::START MESSAGE:: Awesome weather today. I drive past a cemetery on the way to work – something tragic yet wonderfully beautiful about a cemetery in the sun. We should be outside, with friends, listening to fabulous music and instead we”™re stuck here, wasting away. Withering like unwatered plants craning their fragile leaves to see the sun which remains sadly out of reach”¦ Pub? ::END MESSAGE::
Today”™s playlist is from the mighty Tom Mitchell: troubadour, minstrel, 8th Modern Wonder of the World. And here he is. Enjoy!
One playlist”¦ CHECK
- The Cowsills – Hair
- The Raveonettes – Heart Of Stone
- The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart – Young Adult Friction
- The Go-Betweens – Love Goes On!
- The Decemberists – The Crane Wife 1 & 2
- Del Shannon – Runaway ”˜67
- The Waterboys – Fisherman”™s Blues
- Mark Knopfler – Our Shangri-La
- Mumford & Sons – The Cave
- Christy Moore – Nancy Spain
- Camel – West Berlin
- U2 – Ultra Violet (Light My Way)
- Camera Obscura – Forest And Sands
- Bell XI – The Great Defector
- The Dubliners – Seven Drunken Nights
- Dire Straits – Where Do You Think You”™re Going
- Idlewild, Edwin Morgan – The Weight Of Years
- Old Crow Medicine Show – The Greatest Hustler Of All
- Belle and Sebastian – Desperation Made A Fool Of Me
- Johnny Cash – Sam Hall
- Pulp – Whiskey In The Jar
- David Gilmour – Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Live In Gdansk)
- Dire Straits – Telegraph Road
My Spotisfaction list encapsulates what I”™m listening to now, what I used to listen to, and what made me pick up certain instruments for the first time!
Hair – uber-melodic, energetic 1960s-style David Goo
Heart of Stone – sexy electro-rock, the only reason I”™ve ever been glad I accidentally left the TV on during Hollyoaks
Young Adult Friction – more melodic simple beaty two piggy
Love Goes On! – introduced to me by Mr Madden, nice 80s ahead of its time
The Crane Wife 1 & 2 – epic folk
Runaway ”˜67 – Del Shannon improves on his awesome original version several years later!
Fisherman”™s Blues – awesome, emotional and the reason I first picked up a mandolin
Our Shangri-La – close your eyes and MK weaves an epic tale against the most sumptious aural landscape
The Cave – qualitay banjo
Nancy Spain – tugs at the heart-strings
West Berlin – cheesey but awesome prog rock which reminds me of being 10 listening to my dad”™s stereo
Ultra Violet – they”™re not to everyone”™s taste but maybe the best song off Achtung Baby
Forests and Sands – dreamy”¦
The Great Defector – Ireland”™s best lyricists! Songs about being unable to open supermarket carrier bags because of sweaty fingers rule
Seven Drunken Nights – fun
Where Do You Think You”™re Going – dirty raw 70s Straits
The Weight of Years – pleasant
The Greatest Hustler of All – lazy
Desperation Made A Fool Of Me – nice walking song (especially if you”™re by a river or something)
Sam Hall – favourite Cash song at the moment!
Whiskey in the Jar – a nice version
Shine On You Crazy Diamond – sexual live version with one of the best solos ever
Telegraph Road – probably the song that first made me want to play the guitar. You have to wait about ten minutes for it to arrive but the outro solo is fecktastic