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the domestic minx
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She keeps Moet et Chandon
In a pretty cabinet
'Let them eat cake' she says,
Just like Marie Antoinette.
What makes the Minx move?
Oh, it is easy, darlings. It is music.
I love it.
All kinds, all types, genres and styles. My taste is deliciously eclectic.
I have my favourites, of course.
I am ambient and deep and love anything that moves me to my core...
And there are some tunes, dear readers, that get my juices flowing, warm, mellifluous and intoxicating, reminiscent as they are of earlier glories, spikes in the heartbeat, the soundtrack of my life.
Here are some of them, a sample of the songs that have meant something to me over the years...
10 classic Minx Tracks perhaps.
Only 10...ouch..
God, it was hard to do...
to prune, to tweak, to pare this lot down..to a mere ten..
It is but a small portion of the collection.
A snippet of The Soundtrack...
Oh, if only you had 30 minutes or so to indulge me ... click on and tune into the power that is Youtube and fill yourselves with the Minx...
I wonder, which song would strike a chord with you?
Would it be the ethereal transcendence of Summertime or the deeply, darkly sexual thrust of Tool?
Would it be the snarling punk of the Sex Pistols or would you be happy with a Whole Lotta Love? Might it be the heart wrenching desperation of Fallen or the cool and groovy vibe of Bohemian Like You...
Mmmm...be a bohemian like me and listen to a few...
see where you sit on the slip of a soundtrack that is me...
Killer Queen by Queen
If any one song was to sum up the Minx it would probably be this one, first heard in my crucial and formative pre-minx years, when I was still a silly little nerd with ringleted hair and a sad devotion to the Robin Rabbit Club.
The lyrics are darling. And She is me.
A Killer Queen. Decadent, darling and delicious.
It is time for champagne when I hear this.
Cheers, my dears!
She's a Killer Queen
Gunpowder, gelatine,
Dynamite with a laser beam.
Guaranteed to blow your mind
Anytime...
Pretty Vacant by The Sex Pistols
I am pogoing around the living room listening to this! It brings back a wealth of snotty, snarly lipped and punky memories from the early 80's. I was so vacant back then, pretty vacant and always out to lunch.
Brass in Pocket by The Pretenders.
There is a pocketful of memories in this little gem from the 80's.
It reminds me of university and first love and having just a little bit of brass in pocket..
Stinkfist by Tool
I love Tool and much of their work moves me into another realm but this song is uniquely and deliriously fucking brilliant. It is like deep, hard heavy sex. I love it so much I have to play it ultra loud and melt into it like whisky into coke. It sinks so deeply into my bones that I want to cry. Play it loud, hard and be transported. Please. Do it for me...
I can help you change
Tired moments into pleasure.
Say the word and we'll be
Well upon our way.
Blend and balance
Pain and comfort
Deep within you
Till you will not want me any other way.
But it's not enough.
I need more.
Nothing seems to satisfy.
I said, I don't want it.
I just need it.
To breathe, to feel, to know I'm alive.
Summertime by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong
Oh, this song is SOOOOO beautiful...
One of my all time favourites, I just want to kick off my shoes and totally unwind upon the opening notes of this exquisite turn back the clock delirium. Haunting and beautiful, Summertime is the Deep South and molasses, sweet, smooth and intoxicatingly sad.
Whole Lotta Love by Led Zeppelin
Oh yes, I want every inch of your love ...
The deeply sexual thrust of this Led Zeppelin classic is as potent as it ever was.
This has been included on every party soundtrack I've ever made, always introduced towards the end of the night when clothes are likely to be removed, learnin' and yearnin', foolin' and droolin' and an inevitable sending back to schoolin' is imminent..
Justify My Love and
Bad Girl by Madonna.
I have spent years mimicking every chameleonic change Madonna has made since she broke the scene in 1984. While there are many songs I could choose to embody my fanatical devotion, these ones have special significance...
Bad girl, drunk by six,
Kissing someone else's lips.
Smoked too many cigarettes today.
I'm not happy when I act this way.
I wanna kiss you in Paris
I wanna hold your hand in Rome
I wanna run naked in a rainstorm
Make love in a train cross-country.
You put this in me
So now what, so now what?
Fallen by Sarah McLachlan.
Well, there was always going to be a sad one, wasn't there...
This one simply kills me, reducing me to tears every time I hear it, epitomizing the lowest point in my existence and when I truly felt most most fallen from grace...
Truth be told I've tried my best
But somewhere along the way
I got caught up in all there was to offer
And the cost was so much more than I could bear
Though I've tried, I've fallen...
I have sunk so low
I have messed up
Better I should know
So don't come round here
And tell me I told you so...
Grace by Jeff Buckley.
Which brings me to...My Prince...
If there ever was a male chanteuse, an Embodiment ot Heaven made Real in Human Form it is Jeff Buckley. He is utterly excrutiatingly beautiful and I mourn his loss, ten years on.
He has the voice of an angel and the power of eternity. I adore him and his Grace.
And she weeps on my arm
Walking to the bright lights in sorrow.
Oh drink a bit of wine we both might go tomorrow.
Oh my love...
And the rain is falling and I believe my time has come.
It reminds me of the pain I might leave behind.
Wait in the fire...
Bohemian Like You by The Dandy Warhols.
Let's end on a high note!
This song is so cool and so much fun! I LOVE IT!
Every one of my parties has enjoyed this song! It's message inspires spontaneous silliness and dancing at every turn. (maybe it has something to do with the gratuitous and spontaneous nudity in the video clip...)
Turn it up really loud and fling your senseless garments to the floor and be a Bohemian Like Me!!!
Whoo Hoo Hoo!!
