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

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After sharing teasers with fans online earlier this week, The Maccabees have confirmed their comeback for 2025.
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THAT is the BEST music news I've heard all weekend! Thanks for sharing. I was ironically listening to Given To The Wild yesterday while flying home from Vermont and Quebec while I had no Spotify access in the air.

I'd like to say "Forever I've Known", but this is a very nice surprise.
 
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Age

I enjoyed this playlist from @Mancitydoogle. Of the first five songs, "100 Years" from Five For Fighting was the winner for me. I'd heard it a bit before, but I hadn't really listened to the lyrics in detail before, and it was very well done. I've always been a fan of Prine's "Hello In There", and very well familiar with that and "Touch of Grey", which really hadn't done much for me. Just not a GD fan.

Songs I'd not heard included...
"Don't Need This Body" a mature and haunting Mellencamp song from his latest (edit: 2008) album
"Youth" by Soft Cell had not been heard from the same album as the international hit, but was well done on the synths and keys
"Broken Cowboy" from The Dead South was a sad acoustic western saga tune
"Loaded Gun" from Grant-Lee Philips was a nice rollicking tune
"Tall Poppies" from Yard Act took an interesting and Mancunian and then depressing angle about growing old.

Favourites I've heard before included
"Edge of Seventeen" - Stevie Nicks blockbuster that put her on the solo artist map
"Year of the Cat" - can't go wrong with Al Stewart
"At Seventeen" - Janis Ian always a spooky song, led by those vocals
"I'm Eighteen" - another of Alice Cooper's anthems on youth
"Not Nineteen Forever" - have always liked this song and this band in the Spotify age of suggestion
"Glory Days" - Springsteen's hit that became the nickname of a few I knew living it
"Minutes To Memories" off that great JCM album,
"When I Grow Up" - enjoyed those Beach Boys harmonies
"Living In the Past" - Jethro Tull classic
 
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Gone Too Soon

So I wanted to do a playlist of Artists or Musicians who passed away with something more to offer.
Everyone knows about the 27 club but I wanted to put up some slightly more obscure ones who are some of my personal favourites.
I'll admit that some of these I have discovered over time due to influencing some of my more modern favourites.
I will update Spotify as and when and will a final one right at the end that is something different.

Lots of column inches taken up with his son Jeff but not enough for his father Tim. A great body of work in his 28 years incorporating Folk,Jazz,but of Psychedelia and Funk across his 5 albums and what a voice.
Heard this first on one of Mark Radcliffe's night shows.

Tim Buckley - Buzzin Fly

Nick Drake was largely ignored during his recording life. His influence and popularity only came later which is a tragedy for such a talent.
I still get get goosebumps listening to this.

Nick Drake - Northern Sky

Adrian Borlands band The Sound where critically acclaimed but in 5 albums they never broke the Top 40. One of those could have been big bands who were likened to The Psychedelic Furs and Echo and The Bunnymen it never happened for them.
Borland threw himself in front of a train due to mental health issues which some believe was to do with his lack of success.
This is from their best album From The Lions Mouth

The Sound - Judgement

When Andy Gill passed away in 2020 a tribute album was released called The Problem Of Leisure which featured some interesting names who had been influenced by the band and him.
Tom Merello,John and Flea from the Chilli Peppers and Idles who I can now hear the influence but covers up.
Not a 10 notes a second guitarist but his style and tone is pretty unique.
A brilliant band and Entertainment would grace the album thread anytime

Gang Of Four - To Hell With Poverty

Trish Keenan died unexpectedly in January 2011 of pneumonia, shortly after she had contracted swine flu while completing a tour of Australia with her band she formed with her partner James Cargill. She was 42
This is the most personal to me as I was a big fan of the band and had followed since the start.
There was something otherworldly about their sound using vintage synths and an almost soundtrack sound at times.
They have become very influential over the years and get name checked in many reviews

Broadcast - Pendulum

 
Acts of Man - Frightened Rabbit

One of the best lyricists out there, a big influence on songwriting and boldly shaping music, gone at his peak.

So many songs to chose from, went with this one, the take here puts it better than I would I guess. The turn at the end though, the change in tone and mood is so worth it, classic build and dismantle they do so often. It is the relatable self-reflection that ften makes it.

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Scott Hutchison was - without question - one of the most adept, literate, caustic, and downright funny lyricists of his generation.Able to move from the
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By coincidence I was going to mention Nick Drake and Scott Hutchinson in my
review of Elliott Smiths XO as they were all tortured souls who made great music.
Here’s another we lost too soon.An excellent singer singer writer and great guitarist
who played in Ryan Adams band The Cardinals and Chris Robinson’s Brotherhood among others.
Neal Casal ‘Detroit or Buffalo’
 
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