The late Friday Music Shuffle

Greetings pop pickers and welcome to this week’s (and last week’s) music shuffle. I can only apologise for the delay but it was due foreseen circumstances. I was on my holidays.

What happens is simple. My music machine chooses 10 tracks from my music collection and I tell you what it’s chosen. Click on the track to listen, or even sing along!

At long last, here it is!

1. By My Side by The Rides. The great Stephen Stills, with Kenny Wayne Shepherd and Barry Goldberg, are The Rides and this is from 2016’s Pierced Arrow. Very, very good.
2. African Suite by Neil Diamond. In 1970, Neil Diamond made his greatest album Taproot Manuscript (this is a fact). All of Side Two is an African Trilogy and it’s brilliant. Here is the lovely African Suite.
3. Cindy Incidentally by The Faces. From the wonderful Ooh La La, way back in 1973, this is peak Rod Stewart and his last great music.
4. Gorecki by Lamb. From 1996’s eponymous offering, Lamb, this is rather lovely.
5. My Echo by Rolling Blackouts Coastal Thunder. From 2022’s brilliant Endless Rooms. BUY THIS RECORD.
6. Hold Still by Grizzly Bear. Back to 2009 and a joint from the excellent Veckatimest LP.
7. Scorchio by Sasha and Emerson. Some banging dance music from 2000. Chune.
8. Sport (The Old Boy) by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band. Back to 1969 for some bonkers stuff from the Bonzos. Genius from the Keynsham LP.
9. You Don’t Have To Cry by Crosby, Stills and Nash. Stephen’s second visit today and this is a beautiful song of his from the 1969 album Crosby, Stills and Nash.
10. AKA…Broken Arrow by Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds. A decent track from Gallagher’s first solo album Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, but it was all downhill after that (and the lyrics are as terrible as ever).

This week’s Desert Island Disc is African Suite by Neil Diamond. Sorry, Mr Stills. It was SO close.