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

No indulging here, so I'm above water today. Nice playlist concept, and I'll take an artist I've not nominated prior.

And I was going to do back to back similar titles, but as I was typing this, I see @OB1 just snuck in the first song I thought of for him! :-)

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - "Riverman"
 
'I salute at the threshold of the North Sea of my mind. And I nod to the boredom that drove me here to face the tide..
And if I hadn't come now to the coast to disappear, I may have died in a landslide of rocks and hopes and fears..

'The sea has seen my like before, though it's my first and perhaps last time
Let's call me a baptist, call this a drowning of the past. She is there on the shoreline throwing stones at my back..

And the water is taller than me
And the land is a marker line
All I have is a body adrift in water, salt and sky..

Swim until you can't see land - Frightened Rabbit.

A song that subtly invokes a 'cleansing'. Not one for swiming in all weather, but it became a huge thing during covid (because the toll of managing to avoid a pandemic virus seemed to be a desire for pneumonia). This predates it and is more symbolic, but still I imagine folk going for a dook in january humming this through their shivers.
 
Mancitydoogle said:
I hope everyone had an enjoyable Christmas and didn’t overindulge lol

So New playlist theme ‘Water’
After already nominating ‘This is the Sea ‘ on the other thread I thought I’d continue with the theme.

First off one of my favourite artists who some will recognise from the Tv series ‘Yellow Stone’
This is from his first album which is a doozy.I saw him live at the Ritz about 6 years ago.
Ryan Bingham ‘Bread and Water’

The Velvet Underground ‘Ocean’
I discovered the VU after Lou Reeds ‘Transformer’ nobody I knew then had heard of them.They were way ahead of their time in the sixties.

The Duke and the King ‘Hudson River’. I bought this album as I am a fan of ‘The Felice Brothers’the new project of Simon Felice after he left the band ,its a mixture of Country Soul and some psychedelia ,his partner Robert Burke has a great soul voice
They named the band after the ‘Huckleberry Finn ‘ characters

Justin Townes Earle ‘Harlem River Blues’ this is the second time I’ve nominated a JTE song this one’s gospel influenced,I don’t believe he got the recognition he deserved and he died ridiculously young ,a troubled man not unlike my final artist.

Nick Drake ‘RIver Man’ I suspect most of you are familiar with NDs short life
story and have listened to his wonderful but small catalog of music, for those that haven’t you need to.
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Ryan Bingham’s Mescalito has to be one of the albums of the century, and “Bread and Water” is a great track with some nice slide. Everything else he’s done after this album always feels like a bit of a letdown in comparison, although obviously there are some good tracks on each of his albums.

Another good concept for a playlist. I’ll start with:

“Water Mains” by Crow Moses
 
Coatigan said:
'I salute at the threshold of the North Sea of my mind. And I nod to the boredom that drove me here to face the tide..
And if I hadn't come now to the coast to disappear, I may have died in a landslide of rocks and hopes and fears..

'The sea has seen my like before, though it's my first and perhaps last time
Let's call me a baptist, call this a drowning of the past. She is there on the shoreline throwing stones at my back..

And the water is taller than me
And the land is a marker line
All I have is a body adrift in water, salt and sky..

Swim until you can't see land - Frightened Rabbit.

A song that subtly invokes a 'cleansing'. Not one for swiming in all weather, but it became a huge thing during covid (because the toll of managing to avoid a pandemic virus seemed to be a desire for pneumonia). This predates it and is more symbolic, but still I imagine folk going for a dook in january humming this through their shivers.
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Great song but I am indeed a bag of sand.
 
threespires said:
Great theme @Mancitydoogle

A song about a romanticized image of coastal regions meeting the sometimes reality of a working sea town (no doubt imagery for other themes but works just as well being literal about it).

The Ocean - Dar Williams with John Prine.
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Are we going to get a pie chart of ocean, river, loch, tears?
 
In the spirit of this theme, which seems to driven by This Is the Sea and Mike who started his musical career in Ayr.

Holy Water - Biffy Clyro

Stick with this one right to the end for some of those classic biff progressions.
 
Thought the playlist got off to a brilliant start, some cracking tracks!

Today's choice..

"The Water" - Johnny Flynn, Laura Marling

Johnny Flynn is probably better known as an actor and also wrote theme to "The Detectorists"
 
Going for an oldie today with one of the few people who's been able to go head to head with Ella Fitzgerald on a song.

Julie London - Cry Me A River

(with Barney Kessel's and Ray Leatherwood's beautifully sparse accompaniment)
 
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