Like many i have a somewhat eclectic taste in music so will attempt to get my favourite 20
on here from different genre's
These however have a habit of changing week by week.Also there's a proviso that picks are on You Tube!
In no particular order of preference...
1) Sam Cooke--Tennessee Waltz.
To be honest i could have picked any The The track.There's not one of theirs i think is even approaching duffness.This is off their first LP Soul Mining and features a storming piano solo by an uncredited Jools Holland which apparently took just the one take.The video also features one of my favourite films...
At the height of Disco i was'nt a great fan but have grown to love it over the years and Donna Summer was somewhat of a queen of the genre,a very sexy queen it has to be said...I also once made the mistake of having a dance to this with a woman thinking it was the normal version but it turned out to be the 16 minute one and i think i pooped off for a drink halfway through...
Not the Clash version but the original...Produced by the legendary and mad as a box of frogs Lee Scratch Perry.
Not normally a fan of white boy reggae but this is delightfully subversive...And a better use of that odd guitar spittle wobbly noise thing than Peter Frampton ever managed.
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6)The Beatles---Back in the USSRTalking of subversive...Not only was this a piss take of the Beach Boys California Girls but also bought out at the height of the cold war when all the western propaganda would have us believe that all Soviet women looked like a cross between Susan Boyle & Ann Widdicombe whereas we now know all Russian women look like a cross between Maria Sharapova & Nellie Kim(Look her up)
Gotta have some good old Zep.I have always been a sucker for the Harmonica especially when backed up by the kind of drumming that sounds like it's going to war...Also Robert Plant being a massive Wolves fan means they get in to any top ten...
I could'nt find a decent recording of the original but found this version by Carla Lynne Hall and i think it's as good as any version i have heard,Just a beautiful song...
Another Philandering pill popper with a sublime voice who got a social conscious later in life.A thought provoking song with an equally thought provoking video.
You know what? It sounds a damn sight more fun than beardy Branson's 8-23 out of Euston...
Off one of my favourite albums,London Calling.Again i could probably have chosen any Clash track but hey what can you do?
Oh C'Mon you can't tell me your toes are'nt tapping a little bit to this...
A good old slab of rock about the joys,or not,of Whaling...I kid you not.I wonder if the Japanese play this while out doing "Scientific research"?
From the opening few bars you just know this is a classic bit of Brit Pop.A lot of people think Mozza's a lanten jawed old misery guts but fail to see the tongue set firmly in his cheek on many of the tunes.
The ultimate musical subversive.The US authorities hated Zappa as indeed did the old Stalinist regimes of Eastern Europe.A good friend of the late Vaclav Havel.Must be the Czech blood in me...
I like Bextor's breathy vocal style and she also shows a keen sense of humour in the video too,which helps.Let's face it this is just a damn good pop song...
That Horn section! Arguably the best band to come out of the Black Country.This is off their debut album "Searching for the Young Soul Rebels" Check it out...
Pure unadulterated joy with a message.What more could anyone want?
My Karaoke number and a sing-a-long staple of the London Wolves train journey.Dino at his finest...
Oh David you lovable nutter...What a tune!
There you go.20 of my favourites to wade through if you feel so inclined.
Even so this is not the definitive list as it's subject to change on whatever whim takes my fancy...
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