Black Hearts on Fire
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
is dedicated to birthday boy Roddy Frame.
Small World –
Roddy Frame. Because I’m always late to these things, I only watched Early
Doors in lockdown. And it brought me more joy and tears than nearly anything
else I watched in that time. And Roddy’s theme tune, shining as it does with
optimism, wonder and gentle resignation as it does, is the perfect intro.
Egyptian Garden
- Kaleidoscope. Psychedelic. As you could probably tell by band name and
song title.
Nightmare – Whyte
Boots. Give me sixties girl groups or give me death.
3030 – Deltron 3030.
Title track from an Insanely ambitious hip hop concept album set a thousand
years from now.
Hearts on Fire – Gram Parsons. Slowly I am warming to
the whole Gram Parsons thing. Although that Johnny Knoxville biopic has yet to
interest me.
Black Heart - Calexico. In my mind, this should be
the theme tune to well, imagine if Cormac McCarthy wrote Brokeback Mountain,
and you’re halfway there. Dramatic, windswept, melancholy, the sound of demons
being dealt with amidst dust devils and despair.
Shakespeare - Akala. Should be a permanent fixture on
the English syllabus in this country. And the history syllabus.
Hard Times – Baby Huey. Proper soul train belter from
the sadly doomed Baby H.
TV Dream - Cults. I like bizarre interlude things and
I shall investigate this band more closely now.
Golden Phone – Micachu and the Shapes – working part
time in an offlicense circa 2008, this album got put on a lot if I wanted to
hurry people up. Mica Levi is some kind of indie-DIY-lo fi-pop genius and this
is deranged, thrilling, unique pop music that startles shoppers and scatters
them to the winds if you want it to.
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