Much Bliged

Welcome to Day 8 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 Mary J Blige. I only heard this the other day and I quite liked it. The track I was going to put turned out to be by Mos Def and she was just guesting. Ah well. She’s a great singer though. I would have been in the same school year as her. That’s weird to think about. Me, her, Gareth Southgate…

The other songs today….

1 Thing - Amerie. This is a fucking all time banger and you know it.

Head to Head – Gin Wigmore. New Zealanders are cool as fuck. I will go there one day I hope.

Demonique - Aim. A former friend of mine got me into this. He was into loads of electronica and stuff but then he started beating his girlfriend and we were done. Took me years to get into this again and it’s still good. They should play this on the Traitors instead of all these hastily arranged vaguely gothic covers. My one criticism of that otherwise excellent show, the music is shit.

Retrograde – James Blake. This is Killer by Adamski for the Mirtazapine crew. I have no idea what I mean with that statement.

Temptation – Heaven 17. Because it’s still a colossal pop song. One of those records that if I looked up what was number 1 when this was in the charts it would probably upset me.

Green Green Grass of Tunnel - mum. If you’ve ever visited an old friend that you used to be in love with a long, long time ago, an unrequited and never spoken thing from adolescence and you spend a weekend with them without mentioning those feelings and they come back to you and you go back home on a train feeling confused by the power of memory and loss and change and gratitude for getting this far in life during a pandemic and this song comes on in the middle of some spectacular mid Wales scenery you’d think this would be a cool song too.

The Melody of a Fallen Tree – Windsor for the Derby. Heard this when I was on a walk by a beautiful loch in Scotland, and it sounded like Belle and Sebastian trying to be New Order circa 1983 or the other way round. Now I’m not sure about that comparison. And I know nothing about them. Cool song title. Cool band name. Cool tune.

Revival - Deerhunter Something about this song reminds me of Outdoor Miner-era Wire, there’s a slightly disconcerting air to it. I saw the video recently and that is quite fucked up.

We Can’t Stop What’s Coming – The The. A band whose wonders have largely left me cold. Maybe it’s because there was a bully at school who was really into them. But this is good. Time to forgive the bully and to forgive me for taking it. In the end, old Matt Johnson’s right I guess…

Tomorrow, we have ten more….including one from birthday boy Chris Bell.