Mike Fleming

I wish - Stevie Wonder - Songs in the key of life
Formative years. Six form when I did version of that at a school concert which was the first opportunity to do a brass arrangement.
Maurice Ravel - Pavan pour une enfante defunte
Consummate piece of impressionistic music with a haunting melody and brilliant orchestration.
Johann Sebastian Bach - Jesu joy of mans desiring -
"You can be a total atheist and yet still lose yourself in the sublime flow of this spiritual piece"
Thomas (Fats Waller) - My very good friend the Milkman
It personifies Thomas Waller's effusive joie de vivre.
Sting - Seven Days
It combines Stings humour with his sense of humanity for the underdog
Tom Waits - Heart of Saturday Night- Heart of Saturday Night

Patrick Walker

Do you remember Rock and Roll Radio - Ramones
I like the ramonses and this track is from an album produced by phil spector but this track is a really good song.
Wild Horses - Rolling Stones
Very beautiful song by the greatest rock and roll band in the world.
Tommy People - Farewell to Ireland
Tommy Peoples is a consummate Irish Fiddle player and is the best ever player of the Irish Fiddle
Heroin - The Velvet Underground
First heard this tune when I was 11 my brother bought the album. It is such an intense and scary track.
Ricky Scaggs - Country Boy
Because the musicianship is so simply stunning. Albert Lee wrote it and played it on a telecaster nut Ricky Scaggs played it faster and sang it better.
Neil Young - Powder Finger
It is a bit of an anthem and the guitar sounds are great and the song tells a story,
Ruby's Arms - Tom Waits
I like a good sad song and this song makes you feel melancholy. A sad song but not necessarily in a sad way.
Undertones - Teenage Kicks
Very strong memories of Belfast when I was in the Rainsaints.

John Naylor
Jacques Lousier - The Italian Concertos
I first heard this album upon it's release when I was a young boy of about 10 and could not believe it was a piece of Bach's classical music. It astounded me and I could not comprehend that someone had such vision and imagination to recreate this sublime interpretation of pieces of music which were written 350 years before and then doing it with a piano a double bass and a drummer. So eloquent and oh so French.
Ella Fitzgerald - Miss Otis regrets.
Cole Porter wrote so many timeless, perfectly crafted, lyrically beautiful pieces which set the scene. They were written by this aristocratically suave sophisticated gentleman of the upper class who narrates to us with such ease his reflections and observations of his standing within the echelons of High Society. His music possesses the inference always and that French sophistication within the composition. Miss Otis regrets tells the story of a woman led up the garden path who shoots the man who broke her heart and as she is black pays the ultimate price yet remains upstanding, polite and sorry for not keeping her appointment.
The B 52's - Love Shack
The greatest pop song ever written. Not one of my favorite bands by a long way but boy this has everything in it. A great slinky party vibe letting you know exactly where it's at.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - String Quintet KV515.
When I was discovering classical music I was a little perplexed by everything I had heard which was written by Mozart. All these pieces had been Orchestral pieces and concertos which whilst they are superb they didn't explain his genius for me at all, so one day in HMV I bought this quintet KV515 & KV 516 blind. This musical journey into much more classical music began with this piece. I completely understood the status of his music and found the piece exquisite and a supreme example of how he could instill that excitement within it's composition.
Tom Waits - Whistlin past the graveyard.
When I was but a teenager I first saw Tom Waits on the Old Grey Whistle Test and he played Step right up and then Tom TRauburts blues. The next day I went out and bought the album Small Change and from that day I have listened to his brilliant music. Whistlin' past the graveyard is from his album "Blue Valentine". It has some incredible lyrics like
"I was born in a taxi cab so I'm never going home" & "I ain't never told the truth so I can never tell a lie". What a master.
Val Linnemann - Stanage Edge.
This song is on Henrik Linneman's "Journeys from Nether Edge. Released in 2001 the album from Sheffield based flautist features Henrik's wife Val on piano and vocals. This song is quite beautiful in every way.
Natalie Cole - This will be.
Written by soul man Chuck Jackson this song is a fantastic construction of an R and B song. Soulful melody, great turnarounds between the sections of the song and the amazing rapidfire rap at the end of the chorus, so exciting.
Astor Piazola - Libertango
In 2006 me and the wife went to Argentina & Uraguay for almost a month and were treated to the passionate music which is the tango. The rhythm of a beating heart. Astor Piazola is a composer largly responsible for the development of this great style of music and his countless compositions reflect his true songwriting genius

Duncan Annible

What a fool believes - Doobie Bros
Beautifully crafted song, great singer
Escape - Ride the lightning - Metallical
This track one of the songs which turned me onto music in general. Very melodious and it's melody has a real appeal.
As if you read my mind - Hotter than July - Stevie Wonder
The musicality is just astounding.
I got you under my skin - Live at the sands.with The Count Basie Orchestra arranged by Quincy Jones.- Frank Sinatra
The best version of one of the greatest tunes ever written. Because it is a live performance you get that something that always is lost in the studio.
Aerosmith - Permenant vacation
It to me is one of the most uplifting songs you could ever hear. It's got steel drums on it. It opens up with the sounds of a Caribbean Island and has great lyrics and the melody which appeal to my mind.
Sound Garden - Black Hole Sun
It is full of unusual sounds that gel together to create a very kind of haunting rock ballad which one would never think the instruments would sit together. It has the x factor.
Funky Drummer - James Brown
The drumming on that is phenomenal. James Brown is megga. He is the real Godfather of soul.
Tom Lehrer - The Elements
This is Leher at his best. A great send up of the music of Gilbert & Sullivan, A mega rongue twister. A feat of musical elegance, wit and is funny only at the when he comes to the line Harvard.