Goodbye Billy McKenzie
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
PARTY FEARS TWO
- Associates I can vividly remember seeing Billy McKenzie and his amazing
hair on ToTP. I liked anything vaguely synthy at the time, I was 11. Anyway,
unlike a lot of stuff from that time, the joyous strangeness of this song lives
on. RIP Billy. Taken too soon.
HAKA – Sigur Ros
I once tried to get a band going called Sigur Ross Kemp. The kind of one joke
thing that would have garnered 4 likes on Instagram. Anyway, I’m glad I didn’t.
I quite like the old Sigurs and everyone should watch HEIMA, their Icelandic
tour movie.
CALI - Ride Thirty
odd years after they stopped doing that whole floppy fringe sighing over
effects pedals the Oxford lads were back and this tune was one of the things I
played most in what I now refer to as The Last Happy Summer (2019)
GET DOWN –
Curtis Mayfield. I fucking LOVE this tune. Jamiroquai couldn’t write something
a tenth as good as this and he’s been trying since 1992.
GRAVITY’S
RAINBOW - Klaxons Isn’t the main dude married to Keira Knightley? Or is
that some other band. I don’t know. Yer Klaxons were massive for about half an
hour towards the end of the last Labour government from what I recall and this
is like a Home Counties Furry Animals or some other reductive nonsense phrase.
ALL THAT I HAVE
IS YOU – Ghostface Killah Wu-Tang man gets all sentimental.
EMILY – Drug
Cabin 110 seconds long. Country-tinged indie pop.
SULTANS OF SWING
– Dire Straits Though for the greater part the efforts of ver Straits leave
me colder than the trail for Lord Lucan, old Headband Knopfler can be forgiven
because he did the music for my favourite film Local Hero and so I better be
kind. I don’t mind this one tbh.
THE GREATEST –
Cat Power Me and the lovely Chan Marshall share a birthday. I would very
much like her to sing Happy Birthday to me one day…
TIPP CITY – The
Amps. Kim Deal is cooler than 99.9980808080% of the people to have walked
this earth and this largely forgotten side project of a side project was garage
rock and roll of the highest order.
As ever, your love is taken as read. Thanks for putting up
with this shite. Tomorrow, normal service is resumed. Your disappointment is
taken as read, also. It’s that Cheryl James birthday tomorrow. Who’s that? Well,
turn up and find out..
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