"V " Songs - the top ten is revealed

Hi All

I am back, with the top ten “V” songs….check them out, post on the board to let me know what you think. Have I missed something good from the list?

Cheers
Dean


10 - Verisimilitude – Teenage Fanclub.
Some of my mates have been fans of the “Fannies” from quite some time now. I am only new to them in 2010, picking up their album Grand Prix, which I really enjoyed right from the first listen, although I probably still don’t know it as well as I probably should (I bought so much music in 2010 that I think some albums haven’t been given the attention they deserve). Whenever I listen to this song, it reminds me of a song by someone else, but I can’t think of what or who it is.
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9 - Van Lear Rose – Loretta Lynn.
In an unlikely pairing, country singer Loretta Lynn, approaching her 70’s, teamed up with Jack White from the White Stripes (as producer) to come up with the critically acclaimed album, Van Lear Rose. I like this album, but probably not as much as some of the critics do, I can’t completely understand the hype. But the title track is a great one.

8- Voulez-vous – Abba
- Is it cool to like Abba ? I am not sure, but one thing I do know is that their music was well made, well crafted, and there is a lot more to it than just a simple throwaway pop song. This one is virtually trademark Abba, if there is such a thing.

7 - Vicar in a Tutu – The Smiths
Like Teenage Fanclub, my friends have been big fans of the Smiths for a while now, and in 2010 I finally took the plunge and purchased their opus “The Queen is Dead”. This is not normally the sort of music that I am into, but I gotta say, it’s a brilliant album, and I should have taken the plunge a lot earlier.

6- Vicious – Lou Reed
At the risk of sounding repetitive, I picked up Lou Reed’s Transformer album in 2010 as well, and Vicious is one of the highlights of the album. Its built around a three chord guitar riff, and sounds great.

5 - Violet Hill – Coldplay
In the lead up to the release of the Coldplay album Viva La Viva, they offered this song as a free download. So I downloaded it, and I gotta say, I think it’s a belter of a song. The rest of the album (which I don’t own) has been so overplayed that you hear it everywhere you go, but I still think this song holds up as a great track.

4 - Video Killed the Radio Star – Buggles
Another pop song, and what a song! Could it be one of the greatest one hit wonders of all time?

3- Very Strange, Very Cool – Four Hours Sleep (featuring Stephen Cummings)
Bill McDonald, from Paul Kelly’s band put together this side project called Four Hours Sleep. Its half a good album, with guest vocalists including Angie Hart, Charles Jenkins, Paul Kelly and others, but other tracks are basically just playing around with sounds, sampling things like a child running across floorboards etc. That stuff doesn’t do much for me, but the more conventional tracks are great. This one in particular is a belter. Featuring Stephen Cummings , the lead singer of the Sports, it tells the story of an old love.

2- Viva Las Vegas – Elvis Presley
This Elvis song has always been one of my favourites, I think I just find it so catchy, and it really does make Las Vegas sound exciting.


And….the number one goes to….

1 - Victoria – Kinks
The topic track goes to the Kinks, with the wonderful Victoria. This comes from the album Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire), which is a concept album telling the story of a man who decides to relocate from Britain to Australia. Great rock song.