting about the soaps and creating this in a spare Friday Peak Frean assortment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MOECvAlbXk
10. Nothing… silence is golden after all.
You can catch So-Called Humans at Colchester Free Festival 2015 on Saturday 29th August and at Three Wise Monkeys on Friday 18th September 2015.
