Scroll down to see previous ‘Song of the Week’ entries; for those before 29 July 2019 see separate page ‘Song of the Week Archive‘. Also attached to this menu are GG’s favourite songs by year starting with 2019 (hidden on the Home page are GG’s favourites from 2018).
8 June 2020 – ‘Storm Music’ – Gil Scott Heron – one of my musical heroes – ‘Justice is coming on the wings of a storm/We resist in the present for those yet unborn/Freedom s spreading like the wings of a bird/And the message it carries has to be heard’
19 May 2020 – ‘Eat, Sleep, Wake (Nothing But You)’ – Bombay Bicycle Club
4 May 2020 -‘Living For The Weekend’ -Hard-Fi – such a great song (when will life allow us to match the lyrics again?) – from their album Stars of CCTV (title track is also great)
19 April – ‘She Don’t Use Vaseline’ – The Flaming Lips – time for a bit of silliness from the early career of the mighty Flaming Lips – see the comments underneath for some corono-inspired lyric re-writes
13 April – ‘Turn On, Tune In, Cop Out’ – Freak Power – as week 3 of lockdown comes to an end though it was time to kick back and relax a bit – this is one of the things what Fat Boy Slim cooked up in a previous guise. There are also some groovy live versions out there too.
29 March 2020 (end of week 1 of lockdown – 19,522 cases 1,228 dead) – ‘Dexter & Sinister’ – Elbow – from their most recent album Giants Of All Sizes – ‘And I’m not a dog for the end of days/I’m a bird in a hurricane/With the heaviest heart jackhammering in me’
23 March 2020 – ‘Light + Space’ – Laurel Halo – chosen because it is from her album Quarantine (this is the age of coronavirus)
15 March 2020 – ‘Bullets’ – Editors – saw them last week and they were excellent as always and in the week that the coronavirus overtook the western world this song seemed an obvious (too obvious?) choice
9 March 2020 – ‘Thoughts and Prayers’ – Drive-By Truckers – from their latest, and most political to date, album The Unravelling. ‘Babies in Cages’ is my favourite track on the album but there is no decent online video. It is an even stronger howl of anguish about how impossible Patterson Hood finds it to explain contemporary political USA to his kids.
1 March 2020 – ‘Common Burn’ – Mazzy Star – in memory of guitarist David Roback who died this week – there are not many more beautiful things in rock than the combination of his playing and Hope Sandoval’s vocals.
24 February 2020 – ‘Loaded’ – Primal Scream – in the week of Andrew Weatherall’s death, it could only be ‘Loaded’. This is a good live version – from a tour I caught a few months earlier at Olympia, London
17 February 2020 – ‘Fools’ – Ruts DC – because the current pollical situation is so depressing. This was recorded in 1981 and things are worse now. Ruts DC and their predecessor band The Ruts always had their hand on the pulse of political and social problems.
27 October 2019 – ‘London Mine’ – Joy Crookes – she is playing a sold out show at Broadcast this week and I’m very disappointed that I didn’t get a ticket – great voice (echoes of Amy Winehouse) and this is an enjoyable paean to London
22 September 2019 – ‘Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots, Pt. 1’ – The Flaming Lips – still buzzing from their gig a couple of weeks ago
15 September 2019 – ‘Burning’ – The Whitest Boy Alive – loved this band (great name!) and saw them give a stupendously sweaty gig at The Coronet in London in 2012. Non-music related aside – the movie Burning was one of the best last year.
25 August 2019 – ‘Broken Wing’ – Peter Bruntnell – been listening to this a lot in the last couple of weeks – the album, King of Madrid, is also very good
18 August 2019 – ‘Atlantic City’ – Bruce Springsteen – saw ‘Blinded By The Light’ this week, a film in which the music of BS looms large. This song wasn’t in the movie but it is probably my favourite BS song (‘Down here it’s just winners and losers/And don’t get caught on the wrong side of that line’) and this is a good live version.
29 July 2019 – ‘Dare You Not To Dance’ – Haiku Hands – catch Australia’s best new indie dance act at King Tut’s on Wednesday
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