Out of My Mind on LSP
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
DOUBLE SIX – Lee
Scratch Perry. Today’s birthday boy. My pal Garry got me into him back in
the bleak Autumn of 1992. Life was going down the shithole and our evenings
were spent in what we laughingly called The Men’s Room, playing darts, smoking
cheap joints and listening to insane dub compilation tapes. Now I think about
it they were golden times.
CREATION –
Stereo MC’s Torn between this and Ground Level. They were huge very briefly
in an early 90s way. Like Carter. Six weeks of being the biggest band in
Britain. Anyway I like this and I really used to fancy one of his backing
singers too.
I FEEL SPACE -
Lindstrom. Norwegian electro cosmic banger.
COUNTRY CASSETTE
– Half Cousin Around the launch of the iPod there was this brief flurry of
what people dubbed folktronica. I quite liked some of it and bought this album
on a whim from Spillers when I should have been buying Christmas presents. It
was raining and it was cold. I was with the woman I married and the woman I
wanted to marry. Hope I’ve set the scene adequately.
AS SERIOUS AS
YOUR LIFE – Four Tet More folktronica.
1980 - Estelle Songs that make you cry and you don’t know why
corner. Absolute joy, properly wonderful production, this could have been shit,
naff, fucking Ed Sheeran levels of contrived but it’s heartfelt and moving and
yeah I need a lie down.
I DON’T KNOW WHY
– Rolling Stones Boaby Gillespie once said (not to me mind) that this
Stones recording of Stevie Wonder’s cover took place immediately after hearing
of Brian Jones death. It might not be true but there’s something in Jagger’s
voice and the way dear old Charlie smashes the shit out of his snare at one
point that makes me think that it may have gone down that way.
DUALITY -
Slipknot You were not expecting this were you. I’m full of surprises.
I AM PENTAGON –
The Make-Up Should have been bigger than they were with a name like that, a
look like that and songs like this.
MAKE ME SMILE –
Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel RIP Mr Harley.
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 Solomon Burke birthday tomorrow….
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