278
Hi pop-pickers and welcome to the first music shuffle of the meteorological spring of 2025.
Yes, it’s time for my music device to choose 10 random songs from my collection. I’ll tell you what it has chosen and if you click on the title, you can listen and hopefully sing along.
I hope you find something you like.
- My Favourite Mistake by Sheryl Crow. Great joint from the divine Ms Crow’s 1998 LP The Globe Sessions.
- Lily by The Electric Soft Parade. Another band for whom I predicted great things and who subsequently never made it. A track from 2013’s excellent Idiots.
- Superstar by The Carpenters. Back to rock’s finest year, 1971, for a classic version of Leon Russell and Bonnie Bramlett’s lush tune. Karen had a truly great voice.
- Sealed With A Kiss by Brian Hyland. Back even further in time, 1960 to be precise. Poor Brian had to send his love a letter every day, sealed with a kiss. I’ll bet he wished emails had existed at the time.
- Wishing Well by Here We Go Magic. 34 seconds of this from 2015’s brilliant Be Small album.
- Stockholm by Jason Isbell. Late to the party as ever, I am now deeply in love with Jason Isbell’s Americana. This from 2013’s stellar Southeastern album.
- Getaway Car by Hall and Oates. 2003 for this lush blue-eyed soul from the Do It For Love LP.
- The Laughing Apple by Cat Stevens/Yusuf. Tea For The Tillerman it ain’t, but it’s a decent enough song, the title track of Cat’s 2017 LP.
- Cousin Dupree by Steely Dan. Welcome to 2000 and my favourite band’s eighth studio album, Two Against Nature. This is perfect.
- Love Letters by Nat King Cole. And finally, it’s 1957 and a truly wonderful version of a great song.
Sorry, Nat. Nice try right at the end but this week’s Desert Island Disc is Cousin Dupree by Steely Dan.
I enjoyed that. Hope you did. Have a good week till next week!
