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Yes, it’s that time already: the Friday Music Shuffle. That fun-packed time of the week when my music device selects ten songs from my collection and I tell you what it’s chosen.
To hear the songs and, hopefully, to sing along, just click on the titles. I hope you find something you like.
- Finally by Kings Of Tomorrow. Some gorgeous House from 2001 to start today’s shuffle.
- Every Planet Which Reach Is Dead by Gorillaz. Now we return to 2005 for this beauty from the brilliant Demon Days long player. Damon Albarn is of course a genius.
- So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright by Simon and Garfunkel. Bridge Over Troubled Water is 54 years old, but it still sounds so fresh. This is one of the many beautiful songs, named after a legendary architect.
- Alive by Empire Of The Sun. From 2013’s brilliant album Ice On The Dune by the Aussie electro wizards.
- Peter Pan by Arcade Fire. I loved 2017’s Everything Now long player so obviously I love this track from the album.
- Justify by Daryl Hall. Some lush blue-eye white soul from Hall, here without Oates, from his 1996 album Can’t Stop Dreaming.
- Big Generator by Yes. Title track of their 1987 long player. It’s great, despite Alan White’s typically 1980s overblown drum sound.
- Visions by José González. For those of you who think there is nothing more to the man than the wonderful Heartbeats, then I suggest you listen to 2021’s Local Valley.
- No Good by The Prodigy. No good? This is absolutely wonderful, taken from 1994’s Music For The Jilted Generation.
- We Don’t Know What Tomorrow Brings by The Smile. From A Light For Attracting Attention, this from Thom Yorke’s Radiohead offshoot band is magnificent.
This week’s Desert Island Disc is So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright by Simon and Garfunkel because, quite frankly, you can’t do much better than Bridge Over Troubled Water.
Well, that was fun (for me). Have a good week till next week.
