Blue Moon Playlist Review Club - Season 2 - Episode 27 - Out on blue 6 - Gone Too Soon (pg 438)

[Coatigan]

People seem to save the best for last, but I find the last ones get the least listens from me. I tend to listen to then as they come but inevitably tail off towards the busier end of the week. And when listening to the complete playlist, I tend to inevitsbly stop at a point, and when I resume if I can't remember I go back a few. Hard to get to the end. Really liked the fact this week has a few soul or soulful tunes.

 

[Black&White&BlueMoon Town]

Great playlist concept to @threespires this past week, one I enjoyed considering songs for, and listening to as well.

My top 6 new tracks:

1. "Trains" - Porcupine Tree
2. "Turn the Car Around" - Gaz Coombes
3. "Flying Too Low" - Jacket Thief
4. "Slow Train" - Joe Bonamassa
5. "Apollo Racer" - Mr. Henry (nice find, @Mancitydoogle)
6. "1952 Vincent Black Lightning" - Richard Thompson - sad and powerful song

And the winner of the songs I've heard...

"Red Barchetta" - Rush ("To dream with my uncle at the Fi-yyyre-side")

Best of the list that I hadn't previously heard
"Donkey" - Etta James
"Cadillac Walk" - Mink DeVille
"When You Need a Train It Never Comes" - Amanda Shires
"Gardenia" - Kyuss
"Red Cortina" - The Saw Doctors
"Riot Van" - Arctic Monkeys
"Blue Canoe" - Blue Mountain
"Gasoline" - Brand New
"Mr. Ambulance Driver" - The Flaming Lips
"Steamboat Row" - Stealers Wheel
"Getaway Car" - Michael McDermott (reminded me of someone from NJ)
"Slow Boat" - Kevin McDermott Orchestra
"Three Wheels on My Wagon" - The New Christy Minstrels (photo holds the lyric's beer)
"Jumping Someone Else's Train" - The Cure
"(Never Stop Building ) That Old Space Rocket" - Danny and The Champions of The World
"Doctor Jeep" - Sisters of Mercy
"Motorcycle Drive By" - Zach Bryan (good song, even if my bike is only 21 speeds)
"Blue Train" - John Coltrane"
“Florian Saucer Attack” - Black Mountain
"If I had a Boat - Lyle Lovett
"He Thought Of Cars" - Blur
"If I Only Had a Car" - Golden Smog (pretty cool supergroup, @bennyboy)
"Take Me Higher" - Prophets Of Rage
"Venetian Gondola Song Op. 30 No. 6" - Felix Mendelssohn, Varyk

Tracks I knew but enjoyed listening to again
"Shut Up And Get On The Plane" - Drive-By Truckers
"Silver Train" - Rolling Stones
"Vehicle" - The Ides of March (decades old blast from the past indeed)
"The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" - The Band
"Last Train to London" - ELO - underrated song of theirs IMO
"Countdown" - Rush
"Jet Airliner" - Steve Miller Band
"All Aboard" - Muddy Waters
"The Ark" - Gerry Rafferty
"No Expectations" - The Rolling Stones
"Little ### Corvette" - Prince
"Headlong Flight" - Rush
"Ship of Fools" – Robert Plant
"Carl Perkins' Cadillac" - DBT
"Train, Train" - Blackfoot
"I Am the Highway" - Audioslave
"Fast Car" - Tracy Chapman
"Ticket to the Moon" - ELO

 

[Black&White&BlueMoon Town]

"Racing in the Street" - Bruce Springsteen - Perhaps Bruce's most underrated song?

MIght be, but one of my favorites of his from all time.

These parts of the song sums up the Darkness album for me:

Now some guys they just give up living
And start dying little by little, piece by piece
Some guys come home from work and wash up
And go racin' in the street
...

For all the shut down strangers and hot rod angels
Rumbling through this promised land
Tonight my baby and me we're gonna ride to the sea
And wash these sins off our hands

Just brilliant, that song.

 

[threespires]

This format seems to throw up a consistent mix of old friends that you are happy to revisit and new stuff that you wish you'd heard earlier and once again I would happily listen to 80% of the playlist again but the single biggest thing that struck me in this list was how much Fast Car has endured. In many ways it's a really simple song and it has been murdered by a million and one people so it should be hackneyed beyond belief by now but whenever I listen to the original I'm still sucked in by Tracy Chapmans performance and the story the song tells.

