Hi pop pickers. Older readers (probably reader, actually) can probably hear Alan “Fluff” Freeman’s chart run down music as I typed those words.
Anyway – I digress. It’s Friday and it’s time for me to bore you senseless with the random choices of my iPod, playing out in my man cave. Yes, it’s the Friday Music Shuffle.
1. I Reach for the Light by the Raspberries. Eric Carmen’s legendary Raspberries kick off today’s random selection. Some Beatles/Macca influences here.
2. Open All Night by The Georgia Satellites. Raucous, rocking 12 bar blues here from the Battleship Chains chaps.
3. Sing a Powerful Song by the Saw Doctors. Familiar, almost comforting music from Ireland.
4. Go (Subliminal Mix) by Moby. Nice mood music, especially if you are in the right mood in Ibiza, I reckon.
5. Freedom by Wham!. Not the greatest Wham! song but still light years ahead of anything since he split up from the…er…multi-talented Andrew Ridgeley.
6. Down, Down by Status Quo. Again again again again again-gain-gain-gain deeper and down down down deeper and down down down deeper and down down down deeper and down get down get down deeper and down. A Nobel prize awaits.
7. Two Princes by the Spin Doctors. What – the Saw and Spin Doctors on one day?
8. You can look (but you better not touch) by Bruce Springsteen. Having this morning purchased the Boss’s autobiography Born To Run (£9.50 in Sainsburys), how appropriate to find him in such rich form on this cut from The River.
9. Nightingale by the Eagles. From their very first long player, the lads sing about their “special friend”, “the apple of my eye”. It’s a song about a bird, obviously.
10. Truth Hits Everybody by the Police. My God – from 1978, this is on Outlandos d’Amour, which also featured Can’t Stand Losing You, Roxanne and So Lonely.
