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.

Maybe I'm amazed . . .

Second 180 in three days. I'm on schedule to be a wild card entry to the 2023 Indianapolis Darts Pub League. 

The Next 30 Day Song Challenge - day 06

Day 06 - A song that you didn't initially realise was a cover version

I'm cheating on this because I originally discovered Sloan's cover of Paul McCartney's 'Waterfalls' via a music blog's compilation of covers. Maybe this day's 'Next Day Song Challenge' should be retitled 'A song that you didn't initially realise was the last great song written by Paul McCartney'.


Sloan's great version of a great song:




And McCartney's wonderful original:

Pete and the Dud

Of course he wrote 'Michelle'. It was the only bum note on what is, otherwise, my favourite Beatles album. Paul McCartney and Pete Doherty take time out from the tabloid life to stroke each other in this month's Observer Music Monthly.

And naturally they have things in common: the Barat/Lennon comparisons and trade offs; both being seen as the well dressed good-looking sensitive ones who the fans wanted to take home to meet their mums; Doherty born in '79, Macca dying in '79.

It all adds up to a bit of journalistic fluff, but I did like McCartney's anecdote about meeting Penny Rimbaud at the height of punk in the seventies, and fingers crossed that the late Linda McCartney's reported love for The Smiths didn't begin and end with 'Meat is Murder'.

I'm not sure that these type of music magazine blind dates ever work. Wasn't there that case of the NME covering Paul Weller meeting Pete Townsend at the height of The Jam's fame? I seem to remember reading - maybe in The Beat Concerto? - that they hated each other on sight. But that was nothing in comparison to that time at the height of mullets and militancy on Merseyside that the now sadly defunct Record Mirror covered The Redskins meeting Derek Hatton within its pages.

Sure the pictures of the meeting looked cheery enough, but the gossip is that afterwards it took seven copies of the Militant International Review to mop up the spilled egos. Any advancement for a unified vanguardist left at that time = via the SWP's recent Open Letter to the Militant Tendency - was squandered over an argument as trivial as who played bass on the originally recording of Wilson Pickett's "Ninety Nine and a Half (Won't Do)".

Damn those petit-bourgeois Bolshevik-Centrist-liquidationist types . . . those completely demoralized elements, wearing button down Ben Sherman shirts, sporty number one haircuts and knocked off shiny Pierre Cardin suits.