Category: A’s Track of the Day

Not exactly easy listening but well worth persevering with.

One of Old Growly-Chops’s most commercial efforts, from the 1983 album Rain Dogs. And here’s the Rodster’s cover version.

Back to the Another Saturday Night album for this little snorter from 1968.

One of the old fella’s best. From the 1972 album Naturally.

Ten sweaty minutes from the Rorster. I just wish he’d put a bit more into it.

I know I promised a short season of Kenny Everett’s clunkers yesterday, but they are so terrible I think they deserve a proper column. Instead here’s a tune I used … Continue readingJohn Dummer’s Famous Music Band: Nine by Nine

Commencing a short season of songs that featured on Kenny Everett’s World’s Worst Record Show, a 1978 K-Tel collection of total stinkers. It’s the middle one here that made it … Continue readingRaphael: Light My Fire/Goin’ Out Of My Head/Something

Three for the price of one from the Toddster on an old Whistle Test. I remember being impressed when a former colleague said his son was named Todd. ‘After Todd … Continue readingTodd Rundgren: It Wouldn’t Have Made Any Difference etc

‘They’ve got the shapely bodies. They’ve got the Steely Dan T-shirts.’ Brilliant cut from 1973’s Countdown to Ecstasy featuring Rick Derringer on slide guitar.

From the truly wonderful 1998 album Marc Ribot and the Prosthetic Cubans. What a great guitarist he is.