A Danger To Ourselves

Ten songs featuring David Sylvian, spanning his first solo single in 1984, an unexpected collaboration earlier this year and eight more diversions over the past four decades.

This is a sequel of sorts to Saturday's post, which focused on the Top 10 Jaoan songs challenge, posted by Top10Nathan on Bluesky. 

Whilst I enjoyed but didn't participate in it, I couldn't resist the inevitable follow up challenge, to post the Top 10 David Sylvian songs.

It was a fairly open brief, spanning not just David's solo albums (of which there are plenty) but also his collaborative efforts, including his 1993 partnership with Robert Fripp, the Nine Horses collective, and many, many guests appearances with other artists. 

I didn't have a defined sequence of ten songs to start, rather a short list of about 15-20, which I was deciding on instinct for the first five days, by which time the final five and order had been settled on.

These are not my Top 10 David Sylvian songs: there are far too many for that; I could have pretty much posted the whole of Brilliant Trees for example, and 'padded out' with a few more songs. 

I also imposed a couple of rules: vocal songs only, no instrumental pieces, and only one pick from each release; not that it made the shortlisting process any easier.

I knew from the start that the opening song would be Cosa Rora by Lucrecia Dalt, which came out on 28th February 2025. It's a great song as it is, but the completely unexpected spoken word passage by David at the end seals the deal. Check out the EP on Bandcamp, if you haven't already.

I also knew that the selection would end with Waterfront, from 1987's Secrets Of The Beehive, another album that I could have posted in its entirety for the majority of my 'Top 10'. 

My one song rule meant that I had to forego other brilliant songs such as Orpheus and Let The Happiness In, though others picked up on these and more on Bluesky.

It had to be Waterfront, though. The piano and strings arrangement by Ryuichi Sakamoto is sublime, and David's voice is so rich and deep that it gets me every single time. I've been moved to tears on occasion when the song has caught me in a moment.

To me, Red Guitar and Darshan represent the populist end of the Sylvian spectrum. The former was such a striking solo single in 1984, and a stark change of direction from where Japan had been heading. In sequencing Red Guitar as the immediate follow up to a new song, I also appreciate how timeless David's music is. Hearing the opening two songs for the first time, I think you would be hard pressed to guess that forty one years separated them.

Darshan appears on the David Sylvian and Robert Fripp album, The First Day. The original studio version is over seventeen minutes long. I instead went for a remix by The Grid, which clocks in at a 'mere' sixteen minutes and eight seconds. 

After an ambient introduction for three minutes, the beats kick in and David's voice and Robert's guitar lock into the groove, to great effect. I love Dave Ball and Richard Norris' partnership, but it's one of my favourites of their many remixes. 

I don't know if this was a label prompt (both were with Virgin at the time, alongside The Future Sound Of London, who also provide an epic reconstruction) but I'm siure that it would have needed David and Robert's buy in. Either way,  I'm glad that the Darshan EP came to be.

The natural follow on is 1989 one-off Pop Song, which of course is anything but...and yet. I loved it then as I do now, but Pop Song's quirky time signature and sudden pauses and, despite it's non-conformist structure and against all odds, for being an ear worm. 

I've paired a couple more collaborations, separated by a decade. David continued to work with his former Japan bandmates, including early contributions to Mick Karn's solo career. Buoy was the single from 1986 album Dreams Of Reason Produce Monsters, and it's great, though for this selection, I've gone for When Love Walks In which I think could also have been a contender for a promotional release.

David first collaborated with Russell Mills on 1991's Ember Glance (The Permanence Of Memory), comprising a near 33-minute piece The Beekeeper's Apprentice, and Epiphany, just shy of two and a half minutes. 

David returned half a decade later to guest on Russell's first album under his alter ego Undark. Notorious for returning to, refining and reworking his music, the Undark song How Safe Is Deep? is no exception, appearing a few years later on the Godman EP in two variations, re-titled Shadowland.

