Day 36
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 selections
is dedicated to birthday dude Daft Punk’s Guy-Manuel de Homen-Christo
Da Funk – Daft Punk One of those records you
instantly remember where you were when you first heard it. I’d like to say I
was on the floor of some insanely cool club. I wasn’t. I was in the Co-Op in
Pontyclun buying a fucking sandwich. It still sounds great and it makes me sad
how absolutely shit they turned after about 2003. Also I've just realised that if you take "t and p" out of Daft Punk, it spells "Da Funk". Which is probably some kind of cryptic message to the Illuminati. Or not.
That’s Alright - Kindness. Like a homage to every
track on every Street Sounds compilation from the early mid 80s. Sampled
scratches, mad strings, insane beats.
Disco Inferno - Trammps Keeping it all dancefloor.
And I’ll always picture young Roy Munson inadvertently stealing pizza to it’s
glory.
Be My Baby - Ronettes One of the first three songs we
shall play to the first alien visitors to the planet. We did this, dudes.
The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game - Marvelettes. Smokey
Robinson, who wrote this, said that Wanda Young had a sexy voice and he isn’t
wrong.
Blues Run The Game – Jackson C Frank. This seems to
have been on loads of shows recently. It was definitely in This Is Us and I
think it might have been in Poker Face and the Leftovers? Anyway, it’s the kind
of thing I like not least because I do like a died in poverty and obscurity
before his time story. Well, not exactly “like”, but more “gain a sense of who
this artist is and their sense of what might befall them” thing.
Space Oddity – Langley Schools Music Project. Yeah,
you’ve heard it. Soon as the internet came along this was everywhere and you
didn’t have to hunt down the album and pay a fortune for it. If nothing else
the internet has made stuff easier to find. Not always a good thing. I still
relish scanning the shelves of Hag’s in Lampeter for student cast off records
and I got into plenty of hard to find stuff back then because of it.
You Are The Generation….. – Johnny Boy Massive song
title. Huge tune. James Dean Manic at the consoles. Should have been a hit. We
got what we deserved.
Cattle and Cane – Go-Betweens. The Go-Betweens are
one of those bands you would read about in the music press and be told that
this was the good stuff, the what if Dylan wrote lyrics for The Smiths but
produced by Phil Spector kind of nonsense they make up. And then you buy an
album and it’s just ok. I watched a film about them a couple of years back and
I still don’t understand their magic. However, this song, this is beautiful. It’s
like Cider with Rosie set to the oddest time signature.
Now It’s Time to Say Goodbye – Kitchens of Distinction. They
had the tunes, they had the name. They should have been massive but really they
were never going to be because openly celebratory gay indie rock was always
going to be overshadowed at the time of maximum lad culture that was the
Britpop Loaded New Labour years. Honestly, this band.
Thanks for putting up with this shit – tomorrow we celebrate
Holly Johnson….
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