The Year in Music: A Titular Playlist
Earlier this year I started using song lyrics to title my posts. The first time was a fluke. But since I drive people crazy with lyrics I kept it up as a challenge to myself.
I’ve taken some time off to repair and enjoy my family. So the writing has diminished but the listening never does. So here’s a year-end present for you: a play list (on Spotify and YouTube) of songs I think are worth hearing.
I like to think there’s something for everyone but that’s a personal conceit. In my listening I am as undisciplined as I am in most everything else. I think it’s best for the songs and performances to speak for themselves.
Have a good 2016.
Eine Kleine Nacht Music: W.A. Mozart/Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Sir Neville Mariner , Eine Kleine Nacht Music
A Solider in the Army of the Lord: Lyle Lovett, The Apostle Soundtrack
Capital, It Fails Us Now: Gang of Four, Another Day, Another Dollar EP
Soul of a Man: Maria Muldaur, Richland Woman Blues
Two Tribes: Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Welcome to the Pleasure Dome
Charlie Don’t Surf: The Clash, Sandinista
Nagasaki: Django Reinhardt, Quintette of the Hot Club of France,
Wayfaring Stranger: Emmylou Harris, Roses in the Snow
April in my Heart: Billie Holiday, The Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia, 1933-1944
Scarlet Begonias: Grateful Dead, From the Mars Hotel
Railroad Steel: Georgia Satellites, Georgia Satellites
Paper in Fire: John Mellencamp, The Lonesome Jubilee
Centerfield: John Fogerty, Centerfield
Tell me Why: The Beatles, A Hard Day’s Night
A State of Texas: Old 97s, The Grand Theatre, Vol. 1
B.B. King was Wrong: John Gorka, I Know
I’m Going to the Place: Lyle Lovett, My Baby Don’t Tolerate
Boom Boom : John Lee Hooker, Hook ‘Em: The Best of John Lee Hooker
Color Him Father: Keb Mo, Big Wide Grin
Fourth of July: X: See How we Are
Brothers in Arms: Dire Straits, Brothers in Arms
Come on in my Kitchen: Robert Johnson, The Complete Robert Johnson
Rocket Man: Elton John, Honky Château
One Way Out: Elmore James, Dust My Broom
Wish You Were Here: Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here
Transmission: Joy Division, Substance
Everybody Eats When they Come to my House: Cab Calloway, Are You Hep to the Jive
Don’t Go Back to Rockville: R.E.M., Reckoning
What Becomes of the Brokenhearted: Jimmy Ruffin, Jimmy Ruffin Sings Top Ten
Beyond the Sea: Bobby Darin, That’s All
Sugar and Stress: English Beat: Special Beat Service
Senses Working Overtime: XTC, English Settlement
I Love Paris: Ella Fitzgerald, Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Songbook
The Music Goes ‘Round and Around: NRBQ, Tiddlywinks
Rat in Mi Kitchen: UB40, Rat in my Kitchen
What I Am: Eddie Brickell & The New Bohemians, Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars
Happy listening.
An Honest Con 