Welcome to the RPM Seven Day Soundtrack, week ending Friday 24th January 2025. Here we go with another sound palette of diverseness...over to...
"Sending a week’s worth of good wishes to all those in RPM land."
Shame, Shame Shame by Shirley & Company -
Midnight Sun by Penguin Cafe -
Atholl by Fitkinwall -
"Hi RPMers, hope all is good with you all. Here’s my 3 this week."
Map by The Microphones -
If I Ever Loved You by Justin Currie -
Australia by The Men They Couldn't Hang -
Till the Well Runs Dry by Wynona Carr -
The Crow On The Cradle by Jackson Browne with David Lindley - "A song for our times. I was reminded of it when picking up a stray pile of singles earlier in the week and this track was in a picture sleeve."
Nothing Can Change This Love.... by Sam Cooke - "Would have been his birthday this week - what a loss."
"Hope you are all well, warm and managing to swerve all the bugs that seem to be going around. I was planning this week to listen to some music in preparation for a couple of long awaited shows in London this week. However the sad news coming out of Woodstock of the passing of Garth Hudson blew me completely off track. So here are 3 from a playlist I put together entitled Across the Great Divide / They Never Should Have Taken The Very Best."
Ronnie Hawkins and The Hawks with 40 Days -
The Band with It Makes No Difference -
Garth Hudson with Til We Meet Again -
https://youtube.com/watch?v=qm8WdQ1pz7w&si=hWSfqkDDbB9H-W3o
"That's All Folks."
"Hello RPMers. I hope Eowyn is not causing you too many problems. Here are three tracks that I've listened to this week."
Get Outa Me 'Ouse by Hustler - "I first became aware of Hustler when I saw them supporting Queen at Birmingham Town Hall in 1974 (Front Stalls £1.60). Hustler were brilliant; energetic frontman with a Flying V and gold braces. Can't remember much about the frontman of Queen... Freddie somebody or other..."
Glows and Spheres by The Vryll Society - "Another band I became aware of as a support act. The Vryll Society from Liverpool were supporting fellow scousers The Coral at Norwich Waterfront a few years ago."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iw5CTf_fAI&list=PL6wbXfJL7Yt-0ogeudSaDCx6l3Z1K3POW&index=5
Knock On Wood by Otis Redding & Carla Thomas - "I recently caught a bit of a TV documentary about Stax Records and it prompted me to play King & Queen, an important album from my youth by Otis Redding & Carla Thomas.
This version of Knock On Wood being equally as good as Eddie Floyd's original."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2DP1n-lPC4
"Best wishes as always."
"Jambo from Zanzibar folks. Tropical climes trip, part volunteering for (pretty corrupt) Green Zanzibar in Kizimkazi + kitesurfing Paje on the west coast. Enjoyed last week's selections as ever, here's my 3."
I'm on Fire by Bruce Springsteen - "Stuck on repeat during my kitesurf session today."
Wild is the Wind by David Bowie -
Mapenzi Matamu (Sweet Love) by Culture Musical Club of Zanzibar -
https://youtu.be/xgLQv9gj79I?feature=shared
"Tutaonana folks."
"Songs this week chosen from forthcoming albums that I have ordered today."
Downstream by Bonnie "Prince" Billy with John Anderson - "I first became aware of Will Oldham as a young actor in John Sayles' excellent film "Matewan" (1987) about unionisation of mine workers in Kentucky. He had hair back then."
A Walking Contradiction by Sunny War with Steve Ignorant - "This is not, as Tories and Republicans would have us believe, "the politics of envy," it's the politics of anti-greed. As Albert Einstein is supposed to have commented when asked if he was envious of the super-rich: "I have something they'll never have- enough"."
Our Home by Bonnie "Prince" Billy featuring Tim O'Brien - "Back to Will Oldham for something a little more comforting."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtQKbwVny80
"Keep on truckin'."
"This week a song from a movie, something whistley and something swirly..."
Like A Rolling Stone by Bob Dylan - "I caught up with 'A Complete Unknown', the new Dylan film this week. As a movie it's enjoyable, lots of music and looks great. If slight tweaking of facts annoys the hell out of you, you may find it challenging."
Steps by Brian Finnegan - "A tune from the Flook whistle man's 2010 solo album, The Ravishing Genius Of Bones."
Popscape by Ozric Tentacles - "From Ozric's 2020 album, Space For The Earth."
'Til Next Time...