Automatic for some people

 

Welcome to Day 20 of the badly titled Everyone Has Got one Good Song blog thing.

I was thinking of building the ultimate playlist with one simple rule. One artist. One song. Each day will feature a song by an artist whose birthday is that day and then nine other songs by nine different artists just because people like things to be in tens.

The playlist is here - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4exU9MUJMWaouOgnu7zmSl?si=I5fqk7VpQX6aDGec7xvqsQ&pi=e-IfIWXc5GT56R

 

So, the idea was that you might want to follow and share and either have the playlist yourself or do your own or chat about it with me, you could use the hashtag #EHGOGS.

I’m on Twitter X thing as @fourfoot

Today’s selection.

Our featured birthday artist is Anita Pointer. Automatic is one of the best singles of the 1980s. End of. You can keep your How Soon is Now?

Into You – Ariana Grande. Ariana Grande is every bit as great a pop star and artist as Taylor Swift is and eventually, as with most things, I will be proven right.

I Don’t Want to Get Over You – Magnetic Fields – 69 Love Songs is an album so ridiculously conceited and clever and somehow heartfelt and dumb at the same time (that title, come on) that it should be a text in The History of Alternative Music at the University of Whatever We’re Calling Your Gap Between School and Grinding Disappointment. This is the first song I ever heard by Stephen Merritt and it’s still my favourite. The best dumped song ever, or at least the best one to mention vermouth.

La Rock 01 – Vitalic – I once proved to my friend Simon that I can come up without ecstasy in my system in a kind of muscle memory thing to this record. The fact we were driving to Brighton at the time didn’t put him off having a similar kind of retro-high to this tune and it made the fact that I’d just been sacked that week for calling my boss a paedo disappear for a few hours.

Shoot Your Gun – 22-20s Another abrupt gear change. I think Madonna signed this lot to her label with quite some fanfare and though this song breaks little ground in any way, it’s a fucking tune nonetheless.

JJ - Priests. The only song about former Leicester and Villa striker Julian Joachim in today’s selection. Warning – the previous sentence is a lie. Or at least I think it is.

Brett Favre – Slow Pulp – 68 seconds of sample-driven noise rock named for a recently disgraced ex-gridiron star, you say? Yes fucking please.

Where You Are – Nova One. Rhode Island gender-fluid sixties pop.

The Magic – Joan as Policewoman. “I wonder if the wild animals living in me will ever find freedom”

For You – Laura Marling My pal Garry played this to me on a car stereo as I saw Loch Lomond for the first time. It’s a delicate, beautiful song sung to a fictional child by someone too young to be so brilliant.

Tomorrow, we have ten more….including one featuring birthday boy Jools Holland.