A million raging ids

Apropos of the Facebook Album Cover Thingy, comes its bastardised cousin.

Hat tip to Will Rubbish.

Friday's Playlist #19

An ongoing series:

Aztec Camera, 'Spanish Horses' (Dreamland)

Judy Mowatt, 'She Kept On Talking' (Trojan Reggae Sisters)

AC Acoustics, '16.04.2010' (Peel Session)

U2 'Out of Control' (Boy)

Prefab Sprout, 'The Ice Maiden' (Jordan The Comeback)

The Sound, 'Winning' (From The Lions Mouth)

Al Green, 'L-O-V-E (Love)' (Al Green Is Love)

Manic Street Preachers, 'To Repel Ghosts' (Lifeblood)

The Upsetters, 'A Taste of Killings' (Trojan Skinhead Reggae)

Suicide, 'Ghost Rider' (Suicide - the first album)

Spotify Playlist Link. 

Sentimental Socialist

You know when you hear a song for the first time, and you instantly recognise that you are going to love that song for the rest of your life; none of that, three months down the line What the hell was I thinking? cascade of regrets (yes, Maximo Park, that barb is directed at you), but a song that you have to play again and again, and when you do stop listening to it, it's less a case of you edging yourself away from the tune in your head, stereo, iPod and Computer, and more a matter of life getting in the way.

That's how I'm feeling about the song '1985' right now. It was the opening track off of the Manic Street Preachers 2004 album, 'Lifeblood'. Christ, how did it take me three years to stumble across this song? I guess that must have been during my Delgados period - not period I regret, I hasten to add, btw - but the joy of stumbling across a track you absolutely adore is tinged with the bitter-sweet feeling that you missed out on the track first time round.

Kara is already sick of the song but, to borrow one of her own lines, I'm "Psyched. 17-year old style."

Friday's Playlist #12

An ongoing series:

Mission of Burma, 'Academy Fight Song' (Signals, Calls and Marches)

Manic Street Preachers, 'This is Yesterday' (The Holy Bible)

Mick Ronson, 'Only After Dark' (Slaughter On Tenth Avenue)

X, 'Johnny Hit And Run Pauline' (Los Angeles)

The Auteurs, 'Lights Out' (How I Learned To Love The Bootboys)

The Coup, 'Five Million Ways To Kill A CEO' (Party Music)

Melanie C, 'Goin Down' (Northern Star)

Westworld, 'Sonic Boom Boy' (Once Upon A Time)

Haircut 100, 'Fantastic Day' (Pelican West)

OMD, 'Souvenir' (Architecture & Morality)

Christ, I need to start listening to some new music.

UPDATE

On second thoughts, with choices 1 through 7 I was doing so well, as well.

A wee bit muso . . . a wee bit obscure. The recent announcement of the one-off reunion tour affording me the opportunity to splice in a solo song from the most talented Spice Girl to come off as oh so ironic (but secretly liking the song . . . the cynics can take a running jump off of Ger's old platform shoes). Throw in a bit of revolutionary hip hop from The Coup to impress any passing American student r-r-r-revolutionary politico who stumbles across the blog on their way to the next cute agit-prop event, but I fuck it all up by revealing my true colours in choices 8, 9 and 10: Laminated Smash Hits magazines parked neatly in the back of the wardrobe alongside my K-Tel compilation albums.

Update 11/12/ 22

There's a shock. Me moaning about listening to too much old music. I just couldn't accept that I was stuck musically in the 80s and always would be. The Coup still sounds brilliant, though.

Spotify Playlist Link.