The rest of the selection comprises songs from the 1990s and 2000s, perhaps a period that many are less familiar with, though none the less rewarding in my experience. Dead Bees On A Cake (1999) and Blemish (2003) particularly resonate with me and whilst I've only relatively recently come to Nine Horses, it's another rich and deep addition to the Sylvian oeuvre. The song pick here features Stina Nordenstam, who proves a perfect vocal foil for David.

For something that began in a very loosely planned way, I'm really happy with the end result. Far from comprehensive, yet I think it captures the essence of why David Sylvian's body of work is so challenging and so rewarding. As ever, you'll be the judge of that!

1) Cosa Rara (Single Version): Lucrecia Dalt ft. David Sylvian (2025)

2) Red Guitar (Album Version): David Sylvian (1984)

3) Darkest Dreaming: David Sylvian (1999)

4) When Love Walks In: Mick Karn ft. David Sylvian (1986)

5) How Safe Is Deep?: Undark ft. David Sylvian (1996)

6) Darshan (The Road To Graceland) (Translucent Remix By The Grid aka Dave Ball & Richard Norris): David Sylvian & Robert Fripp (1993)

7) Pop Song: David Sylvian (1989)

8) Wonderful World (Album Version): Nine Horses ft. Stina Nordenstam (2005)

9) Late Night Shopping (Album Version): David Sylvian (2003)

10) Waterfront: David Sylvian (1987)

1984: Red Guitar EP / Brilliant Trees: 2

1986: Dreams Of Reason Produce Monsters: 4

1987: Secrets Of The Beehive: 10

1989: Pop Song EP: 7

1993: Darshan EP: 6

1996: Undark 3396: 5

1999: Dead Bees On A Cake: 3

2003: Blemish: 9

2005: Snow Borne Sorrow: 8

2025: Cosa Rara EP: 1

A Danger To Ourselves (58:48) (KF) (Mega)

If you like this, why not try Nostalgia Burns, my previous David Sylvian selection from February 2023? I didn't look at it prior to picking my 10 songs for Nathan's Bluesky challenge but incredibly I've managed to avoid duplicating any of the above tracklist. Even more incredibly, I managed to fit 11 songs into under 47 minutes!

Note: A few hours after posting this, I received an email from Lucrecia Dalt's mailing list, advertising her upcoming new album. It's title? "A Danger To Ourselves"...!

Still Life

Forty seven minutes of Japan, spanning all five studio albums from 1978 to 1981.

This selection started off earlier this month, when Top10Nathan had the idea of posing a Top 10 Japan songs on Bluesky.

I didn't actually take part in the end, as I couldn't even begin to think where to start. My older brother was obsessed with Japan in the early 80s and therefore I was immersed in their music, all the albums, the Assemblage double play cassette, the live album Oil On Canvas and the final compilation Exorcising Ghosts.

I really enjoyed seeing what others were picking each day, whether their lists were ranked or unranked, random or carefully considered and curated. By this point, I felt that I'd bottled it and started thinking about it some more. 

Technically, I'd already been there. Around 1989, I recorded a C90 side of Japan music called Polaroid, though this was mostly drawn from my 12" vinyl singles and only ran to 9 songs. The flip side was resequenced songs from the Associates' album Sulk.

So, I started to imagine this less as a Top 10 Japan selection, but more of an imaginary Side 2 to the Polaroid cassette from 1989. Still Life In Mobile Homes was an early pick, which provided a complimentary title for this compilation.

Assemblage (on vinyl) was the first Japan album that I bought for myself, and I have never had a problem reconciling the band and sound of the first two albums, with the transitory period of Quiet Life, and the dramatically different aural palette for the final two albums. 

Which is lucky, given that here I have followed up Ghosts with Adolescent Sex...!

As with the first 'side', there are a couple of cover versions. Whereas the previous two reimagined songs by The Velvet Underground and Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, here the focus is on Marvin Gaye and Barbra Streisand. 

