Humourous banter ensues to clarify which if the songs is voted in. Remember that this party took up the entirity of the pub floor, was noisy and some people did not hear House Of Love, they heard Hounds Of Love. And all the time people are getting more drunk, some are also getting bored.Įnter our previous number. You may get five songs in a row vetoed because they are not top twenty material. But when you start getting to the top twenty, things slow down considerably. Early on songs got in on a good vibes nod. A song required a proposer, a seconder but four vetoes around the room would have kicked it out. About 150 tracks would have been suggested, some given quite fulsome consideration, others thrown out on their ear. Take all this into consideration before thinking that at this point in time the list making will have been going on for just over an hour. In this era of landfill indie anything which stood out or had at least some claim to musical greatness (which The Hounds Of Love certainly does, less so in this version) would be a fig leaf from pop heaven.
Remember it was Christmas, post party season where any dancing aspect of Christmas paries would have been slim pickings indeed. Since in the next couple of months we will finally make it to number one after this six year journey, let us go back to a room above the Jeremy Bentham pub on the 29th December 2004 and see how that group even suggested The Hounds Of Love by The Futureheads.įirst remember that everyone had been drinking for at least four hours. To explain it, and to excuse saying much more about it than calling it “a robust but one joke gag on one of Kate Bush’s best tracks” it probably would make sense to explain again how this list was made. Especially with Kate’s own Wuthering Heights wuthering considerably lower down. To a sober mind it is hard to work out why this robust but one joke gag on one of Kate Bush’s best tracks should have made any list of the Top 100 Songs of All Time. A similar situation has arisen with The Futureheads version of The Hounds Of Love. One even got booted off of the list for that reason.
There are a number of songs on this list that, in the cold light of day* it has been hard to find someone who will champion enough to write about it.
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