In another Spotify playlist provided for the listening public’s education and self-improvement Brian Eno spins songs for spiders, Hope Sandoval lets us know the forecast is fine, Chris Wood goes Darwinian with the aid of killing jars and butterfly nets, Siouxsie multiplies, the Blue Aeroplanes go into colour (including, presumably, blue), Mississippi Fred McDowell tells us how he got here, my bloody valentine take it slooooow, Transglobal Underground take to the stars, the Fall have a spectral encounter which sprechens zee Deutsch - and more!
(Our commanding, petty-dictator title comes accompanied by Franciszka Themerson's Ubu from a version of Jarry’s classic absurdist play.)
Brian Eno: Spider And I
Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions: Clear Day
Chris Wood: Turtle Soup
Everything But The Girl: Shoot Me Down
Siouxsie & The Banshees: Christine
The Blue Aeroplanes: Colour Me
Hey Colossus: Dead Songs For Dead Sires
Mississippi Fred McDowell: All the Way From East St. Louis
Jonathan Richman + the Modern Lovers: Dodge Veg-O-Matic
my bloody valentine: slow
Transglobal Underground: Sirius B
The Fall: Bremen Nacht Alternative
“Something happened in Bremen, I know
Something I don't want to…”
Another cracking playlist as usual sir. I wish more people talked about the sheer joy that is the first TGU album, and wish even more that that whole merging of rave dance and indie culture that was happening 92-94 and that it hadn't been pissed all over by the utter mediocrity of Britpop.
ReplyDeleteAnd of course a shout out to my beloved Blue Aeroplanes. Stewart Lee called them 'Television fronted by Philip Larkin' and he wasn't wrong.
Thanks! Yes the era before Britpop was a great one for music. I hadn't heard that Stewart Lee quote before.
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