Richard X – A History of Dubious Taste

Friday Night Music Club

I’m not sure how we got here, but get we here we did.

It’s Friday! And that can mean only one thing: fish and chip supper!

Okay, let’s try that again.

It’s Friday! And that means it’s time for the latest chunk of reconstituted tuneage that is Vol 4.2 of the Friday Night Music Club!

As with last week’s instalment, this is the mammoth Vol 4 broken down into easy-to-swallow, hour long pieces, only with the running order tweaked – some songs added, some taken away, some just moved – from when the long mix made its appearance here back in April 2021, albeit via a link to Soundcloud.

You know the drill by now: any skips or jumps are down to the mixing software; any mis-timed mixes are down to me; all record selections are, of course, mine.

Oh, and a cursory look down the track-listing will tell you that this one needs one of these slapped on it:

OK, ready? Let’s get going then:

Friday Night Music Club Vol 4.2

Track-listing:

Alex Gaudino feat. Crystal Waters – Destination Unknown
Fedde Le Grande feat. Ida Corr – Let Me Think About It
Richard X Feat. Kelis – Finest Dreams
Shakedown – At Night
X-Press 2 feat. David Byrne – Lazy
Layo & Bushwacka! – Love Story
Devo – Whip It
Pete Shelley – Homosapien
Working Men’s Club – John Cooper Clarke
John Cooper Clarke – Twat
The Slits – I Heard It Through The Grapevine
Delta 5 – Mind Your Own Business
Clor – Love+Pain
Elastica – Never Here
Blur – M.O.R. (Road Version)
Denim – Middle of the Road

More soon.

Late Night Stargazing

We’re not yet at 2016 proportions – maybe the coronavirus will push numbers up a bit – but I was sad to read of another musician passing away earlier this week.

The focus on Mazzy Star is often lead singer Hope Sandoval, and her gorgeous, laconic drawl, rather than the rest of the band.

But David Roback, co-founder of the band who passed away on Tuesday, wrote and produced most of their most beautifully bewitching songs.

Celebrity tributes were lead by ex-Bangle Susannah Hoffs, who used to be in a band with Roback, Unconscious, before either of them had a sniff of success. (Imagine knowing Hoffs and Sandoval? Jeez, I think I’d just melt). Anyway, Hoffs posted that Roback would be “eternally missed”, which, whilst I’m sure is entirely sincere, has the teensiest whiff of a comment she had lined up ready to go for a while.

Steve Wynn of The Dream Syndicate, J Mascis of Dinosuar Jr, and Andy Bell of ~~Erasure~~ Ride and Oasis joined in, with Alexis Krauss of Sleigh Bellsadding: “I don’t know what I would do without Fade Into You.”

Me neither, Alexis. Me neither.

Mazzy Star – Fade Into You

And as a special treat, a song from an album of absolute pop bangers, this one relying heavily on Fade Into You, from title to musical track to the occasional Sandoval vocal snippet: