From yesterday's new music in 2024 to today's selection of 14 songs from 1954. I wonder what people in 2094, on the edge of the 22nd century, will think of today's music, similarly seven decades in the past?
A fair few of these have come from cover-mounted CDs with Mojo or Uncut magazine, usually delving into the songs that inspired the likes of Bob Dylan, David Bowie, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds and Fleetwood Mac. It's
hard to imagine the thrill of the new back in '54, when the needle hit
the platter and people heard these songs for the very first time.
When I was a teen, this music was already 30 years old and really sounded like it was from another time. Lady K listens to a lot of music that's 30 years old but the music of 1994 doesn't feel so dated or different from much of the music that's being made today.
And whilst I see and hear that in a positive way, music as a continual complement and inspiration rather than homogenous regurgitation, it's good sometimes to go back to music that in so many ways has informed and inspired music right up to the present day but is also very much of its time.
1) Blue Moon Of Kentucky: Bill Monroe
2) I Don't Care If The Sun Don't Shine: Elvis Presley
3) (We're Gonna) Rock Around The Clock: Bill Haley & His Comets
4) I'm Just A Country Boy: Harry Belafonte
5) Hernando's Hideaway: Arche Blever
6) Rose Marie: Slim Whitman
7) Grande Jacques (C'est Trop Facile): Jacques Brel
8) Joy Spring: Clifford Brown & Max Roach Quintet
9) Shake It: Johnny Otis & His Orchestra
10) When My Heart Beats Like A Hammer: B.B. King
11) Last Night: Little Walter
12) The Streets Of Laredo: Roy Rogers
13) No Place To Go: Howlin' Wolf
14) Katy Cruel: Peggy Seeger
