Better Caul Saul Williams
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
is dedicated to birthday boy Saul Williams. This blog is impressionistic and
fucking vague. It’s all about the playlist.
Think Like They
Book Say – Saul Williams. Absolutely love this track. Like Gil Scott Heron
on a gender bending Massive Attack vs Underworld tune. Angry and passionate and
full of wonderful imagery.
Temple Head –
Transglobal Underground. Back in late 1993 you couldn’t move for well
meaning festival crusty types. And though on paper this band bring out the
inner Clarkson, this is such a tuuuuunnnne.
Read About Seymour
– Swell Maps. The grandad to Slanted and Enchanted.
Long Long Time –
Linda Ronstadt Yeah I only heard it in THAT episode of The Last of Us but hey
that doesn’t mean it isn’t beautiful and necessary in it’s own right. This song
wouldn’t have worked if it had soundtracked a child being consumed by parasitic
fungus. Different Drum might, mind…
2007, the Year
Punk Broke (My Heart) – Los Campesinos. Usually found this lot too twee for
words, I mean who really needed another Bis and Sebastian style outfit? BUT
this song is a belter, coming on like a mild-mannered Arcade Fire you’d get off
with at a student disco back in the day….
We Will All Go
Together When We Go – Tom Lehrer Because, like everyone else my age, I’m
kind of a little bit obsessed with nuclear apocalypse.
Stool Pigeon –
Kid Creole and the Coconuts. Kind of amazing how forgotten this lot are.
Proper hit singles that stand the test of time. And you’ll be saying “cha cha chacha”
for the rest of the day…
I Don’t Want to
Set the World on Fire - Inkspots. Loved this song as a kid and I forgot
about it for years until Radiohead starting namedropping them in interviews and
I went straight onto Napster or LimeWire or something like that for this bad boy.
Fascinating
Rhythm – Bass-o-Matic. It’s 1990. I’m DJing to trainee teachers and rugby
boys in a student union in Wales. The air is thick with sexual tension. I put
this on. The dancefloor becomes a sea of inarticulate, voiceless rutting. It
doesn’t really. But some girls danced to it. Boys weren’t dancing then see.
13 Angels
Standing Guard Rounding the Side of Your Bed – A Silver Mt Zion. Because
haunting instrumentals dedicated to recently deceased pet dogs is how I like to
roll.
As ever, your love is taken as read. Thanks for putting up
with this shite. No blog now till Tuesday but you’ll get 50 FUCKING 50 SONGS and
more of this shit. A LOT MORE.
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