The Friday Music Shuffle (Friday 13th December 2024)

Greetings, grapple fans, as Kent Walton used to say (one for the teenagers, there) and welcome to the Friday Music Shuffle. Every Friday, for no obvious reason, I set my music device free and it selects 10 random songs from my collection. Then, for no obvious reason, I tell the world what it has chosen.  If the world would like to listen, and even sing, along, then all the world has to do is click on the title.

I hope you play along and find something you like.

1. Towers by Bon Iver. I was very late to the party with Justin Vernon, but I have caught up now. This from 2012’s Bon Iver LP.
2. Hemşerim Memleket Nire by Gaye Su Akyol. Love this Turkish superstar. A song from 2018’s İstikrarlı Hayal Hakikattir which means Consistent Fantasy is Reality. 
3. Stuck With me by Green Day. Great track from 2004’s American Idiot.
4. Rio by Michael Nesmith. Well, this is magnificent by the late, great Monkee. From 1977’s From a Radio Engine to the Photon Wing.
5. Sonríe by Gloria Estefan. Lovely version of the Charlie Chaplin song AKA Smile. That girl can nail a tune.
6. Shit (I’ve Done It Again) by Gaz Coombes. Not a pastiche of Britney’s ‘Oops’ but actually a cracking joint from the Supergrass man’s brilliant 2018 long player World’s Strongest Man.
7. Envision Yourself Levitating by Sons of Kemet. What a band they were, jazz, Afrobeat and a whole lot more. This from 2021’s Black To The Future. Drummer Tom Skinner is now with Thom Yorke’s The Smile.
8. Statues by Foo Fighters. I’d quite forgotten I owned a Foo Fighters LP, 2007’s Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace. I’d also forgotten that Dave Grohl can actually sing and not just shout a tune.
9. Burn by Deep Purple. An astonishing 50 years has passed since the Burn album was released. No Ian Gillan, but David Coverdale could certainly sing a bit.
10. Memories Down The Line by Kansas. Finally, a Kansas classic from 2020’s excellent The Absence of Presence.

This week’s Desert Island Disc is Rio by Michael Nesmith. Of course it is.

Well, that was fun (for me).

Have a good week till next week.