The Friday Music Shuffle (18.3.22)

Welcome to spring. I know it’s been spring – at least the meteorological version which I stick to because it starts sooner – but it feels like it. A giddy 14c with just the odd white fluffy cloud floating by will do me and I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else. And what can we do on such a sunny day? Why, have a music shuffle, that’s what.

10 tunes from my collection, chosen at random by my device. I tell you what they are and if you feel so inclined you can sing along by clicking on the title.

Let’s rock!

1. Devil Inside Me by Matt Perry. Matt’s debut on the shuffle, this is from his folky rocky 2013 long player Kill The Wolf.
2. From The Ritz To The Rubble by the Arctic Monkeys. Abso-fucking-lutely brilliant from 2006’s debut Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not.
3. The Brazilian by Beak. Brilliant from Gashead Geoff Barrow’s band, from 2018’s >>>.
4. Education by Modest Mouse. Slightly bonkers but always brilliant. A track from their 2007 We Were Dead before The Ship Even Sank, featuring the unmistakeable Johnny Marr on guitar.
5. Jokerman by Bob Dylan. How do you have a favourite Dylan tune? It’s impossible, isn’t it? This from 1983 is mine. It features Sly and Robbie, erstwhile Rolling Stone Mick Taylor, Mark Knopfler and Heartbreaker Benmont Tench. I might play this again post shuffle.
6. Nightcall by London Grammar. So lovely from 2013’s If You Wait. Co-written by a Daft Punk. Fact.
7. Like It Like That by A Tribe Called Quest.  Old skool hip hop from…checks notes…1998. How did that happen?
8. Don’t Listen To Linda by The Monkees. This was originally left off The Monkees’ second album, cleverly titled More of the Monkees. And with good reason.
9. The Last Of The Teenage Idols Parts 1,2 and 3 by The Sensational Alex Harvey Band. Last track of 1973’s classic Next. All killer, no filler.
10. Right Now by Stephen Stills. From Still’s 1972 double album masterpiece. Amazing.

That’s all, folks!

PS I think this is a belter of a shuffle.