No prizes for guessing what post number this is.
Here's an eclectic 90 minutes of songs, remixes or acts featuring either '1000' or 'thousand' in the name. What was a little surprising was just how many examples are bouncing around in my collection. Even my shortlist contained roughly twice as many songs as made the final selection.
Something for everyone, although not necessarily all together or in the right order. Ride, Hoodoo Gurus, Dengue Fever, The Sugarcubes, Gram Parsons, Gonzales, Stereolab, the selection also hops around the world a fair bit. Speaking of which...
Those of you who follow the excellent 27 Leggies and in particular Ernie's African Odyssey will have been hugely disappointed by the difficult decision to exclude the mighty King Ayisoba from this week's stop off in Ghana, such was the embarrassment of musical riches emanating from the country. Rest assured, his majesty makes an appearance here, with one of the songs that Ernie originally posted and part of my introduction to the Ghanaian great.
The selection closes with a two-hander from XTC and The Coral and I don't think I could have picked two better songs to wrap up.
Viel spaß mit meiner tausendsten beitragsauswahl, meine Freunde!
1) 1000 Miles: Ride (1994)
2) Rilly Groovy (S1000 Mix By Spencer Williams & Mike Koglin): Beautiful People ft. Jimi Hendrix (1992)
3) Furious Angels (Rollo's Thousand Volts Mix): Rob Dougan (1998)
4) 1000 Miles Away: Hoodoo Gurus ft. Vicki Peterson (1991)
5) One Thousand Miles An Hour: Stereolab (1995)
6) 1000 Faces: Gonzales (2002)
7) Through It Poured The Next Day, I Never Noticed The Rain (Single Version): One Thousand Violins (1986)
8) One Thousand Tears Of A Tarantula (Album Version): Dengue Fever (2005)
9) One Thousand Years: TUU (1993)
10) Swords Of A Thousand Men: Tenpole Tudor (1981)
11) 1000 Dollar Car: The Bottle Rockets (1994)
12) Son Of A Thousand Fathers: Prince Fatty & Mutant Hi-Fi (2011)
13) 1000 Miles: Dirty Three (1996)
14) Blue-Eyed Pop (S1000 Mix By Spencer Williams & Mike Koglin): The Sugarcubes (1992)
15) 1000 Can Die: King Ayisoba ft. M3nsa & Lee 'Scratch' Perry (2017)
16) $1000 Wedding: Gram Parsons ft. Emmylou Harris (1974)
17) A Girl Like You (1000 Times) (Remix By Howard Gray): The Wolfgang Press ft. Claudia Fontaine (1992)
18) 1000 Umbrellas: XTC (1986)
19) 1000 Years: The Coral (2010)
1974: $1000 Wedding: 16
1981: Eddie, Old Bob, Dick And Gary: 10
1986: Please Don't Sandblast My House EP: 7
1986: Skylarking (2016 Steven Wilson Mix): 18
1991: Kinky: 4
1992: A Girl Like You EP: 17
1992: It's-It: 14
1992: Rilly Groovy EP: 2
1993: One Thousand Years: 9
1994: Carnival Of Light: 1
1994: The Brooklyn Side: 11
1995: The In Sound EP: 5
1996: Horse Stories: 13
1998: Furious Angels EP: 3
2002: Presidential Suite: 6
2005: Escape From Dragon House: 8
2010: Butterfly House: 19
2011: Return Of Gringo!: 12
2017: 1000 Can Die: 15
And if that's not enough for you, there are thousands of others that could have made the cut.
Contributing today's cover photo, I bought the 12" of I Feel It/Thousand by Moby in the 1990s. I remember reading in Mixmag or DJ magazine at the time that the song achieved a Guinness World Record for having the fastest BPM tempo of any released single, peaking at approximately 1,015 beats per minute.
None of which means the song is any good, of course. Rather than subject you to the full version, here's two minutes of Moby "performing" Thousand at the Electric Daisy Carneval in (I think) 2015. Health warning: strobe lights, plus a bald, pasty-skinned man topless and puffing his chest out to the largely indifferent masses. The fireworks are lovely, though.
Someone else who's still rocking the hairspray and lippy like it's 1985 is Robert Smith of The Cure. Here's A Thousand Hours (and bonus At Night) performed last October in Los Angeles. The venue is the Smoothie King Center, presumably named after a US company/sponsor but was there ever a more appropriately named venue for ol' Bob?
Back to 1994 and The Fatima Mansions live on stage 1000%, again cutting away to some fairly blank faces. Phillistines! I saw Cathal Coughlan and crew at The Fleece in Bristol around the same time and it was one of the most blistering, incendiary gigs I've been to. A greatly missed creative genius.
You get some strange stuff on You Tube, don't you? I love The Beloved and I really like the song 1000 Years From Today. One fan has taken this one step further and created their own video. Not the mental image I had when listening to the song previously.
I have one song by Lia Ices aka Leah Kessel, courtesy of a Mojo magazine cover mount CD. A bit of an insult really, given that she's released four albums since 2008. Luckily for Lia, the one song is called Thousand Eyes so it gets a mention here. Not a fan-made video, although it's cut-and-paste job shamelessly stealing from Bollywood.
And for those of you who on seeing the post title and theme have been shouting "Where's Slough's finest, Thousand Yard Stare, for feck's sake?!" at the screen ever since, I think it's about time you got your comeuppance.
No, I mean the song's called Comeuppance...
Wait, come back....
...oh, now I've gone and done it.
