Tetris in the Moonlight

Welcome to Day 12 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 Will Oldham. I saw him in a film called Matewan that I really liked but I didn’t know that that kid was the same dude who went on to be recording beautiful and bleak country songs under about a million pseudonyms till recently. I chose this song because then I can tell you to look for the video of it. It’s quite something.

The other songs today….

California Stars – Billy Bragg and Wilco. Keeping things on a country vibe, Mermaid Avenue is a lovely album, breathing life into left behind lyrics by the late Woody Guthrie. You’d expect the combination of Bragg and Guthrie to be some sort of overtly earnest folk nonsense but this is lovely. Not least cos it’s Jeff Tweedy singing….

Waltzin in the Moonlight – Country Joe and the Fish. My mate Garry got me into this. Hysteria and castanets and psychedelia. It’s quite the combo.

Home – Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes – you know this. One of those songs that if you only hear it every couple of years it retains its joy.

This Is My First Day and I’m Indian and I Work At A Gas Station – Sun Kil Moon. A title almost as long as the song, this ten minute gently building stream of consciousness has a kind of hypnotic droning quality. House building, bleeding gums, Jane Fonda. It’s quite something.

New Rose - Damned. Few bands peak on their first song. Doesn’t mean they aren’t any good.

Midnight Sun – Nilufer Yanya. I don’t know anything else about this artist. But I love this. Builds like early FourTet and turns into shoegazey heaven.

Teradactol – Big Deal. Because I am clearly into shoegaze revival stuff today

Welcome to the Terrordome – Pharoahe Monch. If you’re going to cover Public Enemy, do it with the same level of righteous anger as this. Or fuck it up a little like Tricky. Don’t Duran Duran it, is all I’m saying. Amazing video too.

A Complete History of the Soviet Union Through the Eyes of a Humble Worker, Arranged to the Melody of Tetris – Pig With The Face of a Boy – Does exactly what it says on the tin.

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