Ice T see ya to see ya Ice
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 Ice-T.
Colors – Ice-T Because my mate Lee was obsessed with seeing
this film and, because I was the only other hip hop head for about 30 miles,
saw it with him. And this song reminds me of being 17 and vaguely aware of white
privilege, seeing as I was able to walk home across various fields without
being caught up in a gang war.
Battleflag – Lo-Fidelity Allstars. A genuine scandal
how this lot were neglected. Temperamentally I suppose it’s possible to say
well a stoned sounding Cockney drawl over big beat flavoured funk might not be
the biggest draw in the world but even still, their debut album How To Operate
With a Blown Mind, is one of the best records of the 1990s. And when I saw them
live, they were probably the best act I’d ever seen at that point. And this
tune, probably their most well-known, think it might have been on The Sopranos
(?) is them at their best.
Please Forgive My Heart – Bobby Womack One of the
greatest soul voices final recordings and this mea culpa is like My Way for on
their way home clubbers….
Wood Beez (Pray Like Aretha Franklin) – Scritti Politti Forty
years old and still sounds great. Green Gartside’s journey from Derrida-referencing
post punk to slick electro soul kid in just a few short years would seem unconvincing
if it wasn’t for the rest of this magpie’s career. Wonderful.
Warm Leatherette - Normal. ELECTRONIC FILTH.
Country Church – Holy Motors Imagine Hope Sandoval
singing the theme tune to The Littlest Hobo. That’s got to be good, right?
Right?
Valentine - Delays. Southampton gets a bad rep these
days what with it churning out wanker Prime Ministers and toxic ex-footballers
touting shit opinions for cash. But the Delays hit the jackpot with this song –
like New Order gone chillcore. This song is for KO. She knows why. And yeah, we’ll
leave that there.
The Hard One – Beta Band In which Steve Mason and his
fellow deconstructors of pop take a Bonnie Tyler classic and mould it into a
kind of brooding trip hop meditation.
I Lost Something in the Hills – Sybille Baier German
woman makes album for herself, doesn’t release it. Someone finds tapes 20 odd
years later, sticks it out as an LP. Nico is the obvious comparison but nah
this is incredible.
Maneater – Nelly Furtado I think this song might just
be the greatest pop hit of the century. More hooks, spins and turns than
Bohemian Rhapsody and a million times better obviously. It should still be
number one. Not that it ever got there. A genuinely remarkable pop record.
Thanks for putting up with this shit – tomorrow we celebrate
birthday boy Dave Grohl.
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