Friday's Playlist #26

An ongoing series:

(59) Soft Cell, 'What?' (Non-stop Ecstatic Dancing)

(34) Duran Duran, 'Save A Prayer' (Rio)

(22) Depeche Mode, 'Leave In Silence' (A Broken Frame)

(21) Ultravox, 'Reap The Wild Wind' (Quartet)

(17) ABC, 'All Of My Heart' (Lexicon Of Love)

(16) Simple Minds, 'Glittering Prize' (New Gold Dream, 81,82,83,84)

(13) Carly Simon, 'Why'

(8) Mari Wilson, 'Just What I Always Wanted' (Show People)

(7) Evelyn Champagne King, ''Love Come Down' (Get Loose)

(6) Shalamar, 'There It Is' (Friends)

I wasn't going to do a playlist this week. Too much listening to Fad Gadget, Diesel Park West and Billy Childish adds up to a limited choice for a playlist, but what with Steve Coleman's 10/10/82 talk falling into my lap late last night, I thought I would conjure up a playlist from the charts from that particular week.

I can't say with any authority that SPGB members back in '82 were listening to the songs selected, but I know that I was.

If you fiddle about with the boombox at the top of the post, you can listen to them today. Cheers.

Spotify Playlist Link.

Friday's Playlist #25

An ongoing series:

Hub Moore and the Great Outdoors, 'Walk Away' (True Fiction Pictures: Music From The Films Of Hal Hartley)

Norman Blake and John Burnside, 'Girl' (Ballads of the Book)

The Detroit Cobras, 'Slipping Around' (Baby)

The Waterboys, 'This Is The Sea' (This Is The Sea)

King Creosote, 'Cowardly Custard' (Bombshell)

Gene Clark, 'For A Spanish Guitar' (White Light)

The Headboys, 'The Shape Of Things To Come' (The Headboys)

The Bluebells, 'The Patriot Game' (Sisters)

MGMT, ''Time To Pretend' (Oracular Spectacular)

Alan Gill, 'Letter To Brezhnev Theme' (Letter To Brezhnev Soundtrack)

Spotify Playlist Link. 

National Irn Bru Day

Always pissed me off that I never got around to voting in the Great Jock 'N' Roll top Scottish singles poll. Not sure if I heard about the poll too late or it was simply the case that I placed a post in draft with the intention of coming back to it at a later date. (It'll be the latter . . . I currently have 95 posts in draft.)

No worries. My all time favourite single by a Scottish group or artist won regardless, and I can now kill two birds with one tattie scone by marking National Irn Bru Day with the listing of my all time top ten favourite singles by Scottish 'artistes' in the new fangled music player gizmo.

Point of Information - don't read too much into the tracklisting. It's neither 10 thru' 1 nor 1 thru' 10. 'Party Fears Two' is the best song bar none; the rest can fight it out amongst themselves.

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Friday's Playlist #24.5 (Mini Playlist)

Apparently, if you hit play on the cassette you can hear a few of the tracks from this week's playlist. By accident, the tracks selected seem to have a sixties theme. That just happens to be the sort of music that I've been listening to this week.

And hat tip to Mine For Life for the heads up on setting up a mini playlist for the Friday Playlist. (Nice selection of eighties tracks, btw.)

With this new toy, I suspect that I will be revisiting some old playlists.