Ryco's three favourite songs of the week!

Now, anyone who knows me knows that I listen to a -lot- of music so I thought I'd use my shiny new blog to ramble about it. So, with no further adieu, here are my three favourite songs of the week! *plays a fanfare on his thumb* Tantadada!

Bu Bu Poruche by Melody Chubak
From the soundtrack to Loco Roco.



Aka, Yellow's theme, it's a song from the soundtrack to Loco Roco, which the only reason I ever touch my PSP. (Seriously Sony, sort the browser out or let someone who can write a decent browser do so.) It's bright, sunny and written in a delightful nonsense language, I can't help but smile whenever I hear it and I'm sure I'm not the only one.

The longest time by Billy Joel
From the album An Innocent Man.



I'm a sucker for Billy Joel and his flirtation with Doo-wop in the mid 80s, Uptown Girl is pretty awesome too, but this song is far prettier and far more impressive, considering Billy Joel did all the voices on it. Admittedly, this song seems to have spawned a thousand Youtube impersonators, but imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and unlike Uptown Girl, it is yet to be murdered by an Oirish boyband... I'm pretty sure Westlife were created to stop U2 being the most embarrassing band to come from Ireland. (Hi, I'm Bono and I'm planning a lifelong poverty fight and to start, I'm moving my business abroad to pay less tax.)

Days by Kirsty MacColl
(From the album Kite)



A cover of a Kinks Track which, unlike the afore mentioned Billy Joel cover version and 95% of covers in general, manages to be better than the original. It makes the hairs stand up on the back of my neck at times and it makes me feel more than a little melancholy. Listening to it takes me back to when I first heard it, reminding me of simpler times when I was still in bright eyed and innocent and I was more in love with life. It also reminds me of all the people I've known who I've let go without ever saying thankyou, people who I've just drifted apart from for various reasons and found that it's far too late to thank them now I'm grown up enough to appreciate them more... Still, I'll remember those days all my life and treasure them, it's all I can do.

Still, melancholy thoughts aside, it's a beautiful song and Kirsty's version is outstanding. It shows off just how wonderful a voice she had, it's more than a little haunting given her tragic death, still this is the song that made me fall in love with her work and the song that I point people at when I feel like telling someone just how wonderful an artist she was.

-Ryco.