Just as I thought my admiration for Mark Carney couldn’t get any higher, he has announced that London Calling is his favourite album of all time. When pushed by the Canadian press corps that in fact they had “no hits”, he said “I don’t give a fuck it’s a magnificent album”
So what else? Power, Corruption and Lies could apply to many, but fits Trump pretty well.
David Cameron expressed a love for The Smiths, but possibly The Queen is Dead for Liz Truss as she got rid of her within 2 days of taking office.
I imagine Gordon Brown might love The Proclaimers. For Boris Johnson possibly Confessions of a Window Cleaner soundtrack etc etc
Sisters Of Mercy -A Slight Case Of Overbombing.
Putin- the perpetrator
Zelensky – the recipient
U2- How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb ?
Putin – anything by Megadeth.
Let’s give Trump the next New Order album title as well.
While we are at it, let’s award Kim Jong Il the debut album by The Sisters of Mercy.
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Keir Starmer – Barry Manilow- the album with āMandyā on it. (I could look it up but after a couple of glasses of Bordeaux and an Octomore 13.3, I canāt be bothered)
Boris is on record stating his favourite album is Goats Head Soup. He can’t be wrong about everything. š
Oh yes he can!
Viktor Orban is famously a Joni Mitchell superfan who owns over fifty vinyl copies of The Hissing of Summer Lawns, and who is on record as having had his first sexual experience to Don Juan’s Reckless Daughter. Also peppers his speeches with Joni lyrics.
I once met Charles Kennedy and he told me his favourite album was Stationtostation.
A man who very clearly knew how best to win your vote, Tigger š
Neil Kinnock was born in the same town as James Dean Bradfield of the Manic St Preachers (and me) so probably Everything Must Go, selling all the victory souvenirs that werenāt needed after the 92 election
Trump’s favourite album is the one by Vanilla Ice with Ice Ice Baby on it.
…and that tosspot “Tommy Robinson’s” favourite is the White Album (yes I know it’s actually called The Beatles)
The White Lines Album?
Fear of a Black Planet?
Re Gordon Brown: given he supposedly was in the same year as Jackie Leven and at the same school, surely a bit of solidarity would come into play. I think his favourite would be “Creatures of Light and Darkness.”
Which of them is going to admit to R.E.M.’s World Leader Pretend?
Probably Boris, with Steely Dan’s King Of The World next on the mixtape
Gordon Brown spoke of his admiration for Arctic Monkeys.
It was a much derided comment at the time, with the suggestion being he’d never actually heard them, but an advisor suggested he mention them so he could appear to be “dahn wiv ver kidz“.
Tony Blair was a big fan of Wheeler 18.
That’s just an ugly rumour.
Arf
Doff my hat to Dai – he’s right and I’m wrong – Train in Vain got to no. 62 on the Canadian charts.
I just wish I had a share in that 45’s mighty success… in… wait for it… the hot house of the Canadian Top… erm… 62… in… wait for it… the dire! I’d be making 10$ a month.
Sounds all a bit phoney to me, like received wisdom.
Anyway, why the f*** doesn’t he like anything from Canada.
OK, I don’t, but surely he should… goes with the freezin’ cold territory doesn’t it?
Who said he doesn’t like anything from Canada?
The fact you dismiss a complete nation shows how narrow minded you actually are.
Neil Young? Joni Mitchell? The Band (80%)? Gordon Lightfoot? the Guess Who? Rush? Surely you must like Avril Lavigne or Shania Twain?
Nope nothing for you and you are never wrong about anything
Dai… Da, i you can’t argue with the facts mate. Deramdaze is the flag bearer for the decade whose 3rd best selling single was, erm… Tears, by Ken Dodd. Quite the Golden age.
Direā¦
Live At The With Trials
Appetite For Destruction
Machine Gun Etiquette
If the record fits…
Kamala Harris is a big music fan – I remember her buying vinyl in a store and particularly likes hip hop and Prince. However, when asked about her husband – she said āheās Depeche Modeā. Wouldnāt the world have been a much nicer place with those two in the White House?
But it would have been much better even if they had shit musical taste.
Completely agree. I suspect Trump has little or no feeling around music at all. If I meet people and they love music, I believe I have some common ground- even if they go for totally different things. They feel something.
I met someone at a gathering once who absolutely loved the Venga Boys. Genuinely. He talked of them in the same way that people talk of Neil Young or Van Morrison. He talked of rare imports and early recordings in his record collection, he had gone to shows all over Europe and just embraced the joy their music gave him. I really wanted to sneer and dismiss, but I found I couldnāt. Good for him.
Have you not seen the orange one grooving to YMCA?
Yes. Itās a great song, after all. Maybe itās a late contender for a song everyone likes.
I’ve just looked backwards through the Desert Island Disc archive and unless I’ve missed someone the first politician was Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey in 1978 his favourite track was Soave Sia Il Vento by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Which I believe was an answer song to Bowie’s cover of “Wild is the Wind.”
Arf!
Gordon Brown’s favourite album is Saturnz Return by Goldie, in particular the track Temper, Temper.
Trump favourite song āYou canāt always get what you wantā
Least favourite band – Bonobo.
Bigot!
Edith
This was my humerous response to old Ernie up thereā¬ļø
I Am Kurious Oranj
Got a comp today by the Rascals, one of those US acts you kinda know about… Ā£2… with 6 (S.I.X.) Canadian no. 1s from the Golden Age!
Is that better than no. 62, not from the Golden Age?
Time I got me ready reckoner out, I’m never quite sure… it kinda appears more of an achievement.
Fascinating. Cool story bro’
I would have thought you could take it as given that AT LEAST 50% of “Leaders Favourite Albums” are bullshit concocted by their spin doctors. Also, what relevance would their music preferences actually have to how they operate as leaders in C21 politics?