Question: what’s better than a weekend?
Answer: a weekend that has a Bank Holiday Monday right after it.
Question: what’s better than a weekend that has a Bank Holiday Monday right after it?
Answer: a weekend that has a Bank Holiday Monday right after it, where I’m going to see The Wedding Present play live at the start of it.
Well, whaddya know, that’s what we have here, for as this is getting published, I’ll be singing along with Gedge and the gang, with my old mate Richie by my side.
So, I’ll keep things brief: this week’s mix contains some Britpop-era belters, some super 60s songs, a particularly fine mash-up (and regular readers will recall I’m not generally a fan of the genre), a Morrissey song performed in the best way a Morrissey song can be performed (that is: not by Morrissey, but in a foreign language (to me) with a mariachi band parping along behind it), one of the finest guitar riffs in the last *checks notes* twenty-five years (blimey, I feel old), a guitar cover of a dance tune from 2002 which is perhaps most *ahem* fondly remembered for having a video featured a bevy of scantily-clad ladies using power tools, before, in case you were wondering why Dancing Darth has made a reappearance at the top of this post, we wrap things up with a couple of space-related tunes, given that tomorrow (May 4th) is Star Wars Day (as in “May the 4th be with you”, but you knew that, right?).
Oh, and that dance tune cover contains a bit of what Simon Bates, whilst pervily licking his lips, used to refer to as “sexual swear words” as he killed the vibe/heightened the excitement (delete as applicable) at the start of movies released on video in the 80s, so we’d better get the old Effin’ & Jeffin’ warning out again:
Yup. That’s me keeping things brief.
Ready?
Let’s go.
Friday Night Music Club Vol 57
- The Bluetones – Keep The Home Fires Burning
- Ocean Colour Scene – The Day We Caught The Train
- Supergrass – I’d Like To Know
- Gay Dad – To Earth With Love
- The Wedding Present – Brassneck [Single Version]
- British Sea Power – Remember Me
- Mexrrissey – El Primero del Gang
- Jefferson Airplane – Somebody to Love
- Cream – White Room
- Go Home Productions – Work It Out With A Foxy Lady
- Who Made Who – Satisfaction
- The Umlauts – Dance & Go
- The Wiseguys – Ooh La La
- Laidback – International
- The Prodigy – Out Of Space
- Neon Neon – I Told Her On Alderaan
More soon.
A History of Dubious Taste 