I must thank my darling and vibrant friend Meleah, for this wonderful idea...
10 songs that mean such a lot to me - so hard to pin it down to just 10!!!
I need at least 20 more for a decent snippet!!
This effort is worthy of a night out together, darling, with a sample of these and your own as dance tracks, as compensation, don't you think!!!
Oh God, I haven't even touched the dance tracks yet...
Let's start with
Professional Widow by Tori Amos.
Why? Oh, she's such a minx...
Honey, bring it close to my,
honey, bring it close to my lips yeah
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Reader Comments (38)
What a great idea! I love this. Ten songs. Fascinating choices. Every one reveals another layer of the Minx. A woman with so many layers it would take a thousand songs to even near the core.
I am looking forward to the day we hit the dance floor, I'm afraid it might be much like the seventh veil of Salome...the world may never be quite the same again. I may have to reveal my top ten someday, but how on earth would I pick just ten?!
xoxo
Mistress M
Minx, dear, I too have eclectic taste in music and thanks to you I have just added some more wonderful tunes to my mix! I warn you that I am a terrible dancer but with the proper libation I just might be tempted to wiggle a bit. How about we load the turntable, push the coffee table out of the way and see what happens next?
Yes, my darling Mistress M,
I am much like an onion - so many layers...
and while not quite as smelly, I have brought people to tears on occasion..
Ah, to hit the dance floor together ...our ceremonial discarding of the seventh veil would be a glorious abberation in the fabric of space and time..
I wish you luck in your choice of a Top Ten. I'm not even sure this is my TT at all...they simply strike a chord...there are so so many songs...so little time...
10 is simply not enough...
xoxox
Oh Rapunzel!!
Libations it must be to get those hips a-wiggling!
They certainly lubricate and loosen the inhibitions that so often get in the way of a groovy dance move.
Coffee tables need to be relocated, of course...
I will expect your hippy hippy shake over here this evening, darling...
xx
Tool - brilliant!!
A great choice. One of my own personal favourites.
I can almost feel the Madonna connection Minx.
You are such a Bad Girl.
I am a huge Jeff Buckley fan. I remember seeing the news the day he died, and feeling such sadness. Beautiful voice.
A fascinating insight that has peeled one or two more layers from the Minx's onion!
It's a long time since I saw Chrissie Hynde, who looked especially fetching in that video!
Your choices struck a little chord in me that's still reverberating: I love Summertime (even if the last time I heard it live was in a Budapest restaurant when the poppet I was with bizarrely chose it as her request when the resident duo of pianist and chanteuse asked the diners what they'd like to hear. Their performance was top-notch, despite the fact that it was Christmas Eve)!
Fondest regards
Bill
i am so glad you mentioned queen,, that entire era of queen was electric... thank you for bringing it back for me
I am a bad girl Eddie..
and I feel even badder when there is a bit of Tool in the air...
xx
Oh Whit,
Jeff Buckley was taken too early...
perhaps that adds to his whole unearthly and transcendent quality.
His voice is electric angelic and utterly beautiful.
I adore him and was devastated when he died...
xx
Oh Bill,
Atmosphere is everything isn't it!!
Christmas Eve on my side of the world would have been entirely in keeping with the Summertime request..
Oh, but it is a song that never fails to transport me, weather permitting or not...
I often listen to a remix of it that it is particularly entrancing...
Oh, there are so many levels of a person revealed throught the peeling of their onion skins...
Having done this, I am mentally bombarded with a gazillion others I would love to have mentioned.
Some of my onions are growing wild in "A Forest"...
That particular favourite by the Cure is mesmerizingly brilliant...
Ahh, too many songs, too many memories, so little time...
xox
Paisley, there were so many utterly brilliant and electrifyingly tight pant,mind blowing Queen moments.
Freddy Mercury was inspirational.
Killer Queen is undeniably gorgeous...
xx
I feel so sheltered Minx....
I've only heard about 2 or 3 of those songs.
Tool, deep hard sex mixed with whiskey and coke,wow what an intoxicating combination dear minx. love it!
blushing you mentioned ME in your post! (this is like a red-carpet moment for me!!!)
I too, LOVE .....Led Zeppelin, Sarah, Tori (oh LOVE HER! I haven't heard Tori in so long I think I will dig out that CD tonight) and of course anything MADONNA.
amazing how music can transcend time.space.age.geography. :)
ps, I love the pictures in this post. hot! hot! hot!
Sounds like I have to drag you onto the dancefloor Slick!! C'mon, up you get!!
And where have you been, darling?
These are not so obscure...
I bet if you click on the link you will remember them..
xx
Lady Terri,
It is almost illegal...
deliciously so...
I suggest you try it one dark Friday night...
xx
Oh Meleah,
Do not be shy, darling girl!!
Red is your colour!!
Work that carpet baby!!
I knew you would like the dance mix, Meleah.
Music crosses all boundaries in an inspirational fashion, doesn't it.
While I love the old favourites I am constantly looking for new inspiration in alternative, cutting edge experimental styles too...
It will never be said that I am lodged in a style, a genre or an era...
I spend half my time looking for good pics!!
Glad you like them!!
I fancy the last one is you working the Bohemian thing!!!
xx
First time I saw Queen was before they were famous. It was in Newcastle, they were the b band, Suzie Quatro was the headliner. I was less than an arms length from the band playing and I was mesmerized, the whole audience was. Suzie came on after them and nobody cared. Who was that band, screw quatro, we want Queen. oh shivers. Brilliant. I sooooooooooooo enjoyed the youtube link.
Can't wait to see your doll minx, and I have a sneaky suspicion you and I add one element that is the same hee! hee!
pssst..Minx, honey, check my blog when you have time, there's a surprise there for you!