Ll is a Welsh letter, Mr Cool J.

Welcome to Day 11 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 LL Cool J. I once got revenge on my brother when he was being a particularly annoying little shit by telling his mates I saw him miming to this song, air rapping and everything. I hadn’t seen any such thing. Sorry G.

The other songs today….

That’s Understanding – Tami Lynn. Don’t know much about this artist, but it’s a lovely song. And it has the kind of epic breakdown you didn’t really see much of back then from RnB. I think I heard about the song on Twitter.

Smokey Joe’s La La – David Holmes. Remember the Essential Mix albums released in the late 90s? Pete Tong and all those bastards. Only one that caught my ear was this, a fucking absolute cornucopia of funk, hip hop, soul and easy listening. And this track from it remains as joyous as it was when I stuck it on Side 2 Track 1 of nearly every compilation tape I made for friends/potential girlfriends back in my Roath hole.

Purple Rose Minuet – Susumu Yokota – a nice bit of classical Japanese ambient electronica.

Idkwntht - Tomberlin. The sound of falling asleep with a broken heart. The same kind of woozy ambience that Tindersticks perfected with "Seaweed."

Books About UFOs – Husker Du. This song reminds me of my friend M. She’s fucking mental in every sense of the word but despite that, and the fact she once made me the very worst compilation CD anyone has ever made anyone for my birthday (I know I’m ungrateful but come on Extreme and Mr Big were the first two artists), she remains very special to me and this song reminds me of her even though she’d probably hate it. If I’d known about Husker Du when they were going my teenage years would have been very different I’m sure. As it is I lived in the middle of a cultural desert....

Taillights – Buffalo Tom. I once bought a Buffalo Tom album when I was sofa surfing and absolutely broke. Because it had a good review. It wasn’t very good and I always harboured a deep grudge against them until years later I heard this and went ah….

Popsong 99 – Anton Barbeau. My own attempts at laying down lo-fi pop classics now thankfully expunged from the internet, I can dig people like Anton who seems to have spent many years making strange little records for a select few fans and not giving a fuck about it.

Sketch for Summer – Durutti Column. Vini Reilly is a genius.

Tomorrow, we have ten more….including one from birthday boy Will Oldham.

 Apologies for the 11 I did yesterday, symmetry fans. An accounting error.