Temptation of Betrayal

 

Welcome to Day 15 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 David Ruffin, one time member of the Temptations. This is the music I grew up with. Motown/Stax etc. That was my parents’ favourite music before they became parents. Its weird to think of your folks as being young and carefree at some point but they must have been. Anyway, I digress. This is a proper soul stomper. A betrayal anthem. Forget I Will Survive. This is the prequel. You know they’re playing away, you feel it in your bones. And David Ruffin’s lead vocal is pure fucking anguish.

The other songs today….

Touch of Fire - Upsetters. Late 1992. Our student house had a spare room. We turned it into a mancave. Dartboard. Stereo. Guitars and Amps. It was great. Anyway, this was on a Lee Scratch Perry compilation that always seemed to be playing. Thank you Garry for getting me into the great man.

Youth of Eglinton – Black Uhuru. I can’t stand shit reggae which will prove eventually to be a challenge to the goals of this project. Who can? I like the militant stuff, the angry stuff. This is the good stuff.

Out of Space - Prodigy – I just didn’t know who to pick with this artist. So many classics with so many good memories attached. So I just asked Spotify to pick one at random and this is what came up. And it continues with the reggae theme in its Max Romeo sample. But I also really like Breathe, No Good, Warrior Dance, even that one with the dickhead from Kula Shaker….

Feel – Ty Segall. YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHH RAWWWKKKK. Heard this in the gym once when I made the mistake of going to the gym late at night. Marc Riley had this on and soon I was running at unhealthy speeds. Guitar solo from heaven. So good you can forgive the drum solo. Almost…

Four Horsemen – Aphrodite’s Child. A song so clearly in the DNA of both the Happy Mondays and the Stone Roses, I’m amazed that neither covered it. Greek proto-prog-psychedelic-baggy-biblical-rock comes no better.

Kid’s Alright – Bettie Serveert – Only heard this for the first time recently. Dutch early 90s indie rock. Band’s named after a Dutch tennis player’s autobiography which is the kind of odd move I seem to fall for. A great tune.

Remember – Raveonettes. Continuing the European indie theme, some Danish Jesus and Mary Spector revivalists.

Greatest Hits – Mystery Jets. I do love a list song. And I love a break up song too. So combining the two was always going to work for me.

Take It – Flowered Up. After putting people through epic songs the last few days was tempted to go with the glorious Weekender for those 1990 vibes but this seems to be an unfairly neglected tune which I think might have been a minor top 40 hit cos I bought it in Woolworths (RIP).

Tomorrow, we have ten more….including one from birthday girl Dolly Parton.