SuggestiON-AIR: Favourite Mancunian Song
There is nothing ATL likes better than tenuous links to football, especially in regards to our SuggestiON-AIR feature. We figured after a weekend of FA Cup triumph in Manchester it would only be right to celebrate with the Blues and Reds and delve into the salacious geyser of Mancunian music and pick out our own personal highlights.
We want to hear your choices. What is your favourite track from a Mancunian band. Does Simply Red bring you to ‘Heaven’, maybe Take That ‘Relight Your Fire’ or maybe you like Oasis, ‘D’ya Know What I Mean.’
Let us know your thoughts and opinions by tapping us up here, on the ATL Facebook or the ATL Twitter and we will give you a shout out on tonight’s show.
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Happy Mondays - Kinky Afro (Factory)
Seems daft to overlook Oasis, Elbow and Take That (serious) but I'll go for this, simply because I was listening to it this morning and singing along like a big daft weirdo. The best thing the Monday's recorded, drenched in lovely strings and opening with the line 'Son, I'm thirty I only went with your mother cause she's dirty...' - what's not to like?
Everything Everything - My Kz, Ur Bf (Geffen)
OK. Hardly the best song to ever come out of Manchester, but probably my favourite of last year - Everythign Everything's 'My Kz, Ur Bf'.
The text speak title may wreck my head but the song was so refreshing to hear at the time. Strings open forebodingly and then... snyth, drums and funky bass all kick in to make it's infectious hooks worm into your head. Jonathon Higgs angular vocal gymnastics, combined with the harmonies and interweaving guitar and snyth lines has me singing along and playing air 'drums', air 'snyths', air guitar…whatever. It makes me want to play music and for that reason I consider it a rather damn good song.
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M People – Search For the Hero (Deconstruction)
First things first, I am well aware how rubbish M People actually are. They are the cheesy, faux-philosophical second rate Simply Red, and Simply Red are worse than a dose of the skits in my opinion. That gives you some insight into how I feel about M People now in my 20’s. However when I was nine years old I thought they were the best thing since chocolate flavoured lego bricks.
The uplifting sentiment of searching ‘for the hero inside yourself’ was something I would sing to myself when I was playing football or needed a little boost. I was a pretty rare little kid and regret nothing when it comes to my love for M People. I was also fond of mocking up the saxophone bits, although I mocked it up as if I was playing the tin whistle. What nine year old knows what a saxophone is?
10CC were one of the most unusual bands of the 70s, difficult to pigeon-hole, and always fond of being oblique, but still somehow managing to score top pop hits with their immaculately crafted art-pop. Some of their out-put hasn't aged well, but I'm Not in Love still stands tall as one of the finest pop songs ever recorded. Also, 10CC put their money back in their home city, setting up the legendary Strawberry Studios in Manchester, where Joy Division recorded their two incredible albums. So, in a weird way, I'm not in Love is responsible for Joy Division. Which is no bad thing, surely?
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