The Friday Music Shuffle (13.1.23)

Happy Friday 13th to you all and let’s celebrate the day with the weekly music shuffle. My music device selects 10 random tracks from my collection and I tell you what it’s chosen. And if you want to sing along, just click on the song title.

So, without further ado, let’s rock!

1. Brian’s Back by Mike Love (with Carl Wilson). Some Beach Boys slush from 1998’s Endless Harmony soundtrack. Carl’s voice at the top always does it for me as the chorus kicks in.
2. The Word by The Beatles. Great track – well, they’re all great tracks – from 1965’s Rubber Soul.
3. Coney Island Baby by Lou Reed. Title track of Reed’s 1975 album. Really good.
4. Immigrant by Nitin Sawhney. From 1999’s Beyond Skin, this is so achingly beautiful.
5. Quiet Houses by Fleet Foxes. From the band’s superb eponymous first album back in 2008. Robin Pecknold is a genius.
6. Mexico by Dennis Wilson. This didn’t make the cut for Beach Boy Dennis Wilson’s epic first and only solo album Pacific Ocean Blue, which tells you how good the stuff that did make it was.
7. Slip On Through by The Beach Boys. Coincidentally, this was co-written by Dennis Wilson (see 6) and is from the Beach Boys best group album, 1970’s Sunflower.
8. Your Kiss Is Sweet by Syreeta. Co-written by her husband Stevie Wonder, it’s rather lovely. I didn’t even know I owned a copy.
9. Train in A Major by Lindisfarne. From rock’s greatest year, 1971, this comes from the band’s brilliant Fog On The Tyne.
10. Voiceless Terror by Thom Yorke. Well spooky from Thom’s 2018 Suspiria.

My Desert Island Disc this week is Immigrant by Nitin Sawhney.

That’s all, folks!