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Good afternoon grapple fans and welcome to the Friday Music Shuffle, that fun-packed part of the week when you realise it’s … er … Friday.
My music device chooses ten random tunes from my collection and I tell you, dear reader and hopefully listener, what it’s chosen. By clicking on the title you can hear said song and sing along.
Okay – let’s get this Stow-on-the-Wold. I hope you find something you like.
- Las Lycras Del Avila by Los Amigos Invisibles. Back to 1998 and a joint from the band’s brilliant album The New Sound of the Venezuelan Gozadera. No better band in Venezuela, I’d imagine.
- Carrie and Lowell by Sufjan Stevens. I am prone to exaggeration, but not with this, the title track of Stevens’ magnificent 2015 record, all inspired by the death of his mother. Utterly indispensable and very moving.
- Murder City by Green Day. A banger from 2009’s 21st Century Breakdown album.
- Not Going Down by Sammy Hagar. In 2013, the red rocker made a decent LP called Sammy and Friends. This one features two of his old Montrose colleagues Bill Church and Denny Carmassi. Ronnie Montrose couldn’t make the record on account of being dead.
- Ommadawn (Part2) / On Horseback by Mike Oldfield. Back 49 years for this one. Very long but very great, too.
- Section 60 by Kansas. Prog brilliance from 2016’s zinger of an album, The Prelude Implicit.
- I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free by John Legend & The Roots. Too often, Legend is drowning in sickly saccharin, but in 2010 he struck gold with a great album, Wake Up! alongside The Roots. This is obviously the Nina Simone classic, or Film Night, as it is known to everyone else. And why not?
- Badchild by Bachman Feat Joe Bonamassa. In 2015, dear old BTO man Randy Bachman formed a three-piece band called Bachman and they made a record called Heavy Blues. It was excellent and this is of the best tracks.
- Space Shanty by Leftfield. Scarcely believable that their classic album Leftism came out in 1995. It still sounds great.
- Fifteen Minutes by Ride. Solid tune from 2019’s This Is Not A Safe Place album.
This week’s Desert Island Disc is Carrie and Lowell by Sufjan Stevens.
Have a good week til next week.