Sadly, the world has lost Mick Karn (2011) and spiritual/honorary member Ryuichi Sakamoto (2023), but David Sylvian, Steve Jansen, Richard Barbieri and Rob Dean have all continued to make music in recent years.

What a legacy to be found in Japan, though.

1) The Art Of Parties (Extended Version By Japan & John Punter) (1981)

2) Ain't That Peculiar (Cover of Marvin Gaye) (1980)

3) Ghosts (Album Version By Japan & Steve Nye) (1981)

4) Adolescent Sex (Single Version By Ray Singer) (1978)

5) Don't Rain On My Parade (Cover of Barbra Streisand) (1978)

6) Despair (1979)

7) Still Life In Mobile Homes (1981)

8) Stateline (1978)

9) Sometimes I Feel So Low (1978)

10) Taking Islands In Africa (Remix By Steve Nye) (1981)

1978: Adolescent Sex: 5

1978: Don't Rain On My Parade EP: 8

1978: Obscure Alternatives: 9

1978: The Unconventional/Adolescent Sex EP: 4

1979: Quiet Life: 6

1980: Gentlemen Take Polaroids: 2

1981: The Art Of Parties EP: 1

1981: Tin Drum: 3, 7

1981: Visions Of China EP: 10

Still Life (47:37) (KF) (Mega)

You can find the 1989 C90 compilation Polaroid right here.

If you're left wanting more Japan-inspired music, here's more, much more!

Big In Japan: various (March 2022)

KarnAge: Mick Karn (January 2023)

Pioneer: Ryuichi Sakamoto (April 2023)

Pioneer

Celebrating Ryuichi Sakamoto 坂本龍, 17th January 1952 to 28th March 2023.

 

I was born in 1970 so it's little surprise that my entry point to Sakamoto's music wasn't Yellow Magic Orchestra but Japan, although I wasn't particularly aware of it at the time, and the follow up singles Bamboo Houses/Bamboo Music and Forbidden Colours with David Sylvian.

 

My brother had a giant poster of Japan on his bedroom wall, featuring honorary band member Masami Tsuchiya and I appreciated the beautiful synchronicity of a band called Japan having a Japanese musician in their line up. It was probably from reading my brother's copies of Smash Hits (delivered every week by the paper boy) that I read that Ryuichi Sakamoto had performed with Japan on their Sons Of Pioneers tour in 1982.

 

That seemed the natural starting point for this selection, which I've wrestled with since news on Sunday of Sakamoto's inevitable and heartbreaking passing, following a long battle with cancer. One of my favourite Japan songs, Taking Islands In Africa, from 1980's Gentlemen Take Polaroids, is credited to Sakamoto and David Sylvian and features Ryuichi on keyboards. In researching this post, I came across a fascinating post by David J Nibloe on his Vista blog which reveals some of the deeper story behind the Sakamoto's meeting with Japan and the recording of the song.

I've skipped the aforementioned Sakamoto/Sylvian collaborations as they both appeared on my recent David Sylvian selection (which I've made available again via a link below), but the two worked together many many times over the subsequent years and decades. I've picked Midnight Sun, arguably a lesser known, bluesy track from Sylvian's 1999 album Dead Bees On A Cake, featuring Ryuichi Sakamoto and Marc Ribot. 

 

The main, instrumental theme from Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, in it's vocal version better known as Forbidden Colours, also makes an appearance alongside The Last Emperor. I was incredibly moved by both films when I first watched them, not just for the striking visual narrative but also Ryuichi Sakamoto's soundtrack which is a character and voice in it's own right. I've barely dipped into his film composition work outside of these two but it's incredible to think that Sakamoto was creating something on the scale and power of The Last Emperor in 1987 whilst also releasing the poppier Risky with Iggy Pop. 

