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Top 5 – Bathroom Songs

Top 5 Songs with reference to………Bathrooms

So I’m asked to put together my top 5 songs on bathrooms. Why bathrooms? Because I’m the fool who said I could do a top 5 in my sleep as it’s so easy so they went ok, go.

Here goes…..

She Came In Through The Bathroom Window – The Beatles

Either about Apple Scruffs, a fan, or Linda this McCartney song lives on Abbey Road. A slower version from 1969 was released on Anthology

Everyone Nose – NERD

Ah, when Pharrell wasn’t such a clean cut fella. As producers (Neptune), and the band, NERD released this cocaine inspired track & even wanted strippers and a nose in the video. Thankfully this didn’t happen & nor did the track, failing in the US. It is however brilliant & look for Kanye & Lindsey Lohan in the vid. Ah, strange & wonderful days indeed.

Mirror In The Bathroom – The Beat

UK Ska band The Beat dropped this track in I think !980 / ‘81. At the time The Specials were everywhere with their Jamaican influence & this joined it & maybe topped it for a while. And no it wasn’t about cocaine but being self absorbed.

L.E.S. – Childish Gambino

So a little vague now but Childish Gambino’s first label album, Camp hit hard in my home. With a video shot in the Lower East Side (L.E.S.) he was not in the video. A great track & for me his best work & a shit hot vid

Feel My Heart Beat – LL Cool J

A bit of a reach but had to get LL in the mix. With Run DMC he was the first mainstream hip hop crossover. This track was a single of his last album Exit 13 with Def Jam. Everybody should love Cool James.

Top 5 – Home Alone Songs

You are not going to believe this but I haven’t been out for ages.

It’s a really weird feeling when u don’t see anyone and you decide 2 be on your own.

I called it HOME, my cool social experiment.

Since March I spoke to no one and had my food delivered, cool huh!

And then today I went online and what I found really amazing was that so many people, friends even colleagues were available by email, phone even video calling.

It’s like everybody went on holiday while I did a social experiment staying home.

“I called it HOME.

My cool social experiment.”

Anyways, I’m coming out of hibernation and looking forward to going to a Cubs game, having some group dinners and hitting the clubs later tonight…..wait…..what? a virus? everybody at home….compulsory?….since March? ,you’re kidding right?….wtf…

S**t, here’s my top 5 home songs in no particular order.

After the riotous release of ‘Burning Down The House’ Talking Heads next release was in David Byrne’s words… a love song, an avoided topic until now because it is “kinda big.” Never higher than 51 in US and UK charts the song is a masterpiece of harmonies & hope and was also used in the movie Wall Street and Sean Penn’s movie of the same name. MK

Yeah, I loved ‘Roadies’. Colson, Richard MGK or whatever it is today hit a home run with this digital release track alongside X Ambassadors and Bebe Rexha

John Legend was on the original chorus of this collaboration with Coldplays Chris Marrtin. Do we like it? I still don’t know and I played it a hundred times.

UK band Fine Young Cannibals debuted their pop rock Ska Jazz mix with this story of a runaway. Just watch Roland Gifts mouth at the beginning, awesome!

You take a song that’s in the bin, create an album around it & then create a Billboard Dance Chart number 1 and DJ staple around the world. Enough said.

Top 5 – Songs referencing Literature

Top 5 tracks inspired by or referencing ……….

Literature.

Duran Duran’s “Hungry like the wolf” has jack nowt 2 do with Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall. These on the other hand do..

A demo to a track all down to ‘The Virgin Suicides’

Yep, they're here. Birmingham's boys reference William Burroughs

A favorite book, band & song….. all down the Lewis Carol hole

Bye bye Peter Gabriel, what next. Keyboardist Tony Banks channels his William Golding

Pretty obvious but u cannot leave it out. Right?

In the office favorites but it’s my list so no changes……ha