Wednesday, May 13, 2020

Songs About People # 1,124 William Wordsworth

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Just discovered a wonderful 1986 album from retro-Sixties Irish American band The Steppes. It's called Drop of the Creature and I...

Goofy Greats # 12 Bobby Day

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Tim Burgess: Vinyl Adventures From Istanbul to San Francisco: # 32 Loudon Wainwright III - Album III - Recommended by Sharon Horgan

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Song(s) of the Day # 2,303 Virginia Trance

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What's their name. Virginia Trance. What do they sound like. They sound very much like The Velvet Underground chanelled through the...
Tuesday, May 12, 2020

Songs About People # 1,123 Leonora Carrington

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Slightly flatly rendered tribute to Britain's great lost Surrealist.

Goofy Greats # 11 Hot Shots

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Tim Burgess: Vinyl Adventures From Istanbul to San Francisco: # 31 Barry Ryan - The Very Best of Barry Ryan - Recommended by Neil Tennant

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Song of the Day # 2,302 Third Power

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Goofy Greats # 10 1910 Fruitgum Company

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Tim Burgess: Vinyl Adventures From Istanbul to San Francisco: # 30 Pink Floyd - Relics - Recommended by Noel Fielding

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Song(s) of the Day # 2,301 Hala

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Missed a day...  To describe Detroit singer-songwriter Ian Ruhala's new album Red Herring, just out, as Power Pop would probably ...
Sunday, May 10, 2020

Songs About People # 1,122 Italo Calvino

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One for the great Italian, journalist, author and thinker.

Songs Heard on the Radio # 369 Avi Buffalo

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Switch on the radio halfway through this and had to stop in my tracks and listen to it. I know nothing about Avi Buffalo. But this is w...

Goofy Greats # 9 The Trashmen

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Tim Burgess: Vinyl Adventures From Istanbul to San Francisco: # 29 Tomita - Snowfalkes Are Dancing - Recommended by Edwyn Collins

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Song(s) of the Day # 2,300 I Break Horses

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It's some statement to start your album with a nine minute track. It says something about your degree of confidence and faith in yo...
Saturday, May 9, 2020

Little Richard 1932 - 2020

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Songs About People # 1,121 Karl Malden

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Rather funky thing for large nosed Streets of San Francisco and Film Star man.

Elliott Smith

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Lewsberg - In This House

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The second sophomore record I'm writing about today is also the second to take its lead from the glorious template laid down all th...

Goofy Greats # 8 Joe Jones

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Tim Burgess: Vinyl Adventures From Istanbul to San Francisco: # 28 Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine - Recommended by Carl Barat

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Song(s) of the Day # 2,299 Melenas

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Pamplona quartet Melanas' seconmd album Dias Raros is a welcome splash of Indie colour and vibrancy as we head into the second phas...
Friday, May 8, 2020

Songs About People # 1,120 Joaquin Phoenix

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One for one of our most notable, contemporary Hollywood actors.

Goofy Greats # 7 Curtis Lee

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Tim Burgess: Vinyl Adventures From Istanbul to San Francisco: # 27 Pearls Before Swine - One Nation Underground, Junior Wells - Hoodoo Man Blues, White Zombie - Soul Crusher

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Song(s) of the Day # 2,298 Caleb Landry Jones

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From the opening chords of Caleb Landry Jones' just released debut  The Mother Stone, you know that you're not in the company of ...
Thursday, May 7, 2020

Goofy Greats # 6 Judge Dread

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Tim Burgess: Vinyl Adventures From Istanbul to San Francisco: # 26 Lou Christie Sacco - Paint America Love

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Song(s) of the Day # 2,297 Devon Williams

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In terms of hitting an immediate bullseye, Devon Williams had managed this remarkable feat in terms of my affections within five minute...
Wednesday, May 6, 2020

Florian Schneider 1947 - 2020

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Goofy Greats # 5 Jewel Akins

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Tim Burgess: Vinyl Adventures From Istanbul to San Francisco: # 25 Bruce Springsteen - Born In The USA - Recommended by Gary Neville

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Song of the Day # 2,296 Cymande

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Tuesday, May 5, 2020

Goofy Greats # 4 The Troggs

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Tim Burgess: Vinyl Adventures From Istanbul to San Francisco: # 24 Husker Du - Metal Circus - Recommended by Chan Marshall

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Song of the Day # 2,295 Alabama Shakes

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It seems belately I might be coming round to Alabama Shakes, who I've always been resistant to previously for some reason. Heard th...
Monday, May 4, 2020

Roxy Music

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Songs Heard on the Radio # 368 Midlake

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Dave Greenfield 1949 - 2020

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Songs About People # 1,119 Jorge Amado

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Celebratory song for the late Brazilain Modernist Author.

Goofy Greats # 3 Johnny Thunder

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Tim Burgess: Vinyl Adventures From Istanbul to San Francisco: # 23 The Shadows - The Very Best of The Shadows - Recpmmended by Paul Cook

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This may not be exactly the Greatest Hits referenced above. But it is The Shadows Greatest Hits that I remember from my youth. It's...

Song of the Day # 2,294 Rita Pavone

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Re-watched the great Argentian Thriller Nine Queens yesterday. This song, by Italian legend Rita Pavone is referenced throughout the fi...
Sunday, May 3, 2020

Songs Heard on the Radio # 368 Nenah Cherry

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Nenah. Early Sunday morning.

Goofy Greats # 2 Hollywood Argyles

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Tim Burgess: Vinyl Adventures From Istanbul to San Francisco: # 22 King Curis - Live At Fillmore West - Recommended by Bill Bailey

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Song(s) of the Day # 2,293 Jon McKiel

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Given that CoVid 19 seems to have had an impact on notable new record releases, just as it has on virtually every other aspect of our l...
Saturday, May 2, 2020

Kurt Cobain, Eugene Kelly & Norman Blake

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Songs About People # 1,118 Stephen Pastel

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One for one of the Glasgow Independent greats. Very much within his tradition.