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Terry Reid was fated to be remembered much more for what he didn’t do than anything he did, forever immortalised as a kind of Zelig figure in pop.
I’m sure some people might dismiss The Warlocks as one of that band of Velvet Underground fetishists. But I don’t care – I love them too.
This song by one-hit wonders The Castaways is the archetypal Sixties garage song. I first heard it on the Nuggets compilation a decade or so after its original release in 1965. (more…)
I was initially resistant to the dance music takeover in the late Eighties and the replacement of guitars with laptops, synths and samplers. But I was converted by songs like Pump Up The Volume, S Express – and this.
I’ve loved Mexican music for a long time and the first time I heard it was on Ry Cooder’s 1976 album Chicken Skin Music. And the songs that stood out were the ones featuring the accordion of Flaco Jimenez.
It’s the height of summer – and what better way to kick off a July playist than with the nu-disco sounds of Goldfrapp? We’ve also got some old-time country (Southern Raised) and old-skool reggae (Michael Rose) and a more modern Polish-Jamaican reggae hybrid. Plus the oddest tribute to Ozzy Osbourne you’ll ever hear with a cabaret version of Paranoid… in German. And lots lots more besides.
I was late to the party with R.E.M. I didn’t really discover them until they put out their sixth album Green in 1988 and this song was a minor hit.
Johnny Cash’s recording of God’s Gonna Cut You Down, recorded just before his death in 2003, became all the more poignant when this posthumous video was released three years later.
Chet Atkins never became a household name outside his genre of country music – but was recognised as a legend within it.