Showing posts with label DJ Jazzy Jeff and The Fresh Prince. Show all posts
Showing posts with label DJ Jazzy Jeff and The Fresh Prince. Show all posts

18.5.11

30 day song challenge. A song that makes you fall asleep

I can't think of a song that MAKES me fall asleep as such, I had considered posting a Sigur Ros song, but realised the accompanying blog entry would read thusly:

blah blah blah ethereal blah blah serene blah blah blah blah David Attenbrough documentary. blah.

and that would have been something of a cop out, yes?

In my...more formative years...I had a few audio staples that I would carry with me whenever a long journey was likely (it meant I could avoid listening to The Best of Simply Red in my parents car over and over...and over again.)  along with my Roald Dahl audio tapes was 'Now That's What I Call Music! 26'.  I'd like to say that I was an incredibly discerning 9 year old, and that the songs on that double cassette that really grabbed my attention were Radiohead's 'Creep', R.E.M's 'The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite' and 'Play Dead' by Bjork & David Arnold.  But they didn't.  That honour fell to 'Two Princes' by Spin Doctors and most of all 'Boom! Shake the Room' by DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince.

'NTWICM! 26' was also what I listened to, almost exclusively, when going to bed, and every time I did, without fail, I would wake up this song still in my head.

Night All.