Blue Moon Playlist Review Club - Season 2 - Episode 32 - threespires - Could have been a Contender (pg 472)

Mancitydoogle said:
Couple that might not be on your ‘Memphis ‘ playlist
’Thars how I got to Memphis’ covered by lots of artists but the Buddy Miller is my favourite.
’Memphis in the Meantime’ John Hiatt
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Hiatt's song most certainly is, but the version of "That's How I Got To Memphis" was from Eddy Mitchell and Gregory Porter, my favorite. I just added Buddy Miller's version in your hono(u)r. :-)

My Memphis playlist has about 90 songs on it, so needless to say it has had years of R&D and playing as I visited.

Some unknown gems(?) of the rock persuasion include:
Memphis Creep - Oblivions
The Prettiest Waitress in Memphis - Cory Branan
Voice Of Memphis - Negro Terror
Sequestered in Memphis - The Hold Steady
Bluff City Ruckus - Porch Ghouls

and just for historical context, I couldn't not mention "Motel in Memphis" - Old Crow Medicine Show. A fantastic and quite moving song.
 
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I’ll be happy to next weeks playlist and have time to do the updates as works slowing down, however happy to go with the Christmas songs if preferred.
 
I enjoyed all the songs on @stoneblue's original list, with "Edinburgh" and "Oxford Girl" being the picks of the bunch.

The Big Winner

"Xanadu" - Rush

A lot of good songs this week but nothing new that stood out above the rest. However, Rush's "Xanadu" is such an amazing song full of intricate changes and goose bump-raising moments that it has to be this week's big winner.

Best of the list that I hadn't previously heard

"Edinburgh" - Adam Holmes
"Katmandu" - Yusuf/Cat Stevens
"Oxford Girl" - Oysterband
"London" - Benjamin Clementine
"Memphis in the Rain" - Justin Townes Earle
"Manchester" - The Beautiful South - weird hearing all these local places in a pop song
"Rich Men North of Richmond" - Oliver Anthony Music
"Ohio Heat" Super Furry Animals
"Babylon's Burning" - The Ruts
"The Derby Ram" - Erland and the Carnival
"Angel from Montgomery" - John Prine & Bonnie Riatt
"Dublin Blues" - Guy Clark
"Midnight in Harlem" - Tedeschi Trucks Band
"Lullaby of London" - The Pogues
"New Birth in New England" - Phosphorescent
"Canadian Railroad Trilogy" - Gordon Lightfoot
"Iowa" - Dar Williams
"Goodbye England" - Laura Marling
"From Galway to Graceland" - Richard Thompson
"Laramie, Wyoming" - Richmond Fontaine
"The Sands of Iwo Jima" - Drive-By Truckers
"The Boys from Alabama" - Drive-By Truckers

Tracks I knew but enjoyed listening to again

"Going to California" - Led Zeppelin
"Sailing to Philadelphia"
"Alabama Pines" - Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit
"Rio" - Duran Duran
"Time Spent In Los Angeles" - Dawes
"Kashmir" - Led Zeppelin
"Jacksonville Skyline" - Whiskeytown
 
Coatigan said:
@threespires, a 2-0 win is about as convincing as it will get it seems, so let's just go with whatever you have in mind for Monday.

The man who beat Christmas. Sounds like a decent film title that.
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Will do. Should be possible for people to shoehorn Christmas into the theme should they wish.
 
RobMCFC said:
I enjoyed all the songs on @stoneblue's original list, with "Edinburgh" and "Oxford Girl" being the picks of the bunch.

The Big Winner

"Xanadu" - Rush

A lot of good songs this week but nothing new that stood out above the rest. However, Rush's "Xanadu" is such an amazing song full of intricate changes and goose bump-raising moments that it has to be this week's big winner.

Best of the list that I hadn't previously heard

"Edinburgh" - Adam Holmes
"Katmandu" - Yusuf/Cat Stevens
"Oxford Girl" - Oysterband
"London" - Benjamin Clementine
"Memphis in the Rain" - Justin Townes Earle
"Manchester" - The Beautiful South - weird hearing all these local places in a pop song
"Rich Men North of Richmond" - Oliver Anthony Music
"Ohio Heat" Super Furry Animals
"Babylon's Burning" - The Ruts
"The Derby Ram" - Erland and the Carnival
"Angel from Montgomery" - John Prine & Bonnie Riatt
"Dublin Blues" - Guy Clark
"Midnight in Harlem" - Tedeschi Trucks Band
"Lullaby of London" - The Pogues
"New Birth in New England" - Phosphorescent
"Canadian Railroad Trilogy" - Gordon Lightfoot
"Iowa" - Dar Williams
"Goodbye England" - Laura Marling
"From Galway to Graceland" - Richard Thompson
"Laramie, Wyoming" - Richmond Fontaine
"The Sands of Iwo Jima" - Drive-By Truckers
"The Boys from Alabama" - Drive-By Truckers

Tracks I knew but enjoyed listening to again

"Going to California" - Led Zeppelin
"Sailing to Philadelphia"
"Alabama Pines" - Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit
"Rio" - Duran Duran
"Time Spent In Los Angeles" - Dawes
"Kashmir" - Led Zeppelin
"Jacksonville Skyline" - Whiskeytown
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Got to agree on Xanadu, which is my favourite Rush epic. Spine tingling stuff.
 
Great choice for a playlist @stoneblue

Definitely the best collection of the new format, the subject matter could’ve gone on for another week at least.Very few tracks I didbt like , didn’t mind the track by The Fall and even the Rush track until the vocals come in!



