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The post-punk Time Lord on the albums that shaped his universe: \u201cHeard once, it stays forever\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The post-punk Time Lord on the albums that shaped his universe: \u201cHeard once, it stays forever\u201d<\/p>\n

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FRANK SINATRA
That\u2019s Life
REPRISE, 1966
<\/strong>I don\u2019t really remember my parents ever going out to buy a record, but somehow there was a collection of battered albums under the record player. They would often have nights when drink was taken and fun was had, and this album would always go on. You\u2019d never describe an album of Sinatra\u2019s as lacklustre, but every song is compact, like they want to get it over with. But when he hits the groove of \u201cThat\u2019s Life\u201d, he\u2019s kind of unbeatable. If \u201cMy Way\u201d is about imposing your will upon life, \u201cThat\u2019s Life\u201d is a hymn to how powerless you are to deal with whatever fate throws at you, so the best thing is just to get on with it and have a laugh when you can. It\u2019s the best shrug in popular music.<\/p>\n

DAVID BOWIE
David Live
RCA, 1974
<\/strong>Like many things in life, I was quite late into David Bowie. In order to dig into his back catalogue, I bought this double album, which appeared to contain many of his hits. But of course, a lot of them are reworked and don\u2019t really fly. I\u2019ve subsequently discovered that they\u2019d just had a big fight in the dressing room because the musicians didn\u2019t know they were recording a live album. But I love all that angst. I love Earl Slick, who rips the whole thing up. But ultimately for me, it\u2019s Bowie\u2019s voice. There\u2019s a kind of terror in it. The version of \u201cRock \u2018N\u2019 Roll Suicide\u201d on Ziggy\u2026 is a bit Judy Garland, but on this one you really believe he\u2019s not going to make it to the end.<\/p>\n

SIMPLE MINDS
Life In A Day
ZOOM, 1979
<\/strong>I like a lot of Glasgow bands \u2013 that first Blue Nile album was great. And I used to really like Simple Minds. I actually like their first album that <they> don\u2019t like. You can see a theme here: I like the albums that don\u2019t seem to be very successful. I saw them in Glasgow at that time, in a tiny little place called The Mars Bar. They weren\u2019t doing blues, they weren\u2019t doing Status Quo, they were doing some weird arthouse stuff, and they had a great song called \u201cLife In A Day\u201d. It\u2019s the first time I\u2019d really seen a band that excited me, and also where I thought, \u2018It\u2019s possible to do that.\u2019 Because they\u2019re all just guys from Glasgow, although the world they were evoking was very different.<\/p>\n

TALKING HEADS
Fear Of Music
SIRE, 1979
<\/strong>This album got me through a lot of all-nighters at art school, when I wasn\u2019t as attentive to my studies as I should have been. It\u2019s Talking Heads exploring a lot of the stuff that will become more finessed and polished later on. It confounded my expectations of what a song could be, because the narratives are so strange, but they\u2019re not dislocated. The band are very concerned about making sure the songs have an engaging structure and that there\u2019s a chorus that will work for you, but the narrative is shifting all the time. The songs are inventive and funny, but they\u2019re also a bit scary. You\u2019re never quite sure whether or not you\u2019d be happy if David Byrne showed up at your door.<\/p>\n

CRAIG ARMSTRONG
It\u2019s Nearly Tomorrow
BMG CHRYSALIS, 2014
<\/strong>A lot of actors use music to help them get into the zone. For instance, when I was doing Malcolm Tucker, I would have \u201cScary Monsters\u201d playing, because it\u2019s quite jagged and hard to relax to. And It\u2019s Nearly Tomorrow is the one that did it for me in relation to the rather well-known character of Doctor Who. I was keen to try and bring some kind of melancholy to the role, I guess because I was older, and this album provided a way into that. It seems to be about time, loss, humanity, love, confusion and fate. The music is infused with this dark, relentless power, like the forces at work in the universe, so it would help me think about how to be a strange, alien Time Lord.<\/p>\n

ENNIO MORRICONE
The Mission OST
VIRGIN, 1986
<\/strong>It\u2019s often said of Ennio Morricone that you know it\u2019s him from the first note, and that\u2019s absolutely true of this album. The film is about the European incursion into Latin America and how the Jesuit priests would set up missionaries in the jungle to try and convert the indigenous peoples to Christianity, which all goes terribly wrong, as you might imagine. Morricone illustrates that story by combining his typically heartbreaking European, classical, choral sound with these indigenous rhythms and voices. So it\u2019s a little bit like world music, but not quite. He\u2019s a master composer of soundtracks, so he evokes this whole thing for us in a very beautiful way. He\u2019s the greatest film composer \u2013 apart from Bernard Herrman \u2013 because he infuses his material with so much emotion.<\/p>\n

WILLIE NELSON
A Song For You
HALLMARK, 1983
<\/strong>Willie Nelson was huge in the \u201980s, but I did have a fear that getting into him meant going the full Ken Bruce, and that easy listening would take me over like the fungal virus in The Last Of Us. So I dug deeper into Willie\u2019s back catalogue looking for purer country stuff. There was plenty, and it sounded great. But so did the standards. I finally accepted this when we found the album <A Song For You>. My partner Elaine and I played it all the time on a battered cassette as our life together unfolded. His versions of these standards have everything \u2013 they\u2019re moving, frank, wise and for the ages, all culminating in his version of Kris Kristofferson\u2019s \u201cLoving Her Was Easier\u201d, the song that we danced to at our wedding.<\/p>\n

JAN GARBAREK & THE HILLIARD ENSEMBLE
Officium
ECM, 1994<\/strong>
In 2004, I went to make a film in Iceland. It\u2019s one of the strangest and most haunting places I have ever been, and I loved it. The film was low-budget so I was not put up in a hotel, but lodged in the Reykjavik basement of a fabulous bohemian couple named Sverrir and Eda.\u00a0They left me a CD player and a number of CDs. This was the first one I put on. The Hilliard Ensemble is a vocal quartet devoted to early music; Jan Garbarek is a Norwegian jazz sax and clarinet player. The combined sound is haunting, medieval, yet kind of jazzy. The track \u201cParce Mihi Domine\u201d plays like the theme music to some lost Icelandic noir movie. Heard once, it stays forever.<\/p>\n

Peter Capaldi\u2019s new album Sweet Illusions is out now on Last Night From Glasgow<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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