Olive's a Seal

Welcome to Day 4 of the badly titled Everyone Has Got one Good Song blog thing.

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.

If you want to share this on Twitter you could use the hashtag #EHGOGS

Today’s selection.

Our featured birthday artist is Kathy Valentine from the Go Gos. Thin pickings on the birthday front but Our Lips Are Sealed is a great, great pop song. And when I first heard the Fun Boy Three song on the radio I thought it was called Olive's a Seal. It still disappoints me that it isn't called that.

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.

The other songs today….

I Like My Baby’s Pudding – Wynonie Harris. FILTH. ACTUAL FILTH.

Please Stay – Cryin Shames. Cinematic, eerie, Lynchian. Picture this. A girl sat in a fin tailed convertible, her boyfriend's head in the footwell, waiting for the lights to change. This on the radio....

It Hasn’t Happened Yet – William Shatner. A strangely affecting song about walking in the place between what we imagine success to look like and what it actually feels to have.

Is It All Over My Face – Loose Joints. METAPHORICAL FILTH. Arthur Russell was a goddamn genius and this bounces and bubbles in all the right places. Even at my age.

Still The Same – Bob Seger. Another from the genre I call “If this comes on the pub jukebox as I enter, I am staying in that pub music.”

Deadly Valentine – Charlotte Gainsbourg. Who doesn’t love French royalty singing the kind of song you’d want purring off the car stereo as you were being pursued by paparazzi down a Paris tunnel? The Soulwax remix is ok but it’s a rare miss by them.

Repeat – Cid Rim. You know that irritating genre of trance bollocks they have on YouTube videos of greatest goals/people crashing planes etc? This is nothing like that. It pulses, throbs and makes me want to make a YouTube compilation of the happiest couples on earth or something.

Jesus is God’s Atomic Bomb – The Swan Silvertones. One of the most arresting opening lines you can imagine….

To See More Light – Colin Stetson. Biblical, apocalyptic, beautiful. Whatever. This will be the song playing in my head when the world ends. Ha! I went all hysterical music journo circa 1993 there. Sorry. You need this though.

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

How do YOU pronounce Bowie? I will judge you if you’re wrong.