The Friday Music Shuffle (27.12.24)

by Rick Johansen

Greetings, revellers, and welcome to the weekly music shuffle.

Yes, it’s that time when I set loose my music device and it chooses ten random songs from my collection. What you do is click on the song title to listen and hopefully sing along.

I hope you find something you like.

  1. Birth Of An Accidental Hipster by The Monkees. Brilliant latter day Monkees from 2016’s Good Times album. Michael Nesmith and Micky Dolenz share vocals on this belter written by … Noel Gallagher and Paul Weller. Seriously.
  2. Oh Yeah by Ash. Obviously, a cracker from the Norn Iron band’s 1996 album 1977, if that makes sense?
  3. Sweet Dreams by Emmylou Harris. Gorgeous track from Emmylou’s 1975 long player Elite Hotel, released 49 years ago this coming Sunday.
  4. But Not For You by Field Music. Lush joint from the Brewis brothers’ 2016 LP Commontime.
  5. When I Come Around by Green Day. Back we go to – and I scarcely believe this – 1994 for a banger from the Dookie album.
  6. Night Bird by Deep Forest. Simply magnificent from their first, eponymously titled album way back in 1992. Essential.
  7. Touch ‘Em With Love by Bobbie Gentry. My first crush was Ms Gentry. Not a classic, this, from 1969, but you can hear that great voice in action.
  8. Free Bird by Lynyrd Skynyrd. Back we go a mere 51 years for this all-time classic, made more poignant by the death, four years later, of lead singer Ronnie Van Zant, backing singer Cassie Gaines and her brother, guitarist Steve Gaines, in a plane crash.
  9. Dan Takes Five by The Georgia Satellites. Excellent rocker from the southern rock rockers, taken from their 1989 LP In The Land Of Salvation And Sin.
  10. One Last Time by Glen Campbell. Wichita Lineman it ain’t, but this 1972 tune is okay.

Some great joints here and I am maybe going to surprise you with my Desert Island Disc for this week. It’s Night Bird by Deep Forest.

See you next year. Loves you, mind.

 

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