Love is All You Need

Welcome to the latest instalment of the badly titled Everyone Has Got one Good Song blog thing. Days 64!

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

LOVE - August. Today’s birthday boy is Arthur Lee. As I walked around Valencia last weekend, in a state one could only describe as “Level 3 Drunk – Love and Happiness Abound”, I couldn’t stop humming this song. Everyone should have at least one Love song in their heart at all times.

SUBMARINES – Brightest Hour No idea who this lot are but it came on at random shuffle the other day and it’s gentle home counties playground vibe put me in mind of a slightly less aloof St Etienne.

HOUSE OF LOVE – Christine – For a brief period at the very end of the eighties this lot were going to be the Next Big Thing. About half an hour before The Stone Roses debut album came out I think. Anyway, I love this song because it reminds me of first hearing it on Peel, not long after I first started listening to Peel and realising that I was finding my own music, my own personality, my tastes etc.

HOWLING BELLS – Setting Sun Should have been a hit. “One more day is not enough to change the world.” Lush indie pop of the toppermost echelons and all that.

SEA POWER – No Lucifer No surprise this lot dropped the British from this moniker, not with pro-immigration anthems like this in their nautically named arsenal. Not enough pop songs utilise forgotten seventies British wrestling chants.

LAMBCHOP – The Man Who Loved Beer It’s like it was written for me.

HARRY CHAPIN – W*O*L*D A Raymond Carver kinda song. Stinking as it does of regrets, booze and loss.

QUEEN ESTHER MARROW – Walk Tall Needed a pick me up after those last two and the last three songs will put a spring back in our steps.

U.S GIRLS - MAH I Will Survive for the Avocado Generation

WORD UP - Cameo Subversive as hell, funky as all fucking christ and an all time banger. Get your red codpieces out gentlemen, the night is ours.

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 Gaz Coombes birthday tomorrow….