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Greetings pop-pickers and welcome to spring. You can tell it’s spring because it’s freezing and parts of the UK are snowed in. But not here. Bad weather won’t stop the weekly music shuffle – sorry! – so let’s listen to 10 songs from my collection, chosen at random by my music device. All you need to do is click on the title and you can listen and even sing along.
So, on this happy Friday, let’s go!
- Sueños by Santana. Lush instrumental from the lad’s 2016 long player, Santana IV. Timeless.
- Olana by The Doobie Brothers. Live From The Farewell Tour of 1982, this finds Michael McDonald in fine vocal form. Some ‘farewell’ since the band reformed soon after and still tours and makes new music today.
- Blistered Heart by Badly Drawn Boy. An instrumental taken from Damon Gough’s The Hour Of Bewilderbeast and very fine it is too.
- Tainted Lunch by Warmduscher. Title track of their brilliant 2019 album.
- Both Ends Burning by Roxy Music. Back to 1975 with this classic Roxy tune from the album Siren.
- Hot Love by T. Rex. It’s 1971 and Marc Bolan is at the peak of his powers. A truly great record. Features the legendary Turtles on backing vocals.
- Take Me by Grand Funk Railroad. Back to 1976 and a joint from the charmingly named Born To Die LP.
- Clubbed To Death by Rob Dougan. Here we go, back to 1997 for this belter which, it says here, features on the soundtrack to The Matrix, whatever that is.;o)
- Kittiwaako by Erland Cooper. The brilliant Mr Cooper, the Orkneys’ top export, possibly. From 2018’s Solan Goose and yet another instrumental this week.
- Bus Ticket by Dwight Twilley. One of my all-time musical heroes with a track from 2011’s Soundtrack album.
This week’s Desert Island Disc is, inevitably, the exciting number six tune, Hot Love by T. Rex.
See you next time! x
