Mother's Day

So, if I was a little more organised and planned these blog posts way in advance, I might well have held over last Sunday's Cleo Sol selection for today. After all, Cleo is a mother, her most recent album is called Mother and her sounds are perfectly suited to a loved up Sunday.

But I'm not and I didn't. So, instead I've taken things quite literally and gone back to the 1990s for the pumped up club sounds of Mother aka Jools Brettle and Lee Fisher.

In my defence, the clocks went forward in the UK, signalling the start of British Summertime but in reality meaning that we've all lost an hour's sleep. Ergo, I think some phat beats and uptempo tunes are exactly what's needed to get everybody in the mood. Oh, hang on a mo, I can hear someone calling me...

"What's that?"

"You're trying to sleep?"

"Can I turn that racket down?"

Sigh, back to the drawing board...

 

1) Funk Bomb (Zero Tolerance Club Mix): Mother (1998)

2) Get Back (E-Lustrious Mix By Daniel Bennett & Michael Kirwin): Mother (1994)

3) I Like it (Mother Vocal Mix): D:Ream (1993)

4) All Funked Up (Mothers Favourite Mix By Jools Brettle, Lee Fisher & Joe Stevens): Mother ft. Denise Johnson (1993)

5) Vehicle (Mother's Vor Sprung Durch Tech Mix): Secret Life (1996)

6) Los Americanos (Mother Mix): Espiritu (1993)

7) Generations Of Love (Mother's Vocal Mix): Jesus Loves You (1998)

8) Stars (Mother Dub Mix) ('Disgraceful' Extended Album Version): Dubstar (1996)

9) Near The Black Forest (Mother's Quality Time Mix): Vanessa Daou (1995)

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Sometimes Nothing Seems Unreal

The cat threw up with gusto on the stairs at 3am this morning, necessitating a sleepy, torch-lit mopping up task. I couldn't get back to sleep and got up at 5am for a cup of tea and to start on today's post. For the past couple of hours, there have been intermittent power cuts (a regular thing around here), which have meant I ran out of tea long before I completed the playlist. On the plus side, I've got the day off work so at least I can spend the rest of the day as one of the undead on my own time. As Howard Jones was wont to sing, things can only get better...

 

More cover versions today, the only real connection being that the original songs all came out in 1981. My starting point was last week's The The mixtape, featuring the Matt Johnson song Bugle Boy, which prompted me to dig out the recent (2017) cover version by his old mucker Colin Lloyd Tucker. From there to R.E.M., Echo & The Bunnymen, New Order and The Passions. As it's a day with a 'y' in it, inevitably Andrew Weatherall has to make an appearance, side-by-side with his brother Ian's project with Duncan Grey, IWDG. It may not be a great surprise that I left off Chumbawamba's version of The Birdie Song.

1) Systematic Death (Cover of Crass): Jeffrey Lewis ft. Helen Schreiner (2007) 

2) Physical (Cover of Olivia Newton-John): The Glimmers ft. Stéphane Misseghers & Tim Vanhamel (2009)

3) That's When I Reach For My Revolver (Album Version) (Cover of Mission Of Burma): Moby (1996)

4) Crazy (Cover of Pylon): R.E.M. (1985)

5) Sitting Still (Cover of R.E.M.): Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs (2013)

6) Heaven Up Here (Cover of Echo & The Bunnymen): Kelley Stoltz (2006)

7) Bugle Boy (Live) (Cover of Matt Johnson): Colin Lloyd Tucker (2017)

8) In A Lonely Place (David Holmes Rework) (Cover of New Order): IWDG (2021)

9) Sex Beat (Remix) (Cover of The Gun Club): Two Lone Swordsmen (2004)

10) I'm In Love With A German Film Star (Cover of The Passions): Dubstar (2010)

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Friday On My Mind

It's been a long week, so here are some songs with Friday in the title or artist name. Welcome to the weekend!
 
1) Friday On My Mind: The Easybeats (1966)
2) I (Friday Night): Dubstar (2000)
3) Ghostrider (Cover of Suicide): Gavin Friday & Dave Ball (2009)
4) Friday Night, Saturday Morning (Live @ Brixton Academy): The Specials (2009)
5) Window Shopping (Single Version By Jerry Dammers): The Friday Club (1985)
6) Tell Me Easter's On Friday: Associates (1981)
7) Fridays (Up-Person Mix): Vini Reilly (1991)
8) Friday's Child (Cover of Lee Hazlewood): Goodbye Mr. Mackenzie (1991)
9) Last Friday Night (Live Lounge Session, BBC Radio 1) (Cover of Katy Perry): The Vaccines (2011)
10) Friday I'm In Love (Cover of The Cure): Yo La Tengo (2015)
 
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