Songs in B minor...

Cover tunes covered, my friend did a list of songs he likes in B minor...for some reason, people don't make all that many songs in that key - which is a shame - here's my two cents:

Balloons - Mercury Motors feat. Anneli Drecker
A lovely little duet from a rather underrated early 90's Norwegian group with Anneli Drecker of Bel Canto (Norwegian ambient/pop outfit from mid-80s to early 00s). About the pink goggles you wear when in love and the all too common sport of dealing the blame when it all goes pearshaped.

Stakkars Oslo - deLillos
A tune about "Poor Oslo" from national Norwegian rock legends deLillos. With Lars Lillo-Stenberg's idiosyncratic vocals, they carve out the stark ironies of a city that craves international recognition and winds up tearing down old houses and alleyways to make room for a huge parking mall called "Ibsen" (Norway's most internationally known playwright), stripping the city of what character it had in the first place... Probably the heaviest piece of music deLillos ever made, and among the most scathing.

The Kids are on High Street - Madrugada
Ah, the sweet sound of disillusionment... Keeping up with what seems to be a Norwegian trend in this post - the main Norwegian rock band of the 00s belts out a haunting tune with Sivert Høyem's amazing vocals (picture Eddie Vedder and Michael Stipe in one with a touch of Johnny Cash) just giving me shivers down the spine. Vocals aside, the ending of the song is of the kind that could just develop into one long, never ending instrumental - which, alas, it doesn't. But it leaves me with wanting mooooore.

White Wedding - Billy Idol
Ok, kitsch to the core and the ultimate self-parody as Billy Idol is, this IS a runaway train of an 80s rock tune. Just for crashing through the stained glass church window on a motorbike in the video, this H minor piece is worth a spot on the list. ^^

...and now I will cheat a little and end the post with a song that ENDS in B minor (the song is in G major):

Heart of Lothian - Marillion
From the time when Fish still was a member and still was able to write lyrics that could strike a chord in me. A song of the pride of belonging somewhere and yet...when it all comes down to it...was it worth the fame and the glory? The final lines after what is a patriot anthem winds into a mournful anticlimax labelled "Curtain Call":

And the man from the magazine wants another shot
Of you all curled up
'cos you look like an actor in a movie shot
But you're feeling like a wino in a parking lot
How did I get in here, anyway?
Do we really need a playback of the show?
'cos the wideboys want to head for the watering holes,
watering hols, anyway
Let's go

And the man in the mirror had sad eyes...