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Antwon w/ Steel Tipped Dove – Lay With You
A love song. And a great sample of the Cocteau Twins’ Lorelei.
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Rose Tattoo – Rock ‘n’ Roll Outlaw
My mother had Rose Tattoo’s great 1978 debut LP when I was a kid. She was pretty cool, my mum. This is classic straight ahead, no holds barred, good time, ballsy and bluesy hard rock boogie. Great vocals, great slide … Continue reading
Angel Olsen – Some Things Cosmic
You don’t need anything fancy to accompany a voice like this.
Meat Puppets – Up On The Sun
At the time of this release in 1985 I was besotted with a whole clutch of American bands that made the British scene seem a little dull: Swans, Sonic Youth, Butthole Surfers, Minutemen, Big Black, The Replacements, Husker Du, REM … Continue reading
Nicolas Collins/Peter Cusack – Baby It’s You
This is what happens when you leave a couple of nine-year-olds alone with your tape player. Or, rather, a couple of avant-garde performance artists/composers. The great thing about this ‘cover’ of Baby It’s You is that it sounds completely artless … Continue reading
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Aaron Neville – My True Story
What do you do with a classic Doo-Wop song so great that attempting to reinterpret it, let alone improve upon it, would be an utterly foolish and futile thing to do? You sing it like Aaron Neville does.
Alvin Stardust – Jealous Mind
I was five in 1973. Which was lucky because British pop music at that time started to become fun again. This was partly achieved by it harking back to the simpler, golden age of rock ‘n’ roll. It helped, of … Continue reading
The Clique – Superman
The best-known version of this song is by REM. This, the original, is the best. There’s something really compelling – and really cool – about Superman. It sounds like the work of a genuine garage band. Thumpingly amateurish, the song … Continue reading
Paul Simon – Satin Summer Nights
With it being Valentine’s Day I thought I’d include a song about Salvador Agron, a 1950s Peurto Rican immigrant and New York gang member who, after murdering two innocent teenage boys, was sentenced to death at the age of 16 … Continue reading
Loudon Wainwright III – Motel Blues
I had this song on the New Age of Atlantic sampler LP when I was a kid. At that point it was one of the most emotional things I’d ever heard. Going through Wainwright’s back catalogue years later I was … Continue reading
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