The second last Saturday Shuffle of the year and the one nearest Christmas. Don't panic there is nothing remotely festive on the Gym MP3 player.
I don't think that a song called Ball and Chain could ever be accused of being festive. Instead this song from XTC's 1982 album English Settlement is a song protesting about the rampant overdevelopment of English towns and countryside. The UK public didn't seem that bothered as it only reached number 58 in the singles chart.
I also appear to have songs called Ball and Chain by Sam Brown, The Rails and Broken English.The next song surely needs no introduction. Paint it Black was a number one from the Rolling Stones from as far back as 1966. As befits such a classic song it has been covered countless times. I have versions by The Mod-ettes, Marc Almond and Lucinda Williams.
Today's final song is the only one to have graced these pages before. Crystal Frontier is a song which was a single and which also appears on the European version of the album Hot Rail by the great Calexico
The last shuffle of 2023 next Saturday.
You listened to these three on your gym visits this week?
ReplyDeleteNo - still recovering from my cold
DeleteI do the shuffle from the comfort of the music room