In no particular order some of my favourite music moments. No31 Dog Eat Dog By My Adam And The Ants. The first time I heard Dog Eat Dog was in a school disco at my provincial primary in Kent. I was about eight. “What the hell is this rubbish?” was our verdict at the time – two weeks later we […]
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In no particular order some of my favourite music moments. No30 Feed Me With Your Kiss By My Bloody Valentine. I’m probably asking for trouble here, but I’ve always felt My Bloody Valentine were a bit overrated. I could never quite understand why they were so feted by the music press and why Kevin Shields was regarded as such […]
In no particular order some of my favourite music moments. No29 Strange Fruit By Billie Holliday. Southern trees bear strange fruit / Blood on the leaves and blood at the root / Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze / Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees. So begins one of the most powerful anti-racism anthems, sung by perhaps […]
In no particular order some of my favourite music moments. No28 Suzanne By Leonard Cohen. What the hell is going on with 2016? The curse has struck again with news of the passing of one of the few true musical poets, Leonard Cohen.
In no particular order some of my favourite music moments. No27 Shine On By The House of Love. A soaring alternative anthem, Shine On is without doubt one of the strongest indie debut 45s of all time. A statement of intent, it was the first of a trio of superb singles that firmly established The House of Love as the band […]
In no particular order some of my favourite music moments. No26 She Don’t Use Jelly By The Flaming Lips. I first encountered this song many years ago while attending the wonderful Liss Ard festival in Skibbereen, Ireland. I’d gone to watch three of my all-time favourites; Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (while Blixa Bargeld was still on board), […]
In no particular order some of my favourite music moments. No25 Lazy Sunday by Small Faces. An innovative, stylish and versatile band Small Faces, never seem to get quite the attention they deserve. Lazy Sunday is a knockabout knees-up taken from their ambitious, psychedelic concept album Ogdens’ Nut Gone Flake – a record so peculiarly English that it stayed at No1 […]
In no particular order some of my favourite music moments. No22 Hit Me With You Rhythm Stick by Ian Dury and The Blockheads A genuine undisputed classic from the late, great Ian Dury and his wonderfully talented backing band.
In no particular order some of my favourite music moments. No21 The Bushes Scream While My Daddy Prunes by The Very Things. Described by Wikipedia as ‘a Dadaist post-punk band from Redditch’ – The Very Things hovered around the fringes of the Psychobilly movement of the 1980s, although they had little in common with any of those bands. Led by The Shend […]
In no particular order some of my favourite music moments. No20 Green Onions by Booker T and the MGs. The first instrumental to be included in the Great Moments series, this 1962 single by the legendary Stax house band is a bona fide classic. Originators of the Southern Soul sound, the MGs were also pioneers in being one […]