And so, here comes that Friday morning music shuffle, letting that iPod choose the order of the music!
1. Change of the guard by Steely Dan. From the still magnificent Can’t Buy A Thrill album, you know: Reelin’ in the years, Do it again et al.
2. Music for a found harmonium by the Penguin Cafe Orchestra. Lovely, proper chilled Ibiza stuff.
3. That’s not the answer by Vi Valesco. I know nothing about Ms Valesco but I love this, from 1964.
4. Spirits in the night by Bruce Springsteen. Greetings from Asbury Park was released in…gulp…1973. The first time I heard the song was a few years later when it was covered by Manfred Mann’s Earthband.
5. Good eye by Bruce Springsteen. More Bruce, this time from Working On A Dream. The production is better, but the raw power is still the same.
6. Affirmation by Take That. Not a fan of Progress – it wasn’t – but I always like it when Howard Donald sings lead. Never forget Never Forget.
7. Homeward Bound by Simon and Garfunkel. Not many songs were written at Widnes railway station, but this one was. Beautiful.
8. Leningrad by Billy Joel.
“I was born in ’49
A cold war kid in McCarthy time
Stop ’em all at the 38th Parallel
Blast those yellow reds to hell
And cold war kids were hard to kill
Under their desks in an air raid drill
Haven’t they heard we won the war
What do they keep on fighting for?”
9. Slip into something more comfortable by Kinobe. Click here and be on your holidays!
10. Poison by Bell Biv DeVoe. Nor me. It’s on one of ‘er indoors’ Trevor Nelson compilations and it’s blinking brilliant. Obviously, I knew already that three of these chaps were in New Edition, without Googling.