 

[Black&White&BlueMoon Town]

but the single biggest thing that struck me in this list was how much Fast Car has endured. In many ways it's a really simple song and it has been murdered by a million and one people so it should be hackneyed beyond belief by now but whenever I listen to the original I'm still sucked in by Tracy Chapmans performance and the story the song tells.

AuthentiCITY + talent always endures. ;-)

 

[RobMCFC]

This format seems to throw up a consistent mix of old friends that you are happy to revisit and new stuff that you wish you'd heard earlier and once again I would happily listen to 80% of the playlist again but the single biggest thing that struck me in this list was how much Fast Car has endured. In many ways it's a really simple song and it has been murdered by a million and one people so it should be hackneyed beyond belief by now but whenever I listen to the original I'm still sucked in by Tracy Chapmans performance and the story the song tells.

It made me go back and listen to “Talkin About a Revolution” again, which is also a brilliant song.

 

[Mancitydoogle]

Great playlist concept to @threespires this past week, one I enjoyed considering songs for, and listening to as well.

My top 6 new tracks:

1. "Trains" - Porcupine Tree
2. "Turn the Car Around" - Gaz Coombes
3. "Flying Too Low" - Jacket Thief
4. "Slow Train" - Joe Bonamassa
5. "Apollo Racer" - Mr. Henry (nice find, @Mancitydoogle)
6. "1952 Vincent Black Lightning" - Richard Thompson - sad and powerful song

And the winner of the songs I've heard...

"Red Barchetta" - Rush ("To dream with my uncle at the Fi-yyyre-side")

Best of the list that I hadn't previously heard
"Donkey" - Etta James
"Cadillac Walk" - Mink DeVille
"When You Need a Train It Never Comes" - Amanda Shires
"Gardenia" - Kyuss
"Red Cortina" - The Saw Doctors
"Riot Van" - Arctic Monkeys
"Blue Canoe" - Blue Mountain
"Gasoline" - Brand New
"Mr. Ambulance Driver" - The Flaming Lips
"Steamboat Row" - Stealers Wheel
"Getaway Car" - Michael McDermott (reminded me of someone from NJ)
"Slow Boat" - Kevin McDermott Orchestra
"Three Wheels on My Wagon" - The New Christy Minstrels (photo holds the lyric's beer)
"Jumping Someone Else's Train" - The Cure
"(Never Stop Building ) That Old Space Rocket" - Danny and The Champions of The World
"Doctor Jeep" - Sisters of Mercy
"Motorcycle Drive By" - Zach Bryan (good song, even if my bike is only 21 speeds)
"Blue Train" - John Coltrane"
“Florian Saucer Attack” - Black Mountain
"If I had a Boat - Lyle Lovett
"He Thought Of Cars" - Blur
"If I Only Had a Car" - Golden Smog (pretty cool supergroup, @bennyboy)
"Take Me Higher" - Prophets Of Rage
"Venetian Gondola Song Op. 30 No. 6" - Felix Mendelssohn, Varyk

Tracks I knew but enjoyed listening to again
"Shut Up And Get On The Plane" - Drive-By Truckers
"Silver Train" - Rolling Stones
"Vehicle" - The Ides of March (decades old blast from the past indeed)
"The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" - The Band
"Last Train to London" - ELO - underrated song of theirs IMO
"Countdown" - Rush
"Jet Airliner" - Steve Miller Band
"All Aboard" - Muddy Waters
"The Ark" - Gerry Rafferty
"No Expectations" - The Rolling Stones
"Little ### Corvette" - Prince
"Headlong Flight" - Rush
"Ship of Fools" – Robert Plant
"Carl Perkins' Cadillac" - DBT
"Train, Train" - Blackfoot
"I Am the Highway" - Audioslave
"Fast Car" - Tracy Chapman
"Ticket to the Moon" - ELO

Mr Henry not a recent find got their first two albums in the early 2000s cant remember who recommended them, the lead singer and songwriter formed a new band Waiting for Henry which you might like.
yes Michael McDermott was touted as the new Bruce back in the 90s which is why I became a big fan, he’s realised lots of albums but rarely tours outside his home town of Chicago where I was fortunate to see him at Shubas somevtime ago.

 

[Coatigan]

Ides of March and Isaac Hayes really hit the spot this week and have been exploring more. Will try write about some more of the rest, but it will likely be after the changeover.

 

[Mancitydoogle]

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.

 

[Mancitydoogle]