Doors of Selection

Welcome to the latest instalment of the badly titled Everyone Has Got one Good Song blog thing. Day 40.

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 Ray Manzarek.

Love me Two Times - Doors I never really liked the Doors very much. I think people tend to like music from before they were born if their parents were into it and my parents didn’t like the Doors. There was a renewed surge of interest in them when that Oliver Stone film came out. I heard this song somewhere around then I guess and it’s a great pop song

Whatever Happened to my Rock N Roll – Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. Sounding exactly as a song with that title by a band with that name should. Late 2001, I’m living in a posh flat. Well, posh by my standards. It didn’t have any furniture so it looked dead minimal. Anyway, this song reminds me of that flat and the good times I had there. Enjoying being single for the first time in years and spending far too much time in the sadly missed Mulligans bar at the bottom of Charles Street, walking home post Dorothy’s Chicken and Chips with this on the Discman.

You Can’t Hurry Love - Concretes More proof that Scandinavian pop factories exist in secret laboratories. Great horns.

Super Sharp Shooter – Ganja Kru SARF LAHNDN BLOW YOUR WHISTLES. Except I was living in the middle of fucking nowhere when this came out. But still, the S, the U, the P, the E, the R…..

The Light 3000 – Schneider TM. In which a Smiths classic is reimagined as a poignant pocket calculator love song.

Show Me – Mint Royale An absolute travesty that this song isn’t better known. Oh it’s the dude from De La Soul getting down with some sort of Polynesian sounding choir whilst yer Mint Royale blokes invent that bouncy Gorillaz kinda tune and get no credit.

Satta Massaganna - Abysinnians Every now and then you need a little bit of spiritual roots reggae. Not too often, like. Just every now and then. Righteous! Etc….

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road – Elton John When old Reg did Glastonbury last year I watched out of a kind of couldn’t be arsed to change channels, thought it might be a laugh taking the piss out the old prick live on Twitter thing. And I have to admit I was quite disappointed because I didn’t realise how good Elton was going to be. For me, this is his crowning moment. What a tune.

 

Evil Hearted You - Yardbirds It was Pixies demented Spanish cover of it that led me to seek out the original and I’m glad I did.

Gloria - Them Well, we started with the Doors. This selection is pretty Golden Oldies tbf so I went with a band Jim and ver lads famously covered.

Thanks for putting up with this shit – tomorrow we celebrate birthday boy Matt Berninger.