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Hi pop pickers and welcome to this week’s music shuffle.
You know the score by now. My music device chooses ten random songs from my collection and I tell you what it’s chosen. And the ‘fun’ part is that if you click on the title you can literally listen to the song and hopefully sing along.
I hope you find something you like.
- She Just Wants To Be by R.E.M. From 2001’s seriously underrated Reveal LP. How I miss this band.
- Revolution 9 by The Beatles. Over eight minutes of what is called a Sound Collage from 1968’s White album. You either like this or you don’t. I’m in the former category.
- Take Me There by Poolside. I read that this is ‘groovy daytime disco’. Whatever it is, I love it. From 2012’s Pacific Standard Time.
- Happiness Stan by the Small Faces. Back to 1968 and a joint from Ogden’s Nut Gone Flake. Perhaps not the best example of it, but I think Steve Marriott was one of the great British rock singers.
- Spooky Boogie by Gentle Giant. And here we are in 1978 for some classic prog from the excellent Giant For A Day LP.
- Everybody Dance by Chic. If you don’t like this, you are dead.
- Riverfest by Nérija. Their 2019 LP Blume was excellent. If you like this track, you’ll love the album.
- Stairway To Heaven (Live) by Led Zeppelin. This is from the 2006 live album The Song Remains The Same. By some distance my least favourite Zeppelin song, but I feel this live version is better than the original by a country mile.
- Mack The Knife by Frank Sinatra. Well, it’s fantastic. And what a band.
- You Can’t Do That by The Beatles. And it just gets better, with this classic from A Hard Day’s Night, which was released in 1964.
For this week’s exciting Desert Island Disc, I had to wait for the last track and You Can’t Do That by The Beatles.
Hope you enjoyed that.
Have a good week ’til next week.