The first five I liked especially’London’ and ‘Oxford Girls’



New tracks to me that I really liked

Foals
Benjamin Clementine
Thin lizzy
Richard Thompson
NQ Arbuckle
Texas Hammer
Phosphorescent
Tedeschi Trucks band

Ones I’ve heard before and love

DBT
Jackson Browne
Cry Cry Cry
Mark Knofler
Wilco
Josh Ritter
LCD Sound System
 
This list got off to a good start with @stoneblue 's folksie focus and the quality was maintained; highly enjoyable stuff albeit a bit of a monster list to get through!

Of the ones I didn't know, I really enjoyed

Benjamin Clementine
Press Club
Rich Men North of Richmond (wasn't sure where the politics were going though!)
Erland and the Carnival
Black Country, New Road
Richmond Fontaine

Once again very happy to be reminded of many great artists and songs; too many to name check but a special mention for the John Prine Bonnie Raitt collaboration, Prine was beloved by so many artists and it's great that so many of them got to record with him. Oh and the very first track on the playlist which meant I've spent a decent amount of the last two weeks listening to both Fairport and Thea Gilmore.
 
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Not around for a chunk of this afternoon, so I'll post up the new theme now if that's ok..

As the last round's theme was Places, this round I've gone with how to get to them i.e. forms of Transport

No particularly genre focus to my initial five (plus one bonus for the childish amongst us), just songs I really like covering a variety of ways of getting about.


1952 Vincent Black Lightning – Richard Thompson

One of Thompson’s most beloved songs. Written because he felt all the road songs seemed to be American and he wanted there to be some British ones. Box Hill might not be Route 66 but that’s sort of the point. A tale of delinquency, love, red hair and black leather.

Donkey – Etta James

OK so not the most obvious form of transport in our part of the world but we are coming up to Christmas so… Hugely versatile, James was in her early 40’s when she recorded this but then spent the next decade or so battling various demons and illness. She then kicked on again in her 50’s and recorded as many albums again as she had in her earlier career, it was in that ‘second wind’ that she got the praise she had always deserved.

Shut Up and Get on the Plane – Drive By Truckers

DBT seem to have become a regular fixture since BB nominated the album this comes from. As someone who ultimately ‘cured’ my own quite pronounced fear of flying by taking a job that involved lots of long-haul air travel this track generates a range of emotions!

I Need a Truck - Warren Zevon

Only 40 odd seconds long. An outtake added to later versions of the Excitable Boy album. Very Zevon, I think.

Tank Park Salute – Billy Bragg

Again, not a conventional form of transport but a song I love. BB lost his Dad when he was 18, this is his song to him.


Bonus track for those of us who never quite managed to grown up

I should have grown up and stopped liking this 30+ years ago and I sort of have, but not really.

Time Flies By (When You’re the Driver of a rain) – Half Man Half Biscuit




and for the Barry/autogyro enthusiasts amongst us...

 
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threespires said:
Not around for a chunk of this afternoon, so I'll post up the new theme now if that's ok..

As the last round's theme was Places, this round I've gone with how to get to them i.e. forms of Transport

No particularly genre focus to my initial five (plus one bonus for the childish amongst us), just songs I really like covering a variety of ways of getting about.


1952 Vincent Black Lightning – Richard Thompson

One of Thompson’s most beloved songs. Written because he felt all the road songs seemed to be American and he wanted there to be some British ones. Box Hill might not be Route 66 but that’s sort of the point. A tale of delinquency, love, red hair and black leather.

Donkey – Etta James

OK so not the most obvious form of transport in our part of the world but we are coming up to Christmas so… Hugely versatile, James was in her early 40’s when she recorded this but then spent the next decade or so battling various demons and illness. She then kicked on again in her 50’s and recorded as many albums again as she had in her earlier career, it was in that ‘second wind’ that she got the praise she had always deserved.

Shut Up and Get on the Plane – Drive By Truckers

DBT seem to have become a regular fixture since BB nominated the album this comes from. As someone who ultimately ‘cured’ my own quite pronounced fear of flying by taking a job that involved lots of long-haul air travel this track generates a range of emotions!

I Need a Truck - Warren Zevon

Only 40 odd seconds long. An outtake added to later versions of the Excitable Boy album. Very Zevon, I think.

Tank Park Salute – Billy Bragg

Again, not a conventional form of transport but a song I love. BB lost his Dad when he was 18, this is his song to him.


Bonus track for those of us who never quite managed to grown up

I should have grown up and stopped liking this 30+ years ago and I sort of have, but not really.

Time Flies By (When You’re the Driver of a rain) – Half Man Half Biscuit


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Nice theme. Once again, should be a rich source of songs.
 
As with every theme. I'm assuming referenced in the body of song is ok, as opposed to just specifically the song title.
 
Got quite a few off the top of my head that feature modes of transport in the song, but not the title.

But to play it safe in the meantime.

Trains - Porcupine Tree.
 
threespires said:
This list got off to a good start with @stoneblue 's folksie focus and the quality was maintained; highly enjoyable stuff albeit a bit of a monster list to get through!

Of the ones I didn't know, I really enjoyed

Benjamin Clementine
Press Club
Rich Men North of Richmond (wasn't sure where the politics were going though!)
Erland and the Carnival
Black Country, New Road
Richmond Fontaine

Once again very happy to be reminded of many great artists and songs; too many to name check but a special mention for the John Prine Bonnie Raitt collaboration, Prine was beloved by so many artists and it's great that so many of them got to record with him. Oh and the very first track on the playlist which meant I've spent a decent amount of the last two weeks listening to both Fairport and Thea Gilmore.
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As i mentioned when I posted RMNOR there was a lot of controversy attached to this song and its lyric,it topped the billboard 100 when it was realeased and the Far right got hold of it to use as an anthem against Biden, I think it was referenced at the first Republican GOP debate.Since then the writer has come out and explained its anti all governments.
Anyway our own BB suggested there was a better way of getting the message across
Heres his version
 
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