I-Pod Playlist - Jail

 

Unfortunately the Playlist has sent us to Jail this week - do not pass go, do not collect £200.

When it comes to Jail songs I suspect that for most of you the name Johnny Cash is one of the first names that springs to mind .

No Folsom Prison or San Quentin for you today but rather the less well known Starkville City Jail.

If he's unfortunate, like the Robins, he may end up spending Ten Days in Jail.

Next we have the words that surely every parent dreads - "Dad, I'm in Jail" Second only to "Dad, I like Bono"

If that's the case a quick phone call to Thin Lizzy to organise a Jailbreak might be in order.

We go from Jail to Jesus for next week's playlist

Johnny Cash - Starkville City Jail

The Robins - Ten Days In Jail

Was (Not Was) - Dad, I'm in Jail

Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak

Lips, Inc.

 

Welcome to Lippy Monday with a few lip related songs.

For no reason whatsoever other than it popped into my head over the weekend

I've resisted the temptation to include Funky Town by Lipps,Inc as the lip bit features in the act's name as opposed to the song and to include it would blow my chances of a follow up post.

Let's start with the Fun Boy Three and their song Our Lips Are Sealed. I'll spare you from the Urdu version.

Next up are Pulp with Lipgloss a song from their 1994 album His'n'Hers. 32 years ago, bloody hell

Even older is Lipstick by the Buzzcocks which was the b-side to the single Promises in 1978 and is also included on 1979's epic compilation Singles Going Steady.

We conclude with Louisville Lip by Freakwater:

Louisville Lip focuses on one alleged  incident  from the  life of Louisville's most famous citizen Muhammad Ali.  In 1960, Ali returned home to Louisville, Kentucky from winning the light heavyweight gold medal in the Summer Olympics in Rome.  Yet, the 18-year-old faced discrimination in his hometown. Reportedly, after being refused service at a restaurant, Ali threw his gold medal into the Ohio River.

Stay tuned to CCM for more lip smaking tunes and the occassional cultural history reference

Fun Boy Three -Our Lips Are Sealed

Pulp - Lip Gloss

Buzzcocks - Lipstick

Freakwater - Louisville Lip

Loose -New Sounds Of The Old West Volume Two

 

Welcome to the 30th in this series of Americana Compilations.I'm in two minds whether to stop here or to carry on as there are still a good few in the tank. Comments welcome.

From the year 2000 this is the second Volume of Loose Records - New Sounds of the Old West. They were very much the UK leaders when it came to Americana

If you look at the tracklist and you are following this series or indeed this Blog over the years you will recognise many of the artists. 2000 to 2002 were probably the peak years for Americana for me.

A dozen of the 17 tracks were in contention to feature but that would be somewhat presumptuous. Three it is then and 3 acts who are no strangers to these pages.

Let's go for the order they appear on the CD.First up we have Jim White with 10 Miles To Go on a 9 Mile Road which is a track on 2001's No Such Place on the Luaka Bop label his second and probably best album.

Another CC favourite next in the form of Peter Bruntnell .Again a song from his second album namely Darling I Suppose from Normal For Bridgwater.

I'm not sure whether I've seen Giant Sand or not but I have definitely seen front man Howie Gelb.The song Astonished (In Memphis) from their album Core of Enchantment.

We may or may not catch up again next Sunday.

Jim White - 10 Miles to Go on a 9 Mile Road

Peter Bruntnell - Darling I Suppose

Giant Sand - Astonished (In Memphis)

Saturday Shuffle 140

 

It is getting harder to come up with new songs for the Shuffle.

Songs by Little Richard, Gene Clark and Julian Cope were ruled out on the grounds that they have appeared in the series before.

I must add some more songs.

The first act to pop up with a song that has never appeared on the Shuffle were Simple Minds with Love Song.

It's a bit of a Weegie fest this week as the next shuffled song which has not featured before was Do You Wont To by Franz Ferdinand.

