Annie – A History of Dubious Taste

Friday Night Music Club

Right. Time for an explanation.

Tonight’s mix is not the one I had planned to post.

The one I had prepared was a little too upbeat for such a momentous weekend; whilst I personally won’t be joining in the nation’s mouring, I didn’t want to disrespect those that are.

And so I decided to create a mix “on the fly”; I decided what the first and last track would be, and then started recording as I journeyed from one to the other.

I tell you this instead of offering sleeve notes, as there will doubtless be those who think some of my selections are….disrespectful. That wasn’t the intention. The intention was simply to pick tunes which sounded good next to each other – any which may seem to have been chosen as some sort of comment on any recent high profile passings are entirely coincidental.

Honest.

So let’s crack on, shall we?

(By the way, because this mix is just shy of 2 hours, Google Drive can’t cope and won’t let me upload it, so the link below takes you to my old Soundcloud account. Hope it works ok!)

Friday Night Music Club Vol 18

Beastie Boys featuring Miho Hatori – Start
Cilla Black – Something Tells Me (Something’s Gonna Happen Tonight)
Luther Vandross – Never Too Much
Womack & Womack – Teardrops
Gary Byrd & The G.B. Experience – The Crown
Catatonia – Karaoke Queen
Marilyn Monroe – Diamonds Are A Girl’s Best Friend
Madonna – Material Girl
Annie – I Know UR Girlfriend Hates Me
Avril Lavigne – Girlfriend
The B-52’s – Wig
David Bowie – Queen Bitch
Carole King – I Feel The Earth Move
Eddy Arnold – I’m Throwing Rice (At The Girl I Love)
Half Man Half Biscuit – Paintballs Coming Home (Andy Kershaw Session)
The Ukrainians – Koroleva Ne Polerma
Status Quo – Gentleman Joe’s Sidewalk Cafe
Beyond the Wizard’s Sleeve – Midas Reversed
Barry Adamson – Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Pelvis
Pulp – Mis-Shapes
China Crisis – King in a Catholic Style
Doves – Kingdom of Rust
Black Grape – Tramazi Parti
Beck – E-Pro
Nirvana – Lithium
PJ Harvey – 50ft Queenie
Pixies – Planet of Sound
Supergrass – Richard III
Gene – We Could Be Kings (Single Edit)
The Teardrop Explodes – Treason
The Stranglers – Everybody Loves You When You’re Dead
? & The Mysterians – 96 Tears
Inspiral Carpets – Dragging Me Down
The Jam – Town Called Malice

That should keep you occupied for a while.

More soon.

This Is Pop! #13

Been meaning to post these tunes for a while, and recently I was given an excuse to do so.

On my birthday weekend, Hel had lovingly compiled a playlist of songs that she knew I loved, or which reminded her of me, or more specifically, reminded her of me making an arse of myself to.

Sometime after we were done with trying to explaining to our puzzled friends quite why we both love Bardo’s One Step Further, a tune by today’s popster popped up, and I was suitably impressed that she had remembered how much I like this artiste.

I first heard about her (the artiste, not Hel) via those age-old pages of the NME, back in the days before it went tabloid, and then free-hand out, and then digital only.

Specifically, I was sitting at a train station, reading said music paper, on my way up from Cardiff to visit some friends who lived in the sleepy but cheesy outpost that was Caerphilly.

And there, amongst all the emo-centric rhetoric was an article about a Norwegian singer who has released this incredible – they said (they were right) – album called Anniemal.

I was immediately intrigued, sought the album out and, it will come to no surprise to you since I’m writing about it, I bloody loved it.

Here’s the song Hel chose for the playlist:

Annie – Chewing Gum

I was rather surpised by this choice for the playlist, partly because I didn’t think Hel would remember my love for this Nordic popstrelle, but also because (without wishing to sound ungrateful for a truly wonderful trip down memory lane) if she was going to pick one tune by Annie – and Hel understands the rule of “only one song by each artist” on a playlist more than anyone I know – I would have assumed it would be this one: