Playlist for 2013 -- Part 5

May's tracks:

121      Cat Power – Salty Dog

122      Who – My Generation

123      Loudon Wainwright III – Glad to See You've Got Religion

124      Forest – A Glade Somewhere

125      Walkabouts – The Light Will Stay On

126      Pixies – Monkey Gone to Heaven

127      Kirsty MacColl – There's a Guy Works Down the Fishshop...

128      Vapours – Turning Japenese

129      Pink Floyd – Astonony Domine

130      Thin Lizzy – Roisin Dubh (Black Rose)

131      Fisher Z – Pretty Paracetamol

132      Motorhead – Ace of Spades (acoustic)

133      Girls – Vomit

134      Creedence Clearwater Revival – Ramble Tamble

135      Beatles – Strawberry Fields Forever

136      SAHB – Gambling Bar Room Blues

137      Cream – White Room

138      Joni Mitchell – Big Yellow Taxi

139      Supergrass – Caught by the Fuzz

140      Kaiser Chiefs – I Predict a Riot

141      Doors – People Are Strange

142      Sparks – Amateur Hour

143      Joy Division – Transmission

144      dEUS – For the Roses

145      Fall – How I Wrote Elastic Man

146      Dr Feelgood – Roxette

147      Faces – That's All You Need

148      Loving Spoonful – Younger Generation

149      Arlo Guthrie – Alice's Restaurant

150      Seeds – Can't Seem to Make You Mine

151      Ralph McTell – Streets of London

Playlist for 2013 -- part 4

Here are my selected tracks for April:

91        Who - Won't Get Fooled Again

92        Donovan - Universal Soldier

93        Tindersticks - Drunk Tank

94        Radiohead - Creep

95        Barry McGuire - Eve of Destruction

96        Buzzcocks - Ever Fallen in Love

97        Luxuria - Redneck

98        Love Sculpture - Sabre Dance

99        Camper Van Beethoven - Take the Skinheads Bowling

100      Decemberists - The Mariner's Revenge

101      Undertones - Teenage Kicks

102      VCs - Residual Energy of the Broken Hearted

103      Locomotive - Mr Armageddon

104      Ten Benson - The Claw

105      Specials - Gangsters

106      Members - Flying Again

107      Robert Wyatt - Ship Building

108      Drugstore - The Funereal

109      Hawkwind - Silver Machine

110      Free - Mr Big

111      Family - Weaver's Answer

112      Comsat Angels - Total War

113      Richie Havens - Here Comes the Sun

114      Leyton Buzzards - Saturday Night under the Plastic Palm Trees

115      Hazel O'Connor - Will You?

116      Procol Harum - A Salty Dog

117      Simon Dupree & the Big Sound - Kites

118      T Rex - Elemental Child

119      Echo & The Bunnymen - All My Colours (Zimbo)

120      Cure - Primary

Playlist for 2013 -- part 3

Here are the tracks selected for March.

60        Thalia Zedek – Dance Me to the End of Love

61        Moriaty – Jimmy

62        Magazine – Shot by Both Sides

63        Band – Long Black Veil

64        David Bowie – Five Years

65        Smashing Pumpkins – Disarm

66        New York Dolls – Personality Crisis

67        Can – Yoo Doo Right

68        Rich Kids – Ghosts of Princes in Towers

69        Television – Marquee Moon

70        John Lennon – Gimme Some Truth

71        Ministry – Jesus Built My Hotrod

72        Steeleye Span – Rave On

73        Cranberries – Zombie

74        Easybeast – Friday on My Mind

75        David McWilliams – Days of Pearly Spencer

76        Ice T – The Tower

77        Nirvana – Penny Royal Tea

78        Placebo – Pure Morning

79        Robyn Hitchcock – Trash

80        Jimi Hendrix – Voodoo Chile

81        Roxy Music – Mother of Pearl

82        Crocodiles – Jet Boy, Jet Girl

83        Gang of Four – At Home He's a Tourist

84        Byrds – Ballard of Easyrider

85        Pretty Things – Good Mr Square/She Was Tall

86        Sonic Youth – Sugar Kane

87        Cracker – Big Dipper

88        Libertines – The Man Who Would be King

89        Rasputina – Bad Moon Rising

90        Yardbirds – Shapes of Things

Playlist for 2013 - Part 2

In an earlier post I listed the first 31 tracks on my 2013 playlist. Here are numbers 32 to 59 – in other words, February’s five–star songs.

32    Rheostatics – Legal Age Life at the Variety Store

33    Special Needs – Francesca

34    Theatre of Hate – Do You Believe in the Westworld?

35    Quatermass – Black Sheep of the Family

36    Belle & Sebastian – The Boy with the Arab Strap

37    Ultravox – Vienna

38    Two Gallant – Las Cruces Jail

39    Hapshash and the Coloured Coat – The Wall

40    Python Lee Jackson – In a Broken Dream

41    Small Faces – Lazy Sunday

42    Mumford & Sons – Little Lion Man

43    Saints – This Perfect Day

44    Tim Rose – Morning Dew

45    Neil Young – Like a Hurricane

46    Juicy Lucy – Who Do You Love?

47    Panama Ltd Jug Band – Round and Round

48    Groundhogs – Garden

49    Patti Smith – Because the Night

50    Janis Jopin – Cry Baby

51    Rolling Stones – Let it Bleed

52    Kevin Ayers – The Oyster and the Flying Fish

53    Adverts – Gary Gilmore's Eyes

54    Clint Eastwood & General Saint – I Can't Face Another World War

55    Strawbs – New World

56    TV on the Radio – Poppy

57    Johnny Cash – The Man Comes Around

58    Bob Dylan – Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts

59    Remy Zero – Save Me

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