 

Ryuichi Sakamoto's capacity to ignore boundaries, to blend genres and create new ones, has been a constant source of fascination even if I've only intermittently followed his career. I draw parallels with John Cale, who to me has similarly pursued a desire to explore new paths, different ways of (musical) expression and artists to collaborate with.

So this selection ended up not being a straightforward Ryuichi Sakamoto selection at all, including not just his work with Yellow Magic Orchestra and as a solo artist but also his remixes, co-writes and appearances on other people's songs. This is how I discovered his wider body of work and it felt appropriate to try to capture that feeling across a mere 80 minutes. The original 'shortlist' was over two and a half hours, so some tough choices along the way.

 

Some of these songs will be familiar, though not necessarily in the versions presented here, there are frequent changes from upbeat to downtempo, quiet to loud, vocal to instrumental, pop to something harder to define.   

 

Having started with the band that first introduced me to Ryuichi Sakamoto, it seemed somehow fitting to close with a remix that he produced for his daughter Miu. Hard to believe that this alone is now 25 years old. Harder still to believe that Sakamoto-san has gone, but his vast musical legacy leaves much to discover and re-discover in the years to come.

 

Rest well, 坂本龍

 

1) Taking Islands In Africa (Album Version By John Punter): Japan (1980)

2) Fatalism (Ryuichi Sakamoto & Yukihiro Takahashi Remix): Massive Attack ft. Guy Garvey & Martina Topley-Bird (2010)

3) Rocket Factory: Sheena & The Rokkets ft. Yellow Magic Orchestra (1979)

4) Firecracker (Special DJ Copy): Yellow Magic Orchestra (1978)

5) Risky (Extended Mix By Julian Mendelsohn): Ryuichi Sakamoto ft. Iggy Pop (1987)

6) eena ferroix (Ryuichi Sakamoto Mix): CoH (2014)

7) The Last Emperor - Theme Variation 1: Ryuichi Sakamoto (1987)

8) Midnight Sun: David Sylvian ft. Ryuichi Sakamoto & Marc Ribot (1999)

9) Love & Hate (Message Mix - Single Edit): Ryuichi Sakamoto ft. Holly Johnson (1994)

10) Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence: Ryuichi Sakamoto (1983)

11) Behind The Mask (Remixed By Mark Gamble): YMO Versus The Human League (1993)

12) 0318: Fennesz + Sakamoto (2011)

13) Completion: Willits & Sakamoto (2012)

14) Drip Dry Eyes (Album Version): Sandii ft. Yellow Magic Orchestra (1980)

15) Field Work (Long Tokyo Mix): Ryuichi Sakamoto ft. Thomas Dolby (1985)

16) solari (Jóhann Jóhannsson Rework): Ryuichi Sakamoto (2017)

17) Awakening (Endo Mix By Ryuichi Sakamoto): Miu Sakamoto (1998)

Pioneer (1:21:28) (KF) (Mega)

If, like me, this leaves you wanting to hear more Ryuichi Sakamoto then you may be happy to know that I've re-posted a few of my previous Dubhed selections where he makes an appearance. 

 

David Sylvian: Nostalgia Burns (February 2023)

Mick Karn: KarnAge (January 2023)

Various: Big In Japan (March 2022)

For Ryuichi-san

The sad news that we have been expecting finally came this weekend: Ryuichi Sakamoto passed away last Tuesday, 28th March at the age of 71.

I will at some point post a selection as a tribute, but there are so many angles and facets that I frankly didn't know where to start. However, artists around the world have posted their own personal musical dedications, several available as 'name your price' downloads. 

 

I've shared a few that I've found and liked, starting with a couple of short pieces. Firstly, Kazakhstan-born, Italy-based pianist Sasha Pavlova, recorded in 2014 when she was 16 years old. Next up is Dereck Higgins, from Omaha, Nebraska, swapping bass for some emotive keyboard and synth washes.

 

Back across the Atlantic and up to Perth in Scotland for Mr. Taguen Archives, who has created a transporting fifteen minute piece inspired by Ryuichi Sakamoto's work with Alva Noto.

