Welcome to the RPM Seven Day Soundtrack, week ending Friday 10th May, the Hedgehog Awareness Week edition. Nothing to get prickly with here, though...over to...
"Hi RPMers, here’s my 3 for this week."
Climbing Up The Walls by Radiodread -
No, Surender by Justin Currie -
The Secret Kind by Screaming Trees -
"Here are my three for the week."
Ghost Train by Marc Cohn -
I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie....) by Donnie Elbert -
Stealin' Time by Gerry Rafferty -
"Hello everyone. Hey, Jackie, your choice of Billy Idol took me straight back to 1975 - I was at Sussex Uni and keen to join a band. Answered an ad on the noticeboard and met another student, Will, who was looking to form a band. Yes, Will became Billy and I could have been in Generation X! (If we'd shared the same musical tastes.)"
Breathless by Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - "Nick Cave has written some beautiful love songs, including this one, which I've chosen for its seasonal spring-filled lyrics."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TI8xPw2aQA&ab_channel=NickCaveandtheBadSeeds
The Hula Hula Boys by Warren Zevon - "Another great musician whose life ended too soon."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilGTZTITn_4&ab_channel=WarrenZevon-Topic
Howling at Nothing by Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzqmVa6n-es&ab_channel=NRateliffVEVO
"Have a great weekend."
"As everyone may have guessed, I'm even more "up" than last week, so let's continue (sort of) with last week's theme."
Love Will tear us Apart Again performed by Paul Young - "The version from "The Tube," Pino Palladino on bass. All together now... "Leeds, Leeds are falling apart again."
When The Saints Go Marching In performed by Louis Armstrong - "Southampton played the prettiest football we've seen at Portman Road in many a long year, but we still completed the double over them. Mr. Martin's sour grapes afterwards seemed to suggest that they deserved points for artistic impression. Thing is, Russell, it's not figure skating is it?"
Baggy Trousers by Madness - "The only thing I could come up with that had even a tenuous West Brom connection, "Baggies" being their nickname (for anyone reading this who is not a football fan. I know such people do exist).
"Please, please, please Tim, given the circumstances, may I have a bonus track this week? I don't often ask." ("True, you don't, so go on, then." Tim.)
Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep by Middle of The Road - "I played walking football wearing my colours at Northgate High School last night and came away unscathed. Their chirp is worse than their peck."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ay6CIDryEAQ
"We've been under-estimated all the way into the Premier League. I'm quite happy for this to continue.
Best wishes to all RPMers (even the Budgies among them)."
"What a pleasure to listen to last week's selections in a warm and sunny drive to Birmingham last Saturday. Thank you all.
A mixed bag this week."
"Firstly from a new release of old demos prior to his first album."
Guy Clark with Miss Alice Pringle -
"Another Man Done Gone - Steve Albini, the hardest working man in music. Engineer on this Robbie Fulks track which features the late Tom Brumley."
Robbie Fulks with Papa Was a Steel Headed Man -
"And finally one from Erland Øye's latest band and whilst not up there with The Whitest Boy Alive or Kings of Convenience ( thanks to Nina for 24-25 a couple of weeks back) I'm looking forward to seeing him in Hackney at the weekend."
La Comitiva with Upside Down -
https://youtube.com/watch?v=pVaAqICmy3U&si=EtgIDvn4i7a6t4HG
"That's All Folks."
"Greetings from Cromer. I've been asked to perform on the fringe; one of the gigs is on Sunday morning at the Cliftonville hotel and I’ve had a request at short notice to play House of the Rising Sun (never done it before in public) so I thought I’d take a look at The Animals back catalogue..."
House of the Rising Sun performed by Leadbelly -
Please Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood performed by Nina Simone -
Sky Pilot performed by Eric Burdon and The Animals -
"Hi RPMers, I hope you're all enjoying this wonderful weather. Here are three tracks I've listened to in the past seven days. Hope you like 'em!"
The Girl With The Curl by The Stunning - "Irish Power Pop.... shades of Big Star and The Flamin' Groovies."
Fire And Water by Free - "Title track from quite possibly their best album."
Black Nightgown by Gerry Mulligan/The Jazz Combo - "The Jazz Combo in question is the one featured in the classic 1958 film 'I Want To Live' starring Susan Hayward."
"Hi folks. Hope you're all well. No choices last week as I was occupied with gig rowing Championships on the Isles of Scilly. Quite the event + experience; 135 crews, 6 races over 3 days. Enjoyed it loads, spent the last few days recovering.
Here's my 3..."
Starbuster by Fontaines DC -
Quality Pints by the Bug Club -
Comeback Kid by Sharon van Etten -
https://youtu.be/h4mewwymxbI?feature=shared
"Take care + have a lovely, sunny weekend everyone.
Cheers!"
"Best wishes RPMers, at last the countryside is looking fantastic in the spring sunshine hence there’s a very obvious link to all my tracks this week (all courtesy of Night Tracks on Radio 3)."
This Sweet and Merry Month of May by William Byrd performed by John Rutter and The Cambridge Singers -
As I Roved Out performed by June Tabor, Iain Ballamy and Huw Warren -
Mayday by Michael Olsen -
"Here's this weeks trio..."
Astronomy Domine by Pink Floyd - "...the live and best version from Ummagumma."
Ascent by Hawkwind - "Dug out some newer HW albums this week...here they are with something from 2017s Into The Woods album."
Idontwannapaymytaxes by Kula Shaker - "Yep, still playing Natural Magick..."
'Til Next Time...