The Friday Music Shuffle (23.6.23)

Hi Pop Pickers and welcome to the Friday Music Shuffle. It’s that time of the week when my music device chooses ten random songs from my collection and I tell you what it chooses. By clicking on the title, you’ll be able to listen,  or even sing, along.

Let’s see what this week brings!

1. Drink Of Water by Ambrosia. Some lovely prog rock from the band’s eponymously titled first album released back in 1975. Fun fact: Alan Parsons, he of the Project, was the mixdown engineer on this record.
2. Fucking Wizardry by Self Esteem. Absolutely magnificent from Rebecca Lucy Taylor’s essential 2021 long player Prioritise Pleasure.
3. In Love With A Camera by The Struts. Me and my mate Kevin saw The Struts a few years ago in Cardiff and they were brilliant. This is very Darkness with worrying overtones of Queen, but you can’t have everything.
4. Doing What I Can by Lindsey Buckingham. The younger brother of Fleetwood Mac’s Big Love, this goes back to 1992. Amazing.
5. You’ll Be Mine (Party Time) by Gloria Estefan. The great Gloria Estefan with one of the best summer sunshine songs.
6. Punchbag by The Bees. In 2001, the Isle of Wight’s Bees made a great album called Sunshine Hit Me. This is one of the many wonderful joints.
7. Lights Out by Electric Soft Parade. And now to Brighton and yet another band for whom I predicted great things and no things really happened. This from 2003’s very fine American Adventure.
8. Moody by Self Esteem. It’s that Rebecca Lucy Taylor again with a banger from Prioritise Pleasure.
9. Soliloquy Of Chaos by Gang Starr. From 1992’s Daily Operation, which was one of the great hip hop records, this is fantastic. 1992. Jesus.
10. Survive by Daryl Hall. From the great man’s 1980 solo record Sacred Songs, produced by Robert Fripp, this is quite lovely.

This week’s Desert Island Disc, by a short head, is You’ll Be Mine (Party Time) by Gloria Estefan.

That’s all, folks!