Richey and Mary

Welcome to Day 17 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 the only rock star I’ve queued in a Cardiff branch of Boots behind, Nicky Wire. If you want to pay pilgrimage to this particular shrine of rock history, you can’t, as it’s one they knocked down when they were redeveloping the Central Station area. Anyway, I’ve always loved this song – speaking as it does of loss and rebirth in the wake of that band’s well documented tragedy.

We Are Each Other – Beautiful South. I bought this in Woolworths, Carmarthen in 1992 I think. Paul Heaton’s a genius. And I still miss Woollies.

Grapevine – Weyes Blood – Sacrilege I know but this might be as good as the other song you know with the word grapevine in the title. Not least for making me have the phrase “emotional cowboy” as an almost constant earworm.

Bottles and Bones (Shades and Sympathy) – Califone – 21^st century blues.

Yolele – Papa Wemba Can’t remember where I first heard this. Peel maybe? On a mid 90s tape someone made me perhaps? Anyway, it’s African pop music. I didn’t know till just now Stephen Hague produced it. So, worth a listen then if you like PSB/New Order though clearly it’s nothing like either of those…

Move Your Feet – Junior Senior – ubiquitous early 20^th century dance pop monster that is still irresistible if played at the correct volume.

Elevator Song – Keaton Henson. Love me a bit of sinister ambience and this is particularly sinistambient. Which is a French word I’ve just invented.

Pains – Silk Rhodes. A song so brilliantly devoted to sounding like it’s a Donny Hathway deep cut or a forgotten Al Green track from 1974 that it still seems impossible to think that it comes from 40 odd years later.

Dlp 1.3 – William Basinski. If you like Burial, you’ll love this. That’s all.

I Can Never Go Home Anymore – Shangri-La’s. RIP Mary Weiss. My friend, the much missed Mike G, put this song on a compilation tape for my 30^th birthday and I’ve been in love with the myrmidons of melodrama ever since. Though I can't know for sure, would not be surprised in the slightest if this song featured in the record collection of Richey Edwards...

Tomorrow, we have ten more….including one from birthday boy Robert del Naja.