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With but a couple of days left of summer – and gazing from my Man Cave, it looks like anything but summer outside – it’s time to settle down and set my music machine free to play 10 songs from my collection. Then, I tell you what they were. Simple? Yes, that’s me.
Let’s rock!
- 4 + 20 by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. From their 1970 album Deja Vu, this is just Stephen Stills and his guitar. And it’s lovely.
- Girl In The Fire by Pendulum. Quality Drum and Bass from the Aussies’ 2005 debut long player Hold Your Colour.
- She by the Monkees. No less than three Monkees sing on this track, Micky Dolenz on lead, from 1966’s More of the Monkees – Mike Nesmith is the absentee – but not one of them play on it! Cracking tune, though.
- C’mon Girl by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. This comes from the excellent Stadium Arcadium LP of 2006.
- Heroin Again by the Drive-By Truckers. Staggeringly good even by their standards, from the 2020 album The Unraveling.
- Torture Me by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. This also comes from Stadium Arcadium and it’s great.
- Tonight by Shirley Bassey. The Queen of Tiger Bay with a brilliant cover of the West SIde Story classic.
- Show You The Way by Thundercat feat. Flying Lotus, Michael McDonald and Kenny Loggins. Outstanding modern day R&B, featuring the greatest blue eye of them all, Michael McDonald. Thundercat’s 2017 album Drunk is wonderful.
- After Hours by A Tribe Called Quest. Simply astonishing that People’s Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm was released 30 years ago. No better hip hop album has ever been made.
- Good Captain Clack by Procul Harum. Not exactly A Whiter Shade of Pale – in fact, this sounds more like a tune you’d hear at a fairground – but Gary Brooker is some singer.
That’s all, folks!
