Grohl With It

Welcome to the latest instalment of the badly titled and hastily scribbled Everyone Has Got one Good Song blog thing. Day 45.

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 Dave Grohl.

Times Like These – Foo Fighters Dave Grohl seems to be the nicest man in music and though I wouldn’t say I was exactly the target audience for his band’s brand of Gillette Advert Rock, I can see the appeal of mildly anthemic stadium bangers to their fans. Anyway, I quite like this one.

Stag A Lee – Wilson Pickett. Yeah it’s a standard, everyone always goes on about Land of 1000 Dances but that’s too wedding disco for me and this intro has always got me (points to place where blackened heart might be) right in the fucking feels….

Nowhere To Run – Martha Reeves and the Vandellas Mind you, sometimes an artist’s best known song is their best

Gon B Alright – Janet Jackson In which our Janet turns back time and revitalises the Motown sound of her brothers with a sweet contemporary feel. Or something. It’s MAGNIFICENT.

Sexual Healing – Hot 8 Brass Band. Does exactly what it says on the tin. Marvin Gaye’s sweet 80s pleading taken to New Orleans and left to swelter and generally get all funked up sensually your honour.

By the time I get to Phoenix – Isaac Hayes Not so much a cover version as turning an anecdote into a movie. Jimmy Webb’s classic gets taken on an epic (18 minutes plus!) voyage and we, the humble listener, get to ride shotgun.

I Had This Thing - Royksopp. Scandibanger. Pulsing, downbeat electronic melancholy.

Papua New Guinea – Future Sound of London Bought this in Woolworths in the spring of 1992. It shat down. Someone borrowed my original 12” and never gave it back. It’s ok. Things go that way sometimes. The Wetherall mix is excellent but I still prefer the original.

Flexxin – Dutch Uncles I’ve never googled the band name for fear it might bring up something unsavoury. Reminds me of early Hot Chip, something like Playboy, that weird mix of baroque and electronic. I don’t know what I mean but it makes sense and like I say, these daily blasts of stream of consciousness thinking are just for record-keeping purposes really.

Sunny Road – Emiliana Torrini I bet this woman is lovely and kind. There’s no way she’s a cryptofascist. You cant sing this song and be cruel. Anyway, thanks for putting up with this shit – tomorrow we celebrate birthday girl Regina Spektor.