 

Last but not least (this one's not free) is Victor Sol aka Lars Müller from Germany, who goes even further out there with three mixes of Even Tide, all eighteen minutes long and on a first listen, not all that different. Aptly described as "muzique to zone out_drone out".

 

I'll post my own tribute to Ryuichi Sakamoto as soon as I can complete a selection that comes remotely close to doing him justice. Sad news indeed.

 

  

 

 

Nostalgia Burns

A selection of David Sylvian songs has been percolating since I posted about his first 'interview' (actually an audio diary), broadcast on Mary Anne Hobbs' 6 Music radio show last October.

Undaunted (or just plain foolish), I've matched the ambition of David Sylvian's career-spanning compilation A Victim Of Stars, released in 2012. Whereas that sought to encapsulate three decades in 31 songs, I've attempted the same with 11 songs and just over three quarters of an hour.

My other constraint was to avoid using any songs that appear on a David Sylvian C90 compilation that I recorded in the early 1990s, spanning 1984 to 1989 and most of the singles from that period. Inexplicably, The Ink In The Well didn't feature on that cassette and I used a different version of Taking The Veil, so they’re in. However, it does mean that this selection doesn't feature anything from Secrets Of The Beehive, possibly my favourite Sylvian solo album, jostling for pole position with Brilliant Trees. On the plus side, that battered old tape didn't include either of David Sylvian's hit singles with Ryuichi Sakamoto, so they make the cut here.

 

David Sylvian's music has arguably taken an increasingly esoteric path and I've only relatively recently started to dive back into his catalogue, having stopped regularly buying his albums with 1999's Dead Bees On A Cake. This selection falls slightly short of A Victim Of Stars' scope, 'only' covering 1982 to 2011. Rather than mirror that compilation’s straight chronological path, I've mixed things up, finding my own way through the songs in a direction which I think makes sense from start to end.

 

The selection didn't start with the intention that it would specifically be a Sunday post, but I think it works particularly well, listened to on a dark, cold weekend in winter.

 

1) The Ink In The Well (Remix) (1984)

2) The Greatest Living Englishman (Coda) (Manafon Variation) (2011)

3) Taking The Veil (7" Version) (1986)

4) Dobro #1 (1999)

5) Godman (Wagon Christ Mix By Luke Vibert) (1999)

6) Forbidden Colours (Theme From "Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence") (Vocal Version): David Sylvian & Ryuichi Sakamoto (1983)

7) Small Metal Gods (Album Version) (2009)

8) Blemish (Remixed By Burnt Friedman) (2005)

9) Five Lines (2010)

10) Bamboo Music (Full Length Version): David Sylvian & Ryuichi Sakamoto (1982)

11) A Fire In The Forest (Album Version) (2003)

 

1982: Bamboo Houses EP: 10

1983: Forbidden Colours EP / Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence OST: 6

1984: The Ink In The Well EP: 1

1986: Taking The Veil EP / Gone To Earth: 3

1999: Dead Bees On A Cake: 4

1999: Godman EP: 5 

2003: Blemish: 11

2005: The Good Son vs. The Only Daughter: The Blemish Remixes: 8

2009: Manafon: 7

2010: Sleepwalkers: 9

2011: Died In The Wool: Manafon Variations: 2

 

Nostalgia Burns (46:50) (KF) (Mega)

KarnAge

Last July, I picked up Mick Karn's 2001 album Each Eye A Path along with it's 2002 remix companion, Each Path A Remix. 

I'll confess that I've not really followed Mick Karn's career, post-Japan, bar his first two solo albums, Dali's Car, a short-lived collaboration with Pete Murphy and a one-off single (After A Fashion) with Midge Ure. I'm slowly trying to catch up.

Mick Karn fought cancer and sadly died on 4th January 2011 at the age of 52. I turned 52 in December, so it strikes a chord, listening to his music and appreciating what the legacy of what was a ridiculously short life. 

