Shuffle your music playing device. Tell us the first two songs that come up!
- Anita O'Day - Taking A Chance On Love. O'Day does a fine job on this happy, snappy jazz standard. Wiki lists 70 or so musicians who've covered it - everyone from Judy Garland and Bennie Goodman to Harpo Marx and Rod Stewart.
- Pentangle - Light Flight. It's always hard to make odd time signatures catchy, but they manage it here - just barely. It's tricky to hum along to, but if I just let it fly on by, it's fun.
Try it! It's fun!
It’s been a while.
Pulp – Sunrise
Fantastic … nay, EPIC song from Pulp’s 2001 Swansong ‘We Love Life’. Very rocky for a Pulp tune – and builds up slowly before unleashing glorious guitars. This song deserves volume. Jarvis Cocker secretly wanted to be a “proper” cock-rock-star I think. Leather trousers and massive hair. His recent solo stuff is of a similar vibe.
The Rolling Stones – Sympathy for the Devil
You know what? Fuck the Stones. Seriously. I just can’t be arsed with them. This is a good tune but has been played to total stone-cold death over the years and doesn’t elicit much of a emotional response from me, which is sad … but it happens to the best of them. How my friends have urged me to “get into” the Stones over the years! And how I’ve tried! But apart from the odd spark, they just don’t resonate with me much at all. I’m 41, cranky, and I finally accept they’re never going to be my favourite band.
Keith Richard’s biography is the best thing to come out of their camp in nearly 40 years. Hell of a read!
Monday. What a pisser.
yeah, i have totally banned Sympathy, You Can’t Always Get…, Brown Sugar and a couple of others, just because of overplay. makes for some short albums, but that’s the way it has to be!
Thanks to a “name that tune” you did ages ago I downloaded “What Can I Say?” by Brandi Carlile. I did a playlist for my wife with this on it and she’s crazy about the song and wants me to grab some albums. Give Up The Ghost seems well reviewed so thought it would be a good start… thoughts?
i prefer her first record (from whence “What Can I Say?”). i don’t know if i ever listened to Give Up The Ghost. i’m sure we have it, though. Mrs. really likes her.
she’s really good live, if you ever get the chance.
My wife is dead keen for us to come to the US and see as many bands as possible. She’s like a teenager at the moment. It’s great!
I turned her onto The National and Bright Eyes too. She’s music mad. We haven’t watched television in weeks – we spend our evenings listening to music. Which is awesome.
Better late than never!
1. Sisters of Mercy – Flood II
A slower and less bombastic song from an album that, at the time, I thought was the greatest thing ever. Funny, there were some kids here that went to the school where I work who were then in like 10th grade. They were all goth-like and they saw me one day with headphones on walking to work and they asked what I was listening to. It happened to randomly be the Sisters so they heard some of it, which they had never heard before, and fell in love. So a new generation converted!
2. Nirvana – Where Did You Sleep Last Night?
Nirvana covering Lead Belly covering an old traditional song. I like this. It was a good choice of cover for them, fits who they were. Funny to see this video and see a super young Dave Grohl. You never thought at the time that he was arguably the most talented person on that stage and in that band.