Monday, 30 January 2012

My current favourites playlist

Here are three songs I've been listening to a lot recently. Robert Wyatt - Solar Flares (Song for Che) Robert Wyatt was the drummer in a 1960s band from Canterbury called Soft Machine, but when he was 23 or 24 he fell out of a window when he was drunk and broke his back. This left him paralysed and he has spent the rest of his life in a wheelchair, but he's continued to make strange and lovely music. This song is from his 1975 LP called Ruth is stranger than Richard. I like listening to this record in the winter as it has a strange atmosphere and reminds me of long cold winter nights. It's quite repetitive and influenced a bit by jazz as well. I find it very relaxing. Maybe you will too!! Gene & Eddie - You've got to love me sometimes I LOVE 60s soul and this is one of recent discoveries. It's from 1967 or 1968 and I bought the single online for $30. It's by a duo - two guys called Gene and Eddie - and I find it really really powerful, moving music. The chorus is incredible and makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end!!!! The Jook - Aggravation Place I grew up listening to post-punk and power pop music and this reminds me of the kind of stuff I left when I was 13 or 14. Loud guitars, harmonies, great choruses that you want to sing along with, tough drumming - and all played with aggression and attitude. Great stuff. The Jook were around in the mid-to-late 1970s. Looking forward to reading about the music you love.

3 comments:

  1. The first one picture is great . thx.

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    1. Yeah, it's quite astrange cover, isn't it, Chen Chen?
      I like it.
      It captures the odd mood of the music very well.

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