Triumphant In Excessness

Welcome to Day 19 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 Michael Hutchence. Kick by INX$ is one of the best pop albums of the 1980s – better than Thriller for my money and this is a proper play loud and self consciously dance around a bedroom annoyingly like Kate Winslet trashing her reputation in The Holiday.

Fascination - Alphabeat. Wholesome.

I Can See For Miles – Lord Sitar – Can’t say I particularly care for The Who, the mouth of the River Gammon musically speaking, but this is a cover that brings them to technicolor life.

Astounded – Bran Van 3000 – introduced to this by my colleague Ian at a time when quite frankly I needed Curtis Mayfield scented fin-de-siecle disco soul more than I could properly articulate. One of those tunes that you still cant work out how it wasn’t a massive smash hit.

Voices pt 1 – MF Doom Prolific, highly original and not afraid to reference Benny Hill when spitting bars.

Rock N Roll McDonalds – Wesley Willis. Unlike anything else in today’s selection.

Born in 69 – Rocket from the Crypt – Mid 90s massive brass tinged rock and roll joy.

Christina - Oblivians. Imagining Jerry Lee Lewis grabbing a guitar and forming the drunkest rock and roll band of the 1990s. Criminally neglected.

Curse of the I-5 Corridor – Neko Case. Give me heartbreaking rueful side of the highway epic country rock please and a side order of Lanegan! Of course it’s brilliant.

When I Go Deaf - Low. Privileged to have caught their final British show in mid 2022. Gutted there can never be another. This was the final song played in bright light after the venue tried to force them off stage for running late by switching all the lights on. It didn’t work. RIP Mimi.

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