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

By Way Of An Apology

 

On Sunday as part of my Americana Compilations series I featured The Other Side- Music of East National One of the tracks featured was Don't Bother Me by the singer-songwriter Elizabeth  Cook.

In the comments George advised that the song fades out after 59 seconds as opposed to the scheduled running time of 3 minutes 25 seconds. I'm not sure how that happened.

To make up for  this I have dug out my burn of Welder her Don Was produced 5th studio album from 2010.

You will see from the blurb  for Welder that she has had a pretty troubled life and this, perhaps understandably , is reflected in her songs

Not for the faint hearted

Elizabeth Cook - Heroin Addict Sister

Elizabeth Cook - Mama's Funeral

I Am The Resurrection

 

I'm not religious and it is a long time since I lifted a bible. This might explain why I'm a day late for the Resurrection. Still at least we still get a public holiday.

It got me thinking though of Resurrection songs and I appear to have more than I thought.

Let's start with the most obvious one by The Stone Roses which lends its name to this Post's title.

The second one that most folk would maybe come up with is Resurrection Shuffle by Ashton, Gardner & Dyke.

Meanwhile the Drive-By Truckers are Awaiting Resurrection.

Iron and Wine are more interested in a Resurrection Fern.

Finally The Hold Steady tell us How a Resurrection Really Feels

The Stone Roses - I Am The Resurrection 

Ashton, Gardner & Dyke - Resurrection Shuffle

Drive- By Truckers - Awaiting Resurrection 

Iron and Wine - Resurrection Fern

The Hold Steady - How a Resurrection Really Feels

The Other Side:Music From East National

 

This week's Americana Compiltion (the 29th so far) is The Other Side - Music From East Nashville

It is a two CD charity compilation raising funds for a local employment and education centre.

There are 31 tracks with only the late great Todd Snider appearing twice. I have featured it three times before  here, here and here

I am probably only familiar with just under a third of the artists involved and perhaps it is no surprise that I've chosen to feature four of those.

Three of the tracks have featured here before with the only new one being Don't Bother Me by Elizabeth Cook.

This is by way of compensation for failing to pick up her 2007 album Balls the second last time I was in Missing Records. Needless to say it was nowhere to be seen on my subsequent visit. I'm still kicking myself.

Todd Snider - From a Roof Top

Paul Burch - John Peel

Thad Cockrell - Senselessly Blue

Elizabeth Cook -Don't Bother Me