185: THAT’S RIGHT, MORE ANIMALS

Well, it is a very large Kingdom.

Next stop, Palindromeda !! (On second thoughts, let’s not do that – It might be a bit silly to end with ‘Intro’.  Although it would allow you to include some Minor Threat in a day or so.)

185: THAT’S RIGHT, MORE ANIMALS

1. Timothy – Bulldog don’t Bite me
2. This Mortal Coil – Tarantula
3. MIA – Bird Flu
4. Lee Dorsey – Ride your Pony
5. Echo and the Bunnymen – Crocodiles
6. Manfred Mann – Pretty Flamingo
7. The Specials – Do the Dog
8. Tom Jones – What’s New Pussycat ?
9. The Maytals – Monkey Man
10. Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band – Ice Cream for Crow
11. Pete Shelley – Homosapien
12. The Beatles – I am the Walrus
13. Scott Walker – Butterfly
14. Kid Creole and the Coconuts – Stool Pigeon
15. The Sweet – Fox on the Run
16. Prince – Starfish and Coffee
17. The The – Dogs of Lust

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118: Birth And Death

One icon celebrates a milestone birthday and another passes away, and both events happen within a few short days of each other. Not that unusual, perhaps, but for both lives to be of such great musical import is noteworthy, as is evidenced by writings here and here. I imagine that somewhere, around the same time, some unknown musical genius was celebrating a birthday, or dying, or doing both simultaneously. We’ll never know, unless it was a friend or relative (or us), but that’s just the nature of this crazy life.

1. Born In ’69 — Rocket From The Crypt
2. Born On The Bayou — Creedence Clearwater Revival
3. Born To Run — Bruce Springsteen
4. A Lover Was Born — Lee Dorsey
5. Birthday — The Sugarcubes
6. Born Slippy .NUXX — Underworld
7. Angel Of Death — Slayer
8. Death Or Glory — The Clash
9. Death Of A Disco Dancer — The Smiths
10. I Love The Dead — Alice Cooper
11. Already Dead — Beck
12. Instant Death — Beastie Boys
13. Instant Death — Eddie Harris

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69: SUNDAY MORNING

This is a variation on something I was messing around with a couple of years ago. It all began – wait for it – on a Sunday morning. The TV was on with the sound down, I was my normal groggy morning self, and the missus was engrossed in school work with a deadline fast approaching. “Put some music on,” I was instructed. But what to play ? I wasn’t really in a jazzy frame of mind, and clearly Anal Cunt were out of the question. And then it hit me. Quicker than you can say ‘anal moronic idiot’, a self imposed challenge was issued. My mission would be to provide an ‘easy listening soundtrack’. Easy listening – that most odious and vile of genres. Sounds stripped of any cultural connection, with all jagged edges smoothed down. A musical land where Manilow is king, the here and now is neither here nor there, and any potential zeitgeist is buried beneath a mountain of denial and refusal. A bit like Richmond really, only with a big nose. “Challenge accepted,” I pompously muttered to myself, and set about my task as though the very future of music itself depended upon my success.

69: SUNDAY MORNING

1. The Velvet Underground and Nico – Sunday Morning
2. Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds – Deanna/Happy Day
3. Dennis Brown – Money In My Pocket
4. Nina Simone – My Baby Just Cares for Me
5. Gil Scott-Heron – Save the Children
6. The Specials – Do Nothing
7. Billie Holiday – Do Nothin’ Till You Hear From Me
8. Nick Drake – Hazey Jane 1
9. Neil Diamond – Do It
10. Buffalo Springfield – Flying on the Ground is Wrong
11. Mary Wells – You Beat Me to the Punch
12. Dionne Warwick – Do You Know the Way to San Jose
13. TLC – No Scrubs
14. Nouvelle Vague – Teenage Kicks
15. David Bowie – Kooks
16. Scritti Politti – The Word Girl
17. John Holt – It’s a Jam in the Streets
18. Lee Dorsey and Betty Harris – Love Lots of Lovin

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