"Oh Well (Live)" by Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. Talking of superb covers … as I wrote 🖇️ here not even a month ago - a glorious cover of track by Fleetwood Mac. Before John and Stevie. Even before Christine. Bonus Round ... 🔗🍎🎵 PartONE that Tom covered. 🔗🍎🎵 PartTWO that Tom did not cover - totally different and Peter Green's favourite part.
"I Write the Songs" by Barry Manilow Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. Never a fan of Barry. Too saccharine, too schmaltzy. Not my style - but there is always an exception to the rule (still looking for Rush’s exception - but that remains another story.) When I first heard this in 1976 - my instant reaction - was - ‘TYPICAL - BLOODY BARRY. ’I’ write the songs … seriously?
"Une Nuit a Paris, Pt. 1 / The Same Night In Paris, Pt. 2 / Later the Same Night In Paris, Pt. 3" by 10cc Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. Thought I would follow a prompt for a change: Share a song you call something other than its official title. What do you call it? That's the way the croissant crumbles Epic - from one of the most underplayed bands in the history of 'oldy goldys' - 10CC - and this offering will always be 'One Night in Paris' - I am English for heaven's sake.
"Perfect Day" by Lou Reed Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. Whenever it doesn’t seem right … Lou sets me straight. View John Philpin's Crucial Tracks profile Listen to my Apple Music playlist
"The New Math (What He Said)" by OSI Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. I was sat on a plane reading an interview with Bowie who talked about this band he'd just heard. Made a note of it, and ordered it online. Their first album arrived and this was the first track and I was IN. How could you not be? View John Philpin's Crucial Tracks profile
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"Thank You for the Music" by ABBA Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. Today’s post is a sister post to this one. My memory … sitting alone tin a large Odeon(?) cinema - South London - Streatham. I really can’t recall the movie - except the closing credits - as Wiki says: The song also plays over the closing titles as the camera pans out from the band performing in a hut on an island in the Stockholm archipelago to views of the archipelago itself.
"When an Old Cricketer Leaves the Crease" by Roy Harper Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. I wouldn’t describe myself as a fan of cricket .. but this one is nothing to do with cricket and everything to do with life. Been in the soundtrack of my life for 51 and counting years and hard to reach the end without life memories coming to the fore.
"The Ocean" by Richard Hawley Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. Hawley’s voice has me … every time. You can … I do .. just fall into his songs .. not just the ocean, View John Philpin's Crucial Tracks profile Listen to my Apple Music playlist
"Infected" by The The Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. The first track of Matt’s second album left the speakers in my living room and arrived in my ears nearly forty years ago. I never looked back .. the power of this opening track hit me like a sledgehammer and does a stunning job of introducing the ‘tour de force’ that is the album.