thefriday7: 24th October 2008

I'm doing this early this week which is a suprise to both you and me, whoever you may be. And by early I mean on the actual day it's meant to be done on. After the lengthy trek through My Life In Music, we get back to normal business with the friday 7, well sort of as this week we plug in the headphones for a trip through the last week's playlist of Dave. One track a day from the mp3 player of life.

Friday
Mansun: Being A Girl

I used to really hate Mansun, but over the years I've warmed to them like broad beans. Being a Girl is them at their best, and any song that comes in two parts, an two so very different parts is alright by me. It's not great, and it won't change the world, but it's intersting and I'd rather have something interesting rather than something average. The video featured a young Danny Mockney Twat Dyer, but don't hold that against them, and instead of giving space to him, here's a live version instead



Saturday
The Saturdays: If This Is Love

Is that Yazoo being sampled there by the latest new Girls Aloud? I think it is, and if it's not it's pretty damn close. Here's both to listen to and compare. Even so, it's a blinking good piece of pop and the nubile young lady singers make it better than it probably is. Two of them were in S Club Juniors. God I feel old.






Sunday
Stereolab: French Disco
This always reminds me of better times, of summers spent by the res drinking cider and dancing like a loon in dodgy clubs in Bradford. Pan European Electroindie that made me think of being an astronaut and heading off into space, even though I was in my twenties lived in Lancashire, existed off of egg and chips and booze, and stood no bloody chance. Still we can dream.




Monday
Richard X vs Liberty X: Being Nobody
I love bastard pop, and I really thought Liberty X were underrated in the pop stakes. This was one of the first commercially successful bastard pop mash ups, with the X's cover of the Chaka Kahn classic mixed in with Human League's Being Boiled to great effect. Not too sure about the afro though...





Tuesday
The Kaiser Chiefs: Never Miss A Beat
The album is rank, the single is a bit Kaisers by numbers and the record label have disabled the video on Youtube so you'll have to watch it to decide for yourself. God I want to kill Mark Ronson.

Wednesday
Prince & Sheena Easton: U Got The Look
Was doing the Dj thing last night when this girl came up with requests.
"Got any Metalica?"
"No"
"Got any Slipknot?"
"Yeah, play you some. Anything else?"
"Got any Prince?"

It was this or either Purple Rain or Sign O' The Times. This is much better. I'd forgotten how good Prince was.



Thursday
Georgie Fame & the Blue Flames: Somebody Stole My Thunder
Georgie was one of those artist who you knew by music and not by name. I remember hearing bits and pieces of his growing up, and found this on a bizarre compilation disk. Big style 60s arrangement horns and bass, and Georgies trademark laid back, understated vocal. It's one of those get up and dance songs that I absolutely love