I did Britpop last year and I'll keep doing it this year. I'm calling this Britpop #4 because I think that's right. Maybe I'm wrong, but does it matter? Probably not.
Whatever, here's the playlist and the show link
Listen to the show HERE
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Showing posts with label Paul Weller. Show all posts
Sunday, February 3, 2019
I guess I'm alright, guess I'm alright: Music I Like 2/03/2019 Britpop #4
I did Britpop last year and I'll keep doing it this year. I'm calling this Britpop #4 because I think that's right. Maybe I'm wrong, but does it matter? Probably not.
Whatever, here's the playlist and the show link
Listen to the show HERE
Sunday, July 30, 2017
Beneath the Backstreet Light: July 30th, 2017 Playlist
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I played several themed or connected blocks this week. I opened with a trio of New York punk (but not quite punk) artists - the Dictators, Blondie, and David Johansen. Then I tried an experiment that failed on several fronts. I was a teenager in the late seventies and early eighties, and much of the music I loved was, if not Top 40, popular radio tracks. My plan was to play several songs not usually heard by various bands. The primary failure was in my basic intent. There's no real reason to play bands you can hear on any rock station around the world on pretty much any given day. So, Boston and Styx will probably never show up again unless I can really argue it out with myself and make sense. As to Supertramp and ELO, well, definitely, but in a different context, most likely as part of a prog set. The second failure came when I couldn't play the Supertramp song ("Oh Darling" for you who care), and I stepped all over the end of the Styx song. Total crap performance on my part. 
The short folky set was drafted to surround Y'all's "Mamaw." They were a folk/country/gospel duo who lived and played in NYC back in the 90s whom I saw several times and contributed money to releasing one of their albums. Their songs make me incredibly happy when I play them, on their own, and as links to a past in NYC before 9/11 and insane gentrification and overbuilding.
Next came the Mod/Modern block. Paul Weller and others in the nineties were moved to create some great music with roots in the Mod and freakbeat sounds of sixties London. So, I several tracks from the Small Faces and similar bands followed by Weller and several similar artists. It was easily the tunes I've loved putting together and playing most of all so far at Music I Like. Those who know me know I ain't no dancer, and yet I found myself bopping along to these songs.
Finally, before ending the show with a Broadway-style track from Alice Cooper's School's Out, I mixed things up with funny songs and very British songs. A mixed and enjoyable lot I have to say.
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Music I Like, vol 1, #5 - Beneath the Backstreet Light
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