The Friday Music Shuffle (25.11.22)

Greetings, pop-pickers! It’s time for the weekly music shuffle, where my music machine chooses 10 random tunes from my collection and I tell you what the tunes are. But the fun doesn’t stop there. If you want to sing along, then why not click on the song-title?

Without further ado, let’s rock!

1. Sound Your Funky Horn by K.C And The Sunshine Band. A belter from Mr Casey, taking us back to 1974.
2. Going Up The Country by Canned Heat. And even further back with this one, to 1968. Tune, mind.
3. Portra 400 by Arlo Parks. Lovely, from Arlo’s 2021 debut record Collapsed in Sunbeams.
4. The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight by R.E.M. Automatic For The People came out, incredibly, in 1992. The music still stands up today as it did 30 – 30! – years ago.
5. Babs and Babs by Daryl Hall. Produced by King Crimson axeman Robert Fripp, this is from Daryl’s 1980 long player Sacred Songs.
6. A Good Day by Timothy B Schmit. From 2008’s Expando record, there’s more than a trace of Dylan’s You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere in this one from the Eagles man.
7. The Journey by Boston. From 1978’s Don’t Look Back album, this is a nice little instrumental.
8. Dream On by Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds. I prefer almost all of Noel’s solo work to his Oasis stuff. The tunes are better but the lyrics are still gobbledegook.
9. Let Me Down Easy by Blackberry Smoke feat. Amanda Shires. Some lush countryfied music and a lovely video, especially if you are a sexist old pig who finds Ms Shires very easy on the eye, as I do.
10. Virtual World by The Rides. Brilliant from Stephen Stills’ supergroup, from 2016’s Pierced Arrow.

Well, I enjoyed that. My Desert Island Disc this week is the exciting number 10 song, Virtual World by The Rides.

That’s all, folks!