I really like both albums, which both complement more than contrast with each other. I've spent the last couple of months integrating the two, playing them simultaneously in different running order, finding combinations of tracks that seemed to work well until I ended up with the selection presented here. 

 

I've used ten of the nineteen tracks across the two albums, ever so slightly favouring Karn's original, produced by Karn and Steve Jansen. Richard Barbieri and Ryuichi Sakamoto both provide remixes, alongside other Karn collaborators David Torn and Yoshihiro Hanno. It makes for an interesting and satisfying three quarters of an hour and, like me, hopefully a prompt for you to seek out more of Mick Karn's body of work. It will reward you.

1) Angel's Got A Lotus (Album Version By Mick Karn & Steve Jansen)

2) Latin Mastock (Album Version By Mick Karn & Steve Jansen)

3) Puppeteer Night (Remix By David Torn)

4) The Forgotten Puppeteer (Album Version By Mick Karn & Steve Jansen)

5) Up To Nil (Album Version By Mick Karn & Steve Jansen)

6) Re-Nil (Remix By Yoshihiro Hanno)

7) The Salmon Of Knowledge (Album Version By Mick Karn & Steve Jansen)

8) Big Left (Remix By Ryuichi Sakamoto)

9) Venus Monkey (Album Version By Mick Karn & Steve Jansen)

10) Angel's In The Asylum (Remix By Richard Barbieri) 

2001: Each Eye A Path: 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 9

2002: Each Path A Remix: 3, 6, 8, 10

KarnAge (46:15) (KF) (Mega)

 

It was only when scheduling this post that I realised that it almost coincides with Ryuichi Sakamoto's birthday on 17th January. Sadly, it has also coincided with the sad news of the death of fellow Yellow Magic Orchestra founder, Yukihiro Takahashi, who passed on 11th January but news of which has only been reported in these parts in the last few hours.

 

Again, I'm shamefully ignorant of his post-YMO work but as a brief tribute, I'm posting Glow Worm from Bill Nelson's 1983 mini-album Chimera, featuring Takahashi's superlative drumming and Mick Karn on bass. I didn't hear this until roughly twenty years later, but it still sounds spectacular in the 21st Century.

Your Love Will Bring Me Home

Back to the 80s disco for some Saturday fun, with an eclectic mix spanning pop, pap, alternative and ambient in 65 minutes.

Erasure start things off with Blue Savannah, which I wasn't that bothered by when it originally came out in 1989, but grew on me over the years. From there, a B-side from Matt Bianco, who unfortunately are more likely to be remembered for their ill-fated live phone-in on kids' TV show Saturday Superstore than any music they recorded.

Terence Trent D'Arby, now known only as Sananda Maitreya, goes all James Brown (that's not a euphemism) on Dance Little Sister, whilst Eartha Kitt purrs her way through Cha Cha Heels with Bronski Beat. Eartha recorded songs in twelve different languages you know, presumably not counting cat.

Bananarama get mostly dubbed out of their own song by PWL's Pete Hammond, with an introductory rhythm track that makes me think I'm going to get The Beloved's Acid Love instead. 

 

A sidestep into the murky world of Siouxsie & The Banshees, with one of their greatest songs, Peek-A-Boo, something of a change of direction for them at the time. The Silver Dollar Mix was edited for the limited edition UK 12" single; this is the full length ten-minute remix which featured in the USA and Canada. Golly Jeepers!

 

Ryuichi Sakamoto teams up with Iggy Pop for Risky, a song Ryuichi co-wrote with Bill Laswell and remixed for this 12" by Julian Mendelsohn. It's an interesting mix of different artists, to which the UK record-buying masses remained largely indifferent.

 

Likewise, White Car In Germany by Associates, one of the best songs that Billy MacKenzie and Alan Rankine ever wrote, and that's saying something. I've labelled this one as an album edit as it came from my copy of the USA version of Sulk, which remixed and re-sequenced the original album. It might well be the UK single version too, but I've never heard it to compare and contrast. Either way, a wonderful song and a stunning vocal performance from MacKenzie.

