All round to my man cave for a glass of Innocent Smoothie Uplift, featuring raspberry, blueberry, acreola cherry and flax seeds. Flax seeds? Yes, flax seeds. Oh and for some random iPod music played through my modern day music centre.
1. Fault Lines by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. The old boy made a triumphant return to form with the excellent Hypnotic Eye long player from which this gem hails.
2. Ong Ong by Blur. Unmistakably Damon and the chaps with their triumphant return to form from the Magic Whip, which by the way refers to a particular type of ice cream.
3. Medley: Bring it on home to me/Send me some loving’ by John Lennon. To my mind, Lennon was the greatest rock and roll singer ever and this track from his Rock ‘N’ Roll album tells you why.
4. At Night by Shakedown. Some quality house music here.
5. I can’t help myself by Mark Lucid and Kenny Hayes (remix). More jolly nice disco thump.
6. Questions by Jack Johnson. Hawaii’s finest and some double tracked vocals from Sing-A-Longs and Lullabies for the Film Curious George. Nice.
7. (Is this the way to) Amarillo? by Tony Christie. The classic walk on tune for the legendary (?) former PDC darts player Peter ‘One Dart’ Manley, who got so bad towards the end that his scores suggested the nickname was spot on.
8. Yesterday by the Beatles.
9. Stayin’ Alive by the Bee Gees. Barry Gibb in full castrato mode here. The Naked Gun interpretation still the best version.
10. The Sun Brings out the Girls by the B Sides. The brilliant Sean Macreavy and my old pal Rob ‘Shithead’ Dean make the best “Beach Boys” record in decades. Wonderful harmonies.
That’s all folks!
