Valentine's Day
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 Tim Buckley.
Song to the Siren – Tim Buckley This is a song so good
it’ll probably feature by another artist later. But it’s my thing so my rules.
Anyway, I’m sure you know it and if you don’t you’ll thank me. It’s Valentine’s
Day FFS.
Somersault – Zero 7 feat Sia. I love this song, it’s
a summer song, like a sunny morning and it’s playing and you almost don’t mind
the daily commute because it’s a beautiful day and who knows anything could
happen. I don’t really do chillax vibes kind of music as a rule. I never got
into that whole thing. But this is lovely.
Glory Hallelujah - Teleman I never know who it is
Teleman most remind me of. I get an XTC vibe, a Supergrass vibe, even the
occasional Super Furry Animals thing going on with them. This song would have
been a massive hit in 1982. And it isn’t retro. It just sounds like 1982 to me.
Stevie – Royal Trux I think this is about Steven
Seagal. It sounds deranged, and every time I play it I find myself singing “you
can blame it on the atmosphere” fifty times a day after. I think it was on an
NME compilaton around 1998? Anyway, it was a great compilation and I loved to
have this song on my commute across Cardiff to BT Tower where I spent two and a
half years doing Directory Enquiries calls because it was easy and I had no
other skills. Royal Trux sound like that. Simple, slacker rock.
You Don’t Love Me – Dawn Penn. Honestly, this is one
of the best pop songs of the 1990s. That intro, that voice. Would make a
metalhead skank.
New Paths to Helicon - Mogwai Probably my favourite
band that I still haven’t seen live. Had tickets to see them in 1997 and
completely forgot about the gig. No one builds and builds like Mogwai. It’s the
sound of impending heartbreak for me, this song.
All Objects Are Moving – Robert Lippok Mad German
electronica, builds just like a Mogwai song and takes my head to interesting
places.
My Favourite Mutiny - Coup Massive hip hop anthem from
one of my favourite artists of any genre right now, if you haven’t seen Boots
Riley’s film I’m Sorry to Bother You or his TV drama I’m A Virgo, then make it
a priority because he’s too important to ignore.
The Art of Driving – Black Box Recorder A reductive
comparison would be St Etienne gone sinister. But that’s ok, I write these
things up in a minute each because I’m a busy motherfucker.
Full Moon – Eden Ahbez I like to throw in an oddity
here and there. This guy wrote for Nat King Cole amongst others and ended up
making lo-fi beatnik jazz tinged poetry records like this…..
Thanks for putting up with this shit – tomorrow we celebrate
birthday boy Conor Oberst.
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