The World According to Garp (1982)

 

Friday's Playlist #27.5

Update.

What was Friday's Playlist #27 is now Friday's Playlist #27.5. See the following link for why an added 0.5 was necessary. Scrub December 2007 and replace it with September 2011.

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Where was I? Oh yeah, December 2007. Back when people still had (and updated) blogs and when Elon Musk still had his original hairline. What was once an ongoing series . . . well, we will just see. 

One thing for certain, though: looking back at the old Friday Playlists just reminds me what a great resource MySpace was for discovering new music. Maybe if Twitter bites the dust, people will rediscover the joy of MySpace. Here's hoping . . . 

• Gene Loves Jezebel, 'Suspicion' (The House of Dolls)
• The Beatles, 'Doctor Robert' (Revolver)
• Amy Rigby, 'The Summer Of My Wasted Youth' (18 Again - An Anthology)
• Gil Scott- Heron, ' Lady Day and John Coltrane' (Pieces of a Man)
• Elbow, 'Scattered Black and Whites' (Asleep in the Back)
• Shelagh Mcdonald, 'Let No Man Steal Your Thyme' (Album)
• Paul McCartney, 'Jenny Wren' (Chaos and Creation in the Backyard)
• Los Lobos - 'Will the Wolf Survive?' (How Will the Wolf Survive?)
• Summer Fiction - 'She's Bound To Get Hurt' (Summer Fiction)
• Charlie Rich - 'The Most Beautiful' (Behind Closed Doors)

Spotify Playlist Link.

Love Me Do!: "Beatles" Progress by Michael Braun (Graymalkin Media 1964)

The New Statesman printed an article by Paul Johnson called ‘The Menace of Beatlism’. He wrote that: ‘Bewildered by a rapidly changing society, excessively fearful of becoming out of date, our leaders are increasingly turning to young people as guides and mentors – or, to vary the metaphor, as geiger-counters to guide them against the perils of mental obsolescence.’ During the following week the paper received nearly 250 letters about the article. The correspondents were three to one against Mr Johnson, and one reader suggested he try monkey glands.

A Hard Day's Night (1964)

'As double albums goes, it has the making of a half-decent EP'

I'm paraphrasing, of course . . . but not by much.

Via yesterday's New York Times, a reprint of a very youthful Nik Cohn's original scathing review of The Beatles 'White Album'.

Released the same week as The Rolling Stones's 'Beggars Banquet', Cohn found it thin and wanting by comparison.

They Blog, So I Don't Have To

MIXING POP & POLITICS (I)

Via Leftpost blog comes the intriguing news that The Beatles recorded a track as long ago as 1962 in support of Tommy Sheridan. On reflection, it does makes sense and not just because of Lennon's protest music in the early seventies. Hamburg and Manchester should have been twinned if the film, Backbeat, has any veracity to it.

UPDATE

No truth in the rumour that Tommy's partner, Gail, is returning the compliment with a cover version of 'Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey'.

Friday's Playlist #17

An ongoing series:

The Associates, 'Gloomy Sunday' (Sulk)

Cilla Black, 'It's For You' (The Best of Cilla Black)

Pete Shelley, 'Qu'est-Ce Que C'est Que Ca' (Homosapien)

Paul Haig, 'Heaven Help You Now' (The Warp of Pure Fun)

Bethnal, 'Nothing New' (Crash Landing)

A House, 'More Endless Art'

Madness, 'NW5 (I Would Give U Everything)'

S Club, 'Love Aint Gonna Wait For You'

The 1990s, 'Pollockshields' (Cookies)

Simple Minds, 'Film Theme Dub' (Flexi Disc)