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With our latest Spotify playlist things take off with the Blue Aeroplanes, in tribute to guitarist Angelo Bruschini who recently died. And continue with the Waterboys’ (alas-still-timely) rumination on colonialism. Richard and Linda Thompson fuse folk with soul in a James Carr cover, Coil try to find our place in an indifferent cosmos, Kate Bush paints a landscape of Arctic ice, Michael Gira of Swans receives (or possibly sends) a somewhat psychotic fan letter, the Shaolin Afronauts bring us Afrobeat from Adelaide, the Fall sport uncharacteristically smart legwear, and the Psychedelic Furs proffer flowers in the way knives are normally drawn.
(The illo is William Blake’s Urizen, at his imperious work.)
The Blue Aeroplanes: Huh!
The Waterboys: Bury My Heart
Richard & Linda Thompson: Dark End Of The Street (live)
COIL: Where Are You?
Nina Nastasia: I Say That I Will Go
Kate Bush: Under Ice
Michael Gira: Fan Letter
John Cale: The Philosopher
The Shaolin Afronauts: Shaolin Theme
Hole: Softer, Softest
The Fall: Chino
Hey Colossus: Hey, Dead Eyes, Up!
The Psychedelic Furs: Flowers
“Are you still looking for things which no-one else can see?”
A cracking list as always sir.
ReplyDeleteI'm incredibly lucky to have been there the last time was onstage with the BLue Aeroplanes - He guested on a few songs at their Christmas '22 Fleece gig. What a talent and what a loss. One the most underrated guitarists of his or any other generation. :(
Nice to see 'Red Army Blues' get a not too, Mike Scott's refused to play it live since 1985 for reasons best known to himself.
Thanks! I never got to see the Blue Aeroplanes, alas. I remember a radio interview where Scott was saying he'd be writing no more songs like 'Red Army Blues' when that album had only just been released! He decided, I think, on a more metaphysical direction, as in 'This Is The Sea'. Though 'Too Close To Heaven' must be the record for best song of his most completely discarded. (This is me, Google just won't let me sign in on my own Blog any more. Just other people's, go figure.)
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