This was popular last time out, so let's go round again with another seven posts featuring three songs that have a day of the week in the title. Day two, of course, is Tuesday.
I ummed and aahed about running this series again because some days, most notably today, proved quite hard to find another three decent songs for. Anyway, let's see what you make of today's barrel-scrapings ... although that's a bit harsh on this slice of MacGowan-less Pogues from 1993. Spider Stacy handles vocal duties on Tuesday Morning.
Well, that's alright but it's not going to win any prizes. Neither's this, from Cat Stevens' 1971 album Teaser and the Firecat, an LP famous for Moonshadow and Morning Has Broken. This track, Tuesday's Dead, is less well known, of course, and that's a shame; it doesn't feel 52 years old, does it? Wish I could say the same, frankly.
So how do you follow the folky noodlings of the artist now known as Yusuf Islam? Why, with a recommendation and some mid-80s indie jangle, of course. Khayem suggested this in the comments, and who I am to argue? This is Meet Me On Tuesday, by The Brilliant Corners. It's a bounce-around-the-room corker.
No prizes for guessing what happens tomorrow ...
No Laughing Gnome era Bowie?
ReplyDelete‘Love You Till Tuesday’ is a peach.
JM
Another Stupid Tuesday by Nick Heyward may or may not be an album filler but it’s got a certain charm nonetheless.
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Rest assured, I am curating a list in the (admittedly unlikely) event I run this series a third time.
DeleteHere you go then...
DeleteChairmen Of The Board - Everything's Tuesday
Primal Scream - Gentle Tuesday
Cosmo Jarvis - He Only Goes Out On Tuesdays
Bobbie Gentry - Hurry, Tuesday Child
Linoleum - On A Tuesday
The Loft - On A Tuesday
And, of course...
Gavin Osborn - Pretty Sure It's Tuesday
I'll be back with more once you've completed Volume 3.
I had sworn off a third round, but I've got no real excuse now, have I?
DeleteNot barrel-scrapings at all but certainly less familiar. Think I liked Khayem's pick best this time.
ReplyDelete"It doesn't feel 52 years old, does it? Wish I could say the same, frankly." Very funny Martin. As it turns out songs from my year of birth haven't aged well at all. Something happened around the late '60s that meant music from then became almost timeless. In David Hepworth's book, 1971, he decided that having been born in 1950 it was like winning the lottery of life as you turned 21 just as some of the most seminal albums ever made came out.
That sounds like a book I'd like to read.
DeleteI’ve got it in front of me - the full title is 1971 Never A Dull Moment, Rock’s Golden Year.
DeleteYes I think you’d like it - his writing is excellent too.
Alyson
Thanks, will investigate further.
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