Category: A’s Track of the Day

Live version of one of Kevin’s strongest songs, based on his experiences as a psychiatric nurse at the grim Whittingham Hospital, near Preston. Lovely bloke he was. https://am-records.com/2018/11/19/realm-of-the-coyne/

From 1981, the nearest I’ve ever come to enjoying anything approximating to rap music.

Best track from her 1990 album Days of Open Hand. Terrible video though.

Cover version by the magnificent Gillster of a song by some bloke called Radiohead. Pictures by Nasa.

Wonderful interpretation of one of Richard Thompson’s finest songs. From the 1980 album A Cut Above.

Nice live version of the song from his 2013 album Southeastern.

Live version of the song from Cale’s 1974 album Okie. During his ‘strictly commercial’ period with Virgin, Captain Beefheart recorded it the same year on his Bluejeans and Moonbeams LP.

From the 1974 album Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy). The lyrics contain the names of two future rock bands plus one that already existed – can you name them?

Almost 40 years, incredibly, since Ian Curtis died. This is JD’s finest hour and it never stales.

Irresistible US rocker from 1958. The poor lad was dead at 21, victim of a crash while travelling in a taxi in Chippenham, Wiltshire, during a UK tour in 1960.