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Afternoon all. It’s time for the weekly music shuffle. 10 tunes chosen at random by my device, from my *checks notes* sublime music collection.
And if that’s not exciting enough, if you click on the tune you can sing along.
Let’s rock!
- A Design For Life by Manic Street Preachers. Sheer brilliance all the way back to 1996 at a time when songwriters wrote meaningful lyrics.
- You Rock My World by Michael Jackson. Not Thriller, nor Bad, but this track from 2001’s Invincible is still brilliant.
- Get Out Of My House by The Streets. God God: this came from A Grand Don’t Come For Free which came out in…checks notes…2004. Wonderful.
- Secretary Song by The Go! Team. Why haven’t Brighton’s The Go! Team made it to the top? Beats me. Cracker from 2011’s Rolling Blackouts.
- Who Let You Go? by The Killers. An outtake from 2003’s Hot Fuss sessions, finally appearing on the Sawdust compilation from 2007. Smashing stuff.
- Black Friday by Steely Dan. Greatest band ever with a great track from 1975’s Katy Lied.
- I Can’t Get Next To You by The Temptations. Back to 1969 for a Motown classic. So many great singers in one band.
- If You Have Crying Eyes by JD Souther (with Linda Ronstadt). From his 1996 album Black Rose, this features the wonderful Linda Ronstadt.
- Subterranean Homesick Alien by Radiohead. From 1997, here’s a belter from the classic OK Computer.
- Darling by Girls. Jangly guitar rock from the jangly guitar California rock band Girls who were, in fact, boys.
You might expect me to be oh-so-predictable and choose the exciting number six song Black Friday by Steely Dan as my Desert Island Disc and you’d be right. But the Manics anthem for the resilience of the working class is not far behind. Libraries did indeed give us power.
That’s all, folks!