At this point, there seems no other way to go than with The Art Of Noise and one of their finest moments. This is the super extended, ten-minute remix as quite frankly, nothing else will do right now.

 

I'm finishing this post early on Saturday morning, with the weather outside seemingly unable to decide whether to be overcast or sunny; it's currently the latter. This selection's sequencing and pacing possibly reflects the mercurial nature of what's happening outside. You might not be able to dance to all of this, but I hope it brings a little ray or two of sunshine into your day.

 

1) Blue Savannah (Out Of The Blue Mix By Shep Pettibone & Goh Hotoda): Erasure (1989)

2) Smooth (Extra Smooth) (Remix By Mark Reilly & Phil Harding): Matt Bianco (1985)

3) Dance Little Sister (Part One & Two) (Remix By Shep Pettibone): Terence Trent D'Arby (1987)

4) Cha Cha Heels (12" Version): Eartha Kitt & Bronski Beat (1989)

5) Ecstasy (Wild Style) (Remix By Pete Hammond): Bananarama (1987)

6) Peek-A-Boo (Silver Dollar Mix By Mike Hedges): Siouxsie & The Banshees (1988)

7) Risky (Extended Mix By Julian Mendelsohn): Ryuichi Sakamoto ft. Iggy Pop (1987)

8) White Car In Germany (Album Version) (Edit): Associates (1982)

9) Moments In Love (Remix): The Art Of Noise ft. Camilla Pilkington (1984)

 

Your Love Will Bring Me Home (1:04:52)

Big In Japan

Songs mixed, remixed or featuring artists from Japan, including a Yellow Magic Orchestra reunion of sorts (a tenuous link as they all feature on separate tracks). 

Six songs, just over half an hour and nearly four decades. Enjoy!

1) A Song For Yukiko: TrIcky ft. Yukiko Takahashi & John Suzuki (2001)

2) Voce Seconda (Haruomi Hosono Remix): Ennio Morricone (2003)

3) Out Here (Mix By Susumu Yokota): HiM (2002)

4) Flying Tiger (Zongamin Remix By Susumu Mukai): Dreems (2021)

5) Insect Collector (Remix By Ryuichi Sakamoto): Shonen Knife (1997)

6) 又会う日まで / God Be With You Till We Meet Again (Mixed By Yasuhiko Terada & Yukihiro Takahashi): Yen Artists (1985)

 

1985: Yen Memorial Album: 6

1997: Super Mix: 5

2001: Blowback: 1

2002: HiM Remix Series #1: Japan EP: 3

2003: Ennio Morricone Remixes Volume 2: 2

2021: Flying Tiger EP: 4

Big In Japan (32:36) (KF) (Mega)

Faye Dunaway

Barney (... And Me) from The Boo Radleys' 1993 magnum opus Giant Steps popped up randomly this week during my drive to work, which itself randomly name checks Faye Dunaway. This then got me thinking - as you do - whether it would be possible to compile a half-decent playlist of songs named after Faye Dunaway movies. The answer is yes, yes you can. I've thrown in The Boo Radleys song which inspired this particular rabbit hole, for good measure.

 

1)  Chinatown: Romeo Void (1982)

2) Bonnie And Clyde: Mick Harvey ft. Anita Lane (1995)

3) Barney (... And Me) (Album Version): The Boo Radleys (1993)

4) The Chamber: The Last Shadow Puppets (2008)

5) The Happening: Pixies (1990)

6) Towering Inferno: The Green Arrows (1975)

7) Barfly: Monaco (2000)

8) The Arrangement: Ryuichi Sakamoto ft. Robin Scott (1982)

9) Casanova: Roxy Music (1974)

10) Last Goodbye (Album Version): Jeff Buckley (1994)

 

Faye Dunaway (38:17)