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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.
- 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.
- Oh Yeah by Ash. Obviously, a cracker from the Norn Iron band’s 1996 album 1977, if that makes sense?
- Sweet Dreams by Emmylou Harris. Gorgeous track from Emmylou’s 1975 long player Elite Hotel, released 49 years ago this coming Sunday.
- But Not For You by Field Music. Lush joint from the Brewis brothers’ 2016 LP Commontime.
- When I Come Around by Green Day. Back we go to – and I scarcely believe this – 1994 for a banger from the Dookie album.
- Night Bird by Deep Forest. Simply magnificent from their first, eponymously titled album way back in 1992. Essential.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.