Long time readers may recall that when I first started preparing and posting these mixes, they were considerably longer than the round-about-an-hour ones I do now.
The change to shorter mixes came about after Swiss Adam of Bagging Area fame diplomatically suggested the mixes were too long, people don’t have time to engage for five or six hours at a time, and I think he was absolutely spot-on.
So, you’ll recall I revisited the previous mixes split them down and spiced them up a bit, making them shorter and closer to the requisite 60 minute mark. The only exception was Volume 3, which was posted on Christmas Day 2020, the covid Christmas that never was; I resolutely refused to include any Christmas songs at all in it, hence it being titled “Friday Night No Christmas Music Club”. I’ve never returned to split this one down, as it doesn’t really represent where we are today. Also, I don’t think any of us, particularly those who lost loved ones due to covid, want to be reminded of those days. I’ll never revisit that one, and have deleted the mix from my hard drive so that I can’t. In fact, unless anyone downloaded it from Soundcloud, it doesn’t exist anymore.
Anyway, whilst I was on hiatus, I was tidying up my iTunes and realised that I hadn’t revisted and broken down Vol 5. And so that’s what I’ll be posting for the next four weeks: Vol 5 split into 4 hour-long mixes, the running orders tweaked, some tunes dropped, and a whole load more added to make each one into a round-a-bout 60 minute mix.
So, this time around, 15 songs, one cover version, it’s a little bit 80s, a little bit rock, a little bit 90s and – brace yourself – at least three that were released after the year 2000.
Strap yourselves in for another trip down memory lane, and off we go:
Friday Night Music Club Vol 5.1
Here’s the tracklisting (which I didn’t include first time around) and, if I can think of anything interesting or amusing to say about them between now (Monday) and Friday, sleevenotes too:
- R.E.M. – Daysleeper
- David Bowie – Oh! You Pretty Things
- Johnny Cash – The Man Comes Around
- Madonna – Like A Prayer (Remix)
- Beats International – Dub Be Good To Me
- Chaka Khan – I Feel For You
- Black Grape – Reverend Black Grape
- The Chemical Brothers – The Darkness That You Fear
- The Darkness – One Way Ticket
- AC/DC – It’ s A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock’ N’ Roll)
- Kiss – I Was Made for Lovin’ You
- Puffy AmiYumi – Call Me What You Like
- Ash – Does Your Mother Know?
- The Vaccines – If You Wanna
- Arctic Monkeys – Teddy Picker
(Nope. Couldn’t think of anything interesting or amusing. Yellow cards to anyone who makes any “nothing new there” type comments.)
More soon.
A History of Dubious Taste 