Playlist for 2013 - Part 1

It seems that entertainment programs (such as Spotify, the last time I looked) and hardware (MP3 players) all include the facility to create playlists of your favourite music. Usually, I can’t be bothered; I just take pot luck at whatever turns up next. However, what if I had to form a favourites list … what would I include? So I’ve decided to create my own playlist for 2013, choosing one track per day, everyday. That means, by the end of the year I will have picked 365 songs. I am posting these daily on my Facebook page with links to YouTube videos. The tracks are in no particular order – just as the fancy takes me.

I decided to follow a few simple rules:

[a] All must be music I can listen to over and over again without becoming bored with it. In other words, all would be five-star tracks.

[b] I may pick only one track per band or performer. This ‘rule’ will be relatively easy to obey for the first few months. But if it becomes more difficult to select five-star songs I may relent and re-use favourite performers.

Anyway, for the record, here are the first 31 tracks, selected during January.

1          Fleetwood Mac – Oh Well

2          Black Sabbath – Paranoid

3          Capt Beefheart – Autumn's Child

4          Jethro Tull – A Song for Jeffrey

5          Inspiral Carpets – Beast Inside

6          Melanie – Leftover Wine

7          Animals – When I was Young

8          Finbar & Eddie Furey – Her Father Didn't Like Me, Anyway

9          Jefferson Airplane – Lather

10        Nirvana – Rainbow Chaser

11        Jake Bugg – Lightning Bolt

12        Velvet Underground – Venus in Furs

13        Lightning Hopkins – You're Gonna Miss Me...

14        Only Ones – Another Girl, Another Planet

15        Ronnie Lane – How Come

16        Psychedelic Furs – Flowers

17        Ed Banger – Kinnel Tommy

18        Snow Patrol – Run

19        Tom Lewis – Fairwinds

20        Gallon Drunk – In the Long Still Night

21        Wedding Present – Brassneck

22        Cerys Matthews – Oxygen

23        Manfred Mann – I Got My Mojo Working

24        Canned Heat – On the Road Again

25        Grant Lee Buffalo – Teardrop and Jupiter

26        Siouxsie & The Banshees – Helter Skelter

27        Ike & Tina Turner – River Deep, Mountain High

28        Sparklehorse – Beautiful Widow

29        Kristin Hersh – Listerine

30        Joe Cocker and the Grease Band – With a Little Help From my Friends

31        Richard & Linda Thompson – Shoot out the Lights