The third song to pop up was An Elegant Chaos by Julian Cope. Beautiful Love had popped up earlier but has featured before but the Arch Drude was not going to be denied.

Sparks remained on the substitute's bench and were not called into action.

Simple Minds - Love Song

Franz Ferdinand - Do You Want To

Julian Cope - An Elegant Chaos

Over The Silvery Lake

 

About a month or so ago George texted me to say that he was listening to Over The Silvery Lake the 2016 debut album by The Hanging Stars.

I have a download of it and this was the gentle push for me to dig it out and to give it a long overdue listen.

I then discovered that it had been re-released in a vinyl format and it was a no brainer to upgrade it.

While "researching" for this post I have just discovered that they will be releasing their 6th album Just a Day, which will feature Gerard Love of Teenage Fanclub fame, on June 29th. It is available to pre-order on Bandcamp but I think I'll wait and give one of my local record shops some business

The Hanging Stars -I'm No Good Without You

The Hanging Stars - For a While

The Hanging Stars - The Hanging Stars

Blog Country 139 - Montenegro

 

We are off to the Balkans this time around with Montenegro a small mountainous country on the Adriatic Sea with  a population of 633,158. It is a relatively new country having gained its independence as a republic following the break up of Yugoslavia in 2006

Let's  post the acts in alphabetical order starting with some Montenegrin hip-hop (as you do ) courtesy of the band Barka Stoka which translates as Livestock from the town of Bar. Here the offer up the song Obavjestenga.

Next up is drummer and singer Aleksandra Prelević Palladino known professionally as Dolce Hera . Her contribution is Repeat.

Our third act is the Montenegrin Rock band NeonoeN who were originally scheduled to represent their country at Eurovision in 2025 but later withdrew due to a controversy over having previously performed their song in June 2023.I'm not sure what the song was, perhaps it was Merkur i Venera.

Nikolle Nikprelaj  is an Albanian  singer but is included here as he is  from Tuzi in Montenegro. Here he preforms the song O Prishtina pritna se po vina which trips lightly of the tongue 

Our penultimate offering is the Cetinge rock band Perper who are one of the country's most popular bands. I'll let you decide whether Niz Tvojo Leda justifies this claim.

Vesnai Zmijanac  is lined up as my final act. She is one of the most popular singers from the former Yugoslavia.. She is listed as being from Serbia but was born in Montenegro so she therefore counts. Kazni Me, kazni translates as Punish Me, Punish.

Next time around I will be punishing you with music from a country that I'd never heard of until now.

Barka Stoka- Obavjestenje

Dolce Hera - Repeat

NeonoeN - Merker i Venera

Nikolle Nikprelaj - O Prishtina pritna se po vina

Perper - Niz Tvojo leda

Vesnai Zmijanac - Kazni Me, kazni

I-Pod Playlist - Drink

 

This week's I-Pod Playlist is probably Father Jack's favourite. Yes it's Drink! 106 songs to choose from so time to settle down with a few tipples

There are so many to choose from, particularly from Country music . Indeed, there is enough for an entire series further down the line.

It was difficult to narrow my selections down to just four.  I thought about a drinking game but things could have got messy very quickly.

Here are the ones I've gone for before I forget of change my mind.

Let's start with Canvey Island's finest Dr Feelgood and their classic Milk and Alcohol . These lads liked a drink or four.

Next up we have Maria McKee with the totally bonkers Drinkin' In My Sunday Dress

Loretta Lynn gives a salutory warning to her beloved as she advises that he Don't Come Home a Drinkin' (With Lovin' On Your Mind)

He certainly wouldn't be getting anywhere if he was Drunk By Noon. Here is Sally Timms with her cover of The Handsome Family  classic

The next Playlist will be Jail where some of the above might end up!

Cheers

Dr Feelgood - Milk and Alcohol

Maria McKee -Drinkin' In My Sunday Dress

Loretta Lynn - Don't Come Home a Drinkin' (With Lovin' on Your Mind)

Sally Timms - Drunk By Noon