Category: A’s Track of the Day

I am not the world’s greatest fan of classical music but the missus put me on to this soon after we met and I am eternally grateful.

No one else sounds quite like the Incredibles. I should play their music more.

‘Big gorilla at the LA Zoo, snatched the glasses right off my face. Stole the keys to my BMW; left me here to take his place.’ Wazza at his brilliant … Continue readingWarren Zevon: Gorilla You’re a Desperado

What a charmer JM could be when he felt like it.

Some of their stuff was a bit too poppy for my taste but there is no doubting the quality of Squeeze’s songwriting, this being a prime example from 1981.

Unusually melodic cut from the 1980 album Heartattack and Vine. And here’s the Boss doing it live not so long ago.

This reminds me of my younger days following Nelson FC in the Lancashire Combination. There was an old geezer in the sparse crowd called Frank who went ‘Heh, heh, heh’ … Continue readingNathan Abshire: Les Filles du Canada

I prefer this simple demo version to the full-band outtake from the Rendezvous sessions.

The first song Ry played when I saw him for the first time, in Manchester in 1977. Taken from his eponymous first album released seven years earlier.

From her last album of original tunes, 2007’s Shine.