Tim Farron features tomorrow in a Christmas Day Lakeland Radio broadcast. Between 12pm and 3pm tomorrow, the pre-recorded show will air and Tim will count down his top 40 tunes.
Cumbria Live has the story:
There will be no Slade or Wham Christmas hits with Westmorland and Lonsdale MP Tim Farron picking the music – instead there will be songs from the Sex Pistols, The Clash and X Ray Specs.
The show will feature on Lakeland Radio on Christmas Day with a selection of Tim Farron’s favourite hits from across the years including Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now by The Smiths which might be viewed as an unusual festive tune.
It is well known that Tim and I move in very different musical circles. One of us is the essence of all that is cool. One of us loves everything trashy, cheesy and camp. It’s therefore hardly surprising that I have only heard of a handful of his choices.
Here is his list in full. How many have you heard of?
Lovely Rita – The Beatles
Riders on the Storm – The Doors
What’s going on – Marvin Gaye
Looking for a kiss – New York Dolls
Pretty Vacant – Sex Pistols
London Calling – The Clash
Germ Free Adolescent – X Ray Specs
Hong Kong Garden – Siouxsie and the Banshees
Ever fallen in love – The Buzzcocks
Streets of your Town – The Go-Betweens
Southern Freeeze – Freeeze
Billy Liar – North of Cornwallis
Pearly dew drops drops – Cocteau Twins
Story of the Blues – Wah!
Girls on film – Duran Duran
Goodbye Lucille#1 (aka ‘Johnny Johnny’) – Prefab Sprout
Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now – The Smiths
Blue Monday – New Order
I’m in love with a German film star – The Passions
Driving away from home – it’s Immaterial
3 Am Eternal – KLF
What do I do now? – Sleeper
Song 2 – Blur
Sylvie – St Etienne
The state that I am in – Belle and Sebastian
Since I left you – The Avalanches
Oh Baby – Rhianna (different Rhianna – the one from Leeds, one hit wonder about 2001)
Don’t Falter – Mint Royale ft Lauren Laverne
Last Nite – The Strokes
PIN – Yeah Yeah Yeahs
505 – Arctic Monkeys
Rabbit heart – Florence and the Machine
Love is a losing game – Amy Winehouse
fell in love with a girl – white Stripes
Lost a girl – New Young Pony Club
Slow – Rumer
White noise – Disclosure
We’ve still got the taste dancing on our tongues – Wild beasts
MY KZ UR BF – Everything Everything
Honey – Swim Deep
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13 – mostly at the start of the list. Ever fallen in love by the Buzzcocks is one of the best records ever made. So well done to Tim just for choosing that one! And I would certainly agree with Tim that Pretty Vacant was the Sex Pistols finest track. It’s remarkable that he’s got Marvin Gaye in there with the rest of the somewhat different stuff. But What’s going on? is a truly seminal record. I think you’ll find it’s Tony Blackburn’s favourite track – but don’t let that put you off.
There’s no question about it, this man has a very discerning taste in music. He is the anorak’s anorak! In a good way!
Wow! Looks like it will be a great show!
33. If I knew 1/3 of one of the others I’d be in business 😉
Docked a point for the absence of a Ramones track though!
Wow our leader has great music taste 🙂
All the older ones!
I’m liking the inclusion of Last Nite by The Strokes – a top tune by my favourite band! Fell In Love with a Girl is a good song, too 🙂
A brilliant list (though I would bemoan the absence of heavy metal and classic rock).
It would be great to hear Tim on Desert Island Discs with a selection like this. Most politicians seem to pick 8 records that their advisers have told them enhanced their image with a wide demographic in focus groups, but Tim obviously has a passion for music.
I know most of those, although fewer towards the end. Some surprising ones like Southern Freeeze. But overall a pretty good playlist!
Here’s a few more appropriate titles for the events of 2015:
“Another one bites the dust”- Queen. (General Election night for Nick Clegg)
“The Winner takes it all”- Abba. (General Election night for David Cameron)
“Roll away the stone”- Mott the Hoople . (General Election night for Ed Miliband – think of the pledges)
“Waterloo” – Abba. (General Election night for Nigel Farage)
“It’s only make believe”- Conway Twitty. (Nicola Sturgeon and the SNP)
“Shall I stay or shall I go?”- The Clash. (The EU referendum)
“Going Home”- Mark Knopfler (Charles Kennedy)
“With a little help from my friends”- The Beatles. (Alistair Carmichael)
“Another brick in the wall”- Pink Floyd (The Lib Dem Fightback?)
“Looking high, high, high”- Bryan Johnson. (Tim Farron) – It was the first UK entry in Eurovision in 1956(?)
I’m sure that colleagues can think of a few more!
Ace list. The Siouxsie, Passions, New York Dolls and St Etienne songs especially!
3 I don’t know on there. Tim tends more towards the pop than me, but I’ll grudgingly admit he’s got reasonable taste
Top Tunes. Southern Freeze was one of my most played tunes as an Essex Soul Boy DJ back in the 80’s.
Six.
Mostly punk.
God I feel old!
There are a few duds, for example Duran Duran. On the other hand great to see X Ray Specs and the Cocteau Twins. Overall an excellent list.
Siouxsie! Wow!! Mightily impressed. 🙂
Great list. A little of its time and commercial but why not? Sorry to be picky and I seem to be outnumbered on this one but isn’t it X-Ray Spex ?
Obviously you guys don’t appreciate my attempt to inject a bit of humour into the ‘debate’. OK then, back to Tim’s picks.
For someone for whom pop music ended in the middle 1980’s, most of the choices are unknown to me. It probably signals to me at last that I need to return to Jurassic Park, where I might find Elvis, Buddy Holly, Stones, Kinks, Clapton, CCR etc. etc. Now that’s what I call REAL music!
Nice list. Cocteau Twins choice is great to see if it helps bring their superb and unique sound to a new audience. My fave Cocteau’s song is the extraordinary, lush “Ella Megalast Burls Forever” which always makes me think of Mahler. Given some of the songs it’s a slight surprise not to see “Teenage Kicks”.
? Nothing from the Ugly Rumours ?
Twenty. Some nice tunes in there…
19-
Pleased to see The Avalanches and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.